Chapter 429：

At this time, the battlefield was already in unprecedented chaos. Even on the Alliance side, it was difficult to maintain the most basic formation. Everyone fought independently, chasing the defeated orcs everywhere.

In the chaos army, Ye Ting only took his three followers, and soon he saw Lothar's figure. As the supreme commander of the alliance, his gorgeous armor makes him particularly conspicuous on the battlefield.

When Ye Ting came to him, he heard his adjutant Turalyon sigh loudly.

"We did it!" the young Paladin shouted. "We defeated them!"

Seeing Ye Ting's arrival, Lothar nodded at him. They did not continue to chase and kill like the rest of the soldiers, but watched the continuous retreat of the orc army.

"They are returning to the camp outside Stromgarde," Lothar said softly.

He did not decide to pursue them.

"Should we follow them?" Turalyon asked. He was still hot from those few charges, he wanted to chase after the orcs and kill them all in one go. "We must run to chase, so that we can take the opportunity to rescue Stromgarde in one go."

But the mage on the other side shook his head.

"No." Ye Ting corrected. "We only defeated them temporarily, but they didn't escape from us, but returned to their lair and gathered more power to deal with us."

"But we should follow them to take the opportunity to cause more damage." Turalyon retorted eagerly. "Isn't it?"

Ye Ting noticed that the young paladin had a strange provocation and hostility towards him.

According to his character as a paladin, there shouldn't have been such emotions.

Could it be that he was jealous because of the Windrunner sisters?

However, before Ye Ting could speak personally, Lothar pointed out Turalyon's mistake for him.

"We can indeed do this." Lothar sighed. "But look behind you."

Turalyon turned around, and immediately understood the meaning of the two officers.

Their troops were shaky because of the end of the battle. Although there were still many soldiers enthusiastically chasing the orcs for merit and hatred, he saw more soldiers dozing in the place where they originally stood, because of the new injuries. Or simply because of fatigue.

This battle lasted for more than a long time, although I didn't feel it just now, but now, when everything was over, the sun set to point out this point.

In the battle, their weapons were consumed a lot. There were thousands of assault lances, and their bows and crossbows were basically used up, as were many other weapons.

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After the end of the war, the Alliance did not pursue further victory. Instead, before the Horde forces assembled to counterattack, they returned to the Wall of Thoradin and took out heavy troops to defend the Wall of Thoradin.

Ye Ting and Lothar's judgment was correct.

The army that the Alliance had encountered before was led by the tribal warchief himself, but the tribe rushed to assemble a handful of elites after discovering that the Alliance had launched an attack on their rear from the direction of Hillsbrad Hills.

In Orgrim's view, the troops of these alliances are the main force that came to support the Kingdom of Stormgard. Since the tribe could not attack Stromgarde for a long time, Orgrim was seriously worried that the tribe would be attacked by the alliance's reinforcements and the defenders of Stromgarde.

This resourceful warchief had to lead the elite to temporarily resist the alliance’s offensive. On the other hand, the tribe’s large forces also began to gather and change directions. The tribe’s strategy was to divide the forces and use a small amount of force to watch Stromgarde, and the large forces defeated it. The alliance’s reinforcements give a fatal blow to the alliance’s strength.

At the same time that the Alliance forces withdrew from the Arathi Highlands, the main force of the orcs finally assembled, and they chased Lothar's army all the way to the wall of Thoradin.

Facing the high wall that allowed the troll empire to retreat back then, they launched a tentative attack.

However, even though the power of the orc tribe is generally stronger than that of the Amani troll empire at this time, they still lose their troops in front of this solid city wall but cannot make progress.

Finally, after repeated attacks to no avail, Orgrim had to turn around and return to continue besieging Stromgarde.

For the main Alliance forces hiding behind Thoradin's Wall, Orgrim did not leave a handful of troops to temporarily block them.

Through the limited battles before, he has realized that the main force of the alliance is stronger than he thought. Even the elite troops led by him are not their opponents. The ordinary orc troops that are left behind will only be eaten by the enemy. .

However, when the main force of the tribe returned to Stromgarde's city again, they were surprised to find that the situation suddenly changed.

Stromgarde Castle, which had been almost exhausted, now seems to have been fully supplied, and the counterattack against them has become sharper.

