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Chapter 495 Stormwind Crisis

As a veteran with rich battle experience, Gryan Stoutmantle quickly realized the approaching danger, so he convened a meeting of nobles.

The purpose of this aristocratic meeting is to get other nobles to lower some tax rates, and at the same time, to set aside some food to help the refugees, in order to prevent these refugees from being bewitched and won over.

But his idea was directly rejected by the nobles.

In the eyes of these nobles, those peasants were not considered human beings at all. Even if these refugees made trouble, what could they do? They had powerful enough knights and private guards.

They have tall and strong castles to protect them, and the knights have solid armor and sharp swords. What do the refugees have? They have nothing!

How could a group of refugees with nothing fight them? If they dared to cause trouble, they would just send soldiers to wipe them out. Anyway, these refugees were like weeds in the wilderness. Even if they were killed this year, new ones would grow again next year.

There is no need to worry about no one using it.

Hearing what those nobles said, Grian's face turned red with anger and he cursed at them, but even so he could not change the nobles' decision.

So Grian could only make some preparations on his own.

He knew very well that he was the exploiting class that needed to be eliminated in the Defias Brotherhood, and he had to teach the Defias Brotherhood a hard lesson.

While Grian sent envoys to Stormwind for help, he also began to train soldiers. If others were unwilling to provide food, he would have to pay for it himself.

Grian decided to call on the townspeople, merchants, and large farmers of Moonbrook to form an army to protect them.

Originally, Moonbrook Town had only a hundred town militiamen, but after Grian's reorganization, the number was expanded to five hundred. At the same time, a reserve team of five hundred people was formed to train as quickly as possible.

In Grian's plan, he was going to form an army of two thousand men. With an army of this size, he would be confident that he could defend Moonbrook, defend the Western Wasteland, and drive out all those members of the Defias Brotherhood.

It was not easy to form a militia team without the consent of Stormwind City, which would be like a rebellion. However, in an emergency, he formed the team while reporting to Stormwind City.

He believed that with his status and the seriousness of the situation, it would be no problem for him to form an army. At the same time, he had decided to have His Majesty the King send a military supervisor here. He, Grian, was worthy of His Majesty the King.

As a veteran, Grian knew that speed was of the essence, so after deciding to form an army, he immediately began recruiting people. In just one week, an army of a thousand people was formed.

Although this army is still very immature, they are already a formal army.

At the same time, after hearing that Grian had formed an army, Vanessa was not afraid, but directly led the backbone of the Brotherhood to attack the surrounding towns.

Vanessa did not directly cause trouble for Yuexi Town. She was very clear about the gap between her and Yuexi Town. So she led dozens of elite troops to attack some of the surrounding towns and villages.

Most of these villages, strongholds, and manors were properties of the nobles, and the lower-class people lived in extreme poverty. Vanessa's arrival could be said to have attracted a great response.

She directly sent a group of people to sneak in secretly, and then launched an attack under the cover of night. With the cooperation of both inside and outside, she easily broke through a castle. Then Vanessa pulled out the nobles in the castle and held a public trial on the high platform.

She told all the dirty things these nobles had done, and announced that all the land, cattle, sheep, grain and other properties under the name of the nobles would be distributed equally to the ordinary people, even the soldiers.

For a moment, the whole castle was filled with cheers.

Vanessa finally sentenced the nobleman to death and beheaded him personally. She also wrote down all his crimes and distributed them to all directions.

After completing all this, Vanessa did not stop and led her people out of the castle and headed for the next target.

She knew very well that with her current strength she was no match for the Stormwind Kingdom. If she stationed in one place, she would soon be besieged by a large number of enemies, so the best way was to adopt guerrilla warfare.

When she captured a manor, village or castle, she would distribute the land, food and money inside to everyone. Then she would leave quickly, and after he left, Grian, who came to rescue, would lead his army to arrive.

At this time, Grian faced two problems. The first was whether to take back the land, livestock and food from the civilians.

Once he did that, even if he succeeded in taking back the food, land, and property from the Pingmings, he would definitely be hated by them in the end.

But if he doesn't take it back, then what about his so-called promise to protect the property of those merchants, nobles, etc.?
No matter which method he chose, he would offend a group of people. If he chose to take back food, farmland and wealth, even if he reoccupied the town now, as soon as they left, they would immediately rebel.

If he did not take back the wealth of food, land and livestock, the merchants and farmers who supported him would feel that he was just trying to please them, and his army would likely fall apart.

Faced with this dilemma, Grian finally chose merchants, nobles and farmers. After all, he had to ensure that he had an army in his hands so that he could defeat Vanessa.

In order to prevent the poor people in these castles from rebelling, Grian could only leave some soldiers to garrison and continue to lead his troops to pursue Vanessa.

But Vanessa had already disappeared with her soldiers without a trace, and even the footprints and other traces they left behind were covered up by her magic.

There were no magicians in Grian, so he had no choice but to give up.

Next, Vanessa began to attack everywhere, launching attacks on strongholds, villages, castles, and manors.

A large number of villages, strongholds and manors were breached, and Grian could only run around after getting up. The entire Western Wasteland was in chaos because of Vanessa.

Grian almost caught Vanessa several times, but she escaped each time. When the nobles found that the castle could not protect them, they finally got scared and began to unite and handed over the guards to Grian.

Although the number of soldiers under Grian's command increased, the areas he needed to garrison also increased, and in the end he did not have many troops at his disposal.

Grian has been extremely busy during this period. He is in his forties and has been constantly running around in the western wilderness. Even though he is a paladin, his body can no longer bear it.

