In the early morning of January 2, after Sun Lin and the 1st Echelon Column left, at 7 o'clock in the evening of the same day, the 2nd Echelon Column of Sunset, who had drunk a dinner at the last of the city of Riley, led the commander of the 2nd Echelon Bow Regiment of Sunset Longbow and another commander of the Sunset Column who had previously had a relationship with Sun Lin in the command hall of Lailey City, led the 2nd Echelon Column with almost the same number of troops and the same baggage equipment as the 1st Echelon Column taken by Sun Lin before, and embarked on the road that Sun Lin had moved forward before. The Imperial City of Mars marches.

Day 2, early morning on January 3rd. Another army with the same configuration as the first two echelon columns, called the 3rd Echelon Column of the Poison Needle Scheme, left Riley City under the leadership of the other two regiment commanders in the city, and advanced in the same direction as before. Then, at 7 p.m. on January 3, the 4th Echelon Column, which was the tail, also left Riley City under the leadership of Andelt, and their situation remained the same.

At this point, the 80,000 or so soldiers who participated in the Poison Needle Plan in Riley City finally left Riley City, leaving only one commander of the Sunset Regiment and more than 30,000 wounded soldiers in Riley City, resting and taking care of the more than 60,000 Mars prisoners.

On the other side, in the fortress of Sandona, the capital of the Sandona Lord's new 4 territories (Belle Territory, Sandona Territory, Yeku Territory, and Ecuadorian Territory) on the Northwest Continent of the Sunset, the Sunset Cavalry General Bobby also received a strategic message from Sun Lin with a war eagle.

"Poison needle plan............ Is it? Sure enough, this kind of trick can only be done by Sun Linmian? Bobby muttered as he threw the letter into the fireplace behind him, then got up from his comfortable seat and shouted out the door, "Adjutant? Where's Adjutant George? Tell him to come to me! ”

Not long after, after the sound of footsteps gradually became louder, a middle-aged man with some snowflakes and ice crystals on his head opened the door and walked in: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, are you calling me?" ”

"That's right, this time Sun Linmian sent a supreme order, asking all the officers and soldiers in the inland theater of our northwest continent to cooperate, George, did Sun Linmian send an order back to ask us to do the evacuation work and the task of clearing the wilderness with the strong wall and clearing?" Bobby said in a serious tone.

"Completed the commander-in-chief, all the inhabitants of the new 4th territory in the northwest inland have all moved to the rear of the two fortresses of Belle and Sandona and the twin cities of Yeku, and those towns and villages have been bulldozed by our engineers, and all the trap devices in the forest area behind the defense line have also been built, some of these devices can not even be avoided by the skilled lynx warriors in the Mars army, if the Mars soldiers intend to march here, Those trap devices can attrition at least 5000 non-combat. The middle-aged man named Adjutant George said confidently to Bobby after being asked about his previous tasks.

"Really? That's great news............. George, then you have a new mission for you to deal with, but again, I have one thing to ask you first, where are the 1st Heavy Cavalry Regiment and the 1st Auxiliary Cavalry Regiment of our Empire where the sun never sets? ”

"It is stationed 20 miles away from my southwestern defensive line, about an hour away from the Mars camp."

"Hmm......... George, I now ask you to give the order that all the Legions of the Sun Never Set on the line be relegated to the twin cities of Belol, Sandona, and Yeku, and as for Ecuador......... To be honest, the geographical location of this city is really a bit poor, if you fight a war of attrition, it will be a loss, when you give the order, let those commanders who are in that area watch it themselves, if you have the ability, retreat to Ecuador City, if you don't have the ability, it's no problem to retreat to the Sikalt checkpoint, how to retreat You should know, I only ask that when my subordinates go back again, they won't see any of the fortifications on the Mars side, and there are traces of our empire that the sun never sets, If necessary, you can have two cavalry units cooperate with this retreat mission. ”

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, if Sun Linmian gives an order at this time." Although the adjutant George's face changed several times as he listened, he finally nodded seriously and said to this Bobby.

"I know that your heart is full of doubts at this time, although I can't tell you Sun Lin's plan, but I can tell you what we are going to do now?" Bobby thought for a moment and said: "Our ultimate goal is only one, which is to drag down the more than 200,000 Mars soldiers in the inland theater of the northwest continent, and make them feel that they are capable of breaking through our defense line so that they can never leave this theater of operations, of course we will not let them really break through." It's just a matter of making them think that they have a chance to break through every attack, and we will have to do that until Sun Lin completes the strategic plan he has developed. ”

"Is that so?" Adjutant George breathed a sigh of relief: "Return to the original point, that is to say, His Majesty needs us to drag down the army of more than 200,000 Mars so that it cannot leave, right?" I understand that I will definitely complete the task of my crown. ”

In about a week after that, more than 10 Sunset Regiments, which were originally on the permanent defense belt established by their own side, and the Inland Theater of Operations on the Northwest Continent, under the command of Supreme Commander Bobby and his deputy commander George, were stationed in the two fortresses of Belle and Sandona and the Twin Cities of Yeku, respectively. So in the end, Mars's side did not leave a single soldier on whom the sun never set.

During this period, it is worth mentioning that under the consultation of several commanders of the Sunset Army, more than 50,000 officers and soldiers of about 3 regular professional regiments plus 1 militia regiment finally decided not to abandon Ecuador City in this strategy, risking the risk of logistics insecurity and besieging the Mars army on four sides. Bobby didn't say anything about the situation, but there were indications that after all the Sunset Legions had shrunk to the 4 leading cities, the two Sunset Cavalry Legions, which had been hidden again, did not shrink into the city together, but headed towards Ecuador City, and so far. The second step in the poison needle plan formulated by Sun Lin was also announced.

As for the third step, it actually began at around 3 a.m. on January 6 outside of a Mars checkpoint 600 miles outside of Riley, and the execution was carried out by the entire members of the 5th Heavy Infantry Regiment on which the sun never sets.