It is a little different from "history", and now that the news sent back by Haduron Mingyi before the slaughter of Stratholm has been taken seriously by Sylvanas to a certain extent, in the Ghost Land, which is almost a defensive circle organized by the Ranger General, there is no longer the same as in "history", the High Elves use human lives to delay the advance of the undead army head-on, and finally form a death mark because of the long battle. Now, after learning first-hand the power of the undead army, Sylvanas wisely chose to fight and run, and planted many traps to delay the enemy's attack, but she and her remaining ranger troops were also in danger of being surrounded.

Time goes back a bit.

The evacuation of the populace was not smooth, as the civilians brought out of the Windranger Village and the Moon Sanctuary were too slow, and they were chased by gargoyles countless times along the way, which made the team of 200 rangers, 12 warriors, 33 priests, 1 mage, 11 assassins, and 23 paladins with more than 1,800 civilians look unusually bloated and sluggish.

Especially when he didn't dare to return from the main road and had to choose to cross the river, the gargoyles in the sky were as disgusting as a swarm of flies, and the 200 rangers who could deal with the gargoyles most effectively were simply too busy, and similarly, there was nothing good to do about the gargoyles Edlan who flew too high, and he couldn't use his precious vengeful anger against these gargoyles, right?

Although these gargoyles are not directly controlled by higher beings, any army is the most vulnerable when crossing a river, let alone a team that is mostly civilians, so the threat caused by gargoyles at such times is far greater than when they are on the march.

Although the Elenda River is not wide and can be easily crossed by ordinary people, from the moment the river was crossed, the large number of gargoyles in the sky began to harass intensively, and they did not give these living people on the ground the possibility of escaping, and the "respectable" mage of the elves, as the commander of this team, did not listen to the dissuasion of Edlan and other soldiers who had experienced survival and marching battles in the wild, and insisted on ordering the team to forcibly cross the river, which made the situation even more dangerous!

Twelve warriors, 15 priests, 20 mages, and 100 rangers crossed the fast-flowing river as the first echelon, and went to the opposite bank, their task was to prepare the beachhead to cover the people who crossed the river behind, but just like that, with the interference of those gargoyles, it took them 30 minutes to barely gain a foothold on the other side and began to pour fire into the sky.

Incidentally, Edlan and his human paladins were the last to cross the river, citing the fact that they had the strongest line of defense. The corners of Adelan's eyes twitched, not because he was annoyed by the selfishness of the High Elf mage, after all, he was not of the same race, so he didn't need to curry favor with these "allies" who came from afar.

Edlan was annoyed because of the decision to forcibly cross the river, which was not as fast as letting this dog-day mage directly teleport back to Silvermoon City to move the rescuers, but this mage who had never heard the name at all obviously wanted to swallow the credit of "rescuing the civilians", so that he could be appreciated by the big people above with this honor, if it was just to go back to the city to move the rescuers, the credit would change from "the hero who saved nearly 2,000 compatriots under the pressure of the army of the undead", to " the messenger who brought back important information at the first time", don't even think about it, the latter's credit is much smaller.

The long years have made the pursuit of vanity by these refined high elves no longer a little bit, especially these mages who are superior to others from birth.

Soon, despite the fact that the beachhead on the other side had been established, and the heroic performance of the battle-hardened rangers kept no one too seriously injured, and the priests did their best to heal each of their wounded companions, the strength of the other side was not curtailed in any way. But when the civilians crossed the river, there was a lot of chaos, not every civilian was a strong guy, even if most of the old and young had been sent to the boat to travel back and forth between the Eternal Song Forest and the Ghost Land, but now there are still many older or younger high elves in the process of crossing the river, due to the threat from the enemy in the sky, resulting in stress and fear, and then a certain amount of chaos.

At the beginning, this chaos was controllable with the efforts of the defenders on both sides of the strait, but as there were more and more gargoyles in the sky, when the defense forces could not take care of everyone's safety, after the casualties among the civilians, the team began to be chaotic, which also led to more and more chaos in the whole scene.

Many civilians ran for their lives, which undoubtedly increased the burden on the guards, and even more so that they forgot even the most basic common sense because of fear, and they ran to the notoriously dexterous rangers and dragged or hugged each other, hoping that the other party would protect them, and then the gargoyle spat out an attack from above to kill the two of them......

