Chapter 1087 The Difference Between Victory and Defeat

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When Anna walked into the underground temporary headquarters, the atmosphere in the room seemed quite heavy.

Seeing her arrival, everyone stood up, bowed their heads and saluted her, "I have met Your Highness!"

Iron Ax knelt down on one knee and said, "I frightened you. I failed to see through the enemy's trick and was caught off guard by the devil. This is my subordinate's dereliction of duty. I am really sorry."

"You don't have to be like this," Anna waved her hand. "Just treat me as an ordinary person who cares about the war. I just came here to ask about the situation. This attack... are everyone okay?"

Although she became a queen, she was still a little uncomfortable facing such an occasion, especially when she saw Wendy, Agatha and others also saluting 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 sisters in the alliance.

And this time the camp was attacked. Compared to the moment when the battle started, when she was surrounded by the God's Punishment Witch and the escort and sent to the underground bunker, she wanted to fight with everyone, just like the Demon Moon before.

But Anna knew that since she accepted this identity, some things had to be kept in her heart.

She just hoped that her appearance would make everyone feel at ease.

Iron Ax hesitated for a rare moment, "Your Highness, the situation is not very good."

"Can you tell me?"

"Of course, we were just discussing this issue." He looked at Philin Silt, who nodded and opened the notepad in his hand.

"The current statistics reported by the medical team show that more than 200 people of the First Army were killed in the night attack, and nearly 700 people were injured." Dawn Dawn said solemnly.

"However, due to limited time, this is only the roughest statistics. The actual number of casualties will definitely increase further. After all, Miss Nanava... cannot take care of so many injuries."

The loss of more than two hundred people was second only to the loss in the Church War. And that was a decisive battle related to the fate of both sides. This was only the first battle after the Northern Expedition. The First Army was still a long way away from the ruins of Taqila.

No wonder Iron Ax was having trouble meeting him.

Anna had seen the scene in the wounded barracks. Soldiers covered in blood were lying on the ground in a row. The air was filled with the thick smell of blood and endless groans of pain. With Nana's magic power, it was impossible to heal all the wounded in one go. Serious injuries such as broken limbs and ruptured internal organs could only heal five or six people in a day. Therefore, if you want to save more people, you must save your magic power and use it on the most critical parts.

For example, for patients whose chests and lungs were punctured or whose intestines were slashed, only fatal wounds on their organs were healed. If the problem is not serious, the medical team will be responsible for suturing the epidermis after drinking purified water; if the problem is serious, the wound will be left open until the next day for further treatment. During this period, the potion mixed with sleeping ferns and winter flowers was used to make the seriously injured survive the severe pain. As for whether everyone can survive until the next day, or the drug may have addictive properties similar to dream water, it is unclear It is no longer a problem that the medical team can take care of.

In such a depressing environment, it is not easy to accurately distribute magic power to the parts that are in urgent need of treatment. It is hard to imagine that the little girl who once studied and read with her and became dizzy when seeing blood has now grown to this point.

"I will advise His Majesty Roland and try my best to persuade Ms. Speer, Marquis of Falling Dragon Ridge, to support the front line," Anna slowly replied, "With her here, the medical team can save more people. By the way, How did the devil approach the camp so quietly?”

"I think... the enemy should have taken advantage of the blind spot of the magic eye." Sylvie looked a little frustrated. "I was probably just testing my detection range by sending the terrifying beasts before, but I was completely unaware of this..."

"We should have thought of it first," Agatha blamed herself. "After the Battle of Wangbei Slope, the devils were aware of Sylvie's existence. It was through our alert response that those terrifying beasts judged the power of magic. The approximate distance between the eyes. Then the army gathered at the farthest edge and launched a sneak attack on us as night fell. The time chosen happened to be the node where Tower No. 1 Station had just fallen, and it was also the moment when the camp's defense was weakest."

"That being said, it's not anyone's fault." Dawn Dawn comforted, "If you want to deceive the enemy, you have to deliberately turn a blind eye to the approach of the terrifying beast. But this in itself goes against the usual training, even if the enemy is known in advance To do this, it would be difficult to disguise thousands of soldiers and more ordinary workers perfectly. In other words, the enemy will try to get out of this distance sooner or later. Even if he does not set an ambush at Tower 1, he will set up an ambush at Tower 2. , Tower No. 3 station is waiting for us."

"If I remember correctly, the spider demon's shooting range should be about two to three kilometers, and its crawling speed is slow. The time from outside Sylvie's field of vision to entering the shooting range is not short. Could it be that it was not discovered just because Any luck?" Anna asked puzzledly, "I don't know much about marching and fighting. If I'm wrong, please don't mind that the First Army has its own investigation methods, right? For example, Chang Sheng in the camp hydrogen balloon."

"Your observations are really meticulous, Your Highness." Iron Ax stroked his chest, "To put it simply, the wartime intelligence sources of the First Army are divided into three levels. Except for Sylvie, Lightning and Miss Maisie, the last one The first layer is the army itself. But when facing the devil, this layer can only be used as a supplement and emergency."

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

That is, no matter whether it has two legs or four legs, it can't outrun the terrifying beast with a pair of wings.

This means that once a certain distance is exceeded, the investigators basically have no chance of returning, let alone sending back news, and even saving their lives is a luxury. The terrifying beasts that can hide in the clouds and wait for opportunities have an absolute advantage. Coupled with the flat terrain of the fertile plain, it is almost like an eagle hunting chickens.

This resulted in the third-level intelligence circle being greatly compressed. Even the assistant Sylvie could not fly. The devil could enter the detection range of the magic eye at any time and hunt down the soldiers in the outer circle, but our own side had no rescue capability at all.

A word appeared in Anna's mind involuntarily.

A word that Roland often mentioned with a complicated look on his face.

Air superiority.

Only the party with air superiority can truly take the initiative in the war.

In addition, he will also say some words with unknown meaning, such as black ribbon, Akiyama and so on...

Anna shook her head and suppressed these distracting thoughts, "If this explanation is followed, the Spider Demon should have entered the third-level warning range at that time... Was it because of the night?"

"Poor visibility at night is just one of the reasons, Your Highness," it was Philin Silt who answered her. "According to the staff's subsequent analysis... I'm afraid those deformed monsters were waiting for us there from the beginning."

Anna blinked in surprise, "You mean... they were buried in the ground in front of our route beforehand?"

"Yes, this can explain why those behemoths appeared within the shooting range almost silently." Felin said with a solemn expression, "I asked Miss Sylvie about the scanning ability of penetrating obstacles. The magic power consumption will be greatly increased, and the range will be greatly reduced. Now that I think about it, in addition to testing, those terrifying beasts are also attracting Miss Sylvie's attention. As long as they keep monitoring the sky, they will not have the magic power to take into account the changes underground. "

Is that why the devil can hit every corner of the camp so accurately at night?

If it is still versus still, the difficulty will indeed drop a lot, and the black screen that Sylvie saw should not be concealing the location, but covering the moment when the spider demon crawled out of the ground.

The enemy not only responded quickly to the First Army's combat methods and intentions, but was also extremely proficient in the use of magic. The thought of fighting such an opponent was indeed extremely tricky.

No wonder the atmosphere in the headquarters is so heavy.

This is not a good trend.

What would Roland do if he were here?

When Anna was about to give everyone a few words of encouragement, Edith suddenly giggled.

"Why, it's obviously a big victory, but you all feel like you've suffered a defeat?" She shrugged, "Did I go to the wrong room?"

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