"Let's start reporting."
Rody looked at the staff officer in military uniform in front of him, nodded and motioned for the other party to start reporting.
"...According to the information obtained so far, the first beacon fire was sent from the 'Lundao Watchtower' located in the Nehemia grassland. The beacon fire was then passed on and then observed at the border intelligence station..."
It has been three and a half hours since the beacon was lit. In terms of the speed of information transmission, the intelligence department established by Rody can already disdain all the military organizations of the current mainland countries, but he does not look complacent at all. Instead, he frowned and stared at the staff officer, waiting for the next step.
"After the beacon fire of the Rando Tower was raised, Ars Fortress quickly organized a cavalry team to rush to support. They just confirmed that the tower had been attacked and no sentry survived..."
After these words fell, the expressions of the cabinet members all stiffened.
The Karen Kingdom did not deploy too many troops in the Nehemia Grassland, but only established fifteen simple watchtowers to warn the orcs, because the kingdom did not regard the orcs who fled at the beginning as any major enemies. , so they didn't invest too much money here, and even the sentry towers deep inside the grassland hadn't had time to replace the communication circle, so they could only use the most primitive beacon to convey the police information.
At this time, they didn't expect that those orcs would suddenly explode and attack the sentry tower.
But logically... the sentinel has a very wide field of vision on the sentry tower. If they find out the situation in advance, even if they are attacked by wolf cavalry, they can have enough time to escape on horseback.
"According to the analysis of the front line at the scene, after the enemy appeared, the soldiers in the sentry tower should have realized that they could not resist, and immediately rode away after lighting the beacon, but they were overtaken by the enemy after only running for more than 300 meters... In the end, only The corpses of three orcs who were killed in the bombing."
The staff officer looked down at the paper in his hand, and continued: "Judging from the traces at the scene, the opponent should be an orc army with more than a hundred people, and there are still about ten wolf cavalry - but..."
He paused, "However, according to the reports of frontline soldiers, they think that the size of the warg is completely different from what they imagined. The depth and size of the footprints are much larger than the normal size of the warg. And the enemy..."
Seeing that the staff officer was speechless, Rody raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong? Just say it."
"The enemy, after killing the Sentinels, ate them on the spot, on the spot."
These words made the cabinet present collectively look ugly.
Although the war is cruel, they all know the atrocities committed by the orcs. When the central part of the kingdom was fished by orcs, tens of thousands of civilians died. Bottom line...
This does not mean pure brutality, but means that they have completely lost the characteristics of intelligent creatures, and I am afraid that they have become irrational monsters.
"What about other situations?"
"Master Prime Minister, this is the information that has been transmitted so far, and the follow-up should still be in the process of collecting..."
"Keep updated at any time, and report directly when there is new news."
But as soon as Rody finished speaking, someone knocked on the door and brought new news: the port in the south of the kingdom was attacked by mutant murlocs!
"There was a mutated murloc attack near the dock, but because of the early warning, the defense force on the shore responded effectively, and the murlocs trying to attack the shore were quickly wiped out—but several other fishing villages near the coast suffered similar attacks. attack, I can see black smoke rising, I'm afraid..."
Although the current news is transmitted quickly enough, the speed of soldiers' support is really limited-the kingdom currently does not have roads extending in all directions, and many isolated areas that are far away may not be known even if they are attacked.
The troops of Luo Di's direct line are deployed near the port where the aircraft carrier was built. With inconvenient transportation, even if they know which fishing villages have been attacked, it is not realistic to rush along the coastline to support these fishing villages...
In other words, the kingdom's land area is too large, and when encountering such an attack, many places are simply unable to deal with it.
"First of all, ensure the safety near the port. Immediately, the kingdom will enter a state of emergency. Go and notify Soderol and all the staff officers of the army, air force, and navy, and come to the meeting in an hour."
Soderol just came back from Iscar country half a month ago, and he should be on vacation now. But now these news are enough to make everyone's holidays come to an end - not only Soderol, but also all research departments, personal laboratories and even factories in the entire city of Houlier will receive similar notices before evening...
In other words, from now on, the purpose of existence of all these places has turned to one thing: war.
"By the way, inform all newspapers to prepare for the next publication. The wartime public opinion control measures have been emphasized before. Anyone who does not abide by it now will be dismissed and investigated immediately."
Roddy knew there would be such a day, but he didn't expect the enemy to attack from two directions at the same time - the number of orcs was limited, he didn't think it would cause too much loss, but the "murlocs" were a big trouble: no one knew what kind of monsters were there in the sea. How many murlocs have been infected by demons, if a guy like Raximan lands again like an "ancient giant beast", that's really not a good thing.
"Da da-"
The door of the conference hall was knocked, and Rody let people in directly: "Report immediately, no need to salute."
"Yes... Your Excellency Prime Minister, just received the news on the eastern border of the kingdom that a mage's magic tower suddenly exploded, and infected beasts attacked nearby villages..."
"More flowers?"
Rody turned his head to look at the map of the Karen Kingdom that had been set up next to him, and quickly marked the locations of the attacks just reported on it, and found that there were attacks in the northwest, south, and east.
The nobles in the cabinet were a little panicked, because at first glance, the enemy seemed to be approaching menacingly, as if they had surrounded the Karen Kingdom all at once.
After all, from a strategic point of view, it is very stupid to disperse troops to attack in various directions-unless they have enough self-confidence, or ensure that their troops have an absolute advantage.
After all, in the eyes of politicians, war is not an end, but a means. It is enough to concentrate superior forces to make the enemy compromise and achieve their own political goals.
But the current enemy doesn't seem to be acting according to their logical thinking at all, and this "emergency" is coming rapidly, breaking out at almost the same time. Looking at it now, it is not clear what the other party is going to do.
"We still know too little about the murlocs. Could it be that the enemy's main force came from the sea?"
"Didn't Laximan do some research on murlocs? We can seek technical help from there..."
"Da da-"
The door was knocked again.
"My lord, news has come from Rahiman and Iskar that the murlocs have been attacked near the coastline!"