Warchief Garrosh was losing. His Kor'kron forces had suffered devastating casualties, and the scales of victory in this Horde civil war had completely tipped.
General Nazgrim had ordered all remaining defeated troops to retreat into the underground fortress, handing all of Orgrimmar over without resistance. They had abandoned the surface battlefield and turned to a desperate last stand underground.
Even if they refused to give it up, they could not hold it anyway.
Garrosh's underground fortress was tightly defended. All his elite forces, along with all manner of rare beasts collected from the Pandaria Continent, were gathered within this enormous underground complex.
The Rebel Army marched into the city gate plaza, surrounded the Warchief's Hall, and successfully linked up with the two insurgent forces inside the city.
Unlike in the predetermined timeline, the entrance passage to the underground fortress was not in Ragefire Chasm in the Shadow Valley district. It had been built directly beneath the Warchief's Hall, connecting the surface and underground by a lift. Since the Kor'kron forces had destroyed the lift, the Rebel Army was currently carrying out emergency repairs.
At the same time, the Goblin uprising had been forcibly called off. That was only natural—if nobody stopped them, those Goblins who had gone red-eyed from robbing banks would have turned into an outright mob.
The Goblin brothers knew what was good for them. After several troublemakers who had gone mad with looting and tried to attack the Rebel Army were shot dead on the spot, every Goblin involved in the uprising instantly calmed down and returned to their cowardly selves.
That was simply the overall nature of their race. They possessed an instinctive fear of and obedience toward any government they recognized as legitimate, and they were extremely faithful to contracts and agreements they had signed—unless