There was also an officer next to Dawu, Major Farmey. He was dressed as a royal officer a few days ago, but now he is a major of the Republic wrapped in a blue uniform.

The expressions of the lieutenant colonel and the major were a little strange, but the two smiled faces revealed a certain mystery. They had just followed General Andrew's instructions and began to secretly plan the specific actions of the Republican and rebel surrenders to cooperate with the rebels to encircle and suppress the Houster rebels three hours ago.

Andrew then realized that the two officers must have come over after completing the task, and saw that he was constantly fiddling with the priceless treasures behind him. His smile meant that the plan had a result, and revealed some mystery because he noticed the general's greed. Fortunately, the cheeky Andrew didn't care about other people's comments, but just shrugged at them, turned around and continued to stroke the gold and silver jewelry, muttering: "What a pity, so many valuable things belong to God, not the Republic."

Dawu didn't say anything, but Fameiyi walked over with a smile, picked up a magic weapon made of gold, and said to Andrew: "General, these things will belong to the Republic tomorrow. Maybe it's yours, no, yours." Fameiyi, who is used to calling "you", promptly called people "you".

"Well, officers and citizens, come to my office to discuss your discussion results!" Andrew did not want to talk about confidential topics outside, so he took the two of them to his room.

Andrew sat in his office chair, and there was a sofa temporarily moved under Famey's butt, but Dawu stood facing the city of Laroche hanging on the wall, because the entire plan would be described by him.

"General, look," Dawu pointed to the city defense map of Laroche and said, "Laroche is located at the fault of the Fakao Mountains. It is one of the three channels that the Vandai rebels lead to the coast and maintain contact with Spain. The other two channels are not supplied in time because of the long distance. Therefore, in order to obtain more weapons and food sources, the rebels in the Houster must conquer the city fortress in a short time.

The terrain of Laroche City is dangerous, with mountains on both sides that are difficult to cross, but there is a narrow stream on one side, but under the threat of firepower of the city wall, the rebels are also impossible to pass; the defense of the fortress is also quite complete, the city is high and strong, with a large number of artillery and no lack of fire; it is just a shortage of food, but the problem will not become a problem under the guidance of the angels. Under the command of the general, the Wandering Legion defeated the Houster rebels in one fell swoop with its dangerous terrain.

But there is a problem. It is not difficult to defeat the unorganized and disciplined rebels under the city, and it is even quite easy, but it is a bit troublesome to encircle them all. Once the war is unfavorable, the fortress cannot capture for a long time, and behind it is attacked by Toulon reinforcements, the rebels may flee with the help of the forest. After all, they are familiar with the environment here. Even after the battle is victorious, there will still be many stubborn escapers running into the forest to hide, continue to fight against the Republican army, wait for the opportunity, recruit troops at any time and cause trouble again. The occurrence of such a situation is of no benefit to the general to quell the protracted rebellion in a short period of time, so..."

Speaking of this, Dawu turned his head and looked at Andrew, and saw that it was the general's encouraging gaze, so he continued: "So, after discussing with Major Farmeri, we all felt it was necessary to modify the previous combat deployment.

Specifically, after raiding the rebels' granary, they immediately gave up the fortress and retreated from behind the city of Laroche to about 36 Fari, which was the intersection of the Facau Mountains and the Brittany Plain. The terrain was tilted eastward, which was very suitable for frontal combat of the legion. With the power of the artillery regiment, 10,000 soldiers with high morale were waiting for their hard work, enough to defeat five or six times our rebels. At the same time, the Toulon reinforcements would reoccupate the city of Laroche with the help of Father Benier, and attacked both ends, and all the rebels would collapse.

However, there are several problems that need to be solved in advance:

First, send people to contact Father Benier and Toulon's reinforcements to prepare them for the defense of Laroche;

Then, all refugees and all property in the city must be transferred by tomorrow night, including any valuable things in the church, so that the greedy Earl Houster will have reason to continue chasing us behind us. In this regard, Major Farmey introduced that the angels among the refugees can be organized and completed, and only the general's order is required;

Furthermore, because we actively give up the fortress and retreat to defend, we must consider the low morale of the soldiers. The Wandai Legion, which has experienced too many setbacks, can only the mountain general continue to inspire them;

Finally, since the future battle is a frontal battle between the enemy and us, in order to reduce unnecessary casualties of our army, it seems that we can take a step forward and eliminate some of the things that threaten the rebels that are unpleasant to us..."

