Chapter 495 Stormwind Crisis

Grian Stoutman, as a veteran with rich experience in battle, soon realized the approach of danger, so he convened a noble meeting.

He wanted to use this noble meeting to let other nobles reduce some taxes, and at the same time take out some food to help the refugees, so as to prevent these refugees from being deceived and lured.

But his idea was directly rejected by those nobles.

In the eyes of these nobles, those mud-legged people are not human beings at all. Even if these refugees make trouble, what can they do? They have powerful enough knights and private guards.

They have tall and solid castles to protect them, and the knights have solid armor and sharp swords. What do those refugees have? They have nothing!

What can a group of refugees with nothing do to fight them? If they dare to make trouble, just send soldiers to wipe them out. Anyway, these refugees are like weeds in the wilderness. Even if they are killed this year, new ones will grow again after next year.

There is no need to worry about no one using them.

Hearing the words of those nobles, Grian's face turned red with anger, and he cursed at those nobles, but even so, he could not change the decision of those nobles.

So Grian could only make some preparations on his own.

He knew very well that he was the exploiting class that needed to be eliminated in the Defias Brotherhood. He had to teach the Defias Brotherhood a hard lesson.

Grian sent envoys to Stormwind City for help, and began to train soldiers. If others were unwilling to provide food, he would have to pay for it himself.

Grian decided to call on the townspeople, merchants, and large farmers of Moonbrook to form an army to protect them.

Originally, Moonbrook had only 100 town militiamen, but after Grian's reorganization, it expanded directly to 500. At the same time, a reserve force of 500 people was formed to train as soon as possible.

In Grian's plan, he planned to form an army of 2,000 people. With such a large army, he had the confidence to defend Moonbrook, defend the Western Wasteland, and drive out all the people of the Defias Brotherhood.

It was not so easy to form a militia without the consent of Stormwind City, which was like a rebellion. However, he was in a hurry and reported to Stormwind City while forming the army.

He believed that with his status and the seriousness of the situation, it would be no problem to form an army. At the same time, he had decided to let His Majesty the King send military supervisors here. He, Grian, was worthy of His Majesty the King.

As a veteran, Grian knew that speed was the most important thing for a soldier, so after deciding to form an army, he started recruiting people as soon as possible. In just one week, an army of one thousand people was formed.

Although this army is still very immature, they are already a formal army.

At the same time, after hearing that Grian had formed an army, Vanessa was not afraid, but directly led the backbone of the Brotherhood to start attacking the surrounding towns.

Vanessa did not directly cause trouble to Moon Creek Town. She knew the gap between her and Moon Creek Town. So she began to lead dozens of elite troops to attack some surrounding towns and villages.

Most of these villages, strongholds, and manors were the property of the nobles. The people at the bottom lived in extreme poverty. Vanessa's arrival could be said to be a call for a hundred responses.

She directly sent some people to sneak into them secretly, and then launched an attack at night. The internal and external forces joined forces to easily break through a castle. Then Vanessa pulled the nobles in the castle out and held a public trial on the high platform.

She told all the dirty things these nobles had done, and announced that the land, cattle, sheep, grain and other properties under the name of the noble would be evenly distributed to ordinary people, even to the soldiers.

For a time, the whole castle was full of cheers.

Vanessa finally announced the death sentence for the noble, and beheaded him personally, and wrote down all his crimes and spread them to all directions.

After completing these, Vanessa did not stop, and directly led people out of the castle and went to the next target.

She knew very well that with her current strength, she was no match for the Kingdom of Stormwind. If she was stationed in one place, she would soon attract a large number of enemies to besiege her, so the best way was to use guerrilla warfare.

When she captured a manor, village, or castle, she would distribute the land, food, and money inside to everyone. Then she left quickly, and after she left, Grian, who came to rescue, came with his army.

At this time, Grian faced two problems. The first was whether to take back the land, livestock, and food from the civilians.

Once he did this, even if he successfully took back the food, land, and property from the hands of the people, he would definitely be hated by them in the end.

But if he didn't take it back, what about his so-called promise to protect the property of merchants, nobles, etc.?

No matter which method he chose, he would offend a group of people. If he chose to take back the food, farmland, and wealth, even if he reoccupied the town now, as soon as they left, they would rebel immediately.

If he didn't take back the food, land, and livestock wealth, then the merchants and farmers who supported him would feel that he was perfunctory to them, and his army would most likely fall apart.

Faced with this problem, Grian finally chose merchants, nobles, and farmers. After all, he had to ensure that he had an army in his hands so that he could defeat Vanessa.

In order to prevent the poor people in these castles from rebellion, Grian could only leave some soldiers to garrison, and then continue to lead the army to pursue Vanessa.

But Vanessa had disappeared without a trace with the soldiers, and even the footprints and other traces they left were covered by her magic.

Grian had no magicians at all, so he had to give up helplessly.

Next, Vanessa began to attack everywhere, constantly attacking strongholds, villages, castles, and manors in various places.

A large number of villages, strongholds and manors were breached, and Grian could only run around after getting up. The entire Western Wasteland was a mess caused by Vanessa.

Grian almost caught Vanessa several times, but Vanessa escaped. When the nobles found that the castle could not protect them, they finally got scared, so they began to unite and handed over the guards to Grian to lead.

Although the number of soldiers in Grian's hands increased, the areas he needed to garrison also increased, and in the end he did not have many troops to mobilize.

Grian has been running around for a long time. He is in his 40s and has been running around in the western wilderness. Even though he is a paladin, his body can no longer bear it.

