Stratholme God

  Chapter 85 The alliance has a big dog

   As the saying goes: poor hills and bad waters make troublesome people.

  The harsher the environment, the more ruthless the people who come out will be, because those who are not ruthless often will not live to adulthood.

   Orc This is a highlander who hit Stromgard.

   It stands to reason that there are many farms in the Arathi Highlands, and the land is not too barren. Why has it become poor?

  The answer is elemental creatures!

  The entire highland is full of earth, water, fire and wind elemental creatures.

  These creatures condensed with highly concentrated elements are quite unreasonable. Unlike the game, the elemental creatures in reality basically do not eat physical attacks.

   Think with your head, can you hack a flame to death with a kitchen knife?

   Leaving aside nearly half of the places occupied by elemental creatures, there are not many places for the Stromgardians to live.

   When the orcs started to slaughter, they were brought to the territory of elemental creatures by the highlanders many times without noticing. The locals know how to jump into a puddle and hold their breath when they see a fire elemental creature passing by. The orcs chasing after don't understand! That's how it got screwed!

   For many poor and white human farmers, an orc head is often worth more than all his belongings.

   This is not simple math where a human head is only equal to 3 silver coins.

  3 Although there are a lot of silver coins, the bigger head is still the back.

The    alliance was first established, and the six countries were violent at the same time.

   Basically, the size of the army has been expanded to ten times that of the normal state.

   The normal practice is to expand the army with the existing soldiers as the backbone, but not every veteran is suitable to be a captain or something. The gap of lower-level officers is huge.

   This makes it simple and rude for the nobles of all countries to recruit troops.

   "Recruiting! Recruiting! The warrior who can bring the head of the orcs will be the sergeant of the alliance and be the captain of a 10-man team!"

  The nobility's thinking is very straight: Those who dare to kill orcs are definitely not cowards. Even if they don't have the ability to lead troops, at least they won't panic and run back when they see the orcs. This is a qualified squad leader!

The benefits brought by the sergeant    are the priority resettlement of refugees in the whole family, temporary housing, rations, and even widows who cannot survive will be put upside down to warm the bed.

This made a spectacle appear on the Wall of Thoradin - many Arathi refugees who had already fled to safety, after learning about the new policy, they recruited friends and companions, and armed with a variety of weapons, they returned to the east in groups. .

   Such a straggler is not without a chance of winning.

   With the clumsy medical logistics of the orcs, even if it was just stabbed by a pitchfork, the wound may become infected and eventually die.

  Pitchfork, commonly known as dung fork, when the farmer is working, there is nothing that is not mixed with it. The bacteria above are indispensable.

   Then, the orc's scalp was numb and he found that there was still a human who had picked up the orc's temporary grave and chopped off his head.

   If he was killed by the enemy on the battlefield and his head was chopped off, that would make sense. If the tomb was robbed, it would be unbearable for most of the orcs who still advocate the shamanic culture.

   They are more accustomed to returning soul to soul and earth to earth.

The morale of the    orcs on the front line began to drop uncontrollably.

   In addition, Arathi's highland knights attacked the orcs out of nowhere, making the front line a lot of trouble.

  Orgrim was very aggrieved, lost the Frostwolf clan, and the tribe did not have another large-scale cavalry. Other clans do have warwolves, often only a few hundred wolf cavalry.

   No chieftain is willing to dismantle his own wolf cavalry and mix with the wolf cavalry of other clans. Orgrim's idea was met with the fiercest resistance of all the chiefs.

   Before the main force of the orcs reached the Arathi Highlands, the advance of the front line seemed to be stuck in a quagmire.

   This allowed Stromgard to evacuate most of the refugees, unable to return to the besieged capital of Stromgarde, westward, through the Wall of Thoradin, and into the Hillsbrad Foothills.

   It is very interesting that these refugees have been fully rescued and supported by the Alterac Barov family. Because to the west of the wall is the eastern section of Hillsbrad Hills, including Nanhai Town, which is the largest grain-producing area of ​​the Barov family.

  No one wants their territory to be ruined, and the old Duke of Barov will definitely not let the orcs mess around.

   Food, tents, weapons and equipment were continuously transported to the west of the wall by the Barov family, and the number of military camps with more than 10,000 people soon exceeded ten. Further west, there are numerous refugee camps.

  Under normal conditions, no matter how rich the Barov family is, it would be very painful to squeeze out so much material.

  But, the alliance has a big dog!

   "Sorry! My soldiers haven't been trained yet! My main force probably won't be able to keep up with this big battle. Otherwise, I'll donate some money first!" McDonald said.

   Everyone knows that Stratholme was the first to start violent troops. Maybe the quality of the soldiers is not as good as the royal family, but the number is absolutely exaggerated.

  100,000 is already a small number, and even 200,000 people believe it.

   1 million people and 100,000 violent soldiers are absolutely brutal, not to mention more than this number per minute. Because someone saw that Mai ordered the sturdy peasant women to practice spears.

  No one can say that McDonald's is not.

   He dispatched Viscount Rivendell, the number one general under his seat. The 10,000 elites led by the Viscount have passed Andorhal and are rushing over through the narrow mountain road at the foot of Alterac Mountain.

   Witnesses said that the 10,000 people, even the ordinary top soldiers, were wearing steel armor.

  The one who arrived before the army has 20,000 gold coins.

  These fine Arathor gold coins made Duke Barov dizzy. This is the salary that McDonald donated to the Alliance, through the hands of Lothar, to the Barov family in the name of the Alliance.

   With this money alone, the Barov family will not lose any money.

Driven by the ability of banknotes, in just one month, the Alliance assembled 170,000 troops on the wall of Thoradin: 80,000 in Stromgarde, 10,000 in the Barov family, 20,000 in Dalaran, and the royal family of Lordaeron. 20,000, 5,000 for the Duke of Lordamere and 5,000 for Alterac, as well as a lot of chaotic marquis, earls and other miscellaneous troops.

  These troops with uneven strength, normally, no matter which commander comes, the scalp will tingle.

Oh! It's a city-defense battle, that's fine!

  The tall and generous city walls give the commander more chances to make mistakes.

  It doesn’t matter if the quality of the soldiers is poor. With a long spear, if you see any green skin emerging, you will poke at it. This will always be right?

   Even if the front cannot stand, there are still elite troops from Lordaeron, and a counter-charge can drive the orcs from the city.

   On December 20, Orgrim, who had arrived, had the second-rate clan launch a tentative attack.

  This time, it was Orgrim's turn to feel numb.

   First of all, there are not many trees in the Arathi Highlands, and the eyes are full of rolling hills and turf. To manufacture siege weapons, the wood must be transported from the east of the highlands across dozens of kilometers.

   Finally, some trees were transported and turned into cloud ladders. The defenses on the city walls were exaggerated and frightening.

   Due to the extra wide city wall, Lothar can easily dispose of a row of sword and shield soldiers in front and four rows of pikemen in the back.

   An orc jumped on the city head, often more than ten spears poked at the same time, as long as the orc was not fully armored, the orc would have a hole in his body.

  Orgrim saw with his own eyes a warrior he thought was of good strength. He was killed by a second when he went up, and then was killed by a guy dressed as a farmer, and his head was cut off like a knife sawing a big tree.

   The farmer raised the head of the orc warrior high, and the battlements suddenly let out a cry of envy, jealousy and hatred.

   (end of this chapter)