Carlos's reputation within the Alliance army had reached the level of chaos at this time, so after it was confirmed that the military order to encircle Lordaeron was issued by Carlos himself, more than 80% of the troops of the Western Front carried out the order unconditionally.
The remaining 20% will be handled by the gendarmerie.
Everyone has a steelyard in their mind, with benefits on one side and costs on the other.
Every two hundred kilometers advanced on land, the freight of military rations will catch up with the cost of labor. Thanks to the existence of Lake Lordamre, and thanks to the existence of the inner lake fleet, the alliance's material supplies have not had any major problems in a short period of time.
But when Carlos gave up the policy of moving forward steadily and gradually to clean up the surrounding areas, the "military observers" in the rear immediately understood what the alliance's generalissimo wanted to do.
They kidnapped morality, Carlos kidnapped the military.
After the undead natural disaster broke out, the total population of the entire Hokuriku dropped sharply from 800 to 10 million at its peak to less than 300 to 400 million today. If it is less, half of the human race has died in this disaster. In the midst of catastrophe.
Now the more than 100,000 troops placed by the alliance in the east have been welded to death and cannot move, waiting for friendly support. The 300,000 troops in the west are the light of mankind and the most powerful military group in human history.
This is no joke. Even during the Second Orc War, the theoretical number of the entire alliance, including the troops brought by Lothar from the south, was only 200,000. However, due to lack of preparation on the human side, Hills, which was actually the main battlefield, Braid Hills has never housed more than 60,000 human soldiers at a time.
Twenty years after the war, military history researchers from various countries have to admit that this tragic racial war was beaten to pieces by mankind and added fuel to the fun.
If Lothar hadn't brought the warning in advance, the good men of Lordaeron would have died three times more and it wouldn't be enough to fill the gap in combat power with the orc tribe.
Times have really changed. As for today's alliance, this alliance has been reorganized after being hit hard by the outbreak of natural disasters. If you give Orgrim the list of personnel and ask him to pick out a hundred thousand at will, he can drive the original orc tribe into the sea with his eyes closed. .
With 10,000 people, the sun and the sky were blocked. Orgrim Doomhammer led 30,000 orcs and almost scared the city of Lordaeron into surrendering. Terenas described it as a tide of darkness. Now that the 300,000 alliance troops are advancing in groups, the morale of the undead natural disasters is always zero, otherwise the momentum alone can scare the ghouls into huskies.
It was such a large number of war groups that gave Carlos the confidence to commit suicide and gave the legion commanders the courage to do whatever they wanted.
With a large number of mobile troops and a total of 70,000 cavalry, under the high-altitude reconnaissance of the Griffin Knights, any undead who dare to assemble in the direction of the army movement will suffer a saturation blow from the absolute numerical advantage.
It only took Carlos five days to recapture the former landing site and regain the right to use the Laguna Channel.
Carlos ordered the troops to take a short rest and reorganize the loose formations during the march. At this time, the Undead Scourge took the lead in launching the offensive.
The secret to field warfare is actually just four words - flexibility.
Any specific strategy for luring a snake out of its hole to attack what it is unprepared for is an extension of these four words.
There are capable people in the undead scourge, and Carlos does not doubt that the Lich King has resurrected the high-ranking generals of Lordaeron who died in the city of Lordaeron.
But the Scourge Legion obviously has no famous generals.
Too rigid, the Scourge Legion's tactical response was too rigid.
It's even stiffer than Captain Kameda's only famous tactic, double-teaming.
Because the undead natural disasters chose to face the enemy head-on, divide their forces and intercept them.
About 100,000 undead elites came out from the west gate of Lordaeron and took the initiative to attack the alliance's vanguard.
This elite is not self-proclaimed by the undead. Just looking at the appearance, this undead army is more hideous than other undead.
A large number of stitched abominations, ghouls with unknown green liquid in their mouths, skeletal soldiers with neat armor and shiny swords, formations of death knights, plague mages and wailing banshees in formation.
Except that there is no Frost Dragon and Obsidian Destroyer, it is simply the UD of WAR3.
This is destined to be a tough battle, and Carlos must go all out.
Therefore, the 130,000 Union troops in the front began to reorganize and deploy, waiting for the enemy to approach.
There was nothing wrong with this response, what was wrong was Carlos's life.
Because he pulled out all the troops to fight against it.
This resulted in a big battle on the front, and hundreds of thousands of troops in the rear still transferring troops.
The Undead Scourge deployed another force to try to insert into the alliance's march route, dividing the three hundred thousand troops in half.
Because there is no need to clean up the perimeter, the Undead Scourge actually has this force to complete such military deployment.
But this is also the reason why Carlos thinks that the Scourge Commander in Lordaeron City who directed this battle is stiff.
Times have changed!
In the magical world of Azeroth, although gunpowder cannot sound the death knell for the knight class, it can change the pattern of war.
If the Alliance army still fights with cold weapons, then the Scourge Legion's military strategy has at least half a chance of being realized.
If all members of the Alliance's army were equipped with firearms, then the Scourge's strategy would surely be realized.
But it was such a magical army mixed with riflemen, spears, swords, axes, archers, mages, knights and paladins. Carlos dared to laugh at the Scourge's ignorance.
the reason is simple.
The undead commander's formation is still based on the ancient idea of soldiers versus soldiers and kings versus kings. It is assumed that Carlos will use the main force to fight with himself, and the Scourge can use their numerical advantage to defeat Carlos' rear formation.
But Carlos had no such plans.
He came to besiege the city.
Do you understand the siege? What greeted this elite undead army was not Garithos' cavalry or the battle-hardened veterans of the Alliance, but the five trenches and seventeen trenches built by the engineers, artillery and mages. Barbed wire.
Steel changed life and also changed war.
The barbed wire fence and horse piles could not block the huge body of the Abomination, but they could effectively curb the progress of the ghouls and skeletal soldiers. As the inner lake was reopened for navigation, 97,000 various artillery shells were neatly stacked in the bunker.
The Griffin Knights suffered heavy losses in several bloody battles and have transformed from the main force in air combat to the role of air superiority scouts. However, the production of engineering aircraft gradually expanded as the war progressed.
In order to deal with the gargoyle swarm in Lordaeron, 1,473 dwarf pilots with flying experience, regardless of whether they had passed the test or had fake certificates, were urgently recruited into the army. The first batch of 2,700 humans The pilots also completed the second phase of training.
This time, Carlos wanted to confront the undead garrisoned in Lordaeron City, whether it was a siege battle, a positional battle, or an air battle, a sea battle, a magic battle.
In this battle to regain Lordaeron, Carlos had no intention of playing tricks at all.
Don't expect Carlos Twitch to launch a five-pronged attack since the Scourge Legion has created a combat power gap on its own.
The front is in a mess, and the elite of the undead cannot penetrate the alliance's defense line, so they can only hope to gain something by cutting off the backup troops.
Then here comes the problem.
When the infantry and artillery are on the front line, where are the cavalry?
