What is the war about?
Except for the first round of raids in the war, when the two sides entered the stalemate stage, what the two sides fought was economy, productivity, population and heritage. This is an eternal truth.
The same is true for this battle of Ahn'Qiraj.
As for the coalition forces, the Cenarion Circle gathered the Alliance and the Horde to form a coalition force. The regular army had a total of 100,000 troops, plus tens of thousands of hired adventurers for support, and had stockpiled enough food and supplies to fight for a year.
What about the bugmen of Ahn'Qiraj? How many soldiers (insects) do they have and how many resources have they prepared?
Michaela was the first to express her speculation:
"I think that the bugmen were sealed behind the Beetle Wall and unable to go out for thousands of years. As a result, they can only use the resources within Ahn'Qiraj. Obviously, the number is very limited, which is completely out of proportion to the power we have assembled across Azeroth. .”
"But considering that the opponent has been preparing for thousands of years to break through the seal, I think the insect army will not be inferior to the coalition in terms of combat effectiveness in the first wave. But as long as it withstands the first wave of offensives and the battle enters a stalemate, Then we can theoretically use our higher size and more resources to wear out the opponent through a war of attrition."
Halford answered: "Theoretically? In other words, it can't be done in practice."
"Yes, because the key point is time."
Michaela continued to express his point of view: "As long as the IQ of the military commander of Ahn'Qiraj is online, he will immediately shrink his troops for defense after the first round of offensive is blocked by our coalition forces. As long as it is delayed for a year, ancient If God breaks the seal, they will win directly."
Halford: "Isn't that going back to the previous topic?"
Michaela: "What I want to express is that the buggers must have prepared enough resources for their defense for at least a year."
"Michaela, I understand what you mean."
King Saurfang said: "When the war enters the second stage, we who launch an active attack are likely to face heavy casualties, but have to continue to charge forward."
Halver also added: "That is the last thing we want to see. The media will definitely make a fuss about our casualties and then loudly declare that we are a waste of national tax dollars."
"Media, media?"
Michaela was stunned and asked: "This is the front line, what are the media doing here?"
"Of course I'm here to grab news and headlines."
Halver rolled his eyes and said: "Michaela, your woman took the lead in cleaning out the bugs in three insect nests. This achievement has been blown to the sky by the media of our alliance. What kind of incarnation of the new era?" , the God of War of the Alliance..."
"Slow, slow."
Michaela felt something was wrong and asked quickly: "What do you mean my woman?"
Who would have thought that as soon as these words came out, not to mention the Horde's King Saurfang and the old general Salaka, even the commander of the Cenarion Circle, Marlys, said "ha".
As for the dwarf Marshal Bruvor, this guy is even more gossipy: "Michaela, Halford has long said that your kid is a philandering warlock. You directly handed the Quicksand Scepter to the human at the welcome party. Women, it says it all.”
A blood elf actually handed such an important Scepter of Quicksand to a human woman in public. If you say they have nothing to do with it, will anyone believe it?
Michaela really didn't believe it and immediately retorted: "I just took a fancy to Celestine's ability, which is enough to be the candidate to open the door of Ahn'Qiraj."
At the end, Michaela turned to look at Halver: "When you and I fought in the Arathi Basin, you saw Celestine's ability with your own eyes. Is there any problem if I hand the Quicksand Scepter to her? "
Halver nodded and admitted: "In terms of ability and reputation alone, Ms. Celestine is indeed one of the candidates arranged by our alliance to open the door."
Michaela spread her hands: "Look, I'm right."
However, Halver's next sentence was: "But, Michaela, when I was fighting in the Arathi Basin, I discovered that Celestine and you have an unusual relationship. Later, I returned to Stormwind
After checking the file, I found that the last time you visited Stormwind City as the Horde Ambassador, you spent the night with Ms. Celestine at the Golden Rose Inn, right? "
Oh haha.
At this moment, everyone present looked at Michaela strangely.
"Seriously."
Michaela had to try to change the topic back on track: "We are holding a military meeting, not a gossip seminar."
But Halver contradicted him: "No, no, no, Michaela, this is very important for our next work."
Others actually nodded in agreement?
What is going on, is my gossip so interesting?
"Are you kidding me? What does gossip have to do with the insect-man battle?"
Seeing that the topic could not be changed, Michaela simply changed the topic to other aspects: "Also, Halford, what document are you looking through, and why is there a hotel sleeping record in it?"
Sure enough, the topic change was effective, and Dwarf Marshal Brewer said: "Halver, I also think that your MI7 surveillance is a bit too much."
Well, no serious person would monitor the sleeping conditions in a hotel.
How do you think Halver responded?
This guy actually said: "I'm sorry, we in Stormwind City never publicly acknowledge the existence of MI7."
