At the same time that the expeditionary forces of both the Alliance and the Horde officially went to sea and headed for the continent of Pandaria, the Northern Alliance also began their military operations.

Luo Danlun did not participate in this expedition to support the Panda Man Shaohao Dynasty, their own domestic affairs are enough, one person is eager to break it in half to use, where did the extra manpower come from to run to support other families.

The Battle of Fort Rapids launched by Queen Kalia officially began, and Generalissimo Garithar led the First Army of Lordaeron to march at once, and now it has crossed the ruined walls of Soladin and marched into the Arathi Heights.

In the Valley of Refuge in the center of the region, Lordaeron's main army successfully converged with Prince Torbain's Fort Riptide Restoration Army, and then prepared to fight against Fort Rapids.

Time was of the essence, and it was no longer up to them to grind and chirp, because there was information that the tribe was also ready to get involved.

Hammer Town, the tribe's only stronghold in the north of the continent, has always been in an embarrassing state of extremely low presence, but with the introduction of a series of new policies by the Great Chief Garrosh, Hammer Town has now become a military stronghold, and heavy goods and resources are constantly being sent here.

As for their purpose, they don't have to think about it, it is naturally the rich resources of the Arathi Highlands, and it would be even better if they could take down the Riptide Fort.

However, the Horde's center of gravity is far away on the continent of Kalimdor, so the supply line is extremely long, which also causes them to not act immediately, but continue to consolidate the area around Hammer Town.

So they can't wait any longer, Lordaeron and Fort Riptide Restoration Army certainly don't want to see the Horde take the lead, let alone watch the Horde take root in the Arathi Heights, so once Fort Riptide is reclaimed, the next step is to start a war with the Horde and drive them out of this area.

This can be regarded as the most glorious place of origin of mankind, the Araso Empire was born here and destroyed here, if Soladin the Great knew and saw that this land was occupied by orcs, it is estimated that the coffin board could not be suppressed.

Fort Rapids, the thousand-year-old capital of the Alaço Empire, is now long gone, and all that remains is a large area of ruins and dilapidated buildings.

If the elven mages of 10,000 years ago revisited their hometown, looked at this familiar and unfamiliar ruin street, and then recalled the prosperity and old people here, it would also have a special meaning in their hearts.

The sea of people in the city watched Surama leap here, watched the elven mages walk the streets in search of the first human mage apprentices, watched Merry* Winter Wind emerge here, and watched the founding generals of the Arathor Empire return triumphantly from the Troll Wars.

And now, some are just a piece of ruin, the ruins are still there, and the old man is long gone.

And the forces that now occupy this ruined ancient city are even more complicated.

The western city is entrenched in a group of bandit organizations from the Arathi Highlands and the Alterant Mountains region, the syndicate, the aristocratic group of the year, is now an international bandit organization, they are everywhere, and they have always been a big problem in the south of the continent, if it weren't for the strong rise of the Affia Brotherhood and the all-round attack on the Syndicate Brotherhood, otherwise the Western Wilderness area would have been in chaos now.

In the eastern part of the city, a horde of undead scourge wandered there that had been completely abandoned and left to fend for themselves.

This group of undead old buddies has been in a state of complete release since the time of the old Lich King Arthas, and it is estimated that even Arthas has forgotten that there is still a group of scum cannon fodder troops here.

When the new Lich King Sylvanas ascended to the throne, she never paid attention to the remnants of the undead who her grandmother didn't love her uncle and didn't love, and left them to fend for themselves.

Why do you want the old lady to send a boat to pick you up and take you back to the Icecrown Glacier?

So this group of brainless undead brothers stayed in Riptide City, using a large cemetery near the easternmost city wall as their lair.

Recently, a large group of kobolds have also poured into the eastern urban area, fighting for territory with the undead natural disasters that roam here, and they are fighting happily.

As for the central city, it is also occupied by a group of undead, but they are free, self-conscious undead.

These undead were all nobles or generals of Riptide Castle during their lifetimes, and after the Lich King weakened, they broke free from their spiritual domination and regained their free will.

Naturally, they will not join the Forsaken, and the psychology of this group of free undead has long been distorted, they do not believe in the living at all, and they are even more whimsical to try to establish a kingdom of the undead and reproduce the glory of the Araso Empire, which is rather nonsense.

Now this group of undead nobles and generals, as well as the undead soldiers under their command, are entrenched in the central area of Riptide Castle, living their silent and twisted lives, guarding the dark halls that have long been dilapidated, and they are immersed in the memories of the past.

The Northern Alliance army didn't care about how complicated the distribution of forces in the city was, they were all enemies who needed to be eliminated anyway, so they just killed and killed all the way after entering the city, leaving no room for survival.

The once wide moat had long since dried up, leaving only a ditch around the city, and now that the coalition forces had arrived outside the city, they did not attack immediately, but first used artillery and mage regiments to carry out a large-scale bombardment of the city, and then blew up one round.

With the violent explosion of cannonballs and the various range spells of the mages, billowing smoke immediately rose over the thousand-year-old capital, and the flames that ignited everywhere further devastated the ruined city.

At this time, the disadvantages of the extremely complex forces entrenched in the city were revealed, and it was impossible for them to work together to resist the enemy.

Naturally, the army of the undead nobles of Arathor was defending the area they occupied, and the brainless undead scourge was in a fierce battle with the panicked kobold tribes, who began to kill each other before the enemy could invade, and the chaos was spreading to the rest of the city.

Naturally, the tribe got the latest news quickly, and the old buddies were not stupid, naturally they knew that they had missed the opportunity to occupy Riptide Castle, and judging from the current situation, they had to change their strategy.

With the High Chieftain's orders, Hammertown and the trolls of the Withered Branches next door began to build the walls, trying to build a joint defense belt to completely control the northeastern part of the Arathi Heights.

The trolls of the Arathi Heights naturally joined the tribe with Zurkin, so with the orc troops in Hammer Town, the tribe's military strength here is actually not small.

Therefore, the interests of the Arathi Heights must not be lost, and now when the Northern Alliance side frees up its hands and the defense of the tribe side is completed, the two sides will start a new round of war.

The largest local war in the Old World on Azeroth soil is about to take place in the Arathi Heights.