After briefly scanning the content of the official documents, Hudson's emotions were an emotional rollercoaster.
The Orcs were damming the river upstream, intending to use the opportunity of the snowmelt-caused floodwaters to deliver a "flooding of seven armies."
Fortunately, the commander at the frontline wasn't an idiot. After noticing irregularities in the river water level, he immediately dispatched scouts to investigate the upstream region.
In the Extraordinary World, a large-scale operation such as damming a river would clearly be impossible to keep entirely secret. Moreover, the Orc Empire riddled with internal conflicts was inherently a leaky sieve.
After analyzing the collected intelligence, the garrison quickly deduced the Orcs' strategic objective.
"Steward, send someone into the palace to inform His Majesty the King: there is a change at the frontline; the Orcs are about to launch a new round of attacks. I need to return to the Near East to command the war!"
