First, let’s review the geographical location of Blackstone Mountain.
From north to south, after crossing the Saldo Bridge is the wetland. Through the mountain road dug by the dwarves in the south of the wetland, you can reach Anvilmar. Further south is Ironforge, and further south is the Searing Gorge and the Desolate Land.
The Alliance has not been doing nothing these years. When Lothar led the Restoration Army all the way south, they were stuck in the Searing Gorge. It was disgusting, and Ironforge saw it.
So for more than ten years, manpower and material resources have been invested one after another, and finally a hole has been opened between the desolate land and the mountain wall outside the Burning Plains.
Although it was impossible to bypass Blackstone Mountain and connect directly to Lakeside Town, it was able to bypass the Sea of Ashes after all.
This is how the current war came about.
Because whether it is the Searing Canyon or the Burning Plains, although it covers a large area, there are not many places that can really be used to deploy troops and horses.
In the past few decades or hundreds of years, whether it was humans or dwarves, the several wars surrounding this place had basically exhausted all deceitful tactics. The orcs of the Atonement Expedition had to use ready-made military strategies and fight with hard power.
Orcs are cruel and cunning, humans are cunning and cruel.
Apart from their language and appearance, the humans and orcs in Azeroth are actually not very different. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they are skin-changing monsters or allomorphs.
So Reid Blackhand didn't take his fellow greenskins to heart at all.
Are the orcs enslaved by humans still orcs? The green-skinned slaves who lack both wisdom and courage have simply tarnished the glory of the tribe!
But it just so happens that they used to be slaves of humans, and now they are their own slaves, which can be regarded as making the best use of everything.
The weaknesses of the Redemption Expedition are too obvious.
Unlike the Blackstone Clan, which were professional combatants who had taken refuge in Nefarios and needed to be supported by the Black Dragon Legion, the main force of the orcs in the Atonement Expedition were slave laborers and coolies born in the detention center.
A Blackrock Orc can kill three Greenskin Orcs with his bare hands.
What's more, the Blackstone Clan also has dragon beasts and dragon people to provide support.
In Red Blackhand's view, this battle was nothing more than the blessing of his ancestors, adding merit to his achievements.
Everyone knows the truth, and the Atonement Expeditionary Army also understands it, but the green-skinned orcs still took the initiative to launch an offensive.
Because the undead and natural disasters train people.
During the Second Orc War, the war between the two sides totaled 30,000 people. It was already a war that shook the world and the gods to determine their prosperity and survival.
Nowadays, in order to fight against the undead natural disaster, any battle launched by the Alliance requires at least 30,000 to 50,000 people to coordinate the attack.
Regarding the theoretical experience of large legion operations, the night elves should look to the Alliance for experience.
Drek'Thar had to admit that he had learned something from following the Atonement Expedition.
It cannot be said that the high-level command of the Atonement Expeditionary Force is completely in chaos, that is, it is generally chaotic. But the field of vision jumps to the legion level, and a large number of experienced retired orcs and old trolls are enough to support the command skeleton.
Especially those trolls who retired from the Tustin Gou Mercenary Group alive, who have been the vicious dogs of the King of Knights for most of their lives, and have completely experienced the changes in the entire alliance's military system. If you ask them to talk about the truth, they will not be able to explain it. , let them arrange a brigade for defense, and the efficiency will be no less than that of human school officers.
Nothing but familiarity.
Although the war was started by the expeditionary force orcs, the party that attacked first was the Blackstone orcs.
The fire scale dragon man holding a staff provided long-range firepower support for the Blackstone clan. While the wolf cavalry was making a detour, the Blackstone clan took out its 8,000 heavy armored soldiers and launched an attack on the center of the expeditionary force. .
In Red Blackhand's view, human artillery and short guns are no more than fireballs and crossbows. The heavy armor carefully forged by the Blackstone blacksmiths who received the technical guidance of the Black Dragon Legion is enough to withstand these injuries.
When the center line is broken, the war is over.
For a moment, Red Blackhand even felt as bored and empty as snow.
However, reality always likes to play tricks on orcs.
The expeditionary force headquarters, which was still struggling with how to launch an attack, was directly confused by the Blackstone Orcs' active attack.
You must know that the Alliance Logistics Department and arms dealers are not human beings. Orcs are still just orcs after all. Whether it is power armor or tortoise shell, humans will lose strength after wearing it for an hour, and orcs are not much better.
