Dane's running plan was very urgent and fast, and he never dared to delay it.
The combined Comilla and Pure Swords amounted to almost a thousand people. Now, these thousand people are hurrying towards the due west. In front of them, General Morno must have received news about the orc army and must be preparing for it.
Now, the entire Eastern Expedition must come together! More than 4,000 orcs are chasing after them. If they don't quickly join Morno's main force and gather all the Eastern Expeditionary Forces together, it is impossible to compete with an enemy of this size.
In the previous battle, the reinforcements led by Dane had almost no losses. After their main melee force joined the battle, the orc army didn't last long at all, and soon collapsed.
But the loss of Pure Sword is not small. There were more than 300 pure swordsmen. By the end of the battle, there were about 60 or 70 casualties, and only 250 swordsmen remained. The cannon fodder army of more than 200 people did not have many casualties, but there were many routs and even deserters who could not be gathered back. This number was almost a hundred. A pure sword mercenary regiment that was originally healthy had a bad luck and ran into the enemy's vanguard. After a fierce battle, there were only less than 400 of the more than 500 people left.
Delina's complexion has always been very bad, even if she is covered with a veil, Dane can see it from her eyes.
"Oh..." Dane didn't know how to comfort him. Those idle mercenaries would not be taken too seriously by Delina, but the casualties of sixty or seventy pure swordsmen are hard for women to accept.
After all, the family property of the Pure Sword Mercenary Group is only a small amount.
Delina said angrily: "Where did these orcs come from? Damn it, there is no warning at all!"
Dane asked curiously: "Could it be that Sword Falcon Knight didn't send you any news in advance?"
"No!" When Dane mentioned this, Alexandrina became even more annoyed: "The sword falcon knights who were supposed to follow me, for some reason, haven't shown up all day ! If it weren’t for the air cavalry assigned to you, if it happened to be patrolling nearby, it is estimated that our entire army will be wiped out and no one will know!”
Hearing what Alexandrina said, Dane felt even more strange: "This... shouldn't be! I have been working with those Sword Falcon knights for some time. In my opinion, their quality is not low. It is impossible to have such a situation of not reporting any news for a day... "
"How do I know what's going on with them!" Delina was obviously still angry, but her words gave Dane a very bad idea.
To verify, he blew a whistle that hung around his neck. This thing was given to him by Sir Marin, the boss of the air cavalry. Blowing this whistle will emit a sound that cannot be heard by human ears, but can be heard by sword falcons, and it can travel a long distance. This thing is specially used by the ground troops to communicate with the air cavalry. Without this, wouldn't it be possible to communicate with the sword falcon knight flying two or three hundred meters in the air by shouting
After a while, a sword falcon knight appeared above the army, circled twice, and landed beside Dane.
"Captain Dane, what are your orders?" This was a young knight with short chestnut hair and some freckles on his face. He must not be more than twenty years old.
Dane recognized him, his name was Les, and he was one of the sword falcon knights assigned to follow him. Earlier, he was the one who wanted Dane to report about an army of orcs chasing after him.
Ignoring the pleasantries, Dane directly told Alexandrina that the Sword Falcon Knight hadn't contacted her all day.
Rice also found it very strange: "This is absolutely abnormal. We are the most elite air fighters under Governor Oze, and such a bad situation cannot happen."
"Enn." Dane nodded, then changed the subject and asked, "Tell me about the situation when you discovered the orc army before."
"I accepted your order before. When I scouted to the west, I saw a lot of smoke and dust. When I got closer, I found this orc army. We have been trained to estimate the number of enemies. The number of enemies is definitely more than four thousand There are quite a few, and the arms are very complete, and I saw a lot of wolf cavalry and archers. Since there are some bipedal dragons hovering above the enemy, I don't dare to get close and observe."
"Wait..." Dane suddenly stopped when he heard this. His face became a little dignified and he asked, "You said, you found a wyvern among the enemy troops?"
"En." Rice nodded and said, "The wyvern is the traditional aerial team of the orc army, and its combat strength is, to be honest, stronger than our sword falcon."
Dane gave a wry smile, turned his head and said to Delina: "It seems that the reason why the sword falcon knights who followed you have not heard from you all day has been found."
Hearing this, Delina also understood: "You mean, my Sword Falcon Knight was wiped out by that orc army's Wyvern? This..."
From her appearance, one could tell that this woman had never thought about the possibility of this before.
She continued to ask: "Then how come there are so many orc troops suddenly? They still have air cavalry... Wyverns are not easy to cultivate, right? Except for the three major clans, no tribe can raise them." Affordable. However, shouldn’t the main forces of the three major clans nearby have gathered to fight Governor Ou Ze under the Beast’s Blood Fort? How could they still pull out such a group of military forces?”
Rice couldn't answer that question, and neither could Dane. However, Dane had a guess in his mind, especially after he learned that there were biped wyverns in the enemy's army, he felt that his guess had basically come true.
He said: "Now, there are two possibilities. The first one is that the three major clans still hide a force, but I don't really believe it. This is not in line with the habits and traditions of the orc clans when they conduct looting operations. "
"Another possibility... These orcs are very likely to be the army under the Beast Blood Castle. The main force of the three major clans besieging the Beast Blood Castle has probably retreated."
This is almost the only possibility.
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