Chapter 41: An Army of 300,000 Undead
A full moon like a jade disk passed through the clouds, a tranquility sprinkled on the earth with the moonlight like a silver mist, a continuous plain, stretched under the sky, without hills, as calm as the sea on a calm day.
There is also a thin river in the grassy grassland, exposed in the moonlight, which looks like a glowing silver necklace from a distance.
In the night, the hustle and bustle, hesitation and hesitation of the world all melt away.
The big tent in the barracks exudes a hazy light in the moonlight, revealing the tent and dispelling the darkness near the tent.
The sandwork is vivid, perfectly showing the terrain of the Silver Pine Forest and Gilneys, especially the wall of Greymane, which is the highlight, staring carefully at the sand table, Rex's eyes looked at the densely planted military flags representing the army of the undead, and a trace of bitterness appeared on Rex's face.
300,000, this is still a partial division of the undead natural disaster, say that Rex himself doesn't believe it, how many undead are in the main city of Lordaeron, there are only more than 300,000 in total, and they all say that it is powerful, not because everyone in the undead natural disaster is all a warrior, 300,000 undead, that is, 300,000 soldiers, they will not get tired, they will not hurt, and they will never stop fighting fighters, who is not afraid, who is not afraid.
Originally, there were only 100,000 undead who went south, and most of them were skeletons that belonged to cannon fodder, and there were not many real elites. But with Northrend's reinforcements, one qiē was different, 100,000 became 300,000. Ghouls are overwhelming. Hate. There were dense ghouls flying in the sky, galloping death knights, and all told Rex that he had reached the point of being the main force from a partial division.
History has deviated from here, and in the original history, Northrend's reinforcements to Lordaeron were not very many, and Lordaeron was on the land. It is completely with the power of Arthas, supporting a piece of sky, raging in the land of Lordaeron, Rex tried his best to weaken the scale of the undead natural disaster, and the evil consequences have appeared, the undead natural disaster in the land of Lordaeron is not strong enough, and Northrend directly sent reinforcements, and may ask for the undead disaster power to face when he crusades against Northrend in the future. It's going to get a little weaker.
But that's the future, and now Rex has to face. But after gaining the support of Northrend, a powerful army of the undead.
This Lich King, Rex really doesn't know, what kind of wind he hit, the 200,000 reinforcements sent out, all gathered under Scott's banner, so that Scott's strength, on the contrary, jumped up and surpassed Arthas, which has broken Rex's inner perception of the Lich King, the Lich King Naozu, looks at Arthas differently, appointed as the Overseer, in charge of a qiē, even if it is Kel'thugad, in terms of status, not as good as Arthas.
Arthas can be said to be the favor of the deep Lich King, the Lich King not only values Arthas's commanding ability, but also Arthas's body, as a Lich King with no body, only mental power, frozen in ice, living in a cage, he desperately longs for freedom, and Arthas is the key to the Lich King's freedom.
With the Lich King's critical gaze, the body that can be valued by the Lich King and intends to live in the whole world is Arthas.
The army of the undead is 300,000, and the defenders of Gilneys, the five legions plus the Knights of the Round Table, have a total of 40,000 people, which is the limit of Rex's efforts, and successively add the troops recruited by their respective lords, and the total size of the Greymane Wall barracks has reached 70,000.
However, among them, there are 40,000 of the lord's combined army, and 30,000 of the regular army belonging to Gilneys, and the 10,000 are guarding the main city of Gilneys, and they are not transferred to the wall of Greymane, to prevent accidents, this is no way to do it, the entire Gilneth is not a palace of the royal family, King Jean controls the power of life and death, if the main city of Gilneth does not leave a single soldier behind, if any lord suddenly has a mind, and then sends troops from the wall of Greymane to help, it is too late.
The army stationed at the Wall of Greymane, 70,000 people, this is not the limit of Gilneys, when it is really recruited, Gilneth can bring the army to 100,000, 70,000 Gilneys's army, and 50,000 new soldiers, which are selected from the refugees of Lordaeron, and form an army.
Gilneth received a total of 400,000 Lordanelen refugees, which is a huge number, Gilneth is only more than one million people, with this batch of Lordanelen refugees, Gilneys's population has reached about two million at once, and among these 400,000 people, most of them are young and strong, and they can escape to Gilneis, some of the old and weak have been eliminated on the escape road, and 50,000 of these 400,000 people are conscripted, which is a very easy thing.