So behind the seemingly neat military appearance is the fact that the Atonement Expeditionary Force lacks offensive means.
Humans have light and heavy cavalry, a large number of air units, heavy artillery and mechanized troops, aerial battleships, and all kinds of crazy and powerful weapons.
Therefore, the alliance does not lack offensive means.
However, Kael'thas suggested launching the Atonement Expedition. Essentially, he just hoped to use the orcs to hold back Blackrock Tower's troops and prevent Blackrock Mountain from deploying troops to attack Redridge Mountain and Lakeside Town.
So the Atonement Expedition is actually a disabled army.
There are no wargs, no war horses, no kodos, only two-wheeled motorcycles and three-wheelers. Even the trucks and carriages for logistical transportation are controlled by the alliance's plutocrats.
From the beginning, the Alliance Military Department did not expect this expeditionary force to create any brilliant results. As long as the defeat was not too ugly, it would be a true existential force.
So look at logistics, mines, grenades, grenades, sprayers, submachine guns, engineer shovels.
This is no longer a hint, it is simply a clear message to all the orcs in the expeditionary force that you can just dig trenches and build bunkers to disgust Blackstone Mountain.
However, the leaders of the alliance do not understand the internal conflicts between the orcs, and they do not know how bitter and bitter the hatred between the black and green skins is.
When the Blackstone Clan took the initiative to charge, the base of the scale of victory was already tilted.
Your Blackstone Legion's heavy armor is forged with precision, and our alliance's heavy armor doesn't cut any corners either.
This batch of full-body armor originally prepared for ghouls and abominations had been tested on the battlefield in Andorhal.
No drawbacks except bulkiness.
Although their combat skills are not as good as those of the Blackstone clan, the carefully selected green-skinned men wearing such heavy armor, carrying large shields weighing more than a hundred kilograms, and carrying maces and meteor hammers quickly became confused after the initial blank. I discovered that in a duel between heavy armored units, martial arts... or killing skills, it cannot be said that they are useless, at most they are useless.
Tips for Azeroth: As long as you kill the opponent before your physical strength reaches zero, you can win the battle.
The biggest role of heavy armor is to protect you from being killed directly by the opponent.
The first wave of impact from the Blackrock Orcs came with the explosion of triggering mines and the dust caused by the grenades thrown by the expeditionary force.
As soon as I came into contact with it, I suffered a big loss from the green canned food.
The smooth battle line was deformed.
But no matter how much Nefarios wins people's hearts, it is impossible to issue enchanted weapons to every Blackstone Orc.
Therefore, the black-skinned heavily armored orcs discovered an embarrassing problem. Even if the green-skinned cans were knocked over, they lacked effective means of killing them.
Those green cans put their big shields on their helmets and struggled to get up.
The black-skinned and heavily armored orcs did not dare to waste too much time on the battlefield in close combat for last-ditch attacks.
Because behind the canned defense line of the expeditionary force is a reinforcement group with long guns and short artillery.
Drek'Thar's idea was simple, use heavy armor and reinforcements to resist the Blackstone Clan's impact, and then rely on explosives to kill the enemies behind the front.
The fact is that submachine guns have excellent mid-range drawing capabilities and even better short-range blurring capabilities.
The submachine gun can be used as a troll, which is also a major military discovery of the Atonement Expedition.
In large army operations, orders and prohibitions are most important, and discipline is the first priority.
It's not that there weren't weaklings whose morale collapsed and were executed by political commissars and war supervisors, but the obedience of the orcs who came out of the detention center was much stronger than the loose habits of the Blackstone orcs.
The imagined fight between the cans did not appear. The black heavily armored orcs were almost pressing against the green-skinned orcs under the white cans.
However, despite the pressure and the attack, the Blackstone Orcs, who were unable to cause effective damage and could not break through the array line, finally understood what they were about to face.
It's a baptism of explosives.
The Allied Military Headquarters issued a secret order not to provide the expeditionary force with heavy artillery with a range of more than three kilometers.
But the Atonement Expeditionary Force, inspired by Big Bang's ideas, took the bills issued by the major chaebols and shouted to the arms dealers, "Give me weapons, things that can explode."
Therefore, there is no shortage of small artillery with a range of 300 to 500 meters in the expeditionary force.
The commanders at the corps level thought that even grenades could not hurt the cans wearing tortoise shells at the front, so if we lowered the muzzle by two degrees, it should not be a big problem.
Well, although the heavily armored warriors of the Blackstone clan and the canned men of the expeditionary force scolded each other, it was really not a big problem.
