Games are indeed the ninth art, originating from life and higher than life.
When using the game Warcraft to analyze Azeroth, one thing stands out.
No matter how the three tribes of Dark Night, Orcs, and Humans fight a battle with a population of 100, the core idea is to prioritize killing combat units to reduce the opponent's population, and then capture the heroes when they have the opportunity to surround them.
Only in undead external battles, you have to guard against the opponent's own heroes, especially the death knights. Once the hero unit is killed, even if the opponent's population exceeds 20, there is a possibility of collapse.
After Carlos landed, he breathed a deep sigh of relief. Thanks to the fact that Lake Lordamre is an inner lake. Although the Lich King is considered a technical geek, he is not as imaginative as the Ancient God. He has not yet created the undead water monster. stuff.
There are basically two methods for coastal defense. One is to build a fort and seize the beach. The naval gun and the fort are bombarded. The winning or losing depends on the number, the proficiency of the gunners, the sea conditions, the wind direction and so on. The loss is ultimately the loss of the ship. I was unlucky that the channel was blocked by a sunken ship, so it was almost impossible to land on the beach. The second method is to build a land card landing site. When the firepower is inferior to the people, the beach position is abandoned and the landing site assembly area is blocked, making it impossible for the landing party to effectively gather the number of troops to launch a campaign offensive.
Both methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they cannot be distinguished as good or bad. However, neither method is suitable for natural disasters of the undead.
Because this kind of micromanaging tactics requires the number of grassroots commanders, and the undead natural disaster lacks this kind of genius.
Even though Kel'Thuzad has mass-produced low-quality death knights and the Lich King has begun to solve the shortcomings of the undead scourge, one is one, two is two on the battlefield, and there are not so many what-ifs.
On the first day of landing, a large number of gargoyles came to harass the Alliance fleet. In the afternoon of that day, the gargoyles moved to the Silver Pine Forest.
The first step of Carlos's tactical deception was successful. The Alliance Air Force used its absolute numerical advantage to seize air superiority for the Garithos Corps. Within a day, the Alliance regained control of half of the Silver Pine Mountain Road.
Carlos also successfully eliminated the Scourge's beachhead troops and began to build temporary docks to build forward positions.
Unfortunately, the problem arose on the second day.
The general offensive was launched two weeks in advance, and there was a big problem with the transportation of supplies.
A simple summary is that there are more supplies such as food, medicines and food, but less consumable weapons such as ammunition.
Carlos is not to blame, not even the Alliance Military Headquarters.
In history, mankind has never fought a war of this scale, and there is no reference for the new alliance that was forcibly pulled into the era of magic and heat weapons by Carlos.
Before the start of the battle, the frontline warehouse prepared 130 million projectiles, 4 million grenades, 1 million mines, 5 million artillery shells and corresponding propellants for Garithos' 200,000-person starting force. .
Even the dwarves and Bronzebeard dwarves felt that the human brothers had gone too far in preparing so many war supplies. Ironforge, who was used to playing with firearms, had never fought such a rich war.
As a result, one-third of the arms reserve was consumed in just one day...
In other words, according to this battlefield intensity, the Alliance's Western Front Army will have to return to the cold weapon era in three days.
This is so painful.
You want to say that Carlos is out of stock, a cold weapon is a cold weapon. The problem is that Carlos, as a senior phobia patient with insufficient firepower, still has it in hand. There are more than 500,000 and close to 600,000 troops. Only more than 200,000 are veterans with combat experience. The rest are all conscripts with short-term training. They do not need superior firepower to establish psychological defense lines and battlefield confidence. How to fight this battle?
However, it is absolutely impossible to stop or suspend the offensive on the Garithos side. Breaking Silverpine Mountain Road is the prerequisite for a major counterattack. If Silverpine Mountain Road cannot be taken, the Western Front's 300,000 troops will be blocked northwest of Hillsbrad. Department, what a joke.
So Carlos took action and ordered Dailin to remove most of the fleet and give priority to transporting ammunition and supplies to Garithos.
It was agreed that there would be 50,000 people, but the vanguard force had just landed with less than 10,000 people, and the follow-up rhythm was disrupted.
This is gambling your life.
Even if everything goes well, the second batch of follow-up troops will not arrive until two days later. While Carlos is urging the troops who have landed on the beach to hurry up and build defenses, he also vaguely feels that something is wrong.
The Lich King is an upright person who has a full view of the map. If he has such a big mistake, why is the reaction speed of the Undead Scourge so slow?
It wasn't until noon the next day that the undead natural disasters that came to surround Carlos's landing troops were in place.
The landing force, which was still in good condition, easily defended it.
Then, on the third day, a large number of plague mages and necromancers appeared north of the landing site. Even new tricks such as banshees, flesh puppets, and steel abominations all appeared on the scene, and the battle suddenly became fierce.
Sure enough, the follow-up reinforcements were late.
At the same time as the gorgeous magical offensive and defensive battle and the strangulation on the ground, several Kul Tiran warships sat on the beach in order to provide artillery support. The gunners stayed behind and the sailors came ashore.
Under such a difficult response that was equivalent to killing the potential for war, the second batch of reinforcements finally arrived before sunset that day.
The corps, which had successfully landed on the beach as the secondary attack direction, became a living bait for the fueling tactics.
Although Carlos was helpless, he was not disappointed either.
After all, the landing site is too close to the city of Lordaeron, and it would be too easy for the Undead Scourge to deploy troops to plug the loopholes. This situation is expected and not surprising.
On the fourth day, Galither informed the entire army that he had cleared seventy-five miles of the hundred-mile Silver Pine Mountain Road, and the dawn of victory was right in front of him.
