Chapter 49: A Tacit Understanding of Coincidences (I)
Early the next morning, General Elier left the fortress of Teneo with a group of soldiers and marched to the camp in Tarun.
As before, General Elier took 100,000 horses with him, and the remaining army was less than 100,000. If it weren't for the fact that his plan had succeeded, Eliel would never have been worried that these people would stay here.
But now that it was certain that the Tarun army had been trapped by the floods, General Elier could swagger to encircle them.
Of course, the above is General Elaire's personal conjecture. At least until now, he didn't know that it was only the Talen reinforcements who were trapped by the flood and suffered heavy losses.
And at this moment, the elite of the Taron army is quietly sneaking on the way to Tenio, just as General Elier is plotting how to get to the camp of the Talon army at this moment.
The generals on both sides were surprisingly unanimous, and they both agreed that this was the best time to launch a surprise attack.
Indeed, now is the most advantageous time for either side to exist alone. But on the battlefield, there is never a win-win situation between the enemy and us, and there are only life and death.
When one time is good for both parties, from another point of view, it is also bad for both parties.
But obviously, the generals on both sides were not aware of this, at least at this moment, Eliel and Slok were full of confidence and high spirits in their hearts.
In the end, neither Elaire nor Slok chose to take the avenue, and both chose to sneak through the dense forest, mainly to prevent the other party's sentinels from detecting their own troops.
The most embarrassing thing was that the two of them were still walking in the groves on both sides of the same avenue.
That is, Elaire took the woods on the right side of the road, while Srock took the one on the left. When the two armies were even closest, they were separated by less than fifty meters, and even this distance lasted for most of the night.
However, it was under the cover of night, and the troops on both sides were marching in a hurry, that no soldiers noticed the movement of enemy troops in the opposite grove all night.
In this way, the two sides passed by like this and went straight to each other's lair. The generals of both sides believed that they could take each other's camps, and although they did so in the end, it was embarrassing for both sides.
Since Slook had set out two days earlier than Elaire, Elier was still on his way to Camp Tarun when he arrived under the city-state of Tenio on the morning of the fourth day.
Standing in the woods surrounding Tenio Fortress, Srock knew that now was not the time to do it. Although there are many defenders of the fortress of Meganitio at the moment, the opponent can still easily repel his army with his tall walls.
"Looks like we'll have to wait for the night, Elier, and enjoy your last joy. Srock said through gritted teeth.
It was the first time in his life that he had been completely calculated by a person, and he seemed to be powerless to fight back, and this feeling made Srock feel a strong sense of humiliation.
Dusk gradually ended, and the night finally came quietly.
At this moment, the inside of the Tenio Fortress is brightly lit, and the whole city is rarely lively. Despite Elier's blockade of Camp Tarun, the nobles of Tenio Fortress still have a clue to their connections.
Now all the nobles believe that the Talon have been trapped by General Elaire's design, and the departure of General Elaire a few days ago was also reported by everyone to encircle and suppress the remnants of Talon's army.
No one would have believed this kind of thing before, but since the last time General Elier succeeded in scaring off Tarun's 400,000-strong army, the generals of Tenio Fortress have become accustomed to General Elier's ability to perform miracles.
Therefore, as soon as General Elier left the confines of the Tenio Fortress on his front feet, they began to celebrate the victory on the back feet, and all kinds of parties appeared one after another, and all the Tenio generals thought that the battle was over for the time being.
However, what they didn't expect was that while they were celebrating their achievements, there were still elite troops outside the city who had been Tarun thinking about how to climb over the city walls and wipe out all their necks.
Arriving outside the walls of the Tenio Fortress, Slok felt that it was too weird, everything was so smooth that he basically didn't encounter any dark sentinels along the way.
The unusual scene only made Srock wary, and he always felt that it was most likely Elier's trick.
Ever since he was calculated by Elier last time, Srock has been very wary of this person, and has the feeling that he has been bitten by a snake for ten years and is afraid of the well rope.
The more Srock thought about it, the more wrong it became, and his already slow speed became even slower at the moment. If you have to describe it, it is an elite army of more than 200,000 people, and it is completely played by Srock as a 200,000 Voldemort.
Basically, it is ten steps and one attention, and the grass and trees are soldiers.
Finally, when we reached the city gate, the city was still brightly lit and there was a commotion everywhere.
"Brother, come, let's have a drink, I'll do it first. Just as Srock was hesitating to go in at the bottom of the castle tower, there was such an inexplicable conversation from the castle tower.
"I heard you right, the Ernnes are drinking right now... Wine. Slok asked the generals around him with some uncertainty, in fact, 10,000 grass and mud horses were floating by in his heart at this moment.
"Yes, you heard me right, shall we take the opportunity to rush in?", the general hurriedly said when he saw Srock looking at him.
"Rush in you guys, there's clearly something wrong here. Slok slapped the general on the head and said viciously, there was a sense of hatred that iron could not be made of steel.
"......", the general had to be silent.
Then, Srock ordered a retreat, abandoning today's battle plan, yes, abandoned.
Slok couldn't believe that the other party dared to take it so lightly at the moment of the great enemy, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a trap.
Of course, it's no wonder that Srock doesn't believe it, and no one dares to go up to this matter easily.
In the end, Slok had to use the same thinking that Caesar had taught him to speculate on the other party's reason for doing so, but he thought about it all day, but he couldn't think of a reason.
"It doesn't make sense, Eliel has no reason to design such a shallow trap, and besides, he doesn't know when I'm going to come back for a surprise attack, and it's even unknown if I'll come for a night raid. This question has been bothering Srock until dusk.
Night was about to fall again, and Srock knew he had to make a decision. Either take a risk and gamble on it, or evacuate immediately.
Slok's army had been outside Tenio Fortress for two days, and if it dragged on, it was only a matter of time before they were discovered, and if they used this to attack him at night, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Moreover, at this moment, Srock is still in a state of great doubt, and it is difficult to better lead the army to make a correct choice.
So no matter what, Srock must make a decision at this moment, otherwise the situation will only get worse if he waits.