Chapter 13: A Stage Play in the Wild West
Of course, His Majesty Dai Lin of Kurtiras, on the basis of the powerful strength of the Legendary Paladin, perfectly showed his bloodline special effects to the fullest. During World War II, in order to prevent the orc legion from crossing north, in addition to leading the Kurtiras Navy to blockade the offshore straits, it also showed the domineering spirit of being a man and a man, and summoned a real water element frenzy, and the surging waves of medium and high-level water elements that emerged continuously were the biggest nightmare of the sea crossing orcs at that time, and it was rumored that there was even a tidal stalker of the Grand Duke of the Water Element at that time.
However, the more precious things in the world are, the rarer they are, and the awakening of such a top-level bloodline talent as the Tide Stalker is almost rare. As far as Kelseth heard, the entire Kultiras royal family has awakened as a father and daughter.
Shaking his head, Kyris tore open the seal and pulled out a thick stack of materials. In fact, theoretically speaking, his talent spell arcane energy absorption is actually a bloodline talent, but the buff shown is not obvious to him at the moment.
The kingdom of Azeroth, once under the leadership of King Lane, has become more and more powerful, and has gradually shown the prestige of the first kingdom of the human race. But then, under the double blow of the fall of the human guardian, the demigod Medivan and the assassination of the king, he failed to block the invasion of the orc army, and the royal capital fell for a time, and the land was completely lost.
In the end, this rebellion in the western wilderness was the death of the Stormwind Kingdom itself.
It is undeniable that in the face of absolute interests, many creatures will lose their minds, people will die for money, birds will die for food, and as for the festival or something, it is even more lost, but the reason why people are named wisdom is that they can think, think about the future, and give their sins a high-sounding name. However, this time, the nobles of Stormwind City showed the ugly side of the nobles in a 360-degree all-round way, and they were unscrupulous and didn't bother to cover up even a little shame.
The reconstruction of the royal capital Stormwind City has squeezed out the last bit of essence of the Stormwind royal family, and also squeezed out the last bit of effort of the people at the bottom of the reconstruction project, and those who escaped the war of annihilation, or rather, the remnants of waste wood left after the sword-wielding nobles who dared to go to the battlefield died were full of oil here.
In this gluttonous feast, Edwin Van Cleef, the former president of the stonemason union of the Kingdom of Azeroth and a master engineer, became the biggest wrongdoer. The result of all the family property was a gloomy dungeon of death row inmates, who led the stonemasons' guild to years of hard work and secret executions. In fact, as the president of the Stormwind Kingdom Masons Guild, Edwin can't have no backstage at all, on the contrary, his backstage is extremely tough... Once.
Van Cleef is a close vassal of Lothar, the relationship at the beginning was almost like Kennery to Minehir, and he became independent after Lothar began to gradually decline, but he still regarded himself as a close vassal of Lothar, Edwin himself has been Anduin's attendant since he was a child, many people don't know that during the Second War, Marshal Anduin has always had an all-round shadow guard by his side, a close attendant entrusted by Anduinken behind his back, and a superb shadow man who successfully repelled the king Thorn Garona.
For the low-end disposition of a high-level peak powerhouse, especially the Shadow One, coupled with the fact that some forces who knew the details of the situation sat on the sidelines with various thoughts, a small corruption that most of the nobles in Stormwind City thought was easy led to a shocking case.
The palace banquet to celebrate the inauguration of the royal capital, Edwin, who easily escaped from the cage, sneaked into the magnificent palace where he had left his traces in this corner and corner, and left after harvesting nine counts, fifteen viscounts, and countless lords, except for a king's head, almost perfectly reproducing the style of the king stabbing Garona in the year, although the palace garrison that Edwin faced could not be compared with the time of King Lane, Garona was faced with a large number of sword-wielding nobles, and the elite of the palace where middle-level professionals crawled all over the ground, and now in the palace of Stormwind City, it is difficult to find a sword-wielding nobleman。
The nobles of the Storm Kingdom had experienced the fall of the royal capital, and after the two orc wars, they had been reduced to a sparse number, and the principals of all aspects of the government department were slowly completed in the second year after the restoration of the country, and this time after Edwin cut a round of harvesting like leeks, and there was a rare embarrassment of dissatisfaction with the government affairs department personnel. This kind of horrific terrorist attack has also spread in the human kingdom, however, what makes the other kingdoms even more shocking is that the nobles of Stormwind who narrowly escaped their lives were completely frightened by this assassination, and did not even show up for a decent pursuit, but only symbolically announced the rebellion of Edwin Van Cleef and the stonemasons of the Stormwind Kingdom, in fact, if it were not for the anger of Grand Duke Berval Vortagen, there might not have been even a declaration of rebellion.
