PS: The next step in wor3 should have been the fireplace valley defense battle, but the map of wor3 is very different from the map of wow, sandwiched between Andorhar and Stratholme There is no hearth valley, and the hearth valley is located on the top of the West Plague Lands in wow, and it is not a stop at all, and according to the three-way intersection design of the town in wor3, only the Cowlin intersection is the most suitable, because the Cowlin intersection is exactly on the road from Andorhar to Stratholme, and like in the battle, it is also a three-way intersection. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

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It is a long distance from Andorhar to Stratholm, which is almost longer than the span of the Stormwind Kingdom, which also shows how large the territory of Lordaeron is, the Eastern and Western Plaguelands plus the Tirisfard Glades and the Silver Pine Forest and Hillsbrad (that is, the map where Osan and Dalaran are located, the small piece of Osan was originally an independent country, but it rebelled during the orc invasion and was taken over by Lordaeron, Now there is only one Duke of Facurrest leading the old nobles of Okusan, forming a gangster organization called the Syndicate, which is causing trouble everywhere).

The five large maps are all people's territories, compared to other human kingdoms, such as the humble Kyrgyzstan, his peninsula is not half the size of the Tirisfara woodland, not to mention the island country of Kurtiras, Fort Riptide is also that map, and the kingdom of Storm is almost half the size of the people.

However, although it seems that the territory is very large, in fact, this is only the territorial division of the human camp, and there are many non-human races living in these maps, such as ogres, trolls, kobolds, gnolls, fishmen, etc., as well as a large number of inaccessible forests and mountains, frost wolf orcs are not hiding in the inaccessible Ao Mountain, a big clan can hide, it can be seen that humans can not fully control their territory, but in any case, compared to the human power of Lordaeron, these creatures are not worth mentioning.

Therefore, it is precisely because of the largest territory and the largest population that Lordaeron has been the core of the Alliance, and this situation will continue until the Scourge invades in a big way, when the Stormwind Kingdom rises and the Alliance's focus shifts.

It took two weeks for Arthas's group to reach the junction of the Cowlin intersection, in fact, it would not have taken so long to walk from the main road, even if they walked slowly, they would have arrived for a week, and the reason for their delay was that there were undead everywhere along the way, and the outrageous thing was that the Cursed Sect had spread the plague almost to the eastern part of the kingdom, in fact, not only the food of Andorhar was contaminated, but all the farms along the way were ruined by them.

Now, in a limited number of uninfected places, people are struggling to resist the undead, and Arthas, as the future king, must be responsible for his own people, so the rescue work has delayed him for a long time.

And the most terrifying thing is that many military camps have also been infected by the plague, and many Lordaeron soldiers have become terrible cataclysmic soldiers, these elite soldiers are very powerful in life, and they are still full of threats after death, they instinctively use weapons, wear armor before death, and some will also use muskets, and even many guys have awakened their will, can think alone, and can completely take over the psychic master to lead the undead army, but unfortunately awakened the will and still have to serve the Lich King.

This makes them more and more organized and disciplined, and more and more difficult.

As the team gradually approached Stratholme, everyone could feel that Arthas's temper was getting more and more irritable, he began to act impulsively, sensitively and irritablely, and sometimes even almost brought the entire army into trouble, but the soldiers didn't say anything, because they were the same, more and more humans became monsters, and they also held a lot of anger in their hearts, especially those natives, their families have also become monsters, they have to kill their relatives, some of them have gone insane, has even become completely mentally ill, babbling nonsense all day long, and rushing to commit suicide attacks when he encounters the undead.

As long as there are still awake people who see this force, they can feel that this force is gradually losing its soul.

At present, there are only two people who still have their sanity, Gianna and Zhang Li, and even a few paladins with silver hands have begun to become abnormal.

Gianna was prepared, at this time she was very worried, looking at Arthas who was about to go crazy, she began to think that this person might really slaughter the city, she tried hard to remind Arthas to find his senses, but Arthas couldn't listen to anything now, and even became angry with Gianna for the first time, he just wanted to rush to Stratholme to kill the Dreadlord, and the anger of revenge had corrupted his heart.

Gianna didn't know what was wrong with Arthas, and she could only cry alone when the night was dark.

Only Zhang Li alone knows what is happening all this, the invisible Dreadlord is exuding an evil spell that will erode the sanity of people who are not firm in their minds, as long as their mood swings are unstable, such as anger and greed, they will be affected until they gradually become paranoid people who only know revenge.

Zhang Li can actually use this kind of spell, he has now gradually mastered the power of Enzos's nightmare, this power can also allow him to do this, and even the power of the nightmare is even more powerful, he can completely control that person's soul, and the future nightmare king can even control the demigods, which shows how amazing the power of the nightmare power is.

