Duque did not try to stop the trolls from joining the tribe.
That would be a waste of effort.
Trolls joining the tribe was almost inevitable. Fourteen thousand years ago in Azeroth, the trolls, the native race of Azeroth, had established many large kingdoms. Amani and Gurubashi were the largest, and these two kingdoms were ruled by the Zandala tribe. Thus, they were praised as the Great Zandala Empire.
Seven thousand years ago, Dassrema Sunstrider brought along the Elven nobles who wanted to continue researching and using Arcane Magic. They left their fellow Night Elves who followed the teachings of the Druids and accepted exile and migrated to the Northern Continent of the Eastern Kingdom, commonly known as the Lordaeron Continent.
These high elves who moved east evolved into high elves and established their own magic kingdom, Cuel Salas. As a new nation of immigrants, Cuel Salas and the local troll Amani Empire began a war over the issue of land expansion that lasted thousands of years.
Until 2800 years ago, when humans began to rise, Thoradin The Great united the human tribes and established the Arathor Empire. The high elves' kingdom of Cuel Salas was no match for the troll Amani Empire. In desperation, they sought help from humans and began to teach them the power of arcane magic.
Arathor and the kingdom of Cuel Salas worked together to defeat the troll Amani Empire. The trolls were unable to recover from this setback, and the troll war came to an end.
It could be said that the trolls had a feud with humans and elves that had been passed down for thousands of years. Their blood and souls had been poured on this continent in the fierce battle. The hatred had long been so strong that it could not be dissolved.
Furthermore, there were too many troll clans. Even if Duque had dealt with the Amani clan in advance, there were still many other clans on this continent.
For example, the Zandala tribe in Stranglethorn Vale was the ancestors of all trolls. They were also known as primitive trolls. Trolls were generally divided into five main groups. Other than primitive trolls, there were also jungle trolls, forest trolls, desert trolls, and ice trolls. There were many branches of different sizes according to their attributes.
Sand Fury, Ice Hair, Evil Branch, Blood Scalp, Skull Splitter and other small branches were ignored. There were seven or eight large Amani-level clans.
Rather than letting Orgrim form an alliance with the Trolls, it would be better to leave it to the Amani. At least Duque would be able to predict their route of advance.
Of course, before dealing with Orgrim's elite army and trolls, Duque still had something important to do.
Cover the retreat of Stromgard's troops to Torrentburg and Saladin's Wall.
The most frightening thing about a retreat was being routed. Once the rearguard troops were destroyed, one could imagine the following scenario:
The torrent of green that represented the Horde Orcs and the silver that represented the Stormgard Kingdom crossed over the entire Arathi Highlands. The bitter silver was chased by the green from all directions. The human army, which was severely lacking in transportation, was torn apart by the Orcs who charged from all directions in the battle on the plains.
After fighting for so long, the Alliance and the Horde were really angry.
It was conceivable that if the retreat failed, not many people would be spared. The Orcs who had better endurance would chase down every human who tried to escape and kill them in the cruelest way possible.
There were no captives, no mercy. Only one in a hundred soldiers would be able to return to Torrentburg alive.
The Arathi Highlands where Torrentburg was located were not fertile. The mountainous nature of the highlands limited the production of food and the upper limit of the total population.
Among the seven human kingdoms, the population of the Stormgard Kingdom was only slightly higher than that of the pure mountainous Alterac Kingdom. In a sense, Stormgard was even weaker than Stormwind which had lost its territory.
At the very least, the fertile Elven Forest fed hundreds of thousands of Stormwind citizens.
The total population of Stormgard was less than 250 thousand. To be able to gather an army of 30 thousand was already the limit of what the people of Torrentburg could do.
Solas Trollbane could not imagine that if he lost all the 50 thousand people at the Sador Bridge, including the civilian workers, would there be a tomorrow for Torrentburg?
However, the most capable troops of the Alliance were basically fighting the main Orc force of Grom Hellhowl's Warsong Clan at the Western Front.
The greatest support the Stormgard people received was half of the Scarlet Cross Legion led by Abbendis. Abbendis's men went to the Wall of Soradin to replace the people of Torrentburg so that Solas had more troops to defend Torrentburg.
Other than that, there was Duque's Mages and Aurelia's Rangers.
When he heard that Aurelia was worried about something happening in the country and left with her men, if it was not for the fact that Duque and Aurelia had a close relationship, Solas would have scolded her in public.
"Don't be agitated, General Trollbane. I let Aurelia go back because I have enough confidence that I can successfully protect 90% of the Stormgard soldiers to return to Torrentburg safely. "
Solas was stunned for a full five seconds before he came to his senses. This ridiculously young deputy commander of the Alliance standing in front of him had a much more impressive battle record than the actual commander of the Alliance, Noxus.
Perhaps Duque had not proven himself in offensive battles, but when it came to defense, interception, and evacuation under extremely disadvantageous circumstances, Duque was definitely an expert among experts.
"Uh, it seems like you can't burn down the entire defense line in the straits?" King Solas asked a very amusing question.
"Pfft!" Duque burst out laughing. "Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you …"
"Offend? The Arathi people don't care about etiquette. As long as you can protect these people, I can even let my son be your attendant. "Solas sold his son without any shame.
Duque still had a lot of respect for the Arathi people who had the Torrentburg as their core. In the 'history', the Torrentburg had withstood the Undead Calamity head-on. Even when there were only 3,000 people left in the kingdom, none of them gave up. They fought bravely in various areas of the Arathi Highlands, declaring their resistance and unyieldingness to the tribes and all invaders.
"No, no, no, I am not shameless enough to make a prince my attendant." If he really did this, it would undoubtedly make Duque feel that he was full of arrogance. "In fact, I have always advocated the minimum sacrifice in exchange for the greatest results."
"Very well, Deputy Commander Marcus, what do you plan to do?" Solas paused for a moment, but still felt that he had to give Duque a little benefit. "If you succeed, you will undoubtedly become a hero in the hearts of the people of Torrentburg. I think there will be no less than a hundred knight candidates in Torrentburg who admire your prestige and volunteer to become your followers. "
A hundred quasi-knights did not sound like a lot.
But considering that there were a hundred of them who were very good at fighting and could help him manage his fief, the weight was much greater.
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