Chapter 269 Borrowing Money
After sending Eitrigg away, they began to discuss the location of the ambush.
At this time, the Banshee Queen had a certain chance of attacking the Hand of Tyr, but Vanessa deliberately revealed a lot of news about Calia's journey north and her coronation, just to lure Sylvanas to attack the royal capital.
The Banshee King is too proud, and there is a high chance that she will execute a thunder strike and wipe out the human military power in one fell swoop.
Vanessa was preparing to lay an ambush on her marching route. The only thing that was difficult to determine was the location of the ambush.
She specifically discussed this matter with Old Fording.
Old Fording pointed to several lines on the map and said: "In fact, it is fastest to go by sea, but there are too few ships in Stratholme, and it is almost impossible to transport more than 20,000 soldiers back to Tirisfal Glades."
Vanessa nodded. There were not many ships in Stratholme, unless Sylvanas borrowed them from the blood elves. Fortunately, they neutralized the blood elves in advance.
"The other route is to take the main road, passing through the entire Plague Land. However, the situation on this road is complicated. Not only will we have the sentries of Tyr's Hand, but we will also pass through several undead cities. I don't think the Forsaken will take the main road. .”
Old Fordring drew a diagonal line between Stratholme and the capital of Lordaeron: "They took mountain roads, marched at night, and appeared directly in the northern mountains of the Western Plaguelands. They had the highest chance of returning to Tirisfal Glades. "
He drew another circle on the map, and Vanessa also looked at the stronghold called the Bulwark of the Undead, which is located at the junction of Tirisfal Glades and the Western Plaguelands. Humans have only cleared Tirisfal so far. There has been no time to clean up the northern and western areas of the woodland, and the undead barrier is located in the easternmost part of Tirisfal Woodland, which is still an area controlled by the Forsaken.
Old Fording believed that there was more than a 50% chance that the Forsaken would pass by here, and he planned to attack the Forgotten while they were relaxed before they were about to reach the Undead Barrier.
Vanessa did not make a hasty decision, she was going to send out thieves to investigate again.
"We need to be careful about the ambush location. Once our army is mobilized, the royal capital will be empty. The royal capital is of great political significance and cannot be abandoned unless it is absolutely necessary. However, we can prepare our troops first and let Tyr's Hands strengthen their guard. In addition, the king There must be necessary cover here, so that the Forgotten cannot see our plan."
I wonder if Sylvanas is secretly watching me. There are many mages from Dalaran among the Forsaken. Old Fording and Jaina have legendary ranks, and no voyeuristic magic or props can hide their feelings, but this vigilance must be effective when it acts on themselves. If the target of the magic is chosen to be someone else, they will do not know either.
Vanessa must have had a lot of eyes on her. In order to paralyze the enemy, she left all the work to Old Fording, transformed into a giant eagle and returned to the south in a place that was neither hidden nor public.
She knew that Sylvanas had spies in Stormwind City, so she took a walk around the city.
Only then did she learn that Archbishop Benedictus had returned to Stormwind City a while ago. She heard that the Archbishop cried and fainted at the scene after seeing the Cathedral of the Holy Light once again turned into ruins.
Vanessa almost cried with joy. She wasn't crying for the cathedral, but for his silly Twilight followers, right?
She turned back to Westfall.
The first thing he did when he returned to his lair was to dig out Da Fan's body and burn it. Although I think Sylvanas doesn't have this method at the moment, the Lich King does. It's not to belittle oneself. She is currently a camp leader regardless of age. , there are some things that I have to guard against. It would be disgusting if Da Fan stood in front of him one day.
Onyxia is still sleeping deep in the Death Mines, and it will take some time for her to be fully resurrected.
There was another important thing for her to return to Westfall. Bolvar had been planning for a month, preparing to send troops to Stranglethorn Vale to attack the venture capital companies that took advantage of the rebellion in Stormwind City.
These grandsons defrauded her of a lot of money, and Vanessa agreed to send troops to help without saying a word. She was happy to see these goblins unlucky, and it would be better if they could capture some more by the way.
Bolvar sent Captain Doron of the Coulson Special Forces to lead 3,000 soldiers to attack the Venture Capital Company. Vanessa fought here and there and also sent 2,000 soldiers. The two sides formed a coalition to annihilate this group entrenched in Stranglethorn Valley. Help the pests!
Vanessa did not participate. She was now considered a foreign leader and was not suitable to lead the Stormwind Kingdom's army. She still recognized Captain Doron's military ability and sent Brother Nimitz to lead troops to assist his old boss.
There is only one request: for the revival of Lordaeron, take back all the money and gold from the goblins! Don’t miss even a tricycle!
It's one thing to rob a venture capital company, but it's another thing to come back and borrow money from the goblins.
War is very expensive, and reconstruction after the war is even more expensive. If you want to rebuild a country in the fast-paced Azeroth, the money spent is astronomical.
It takes money to build city walls, it takes money to reclaim wasteland, and it takes even more money to attract civilians to go north.
In the name of Lordaeron, she used the ports, gold mines, iron mines and taxes in the territory to send loan intentions to the Steamwheedle Consortium and the Bilgewater Consortium at the same time, and planned to ask these two consortiums to borrow 500,000 gold coins each for war. Later rebuilt.
She didn't even let go of the venture capital companies that had become enemies. She secretly sent thieves over to discuss the matter. While I'm fighting with you, I'm preparing to steal your gold. It sounds very absurd, but on the goblin side, it is normal operation, and business is business!
The three companies are all weighing the profits and risks of borrowing money. They are worried that the new Lordaeron regime will not be able to defeat the Forsaken and the Horde. Once Lordaeron is defeated, these contracts will be invalidated, so they are very cautious.
Their excuses are all the same, that is, they need to think about it.
There has been no news about the goblin's loan, but the new gunpowder that Vanessa asked the goblin to secretly develop has made some breakthroughs.
Helix, who loves burning and explosions, has been responsible for this work. He even found a fellow from Kezan Island to help him.
This fellow’s name is Sparky Ubersus, a very weird goblin name. Many people can’t remember this name at all. Now everyone calls this goblin by his nickname. Many people call him Dr. Boom!
Dr. Boom is very talented in bomb development. I heard that when he was fourteen years old, he even won the championship in the "Young Goblin Technology Competition". Later, he combined clockwork and bombs to create a bomb that flew out of the barrel. Finally, it has a certain tracking function and can take two steps on its own.