Hearing Brad's words, Uther's heart was weak for a while, you must know that there are more than a million people, plus hundreds of thousands of troll corpses, even if their combat effectiveness is scum, but the sea of people will drown them, even the Jasper Army cannot be equipped with so much ammunition support.

Although the human population has increased dramatically in more than a decade, the human army has not increased much. You know, not everyone likes to be a soldier, and more people are just ordinary people.

The reason for the hesitation of the plane in Azeroth, which is mostly battle-oriented. For example, Zumashar of the Brilliant Guild has a population of more than a million, and the army of adventurers and aborigines adds up to 100,000.

Basically, one out of every fifteen people is a soldier, and this ratio is very unrealistic. The kind of consumption of raising an army of 100,000 people is simply not something that ordinary forces can afford.

Until now, except for the Jasper Collar, almost none of the military personnel in any territory were full-time. Except for a small number of elite and cronies, most of the soldiers are usually farming, which is also one of the benefits of being a soldier.

The lord or king paid a small commission and then allocated the land for the soldiers to cultivate, and only trained when the farm was not working, which was about the same as the militia. Of course, during the war, soldiers will also get a lot of benefits, which is the so-called full salary. As a result, unless you have a special professional talent, it will be more difficult to improve the strength of a professional at all.

Why is Jasper's army called the First Army of the Plane? It's not just Jasper Collar that is equipped with very good equipment and engineering warplanes, you know. In terms of financial resources, the Night Elves and the High Elves are no worse than the Jasper Collar, and even because of Brad's influence, the Night Elves are also focusing on development. The wealth of the huge Night Elves can create zào is not comparable to that of the Jasper Collar.

But the title of the first army is still in the jasper collar, that is, because the soldiers of the jasper collar are professional. Moreover, the minimum standard for joining the army is the third order, and if you graduate from school, if you don't have the strength of the third order, you won't even have the qualifications to join the army.

The annual military expenditure of the Jasper Collar is frighteningly high, and most of them are paid salaries and benefits to the army. As a result, these soldiers spend all their time training and grooming. The strength is improving very quickly. Moreover, soldiers who are over the age will be required to retire if they do not meet the standard, and they will always maintain the best condition of the army.

And the Brilliant Guild and Rivendell can't support an army of more than 100,000 troops by relying on a city and a village radiated by the city, and 100,000 is already the limit of the limit. There is a more important reason for limiting the number of troops. It's armament. You know, Azeroth's equipment is also graded.

It is divided into general items that basically have no effect, such as ordinary clothes and farm tools, and there is not much attack power and no defense. And then there's the usual gear. This is the lowest level of equipment. For example, armor is tightly defensive, and weapons only have offensive power. Then there's the high-quality equipment, and that's the difference between the magic world and the earth.

In addition to its own characteristics, excellent equipment is more powerful than ordinary ones, but also has unique attributes. For example, an excellent longsword, in addition to being sharper than an ordinary longsword, can also increase the corresponding attributes of the class. Of course, this depends on the magic materials added in the process of crafting this longsword.

On the Internet, there is a sophisticated level of equipment, and presumably there is an extra aspect of the excellent level of equipment. And the attributes themselves are more powerful than the good.

Then there's the epic equipment, and the epic equipment once again has one more attribute. There are even more perks, such as increased damage to demons, such as additional fire attacks, and a chance to release a Shadow Arrow when attacking, etc. This also has to do with the special magic materials that are attached to the crafting process.

Of course, equipment can also be enchanted or something, but the army has standard equipment that can already be enchanted, and it is simply a big joke, and no army can use it.

In this era, a legion can wear all the standard excellent equipment is already the elite of the elite, and only some ace armies popularize sophisticated equipment. In Azeroth, even a three-year-old knows it.

There are two aspects of personal strength, in addition to one's own personal strength, there is also equipment. At the same level, a professional with equipment can completely abuse a professional without equipment, which shows the importance of equipment.

Zumashal's Brilliant Guild, even as the largest adventurer guild, their army configuration is all ordinary equipment, only more than 20,000 are excellent equipment, it is not that the aborigines discriminate against adventurers and do not sell them to them, the actual situation is that they simply cannot afford to buy it.

Because most of them are adventurers, more than half of the army of the Brilliant Guild is fourth-order, and the rest are basically third-order and below.

Such an army of 100,000, not to mention facing hundreds of thousands of trolls, it is difficult for a great change in the city, and maybe their army has been infected I don't know how many.