However, the Dreadlord does not use the power of nightmares, and there are many other ways to bewitch others.

The Kaulin junction is an important transportation hub as a three-way junction in all directions, with Quel'Salas to the north and Stratholme to the east, and the Chapel of the Light's Wish and the Hand of Tyr to the east, which is a small town that, surprisingly, has not yet fallen.

It was really good news, and Alsace smiled for the first time in weeks, but when they entered the town, they found that it seemed that the garrison here was stepping up the training of soldiers, as if they were preparing for war.

As soon as I inquired, I knew that a large group of undead were eyeing this place, and as an important transportation hub, any force wanted to control this place, but it was precisely because of the importance of this place that Lordaeron had stationed an elite army here a long time ago.

"Your Highness, you are here at a very timely time, more and more undead are attacking here, we keep asking for help, but the messengers have no news, are you ordered to support us?" The garrison officer was really happy.

"We're just passing through, but we'll help you, how many undead are attacking here?" Arthas asked with a frown, and although there were quite a few corpses around the town, he didn't see many undead.

The garrison officer said, "Very much! Your Highness, at least 100,000! They are witty and only attack here at night, and I suspect someone is leading them behind them. ”

Human eyesight can be greatly hindered at night, but the undead have no vision at all, so it is very wise to attack at night, and Arthas is very worried.

At this time, Arthas saw a lot of boxes carrying grain on one side, his face changed greatly, and he immediately asked the garrison officer: "Non-commissioned officer! Where's the stuff in here! Where did they come from!? ”

The garrison replied, "Oh, this is the food from Andorhar, don't worry, they have already been distributed among the civilians. ”

"Nope! Damn it! Kill those civilians! They are all infected! As soon as Arthas gave the order, all the civilians fell to the ground in agony, and while the soldiers of the garrison were still hesitating whether to obey the order, the civilians, who had become undead, attacked.

The only thing that didn't have any doubts was naturally the soldiers brought by the prince, who slaughtered civilians frantically, and after a while, the place was cleared, and even some civilians who didn't seem to be infected clicked.

"Nope! I should have thought of it a long time ago! Those plagues must have been spread through food. The garrison fell to his knees and wept bitterly, when a scout ran up.

He was embarrassed and reported his findings loudly: "Report! Your Royal Highness! The undead are on the attack! There are at least tens of thousands of them! No! Several hundred thousand! ”

"Gianna! Go to Uther and ask for help! I'm here to stop the scum! Arthas reacted immediately, and ordered Gianna unquestionably, Gianna wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't speak, she teleported.

After that, Zhang Li saw what the sea of the undead was, the dense undead frantically attacked the thin walls of the town, and the human soldiers could only rely on artillery and their lives to block the undead attack, fortunately, there were still some city walls that could provide shelter.

The undead left no stone unturned in their frenzied attacks, making the battle white-hot from the start.

Arthas personally went to the front line, his brain was no longer normal, he actually felt that he could resist the undead legion alone, and the task of commanding was completely handed over to the garrison officer, fortunately, the garrison officer was experienced, not only sent troops to resist the undead, but also set aside a few standby troops to rest, their task is to maintain maximum physical strength, and then go up to replace the tired soldiers when the front line can not hold on, so that those who are replaced continue to rest, human beings are not undead, physical strength is very limited.

Humans have a very close relationship with dwarven gnomes, so there is no shortage of powerful firearms in the army, such as these cannons, because they are a dual creation of magic and engineering, they are not only powerful, but also not slow to fill, which greatly relieves the pressure on the soldiers, especially to prevent the attack of stitching monsters.

The musket is completely useless, that kind of weapon is very good against the living, but it is bad against the dead, it often flies through the bone rack, even if it breaks a few bones, it is useless, if you are lucky, you may be able to hit the head, but can you still be a marksman in the army? Zhang Li complained more than once that these muskets didn't even have a crosshair.

In order not to arouse the suspicion of the Dreaded Demon King, Zhang Li also went up to participate in the battle, but he behaved like an ordinary paladin, wearing a silver hand standard armor that he didn't know where to go, and he fought for a while and rested for a while, as if he was really tired, and the number of kills was not as good as those real silver hand paladins.

This battle was fought from afternoon to night, during which Zhang Li also followed the change of scene and rested several times, and also followed the artillery, threw fire oil, launched the crossbow machine, and had a lot of fun, thousands of soldiers were nailed here, a large number of undead corpses were piled up high, and in the end it was too high, and the corpses covered the city wall, so the humans had to retreat a little and continue to defend on the streets, as a result, at night their garrison was greatly reduced, and the only person who did not rest was Arthas, who is now completely crazy, He didn't have a break for half a day, and he didn't show any signs of fatigue, which made Zhang Li have to admire, but he didn't admire Arthas, but admired the Dreaddemon King, they are indeed experts in playing with people's hearts, by now, Arthas's mind has been completely covered by anger, and there is nothing in his mind except revenge.

