After Aaron left, several standing Legion teams of Quel'Thalas were mobilized under the command of Sylvanas.
However, it should be noted that the number of so-called Legion of Quel'Thalas is not very large, and the number of personnel of a single Legion is far less than the total number of Ranger troops.
This is also normal. After all, Quel'Thalas has not experienced a major war for thousands of years. In these years, the ones standing on the front line against the old enemy Troll have always been the Ranger troops. The other Legion rarely have the experience of large-scale mobilization for combat. At most, they go to the coast near Silvermoon City to clean up Murloc and the like.
Although Quel'Thalas had just experienced an orc invasion in the past few years and was beaten under Silvermoon City, the main force against the orcs at that time was still the ranger troops, and because the orcs cracked the rune stone barrier in the southern part of Eversong Forest too easily, the several legions responsible for guarding Silvermoon City were surrounded by orcs in Silvermoon City before they had time to mobilize.
The problem caused by this is that Quel'Thalas except for the Ranger troops, most of the other Legion units lack combat experience. Although some knowledgeable people among High Elf are aware of this problem, due to reasons such as the slow response caused by the long lifespan of the elves, this problem has not been solved for a long time.
This problem was actually not solved until the Scourge war. When the Ranger troops were defeated by Scourge, Silvermoon City's defense collapsed at the first touch, until Scourge desecrated Sunwell, resulting in the death of most High Elf during this war.
According to Sylvanas's complaint recited by Vereesa, although these Legion seem to be well-trained on the surface and can fight decently in small-scale battles, when they are actually faced with a head-on battlefield that requires head-on confrontation, all kinds of problems are exposed.
At the beginning of the war, the Trolls, relying on the fleet supported by Zandalari Trolls, suddenly appeared from somewhere along the long coastline of Quel'Thalas and attacked the High Elf settlements scattered throughout Eversong Woods.
Although the scale of such attacks is very small, these Forest Trolls can't stand it and attack several times a day, which really annoys the High Elfs living near the coastline, and even the normal operation of Sunsail Anchorages is affected.
If we follow Sylvanas's wishes, Quel'Thalas's precious troops cannot be wasted playing whack-a-mole with Troll. This situation can be contained by letting the navy fight a few battles with the Troll fleet. However, the Silvermoon City bigwigs who were frightened by Troll's initial raid on Azurebreeze Coast were still unwilling to agree to send the navy into battle. They just kept the navy moving in the waters near Silvermoon City to prevent the Troll from taking advantage of it.
Sylvanas had no choice but to temporarily evacuate the High Elf near the coast to avoid causing greater damage to the Trolls. As for the houses and belongings that the elves had no time to take away, they had to give Troll free money.
However, when Silvermoon City Council authorized several Legions to be commanded by Sylvanas, the Ranger General's nightmare really began.
Although the actual combat effectiveness of these Legion controlled by several ancient families of Silvermoon City is not as good as that of the Rangers, most of them carry a sense of arrogance. Although they will not obey Sylvanas's orders, it is common for them to give discounts and the like. In addition, these Legion's lack of actual combat experience caused Sylvanas to formally launch a counterattack against Troll who was entrenched in Farstriders' Camp. He had to spend most of his energy coordinating the actions of various units to avoid any problems at the beginning of the battle.
"So, the battle to recover Farstriders' Camp was not going well?" Aaron frowned as he listened to Vereesa's words and asked involuntarily.
Aaron didn't expect that Legion of Quel'Thalas would be so unbearable. Listening to Vereesa's description, it almost makes people worry that these guys will retreat as soon as they enter the battlefield.
"No, the battle to retake the camp went very smoothly. In fact, it was a little too smooth." Vereesa had an expression on his face that was hard to explain, "Just listen to what I have to say."
Just as Vereesa said, the counterattack organized by Sylvanas went smoothly and even exceeded the most optimistic expectations before the war. After several Legion surrounded Farstriders' Camp under the command of Sylvanas, they easily eliminated the Troll entrenched in the camp and took back the fallen camp.
However, things started to get bad from here. Perhaps seeing that these Troll were dealt with too easily, Sylvanas was recalled by Silvermoon City Council to Silvermoon City, and a commander was parachuted to the frontline troops. This guy, who everyone knew was here to pick fruits, commanded a large force to attack the Troll's nest before Sylvanas came back. He claimed that he was going to finish the battle in one battle, but this happened under the instruction of the upper management of Silvermoon City.
It should be noted that this matter was carried out behind Sylvanas's back. If she knew that the guy who was said to be temporarily acting as commander while she reported the details of the battle back to Silvermoon City actually came with an order to attack Zul'Aman, she would have stopped this from happening at all costs.
Unlike other Legion who have always underestimated the threat of Troll and are not very clear about the recent strength improvement of Troll, the entire ranger team is very aware of how powerful Amani Trolls is after taking away the power of Loa.
However, this is only if, the fact is that the High Elf troops assembled hundreds of rangers and thousands of other troops, led by a greedy and aggressive commander, rashly launched an attack on the Zul'Amans. This move happened to fall into the Trolls' plan, and the troops marched directly into the ambush of the Trolls.
When those Trolls who had seized the power of Loa transformed and rushed into High Elf's battle formation, these long-eared people who had not yet clearly realized the strength of Trolls had no other choice but to scatter and flee.
After this battle, the army that assembled half of Quel'Thalas suffered heavy losses, and only a small number of people escaped from the siege of Troll. This resulted in Quel'Thalas no longer having mobile forces and could only sit back and watch the territory outside Silvermoon City being ravaged by Troll. It wanted to reorganize a counterattack but was unable to do so.
"How long has it been... how did it become like this?" Aaron was dumbfounded for a while after listening to Vereesa talk about what had happened during this time.
According to Aaron's idea, even though the down-and-out Forest Troll got help from Zandalari Trolls in advance and obtained a way to rob Loa's power, but since Loa has The spirits can suppress Amani Trolls in the southern area of Eversong Woods for thousands of years, so as long as Quel'Thalas takes action, the only thing waiting for Amani Trolls is failure.
However, the development of things was so unexpected. High Elf was beaten by the menacing Orcs army before and could only huddle in Silvermoon City., now faced with Troll's still such unbearable performance, it can be said that Quel'Thalas's face was torn off and stepped on several times by Forest Troll this time.
Although Quel'Thalas lost face severely this time, in order to avoid being criticized by Troll, Sun King could only send a messenger for help to the Alliance again, hoping that brother Alliance could help him.
However, even Sun King himself is not very optimistic about the outcome of this request for help. Who made the proud elves show their intention to break away from the Alliance before the threat of Orcs is completely eliminated? Although Quel'Thalas has not officially withdrawn from the Alliance, but the relationship with the Alliance, especially the human countries, has almost cooled down to the pre-war level. It is difficult to say whether Alliance will provide support to Quel'Thalas this time.
In order to increase your chances of receiving assistance, Sun King Anasterian simply sent messengers asking for help to all human countries, Aerie Peak, Ironforge and Gnomeregan. If Kingdom of Stormwind was not far in the south and was undergoing post-war reconstruction recently, I am afraid that High Elf messenger would even go across mountains and seas to Stormwind City to ask for help.
Because Gnomeregan once came here with Aaron, Vereesa was appointed as the messenger here to ask for help. At the same time, in order to increase the speed of asking for help, Aerie Peak's Wildhammer Dwarvess also specially supported a group of Gryphon Riders to deliver letters to High Elfs. This is also the reason why Falstad and Vereesa came to Gnomeregan together.