The movements of tens of thousands of troops could not be hidden, as early as when they first stepped out of the castle, there were roadside eyeliners who quickly reported their movements along the road to Zhou Dong who was far away in the Vortex Mountains.

The army of 24,000 men consisted of 2,000 cavalry, 5,000 600 archers, 13,000 500 infantry, and the remaining 5,000 were made up of scouts, slingers, mages, and logisticians.

The army marched for half a day, and first stopped for a while at Zazesibo, where the soldiers could rest and eat, so as to recuperate themselves for the first attack on the mountain in the afternoon.

The unexpected, though, happened.

Fires broke out in many parts of the city, and the fire developed so badly that the generals of most of the Tasselburg soldiers stationed outside the city had no choice but to quickly send their men to help.

All these actions have been passed back to Zhou Dong's mind in the eyes of the eagle hovering overhead.

Zazespor is also the fringe area covered by his mental network, which is just the right time to stop bothering those eyeliners to report in inefficient language, and can directly use multiple pairs of eyes to see.

Gain time, and with every little more time, his win rate will be a little higher.

Because Zhou Dong knows very well that he has many methods, if he is given a month to arrange, Zhou Dong can ensure that the team of 24,000 people is like the deceived laborers queuing up to go to the black coal mine.

The firefighting and relief delayed the army for several hours, so they had to suspend their plans for today's attack, because they did not want to get dark within a few hours after entering the mountains, where dawn and darkness are completely different environments.

After nightfall, as the commander of the attack, Laugardorn sent out a few small scouts, and found that after a long time, they had not sent any news back, as if he had thrown gold into the sea, and his decision was extremely stupid, which made his face very ugly when he asked General Bourne for the fourth time.

General Bourne lost dozens of his men, and he was also secretly angry at this time, although his intelligence department only had more than 900 people, but each of them was carefully trained by him.

However, no matter how carefully Byrne trained these scouts, the anti-detection ability of these scouts was far inferior to Zhou Dong, and they only showed some flaws, and they were discovered by Zhou Dong, who had been paying attention to the scouts' actions, and they were all arrested.

Compared with their annoyance, Zhou Dong was surprised.

I was surprised that the other party's stupidity was able to make such a low-level mistake, but it was not because the scout's reconnaissance failed and he was captured, but what happened in Zazespor.

Zhou Dong didn't stay in the Vortex Mountains now, he had already lurked here with his men in advance when this army set off in the morning.

The fire was set by some cannon fodder goblins, and they were killed, caught, or burned to death after they were finished.

Then, after the restoration, he disguised himself as a victim of the city, and in the evening gratefully invited the higher-ranking officers to dinner, and brought out the treasured dwarven wine.

What surprised Zhou Dong was that several of the officers actually drank alcohol, which made him deeply doubt the real strategy of this army, regardless of whether there was a strict rule in military discipline that alcohol should not be drunk during the march, and this should be the basic quality of soldiers...... However, the other party is an officer, so Zhou Dong also feels that this surprise is actually acceptable, after all, most of the officers are not soldiers.

Regardless, it's a good thing for the Castle Daystar side.

With the psychic beacon that was easily implanted in their minds while they were drunk and had no ability to resist, Zhou Dong could easily know most of the strategic plans and tactical arrangements of this army, and had already gained a great advantage in information warfare.

In the wars of the Middle Ages or the wars of the ancient era, the right time and place and the right generals and soldiers were the five most important factors, but the degree of use of all factors depended on information.

The professional course of information warfare has only been actively developed in modern and modern times, due to the convenient means of communication that radar and telephones can instantly travel thousands of miles, and later after the development of computers, most of the high-end weapons are equipped with weapon fire control systems, most of which are installed on large or sophisticated equipment such as aircraft, armored vehicles, warships, and other platforms, and are the general term for the equipment that controls the automatic targeting and launching of shooting weapons, and it is needless to say that there are also unmanned aerial vehicles and intelligent driving.

In the 21 st century, as in the original world, the importance of victory or defeat in network information warfare is self-evident, and as long as the opponent's network is successfully intruded, it is easy to imagine whether it is to learn all kinds of confidential internal information of the opponent from the network, or to directly manipulate the computer system of the opponent's firepower weapons and make them turn against the other side.

And the grasp of information was actually as important in the Middle Ages as it was in the ancient era.

For example, as far as the time of day is concerned, in the original world, there are official historical records of the Three Kingdoms period, the commander of the Battle of Chibi was Zhou Yu, and the east wind is a natural phenomenon on the Yangtze River.

This is a typical use of time, but it is fundamentally because of the use of information and the asymmetry of information that hit Cao Jun.

Zhou Yu's side knows when the east wind will rise, and the speed of the ship borrowing the wind is huge, and many things can be done by making good use of this, but the Cao army does not have such talents, and cannot grasp such information, one side knows how to use such time information, and the other side does not know how to use such time information, so it leads to the fact that Cao's army is strong but because of insufficient information, the other party turns the information they do not know into battlefield advantages, and thus wins a big victory.

Not to mention the geographical factors, there is no need to use the terrain of various classic battles, just use the simplest hunter's traps and prey, hunters arrange traps, hunt large fierce beasts like tigers, leopards and bears, these fierce beasts can often kill more than a dozen hunters at a time, but in the hunter uses the traps arranged in advance, but a hunter can easily kill these tigers, leopards and bears, this is also the asymmetry of information, the hunter knows where the trap is placed, and the prey does not know, and is lured into the trap, This is also a typical practical advantage of information transformation.

Zhou Dong's confidence in victory now also comes from information superiority, and he wants to teach these arrogant Faren humans a new lesson in the concept of modern information warfare.

Since the route of the march was completely exposed by Zhou Dong's new spies, this army of 10,000 people in Fort Tesserburg did not know that there were various traps being laid out on their route.