Who am I, where am I, what should I do?
The Redemption Expeditionary Force's viciousness in blowing up even its own people shocked Red Blackhand.
Eight thousand people looked like a lot, but the attack surface was so wide. If they were scattered in the main attack direction of the central formation, it would be three waves.
The first wave was a mess, the second wave was under fire, and the third wave of Blackstone orcs hesitated and slowed down.
But this hesitation made the Blackstone Orcs lose all their previous efforts.
The expeditionary force's second batch of cans had already finished wearing tortoise shells, and they went up with heavy steps.
Although the physical quality of the second batch of cans was not as good as the first batch, they became more courageous when they saw that the armor was not paper.
When the second batch of cans pushed out the Blackstone heavy-armored soldiers who had fought hard for ten minutes and killed less than 200 enemies, the wolf cavalry who had circled around also launched an attack on the flank.
The alliance is short of oil, and all the alliance's war machines are short of oil.
However, no matter how short of fuel it is, there is still a ration of more than a thousand motorcycles and three bungalows.
Unlike their colleagues in heavy armor, the Wolf Cavalry's proud mobility has no advantage at all against the dwarfs' top products.
On the two-wheeled motorcycle, the green-skinned rider held the handlebar with one hand and held a submachine gun with the other hand as he performed tricks with the black-skinned orcs. The hit rate became more mysterious amidst the bumps and tension.
The three-round fighting has become the absolute MVP of this alternative cavalry battle.
Because in the small dumpster, the orcs in green leather and gray military uniforms can hold the submachine gun with two hands, which brings a shooting experience that is simply unparalleled on a bumpy battlefield.
The Blackrock Orcs' wolf cavalry were suppressed.
The inability to break through from the flanks means that Red Blackhand can only increase his efforts on the frontal battlefield.
So the dragon beast and the black dragon man, who focuses on melee combat, entered the stage.
However, although the Blackstone Clan is favored by the King of Blackstone, Nefarios, and has a high status, Nefarios himself and his sister Onyxia have been left to work by their father, Sariola.
There are actually not many dragon-man legions in Blackstone Tower, and even fewer can be controlled by Red Blackhand.
When three hundred dragons and one hundred dragon beasts appeared on the battlefield, the morale of the Blackstone Legion was greatly boosted.
The small-caliber justice of the Atonement Crusade cannot defeat this black evil.
So Drek'Thar suggested throwing the power armor on the front line to see the effect.
Powered armor is actually nothing new in the Alliance.
Gnomes have been around for a long time, and the dwarf steam miner series is still in use today.
But what really turned this thing from an industrial machine into a war machine was the Mark IV Holy Light Power Armor of Alliance figure king Carlos Barov.
Simple but not simple, low-key luxury and majestic, it captured the hearts of all the successful old boys of the Alliance military as soon as it was launched.
When Silver Moon City took a look, it was just enchanted armor with an external power source installed. What's so strange about this? How come the Paladins can make this money, but we Magisters can't.
So I quickly thought about it and directly obtained the design drawings of the Mark IV Holy Light Power Armor through connections. I directly replaced the Holy Light Core with the Arcane Core and created the Mark VI series.
However, Carlos, as a figurine expert, spent a lot of time calculating parameters when designing the Mark IV series. The characteristics of the Holy Light determine its stable output and safety characteristics.
However, after Silvermoon City had built more than a hundred units and prepared them for sale, the Alliance Military Headquarters came to trouble and asked for safety test evidence.
This verification is incredible. In three durability tests, Mark VI's arcane core exploded three times.
Silver Moon City is in disgrace.
The solution is not nothing, either use better armor materials, or use a more advanced arcane core.
The problem with Silver Moon City's Mark VI series is just to follow the trend and make quick money, and is not prepared to delve into the market.
So the experiment was stopped.
The blindly produced inventory was also sold to the Atonement Expedition at a high price after adding a water cooling device.
Therefore, it is obviously a high-end arcane power equipment, but it needs to be filled with water when it is started. It emits steam when it is in operation, and its performance drops sharply.
But even so, this batch of Mark VI powered armor is currently the most advanced tactical equipment in the hands of the green-skinned orcs, and it must be used.
One hundred veterans in their fifties, with the help of technical boys, completed the task of putting on power armor weighing 800 kilograms.
