Chapter 617: Hire a Commander to Lead the Regiment
After reviewing the overall situation, Kane's latest order is to let the Copper Puppet attack as soon as possible.
These heavy infantry, converted from ogres, are the core force of the Volunteer Army.
However, with the problems of military supply, the long-range strike capability of the volunteer army was basically abolished.
In other words, Kane's original planned high-end tactics are gone.
The so-called high-end tactics are actually some tactics of modern armies, and the ones who really output a lot of damage are actually the Argonians who look short and do auxiliary work most of the time. Because they use thermal weapons. Musket artillery.
Now the hot weapon is not playing because of the ammunition. Kane decided to let the bronze puppet participate in the low-end warfare game, which is a more common war in this world called sword and magic, which is actually a cold weapon slashing war.
To put it bluntly, high-end and low-end are a matter of focus.
If the sword and magic, the focus is on the magic cannon, no, even if it is the firepower of the mage group, this is considered a high-end combat method. On the contrary, magic is just an embellishment of the battlefield, and the proportion of use is lower than that of arrows, which is considered a low-end game, because the victory or defeat is cut by cold weapons.
After giving the order for the bronze puppet to go on the expedition, Kane also sent a special invitation.
This invitation came as a surprise to almost everyone, including the invitees.
The invitee was Reginald Windsor, who was a guest in the Kingdom of Lordaeron.
Windsor was a veteran who served as Anduin Lothar's personal guard and participated in the raid on Karazhan.
At the same time, he also excelled in the war of beasts. and step by step promoted to the senior commander of the Stormwind Kingdom.
The premature submission of the Black Dragon Princess Onexia by Kane also deprived Windsol of the opportunity to be promoted to Marshal. Of course, if he knew that the price of promotion was posthumously, he would probably rather not be promoted.
The Kingdom of Lordaeron and the Kingdom of Stormwind are one south and one north, but the relationship between the two countries is extraordinary.
When the kingdom of Stormwind was defeated by the invading orcs, and King Ryan was also assassinated, Lothar kept the young Varian and a large number of people and came north to Lordaeron.
Terenus took in the refugees and organized an alliance to avenge the Stormwind Kingdom and recover most of the lost territory.
Many people from the Storm Kingdom did not return to their homeland later, but took root and multiplied here as the new identity of the people of the Lundanlun Kingdom, and it has been more than ten years.
It is precisely because of this relationship that this time the Lordaeron Kingdom suffered a natural disaster, and although the Storm Kingdom did not send many reinforcements because it was too far away, the economic support was very powerful.
To this day, the kingdom of Lordaeron is in ruins, and there are still people who are willing to borrow money to help them continue to fight this Great Patriotic War, except for the Falken Kingdom, which is the Stormwind Kingdom.
Wendthor had brought griffons this time.
The Kingdom of Stormwind is the best at raising griffons in the human kingdom, and even the name of its kingdom is not unrelated to it. The ancestor of House Wryon is the famous Storm Knight (Griffin Knight), and has always been close to the Iron Forge Clan and the Brute Hammer Clan among the Dwarves.
The kingdom of Lordaeron has been fighting with the Scourge for more than a year, and the griffon knights, who are mainly used for aerial reconnaissance, have suffered relatively large losses. The Scourge Army has a powerful and diverse air force, including gargoyles, vampire bats, obsidian beasts, and flying spiders, not to mention the aerial overlords of the Death Chill Dragon.
And the loss of the sky, not only the ground troops are unlucky, but the daily production and life of the people will also be affected, so the kingdom of Lordaeron can be said to grit its teeth and hold on, and one of the reasons for the large expenditure is this.
And when it comes to air warfare, we have to mention the Kingdom of Falken.
Kane had borrowed the hands of Freemasonry a few years earlier to get the Ancestral Dragon from the Northrend continent.
Over the years, although the air battle group has not been raised, the air combat flying dragon is basically finalized.
That's why it's basic, it's because of the lack of actual combat data.
This data is not something that can be obtained by petty aerial hunting, but it must be a war, and it must be on a sufficient scale.
Soon after Arthas rallied his army north to Northrend, Kane joined forces with Varian and sent a gift to the kingdom of Lordaeron.
This gift is called the 1+1 Air Combat Plan, Kane is out of the dragon, Varian is out of the people, so the experimental war dragon has the best human air knight to control.
It's a process of learning from each other, including Kane himself, who doesn't have much experience in piloting flying beasts, but he's pretty good at fighting planes.
In a flash, more than ten months have passed.
The original experimental flight squadron has now become the absolute main force of the coalition forces' air combat, and its scale has also expanded into a brigade, and its reputation is getting louder and louder.
One of the missions of Wendsol this time is to transfer some dragon knights back to China in the name of rest and recuperation, and teach better air combat tactics and flying experience.
Because a few months ago, under Varian's soft grinding, Kane had agreed to breed a Wyvern for the Stormwind Kingdom as a heavy air combat unit.
Kane himself was not satisfied with this war dragon named 'Chasing the Wind', and he didn't plan to cultivate and deploy it in large quantities at all, but the people of the Storm Kingdom liked it very much from top to bottom, and they couldn't wait to have it, and their attitude was very sincere, so Kane agreed.