The king is young and weak, the nobles are incompetent, and the kingdom of Azeroth's original decent packaging has been stripped naked, leaving only the skinny and bones, and the remnants of the Ureon clan have been even weaker by this blow. Although the Storm Kingdom still has a group of elite soldiers who have experienced the second war and are loyal to the king, including the great knight Grand Duke Neberval Fortagen, although the government affairs are mediocre, but his personal super combat power and the prestige accumulated in the restoration war still support this once the first power of mankind, staggering forward, but secretly, the real power of the nobles everywhere has begun to move.
The western wilderness of the Stormwind Kingdom, it is literally difficult to imagine that this peninsula with eighty percent of the land is plains is actually the big granary of this continent second only to the Hillbride region, coupled with the superior geographical location of the peninsula, surrounded by the sea on three sides, blocked by high mountains in the southeast, and next to Erwin in the east, it is a natural large rear base.
In the fifth year of the new calendar of the Stormwind Kingdom, Edwin, who escaped from Stormwind City, led the stonemasons to the Western Wilderness and changed his name to the Brotherhood of Phidia.
In March, he infiltrated the relatively deserted Dagger Ridge. As the only mountain range in the Western Wilderness and the main mining area, Phidia quickly fell silent after quickly taking over the many pit towns that were not well garrisoned.
In August, Phidia took the initiative to occupy the Sfeidarok Mine near the west of Dagger Ridge, the largest gold mine in the western wilderness, and even the largest in the entire Stormwind Kingdom, and the largest gold mine under the name of the Stormwind Royal Family.
Over the course of the next year, Fidia began to explode with the massive gold mines produced by the Death Mine, connecting the Death Mine to several surrounding pits, and even connecting some of the mines in the Dagger Ridge Mountains, creating a huge underground fortress.
In the sixth year of the new calendar of the Stormwind Kingdom, in July, Boulder Town, a town directly under Moon Creek City, was attacked by the Shadow Strike team, and more than half of the militia garrison team was killed or wounded.
In August, the three southernmost towns, including Boulder, were attacked by Phidia, and all but Boulder fell.
In September, after receiving the last distress letter from the garrison of Boulder Town, Second Lieutenant Fei Lu, Moon Creek City began to contact the southern garrison town, and Boulder lost contact with Boulder Town.
In November, the garrison of Mooncreek City was stationed, and the third brigade was attacked by the shadowmen above the brigade level while patrolling, and only one of the captains was wounded and returned to Mooncreek City, and died of his injuries the next day.
Three days later, Moonstream City, the political and economic center of the western wilderness of the Stormwind Kingdom, began to face the front of Phidia's troops, a formed army of shadowmen, and for the first time, their fangs were displayed in front of the world.
However, in terms of siege, the role of the Shadow Men is very limited, and even the formed Shadow Legion has not been able to break through Moon Creek City. However, since then, although Phidia's invasion has been stuck in the southern part of the Western Wilderness by Mooncreek, the villages and towns attached to Mooncreek have also been shattered and depopulated by the two sides until the great riot experienced by Tirius.
In the human kingdom of Azeroth, the formed regiments are generally divided into, militia regiments, garrison regiments, field regiments, and elite royal guards, except for more than eighty percent of the militia regiments composed of farmers who have just left the farmland, the other regiments are composed of standard professional soldiers who have been trained for at least half a year to one year, and the main difference in this part of the corps is the proportion of professionals in the corps.
Just as the Praetorian Guard, which is theoretically composed entirely of professionals, the combat power of the formed professionals, who have received formal training and obey unified command, can completely destroy more than five times the number of non-professional legions. And the Wild West Riot that Tirius faced, among the forces that broke out in Phidia, there were several formed professional legions.
