After discovering that his soldiers were contemptuous of the orcs, Rasmussen suddenly had a hint of foreboding in his heart.

Next, Rasmussen received a piece of news that shocked him. The 200,000 orc soldiers who left not only burned and slaughtered all over western Byzantium, but even organized a systematic massacre of the city. In just five days, hundreds of thousands of civilians in the west have died tragically under the butcher's knives of the orcs, and now that a few days have passed, Rasmussen can no longer even imagine the number of civilian deaths today.

Rasmussen knew that the orcs were forcing him into battle.

Under the deliberate weakness of the orc soldiers, the Byzantine soldiers' fear of the orc soldiers is gradually weakening, coupled with the bad news that their relatives have been killed in their hometown, the Byzantine soldiers' cries for war are unprecedentedly high.

Rasmussen felt that he was becoming more and more unable to suppress his subordinates' desire to fight.

Rasmussen knew very well that if he blindly avoided the war and insisted on not taking the initiative to attack before joining forces with Field Marshal Harris, then even if the war was won in the end, he would be ruined. At that time, all the credit will probably go to Marshal Harris, and in order to give an account of the killing of so many civilians in the war, any accusations of fearing the enemy like a tiger, greedy for life and fearing death, and causing the people to be slaughtered will be pinned on his head, and he will definitely fall into a situation from which he will never recover.

However, is there a decisive battle with the orcs now? Although this can block the mouths of the people in the future, it is a joke about the lives of 500,000 soldiers and the victory or defeat of this war!

Rasmussen closed his eyes in agony, not knowing what to do.

A war horse rushed into the barracks of the Byzantine army like the wind, and immediately the officers were dusty and dusty. After seeing the position of the commander's banner flying high in the air, he immediately galloped towards the commander's tent under the commander of the army. The officer's armor bears a separate mark, in addition to the insignia of the Byzantine army. That was the mark of the army of the Duchy of Iberia in the Byzantine Empire.

The horse galloped to Rasmussen's tent, and the officer, after stopping his horse, immediately turned over and dismounted, and rushed into the tent.

After seeing the armor mark of the officer who rushed in from outside the tent, Rasmussen's face changed, and he immediately stood up from his seat and shouted: "Is something wrong with the Principality of Iberia?

After the Iberian officer entered the tent, it was obvious that he was too flustered because of the fatigue of the long journey, and he was out of breath when he spoke, and stumbled: "Great, general...... Your Excellency, Latoo, the capital of the Principality, was breached by the Orcs two days ago...... The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Iberia, as well as the princess, have ...... Already fled to the Verdun fortress. The orcs are now slaughtering the city, and the casualties among the citizens of Latoo are temporarily ...... Unknown. ”

"What? The army directly under the Principality of Iberia should have 40,000 people, right? Among them, there are 30,000 troops stationed in the capital Latoo, and the 200,000 troops of the orcs are divided into four clusters, attacking the three western provinces and the Principality of Iberia respectively, so the strength of the orcs to attack the Principality of Iberia will not exceed 50,000 at most! Latoo's city is tall and strong, and if the orc army wants to capture Latoo, it must have at least three times more troops than the defenders of Latoo, but in just a few days, the 30,000 Duchy army has lost Latoo? I've only requisitioned the Imperial troops stationed in the Duchy, the direct troops of the Duchy, and I haven't recruited a single one at all!" Rasmussen snarled angrily at the Iberian officer, his eyes bloodshot.

It's no wonder Rasmussen was furious. Since the Archduke of Iberia is the younger brother of the Empress Dowager of the Byzantine Empire, Rasmussen deliberately did not ask the direct army of the Principality of Iberia to go out when he sent troops to defend the Syndicate City, because he was afraid that if the orcs split a group of troops and horses to attack the Principality of Iberia, without the protection of the army directly under the Principality, the Archduke of Iberia would be in danger. If the Grand Duke really has three long and two short, the anger of the Queen Mother behind the Grand Duke is not something he can bear!

At this time, the Iberian officer had already relieved his breath and stopped stammering: "Your Excellency, the Grand Duke sent the Duchy's army to the city of Latoo to attack the orc army after seeing the orc army invade the territory of the principality, and he was so angry that he was angry that he sent the Duchy army to the city of Latoo to attack the orc army. Unfortunately, due to being outnumbered, the army of the principality was defeated. Later, Latoo was left unarmed, and this fell into the hands of the orcs. ”

"Nonsense, this is complete nonsense. Obviously, he could rely on Latoo's city defense advantage to hold the city, but he had to go out of the city to fight the orcs and kill himself. When he was young, he was a famous general, and he had never made such a low-level mistake!" Rasmussen heard that it was the Archduke's erroneous command that led to the fall of Latoo, and that he knew that the Grand Duke's life was safe, and his concern for the Grand Duke immediately turned into anger towards the Grand Duke.

In his rage, Rasmussen did not hold back for a moment, and his words were quite disrespectful to the Grand Duke.

When the Iberian officer heard Rasmussen's insulting remarks, his face immediately turned red, and a bruise broke out on his neck: "Your Excellency, I don't know what qualifications you have to insult the Grand Duke? Although the Grand Duke was defeated, he was still glorious in defeat! The Grand Duke was defeated in order to protect his own people! Is it not shameful for an army that has not done anything in the face of the enemy's slaughter of our unarmed people? There are some things that you need to know you can't do.'"

"Do it when you know you can't do it!" Rasmussen said slowly, his face turning pale. He slumped back into his seat.

It turned out that the Archduke of Iberia was not an old fool, he just made a choice when faced with the same choice as himself. Judging from the final choice of the Archduke of Iberia, he is also afraid that the crowd will be ruined and ruined!

Rasmussen's body trembled. Should he make the same choice as the Archduke of Iberia?

Outside the handsome tent, it suddenly became full of people.

A Byzantine officer walked into the tent with a look of disease.

"What's going on?" Rasmussen's voice was hoarse and deep, as if he had suddenly aged ten years.