User:Minionman/Second Undercity Siege

The second undercity siege occurred a few months after the blood elves and Forsaken had formed an alliance. Kel'thuzad, the scourge leader, had built a large undead force and attempted to conquer the undercity from the forsaken, but the scourge force was easily beaten by the forsaken and bloood elves.

Background
After the scourge defeat in the First Undercity Siege, the scourge had too few fighters to attack any of the surrounding human nations, Quel'thalas, or the forsaken again. However, Kel'thuzad and the scourge still had the goal of destroying the human nations, and controlling the plaguelands (to move on to the rest of azeroth), at some time in the future, and the forsaken still were a dangerous threat to that goal. Kel'thuzad and the Lich King also wanted personal revenge on the forsaken, buoth for Sylvanas's attempted assasination of Arthas, and for embarrassing defeat of thousands of scourge by a few hundred forsaken in the first undercity siege.

Between the two sieges, Kel'thuzad allowed humans to settle in the plaguelands, and be recruited by the scarlet crusade and argent down, while attacking smaller outposts and parties to build up his forces for a second attack. Kel'thuzad also used spies to determine fully what had happened during the first undercity siege, than adjusted his forces to counter the forsaken's tactics in the first siege. If the first attack had succeeded, Kel'thuzad planned to next attack Quel'thalas, than move south to attack the human nations, similar to his plan after the first undercity siege.

The forsaken and Blood Elves during this time were slowly cementing their alliance. While the forsaken and Blood Elves still mostly fought separately, they did share information about undead movements, had increased trade with each other, and had agreed that if one of their main cities or towns was attacked, the other would help defend it. The Blood Elves had produced a teleporter between the two cities, to both make trade safer and faster, and allow fast movements between the two cities if one were attacked.

The battle
Before sending his forces to attack, Kel'thuzad brought many nerubians, abominations, and other scourge from Northrend. The nerubians had allowed the scourge attackers to successfully climb the walls in the first siege, and with more nerubians Kel'thuzad expected the attackers to have far more success breaking unto the central palace. Kel'thuzad also sent more abominations, and had told his commanders about previous forsaken tactics, as well as how to avoid the deathguards and mages that had been so damaging the first time.

The forsaken had taken control of much of the Tirisfal glades at this point, and knew the scourge attack was coming long before the attackers reached the undercity. Sylvanas's forsaken were prepared, and had also called the blood elves to the city. Sylvanas had around 800 defenders, including deathguards, potion makers and throwers, and mages, along with a few abominations. About 2,00 Blood elves assisted in defending the city, with more flying towards Silvermoon should they be needed. As with the first battle, most of the deathguards hid in the remains of the capital city to assasinate scourge commanders of possible. The scourge attacked with about 7,000 fighters, with a much higher proportion of nerubians and abominations.

The scourge attack was more successful at avoiding deathguards, scourge forces searched buildings near where their commanders would travel, sometimes destroying them. although there were about 300 deathguards spread throughout the city, only about 20 undead commanders were successfully killed, and half of the time the successful deathguard was discovered and chased or killed. However, once the scourge reached the palace walls, the Blood elf archers quickly killed most of the undead commanders, and the more numerous and skilled mages (blood elf and Forsaken) and potion throwers quickly killed the attacking nerubians. the scourge never came close to breakig the gates or climbing the walls, and only killed about 20 deathguards, in return for loosing all of their 7,000 fighters.

End results
As with the previous undercity siege, the forsaken captured most of the attacking ghouls and freed about half of them, about doubling the population of free forsaken. The successful defense of the undercity further brought the blood elves and forsaken closer together.

Kel'thuzad never again tried to attack the undercity, or any other surrounding nation, again after this battle. After a few months, He switched instead to developing a way to spread the plague through the air, hoping to use this weapon against the Argent Dawn, Scarlet crusade, and other humans in and to the south of the plaguelands, to build up an army in a similar manner as the original invasion of Lordaeran, and use this army on the rest of Azeroth.