The divided orcs will not pose much of a threat to the Alliance in the short term. After all, even their former warchief Orgrim is on the run, avoiding the pursuit of Garithos.
Since escaping from Lordaeron, Orgrim and Kilrogg Deadeye have been living in exile. The pursuit of the Alliance has made the two of them like lost dogs.
However, during their continuous escape, they also obtained a lot of important information.
"Great Chief, let's have something to eat."
In the great forest of East Wilder, Kilrogg handed the hot bread to Orgrim, and Doomhammer nodded slightly and took the food.
"Ner'zhul and Fenris also failed."
Orgrim sighed helplessly and said that the joy after the victory swept across the entire alliance. In the town where they had just stolen supplies, a notice announcing the alliance's victory was posted on the big tree outside the formation.
The notice described the process of the tribe's defeat in great detail. Even in such a backward town, names like Ner'zhul, Fenris, and Kargath could be seen.
Hearing Orgrim's words, Kilrogg's eyes became hollow, and he suddenly found that he could not see the way forward clearly.
He once paid the price of one eye to predict the date of his death. In the prophecy, he saw that he would die in his hometown, the Draenei city of Auchindoun.
But now he is at a loss. After all, even his own world may be destroyed. Where can he find Auchindon dead in it?
At this time, he thought of the human officer who defeated him in the snowfields of Dun Morogh and showed considerable disdain for his "fate".
"Li De..."
Kilrogg gritted his teeth and recited this name. Orgrim knew that this person had become a demon in Kilrogg's heart, and he sighed and said.
"It was he who commanded the alliance and defeated Fenris' army...",
Having said this, Orgrim stood up and patted the dirt on his butt.
"Leave here when you're full. The town has probably reported our situation to the alliance, and the army chasing us will probably arrive soon.
We still have to go to the Hinterlands to look for Eitrigg. He has not been defeated by the Alliance yet, and we should still be able to find him. We need to unite and think about where the tribe will go in the future.
After all, the enemies we have to face are the Alliance, Lothar and that Li De."
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Li De, the powerful enemy Orgrim said, has now returned to the Vast Sea Protector. Accompanying him are Kel'Thuzad, Garin, Marcus and Grian.
In the battle against the goblins, Hanhai Protectorate will inevitably become the main battlefield, and most of the senior officials of the First Division came here with Li De.
Only Ashkandi and Bolvar remained in the Kingdom Continent, with instructor Brad assisting them in training.
The teleportation array coming from Alterac to the Hanhai Protectorate risks being paralyzed if more than ten people are teleported at one time, and it cannot support the teleportation of large forces at all.
This is why Li De returned to the portal and expressed his thoughts about Khadgar's super teleportation.
"In a week, our soldiers will arrive here with Kul Tiras' ship, so we must prepare in advance."
Li De said carefully, and pushed open the door of the room where the teleportation array was located. What Li De didn't expect was that a graceful sentry general was standing right outside the door.
"Shandis, why are you here?"
Li De said with great surprise, his steps were much more brisk, he stepped down the steps and stood in front of Shandis Yuyue.
Galin, Grian, and the others looked at each other, and they all saw the surprised expressions on each other's faces, but this was the first time they saw the commander-in-chief with such an unstable side.
"I thought I had to open the road to Feralas before I could see you again, but I didn't expect to see you again so soon."
While Li De was speaking, he grabbed his hands twice on both sides of his body, as if he wanted to put them in his pockets.
Shandis Yuyue chuckled lightly, and her pair of pointed ears twitched slightly.
"I'm not here just for fun, I'm here with Mindo's mission."
Just one sentence from General Sentinel made Li De a little nervous.
"Ah? High Priest Tyrande? What's wrong with her?"
In fact, speaking of it, Li De has met many important people with higher status than Tyrande. Even Li De himself is a big person, and the identity of the Moon Priest is not enough to make him nervous.
The crux of the problem is that she is Shandis's "Mindo", and Li De still doesn't know what the other's "parents" think of her.
But then Shandis's words made Li De become serious again.
