Volume 5 The Return of the King 151 The Crisis of Stormgard

It's not just a matter of face.

The Confederates did not produce the expected results, capturing Tarummere, Dunhold, and Hillsbrad. This kind of is completely to give an explanation to the people, as for how many people died on the front line, this kind of thing is generally not directly released, and how tragic the battle is, this kind of thing will only be allowed to be told after some processing, deletion and addition, so in the end, only I don't know if it is a fictional story is brought back for the people to know and praise.

And the real witnesses of the war are the witnesses...... To put it mildly, if you can come back alive later, most of them will join the ranks of the upper class, and once they leave the quagmire of the bottom society, there are not many people who are willing to lie in the mud again. And those who have upgraded their grades are not necessarily willing to tell the truth, and ...... What good do they do if they say that those who are unknown will be characterized as rumors or slanders by the higher-ups?

Since there is no benefit, there are only three situations, one is dementia, one is an accident, and the other is to die.

In order to increase the people's enthusiasm for fighting and continue to support the kingdom, they will also hold heroic funerals for some dead soldiers, and the compensation will be more in place after they are called heroes, and the rest of the people who have gone but have not been notified of the death of their relatives will have a trace of illusion about the war, some people are looking forward to the return of their relatives, but some people will have a special ...... Thoughts, there is also a rough psychological expectation that their relatives will be honored in case they are glorified, although most of them do not really hope that their families will never come back.

Therefore, the expedition is still asleep, and those who are immersed in sleep are happier, at least they will have less resistance to the country, the king, the upper echelons, the government, the policy, and the war, and after these conflicts are reduced, there will be a little less complaints about labor and taxes.

Don't look at such a small reduction, this little bit will alleviate a lot of troubles at the top and eliminate a lot of unnecessary disputes.

The matter of ruling is called fooling people in the vernacular, and in the more elegant words, it is called trickery. There is no essential difference.

In addition to the defeat of the dwarves, the fall of the Wall of Soladin has had a great impact on the kingdom of Stormgard to the point where it threatens the very essence of the country.

And the fall of the country did not end with the capture of the capital, nor with the beginning of the war, but with a change in the minds of the people of the land.

This is actually very easy to understand, that is...... When the people no longer believe in the government, no longer believe in the king, and no longer fight for the king and the glory of the king, or for anything that has anything to do with the king, the country ...... It's dead, so to speak.

Yes, it's simple, that's what it looks like.

And the fall of the kingdom of Stormgard, I think it also began here.

Efarhibi said that the news from the front was that it was very difficult for Stormgard to recruit troops now, not because their generals were not active, but because their generals could not find more and better soldiers, even if it was more and more difficult for the group of dead fish and shrimp in his hands now.

The resistance to conscription over there became more and more serious, and even the common people in some places began to flee their homes, they had their own ideas, or they had new beliefs, new religions, and they began to complain more and more about the king and the war, and their enthusiasm was not high.

When we chatted, everyone in the kingdom of Stormgard was more or less despised, and I told them that I was not a Stormgard, and that I was a Lordaeron, and that I was not dispelled, especially Epheshbi's contempt and contempt for me.

The crown prince of Lordaeron killed his own father, and the crown prince of Stormgard did not kill his own father with his own hands, but the cause of the death of the old king Solas Thorbairn is varied, some say that he was starved to death, some say he was poisoned, and some say he was strangled to death. And once such a rumor appears, even if it is not true, it will have a bad impact, and the reputation of this crown prince named Garin is really not good.

It is said that there is no wind and no waves, and this kind of thing is not necessarily groundless, so the people are even more disappointed in the royal family of Stormgard. And in all national governments, there will not be only one voice and one idea in the vested interest group, and each of them has a more elegant evaluation of them, so there will always be some people around the royal family who will begin to covet the idea of the throne because of the changes in the current situation, even if they do not covet the throne, they will also have the desire to enhance their power and wealth, even if they don't really want it, they will be pushed by some reasons, such as nepotism, and he has to do it.

The kingdom of Stormgard once received some refugees from the Hillsbrad and Dumbhold regions, and some of the nobles of Alterac also took refuge in Stormgard after the kingdom was dissolved.

