The next morning, Desai set out to the French base camp at the city of Hruna. In addition to the adjutant Charles, he was accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel Karls and a company of gendarmes.

On the way, Desai noticed the changes in Carls. The unkempt guy was dressed up with a greasy face, wigs, and spitting fragrant powder. He seemed to have not seen him for many days. After asking the adjutant around him, he found out that the lieutenant colonel had learned bad things after being rich. While monitoring the Baroness in Barcelona, ​​he met a Spanish lady. The two kept sending letters and giving each other portraits. As for Lieutenant Colonel Carls' aristocratic dress, it was to welcome the lady to live in the safe village in the afternoon.

After hearing this, Desai ignored the embarrassing expression of the lieutenant colonel and laughed. He allowed Karls to leave the team early and rushed to Barcelona to pick up the Spanish lady who made the gendarmerie lieutenant colonel fascinated. Desai knew the reason for Karls' abnormal behavior, which was Karls' use to show the general that he had no intention of autocracy.

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The French officers in the Hruna barracks expressed great enthusiasm for the arrival of General Desai. This was not only that they were about to participate in a profitable investment, but naturally there was nothing among the shareholders; it was also that General Desai agreed with everyone's proposal that he would no longer attack the Hruna Fortress, but only needed to continue to improve the siege and trenches to prevent the enemy from leaving the city or reinforcements from entering the city.

From the intelligence, the city of Hruna is mostly made of brick buildings, with wide eaves, irregular facades, narrow shutters, and unplanned architectural layout. No one knows where a house ends, and where another house starts, and no one can tell whether the house has two or three floors, whether the roof of that house supports the walls of the houses behind, and at the end of the street there may be a livestock pen without an exit, and the arches at the entrance of the small square.

At present, there are at least 13,000 Spanish soldiers and civilians in the city. Even if they pay the price of casualties, they will fall into the cruel barricade battle like the inner city of Zaragoza. The maze-like streets will make soldiers faint and turn, becoming the target of the Spanish. Even if they forcibly drive other French soldiers to thunder, those guys will definitely be perfunctory and perfunctory. Moreover, this is not Desai's combat style, and it cannot show the advantages of time travelers.

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Captain Pascelle stood at the spire of the Montehucha Fortress, and with the assistance of the front row soldiers, he held up a high-power monocular mirror of nearly 2 meters, paying attention to the every move of the French barracks several miles away. Because 20 minutes ago, the French began to cheer again. General de Castro was worried that the French reinforcements would arrive and might launch the next round of attack, so he sent his adjutant, Captain Pascelle, to the front line to observe and confirm.

In the camera, the French reinforcements seemed to have arrived, but they were just a cavalry company and would not have any impact. In addition, the French commander seemed to have changed. Two kilometers away from the Montehucha Fortress, on the high ground occupied by the French, a group of French officers were following a general under 30 years old, also observing the movements of the fortress defenders.

After putting away the monocular mirror, the captain quickly wrote down the military information report and asked the soldiers who accompanied him to return to the city to hand it over to the commander, General De Castro and Captain Passel needed to stay for a while to find out the relevant information about the new French commander. 30 minutes later, a huge flag was erected on the French high ground, with a sentence in Spanish on the black letters on white background: "General Andrew Desay greeted the commander of the city of Hruna!"

Neither sent an envoy to surrender, nor did he launch artillery bombing or infantry charges. The trenches in the siege were repaired, but they did not continue to extend forward. The French were like this for several days. But shocked by the reputation of the "Demon Desay", no one in the city of Hruna dared to relax his vigilance, and was preparing as if he was facing a great enemy at all times. Even the commander, General de Castro, left the hospital bed, and regardless of his physical weakness, came to the city tower to participate in the persistence.

The atmosphere in the city became more and more serious and uneasy because of the inexplicable horror brought by the demon Desay.

In the past, even in the cruelest stage of the battle, the city of Khruna remained optimistic and bustling, with the noise and noise. The women who delivered meals to the soldiers were singing enthusiastically and unrestrainedly, and the volunteers organized by the nearby mountain people were busy transporting the wounded. Whenever frontline soldiers came back from outside, some applauded and welcomed, some waved their headscarfs to greet them, and some would raise a series of questions about the war situation to the soldiers. The listeners either made exaggerated amazement, tears of joy and joy, and a knowing smile, which made everyone passing by in a happy and fearless atmosphere of unity.

