Chapter 52: Return
Erne Frontier, Tenio Fortress.
Srock has been capturing Tenio Fortress for a while, but the soldiers sent out to inform the reinforcements a few days ago have not heard anything so far, which can make Slok anxious.
And there is also an important unsettling feeling that Srock has not found Elaire's body until now. Even from the beginning of the attack on Tenio Fortress, he had not even seen the shadow of Elier.
"Haven't found any trace of Elaire yet?", Slok asked his men.
"Not yet, but I heard from the spies in the city that it seems that an army left the Tenio Fortress a few days ago. The intelligence officer told him what he knew.
"Why didn't you tell me such important news earlier!", Srock was obviously angry, if he had known the news, he wouldn't have been looking in the city for so long.
"Before that spy could inform us, you led the army to capture the Tenio Fortress, so I found the spy and got all the news in the first place. The intelligence officer looked a little aggrieved and said tremblingly.
"Hey~", at this point, Srock can't continue to ask, after all, this really has nothing to do with this general in charge of intelligence.
Srock knew that he had made a fatal mistake, and that Elier was not in the city, which was why he had been able to take the city so easily. It's ridiculous that he also thinks that Elaire has died in the city, and looks everywhere for Elaire's body.
But since Eliel was not in the city, where could he go? This question was infinitely magnified in Slock's mind, and as the question gradually unraveled, Slok's heart became more and more frightened.
"Own camp, Eliel must have gone to attack the camp!", the terrible thought rose in Slock's mind.
In this way, everything can be clearly explained, why there has been no news from the camp, and why the people sent out by themselves are like stones sinking into the sea, without a trace.
Moreover, this kind of unbelievable style of play is indeed Elaire's style.
It's just that now Srock still doesn't understand a little, although he brought out most of the men and horses in the camp, there are still more than 100,000 troops left behind.
This amount does not mean that Elier can take it if he wants to, and even if Elier uses some means to take this place, it will definitely be a heavy loss.
Rather than that, it is obviously easier to hold on to the city. Even Eliaire may not have known that he had led people out of the camp, which meant that even with 400,000 people left in his camp, Eliel would still dare to fight.
This makes people wonder what exactly gives Elier such a mysterious confidence.
The more Srock thought about it, the more wrong it became, there must be something in it that he had missed, but what it was, Slok didn't know, but he was desperate to know now.
"Send more men to the camp immediately. Slok said to his men.
At this moment, Slok's heart was a little flustered, if something really happened to the camp, then even if he Slok successfully captured the Tenio Fortress, he would still not be able to hold this place.
Even in the face of food shortages, he may even be trapped here by Erne's army.
Before Srock could continue to figure out the current situation, the general who had just left walked back.
"What's the matter, didn't you want to take someone to the camp to check it out immediately, what are you still doing here!", Slok was already very anxious at this moment, and shouted angrily when he saw the general who walked in.
"No, it's General Kenny, who stayed at the camp, and he said he had an urgent need to see you. ", the general replied a little speechlessly.
He also wanted to go, but as soon as he got out of the city gate, he met General Kenny, who ordered him to escort Kenny and his party back to Tenio Fortress. Now I was scolded instead, not to mention how depressed I was.
But depressed is depressed, and he can't show it in front of Slok, so he still has to smile and say yes.
Hearing this, Slok hurried out of the camp, he was too eager to know what was going on in the camp.
When he saw that there were only soldiers left by General Kenny's side, all wounded, Srock knew that the worst had happened.
Kenny is also complicated at this moment, since the last time he escaped from Elaire's men, he has also been on the move, and finally came to the vicinity of Tenio Fortress.
But outside the Tenio Fortress, Kenny found no trace of the Tallon army, which frightened him, and he thought that the army brought out by Srock was also wiped out.
Just as he was about to leave, he saw a pair of Talon soldiers coming out of the Tenio Fortress, so he immediately stopped the group, after learning that General Slok had captured the Tenio Fortress and that this army had been sent by Slok to the camp to investigate.
Kenny was shocked for a moment, then ordered the general to take his party into the city to meet Srock, since the camp had fallen and there was no need to investigate.
"What the hell is going on in the camp, how can you be so embarrassed. Slok asked anxiously at a high-class hotel in the city.
"Hey~", Kenny sighed at first, and then told Srock in detail about the flooding of the three armies and the raft luring the enemy in the past few days.
"Damn Elier, this cunning old fox, I'm going to make him pay!", Srock slapped the table angrily and cursed viciously.
Srock knew that the camp had fallen, and that the Tenio Fortress he was occupying at the moment would have no meaning, and the most sensible thing to do at the moment was to evacuate here and return to the Talon border.
It's just that Srock has always wondered how Elaire managed to evade his army and get behind the Talen's army. Of course, General Elier had the same doubts.
It's just that none of them could imagine that they had passed by the groves on both sides that night, yes, it was the arrangement of fate.
"Open the city gate and retreat!", looking at the Tenio Fortress under the rising sun, Slok still chose to leave although he was very reluctant in his heart.
"One day, I'll retake this place. Srock thought as he left.
Frontier of the Ernne Empire, Camp Tarun.
A few days earlier, Elaire had successfully led Erne's army in clever use of the raft, and after killing the Tarun army in batches at a very small cost, he did not choose to leave immediately, but waited quietly for the flood to recede.
This way, he can find some remnants of supplies in the ruins of the Talon army camp, not to mention, the harvest is quite rich.
But just yesterday, Elaire's sentries spotted a troop of Talon troops. After some ambush, the team was quickly annihilated, and even caught alive.
Without interrogation, Elaire was stunned to learn that Tenio Fortress had been taken by Slok.
He had come here from the Tenio Fortress, and had not seen any trace of the Talon army along the way.