"Haha, it should be eliminated, the enemy's food reserves, artillery and ammunition and Spanish cavalry, right?! Don't worry, I'll mobilize the morale of the soldiers myself." When Andrew heard this, he stood up excitedly. He had no general's demeanor and interrupted his subordinates' topic. That was because he was too excited.

Indeed, giving up the fortress, luring the rebels to the suburbs, defeated them again, and fleeing back to the city of Laroche, but found that the city was controlled by the angels of Father Benier and the reinforcements of the Toulon Legion. In the narrow passage, there were mountains that could not be crossed on both sides. The rebels would face two attacks and be invincible. Continuing to fight was tantamount to seek death. In this case, the influential Father Benier, who was called on the rebels to surrender, naturally, all rebel forces could be completely eliminated within a few days and the stubborn elements would be removed.

Wonderful, very wonderful, indeed very wonderful, Andrew kept admiring, and his joy was joyful.

After waiting for General Andrew to vent his feelings for a long time, the patient Lieutenant Colonel Dawu suggested that the commander allow them to attack the rebel camp tomorrow night, burn the enemy's food reserves and artillery ammunition, and destroy the Spanish cavalry as much as possible. Andrew happily agreed with Lieutenant Colonel Dawu's overall plan and let them prepare. But in the end, they could just ask them to seize or destroy the Spanish horses, and there was no need to kill too many cavalry. Because in Andrew's heart, he was also planning how much ransom he could earn to capture the unlucky Spanish devils.

After the meeting, Major Farmer was busy contacting Father Benier, conveying the latest plan of the Legion, and also began to arrange the priests among the refugees and organize transfer work; Dawu took General Andrew's handwriting to select warriors in his brigade to prepare for the assault tomorrow night; Andrew was not idle either, so he summoned all the officers at the company level and above in the Legion to the parliamentary hall of the headquarters, because the commander-in-chief of the Legion wanted to invite everyone to dinner.

Twenty minutes later, in the temporary headquarters conference room of the church, Andrew was enthusiastic about the officers to have dinner. Looking at the pile of coarse grains or clear soup in front of him, no one wanted to touch them, but everyone was busy arguing.

The owner was unwilling to eat it because General Andrew had no appetite, because after staying in Paris for a few more months, the mountain general who was used to being indulged in luxury still failed to adapt to military life. Only when he was hungry would he eat a few bites of dry bread to satisfy his stomach and intestine needs; if the guests did not eat it, it was not that they were as picky as General Andrew, and had abundant food for them to have a full meal without restraint. This was one of the dreams a few minutes ago, but now, the general's opening words also destroyed their appetites.

Andrew told everyone that he asked the legion to evacuate the city of Laroche before tomorrow night, retreat backwards and retreat toward Brittany for dozens of Fali. When he talked about this, for some reason, Andrew did not explain the reason for the retreat to everyone, so naturally, discussions were inevitable.

"General, I'm sorry, I'm frank and frank, I firmly oppose retreating, and go backwards, do you want to go to the beach?"

"General, with the strong defense of the fortress, he will definitely defeat the rebels. He will lead us in the plains without any useful civil fortifications."

"General, my brother was sacrificed with General Rosinor. Similarly, I am willing to sacrifice everything for you, provided that I oppose retreat."

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All the speeches were against General Andrew's opposition to abandoning the fortress. In their opinion, retreating was equivalent to failure. They had suffered too much setbacks and hoped to attack the rebels under the leadership of Commander Andrew and restore the former honor and pride of the Wandai Legion. Therefore, of course they did not want to and would not accept any retreat plan, not to mention that Andrew did not explain the reason for the retreat.

Looking at the officers who were shaking in front of him and listening to their uninformed words, Andrew felt a little tired. He looked at the officers of his own guard camp, and Lieutenant Colonel Xiade and others pressed their lips together, but did not make any suggestions. Andrew understood that they were blindly trusting themselves and agreed with all the general's combat arrangements without reservation.

Suddenly, Andrew found Major Neck on his left was also silent, just staring at his military rank in a daze. When he noticed that the general was also looking at him, he quickly turned his head aside, seeing that the situation was to escape. Andrew did not want to let go of the new brigade commander he had just promoted. "Dongdongdongdong!" He hit the table hard, and suddenly, the restaurant returned to the previous silence.

