Aaron When they arrived at Ashenvale, the valley sandwiched between the mountains had become extremely lively. In addition to the tens of thousands of human coalition forces scattered in several temporary camps, Night Elf himself had also deployed quite a few troops here. With the number of soldiers, coupled with the natural races that originally lived in this area, including Dryad and Mountain Giant, Ashenvale, which has been Tranquility for tens of thousands of years, rarely ushered in a lively and noisy atmosphere.
In addition to these, there are also Furbolg from the surrounding areas of Mount Hyjal. After Ursoc returned, the Furbolgs completed their reintegration. At this time, many Warriors were also sent to support Night Elf's battle.
Aaron also saw traces of Centaur on the road, which should be sent by Zaetar. According to Tauren, who has dealt with Centaur the most, under the education of this son of a demigod, the ferocity of Centaur has been greatly reduced. The gradual implementation of the Druid belief is turning this ethnic group into a more peaceful race.
In addition to these Kalimdor natives, many races from Northrend have also come to Ashenvale. Among them are various Titan-forged races that have experienced hardships but are struggling to recover, as well as some indigenous creatures from Northrend. Including Taunka, Tuskarr and Nerubians, while Titan Keepers cleaned up the remaining limbs of Yogg-Saron, they also slowly gathered these races that had struggled to survive under Undead's attack.
Coupled with the Quilboar and Tauren brought back by Aaron and the many Valarjar and Val'kyr in Halls of Valor, the excitement of Ashenvale is increasing day by day, but the trouble caused to the upper echelons of the coalition is also increasing accordingly.
"The biggest problem now is that our various races don't even understand the language." As the local host, Tyrande became the host of the meeting without hesitation. At this moment, the high priest's face was full of helplessness. "Alliance uses Common, and we use Kaldorei language, the Furbolg language of Furbolg... There are at least a dozen languages used in Ashenvale now. Although we can communicate smoothly with the help of magic, the soldiers cannot communicate effectively with each other, which will become a fatal loophole on the battlefield."
"According to intelligence, Burning Legion will appear in Kalimdor in three or four days at most. This time is not enough for us to integrate the coalition forces, and it is impossible to train the cooperation between soldiers of various races," Shandris continued, "I have a suggestion. Since we cannot fight as a whole, then separate each part. Although it will cause the dispersion of strength, this is the only way at the moment."
"This is also a hopeless solution." Uther, as the supreme commander of the Alliance's army, agreed with Shandris's suggestion. Since the many remaining racial leaders could not come up with any better solution, they could only do this.
In fact, this point can be said to be the consensus of the commanders of the coalition forces. Everyone present has encountered the problem of language barrier to one degree or another, and has also solved the troubles caused by the inability of the soldiers under their command to communicate. They are well aware of the impact of this problem on the coalition forces.
The main issues to be discussed at this meeting are how to organize defense and how to allocate troops.
The terrain of Mount Hyjal is steep and steep. Several rare areas with gentle terrain are separated by mountains. Only small roads attached to the mountains connect these areas. The next war will inevitably unfold around these areas. Although the specific situations are far from each other, in general it is not much different from the strategy chosen by Battle of Mount Hyjal in "Official History".
"To put it simply, there are only these few areas in Mount Hyjal that are suitable for defense. Our defense strategy has been determined. What we have to decide now is who will defend which area." Shandris explained the special terrain of this area to the leaders of the races on the map hanging on the wall, and pointed to the area connected to Ashenvale and Mount Hyjal.
This area later became Felwood, but it is still part of Mount Hyjal. It can be said to be the gateway to Mount Hyjal. Unless the demons choose to climb over the mountains outside Winterspring to sneak attack from behind, they must take this road.
This means that the troops stationed here will withstand the enemy's most violent attack, which also means the greatest casualties. At the same time, because the terrain in this area is relatively open, the largest number of soldiers among several defense lines can be stationed.
"Leave this place to us Alliance. We have the largest number of people and are easy to command." Uther took the initiative to take on this seemingly most dangerous task. Apart from the factors he mentioned, soldier Alliance The need for open terrain to launch battle formations is also an important reason. When it comes to mountain warfare, few Alliance departments are good at it. If human soldiers are dispersed to other areas, they may suffer greater casualties due to fighting in unfamiliar areas.
Seeing Alliance shouldering the heaviest burden, other leaders showed admiration. After such a start, the remaining task assignments became much simpler. The most dangerous line of defense has been handed over to the Alliance, leaving the remaining three lines of defense.
The overall distribution strategy is based on the principle that soldiers on a line of defense can cooperate with each other to the greatest extent. In addition to defending a line of defense alone, Night Elf also assigns a considerable number of sentries to serve as communications and scouts. Only these soldiers who are familiar with the terrain of Mount Hyjal can undertake this task.
Many races of Kalimdor and a small number of natives of Northrend are placed on the third line of defense. This is very close to Nordrassil, so the pressure they have to bear is much less. At the same time, it is also close to the temples of Wild God, making it easier for the demigods to give them protection.
The Titan-forgeds with the smallest number were arranged under the Nordrassil tree. This will be the last line of defense. According to estimates, the demons who can break through the first three lines of defense and come here will be powerful individuals, which is suitable for the Titan-forgeds with the strongest individual strength to deal with.
If the first three lines of defense are breached, this will become the battlefield for the final decisive battle. At that time, only Titan-forged, who is relatively less susceptible to negative emotions, can maintain the strongest fighting will.
After assigning the tasks, the next step is to start setting up the defense line according to the plan. Entering the defense line a minute earlier and starting to build fortifications can reduce casualties after the war. Everyone present understands this truth. As soon as the meeting ended, they hurried back to their camp to assign tasks.
But at this time, Shandris received unexpected news. An injured sentry hurried to Ashenvale and told Shandris that a demon had appeared in Mount Hyjal.
"A demon has infiltrated Mount Hyjal and is attacking the temple?" Shandris frowned after listening to the sentry's report, and his slender eyebrows almost knitted into a ball, "How is it possible? Didn't I deploy manpower throughout Ashenvale? Why did the news come out at this time?"
No matter how the demon bypassed Night Elf's detection, Shandris must solve this problem now, but if a large force is used, it will easily disrupt the next plan. She must find another way, a plan that does not require too much manpower. Fortunately, the information brought back by the sentry is clear enough, otherwise she would not dare to make such an arrangement.