In the early morning of January 28th, Dane, who had a rest overnight, led his army, the Pure Sword Mercenary Group, and Chapple's white wolf rout, and continued to walk south.
When resting last night, the scouts scattered around did not find any sign of a large group of orcs approaching, and even a small group of orcs was very small. Judging from this situation, it seems that the orcs did not continue to pursue Their intention is that they should be safe now.
But to be on the safe side, Dane decided to stay a little further away from the orc army.
At noon, Dane got the exact news—the news came from a strange Sword Falcon Knight who was dispatched from Governor Oze's legion:
"...Governor Oze is very satisfied with your actions the night before yesterday. You have perfectly achieved the goal of retaining the orc army. Now, a total of 12,000 orc troops have gathered in Shizuipo to continue to resist; at the same time, our The 22,000-strong army is already less than five kilometers away from Shizuipo, and those filthy orcs are doomed to have nowhere to escape!"
"We expect to launch a full-scale attack on the orcs in Shizuipo tomorrow morning. Governor Oze ordered your department to stop the process of going south immediately, prepare to return to participate in the battle, and launch an attack on the orc army from the rear at the right time. This is Oze A letter of order written in the Governor's own hand."
"Okay, we got it." Dane stretched out his hand, ready to take the order letter, but the sword falcon knight shrank his hand and did not hand over the order letter.
He asked: "Where is General Morneau? This letter can only be delivered to General Morneau himself."
Dane's eyes popped, and he first thought of a question: Ou Ze didn't know that Morneau was dead
This is pretty much the only answer. It's hard to imagine why this happened. Although most of the White Wolf soldiers were rescued by Dane, there must be a group of soldiers who were separated from the main force and survived. At the same time, the orc directly hung up Morno's body.
Based on these circumstances, logically, as long as Oze sent people to investigate the battlefield, they should be able to get the news of Morno's death.
but.
There are too few reasons, and Dane guessed one: Could it be that guy Redis really snatched Morno's body
Without knowing the actual situation, Dane could only tell the truth: "General Morneau... died in battle."
"What?!" The sword falcon knight looked very shocked.
After Dane recounted the situation and emphasized that he is the current supreme leader of this army, the Sword Falcon knight reluctantly agreed to hand over the order letter in his hand to Dane. At the same time, he also said: " I want to go back immediately and bring this information to Governor Oze. However, although General Morno is gone, you, Commander Dane, will lead the troops to attack with the army tomorrow, understand?"
"I know what to do." Dane nodded.
"That's good." The sword falcon knight nodded in satisfaction, and asked again: "Is there any supplies? My mount needs some food, and I have to eat something, I'm almost starving to death."
"Yes, yes, I will order the soldiers to prepare it for you immediately."
Sword Falcon Knight was even more satisfied with Dane's attitude.
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After sending this guy away, Delin next to him asked, "Boss, do we really want to go back and fight again?"
Dane sneered, and tore up the order letter from Governor Oze in his hand: "Go back and fight again? Are you stupid or am I?"
After casually crushing the fragments of the order letter into powder with the power of spells, Dane brought Patience over.
"Did you see that sword falcon knight? Keep an eye on him, shoot him when he leaves our army, remember to dispose of the body, don't let people see that he was shot to death by an arrow."
"Yes." Patience, who received Dane's order, turned around and left.
The reason why he was so polite to that sword falcon knight, and even took orders and told the truth, was because Dane had no intention of letting him go back alive.
It is absolutely impossible for him to go back to participate in the war again. It is Morno who has a private agreement with Ou Ze, and it is not him, so he has no chance at all.
Offending Ou Ze is not a good thing, Dane has his own balance in his heart. In the battle of Shizuipo, Ou Ze will surely win, but chasing down the remnants of the orcs, and then entering the Eastern Wasteland to completely wipe out the three major clans will take a lot of time. According to Dane's estimate, Ou Ze didn't want to free up his hands to do other things within a month or two.
And these times are Dane's opportunities.
Rotten Wolf Town and Shawan Port are definitely two pieces of fat. When Morno was still alive, no one dared to bite. But when he died, let alone Ma Long, even Ou Ze couldn't let him go.
He was more or less confident in dealing with Ma Long, he was an idiot overseer. But if Ou Ze also attacked, it would be very difficult to overtake.
Therefore, the two months when Ou Zeteng was unable to make a move was Dane's chance.
In this way, it is impossible for him to participate in this war. Once Ou Ze is beaten, he will never be allowed to leave easily, and he will never get out in a month or two. He has to race against time to return to the southeast of Schindler, and get White Wolf Castle and Rotten Wolf Town before everyone has time to react. As for Shawan Harbor, he can plan slowly in the future.
But directly violating Ou Ze's order is a similar act of turning his face. Dane only wanted to create the established fact of occupying the White Wolf Fort. Offending Ouze was okay, but it must not be offended to the point of turning his face.
Fortunately, the order to join the battle was not given by Ou Ze face to face, it was just a Sword Falcon knight who sent a message.
In this way, things will be easier to handle. If you kill the guy who delivered the order, and say that you didn't receive the order, who can do anything? There are so many orc wyverns in the sky, and the orcs also have sharp archers. Who knows how this guy died on the way to deliver the order? As for so many people seeing Sword Falcon Knight approaching Dane, so what? Couldn't this be an air cavalry who came to supply temporarily after being dispersed? Anyway, there were only a few absolutely loyal people like Miu Miao who heard the conversation between Dane and Sword Falcon Knight.
Of course, there are many mistakes and omissions in such excuses, and it is not so easy to hide them from people with discerning eyes. But Dane's purpose is not to hide it from others, he doesn't intend to hide it from anyone, he just needs an excuse that looks decent. If his plan can't be successful, then no matter how blameless he is, it's useless to become a small boss under Ou Ze's subordinates in the end, it's better to go home and become the lord of the island; if his plan is successful Yes, he believed that, for the sake of the overall situation, no matter how lame his excuses were, it was impossible for Ou Ze to argue so much with him. (To be continued.)