“What…” Everyone, including me, jumped up in panic. Even Princess Mariette, who had been eavesdropping in the dark of the palace, couldn’t help but exclaimed.
"You... what did you say? The Orphan Canyon fell? What happened? Tell me clearly..." In fear, the Minister of Military Affairs of the Kingdom of Yan no longer cared about his own status. He jumped down from his high position with a brisk step, without showing any signs of old age, and rushed to the messenger and picked him up from his kneeling position.
"My Lord, my Lord, urgent military information has come from the front. It is said that the orcs started to attack again the day after Commander Shen left the Valley of the Descendants. At that time, the joint command was in the hands of Parker, the commander of the Mokast Empire Army, and the deputy commander of the Dragon Army requested to send troops to raid before the orcs approached the fortress, but was stopped by Parker. As a result, the fortresses in the entire canyon were all destroyed by the magic crystal cannons..."
Having said that, the Minister of Military Affairs slowly released his grip on the messenger's hand, and he slowly sat down on the ground, his entire body shaking.
"Go on... go on..." With a trembling voice, Queen Yan seemed not to notice the fallen Minister of Military Affairs at all, and continued to interrogate the messenger anxiously.
"After that... after that, millions of orcs poured into the entire Valley of the Demise... all the troops that didn't have time to escape had no time to react and were destroyed..." At this point, the messenger burst into tears. He also knew that if the invasion of the orcs could not be stopped in time, not to mention others, even he and his family would be doomed. After all, the scene of the orc invasion thousands of years ago was heard countless times by everyone from all walks of life.
"How are our troops? How many of our troops are still alive? What actions are the orcs taking now..." Without caring about other people's feelings, I dragged the messenger up this time, slapped him several times in a row, and asked viciously.
"Our troops...our troops...By the way, except for the tens of thousands of troops on the city wall who did not have time to retreat, for some reason, most of the rest of the troops were lucky enough to withdraw. According to reports from the front, the coalition lost at least 2 million troops in this battle, including more than one million elite troops. In addition to the 200,000 ordinary troops who participated in garrisoning and building the city, the total number of losses in other troops was less than 100,000, of which more than 150,000 of the 200,000 magicians escaped, and another 20,000 survivors also withdrew with our magicians. The rest of the losses were all from the Mocaster Empire..."
After listening to the messenger's sad explanation, I finally put down half of the worries in my heart. Fortunately! It seems that Victor faithfully carried out my orders. When he saw something wrong, he immediately withdrew the troops, which saved the magician army from the crisis of annihilation.
"It's not bad! It seems that God is not going to let us down. If our magician unit was destroyed, then our Kingdom of Yan would be finished. This time... well, I wonder what Commander Shen thinks about our army's lucky escape this time?" Hearing that the main magician unit did not suffer a devastating disaster, the high-ranking officials of the Kingdom of Yan at the scene immediately became active.
"When I left the Valley of the Relics, I was worried about the destructive power of the magic crystal cannon, so I told Lord Victor some ways to deal with the magic crystal cannon, and also warned him that if the siege of the magic crystal cannon could not be destroyed, he should immediately find an opportunity to lead the troops to evacuate to avoid unnecessary losses." Although I was much more anxious than them at this time, and I knew more clearly how urgent time was for humans to defeat the beasts, I still did not dare to take these guys' problems lightly. After all, a large rear area that was huddled together was what I would rather see. If there were still people who were dragging their feet like in the Valley of the Relics, then I might be in big trouble at any time.
"Well, forget about the past. The most urgent thing is to think of a way to deal with the orcs, and we should also find a way to contact the troops withdrawn from the front line, otherwise everything we do will be just empty talk. Mr. Shen, you are more authoritative in terms of war, what do you think?" Hearing that the continuous discussion was of no practical use, Queen Yaen, who was directly related to her own interests, was the first to be unable to sit still. After interrupting the topic, she turned her attention to me first.
"Your Majesty, it is not a problem to contact the troops we evacuated from the Valley of the Demise. They will return along the same route we took when we set out according to the agreement between Victor and I. As for dealing with those orcs, I only have three temporary solutions.
First: defend each city one by one. That is to say, we use the cities with defensive capabilities along the way as bases, gather all the resisting forces near the city, and resolutely prevent the orcs from invading.
Second, choose a place for the decisive battle. This requires us to select some cities with super strong defenses in advance, gather the troops we can gather, and lure part or most of the main force of the orcs to fight a decisive battle with us.
Third: I think the best way is guerrilla harassment warfare. We can use the large number of magic cannons and highly mobile magician troops we have on hand to attack and destroy the enemy during the continuous movement of the troops.
The specific method is to take advantage of the magic cannon's weight of only a few hundred kilograms, so that we can move all the magic cannons onto the carriage and use it to make our magic cannons mobile for combat. As for the orcs, except for the wolf cavalry, there is no other type of soldiers who can catch up with us.
Therefore, we can eat up all the orc troops that are not as fast as us, and as for the wolf cavalry, I think the Earth City I built outside the Gray Wolf Fortress should be a battle example for us to learn from... What do you think, Your Majesty?"
"The first one is good... This will not only slow down the speed of the orc invasion, but also provide us with time to mobilize the army for battle..."
"The third one is better... In this way, our losses will be very small. We can rely on our familiarity with the geography to lead those orcs in circles..."
"The second one is better...if..."
"..."
For a moment, the entire hall was filled with the sound of ministers arguing. Not only did they not give in to each other, but they were almost red in the face. (To be continued)