But the High Elf Rangers did not do as the Orcs Vanguard Commander had expected. They did not immediately send the two ranks of Steel Behemoths, armed to the teeth, charging in to scatter and tear apart the strongest outer defenses of the Orcs formation.
Although the High Elf Rangers had already taken up positions to attack at any moment, they did not launch an assault when Sylvanas lowered the hand she had held in the air.
Almost all the High Elf Rangers and those terrifying Steel Behemoths remained poised to attack, without so much as twitching an eyelid.
Yet the expression on the Orcs Vanguard Commander's face began to freeze. Gradually, it grew stiffer and more terrified.
For at that moment, he saw the ten Wingblade Siege Engines concealed atop the low hills on either side of the main road, their camouflage just removed by the High Elf Rangers.
The extraordinarily ornate Wingblade Siege Engines, predominantly red and gold, spread their enormous, beautiful wings. Piled beside the massive engines, however, were huge, heavy Three-Bladed Wheelblades that inspired fear at a glance. Their edges gleamed with a chilling light, silently displaying their sharpness and savagery to the enemy.
The Orcs Vanguard Commander had never seen such weapons before. But he was no fool. From the Wingblades' enormous size alone, he could tell that they were large, bow-powered siege weapons. And from any angle, the huge Wheelblades beside those enormous, magnificent siege weapons were clearly nothing easy to deal with.
Although large siege weapons generally attacked slowly, their power was far beyond anything an ordinary warrior's flesh and blood could withstand.
Catapults were much the same. They might only throw stones, but who would dare face one head-on alone? They could smash walls into rubble, let alone people. Besides, these magnificent