The Horde still withdrew from the Hinterlands, and Orgrim became the new Great Chief. Unlike Blackhand, Orgrim was rational and knew how to employ tactics. Blackhand, who only knew how to charge headlong, was on an entirely different level from him.
The Orcs' main force was now concentrated around Silverpine Forest and Hillsbrad Foothills. Aside from the Stormwind Clan, which was still fiercely attacking Stromgarde in the Arathi Highlands, and the Dragonmaw Clan, which remained in the Wetlands, doing who knew what, every other clan was in those two regions.
This left Lordaeron and Gilneas in dire straits. Their defensive lines fell one after another, and they had now retreated to desperately hold the line between Shadowfang Keep and Cheboser. King Terenas and King Genn exhausted every possible method to halt the Horde's offensive.
It was not that Terenas had never considered joining the Alliance, but his mentality as the ruler of a great nation kept getting in the way. Lordaeron's air of being the foremost kingdom in the world made it hard for him to swallow his pride and join the Alliance as an ordinary member state.
However, this war also had many remarkable moments. Alonsus Faol, Lordaeron's Archbishop of the Holy Light, discovered a new way to wield the Holy Light and used it to train the first generation of paladins. Among them, Uther, Tirion Fordring, and Turalyon were exceptionally powerful. Wielding warhammers radiating Holy Light, they charged into Orcish positions and unleashed bloody carnage. But their numbers were too few, and all they could do was slightly slow the Horde's advance.
With Dalaran also increasing its support of mages for the two kingdoms, the battle in Silverpine Forest gradually turned into a stalemate.
The terrified Kingdom of Alterac, meanwhile, cried and begged to join the Alliance. Unfortunately,