When Desay's carriage drove into the residence of the Duke of Rivoli (Marcedes Marséna), a disheveled lieutenant colonel officer ran out of the building and rushed to greet him.

"General, the marshal is still resting in the room!" Massena's adjutant told Duke Hruna apologetically.

Desai frowned. It was because he smelled the smell of alcohol from the lieutenant colonel. He cursed in his heart that it was such a group of bad guys. The marshal was a pervert, drunkard, and a rich fan. His lieutenant was not much better. In addition to being full of alcohol and being disheveled in the army, there was a pink scarf hidden in the lieutenant colonel's underwear pocket, which should have been the spoiled after the fun last night.

The unhappy Duke ordered the marshal's adjutant, "According to the old rules on the battlefield, I will give you five minutes to prepare a big poke of hot water. Well, it will be placed in the center of the hall of the building." As he said that, the Duke waved his whip and knocked off the woman's thing in the lieutenant colonel's pocket, and then threatened fiercely, "Damn bastard, if I find your shameless quirk again, I don't mind sending you to the military court. Of course, it is for insulting the chief, do you understand?"

"I understand, understand!" The lieutenant colonel was frightened. After rushing to salute, he quickly turned around and arranged the matter. Because the adjutant knew that Duke Desai's words were never a threat that was verbally threatened. In fact, even Marshal Massena was afraid of General Desai's three-pointer. If he hesitated for a while, he might be forced to retire by the military court.

When the soldiers kept adding hot water to the wooden barrels placed in the center of the hall, Desai ordered the two guards of Duke Rivoli to lift Marshal Massena directly from the head of the bedroom bed.

"But the marshal won't let anyone in. He will kick our butt with his horse boots!" a soldier complained in a low voice.

"Because there is an Italian bauble inside, with a beautiful face, a good figure, and a more charming breast!" another soldier added lustfully.

"Okay, okay, 30 francs per person, compensate you for your cute ass!" Desay waved his hand and asked Captain Penduwas to take out the coins.

Money can make it easier for soldiers to work hard.

A minute later, the first exclamation of the Italian lady came from the bedroom on the second floor. Desai believed that it must be the lustful guy who stretched out his hand and took the opportunity to take advantage of the Baroness. Then, Marshal Massena shouted and scolded continuously, and he was heard in his ears until he was naked and was carried downstairs by two soldiers and threw him into a wooden barrel full of hot water.

"You flies, scoundrels, bastards! Oh, you want to burn your commander to death!" The one-eyed marshal moaned in pain in the hot water bucket.

However, Massena's roar made the onlookers laugh. In the messy hall, everyone didn't care about the angry expression of the naked-body marshal, and they started to make fun one after another, but Desai was serious and serious. Then, he signaled the marshal's adjutant holding the brush to come forward and rinse the Italian drunkard in the barrel.

Before 1791, the carefree and rude man was just an inconspicuous retired sergeant. Andre Massena, a descendant of Italian shipworker, had worked as a waiter. After retirement, he became a smuggler who killed and plundered. He once ran into the hands of Old Desai (the colonel at the time). If it weren't for Old Desai's pity for Massena's difficult life, he immediately asked the judge to exempt him from military service, the skilled strategist and talented tactician might have stayed in a place without any light.

Marshal Massena, with a fat face, was not handsome, had a hooked nose, a slightly hunched back, a vulgar personality and a loud voice. Two years ago, Napoleon's accidental injury caused him to lose one of his eyes, making the 52-year-old Marshal's appearance even more ugly.

However, women like him, especially those ladies who are lazy and tempted. In addition to Massena's excellent bed skills, the marshal also likes to tempt them with plundered shiny gold coins or precious gems. This is the tradition taught by the emperor to the marshals.

Napoleon once commented on his marshals, believing that Massena made the greatest contribution. He was as strong as a fire, and could move forward bravely in battle and strive for victory at all costs. However, more people criticized Massena for lacking management skills and not caring about military discipline. However, both officers and soldiers loved this one-eyed marshal who seemed vulgar but was extremely kind.

In addition, another problem of Marshal Massena is that he often lacks careful consideration when attacking, especially his greed is even more criticized. For money and women, Marshal One-Eyed, steals, and robs, and robs, without any politeness. "Massena always charges in robbing wealth and pleasing women, just like in war."

However, overall, Desai admires Massena's personality. Although every time the two met, almost the young generals were becoming "bullying" the old marshal.

Finally, Marshal Massena, who had finished washing, narrowed his eyes and recognized the culprit of the whole incident. He shouted and cursed again: "Damn Andrew, you are like your father, a bastard noble who likes to tease people!"

"You are also a member of the bastard noble, Duke of Rivoli!" Desai began to respond with a smile. "Our emperor doesn't like anyone being late, although he always likes to be late! So, we only have 15 minutes."