But things soon took a turn for the better. Just when he was worrying about how to deal with that man, the intelligence officer hurried over with a message.

"Are you saying that the Defias Brotherhood is preparing to attack Fort Kate? Is the news confirmed?" asked Grian.

"General, this is the news from one of our spies who infiltrated the organization. Vanessa has already led her troops out!"

"Damn little rat, let's see where you can run now!" Grian immediately gave the order and the army rushed towards Kate Castle.

The soldiers, who had been running in the wilderness for more than half a month, were already very tired, but after hearing Grian say that they would catch the little mouse and take revenge, they once again cheered up and rushed to Kateburg. In order to catch up with Vanessa, Grian directly abandoned the baggage and led the army to march quickly, fearing that Vanessa would escape again when they arrived.

In order to speed up the process, Grian did not even wait for the scouts to report the news, but instead marched the army quickly.

But what he didn't know was that everything he did had been seen by Vanessa.

Why was Vanessa able to predict Grian's actions every time? In fact, Grian had been under her close surveillance from the beginning.

Vanessa learned the spell "Animal Companion" from Richard, which allows her to control an eagle or other animals to monitor targets.

She even used enlightenment techniques to enlighten these animals, making them smarter and able to understand her various commands.

With the help of these animals, Vanessa can see everything that Grian does.

So when Grian led his army in a hurry towards Kate Castle, Vanessa had already ambushed them on the road they had to pass.

Grian never expected that Vanessa, whom he had been chasing like a rat, would dare to ambush him, so he had no time to react when he entered the ambush circle.

When the army saw a large number of burning stones falling from the sky on their heads, they fell into chaos.

Because of the forced march, the army did not wear any armor at all. When faced with an enemy ambush, these soldiers who had only been trained for less than a month were completely unable to resist.

And what they faced was not just a few dozen people at the beginning, but a full army of 2,000 people. Among these 2,000 people, the vast majority were new recruits who had just been transformed from refugees.

Although they had not received rigorous training, the enemies on the opposite side were the same, and those people were in chaos at this time.

Faced with this situation, the recruits behaved very bravely, and after discovering that they were ambushed, Grian wanted to take control of the army as soon as possible.

But the army under his command was not a regular army at all, and in the panic, few people obeyed his orders.

Grian understood that in order to change this situation, he had to personally lead his troops to kill the enemy's commander. Only in this way would he have a chance to turn defeat into victory.

So the old paladin raised his weapon and rushed towards Vanessa.

Vanessa was not afraid at all when she saw the old paladin rushing towards her. After several years of hard training, her strength was already very close to legendary. Coupled with the equipment Richard had prepared for her, she was confident that she could defeat the old paladin.

The result was not surprising. This old paladin who had participated in the fight against the Undead Scourge ended his life here.

After Grian's death, the remaining soldiers' morale collapsed immediately. Except for a few who escaped, the rest were all killed or captured.

Vanessa did not hesitate and directly led the army to attack Moonbrook Town. At this time, Moonbrook Town was at its most empty because a large number of soldiers had been withdrawn. Coupled with Grian's death, the whole town was in a panic.

Vanessa easily captured the largest town in the Western Wilderness.

Next, Vanessa swept across the Western Wilderness. All the nobles and large farmers were defeated by her. Then Vanessa carried out a thorough land reform directly in the Western Wilderness.

She distributed the land equally to everyone, and also distributed the food and livestock stored by the nobles to all the civilians. For a time, Vanessa gained great prestige in the Western Wilderness.

And everything she did was soon sent to Stormwind City.

When Richard walked out of the space gate, he was in the Western Wasteland. He originally planned to go directly to Quel'Thalas, but he soon discovered the difference of the Western Wasteland.

Richard was shocked when he saw the vigorous land reform in the western wilderness.

He also didn't expect that the little girl he rescued would actually do something great.

However, he was very clear about the power of Stormwind, so he was ready to help Vanessa. After all, he had disliked Stormwind for a long time.

Stormwind Fortress, this fortress city built on the cliff, has become very prosperous.

The royal family members and most of the nobles of Stormwind City are gathered here. This is the most important city in Stormwind Kingdom.

But at this time the owner of this city was becoming very irritable.

Varian, who had not rested for a whole night, felt a headache when he saw the generals and nobles still arguing in front of him.

In the King's Council Hall, these people argued all night long, but still could not come up with a solution.

Just last night, an urgent message came:
The entire Western Wasteland fell. The Defias Brotherhood defeated General Gryan and killed him, occupied Moonbrook Town, and occupied the entire Western Wasteland.

This important granary of the Stormwind Kingdom has now fallen into the hands of the enemy.

The leader of the Defias Brotherhood has also been identified. She is the daughter of Edwin VanCleef who escaped from here a few years ago.

Over the past few years, she has grown into a formidable opponent.

At the same time, her inflammatory slogan of "beat the nobles, divide the land, and pay less grain" has spread throughout Stormwind City.

Many of the lower-class refugees have become somewhat unstable.

These poor people who shouted slogans have become a huge threat to the rule of Stormwind Kingdom. More and more people are inspired by this slogan.

The current military strength of the Stormwind Kingdom is not strong. Due to the alliance issue, their relationship with the Quel'Thalas Kingdom in the north is not good. The Quel'Thalas Alliance is confronting them on the border.

At the same time, there was the tribe, which required the Stormwind Kingdom to withdraw a lot of soldiers. More importantly, after losing the Western Wasteland, the kingdom began to experience a shortage of food.

They now have to quell the rebellion and get rid of Vanessa as quickly as possible.

(End of this chapter)