Edlan can be regarded as having opened his eyes, the fear possessed by the immortals is no different from that of humans, in the case of a serious threat to his own life, what is the elegance of the High Elves, what is the wisdom of the Immortals, what is the dignity of Quildore...... Maybe the higher ones will think more, but these things don't have any effect at all in the eyes of the commoners, and what they want is simple, that is, to live.

Not all of us have any noble qualities or great enlightenment, and this is true of human beings, and this is true of the High Elves......

Edlan didn't have much to do about it, he and his paladin recruits had long since dispersed, using their own ways to protect these civilians as much as possible, but in general, it was a drop in the bucket in terms of the number of enemies and the restraint of the troops.

Fortunately, this chaos was alleviated and resolved after the arrival of a large corps of chocobos.

It was a tired team of 500 rangers, led by a female High Elf named Elel, who arrived with a tired body, but after the addition of these "new forces", the gargoyles in the sky were cleared, and the civilians were able to cross the river without interference from external forces...... By this time, more than 100 civilians and 15 rangers had died.

The two teams quickly exchanged information, and everyone took time to rest while resupplying, knowing that the Ranger General Sylvanas was delaying the advance of the army of the undead, and that her efforts would soon be in vain in the face of such a large disparity in strength.

So with the intervention of the powerful Ariel, the less than 200 rangers were regrouped under her command, and after everyone began to evacuate the people of Golden Mist Village to cross the river, the rangers decided to return to the main road, they wanted to help their general, and Adelan also decided to take his paladins with him.

The "respectable" mage didn't stop him, after all, his goal was achieved, and those rangers gave up this great credit at the last moment, which was simply too much for his appetite, and he even graciously and kindly grabbed a handful of magic powder to help these warriors who were about to return to the battlefield to apply the "Arcane Radiance" buff state.

Soon, the team was back on the road, and at this time, these rangers and the happy chocobos enjoyed Adelan's almost perverted group support skills, the three halos of crusade, piety, and punishment, the three blessings of strength, king, and wisdom, followed by the mantra tenacity and the fire of the group heart.

This undoubtedly made those rangers have a very good sense of Edlan, and with the blessing of these buffs, their original fatigue has been swept away, and they are now full of power, and they feel that they can fight those disgusting undead for another three hundred rounds at any time!

Similarly, the rookie paladins led by Herrod brought out by Edlan, including the two Paladin brothers of the High Elves, although they had long known that their paladin leaders were very powerful, but they did not expect that they were already struggling to practice punishment specialization, but now this baron lord has easily used the spell of healing specialization, even priest! Even if he used the amplification of the Holy Contract, this kind of existence really made them feel pressured, and it also made them feel that the class of paladins was worth fighting for, and they could reach the same heights as this adult one day, right?

What the High Elves and his men were thinking Edlan didn't know, he reassessed his strength, and felt that there was no problem at all in imposing these states on a force of 1,000 people, the cost was just to consume twice as many spellcasting materials, anyway, someone's huge holy energy was no longer in any way, and he could move it as he wanted. In the eyes of a certain traverser, this scene has the flavor of a high-level and large journeyman taking a group of budding newcomers to brush low-level dungeons......

So, when the divine energy emanating from this team of 700 or so rangers, which was mainly rangers, was detected by Arthas in the distance, the battle had already begun in the outermost line of the army of the undead.

As a solid meat shield profession, the 23 paladins led by Adelan took over the responsibility of the first row of the cone array, and Adelan became the arrows of the cone array, the paladins spread evenly on both sides of him, and the war horse began to speed up from the original uniform trot, and under the easing of the holy energy, the endurance and explosiveness of the war horse have also been improved to a certain extent, and it took only ten or so seconds for the speed of the war horse to reach its peak.

It was also at this time, under the cover of the rangers' rain of arrows, and under Adelan's deliberate control, the first front line composed of only 23 paladins crashed headlong into the dense tide of undead corpses!

The explosive power of the chocobo is not as good as that of the war horses, and the rangers are slower than the paladins after they charge, but their archery skills are very well displayed in a relatively safe environment, 23 paladins open a large enough gap, and the cavalry shooting that follows the rangers expands this gap very smoothly, and can even support the paladin's charge!

Edlan was in the first row, and he didn't even use the sword of the Brotherhood to slash those low-level undead monsters such as skeletons and zombies, and the holy energy that burst out of his body was enough to completely burn them to ashes. Instead, inspired by the former Arthas, Edlan began to use the Fountain of Light to fight these damn undead monsters.

