Chapter 691 Enlarge if a Word Disagrees
When Kane returned, the first person to get the news was the leader of the swarm, to be more specific, the member of the executive team held by the dragon man.
When Kane returned to Arathi Dungeon, the intelligence summary of these years had been prepared, just waiting for him to check it.
Kane didn't talk nonsense, as in the past, he would focus on dealing with less important matters every few days. After spending the whole morning in the office, he completed the connection of information.
Although his swarm and the Falcon Kingdom are two different accounting systems, they are too closely involved and too concerned about worldly affairs, so they will still be greatly affected.
For example, the shadow blocking the Burning Legion's coastline passage to Stranglethorn Vale, this is an operation that is carried out based on Kane's core idea. There are only more than 3,000 people in the shadows, and now more than a thousand have been killed. It can be said that the mobile group has been emptied, and the rest are responsible for the Twelfth Battleship Hall, in charge of intelligence and espionage personnel in various regions.
Moreover, the human beings' ability to survive for so many years in the fierce battle with the Burning Legion has a lot to do with the swarm's back exertion.
For example, Freemasonry and Clover Guild. These two organizations have almost subsidized their annual profits to the anti-magic business, otherwise the supply of materials on the front line would have been cut off early.
After all, since the two sides started the war, it can be said that there has been a small battle in three days and a big battle in five days, and sporadic fighting has never stopped.
In the past four years, the anti-magic coalition has lost more than 100,000 troops. Back then, the population of Stormgard was only 50,000. It is conceivable what a population of 100,000 means to human civilization.
Basically, about 40% of people in the age group of 23-33 died in the cursed land one after another.
This is not counting the proportion of the sacrificed dwarves and dwarves among the 100,000 people.
The loss of so many people naturally greatly affected the operation of the economy. In fact, if Quel'Thalas hadn't shared the metal golem technology with dwarves, gnomes, and humans successively, so that a large number of metal golems replaced cannon fodder soldiers, this battle would have been impossible to fight.
The economy has declined due to the lack of population and the intrusion of the Burning Legion's elite team. However, the frontline's thirst for manpower and material resources is like a bottomless pit. Cooked and quickly collapsed.
Therefore, the overall trend of the anti-magic coalition forces over the years is that they are getting poorer and poorer.
Even if Kul Tiras, Lordaeron, and Dalaran, who had taken a breather, gave support successively, it was still a drop in the bucket, because the Burning Legion's support for this war was even greater, and after offsetting the support of these countries, they still There is a surplus, so that the situation is a little bit biased towards the Burning Legion.
After learning about the situation, Kane didn't say anything nonsense, and directly asked his subordinates to take out all the extraordinary power savings, and then called the most capable subordinates to assist him in building super weapons.
At the same time, Kane passed the news of his return to some people in a relatively secret way, and asked them to prepare for a counterattack.
Medivh, Windsor, and Uther are all insiders. The news made them very excited. The counterattack plan was soon released, orders were issued one after another, and preparations for the big battle were in full swing.
About a week later, even the Burning Legion commanders in the Dark Portal Citadel felt the unusual mobilization of the anti-magic coalition forces.
"Are you going to launch a decisive battle while you still have some strength? Or, eat these bugs in the open area, and then counterattack its defense line in one go, ending this protracted and fierce battle..."
The commander of the Burning Legion, the Abyss Lord Azgalor, made such a decision.
In the original history line, Azgalor was the adjutant of Mannoroth. Mannoroth conquered the world of Draenor and Azeroth successively.
They were all accompanied by it, and after Mannoroth's death, he took over his position and became an important leader of the abyssal demons and even the Burning Legion.
It has not been 18 months since Azgalor accepted the position of the commander-in-chief of the invasion. His predecessor had already been dismissed due to his disadvantage in combat, and he returned to the rear to accept Archimonde's punishment by serving as a member of the vanguard death squad until he died in battle. .
Azgalo's results are still quite impressive. The elite hoarding started after it took over. Of course, there is a bit of a taste of its predecessor's achievements, but the main reason is that its strategy is more effective.
On this day, all the departments of the Anti-Demon Army assembled, and each battle group and team lined up in their respective camps to prepare for battle.
This situation was naturally discovered by the scouting system of the Burning Legion, and the Burning Legion also assembled in an orderly manner. From a distance, one after another poisonous green beams of light shot up into the sky.
It was the light flag produced by the evil energy resonance of the officers and soldiers of the legion. The veterans could roughly guess the number and combat power of that legion through the grandeur and brightness of the light flag.
Of course, this thing can also be used to cheat, so you can't believe it, or you can't believe it.
The reaction of the officers and soldiers of the anti-magic coalition army can only be described as mediocre.
After several years of fierce fighting, the soldiers' emotions have already become restrained, even numb. Only at the moment of victory, the moment of life and death, or under special circumstances, will arouse obvious emotions, either heroism, or grief, or both.
Some officers and soldiers with foresight and foresight are already aware of the military strength of the Burning Legion, but basically no one bbs about it. One is that the army is disciplined, there are taboo topics, and gossip is not allowed. The other is that bb is useless. After seeing too many lives and deaths, many people realize that according to the current situation, it is only a matter of time before they die in battle.
There are often large casualties in major battles. The officers and soldiers are all aware of this, and many of them are praying their last prayers to the chaplain and entrusting them with funeral affairs.
