The game is all about acting, and natural disasters have no bottom line.
Even the racial war between humans and orcs fighting for living space did not make Carlos so angry.
One cannot, one should not, at least one does not have to.
But the guys who defected to the Lich King really tried.
If the previous siege of the undead was just an absolute suppression in numbers, now outside Andorhal is a large exhibition ground of annihilation of humanity.
The Scourge's legions are orderly and hierarchical. Because the Lich King has deployed a large number of death knights and spellcasters to perform other tasks, the undead army besieging Andorhal actually has a problem of insufficient brains.
A small number of psychics and death knights control skeletal soldiers, reanimated zombies, and flesh and blood ghouls, issuing extremely vague orders.
For example, where to go, come back, and hang up where you are.
It's not that these middle-level forces of the Scourge don't want to micromanage, it's that they can't do it. Only the Lich King has this ability.
Therefore, in the past days, Andorhal simply faced the sheer numerical crushing of the Undead Scourge.
Now, with the return of a large number of backbone forces, especially the commanders, Andorhal is in danger.
The human front is being attacked by the army of the dead every moment, and casualties are still secondary. If you die on the cruel battlefield, you are dead, and all is gone. Instead, living people have to endure both mental and physical torture.
Carlos seems to have 50,000 garrison troops in his hands, but taking into account those who take turns to rest, those who stay up late to fight, and those who are mentally damaged, the real power he can use is less than half of the data on paper.
Andor was originally the name of this entire area, including the cultivated land of at least 100,000 farmers outside the town, collectively called Andorhar.
However, after the tragedy in Lordaeron, when the situation was brewing, and before the impact of the refugee wave came, a large number of locals chose to take refuge in Caer Daron County and the Alterac Plateau.
This led to the current situation in Andorhal, with a massive shrinkage in population and supplies. The town and its fortifications were Andorhal.
At that time, Carlos firmly believed that his army could sweep away all the monsters and monsters, and he only needed to hold on to Andorhal for a while.
As a result, plans never change quickly, and the King of Alterac once again faces a difficult battle.
He must fight a persistent battle under the premise that people's hearts are unstable.
Because a messenger from Stratholme crossed the mountains that separated Darrowshire and Caer Darrow, bringing a letter asking for help.
When Carlos received the letter of request for help from Keldaron, it was already the fifth day since the messenger left Daron County.
Five days ago, the minions of the Undead Scourge had begun to wreak havoc in the western part of the Stratholme region. The sporadic garrison and militia companies organized spontaneously in the countryside were completely unable to withstand the advance of the Scourge. It was a rare opportunity for the nobles of Stratholme City to Ying Ming decided to concentrate his troops to fortify the Kaolin intersection.
This decision is not irrational, but it is very ruthless.
Because all areas south of the Cowling intersection are abandoned.
Therefore, Dalong County, located in the far east, became the most dangerous area, because the people of Dalong County had no time to move.
By guarding Andorhal, Carlos can at least drag a large number of Scourge soldiers here, and at least still retain the possibility of cutting off the eastward-moving Scourge Legion's connection with the city of Lordaeron.
No matter how difficult it is to defend Anhador, Carlos has strategic options.
Otherwise, Carlos, who lost Andorhal and lost his strategic choice, had only one option: to attack Lordaeron.
Perhaps others think that recovering the city of Lordaeron is the right thing to do, but Carlos knows the Lich King's plan and the true goal of the Scourge of the Undead. He cannot give up the greater Stratholme region or Quel'Thalas. High Elf allies.
At least don't give up entirely.
Every step he takes will only make the Scourge stronger.
The beginning of the offensive and defensive battle in Andorhal cannot be determined, but the way the battle ended is very clear.
There are three conditions.
The Scourge of the Undead is in the west of Andorhal and is attacking the bridge foreshore, trying to destroy or suppress Carlos's long-range firepower and consume the magic power of the mage.
Once the fire suppression provided by the two sentry towers is lost, or the mages run out of magic power, the Scourge can calmly freeze the moat.
If the undead army meets this condition, humanity will be defeated.