One, two...... A full ten fountains of light the size of five people appeared on the path of the paladin's charge, because Edlan and his party had already confirmed the location of Sylvanas's remnants through the rangers' eagle eye skills and unique contact signals, Edlan rushed almost straight in that direction, except for a few times when he found that there was a wide and fat abomination force in front of him, Edlan decisively chose to make a detour, and at other times there were basically no units that could stop the paladin's charge. After all, in this kind of large-scale battle, the paladin's charge still has a very fast and fast crushing effect on the crypt demon and the undead monsters below, but it can't be in the face of such a large monster as the abomination.

And saving people is expensive at speed, and the most taboo is to be stopped by something, so the "roadblocks" composed of those tall and fat tonnage abominations and huge meat grinders are naturally bypassed by Edlan, and then take advantage of their slow behavior, Edlan doesn't mind putting a few fountains of light in the past to slowly consume them.

I have to say that under the style of a local tyrant like Edlan, who is "not bad blue", those large-scale spells can be put away, which greatly enhances the survivability of this rescue team that is not enough to stuff the teeth compared to hundreds of thousands of undead.

Likewise, their presence has caught the attention of Alsace.

Arthas's senses were mixed, he saw his good friend who he thought he had died in Northrend, he saw that his good friend was still so good at the Light, he saw the mixed feeling that his good friend was using the spells he had used against his former enemies and now his men...... I'm afraid only Arthas, who is still alive but has become the king of the Death Knights, can understand.

"I thought it was someone who had awakened your conscience, those were unnecessary feelings. For our great purpose, you will be king, and he will still be your best subordinate. The whisper in his head rang out again, sobering Arthas to his senses, and a grim expression replaced a hint of confusion and returned to his face.

"You're right, my master, in order to save this world, I must turn it into a paradise for the dead!" Arthas whispered, and then he focused his attention on his spiritual network and began to directly control the army of the undead.

Under the effective command of Arthas, several abominable troops began to trample on their own undead, moving to a better interception position by traversing and other means, preparing to stop Edlan and his party from rescuing the Ranger General, and at the same time, the crypt demons did not care whether they would hurt "their own people" , began to abandon the attack on the paladins who could not get close at all, and instead launched indiscriminate attacks directly from behind their own troops, their targets were the rangers who followed the paladins without protection, and at the same time the gargoyles in the sky began to attack the ground indiscriminately.

After this very targeted three-pronged approach, the rescue team suffered heavy casualties in an instant, but no one complained, and no one said a word, especially those rangers, who rode on horses and followed the charge without a good way to dodge, and many times they shot an arrow almost desperately, or pulled out their blades after falling into a bird and fought to the death with the ghouls, and finally died like a hero......

After all, every spit of the Crypt Demon will make those rangers who lack protection the best live targets on the chocobo, and Adlane can't use the Truth Word Shield to save the rangers who are attacked from the side in the back at the front line, after all, this is not a game, and there is no team healing framework to see the whole picture.

When Edlan found out that there was chaos in the rear, he didn't have any good way, the ranger who was originally positioned as an archer, riding a landing bird, was now undesirable to charge with the heavy cavalry, but the current situation had to let them charge together, otherwise Edlan's twenty-three people alone would rush to a undead defense line with tens of thousands of troops?

And Adeline didn't have the extra time to care about how the rangers who were hit by the wings dealt with it, because with Arthas's effective blockade, the rescue team was already blocked by a tight battle formation composed of almost all Abomination and meat grinders, so Adelan had to decide to crash into a phalanx composed of a dozen huge Abominations!

The paladins stumbled their abominable hooks off one after another, and under the cover of the Fountain of Light, they rushed towards the giant stitching monsters that were 3 or 4 meters tall!

Simulate Ash Awakening!Holy Storm!Dawn Light!

Edlan is just these three axes, but with the support of his huge holy energy, such a simple and rough attack is unexpectedly very effective, as soon as the blazing holy energy touches those hateful skins like a never-extinguishing flame, it begins to burn the disgusting monster stitched together from the corpse, and Adelan seems to have a chaotic range of attacks, in fact, he is more aimed at the hateful hands and other joints, in order to keep the good seedlings of his few paladins, he must abolish the abomination attack as soon as possible, otherwise when the paladins charge to those large monsters, the opponent only needs an ordinary sweep to knock several paladins off the horse!

