After completing the equipment update and bidding farewell to Lorena, Yang Yu led the team away from Konarokz.
On the way, Yang Yu asked Bai Jin to contact Dongmu again to confirm Dongmu's location and determine the next destination.
The war on the border between Wansheng Kingdom and Rose Empire was extremely cruel and brutal.
Young orc soldiers built walls with their flesh and blood, and only then were they able to contain the offensive of the Rose Empire.
Now there are also countless young orcs fighting on various fronts, trying to resist the repeated attacks of humans.
Behind each front, there is one or more important checkpoints.
Once lost, the Rose Empire Army will seize the opportunity to infiltrate deeper into Wansheng State and devour Wansheng State from within.
Celebrating the capture of the volcano was the result of the loss of one of the battle lines.
Originally, the Rose Empire wanted to take advantage of this gap and continuously send troops, allowing some soldiers to try to attack deeper into the Wansheng Kingdom, and let other soldiers wade through the complex terrain of hills and mountains, to form a front and back pincer attack on multiple fronts on the border and cause them to collapse.
However, this beautiful dream was shattered.
To celebrate the recapture of the volcano, the orcs learned new tactics from someone unknown.
Since then, the orcs fighting in the woods rarely confronted the Rose Empire's army head-on, but instead used their keen sense of smell and hearing to continuously launch unexpected attacks.
This time, after seeing this tactic, Rose's soldiers suffered a lot.
After figuring out the tactical core of Wansheng Kingdom, the top leaders of Rose Empire adjusted their strategies and tactics instantly.
Unfortunately, these strategies and tactics inevitably failed when facing the orcs in the dense forest.
Orcs' senses are far stronger than humans', and because they wear strange clothes, it is difficult for humans to identify them hiding in the jungle with the naked eye. Orcs can always discover humans before humans discover them and respond quickly.
Even using surveillance magic has little effect.
There was no other way. The Rose Empire could only look for a breakthrough from other places. They deliberately avoided the dense forests, or used magic to slowly change the terrain to allow the army to move forward.
The Nomachi defense line that Yang Yu and his team were heading to was located on a mountainous area mostly composed of yellow soil, brown rocks and sparse vegetation.
Being there means a lot of head-on conflict.
With the blessing of the title, Lotkar's pace became faster. Yang Yu and his friends arrived at Liutie City, where they had agreed to meet, one day earlier than scheduled.
This was also a city with a prisoner internment camp.
Influenced by Mindarak's policies, a large number of human captives are stored here.
The atmosphere here is completely different from the prisoner camp that Yang Yu first saw.
The troops of the Rose Empire have strict military discipline, and they will conduct training in an organized and disciplined manner even when they are in the enemy camp.
This seems to only exist under the premise that every soldier can be sent back smoothly. Losing this premise will bring about a series of chain reactions.
Seeing that only officers and above were sent back, many ordinary Rose soldiers became anxious and uneasy, increasingly frightened, and began to waver in their beliefs.
Under the Dragon's rule, the Rose Empire can appoint commissioners to manage them.
Unfortunately, even though the commissioners tried their best to calm the captives, they failed to slow down the spread of negative emotions.
Amid the increasing negative emotions, it is most likely to breed all kinds of rumors that people can believe to be true.
Some of Rose's soldiers were even convinced that their empire was beginning to fall bit by bit under the orc attacks.
Being in a constant state of anxiety also becomes a cause of their laziness. They often sigh and groan, and are listless in training.
On the contrary, there were some soldiers who firmly believed that their country would win. Perhaps, even if the emperor of their country told them that the empire had lost, they would not believe it.
These people form the opposite of the pessimists.
Believers try every possible means to "awaken" the pessimists, even resorting to violence.
The dragon's rules only protect people from one camp from being harmed by people from another camp, and do not have any requirements for people in the same camp.
The internal fighting in the prisoner camp is naturally not within the jurisdiction of the dragon.
Walking through the tall fences of the shelter, Yang Yu could tell at a glance who was being bullied and who was being complacent.
To be honest, Yang Yu found it difficult to connect them with the well-trained, united, and fearless imperial soldiers he had met on the Cerrovomen Plain before.
This is also one of the drawbacks of the Rose Empire's soldier training method.
People are different. Their views and acceptance levels of certain things vary. Everyone has their own ideas.
Ignoring a person's thoughts and trying to force him into an identical "screw" may backfire.
There are no two "screws" that are exactly the same in this world.
Among the soldiers of the Rose Empire, there are also many who are unwilling to become "screws".
Although they knew of the existence of the colorful-haired masked man, the Rose soldiers near the Nomachi defense line did not react much to Yang Yu's arrival.
These prisoners were just living the life that prisoners should live.
Entering Liutie City, Yang Yu easily found Dongmu who was preparing for battle in the city. The troops led by Dongmu were reduced by one third.
"Hey! Long time no see, General Potato. I can see that you have become stronger again, haha."
Dongmu laughed heartily as always and patted Yang Yu on the back.
Yang Yu also greeted him politely, "Long time no see, General Dongmu."
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Yang Yu asked Dong Mu about the whereabouts of the troops:
"General Dongmu, the number of troops seems a little off. Is there any battle going on?"
Dongmu pinched his chin and nodded:
"Well, sort of.
There were quite a few elites in the army that you originally led, and you trained them quite well.
While you were away, I let them have full contact with other people in the team, and they learned a lot.
Originally I wanted to return the troops to you intact, but the situation on the front line is far more complicated than I imagined.
I asked people to lead the troops to possible breakthrough points and provide support to other troops to prevent the collapse of the front line.
Your troops are more elite and can play a greater role, so I have someone take them with me."
As soon as he came back, he learned that the team he had previously formed was disbanded and sent to different battlefields. Yang Yu seemed very calm and did not seem surprised by this result.
His troops were not numerous, but they almost included the vast majority of the tens of thousands of elite troops of the Sheng State who were captured during the winter offensive.
The elite troops were too concentrated to take care of multiple stalemate fronts, and it was only a matter of time before they were split up.
(End of this chapter)