The elusive Assassin Legion, although it was only a small legion, and most of them were low-level, even first-order assassins who had just been inaugurated, but in an early night attack, they successfully defeated the garrison stationed on a key road in the southwest of Yuexi City, and cut leeks to wipe out the backbone of the squadron leader and above.
The positioning of the garrison corps is the nature of the new barracks, and his role is to form a squadron with a group of professional backbones, and under the leadership of the brigade or even the commander of the corps, the recruits who have just completed training will be transformed into qualified slaughterers, and in the process the unqualified ones will be eliminated, or incorporated into the militia regiment or attributed to the civilians, in the continuous training, some of the soldiers will slowly break through to become low-level soldiers, and when the proportion of professionals reaches about 30%, the garrison corps will automatically raise the gear, replace it with real standard equipment, and become a more elite field corps, this kind of corps, as long as it has experienced several victories, can be crowned with its own unique title, officially on the elite of the kingdom. This is almost the general process of all human kingdom legions, and a garrison corps in the process of growth, in the case of the collapse of all the leadership, is almost equivalent to a person being drained of bone marrow and breaking the backbone, and the sporadic fire of combat power is just a candle in the wind, fleeting.
In fact, in the early days of Edwin's transfer to the Western Wilderness, the native nobles of the Western Wilderness have more or less recovered some of their vitality, and some of them are even stronger than before after absorbing a large number of displaced people, if they contribute, it is completely possible to easily crush the Phidia Brotherhood, which was still relatively weak at that time, after all, Phidia's previous life was a stonemason union, many of them were just craftsmen, and their personal strength was very weak in the early stage of the transformation, except for Edwin, who was seriously lacking in high-end combat power. But all the local nobles have been hiding on the side to watch the show, after the Storm Royal Family began to destroy the basic principles and directly swallow several large noble territories in the Western Wilderness, the Western Wilderness has completely become the focus of the fierce conflict between the local nobles and the royal family, however, the appearance of the Shadow Legion also shocked the local nobles in the Western Wilderness at the same time, and at the same time began to feel the bitter consequences of raising tigers while regretting it.
However, not only the Assassin Corps, but also the Forest Trolls, The field corps of goblins is mixed, and the only trolls that can appear in formation near the Stormwind Kingdom may be the remnants of Zurgrab in the Valley of Thorns, but the road up the Valley of Thorns is completely blocked by the Anvel Mountains, and only the Coulson area has a thorny path leading to the Elwyn Forest, but several fortresses set up at the intersection completely block these savage ogres from the human plain text, only the goblins who are greedy for money or the human merchants who want money and don't want their lives will occasionally pass through this place, and in the case of the passage fortress has not been breached, there are still formed trolls in the Western Wilderness, then there is only one possibility, Phidia successfully opened the sea route from the Western Wilderness to the Valley of Thorns。
In this world, the discovery of a safe sea route costs countless money and lives, in addition to the completely unreasonable water elemental life, the fish-man bandit group led by Naga, the pirate group composed of various races, are all fatal points for the route to break off. And as we all know, the combat power of trolls is far superior to that of ordinary humans, adult trolls are generally beginner warriors, and the tribe with a complete inheritance will continue to emerge troll witch doctors, troll sacrifices and other legal professionals, plus the messy goblin technology products brought by goblin engineers who want money and don't want to die, the combat power of a reorganized troll goblin mixed corps is even infinitely close to the level of the Royal Praetorian Guard, although the tactical command is almost equal to nothing, but in the West Lake Wilderness, after this corps completely annihilated the two garrison corps of Yuexi City, an elite field corps from Erwin, whether it is a local nobleman or a kingdom army, they all began to recognize the reality, the wall cleared, and began to beg his father to tell his grandmother's cry for support from all sides.
In addition, in addition to these two combat power corps, there are also some miscellaneous units, most of which are unemployed members of the Fidia organization, and their combat power is even lower than that of the militia corps, and their main task is to annex the occupied areas.
Under Phidia's aggressive attitude, in order to prevent Moon Creek City from being breached, all the way north to invade their territory, the local nobles in the western wilderness not only collected most of their private soldiers, but also reluctantly gathered several garrison corps, relying on the strong defense line of Moon Creek City, struggling to defend, and even sent the most urgent letter of help or threat to Stormwind City: send troops to rescue or wait for Phidia to lead the army to resume revenge.
