A little later.
Temporary staff tent.
Sauron, God of War, looked at the sand table, and several staff members stood upright next to him.
After watching for a while, Soran withdrew his gaze, looked at a staff officer and asked: "How is the progress on the left and right sides?"
The staff officer responded quickly: "It went relatively smoothly. The left route has reached the vicinity of Muro City in the limestone territory, and the right route has just crossed the Lenggu River. Basically, they have not encountered any major obstacles, and they can almost complete their goals as planned."
Sauron listened and nodded: "That's good."
"However, General, comparing the progress on the left and right, we have a more serious problem in the middle, and our progress has been severely hindered." the staff officer continued.
"Huh? Tell me in detail." Sauron said.
"Yes." The staff officer said seriously, "Almost from the moment we came into contact with the rout, Sarin blocked our middle route. They did not conduct a large-scale attack. The main method was small-scale frequent infiltration, which destroyed a large number of our The camp seriously delayed our march."
"Penetration and destruction? Can't prevent it?" Sauron frowned and asked.
The staff officer shook his head and said with a bit of a wry smile: "For now, we really can't defend ourselves. Because we need to supplement the left and right forces, and the rear forces have not arrived, our center currently only has 60,000 troops.
According to your instructions, in order to prevent being attacked by the Sarin wizard's large-scale spells, our marching troops are relatively dispersed. This obviously gives Sarin an opportunity. They can always find the defensive holes of each team and penetrate into our middle and even the rear to cause damage.
The most important thing is that the black knights they dispatched are their magic knights, and dozens of them are dispatched at a time. It is difficult for us to resist with ordinary guard forces, but with high-end elite forces such as magic knights, we cannot guard against them all - after all, many of our magic knights are assigned to the left and right, and the same goes for wizards. "
"So, Shalin is using the extremely precious magic knight to try to slow down our march in the middle?" Sauron raised his eyebrows.
The staff officer said: "This is exactly what our staff can't understand. It stands to reason that the Sarin Black Cavalry is a very precious high-end elite force. When such a force is concentrated and launches a large-scale offensive against us, it will be very threatening. But Sarin did not. Instead, he spread them out and carried out high-frequency small-scale infiltration operations.
We suffered a lot of losses, a lot of supplies were destroyed, and I heard that some of the team's food depots were burned down, and they were all starving. But sarin is not much better. It can even be said that the losses are even greater.
After all, they were conducting an infiltration operation. Once exposed, there was no possibility of escape. In fact, all the black knights seemed to have no plan to retreat, and they fought until the last moment and were killed.
Taken together, we actually have the advantage. It won't take long for the lost supplies to be transported from the rear, and the hungry troops can survive if friendly forces provide relief. On the other hand, Sarin, a high-end elite force like the Black Cavalry, cannot be unlimited. If it continues to be consumed like this, it will only become less and less. When we actually attack Sarin, I'm afraid they won't be able to defend themselves against the charge of the magic-equipped knights above our regiment.
This makes our staff very confused, because Sarin's current behavior does not look like that person is leading at all. According to the opponent's performance during the national war, although he does not have much commanding ability, he is not so clumsy. Now Sarin's side is completely like a bad general, using child-like methods to direct this war. If this continues, our advance in the middle may be slower, but Sarin is killing the possibility of winning in the future. "
After listening to the staff officer's words, Sauron showed a thoughtful expression and said nothing for a long time.
Obviously, he was also puzzled as to why Sarin would adopt such low-level methods.
In fact, according to his guess, Sarin's most efficient method would be to directly attack his staff headquarters and dismantle his command center. Secondly, it is to concentrate elite troops to deliver a powerful blow to the advancing team. Or, mobilize a group of wizards and use spells to kill a large number of soldiers gathered together to rest in the night.
To this end, he asked the staff to make multiple response plans.
But the problem now is that Sarin did not do this at all, and the plan was naturally useless.
It was like "your enemy is so stupid that all the precautions you take against the enemy are in vain." This made him very uncomfortable.
It's uncomfortable not because the plan is wasteful, but because it's all too abnormal.
In his opinion, Sarin could not be so imbecile. He must have some purpose and conspiracy.
But what exactly is it
The staff couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't figure it out either.
What to do
Sauron took a deep breath, blinked, and turned to look at the sand table. Many staff members focused on him.
Sauron stared at the sand table with deep eyes for a long time, picked up a small red flag and planted it at the current position of the Chinese army, and said solemnly: "Since we can't guess the intention of Sarin, then we won't guess - they do what they do, and we do what they do. our.
Isn't the march in the middle blocked? Well, let's postpone the march, repair, and accumulate strength. Waiting for the 90,000 troops, high-end elite forces and supplies at the rear to be in place, they can crush them in one go. I want to see how Sarin can still stop him. I want to see how many more black cavalry Sarin sends out to infiltrate and die. "
"Yes." The staff members responded in unison.
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Three days later.
Before the Chaos Mountains.
Mario is riding a horse, and the leader of the Red Maple Cavalry is not far beside him. At this time, the entire Red Maple Cavalry is in full formation, ready to go into battle at any time.
There was no other reason than that a battle was going on a few hundred meters away.
About three hundred Sarin's black knights were surrounded by more than a thousand blue-armored magic knights from the alliance, and they started an extremely fierce fight.
Speaking of which, Sarin's three hundred black knights were a rare large-scale attack. If it were in the past, it would inevitably cause considerable losses to the alliance army. But unfortunately, these three hundred black knights happened to run into the Solid Stone Group coming to support from the rear.
The Solid Stone Regiment strengthened the Magic Knights, surrounded the three hundred black knights, and tried to destroy them.
The Red Maple Cavalry Regiment, as one of the reserve forces, was on guard at the edge of the battlefield, ready to intercept the black cavalry who might break through at any time.
But now it seems that this is no longer necessary. The Solid Stone Group has basically wiped out all the black knights after paying a heavy price.
In the field of vision, the last black knight, after losing his horse, silently launched an attack. But the next moment, three magic pattern spears pierced his body, causing him to fall down and never stand up again.