The battle reports of the past few days have made the leaders of the alliance both relieved and fortunate.

The Scourge is never a pot of vegetables to be eaten.

On the contrary, the Scourge legion, which has shrunk most of the undead to Icecrown, is quite terrifying.

The gathering of hundreds of thousands of troops by the living is already a great pressure on logistics. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a lot of pressure, after all, almost all the supplies were brought from the Eastern Kingdoms. Just talking about food, if it weren't for Lordaeron and Alterac that had been returned into mass production areas, the Storm Kingdom alone would definitely not be able to support such terrible logistical consumption.

But the Scourge is simply cheating when it comes to fighting.

Soldiers don't need to eat, drink, or even sleep in, any ice cave, or even an ice crevasse can be a hiding cave, as long as there is a way for the undead soldiers to climb out.

Kill the living, a dark magic goes down, and immediately replenishes troops on the spot.

Soldiers become soldiers, mages become lichs, paladins become death knights, and gods and meows are one-to-one.

The same is true for puppets like gargoyles, as long as there is magic and a workshop, 10,000 of them will be smashed today, and 10,000 soldiers will be rioted in a week, and they will not be able to kill them at all.

If you don't get it right, you will fight more and more minutes by minute.

What about the coalition side?

It takes at least 16 years for a warrior, even a human with the shortest life cycle, to produce a soldier. Not to mention elves, dwarves, and gnomes with lower fertility rates and longer life cycles. Even after the Second Battle of the Dark Gate, all races have encouraged childbearing, but they still have to grow up!

Once upon a time, the alliance was very puzzled and even a little unhappy that Duke had accepted his worm puller privately. After all, the insects affect the city's appearance quite a bit, and the level of civilization is quite low.

When the flying insects of the Qila Worm people replaced the griffin and the horned eagle beast as consumables for air combat, everyone had a completely different feeling.

In a way, the Zermen are more of the Scourge nemesis.

The completely different physiological structure makes the Zerg basically ignore the plague of the Scourge Legion, at least the plague against the Zerg has not yet been developed.

Insect people are not picky eaters, as long as it is meat, it is no problem.

Duke tried to order the bugs to devour the abominable flesh, and found that he didn't have any to pull the bugs. I really don't know how Cthun transformed them back then, making them almost invulnerable.

And then there was the air battle.

Air combat has always been brutal, and often a prepared or defenseless momentary encounter in the air can distinguish life and death.

Either the gargoyles are split into pieces, or the flying insects are killed and fall to the ground.

After the insect people fall to the ground, they often fall to pieces, and the Scourge can only resurrect a mass of scum with no combat effectiveness if they want to resurrect.

I didn't know before that the hardness and toughness of the limbs of the insect pullers would work wonders. Now it seems that the insects are a bit like self-detonators, and if they can't kill the enemy, they will destroy them cleanly, leaving no way back for the enemy.

For a long time to come, Duke will still need Zerg Soldiers to consume the Gargoyles.

Once upon a time, the Alliance had destroyed the swarm with its powerful air force, but it was difficult to destroy the gargoyle army. In the final analysis, the gargoyle has a higher defense, and a 40mm Bofors cannon can't kill it at all. However, the Qila insect with low defense hit the body with one shot, and it was basically the same.

However, in the air battle, about two insect people can fight for their lives to offset a gargoyle.

The Zerg don't want money when they get up early, and even if they die, it doesn't hurt their morale, and even they don't care about the Zerg themselves.

"Whew! Worm people are really easy to use, but it's a little too hurtful to the environment. Duke smiled wryly.

However, it's not the territory of the Alliance, so who cares?

Perhaps, in the future, the Alliance and the Horde will be stationed here, but at least not now.

The bitter war of attrition lasted from March to May.

Whether Arthas admits it or not, the Scourge is in decline.

From the original attack of millions of undead every day, it has become an attack every few days.

And the coalition forces were steadily advancing the trenches and artillery positions into the camp. Everywhere he went, he would have to ask Alkavon to help solidify the ground, and he couldn't even let the spider demon sneak attack.

No, in fact, on one occasion Arthas did have a large number of spiders gathered, preparing to forcibly dig a huge pit and go around the rear of the coalition army, ready to destroy the alliance supplies there.

It's a pity that this group of sad spider demons ran into the [Oro Heirs] that Duke specially transferred from Silishus. In front of the big bugs in the bunker, these spider demons are not enough to see!

This kind of safe tactics made Alsace have no choice at all.

By 3 May, Alsace was left in the southwestern part of Icecap. There are only three key locations left: the Dark Cathedral, the Gate of Dread, Coresa, and the Evil Castle of Marekaris.

On the Frozen Throne, Arthas looked down at the two powerful beings under the seat, one large and one small, exuding demigod fluctuations, and finally, his cold voice came from under the black full-cover helmet: "Do you have any opinions on the recent situation of the Scourge Legion?"

"Let me fight Duke Marcus one more time, if only I can retrieve my Titan Rune......" Malygos said through gritted teeth.

"My opinion is the opposite, I think it's time for us to shrink. There is no point in holding on to the outlying positions, and instead it will cost the legion's elite lichs and death knights. Since the coalition forces are going to attack the Icecrown fortress no matter what, it is better to destroy the opponent's main force in the fortress. The Sun King said.

If it had been in the past, Alsace's heart would have been arrogant, and he would have refused to do so.

Because it means retreating, it means admitting that he has a lot of soldiers, and he is going to lose even the general trend.

However, without objecting on the spot, Arthas said coldly: "Persuade this king!"

At this time, the slap print on the right side of Anastrian's face, which emitted dark energy, trembled because of the movement of the cheekbones on his face: "We have been difficult to inflict attrition on the coalition forces. Our troops lacked the ability to break through and simply could not kill many of the opposing side. Not to mention the replenishment of troops. What's more, outside the Icecrown Fortress, even if he kills Duke Marcus, he still has a good chance of resurrection. However, in Icecrown Fortress, even if he is a demigod, if he dies in front of the Frozen Throne, his soul will not be able to return to the planet Azeroth. ”

When the Sun King said this, Arthas's eyes lit up.

When the battle is fought on this level, there is no one who spares anyone.

The coalition forces can't defeat the Icecrown Fortress, they can't destroy him Arthas, and once they retreat, it won't take a few years for the Scourge Legion to pull out an army of more than 100 million undead.

It is impossible for hundreds of thousands of coalition troops to always defend this barren land, not to mention that apart from Duke and the guardian dragon, which coalition powerhouse dares to pack a ticket and will definitely be able to defend his assault in Alsace?