"It's not that Min Duo has anything going on, it's because she ordered me to communicate. Some of the big moves you guys have made recently have made Min Duo a little concerned about it.
Of course, please don’t get me wrong, Min Duo is not asking questions, but he has something that he hopes can be communicated in advance so as not to cause a crisis."
Shandis knew very well that Li De was a very strong person at heart, so he was particularly strict in his words.
But Shandis' words made Li De stunned. After thinking about it for a moment, he realized that what the other person was talking about might be about the wild boar people.
Some time after Calgar Thorn Rib visited Hanhai Protector, Li Decai received a report from home.
I can only say that Van Cleef is so capable, maybe he is really a genius in intelligence.
Soon after he took office, he keenly grasped the key to the problem. The Protector of the Hanhai was destined to go to war with the goblins, and once the war started, it would be a competition between the combined strength of Kezan and the Protector of the Hanhai.
Cotton is an important strategic material, whether it is used in bandages for soldiers' clothing or as sails to power ships.
Before the war, Kezan relied on cotton to hold Hanhai Protector's neck. Once the war started, those cottons would be converted into Kezan's war potential, causing harm to Hanhai Protector.
If you can't get it, just destroy it.
It was such a simple logic that Van Cleef took action against the goblins' cotton production.
He personally led the team to explore the road, and finally found a road that exceeded people's imagination.
Just to the north of the Shining Plains, there is a sky path to the north from the cliff on the mountain wall, which can directly enter the Dustwallow Swamp!
As one of the engineers who supervised the construction of Theramore, Van Cleef immediately noticed the significance of this road to the Imperial Guard.
Of course, at that time, opening a road to Theramore from land was not the first priority.
Van Cleef and his men set out from the southern part of Dustwallow Swamp and headed northwest along the mountains on the edge of the swamp.
With excellent survivability and the latest achievements of the Engineering School, just a few days later, Van Cleef and the others successfully found the mountain pass from Dustwallow Swamp into the Barrens.
After entering the Barrens, Van Cleef successfully found the Razor Swamp based on the map provided by Veresa, met the quilboars enslaved by the hot sand, and saw the carts of cotton shipped from there.
And it was there that Van Cleef met Calgar Thornribs, who launched an attack on the Steamwheedle convoy.
Thanks to Calgar's excellent language talent and mastery of Low Common Language, Darnassian and Troll Language, otherwise the two parties would not be able to communicate smoothly.
From Calgar, VanCleef learned why the quilboar fell to this point.
Legend has it that the quilboars are the descendants of the demigod Agamaggan and were born in the place where the demigods fell.
Although they may seem to have noble origins, the social form of the wild boar people is actually very primitive and tribal, and the race is also in a long-term internal struggle.
There are three main factions within the quilboar: Razor, Steelmane, and Thornback.
Among them, the razor boars are the most transcendent, living in Razor Marsh and Razor Highlands;
The Steelmane Boars have the largest population and the most powerful army;
Although the thornback quilboar is the weakest, it possesses the blood rock ore, which is said to be formed from the blood of demigods, also known as the blood gem.
The three groups of quilboar would have a large-scale conflict almost every ten years. The most recent one was five years ago, when Steelmane and Thornback rarely joined forces to attack Razorfen.
The Razorbacks suffered heavy losses, and the current leader was also killed.
In the end, the Razorbacks used the power of the Holy Land to repel Steelmane and Thornback. However, because they were weak, they were seized by the goblin colonists under the banner of "expedition team."
The goblins relied on dazzling engineering weapons to occupy parts of Razorfen and Razor Highlands.
These colonists are different from the steel-maned and thorn-backed quilboars. They are not interested in occupying the quilboar's holy land. They only want to plunder large areas of land and extract the wealth from it.
As for the Wild Boar Holy Land, a dangerous place like that should simply be closed off and not accessible. The Wild Boars have nothing to do with these colonists.
The two tribes, Steelmane and Thornback, saw that they had paid huge casualties and finally got the better of the goblins. In anger, they launched an attack on the goblins.
