The alliance no longer has enough strength to solve the problem of awakened people from the physical level?
What kind of interstellar joke are you kidding me, my alliance with Azeroth is invincible...?
Where are all the Alliance troops?
Take out a pen and paper and calculate bit by bit.
After the initial victory in the war against the Undead Scourge, the number of human troops in Lordaeron was an exaggerated 800,000. In these years, a large number of militiamen and conscripts were demobilized and rehabilitated, and the established regular army was also streamlined and disbanded. Today, the total strength of the human regular army is around 220,000. Excluding the expeditionary force that was directly dragged to Pandaria after participating in the Zul'Gurub War, the total number of troops stationed in the Lordaeron region is about a little over 140,000. Among them, one hundred thousand elites continued to rely on the Silver Pine Forest Pass Fortress and the two transportation hubs east and west of Barrier Pass to tightly suppress the awakened people in Lordaeron City. The remaining 40,000 miles were crucified in the east of the White Water River. The Dalon Army on the shore protects against fire, theft, and friendly forces.
In other words, in the entire Lordaeron region, the number of mobile human troops is actually only 20,000.
Of course, the reality is not that miserable. The humans here actually refer to the humans of the alliance's species, not humans in a broad sense.
Because this involves another issue. Compared with the alliance dominated by the Terenas family, Carlos's alliance pays salaries to the troops in the establishment of each family in order to maintain standing military strength.
The alliance army within the establishment basically enjoys the dual pay treatment of the king/lord/lord and the alliance military headquarters. It is the standing army of the country/region and the mobile combat power of the alliance.
This is the truth behind why the Union Army maintained its combat effectiveness after the war.
They are supporting them with real gold and silver.
The benefits of this policy are of course obvious, as it forcibly binds the participating countries to the alliance's chariot by tying up their armies, but the shortcomings are also obvious.
It's easy to catch the empty pay card and empty quota. Using the alliance's money to support his own soldiers is above Carlos's bottom line. The real problem is the unsolvable contradiction between dual ownership and dual command.
Silvermoon City has been devastated by the disaster. The high elves are organizing 17,000 active troops and 12,000 are in the country to clear out the remnants of the natural disaster. They also have to guard against the awakened ones in Stratholme and fight with the people in Darrow County. The garrison cooperated to ensure the safety of land transportation lines. The remaining 5,000 people and 3,000 were given to Sylvanas to go to Pandaria to fulfill her obligations. Kael'thas only had 1,000 people around him in the map of Lakeside Town.
Asking the high elves to increase their troops, Quel'Thalas could justly tell Carlos that there were only a thousand idle personnel scattered around, and there was no guarantee that all of them would be here within three months.
Just kidding, the weekly salary of a high elf mid-level technician is already 700 alliance gold coins. Whose three-hundred-year-old child can afford the salary of an alliance temporary worker?
Let’s talk about dwarfs and dwarves. The preparations for the dwarf war are almost completed. Recovering Gnomeregan is the historical responsibility of all dwarves. Except for the elderly and children, almost 70% of the entire race, both young and old, men and women, are returning to Ironforge for the cruel underground that will follow. Street fighting. Although the great craftsman clearly rejected his old friend Magni Bronzebeard’s offer to send troops, he did not reject the Bronzebeard dwarf’s logistics package plan. Therefore, in addition to cooperating with the Glory Orcs to suppress the forces in Blackrock Mountain, Ironforge spent a lot of manpower on delivering supplies to the dwarf friends.
This reason was so good that Carlos couldn't find any reason to hold back emotionally or morally.
So only the three Hinterland royal families were left to mobilize.
However, the Wildhammer dwarves also have something to say. We have a small population to begin with, and the expeditionary force has returned. The top priority is to help our brothers.
Okay, whatever the gryphon pilot said is right.
It doesn't matter about the Glory Orcs. Anyway, the Atonement Expedition is still going on. It's going to fight the remnants of the old tribe in Blackstone Mountain, and it's going to fight the skeletons in Lordaeron. You, the Grand Marshal, just make arrangements.