The more Uther thought about it, the more chills he felt, if the worst case scenario happened, and the whole city was infected, then they would be sent to death now, but it was even more impossible, he couldn't watch more than a million people become undead, and he saw Brad's eyes firm, that was definitely going to Zumashal.

"Then what should we do now, does the old marshal have any plans again?" Uther gave the headache to Brad.

"You should already know the general situation, so I won't go into details, first of all, I think we should agree on our goals." Brad thought for a moment before saying.

"It's all against the Scourge, isn't that our goal?" Gianna didn't understand what Brad meant.

Arthas also said impatiently: "It's not necessary to talk about such a fictitious thing until now, right?" ”

The Black Dragon Princess said lightly: "What does His Royal Highness the Prince think is a real thing, if you have any good plans, why don't you tell them and listen to them?" ”

Arthas snorted coldly and said: "Now there are no changes in the city, if you want me to say that we should enter Zumashar and use the location to resist the resurrected trolls, we don't have to worry about having the advantage of the city wall." If the Scourge can't take Zumashal, what if they get hundreds of thousands of bones? ”

The black dragon princess smiled disdainfully and said: "My master has said that the city may have begun to spread the plague, we enter Zumashal, when the troll undead block the only way out, and the undead in the city also spread, how to deal with the enemy on our backs, let us die with you and become undead?" ”

"Until now, I have not received any communication from Rivendell, indicating that no plague has been found, which means that the city is safe, and you say that this proposition is not valid at all." Arthas thinks that his judgment is correct, he thinks that Jasper has war machinery, and he is naturally not afraid of fighting on the plains, but they need real swords and guns to do it, and with the advantage of the city wall, they will lose more than half of their sacrifices.

Uther frowned and thought for a moment before saying: "Even if there is no plague in the city now, I am not in favor of defending the city, the Scourge Legion is different from ordinary enemies, they have an air force and a plague barrel, we can't defend it, we can't defend it at all." You've only been leading the army for a long time, just study on the side, you should learn from Ms. Gianna. ”

Arthas's face suddenly turned red, and he said hatefully, "Okay, I'll see if you have any good ideas." ”

Uther nodded and said, "Old marshal, please speak." ”

Brad nodded, the current Arthas was too far behind him, he didn't even have the interest to talk, and only after hearing that Uther had taken care of Arthas did he continue: "Of course, our goal is to deal with the Scourge Legion, but there are subtle differences. First of all, let's be clear, that is, their plan is Zumashal, and Naxxramas is a flying fortress, and he is faster than us. Arriving before us, the Necropolis being shrouded in a dark enchantment is proof that it was done, since it was done. And the Scourge must know that we are coming to the rescue, so it is impossible to patronize the trolls without spreading the plague in Zumashal. ”

Uther understood what Brad meant, and said, "What does the old marshal mean to abandon Zumashal? ”

Gianna and Arthas were still puzzled, and Brad explained: "The old general is really wise, and that's exactly what I meant." Let's be honest, I, Jasper Collar, have been researching the plague, but I have never been able to find a way to solve it. In other words, if you are hit by the plague, you will definitely become an undead, and my Jade Collar can only roughly detect whether a person has been infected with the plague. So, we now have a choice. The first is to concentrate forces on the Necropolis to sabotage their plans. ”

"Because the trolls were burned to death by me, there are many resentful spirits, and the dead air is thick, which causes them to have more powerful combat power after becoming undead, and even some unknown mutations may occur. If they are given a period of time, this undead spirit will inevitably become the ace of the Scourge Legion, and it will cause us great losses. The second is that we enter Zumashar to protect the evacuation of those who are not affected by the plague to safety. There's no defensive value here. ”

Uther frowned and asked, "Can't we divide our forces and save people and deal with the Necropolis separately?" ”

Brad shook his head and said, "There are hundreds of thousands of trolls in the Necropolis, how much we have to deal with them." And Zumashar has a population of more than one million, and the combined strength of our three families is only more than 100,000, and only by doing our best can we protect those who are not infected by the plague as quickly as possible, otherwise, once the plague spreads, causing panic and confusion in the whole city, we will be in great trouble. ”

Uther was silent, but it was like this, Brad gave two paths, but they only had one choice, that is, to go to Zumashar to save people, if they turned a blind eye to so many people, then not only would they be pointed out by thousands of people, but even they themselves would not be able to get over the hurdle in their hearts...... (To be continued......)