Nozdormu was actually out of his mind. Even though Duke owed him a lot of favors, he actually sent Duke to the War of the Ancients in a fit of rage.
Who is Duke?
Duke is a man known as the history crusher.
Well, the biggest joke of Dark Portal 16 years was born - Nozdormu sent a history destroyer to correct the history of ten thousand years ago!
Meanwhile, it was the winter of Dark Portal's 16th year.
In winter, history proceeds much as it has before.
In order to punish the Lich King for his betrayal, the demon commander Kil'jaeden took Illidan in as his minion and sent him on a mission to annihilate the Lich King.
With the help of Vashj's naga who had retreated from Azshara, Illidan entered the Tomb of Sargeras to seize the Eye of Sargeras, the artifact used to destroy the Lich King. The night elf warden Maiev Shadowsong lost many of her men in her pursuit of Illidan.
Malfurion and Tyrande responded to Maiev's call for help and arrived in Lordaeron. They were unfamiliar with the place and asked the Alliance for help. The Alliance sent an elite task force led by Kael'thas and Gavinrad to hunt down and successfully prevent Illidan from destroying the Lich King.
But Maiev used lies to deceive Malfurion and let Illidan be released again to rescue Tyrande who was in danger.
Under Kil'jaeden's guidance, Illidan found a small magic portal that Archimonde used to stay in the center of the Endless Sea, and fled to Outland. Then Maiev once again entered the portal to Outland in order to hunt down Illidan.
In this life, because the blood elves were one of the Alliance's diehards, the only ones who joined Illidan's army were Vashj's Naga. After a great battle, Illidan still captured Maiev alive.
Illidan accepted the help of Akama the Broken and defeated Magtheridon who ruled Outland and became the new King of Outland, but Kil'jaeden still chased him here and forced Illidan to attack the Lich King again.
On the other hand, because of Ner'zhul's rebellion against the Burning Legion, Ner'zhul's power was greatly weakened, which in turn led to the weakening of Arthas' power. Arthas, who was driven away by Anasterian, met with the former king of the Spider Kingdom, the great beetle Anub'arak, and the frost bone dragon Sindragosa in Northrend, easily killed and resurrected the ancient blue dragon Sapphiron, and passed through the underground passage of the ancient Azjol Nerub Empire to reach the Icecrown Glacier where the Lich King was imprisoned.
Arthas led the Scourge to defeat Illidan's army, freed the Lich King and the throne from imprisonment, merged with the soul of Ner'zhul to become the new Lich King, and then fell into a deep sleep, while Illidan fled back to Outland.
A huge historical divide emerges at this time!
On February 15, 16th year of the Dark Portal, the Alliance launched the largest invasion in history as if on a stopwatch. Even the ice and snow had not completely melted, and the sudden multi-pronged siege stunned Anasterian and his men.
On the northern coast of Tirisfal Glades, Sylvanas led 30,000 elite blood elves, and cooperated with 70,000 people including the Scarlet Crusade led by Mograine who secretly returned from Kalimdor, a total of 100,000 troops landed.
A little further west on the Whispering Coast were Magni Bronzebeard's dwarven mechanized legions and Turalyon's Kalimdor expeditionary force. Under the cover of the Kul Tiras fleet, they arrived together with the Theramore army formed by Jaina.
In the southwest, Anduin Lothar's elite troops of Stormwind, Reginald Windsor's private soldiers of Edmund Territory, and Ironforge's Second Tank Legion Thor's Hammer, led the fleet across Lake Lordamere and landed near the unfinished Mardin Orchard southwest of Undercity, pressing on Undercity and preventing Anasterion from sending out a large number of reinforcements at will.
In the southeast, the Alterac Coalition, composed of exiled soldiers from Stromgarde and Alterac people, led by old General Hass and Moonmage Ilucia Barov, approached Undercity along the Alterac Mountains.
In Hearthglen to the east, in the winter, the Alliance dwarves used the new technology left by Duke - a new black-tech product called the tunnel boring machine. The dwarves did not have such a beautiful generator, so they simply used the gods to transform themselves and used manpower to drive the tunnel boring machines. It took only one winter to open up three huge passages that could accommodate two carriages in parallel.
Leading from Hearthglen all the way to Spider Canyon, the Undead Bulwark that blocks the throat of the Western Plaguelands to Tirisfal Glades has become a mere decoration.
The First Tank Corps of Ironforge, renamed "Lightning", launched the "Blitzkrieg" that had been proposed by Duke and existed only in textbooks for thirteen years. In just two days, they crossed the Spider Canyon where poisonous spiders were rampant, spanned more than 200 kilometers, and defeated the 500,000 undead army that was defending the Undead Barrier.
Old Buddha Tirion and Gavinrad joined forces with the Scarlet Crusade led by Abendis, as well as the dwarf tank army, and blocked the retreat of more than one million undead. Cooperating with them was the Lordaeron army, with the Stratholme army led by Saidan Dathrohan in the east as the core. Two hundred thousand Lordaeron people, who were not very elite, could not attack the fortress, but it was no problem for the undead army that suppressed the undead barrier to get out.
It was true that Anasterian had been king for three thousand years, but he had never witnessed such a complex military attack.
Advance on multiple fronts and attack in a coordinated manner.
The news he received in Undercity was often delayed. When he received the news and wanted to send reinforcements, the undead army originally guarding the place was basically destroyed, or the city was besieged and even the reinforcements were swallowed up.
Originally, if they could severely damage or destroy all the troops, the newly born Forsaken Kingdom would not be so passive. In fact, the Sun King did this. He personally tried to kill the most critical dwarf First Tank Army and get rid of Tirion and Gavinrad.
In his imagination, with his strength as the Great Mage Antonidas, killing a few powerful Paladins would not be a big deal.
As a result, he ran into a group of mages specially formed for him - Jaina, Solarian, Calpurnia, Jaina Golden Sword, and of course his beloved son Kael'thas who made him crazy.
"Rebellious son! Get down on your knees!" The Sun King still wanted to subdue his son as he had done before.
"My great father, Anasterian Sunstrider, is dead! Now as the Grand Mage of the Alliance, I have no need to listen to you, an evil undead who has the same name as my father!"
After experiencing the Battle of Mount Hyjal, Kael'thas, who cleared his name and became a hero, had a completely different spirit and energy than before. From the day he killed Archimonde, he had the backbone of a strong man.