Looking at Duque's distressed expression, Laing understood. He patted Duque's shoulder. "I believe in you."
Believe in you.
It was just a few simple words, but they were extremely heavy.
This was not the trust of an ordinary person. This was the trust of a king, the trust of a king with all the power of the kingdom.
Laing used practical actions to show his support for Duque.
"Tom, I want you to use an elite regiment and a few new regiments to block the Horde's attack on Southshore. Can you do that?"
Under normal circumstances, General Seamus would definitely spit at this. Sending a rookie regiment to die was a task that could be easily won as long as the main force was deployed. This was a completely blind command.
Seamus now understood that Laing was deliberately saving strength for the "Battle of the Hinterlands" that Duque had mentioned.
Seamus nodded. "I will withdraw the Gryphon Regiment as a reserve."
Abendis was also very conflicted. He looked at Laing, then at Duque. Recalling all the miracles that Duque had done in the past, he felt a little helpless. "Alright, I will withdraw my elite regiment as well."
"Thank you."
Duque quickly calculated. With the full support of Laing and Abendis, along with emergency support when necessary, it should be barely enough.
Duque turned to his deputy, Windsor. "Given that the Horde intends to send transport ships through the strait between the northern and southern continents, it is very likely that the Horde will launch an aerial attack on the southern defensive line of Stormgard. At the same time, if the transport ships pass through the strait, the Horde will launch a landing operation targeting the Hinterlands. I hope that General Trollbane can consider the situation and send more support from Rapidsburgh. "
The Arathi Highlands and the Hinterlands were separated by high mountains, and there were many elemental creatures that ran around and attacked anyone they saw. It was quite troublesome to mobilize troops. Moving troops through the mountains was much more troublesome than moving troops by sea. If they wanted to mobilize troops, they could only do it now. It would be too late.
Duque gave the order to Windsor, which meant that he was the Alliance's Vice Commander-in-Chief. This kind of transfer order would not only be communicated through magic, but it would also be sent out by Gryphon Cavalry. It was the highest level of transfer order that the Alliance had decided internally.
Solas Trollbane could choose not to listen out of selfishness, but if there was a problem, his Riptide Castle would cry.
After Duque finished speaking, everyone was still worried.
Using the air force to destroy the ground defense was very effective. It wasn't like everyone had never seen a Griffin before. The Griffin's attack power was also quite terrifying. The problem was that the Alliance didn't have many Gryphons. There were only two to three hundred Gryphons in the Alliance combined, and they were usually used as scouts. No king would be willing to send Gryphons into the battlefield.
Moreover, how could the tribe have a large-scale air force?
However, Duque had a confident expression on his face.
Laing and the others were puzzled.
However, they would soon find out.
When they used their unparalleled art of war to repel several waves of Orc attacks and replace their troops, something happened to the Sador Bridge defense line.
From the distance, the Horde had entered the strait earlier, but Stromgard's defense line was set up with the Sador Bridge as the center. This caused the Riptide Castle army to enter the battle a step later than Southshore.
"Whoosh —" The huge projectile vehicle used its long mechanical arm to throw a large basket of rocks the size of a human head at the Horde's transport ship in the center of the strait.
The Horde's transport ship hadn't actually entered the firing range yet. Obviously, the Horde labourers inside were frightened, or for some other reason. A large number of transport ships stopped outside the firing range of the Riptide Castle's long-range weapons.
"Hahaha! I didn't expect the Horde to actually send transport ships. I thought this line of defense was wasted. "The soldiers from Riptide Castle laughed loudly.
During the time they guarded the Sador Bridge, the Riptide Castle people used a large number of ballistae, catapults, and cannons, and actually trained batches of engineers, artillerymen, and ballistae who were very good at operating.
This was an unexpected gain.
After all, these people were originally just farmers.
King Solas Trollbane was a man who knew his soldiers well. As the first human country to receive the attack report among the six northern kingdoms, King Solas had always attached great importance to the Orcs.
After receiving the official transfer order from Duque, Solas immediately agreed to Duque's request. He obeyed the transfer order and sent an integrated infantry regiment of 5000 soldiers to Duque. In addition, he urgently mobilized a large number of ballistae and five archer companies to the Sador Bridge defense line, forming a deep formation to deal with the possible 'air attack'.
"Air attack? What air attack? "
The Riptide Castle soldiers and generals were all confused. They just followed the order in a daze. According to the Alliance's Deputy Commander's order, all archers and ballistae had to be spread out. The same went for the ballistae. Before firing, the ballistae should be covered with a large number of branches and leaves to hide.
What the hell was this?
This completely subverted the military common sense of this era.
Humans were not like the Elves. Unless they were hunters or elites who had trained for more than three years, most human archers were terrible at shooting. Ordinary arrows would not be able to hit more than 20 meters away. Often, they could only rely on sharpshooters to lead the way and fire at a certain area on a large scale to make up for their lack of marksmanship.
A scattered archer had no power to speak of. This was common knowledge in the military of the human race.
Now, the archers of the Riptide Castle were scattered, carrying doubts.
They were even more puzzled as to why most of the ballistae on the edge of the cliff were incomplete or broken, and a large number of … straw men wearing the armor of the Riptide Castle soldiers?
It did not take long for their doubts to be resolved.
The Horde really had an air force!
"Look!" Following the exclamation of an archer, countless people saw many black dots appear in the horizon against the rising sun.
In just a few breaths, these black dots rapidly enlarged in their field of vision, turning into black flying birds with their wings spread wide.
However, they were already so big even though they were so far away in the sky. One could only imagine their true size.
"Stay calm! Stay calm! Stay at your posts! Everything is within Deputy Commander Duque's expectations. "For a moment, no one knew which officer shouted like this.
Miraculously, the restless and panicked army quickly calmed down.
Duke Marcus, a magical name. This name represented the bloody heads of more than 200,000 Orcs, and also represented the Alliance's victory.
Thinking of the previous strange arrangement, the soldiers suddenly realized that their commander had expected this!
The soldiers did not have such a long-term vision. As long as they knew that this was a prepared battle, they would not panic so easily.
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