After King Terenus had relinquished command of his army to a great extent, Arthas was in no hurry to take over the already weakened kingdom of Gilneth. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ever since he had spoken to his father that dinner, Alsace had been thinking about it, and it had indeed been rewarding.

Perhaps Frostmourn and the Red Dragon Queen will be able to help you take the kingdom of Gilneth quickly, but if you want to take it completely...... It's not an overnight job.

And Frost Sorrow and the Red Dragon Queen won't be of much help in this regard - they can't kill all the troll natives like they did in the Wraith Lands, right?

Even if the Lordaeron Royal Guard had suffered small losses in tonight's battle, their total number was there—it was impossible for Arthas to rely on more than 20,000 men to occupy the entire kingdom of Gilneys.

He could take every inch of land he saw, but who would guard it?

Killing the lord of a land does not mean that you have taken it, and it is only when you can collect taxes from the peasants and petty traders of the land that the war is over.

Arthas decided to wait - he intended to wait until the rest of the alliance arrived in the Silver Pines Forest before launching an attack on the kingdom of Gilneis.

At that time, the coalition forces will have enough troops to ensure that when they advance into the royal city of Gilneth, there will be no chaos behind them, and their supply convoys will not be burning on the roads in broad daylight.

Of course, Arthas had another choice - in addition to the most elite Lordaeron Royal Guard, his father also had a number of militias stationed throughout the kingdom of Lordaeron.

If these militias were to be transferred to the Silver Pines Forest, they would be able to take on the task of garrisoning the newly occupied territory.

However, Alsace does not intend to do so, mainly on two grounds.

First, the armies of the Kingdom of Stormgard are passing through the Hillsbrad Hills, and the army from Stormwind will also land in Southsea Town, borrowing here.

It is true that both Stormwind and the Kingdom of Stormgard are the most loyal allies of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, the former receiving selfless and generous assistance from the Minahir family, and the latter, although initially in conflict with the Kingdom of Lordaeron, has become more closely connected over the years.

But Arthas had to make some necessary preparations - as Arthas could also unconditionally believe in the friendship of Varian Ureon and Danas Thorbain, but as Prince Alsace Minehir, the future king of the kingdom of Lordaeron, he would not and could not trust anyone unreservedly except Frost Sorrow.

Enough militia must remain in the vicinity of the Hills Bled Hills and King Lordaeron to ensure that the Lordaeron Royal Guard, which is already on their way to the Silverpine Forest, will not have time to return in the event of an accident.

Second...... As with the first point, Arthas believed that most of the lords and nobles of Lordaeron were loyal to their family, but there were some ill-intentioned people like Adras Pernord.

Therefore, Arthas will not transfer those militias, leaving the interior of the Lordaeron Kingdom empty, giving these guys a chance.

Therefore, instead of rushing, it is better to loosen the noose in his hand first, and let Jean Greymane breathe for a while.

Wait until the news of this great defeat reaches the royal city of Gilneth to-night, and Arthas is sure that such news will not be hidden; He wanted to see what tricks Gene Greymane, an old fox known for his cunning, could play under such unfavorable conditions.

……

Tormont didn't know what his distant uncle, Jean Greyman, could do, but he knew he was done.

In the face of the ferocious onslaught of the Royal Guards of Lordaeron, even loyalty to the Greymane family and the coercion of Tormont and his guards could not bring the feared soldiers back to the battlefield.

The retreat swept through the armies of the kingdom of Gilneth like a tidal current, and the soldiers dropped their weapons and passed by Tormont and his guards, fleeing backwards in panic like outlaw boars.

"Go back! Get back to the fight! ”

Tormont waved his weapon in vain, until his guards dragged him along with him to join the fleeing army—loyalty was one thing, martyrdom was another; Even Tormon's personal guards didn't want to die here with him.

Instinctively running away at his feet, Tormont's face was dead to ashes; He kept muttering "what if", and even though he was still running, he didn't think he could escape back to the wall of Greymane.

Even if he were the commander here, he would not be able to get the soldiers who remained in the fortress to open the gates while he was outside the city—especially with a large number of pursuers behind him—Tormont's seniority was too young for him to have enough time or talent to establish such prestige.

Moreover, even if those soldiers were not very good at using their brains and were willing to open the gates for Tormont, there was no way for him to run back to the wall of Greymane.

Arthas and Kante did not intend to follow these deserters and wait for an opportunity to attack the Wall of Greymane, so the royal guards of Lordaeron were ordered to crush these kingdoms/armies of Gilneth once and for all.

The two-legged infantry naturally couldn't outrun the four-legged horses, and the cavalry of the Lordaeron Kingdom were tightly attached to the deserters of the Kingdom of Gilneys, and on the other hand, they divided into two groups of cavalry and quickly circled the sides of the troops of the Kingdom of Gilneys from the flanks.

Tormon was rushing forward like a headless fly when he suddenly bumped into another Gilneth Kingdom soldier in front of him.

Only then did the front-line commander realize that his troops had stopped fleeing.

Are these kingdoms/armies of Gilneth planning to rise up against them?

- Of course not, they didn't have the courage to do so, otherwise they wouldn't have run away in the first place.

The road that had been flat and wide was now blocked by the way of the kingdom/army of Gilneth - a dozen thick pine trunks lay there, and behind the trunks, a large army of heavily armed and silver-clad royal guards of Lordaeron had established an impenetrable defensive line.

Kanter, the commander of the Lordaeron Royal Guard, had already made arrangements - this afternoon, a group of Lordaeron Royal Guards quietly left the barracks and lurked in the interior of the Silver Pines Forest.

In the middle of the night, when the shouts of slaughter erupted, the royal guards of Lordaeron went around to the rear of the Gilneth Kingdom army, knocking down the pine trees that had been almost sawn down before, blocking their way home.