Now, Demon Desai is here, can the city of Hruna hold on? Captain Passel is in a low mood, because from General De Castro's tone, he can feel very frustrated and pessimistic, although he has not given up his last hope.

Demon Desai, one of the most vicious enemies that all Just Spanish talked about, was one of the three clones of Satan (the clones specifically refer to: Napoleon, Murah, Desai). In fact, most of the people who cursed the French general understood that Desai was not cruel. It can even be said that Desai and his troops were one of the French invaders with good military discipline. Outside the battlefield, they neither massacred prisoners of war and non-armed civilians, nor plundered private money, and forced-raped-women.

But Desai caused great harm to the Spaniards' national salvation movement against Napoleon's invasion. He led his troops to attack the Zaragoza City Hall, forcing the defenders to surrender, and the Aragon area fell; then, without any effort, cleared out thousands of guerrillas outside Madrid. Desai's carefully prepared "safe village plan" made the military and civilians unforgettable.

More than 3,000 guerrillas who were once active in the Santa Barbara Mountain collapsed in just two months, causing Khruna to lose security from the northeast. Similarly, 80,000 nearby villagers turned into obedient and good people who became French generals, and no longer provided Khruna with military supplies and food, resulting in tight supply in the city and insufficient combat power.

On October 4, Desai began to wave an "olive branch" to the city of Hruna, saying that the French army was under humanitarian considerations and was willing to accept the sick soldiers and residents leaving the city and provide paid treatment. He did not mention the peace talks between the two sides and the demand for surrender. General De Castro was a little panicked. He urgently convened the main officers to meet with the citizens' representatives, asking everyone not to be fooled and believe the lies of the demon Desai. However, General De Castro was unable to give any explanation for the citizens' representatives' request for food and medicine.

As the adjutant of the commander of the city, Captain Passel truly understands the situation in the city. The soldiers suffered serious casualties. The original 6,000 defenders, plus the 5,000 volunteers supported from all over the country, only about 4,000 people are still alive, almost all of them are injured. Eighty percent of the wounded lying in the hospital can last for only 3 days. The food is also severely insufficient, and it can only meet the basic supply of thousands of soldiers (the heroes) for about 20 days, with a daily supply of 1 pound of black bread. For medicines, all of them were used up three days ago, and bloodletting treatment is the only choice for doctors.

The losses of citizens were equally serious. The 3,000 indigenous people, plus the refugees who fled from various villages, were caused by General De Castro's temporary softness, which caused the number of people in the city of Hruna to nearly 30,000 (including soldiers). Fortunately, there were many uncollapsed rooms in the abandoned Jewish neighborhood 200 years ago, so that the refugees had a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

With the roar of hundreds of French cannons, the citizens had no safe place to hide, nor did they have a piece of land or roof as big as a palm, which could survive the bombardment of the demonic artillery fire. Some people settled in the Church of St. Mary, and the ground was full, and people lay on the altar, filling the chapel.

Some people fled Hruna, who took the initiative to settle in the safe village and accepted the rule of the French general. Now it seems that those guys are obviously extremely lucky. They were able to save their lives, not be bombarded by shells, and did not learn how to share a pound of bread for a family of seven. They did not see the horror scene of corpses everywhere in the city of Hruna after the plague began.

Captain Passel tried hard to force himself to stop thinking about these things, which would make him weak and lose his fighting spirit. But he had to think about and care about another thing. Captain Passel's younger brother, Kassel, has been suffering from illness for several days and has had continuous diarrhea, which has made Kassel, who is strong, pale and thin, and has lost one quarter of his weight.

At noon today, the doctor in charge of Kaseva's treatment told Captain Passel bluntly that if he did not use medicine within 10 hours, Kaseva on the hospital bed would fall into a deep coma and might not be able to see tomorrow's sunrise.

Although there is no medicine in the city of Hruna, there is it in the French, just under the city of Hruna, in the field hospital of the French army. The doctor knew and the captain knew. The doctor advised the young officers that this was the only choice to save his brother. There was no need for guilt or self-blame, because in the city of Hruna, many people have already escaped the entanglement of death by helping French-military doctors. Among them, there are many guardians and relatives of the officers.

After recalling the scene when his father asked himself to take care of Caseva before his death, Passel made the final decision. He took a leave, returned home, changed into a military uniform, and put on a civilian outfit. When he chose to hand over the city guard sentry, he walked out of the city of Hruna with his younger brother Cassel. Passel walked out of the city of Hruna 3 kilometers away, 3 kilometers away, near the French military camp.
Chapter completed!