The fires in the east and west finally dissipated, but the staff and even the entire army became busy.
With the continuous dispatch of reconnaissance forces, more and more news came back. In the staff tent, a group of people slowly sorted out some clues.
The grey-eyed senior staff officer named Noel quickly reported to Sauron: "The explosions were indeed at the Accra Pass and the Rocks Pass. The cavalry sent out have checked in detail. It was the top of the mountain pass that collapsed, blocking the entire pass. , these two main passages are almost impossible to reconnect. As for some secondary narrow passages, let alone whether they can march normally, according to the reports of the accompanying wizards, obvious traces of the Sarin army were found near these narrow passages.
In addition, the left and right armies urgently reported that they were successively attacked by the Sarin army. The battle was very stalemate and it was impossible to break away. Naturally, they could not turn around and return to assist us from outside the mountain. "
After a pause, Noel's face flashed with pain, and he whispered: "General, on the whole, your previous worries and guesses are correct, but my blind confidence is a bit stupid - we are really trapped now. Here. Except for a very small number of wizards who can forcibly break through, the vast majority of the entire army cannot get out, and support cannot come in, let alone food and supplies. Based on the amount of food we currently carry, we can maintain it at most Three days.”
After hearing this serious situation, all the staff officers in the military tent fell into silence, their eyes slightly panicked.
Sauron, on the other hand, maintained his inherent calmness, scanned the people in the military tent, and said loudly: "It seems that there is indeed a lot of bad news, but speaking of it... there is not all good news - at least we finally know it. The purpose of sarin combat.
Sarin continued to send out small-scale black cavalry and infiltration operations. It seemed that it was to delay our march in the middle and to trap the middle army and rear support troops in the Chaos Mountains. In this way, more than half of the elite forces trapped in the reef castle will have great initiative. "
"General, what do you think Sarin will do next?" a young staff officer asked.
"Salin's next move?" Sauron raised his eyebrows, "No need to guess, they will tell us if nothing unexpected happens."
"ah?"
…
It's as Sauron said.
At dawn, a wizard from Sarin arrived in the name of a messenger and handed Sauron a letter.
"This letter was written by Lord Richard himself. I hope General Sauron will make a rational choice after reading it and considering it carefully." The wizard, as the messenger, handed over the letter with a serious look on his face.
Sauron took the letter, glanced at the cover, and asked bluntly: "There should be something in this to persuade me to surrender, right?"
The messenger wizard showed a mysterious smile and was noncommittal.
"I want to ask, if I insist on not surrendering, what will you do? Use the kind of weapon that blew up the mountain pass at night, kill me directly, and kill all my troops?"
Faced with Sauron's question, the messenger wizard continued to smile.
Sauron was not angry, just took a deep breath: "If possible, I want you to answer a question sincerely."
"What's the problem? General, please tell me."
"Since you have the means to blow up the mountain pass silently and trap my army here, why don't you directly attack my army?" Sauron looked at the messenger wizard, "If this is the case from the beginning, If you do, then there’s no need to sacrifice so many of your black knights, right?”
The messenger wizard pondered, and after a few seconds, he carefully considered his words and said, "I'm sorry, general, but there are some questions that I cannot know. Maybe the general has made a wise choice and can ask Lord Richard in person after meeting him in person."
"Okay, General, I will always wait for your answer." The messenger wizard said and handed out a crystal ball. "Whenever, General, you make a decision, let your wizard activate this crystal ball. , I will feel it by then and will arrive as quickly as possible. I hope that time will not be too far away."
After speaking, the messenger wizard walked out of the military tent and left the camp.
Looking at the back of the messenger wizard, Sauron held a letter and a crystal ball. He didn't speak for a while. The staff officers in the military tent had different expressions.
…
Somewhere beneath the sand forest, Black Sun Castle.
It's daybreak, but in the Black Sun Castle, there is no clear distinction between day and night, only the difference between rest and work.
In the corner of Black Sun Castle, on the bed in the lounge, Adolf Sith woke up from his sleep, fumbled to find a raised button on the wall, and pressed it. Immediately, the roof cast a milky white light, illuminating the small room of less than ten square meters where he was.
Sis rubbed his eyes and sat on the bed in confusion for about a second, waiting to wake up.
Then, as if something suddenly occurred to him, his whole body felt like an electric shock. He suddenly jumped out of bed. He didn't even have time to put on his shoes, and he didn't care that it was still rest time. He rushed out of the room and rushed to the observation room of the work area.
"Femi, Fermi!" Assis shouted, grabbing the arm of his companion who was on duty, and asked quickly, "Have the statistics of yesterday's attack been calculated? How many enemies were eliminated? Fifty thousand? One hundred thousand? Or all?"
A few hours ago, Sith, as an intermediate Black Sun member, personally participated in the first actual combat attack on Black Sun Castle, and was extremely excited throughout the process. However, after the attack, the result information needs to be collected on site by the remaining Sarin personnel, and it will take a long time to completely transmit it back. He couldn't bear it after being on duty for twenty-four hours straight, so he went to rest first. Now he just woke up from a short sleep and immediately couldn't wait to ask about the situation.
John Fermi, who was grabbed by the shoulders, glanced at Sith and replied calmly: "Zero."
"Ah?" Adolf Sith was stunned, as if he didn't understand, "What?"
"It's zero." Femi took a breath and explained seriously, "Under the guidance of the Star Spirit Mirror, both attacks successfully hit the preset targets, but... did not cause any casualties to the enemy. In other words, even if there were Casualties are also very few and are not included in valid statistics and can be ignored. "
"This..." Sith's eyes widened, he was very confused and shouted, "Why? Why didn't anyone be killed? This... This shouldn't be, there is something wrong with this! If we didn't kill anyone, then we What are you doing to launch an attack..."
"Shh, keep your voice down, don't let Mr. Albert and the others hear you, or you will end up badly." Femi couldn't help but remind him.
"But there is indeed a problem." Sith was still a little angry, frowning, "This must be a mistake, this must be a mistake..."
Halfway through, Sith's voice stopped suddenly, and he saw a figure walking through the door.
It wasn't the Robert Albert that Fermi said. In fact, it was worse than that. It was Arthur Osheimer—almost everyone knew that the other party was the most serious manager of the entire Black Sun Castle.