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It's a wasted effort.

There is a near-absolute inevitability for trolls to join the horde. In Azeroth, 14,000 years ago, the trolls of Azeroth's native race established many great kingdoms, among which the two empires of Amani and Gulabash were the largest, and both empires were ruled by the Zandalar tribe, so they also praised the Great Empire of Darath.

Seven thousand years ago, Darth Rema* Sunstrider and the Elven nobles who wanted to continue their study of the use of arcane magic, left their fellow Night Elves with the Druid's nature teachings at their core, accepted banishment, and moved east to the northern continent of the Eastern Kingdom, commonly known as Lordaeron.

These high-level elves who migrated eastward evolved into the High Elves and established their own magical kingdom of Quel'Thalas. As a land of new immigrants, Quel'Salas and the local troll Amani Empire have been at war for thousands of years over territorial expansion.

It wasn't until 2,800 years ago that humanity began to rise, and Emperor Soladin united the human tribes to establish the Arathas Empire, and the High Elves' kingdom of Quel'Thalas, defeated the trolls' Amani Empire, and in desperation, turned to humans for help and began to teach them the power of arcane magic.

Alaso and the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas teamed up to defeat the trolls' Amani Empire, and the trolls were devastated, and the Troll War ended.

It can be said that trolls have a vendetta against humans and elves that has been passed down for thousands of years. Each other's blood and souls were poured on this continent in a fierce battle, and the hatred was already so strong that it could not be dissolved.

And there are too many troll clans, even if Duke got the Amani clan in advance, there are many other clans on this continent,

For example, the Zandalar tribe in the Valley of Thorns today, they are the ancestors of all trolls, also known as primordial trolls, in general, trolls are divided into five categories, in addition to primordial trolls, there are jungle trolls, forest trolls, desert trolls, frost trolls, according to the attributes of the large and small number of branches.

Small branches such as sand rage, ice sideburns, evil branches, blood tops, and skulls are ignored, and there are seven or eight big clans of the Amani level alone.

Rather than let Orgrim ally himself with the messy trolls, it would be better to leave it to Amani, and at least Duke could guess their route.

Of course, Duke has one more big thing to do before he can deal with Orgrim's elite legions and trolls.

Covering the withdrawal of Stormgard's forces to Fort Riptide and the Wall of Soradin.

The most feared thing about retreating is to break up, and once the troops acting as the rearguard are eliminated, then the following scenario can be imagined:

The torrent of green representing the tribal orcs and the silver representing the kingdom of Stormgard staggered across the Arathi Plateau, and the bitter silver was chased by green in all directions. The human troops, who were severely short of transportation, were torn apart by orcs rushing from all directions in the Plains War.

After fighting for so long, the Alliance and the Horde have already made a real fire.

It is conceivable that in the event of a failed retreat, not many people will be spared. Orcs with better staying power will catch up with every human who tries to escape, and kill them with the most brutality.

There were no prisoners, no mercy, and the soldiers who made it back to Fort Riptide alive were definitely one in a hundred.

The Arathi Highlands, where Fort Riptide is located, are not fertile, and the mountainous nature of the highlands limits the production of food, as well as the upper limit of the total population.

Among the seven human kingdoms, the population of the kingdom of Stormgard is only larger than that of the pure mountain kingdom of Alterac. In a sense, Stormgard's strength is weaker than the Stormwind Kingdom, which has lost its territory.

Nothing to say, at least the fertile Elwyn Forest fed hundreds of thousands of Stormlanders.

And the total population of Stormgard is less than 250,000, and being able to pull in this army of 30,000 people is already the limit of the Riptide Castle people.

Solas Torbain couldn't imagine if he had lost all the 50,000 people on the defense line of the Sador Bridge, including the Minfu, if there would be a tomorrow for Fort Riptide.

However, the most capable troops in the alliance are basically the main orcs of the Grom * Hell's Roaring Warsong Clan on the Western Front.

The greatest support for the Stormgards was the half-Scarlet Crusade of the Lordaeron general Abydis, who went to the Wall of Soladin to replace the Riptide Fortresses, giving Solas more troops to defend Riptide.

Other than that, it's Duke's mage team and Aurelia's rangers.

When I heard that Aurelia was worried about something going wrong in the country and took her subordinates away, if it weren't for the close relationship between Duke and Aurelia publicly, it is estimated that Solas scolded her mother in public.

"Don't get excited, Admiral Tolbairn. I let Aurelia go back because I was confident enough to successfully cover the ninety percent of the Stormgard soldiers back safely to Fort Ripwater. ”

Solas was stunned for a full five seconds before he realized that the young deputy commander of the league standing in front of him had a brighter record than the regular league commander Lothar.

Perhaps Duke has not yet proven himself in offensive battles, but when it comes to defense, for interception, for withdrawing troops in an extremely unfavorable situation, Duke is definitely an expert among experts.

"Uh, you don't think you can burn down the entire Strait defense in one fell swoop?" asked King Solas in a playful question.

"Poof!" Duke laughed, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you......"

"Offense? Arashi doesn't care about that bit of etiquette, as long as I can keep these people, I'll let my son be your attendant. "Solas sold his son without any restraint.

For the Arashi people with Fort Riptide as the core, Duke still has a lot of respect. The 'historical' Riptide Fort, however, has endured the undead catastrophe, and no one has given up when there are only 3,000 people left in the entire kingdom, and they have fought in various areas of the Arathi Heights, declaring their resistance and unyielding to the tribe and all invaders.

"No, no, no, I'm not shameless enough to ask a prince to be my attendant. Although doing so will undoubtedly make Duke feel that he is full of content: "In fact, I have always advocated the greatest result with the least sacrifice. ”

"Alright, Your Excellency Vice-Commander Marcus, what are you going to do?" Thoraston paused for a moment, still thinking that he wanted to give Duke a little sweetness: "If you succeed, you will undoubtedly become a hero in the hearts of the people of Riptide. I think there will be no less than a hundred Riptide Knight candidates who admire your prestige and volunteer to become your followers. ”

100 would-be knights, that doesn't sound like much.

But considering that this is a full hundred alternate lower-level nobles who are very capable of fighting and can help themselves manage their fiefdoms, that weight is much heavier. (To be continued.) )