At this moment, Zhang Li found that the Dreadlord had quietly withdrawn, it seemed that he had achieved his goal, preparing to enter Stratholm to complete the final layout, and soon after, Uther finally arrived at the scene with the Knights of the Silver Hand and many Lordaeron soldiers, and with the assistance of tens of thousands of warriors, he finally rescued the Kaulin intersection.

After completing the meeting, Alsace couldn't wait to go to Stratholme, and Medivin also came out to persuade Alsace to go to Kalimdor again, but after failing to do so, he began to lobby Gianna, who had already known what Medivan was going to say from Zhang Li's mouth, was very calm, and even looked at Medivan's eyes full of disgust, and did not go to Kalimdor with a large number of Lordaeron refugees like the original timeline.

In her opinion, this guy appeared in Zhang Li's prophecy, and this guy didn't even know who Zhang Li was, it was obvious that Zhang Li's prophetic level was higher than him, Zhang Li's prophecy was more authoritative, and the more authoritative people didn't say that they had to take refuge in Kalimdo, who would listen to what you said half-heartedly.

Zhang Li had already told her the future of Gianna's original timeline, she knew that if she went, not only would she lose a large number of soldiers and speed up the pace of the natural invasion, but also kill her father, and even in the end, she felt that the orcs she could trust would destroy her city, leaving her people and leaving her, and she could only live in regret for the rest of her life, Zhang Li's prophecy had already come true for most of it, so Gianna trusted him very much, and she would not be fooled "again".

As a result, the angry Medivan flew away again, in fact, Medivan was indeed a half-hung prophet, and the future he knew was seen in the space debris in Karazhan, because Sargeras occupied his body at that time, and then constantly used spells in the mage tower, causing the space around Karazhan to be extremely fragile, turning into a place of spatial chaos, occupied by various demons and void creatures, and it was precisely because it became distorted, and this distorted power could even map events from other timelines to this space, However, most of them are trivial things, and it is rare to see some major events that affect history, Medivan was lucky to see a future fragment of a certain timeline in a piece of space debris, that is, the invasion of the Burning Legion, he immediately believed it, so he ran around and began to look for forces to resist the Burning Legion.

And in the end, it turned out that the main force to defeat Akmund is actually the Night Elves, humans and orcs are there to fight soy sauce, no matter how much time you humans and orcs delay, how many demons you kill, in the end people still sacrifice their eternal life to blow up Akmund, so it doesn't make a difference whether the time is advanced or delayed, the difference is just how many demons are left after killing Akmund, maybe there are no humans and orcs to help clean up the demons, The Night Elves will have to sacrifice more people and take more time, but they will win in the end, and how many people can Thrall and Gianna have just crossed the sea? Whether there are humans and orcs is actually the same.

Zhang Li watched Medivan leave quietly in the dark, he was very interested in this artificially created demigod-level mage, he didn't know how the High Elves and humans made demigod-level mages, but judging from the fact that Medivan couldn't even find out that he Zhang Li watched from the side, he was at most like a battery demigod in the Burning Legion, his spiritual power was still mortal, only the energy was comparable to a demigod, Zhang Li guessed that it might be that the High Elves separated part of the energy of the Well of the Sun and put it on the guardian, As a result, these guardians have demigod-level energy, but maybe the power of the Well of the Sun is only enough to separate this one demigod, and any more will affect the operation of the Well of the Sun, so they didn't make more, otherwise the High Elves would have been invincible a long time ago.

Gianna quietly watched Medivan go away, her expression was very worried, Zhang Li walked over and said to her, "What? Is there any wavering in what he said? ”

Gianna shook her head and said, "No, if I listen to him and that kind of future really happens, then it is better to let me die directly." ”

Gianna turned to look at Zhang Li, and pleaded: "Your Highness, I'm just worried about Arthas, he is becoming less and less like him, tell me, what will the future of Arthas be?" ”

Zhang Li has always avoided this topic, and no one has asked him in the past, but now that he has brought it up, he can't avoid it, but he has already figured out how to lie.

"Gianna, although I know a lot of things, but I am not omnipotent, I just happened to know a few small fragments of what happened in a certain timeline, not everyone can see the future clearly, and the future can be changed, the more I reveal, the more unpredictable the future becomes, so Gianna, I'm sorry I don't know the future of Arthas, and everything has changed so much now, everything I know will become meaningless."