Two years ago, Gomez was a farmer in the suburbs of Madrid. He was strong, Kong Wu was powerful, and good at fighting. During the Madrid 5th and 2nd Uprising, he happened to sell mountain goods in the city. Because of the instigation of priests and citizens, he also joined the rebel army. After the failure of the uprising, he kept following General Mina and fought in the Guadalama Mountains. Because of his bravery in combat, Gomez was promoted to major battalion commander by General Mina last year.

Three days ago, following General Mina's order, Gomez's battalion, with a total of more than 400 people, went down the mountain to lurk around Arisa Town, observing the French army's dynamics nearby.

It has been almost sunset, and Gomez is still lying on the hill closest to the west of Arisa Town, and uses the natural cover of the surrounding branches to peek at the enemy's movements. As the commander of the guerrilla battalion, he has not had a good life these days, and it is okay to sleep in the open, but the most depressing thing is that the French are like a tight hedgehog in the group, always hiding in Arisa Town, without leaving any opportunity for the guerrillas to take advantage of.

Like the previous two days, the French still patrolled the city wall day and night, and lit a large number of bonfires around at night to serve as night lights. The three entrances and exits leading to the town were guarded by the gendarmerie teams and conducted strict searches on residents entering and leaving the country. During this period, the French army also drove a large number of adult town residents to repair the trenches surrounding the city wall and dig wide and deep.

Perhaps because of the sudden sneak attack by the guerrillas, the 100-man patrol team responsible for the alert mission outside the town was always within 200 meters and had never left the vision of the city wall defenders. Once there were signs of turmoil, the patrol team would quickly retreat into the town like a frightened rabbit instead of actively searching out. The timid behavior of the French made several ambushes set up by Gomez in the wilderness outside the town fail. Although there was no loss on his own, the morale of the team members was greatly reduced.

Because of the visual field of view of the two churches' towering spires or round roofs, Gomez could not see clearly the movements of the French in the town in the monocular mirror. From the sympathizers of the guerrillas who went out to chop wood, Gomez learned that there was almost no change in the town's town, but the French marked the ** church and its 100-meter-long area to facilitate their soldiers to go out here every day. In addition, the review of the town residents' outing and entering and entering is still strict.

A few days ago, the French military police found the list of residents of the town from the Gothic church. They followed the map and searched the entire town. At the same time, they also issued a wooden sign hanging around their necks to each resident entering and leaving the town, which detailed the age, gender, characteristics, and occupation of the town. Each resident who left the town must register strictly and was also subject to a military police check when returning to the town to compare whether the identity card matches his or her.

The identity wooden sign is the unique code of the French, and the guerrillas could not decipher it at all. Several guerrillas who tried to escape were discovered by the military police on the spot. Two were beaten to death on the spot, and three were injured and arrested. After a simple interrogation, the injured guerrillas were shot outside the city wall by the French military police, and their bodies were hung on the top of the city.

Several times, Gomez suppressed his subordinates' urge to regain his teammate's body. He warned everyone to endure until the day General Mina led thousands of troops down the mountain. Only after accumulating enough strength can he avenge all the French, kill all the invaders, and hang their bodies on both sides of the road leading to Madrid.

Through this period of observation, Gomez was completely convinced that the French did not carry any artillery, nor showed any signs of reinforcements, and the number was still about 1,000, which was much less than the guerrillas that were about to go down the mountain. Even if the French had any conspiracy, in the face of absolute strength, no matter how the French defended the city, it would be vulnerable. Moreover, they could still get a large number of sympathy and support the guerrillas.

Because he was illiterate, Gomez called his assistant, a low-ranking priest in Madrid, the battalion commander, and the priest wrote the information. After writing it, the information was rolled into a ball and put it in a copper tube. A soldier was responsible for tying the copper tube firmly on the legs of the pigeon, then letting the pigeon fly, watching it fly into the mountains.

Above the dome of the ** Church, Desai also noticed the carrier pigeon flying into the Guadalama forest through a telescope. The travelers cursed this kind of primitive communication method because the enemy could equip it, but they did not. That was because the French senior officials disdained to do this, because they were more inclined to be high-tech products of the French Academy of Sciences, arm plate signal.

As early as the era of the Great Revolution, Paris established a special telegraph bureau, setting up a large number of signal base stations across the country, and through the high-arm signal machine installed on the base station, the manipulated robotic arm force replaced the flag language of the human arm, and sent and received domestic military and public opinion. After a few hours, Paris could clearly and accurately grasp the battle situation in the Rhine.

As the battlefield advanced into the enemy's territory, these windmill-like mechanical arms were also installed by French engineers in various occupied areas of the European continent. During the Battle of Ottrees, Napoleon was able to quickly mobilize his army, with few enemy numbers, and form an advantageous siege within a local range, and the arm plate signal also played a great role.

