Heart of Empire Chapter 167: News of withdrawal

Dane's running plan is very urgent and very fast, and he dare not delay it.

The integrated Cormyr and Pure Swords amounted to almost a thousand people. Now, these thousand people are hurrying towards the due west. In front of them, General Morno must have received news about the orc army and must be preparing for it.

Now, the entire Eastern Expedition must come together! More than 4,000 orcs are chasing after them. If they don't quickly join Morno's main force and gather all the Eastern Expeditionary Forces together, it is impossible to compete with an enemy of this size.

In the previous battle, the reinforcements led by Dane suffered almost no losses. After their main melee force joined the battle, the orc army didn't last long at all, and quickly collapsed.

But the loss of Pure Sword is not small. There were more than 300 pure swordsmen. By the end of the battle, there were about 60 or 70 casualties, and only 250 swordsmen remained. The cannon fodder army of more than 200 people did not have many casualties, but there were many routs and even deserters who could not be gathered back. This number was almost a hundred. A pure sword mercenary regiment that was originally healthy had a bad luck and ran into the enemy's vanguard. After a fierce battle, there were only less than 400 of the more than 500 people left.

Delina's complexion has always been very bad, even if she is covered with a veil, Dane can see it from her eyes.

"Alas..." Dane didn't know how to comfort him. Those idle mercenaries would not be taken too seriously by Delina, but the casualties of sixty or seventy pure swordsmen are hard for women to accept.

After all, the family property of the Pure Sword Mercenary Group is only a small amount.

Delina said angrily: "Where did these orcs come from? Damn it, there is no sign at all!"

Dane asked curiously: "Could it be that Sword Falcon Knight didn't send you any news in advance?"

"No!" Alexandrina became even more annoyed when she heard Dane mentioning this: "The sword falcon knights who were supposed to be following me, for some reason, all day I didn’t show up! If it weren’t for the air cavalry assigned to you to patrol nearby, it is estimated that our entire army will be wiped out and no one will know!”

Hearing what Alexandrina said, Dane felt even more strange: "This... shouldn't be! I have been working with those sword falcon knights for some time. In my opinion, their quality It's not low, it's impossible to have such a situation where you don't report any news for a day..."

"How do I know what happened to them!" Delina was obviously still angry, but her words gave Dane a very bad idea.

To verify, he blew a whistle hanging around his neck. This thing was given to him by Sir Marin, the boss of the air cavalry. Blowing this whistle will emit a sound that cannot be heard by human ears, but can be heard by sword falcons, and it can travel a long distance. This thing is specially used by the ground troops to communicate with the air cavalry. Without this, wouldn't it be possible to communicate with the sword falcon knight flying two or three hundred meters in the air by shouting?

After a while, a sword falcon knight appeared above the army, circled twice, and landed beside Dane.

"Captain Dane, what are your orders?" This is a young knight with short chestnut-colored hair and some freckles on his face. He must not be more than twenty years old.

Dane recognized him, his name was Les, and he was one of the sword falcon knights assigned to follow him. Earlier, he was the one who wanted Dane to report about an army of orcs chasing after him.

Regardless of pleasantries, Dane directly told Alexandrina that the Sword Falcon Knight hadn't contacted her all day.

Rice also found it very strange: "This is absolutely abnormal. We are the most elite air fighters under Governor Ozer, and it is impossible for such a bad situation to happen."

"En." Dane nodded, then changed another topic and asked, "Tell me about the situation when you discovered those orc armies."

"I accepted your order before. When I scouted to the west, I saw a lot of smoke and dust. When I got closer, I found this orc army. We have been trained to estimate the number of enemies. Quite a lot of 4,000, and the troops are well prepared, and I saw a lot of wolf cavalry and archers. Since there are some bipedal dragons hovering above the enemy, I don't dare to get close and observe."

"Wait..." Dane suddenly stopped when he heard this. His face became a little dignified and he asked: "You said, you found a wyvern among the enemy troops?"

"En." Rice nodded and said, "Wyvern is the traditional air team of the orc army, and its combat strength is, to be honest, stronger than our Sword Falcon."

Dane gave a wry smile, turned his head and said to Delina: "It seems ~IndoMTL.com~ I have found the reason why those sword falcon knights who followed you have not heard from you all day."

Hearing this, Delina also understood: "You mean, my Sword Falcon Knight was wiped out by that orc army's Wyvern? This..."

From her appearance, one could tell that this woman had never thought about the possibility of this before.

She continued to ask: "Then how come so many orc troops suddenly appeared? Orcs with air cavalry... Things like wyverns are not easy to cultivate, right? Except for the three major clans, no one The tribe can still afford it. However, shouldn’t the main forces of the three nearby clans have gathered to fight against Governor Ou Ze under the Beast’s Blood Castle? How could they still pull out such a group of military forces?”

Rice couldn't answer that question, and neither could Dane. However, Dane had a guess in his mind, especially after he learned that there were biped wyverns in the enemy's army, he felt that his guess had basically come true.

He said: "Now, there are two possibilities. The first one is that the three major clans have hidden a force, but I don't really believe it. This is not in line with the habits of the orc clans when they conduct raids. and tradition.”

"Another possibility... These orcs are very likely to be the army under the Beast Blood Castle. The main force of the three major clans besieging the Beast Blood Castle has probably retreated."

This is almost the only possibility.

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