Chapter 430: The Danger of Lordaeron (Part 2)

Prince Arthas is right, and only by doing so can he save most of his subjects. It is definitely a rare quality to be so resolute and decisive at such a young age.

Arthas was also wrong, because in doing so, he would be leaving behind even a small part of his own people. In this era that emphasizes sacrifice and courage, and is full of chivalry, most kings who are brave enough will choose to send generals, and even lead the army to countercharge in person, so as to win precious life for the citizens who have not yet entered the city.

Princess Kalia covered her mouth and nose with her hands in astonishment, and looked at Alsace in disbelief, as if she knew Alsace for the first time, rather than a good sister who had been with each other for thirteen years younger brother.

"Sister! Father took away almost all the generals and mages! He didn't even leave me any city-level champion knight!" Alsace complained a little angrily.

Yes, no brave general can lead a group of pigs to victory.

Blame it on the pressure on the western front, and in Silverpine Forest to the west, Grom Hellscream's onslaught was undoubtedly the best feint. King Terenas was forced to take away almost every professional soldier in the city of Lordaeron except the royal guards.

The soldiers defending the city now, except for a small number of archers, many of them were farmers who could only play with pitchforks a month ago, and they couldn't even fasten their armor well.

"Sister, stay here." After saying that, leaving Kalia in a daze, Alsace strode down the tower, followed closely by Molev.

"Meleph! Send a small team of royal guards to stand by. If the east gate is broken, immediately take my sister to the west to find my father."

"Your Highness, what about you?"

"As long as the men of the Menethil family are not dead, no one can take 'her' from the city of Lordaeron from us." Arthas's words were like nails, and his voice was sonorous: "Command, let all The general on standby leads his troops to the east gate."

Putting on a pair of slightly larger and exquisite armor as quickly as possible - this was a gift from his father King Terenas when he was twelve years old. The precocious Alsace looked mighty, but that's all That's all. His body hadn't fully grown yet, and he couldn't hold the warhammer he wanted to use the most, so he could only grit his teeth and pick up a large double-edged broadsword.

When he rode his horse and rushed to the east gate surrounded by guards, he was surprised to find that the city gate was still not closed. A large number of citizens from towns and villages around Lordaeron City still haven't entered the city yet, because they don't want to give up their life's property, when the sound of rumbling footsteps came from behind, they became even more chaotic, desperately trying to crowd out with their belongings. Go into the narrow city gate.

Alsace grabbed the gatekeeper's breastplate: "I gave the order to close the gate immediately! Why didn't you close the gate? Do you want to kill the 300,000 Lordaeron citizens?"

The city gate officer defended loudly: "But they are all our relatives and friends! I also know many of them, Sister Mary, the wandering merchant Annon who always goes to the Silverpine Forest..."

"They're coming!" exclaimed Muralph.

Following the captain's finger, Alsace looked eastward.

Different from the look and feel on the balcony of the high tower, looking at it from this angle, you first see a small forest one kilometer away, and then the lakeside farther away.

At this moment, the fastest group of orcs had already rushed out of the grove.

The speed of the orc's charge was quite fast. Although it was not as fast as the fastest steed, it was not much different from the full speed of a pack horse.

Alsace snatched the binoculars from a general beside him, and immediately he saw a scene that surprised him.

These green-skinned brutes are as big as the strongest of men, with explosively muscular muscles and massive, bestial heads.

But he couldn't see any large siege equipment, except for some heavy logs that he thought were huge warhammers, and some long ladders that looked extremely crude but were extremely long. What shocked Alsace was that the height of these long ladders coincided with the height of the city wall of Lordaeron according to the visual inspection!

Other than that, all that came into view were sledgehammers, axes, and blunt swords that humans could barely wield, and he was sure they definitely had hooks and ropes.

Unimaginable savagery, but with impressive wisdom.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh——" the people under the city gate let out even louder screams. They crowded into the city gate hole like crazy, pushing and shoving each other. The more panicked, the more crowded the city gate was. The drawbridge over the moat was crowded with people and animals pulling carts. A wagon overturned on the suspension bridge made Alsace's eyeballs almost pop out.

A terrifying picture broke into his and other defenders' minds.

In less than ten minutes, those ferocious green-skinned beasts would step over the corpses of these idiots who were trying to squeeze into the city, enter the city of Lordaeron along the gates that were opened wide because of these guys' blockage, and put The whole city was turned into a sea of ​​flames, pushing 300,000 citizens into hell.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows at those mobs!" Alsace shouted fiercely like a devil.

"But, those are our brothers and sisters!" The city gate officer yelled, looking like he was about to cry.

The next moment, his voice stopped abruptly. He never expected that his head would be chopped off by the most respected Prince Alsace.

At least hundreds of people witnessed this scene, and everyone opened their mouths in astonishment.

"Bastards! For the safety of the three hundred thousand citizens! In the name of Arthas Menethil, I order you - shoot arrows! Or all of you will die with these mobs below!"

The thunderous shouting finally awakened the dazed archers. With tears in their eyes, they gritted their teeth and started to shoot arrows!

The citizens of Lordaeron who were panicking into the city let out even louder cries. Even in their nightmares, they would never have imagined that soldiers from their own country would shoot arrows at them. Almost instantly, there was no living creature on the entire suspension bridge. The citizens near the moat beside the suspension bridge screamed and fled, trying to avoid this place of death.

"Anyone who dares to get close to the drawbridge will be shot!" Alsace shouted, crying, "Merlov, you take people and push everything on the drawbridge down the river, and then raise the drawbridge as fast as possible. .”

Murav did as they did, and they pulled every terrified citizen in the city gate into the city, and pushed most of the corpses and debris into the river, but an overturned carriage pinned down the drawbridge . This was a carriage carrying grain, and the two nauseous horses had died. However, the dead horse carcasses were too well tied up, and there were at least two tons of grain, which could not be handled by manpower.

In the past, it took a long time to deal with this kind of situation, but now it takes less than ten minutes to solve it.