Crossing Azeroth, starting with the Heroes of Might and Magic system

Varian asked, "How many warriors does the Darkspear tribe have now?"

Senjin glanced at his deputy Gadlin.

Gadlin then picked up a list, looked at it and said, "The total number of troops now is 455 Darkspear Warriors, 315 Darkspear Axe Throwers, 248 Darkspear Hunters, 206 Darkspear Beastmasters, 118 Darkspear Mystics, and 85 Darkspear Witch Doctors."

"Very good, there are six or seven hundred ranged troops. This time they are attacking the city, we just need to remove the drawbridge of the moat, and the Bloodscalp Trolls will not be able to get through. We only need to shoot and use magic attacks on the castle." Varian said.

Varian then returned to the Daggerridge Shipyard and summoned the ranged troops of the old blind murloc, the murloc sages and the hunting murlocs, a total of about 500 people.

Including Varian's Daggerridge troops, there are 566 Halberdiers, 200 Shield Infantry, 325 Sharpshooters, 238 Crusaders, 180 Griffin Knights, 120 Champion Knights, 40 Mortars, 100 Riflemen, 40 Witches, 25 Priests, and 4 Ballistae.

Varian used the time-space portal to send the troops from Daggerridge Fortress and the murloc's ranged troops to the Stranglethorn Vale sub-base.

There is also an archangel who has already arrived above the sub-base, but is blocked by clouds and no one can see him. The archangel will not be dispatched unless it is an emergency.

The generals involved include Gavinrad, Gryan Stoutmantle, Karen, Mathias, Old Blind Eye, Brack, Slark, and Gadlin.

And of course Sen'jin and Varian.

After some discussion, a tactic was decided.

Place all the ranged troops on the castle and carry out ranged attacks. The castle has strong defenses and is difficult to capture in a short period of time. Try to use ranged attacks to consume the manpower of the Blood Trolls.

If the Bloodscalp Trolls break through the castle gate, then lure the Bloodscalp Trolls to the cave behind the castle and use the terrain advantage to ambush them.

Everyone expressed their agreement.

After some mobilization, long-range troops such as archers, musketeers, mortars, lizardmen, witches, etc. have all been dispersed to the castle's towers, rooftops and shooting holes.

The knights, troll warriors and the like all retreated to the cave behind the castle.

The stairs leading to the second floor and above of the castle are temporarily blocked with stones, so the Bloodscalp Trolls cannot climb up the castle to attack ranged troops, and can only enter the cave to fight a decisive battle with melee troops.

The hunters and kobolds of the Darkspear clan went to the land in front of the castle to set traps.

After everything was ready, the soldiers in the castle quietly hid and pretended nothing had happened.

....…

The next morning, the great witch doctor Nezzliok, led 10,000 blood-capped troll warriors to the front of the castle, but was blocked by the wide moat.

This was something he had not expected. According to news two days ago, the moat was still being dug and there was no water, which resulted in him not having prepared the tools to cross the moat.

With several siege vehicles and ladders, how to cross the moat is a problem.

So he prepared to have the troll warriors cut down the surrounding trees and build wooden bridges and rafts so that they could cross the moat to fight.

He expected the Darkspear trolls to not dare to leave the castle and fight the Bloodscalp clan.

Suddenly, a group of large black birds appeared in the sky, far away from the ground, and the distance was beyond the attack range of the Blood-Top Archer and the Blood-Top Mystic.

Nezzliok thought to himself, “Not good!”

In the sky, Varian rode on a griffin and chanted a spell towards the area where the bloodscalp trolls were most concentrated below: "infuly frostaris sedaa!"

Then he waved the staff, and a powerful magical energy gushed out from the staff and turned into snowflakes all over the sky.

In an instant, a large flake of snow containing cold magical energy fell on the Blood-capped Troll.

Within the area covered by the snow, many trolls were injured, causing a commotion.

Nezliok was afraid that they would run around and cause chaos in the army, so he shouted: "Don't panic, stay where you are!"

He then directed the Bloodscalp Witch Doctor to treat the injured trolls.

On this expedition, the Bloodscalp Trolls brought 500 witch doctors, so the damage caused by Varian's magic blizzard was quickly healed by the witch doctors.

But Nezzliok was unable to attack the griffins in the sky, so he still ordered the troll warriors to continue chopping wood in order to build a wooden bridge to attack the castle.

Varian saw that the blizzard was not working, so he used fireballs instead.

As Varian waved his staff again, continuous fireballs suddenly appeared where the Bloodscalp Trolls were cutting down trees. The fireballs exploded after touching the Bloodscalp Trolls. The violent explosion injured a large number of Bloodscalp Trolls. The explosion also ignited the trees, and the dense trees began to burn.

Several Bloodscalp Trolls at the center of the explosion were killed on the spot, and the Bloodscalp Witch Doctors were unable to save them.

Seeing this, Nezzliok became furious and immediately cast a lightning chain at the griffin rider in the sky.

A griffin rider who was flying relatively low was hit. Fortunately, there were several priests riding griffins behind him who treated him instantly and prevented him from being knocked down.

Varian slapped his thigh and forgot to cast anti-magic spell on the Griffin Knight.

So, he quickly cast a spell, using anti-magic magic on more than a hundred griffin knights, and then cast a body shield, and asked them to lower their altitude and attack the blood-capped trolls.

Griffin Knight is immune to all low-level magic due to its anti-magic ability. Neither Nezzliok nor Bloodscalp Mystic can attack Griffin Knight, and Bloodscalp Hunter's attacks can only cause minimal damage to Griffin Knight with the protective shield.

They could only watch helplessly as more than a hundred griffin riders slaughtered the bloodscalp trolls.

Occasionally, he flew too low and was shot by some high-health shooters, but was quickly tricked by the priest healer behind him.

At this moment, Varian was still using continuous fireball magic to attack the blood-scalp troll below.

However, the range of the continuous fireballs was too limited, and there were too many Blood-Scalp Trolls. Soon, several gangs of trolls built wooden bridges.

The trolls built a simple wooden bridge over the moat and began to charge towards the castle.

Varian quickly ordered the griffin riders to attack the wooden bridges. Soon, one of the wooden bridges was broken, and several trolls on the bridge fell into the moat.

But more and more trolls built wooden bridges, and soon some blood-capped trolls rushed across the moat.

At this time, Varian ordered some of the griffin riders to stop attacking the trolls' wooden bridge and only attack the trolls that had already crossed the moat, allowing the other trolls to rush across the moat.

Let some griffin riders continue to attack the wooden bridge to prevent the trolls from building a large wooden bridge and making it impossible for their siege vehicles and ladders to cross the river.