Kurdran looked furious when he received the report from the frontline scouts. He truly had no idea how the Horde army had appeared deep in the Hinterlands.
The humans were fighting the orcs in the hills. The Horde's navy and army had advanced on Southshore from two directions, engaging Turalyon and Lothar. Uther and Turalyon had repelled several orc charges, but orcs were still roaming the Hillsbrad Foothills.
According to reports from the Kingdom of Lordaeron, the orcish Horde army was unstoppable and had already razed Stormwind City. Now it had suddenly appeared in the Hinterlands, clearly intending to enter the Hillsbrad Foothills directly from there and attack the Alliance of Lordaeron's main forces. Together with the two forces fighting the humans at the front, it would encircle and annihilate the human allied army in one stroke.
Aerie Peak now stood squarely in the path of this army of destruction. Kurdran dared not imagine what would happen if the city fell. The homeland his Wildhammer people had found a thousand years ago would be destroyed again. Where would the Wildhammer dwarves go to survive after that?
"Falstad, send someone on a gryphon to the Hillsbrad Foothills immediately. Find the Alliance commander, Sir Anduin Lothar. The humans' predictions about the Horde's attack were completely wrong. They've bypassed the Arathi Highlands and reached the Hinterlands directly." Kurdran recalled what he had witnessed himself. The orc forces that had arrived in the Hinterlands were clearly more elite, and they even had aerial troops riding red dragons. "The orcs who fought the humans in the Hillsbrad Foothills last time were only a decoy. Their real main force is on the eastern coast of the Hinterlands."
"Highlord, judging by observations from the front, there may also be forest trolls with the orc forces," Falstad added.