"What do the Forsaken think?" Patrick asked everyone.
"Senior Executor Marlen hopes we will send troops as well to clear out the Scourge in the Western Plaguelands. That would give the Forsaken more and more territory, and beyond the Eastern Plaguelands, the ties between the Forsaken and us would also grow closer." Ranger Lord Lor'themar was very supportive of the Forsaken's decision.
"Previously, the Scourge commander in Andorhal was called Gandling. After losing his war against the human paladins, Gandling disappeared. The Forsaken massed troops at the Bulwark, poised to strike Andorhal, the former capital of Dalaran Province. Gandling, the Scourge's supreme commander at the time, dared not take them lightly and likewise massed troops before the Bulwark. He hadn't expected Hearthglen's Scarlet Highlord, Taelan Fordring, to seize the opportunity to launch a fierce assault. The territory held by the Scourge in Andorhal has been shrinking ever since." As the intelligence chief, Lanaya naturally knew far more than Lor'themar did, and she supplied some details to supplement his information.
If both the Forsaken and the Scarlet Crusade began fierce assaults on Andorhal, the Scourge would certainly not stand idly by. Whether the Scarlet Crusade or the Forsaken gained complete control of the Western Plaguelands, Scholomance, the birthplace of the Cult of the Damned, would be revealed to the world. Once the necromancers and liches lost their logistical support and reinforcements, no matter how powerful Kel'Thuzad was, he would struggle alone throughout the Eastern Plaguelands.
Although the Eastern Plaguelands had once been the most densely populated region in Azeroth, the number of people who had died in recent years from war, plague, and all manner of natural disasters was certainly considerable. Kel'Thuzad had exploited this very fact, continuously creating Scourge warriors in the Eastern Plaguelands and slowly eating away at Lordaeron's