Chapter 2104: Inspecting Forestry Township
In Babrara City, the seat of the Southwestern Province Governor's Office, more than three hundred kilometers northeast of Mero City, the atmosphere was far more tense than usual.
Five days earlier, news of Mero City's fall had reached Babrara City. At first, people had paid little attention, believing the empire's great army would easily crush this brazen enemy.
Yesterday, however, another shocking report had arrived: the entire fifty-thousand-strong army the Governor's Office had dispatched to Mero City had been trapped there, with only its commander, Marquis Dinatalai, escaping alone.
The news immediately sent the people of Babrara City into a panic.
Mero City's fall could still be blamed on the imperial soldiers' carelessness and underestimation of their enemy, but the fifty thousand reinforcements sent by the Governor's Office were elite troops of the Southwestern Province. Now even they had all been trapped in Mero City.
Were these enemies really that powerful?
"No, Your Grace. This enemy is far stronger than you imagine." Marquis Dinatalai looked at Duke Charles, Governor of the Southwestern Province, sitting opposite him, and added gravely, "Not only were the fifty thousand reinforcements I led no match for them, I believe even mobilizing every soldier in our province would do nothing against them."
Duke Charles stared at Marquis Dinatalai with a grim expression for a long time, a trace of astonishment still lingering in his eyes.
If he had not known Marquis Dinatalai for years and understood his character so well, knowing that he was neither someone who spoke recklessly nor a useless fool who exaggerated to conceal his own failures, he would never have believed those words.
What a joke!
The annihilation of Mero City's thirty-thousand-strong garrison was one thing, but now even the full fifty thousand crack troops he had