Stormwind Wizard God-Chapter 196: What

Duke choked on the wine he had just drunk, and it was quite a choke. Terenas and Anduin laughed at the sight.

"Ahem, why me? Shouldn't we choose the Paladin introduced by Archbishop Faol?" Duke whispered his doubts.

At the long table, Terenas gracefully put down the wine dish in his hand.

"That's also an option." Terenas looked at Anduin, and Anduin immediately gave him a knowing look.

Anduin said, "I think it's the same reason why I was elected as the Alliance's chief commander. If it weren't for you, Duke, perhaps the king of the seven kingdoms would have chosen a more neutral 'Paladin' nominated by Bishop Faol as the deputy commander of the coalition army."

As if singing a double act, King Terenas joined in again: "What the dwarves need is only support. After getting enough support, the dwarves will not have mobile forces for a short time. But the kings of the seven kingdoms are different. They have to consider who to hand over their armies to for the safest possible reason. Moreover, this time the seven kingdoms have handed over their elite troops. We trust Sir Lothar, but there are often times when it is necessary to divide the troops in military affairs. In fact, it is really hard to find a candidate who is strategic, decisive, fair, and acceptable to all countries."

Anduin rejoined: "I understand that the Archbishop wants the Paladins to perform a miracle, but why should we take an unnecessary risk when there are better and safer options?"

Terenas laughed, his graying silver hair rippling, and at this moment he looked a little cute in Duke's eyes: "There is a ready-made, recognized fair person with an impressive record and who is neutral enough. Why do you choose a completely unknown novice? This is the biggest absurdity."

Duke felt a little embarrassed, but also a little bit like he finally felt like he had changed history.

Yes, he forgot that he is the most suitable one.

In history, Lothar went to the northern continent almost alone. Born in Stormwind, he naturally could not affect the interests of the five northern continents and Kul Tiras. The same is true for Duke. The root of Duke's interests is in the southern continent, and Duke's series of successful performances, such as giving up the command of the fleet, successfully conquered the kings, so Duke came to power.

Turalyon, who was originally expected to rise to the top in one step, also rose to the top in the subsequent discussions with Lothar. Unfortunately, he only rose halfway. Turalyon continued to be Lothar's deputy, only an adjutant in the army, not the deputy commander of the Alliance, let alone the independent leadership.

In the eyes of King Menethil and Lothar, Bishop Faol would not be dissatisfied with giving such a high position to a so-called Paladin without even seeing him. This was entirely for the Archbishop's sake. After all, a Paladin is a combat profession, not a strategist academy or a commander from an officer school.

"I'm sorry, Turalyon..." Duke smiled bitterly in his heart.

Then, a lot of things were discussed during the lunch. Terenas talked about forming the Knights of the Silver Hand with the Paladins as the core. This was not a short-term thing. First of all, it would take at least a month to recruit people from Lordaeron and the entire northern continent. Then, training, reorganization, and implementation of faith would take at least three months to form a fighting force.

But the Horde's cross-sea attack is imminent.

After lunch, during the afternoon military meeting.

The hastily assembled makeshift troupe gathered together.

The main attendees and their allied military ranks were:

Commander Anduin, Deputy Commander Duke, Admiral Daelin, Lieutenant General Mograine, Major General Abendis.

Of course, the main reason was that most of the kings of various countries had rushed back to their own countries to mobilize troops, and the King of Lordaeron was not good at military affairs, so it was enough for him to send troops and pay money. The kings of various countries also had a private agreement, and specifically prohibited Terenas from interfering in the command.

Daelin is a king, but at this time he fits into the role of the Alliance admiral very well and shows respect for Lothar, the commander-in-chief.

"The current situation is that my fast reconnaissance ship found that the Horde has built a large number of small and medium-sized transport ships, but has not found any large ships comparable to our destroyers."

"A large-scale sea crossing does not require any cover?" Lothar felt a headache. "This is totally against common sense."

"That's common sense for humans." Duke reminded calmly, "If it were a normal human, there would be no way they could climb over the cliffs to the east and north of Stormwind City to attack the two low walls of Stormwind City. In fact, the Horde did it, and Stormwind City was lost because of it."

No one contradicted Duke.

Lothar looked up: "Who has a more reasonable inference?"

Duke glanced at Admiral Daelin and pointed to Southshore in the middle of the huge map. "If I don't have good shipbuilding technology, or enough time to build a large number of warships to compete with the enemy, but I have sufficient troops, then I will use a large number of transport ships to overwhelm the enemy."

Daelin looked at Duke with a somewhat unhappy expression. "I would like to remind you, Vice Commander, that the First Fleet of Kul Tiras has arrived at the dock of Southshore, and the Second and Third Fleets will arrive within five days. The Storm Fleet, which you transferred the command to me earlier, has also been on standby in Southshore."

What this means is that don't underestimate our Kul Tiras' dominance in naval warfare.

"Very good confidence, Your Excellency Admiral. May I ask how many warships are there in the four fleets combined?"

"12 scout ships, 312 destroyers, 89 cruisers, and 18 large warships." Admiral Daelin puffed out his chest proudly. "If all the Horde ships are these moving target ships, the Kul Tiran Navy can wipe them out on the sea."

"Very good numbers, but what if the invading tribe has more than 10,000 transport ships? 20,000? 30,000? What if the number of enemy ships far exceeds the total number of your army's artillery fire?" Duke continued to ask.

Daelin's expression finally looked a little strange: "This... shouldn't be possible, right?"

Duke found a 3D video, which showed the Horde using hard laborers to sacrifice themselves at will and attack Stormwind City.

"See? These are the Horde's laborers. These laborers have no survival value in the eyes of the orcs and will be used as cannon fodder at will. There are more than 500,000 known tribe warriors, and this does not include these laborers. If I had this hand, I would build 20,000 transport ships. The first 5,000 would all be laborers who are the minimum number to keep the ships sailing. I would even use tugboats to consume the ammunition of the human side. When your ships, Daelin, are hit so hard that the cannons are about to explode, my official troops will come."

The generals were so frightened that their scalps tingled. Lothar took a deep breath and said, "What good solution is there?"

Duke smiled and said, "Please allow me to introduce the Southshore Defense Line to everyone."