19 The Fall of Stormwind (Part I)
"What's next?" Amy asked.
"I have sent emissaries to the kingdom of Kul Tiras, and now they are the only ones who can support us. "Lothar Road.
Kurtilas, the strongest human kingdom on the sea in Azeroth, is a country that split off from the Arathso Empire, along with Stormwind.
"I'll go to the queen of the palace first, the treasure you sent, the tribe can't do anything about it. Amy summoned the star and left.
After Lothar had Ryan's body taken away, he also organized cavalry to storm the orc line to buy some time for the defeated soldiers.
Amy flew over the orcs with the star, and the orcs threw everything they could, but they didn't hit Amy. The red light in Amy's hand condensed, the flame dragon breath erupted, and countless orcs were seriously injured. Then, countless small fireballs flew out of Amy's hands like machine-gun fire, bombarding the advancing orc warriors.
It is undeniable that the vitality of the orcs far exceeds that of other races that Amy has encountered, and it is the limit of being able to bombard and kill half of them. Amy ran away on the star with her magic in the air, and no more than a hundred orcs were killed by herself. However, the battle of air raids dragged on a little longer.
Lothar led the cavalry regiment to fight and run, and Amy harassed in the sky at any time, so he carried the orc's attack to Stormwind City.
300,000 were marched, and only 100,000 were withdrawn to Stormwind. When you set out, you are in high spirits, and when you return, you are disgraced. And more of it is the Violent Corpse Wilderness, and those who can come back are actually the lucky ones.
The Kingdom of Stormwind, which previously engaged in a tug-of-war with the Orcs in the Red Ridge Mountains. And now the Stormwind Kingdom is no longer capable of confronting the orcs head-on. One of Garona's daggers killed not only Ryan, but also the Kingdom of Stormwind. And Garraga also has a mixed title "Kingkiller", a hero of the orcs and a traitor to mankind.
In a battle, the orcs suffered less than 100,000 casualties, and new forces are constantly replenished. And the Storm Kingdom is independent of the Eastern Continent, and the only one with the ability to support is Kurtiras, and soon the Kingdom of Kurtilas said that there are no extra soldiers to participate in the war, and for the sake of the face of Lothar being the only bloodline of the Araso Empire, it can provide ships to help transfer.
It is understandable that the Kingdom of Kurlatis did this, after all, the two countries are not allies, and there is no need for the other party to send troops to the death of the Stormwind Kingdom.
King Lane's funeral took place shortly after the return of Lothar and the others, and was presided over by Archbishop Benista of Stormwind. After the funeral, the little prince Varian became the new king of Stormwind.
A few days later, the orcs approached the Elwyn Forest and approached Stormwind, where the Kingdom of Stormwind could only cower in the face of the orc's onslaught. The orcs surrounded Stormwind and cut off Stormwind's land supply lines. Stormwind's maritime power is limited, and all the ships combined are just enough to transport grain and grass to and from the Western Wilderness.
As the orcs began to attack the Western Wilderness, the people there were also forced to move to Stormwind City, and the whole city had enough food to support for a month, and then they had to transfer and still need to keep food, and the lack of food instantly became the most headache for Stormwind Kingdom.
In the palace, Lothar gathered the people together and discussed a question of bread and grass.
"There is still food in the farm in the Western Wilderness, but the orcs are too urgent for us to move. "The old mayor of Yuexi Town said.
"How many?" asked Lothar plainly and clearly.
"It's enough for all of Stormwind to use for 3 months, but I'm not sure if the orcs took it. The old man replied.
"Where are they? I'll send someone to investigate. Lothar asked.
The old man took a map to Lothar, on which several farms were circled.
The map was given to Amy from Lothar, and since Amy received the spell reins from Lothar, he has been doing all the errands. Amy readily accepted, anyway, if he didn't run errands, he would also go outside Stormwind to scout and air strikes.