However, in Spain, the arm plate signal and its base station were destroyed by the elusive rebel guerrillas at the beginning of its operation. The French engineers refused to go to the mountains and ridges to deploy these bulky guys without life guarantee. The Desai commander, who wanted to cherish the lives of the soldiers, did not recklessly send messengers to seek help. Under the siege of a large number of rebels, the communication between the Desai regiment, the baggage team, and the town's troop station and the outside world were basically interrupted.

Of course, these were all expected by Desai, including several officers surrounding him, including Major Delney, Major Karls, Captain Kerle, Lieutenant Redes and others.

At the briefing just ended, Major Karls informed the regiment commander that he learned from the information from his own secret spies who had mixed into the city that the 5,000 troops convened by the rebel leader Mina had almost completed the assembly and was currently marching towards Arisa Town. The attack date should be tomorrow night. When the rebels outside the city launched an attack, there will be a volunteer army of no less than 150 people in Arisa Town to respond at the same time. On the one hand, they will try to rescue the prisoners in the church square, and on the other hand, they will set fires everywhere, harass the French garrison, and cooperate with the rebels' frontal attack.

In addition, Major Delney said that the Delhi regiment has been rectified, including 100 soldiers stationed in the town's troop station and 350 soldiers from the baggage team, including 150 people in the main first battalion and 300 people in the second battalion. In addition, a total of 200 veterans were drawn from the first and second battalions, merged with the military police team to form a small battalion of more than 300 people, as the reserve team of the entire regiment. The battalion commander of the first battalion was still Major Delney, and the chief officer of the second battalion was replaced by Lieutenant Reedes.

As for Captain Kerle, he will return to the position of artillery commander, responsible for an artillery company of more than 100 people, and has 2 4-pound cannons and 4 6-pound cannons. Before setting off from Zaragoza, Colonel Desay ordered Captain Kerle to hide a group of gunners in the second battalion team, and the rear end of the 6 cannons were added to two wheels, disguised as a chariot body of the baggage team, bronze cannon bodies, ammunition boxes, and various tools were all hidden in the food.

"Report to Colonel, my artillery company is also ready. All artillery has been loaded and unloaded and installed in place. According to your deployment, it is deployed separately in the houses of various traffic roads to hide. Except for the officers and a few military policemen, not to mention the residents of the town, even the soldiers of the first and second battalions were rarely seen." The artillery captain swore to promise.

"Col., have you reconsidered the placement of Captain Sezel and Captain Renault?" Major Delney made a cautious view.

On the second day after entering Arisa Town, Captain Sezel of the baggage team and Captain Renault of the station were secretly deprived of their posts by Colonel Desay and stayed idle in the regiment headquarters. They naturally had dissatisfaction and wanted to vent their dissatisfaction, whine, and spread all the way to the battalion commander of the first battalion.

Desai smiled and raised his index finger and shook it, "Since Madrid asked me to star in this drama, that is, at least before the General Hugo arrived, I have the final say in everything, whether in the baggage team or inside or outside the station."

Everyone knew very well that this extremely treacherous leader had another subtext: Before he could gain the true trust of the colonel, even a friendly army, the leader of Desai would not hand it over to the other party with confidence. Because Desai taught everyone a catchphrase, "I am not afraid of opponents like gods, but I am afraid of teammates like pigs!"

This is a bloody lesson. At the beginning, if it weren't for the misleading and recommendation of the consulate fool, time travelers would not have been easily deceived. After being assassinated, they were sent to Spain two hundred years later and continued to struggle in the flames of life and death.

According to this plan from Madrid, the Desai regiment was asked to attract the main forces of the rebels in the town of Arisa and must hold the town for at least 10 days. At the same time, Madrid will send two troops, one to sweep away the various camps of the rebels in Mount Guadalama; the other will reinforce friendly forces that hold the town of Arisa, who will work with the Desai regiment to attack the entire main forces of the Mina rebels and clear out the obstacles leading to Zaragoza in Madrid.

The plan was indeed good. Desai guessed that it should have come from King Joseph's most important military assistant, the chief of staff of the French army stationed in Spain, Jur was appointed as the marshal, and handed it over to Marshal Rana for execution.

According to later generations' evaluations, Jules was a brave, qualified but not outstanding commander. At the same time, he was a capable organizer and administrative expert. Although he thought carefully and clearly organized, he was not brave enough, too much honorable, and lacked affinity. He had no relationship with his colleagues in the marshal. Only King Joseph could tolerate two years, but in the end, the two completely fell out, which led to the later Spanish wars becoming a mess.

As for the General Hugo who was responsible for the rescue of the Desays, he was just a rough man born in a carpenter. He was simple in his daily life and was desperate to fight. Emperor Napoleon promoted him to colonel, King Joseph promoted Hugo to general, and also had an earl title, but His Majesty the Emperor had not yet recognized it and was not made up until 1811. If he had not given birth to a son of a great writer, Victor Hugo, the time traveler would have listed him as a passerby.
Chapter completed!