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Blair and his men had dealt with Orcs in the Durnholde Region for years, so naturally they knew the finer details better. The Wildhammer Dwarves were just the opposite: they knew more about the overall war situation and the broad deployment of troops.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk discussed this with Mez'dra. He felt that the Hinterlands' Western Burning Legion, under Mez'dra's command, would do better splitting up to attack the scattered enemy forces. As long as they maintained a local numerical advantage of five to one over the Orcs, there should be no problem.

Yu Lin Bloodhawk therefore thought it would be better to have the Western Burning Legion's junior officers work with the Durnholde Local Resistance, represented by Blair.

Depending on the actual strength of the Orc forces in each Local Resistance group's area, corresponding units or regiments from the Western Burning Legion would be assigned to cooperate with them. This would make it easier to achieve surprise and wipe out those Orcs completely.

After all, the Durnholde Region was Blair and his men's home ground. They would certainly know the terrain better, as well as how to stay out of sight of the Orcs. The Eastern Burning Legion's operations needed these local human resistance groups' help even more. If an obstacle along their route truly could not be bypassed, they could crush it with overwhelming force and move through quickly.

After Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Mez'dra discussed the matter with Blair and the others, they all readily agreed. They merely made a few very minor requests concerning the spoils.

At the mention of spoils, Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Mez'dra exchanged smiles and agreed to all their requests. Yu Lin Bloodhawk even generously told them that the Hinterlands would not take any share of the spoils. He only asked that,