When Oryx and his party arrived at the barracks, three kilometers east of Steinbled, it was already evening.

Although it is a foothill in the Alterac Mountains, the altitude is still not low.

As winter approached, the cold wind howled, the air was filled with the aroma of food, and the soldiers in the barracks were wrapped in thick winter coats and sat listlessly eating in the corridors of the barracks rooms. There was a deep fear in someone's eyes, as if he was about to be sent three kilometers away and was being engulfed in fire to meet the orcs, and felt 120,000 resistance.

If it weren't for the Lordaeron flag fluttering on the camp and the uniform uniformity, Oryx would have thought it was the undisciplined mercenary force.

"Which troop are you?" Oryx asked in a voice as he stopped a passing sergeant.

Seeing that he was well-dressed, and that he was followed by a group of mages who were either wearing robes embroidered with royal insignia or Dalaran violet robes, as if they knew that he was definitely a big man, the sergeant's tone was more respectful: "My lord, we are a new unit reorganized from the defeated garrison of the former Dunhold Castle and multiple asylum camps. ”

Oryx understood.

No wonder they all looked depressed.

The garrison of the Shelter along the Hills Bled Hills to the Arathi Heights is nominally part of the regular army of the Alliance, but in reality it is a jailer for the orcs.

In the beginning, most of the members of the garrison were veterans of the Second War.

However, as the orcs began to suffer from the after-effects of drinking Manolos' blood, they became lethargic and sluggish, which greatly reduced the pressure on the garrison, and the high cost of running the shelter, the retirement of veterans, the fragmentation of the alliance, and the reduction of costs......

In the end, except for the defenders of Dunhold Castle, who managed all the shelters in the center, still maintained a relatively strong combat effectiveness, and the remaining garrisons of the shelters, not to mention veterans, did not even have many trained and serious recruits.

Even if the cell door was left open, the languishing orcs did not have the slightest desire to escape, and gradually even the upper echelons no longer regarded the orcs as a threat.

Prisoners do not need to be guarded well, military spending has been drastically reduced, and there is no training fund available. For more than a decade, the camp guards have been living a life of idleness. Most of them were poor people recruited from the neighborhood, and they were assigned a few very bad weapons and equipment to guard the orcs, and their military quality can be imagined.

Even in the hills of Hillsbrad during that time, there was a joke that it was easier to guard orcs than to shepherd sheep, and it was not much harder to feed orcs than to feed pigs; The job of a shelter guard is something that can be done by one person.

Therefore, the camp war from the end of last year to the present has shown a one-sided trend.

At the beginning of the war, the Shelter garrison was no match for the Frostwolf Clan and Warsong Clan led by Orgrim Doomhammer.

In the middle and late stages of the war, by the time the belated regular army joined the battlefield, they had already faced dozens of times more enemies - no one could have imagined why the orcs, who were obviously languishing, had become as strong as steel in just a few months after they were liberated.

As for why the soldiers in this barracks in front of them are so sluggish......

After a series of defeats without the power to fight back, he was beaten by the orcs and abandoned his armor and fled in all directions, not only the center of the asylum Dunhold Castle was instantly shattered into ruins by the terrible shamanic jutsu, but even the leader of the army, Edras Blackmore, was killed.

After retreating to Tarunmere to regain order, the Kingdom of Lordaeron ordered them to be stationed in Steinbrad to recuperate.

Although the scale of these defeated troops is also a few thousand people in size, on the surface, the scale is still very considerable, but at the moment when the orcs are still stranded in the southeast of the Hillsbrad Hills, no one dares to put these "soldiers" who are already of worrying quality and extremely low morale on the front line of confrontation with the orcs.

No one would be surprised if the commander roared angrily after learning that they had been wiped out, "Even if it is a few thousand pigs, the orcs will not be able to kill them all in three days and three nights".

But what these lazy old soldiers didn't expect was that bad luck always followed.

Not long after the good days, an orc army came from nowhere and captured Steinbrad right under their noses.

Now His Majesty the King has come in a hurry, and it is clear that he wants to go into battle in person to defuse the power of Steinbrad.

Everyone knows in their hearts that far water can't quench their thirst for the near, and it is unrealistic to mobilize the regular army troops stationed along the line from Talunmir to Nanhai Town to guard against the orcs, so it must be their own people to fight the orcs......

These soldiers, who have only used weapons as decorations for the past ten years, are most afraid of this. Asking them to face the orcs is tantamount to death.

"I see, where is His Majesty?" Oryx asked again.

