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"Brian, long time no see. ◢ With *Dream ◢ Small *.lā"

In the living room, Jiang Zai looked at this dusty old friend and smiled: "I thought King Magni would send an elite army over, but I didn't expect it to be the Explorers Association. ”

Jiang Zai asked people to bring more than a dozen barrels of fine wine, as well as a lot of food, entertained the dwarven explorers and the four pandamen, and then pulled Brian here to talk about business.

A month ago, he sent someone to Ironforge Castle and invited Lao Chen and them to come over to help teach the Pandaren Warrior Monk of the Riptide Guard the True Qi martial arts, and also went to the throne hall to tell King Magni about an important matter, and asked him to send someone to Riptide Castle to discuss the rebuilding of the Sadol Bridge, the joint development of wetlands, and the trade and cooperation between Rapids and Ironforge Fort.

He really didn't expect that Brian would come with someone from the Explorers Guild!

Northrend is not a good place, the undead scourge, the Elder Gods, the Spider Empire, the Iron Giant, the Thundercast Iron Dwarf, the Frost Lady Viku, all kinds of terrifying creatures are everywhere, can you get there safely without a little elite soldiers?

"The people of the Explorers' Guild are elite! Don't underestimate us, Nicholas! We've brought crates and crates of gunpowder with us, and we've been able to take out ten dragons! In addition, Lao Chen wants to taste Northrend's fine wines, and he will go with us. With him here, you should be relieved, right? ”

Brian took a sip of the wine with an expression full of aftertaste: "The wine of the Arashi is as strong as the wine of the dwarves!" The eldest brother said that the situation in Northrend is complicated, and the more people there are, the easier it is to attract attention, and the fewer people the safer. It just so happened that I also wanted to go to Ulduar to have a look, so I took the initiative to ask to find the second brother! Nicholas, is your information accurate? ”

He looked at Jiang Zheng with a nervous expression, even more nervous than looking for the Noganon disc in Uldaman.

"I have my channel. Rest assured, my information is accurate. ”

Jiang Zai took out a war hammer and placed it in front of Brian: "Muradin was hit by the ice fragments that Frostmourn broke open, and fainted with serious injuries, but he did not die. After waking up, he lost his memory and was rescued by the Frostvein Dwarves of the Stormcrags, named 'Yorg Thunderheart'. ”

This is Muradin's war hammer, which was not taken away as Orgrim's weapon, but stayed.

It is, after all, the warhammer of the dwarven hero, not for Orgrim, and it cannot be given to Orgrim.

"Ah, Mitharios! Second brother's war hammer! ”

Brian grabbed it and waved it twice: "This is the war hammer forged by the eldest brother himself, the second brother's baby is amazing!" He is the greatest king of the hills of the dwarves, and I will say how could Arthas have killed him! Three Arthas can't beat him! It turned out to be an accident! ”

Hearing the exact news that the second brother was not dead, Brian couldn't sit still any longer: "Nicholas, goodbye, I can't wait, I'm going to Northrend to find my second brother!" Let's talk about it later! ”

Brian stood up and ran out, furious.

"What's the hurry!"

Jiang Zai grabbed him and asked, "How are you going to get to Northrend?" It's almost 3,000 kilometres from Northrend, and you'd like to swim there? Also, how do you go to Muradine when you get to Northrend? Do you know where Storm Cliffs are? Do you know where Muradin is? Do you know how to go the fastest? ”

"I ......"

Brian wilted.

He didn't seem to know anything.

The only people the Explorers Guild had ever been to Northrend in the Arctic over the years were Muradin and the dwarves he had brought with him, in search of Frost Sorrow, and at most they had been to the cave in the northeast corner of the Dragonbone Wilderness, not to the Storm Crags. The dwarves have little information about Northrend in the Arctic.

How did he know what was going on there?

And he rushed all the way over, and he really didn't know how to get to Northrend.

Of course, it is impossible to swim through, you have to take a boat.

The Dwarves don't have a harbor dock, but there is a Minethil Harbour in the wetlands, which is the closest port to Fort Ironforge, built by Lordaeron during World War II, and is still a temporary port in Lordaeron, but unfortunately it has passed.

If you want to go all the way, the best way is to go to Nanhai Town and take a boat.

The problem is that most of the towns in Nanhai are fishing boats and do not participate in the ocean trade.

What if you are involved in ocean trade?

There are no trading ports in Northrend, and no ship will go there!

"The Northern Expedition, sooner or later."

Jiang Zai pulled Brian back, sat down on his shoulder, and then returned to his seat, took out a delicate map, spread it out, and it turned out to be Northrend's map!

It marks the terrain of the mountains, the spheres of influence of almost all the native races, and a red line that marks the quickest and safest route from the landing site in Howling Fjord to Stormcrag Frost Castle.

Not long ago, Merry directly teleported over with teleportation, and it took the Forsaken to ride the Frost Dragon and explore the map drawn by the entire Northrend for two months, which was not easy to come by.

It can't be said to be completely accurate, but at least nine out of ten is fine.