However, the total number of orcs in the mixed alliance is only about 300,000, and nearly 60,000 have been mobilized to join the army. This ratio is enough to atone. If the glory orcs are also recruited, Thrall's political propaganda will be effective.
What's more, by transferring the Atonement Expedition from Blackrock Mountain back to Lordaeron, it would be tantamount to betraying Ironforge and Kael'thas, which would shock the allies.
Not very feasible.
What about trolls?
The trolls who speak Common are lower than the orcs in terms of population base and recruitment ratio. Is it...
No, no, the unwritten political rules of the alliance have been played by these trolls. Carlos dares to recruit trolls to join the army, and that bitch Gota Jin dares to demand that the Hinterlands be merged into the Kingdom of Alterac.
This is absolutely not possible. There is too much internal resistance. The Alliance can accept trolls who speak Common Language. The Alterac people will never allow their own boys to marry female trolls or marry their daughters to the Hinterlands coal bosses.
In order for more trolls to join the war and shake the foundation of the family, the gains outweigh the losses.
So after thinking about it, continuing to blackmail Genn Greymane and his old friend Daelin Proudmoore is the most realistic plan at the moment.
Well, for the sake of justice, first put your feelings in the safe and do the math.
When Pandaria's expeditionary force completes its retreat, he should have 60,000 more troops on hand, 50,000 from Gilneas, 30,000 from Kul Tiras, plus 140,000 from Lordaeron's garrison. One hundred and eighty thousand people was already a terrifying military force. During the Second Orc War, it would be enough for three months to end the war before the Dark Gate Winter Curtain Festival.
But can such a small number of people really be able to completely eradicate the Awakened Undead Group headed by Anduin Lothar?
Carlos is a professional soldier who has fought in the war for a long time, and he himself doesn't believe it.
The reason is simple. The situation in Lordaeron is too complicated. Although the intervention of the night elf Druyin effectively curbed the spread of the Plaguelands, the current situation of Lordaeron City blocking traffic has not improved. In addition, Thoras Trollbane is entrenched in Stratholme City. Once a war is launched, the issue of dividing troops on two fronts must be considered.
Two hundred and eighty thousand people, at least 60,000 people will be sent to the Eastern Plague Land to seal the gap and put pressure on them.
So the question is, can the millions of undead in the city of Lordaeron be wiped out with only an ideal army of 220,000?
Sir Lothar knows how to keep accounts. He insists on keeping the alliance military's one to three exchange ratio in the past. Regardless of whether it is the tax bureau or the intelligence department, no matter how they find out, there are only 600,000 undead in Lordaeron, and most of them are still dead. Civilian undead and military awakened ones theoretically only number over 30,000.
Who would believe this?
Carlos calculated based on the logic of one corpse for one soldier, in three years, the awakened people in Lordaeron City had at least one million troops.
Although it is incomparable to the micro-management of the Lich King after the outbreak of the Undead Scourge and the Sea of Skeletons when Kel'Thuzad took command; although the millions of undead in Lordaeron are within the limits of the alliance; although military technology and weapons and equipment All have been greatly developed.
Although I have all the advantages, I can't stand against the bad guys in the alliance.
Anduin Lothar dared to place the headquarters vault of the Infinite Power Bank of Lordaeron in Dalaran, and there was obviously a big problem with the composition of the six-member Kirin Tor Council.
Facts have proved Anduin Lothar's political vision, and his judgment has once again been proven correct. This time when Carlos did not make up his mind to use the strength of the alliance for the next twenty years to fight off the newly born Awakened, he achieved After making peace with the Alliance, the Awakened have already taken root and become entangled with their former living relatives.
What's wrong with the Awakened? They just want revenge on the Lich King.
Now that such arguments are emerging one after another, Carlos reluctantly throws away the pen in his hand, closes his eyes and lets out a long sigh.
How could it be such a coincidence that the alliance, which was obviously strong and powerful, could not reorganize five fingers into a fist to deal with the awakened undead in Lordaeron.
What went wrong.