The sergeant pointed him in the right direction, "On that little mound ahead, discussing the enemy situation with our commander. ”

Oryx nodded and was about to leave, but suddenly thought of something, and asked more, "What is the name of your chief?" ”

"Lord Huiyu, it's Lord Oriden Pirenod."

Really...... Oryx smiled and shook his head, "Alright, go about your own business." ”

"Yes." The sergeant fled away, as if he was afraid of being given some task by this young but angry adult, who had slaughtered thousands of enemies with his own hands.

……

Oryx pondered as he walked towards the hills.

Oriden Pirenod......

The only son of King Aiden Pirenod of Alterac, who betrayed the alliance in the Second War and opened the mountain passes to the horde army in order to protect himself, is also the first prince who has the right to inherit the throne of the kingdom in name only.

Although there is the blood of a traitor in his veins, if you look at history coldly, this person can be called a hero.

His father betrayed the Alliance, was imprisoned, and finally died in prison for no apparent reason; Lordaeron and Gilneth are both plotting how to divide up the territory of the Alterac Kingdom, and even the Stormgard Kingdom, which is already on the verge of death, is also planning to seek enough benefits in this ice and snow to make up for the damage suffered by their country in the second war......

Oriden Pirenod, who was extremely forbearing, knew that he was powerless to resist the supreme summit of the alliance, and those behemoths who firmly held the name of righteousness quickly drew a line with his father in order to protect themselves, and expressed his hatred and remorse for his father's betrayal.

Showing great generosity, he volunteered to atone for his father's guilt and joined the asylum garrison as a menial guard at Dunhold Castle, ruled by Edras Blackmore.

Unlike his cousin, Ihiden Oryx, who fled to the Kingdom of Gilneth and sought political asylum.

He did not fight or grab, as if he really felt deeply remorseful for the harm caused to all mankind by his father's betrayal, and voluntarily renounced the inheritance to the throne of Alterac.

After years of forbearance, he succeeded.

At the best of all, Lordaeron's first king, Terenus, was deeply moved by Auridon; To put it more darkly, perhaps Terenus saw value in him; Or both, the wise and benevolent King Terenus, who wanted to control the kingdom of Alterac reasonably and legitimately for the benefit of Lordaeron, really took a fancy to this neighboring prince with a good heart.

Terenus has repeatedly stated at the highest summit of the alliance that the king's betrayal has nothing to do with the people, and the first recommendation is that Auriden Pirenod will inherit the throne of the kingdom of Alterac and continue to rule this ice and snow country reasonably and legally.

Most of the members of the alliance agreed.

Trying to put Ehiden Pirenod, who was the next in line of succession, to the throne, King Jean Greymayne of Gilneys, who was trying to gain his advantage, fell to the upper hand.

Oriden was about to succeed in inheriting the throne, but who knew that a nobleman named Daval Presto was born and quickly gained everyone's favor. If he hadn't mysteriously disappeared the following year, he would have been the one who sat on the throne.

After the disappearance of Davar Presto, the succession to the throne of Alterac has been put on hold to this day.

And Oriden, who had endured for many years and almost succeeded, really became a shelter guard, working in Dunhold Castle for more than ten years, and was about to become the number one lieutenant under Edras Blackmore, until a few months ago when he was defeated and led a rout to camp here, and the succession to the throne was still far away.

In the original history, shortly after the end of the Third War, this man completely tore off the mask of hypocrisy.

Taking advantage of the fact that Lordaeron was ravaged by natural disasters and had no time to take care of it, he united with the traitors and disadvantaged nobles of the Stormgard Kingdom to recruit low-level people from all religions and nine ranks, and formed the largest criminal organization in the Northland of the Eastern Continent, the Syndicate.

After the fall of the kingdom of Lordaeron, he led the syndicates to occupy half of Stormgard's capital, Fort Rapids, which indirectly led to the fall of the stormy kingdom; It also occupies the ruins of Dunhold Castle, the ruins of Steinbly, and the ruins of the capital of the Kingdom of Alterac, and expands its power by any means.

He was in the limelight for a while, with countless subordinates, posing a great threat to the surrounding forces, and he was a real figure in the north in that era.

However, the good times were short-lived, and within a few years, he was assassinated by a tribesman.

This person also has a very wonderful life, although he has been labeled as despicable, insidious, etc., but he is also a hero in troubled times.

Oryx really wanted to see what this guy was like.

Walking up the hills, I saw the king of Alsace standing on the top of the slope with an ordinary middle-aged man.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, Arthas looked back and saw that it was Oryx, with a slight surprise in his eyes, "Oryx, why are you here?" ”

Oryx saluted respectfully and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, come and have a look." ”