But things soon took a turn for the better. Just when he was worried about how to deal with that man, the intelligence officer rushed over with a message.

"Are you saying that the Defias Brotherhood is preparing to attack Kate Castle? Is the news confirmed?" Grian asked.

"General, this is the news from one of our spies who has infiltrated the organization. Now Vanessa has led the troops out!"

"Damn little mouse, where are you going to run now!" Grian immediately ordered the army to rush to Kate Castle.

Although the soldiers who had been running around in the wilderness for more than half a month were already very tired, after hearing Grian say that they would catch the little mouse this time and take revenge, these soldiers once again cheered up and rushed to Kate Castle.

In order to catch up with Vanessa, Grian directly abandoned the baggage and led the army to march quickly, fearing that Vanessa would escape again when they arrived.

In order to speed up, Grian did not wait for the scouts to report the news, but marched quickly.

But what he didn't know was that everything he did had been seen by Vanessa.

Why could Vanessa predict Grian's actions every time? In fact, Grian was closely monitored by her from the beginning.

Vanessa learned the spell [Animal Companion] from Richard, which can control eagles or other animals to monitor targets.

She even used enlightenment to enlighten these animals, making them smarter and able to understand her various commands.

With the help of these animals, Grian's every move was in Vanessa's eyes.

So when Grian led the army to rush to Kate Castle in a hurry, Vanessa had already ambushed them on the road they had to pass.

Grian never thought that Vanessa, who had been chased by him like a mouse, dared to ambush him, so he didn't react at all when he entered the ambush circle.

When they saw a large number of burning stones falling from the sky on their heads, the army fell into chaos.

Because of the forced march, the army did not wear armor at all. When facing the enemy's ambush, these soldiers who had only been trained for less than a month were completely unable to resist.

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And what they faced was far from the dozens of people at the beginning, but a full army of 2,000 people. Among these 2,000 people, most of them were recruits who had just been transformed from refugees.

Although they had not undergone rigorous training, the enemy on the opposite side was the same, and those people were in chaos at this time.

Faced with this situation, these recruits were very brave, and after discovering that they were ambushed, Grian wanted to control the army as soon as possible.

But the army under his command was not a regular army at all, and few people listened to his orders in panic.

Grian understood that in order to change this situation, he must personally lead his men to kill the opponent's commander, only in this way can there be a chance to turn defeat into victory.

So the old paladin raised his weapon and rushed towards Vanessa.

Vanessa saw the old paladin rushing over, without any fear. After several years of hard training, her strength was very close to the legendary level. With the equipment Richard had prepared for her, she was confident that she could take down the old paladin.

As a result, there was no surprise. The old paladin who had participated in the fight against the Scourge of the Undead ended his last journey here.

After Grian's death, the morale of the remaining soldiers collapsed. Except for some who fled, all the others were killed or captured.

And Vanessa did not hesitate and directly led the army to attack Yuexi Town. At this time, Yuexi Town was the most empty because of the withdrawal of a large number of soldiers. In addition to the death of Grian, the whole town was in a panic.

Vanessa occupied the largest town in the Western Wasteland without any effort.

And then, Vanessa swept across the Western Wasteland, and all the nobles and large farmers were defeated by her. Then Vanessa directly carried out a thorough land reform in the Western Wasteland.

She distributed the land equally to everyone, and also distributed the food and livestock stored by the nobles to all the civilians. For a time, Vanessa gained great prestige in the Western Wilderness.

And everything she did was soon sent to Stormwind.

When Richard walked out of the space gate, he was in the Western Wasteland. He was originally going to go directly to Quel'Thalas, but soon discovered the difference in the Western Wasteland.

When Richard saw the vigorous land reform in the Western Wasteland, he was shocked.

He didn't expect that the little girl he rescued at the beginning would actually do something great.

However, he knew the power of Stormwind very well, so he was ready to help Vanessa. After all, he had been dissatisfied with Stormwind for a long time.

Stormwind Fortress, this fortress city built on the cliff, has become very prosperous.

Here are the royal family members and most of the nobles of Stormwind. This is the most important city in the Kingdom of Stormwind.

But at this time, the owner of this city is becoming very irritable.

Varian, who had not rested for a night, looked at the generals and nobles who were still arguing in front of him and felt a headache.

In the King's Council Hall, these people argued all night, but still did not have a solution.

Just last night, an urgent message came:

The entire Western Wasteland fell, the Defias Brotherhood defeated General Grian, killed him, occupied Moonbrook Town, and occupied the entire Western Wasteland.

This important granary of the Stormwind Kingdom has now fallen into the hands of the enemy.

The leader of the Defias Brotherhood has also known that it is the daughter of Edwin VanCleef who escaped from here a few years ago.

In a few years, she has grown into a terrible opponent.

At the same time, the inflammatory slogans she shouted, "Fight the nobles, divide the land, and pay less grain," have spread in Stormwind.

Many refugees at the bottom have become somewhat unstable.

These poor people at the bottom who shouted slogans have become a huge threat to the rule of the Stormwind Kingdom. More and more people are encouraged by this slogan.

The current military strength of the Stormwind Kingdom is not strong. Because of the alliance problem, their relationship with the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas in the north is not good. The Quel'Thalas Alliance confronts them at the border.

At the same time, there is the tribe, which has caused Stormwind Kingdom to withdraw a lot of soldiers. More importantly, after losing the Western Wasteland, the kingdom's food supply began to be short.

They now have to quell the rebellion and deal with Vanessa as quickly as possible.