As the commander of Green Dragonflight who came to support, Itharius also serves as the adjutant of Krasus, responsible for helping to summarize the information detected by Dragonflights and reporting it to Aaron.
When the expeditionary force entered Snowdrift Plains and started building temporary camps, the dragons scattered throughout Snowdrift Plains to detect the enemy's movements.
When we were on the trail before, Aaron felt that it was abnormal that Loken did not set up an ambush there. If Snowdrift Plains couldn't find any trace of the Iron Legion, then Aaron should wonder whether Loken imitated Ner'zhul and ran away.
However, this possibility is not high. After all, Yogg-Saron is still imprisoned in Ulduar. Loken will never give up on his new master.
Facts have proved that Loken has no intention of giving up blocking the expeditionary force. About half a day after Itharius reported the traces of the Iron Legion, the rangers patrolling near the temporary camp discovered Iron Legion's forward.
"The size of this army is huge." Aaron looked at the Iron Legion coming like a tide from the other end of the Snowdrift Plains. Even the snow on the snowy mountains outside the snowfield was shaken by the sound of this Legion moving in an orderly manner.
That Iron Legion is mainly composed of three different steel races, namely Iron Dwarves, Iron Vrykul and Iron Giants.
Iron Vrykul forms the vanguard of this Legion. These tall creatures, starting at four meters tall, wear thick and hard armor and wield huge two-handed battle axes.
There are a large number of Iron Dwarves surrounding Iron Vrykul. Some Iron Dwarves are holding two double-edged battle axes, and the rest are holding staffs, constantly throwing various buffing spells at the steel creations around them.
In addition to these three races, there are a small number of other races scattered among them, most of them are races enslaved by this Iron Legion, and those Val'kyr that escaped from Valkyrion are flying above this huge Legion.
"Get ready to fight!" Aaron shouted, and the expeditionary force that had already set up a temporary camp quickly poured out of the camp gate and began to set up their formation with their backs to the camp.
Aaron It's not that I haven't thought about using the camp's walls as barriers for defensive operations, but the camp's defense is not satisfactory.
If the simple walls of the camp were breached, the limited camp would make it difficult for the expeditionary force to escape from the enemy, so Aaron simply asked the expeditionary force to leave the camp and set up a formation on the plain outside the camp to engage in a head-on confrontation with the enemy.
In the middle of the forward part of the expeditionary force are the shield-wielding Vrykuls carefully selected by Archaedas. The shields that Earthens stepped up to build were added with the blessing of the earth. When these Vrykuls stood at the forefront of the team holding large tower shields, the yellow radiance shining on the shields connected together, like a solid city wall.
Vrykul is flanked by a two-wing defense line composed of Tyr's Guard and Blood Knights. Although their size is much smaller than Vrykul, the surging Holy Light on their bodies gives them an momentum that is not inferior to Vrykul.
Originally Liadrin was very dissatisfied with Aaron's arrangement. The militant former Priest was very eager to rush to the front line of the battle. However, Aaron did not dare to arrange the precious combat power of High Elf's in the most intense position of the battle, otherwise Kael'thas would be dissatisfied.
On both sides of the military formation, there were a large number of Furbolg standing on the side of the team holding relatively simple shields to prevent the team from being disrupted by surprise attacks from the side.
Under heavy protection is the long-range group composed of Quel'Thalas Archmage, Elf Ranger, Furbolg Shaman and a dragon that has partially transformed into human form.
Above the entire team, there are dozens of giant dragons circling back and forth for protection. These Azeroth absolute overlords of the sky will ensure that the expeditionary force will not encounter surprise attacks from the air. When necessary, these giant dragons will also pour their terrifying dragon breath into the enemy's battle formation.
Dreadwake is located slightly lower than the dragons. The flag messenger on Dreadwake will convey the orders of Aaron to the troops on the ground to facilitate real-time mobilization of all parties.
Aaron himself stayed on Dreadwake. In order to prevent himself from encountering precise attacks from the local area, he also specially arranged several mature dragons around Dreadwake that had been tested (skinned) and rich (resistance).
By the time the expeditionary force's formation was adjusted, the vanguard of the opposite steel army had arrived less than two hundred meters away from this side. At this distance, with the speed of those steel creations, it only took one Charge to arrive in front of one's own defense line in an instant.
Not long after, Iron Legion's forward began to accelerate, facing the spells and arrows fired from the expeditionary force's position, and launched an impact towards the expeditionary force. Finally, it hit the rocks like a gray tide, pushing the expeditionary force's forward continuously back.
The powerful force of the first round of impact pushed the expeditionary force's forwards back continuously. The physical quality of these Loken soldiers cast from Forge of Wills was definitely higher than that of Vrykul who had already suffered Curse of Flesh. Even the dense defense line formed by the Vrykul soldiers holding shields blessed by the power of the earth could not withstand this huge impact.
However, the expeditionary force did not just retreat blindly. As Vrykul continued to retreat, the impact brought by the Iron Legion Charge was gradually resisted. Finally, after Vrykul retreated dozens of meters, the entire defense line stabilized. The two sides began to shift from simple wrestling to struggling to kill the enemy in front of them.
"The forward has stabilized." Aaron breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the two sides have entered a stalemate stage. How the occupation will develop next depends on how Iron Legion will make moves.
"Let me test it out first." Aaron nodded, controlled Dreadwake to move forward slightly, and let the naval guns on both sides of Dreadwake fire several shots forward. The shells fell into the Iron Legion's battle, knocking down several Iron Dwarves and Iron Vrykul, only the tall Iron Giants could stop the cannonball. Iron Giants, who was lucky enough to use the cannonball, even wanted to throw the cannonball back to Dreadwake. Fortunately, the cannonball exploded in time to stop the bold Iron Giants's action.
"It doesn't seem to be anything special." Aaron found that he failed to achieve any results in this test. The strong defense of the Iron Legion members' bodies reduced the damage they suffered when they were attacked by artillery shells, and the number of the Iron Legion allowed them to quickly fill the gap.
"In that case, let's deal with your leader first." After Aaron made up his mind, he searched for a group of people on the battlefield and finally landed on a giant who was covered in flames.