Chapter 1243: Moving Mountains and Filling Lakes

At the Alliance headquarters in Stranglethorn Vale, the alliance's top leaders were arguing.

"Can't we blow up all the ravines?" Varian asked.

Brian rolled his eyes at Varian: "First, gunpowder requires money. Second, even if there is so much gunpowder, you can't even spend a hundred years of the Stormwind Kingdom's taxes to cover the cost. Third, this place is full of ghosts. Heavy artillery cannot be transported into the muddy ground. The farthest cannon has a range of just over 12,000 meters, and after 3,000 meters, the artillery shells will fly nowhere."

Air force bombing was out of the question.

There are several methods left, no matter which one requires huge human casualties, which does not necessarily guarantee the successful destruction of Zul'Gurub.

This is a consequence that no country in the alliance can afford.

What's more, after fighting for so long, the alliance only saw the appearance of two or three high-level priests. The enemy's boss, the evil god Haka, was nowhere to be seen.

Varian irritably punched the wall. His exaggerated wrist strength directly opened a hole in the cement wall.

"Varian...the Skybreaker is on the way, actually we..." Valeela tried to comfort Varian.

Varian suddenly turned around, his eyes bloodshot from staying up late for days: "Valila, you don't understand. Of course we can give all the heaviest tasks to Uncle Duke. But what if Uncle Duke one day Not here either? What if we are the only ones who can save the world? I am no longer a child, and I have to learn to deal with problems independently."

Valeera opened her mouth to say something, but Broll Bearskin grabbed his old partner and shook his head at her.

Valeela was silent.

At this moment, Varian suddenly stretched out his hand from the cement wall and squeezed the cement powder on his hand. As a temporary building, the cement wall of the headquarters has not dried completely. It should be extremely hard and can even be used as a city wall. It looks a bit scummy. When you pinch it hard, it is full of powder.

"Wait! Uncle Brian, you said that what your heavy artillery lacks is just a solid base? What if I can provide an extremely solid base for the dwarf artillery team?" Varian seemed to have thought of something.

Brian rolled his eyes: "As long as you can get that evil god into the range of the artillery regiment, my stick boy can help you blow it into the sky. But how do you let my cannon pass through so many complicated swamps?"

"Uncle Brian, let me try another way. I don't want you to give me 10,000 tons of explosives. I want 10,000 tons of cement." Varian slapped the table: "Since the Scourge can contaminate the Sodoril River to block Lordan. The lifeblood of Ren, so why can't we use cement to fill every river, every ravine, and every inch of mud in Zul'Grabri?" Varian waved his arms excitedly.

His idea was too exaggerated. It sounds a bit fanciful, but if you think about it carefully, it seems possible. For a moment, even Brian was stunned.

"The Alliance... doesn't seem to have that much cement, right?" Brian could only make a sound similar to a grunt.

This answer made the expression on Varian's face seem to be frozen.

At this moment, Duke's voice came just right: "It didn't happen before, but it's different now."

Duke led Magni, the three Windrunner sisters and other high-level alliance officials into the headquarters.

"Uncle Duke...are you and the Skybreaker here?" There was clear surprise on Varian's face.

"Well, your idea is indeed exaggerated. However, since all conventional tactics cannot work, why not try your fantastic ideas? Why do you have to constrain your thoughts by so-called common sense and principles? Varian, this time, I support you!" Duke walked over with a smile and patted Varian on the shoulder.

"Then...cement..."

Duke smiled: "Cement has always been a scarce material in the Alliance. It is now indispensable for the reconstruction of almost every city. But the Alliance's supply of cement has always been very small. The main reason is that we had to come from far away in Kalim. Un'Goro Crater on multiple continents imports limestone, the raw material for cement, which is mainly volcanic ash."

"What now?" Brian sensitively noticed the key points in Duke's words.

Duke clapped his hands and said some exciting news: "Although the Alliance submerged the Molten Core in accordance with the agreement with the water element of Hydraxia, we never said we would give up developing Blackstone Mountain. Ah! With Blackstone Mountain, a once nightmare place, now a treasure trove, the Alliance can easily produce one million tons of cement per month."

One million tons! ?

This astonishing number makes every league executive ecstatic.

The high-rises of the Alliance, who have used reinforced concrete, no longer look down upon city walls made of stone and soil. The hardness of the two is not at the same level at all, and traditional stone walls also have the problem of being too heavy. As long as some of the pillars of the wall are damaged, the weight of the wall itself can crush the wall.

Originally, because cement output had been too low, we had to use steel on the cutting edge to save money. No one thought that capturing the Molten Core would bring such benefits.

How can everyone be unhappy?

Zul'Gurub is very large. As the capital of the Gurubashi Empire, one of the two troll empires, Zul'Gurub covers a very large area. Surrounded by a huge trapezoid-like city wall, Zul'Gurub is more than three hundred kilometers wide from east to west and more than five hundred kilometers long from north to south.

If we attack the core area by force, I don't know how many people will die.

But now, with Varian's strategy, the alliance can obviously advance in layers.

Duke smiled: "This is a stupid way. If we can use money and manpower to solve the problem of Haka, then the price is obviously worth it."

Before rushing to the Sin'dorei Kingdom, the limestone mining of the Molten Core had actually begun. Duke directly ordered the air fleet that was supposed to rush back to Ironforge to replenish ammunition to change its route to Blackstone Mountain and transport a large amount of limestone.

It took the Alliance half a month to slowly advance the battle line to the waterfall just north of the main entrance of Zul'Gurub. It is an important source of the Zul'Gurub water system.

Hundreds of mixers were lined up above the waterfall, and according to Duke's instructions, they slowly poured in the mixed cement slurry in proportion.

It seemed that the cement slurry was very thin, and it was washed away by the huge amount of water in the waterfall.

But after three days, the results were clearly visible.

The river in the distance seemed to become narrower for "no reason" and the water flow became more rapid. But the waterway also twisted.

On the fifth day, a main stream began to change course.

On the seventh day, the two lakes dried up inexplicably...

On the fourteenth day, all the Gurubashi trolls felt that something was wrong.