Chapter 780: Silver Hand
Alex. Barov was tired and happy.
It was not that the Grand Duke was indifferent to the suffering of others, but that at this moment he felt the state of mind of his old friend.
This is my son's country!
Most people live only to live and look forward to a better future.
And how many people dare to say that they live for a great cause?
To be more arbitrary, how many people have their own careers?
The Grand Duke understood that he was not the one who could be king, because he did not have the ability to unite people by virtue of charisma.
Loyalty bought by money will only be bought by more money.
So in the days when Carlos was lost, Alex struggled to suppress the discord within Alterac.
For example, those who advocate that he succeed him as king of Alterac.
Carlos was not a politically skilled leader, more often than not, he was more of a wayward hero and a son.
I want soldiers, I want food, I want this and that.
Then, it hurts!
Although Carlos won most of the time, there have always been rumors that the Knight King is not good at government.
But even so, Alex didn't complain.
Because of playing political tricks, Barov's two fathers and sons plus one piece are not opponents of his father-in-law Terenas.
Altranac was able to survive the loss of his king, and of course Alex was able to survive. Barov's hard work is more due to Carlos. The military group left behind by Barov.
The Kingdom of Alterac used less than half of the population of the Kingdom of Lordaeron to feed almost the same number of troops.
Other countries say that Alterac is reckless, and he really did not wronged the Barov family.
However, the times make heroes.
The Scourge of the Dead has crushed the Minahir family, but has pushed the Barov family to the forefront.
This time the alliance conference, so Alex. Barov remembered the great achievements of Soladin the Great.
After all, the Empire of Arathus is the glorious past of humanity in Azeroth, just like the Roman Empire on another planet.
As the meeting progressed, it was as if Carlos's old father-in-law, Terenus, had elevated his status infinitely, but mercilessly suppressed the kingdom of Alterac. Carlos is also doing his best to stabilize the legitimacy of the Minethil family's rule over the Lordaeron Kingdom, while frantically absorbing the legacy of the Lordaeron Kingdom.
The most important of these is the military legacy.
The kingdom of Lordaeron is the most powerful of the human kingdoms, although the Scourge has used a conspiracy to overthrow the royal family of this kingdom and destroy its capital.
However, there is still a large number of armed forces left in the country.
The first to bear the brunt was the expeditionary force led by Uther.
This expeditionary force is the standing army in the true sense of the word of the Lordaeron Kingdom, the so-called elite troops, even if the paladins and military mages and priests are excluded, the quality of soldiers and combat skills alone is one of the best.
Secondly, there are the local garrisons that have dispersed with the flow of refugees.
The disaster in Lordaeron City came too suddenly, the military command system of the entire Lordaeron Kingdom was cut off almost instantly, and a large number of garrison troops were wiped out in confusion, but the garrison corps in the Lordaeron region still escaped a lot.
This is also the reason why some careerists dare to talk to the Alterac Kingdom and the Barov family.
However, this part of the population has been almost cleaned up by Garissus.
Finally, there are the military aristocrats and veterans of wars.
In the second orc war, it was not easy for humans to win, almost all young people of school age were forced to undergo combat training, and two-thirds of the men went to war. As the kingdom with the greatest contribution, the Kingdom of Lordaeron naturally has the largest number of veterans of previous wars, and has relied on that war to be promoted to military aristocracy.
After Carlos took control of the alliance through the treaty, it meant that he also controlled this part of the war resources.
At the same time, it also proved his previous judgment.
As long as the alliance concentrates its main combat power, the numerical superiority of the undead scourge does not constitute an absolute superiority.
The follow-up war mobilization is naturally going on.
But look at the military data that the alliance can now come in handy right away.
Eighty-five thousand hoplites and thirty-five thousand cavalry of the Kingdom of Alterac.
Seventeen thousand Lordaeron refugees who fled eastward were reorganized.
More than 120,000 militia regiments in the Hillsbrad area.
Lordaeron of Garissus had a garrison of 40,000 men.
Uther's expeditionary force of 30,000.
Twelve thousand reinforcements from Fort Riptide.
Three thousand reinforcements at Ironforge.
Look, look at the numbers.
Without Arthas's father-son filial piety, how could the Lich King set off this wave that swept across the continent of Lordaeron.
Look, look at these armies.
Carlos patiently held the assembly in order to regain the command of these armies.
When all the dust settled, although the secret profit calculation continued, Carlos no longer had the heart to play with them.
"Garissus, can I trust you?"
"Of course, Your Excellency Marshal."
The re-erection of the Union flag was a relief for all the soldiers and officers.
This is the importance of fame, the soldiers of the kingdom of Lordaeron are forced to obey the king of Alterac, but it is a matter of course that the soldiers of the alliance obey the orders of the marshal of the alliance.
"I won't transfer the militia regiment north of Hillsbrad, and I don't plan to move your rearmament regiment, and the front of the Silver Pine Forest will be handed over to you."
"For the Alliance!"
"For the Union."
After arranging Gallisus, Carlos successively assigned jobs to others.
Uther was the only one who did not arrange for Uther.
This made the expeditionary force a little uneasy.
In fact, the ordinary soldiers of the expeditionary force were okay, they had already experienced high-intensity battles with the blackstone orcs, and hurriedly returned to the wetlands, and finally drifted on the ship for more than a month.
A break in the town of Nanhai was not a bad thing for these soldiers.
But the Knights of the Silver Hand were a little apprehensive.
Two thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine paladins.
They are the proudest children of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, the elite of the Minahir family accumulated over the past twenty years.
But now, their position seems so awkward.
Because they belong to the royal family of Lordaeron, the mark of the Minethil family is too heavy.
After so many years in the Alterac Kingdom, the total number of Paladins has not been trained by the Commonal, and if you look at the Lordaeron Kingdom, there are so many of them.
Carlos did not rush to dispose of the Silver Hand, because this force was too important and too sensitive.
So in the emergency recall of Sedan. After D'Althohan, Carlos hosted a private banquet for the two old friends.
"Remember our first six? Gavinrad died, and in the fortress pass, he gave up the chance to live in order to save the last vitality of the kingdom of Lordaeron. Tulayan and Danas are still trapped in Draenor on the side of the Dark Gate, and I don't believe the two bastards will die, but they must be living uncomfortably. It's just the three of us, the so-called first paladins, it's just the three of us. ”
Sedan. Da Sohan felt that he shouldn't have come, where was this drinking party, this was a terrible thing.
"I know what you're thinking, it's impossible to dissolve the Silver Hand, I can't, you don't dare. But I can relinquish the position of Grand Master and recommend you to succeed him, so ......"
Carlos shook his head as he raised his glass, interrupting Uther's words.
"You're thinking too much."
"They will rebel, and you won't be ignorant of the meaning of the name Silver Hand."
"I'm talking about you, you're thinking too much."
"Huh?"