A few hours later.

Phoenix's adjutant brought 5,000 soldiers who took off their armor and came to the dark forest and began to successfully cut down the towering ancient trees in the dark forest with axes and saws.

Some of these trees have grown for thousands of years, while some have even lived for tens of thousands of years. The trunks are very thick, so the work of cutting down is also very hard.

According to Phoenix's plan, these 5,000 people only need to work for 5 hours. After 5 hours, they can rotate back and rest, and then replace the next batch of 5,000 people. After the next batch of 5,000 people can work for 5 hours, they will replace the next batch of 5.

In this way, after four batches, the dark forest can almost be cut down.

This plan can be said to be good...if their opponent is not the Dragon Slayer.

The first group of soldiers worked tirelessly for two hours. Just as they were about to take a break in the middle, they suddenly shot a long arrow deep in the dark forest!

A soldier was shot on the foot and screamed loudly.

The adjutant was shocked and quickly ordered everyone to dodge.

But soon reality fell like a heavy rain, and behind the coalition soldiers was the dark forest that had been cut off by them, without any cover at all.

Many soldiers were shot in the thighs and blood was flowing all over the floor.

The adjutant's shoulder was also shot. He could not organize a counterattack, so he could only wait for the 5,000 soldiers to retreat in a panic.

They retreated back to the Watch Castle in one breath and asked Phoenix for reinforcements.

Phoenix immediately rushed to the dark forest with 5,000 soldiers who were urgently summoned. However, when they arrived, there was no trace of the dark forest.

"Damn it! Carlyle City is so hateful!" The adjutant covered his injured shoulder and cursed fiercely.

"Sir, their number should not be large. If we catch up now, we should be able to kill them all!" the adjutant suggested.

Phoenix shook his head, "No, the woods in front have not been cut down. If we go deeper, the monster spider will rush up."

"What should we do? Just suffer such a loss?" the adjutant said angrily.

Phoenix sighed faintly, "I'm afraid I'm going to find Lord Faramir for this matter."

The adjutant asked, "Then will we continue to cut down?"

Phoenix thought for a while and then said, "Wait first, otherwise we will be attacked by the people from Carlyle again."

"Yes! Everyone goes back and wait for the news!"

The coalition's large forces retreated immediately.

Earl William, hiding in the dark forest, couldn't help but laugh in a low voice: "This group of people is really cowardly. We are only 100 people, but they have tens of thousands of people. They dare not fight forward."

The knight next to him asked, "Sir, what should we do now?"

Earl William thought for a while and said, "Leave 5 fast people, continue to investigate here, and the rest will go back and rest with me."

"yes!"

Immediately, the five knights stayed, while the other knights followed Earl William back to Carlyle City and reported to Xu Feng.

After Xu Feng heard the news, he couldn't help but frown and asked, "Retreat? Why do I feel that the commander against me seems to be very bad. I thought there would be some thrilling scenes in this duel. Now it seems that I may overestimate my opponent."

Earl William smiled and said, "Isn't that just right? Let's just kill them and sneak attack their Watch Castle!"

Xu Feng thought for a while, "If they had been so weak, we would have a chance, but for now, we should wait and see and find a better opportunity."

"Yes," said Count William.

Xu Feng said, "Okay, go and rest. You have been tired for a day. If there is anything to do at night, I will ask Captain Mino to do it."

Earl William hurriedly said, "No, no! Lord Dragon Slayer! I am not tired at all! If there is anything to do at night, you should come to me!"

Xu Feng smiled and said, "Go to have a good rest. Only by resting well can you have more energy to achieve success."

"Yes..." Earl William shook his head helplessly. He only hoped that there would be no action on the Watch Castle at night, otherwise he would have missed his merits.

On the other hand, after counting the number of casualties, Phoenix hurried to the temporary military camp.

The two guards guarding the temporary barracks immediately frowned as soon as they saw Phoenix.

"What? Lord Phoenix, you've been defeated again in less than 5 hours?" One of the guards asked without hesitation.

Phoenix wiped the sweat from his forehead helplessly and said with embarrassment: "It's not a failure, it's not a failure... I have some small questions about tactics and want to ask to see Lord Faramir. Please ask the two guards to inform me again. Thank you!"

He was clearly the commander of the coalition army and held 20,000 troops in his hand, but in front of these two guards, he looked like he nodded and bowed.

The guard sighed helplessly, "Okay, for the sake of the coalition brothers, I will inform you again, but the same thing is true. If Lord Faramir doesn't see you, it's nothing to do with me."

"Yes, yes, I'm here to help the guard." Phoenix nodded and said with a bow.

The guard then walked into the camp and reported to Faramir about the situation outside.

Faramir was a little surprised, "What? So fast? Then you hurry up and let him in!"

"Yes." The guard turned around and left, walked to the gate of the barracks, and said to Phoenix: "You are lucky. Lord Faramir is willing to see you, so you can go in."

"Thank you!" Phoenix nodded and walked in.

After entering the camp, Phoenix quickly saluted Faramir, "Sir Faramir... I'm sorry! I'm disturbing!"

Faramir frowned and said, "It's time, so I won't use these false things anymore. Tell me, what happened, haven't you gone to cut down trees?"

Phoenix smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, I sent 5,000 people to cut trees, and then in 5 hours, another batch of 5,000 people can be replaced. In this way, the dark forest should be cut down after 4 batches. However, when our first batch of 5,000 people went to cut trees, we actually encountered archers from Carlyle City. The 5,000 people were attacked by the Archer Gate. Because they did not carry combat weapons and equipment, they had to escape. When I brought reinforcements to support, the archers who attacked us were all withdrawn."

Faramir frowned and said, "Sure enough... this is the rhythm of Lord Dragon Slayer. We can't win or win."
Chapter completed!