Military crises may not always bring about institutional changes, but most institutional changes are accompanied by military crises.
During the Second Orc War, the orc tribe only wanted to conquer the world and rule the world.
What about today's Scourge?
Destroying the world is only the first step, the Lich King also wants to burn its ashes.
The highest will of the undead natural disasters is to get a big one and leave. What can we expect from the brainless and unhappy people below?
As Carlos gradually unified the human forces in Lordaeron, the alliance gradually became tougher on the two fronts of Silverpine Forest and Andorhal, and the Undead Scourge also began to change its tactics.
That is the development of the second and fifth generation.
This tactic worked very well at the beginning. Although as the alliance continued to deepen, the alliance's senior leaders gradually came to a unified understanding. After tasting the fact of the collapse of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, they felt that humans could still win. But the people at the bottom who have faced the terror of the Scourge are still afraid of the army made of bones and flesh.
The trick of joining if you can't beat them still applies.
However, the Lich King understands human nature but does not understand the human heart. Especially under Archimonde's urging, too much energy was distracted.
So much so that when Carlos and others didn't come up with any good ideas, the Curse Sect themselves ruined the show.
There is a term called convert fanaticism, which refers to the fact that converts from other sects are often more fanatical than the extremists of their own sect.
This happened to the human traitors who defected to the Scourge. They hated the living and feared the victory of the Alliance even more than the group of cursed cultists before the tragedy in Lordaeron.
With this kind of mentality, nature will be as vicious as it comes, and it will be as dehumanizing as it is.
But unlike the other world line, the Kingdom of Alterac still exists, and unlike the entire human world that was confused after the city of Lordaeron was destroyed, humans still have coordinating political and military organizational capabilities.
As a result, the crazy actions of these cursed believers aroused strong resistance from the general public.
When coercion and inducement disappear and only coercion remains, the Curse Sect's work of coaxing and corrupting is like having a lame leg.
Carlos's goal is also very clear. On the western front, he will withstand the Scourge that originated from the city of Lordaeron, maintain the balance of power, and use Andorhal as the entry point to concentrate his elite troops for a battle with the main force of the Scourge led by Alsace. , directly destroying the high-rise buildings of the Scourge.
In this way, the terrifying numerical advantage of undead natural disasters can be avoided.
Now that the strategy has been formulated, all that remains is to implement it.
Although the long-term benefits of fighting that battle in the northern part of the Hillblade Hills were great, in the short term, it was nothing more than a distraction of the Alterac army.
The troops that Carlos can trust now are nothing more than the 70,000 troops he brought to Arathi to fight the orcs and the 30,000 Lordaeron expeditionary force brought back by Uther.
These 100,000 people are almost the last military legacy left by the human country since the Second Orc War.
Although more troops are still being formed and a new generation of youth will continue to grow, the war potential of the human kingdom is far from being fully unleashed.
But in a short period of time, these 100,000 people were a force that determined the fate of Lordaeron.
Tirion Fordring stayed in Andorhal to withstand the impact of more than 200,000 skeleton soldiers and ghouls, and the pressure was huge.
The good news is that because assistance from the rear has not been interrupted, morale on the front lines of the war remains high.
As the integration of forces within the alliance was further completed, and troops and supplies gradually became abundant, Tirion Fordring launched a campaign to counterattack.
Using a large number of grenades and explosives to clear the way and abandoning the unlucky artillery, the legions defending Andorhal broke through the siege of the lower-level combat units of the Scourge and pretended to counterattack in the direction of Hearthglen in the north.
Naturally, such a big move could not be hidden from the commanders of the Undead Scourge. The more than 10,000 human soldiers who left Andorhal's solid defenses were just like fragrant braised pork in their eyes.
After allowing this human army to leave Andorhal for a full twenty kilometers, the Undead Scourge began to mobilize its troops to prepare to encircle and annihilate this "arrogant" human army.
At the same time, the attack on Andorhal was also stepped up.
The entire Andorhal has less than 50,000 troops at this time. Suddenly 20% of the troops are missing, and there will be problems with rotation.
Enemy mistakes are the favorite thing of all commanders.
As a result, invisible magical signals surged in the vast space north of Andorhal.
"Lord Fording, we can locate eleven suspicious target locations."
As time passed, Dalaran slowly recovered from the chaos of the attack. Coupled with the tremendous pressure exerted by Carlos in the name of the Alliance, the mages finally stood clearly on the side of the Alliance.
This is also the reason why Tirion Fordring dared to launch this counterattack.
After collecting a lot of intelligence, Tirion Fordring determined one thing.
That is, skeleton soldiers and ghouls have no brains or intelligence.
So there must be some hidden guy secretly controlling these huge numbers of natural disaster grassroots combat units.
So he designated this crazy plan as if he had "lost his mind" and sent out a total of 14,000 people, throwing them into the middle of the siege network of more than 200,000 undead natural disasters.
But what the Scourge didn't know was that Tirion Fordring knew very well that there was a gap between them among the mages in Andorhal.
So it was a ruse within a ruse.
"Inform the Griffin troops to prepare for air strikes."
Tirion Fordring issued the battle order without any unnecessary hesitation.
Perseverance and ruthlessness are essential qualities for all senior commanders.
Tirion Fordring knew very well that this air strike would not have any effect at all, and even the gryphon knights themselves would become targets of the Scourge's gargoyles and ground aerial firepower.
But this is war.
A redemption game.
When the Cult of the Damned was complacently mocking Tirion Fordring's incompetence and stupidity, when the commanders of the Undead Scourge were planning a grand annihilation war, when the Griffin Knights air raided the false enemy headquarters and suffered heavy casualties. hour……
The decoy force that was supposed to return to Andorhal according to the Scourge's intelligence actually continued to go north.
At this time, the undead commanders realized that something seemed to be wrong.
"Shouldn't we circle back to Andorhal?"
"Haha! Go back? How is it possible? Think about it, we can break through the siege of 200,000 enemy troops and finally break out. How can we go back?"
Alessandro Mograine took off the magic disguise attached to his body and officially took over the command of this army.
To confuse his enemies, he didn't even carry the Ashbringer with him.
"In order to cut off our connection with Andorhal, the enemy deliberately opened a passage to let us escape so far. Going back is simply a crime against the Alliance!"
"Then what is our goal?"
"A group of heavy equipment from the Undead Legion departed from Lordaeron and are ready to be transported to the Stratholme area. Let's go eat the transport team without these ghosts."
Alessandro Mograine didn't know how the above obtained such information, but being suppressed and beaten was never his style.
"Go north, keep going north, get on the main road and turn west!"
