In this way, Duke was still satisfied, and the corners of Duke's mouth curled into a thick smile as he watched through the image of the Gate of Dread peeking through the Magic Eye.

"It's better to smash one door than three. ”

The rebellion of the Knights of the Black Blade confirmed the famous adage that "the strongest fortresses are always breached from within." ”

With the Vault of Shadows as a basepoint, Duke teleported unscrupulously and smashed the Scourge Legion's mage tower.

The blizzard that surrounds Icecrown is not something natural, it is the magical fulcrum that the previous Lich King Neozu set up on several important elemental leylines of Icecrown. Relying on the mage towers on these fulcrums, Naozu's magic can pass through the entire Icecrown Glacier without hindrance.

The Knights of the Black Blade mutiny killed the lich in the mage tower as soon as possible, and Duke only cleaned up the tail of his hand in the past.

There are a total of seven fulcrums throughout the Icecrown Glacier, centered on the evil castle of Marekaris, forming a six-pointed star.

It's not that a six-pointed star will become a pentagram by itself if it takes off a corner. The kind of unbalanced collapse is the most deadly. Duke estimated that once his magic net had completed its invasion of the Vault of Shadows, the power of the blizzard around Icecrown would be reduced by at least fifty percent after rooting here.

From the original cannonballs that can't fly in, to the largest flying battleship that can sail in, the difference between heaven and earth is simply heaven and earth.

Because of this, Darian's surrender is so precious.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the coalition forces formed a multi-sided encirclement around the Icecrown Glacier - the Knights of the Black Blade to the northwest, the Crusader Trial Arena as the core defense area to the northeast, Dalaran over the Crystal Song Forest to the southeast, and the Donghug Lake Fortress where the Alkavon Treasury is located in the southwest.

In January, Duke was stunned by allowing Naxxramas to launch a surprise attack and take the fortress of Balagad, directly west of Icecrown Glacier.

In the second half of the winter, both the Scourge and the coalition forces were in a state of tug-of-war, and the unwilling Alsace launched more than a dozen large-scale attacks on a million scale and three large-scale attacks on five million bones. From the remains of small animal-level hares, to giant mammoth zombies and bone dragons, it's simply overwhelming.

The cost of several attacks on the scale of five million bones was an average of 35,000 deaths per battle, and the scrapping of more than 1,000 tanks and heavy artillery.

This is still the Coalition Army's tactic of withstanding the sea of corpses of the Scourge with a large number of modern artillery, otherwise it is not uncommon for casualties to triple casually.

The casualty figures made both Duke and Sal look rather bad.

Duke is because of the astronomical amount of military spending.

Sal is because of the loss of human life. There is no way, the alliance army is diversifying. The most basic melee sword and shield soldiers are the fewest to them. With the tribe joining, once it comes to infantry combat, the main force on top must be the orc infantry.

The only thing that can comfort Thrall is that the Coalition has provided the Horde with fairly sophisticated weapons.

The strength and toughness of the steel weapons, all blessed by the Holy Light, are much better than the equipment produced by the tribe. And the alliance promised that after this battle, the Horde could take these weapons with them. Even the weapons used by the war dead can be sent back to Kalimdor as relics.

This kind of kindness has won unanimous praise from the top and bottom of the tribal expeditionary force.

Regrets are not absent.

The remains of the war dead cannot be removed and must be cremated on the spot, which conflicts with the shamanic teachings of traditional orcs. But there is no way, it is not safe for the corpse to be sprinkled with holy water, as long as the dark magic of the lich smashes over, when the power of darkness exceeds that of light, the corpse will still be cheated by the corpse.

However, I still resisted it.

Throughout the winter, the factories of the Union did not stop working, and kept working in three shifts to produce munitions and munitions.

At the height of the shortage, Duke even had to use the magic of the magic net to open the fixed portal in order to transport the wounded to the rear and bring the most scarce ammunition to the front.

Time entered the Dark Gate 26 March.

Northrend's status as a polar continent, combined with the high altitude of the plateau region of Icecap, is destined to have no spring flowers here.

It's just that the temperature has changed from minus tens of degrees to minus a few degrees, and this is spring.

Without the cover of the winter storms, Arthas finally reined in its arrogance, and the Scourge almost completely shrunk, staying only in the Icecrown region.

In Naxxramas, in the coalition meeting chaired by Duke, the various bigwigs either sent people to attend, or sent messages of magic.

"The time has come for a full-scale assault on Icecrown. Duke made such a declaration as soon as he opened the scene.

"Don't you wait until summer, although it's spring, the cold is still a bit of a weakening of the power of the Red Dragon Legion's dragon breath. ”

Duke said in a deep voice: "Don't wait! I've detected multiple spatial teleportations recently, and Arthas must have sent a large number of mid- and low-level lichs out, presumably to collect corpses. If we wait too long, I'm afraid we will encounter a counter-encirclement in Northrend, and even if we can hold it, it will put a lot of pressure on logistics. By June, either the troops would be reduced by 200,000, or the entire Northern Expedition would starve everyone and be half-fed every day. ”

Now on the Northrend continent, after continuous replenishment, the Alliance and the Horde have a total of 500,000 troops. With so many people eating, drinking, and Lazar, plus the corresponding armament supplies, if it weren't for Duke, a super internal affairs officer with a system elf, it is estimated that the logistics transfer alone would make a thousand-person logistics headquarters go crazy.

You must know that not counting the summary and judgment, there are more than 3,000 logistics officers who perform logistics work alone. Non-military logisticians are not yet counted.

Fortunately, as early as the Battle of Mount Hyjal, the alliance began to focus on cultivating talents for cross-sea combat logistics supply. This is barely enough for the logistics officer.

In fact, all of the merchant ships of the Marcus family, Kurtilas, and Alterac have been requisitioned to supply Northrend, except for the necessary regular merchant ships.

Still not enough.

"It's fine. Let's fight!" Thrall sighed. Losing 100,000 warriors in one winter, if it was a tribe that had just arrived in Kalimdor, it would have been a great loss of vitality. Even if the orcs of Draenor are replaced, 100,000 young and strong orc warriors are still a big loss.

"It would be nice if there were more troops, at least the offense could be rotated in batches. Magni muttered.

Thrall suddenly thought of something: "Yes, the Forsaken of the Horde...... Anastrian said they were willing to play. ”

"Huh?" Duke's eyes lit up.