Vanessa and the others returned to the old man's secluded hut, where the werewolf reported to her what she had discovered, while her dwarven and High Elf friends pestered Tyran. Fordin learns the Way of Light.

A day later, old Fording returned, unscathed, cleanly dressed, evidently unfought, but his face was ugly.

"The situation in Stratholme is very bad, Dathohan ...... Alas! He sighed, at his level, he could see at a glance whether there was any holy light in the other party's body, he saw the so-called Da Suo Han, his appearance was very majestic, but in fact his body was full of evil energy, if he wanted to say that this was one of their five major paladins, he didn't believe it if he was killed.

"How are you discussing?" He asked a few people.

Vanessa raised her hand and gestured to Tyran. Ferdin.

"We must re-integrate the Scarlet Crusaders, but I don't have any rights in my hands anymore, Your Highness means to raid the Valley of the Hearth first, and take this stronghold as our first base in the north." Tyran. Fording was a little frustrated, he was the lord, but he couldn't help much now.

Vanessa pulled out a map of Lordaeron from her desk, which he had found in the library in Stormwind, the map was a bit abstract, there was no scale, but a shape could be discerned.

Gathering several aspects of information, Vanessa now has a relatively comprehensive understanding of the Scarlet Crusade, and the current task revolves around how to successfully integrate this force.

The Scarlet Crusaders were very poor, with no food and grass inside, no reinforcements outside, and they fought alone, and they could support it until now, which had to be admired.

However, the potential of this organization has been squeezed to the extreme, and now it is like a spring, it has reached a critical point, and a little more pressure will definitely collapse.

There is no such thing as sending people to the bleak lands of Kalimdor to recruit troops, as in the game, Vanessa asked Tyran. Foding, the other party doesn't know where this so-called desolate place is, let alone conscription.

I'm afraid that no humans have ever set foot in the Bleak Lands, and what kind of place would a military organization like the Scarlet Crusaders, which requires that the army must be purely human, go to recruit soldiers? What about the brain?

The Scarlet Crusaders now have only three and a half strongholds.

Stratholme was led by the leader Sedan. Dassault Han is in charge himself, and there are a lot of elite soldiers under him, but Old Ferding has confirmed Dassault Han's demonic identity, and the undead legion still occupies most of the area of Stratholme, which can only be regarded as half a stronghold.

The remaining three strongholds are the Scarlet Abbey, which has made a lot of deals with Vanessa, the fiefdom of the Ferdins and their sons, Hand of the Hand of Tyr, the city of Light in the east.

"Today, the Crusaders have 3,000 men in Stratholme, the most equipped and morale-ready force. In the Valley of the Hearth, in the Western Plaguelands, there were two thousand soldiers and three thousand civilians. At the Hand of Tyr in the Eastern Plaguelands, the Crusaders gathered more than 10,000 soldiers and more than 20,000 civilians and artisans. In the Scarlet Monastery in the Tirisfal Glade, there were also eight hundred soldiers and more than five hundred civilians. The Silver Dawn and the Scarlet Crusaders were separated, and they also took in some of the population and soldiers, which are probably the only remaining population of Lordaeron......"

Tyran. Fording told his father what he knew.

Lordaeron, which once had a population of one million, now there are only so many people left, which has to be said to be embarrassing.

Vanessa hurriedly corrected: "Actually, my western wilderness also accommodates more than 10,000 Lordaeron civilians, and in the Stormwind Kingdom, there are some civilians who went south back then, I have negotiated this issue with Berval, and he agreed in principle to let us take these civilians after the founding of Lordaeron, in addition, after the defeat of Marshal Garithars, some soldiers and civilians also retreated to Nanhai Town, and finally counting those soldiers and civilians that Gianna took away when she crossed to the west, I estimate that the total population of Lordaeron will probably recover to about 150,000. ”

It took 150,000 people to scrape together a little painful, but it was also better than previously estimated, and with the population, the country could recover.

Old Verding nodded: "It was the right choice to take the hearth valley first. ”

He looked at the map carefully, and finally pointed to an area north of the Hand of Tyr in the Eastern Plaguelands, "This is the location of the Chapel of Light's Wish, right?" How many people are still in Silver Dawn? ”

Tyran. Fording glanced at Vanessa.

She could only answer the question.

"The intelligence of the Silver Dawn is very complicated, their main force is a coalition army composed of seven great nobles, the personnel there are too mixed, not only humans, dwarves, dwarves, but even the Forsaken are also in their camp, the total strength is about five thousand, there are many civilians, more than twenty thousand, I have contacted them, they are willing to cooperate."

Vanessa said it lightly, in fact, the other party gave her a very bad feeling, the silver dawn is mixed with fish and dragons, this organization has no future at all, even if the forsaken appear in the camp in a grand manner, there are also human high-level people who collude with the Lich King in the shadows, and unite with them? Isn't that!

The subordinates she sent only confirmed the cooperation with Silver Dawn, and they didn't talk about when or how to cooperate, but they could only say that they had this intention.

"Cooperation, I understand...... Old Furding understood, Silver Dawn was willing to cooperate, but not to be ruled, at least not to be so unconditionally co-opted.

When you occupy the general situation, you may surrender, but if you want to rely on some righteous name to convince it, it is no fun at all, and the history of some nobles is not much worse than that of the Minehil family, and they have the confidence to refuse.

Circle the three places of Scarlet Abbey, Hearthvale and Hand of Tyr in red to indicate that this is the place to be occupied, and mark the silver dawn of the Chapel of the Wish of Light with a green circle to indicate that this is a force that can cooperate.

They set their current goal, Vanessa and Ferdin, father and son, go to Hearthvale, and the three of them continue to search around for news.

......

The Valley of the Hearth, a fief of the Fording family for generations, is now occupied by the Scarlet Crusaders.

Garrisoned here is the High Priest, one of the founders of the Scarlet Crusade, Grand Inquisitor Ethan Lion, who is also Tyran. Ferdin's teacher.

Ever since Lordaeron was overrun by the undead, the priest of the Light has become increasingly irritable.

Ethan Lion is a devotion to the Light, and many believe that he had hoped to go one step further and become the new face of the Light on earth.

But when facing the undead of Lordaeron, he, like the archbishop of Stormwind, had a crisis of faith in the Light.

Poor strength, sometimes also bad benefits, unlike the archbishop's direct blackening, this Bishop Esenlien's values are distorted in the other direction by the crazy external environment.

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