Upton sat in the modest general's office, his desk piled high with papers to deal with, most of which were news of slave captures coming from all over the world. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As the documents were reviewed, Upton's face became ugly, and when he saw the news that more than 1,500 Calais soldiers and more than 1,000 slaves had been lost, he could no longer sit still, "Come on!"

With a shout, an attendant hurriedly ran in, "General, what are your orders?" "When did this document arrive?"

The attendant stepped forward cautiously and quickly glanced at the document, but there were already beads of sweat the size of beans rolling down his forehead, "Lord Hui, this document was sent a week ago 、、、、." ”

With a loud bang, Upton, who had fourth-order strength, slapped his palm on the table with a fierce palm, almost breaking the hard oak table, "Bastards, you idiots, why didn't you report such important news earlier?"

"Your 、、、Excellency," the squire took two steps back inadvertently, and stammered even more, "Since His Majesty the King gave the order to capture the slaves and asked the army to weaken the strength of the orcs, the resistance in various places has never stopped, we 、、、、 we thought 、、、、that this was just a revenge of the orcs, and in recent times, there has been a lot of news from all over the world, we 、、、、"

"That's enough,、、、" As Upton slapped the table again in anger, the thick oak table finally couldn't stand it anymore, and it cracked in half with a strange creak, and the papers on it were scattered all over the floor like an avalanche.

Upton ignored the stunned attendant, but walked quickly to the side with the document, where hung a huge and detailed map of the frozen swamp, looked at it carefully for a while, and finally found the location of the incident mentioned on the document, he raised his hand and picked up a small needle and inserted the document on the map.

Then Upton took two steps back, and then began to examine it carefully, and from time to time he stepped forward to carefully examine the papers that had been inserted on it, and finally his eyes turned from anger to shock, and he quickly picked up a pen from the ground and returned to the map, and then drew in circles on it for a long time.

With a snap, the pen in his hand was inadvertently broken by him, looking at the fingers that were sticky with ink, Upton couldn't help but shake it fiercely, and threw the broken pen to the ground, "This is not a fucking orc mob at all, this is an organized and experienced regular army, otherwise it would be impossible to break through one of our fortresses in a short period of time and rob a thousand slaves from the hands of fifteen hundred elite warriors." ”

From the time and place, the shrewd Upton had already analyzed the general situation of the matter, and at this time he could no longer tolerate his anger, and hurriedly ordered the squire who was still standing, "You hurry up and ask all the counselors to stop their work, and sort out all the news about the central and northern regions, don't go quickly!"

The squire reacted when he heard the last roar, and hurriedly turned around and ran out, but was stopped by Upton, "Wait, you go and get Fred." ”

When Fred walked into his room, he couldn't help but frown at the sight of papers scattered on the floor and broken tables, this was the first table that Upton had not known to have broken since he entered the swamp to oversee all orc matters.

"You're here. Sitting in a chair and pinching his eyebrows with his hand, Upton looked up at Fred, "My lord, what's the matter?

"Just look at the map. Hearing this, Fred hurried over, and soon found a black line on the map, and saw the late paper.

"How's it going, see, I don't know what you think in your heart?" "I think this should be an orc army, the number should be more than two thousand, but not more than three thousand, and this orc army has a shrewd command, and the equipment is quite well-equipped, judging from the damage in this battle, we have eaten an elite team of 1,500 people, but only lost a few hundred people, many of whom are slaves, from this point of view alone, this commander should be a battle-hardened man, and good at ambush 、、、、、"

"Well, I don't want to hear you break down the details, I just want to know if you really think this is a simple orc team?" Upton interrupted Fred with a slight impatience, and the latter said after hearing this new question, he couldn't help but think about it carefully. My lord, I think this matter should be the so-called orcs, you see the castle we lost, although it was a castle with a garrison of 5,000 people, but it was clearly written on the document, there were only more than 1,000 garrisons there at that time, and after being sacked, almost all the iron weapons were pry down and taken away, and only the orcs would do such a thing. ”

"There are also these few things, a small group of orcs harassed our army into the swamp to capture slaves by poisoning sneak attacks and setting up ambush traps, these are all effective methods of orcs, and after the war of robbing slaves, this team miraculously disappeared without a trace, I think they must have broken up and scattered all over the place, and it is very likely that the same group of people attacked our army. ”

"Well, what you said has some truth, if it is really a team of orcs, I am not worried, I am afraid that the Omar people will make trouble. Upton's heart slowly relaxed with Fred's analysis, and his face softened slightly, "Omar? I don't think so, the orcs are not closer to the Omar than to us. ”

