Military Conference at Southshore

The council hall of Southshore had been temporarily requisitioned by the Raven Guard Knights as their meeting room today. All the knight officers had arrived. Roderick sat at the head of the table, while Remilia had been dragged into a corner to take the minutes.

"Today, we need to discuss how to further improve the Raven Guard Knights' reconnaissance and combat capabilities. Intelligence work has always been the most important step before battle, enough to determine the outcome of an engagement!"

"Many knights may have been influenced by all sorts of things, especially rigid notions of knightly honor."

"They scorn such vital intelligence work, naively believing that war meant deploying openly on the battlefield, then having both armies charge into a decisive battle for victory. They believed only such a victory counted as truly defeating the enemy." Roderick spoke sternly, and by the end, his expression had turned openly disdainful.

"I say this kind of thinking is simply foolish! Commanders like that have no place in Raven Guard's ranks!" There was no warmth left in his voice.

"They are using the lives of ordinary soldiers to satisfy their so-called knightly honor and vain pride. Neither the Undead nor the Orcs will fight by such rules."

"Take the Second Orc War as an example. After the Orc army landed in Hillsbrad and briefly engaged the human allied forces, it retreated into the primeval forests of the Hinterlands."

"Then, with the help of those Forest Trolls, the Orc army struck into High Elf territory from the flank. After drawing away the human forces, they turned and counterattacked, crossed the Alterac Mountains, and launched a surprise assault on the Kingdom of Lordaeron, nearly breaching Lordaeron's royal capital."

"In that battle, the Orc commander fully demonstrated his tactical wisdom. Rather than confronting the human