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As the first Spanish officer to take the initiative to surrender to the Duke of Hruna, Jose Passel's rank is not high and he is not a civilian of a traditional aristocratic status. However, he was able to successfully control the Intelligence Department, one of the core departments of the Military Intelligence Bureau. His status is second only to the Director of Colonel Sernel. His identity seems to be unremarkable, but he has real power.

In a series of policy plans after Duke Hruna took over Catalonia, Desai has been trying his best to win over the traditional local aristocracy, but in addition to economic and religious aspects, he rarely gave these people important positions in military and political positions. Instead, Major Passel, who was a descendant, seemed to be more favored and valued, and was able to walk next to the duke during his expedition to Portugal.

In the eyes of many discerning people, except Miss Litisia, the Catalan who can be regarded as a close confidant by Duke Gruna is the only one who is the only one. There have been rumors that after the end of the Third Portuguese War, Passel will withdraw from the Military Intelligence Agency and serve as the supreme commander of a certain supervision department of the Catalonia-Aragorn Kingdom.

In this regard, Passel neither admits nor denies it, and always maintains a good attitude of being calm. As a senior intelligence officer, Passel knows too much of the core secrets of the superiors, which makes him more cautious in his actions and walk on thin ice. No matter how the outside world exaggerates, everything he has to do now is to be the intelligence officer of Duke Hruna.

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When Desai saw three red feathers inserted in the upper left corner of the folder in Passel's arms, he received a few words from Lieutenant Colonel Deva, and signaled the major to go back to the second floor room to discuss intimidation. The three red feathers were used by the Military Intelligence Bureau to identify emergency situations.

"His Excellency Duke, this is the intelligence stations of the Military Intelligence Bureau in Cadiz and Lisbon, and the latest information is transmitted respectively!" Entering the command post, Major Passel made a brief description while handing over the detailed information.

But Desai waved his hand and signaled to his intelligence officer to tell him oral.

Passel continued to state: "In the Embassy of Cadiz, Sir Wells, the British Foreign Secretary, has privately persuaded the 15,000 Spanish regular troops commanded by General Geista and the 30,000 guerrillas led by Dias to form an alliance with the British and Portuguese coalition forces, accept the same command of the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and ambush the Portuguese border between Portuguese and Spain, and harass our army, especially the supply and supplies... Among them, the Spanish army led by General Geista will join the eastern defense line and cooperate with General Bellsford's coalition forces; as for the guerrillas led by Dias, their target of harassment will be the main force of the Portuguese army commanded by Marséna."

"Oh, it's Gesta!" Desai smiled disapprovingly. He knew the Spanish general too well, arrogant, often defeated general, and an old bastard who regarded personal hatred more than national hatred and was willing to protect himself. In the Battle of Talawel last year, it was because General Gesta deliberately did not rescue, which made thousands of British wounded soldiers become French prisoners of war.

Since the "Bailan Battle" flashed, the regular Spanish troops loyal to the Cadiz government have never won a real military victory in the repeated battles with the French army. It is not that the Spanish soldiers who serve the country are not brave, but that their generals are mostly a group of wine bags, not to mention their own weight, but that they only care about plundering people's wealth and ointment in the territory they control. They are not as good as the guerrillas led by Dias, who are known as the most outstanding guerrilla warrior in Europe and have won the title of "resolute".

If Wellington sent the difficult Dias guerrillas to haunt his rear, Desai would naturally feel a headache and would never be so relaxed. However, if he was facing a pig-like opponent, he would not have to be nervous.

Desai then smiled and said, "Gesta will never send troops to aid the British. If I remember correctly, the information you collected mentioned that his two sons died at the hands of Nelson in the Battle of Trafalgar. We only need to dispatch a small number of troops to guard against the Spanish general who was watching from the wall. The only troublesome thing is the enemy's more than 3,000 cavalry."

However, Major Passel did not cater to the optimism of the superiors. He calmly said to the Duke of Desai: "In fact, there is another more difficult problem. Just last night, soldiers from the Northern Aragon regiment created a massacre in the town of Montijo, where many of them were friends of Gesta's relatives. I think the Spanish general had enough revenge and would fight us to death."

"Damn Mardan, why didn't this bastard restrain his soldiers!" Desai was furious after hearing this, and then furious. He waved his fists angrily and knocked on the desk table. Not only did the desk documents fly to the ground, but the officers in the entire building felt frightened and did not dare to breathe.

Killing in the war is inevitable. In fact, Desai didn't care much about the life and death of foreigners. How many people were just a number on paper. However, a massacre against civilians without permission would make the affinity acts he had carried out in southern Spain's towns and the good reputation he intended to create among civilians. After all, the Desai division would rush to the Portuguese battlefield to win the victory, rather than entangled in the encirclement and suppression of Spanish mobs.

After a burst of anger, Desai shouted at the innocent intelligence officer: "Where is the report of the military police?"

Major Passel quickly scattered the documents from the floor, and quickly found two yellow books from the military police, and handed them back to the Duke of Hruna for review.