Who doesn't have a few friends, right, and the wealth of these nobles who originally had a place in Alterac is also considerable, so they have connections, influence, their own population and land, and more wealth, and this kind of person can be used.

And now, the most active person in the kingdom of Stormgard is also the guy named Facurrest.

This guy is not at all restless, he has long ago openly opposed King Garin Torbairn, the reason can be made up at will, as long as this is not too outrageous, it doesn't matter, but his appearance has caused some chain reactions, that is, a series of opposition voices and hostile organizations have appeared in the country one after another.

The Duke of Facurest and his men, who called themselves syndicates, did not organize a large-scale riot, did not cause large-scale conflicts, and even did not want to destroy the villages and farms, they began to instigate people to speak out, causing more and more people to be dissatisfied with the current situation.

At a time when the undead had not yet occupied the Wall, or even Hillsbrad, there were not many complaints and dissatisfaction with the expansion of the kingdom's territory, and most people would not gain any benefit from the increase in territory, nor would they have much to do with the king's impression and evaluation of the king because of the inclusion of Hillsbrad and Dunhold in the territory, because it had nothing to do with them.

But once the kingdom loses these lands, people will come out of nowhere, and they will criticize, they will sneer, they will speak coldly, and they will even slander. The Syndicate began a large-scale campaign after the dead took away the land that did not belong to Stormgard.

And no one thought that no one knew whether the combat effectiveness of the dead was too strong or that the combat effectiveness of Stormgard's soldiers was too weak, and that they would be defeated so quickly and completely.

The initial loss of Talenmir and the surrounding land can be said to be a mistake, and victory and defeat are a common occurrence in soldiers. However, the walls and protections of Dunhold's height were defeated, and in the end, the taller, larger, and stronger wall of Soladin failed to hold back the enemy, so that the walls were lost.

Although the soldiers finally let the undead no longer advance half a step, but the Great Wall means that the country's original and most basic security is now gone, what does this make the people of the whole country think? The orcs are powerful, and they can break through everyone, so they didn't say anything at the time, but this kind of thing happened again, and it was not a simple problem to fall twice in the same place.

Moreover, after the undead occupied the Great Wall, a large number of undead soldiers infiltrated the country, not to mention how much damage was caused, but the panic in the hearts of the people is not something that can be eliminated in a short time by your kingdom's army eradicating those dead people.

Disappointment, non-stop disappointment, and the result is ...... Now that the kingdom is in jeopardy, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it is dead.

In addition to a small number of Lordaeron troops fighting on the front line, the only human army on the front line is the soldiers of the Stormwind Kingdom and the natives of Stormgard. And as the masters of this land, their army had extremely negative thoughts after experiencing and seeing more and more difficult situations and constant defeats, and the battle was basically lost.

Efahibi was right, and both men and women looked at this talkative guy with admiration, but in the end, it emphasized not the defeat of the Stormwind Kingdom army, but the fact that the expeditionary teammate's teammates were pig teammates that caused many problems.

The reason why he said this is also to give himself a step, and some things should not be too explicit, so that they will be used by some people with ideas.

That night's conversation gave me an indescribable feeling that they, as outsiders, and Efahibi were now also talking and laughing as outsiders, and that hundreds of thousands of people had died behind their jokes, and that behind the stories they told that might have sounded trivial were the displacement and destruction of many families.

I'm a person without a heart anymore, at least my heart doesn't beat anymore. But I always see before my eyes the poverty and misery, the hunger and cold, the sickness and death. It was not only the trapped soldiers who were helpless, but also countless families, countless civilians, including children.

I have an opinion about Sylvanas, whatever the reason, but I still want everyone to live in peace, but it seems like a luxury now.

Once a war starts, in the end, one side must give in or surrender and end, even if both sides say that they are evenly matched, one side will be the first to feel that if the war continues, it may be completely out of control and cause greater problems.

The current situation is that the alliance went to war with confidence, and then immediately ate a big deflate, and then all kinds of problems were exposed. They didn't take advantage, they didn't achieve their goals, and the problems that were exposed could have brought the fledgling alliance to its knees.

I can't imagine what it would be like if the Union collapsed.

Unthinkable!