"I contacted Gianna and through her I contacted Admiral Dalin. As a member of the Alliance, as a victim of the Scourge of the Dead, Kul Tiras will definitely participate in the Northern Expedition. They decided to send an advance fleet, land in the Howling Fjord, build Union outposts, prepare for the Northern Expedition, and build a trading port at the same time. Northrend is basically the size of Lordaeron and Kazmodan combined, and once the Alliance's Northern Expedition is successful, Kurtilas can trade between the two continents and earn a lot of money. ”

Jiang Zai said with a smile: "This matter has been finalized, whether it is Lordaeron or Dalaran, or Gilneth or Stormwind City, there will be people." Of course, there will be a few people in Riptide Castle. Stormwind itself sent its own ships, presumably to get a piece of the ocean trade, and the High Elves had the same idea. The men of Lordaeron and Gilneth will go with the fleet of Kurtiras, and one of the ships will arrive at Fadil Bay tomorrow to take the people of Fort Riptide with them, and you can follow them together. ”

The countries of the Lordaeron continent are all directly threatened by the Scourge Legion, and even Kurtiras has a small town that has been captured by the Scourge Legion, and it will definitely participate in the Northern Expedition.

So two months ago, when Jiang Zheng submitted the Northern Expedition plan to Kalia, and Kariya invited the leaders of other countries to a meeting to discuss, the leaders of all countries agreed, and even the regent of the High Elf Kingdom, "Sylvanas", also expressed his support and contributed to it.

Stormwind has also been affected by the plague of the undead, and Raven Ridge in the Twilight Forest was attacked by the Cursed Sect and the Undead months ago, and has not been able to recover it until now.

Of course, it's not that Stormwind City doesn't have this strength, it's mainly that the internal situation of Stormwind City is complicated, with constraints and compromises in all aspects, and the Black Dragon Princess Onexia is secretly manipulating, and I can't wait for Stormwind City to be in chaos, so Stormwind City has not sent troops, and almost Marcus and Madias to death.

As a result, Duke Elo Eberlock, the lord of Nighttown, had to form a "Night's Watch Force" to fight the undead threat from Raven Ridge and the ogre threat from Vorgour's Ogre Mountain.

The reason why Stormwind agreed to participate was not only because of King Varian, but also because the cunning nobles in the western wilderness saw the business opportunity and gave their full support to suppress the opposition.

In the original history, the Northern Expedition should have started at the end of the 26th year of the Dark Gate.

But now it's a different story.

Arthas failed to become the Lich King, and the power under his command is not strong enough, so it stands to reason that he should be better dealt with.

But instead of falling asleep, he remained active in Northrend, even enslaving the Vikus.

If it continues like this, by the 26th year of the Dark Gate, his power will probably grow to an astonishing extent, even more terrifying than the original history!

Moreover, Alsace has not been willing to be lonely, and even sent Kel'thugad to the Arathi Heights to try to capture the entire Arathi Heights.

He can attack the Allahi Heights today, and tomorrow he can attack Lordaeron, Kurtilas or other cities, everyone thinks of danger, so he can't give Alsace too many opportunities to develop his forces, and once the situation is slightly stabilized, he must make a northern expedition in advance.

Of course, no matter how early it is, it should be a year or two later, and it's still early.

It's just that it should be prepared in advance.

"Nicholas, you think so thoughtfully! Well, I'll just wait a day! ”

Brian made up his mind, so he left a letter from King Magni and immediately left the palace in a hurry.

He's going on a shopping spree, after all, Northrend is an unknown place, they don't know how long they're going to stay there, and they have to bring enough necessary necessities.

So on this day, Riptide Castle circulated a legend about shopaholics.

It is said that there was a very wealthy dwarf who went around buying groceries, especially wine.

The dwarves were initially paid with gold and silver coins, but when they ran out of gold and silver coins, they paid with gems, causing another panic about the transformation of gems into stone.

Early the next morning, Jiang Zai sent people to help the dwarves, transported cartloads of supplies to Fadil Bay, and got on the ship of Kurtilas, and Lao Chen also took Lili on the ship to go to Northrend to have a look.

During this time, they have traveled almost half of the Eastern Kingdoms, seen the green mountains of the Valley of Thorns, seen the Dark Gate of the Cursed Lands, and even went to the Black Rock Bar in the Black Rock Mountain, and drank with the Black Iron Dwarves.

Now that there is a brand new, unknown continent waiting for them, how could they possibly let it go?

Ji Huozhang originally planned to follow along, but Aisha Yunge said that during this time, he traveled around the mountains and rivers every day, and he didn't have time to practice well, and Jiang Zai asked them to help teach the Guards Pandaren True Qi martial arts, so he chose to stay.

Ji saw that Aisha was not leaving, so he didn't leave, saying that "Huojin, Tushui is a family", "Arashi people are brave and fearless, more suitable for Huojin", so he followed Aisha with a dead face and stayed, with a happy face.

Two days later, at the invitation of Jiang Zai, the Grand Lord of Fustad came to the palace again and was cordially received by Jiang Zao.