Ulysses' hard work these days is evident for all to see, and the results are palpable. While establishing the defenses of the city of Kuba, Ulysses succeeded in establishing a part of the intelligence system. However, once the intelligence system was operational, there was a lot of bad news.

The first was that Ulysses had misjudged the number of enemy troops in the city of Herul, which had so far been garrisoned by less than 2,000 men of Xenas. However, Epger's army had already left for the city of Silis, and the food of the Yaggi army was no longer enough for Epger to turn back and attack the city of Horul. Ulysses had 10,000 men at hand, but these forces were spread along the city of Essras to the city of Kuba.

Ulysses had intended to concentrate his forces and raid the city of Horur, but the second piece of information forced him to abandon the idea. Because he learned that the thief general Zaran had gathered nearly 7,000 troops near the city of Kadum, and was marching towards the city of Aisrath. Some of the castles that had previously expressed their intention to surrender betrayed the Yaki army and defected to the Zaran army, and Zaran's army is currently expanding.

Of course, not all of the news came bad, and there was one piece of information that happened to Ulysses who was overjoyed. Zelda, the fourth son stationed in the city of Asras, has received news that according to Drum, the thief general who surrendered in Kaesong, he once presided over the construction of several secret granaries, which are located deep in the mountains. Although Ulysses didn't have a good impression of a renegade like Drum, the news he provided was still very important, and he immediately sent scouts to investigate, only to find several granaries hidden by the thieves in the mountains!

Many of my previous questions have been answered because of this! No wonder Li Tianhao's cavalry team can come and go like the wind. It seems that there is never a need to worry about food supplies. It turned out that he had already built many such secret granaries deep in the mountains! It also explains why there is so little food in the cities, and the thieves have apparently transported most of the food to these hidden granaries. Ulysses immediately sent his eldest son Qusai and second son Homan to lead troops to attack two granaries. With access to this grain and grass, the dilemma of food shortages has been alleviated. Ulysses, on the other hand, fell ill from the overwork he had been exerting for days.

Just as Ulysses was about to expand his search and strike again, attacking the other known granaries, the first of Everge's defeated troops returned to the city of Kuba.

Everger and many of his Yaki generals were killed in battle. When Ulysses heard the news, it was like five thunderbolts, which undoubtedly showed that his sub-base army had been encircled on all sides! What's even more amazing is how Li Tianhao suddenly appeared in Silis City when he was cut off by Kuba City in the south, could it be that he had wings and flew over the Misella Mountains? It is clearly unrealistic to expect Vandarru to capture the city of Silis - if the assault had worked, the war would not have dragged on to this day. Moreover, Ulysses judged that Li Tianhao and Gurnas were likely to enter the army to threaten Kuba City once they were free, and at the same time, Zaran had already sent troops to threaten Esras City. With his current strength, it was obviously too thin to deploy on the line from Essras City to Kuba. For now, the only way to do this is to concentrate forces to capture the weakly defended city of Horur as soon as possible and reopen the grain route, so that the Yaki army can maintain a slight advantage in strength. Thinking of this, Ulysses immediately called his eldest son Qusai and ordered him to repair a letter and let Zelda, the fourth son who guarded the city of Asras, lead 5,000 soldiers to the city of Kuba in the starry night.

"All 5,000 people are coming? Father. But then the city of Essrath is completely empty. Qusay's eyes widened.

Ulysses lay on the bed and smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, now we can only give up Essrath City for the time being, if we can't open the line of Helur City, our army will be surrounded by enemy troops, and we will soon run out of food." If you are too obsessed with the gains and losses of one city and one place, I am afraid that you will only lose nothing. ”

Qusay's face hesitated: "You're right, but Essrath City is a symbol, and once it is lost, it means that our army will lose control over the surrounding cities, and in that case, the morale of the thief army will be greatly boosted." Even if we make a comeback, I'm afraid it will be very difficult. ”

"How could I not know the truth of this? But now that our army has suffered heavy losses, and even the main general, Lord Evger, has been killed in battle, we can only endure it for the time being. If we can occupy the line between the city of Horus and the city of Kuba, then at least we can hold on to it and cut off the supply of the city of Sillis, and after a long time, the city of Sillis will eventually fall to our army, and at the same time ask His Majesty the King for more troops. After gathering troops, we will try to forge ahead. ”

"Yes, Father. I understand. I immediately went to summon the fourth brother back. Qusay said that he stood up and saluted, and left.

Looking at his son's departure, a worried Ulysses let out a long breath. As soon as his body went limp, he fell back into bed again. The hard work and the psychological blow made him feel more and more sick. But the bad news followed. In the next two days, more and more of the defeated soldiers fled back to the city of Kuba, numbering as many as 17,000 men, and most of them were unarmed, and these unarmed Yaqui soldiers could be said to be completely incapable of fighting, and Ulysses did not have so many weapons in his hands to distribute to these soldiers, but had to allocate more than half of the few rations to these soldiers.

Ulysses, of course, understood that this was a ploy by the thieves, in order to consume his already scarce military rations. But he could not abandon these soldiers, after all, they were all regular troops of Yaqui, and Ulysses had always been a general who loved nurses, and the soldiers had most of them had fatherly affection for the old general. These people were more or less powerful, and if Senas of Horus did not know about it, they should have a deterrent effect, so Ulysses decided to include them in the army attacking Horur City.

The second news came from the city of Silis, Li Tianhao announced his succession as the leader of the Dils rebel army, and since Li Tianhao deliberately wanted to spread the news, this news did not need to be probed at all. Although there was no threat to Ulysses on the surface, it was actually very disadvantageous, because Li Tianhao's succession to the throne greatly offset the damage caused by his killing of the thief chief Chail. Because a considerable part of Chail's real power originally fell into the hands of Li Tianhao, and his prestige in the army Li Tianhao was far better than that of Chail, and now he came to inherit the position of the leader of the alliance can be said to be expected, so that the thief army will be more united and more difficult to deal with after learning the news.

The third piece of news was that the scouts had spotted signs of enemy activity in the direction of the city of Silis. Although it is not clear the number of enemy troops, the person who led the troops on the other side can be determined to be Li Tianhao himself. This was expected by Ulysses, and there was nothing to be afraid of, and he had already prepared his second son Homan for this. However, the news of the first death article was undoubtedly like a bolt from the blue, and not only Ulysses, but also all the Yaki army were stunned by the news - the city of Essras was lost, the five thousand defenders were destroyed, and the life and death of the defender Zelda were unknown! (To be continued......)