After the war, the Alliance did not pursue the victory any further. Instead, before the large Horde forces assembled to counterattack, they retreated behind Thoradin's Wall and deployed heavy troops to defend Thoradin's Wall.

Ye Ting and Lothar's judgment was correct.

The army that the Alliance encountered before, led by the chief of the tribe himself, was just a small number of elites that the tribe urgently assembled after discovering that the alliance was launching an attack on their rear from the direction of Hillsbrad Hills.

In Orgrim's view, these alliance armies are the main force coming to support the Kingdom of Stormgard. Since the Horde was unable to attack Stromgarde for a long time, Orgrim was seriously worried that the Horde would be attacked from both sides by the alliance's reinforcements and the defenders of Stromgarde, and would fall into a disadvantageous situation.

This resourceful warchief had to lead his elite troops to temporarily resist the Alliance's attack. On the other hand, the Horde's large forces also began to gather and change direction. The Horde's strategy was to divide their forces, use a small number of troops to guard Stromgarde, and defeat the large forces. The alliance's reinforcements dealt a fatal blow to the alliance's power.

At the same time that the alliance's army withdrew from the Arathi Highlands, the main force of the orcs finally assembled, and they pursued Lothar's army all the way to Thoradin's Wall.

Facing the high wall that had kept the troll empire away, they launched a tentative attack.

However, even though at the moment the orc tribe was generally stronger than the Amani Troll Empire back then, they still lost an inch in front of this solid wall but could not make any progress.

Finally, after repeated attacks to no avail, Orgrim had to turn around and return to continue the siege of Stromgarde.

Orgrim did not leave a small number of troops to temporarily block the main force of the alliance hiding behind Thoradin's Wall.

Through the previous limited battles, he had realized that the main force of the alliance was stronger than he thought. Even the elite troops he led were no match for them. The ordinary orc troops left behind would only be eaten by the enemy in one bite.

However, when the main force of the tribe returned to the walls of Stromgarde, they were surprised to find that the situation suddenly became different.

Stromgarde, which had been almost completely out of ammunition and food, now seemed to be fully supplied, and its counterattack against them became sharper.

Arrows, logs, ores and various military supplies that had to be sparingly used were now used freely by the defenders of Stromgarde, causing heavy losses to the orcs who were madly attacking.

On the other hand, the number of troops defending Stromgarde seems to have increased, at least to the point where they can be rotated, and the tribe's fatigue tactics of attacking day and night have also lost their effect.

In short, after several days of siege battles, the tribe has clearly felt that the defense power of Stromgarde has improved.

This change in form made Orgrim feel baffled. In the end, under the investigation of scouts and warlocks, all the reasons were finally revealed - this "lonely city" tightly surrounded by tribes, from sea and The Alliance restored transportation and connections, and the Alliance's human and material resources constantly entered Stromgarde from the sea.

All this almost made Orgrim want to vomit blood.

He really could not have imagined that Dragon's rebellion and the Dragonmaw clan's failure would have such a great impact on the tribe.

The loss of the tribe's sea power not only meant the bankruptcy of the sea landing plan, and a large number of soldiers perished in the sea in vain, but now it also affected the tribe's strategy for the Arathi Highlands.

This fortified city built on a high cliff, backed by the sea, with only one direction to attack, is the key for the tribe to truly occupy the Arathi Highlands.

As the capital of the Kingdom of Stormgard, as long as Stromgarde does not fall, the Horde will not be able to securely establish a foothold in the Arathi Highlands; and the Horde's inability to establish a foothold in the Arathi Highlands means that the Horde will not be able to establish a stable presence in Lordaeron. base area.

I don’t even know where to begin with the idea of ​​attacking the continent of Lordaeron and completely defeating the Alliance with a preemptive strike.

Then, Ye Ting's suggestion put the tribe in Arathi Highlands into a dilemma.

"You mean, you want to form a pure cavalry force to harass the tribe's rear?" Ye Ting's sudden suggestion made Lothar think deeply.

Lothar, a veteran warrior who has been on the battlefield for a long time, still likes frontal attack and defense when facing the orcs.

There is nothing that can be done about it. Although Lothar and most of the generals in the alliance understand the true meaning of war and know that war is just a continuation of politics, their long-standing tradition has made them accustomed to arranging battle arrays with the enemy and confronting them head-on. In frontal battles, or simple city defense battles, the only commonly used strategy is to use mass destruction magic against the assembled enemies.

This is like the princes in the Spring and Autumn Period, or the iron fools in the European Middle Ages.

However, as the war continued, various strategies from his opponent Orgrim, as well as teammates such as Ye Ting, Hillvanas and others, were either impossible to guard against or used all kinds of tricks, which made this veteran warrior. It opened my eyes.

Tactics do not matter whether they are good or evil, only practical or impractical.

Now, Lothar is fully able to accept Ye Ting's slightly despicable tactics of "not fighting head-on, but only attacking the enemy's weak points". After careful consideration, he increasingly feels that Ye Ting's method is very feasible.

According to the current situation, although the Alliance is completely on the defensive, there are not many places that the Alliance, which completely occupies the geographical area, needs to defend, except Thoradin's Wall and Stromgarde. Therefore, the Alliance, as the defender, has taken the initiative.

On the other hand, although the Horde is powerful, they have no danger of defending the Arathi Highlands, and they have been unable to attack Stromgarde. Now they are attacked from both sides and are passive. Unless they give up their plan to conquer the continent of Lordaeron, this situation will It goes on and on.

In this way, the alliance will have the ability to take the initiative and harass the tribe.

(Li's) Although facing the tribal army, such harassment cannot cause any fatal harm to the opponent, but it is equivalent to boiling a frog in warm water or slowly bleeding.

Weaken the tribe's strength by continuously killing a small number of enemy troops and disturbing the enemy's forage.

Thinking about it carefully, isn't this equivalent to an enlarged version of his previous tactics against the tribe on the battlefield?

On the battlefield, Lothar used the alliance's advantages in coordination and equipment to put himself on the defensive, constantly consuming the power of the actively attacking tribes through defense; the alliance's overall strategy was the same, using passive defense to consume the power of the overall powerful tribes. Power, the final fatal blow.

On the battlefield, Lothar will send cavalry to seize the opportunity to attack while defending, and then withdraw behind the shield wall. On the one hand, he will consume the enemy, and on the other hand, he will maintain morale and prevent the morale reduction caused by long-term defense; in terms of overall strategy, now Ye Isn't Ting's suggestion exactly the same?

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