When Kane returned, the first person to get the news was the leader of the swarm, to be specific, a member of the standing group served by the dragonmen.

By the time Kane returned to Arahi Underground City, the information gathered over the years had been prepared and was just waiting for him to consult.

Kane didn't talk nonsense, just as he used to focus on less important matters every few days, and spent the morning in the office to complete the connection of information.

Although his swarm is two different accounting systems from the Falken Kingdom, it is too closely involved and too concerned with earthly affairs, so it will still be greatly affected.

For example, the Shadow's blocking of the Burning Legion's access to the coastline of the Valley of Thorns was entirely based on Kane's core ideas. The total number of Phantoms is only more than 3,000 people, and now more than 1,000 have been killed, so it can be said that the mobile group has been evacuated, and the rest are responsible to the Twelve Warship Hall, in charge of intelligence and espionage personnel in various regions.

Moreover, the fact that humans have been able to survive so many years in the fierce battle with the Burning Legion also has a lot to do with the swarm exerting force in the back.

For example, Freemasonry, Clover Guild. These two organizations have almost subsidized their annual profits to the anti-demon cause, otherwise the supply of materials on the front line would have been cut off long ago.

After all, since the start of the war, the two sides can be said to have fought a small battle every three days and a big battle every five days, and the sporadic fighting has never stopped.

In the past four years, the anti-demon coalition army has lost more than 100,000 troops, and the national population of Stormgard was only 50,000 in that year.

Basically, about 4 out of 10 people in the age group of 23-33 have died in the cursed land.

And that's not counting the percentage of dwarves and gnomes who died among the 100,000 people.

The loss of so many people has naturally greatly affected the operation of the economy. In fact, if it weren't for Quel'Thalas's first sharing of metal golem technology with dwarves, gnomes, and humans, so that a large number of metal golems replaced cannon fodder soldiers, this battle would have been unfrugal.

The economy is declining due to the lack of population and the invasion of the elite warbands of the Burning Legion, but the thirst for manpower and material resources on the front line is like a bottomless pit.

Therefore, the overall trend of the anti-demon coalition in recent years has been getting poorer and poorer.

Even if the Kul Tiras, Lordaeron, and Dalaran who had exchanged their breaths of air gave their support one after another, it was still a drop in the bucket, because the Burning Legion had greater support for this war, and after offsetting the support of these countries, there was still a surplus, which tilted the situation a little bit towards the side of the Burning Legion.

After Kane learned about these situations, he didn't say any nonsense, and directly asked his subordinates to take out all the supernatural power savings, and then gather the most capable subordinates to assist him in building super weapons.

At the same time, Kane passed the news of his return to certain people in a relatively secretive way, and asked them to prepare a counteroffensive campaign.

Medivan, Windsor, and Uther, these are all insiders, and the news makes them very excited, the counteroffensive plan is soon released, one order after another is given, and preparations for the big battle are in full swing.

About a week later, even the Burning Legion commanders of the Dark Gate Fortress felt the unusual movement of the Anti-Demon Alliance.

"Are you going to launch a decisive battle while you still have some strength? Or, eat these insects in the open area, and then counterattack their defenses in one fell swoop, ending this protracted and fierce battle......

The commander of the Burning Legion, the Abyss Demon Lord Azgalor, made such a decision.

In the original historical line, Azgalor was the lieutenant of Manolos, who accompanied him in his conquests of the world of Draeno and the world of Azeroth, and after Manolos' death, he took over his position and became an important leader of the Abyssal Demon and even the Burning Legion.

Less than 18 months after Azgalo took command of the invasion, his predecessor, who had been dismissed from his post because of the unfavorable fighting situation, had returned to the rear to accept Akmund's punishment by serving as a member of the vanguard death squad until he was killed in battle.

Azgallo's achievements are still quite impressive, and the elite hoarding began after it took over, which certainly has a bit of the flavor of the predecessor's achievements, but the main thing is that its strategy is better.

On this day, all the departments of the anti-demon army were assembled, and each war group and team were lined up in their respective camps and fortresses to make preparations for battle.

This situation was naturally discovered by the reconnaissance system of the Burning Legion, and the Burning Legion also assembled in an orderly manner, and from a distance, one after another poisonous green pillars of light rose into the sky.

It was a light banner produced by the evil energy resonance of the officers and soldiers of the legion, and the old soldier could roughly guess the number and combat power of that army through the grandeur and brightness of the light flag.

Of course, this thing can also be used as a fraud, so if you don't believe it, you can't believe it, and you can't believe it.

The reaction of the officers and soldiers of the Anti-Demon Alliance can only be said to be average.

After several years of fierce battles, the emotions of the fighters have long become restrained and even numb. It is only in the moment of victory, the moment of life and death, or in special circumstances, that obvious emotions are aroused, whether heroic, or sad, or both.

Some officers and soldiers with vision and foresight have realized the military strength of the Burning Legion, but basically no one is about it, one is that the army is disciplined, there are taboo topics, and gossip is not allowed. The other is that BB is useless, after seeing too many lives and deaths, many people realize that according to the current situation, it is only a matter of time before they die on the battlefield.

In general battles, there are often heavy casualties. The officers and soldiers realized this, and many of them were praying their last prayers to the chaplains and entrusting them with the aftermath.

