The guard officer looked at the commander he had followed for many years with embarrassment, and earnestly persuaded: "My lord, you haven't eaten all day today, your subordinates are really worried about your body, you can't break your body at this time as the commander of the forward of the legion!"

Duke Wiz smiled with relief and said, "Since the last time I led an army to fight against the tribes in the north, I noticed that the upper echelons of the Dao Empire generally looked down on the barbarians in the tribes, and their kings had learned hundreds of years of knowledge about the empire, so they were no longer the savages they used to be. ”

Duke Wiz smiled bitterly when he thought of this, and continued: "I used to be proficient in the art of war, and I didn't take the Snow Tribe in my eyes, who knew that they were not only fearless of death, but also knew how to arrange troops to ambush our army, our army really suffered heavy losses in the last battle, and I bear a lot of responsibility as the main general!"

This time the Empress has given me a chance to humiliate me, and now that I am in this similar environment, how can I be in the mood to eat!"

The guard officer remembered the tragic situation when the whole army was defeated before, and at that time he was lucky to pick up a life, and sighed deeply and persuaded: "My lord, we have always believed in you, you should eat quickly, you can win the battle when you are full, right? Our troops still have some surplus food, I will immediately ask the cook to cook a little food and distribute it to the soldiers." ”

"That's it!" Duke Wiz agreed, and when he saw his subordinates looking at him with hopeful eyes, he picked up his rice bowl and ate it.

Seeing this, the guard officer smiled with satisfaction, turned around and walked out of the tent and announced to the soldiers: "In order to let you eat well tonight, the Duke specially ordered me to give you more food, thank you for your generosity!"

The listless soldiers burst into cheers when they heard the good news of the meal. After eating a hot meal, the fatigue of traveling in the snow disappeared from their bodies, and the fighting spirit of the elite army was revealed from their bodies.

At the behest of Duke Wiz, the vanguard army formed a square barracks, surrounded by short branches, and set up some barbed horses and broken bricks outside the wall as a warning, and in case the non-commissioned officers and soldiers dug a deep ravine further away. There are also simple watchtowers around the camp, which are large enough for soldiers to climb into the towers to observe the environment.

After the complete defense was placed, the soldiers who had been busy all day entered the tents one after another, and soon fell asleep, and the sound of sound sleep was heard from the endless tents, leaving only the selected sentinels with excellent eyesight to guard the camp.

The night was like a black cloth blocking everyone's eyes, and in the darkness without the stars, even the sentinels with torches could not see too far, only the snowflakes were still falling in the wind. The waning moon hanging alone in the sky was gradually surrounded by floating clouds and dust at this time, and everything was quiet, and it was scary to be quiet at this time.

One of the sentries in the northwest corner of the camp was so sleepy that his eyelids were fighting, and he yawned and wanted to hang his head involuntarily, but the sentry who stayed beside him hit him and scolded: "Don't sleep!

The sleepy sentry suddenly became energetic, and said to his comrades with a smile: "I'm sorry! I don't know what's wrong, I'm very sleepy tonight, you know I'm a bit strange, and I'm very energetic at night." ”

Hearing this, the companion also yawned loudly, and said suspiciously: "It's strange to say, I want to sleep a little now, it's really strange!"

Even though the two of them felt that something was wrong and wanted to get up and fight hard, they couldn't stop the sleepiness in the end, and they both fell to the ground and fell asleep.

"Hehe, my lord, the humans here are too weak, and their subordinates only used two sleeping potions and they fell asleep, do you want to give my subordinates a credit?" A gnolll priest with strange herbs on his body looked at the gnoll chief who was larger next to him.

The gnoll chief patted him on the back and struck him out and reprimanded, "Give me a little quiet, if I expose the traces of our army, I will personally skin you!" The subordinate quickly nodded in obedience.

The gnoll chieftain's eyes glow green, and if he looks closely at the watchtower with torches, even if he does not have the blessing of Eagle Eye magic, the gnoll race with night vision can see things in the distance at night when he can't see his fingers.

When the Gnoll Chief confirmed that the sentries were all smitten, he let out a strange cry that meant an order to attack in the Gnoll population.

Countless green eyes appeared behind him as the order was given, salivating from the corners of their mouths, and they bent over the camp in front of them under the leadership of the chief.

At this time, such a scene was taking place on the lookouts around the camp, and the sleeping Imperial soldiers did not know that countless gnolls were rushing towards their camp at this time.