When the arcane core began to operate, the enchanted metal coating on the surface of the power armor began to glow, and the alliance emblem and decorative patterns appeared on the surface of the dark and shiny power armor. The power armor, which was originally as heavy as an iron maiden and said to be more like a torture instrument, transformed Gotta lighten up.
The orc veterans took the chain swords and oversized submachine guns handed over by the boys, took steps that they would not recognize, and charged at the draconians and dragon beasts.
After all, it was equipment intended to be sold to high-ranking officials in the Alliance. Apart from design flaws, the high elves were also particular about the materials and workmanship they used.
Counting the driver?
operator?
The orcs didn't know what to call them either.
Anyway, the total weight of the warrior plus the power armor and weapons is well over a ton. Although it is not as good as the dragon beast, it can crush the dragon man.
The chain sword tore through the black dragon's hard magic scales, leaving sparks and flesh stuck, but even as a disposable weapon, the value of the chain sword can be exchanged with the dragon.
Either use the remaining weapons of the black dragon man, or use the iron fist of the power armor itself. The first time they meet, a hundred power armors will turn the ratio of one to four between the enemy and the enemy into one to three.
The black dragon man is too arrogant. Even if the tonnage does not dominate, the four legs cannot compare with the instant explosive power brought by the external power source of the power armor.
The more flexible and intelligent draconians were sold to the creations of steel and arcana in the brute force competition. Those humanoid armors sprayed with white smoke from the back were like ruthless killing machines that used rattling metal slugs to dazzle the dragon beasts. Medicine, using the black dragon's halberd and his heavy iron fist to loosen the bones of Nefarios' evil magical creation.
Seeing that the situation was not optimistic, Red Blackhand decisively issued a retreat order.
"Hey, it's a pity. We won't have this kind of enemy again."
"Yeah, it's a pity."
Although the casualties suffered during the retreat far exceeded those during the attack, Red Blackhand immediately discovered the biggest flaw of the Atonement Expeditionary Force.
Any lack of martial arts skills or lack of fighting will are all fake.
The biggest problem with these green skins is that they are bulky and have short legs!
I'm so stupid, really...
Under Red Blackhand's pretended calmness, there were the same thoughts as Mrs. Xianglin's.
Having discovered this problem earlier, the Blackstone Legion had countless ways to win, but Red Blackhand chose the only way to lose.
A battle involving tens of thousands of people. After counting the battlefield, the black-skinned orcs only left behind two thousand corpses, most of which were left by the people behind them during the retreat.
The green-skinned orcs of the expeditionary force suffered even smaller casualties, just over a thousand.
But it is possible to win but not to win a big victory. The next time we encounter the Blackstone Legion, it won't be such an anticlimactic one.
The complex-component expeditionary force command team was thoughtfully analyzing the battle that resulted in the Blackstone Legion's active retreat, analyzing various data on both the enemy and ourselves, and analyzing the differences from organizational structure to weapons and equipment to personnel composition.
The special correspondents of the military industrial enterprise who proved the effectiveness of the submachine gun were overjoyed. The dwarf technicians who discovered new uses for motorcycles were writing reports and summaries. The political commissars who realized that the Atonement Expeditionary Force was still capable of fighting were also trying to find ways to contact their superiors to request instructions.
The logistics suppliers belonging to the major chaebols are fighting over the trophies left by the Blackstone Legion.
Don’t forget, the Atonement Expedition borrowed money to carry out the Atonement Expedition, and the spoils of war are an important way to repay the loan.
Even whether the corpses of dragonmen and dragon beasts are part of military merit or trophies are the focus of dispute.
The Atonement Expeditionary Force had no idea whether it could win or not, so a small portion of the combat force was deployed in the rear to act as a safety valve in the event of a defeat.
But now it seems that the green-skinned orcs who lack combat experience have performed very well.
Compared with killing the enemy, the improvement of morale is the biggest gain of the expeditionary force.
Combat experience is a thing that comes naturally if there are veterans who can help and guide you, and you can fight a few battles without dying.
The new recruits are excited to learn that discipline can really rival martial arts.
When the greenskin troops participating in the war happily cleaned the battlefield and prepared for dinner in the evening, the old orcs who took off their power armor were crying and howling, shouting "Priest, I need a priest!"
The water-cooling device effectively solves the self-destruction problem of the arcane core, but it cannot solve the user's safety problem.
The overheating problem of Mark VI power armor under high power conditions is still too serious to be ignored.
The looming aroma of barbecue emanates from the back of almost every power armor operator. This stunning scene is full of black humor unique to the battlefield.