Carlos was satisfied with the results of the Western Front, but when it came to the flag planted by Garisses, it was useless for Carlos to even shake his body, feeling that something was going to happen.
On the fifth day, it was a normal battlefield with normal fighting, normal good news and normal bad news, a little dull.
On the sixth day, something happened.
A man who travels a hundred miles is half a mile, although this proverb is not used in this way, but Garithos' offensive attack did stall. Humans can use 100,000 troops to block 400,000 undead on the Silver Pine Mountain Road. On the other hand, the Scourge Legion can actually build bunkers.
A large number of obstacles and catapults blocked the last section of the road for the Alliance to break out of the natural barrier.
The assault group of the Western Front was unable to move forward.
The Air Force, originally the hope of the entire alliance, was also restricted by massive gargoyles and undead anti-aircraft firepower.
The battlefield situation suddenly came to a standstill.
To make matters worse, on this day, Tirion Fordring sent an urgent call. The settlement in northern Anhador was attacked by the Undead Scourge, and Kel'Thuzad performed an underwater march.
This means forcing Alessandro Mograine to return to defense.
Carlos thought for almost two hours and finally made up his mind.
NO!
Carlos Barov likes to say NO to opponents who think they have a plan!
Mograine cannot return to defense. The original beach landing plan has been frustrated. Now in the so-called 3+1 plan, only Mograine's side can truly contain the large number of mobile troops in Lordaeron.
They cannot withdraw. Once Mograine withdraws, the initiative on the battlefield will be handed over to the Scourge of the Undead.
On the seventh day, Dai Lin sent another batch of reinforcements and supplies.
However, Carlos told Daelin that the more than 20,000 troops that followed should not be sent to Lordaeron, but should be sent directly to the west of the barrier pass to Mograine.
With the Ashbringer's offensive, two-thirds of Lake Lordaeron is already under the control of the Alliance. Although it needs to bypass the controlled waterways of Lordaeron City, shipping on the inner lake has essentially been restored.
In terms of distance, Carlos is the closest to the city of Lordaeron at this time, and can be reached in a day or night. However, it is the weakest, has the most obstacles, and is unable to attack. Alessandro is next, he can arrive in two days and one night, and he is evenly matched with the undead natural disaster, and is fighting fiercely. Although Garithos had 300,000 men in his hand, he was blocked by the Silver Pine Mountain Road. He could not exert his strength even though he had no strength. After leaving the Silver Pine Mountain Road, it would take at least five days of urgent marching to advance to the city of Lordaeron.
This is because the Kingdom of Lordaeron is an area well developed by humans and has convenient road transportation.
So Carlos couldn't do anything else and never wavered in his determination.
All the wounded soldiers followed Daelin back to Alterac, and the remaining 23,000 people packed their bags and prepared for a rapid march.
The Undead Scourge quickly noticed Carlos's movements. As the gate of Lordaeron opened, a steady stream of skeletal soldiers and ghouls accompanied by heavy equipment began to advance towards this close enemy.
Carlos, who left the cover of the fleet's artillery fire and the fortifications, and took the initiative to attack, attracted the attention of the city of Lordaeron.
But Carlos attacked eastward, made a false shot, and then turned all the way west.
Following the last magical communication, Tirion Fordring was silent for a long time.
He understood Carlos's intention, and the beach landing plan had actually failed. So he planned to make a time lag and try to attack the undead position outside the exit of Silverpine Mountain Road to the west before the city of Lordaeron could react, destroying the undead's catapults and plague cannons.
Survive after being put to death, in the encirclement situation of dozens of times of enemy forces, as long as Carlos gets through the contact with Garisses first, the whole chess game will be alive.
But the price of failure...
Tirion Fordring was too lazy to think about it, because his task was not easy either. Carlos did not give him any support, but ordered him to use the only 20,000 second-line troops he had to stop the undead that broke through the Whitewater River. natural disaster.
If necessary, fight to the death.
In response to Carlos's cruel and ruthless order, Tirion Fordring only answered one sentence.
You must survive.
What was completely incompatible with the excitement of the alliance's senior leaders was that at the undead landing site on the west bank of the Whitewater River, trolls and orcs launched a crazy massacre against the natural disaster troops who were in a weak stage. The high-level undead quickly reacted and began to assemble their troops to prepare. Annihilate this force of two thousand people.
However, after Erigor completed the slow separation of men and horses to cross the river, he still did not enter the battlefield immediately, but disappeared from the sight of the orcs and trolls.
Garrosh noticed this and smiled with satisfaction.
These ghouls and skeletal soldiers who had just landed had lost too much shadow energy under the impact of dozens of kilometers of water. They were slow in movement and lacked ability, so it was not difficult to kill them.
Erigor leading the cavalry away from the battlefield may seem like betraying his teammates, but it is the right thing to do.
Locating the caster near the landing site and killing with one hit is the real way to win.
As for trolls and orcs, all they need to do is make a big fuss. The more violent the fuss, the easier it is for the undead's "brains" to determine the location.
By the time the death knights began to enter, Garrosh had already fallen into a battlefield fever.
He was not alone at this time. The souls of hundreds of thousands of sacrificed warriors from the Silver Northern Expedition were possessed by him, and he had no disadvantages to the Undead Noble Phantasm.
He grabbed the white blade with both hands and snatched the death knight's rune sword. He moved to avoid the withering impact. His bloody rage broke through fear. He pinched the neck of the high elf death knight in front of him with one hand. Garrosh no longer suppressed his power and lifted his feet off the ground. Lifted up.
"You can not."
Garrosh himself didn't realize how healing his smile was at this moment.
