Chapter 40: The War Ends
Right here in Brussos. At the moment of Sarufar's death, on the other side of the endless ocean, on the continent of Kalimdor, a pair of huge yellow eyes suddenly opened in the cave under the desert, it was a bronze-colored dragon, its body was twice the size of an ordinary dragon, and its breath was far above all the dragons Mo Wen had ever seen.
With the awakening of the dragon, a faint purple air began to swirl around it, permeating the entire cavern, and if one looked closely, one would be surprised to find that in the purple air flow, it seemed that all the beings were twisting, rotating, and then becoming extremely narrow.
Then, not knowing what he felt, the dragon sighed softly: "Alas, Brusus. Is Sarufar dead? It shouldn't die in the present, history is becoming more and more distorted, and every qiē is beginning to become obscure. - Great Titan, how do I choose? Is it to follow history and become 'it', or to get in touch with that person? Since the day of birth, he can impact the entire river of time, can he solve my doubts? ”
muttered to himself, but a few wisps of brilliance flashed in the eyes of the bronze dragon, and then in the depths of the mysterious river of time, there seemed to be a huge shadow becoming clearer and clearer.
And on another continent far away, Mo Wen, who didn't know that he had attracted the attention of a certain being, was lamenting the impermanence of the world.
Although he expected that the Second Orc War would end sooner than in history after the High Elves joined, he did not expect it to end so soon.
On the third day after the end of the Battle of Hinterland, the Horde troops stationed in the hills of Hillsbrad began planning to evacuate the continent of Lordaeron.
The number of people remains at about 20,000. A tribal army with necromantic knights, ogres, and a handful of warlocks may not be able to win against more than 40,000 Terran warriors who lack support. But if you simply want to retreat, it is not a difficult thing. But at this time, the troops sent by Gul'dan to find the tomb of Sargeras suddenly sent back the news, in order to buy himself time to get the power of the fallen titans, this ruthless warlock directly sold the entire tribe, with the support of the Plunder Clan and the Night Hammer Clan, it fled without authorization with its elite necromantic knights and ogre troops, which not only led to a sharp reduction in the elite troops under the hammer of destruction, but also exposed the tribe's imminent retreat plan. The Duke of Lothar, who seized the opportunity, almost did not hesitate at all, and directly led his troops to rush to the camp of the tribe. After a great battle, the already understaffed and demoralized tribe was completely defeated, except for a small number of orc elites who fled with Gul'dan and the troops sent by the hammer of destruction to pursue them, most of the orcs were either killed or captured. This time there was no chance to escape back to the hinterland of Azeroth, and the tribe was directly defeated, even in the southern part of the Eastern Kingdom, they still had a small number of troops, but it was estimated that even the dwarves and gnomes could not be even. It's completely hopeless.
Ironically, while the defeat of the Horde was very different from history, there was one outcome that was the same. In the final battle, the Duke of Lothar still found his old enemy, Orgrim. The hammer of the destruction of miè. And finally died under the hammer of the other party, of course, the latter did not please either. Seriously injured, he was almost beaten to death by the strong men of the Terrans, and was finally arrested red-handed.
Mo Wen didn't understand why this was still happening. Maybe it's because Lothar is desperate to avenge his friend King Lane, or maybe the Coalition's higher-ups feel that the war is over. It was not a good thing to have a commander who was too famous to let it go or even silently promote it, and all in all, Lothar still died at the hands of the Hammer of Destruction as in history, only this time he did not die under the Blackstone Tower.
Of course, the fact that the Second Orc War ended so quickly still had many different effects than in history.
First of all, as far as the High Elves themselves are concerned, without the tribe's raid on the border of Quel'Thalas, the civilians of the High Elves have almost no casualties this time, but on the contrary, the elite troops of the tribe have lost half, so many High Elves in the territory of Quel'Thalas began to hope that the Elves can break away from the alliance, after all, in their opinion, this war broke out between orcs and humans, but the High Elves have suffered a lot of losses, so they don't want to get involved with the warlike humans anymore.
Secondly, the relationship between the various races in the alliance is also different from history, the high elves participated in the war at the beginning, and played a huge role in the war, and suffered a lot of losses, so it leads to the gratitude and guilt of the human race high-level to the elf race, and the relationship between the two sides can be said to be in the honeymoon period (the human race unilaterally believes). The relationship between the Brute Hammer Dwarves and the Elves has become closer after this battle, after all, the two races have been closer to each other in history than the Terrans, but because the Brute Hammer Dwarves joined the coalition in the Second War much earlier than the Elves, and the Terrans were the most active in the war, the Brute Hammer Dwarves leaned towards the humans after the war, but now in terms of intimacy, the Terrans are not as close as the Elves who guarded the Eagle's Nest Mountain together and paid a huge price, Kudlan has hinted to Mo Wen many times, I hope that the two sides will be able to communicate more intimately in the future.
In the end, there have been great changes within the human race, first of all, in the original history, because of the strength of the tribe, the Duchy of Alterac wanted to protect itself this time but there was no chance of betrayal at all, so it was retained after the war, and it was not incorporated into the Kingdom of Lordaeron, Mo Wen recently heard that the vest of Deathwing, Lord Presto is very active in the upper echelons of the alliance, and was Aiden of Alterac? Lord Pirenod relied on it very much.
Secondly, some of the leaders in the upper echelons of the alliance have changed, poor Tulayan, without the defense of the royal city of Quel'Salas and Lordaeron, he has no chance to shine this time, and he did not look directly at Lothar's death, although the power of the holy light in his body is still growing rapidly, but it is not as strong as in the original history, so in the army formed by the alliance to recover Stormwind City, the young man can only be his colleague Uther as a deputy, This relieved Mo Wen a lot when he sent Aurelia and the marchers to participate in the recovery of Stormwind City, after all, no one wanted their women to be their rivals.
In addition, Marshal Garissus, who persecuted Kael'thas in the original history and led the blood elves to join the tribe last, was completely buried in this orc war, and the marshal whose family was not dead and his hometown was not destroyed was still a hairy boy who had just joined the army at this time, and he did not inherit his father's title, and he had no military exploits, so it is estimated that he and Mo Wen will not have any intersection in the future.
So on the whole, after the end of this orc war, except for the relationship with the human race under the influence of Mo Wendi, other things still have little impact, after handing over some of the things at hand to Liadrin, Mo Wen has now put his focus on another thing, - solving the problem of the Red Dragon Queen. (To be continued......)
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