Military chaplains are different from church chaplains, they are more considerate, in order to prevent the souls of fallen soldiers from being taken by demons after death, these chaplains have to run on the front line. Praying in advance is tantamount to signing up, so that after a real misfortune occurs, the chaplain with the army can complete the salvation more quickly.
And the special profession of military chaplain is also a new business developed by the Holy Palace.
The old-fashioned Church of Light does not have this. They usually wear military uniforms and bless and pray to the team before the battle group marches. In the eyes of the officers and soldiers, they are far less caring than the chaplain.
In fact, it is precisely because of this line of fire that the anti-magic alliance can maintain its morale. Just like many disabled officers and soldiers who were evacuated said: "Countless soldiers and demons have died in the cursed land battlefield, bones are piled up, corpses are everywhere, and resentment is soaring. The sight can make a timid person collapse after a few glances. You If you don’t believe in something, you won’t be able to hold on.”
But this time, careful people discovered something different from the past. They saw the long-lost Knights Templar.
The vast majority of people know that the Knights Templar moved to the second-line battlefield as early as two years ago. The elite troops organized by the Burning Legion to attack and kill the farms and villages in the rear were too fierce for ordinary defenders to cope with. The knights were divided into squads or small groups and fought against each other.
Unexpectedly, they were transferred back this time, and they appeared in costumes, but they were not used intensively. Instead, almost every battle group distributed some, which seemed to be used as Holy Light Knights.
The so-called Knight of the Holy Light is what people call the 'plate armor priest' who prefers to use the energy of the Holy Light to heal and assist. They generally acted as the nanny of the team, and they were all in the middle of the team. Just like the role played by the Templars this time, they did not carry lances, but knight swords and shields, and carried staffs on their backs.
This information also quickly fell into Azgalor's ears, and it didn't care about it.
Azgalor is a commander who believes that enough strength can crush all tactics. He feels that in this battle, the Knights Templar's role as the Holy Light is actually just to make the officers and soldiers of the Anti-Demon Alliance Army die more tragically, and Pay yourself too.
"Our elite army will definitely be able to crush this famous battle force. At that time, let's see what those humble bugs can do to resist the attack of the Burning Legion."
It's a pity that Azgalor couldn't wait for its elite battle group to crush the entire field, and then attack the anti-magic coalition line. In this battle, Kane and his super weapons are the protagonists, and they are the first to fight. Rather than the finale debut.
Kane was very unhappy when the dragons who led the group saw a low-level dungeon like the Temple of Atahaka, but were collectively sent to another world.
After he came back, he found that the situation was so bad that he couldn't do anything without reaching out. It can be said that during the blank period of his absence, the results of his painstaking efforts in the frontline years were almost defeated. This kind of critical moment lost the chain and completely The unexpected loss made him extremely annoyed.
So faced with a dilemma, Kane didn't intend to hide it anymore, he simply zoomed in and pressed down one of the problems first.
Using the magic collectively cast by nearly a hundred dragon casters with the help of large facilities, Kane and the super weapon were directly projected to a height of more than 180 kilometers above the ground.
This super weapon looks like a stack of crystal pancakes. Each cake has a texture that is not too complicated, and its shape is not particularly standard, but the style has a little bit of the carefree characteristics of objects commonly used by active civilizations in this world.
These strange pies are both weapons and energy crystals. Their essence is crystallized extraordinary energy.
180 kilometers, which is close to the limit altitude of Azeroth's ultra-low-altitude satellite orbit. Ordinary satellites are generally at an altitude of 500-1000 kilometers. Kane chose this altitude mainly because of technical requirements and restrictions. From this altitude, Aim bombardment, for the current him, is already the limit of his ability.
A powerful attack method is often not a magic trick, but a simple and straightforward bombardment. This is the line of thought that Kane has always adhered to, including his favorite evocation spell, and the satellite cannon Spear of Heaven in front of him.
What Kane used this time, in terms of technical specifications, is a simplified version of the space-based weapon. After all, the integration of human civilization in Azeroth has not yet been completed, and it is not enough to quickly climb technology and reach the height of entering space.
From the perspective of weapon specifications, it is a mature version of space-based weapons in the later stage, almost reaching the strength of burning glass on a Star Destroyer. It's just that the attack range is smaller.
Of course, even if it is small, it is still relatively Star Destroyer.
The Burning Legion gathered in the Portal of Darkness area was not completely unaware of the approaching death. After all, it is a high-magic world with extremely powerful prophecy spells. Even if the other party has made corresponding anti-prophecy arrangements, there is still a rough warning for such a super-large-scale attack.
When Azgalor received the notice from the priest of Shivalla, he also had an ominous call-up, but he didn't expect it to be a high-end atmospheric blow like the Spear of Heaven, but thought it was a geological weapon.
It issued an order to turn on the energy protection level of the fortress system's facilities to the highest level, and at the same time, it also made the assembled battle groups ready to deal with the earthquake.
The demons under its command are also very calm. Due to the gathering of the battle group, most of them are now in open areas such as squares, and with their abilities, in such open areas, even if there is a deep crack, they can Can avoid or escape immediately, instead of just falling straight into the abyss.
However, just when these demons were furious and clamoring to express that they must show the Anti-Demon Alliance Army a good look on the battlefield this time, the sky suddenly dawned...