Desai, who was deserted again, sat on the chair and read Major Pochi's statement one by one. Desai sneered and swept past with a sneer. But soon, he keenly noticed a trace of conspiracy from the detailed records of the military police, and felt that there were too many suspicions in it.

First of all, in the past two years, these Spanish townspeople who have experienced countless French invasions and robberies, were obviously too idiotic and impulsive. They even hit rocks with eggs when the number of people is not superior. Almost unarmed civilians challenged the regular army armed to the teeth, not to mention that there are more than 20,000 French-army nearby as support;

Secondly, the violent behavior of the townsmen in public killing Catholic priests is also incredible and does not conform to the usual style of the Spanish. Moreover, after a melee, the investigation report of the gendarmerie actually ignored the traces of the rural priests who talked about the devil and the murderer who killed the priests of the army.

Finally, the details returned to the details. At the scene of the murder of five Northern Aragon soldiers, the Spanish mob actually used iron nails to nail the dead soldiers to the door panel of the barn, rather than wooden nails. This was by no means the usual "punishment" method of Catholics to the demon accomplices, and it was more like a specious imitation and framed the blame.

"Tell me what you have at the moment, Major!" Desai closed Major Poch's report and seemed to have a casual look at Passel. It was the intelligence officer who had been trying to speak but stopped while flipping through the documents himself.

Passel hesitated for a moment, and said with a slightly nervous expression: "We also think this is not the responsibility of the Gendarmerie and the North Aragon regiment..."

"Enough, Major, please do not repeat any words in the gendarmerie report!" Desai interrupted his subordinates impatiently. The Military Intelligence Bureau and the Gendarmerie have always been secretly competing with each other, trying to suppress each other, thereby gaining more support from the superiors. Desai did not believe that his intelligence officer would excuse Major Pochi for no reason.

"Yes, Lord Duke!" Passel tried to keep himself calm. He knew that his trick could not hide his sharp Duke Hruna, so he said in a singular manner: "In fact, since the start of the investigation of the Barn Massacre, the Military Intelligence Bureau suspected that someone was deliberately creating a conspiracy to make the unreasonable soldiers retaliate against the people of Montijo. Originally, my people wanted to stop the impulsive behavior of the soldiers of the North Aragon, but things went against their wishes.

After the massacre, the Military Intelligence Bureau arrested several suspects who fled from Montijo Town. After some torture, some of them confessed that they were a coalition intelligence captain named Gibson, who planned and carried out an assassination plot against five soldiers and the priests of the army, and then provoked the subsequent massacre.

The purpose is self-evident, to allow the Spanish army active in the Fortress of Badajoz and the city of Melda, especially the troops of Geista, to be incompatible with our side, to delay the division's time to enter the Portuguese battlefield."

When listening to Major Passel's case analysis, Desai remained silent and repeatedly pondered the response measures after the massacre in Montijo. Obviously, he was too careless with the military police and failed again in the intelligence war battle with the British and fell into a trap carefully designed by the coalition intelligence department. As for the soldiers of the North Aragon, the lack of rational impulse and the ineffectiveness of the military police, all of them have become irrelevant.

The key problem at present is to solve the problem of General Gesta, who was slaughtered by his relatives before leading his troops into the Portuguese battlefield, so as not to let the Spanish rebels have any opportunity to take advantage of. However, before this, Desai still needs the Military Intelligence Bureau to make a point for him and severely attack the coalition intelligence department that succeeded in his own conspiracy.

Desai gave the order to Passel, saying, "In a month, whether you go to heaven or into the earth, you dig out the British captain of Gibson for me. In a word, you must see people alive and die with corpses!"

The major looked embarrassed and said, "Your Excellency Duke, but I don't have enough staff!"

Desai immediately found a blank document, signed an order on it, and handed it to his intelligence officer, saying, "From now on, you will be fully responsible for the joint operations of the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Gendarmerie. If there is a similar situation in the future, the blame will be on you first. Also, tell General Barbanegel and Major Poch, saying that I am very dissatisfied with the result of their handling of the Montijo incident. Since he has cast a heinous crime, he should be firm and mercilessly cleaned up the endgame. I don't want to see the seeds of hatred take root and sprout in the hearts of dozens of survivors in Montijo.

Everything should be completely killed without any hidden dangers.”

In another order signed later, the commander of the Desai Division also ordered Major Mardan to be exempted from the position of commander of the Northern Aragon regiment, and his rank was demoted to captain, and his position was replaced by Deputy Regiment Commander Major Longo. After the demotion, Captain Mardan would be transferred to the division command post and serve as a military adjutant next to Duke Hruna. As for other officers and soldiers of the Northern Aragon regiment who violated the military order, they would be handled in accordance with General Barbanegel's opinion.

When the above-mentioned treatment results reached the Third Brigade, Barbanegel and others breathed a sigh of relief, and the huge rock hanging in the air finally fell down. Among the officers and soldiers of the regiment, Captain Mardan, who was "hard punishment", was not discouraged, but was happy, and others were congratulating and envious.

But all the officers in the Desaysay Division understood that following closely by Duke Hruna was the best shortcut for officers to be reused. In Mardan's view, even if they were demoted from a major to a second lieutenant, they would still be willing to do so.
Chapter completed!