Chapter 1672: Artillery Firing
Not only Duke, but other league bigwigs are all bright-eyed.
The factors involved in this are complex.
In the beginning, the Forsaken led by Anastrian established the kingdom of Lordaeron and almost established the Undercity, which left a deep psychological wound on the Lordaerons and elves.
If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't spare their hands, maybe the alliance would have hunted them down a long time ago, and there would be no new Dark City in the Winterspring Valley at all, and they wouldn't have waited for them to find an opportunity to join the tribe.
On the other hand, the undead thugs are actually quite useful.
The undead who don't need food, don't need supplies, and are not afraid of the cold can be said to be the best cannon fodder. For example, the activity of the Knights of the Black Blade in the winter left a deep impression on the alliance bosses.
From the perspective of a commander, sometimes I wish that my men were all these obedient and powerful death knights.
On the other hand, how many people died in the tribe, the alliance was not heartbroken.
If Anastrian was really willing to let the forsaken, who were already not many, join the fight, it would be a useful addition anyway.
In fact, Sal was also tempted by the Sun King's proposal. For a while, Thrall almost thought that the Forsaken was going to defect from the Horde. After several urgings, the Sun King finally sent 50,000 forsaken as if he were willing to cut his flesh.
The quality of this group of soldiers, Thrall has seen.
Few were orc-converted, basically human and elven corpses. As for the source, Sal didn't want to care, anyway, if the alliance didn't protest solemnly, Sal shouldn't have seen it.
This is also a mentality that does not matter how many bones you have if you dig your own ancestral grave.
The end result was 50,000 Forsaken. In addition to the most elite high-level alchemists and magic researchers, as well as some elite guards Winter Spring Valley. It is no exaggeration to say that Anastrian brought all the old bottoms here.
In the northwest of the Crystal Song Forest, Duke saw the Sun King and couldn't help but tease him, "Yo, Anastrian!
"The Forsaken belong to the tribe, and we all owe allegiance to the Great Chief. Since it is a conscription of the great chiefs, we should obey it. Now, the Horde and the Alliance are allies, so Lord Marcus wouldn't order his subordinates to attack the allies, would he?"
Since it's a dead face, there's no expression to speak of. No one could see his thoughts in Anastrian's fiery eyes.
"Hey, you're pretty good at talking! Don't worry, the Alliance will never attack allies, not before, not now, and not in the future!" Duke naturally dared to say this, but Duke changed his words: "Yes, I always think that you are a guy who can't afford to make a profit, why are you willing to suppress almost the entire Forsaken?"
In the face of Duke's questioning, the Sun King was not annoyed.
In his deep, dark eyes, the ghostly eyes moved to the right and looked at Darien: "The Alliance can accept the Death Knights, why can't the Forsaken of the Horde accept their undead compatriots who have been freed from the Lich King's bondage?"
His words also sound quite reasonable.
The leaders of the alliance present all showed expressions that were indeed the same.
The Scourge is certainly the enemy of the world, but if it works well, the Forsaken can fight the Forgotten.
Compared to the brutal spiritual and spiritual slavery of Alsace, the 'freedom' of the Forsaken is certainly more attractive to the undead who have been freed from slavery.
Perhaps, if the boss of the Knights of the Ebon is not Darien Mograine, but a former tribal orc chieftain, maybe the Knights of the Ebon Blade, a force with thousands of death knights and all high-level combat power, will be cheaper than the tribe.
Duke, and only Duke, looked at Anastrian with a look of amusement.
This kind of look that seems to see through everything makes the Sun King very uncomfortable.
He raised his official tone: "Your Excellency Supreme Commander Marcus, the Forsaken Legion is preparing to attack, do you have any additional instructions?"
Duke smiled, "No! I longed to see the Forsaken active on the battlefield." ”
"You'll see. With that, the Sun King turned and left.
At nine o'clock in the morning on March 15, 26 of the Dark Gate, the coalition of the three major forces of the Alliance Tribes and Longmian launched an attack on Icecrown Glacier in six directions at the same time.
The first to fire was the Balagad Fort in the mountains directly west of Icecrown. After the alliance captured it, it took advantage of the mobility of the floating fortress, overwhelming troops, and top-level combat power to take the Kulgara fortress a little further east.
It then took half a winter to strengthen the two forts and fortresses, and more than 500 modern artillery pieces were placed on them, the smallest of which had a caliber of 203 mm.
As soon as nine o'clock arrived, together with a total of 2,000 cannons on Naxxramas, they rained cannonballs on Koresa, the Gate of Dread, to the east, and the Dark Cathedral to the southeast.
In just three hours, more than 50,000 cannonballs of large and small calibers were fired, and although they could not destroy the Gate of Fear, which had a fortress-level ice shield and was a full thirty meters thick and one hundred meters high, it successfully leveled most of the dark cathedrals that cultivated dark mages, and the huge semicircular dome was directly blown flat.
On the fortress of Dongyong Lake in the southwest, it is quiet. The Coalition will not attack from this side. After all, the northeast side of Dongyong Lake is an icecrown fortress. But only the brain-dead would choose to attack a castle on a hill more than a thousand meters higher than Dongyong Lake from an elevation angle of 70.
The real fight is quite lively on the side of the Crystal Song Forest in the southeast, and the first to appear is Dalaran.
Dalaran, who was personally commanded by Kael'thas himself, did not directly withstand the anti-aircraft artillery of the Scourge on the front line. After all, Dalaran was first the capital of an Alliance Kingdom, then a magical shrine, and finally a fortress. Floating fortresses like Naxxramas that specialize in flying around the world to do things are completely different concepts.
The mage tower on the floating city of Dalaran, destroying one at random is enough to make the mages' hearts ache for a long time.
So Dalaran's role this time is to assist.
It flew to an altitude of three thousand meters and then ...... Pour silt downward.
That's right!
The most gentle mountain passes of the Icecap Plateau are the source of the Weakened River.
Tons of dirt were dumped, and in just one hour the source of the river of weakness was filled in.
Almost as soon as the river was filled, the floating city of Dalaran began to lower its height and rain magic cannons towards the Iron Wall Dam, which held the mountain pass and was also a fortress.