Regardless, the vrykul have trained these fearsome proto-dragons as mounts.
These dragon knights are the biggest trouble for the coalition forces!
If they don't kill these guys and head straight for Icecrown Glacier, no one knows what kind of damage will be done to the coalition's supply lines.
Seeing the group of Proto-Dragons rising in the sky that looked like a swarm of locusts and dark clouds, almost every commander of the Alliance smiled with triumph.
"Show these barbarians from the North what a dragnet is!" Varian swung the Seramani in his hand down heavily in the air.
In the sky, there's no need to even fire from Naxxramas.
Those Alliance airships that were swaying and floating in the air, all with their gun ports open, firing 40mm eight-barreled pom-pom Cannons, plus the new Dongfeng anti-aircraft guns on land.
With one air and one ground, even the Type 3 Bomb was useless, and they directly formed a dead zone that was enough to turn the entire airspace into an absolutely no-fly zone.
It was the black smoke and light-trapping bullets pulled out by thousands of anti-aircraft guns at different angles. Amid the bangs that were denser than the sound of rain, little Saurfang only saw the sky full of red proto-dragons being beaten into pieces of smelly flesh and blood, and their masters exploded in the air. They had not even flown away from the sky above Utgard Castle, but had already turned into blood mud and fell back onto the castle.
This is the most demoralizing thing.
The morale of the Vrykul was declining at an almost visible rate.
Before the battle even started, they were almost destroyed by the heavy artillery. Now, the Proto-Dragonflight, which they were most proud of, was directly wiped out, and even the Vikus infantry who had already started to charge began to slow down their pace.
The roar that was deafening a quarter of an hour ago became like the futile cries of a few kittens.
I don't know if he was trying to hide his fear or if he was really brave.
Varian also felt that it was a bit boring. He leaned his sword on the ground and uttered only four words: "Xu Jin bombardment!"
Under the influence of Du, Varian became a commander of the new era. He not only possessed the qualities of a modern military commander on Earth, but also possessed powerful combat skills and swordsmanship. He was a model of a new era leader.
Facing the primitive Vrykul, he did not hold back, using heavy artillery and mortars to blow all the Vrykul who dared to rush out into pieces.
If there are infantrymen who are lucky enough to break out of the bombing zone, or dragon knights who fly out of the restricted air zone, they will naturally be strangled by sniper troops.
Varian stared at the ruined Utgarde Keep with a faint smile on his face: "Uncle Duke really takes good care of our Stormwind Kingdom!"
"Yeah!" Broll Bearskin, one of the Iron Triangle, also sighed.
Duke is the best commander at this seemingly fair but subtle favoritism. If the dwarves are placed on the western front first, then the eastern front cannot also use dwarves as the main force.
The small dragon-plundering clan of the Vrykul was certainly not worth Varian's full-scale attack. What Duke and Varian really valued about the Vrykul was their dragon eggs of the proto-dragons. Adult dragons had their own wills and were used to the Vrykul's commands, so they would never listen to humans.
Dragon eggs are different.
The Proto-Dragon was a typical beast, unlike the Five-Colored Dragon, which already had its own senses and consciousness in the dragon egg. As long as the dragon egg was captured, the Stormwind would be able to train a dragon knight corps that belonged only to it in due course.
It's not that the current Griffin is not useful.
First of all, although griffins are easier to tame, their fighting power is always inferior to that of dragons, which has been verified by countless battles.
Secondly, in the Alliance, the Wildhammer Dwarves are the best at taming griffins. It can be said that the best griffin population is always in the hands of the Wildhammer Dwarves. If Stormwind Kingdom wants to further develop its own air force, a dedicated air bird race is necessary.
Night elves have hippogryphs, blood elves have dragonhawks, dwarves and gnomes have griffins, and humans have proto-dragons, which is not bad. Anyway, as long as you don't directly control a large number of five-colored dragons, the Wyrmrest Temple will not have any objections.
"It's a pity that the Qiraji are not used to areas that are too cold..." Varian muttered to himself.
"Varian, don't be greedy. Besides, those bugs are not directly under the Stormwind Kingdom." Valeera's words made Varian laugh.
The following battle was safe and sound.
When all the Vikus forces that can be used for counterattack are wiped out, the most orthodox siege warfare will begin.
After destroying all the arrow towers and other things on the periphery, heavy artillery can never blow a towering fortress into a real flat ground. When a large amount of rubble is spread on the ruins, the artillery attack will become inefficient.
Shells also cost money.
In order to contribute the remaining castle areas buried under the rubble, the infantry regiments had to be sent in in the end.
This is when Saurfang the Younger's Blackrock Orc troops came in handy.
Amidst a continuous chant of "Lok-tar, ogar!", the Vrykul were overturned by the car.
The Vikus are slightly taller than the strongest orcs, about 3 meters tall, and are as strong as orcs, but not as agile. Their movements are slower and more clumsy.
What determines victory or defeat is weapons.
the Alliance's mass-produced fine steel weapons and multi-layer composite plate armor give the orcs greater destructive power and better survivability.
In fact, the concept of composite plate armor was also proposed by Duke.
Considering that the lethality of sharp weapons in close combat is getting smaller and smaller, and the enemies facing the back are getting bigger and bigger, with a human physique, being hit by a two-and-a-half-meter-tall orc with a full force hammer is the same as being hit by a three-meter-tall giant. Both are killed in one hit.
So Duke came up with the concept of composite plate armor.
Its principle is just like the reactive armor of the M1A1 main battle tank of the United States in the last century. Its sandwich material provides better anti-penetration performance.
Of course, individual soldiers cannot use high-end and classy stuff like reactive armor. Duke developed a two-layer stamped plate armor with the same thickness, but with a large number of fixed small springs and a large amount of cotton stuffed in between the two layers of plate armor, taking into account both defense and warmth - because iron can make the body lose heat faster.
After repeated tests, composite plate armor can significantly increase a soldier's chance of survival by more than 50% against attacks from heavy weapons such as sledgehammers and clubs.
The soldiers on the front line all said it was good after using it.
Of course, on the surface, Duke would never show favoritism. He even equipped the troops of little Saurfang who came to work with him with composite plate armor suitable for the orcs' physique, and said that after the battle, the orcs could take these plate armors with them when they returned.
Duke's generosity deeply touched even a simple warrior like Saurfang. It was a pity that Duke was not a green-faced orc, otherwise Saurfang might have knelt down and was willing to be his younger brother.