Amy flew out of Stormwind City with the star, because this was a reconnaissance mission, he didn't harass the ever-converging orcs, the orcs were making siege equipment, Amy also carried out attacks, destroyed a batch of orcs and made a batch, all Amy could do was delay. When the orcs gather enough men and build enough siege equipment, it will only be a matter of time before Stormwind falls.
Amy arrived in the Western Wilderness, where there were quite a lot of animals in addition to the farmland, and the orcs mainly ate meat and almost all meat, and this place had become a hunting ground for the orcs.
Guiding Shield - Arcane stealth, Amy infiltrated the farm marked on the map, the orcs were really not interested in human grain, Amy found the grain that was removed.
At the end of the reconnaissance, Amy rewarded a bunch of fireballs to the passing orcs, and the orcs are now smart and hide directly in the jungle. A week before Amy's air raid, the orcs greeted Amy with axes and stones when they saw her, but now they ran directly when they saw her. Amy had to admire the orcs' talent for war.
Amy reported the situation to Lothar, and after a group of people discussed, this batch of grain would be transferred separately during the final migration, and the western wilderness would not be left with too many men when the orcs attacked the city, and this was the only chance.
By the time the Orcs took over the Wild West, Stormwind's ships had begun transporting civilians outward, and most of them had been taken to a place on the Northern Continent called Nanhai Town, which had been loaned by the Kings of Lothar and the Northern Route as a refugee settlement.
As the population continues to move out, the city gradually emptiness, and a plan comes to Amy's mind.
Amy suggested to Lothar that sooner or later Stormwind would be breached by the orcs, so it would be better to transform the buildings in the city into street battles to form a second line of defense in addition to the city walls. At the same time, Amy also reported the situation of the large-scale siege equipment of the tribe found when she went out to investigate today.
The city wall is a defensive line that is meaningless in the face of a large number of siege equipment. Siege engines cannot be effectively attacked during street fighting, so siege engines are useless.
According to Amy's proposal, the storm building was split into four lines of defense from the gate to the dock, and the redundant buildings between each line of defense were demolished, and the escape routes from one line to the next line were also arranged. Each line of defense is based on a bow and crossbow attack, and the main component is a three-dimensional fire network. Fuel is reserved for each pay-off room, and when the time is right, the orcs will divide or obstruct it.
A large amount of gunpowder was also hidden inside the city, allowing for a large firework to be set off during the final retreat.
After a week of siege by the Horde, the assault and defense of Stormwind began.
The orcs of the war maniacs, under the management of the new chieftain, are no longer reckless men who only know how to charge without using their brains. With a huge advantage, the orcs chose the tactic of attacking the city and advancing in a phalanx of infantry. The siege equipment of the orcs was a ballistic catapult, the most common siege weapon in the Cold Weapon Age.
There were no more than a dozen cannons on the walls of Stormwind, and there were only a limited number of shells and gunpowder. There are more than 100 orc ballistic catapults, although they are all slowly propelled by infantry.
The sound of artillery and the cannonballs flew towards the advancing siege corps, and the orcs immediately adjusted to a loose formation, and a wave of artillery bombardment could not take away about a hundred orcs and 3 trebuchets. The infantry pushed the catapult and continued to advance, and after someone was knocked down by a shell, someone continued to make up for the push. Three waves of shelling took away more than 10 trebuchets and hundreds of orcs, at which point the mixed formation of orc infantry trebuchets stopped.
Amy's egg hurt instantly, and the spell couldn't hit it if she was too far away. The mages on the city wall were all about to become cannon fodder, and Amy quickly asked the mage to remove the city wall first.
The sledgehammer swings down, and the trebuchets throw the stones from the throwing arm under the pull of the boulder. Countless stones appeared on the city wall as if it were raining, and in an instant countless soldiers were smashed into flesh. The trebuchet continued to reload, and waves of stones continued to fly towards the walls, and the orcs did not rush to bombard the walls with trebuchets.
On the first day, the orcs did not attack, but they took a stone bath in the walls of Stormwind City, and the walls of Stormwind City were thick enough to be beaten for a day without much damage.