"The general is really a god, Erne's army has indeed stopped outside the Four Rivers Valley, and now that our broken soldiers have withdrawn, what should we do next?", the general beside Slok asked.

"God can't call it a name, but he didn't expect Eliel to take such a big risk just to swallow up one of our broken forces. Next, let's set up camp by the water now, and wait for the follow-up information to be determined. Slok looked at his surroundings and nodded with satisfaction.

"Elier, what exactly do you want to do? After all the generals left, Srock was alone in the camp thinking about the next battle plan.

Immediately in the makeshift camp in Talen, a large number of sentries were sent to the vicinity of the city-state of Teneo to inquire about Elier's side.

In last night's battle, General Elier took advantage of Slock's suspicious weakness and repelled the 400,000 troops led by Slok with a mere 100,000 troops.

In the moment of chaos, Slok calmly commanded, organized the army to resist and divert favorably, and even made a false move to scare off Elaire's pursuers outside the Four Rivers Valley, while his own large army safely withdrew from the danger zone.

Indeed, General Elier is victorious in sneak attacks, in experience and in the soft power of grasping people's hearts.

And Slok wins in a steady and well-arranged formation, which is a hard-core military command ability. And his retreat yesterday was completely based on the scale of facing 400,000, and there was no big problem in dealing with General Elier's 100,000 troops.

That's why General Elier will say that he is inferior to him.

Elier knows that his strategic thinking has not experienced a systematic model, but has been accumulated by his years of actual combat.

Slok learned the management of the army systematically from an early age, and his grasp of the details and situation was very meticulous, and the only flaw was experience and practice.

Even if the situation changed today, General Elier led an army of 400,000 to attack Slok at night, and he could retreat with a mere 100,000 troops.

A few years later, this battle even became a classic used by subsequent generations of military experts for reference and learning, including many heroic generals and gods of war in the past dynasties.

Some people learn Elier's cunning and changeability in it, knowing themselves and their opponents, and some people learn Slok's calm and composed, and they are not chaotic in the face of danger, and each has its own merits anyway.

After scaring off Slok and his army, Eliel immediately led his army back to Tenio Fortress, just to prevent Slok from seeing what he was about.

Even for the sake of safety, when entering the city, General Elier deliberately asked the army to quietly leave the city at night after entering the city, and then enter the city again the next day, and so on three times.

created the illusion that a large number of soldiers had entered the city, and successfully confused the Talon Empire agents in the city.

He also erected the banners of the other four fortress lords at the head of the city, and the banners hunted in the wind, and from the outside, it looked as if there really was a large coalition army inside the fortress.

In this way, General Elier once again confused Tarun's intelligence system, and now Srock had many doubts, and he had to believe it in the face of the facts.

"General, how did you manage to defeat Tarun's 400,000 army with a mere 100,000 army. After learning of the triumphant return of General Elier, the generals and nobles of the Tenio Fortress came to congratulate one after another, and their faces were full of flattery.

At first, they couldn't believe it when they heard that General Elier had defeated the enemy, but in the course of subsequent reconnaissance, they were surprised to find that the Talon soldiers outside the city had actually disappeared without a trace.

At this time, they had to believe no matter how many doubts they had, so they came to General Elaire's mansion as soon as possible.

"You don't have to worry about this, you just need to obey the command, you always have to believe that only by following me can you better survive this war. Elaire's attitude towards them became very arrogant.

But this is a trick to control people, by establishing inviolable authority, so that people will unconsciously surrender.

Just like a wolf who has subdued the wolves with his own strength in the wolf pack, he is no longer as easy-going as before, but becomes the leader of the other wolves to worship and follow.

If it had been at the beginning, General Elier would have received countless cold eyes when he spoke like this, perhaps they would not have shown it on the surface, but once the war began, these ills would have been unreservedly exposed.

But now it's different, General Elier used his strength to impress everyone present, making them unconsciously think that General Elier's words were very reasonable.

This is a kind of admiration for the strong in human nature, which is called "power" in military terms, and at this point, the authority of General Elier is irreplaceable, and he has completely mastered the control of the Tenio Fortress.

After a few casual greetings, General Elier was even more gracious and gave a good knock on the senior Teneo who was present.

After seeing the awe and obedience in everyone's eyes, General Elier was satisfied and let them retreat.

"Slok, your performance this time really surprised me, I originally thought that I could take advantage of the chaos to destroy your supplies this time, but I didn't expect you to be able to command so calmly in that chaotic situation, I still underestimated you a little. ”

After everyone had left, General Elier muttered to himself.

In fact, at the beginning, the purpose of General Elier's night attack was never to inflict heavy damage on the other side, he knew very well that it would be difficult to give the other party a fatal blow if he really fought with only 100,000 men and horses, and he might even be annihilated by the other side if he didn't make up his mind.

So General Elier set his sights on the food supplies of the Tarun army.

According to his conjecture, when facing the enemy's fierce attack, ordinary generals will choose to abandon their baggage troops and evacuate lightly, so as to ensure the maximum benefit of the number of troops.

But he didn't expect Srock to play tricks with him, breaking off with an elite force, and leading his baggage troops to retreat from the other direction, and finally scaring Elier's pursuers back in the Valley of the Four Rivers.

Now the nobles of the city thought that he had successfully defeated Talon's army, and only he knew that the impact of last night's attack on Talon's army was actually very small.

Even the retreat was just Srock's conservative style of play, which didn't mean that Elier had much of an advantage, and the game was a draw at best.

"Next, Slok, I'm really looking forward to what you're going to do with my schemes, after all, it's been a long time since I've met such a powerful opponent. Elaire continued to ponder her next steps.

"General, the sentry at the front has sent news that Tarun's army has retreated to the area around the water. Just then, a herald came to report the news.

"Haha, Slok, I'd like to see what you're going to do this time. Upon hearing the news, Elier burst out laughing happily, as if he had thought of a new plan.