Chapter 4: Defending Geshak Farm
"Perhaps we should train the soldiers and let the recruits know the cruelty of the battlefield in advance, so as to avoid mistakes when facing the Scourge." Although the people of the Kingdom of Stormgarde are all excellent soldiers, there is definitely a huge difference between those who have seen blood and those who have not seen blood. Garin Trollbane told Marshal Oslet about this concern.
After hearing Garin Trollbane's analysis, Marshal Oslet also agreed deeply, "You are right, Prince, our recruits need the baptism of blood, so that they will not be afraid of the stage when fighting."
The baptism of blood cannot be obtained by training alone, just like even if you are a ninth-level noble who has not been baptized by blood, you may not be able to beat an eighth-level gladiator from the duel field.
At this time, there are only three forces in Arathi Highlands. The most powerful is of course Stromgarde, headed by Garin Trollbane, followed by the forces left by the orcs in Hammerfall, and the weakest is the Witherwood Trolls in Witherwood Village.
Of course, Galen Trollbane knew how strong the orcs were. From the intelligence, it was known that there were at least 50,000 orcs living in Hammerfall, and most of them were young and strong. Orcs were a race that could mobilize all the people to fight, and with their combat power far exceeding that of humans, Galen Trollbane definitely didn't want to deal with them now.
Pick the soft persimmons. The Witherwood Trolls were originally a small and medium-sized clan among the forest trolls, and were only distributed in Arathi Highlands and Hinterlands.
Most of the Witherwood Trolls still lived in Hinterlands. In the Witherwood Village in Arathi Highlands, there were only less than 100,000 Witherwood Trolls, and there were a large number of old and young. At the same time, the trolls did not have as high combat power as the orcs. Therefore, in the future, they would unite with the Stonefist Ogres to resist the attacks of the orcs in Hammerfall.
After choosing the target, Galen Trollbane left Stromgarde with 10,000 elite Stromgarde militiamen and 30,000 Stromgarde recruits, and headed east.
The Arathor Empire rose up to fight against the trolls. As the direct heir, the Trollbane family inherited this fine tradition. The Trollbane family's artifact, Tokaral, also known as the Troll Slayer, is the sword of Ignaus, the ancestor of the Trollbane family. It became famous at the same time as Strom'kar, the artifact that symbolizes the authority of the human empire.
40,000 Stromgarde militiamen followed the road and came to the outskirts of G'Shark Farm.
As the name suggests, Arathi Highlands is a highland. Arathi Highlands is relatively rich and has three farms that produce a lot of food, namely Northford Farm, Dabire Farm and G'Shark Farm.
G'Shark Farm is just to the east, above the Deadwood Village. The Deadwood trolls do not plant crops, so they often attack G'Shark Farm, which has become a training ground for the Kingdom of Stormgarde.
However, on this day, G'Shark Farm was attacked again, but not by the trolls of the Deadwood Village, but by 10,000 strong orcs.
"Prince, the G'Shark Farm was attacked by the orcs of Hammerfall, about 10,000 of them." Lieutenant Valokar, the cavalry captain and confidant, led the cavalry troops ahead and told Galen Trollbane what happened at the G'Shark Farm.
There are 50,000 orcs in Hammerfall, and they naturally need food to meet their needs. The G'Shark Farm, which is closest to Hammerfall, naturally came into their sight.
In the future, when World of Warcraft is launched, the G'Shark Farm has already fallen into the hands of the orcs of Hammerfall. At that time, it was learned that the G'Shark Farm had fallen into the hands of the orcs of Hammerfall a long time ago, probably because of this attack now.
If you want to revive the Kingdom of Stormgarde, you must at least guarantee the control of Arathi Highlands. Although you can't solve the orcs in Hammerfall for a while, Galen Trollbane will not sit idly by and watch the fall of G'Shark Farm, one of the three major granaries.
Because after winning the upcoming invasion war of the Scourge, he will call on the refugees of Lordaeron, Alterac and Dalaran to join Stromgarde, so sufficient food must be guaranteed.
Thinking of this, Galen Trollbane knew that this battle was inevitable, so he quickly supported the G'Shark Farm with 10,000 elite militiamen from Stromgarde as the vanguard and 30,000 new soldiers in the rear.
Soon, Galen Trollbane arrived at G'Shark Farm and saw orcs who were basically naked with green strong skin, holding stone axes or human weapons, and much taller and stronger than humans attacking G'Shark Farm.
"Protect G'Shark Farm!" Galen Trollbane rode on the Arathi Highland warhorse under his crotch and led the charge. As a hero-level strongman, leading by example will greatly improve morale and have a strong effect.
The orc troops attacking G'Shark Farm obviously did not expect that a large number of Stromgarde troops would appear at G'Shark Farm, and they were stunned at the time, but the orcs' character was born to advocate fighting, so instead of retreating, they rushed up with shouts.
The orcs at this time had just been liberated and had not yet completely gotten rid of the influence of the demon blood, so they were very weak and not that strong. On the side of the Stromgarde militia, the heroic strongman Garin Trollbane was the spearhead and directly penetrated into the orcs.
The heroic strongman was infinitely close to the legendary artifact, and the epic peak quality Tokaral was extremely sharp. Almost no orc could block Garin Trollbane's sword.
The orcs looked at the mighty Galen Trollbane and naturally wanted to take him down, but even if dozens of orcs rushed over together, they were all killed by Galen Trollbane with a slash.
The fighting power displayed by these orcs was not as good as that of the 10,000 elite militiamen of Stromgarde. Under their leadership, they quickly suppressed the orcs of Hammerfall.
The 10,000 orcs of Hammerfall left Geshak Farm directly after leaving more than a thousand corpses.
Lieutenant Varokal wanted to lead the Stromgarde cavalry to pursue, but was stopped by Galen Trollbane. "Varokar, dying beasts are the most powerful. If we pursue, it will attract a crazy counterattack from the orcs of Hammerfall."
Stromgarde will fight the orcs of Hammerfall one day, but not now.
Galen Trollbane counted the casualties. Even though there were many weak orcs from Hammerfall who were poorly equipped, the Stromgarde militia also sacrificed 500 people, most of whom were new recruits, who were dragged to death by the dying orcs.
However, most of the Stromgarde militia did not know why they defeated the orcs so easily. Since the battle to liberate the orcs led by Thrall, the human kingdoms of the Alliance have hardly won a single victory. In the eyes of the Stromgarde militia, they defeated the powerful orcs under the leadership of Prince Galen Trollbane, and their morale was directly boosted.
Galen Trollbane, who knew everything, would not tell them the truth. He could just lead the Stromgarde militia with a boosted morale to deal with the Witherwood trolls in Witherwood Village.