Of all the battles fought by the Eastern Route Allied Army under Alleria, the one at the Strait of Hormuz had inflicted the heaviest losses. After all, it had been a truly major battle, and the orcs' desperate struggle before death had been terrifying.
However, the High Elf Expeditionary Army Corps had come thoroughly prepared this time. The furious king and the Silvermoon Council had assigned the corps a considerable number of mages, while The Hinterlands had spent enough gold to arm it to the teeth.
A hundred ballistae and three Wingblade Carts had inflicted devastating casualties on the counterattacking orcs. The blanket spells of the high elf mages, the arrows of the high elf rangers, and the trolls' javelins and throwing axes brought down the orc forces daring to charge the Eastern Route Allied Army before they ever had a chance to engage in close combat. Only a handful of elite orc cavalry units managed to reach the Eastern Route Allied Army's formation, but such a tiny force could not so much as cause a ripple in its ranks.
Thus, even during the encirclement and annihilation battle at the Strait of Hormuz, the initially fierce attacks against Alleria's Eastern Route Allied Army gradually dwindled. During the middle and later stages, the central Allied Army Main Force under Lothar and the western Allied Army under Uther bore the overwhelming majority of the orcs' attacks.
After all, there were no true fools in this world, and Yu Lin Bloodhawk was not the only profiteer who knew how to pick on easy targets. Sometimes, the orcs knew how to do that too.
Attacking those two directions at least offered them a decent chance of fighting in close quarters. Against the Eastern Route Allied Army, they could barely even touch their opponents. For