Just like the elven general Ivo's analysis, everything Chen Jian did during this time was for a reason.

He posted that inexplicable announcement, with several purposes, one is to show weakness to the enemy, the second is to buy the hearts of the people after the victory, the third is to save money for himself like the old Kobe Bryant's speculation, and the fourth is to show loyalty to the empress and gain political capital, but the most important thing is to let the spies of the Erathian Empire send this important information to the empress as soon as possible after seeing the announcement, so that they can send rescue troops to Hammondale in time.

Jian Chen believed that once the elves decided to capture Hammondal, they would not only send a small army from the portal, but there would definitely be a steady stream of troops marching towards their territory in the future, and these large armies were not something they could resist.

Chen Jian also believes that with the important geographical location of Hammondale, Her Majesty will immediately send a large army if she says anything, and will never ignore it because of the heavy snow blocking the road, as long as the empress's army can come, no matter who Hammondale ends up in, there will be no major problems with his own safety.

Then in order to achieve the goal of winning more with less and annihilating the enemy army, Chen Jian decided to lure the enemy army into the castle, and then blow up the castle and bury all the enemies alive.

But a lord who doesn't have any reputation alone obviously can't get enough attention from the elves, and the castle itself is so badly damaged that anyone who cares only needs to look closely to find the tricks in it.

At that time, maybe Chen Jian was buried alive by the enemy who found the flaws before he could bury the enemy, even if he could escape through another secret passage, but in the case of heavy snow blocking the road, where could they escape? Sooner or later, they will be discovered by the other party, and then it will be a dead end.

So Jian Chen killed the elven spy and hung it outside the gate to show the public, in order to provoke the anger of the elven army commander and make the opponent lose the ability to think calmly.

People who are attracted to one thing will always turn a blind eye to other things around them.

This will facilitate the smooth implementation of the plan.

But this was still not enough, so Chen Jian threw another bait.

After learning about the way magic transmitted information through his personal magic advisor, Jian Chen concluded that there must be at least one elven spy in his territory, because no intact or broken transmission circle was found in the process of capturing Elf Ayton, which indicated that the circle was not in his hands.

Jian Chen decided to take advantage of this spy who was still hidden.

Robert's defection was planned by him, and through Robert's mouth, he successfully passed on the important news that he possessed Terrence Rockwin's treasure and secret room.

As he had hoped, the elves were greedy for the truth, and the ease with which the castle changed hands made the elves further lighten their enemies, believing that their opponents were nothing more than that, and that it was only a matter of a small matter to seize the treasure.

The elves have this thought, and Chen Jian will not have to be buried alive by the elves in the underground, and in order to get the treasure, the elves will inevitably want to capture him alive, so as to force him to ask about the whereabouts of the treasure and other secrets in the secret room.

Moreover, he also moved all the food and water and other daily necessities to the ground, and cooperated with the content of the announcement to put on the appearance of sticking to the end, which greatly confused the opponent.

Coupled with the fact that the weather is so cold now, with these conditions, Jian Chen can basically be sure that the opponent will definitely stay in the castle, and he will not be aware of his plan to blow up the castle.

In fact, Jian Chen still underestimated his opponent, and the elven general Ivo almost discovered his plan, but unfortunately Ivo, whose thinking had been successfully misled at that time, was interrupted by the report of the dwarf leader Morgan when he was inspecting the castle, and then he was furious because of the failure of the attack in the tunnel, and missed the opportunity to discover the opponent's conspiracy.

It was an unexpected surprise for the big-eared monsters to join Chen Jian's plan, because they were locked up with the elven spy before and attacked each other, the elf spy couldn't stop scolding in the process of fighting back, and unexpectedly leaked the news of the elven army's imminent attack.

This is also the reason why Johnny is determined to take the lead, in Johnny's opinion, this news is known to the big-eared monsters, and the lord will know sooner or later, it is better to use it now in exchange for his own life.

The big-eared monsters who got the news were in a big fight.

The elves were notoriously harsh with other races, not to mention their equal prisoners of war.

In addition, these big-eared monsters from Diya themselves have an inextricable contradiction with the elves - as we all know, Diya was a beautiful forest and the land of the elves before it was overrun by necromancers and big-eared monsters.

For the big-eared monsters who dare to stay in Diya, the elves have long hated it; And the big-eared monsters have lived in Diya for so many years, and they have long been self-proclaimed as the natives of Diya, and of course they are resolutely resistant to the elves' vain attempts to recover the land.

One can imagine what would happen to these big-eared monsters if the elves captured Hammondal.

At this time, Chen Jian was also racking his brains for the last step in his plan - how to blow up the castle.

It's easy to blow up the few remaining load-bearing walls, and it only takes a few powerful spells from the sorceress to do it, but the hard part is how to get the sorceress to release the magic smoothly.

The enemy would certainly not stand afar and watch a magician perform his magic in front of the castle and remain indifferent.

Chen Jian only had two hundred guards in his hands, and it was not enough to guard the underground secret room, and also divide his troops to seize the gate and resist the enemy's counterattack to hold the gate for a period of time so that the people underground had time to transfer, and to protect the safety of the magician.

He didn't dare to use those lords who took the initiative to ask for war, how much combat power these farmers could have, and whether it would drag him down for the time being, if a spy came in to know his plan, it would be miserable.

At this time, the big-eared monsters took the initiative to ask for help.

Orison, who was elected by the Big-Eared Monsters, asked to see the Lord, and expressed their intention to help the Lord in battle, on the condition that the Lord return their freedom after the battle, and if they could, they also wished to join the Lord Lord's army.

The big-eared monsters agreed that after the elves came, they would die sooner or later anyway, so it was better to follow the lord and the elves to fight now, even if they died, it would be more glorious to die, and if they were lucky, they might be able to pick up a small life.

And the superior treatment of the soldiers of the Lord Guard has already made the big-eared monsters who are also soldiers red-eyed.

The lord agreed to their request after hearing the Big-Eared Monsters' reasons for asking for war and their feud with the elves.

These big-eared monsters are all qualified soldiers, and with the addition of this new force, their own force distribution is not so tight.

However, he still didn't feel comfortable using these big-eared monsters directly with the guards soldiers, but left them in the dungeon, assisted Polly in rescuing Robert, and then joined forces with the soldiers led by the half-elves to seize the gate.

It was also Robert's luck that he was imprisoned in the dungeon by Ivo, which saved Polly a lot of effort.

Now, Chen Jian's entire plan has come to an end.