The soldiers of the kingdom of Lordaeron wore a battle robe with blue edges on a white background; As for the soldiers of the Stormwind Kingdom, the style of the battle uniform Arthas that was worn before is not clear, but decades ago, after Lordaeron and Stormwind established a friendly alliance relationship, the battle robes of the soldiers of Stormwind City were replaced with blue and gold edges, to show that the two countries are really one. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the fall of Stormwind, the land of Lordaeron was filled with both soldiers in white and blue robes. But now, on the wall not far away, there was a group of guards in red robes. "It's from Riptide Castle." Mograini also stepped out of the driver's seat of the carriage and came behind Artace. Riptide Fort was the royal city of the Kingdom of Stormgard and the imperial capital of the Alaso Empire, which flourished thousands of years ago. The people of the Eastern Kingdoms like to use the name of the royal city as a pronoun when addressing the country.

Arthas frowned and asked, "How did the people from Riptide Castle end up here?" Mograini had no way of answering Arthas's question, but the little prince instinctively thought it might have something to do with the lord of Dunhold Castle. Your Royal Highness Prince of Alsace, are we still going to Dunhold Castle? "Mograine knew that what he was saying meant little to him, and that he had to go through this checkpoint in order to pass through the wall of Soradin.

But Mograini thought more, before the orc invasion, the relationship between the kingdom of Stormgard and the kingdom of Lordaeron had not been harmonious. Coming from the fragmentation of the Arathas Empire, Riptide Castle is bent on restoring the Arathas Empire to its former glory under the rule of the ambitious King Solas.

Mograini even heard rumors that Solas Thorbaine, the owner of Riptide Castle, had even asked his subjects to call him "Solas the Great" in his royal palace - what an arrogant act, considering that since the division of the Arathas Empire, no king of a human kingdom would call himself emperor.

The hills of Hillsbrad are rich in bounty and have long been coveted by two of the kingdoms of Lordaeron, the kingdoms of Gilneth and Stormgard. However, after the crushing defeat of the Gilneth Kingdom army here, the ambitions of Riptide Fort were slightly curtailed, and coupled with the obstruction of the Wall of Soladin, the kingdoms of Stormgard and Lordaeron finally did not stage a full-scale war, but the friction along the border continued.

After the Orcs captured Stormwind, King Solas of Riptide Castle was the first to propose the idea of establishing an alliance of human kingdoms, which was accepted by all human kings. But in fact, King Solas's main purpose is to be the "leader" of this alliance.

However, the kingdom of Gilneth is inseparable from this alliance, and the owner of Alterac Castle, King Aiden, has never left his small territory, and has recently been imprisoned for colluding with orcs; In the end, for various reasons, the leadership of the alliance still fell into the hands of King Terenus of the Kingdom of Lordaeron.

King Solas could not accept this outcome, and although he still sent an army to defend against the orcs, he had all but withdrawn from the alliance he had proposed—and the most ironic thing about Mograine's somewhat despised owner of Riptide was that although he forbade the armies of other human kingdoms, mainly Lordaeron, to enter the Arathi Heights to assist them in their defenses, he repeatedly asked Lordaeron for material assistance to sustain Rapidke's large army.

Mograine had no affection for the soldiers at Fort Riptide, but that wasn't a reason for him to be wary of them now. The real reason is that Dunhold Castle is indeed the territory of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, and the lord here is the king of Terenus himself. The soldiers of Riptide Castle are now standing at the checkpoint at Dunhold Castle, and the fact that the orc invasion is aside, can already provoke a war.

In view of this situation, Mograini felt that it would be better for His Royal Highness the Prince not to take any chances. The original Dunhold Castle was no more than a dozen militiamen, and he was fully capable of killing them quickly and protecting the safety of the Prince of Alsace at the same time. But now the castle has been replaced by soldiers from Riptide Castle, and I don't know how many there are, so once an accident happens, it will be difficult to deal with.

Arthas shook his head, turned and walked towards the carriage, saying, "No need, the plan is as usual. I'd like to see what the people at Riptide want to do at this time! Mograini was stunned for a moment, and Arthas had already slipped back into the carriage. The paladin had no choice but to return to the driver's seat of the carriage and drive the pack horse towards the checkpoint at Castle Dunhold.

Arthas returned to the carriage and sat down on the couch without saying a word, frowning and beginning to think. Frost Sorrow had always been very well-behaved at such times, and did not make a noise to disturb her master, but fiddled with her fingers somewhat boredly. Wen Lesa asked with some concern, "Arthas, what's wrong?" ”

Arthas raised his head and glanced at Wenlesa, thought for a moment, and explained, "It's nothing, it's just that I'm thinking, what does this lord of Dunhold Castle want to do?" First orcs, and now Riptide Castle, this guy's ability to make waves is quite good. ”

Wen Lesa blinked, not quite understanding. Arthas smiled, but Winlessa thought that Arthas was laughing at her, and glared at him with some annoyance, but in exchange for Arthas's even brighter smile. Winlessa turned her head a little angrily, and stopped bothering with this pesky little / pervert / ghost - in the first place, the High Elves were not good at analyzing such things, only humans would always play with these intrigues.

Arthas was bored, a sneering expression on his face, and turned sideways, leaning against Frost Sorrow, continuing to think about his question - why did the orcs turn to the lord of Dunhold Castle? Just because he was the patron of an obscure mage in Dalaran?

Arthas shook his head, thinking that this was unlikely, and that the orcs might not even know about his relationship with Kel'thugad until they contacted the lord of Dunhold Castle. So, what is the role of this lord of Dunhold Castle to the orcs?

Thinking of the previous orc fleet, launching a suicide attack on the town of the South Seas, Arthas felt that he could roughly judge the intentions of those orcs. If they are not able to land in the northern half of the Eastern Kingdom in the hills of Hillsbrad, then the orcs will have to defeat the dwarves and human guards at both ends of the Sador Bridge, break through the defenses of the kingdom/army of Stormgard, start from the Arathi Heights, cross the Narrow Sea, and come to the northern half.

Thinking about it this way, the collusion between the orcs and the lord of Dunhold Castle can be solved. After gaining a foothold in the Arathi Highlands, the orcs had only two options if they wanted to advance further - one was to climb the towering Eagle's Nest Mountains due north and attack the dwarven kingdom of Hinterland; The second is to attack the territory of the Lordaeron Kingdom in the northwest direction.

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