The Alliance Fifth Legion possessed well-developed mechanized facilities and a large air force. The First Legion and Fifth Legion had entered the Vale of Eternal Blossoms by air-dropping paratroopers.
Because the Pandaren air forces had all been deployed to the Gate of the Setting Sun, with everyone focused on the Mantid and the Mogu, no one paid any attention to the Alliance remnants. That was how the Alliance First Legion and Fifth Legion had successfully infiltrated the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
Soulbinder Goraia had never expected anyone to ambush him. In his view, both the Pandaren and the Horde were tied down by the Mantid and Mogu, and he had never imagined encountering the Alliance in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
The ambush, coupled with the Fifth Legion's mechanized troops' overwhelming firepower and air superiority, instantly suppressed the Zandalari troll coalition.
Although the Zandalari troll coalition was enormous, few of its forces were true soldiers of the Zandalari Empire. Among the coalition led by Soulbinder Goraia, only his mystics, the elite forces truly from the Zandalari Empire, could be considered elites.
Soulbinder Goraia led the Zandalari mystics in tearing open a gap in the Alliance encirclement, then fled in disarray.
Although High King Varian Wrynn wanted to pursue the fleeing Zandalari troll coalition, he ultimately gave up when faced with an enemy force nearly twice his own size.
After defeating the Zandalari troll coalition, the Alliance First Legion and Fifth Legion crossed the two Mogu statues and entered the area where Mogu'shan Palace stood.
Kurdran Wildhammer returned from scouting Mogu'shan Palace atop the giant royal gryphon Sreka. Of the more than twenty Wildhammer Dwarf gryphon riders who had gone with him, only he had made it back.
"By the heavens, over there—you'll never guess what I saw. A vast horde