In Stormwind City, the Great Council of the Kingdom, which had already received the news, was still arguing over whether to send troops, and there was a shortage of soldiers and food, and there was a shortage of generals. The reality is that after the war, the Stormwind Kingdom was in ruins, except for the remaining elites in World War II who were left as the garrison of the royal capital, the construction of the army was suppressed to a minimum intentionally or unintentionally, the granaries of previous years, the grain provided by the Western Wilderness was getting less and less in the continuous riots, coupled with the other major grain producing area, the procrastination of the various great lords in the Erwin region, the weakness of the Stormwind Kingdom or the royal family was torn off the last bit of cover in this sudden but not unexpected rebellion.
Looking at this, the corners of Keerryth's mouth sneered, human beings don't need two big countries, one mountain can't accommodate two tigers, the kingdom of Azeroth, the former first great country of mankind, there are all kinds of black hands in the disaster of destroying the country, the gun shoots the first bird, and the tree is high and will be cut off. Even if the country is finally restored, the small actions of the countries have never been broken, plus Marshal Anduin died in the battle of Blackstone Mountain, the young Varian lost his last protective umbrella, although the Grand Duke of Berval can be regarded as loyal, but his own aristocratic nature makes it have scruples in many times, coupled with the indecision of nature, the restored Storm King not only failed to be reborn, but also became more and more weak, as many people hoped, as many people hope to weaken, if it weren't for the later Alsace backwater, directly opened the black to white, transformed into the country of death, the remaining essence all flowed into the Stormwind Kingdom, the Stormwind Kingdom may be destroyed earlier than Lordaeron。
"But!"
Kyris groaned and flipped the page.
On March 27, the eleventh year of the new calendar of the Stormwind Kingdom, Count Tirius led the elite knights to extend the Strait of Difiro, bypassing the main force of the Fidia army, detouring to the rear, destroying and scattering the four militia groups of Fidia head-on, and then approaching the mine of death. Then, in order to wait for work, the troll goblin mixed corps that returned to the reinforcements in the West Rodia Valley was completely annihilated by the Phidia Assassin Regiment that night, except for a small number of elites of Edwin Shuai who broke through and fled into the death mine, and the main elite of the Fidia Shadow Legion was completely wiped out. Subsequently, Count Tires took over Dagger Ridge to the south, destroyed and blocked all the mines, and only surrounded the death mines in the north, and on May 2, he completely encircled and annihilated the last elite of Phidia, who had broken through, and the Lord Edwin escaped alone, not knowing his life or death.
After this victory, from Dagger Ridge in the south to nearly half of the territory of the Western Wilderness in the north to Sardinia Farm, plus the original Jangorod Territory, three-quarters of the land in the Western Wilderness has been hung with the Red Shield Thorn Bird Banner of Tailaner.
The Knights led by Count Tirius proclaimed the Knights of the Wilderness, with a large corps of nearly 20,000 people, the whole regiment was composed of professionals, most of them were low-level warriors, and the source of the members was unknown, and there was no less than one team of paladin members, suspected to be members of the Royal Paladins of Stormwind, and the Knights of the Wilderness were tentatively designated as elite guards regiments.
"Knights of the Wilderness. ”
Kelreth slowly closed the materials and placed them on the table, rubbing his fingers against the back of the rough parchment, closed his eyes and thought for a long time, and then picked up the envelope bag containing the materials.
"Tiris, this maelstrom, are you really going to get into it? It seems that the old man already knew..."
While talking to himself, Kerrith put the envelope bag back and forth, the top and bottom of the envelope together, the envelope made of unknown animal skin was cluttered with fine lines, but in the corner of the piecing showed a simple X-shape.
"My name is the Holy Light, the words of the Japanese moxibustion"
With a whisper, a faint trace of electricity burst out from his fingertips, and the two ends of the assembled envelope fused together, and after a large number of spells suddenly appeared in the middle of the envelope, it cracked, and a new letter appeared in Kelrith's hand. Tirius's news, although the mage attaches great importance to it, he only needs to know the true situation of his senior brother, what the situation is, as for the true secret, he doesn't care too much, so although there is a lot of information, it doesn't cost much money, and now this secret letter is really for Kyris to spend a lot of money to buy.