"I think so too, and if it weren't for that, I'd have concluded that the Omar had done it. "With that, Upton stood up and walked to the map," You look at the documents on this, they are all about the orcs in various places resisting this forced conscription, we have lost nearly 50,000 horses, although Your Majesty has sent us an additional 200,000 troops to assist us in completing the forced conscription, but the resistance in various places will become more and more fierce, and our losses will continue to increase, I have long suggested that Your Majesty should be a little more relaxed with the orcs, and you can exchange food for slaves, but Your Majesty has always disagreed with my approach, and after so many things, I actually plan to increase the troops again and completely subdue the orcs with strong means, so that if we don't get it, we will have to bear the risk of fighting on two fronts, which is a result that we can't afford。 ”

"Your Excellency、、、、" Fred had just spoken, when he heard someone shouting outside the door at the same time, "Your Excellency, some of the documents you want have been sorted out, do you want to read them now or wait until they are all sorted out?"

Upton waved his hand for Fred not to speak yet, and at the same time shouted out, "Send it here, tell them to keep it sorted out, and today I want to see all the news about the Midland." ”

The attendant hurriedly ran in, followed by two people carrying a brand new table, and when the documents were placed on the table, the attendant took the two people and began to quickly sort out the documents scattered on the ground, Upton couldn't help but say, "Put it down first, don't tidy it up, you go out first, I have something to say to General Fred." "Yes. The attendant answered, and hurriedly led the people out of the door.

"Let's take a look, I don't know what kind of surprises these documents will bring us. As he spoke, Upton picked up the stack of papers, divided them in half, and handed them to Fred.

"These damn bastards, such an important news dares to be suppressed, you see, the central and northern parts are already in chaos, although our losses have not increased again, but where we have received several times more resistance than other places, and the captured slaves are pitiful, I think the orc tribes in the central and northern parts of the country have been completely united, who has the ability to gather all these small orc tribes that have been scattered for hundreds of thousands of years?"

Upton was furious again, but Fred was looking intently at a document, "Your Excellency, look at this one. As he spoke, he handed it to him, and Upton took it and looked at it, but he didn't see anything special, "Small-scale beast tide, is there anything strange about this?"

"Your Excellency, take a look at this one again. "Spotted signs of a team of orcs, but didn't see the team, just the camp where they had been stationed. Upton read the document in a whisper, and couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart, there was really no need to submit such a document to him for approval, because there was nothing substantial on it.

"Look at this one again. As he spoke, Fred handed over one again, "The discovery of orc activity at the edge of the swamp, how can it be such ambiguous news, isn't there a little more specific?"

Upton grumbled, but Fred was flipping through them quickly, and quickly picked out a few more, "Your Excellency, take a look at these again." ”

Upton glanced quickly, only to see that it was barely a document, only a small piece of news, all of which was that some scattered signs of orc activity had been found at the edge of the swamp.

"What's so special about these?" "Didn't you notice who sent this message?" Hearing this, Upton hurriedly read the file's reporter again, and couldn't help but be shocked, "The Third Regiment of the Blood Swamp?"

"Someone," the squire hurriedly ran in when he heard the shout, "go and find out all the news about the Blood Clotting Swamp for me, quickly, I will see it all in one, not half an hour." "Yes, my lord. The attendant was already sweating profusely, but he didn't dare to delay at all.

"Clotted swamp, clotted swamp. Upton muttered silently as he walked to the map, but it was a desolate place, and suddenly he thought of something and hurriedly said, "You come with me." ”

As he spoke, he walked over to a filing cabinet made of stainless steel, untied a bunch of keys from his waist, and opened the intricate locks before opening the cabinet door, pulling out a set of top-secret documents from inside, and then finding a copy of the Blood Condensation Swamp from inside.

"You said that the orcs frequently move around the Blood Clotting Swamp, could it be that they are here for this thing?" Fred looked at the seal on the cover of the document, and couldn't help but be taken aback, "My lord, you shouldn't show me such a document." "You're still worried about these things at this time? ”

Fred turned out that document, he wanted to take a quick look at it, but found that it was difficult to look away after the first glance, and as he read the whole document, his face instantly changed color, "My lord, I don't think so, if that's the case, I'm afraid 、、、、"

At this moment, the attendant ran in again in a panic, "My lord, here's a message from the Blood Clotting Swamp, but 、、、、 but 、、、、" "But what?" "But we have never seen the badge on it, is it a message from our people、、、、" "Don't talk nonsense and show it to me." ”

When he took the document and didn't see the contents, he saw a hideous thunder eagle pattern in the lower corner of the document, this pattern was very secretive, if people who hadn't seen it before, they couldn't see what it was, but Upton knew what this pattern meant, just glanced at Upton's anger and was instantly ignited, raised his hand and slammed the squire out of the fan, "Bastard thing, you dare to hide such an important thing and not report it, how many heads do you have?"