The chaplains are different from the pastors of the church, they are more caring, and in order to prevent the souls of the fallen soldiers from being taken by the demon after death, these pastors have to run on the front line. Praying beforehand is tantamount to registering, which can make the military chaplain accomplish the transcendence more quickly after a real misfortune occurs.

And the special profession of military priest can also be regarded as a new business developed by the temple of God.

The old Church of Light does not have this, they are generally dressed in military uniforms, and they bless and pray to the team before the battle group is sent forward. In the eyes of the officers and soldiers, it is far less intimate than the chaplain of the army.

In fact, it is precisely by relying on this line of fire that the anti-demon coalition can maintain its morale. Just like the words of many disabled officers and soldiers who retreated: "Countless soldiers and demons have died on the battlefield of the Cursed Land, with mountains of bones and corpses all over the field, and the anger is soaring, and that scene can make the faint of heart collapse after a few glances, and if you don't believe something, you can't hold it out at all." ”

This time, however, the observant discovered something that was not quite the same as before, and they had seen the Knights Templar for a long time.

Most people know that the Knights Templar moved to the second-line battlefield nearly two years ago, and the elite warbands organized by the Burning Legion to attack and kill the farms and towns in the rear were too fierce for ordinary defenders to deal with, and the Templars divided into small teams or small groups to fight with them.

Unexpectedly, they were transferred back this time, and they appeared in full costume, but they were not used intensively, but almost every wargroup was divided, and it seemed that they were used as knights of the Holy Light.

The so-called Holy Light Knight is the name of the 'Plate Priest' who prefers to use the Holy Light Energy to heal and assist. They usually act as nurses for the group, and are in the middle of the group, just like the Templars in this case, carrying not lances, but swords and shields, and staffs.

The information also quickly fell into Azgalore's ears, which he didn't care.

Azgalor was a commander who believed that he could crush all tactics if he was strong enough, and he felt that in this battle, the Knights Templar played the role of the Holy Light, but in fact, it was just to make the officers and soldiers of the Anti-Demon Alliance die more tragically, and to pay for themselves.

"Our elite army will definitely be able to crush this famous combat force together, and when the time comes, look at what those humble bugs can do to resist the attack of the Burning Legion. ”

It's a pity that Azgalor couldn't wait for its elite warband, crushing the whole field, and then attacking the anti-demon coalition front, this battle, Kane and his super weapon are the protagonists, and they are the first to fight, not the finale.

The fact that the dragons who led the group saw a low-level dungeon like the Temple of Atahaka and were collectively sent to the other world made Kane very unhappy.

After coming back, he found that the situation was bad, and it had reached the point where he couldn't reach out, and it can be said that this window period when he was not there was almost the result of his hard work on the front line.

So faced with a dilemma, Kane didn't plan to hide it, so he simply magnified it directly and pressed down on one of the problems first.

Using the magic cast collectively by nearly 100 dragon casters with the help of large facilities, Kane and the superweapon were directly delivered to an altitude of more than 180 kilometers above the ground.

This superweapon looks like a stack of crystal pancakes. Each cake has a texture that is not too complicated, and its shape is not particularly standard, but the style has a little bit of the grin characteristics of objects commonly used by various active civilizations in this world.

These strange pies are both weapons and energy crystals. They are essentially crystallized transcendent energies.

180 kilometers, this is close to the extreme altitude of the ultra-low-altitude satellite orbit of Azeroth, ordinary satellites are generally at an altitude of 500-1000 kilometers, Kane chose this altitude, mainly due to technical needs and limitations, from such a height to observe the bombardment, for the current time, it is already the limit of his ability.

A powerful strike is often not a magic trick, but a simple and straightforward bombardment. This is the way Kane has always adhered to it, including his favorite plastic energy spell, and the spear of the satellite cannon in front of him.

The one Kane used this time, in terms of technical specifications, is a simplified version of the space-based weapon. After all, the human civilization of Azeroth has not yet been integrated, and it is not enough to allow the rapid climbing technology to reach the height of entering space.

From the perspective of weapon specifications, it belongs to the mature version of space-based weapons in the later stage, and it has almost reached the strength of the star-destroyer glass. It's just that the strike range is a little smaller.

Of course, even if it's small, it's a relative Star Destroyer.

The Burning Legion gathered in the area of the Dark Gate was not completely unaware of the approaching death. After all, it is a high magic world, and it has an extremely powerful prophecy technique. Even if the other party makes a corresponding anti-prophecy arrangement, there is still a rough warning for a super-large-scale strike like this.

When Azgalor received the notice from the priest of Hivalra, he also had an ominous call, but he didn't expect it to be a high-end atmospheric blow like the Heavenly Spear, and thought it was a geological weapon.

It issued an order to turn on the maximum level of energy protection for the fortified system's facilities, and also prepared the assembled warbands for earthquakes.

The demons under its command are also very calm, due to the gathering of warbands, most of them are now in open areas such as squares, and with their ability, in such open areas, even if there is a deep ground fissure, they can avoid or escape instantly, and they will not just fall into the deep ravine.

However, just as these demons were angry and clamoring to say that they must look good on the battlefield this time, the sky suddenly dawned......