Taking advantage of this gap, Galen connected to the Origin Heart and checked the situation in the Canyon. The trolls had already begun their siege, focusing their climbing efforts on the city gate area.
When deploying defenses, Galen, in an attempt to emphasize the city's head and emulate Stormwind's gates, did not upgrade the sentry posts on either side of the city gate into arrow towers.
This resulted in the city gate area having the least arrow tower coverage, a fact the trolls noticed, leading them to choose the city gate as their breakthrough point for the siege.
However, this miscalculation turned out to be a blessing in disguise. By focusing on the city gate, the trolls allowed Aragorn to avoid dispersing his forces and concentrate solely on defending the gate.
Otherwise, with only a thousand soldiers left to him, Aragorn would have struggled to defend the nearly two-kilometer-long city wall.
Gandalf's arrival allowed Aragorn to focus his main energy on the city gate, without needing to reserve manpower to prevent trolls from attacking other sections of the wall.
Omar, who came to report the statistical situation, interrupted Galen's observation. Before exiting the base's perspective, he checked Amor's location. Amor's rapidly advancing troops had already reached the foot of the mountain, less than an hour away from the Canyon.
The counterattack was about to begin.
Galen took the report handed over by Omar.
According to the battle report data, our side suffered nearly a thousand casualties in this battle, with 669 deaths at the North Gate and only 177 deaths at the West Gate.
On the troll side, over four thousand corpses were collected, and five thousand trolls were captured. A good record, a casualty ratio of one to four. Achieving this result shows that the soldiers trained by the base are an elite force.
If the battle report were presented to Thoras's desk, it would be enough to make Galen the rising star of Stromgarde and even the human kingdoms.
When this result came out, Omar, Varrokal, and a group of Scarlet Flame Legion core members admired the prince immensely.
The number of brothers who died in battle at the North Gate was four times more than at the West Gate. Although the prince had half more troops than at the North Gate, Omar and the others were still very ashamed to have achieved this casualty ratio. After all, the prince would only turn thirteen next month, while they were more than ten years older than the prince.
Being half their age, yet more capable and stronger, Omar felt that he had wasted his twenty-plus years of life.
At this moment, Omar truly became a staunch supporter like Varrokal, rather than simply rationally loyal to Galen.
Looking at Omar's admiring gaze, Galen guessed what he was thinking. Based on the troop ratio between the two sides, considering the trolls' combat abilities, and the Scarlet Flame Legion's excellent equipment, a 10% casualty rate was within expectations.
How could they know that Galen had cheated on the data? In fact, more than 300 people died at the West Gate, because Galen had spent money on the Devotion Aura, making the fully armed human infantry a moving tortoise shell in the eyes of the trolls, so hard that only the leader's spell damage could effectively damage the human formation.
After the battle, Galen used Resurrection, eventually reducing the number of deaths by 180 people. Of course, Galen would not reveal the real situation, because being admired by his most capable general made Galen feel comfortable all over.
In Galen's view, Omar was also very loyal to Galen, but he had not reached Varrokal's 100% loyalty. Omar was a rational type, and Galen was only a teenager, not an adult, and had no outstanding performance. The future was full of uncertainties, so his loyalty should be around 95%.
Future history also confirmed this point. Omar joined the Scarlet Crusade after the Scourge invasion, and did not continue to serve the Kingdom of Stromgarde.
This battle report, once released, could completely turn Omar into a staunch supporter, which was also an unexpected gain.
Varrokal was different. His loyalty was 100%, because that was the limit. Otherwise, he would tell you that his top confidant's loyalty would definitely break through the sky.
Galen continued to read. The seriously injured brothers all received treatment from the priests. After the priests stabilized the injuries of the amputated soldiers, they cleaned the stumps, applied the Potion of Life from the Arcane Vault, and then reattached the severed limbs, just like using superglue.
Galen was amazed when he saw this method of reattaching severed limbs. Damn, what kind of crazy operation is this? Does the Potion of Life have this function?
Putting the report aside, Galen began to think about how to maximize the battle results.
His several branch bases in the western East Hills of Alterac Mountains in the Arathi Highlands were all towns built relying on the mines of the Alterac Mountains. However, except for the Southeast Mining Area, which his father clearly promised to grant to him in the future, Helm's Valley was just a project he had taken on, and the land still belonged to the royal family.
Witherbark Village had already been occupied by him, and his troops had been dispatched. In theory, it could be designated as his pioneering territory. This was in accordance with the laws of the Arathor Empire, an article recognized by various countries.
He had to think of a way to get his father to grant him the title of Duke in advance. If he had to wait until he turned sixteen to officially grant the fiefdom, then it would be too late.
Now that the east has been occupied by him, there is no extra land in the Arathi Highlands that can be developed. He needs an official title to leave the Arathi Highlands, open up new land, and build branch bases.
If he goes out with the status of a prince, the land he opens up will also belong to him, but in theory, the kingdom still has half the ownership. His base has too many secrets and is not suitable for outsiders to set foot in.
Even Minas Tirith, which Galen plans to open, will have the area within the third ring designated as a restricted zone.
He still needs an independent title. A noble title is a good choice.
Galen racked his brains and found a way to show his military achievements.
The captives must be presented, but they cannot be really held captive. In the end, they must be brought back. Such good labor must be used by themselves.
Soon after, the battle of Canyon ended. After Amor led his troops to ambush the rear of the trolls, Gandalf used the Water Elemental squad as the vanguard, and Aragorn led his troops out of the city to counterattack.
The two thousand reinforcements teleported by Gandalf, plus the original one thousand defenders, three thousand people rushed out of the city gate. Under the amplification of Aragorn's Devotion Aura, the armor of the human infantry made it difficult for the poorly equipped trolls to cause effective damage. Caught off guard, Aragorn rushed to the center of the trolls. The troll commander was attacked, and the entire troll army was in chaos. Amor led his troops to take the opportunity to kill.
In the case of insufficient high-end combat power, the trolls were unable to repel Aragorn and restore command in the fastest time to stabilize the morale of the army.
It was another great victory. The trolls abandoned their armor and fled in embarrassment, leaving behind more than a thousand corpses and more than a thousand captives.
Leaving Amor to command the troops, clean the battlefield, and guard the captives, Gandalf took Aragorn and a thousand-man team back to Helm's Valley to defend first, and then came to Witherbark Village with Aragorn to prepare to cast Resurrection.
In a corner of Witherbark Village, the corpses of the soldiers who died in battle were placed. After Galen sent Omar to count the wealth looted from the cave, he also came here to watch Aragorn cast the spell.
The bright holy light was more radiant than when Galen used it, and the range was much larger, and the duration of the holy light's illumination was also doubled.
In the end, only more than 600 of the more than 1,000 soldiers who died in Witherbark Village and the canyon were resurrected.
The earliest batch of soldiers who died in battle were not resurrected. According to Aragorn, the holy light could no longer sense the souls of these soldiers, so it was impossible to bring their souls back to their bodies.
The cooldown time of Resurrection is 24 hours, that is to say, it can only be used once in a battle, and it must be used within one or two hours. Resurrection only has one chance to resurrect soldiers!
The Origin Heart still has many skills that need to be explored slowly!