On the evening when Scourge arrived outside Dalaran city, Scourge's large army also arrived outside the city and began to slowly unfold their formation, as if they were planning to launch an offensive at night.
However, with previous defensive experience in Durnholde, Dathrohan was also prepared for this and had made arrangements for night combat. However, such advance preparation could only eliminate some of the disadvantages of night combat. Most of the Alliance's troops were not good at night combat.
After seeing the huge scale of the enemy with their own eyes, the mages of Dalaran also put away their previous contempt. Although the mages were arrogant, they also had the ability to see reality clearly. The voices that were originally dissatisfied with Dathrohan and Paladin giving orders to Dalaran also quietly disappeared.
While most people in Dalaran were a little uneasy because of the appearance of the enemy, Aaron secretly breathed a sigh of relief. In the past two days, Aaron had some worries in his heart. I'm a little worried. What if Scourge was a fake shot and first pretended to attack Dalaran, but then they went to attack other places after all the preparations were done here. That would be a bit embarrassing.
Although Ravenholdt has done a good job in intelligence work, there is still a possibility of a loophole. After all, Ravenholdt's spies have not penetrated into the enemy's high-level officials. Then again, with Dreadlord here, even if Ravenholdt can send people to Cult of the Damned's high-level officials, they may be discovered or even directly controlled.
Fortunately, the enemy still appeared. Judging from the size of the enemy, the main force of Scourge should be here, and there is no need to worry about the possibility of these guys secretly plotting against Chen Cang.
The Gryphon Riders in charge of the investigation have been keeping a close eye on them since they discovered the traces of Scourge. These Undead are traveling at an unusually slow speed, but the damage they cause is huge. More than half of the once vibrant Silverpine Forest trees have withered away.
Although the Undead Scourge of this scale today cannot compare with the mighty momentum after the fall of the entire Lordaeron, it is enough to leave an indelible Dead Scar on the earth. Even the tops of their heads are formed by the gathering power of death. The clouds formed, combined with the Necropolis suspended in the air and the flying Undead creatures such as Gargoyle and Frost Proto-Dragon, added a bit of terrifying momentum to this Legion dominated by the dead.
Set against the air troops are the seemingly endless ground troops. Although from a distance, these Undead are still dominated by the simplest skeleton soldiers, the huge scale is still shocking.
"Where did they find so many corpses?" Aaron looked at the scale of Undead with a headache. Originally, he thought that the plague had not broken out yet, but Northrend's Icecrown Citadel has also been breached. The scale of Undead should not be particularly large, but looking at the situation in front of us, it obviously exceeds Aaron's expectations.
"If you look carefully, you will find a lot of interesting things." Krasus stood next to Aaron and said to Aaron.
"Interesting place?" After hearing this, Aaron once again looked at the composition of the enemy, but he saw some short skeletons with hunched bodies among the skeleton soldiers. Looking at the triangular heads of those skeletons that were slightly larger than their bodies, Aaron twitched the corner of his mouth. "You didn't even let Murloc go?"
As one of the most widely distributed ethnic groups of Azeroth, it can be said that wherever there is water, there are Murloc. Coupled with the extraordinary reproductive ability of this race, it is indeed a very suitable race to be used as cannon fodder, but In Aaron's impression, apart from Naga, it seems that only Burning Legion has ever tried to use Fel to corrode Murloc, and the result was a group of weird Fel Murloc seems to be very powerful, but in comparison, it is not much better than the ordinary Murloc.
Now Scourge has actually set his sights on Murloc. Judging from Aaron's observation, more than half of the skeletons serving as cannon fodder are from Murloc. Considering Murloc's weak strength, these skeletons should have no use except to recharge.
It was not just two people who noticed that this matter happened. Soon the enemy had to recruit Murloc and the news spread throughout the entire front. The discovery of this fact greatly cheered up the Alliance side because the enemy The momentum and numbers made him feel a little depressed. Whether the people present were ordinary soldiers, Paladin or Dalaran mages, who had not killed a few Murloc?
When the sky gradually darkened, Undead Scourge also launched an attack. The skeleton soldiers at the front slowly surged towards the Dalaran city wall under the command of the Cult of the Damned Undead wizard.
These slow-moving and unresponsive skeleton soldiers walked in a chaotic pace, and most of them only had the simplest and worst weapons in their hands, ranging from wooden sticks to rusty iron swords. If it was just a small group, about three or five soldiers who cooperated with each other and worked together could easily defeat an enemy ten times their size.
However, the number of skeletons rushing up at this time was more than ten times that of the Dalaran defenders? With such a number, the originally chaotic footsteps also intertwined into a sound like muffled thunder, echoing on the battlefield.
The first to attack were the defense towers on the Dalaran city wall. These buildings with Arcane power as their core power had extremely long attack distances. Attacks from them would often cause a row of skeletons to disintegrate directly if they fell into a group of skeletons.
However, the most disgusting thing about Undead is also revealed at this time. As long as it is not completely broken, even the scattered skeletons can be reassembled. Even if these skeletons that stand up again are often missing one or two bones, the lack does not affect them from continuing to follow the command of the wizard Undead and attack forward.
Because the defense tower's attack requires a certain amount of time to prepare, even though it is powerful, it cannot contain the enemy's attack. Soon the skeleton group entered the attack range of the mages on the city wall. Although the sky was dark, the enemy's dense formation made it convenient for the mages to bombard with various Big Van encirclement spells, Blizzard, Flamestrike, Meteor... The spells that had been prepared for a long time instantly cleared a blank area four to five meters wide across the battlefield. All the skeletons in this range were knocked down. Coupled with the follow-up attacks of the spells, these skeletons were already unable to stand up.
However, the skeletons behind them continued to move forward, stepping on the broken bones on the ground, nonchalantly stepping over the frost-covered or burning ground, and continued to attack the city wall in an unconscious manner.
Facing Dalaran's several-meter-high city wall, the skeletons who were unable to climb up the wall made an unexpected move for the defenders on the wall. These skeletons actually used themselves as materials to build a sloping ramp. The ramp was not long, but it was enough for subsequent Undead to step onto the city wall.
However, even if the people on the city wall want to stop it, there is still no good way. After all, even if they knock down the enemy, they are actually helping the enemy to build a passage faster.