These 50,000 people can't be said to be recruits, but there are a lot of Lordaeron soldiers, the great changes in Lordaeron happened too quickly, and the whole country collapsed too quickly, no one stood up to preside over the overall situation, and they were able to reach a situation where they could respond to all calls, these soldiers were at a loss, and collapsed, as the refugees continued to go south, there were refugees of this size, and under the chase of the undead, it was also their credit to protect the Lordaeron refugees.
Dalaran's reinforcements are not very many, with the strength of the Magic Kingdom, this time it is already the limit of Dalaran to be able to send a high-level mage with a scale of 1,000 people, and the total number of troops that Dalaran has is only 5,000 standing mages, and it can be expanded when it is about to fight, but Dalaran's geographical location is not safe, and he is under the front of the undead army all the time, and a thousand mages with an average of five or six orders are already good.
And the reinforcements of the High Elves are the largest, with 20,000 High Elf warriors, 5,000 rangers, and 5,000 high-level mages, totaling 30,000.
Gilneth's troops add up to 150,000, a very large number, but there is a lot of moisture in it, the lord's army, except for the personal guards, the others are just some militia, there is not much training at all, just occupy the number, it is a rabble, so half of the 150,000 army is not elite, it seems that there are a lot of people, but with the undead army, if it is the same number, in the plains, or Gilnis's coalition army will be defeated.
But let the trained army, the recruits who stepped into the battlefield for the first time, not everyone is like the Knights of the Round Table, who was recruited by Rex with gold coins to recruit infantry heroes, fused down, and directly became a veteran with rich combat experience.
Fortunately, this is a defensive battle, and the defensive power of the Wall of Greymane is amazing, otherwise there is really no hope of fighting.
Rechel, who had been silent for a long time, glanced at everyone present, and in the silent atmosphere, the voice came out, so loud.
"There was some error in the previous estimate, these undead were supposed to be harassing and holding us back, and now it seems that they are trying to destroy us," Rachel's tone fluctuated flatly, but anyone could hear the anger hidden under the bland fluctuations, "Is there any news on Arthas's whereabouts?" ”
"Yes, Arthas is leading his Death Knights into Hearthvale," Kael'thas replied.
This news made everyone who was doing it feel relieved in their hearts, the army of the undead under Scott's command was not the main force of all the undead disasters, and the strength of Arthas was only slightly weaker than that of Scott, who had received reinforcements, if the two rounds, Arthas personally led the army to Gilneth, it would be extremely bad news.
As for the Valley of the Hearth, most of the people here don't have much to do with Lordaeron, and the only few, General Lordaeron, who is also newly promoted, are also in the Silver Pine Forest, which is south of Lordaeron, and they don't have much idea about the northern part of Lordaeron, just a moment of silence, like Darius and others, only rejoice, typical is the idea that the dead Dao friends do not die and the poor Dao.
"How's the mana crystal ready to replenish mana?" Rachel asked.
"All the mana crystals and potions in the treasury have been delivered to the front line,"
Rachel kept asking over and over again, and Rex opened his mouth to answer, and between the questions and answers, it was clear that Gilneth was well prepared for this battle, which unconsciously affected everyone and made everyone feel a little more confident in this battle.
In the middle of the night, slowly walked out of the big tent, Rex felt heavy in his heart, thinking that after several years of preparation, Gilneth's fate had been changed by himself, but in the end, Rex found that the light yì was just his own good self, and the army of 300,000 undead was enough to crush Gilneth before.
After several years of hard work, he only got the qualification to fight the undead.
Deep down, Rex also has some doubts about whether it is correct to accept Lordaeron refugees this time, after all, from the origin of history, the undead only sent a partial division, which proves that Gilneth has no plans, but this time the full 300,000 troops are already the main army, and it is very likely that it is caused by accepting Lordaeron refugees.
Slowly took out a cigar, Rex lit it, leaned quietly by the stake, looked up at the night sky, and began to swallow the clouds and mist, this smell, I haven't tried it for five years, a familiar feeling arises spontaneously, and the impatience in my heart is dismissed. (To be continued......)