Indeed, Desai pulled the marshal with only underwear into his carriage, allowing the latter to wear the marshal's uniform and the imperial ordinance representing the identity of the duke and prince in full view of the public.

At 12:56 noon, the carriage delivered the two to the Duille Palace.

After handing over the pistol and carrying sword, a royal servant led Marshal Massena and General Desay to the living room of the little waiter. This is only a wall away from Napoleon's office. If you listen carefully, you will notice the sound of men and women playing opposite the wall.

"Our emperor is playing with women too!" Massena yawned casually, complaining that Desay had disrupted his precious sleep time.

"That's the Queen, Princess Louise of the Kingdom of Austria!" Desai whispered to correct the marshal's wrong words.

Massena's fingers on the golden gilded wall, and began to talk nonscrupulously, "Okay, I admit, it's the second Austrian queen. The previous one went to the guillotine, and now this one..."

Desai quickly blocked the marshal's big mouth with his military cap until the old guy widened his one-eyed eyes and promised not to swear anymore. The young man let go.

"I don't like her, nor do I like the emperor's appointment!" Massena said, and after closing his eyes, he stopped talking.

Marshal Massena, who was determined to retire and return to the field and live happily for a few years in his old age, was unwilling to go to Spain at all because he was tired of the bloody war on the Iberis Peninsula.

From the veterans of Spain and Portugal, Marshal Massena heard many rumors that captured priests were dug up their eyes and tongues, some were castrated to death, and some were cut off their fingers, arms or legs. The Spanish even clamped the priests with two wooden boards and sawed them off with a saw; some were buried deep in the shoulders, allowing them to die slowly; some were hung upside down on the fire, causing their heads to be barbecued by flames; and another general was thrown into a large pot by the Spanish and cooked alive into a shrimp-like shape. It was a terrible nightmare.

Of course, there are exceptions. For example, the little guys around him, Andrew and Desay lived in the Iberis Peninsula as if they were very comfortable. Not only did they successfully drive away two immediate bosses (General Saint-Sil and Marshal Ogero), they formed a private guard with almost all military forces, and even his fief expanded from the barren Dominion of Hruna to the entire Catalonia region and the Northern Aragon region.

What's even more incredible is that the Spaniards who lived by the Mediterranean seemed very happy to accept the rule of the Duke of Little Desay, and the rebellious forces in their jurisdiction disappeared. The "Humanitarian Shield" operation at the beginning of the month was simply a way to lead the way - the party's contribution, and it took almost a shot and a bullet to capture the North Aragon region.

Of course, Massena also knew about the various kind deeds that captured people's hearts in Gruna, Barcelona, ​​and the entire Catalonia. The old marshal could not learn these, and might not be willing to imitate them. In his simple and practical life philosophy, money should be plundered, invested in a manor, stored in a bank, or spread on a woman's belly.

However, when Napoleon appointed Marshal Massena as commander of the Portuguese Legion, he thought of Desai immediately and hoped that the Desai division would act with him. However, Napoleon told Marshal Massena that as early as the resolution at the beginning of the year, Desai's troops were under the command of Marshal Sirte, but the emperor agreed to dispatch the Desai division and give the Portuguese legion strong support in the direction of the rear wing.

The so-called military convention was held at the Duille Palace today, which was nothing more than the emperor's formal delivery of combat missions. Napoleon's habit was to directly issue orders to the generals and marshals on the front line, and he was tireless to tell them every combat step and expected result. Since the 5th year ago, Massena, who was used to mastering the battlefield and controlling the allocation of troops, refused to fight for Napoleon again on the grounds of recuperation of old injuries. Until the Second Austrian-French War, the old marshal had no wallet to keep his mistress, and had to accept the appointment of the Army Department, come out again, and continue to work for the emperor.

Marshal Massena despised Napoleon and the emperor's newlywed wife in his heart; Desai did not like the Austrian queen very much, and he also criticized the overly pretentious Princess Louise next door, believing that Napoleon was just her belly and the super fertility of the Habsburg family.

Not long ago, Prince Eugen wrote a letter to the Desai brothers, saying that Mary Louise expressed jealousy and sensitivity to the former queen, and actually asked Napoleon to exile Josephine and take back the castle of Mamasson, the emperor gave to the former queen. After learning this news, the Duke of Desai naturally stood on Prince Eugen's position, resented and rude Ollidi, and refused to salute the queen in public.

What made the marshals and generals even more dissatisfied was that the Austrian queen always interfered in Napoleon's military itinerary and used various excuses to prevent the emperor from going to Spain to resolve the tense situation on the Iberian Peninsula.

In fact, Desai also agreed with the Paris Monitor’s view: Only Napoleon personally led the army for the second time can mobilize all the living forces on the peninsula, encircle and annihilate the British Expeditionary Force, or drive them into the sea, and completely resolve the stalemate battle between Spain and Portugal... Otherwise, the sanction of this peninsula war can only hope for a miracle to happen!
Chapter completed!