"Enough, officers, let Major Neck talk about his thoughts now!" Andrew pointed at the major and said, "

The poor Major Neck saw that he was rushed to the front of him as a shield by his superiors, and he had no choice but to stand up, but Andrew pressed him to the seat and told him that it was just a restaurant now, not a conference room, and the Major could speak freely.

"I, I think that General Andrew's resolution has its own reasons, and the officers' doubts are their reasons. However, in my opinion, soldiers should take obeying orders as their duty, and nothing else can be taken into account. My words are over."

Major Neck, who had to bite the bullet, completed his stammering speech. In fact, he understood some of the general's strategic ideas, but since the general was unhappy and dared not say it, he went to take advantage of the situation.

Hearing the speech of Brigade Commander Neck, Andrew felt a little bitterly smiled. He wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to eat and found several smart officers, but the general was disappointed. No one understood his thoughts. Even though he knew that many Major Neck spoke vaguely, it was no wonder they were fooled by the rebels.

Alas, it is really hard to find a general like Lieutenant Colonel Dawu. Thinking of this, Andrew turned from a bitter smile to annoyance. After simply calling everyone to eat freely, he ran outside and went out to cool off.

Just as Commander Andrew of the Vandai Legion vented his dissatisfaction, on the other end, the Earl of Houster in the forest was also angry.

Major Lisdori and Captain Phelis, who were wiped out and fled back to the rebel camp alone, were severely scolded by Chief Hustle, who wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of the two. However, the slick Phelis seemed extremely agile and immediately expressed his willingness to exchange all his property for the punishment of the Earl. At the same time, the little noble also knew the personal grudge between Major Lisdori and Chief Hustle, and also wanted to use Houster's hand to get rid of Major Lisdori who had just saved him. After all, as a noble, Phelis did not want others to know his ugly behavior before that battle.

Hust happily accepted Phelis' request, hoping that Li Shidori could ask for forgiveness, and that Hustler in a good mood might let him go. But Hustler was disappointed. The rebellious Li Shidori refused any compromise and begging, but he looked coldly at Phelis who framed him and Houst who wanted to get rid of him. However, the major's eyes were filled with contempt, contempt and sympathy for the two.

Hust was angry. He fully recognized Captain Phelis's unreasonable accusations against Major Li Shidori, so he ordered Major Li Shidori to be executed on the spot, but was stopped by Father Benier who rushed to the scene. The priest guaranteed with his own personality that Major Li Shidori was definitely not a despicable villain who betrayed his comrades. Seeing this situation, Hust was of course even more angry, but could only keep it in his heart. After all, his soldiers were devout Catholic religious people. Before he achieved complete victory, Hust did not dare to turn against Father Benier. In desperation, he could only let Father Benier take away Major Li Shidori, who made him hate him.

Count Huster, who returned to his little hut, swore in front of the Spanish colonel that one day he would kill Father Benier with his own hands to relieve his hatred.

"Fonsoto will always support you, Count!" Colonel Fang Soto took the plane to flatter you.

"Well, we must speed up the preparations for the siege. I plan to attack Laroche City in full the morning after tomorrow. How is the colonel's artillery prepared?" Hustle asked. The opponent has a strong city, and powerful artillery support is the key to the siege.

"Of course, there is absolutely no problem." Colonel Fonsoto promised confidently.

"Okay, the other party also has artillery, and our artillery and ammunition is a bit lacking. The newly appointed General Satan of the Wandai Legion is not a mediocre person." After the anger, Hust began to wake up. What he was really worried about was that the amount of ammunition could not guarantee continuous attacks on the city fortress.

"Don't worry, the information you received did not say that the opponent's guns were only a few, and they were all small calibers, and there was also a lack of ammunition. Your warriors could capture the city with just one charge. It is no exaggeration to say that even my cavalry could jump to Laroche City and help you seize that fortress. As for that mountain general, it was actually just a fame, so don't worry. Please don't hesitate. You must rely on a great victory again to consolidate your unshakable position and imagine the glory of the title of prince!" Colonel Fonsoto continued to instigate, which was also fantasizing about the benefits that the victory could bring to himself.

"Okay, Colonel, I'm determined and start a full-scale attack on Laroche City the morning of the next day!" Gripping my teeth, Hustle made a final decision for himself.
Chapter completed!