Arthas walked out of the palace in the royal city. His father was very satisfied with the outcome of the expedition. The alliance had gained new allies and the opportunity to develop new continents, and the losses suffered were completely within the acceptable range.
Moreover, the most important point is that Lordaeron has completely gotten rid of the negative impact caused by the orc asylum, and has greatly reduced the hidden dangers brought by the orcs to the kingdom.
As for why it is said to be mitigated rather than eliminated, that is why King Tenaris summoned the troops of Arthas and Lordaeron to return.
Although the orc problem in Lordaeron has been almost eliminated, it does not mean that the orc problem and various extension factors in the entire continent of Lordaeron have completely disappeared.
Most of the territory of the continent of Lordaeron belongs to the current Kingdom of Lordaeron, while the mountains and forests north of West Wilder are the territory of Quel'Thalas.
The territory south of Southsea Town and east of Thoradin's Wall is the territory of the current Kingdom of Stromgard, and then it is the focus of Tenaris' concern, the area between Lordaeron and Stromgard. The territory where the former Kingdom of Alterac was located.
The Kingdom of Alterac was destroyed in the Second Orc War, but it still caused huge trouble to Lordaeron.
The first is the most direct problem. Alterac was destroyed by the orcs, but the orcs there left, but a lot of ogres were left behind.
Those ugly, smelly tall creatures established their own power in the ruins of Alterac City, and often threatened the lives and property of some residents around Alterac.
In recent years, King Tenaris has received countless "letters for help" from different lords and nobles across the country. They claimed that the ogres had brought huge destruction and losses to their territory, and they hoped that the royal city could be restored. Lend a helping hand.
But in fact, Tenaris and these nobles are all clear in their hearts. Are the nobles and lords really the ones who are harmed?
How could it be possible for those ogres to break into the castles of these Lordaeron nobles? Even if their "bodyguards" of one or two hundred people cannot completely defeat the ogre's attack, there is no problem if they want to defend it.
Ogres lack long-range weapons and siege equipment. Most of them use long-range attacks by throwing stones. How can they possibly capture a fortress with walls and towers?
In addition, under Alsace's deployment, the First Legion's military camps are almost all over Lordaeron, large and small, in important strategic areas. They can go to support and drive away the ogres in a very short time. How? Might it bring serious losses to the lords and nobles?
The truly unlucky ones are actually the ordinary citizens who live near the Alterac Valley and rely on agriculture and animal husbandry to make a living.
Lordaeron has long passed the era when the subjects in the territory were the private property of the lord, but the lord's taxes came from the residents of his territory.
Part of this tax is handed over to the royal capital, while the rest is used for daily maintenance and military protection in the territory. The current lords are actually not qualified to collect taxes from residents for private use. They are equivalent to just being sent by the kingdom. of the Sheriff.
The number of existing lords in Lordaeron is very small, and most of them have become nobles and live in the royal city. This has been a method used by generations of Lordaeron kings to weaken local power, but Lordaeron will still give those who guard the side. The title of the general lord.
Tirion Fordring is a good example. The area he is responsible for is Hearthglen, but he cannot have the same power as a king in his own territory like the ancient lords. He is still restricted by the king of Lordaeron.
In addition, of course, the lord can also pay for people to do work and help him take care of his land and industry. Of course, these resources are part of the lord's private property, and those who work for the lord can also enjoy to the best protection measures.
But those residents who lived far away from the town were unable to be protected by Lordaeron's army in the first place.
There is no way around this. Even if the strength of Lordaeron has far exceeded before, it is indeed very difficult to protect all the people of Lordaeron intact, because there are always some citizens who will leave due to life reasons. The town was further away, and they were the ones who suffered the most serious losses at the hands of the ogres.
The lords and nobles said that just because they wanted to get greater aid and resources from the royal capital to help them make the territories under their jurisdiction richer.
Because although they cannot levy taxes, their income is still closely related to the development status of the location.
Tenaris knew the little ninety-nine in the hearts of these nobles, so it was naturally impossible to provide assistance to these nobles, but expanding the defensive scope of the First Legion was not an easy task.
The combat effectiveness of the First Legion is obvious to all. This is all because Alsace has very strict regulations and requirements for the source of troops and daily training of the First Legion.
These military camps recruit new soldiers from the local area and conduct training and patrols in various places, while the royal capital will assign instructors and soldiers from elite troops to teach.
The selection of soldiers is very strict and the training is very reasonable to ensure that the combat effectiveness of the army will not decrease. Military camps generally rely on towns to exist and form a good promotion relationship with surrounding towns.
The Privy Council of Alsace also keeps a close eye on these military camps. If any situation occurs that may damage the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, such as taking bribes and lining their own pockets with military expenses, the executive officer of the Privy Council will let those officials know whether the prison food is good or not.
This quickly enhanced the reserve strength of the First Army and reduced the defensive pressure on the main force of the First Army. Moreover, since the officers and coaches were directly dispatched, these reserve groups actually had extremely strong mobilization capabilities.
Of course, there is also a problem with this, that is, the deployment of defensive camps and military camps operated in this way requires a little accumulation, and cannot be directly mobilized with existing troops.
What Alsace wants is to enhance the country's strength and prepare enough strength to deal with the next crises and difficulties, so he will naturally choose this route that is more suitable for long-term development.
But this happened to give the ogre another opportunity.
The ogres have low intelligence, but they are not completely brainless, and there will also be members with extremely high IQs among them, no less than ordinary people, so they also know that they cannot go head-to-head with the elite Lordaeron army, and they will always attack those people. Less, but it can still scrape some oily and watery areas.
This means that the Lordaeron team can indeed arrive quickly, but by that time the ogres have already taken some things and can run away when the Lordaeron army comes.
Even they don't care about killing or injuring some compatriots. There is not enough food on the mountain anyway, and they don't worry about fertility problems. If some people die, they can share their pressure.
So every time they were driven up the mountain by the cavalry of Lordaeron. As long as they went up the mountain, the cavalry naturally couldn't chase the ogres and could only watch the ogres run into the deep mountains and old forests.
