Valkyrie Europa

Chapter 119

Marseille is one of the most important cities in France.

Surrounded by mountains on three sides and close to the sea on one side, it has dangerous terrain and beautiful scenery. It is also the largest port and fishing city in France. place.

However, now it has long lost its original beauty and tenderness.On the broad and ancient city wall, the pits and pits are full of shocking scars. At several huge gaps, filled gravel and soil are randomly piled up. Layers of scorched black mixed with blood that has not dried out are almost covered. On the entire wall, occasionally fragmentary corpses and broken weapons can be seen under the ruined walls.Even on the surface of the sea not far from the port, there were broken ships, large or small, with pale corpses undulating with the waves.

In the deep night, the whole city was dead silent, like a real ghost land.

But if you observe carefully, you can still see some black figures leaning against the wall with slightly undulating chests. If it weren't for the faint breathing sound, they would be no different from dead people.And if you listen carefully, you can still hear a little moan and cry of pain under the dim candlelight. They are so powerless, more like the last mourning cry of a person before death.

Only the large tent of the Chinese army not far from the city gate still retains a little bit of vitality.

The people in the big tent were much sparser, not as good as the gathering of generals in the past, there were only 7 or 8 people sparsely.The voices of their voices are not as bold as before, they are brave and diligent, and they seem to be a little weak.

"The more than ten thin enemy ships that invaded today were destroyed by our army, 6 were captured, and the rest fled. Out of safety considerations, our army did not pursue them. Now the waterway entering the port is still in our hands. Support materials It can still be brought in by sea.”

"Today, the enemy did not launch a large-scale attack. They only made one trial at dawn and one in the afternoon, and were easily repelled by our army."

"Because today's battle was not intense, the damage caused by the battle was not too large. A total of 112 people died, and 31 people were seriously injured and unable to fight. There is no follow-up supplement."

"In the evening, a new batch of support supplies arrived. They came from Toulouse City. They were just supplies, not a single reinforcement."

"According to the information sent by Eugene, most of the city masters who are willing to reinforce our army are now gathering in Aix City to rest, arguing and wrangling with each other, and there is no possibility of directly reinforcing Marseille in a short time."

"The enemy's offensive has been very weak in the past few days. It is not as violent as it was at the beginning. I doubt that they may plan to withdraw their troops. After all, the old aristocratic reinforcements stranded in Aix City are very strong. They should not be sure of fighting on both sides. .”

"I suggest that we should seize the time to communicate with them again, and try to get the veteran nobles to come to help quickly. We will attack together, and it will not be difficult to keep the enemy's expeditionary army under the city of Marseille!"

"No, I don't think it's possible. If they really plan to come, they will come directly to Marseilles. Why should they rest in that city of Aix? They just want to see us both hurt, and then come to pick up a bargain. It's better to go more Need some supplies."

The commander in chief listened to the reports and suggestions of his subordinates, and remained silent. He looked a lot thinner and haggard, and the marshal uniform on his body was also dirty and torn, but compared to the wounded in this room , seems to be a little decent.

After pondering for a while, he slowly said: "Putting hope on others is the most stupid behavior. If we want to be rescued and defeat the enemy, we still have to rely on ourselves! They don't want to send troops, they want to watch a show, that's good, We send troops ourselves, and use a hearty victory to force them to send troops!"

"But, how can we have the ability to send troops now? We have tried our best to block the daily attack. Our soldiers are exhausted to the extreme, and they have no ability to go out to fight at all." Sophie with a bandage on her forearm The lady couldn't help but speak.

"We are not directly going out of the city to fight." The French military god slowly described his plan.

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In the hall of the city lord's mansion in Aix City, a dozen or so city lords, large and small, were still arguing with each other.

"I don't think it's good to do this. If we only support supplies, but don't support soldiers and martial arts masters, the revolutionary army will be exhausted sooner or later. How can we defeat the royalists?"

"Well, of course they won't be exhausted. When the two sides are almost fighting, we will intervene again. At that time, we can easily defeat the expeditionary army of the royalist party and save the revolutionary army that is in danger. In this way, it is not bad. He made a great contribution, and Marshal Napoleon couldn’t say anything.”

"I think it's better to support some people to go there. Each family sends out 80 or [-] people. Let's make up [-] and send them over by sea. Otherwise, what if they get lost?"

"No, Marshal Napoleon is the god of war in France. How can he be easily defeated? Besides, the city of Aix is ​​very close to Marseilles. We have also sent a lot of spies, so we won't play around."

"Is this a bit of a violation of the sun and the shade? What if Marshal Napoleon takes control of France in the future and settle accounts after the fall?"

"What's the point of settling accounts after the autumn? We send supplies and troops at the same time. There are also many city lords and nobles who don't send troops but only send supplies, or don't send troops or supplies. Is he liquidating every family?"

"Yes, that's the reason. We helped defeat the expeditionary army. Don't we still have to fight Paris? At that time, will we rely on us? Even if he is a military god, he has no soldiers or generals, how can he fight Paris?"

"We are sending charcoal in a timely manner. Why not just send it to the end and leave a good impression on Marshal Napoleon."

"Leave a good impression? It's easy to say, go support it now, the royalist expeditionary force is not a vegetarian, and there are many experts from the Holy See. Do you know how many people will die by then? It is not easy for our men to accumulate these forces, let's say In case something happens, I might get in by myself, so it’s better to be on the safe side.”

"Hehe, still leave a good impression? You are a third-rate little city lord, what are you doing to make a good impression? Do you want to become a big city lord? Or do you want to go to Paris to be a high-ranking official?"

"If you don't go, I'll go by myself! That's fine, just lend me the fleet, and I'll transport my people there by sea, okay?"

"Just the few hundred people you brought with you, what if you run into a royalist fleet along the way? It's not easy for us to get here. Can I lend you the fish?"

While everyone was arguing, an armored knight ran in and reported loudly: "Special envoy of the Revolutionary Army, stepson of Marshal Napoleon, Mr. Owen is here!"

(End of this chapter)