Michaela immediately retorted: "Halver, everyone in Stormwind City knows that MI7 exists, but you don't admit it publicly? Could it be that MI7 also does a lot of shameful things? For example, spy on dwarves. ?」
Halford still said expressionlessly: "We in Stormwind City never publicly acknowledge the existence of MI7."
Note that Halford's words are still deceptive official language, and he does not deny that MI7 is monitoring the dwarves.
"Is your MI7 spying on us dwarves?"
Now the dwarf Marshal Brewer quit and immediately asked: "We dwarves and you humans are both members of the alliance and allies!"
Michaela on the side did not forget to add another blow: "With the capabilities of MI7, you will not even spy on the beds of your assistant minister, Ms. Catlana and Regent Bolvar, right?"
Halford's boss was mentioned, he would definitely say something, and what he said was exactly: "Regarding this matter, Archduke Bolvar had already made serious representations to Master Shore, but Master Shore chose to resist. "
The translation is that Bolvar scolded Shaw, why are you spying on my bedroom, you bastard, and Shaw said that MI7 monitors everything.
"Wow."
This time it was King Saurfang's turn to be surprised: "Is there anything your MI7 doesn't monitor?"
"Unfortunately not."
Halfor spread his hands and said helplessly: "In addition, King Saurfang, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that MI7 is currently planning to steal your personal belongings and dig out intelligence related to you. Even I also think they went a little too far.”
"My personal belongings?"
King Saurfang suddenly remembered something and said, "I lost a pair of socks this morning."
Halver nodded firmly and said, "No need to guess, they did it."
MI7 actually wants to steal the smelly socks of the orcs?
Torina complained: "What a weird habit."
"Ahem."
It was the commander of the Cenarion Circle, Marlis, who felt that the content of the meeting had gone astray. He immediately coughed to attract the attention of others, and then changed the topic back on track: "Okay, don't mention MI7, we have more information. Important matter."
"Yes, that's right." Michaela immediately agreed: "We should discuss the preparations for the war. As long as the preparations before the war are sufficient, we can gain corresponding advantages on the battlefield."
Halver jumped in and answered: "For example, dealing with the media."
"media?"
Michaela raised her left eyebrow and looked at Halver: "Why did you mention the media again?"
In the end, it was Commander Marlis who spoke: "Because we have to send people to deal with the media."
Halver also continued: "According to the documents I provided from MI7, Michaela, you seem to be very good at dealing with the media."
"I?"
Michaela frowned, pointed at herself and asked, "Am I good at it?"
"Stop being modest."
Halver continued: "According to the MI7 report, when you were the Minister of Administrative Affairs of Silvermoon City, you embezzled public funds to build villas for yourself and your employees. This was originally exposed by the reporter of "Sunshine News", but you Use extraordinary means to completely overthrow the Sun Newspaper, which claims to never bow to the government, and make them delete the news that is unfavorable to you."
Hearing this, Michaela's face turned green, and she immediately stood up from her seat and said, "That bastard Humphrey is carrying a *** on his back. I never thought about building a villa."
"are you sure?"
As if by magic, Halver conjured up a stack of documents and threw it on the desk in the middle. People around him picked it up and saw that it was a copy of the white paper signed by Michaela to build the villa, with rice on it. Signed by Keira herself!
Fortunately, Halver pointed at the signature on the document and said, "Mikayla, your handwriting is beautiful."
Protruding!
Humphrey, you bastard, you can still trick me after all this time!
"Ah sneeze!"
At this time, Sir Humphrey, who was far away in Silvermoon City, sneezed inexplicably.
Back in the conference room, Halver also said: "Michaela, it's actually not surprising that as a power organization, you do something for yourself, and you just built a few villas. Compared with some of our nobles in Stormwind City, It’s already too clean.”
Michaela sat back in the chair with a dark face and asked, "What do you want to say?"
Halver said: "The media coming to Silithus this time include not only the media from the tribe, Good Night Tribe, but also the media from our alliance, Good Morning Alliance."
King Saurfang responded: "In the media of our tribe, the warchief has already said hello, and they will not raise difficult questions."
"But the problem is with our league's media, the Morning League."
Halford continued: "The birth of this media has a certain connection with your blood elves' Sunshine Newspaper. It is said that a hundred years ago, several high elves from the Sunshine Newspaper came to Stormwind City and co-organized it with the local humans. The media, therefore they inherited the characteristics of the Sun News and specifically opposed our government."
At this point, Halver paused and continued: "As I said before, the waste of national tax dollars comes from their newspapers."
As he spoke, Halver conjured up a newspaper called "Good Morning Alliance" and spread it on the conference table like magic. Michaela took a look and saw that the front page headline said that the Battle of Ahn'Qiraj was a waste of the people. The content of taxes is indeed very "Sunshine News" style.
Just attracting attention, regardless of the facts, it is really an unscrupulous media.
"So, Michaela, it's all up to you."
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