Now it seems that under the multiple range blows such as the Fountain of Light and the Simulated Ash Awakening, the abomination and fragile wrists that were concentrated were the first unlucky parts, and the effect of the Holy Flame Burning was very good, and the thick and bulky weapon fell straight to the ground, and the abomination threat of losing the weapon was greatly reduced, so that the pressure on the paladins who followed behind was much less.

The new recruits, the Paladins, used Holy Shock to attack the distant Abomination, and spread out the charging formation as much as possible, and they did a similar training in Adelan's targeted training, that is, when facing large units, it is very foolish to ram them with their horses, and they must be bypassed and dealt a powerful blow in the process!

The paladins did it, and under Adelan's way, the threat of those abominations was greatly weakened, and after Adelan roared and rode his war horse over, he and the paladins behind him drummed up the holy energy one by one, and injected it into their weapons to fiercely attack those who were burned by the holy energy and fell into the stiff body of the abomination, which further exacerbated the defeat of those abominations.

By the time the rangers who followed them passed by, they didn't have to mend their swords, for the abominations had either been paralyzed by paladins' sanctions or super-undead, or burned to ashes like a pile of paper.

This undoubtedly gives hope to all living people, but just opening a path from these dozen or so abominations is enough for Edlan to drink a pot, the Fountain of Light is not omnipotent, although he is constantly casting on both sides of the team as he charges, but the Fountain of Light will also deal lethal damage to small undead units at most, and large ones, such as Abomination or Crypt Demons, its effectiveness is relatively poor.

Therefore, when the team of paladins roared by, and the abomination troops on both sides also began to close towards the open road, the rangers who followed behind felt unprecedented pressure, and their team would be cut off!

At this moment, the gargoyles in the sky began to be bound in large swaths by the condensed product of a web-like magic, and lost the power to float and fell to the ground, and at the same time, a thick mist began to suddenly fill the abomination troops that were cutting off the rangers.

"It's the shackles and clouds in the air!

The ranger Ariel who followed closely behind Edlan cheered excitedly, because of the appearance of the Dragon Eagle Force, he immediately controlled the two sharp weapons of the undead army and won air supremacy, which made everyone cheer up, but only Adelan was indifferent, he continued to concentrate on finding the weakness of the enemy formation, and he wanted to continue to play the role of his arrows to end this dangerous raid as soon as possible and rescue people.

Because he knew that the appearance of these dragon eagle troops was very beautiful, but the end would be miserable. As soon as Arthas comes to his senses, he will deal with the units that pose the most threat to his army.

Sure enough, just as Edlan and the others had completely opened the passage surrounding the remnants of Sylvanas, and when the two sides converged and were about to break out immediately, the crypt demons controlled by Arthas began to spit out cobwebs into the air, killing those who were in the posture of a savior as soon as they appeared. The invincible dragon eagle troops have caught the net, and the dragon eagles and their knights who have lost their floating power have also fallen to the ground, and the lucky ones have been thrown far away, avoiding the bad luck of being directly killed by the undead monsters on the ground, and the bad ones have fallen down and died, and the bad luck is the worst...... When the dragon eagle knights woke up in a daze, they found a group of ghouls with foul-smelling saliva around him......

"Rangers, here comes our rescue! Rush with me!" Sylvanas shouted, and after firing the last arrow, he gathered his warbow, drew his sword, and leaped out of the hill in a deadly assault on the undead who were attacking the hill.

Most of the rangers behind her had already used up their arrows, but they were also fearless and followed their generals to the bottom of the hill, and at the same time, those lightly injured rangers began to support or carry the seriously wounded down slowly, because everyone knew that the rescue team was not large, but the temporary raid caught the other party off guard, if they didn't act quickly, then in the outermost outer, if they were surrounded by the damn undead army, then even the rescue team would be trapped here!

Soon, the best Far Traveler Ranger fought hard to gain the support of the rescuers, and the two teams were finally able to meet up close......

P.S1: I'd rather see the serious kind of lovers end up married, and I'd rather see Sylvanas and Nathanos become the next pair of Aurelia and Tulayan, Veresa and Roning. I won't say that it's because I can't write emotional dramas and avoid increasing the difficulty of my own code words......