klisemfg Chapter 401: Retaliation is inevitable
Chapter 401: Retaliation is inevitable
Feeling something was amiss, messengers and scouts from Southshore and the Human Alliance went to the coast in waves to investigate, but none returned with a report...
Major William, now the deputy commander of the 7th Legion's Southern Vanguard Cavalry Regiment, has reinforcements still en route from the Wetlands... The acting commander-in-chief of the Human Alliance, considering the overall situation, cannot send any more troops to the coast; the pressure around the Greymane Wall is immense...
William worried that the airships from Undercity would raid behind the walls or detour by sea.
He had already deployed all remaining troops and equipment to the nearby hilltops, guarding against threats from the air and sea. At sea, there was a force that could aid humanity: the Crimson Navy fleet that Tyran had contacted...
Out of taboo, King Gene Greymane refused Barry Wess's Scarlet Fleet entry into port...
The Gilneans clearly didn't fully trust the remnants of the human alliance. They were even less likely to treat the Scarlet Ascetic fanatics, who had murdered Gilnean civilians, with any respect. The king was forced to accept the Scarlet monks to preach in the Black Temple.
Gilneas originally believed in the Holy Light, but the Holy Light did not help Gilneas avoid being infected by the curse of the wolf god.
On the path leading to the cathedral's main naval chamber, the bloodstains of the werewolf civilians slaughtered by the Scarlet Assault Team had not yet completely dried. The cathedral had been handed over to the Scarlet Crusade priests as a resting place...
In Project Stormwind, Gilneas's original objective was merely to launch a feint attack to draw the Forsaken Legion and the Gravekeeper garrison towards Therberch...
Now the main battlefield has moved to the gates of Gilneas. Even William's troops, the remnants of the allied forces retreating from the front lines... King Genn still does not agree to let them enter Gilneas. He has only left rope ladders on the walls to facilitate William's envoys and logistical support.
Fortunately, the Gilneans still sent Lord Darius, the greatest chieftain of the Bloodfang Worgen, to join William's allied forces in resisting the Horde's attack... which temporarily stabilized the situation.
The war has entered its third day...
According to Countess Katarina's Stormstorm Plan, the timeframe for achieving the strategic objectives has passed, but the results have been minimal. The human alliance has suffered setbacks, and Gilneas has been dragged into a quagmire, teetering on the brink of collapse...
Ambermill, which they sought to reclaim, had become a graveyard and forbidden land for mages. The town of Hillsbrad was now deserted, even its remnant souls controlled by Lorraine, who was driving them towards the sea...
Strangely, Lorraine has received no information about attacks on his activated undead minions, either underground or above ground. The beach is like a black hole; anyone who gets close disappears without a trace...
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According to the military report obtained from Terrana, Mayor Bon led nearly half of the townspeople to the simple harbor in three locations: the Jade Mine, the port in front of the mine, and Redemption Island at sea. Some of them took a boat to Redemption Island, while others went directly into the Jade Mine and picked up weapons that had been prepared beforehand.
Outside the cave was a group of guards, all of whom were veteran mercenaries who had been sent by the town mayor after the war in Lordaeron.
This group clashed with the Southsea militia, who had come to hunt down Mayor Bourne; both sides had several hundred men.
The mayor had more men, and their equipment was superior. Lieutenant Rayleigh's force, mostly composed of Southshore reservists, was struggling against veterans who had also survived the plague in Lordaeron. He was forced to call for reinforcements...
An hour before discovering Lorraine's imprisonment in the underground vault, Terra, atop a dragonhawk, witnessed a group of human cavalry carrying the red banners of the Stromgarde royal family heading towards the Jade Mine. They were clearly retreating from the direction of Silverpine Forest...
The human side should be unaware of the Queen's suspected death...
They likely had a falling out, with the Stromgarde forces leaving the group on their own... instead of retreating to their base in Arathi Highlands, they headed towards the Jade Mine...
Captain Terra didn't know what the human cavalry of Chickenline Keep were up to... but her primary objective was to keep an eye on Master Yuvel of the Silver Covenant, so the largest dragonhawk would head towards Southshore to monitor him...
As for the group of people in the jade mine...
Terra didn't recognize the young man leading that group. Based on the description, she could guess that he was Garin, the Chicken Willow Prince, who had been constantly causing trouble for Lorraine and her master, and who had repaid kindness with enmity!
Regardless of his skill level, the sheer brilliance and style of his armor made him stand out even at night.
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Galin originally had three or four thousand elite cavalry, but after three days of fierce fighting, more than half of them were lost. After announcing his withdrawal from the human alliance led by Master Yuvel and resigning from his position as marshal, he led the remaining thousand or so men straight to the jade mine.
Before returning to his stronghold, Stromgarde, in the Arathi Highlands, Garin vowed revenge!
Garin remembered very clearly what happened after the banquet in Hillsbrad.
Garin is determined to capture and chop that old bastard Mayor Bonn to pieces... The reason he rushed back to the lakeside camp was to gather his men to deal with that old man and his bunch of lowly people.
Galin was accidentally kicked half to death by the plague hound. He was finally saved by the priest and doctor, but then he accidentally fell into an endless abyss.
I almost got fed to the Spider Demon...
Garin confronts the old man from Hillsbrads who was once humble as a dog but suddenly turned on him, humiliating him and touching on his father's sore spot about his curse that he could never become king... namely, Mayor Bourne!
His hatred was no less than Lorraine's...
The Plaguebringer Lorraine, Lorraine's teacher disguised as the bard 'Barbaras', and the mayor of Boone in Hillsbrad are the three people on Chickenline's last prince's kill list.
In other words, with Garin's thousands of men, the jade mine by the sea should be quite lively...
There were at least 800 townspeople... plus the mayor's elite guard, Lieutenant Rayleigh and his men who came to arrest them, and Prince Garin's elite Stromgarde cavalry...
There were at least several thousand people gathered on the beach...
And they are opposing forces...
However, Lorraine encountered no obstacles underground... He smelled the same familiar salty seawater scent in the tunnel, just as he had in the crevice before. If he hadn't discovered the underground treasure vault earlier, Lorraine was certain that he had reached the vicinity of the tunnel.
Sure enough, as he felt the space ahead suddenly open up, he turned his head and saw a huge underground fissure below, from which he could hear the sound of underground water flowing... Although not very intense, the gurgling sound of water flowing and washing over the hard stone walls was very clear...
Looking up, the space suddenly felt incredibly spacious. Numerous wooden frames supported the area, hung with miners' lamps. Not far away were shovels and spades, and in the middle were mine carts loaded with ore and simple rails...
Lorraine was certain he had reached the legendary jade mine through the tunnel!