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When Anna walked into the Temporary Underground Headquarters, the atmosphere in the room was rather heavy.

Seeing her coming, everyone stood up one after another, bowed their heads to her, and saluted, "I've seen Your Highness!"

The iron axe even knelt down on one knee and said, "You're frightened." Failing to see through the enemy's tricks and being caught off guard by the devil is a dereliction of duty on the part of his subordinates, and I am really sorry. ”

"You don't have to," Anna said, waving her hand, "just treat me like a normal person who cares about the war." I came just to ask about the situation, the attack...... Are you all okay?"

Despite being the queen, she was still a little uncomfortable with such an occasion, especially when Wendy and Agatha and others also saluted her. Although she had never mentioned it in the past, and rarely expressed her thoughts in front of witches, she actually liked the feeling of being called sisters in the Alliance.

The camp was attacked as well - she wanted to fight with everyone like the Demon Moon before she had been sent to the underground bunker by the Witch of Punishment and the Guardians at the very beginning of the battle.

However, Anna knows that since she has accepted this identity, some things can only be taken into her heart.

She only hoped that her appearance would reassure everyone.

Iron Axe hesitated unusually, "Your Highness, the situation is not very good. ”

"Can you tell me about it?"

"Of course, we're just talking about that. He looked at Philin Silter, who nodded and opened the notepad in his hand.

"According to the statistics reported by the medical team, more than 200 people were killed and nearly 700 were wounded in the night attack. Dawn said in a deep voice.

"However, due to time constraints, this is only the roughest statistics, and the actual casualty figure will definitely rise further, after all, Miss Nanawa is ...... It is impossible to take care of so many injuries. ”

More than 200 people - this is already the second most lost in the battle of the church. And it was a decisive battle about the fate of both sides, and it was only the first battle after the Northern Expedition, and the First Army was still a long way from the ruins of Tachira.

It's no wonder that the Iron Axe meeting is difficult.

Anna had seen the scene in the wounded barracks, the bloodstained soldiers lying on the ground in a row, the air filled with the thick smell of blood and the endless moans of pain. With Nanawa's magic, it is impossible to heal all the wounded in one go, and serious injuries such as broken limbs and ruptured internal organs can heal at most five or six people a day. Therefore, if you want to save more people, you must save your magic power and use it in the most critical parts.

For example, if the chest and lungs are pierced and the intestines are cut, only the fatal wounds on the organs will be healed. For less serious problems, the medical team will suture the epidermis after being poured with purified water, while in severe cases, the wound will continue to be left open until the next day for further treatment. During this time, the severely injured were able to survive the severe pain with the potion of sleeping ferns and winter flowers, and whether everyone would survive until the next day, or whether the drug might produce an addiction similar to that of dream water, was no longer a problem for the medical team to take care of.

In such a depressing environment, it is not easy to precisely distribute the magic to the areas that need to be treated. It's hard to imagine that the little girl who used to be with her to read and write, and who was dizzy at the sight of blood, has now grown to this point.

"I will advise His Majesty Roland to try to persuade the Marquis of Falling Dragon Ridge, Lady Speer, to support the front," Anna replied slowly, "If she is there, the medical team will be able to save more people." By the way, how the hell did the devil get so close to the camp without a word?"

"I want to ...... The enemy is supposed to have taken advantage of the blind spot of the MONOCULUS. Sylvie looked frustrated, "I'm afraid the dinosaur reconnaissance was just a test of my scope, and I didn't realize it at all......"

"We should have thought of it first," said Agatha reproachfully, "and after the battle on the North Slope, the devil became aware of Sylvie's presence. It was through our vigilant reactions that those dinosaurs were able to determine the approximate distance of the Magic Eye. Then the army gathered at the edge of the furthest distance and attacked us as night fell. The time chosen coincided with the node where Tower No. 1 Station had just fallen, and it was also the moment when the defense of the camp was the weakest. ”

That being said, it's not anyone's fault. Dawn comforted, "If you want to blind your enemies, you can't do it unless you deliberately turn a blind eye to the approach of the dinosaurs." But this in itself is contrary to normal training, and even if the enemy knows in advance that he is going to do this, it is difficult to get thousands of soldiers and many more ordinary workers to disguise themselves seamlessly. In other words, sooner or later, the enemy will try to figure out this distance, and even if there is no ambush at Tower 1, then there will be waiting for us at Tower 2 and Tower 3. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, the spider demon's range should be around two or three kilometers, and the crawling speed is slow, and the time from out of Sylvie's field of view to entering the range is not too short, isn't it just because of luck that it wasn't discovered?" Anna puzzled, "I don't know much about marching and fighting, and if I'm wrong, don't mind - the First Army has its own means of reconnaissance, right? For example, the hydrogen balloons that often rise in the camp." ”

"Your observations are truly nuanced, Your Highness. "To put it simply, the wartime intelligence sources of the First Army are divided into three layers, except for Sylvie, Lightning, and Miss Maisie, the last layer is the army itself. However, when facing the devil, this layer can only be used as a supplement and an emergency. ”

After listening to the commander-in-chief's explanation, Anna finally had a basic understanding of the intelligence system of the First Army. In the battle to unify the Grey Keep Kingdom, there were no flaws in this system, but after the opponent was replaced by the devil, an irreparable gap was placed in front of the army.

That is, whether it is two legs or four legs, it can't outrun a dinosaur with a pair of wings.

This means that once the distance is exceeded, the investigators basically have no return, let alone send back the news, and even saving their lives is an extravagant hope. Dire beasts that can hide in the clouds and wait for an opportunity have an absolute advantage, and combined with the flat terrain of the fertile plains, it is almost like an eagle hunting chickens.

As a result, the third intelligence circle has been greatly compressed, and even the auxiliary Sylvie cannot do it - the flying devil can enter the detection range of the magic eye at any time and hunt those soldiers in the outer circle, and his own side has no rescue ability at all.

A word popped into Anna's mind.

A word that Roland often mentions and has a mixed look.

"Air supremacy".

-- Only the side that has air supremacy can truly grasp the initiative in the war.

In addition to this, he will also say things that have no clear meaning, such as black ribbons, Akiyama, or something......

Anna shook her head and suppressed these distractions, "According to this explanation, the spider demon should have entered the third layer of vigilance at that time...... Is it because of the night?"

"Poor vision at night is only one of the reasons, Your Highness," replied her by Filyn Silter, "according to the Staff's analysis afterwards...... Those deformed monsters, I'm afraid they were waiting for us there in the first place. ”

Anna blinked in surprise, "What do you mean...... They're buried in the ground ahead of our route?"

"That's right, that would explain why those behemoths are almost silently within range. "I asked Miss Sylvie about the fact that a glance through an obstacle will greatly increase the cost of mana, and the range will be greatly reduced. Now that I think about it, those dinosaurs are not only tempting, but also attracting Miss Sylvie's attention—as long as they keep an eye on the sky, they don't have the magic to take care of the changes underground. ”

So the devil can strike so accurately at night to all corners of the camp?

If it's static vs. stationary, the difficulty will indeed drop a lot, and the dark curtain that Sylvie saw should not be a disguise of the direction, but a disguise of the moment when the spider demon crawled out of the ground.

Not only is the enemy quick to react to the First Army's tactics and intentions, but he is also extremely proficient in the use of magic, and the thought of fighting such an opponent can be tricky.

It's no wonder that the atmosphere at the command is so heavy.

It's not a good momentum.

What would Roland do if he were here?

Anna was about to say a few words of encouragement when Edith suddenly chuckled.

"Why, it's a big victory, but you're all like you've lost the battle?" she shrugged, "Did I go to the wrong room?"