In the spring of next year, the first batch of Wind Chasers will be in place, and the Sky Knights will be in place in advance, familiar with the run-in, and now the training is already very compact, if it weren't for the fact that the war here is more dependent on the Sky Knights, the Storm Kingdom would have already transferred people.
Wendsol was in a hurry, and the sudden force of the Scourge Legion, neither Terenus nor Uther had time to deal with his problem.
Wendsol is also a kind person, and he is embarrassed to forcibly pull people at this time. As a result, the empty knight he brought was urgently on duty, and the one who was going to be taken away was still working overtime at the post.
It's just that he himself is more disgusted, he is also at the level of a general, even if he takes the initiative to help, the specific work is not easy to arrange.
It was in this context that Kane's invitation changed his situation completely.
Kane asked him to be the supreme commander of the Bronze Golem Warband.
Wendthor is the job of the military, and the relevant information is naturally known.
Although the Falken Volunteer Army has been in the public eye for a short time, it is definitely a first-class star army.
The debut was 'Sneaking Thousands of Miles', and the team of more than 10,000 people had to cross Hillsbrad without even the local lords noticing, and suddenly appeared near the burning wood village of the Silver Pine Forest.
The second show can be called 'One Night Stronghold', which means the incredible speed with which a Stronghold can be repaired and built. Of course, it actually took almost 10 days.
However, the 10 days included the new town of Burning Wood, as well as the port and the infrastructure of the free trade market. Coupled with the heavily guarded New Shadowfang Fortress, this construction speed is still legendary.
Sanxiu is the night battle of Beiliu Fort that happened not long ago. Since neither of the warring sides used a large-scale arcane force field to obscure them, the timely use of various monitoring spells allowed the campaign flow to be captured by Lordaeron and Dalaran.
The only thing that is not beautiful is that the night battle has an impact on the monitoring after all, and the relevant information is not from an ordinary perspective, but from an energy perspective, the two sides have released a lot of energy in the process of fighting, making the area a magical disorder area, and the monitoring of the measurement perspective has become blurred.
But even so, professionals can still deduce the whole process clearly. Then there were all kinds of exclamations, admiration, admiration, and incredible.
The performance of the Scourge Legion has made people's hairs stand on end and shiver, but the Volunteer Army is stronger. Even the Argonians, who are regarded as auxiliaries, are terrifying.
As the saying goes, the layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway, and many military experts exclaim that the Argons simply created a new mode of warfare.
True, they realized the advantages of the concentrated use of firearms. Not only is the area of destruction formed by the concentration of fire and shooting eye-catching, but it is also a big selling point compared to the large physical energy savings of cold weapons.
It is precisely by relying on the low physical consumption of thermal weapons that the Argonians can always suppress the tireless and good at the natural disaster cannon fodder troops.
Although Windthor didn't know much about it, he still knew about the copper golem. The core combat power of the Volunteer Army was changed on the basis of ogres.
In recent years, seven out of ten ogres in the Eastern Continent have disappeared, and many people laughed at Garin Tolbairn for being stupid and money-loving, and he was willing to pay for a big stomach like an ogre, and he wanted to live or die. It's just that the price of the latter is much higher, and the former must be kept fresh, such as the corpse sealed with a magic scroll or something.
Prince Tolbain's peculiar fetish has bred special hunting teams to make this kind of money. It's obviously bloody money, but because ogres are a scourge to humanity, they have become a just cause, and the local lords and locals, who have always been xenophobic, also look at this kind of team differently.
As a result, there are very many people who have made money and fame, go home to sell their land and buy houses, marry a good woman, and brag about their righteous cause to their wives and children and neighbors in their spare time, not to mention how comfortable it is.
But as soon as the copper puppet came out, people discovered that in terms of making money, Prince Tolbain recognized the second in this world, and probably no one dared to be the first.
The value of a copper puppet is a hundred times that of an ordinary ogre. It is said that there is already more than one prominent person who wants to obtain a copper puppet as a personal guard, and for this reason, he does not hesitate to spend a lot of money to go through the channel of Solas's service. But I haven't heard of anyone doing so.
Windsor could not have imagined that such a legendary force would be under his full command despite its fame and mystery.
In the words of his adjutant, "Now, even the elves of Quelsalis will find a reason to come and join in order to get a chance to peek into the secrets of the copper puppet!"
And Wendthor wondered the most, why did Prince Thor Bain, who had never met him, trust him so much that he was willing to hand over such combat power to his full agency?
It wasn't just him who was confused, everyone who knew about it was confused, and even Solas said, "I really don't understand my son anymore." ”
The truth is actually simple, Kane has the advantage of a prophet, knows Wendsol's character and abilities well, this is a veteran who is not afraid of power and has amazing hardness in his bones.
Although his lack of professional military training made his command art more old-fashioned, his experience was enough to allow him to command a force of old tactics.
What Kane values most about him is that while he has the cautious attitude of a veteran, Windsol is never lacking in courage, and he believes that Windsol can make the bronze golem shine brightly on the battlefield.