(This is actually Chapter 673. I'm leaving the title as it is-changing it means contacting the editor, and that's too much trouble!)
The orcs' tactics, combined with their reckless, all-out assaults, rapidly thinned the ranks of the three main human combat legions. Even a band of paladins led by Uther, rushing from one crisis to the next, could do little to help.
After a week, all three human legions had suffered casualties exceeding half their strength. Uther's Order of the Silver Hand had also lost quite a few paladins. Uther himself had fought several fierce battles with Doomhammer, with victories and defeats on both sides.
Faced with their rapidly dwindling numbers, the three main human combat legions had no choice but to join up and consolidate their forces, reducing the front exposed to the orcs and concentrating their strength for defense.
Meanwhile, inside Lordaeron City, the debate over whether to send troops out to support them had never stopped. The city was divided into two camps. The senior military commanders generally favored going out to aid the three hard-pressed combat legions, while many human nobles in the Royal Palace opposed taking the fight outside. They were simply too afraid the city would fall.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk knew about these arguments, though not because he had attended the meetings himself. He had heard about them from people outside the meetings. Although he had come as reinforcements, this was an internal matter of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, and he was not entitled to attend discussions at such a high level.
He knew what had been discussed because the human officers defending the city alongside him were always talking about it. They were especially vocal in cursing the Royal Palace nobles for their greed, selfishness, and shortsightedness.
In their view, rather than saying