However, in the previous war, these two parties also suffered heavy losses and were no match for the goblin colonists.
The quilboars were quickly driven back by the goblins, and after a period of confusion, Steelmane and Thornback began to fight among themselves again.
In this way, the goblins took complete control of Razorfen and began to enslave the razorboar people for several years.
There were not no wild boars among them who rose up to resist, but they were all weak and often quickly exterminated.
The only exception was Calgar Thornrib. She risked her life and broke into the quilboar holy land and became a heroic shaman high priest.
But in the face of the overwhelming bullets from the goblins, even a strong hero can only retreat when he is alone.
In the end, Calgar escaped from Razorfen and began wandering in the Barrens, recruiting a group of quilboar slaves who also escaped under her command.
They are always thinking about taking back the land, but they have not seen any results for more than two years.
It was at this time that Calgar met Van Cleef.
When she heard that Van Cleef was also an enemy of the goblins, Calgar Thornrib was obviously not convinced. Because in her opinion, Van Cleef's team was simply not enough to shake the goblins.
But soon Calga became nervous, because Van Cleef showed her a powerful engineering weapon! Its power was not inferior to that of goblins, or even stronger than theirs!
Van Cleef proposed cooperation to Calgar. After much hesitation, Calgar made the decision and followed Van Cleef back to the Hanhai Protector.
That is, after arriving at the Hanhai Protectorate, the powerful scene here deeply shocked Calgar.
Especially after learning that the trolls living here were once even more backward than the wild boar people, Calgar finally made up his mind:
She decided to cooperate with the Hanhai Protector and asked the Hanhai Protector to help train an army to drive away those hateful goblin colonists!
The above is what Van Cleef reported in detail in his letter to Li De.
After reading the content, Li De couldn't help praising Van Cleef's work in his reply.
Following his instructions, the intelligence department led by Van Cleef will be independent from Haggard and named the "Hanhai Protectorate Geographical Survey and Statistics Bureau", which will be responsible for geographical exploration and intelligence collection.
As for Calgar Thornrib's request, Reed's instructions were: Agree to support the Wild Boar's movement to overthrow the colonists.
And a small footnote was filled in at the end and enclosed in parentheses: Minister Nogfogg may allocate funds, weapons, and supplies at his discretion.
From Li De's perspective, he did not regard this matter as an investment.
The things that support the quilboars are not for the sake of reward at all, but are entirely for the purpose of causing chaos in the place of origin of Steamwheedle.
As long as it can prevent Hot Sand from obtaining raw materials, then for Li De, the goal has been achieved.
As for Calgar's resistance, how much chaos it can bring to Razorfen depends on Calgar's personal ability.
Precisely because you don’t have high expectations at the beginning, you will gain greater joy when the rewards exceed expectations.
"While we respect Agamaggan, the Boar God, the relationship between the Kaldorei and the quilboar is not good.
The wild boars are a very difficult race to educate. They are obviously the descendants of the wild demigods, but they are not very willing to accept the ways of nature.
Moreover, these wild boars, including the pigs they raise, have an extremely greedy desire to eat, and they will destroy the balance of nature.
We have driven away the quilboars in history. This time they gathered a large number of troops and were very close to our territory in Ashenvale, which made Mindo a little concerned.
After investigation, I found that you were among them, and Min Duo felt that I was familiar with you, so he sent me to inquire."
After listening to Shandris's story, Li De realized that it turned out that it was Van Cleef, representing the Protector of the Vast Sea, who had made so much noise in the foreign aid export movement that it attracted Tyrande's attention.
Although the Governor of Hanhai did not have any obligation to inform the night elves about what he did, Li De still understood this.
After all, the night elves of this era have not yet moved to the northern coast of the continent. They mainly live in Mount Hyjal and the Ashenvale in the south.
The barren land where wild boar people frequently move is not far away from them, which naturally causes them to be nervous.
Even so, the night elves did not act arrogantly. In order not to cause misunderstanding, they even specially sent Shandis, who was familiar with them.
So far, the night elves have shown themselves to be not too difficult to deal with in Li De's opinion.