Chapter 188: Gilneas Trapped

? King Gene Greymane has been on the wall for three days.
Lordaeron's sudden attack caused the entire Gilneas to panic, and even if the thick wall blocked the movement of the goblin bomb, the Gilneas were worried.
Contrary to what most people think, this time the problem really lay in Gilneas at the beginning.
When Arthas became a Paladin last year, King Jean also accepted Terenas and Varian’s invitation to participate in the baptism ceremony held at the Cathedral of Light in Stormwind.
At that time, Stormwind City showed great kindness towards Gilneas, and Lordaeron had to ease relations with Gilneas due to the oppression of the Greymane Wall and the Oath.
When everything seemed to be developing towards peace and friendship, as soon as Drunk Wind fell into a coma, an accident occurred on Gilneas.
Unexpectedly, the Silver Hand paladin who escorted Greymane back found an orc in Gilneas' Emberstone Mine!
More surprisingly, the fully armed Paladin died in the hands of the orcs! Then he wanted Gilneas' official deputy to commit suicide in the guest room!
Everyone smelled the conspiracy.
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However, in fact these orcs are not free orcs, they are part of the captives in orc wars.
When the Greymane Wall was built to prevent Lordaeron's annexation, Gene had to give up some of the territories in the southern Silverpine Forest-including Burnwood Village and Amber Mill.
As compensation, Gene gave the right to mine the Emberstone Mine to Baron Valian, the former leader of Burnwood Village.
However, Baron Silvalian found sadly that the isolation policy made the entire Gilneas understaffed. The Emberstone Mine obviously had a large amount of high-quality ore but no one was mining it.
Greed made the baron take the risk. He bought Blackmore of the orc shelter in Dunhold Castle, and while the Greymane Wall had not been completed, he quietly transported some orcs to the Emberstone Mine as slaves.
In fact, it is not uncommon for a small number of orcs to be used as slaves and gladiators within the Alliance. If nothing else, the matter of the Emberstone Mine is at best that Baron Silvalian lost his noble status.
Unfortunately, these orcs came from Dunhold Castle.
Blackmoore reported the deal to Terenas for the first time.
These are normal spy fights between Lordaeron and Gilneas.
What happened to the paladin Orness who escorted King Jean to return home.
This paladin from Lordaeron is a fanatical supporter of Terenas, and Terenas also asked him to go to the Emberstone Mine to collect some relevant information. In Terenas's view, although he can't attack Gilneas, it's always right to master some Gilneas handle.
Therefore, Lieutenant Orness did not leave directly after escorting King Jean back to Gilneas, but wandered around Gilneas.
As a result, news of drunkenness and coma came.
The paladin who was loyal to Lordaeron discovered that Lordaeron finally had a chance to annex Gilneas, and now he only needed a reason!
So Orness came to the pit of Cinderstone and died in the hands of the orcs.
In order to act realistically, Orness did not take off the armor, but exposed his flaws after provocation, letting the orc slave kill himself.
And his deputy, the Paladin Gasly, who is also fanatical and loyal to Lordaeron, reported the matter to Baron Silvalian as soon as possible according to the plan—just when the baron and his men discussed how to conduct crisis public relations. A deputy died in the guest room.
All of a sudden, things got a big deal.
Terenas directly declared that Gilneas had betrayed humanity.
On the surface of this matter, Gilneas was unreasonable.
The self-sacrifice of the two paladins cut off all clues, making the whole thing look like the murderer was all directed towards Gilneas.
Only eight years after the orc war had ended, a paladin of the silver hand died unexplainably under the of an orc in a mine!
Is this possible? Do you think that all the orcs mining are sword saints? !
And what is going on with suicide in the guest room?
He must have committed suicide!
A large number of rumors against Gilneas spread in the Eastern Kingdoms.
At this time, the shortcomings of the isolation policy became apparent-everyone began to speculate about Gilneas with various conspiracy theories.
At the same time, Terenas was the first to expand the war. The Blackfuse Group used a large number of unconventional and extremely powerful weapons, which caused the civilians in Gilneas to suffer great suffering and hatred. stand up.
In the Silver Hand, although the moderates led by Uther and Tirion advocated investigation first, their actions were still a step slower-when the investigator came outside the Greymane Wall, the battle could not stop. Up.
Gilneas and Lordaeron were red-eyed, and the proud Gene simply stated that it was Terenas's conspiracy. He even refused the investigation by the Silver Hand on the grounds that the Silver Hand was not credible.
That's right, Gene has basically guessed the ins and outs of the matter after interrogating Baron Silvalian, but this can't explain it clearly!
What's more, now that Gilneas civilians have died in large numbers, if Gene chooses to continue to give in, I am afraid that he, the king, will also do it!
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Looking at the dense goblin siege machinery docked in the night not far under the Greymane Wall, King Jean sighed deeply.
At the beginning, relying on the goblins and tauren, he took the opportunity of the oath to make Terenas suffer a loss, and Lordaeron, who had been preparing for a long time, punched in the empty space. At that time, Lordaeron was hoarding a lot of war supplies, and it turned out that most of the rations were cheaper than the group of orcs.
Unexpectedly, Terenas learned his lesson after returning to EbookFREE.me~ and directly hired a siege craftsman Blackfuse for a big price. Goblin technology greatly bridged the gap between the two sides.
Terenas really seized a good opportunity. Even if the pledge was released later, he couldn't do anything to Lordaeron. Depending on the terms of the pledge, Gene felt that the pledge might be more likely to require Lordaeron to be present. Take more responsibility when invading outside, anyway, Gilneas will be gone anyway, and the vow will not necessarily start an internal war for revenge.
After all, the first clause of the pledge is to unite and use every force.
Now Gene's heart is full of despair, and he has only realized the serious consequences of isolating himself.
When you face the world indifferently, the world will be indifferent to you.
Just as Gene was thinking about how to solve the predicament in front of him, the flares rose into the sky. The goblin siege machine activated.
Gene shook his head, and began to lead the soldiers in battle.
"You guys work hard, don't let those little green skins be too arrogant!" (To be continued.)