The arrows, rolling logs, stone stones, and various military materials that had to be saved, are now open to use by the defenders of Stromgarde, causing heavy losses to the crazy attacking orcs.

On the other hand, the number of troops defending Stromgarde seems to have grown, at least enough to be rotated, and the fatigue tactics of the tribe’s day and night offensive have also lost its effect.

In short, after a few days of siege warfare, the tribe has clearly felt that Stromgarde’s defensive strength has improved.

This change in form made Orgrim feel inexplicable. In the end, under the investigation of scouts and warlocks, all the reasons were finally revealed-this "lone city" tightly besieged by the tribe, recovered from the sea and the alliance. Traffic and connections, the alliance's human and material resources have continuously entered Stromgarde from the sea.

All this almost made Orgrim want to vomit blood.

He really did not expect that the dragon's rebellion and the failure of the Dragonmaw clan had such a great impact on the tribe.

The loss of tribal sea power not only meant the bankruptcy of the sea landing plan, and a large number of warriors were buried in the sea for nothing. Now it has also affected the tribe's strategy of the Arathi Highlands.

This is a strong city built on a high cliff, backed by the sea, and can only be attacked in one direction. This is the key to the tribe's desire to truly occupy the Arathi Highlands.

As the capital of the Kingdom of Stormgard, as long as Stromgarde does not fall, the tribe cannot secure a foothold in the Arathi Highlands; and the tribe’s inability to establish a foothold in the Arathi Highlands means that the tribe cannot establish a stable presence in Lordaeron. Base area.

The so-called first attack is to attack the Lordaeron continent, and the idea of ​​completely defeating the Alliance is even more unclear.

And then, one of Ye Ting's suggestions put the tribe of Arathi Highland into a dilemma.

"You mean, you want to form a pure cavalry force to harass the rear of the tribe?" This sudden suggestion from Ye Ting made Lothar ponder.

For a long time, Lothar, a battle-tested veteran, still liked frontal attacks and defenses when facing the orcs.

This is also impossible. Although Lothar and most of the generals in the Alliance understand the true meaning of war and also know that war is only a continuation of politics, but the tradition has always made them accustomed to arranging a battle against the enemy and head-on. The only common strategy used in frontal combat, or simple defensive warfare, is to use mass destruction magic against the assembled enemy.

This is like the vassals of the Spring and Autumn Period, or the Iron Hans of Europe in the Middle Ages.

However, as the war progressed, opponents Orgrim, and teammates such as Ye Ting, Sylvanas, etc. were either indefensible or unpredictable tactics, which made this old man The soldier opened his eyes.

Tactics do not matter good or bad, only practical and impractical.

Now, Lothar is fully able to accept Ye Ting's slightly despicable tactic of "not fighting head-on, only attacking the enemy's weakness." After careful consideration, he increasingly felt that Ye Ting's method was feasible.

According to the current situation, although the alliance is completely on the defensive, there are not many places that the alliance that completely occupies the geography needs to defend, only Thoradin’s Wall and Stromgarde, therefore, the alliance as the defensive side takes the initiative.

On the other hand, although the tribe is strong, they occupy the Arathi Highlands with no danger to defend, and the old attack on Stromgarde is not enough. Now they are attacked by the enemy and become passive. Unless they give up their plan to attack the continent of Lordaeron, this will happen. Keep going.

In this way, instead, the Alliance has the ability to proactively attack and harass the tribe.

Although facing the tribal army, such harassment cannot cause any fatal damage to the opponent, but this is equivalent to boiling the frog in warm water, or slowly bleeding, weakening the tribe by continuously killing a small number of enemy troops and harassing the enemy’s grain and grass. strength.

Think about it carefully, isn't this equivalent to an enlarged version of his previous tactics against the tribe on the battlefield?

On the battlefield, Lothar used the alliance’s advantages in cooperation and equipment to keep himself on the defensive, constantly consuming the power of the active offensive tribe through defense; the overall strategy of the alliance is also the same, using passive defense to consume the power of the overall powerful tribe. Strength, the final blow is fatal.

On the battlefield, Lothar will send cavalry to seize the opportunity to attack while defending, and then withdraw after the shield wall. On the one hand, it consumes the enemy and maintains morale on the other hand to prevent the morale reduction caused by long-term defense. In terms of overall strategy, Ye Ye Isn't Ting's suggestion the same?

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