Chapter 278: The Spread of the Plague
The situation in the city was indeed beyond Song Zheng's expectations, originally he thought that with the strength of the city of Andorhar, coupled with a group of powerful paladins, he would definitely be able to resist the enemy outside the city wall in the short term, at most, he would need to consume some more troops in some places where the city wall collapsed.
However, it had taken him less than a month to lead the Warlocks to Stratholme, and the situation was clearly dire...... The human forces can't hold out for long, and perhaps the Undead Scourge only needs to launch another attack to completely wipe out the remaining human forces.
As a result, no matter what results he achieves on Stratholm's side, once Andorhal is lost, Lordaeron is still in danger.
Song Zheng didn't care about continuing to remain invisible, so he immediately asked the soldiers patrolling the city wall to question.
The patrol soldiers were surprised and seemed to have recognized Song Zheng's identity, so they did not attack Song Zheng.
"How could the city be burned like this? What about the people who used to live in the south? Song Zheng asked anxiously.
"It's all done by those nobles and spies, they are well hidden, we haven't been able to clean it up several times, the last time the undead attacked the city, those spies secretly set fire to the city, and also opened the gate in the south of the city, causing a large number of undead to rush in, His Royal Highness the prince in order to eliminate those undead, so we increased the fire, and then ...... And then it became like this...... The man from the south of the city ......" the soldier said, but the voice behind him became less and less until it was completely inaudible.
However, Song Zheng was already able to guess the reason.
"Alsace...... He is really decisive......" Song Zheng's brows jumped, such a fire, it is absolutely impossible to have no casualties at all, there will definitely be many residents who will die in the fire, and at the same time, there will definitely be a large amount of accumulated materials to defend the city.
"Do you know where all the people who escaped from the south of the city have gone?" Song Zheng asked again.
In his opinion, since the battle was so fierce that he needed to set fire to the city himself, Bridget and the others estimated that they had already left the station in the south of the city to help defend the city, so it was not very likely to be burned by the fire in the south of the city.
"Now that everyone is concentrated in the north, the Scarlet Crusade's base should be in the northeast corner." A soldier said that he not only seemed to know Song Zheng's identity, but also could guess what he was worried about.
"In the northeast corner...... Thank you very much. Song Zheng thanked him and hurriedly looked towards the northeast corner of the city, although it was close to the plague area, it should be relatively safe for now.
Song Zheng hurried towards the northeast corner, in fact, this side was not only the station of the Scarlet Crusader Guild, but also densely packed with people along the way, including some nobles who used to live in the southern city, and had to live under the eaves of others after their homes were destroyed.
Because there were too many people around, Song Zheng could not find the location of the guild, and was about to ask someone again, but someone in the crowd recognized him and greeted him loudly.
"Harrison? Why are you here, aren't you by Gianna's side? Did something happen to her? Song Zheng had recognized that the person who greeted him was Gianna's subordinate, who was originally the general of Kul Tiras, who was ordered to protect Gianna as he went to Dalaran when he was on the other side of Nanhai Town, and later followed Gianna's side, whether it was attacking the Syndicate in the Alterac Mountains, or fighting various battles with the undead in the back, he has always firmly guarded Gianna's safety.
"Her Royal Highness the princess has nothing to do, she asked me to send some medicine to Bridget, I didn't expect to meet the baron." Harrison grinned, he was a very bold man, and his combat power was extremely amazing.
Now after experiencing many bloody battles, Song Zheng can feel that the strength of this big man from Kul Tiras seems to have improved a lot, even standing there empty-handed can give people a huge sense of oppression.
"I've just entered the city, how can the situation in the city become so bad, can everyone still hold on?" Song Zheng immediately asked very worriedly.
Harrison immediately smiled and said: "For the time being, we should still be able to hold on, we died a lot in the previous fire, but the undead disaster also died a lot, and all the walls have been recaptured by us at present, even if Kel Sugaard himself was repelled by several paladins, and now the undead outside the city have not attacked for two or three days." ”
"Kel'thugad himself has been here? I heard that he is now a legendary mage. Song Zheng was slightly surprised when he heard this, he had personally cast a legendary magic, and even how terrifying the destructive power of the legendary mage was.
"Yes, that guy's strength is very strong, but Uther's combat power is also extremely strong after they are blessed with holy light, and they are fine after fighting in a snowstorm for more than half an hour, alas, I now regret that I didn't choose to be a paladin in the first place." Harrison laughed.
"Oh...... How many soldiers are there in the city who can fight now? Song Zheng asked, since the paladins were indeed able to stop Kel'thugad, who had been promoted to a legendary mage, then what they needed to worry about now was the army.
"This ...... This is a top secret, and I have no right to know it, but I have a rough estimate that there are less than 50,000 soldiers capable of fighting. Harrison said in a low voice, apparently aware of the gravity of the message.
"Only 50,000?" Song Zheng's heart sank, so it seemed that most of the troops in the city had been lost, and he didn't know how fierce the previous battle was.
"Well, maybe even less, the plague of the undead is too powerful, and many soldiers did not die on the battlefield, but died in hospital beds because of the plague." The smile on Harrison's face faded, and he sighed deeply.
"Plague...... That thing is indeed troublesome, so many parts of the city are now filled with plague, what can they do about Lord Uther? Song Zheng also sighed secretly, there is indeed no good way to treat the plague at present.
"Then what can be done, the places contaminated by the plague can only be abandoned, and those infected with the plague can only ...... Kill. Harrison's voice was extremely low.
"Kill? Who is going to kill? Song Zheng couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, and a bad premonition suddenly appeared in his heart.
"I don't know, this is the order of His Royal Highness the Prince, and it is also carried out by his subordinates, but this is all done quietly, even if many commanders don't know, I only heard some news from Her Royal Highness the Princess."