Gavin Rudd is probably really dead.
------"In Memory of the True Warriors"
The natural disaster of the undead did not use any conspiracy to break through the barrier, not even a strategy that could be called a military strategy.
There is no flanking attack, no outflanking, and no coordination between land and air.
A simple word, heap, is to attack with troops, regardless of casualties.
The attack began at dawn, and before dawn the next day, the barrier fell.
Gavin Rad fought to the last moment and died by Arthas' sword.
Even though he didn't have high hopes for the barrier's defense line, Carlos knew that if he wanted to break through the barrier, the Scourge would have to send a partial force to attack from both front and rear.
However, according to the battle report pieced together based on the fragmentary information brought by the soldiers who escaped, this was not the case.
Lordaeron is a geomantic treasure land. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and there is only one pass called Barrier Pass where the mountains to the east end.
Xiongguan is a real Xiongguan. The only problem is that the defense facilities are built against the mountains and cannot accommodate too many garrison troops.
Therefore, Carlos believed that as long as the undead natural disasters attacked from both sides, the barrier would be defeated.
But the intelligence collected now is not the case, and there is a problem.
Carlos has been fighting for half his life, and he is not a theoretical theorist when it comes to military issues. If Alsace defeats the single-sided defense barrier from the front, it can only prove one thing - the Lich King is in Lordan What Lun did was greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the Undead Scourge.
This is something Carlos has to figure out.
The situation at home is dire.
Even after several purges, there are still many hostile elements with grudges lurking in Alterac.
So Alex Barov was assassinated more than ten times in a few days.
Even Carlos had long thought that his father would be the target of the undead natural disaster and left half of the National Knights of the Royal Religion with the Grand Duke Regent.
However, as long as a thousand days of being a thief does not mean a thousand days of guarding against thieves, the Grand Duke was still injured. The poison-coated dagger did not kill the Grand Duke, but made him comatose for five days.
This is also the reason why Carlos has been unable to receive domestic assistance, and the entire Alterac seems to be offline.
Carlos's confidants concealed the information about the Grand Duke's assassination and luckily waited until the Grand Duke woke up.
So when the first and second messengers arrived in Anhador almost at the same time, Carlos almost sent them both to torture.
Not only his father, Carlos's wife and children also encountered abductions and assassinations in Caer Dalon.
However, as the home base of the Barov family, Keldaron is more difficult for the enemy to infiltrate and has less power to mobilize.
The most important thing is Janis Barov.
The Curse Sect obviously despised this noble lady who had been out of the wizarding world for a long time. The first kidnapping operation that had the best chance of success was delayed by Carlos's mother using illusions, and the guards arrived.
Then, there were several wonderful assassinations, but unfortunately they were all snuffed out.
Carlos was not surprised by Uncle Fang's "betrayal". A mage who was still able to persist in spell research in poverty, and a mage who was troubled by his qualifications but was not discouraged, would find it difficult to resist the whispers of the Lich King.
But Carlos never expected that Uncle Fang would use "betrayal" as a bargaining chip to betray the Lich King again.
It is precisely because of the outstanding performance of this "elite two and five" that the Curse Sect's operation against the Lake Center Castle of Keldaron failed.
In the face of such achievements, sensibility prevailed, and Carlos thought for a long time but could not bring himself to kill the mage advisor who had accompanied him throughout his youth.
So Carlos wrote back and ordered Fang Brick to come to Anhador immediately from the Lake Castle of Keldaron to obey his orders.
This is just a domestic situation.
After overcoming the initial and most threatening chaos, the situation will not get worse. When Alterac's national machinery begins to operate normally, it will only become more and more difficult for the Scourge to wreak havoc.
At least it wasn't all bad news that Carlos received.
In the Hillbread Foothills, good news comes often.
The first good news is that the Argent Dawn has not been destroyed to the west of Lordaeron.
Although they suffered heavy losses, the veterans led the refugees to escape the initial pursuit.
The second good news is that Uther is not an idiot after all.
Although it was troublesome to transfer a large force, a medium-sized passenger ship carrying a hundred elite paladins back to Lordaeron was his way of expressing his loyalty to the Menethil family.
Across the Palatine Bay, this heavily overloaded medium-sized ship ran out of supplies and could only dock at Southsea Town to rest instead of going all the way north to the port of Lordaeron.
This action saved two groups of people.
The first group was naturally the returning Silver Hand paladins.
This group of Paladins, including Mograine, can be said to be the essence of the Silver Hand in the past twenty years. It would be a great irony if they were lost for no reason at a port in Lordaeron controlled by the Scourge.
The second group is the refugees heading south.
The first batch of 200,000 refugees directly impacted the normal order in the hills of Hillsbrad.
If it weren't for the undead Scourge's inexplicable attack on Greymane's Wall, there would be no need for the Scourge to attack the west of Tarren Mill, and they would be in chaos.
It was the appearance of these paladins that quickly stabilized the mood of the refugees in Lordaeron, reminding them that the kingdom still had an expeditionary force in the south.
When hope reoccupies the heart, panic will eventually recede.
The strategic mistake of the Undead Scourge gave the people of Hillsbrad Hills time to respond. It happened that Carlos's army in Arathi finally retreated to Hillsbrad with difficulty. Under the "friendly" persuasion of his comrades, the 70,000-strong army was divided into two. The baggage trains and wounded infantrymen returned to the country and fought in Andhador according to the original plan. The other part of the elite infantry and cavalry who were in better condition quickly moved northward. He bumped into the Scourge legions that were redirecting southward.
This battle was won cleanly and Carlos slapped the table and applauded.
Alterac has been waging war for more than 20 years, but after all, it has not produced a group of trash who eat military food.
In front of the organized army, the shortcomings of the Undead Scourge were finally revealed.
The huge and tireless undead army does not have that great numerical advantage in the face of more efficient killing machines. The terrifying Abominable Stitch Monster is not immune to artillery fire and ballistae. The more than 100,000 mid-to-low-end undead soldiers on the opposite side are not enough to defeat Carlos. The 30,000 elite troops were dragged into the fatigue battle.
The most ridiculous thing is that this natural disaster army that went south actually lost to the Knights of the Silver Hand in terms of high-end combat effectiveness.
When they found that relying on skeletons and ghouls could not break down the human defense line, the death knights mounted skeleton horses and rushed out, trying to use fear to knock down the mortals who dared to resist the Lich King.
As a result, this battle gave birth to a legendary title: "Ashbringer".
Mograine Alessandro became famous for fighting thousands of armies alone.
