As far as the current situation is concerned, Nanhai Town is temporarily untouched, and there is no need to worry about the orcs' capture. However, the allied forces in Nanhai Town cannot defeat the orc besieging troops on the outskirts of Nanhai Town.
Alterac Valley is the only last line of defense for the Alterac Kingdom. If Alterac Valley loses the Alterac Kingdom, the country will surely be destroyed.
Moreover, the Alterac Valley is still the main line of defense to prevent the orcs from taking a shortcut to go northward and directly attack the most important city in the alliance, the royal city of the Kingdom of Lordaeron.
With these two reasons, the Alterac Valley Alliance must hold on no matter what. Because of these two reasons, Alterac Valley's position in the three main battlefields is even better than that of Southshore Town.
Because once the King City of Lordaeron falls, it can basically declare the end of the Second War, which means that the Second War Alliance finally failed completely.
With no leader among the dragons, even if the magical city-state of Dalaran and the kingdom of Quel'Thalas of the high elves have relatively complete strength, at that time, they will be powerless to rely on their two alliances.
Compared with Alterac Valley and Southsea Town, Tarren Mill Town is not so important, so Tarren Mill has become the weakest link in the Allied line of defense that prevents the main orcs from going north.
In fact, since the establishment of this line of defense, Tarren Mill has also frequently lost, and even changed hands several times. Although Tarren Mill is not as important as Alterac Valley and Southsea Town, a line of defense is most taboo to be cut into two sections by the enemy breaking through from the middle.
Because that would cause inconvenience in communication and command, and it would be impossible to achieve end-to-end echoes. Therefore, if one of the two warring parties on the battlefield is breached by others, they will often retreat across the board and then rearrange a new line of defense.
However, in this battle, even if the defense line arranged by Lothar falls, Lothar will not be able to retreat and rearrange the defense line. Because this is almost the last line of defense of the Allied Forces, especially in Alterac Valley.
Therefore, this is also the most troublesome place for Lothar, and it is also the most difficult place for him.
Lothar repeatedly asked the Wildhammer dwarves of the Hinterlands to send troops from the Eagle's Nest to the Dunholde area. In fact, to a large extent, it mainly wanted to relieve the pressure on Tarren Mill, so as to stabilize the precarious Alterac and Taren Mill and Nanhai Town's line of defense, so as not to cause a troublesome situation where the main force of the alliance army cannot take care of each other.
The several times of changing hands of Tarren Mill has long exhausted Lothar, who is the general marshal of the alliance. But fortunately, because the orcs were too aggressive, although they occupied a large area, they couldn't concentrate their absolute power on the three main battlefields of Alterac, Tarren Mill, and Southsea Town because of the scattered distribution of troops. At that time, he held the line of defense and successfully prevented the main force of the orcs from continuing to go north.
In a strategic sense, Lothar has actually succeeded so far, and the Orcs have failed.
Although the orc army still has a dominant position on the main battlefield, the orc is still a failure. Because the alliance successfully prevented the orcs from continuing to go north strategically, and this was the purpose of the alliance's defense line, so the strategic goal of the alliance was achieved.
Although the orcs still have a military advantage on the battlefield, they are still in an active offensive position, but they have failed strategically. They were successfully restrained by the alliance to move northward, lost their offensive sharpness, and their strategic goals were not achieved.
In many cases, wars are not judged by whoever dies more and who dies less, or by who occupies more land and who occupies less land, but by who achieves the strategic goal on both sides.
Therefore, Chinese chess loses as soon as the master dies, so Chinese Go often sees that the dominant side originally occupies a large area of the chessboard, but it is cleared by others at once with just a small negligence.
The current orc seems to be the one with the upper hand, but he is negligent. The point is that their rear is very unstable, so they are likely to collapse at any time. But when they discovered this, it was too late and they were outnumbered.
Habayashi Blood Eagle is also laughing secretly at this time, the orcs must be regretting that the troops are too scattered and the battle line is too wide!
Gul'dan is really not a good commander! He is just a person who has the ability to command a mid-level officer, but he chooses to be the commander-in-chief of the orcs.
The orcs have such a powerful military force for nothing, but they have become such a bad situation today, no wonder the orcs are dissatisfied, no wonder Gul'dan will be replaced by Doomhammer's rebellion.
If Gul'dan didn't rush forward and fight steadily after destroying the Stormwind Kingdom, then how could there be the dilemma of insufficient orc troops now?
Look at Ironforge of the Bronzebeard dwarves, Gnomeregan of the dwarves and the orcs in the surrounding area have not been completely captured, so they are eager to attack the Proudmoore Kingdom, but the capital of the Proudmoore Kingdom, Menethil Harbor has not been captured The orcs completely captured and occupied Menethil City, and the city of Menethil was still in the hands of Admiral Daelin. UU Reading Gul'dan was in a hurry to find the main force of the allied forces to confront K.
Ok! He could have won, but he also took advantage of the trend to occupy a large area and resources of the Arathi Kingdom. If Gul'dan had known to stop here, he would not have ventured further, but would have captured the entire Arathi Kingdom.
As well as capture all the rear areas that our troops have passed south of Arathi in the eastern continent, and wipe out the main resistance forces of the allied forces that are still struggling in their rear areas, and after liberating the orc troops that besieged the city, concentrate the elite main force to go north If so, the orcs will be invincible at that time, and the Alliance [UU Reading 00ks] will also be powerless to parry such a powerful attack.
It's a pity that Gul'dan didn't do this. Instead, he ignored it and chased the main force of the allied forces all the way to chase and divide the troops, which finally caused this bad situation.
See what this daredevil Gul'dan has done? The Dun Morogh copperbeard dwarves and dwarf orcs divided a considerable part of their forces and are attacking and suppressing the copperbeard dwarves and gnomes.
Then they sent troops to fight Proudmoore, but the orc troops who went to attack Proudmoore were pitted by the High Elf Expeditionary Legion and Daelin.
But Gul'dan didn't take advantage of the situation and send more troops to destroy Daelin and completely occupy Proudmoore. Instead, he first attacked the main Allied forces defending the Strait of Hormuz in Arathi.
However, I don't know if it's because of Gul'dan's luck or because of his heroic halo. Such a risky and reckless decision that was close to a gambling behavior actually allowed Gul'dan to succeed, and even allowed him to occupy most of the Arathi Kingdom.
If Gul'dan stopped to rest and digest the occupied territory, the orcs still had a chance, but Gul'dan was not satisfied yet.