"You guys are going to deal with Orcs?" Aaron heard this and looked at Dathrohan, with a bit of confusion in his eyes.
"What's the matter, Master Aaron, don't you think we are the opponents of those Orcs?" Dathrohan is quite polite to Aaron, but can't tell at all Aaron once had some unpleasant troubles with Silver Hand, which may have something to do with the attitude of Archbishop Faol and the Lordaeron royal family towards Aaron.
"Put aside those who can't beat them." Aaron didn't answer this question, but in his heart he really didn't think that just these few hundred Silver Hand could defeat the tens of thousands of Scourge coalition forces, but what he was more concerned about now was another question, "What are the other Silver Hand people doing? I thought they would come too."
As the first elite of Lordaeron and even Eastern Kingdoms, Order of the Silver Hand is quite large in scale. It can only be said that a large town has been formed around Grand Monastery where their headquarters is located. According to Aaron From what I have seen and heard in Grand Monastery before, this Knight Order should have at least several thousand people. Even excluding some non-combatants such as Priest and recruits, it is impossible for Knights of the Silver Hand to have only a few hundred people that can be sent out to fight, right?
"About them..." Dathrohan glanced at the north, sighed, and said, "They probably won't be able to come in a short time."
At one glance at Dathrohan's expression, Aaron knew that something must have happened. Then he looked in the direction he was looking and tentatively asked, "Andorhal is something wrong?"
The answer to Aaron was Arthas. The young prince had a look of resentment on his face. "Those guys named Cult of the Damned did not know what means they used to secretly control the upper levels of Andorhal, causing a large amount of contaminated food to be distributed all over the world. A large number of manpower must be sent to recover the contaminated food."
"And it's not just Andorhal." Dathrohan told another not-so-good news with a grimace, "According to the news from Ravenholdt messenger, Silverpine Forest also has a group of Cult of the Damned Cultists active there, and for some reason, the order in that area is very bad, which has caused the cursed faction there to develop to a considerable scale."
Although Dathrohan did not say it clearly, the reason he mentioned was of course that Genn insisted on building the wall. Although Silverpine Forest is also partially under the control of Lordaeron, the most important force in this area is still Gilneas.
After the Gilneas people evacuated in recent years, the order of this area has basically collapsed, and Terenas has no interest in the southern part of Silverpine Forest, which has lost its population, which makes this area become... It became a lawless place, and Cult of the Damned, who could not get on the stage, developed rapidly there. As a result, Cult of the Damned who had been lurking now started to attack, and Lordaeron suddenly felt that it was stretched.
"The situation is not good." Aaron was a little stunned after hearing what Dathrohan said. Cult of the Damned's development far exceeded his imagination. It seems that in terms of developing power, Dreadlord is much stronger than Kel'Thuzad, but in this way, the leader of Scourge has completely become Dreadlord. It is even harder to say how it will develop in the future.
"Okay, just relying on us, I'm afraid..." Aaron looked at the many soldiers around him. The total number of Knight of the Silver Hand was probably a few hundred people, and Durnholde's defenders were slightly more. Combined, they could probably gather more than a thousand soldiers. But with this number alone, compared with the coalition forces gathered by Cult of the Damned, it was not a bit worse.
"Regarding this issue, before we set off, my father and Lord Uther have explained that all soldiers in Hillsbrad can join us," Arthas stretched out his arm and drew a circle in the air, "I want to agree. We should be able to gather several thousand soldiers. Although it is still a little less than the total strength of Second War, which was up to 20,000 at most, but I think it should be enough to deal with the so-called Cult of the Damned and that group of Orcs, right?"
"That being said, it is true that we may not be able to defeat them." Aaron thought about it and felt that if he could really recruit thousands of soldiers as Arthas said, there would indeed be hope of winning. After all, not all of the members of Cult of the Damned have combat capabilities, and half of the population of the Frostwolf Clan is old, weak, women and children, but...
"The enemies we have to face are not only Cult of the Damned and Orcs, but also a criminal gang named Syndicate, and Orcs from other concentration camps will also join them, right?"
"Orcs in other concentration camps is indeed a problem. If I remember correctly, including here, the total number of Orcs imprisoned here is about 10,000. If they are converted into Fel Orcs... No, we must Protect these concentration camps to prevent those Orcs from joining them." Arthas said with a solemn expression. He recently visited concentration camps in various places on behalf of Terenas and clearly remembered the number of these Orcs.
"But, what is Syndicate? A not-so-famous Orcs clan?" Arthas asked again.
"Why, you don't know?" Aaron glanced at Arthas in surprise. Seeing that his expression didn't seem to be fake, he briefly introduced the origin of Syndicate and their cooperation with Cult of the Damned.
"These Alterac people have once again colluded with the Alliance's enemies." Arthas said angrily, "I used to think that my father's treatment of them was a little too harsh, but now it seems that all of these Alterac people should be imprisoned."
Seeing Arthas's furious look, Aaron twitched the corner of his mouth, thinking to himself that the Alterac people organized Syndicate because your family's attitude towards them was too bad? You look like a qualified politician now that you are putting all the blame on the Alterac people.
I think so, Aaron has not corrected Arthas's perception for the time being. It is an indisputable fact that Syndicate has now joined the Scourge camp. Arthas's anger towards them may also improve their morale.
After half a day's rest, both the local soldiers Durnholde and the Knight of the Silver Hand who came to support had recovered their basic physical strength. In order to avoid any harm caused by the enemy, this temporarily mixed army hurriedly set off to pursue Orcs.
As for Durnholde Keep, Arthas only left more than a hundred guards for the trembling Blackmoore. Anyway, Orcs here has already left, and they should not be regarded as attack targets. However, the large amount of food stored here makes Arthas have to be guarded.
However, not long after the soldiers left Durnholde, news from the enemy came to Dathrohan. A bloody soldier told Dathrohan: "Orcs, broke through Nethander Stead and went to Southshore."