The Scourge of the Undead's offensive is the most difficult in northern Andorhal, because it is the "main gate" of the town and has the strongest walls and the largest number of defenses. Alessandro Mograine led the three strongest coalitions given to him by Carlos, as well as all the Paladins except Carlos, waiting for the opportunity to appear. As long as the war situation remains stalemate, the Scourge Legion will inevitably focus on using their death knights and spellcasters to seek a breakthrough. Eliminating the commander of such an undead legion is the only chance for the human side to win.
If the human side meets this condition, the legion will be defeated without defeat.
The undead army is in the east of Andorhal, especially the northeast. They face the last military group in Lordaeron after the destruction of Lordaeron, which is Garithos' Lordaeron Cavalry. In front of these organized light and heavy cavalry, the skeletal soldiers and ghouls have limited lethality. The Undead Legion obviously has no intention of using this place as a major breakthrough, but the possibility of conspiracy cannot be ruled out.
By eating the Garithos Legion, Carlos will be defeated.
Before these three key battlefield conditions, there are two important prerequisites.
That was Carlos's 30,000 elite troops who were about to arrive in Andorhal within two days, and the precarious morale of the Andorhal garrison, which had blocked their retreat in order to prevent the disease from spreading back to the country.
The battlefield situation seems to have its own advantages and disadvantages, but in fact, Carlos is facing the most desperate situation in his life.
Because the Lich King was never prepared to have an "honorable" battle with Carlos.
The Scourge, which has wiped out humanity, has too many off-board moves.
For example, civilians who have been caught but not killed are pushed to the front line to serve as cannon fodder.
These are just conventional methods, not unusual, and the defenders of Andorhal will not be entangled in the issue of whether to fire or not.
But pulling up "innocent people" who died at the hands of "one's own" and turning them into self-destructing zombies is a "natural disaster".
What about corpse carts, poison clouds, and mass fear? When the legion really started to play tactics, the morale of Andorhal's defenders became even lower.
And Carlos had to speed up the rotation of troops.
It's not possible without rotation. Many of them were just farmers tilling the land and ordinary citizens of Lordaeron. They chose to fight because they had no other choice.
When food and rest fail to appease their inner fears, death is imminent.
What's more, the lurkers of the Cursed Cult are making trouble all the time.
The seventeen huge grain warehouses in Andorhal are simply natural targets.
If Fang Bian hadn't devoted all his efforts to catching these little tails, the food crisis would have brought down Andorhal.
Destruction is much easier than construction. It is not too easy to get some explosives in Andorhal today.
But even a mage like Fang Bian could see that the situation was not optimistic.
It's not that Carlos is incompetent, it's that the cards he's been dealt are terrible.
Less can defeat more, but weakness cannot defeat strong. In Andorhal at this time, humans are the weak side.
The magic moment comes at sunset. The whole day's battle will not end just because the sun goes down.
The brutal battle is still going on. Carlos has successively commanded the rotation of 20,000 soldiers. According to the intensity of the battlefield, the first batch of soldiers who were rotated out today will not even wait until dawn the next day. battlefield.
Mograine found Carlos with a tired face.
"I can't find any flaws at all, and the mages can't really find the weaknesses of the Scourge Legion. I'll launch a night attack tonight."
"It's meaningless. Reinforcements may come tomorrow night. Persistence is victory."
Carlos vetoed Mograine's adventurous plan, so Alessandro returned to where he belonged.
But despair spread so quickly that deserters inevitably appeared.
"Kill me. It's better to die in the hands of one of your own than to become a monster."
The captured deserter looked calm and relieved.
He doesn't think he did anything wrong, nor does he regret it.
The law enforcement team won't spare him just for nice words.
It’s just that after seeing too much blood of my compatriots, I became numb.
Carlos returned to thinking about Mograine's risky plans.
The sun has set, but the sky is not completely dark yet.
No one is sure whether they will see the sun tomorrow.
Regarding this matter, all the undead soldiers thrown into the attack seemed to be stuck.
This is not normal.
Immediately afterwards, the ground trembled.
"It's cavalry, lots of cavalry!"
Alterac officers, never short of cavalry combat experience, discovered the smoke in the north.
In the final hours before nightfall, the banners of Hearthglen rise above the horizon.
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