Chapter 56: The Undercurrent Surging (I)
While Jian Chen was having a headache over how to defend after the laser gun ran out of energy, the elven general Ivo was extremely annoyed at the end because it was difficult to launch a follow-up attack.
When the attack he personally commanded had to be temporarily halted due to the terrain, Ivo was very angry to find that this little lord who had never been in his eyes, and the battle plan that this lord had come up with, had put himself in a very embarrassing situation.
From the original confidence to the current dilemma, in a short period of time, Ivo's patience has almost run out.
Such a slow and leisurely style of play is really not suitable for this hot-blooded and impulsive elven general, and punching and rushing is his favorite tactical style.
The corpses of the dwarves and elves in the tunnels deeply stimulated his arrogant elven pride, which was the best proof of his failure.
But Ivo must be Ivo, a general who has grown up after countless battles, and finally manages to restrain his anger.
"Morgan, leave some people here to spy on each other's movements, and then you take your men back to the cellar to defend, and if they dare to come out, teach them a good lesson! Everyone else retreated to the castle to rest! ”
After regaining his composure, Ivo gave the above command, and then rushed out of the tunnel with two magicians and soldiers.
He had to be quiet and think carefully about how the next battle should be fought, the opponent's defense was not flawless and flawless, but he had been carried away by anger and didn't notice it for a while.
Ivo believed that as long as he had slept well after a few days of exhaustion, he would be able to come up with a way to defeat him in one fell swoop tomorrow morning.
However, things were not as simple as he imagined, and even Chen Jian's plan, he only guessed part of it.
After a temporary truce between the two sides, all of Hammondale fell silent.
For the sake of their own lives, after the elven army entered the town, the leaders very consciously closed their doors and stayed at home in accordance with the arrangements made by the lord's announcement.
The streets were deserted, and the town of Hammondale would be almost indistinguishable from the dead city had it not been for the occasional centaur patrol and the smoke rising from the chimneys on the roofs of houses.
But beneath this apparent calm, there is an undercurrent.
Inside the dungeons of Hammondale Castle.
The elves didn't pay much attention to the big-eared prisoners of war who were abandoned in the dungeon by the castle's original owner, and just sent a few centaur soldiers to guard the entrance to the dungeon.
It is not uncommon for elven armies to find a large number of prisoners in the dungeon in castle after castle, and the elves have always been the practice of continuing to hold prisoners until the local situation has stabilized.
This time is certainly no exception.
It was a bit strange that these big-eared monsters were treated so well, but after the elven agent Kanis proved that these guys were indeed prisoners of war of the lord, Ivan didn't bother to ask about the green-skinned creatures again.
Robert looked coldly at Johnny, who was sleeping in a daze, with a look of disdain.
So far, his mission has gone well, and almost everyone thinks that Robert has betrayed the lord, and only a few people know that Robert is actually just doing what he agreed with the lord.
He was now sitting in prison quietly waiting, waiting for another person to come and rescue him.
I don't know how long I waited, but Robert finally heard a voice he had been waiting for.
It was the sound of the lock on the cell door being opened by a key.
The sound came from one of the cells where the big-eared monsters were being held, and by the faint light of the torches on the wall, Robert saw a dark figure tiptoe out of the open door.
"Liar, it's nothing, is it?" Coming to Robert's cell, the shadow asked softly.
"I'm a liar, you're not like Polly and you're a thief? Less nonsense! Open the door! ”
Robert looked gloomy, and was quite dissatisfied with the person in front of him calling him a liar: "Give me the knife first, and I'll go and kill that guy who gets in the way!" ”
Since joining the Lord's Guard, the only person who dares to call Robert a liar is the former Love Saint Thief Polly, who joined the guard at the same time as him, who is standing outside the cell now.
Polly smiled disapprovingly, handed the big-eared scimitar in his hand to Robert through the iron fence, and then carefully took out a key to open the iron door of the cell.
Then he walked towards the door of another cell, and behind him, in the cell where Robert was, Johnny had lost his life in his sleep for no apparent reason—Robert had slit his throat with the sharp orange scimitar.
The big-eared prisoners of war watched all this silently, without any commotion, they just gently pulled out a handful of big-eared monster scimitars that had been hidden before, the same style as Robert's hand, from the bedding and under the pillows, and then silently walked through the doors of the cells that were opened by Polly one by one to the passage of the dungeon.
Neither the dwarven warriors who searched the castle before, nor the centaur soldiers who now guard the exit of the dungeon, did not find that these big-eared monsters, who were prisoners of war, had secretly hidden a large number of weapons in their cells, let alone the small thief Polly, who had been hiding among a pile of debris in a cell using camouflage technology.
This can't be blamed on the elves for being careless, after all, such a thing has never happened, who would have thought that a group of prisoners who were imprisoned in the prison and couldn't get out actually plotted to cause chaos a long time ago? Who would have thought that not only did they have weapons, but they also had the means to open the prison doors?
This has never happened in a city or castle occupied by elves before.
Moreover, these big-eared monsters were the mortal enemies of that lord before, who would have thought that these big-eared monsters would now help their enemies fight?
"Let's get moving!" Polly, who was in charge of the operation, waved his small hand, and together with Robert, led sixty-eight big-eared monster prisoners of war to the end of the passage lightly but violently.
At the entrance of the walkway leading to the dungeon, several centaurs were lying on the ground sleeping around a small fire, and the heat emitted by the fire warmed their tired and frostbitten bodies that had been sleeping in the ice and snow for some time, making them feel as if they were back in the evergreen and pleasant climate of the Tulaone forest in their sleep.
During this time, almost every centaur soldier was exhausted, with bad weather, difficult roads, and the heavy weight of military supplies on their backs.
Without the centaur who cared about the heavy responsibility of guarding the passage on his shoulder, they were now inside the castle, surrounded by their own people, the castle gate was also guarded, and the centaurs patrolled the city wall, and the enemy was said to have been cowering underground and did not dare to come out, and even if they did, the dwarven warriors would take it first. The door of the passage to be guarded behind them was also changed by them, although the locks in the dungeon were not changed, but they also checked during the day, all of them were locked, and it was impossible for those big-eared monsters to escape.
Even so, if you don't make up for sleep, you can't get along with yourself!