Chapter 105 Shadowfang Keep

Half Wyrmbane, the high-ranking commander who was defeated in the Battle of Southshore, could only lead the Alliance's Seventh Legion to the Jade Mine in the southwest of Hillsbrad Foothills to station.

The Seventh Legion experienced the Battle of Thoradin Wall and the Battle of Southshore, and lost half of its troops, and the remaining people were all injured. Even the Seventh Legion, which had experienced a nearly desperate battle like the Ragnarok Battle, had to take a short rest and lick its wounds.

However, although the Jade Mine is close to the sea, the location here is completely without a good bay like Southshore, and it is impossible to build a military port.

Halford Wyrmbane also sent the warriors of the Kingdom of Kul Tiras in the Seventh Legion to explore the bay, but they were almost wiped out by the murlocs living near the coast.

Murlocs are an amphibious race. They mainly rely on the ocean for their livelihood, but they like to live on land. Although the murlocs are regarded as inferior forces due to their inherently fragile physical fitness, the number of murlocs is huge and they are very united. They are known as the nightmare of adventurers. Once you accidentally attract the attention of a murloc, these murlocs shouting "Woo-la-woo-la" will soon summon ten times more murlocs to deal with you.

Due to the outbreak of the Scourge, Hillsbrad Foothills was also greatly affected. The fishermen living on the southern coast of Hillsbrad fled to large villages and towns. Without human fishermen, a murloc clan with a population of more than 100,000 occupied the southern coast of Hillsbrad Foothills.

For such a large murloc clan, it is not worth the loss for the Alliance to eliminate them and build a port.

Halford Wyrmbane can only pin his hopes on the Stormpike Legion of the Ironforge Dwarves. As long as the Stormpike Legion can conquer the Alterac Mountains, the Alliance's strategy will still be successful.

But what Halford Wyrmbane didn't know was that the Stormpike Legion accidentally dug into the Alterac Valley because they wanted to dig holes instead of climbing the snowy mountains, and clashed with the Frostwolf Clan of the Horde Orcs living in the Alterac Valley.

This time, the general of the Stormpike Legion, Fandral Stormpike, led the entire Stormpike Legion directly, not just a vanguard as in the original history.

The Frostwolf Clan in the Alterac Valley has also been strengthened. The heroic shaman Drek'thar, the chief of the Frostwolf Clan, is in the Alterac Valley. The Frostwolf Clan was not taken advantage of by the dwarves of the Stormpike Legion because the Frostwolf Clan was leaderless, and the orcs of Hammerfall moved to the Alterac Valley.

Even though Drek'thar was old and weak, even though Drek'thar was blind, the strength of the heroic shaman was there, and he almost chopped off the general of the Stormpike Legion, Fandral Stormpike.

Almost chopped off by an old blind orc, if it weren't for his short height, this incident completely angered Fandral Stormpike, who decided to fight the Frostwolf Clan to the death.

One of the most famous battlefields in World of Warcraft, the battlefield of Alterac Valley officially started.

The battle between the elite dwarves of the Stormpike Legion of Ironforge and the Frostwolf Clan of the Horde, and it was the most peak scale at the beginning, with more than 50,000 troops invested by both sides.

This turned the originally peaceful Alterac Valley into a bloody place.

The Frostwolf Clan of Alterac Valley's top post also prevented the reconstruction of Alterac City, which was being rebuilt by the Covenant, from being captured.

When the Stormpike Dwarves sent a flying vehicle to the Jade Mine to ask the Seventh Legion to deal with the Horde Frostwolf Clan Dwarves in Alterac Valley, Halford Wyrmbane was so angry that he kept banging his head against the stone wall of the Jade Mine.

Halford Wyrmbane repeatedly ordered Fandral Stormpike to withdraw the Stormpike Legion from the battlefield between Alterac Valley and the Frostwolf Clan, but once the dwarves in power, how could they possibly listen to Halford Wyrmbane's advice?

Fandral Stormpike also wrote a letter in reply, despising Halford Wyrmbane's retreat in the battle for Southshore Town, and the Seventh Legion should fight to the end like the dwarves of the Stormpike Legion.

This letter almost made Halford Wyrmbane so angry that he almost died.

What kind of thing is this? He asked the Stormpike Legion to attack the Covenant's Alterac City, but the Stormpike Legion not only did not attack the Covenant's Alterac City, but also provoked the Horde in Alterac Valley, and was completely dragged into the quagmire of the Alterac Valley battlefield and could not get out.

The successive failures and accidents made the Alliance's plan completely fail, and the strategy of building a frontier fortress in Hillsbrad Foothills had gone to waste.

So, in the dim jade mine, Halford Wyrmbane stared at the map of the northern continent of the Eastern Kingdom, thinking about the next path of the Seventh Legion.

Admit failure and return to Menethil Harbor or Theramore? This is not something that the proud Halford Wyrmbane can accept. He is unwilling to admit failure. He believes that with his talents, he will eventually defeat the Covenant.

Since Hillsbrad Foothills can no longer be obtained, then simply give up here and continue to strategically shift westward.

The Kingdom of Gilneas has closed its doors to the outside world and gave up the land outside the Greymane Wall. Now the Silverpine Forest is almost ownerless, and there are not many undead in the Scourge.

Instead of spending a huge price to build a frontier fortress in Hillsbrad Foothills, the important place of the Covenant, it is better to go to Silverpine Forest, a land without a master.

Silverpine Forest is vast and has a long and narrow coastline. Compared with Hillsbrad Hills, Silverpine Forest is more suitable for establishing a port and allowing Alliance troops to land.

After making the decision, Halford Wymbane led the Seventh Legion to leave the Jasper Mine and head to the Silver Pine Forest.

Since the dwarven troops who established the South Point Gate established Dangarok in the southeastern part of the Hillsbrad Hills, the South Point Gate now has almost no defenders and was easily broken through by the Seventh Legion.

Unlike the Hillsbrad Hills, which were barely affected by the Scourge, Silverpine Forest, a land that was originally full of life, almost turned into a ghost shrouded in darkness all day long due to the influence of the Scourge.

Ambermere, a human town in the Kingdom of Lordaeron, was protected by the blood elf prince Kael'thas Sunstrider when the Scourge broke out, so it did not fall. Now it is protected by the Covenant.

After learning the lesson from Southsea Town, Halford Wyrmbane gave up the idea of ​​occupying human towns. The Covenant was more recognized by the remnants of the Kingdom of Lordaeron than he imagined.

So Halford Wyrmbane chose Shadowfang Castle. Shadowfang Castle is an abandoned castle of the Kingdom of Gilneas. It is an extremely hard military castle and was built on the coast of Silverpine Forest. It is a natural military fortress. and ports.

It fully meets the requirements of the Alliance for a forward fortress on the northern continent of the Kingdom of Lordaeron.