"A team! Lined up! Enter! ”

"Second team! Lined up! Enter! ”……

"Caution around!"

"Watch out for the trees, the trunks, the grass! Check everything! ”

"Treat the Indians as vipers! Be a hamster! They are cunning, much more cunning than you know! ”

"Shots are allowed! If an anomaly is found, direct shooting is allowed! No need to report! ”

"The barracks on both sides blocked all access to the jungle! At this time, there are only thugs and natives in the woods! Don't worry about accidental injury! ”

"Again! Direct shooting is allowed! Guns are allowed! That's an order! ”

Dressed in blue uniforms and marching drums, they walked through the woods on the shores of Lake Pontcharrain, with a team of twelve, ten in front and two behind, including ten gunners, one drummer and one commander.

There were fifty such queues in the woods, forming long, staggered horizontal columns, four columns in all, which sifted through the jungle like a comb, and eliminated possible hidden dangers by the most stupid methods.

They came from the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the Baton Rouge Corps, and the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Erwin, was known for his meticulous actions and conservative tactics.

In the limited history of the Baton Rouge Army in recent years, his army was as steady as a shrunken turtle, achieving nothing in two major victories and reversing a major defeat at the level of a rout.

That defeat, the lieutenant colonel made a deep impression.

Colleagues do not rush to grab merit when they charge, and do not waver when colleagues flee.

He turned the tide with the strength of his army, and repelled ten times as many Indians with the strength of a battalion, thus sweeping away the name of "cowardice" and winning the praise of "reliable and solid" in the mouth of his colleagues.

In the Baton Rouge Regiment, he was called the Iron Felt of Louisiana, and his battalion was called the Iron Felt Battalion.

The Iron Felt Battalion was a patient force, well-disciplined, with excellent tactics, immobile and aggressive...... Or the mountains.

Only such a force is suitable for the current situation.

After searching the lake to no avail, Lorraine told the Count of his unsubstantiated suspicions.

The Count attaches unusual importance to this, because in theory it is clearly a good move.

Even if it was just a chance, if the British did do so, he would face a dangerous flanking attack, and a limited guard and a poorly staffed Jackdaw would not be enough to ensure his safety.

Lorraine's proposal was to make a limited change to the battlefield and expand the defensive area to include the entire southern shore of the lake in the defense of the Count's mercenaries, as well as the garrison company of the Baton Rouge Legion.

But the Count had a different opinion.

Expanding the zone will dilute the frontline's strength, and diluting the front line will prevent him from reaping the fruits of victory.

So life-saving, or Paulie?

He's agitated right now.

The culprit behind the previous assassination was not yet known, but this behavior clearly encouraged the hidden enemy, the Thousand Days of Thieves, and the Earl was terrified.

He was anxious to end the war, and no longer wanted to do his best, but only to claim for himself the merits of the victor who could save his life.

This is a personal reason.

Moreover, from the perspective of the general environment, the Baton Rouge regiment was unwilling to get involved in the war between Spain and the British, and this did not change from beginning to end.

They came here with the Count only for money, to look after the spears used for smuggling, and to protect the great interests of the legion.

On the other hand, mercenaries, mainly smugglers, were also reluctant to withdraw the defense area for the Earl's personal safety, which meant that a large number of troops would not be able to achieve combat success, which would affect their smuggling efficiency.

It was not feasible to connect the two armies, and Lorraine's proposal, while reasonable, could not be done.

Who cares more about the safety of the Count's life now?

In the midst of the entanglement, the Count posed this interesting question to Lorraine.

The Count himself and the Lorraine team must have been the group that most wanted the Count to survive.

The Spaniards should also prefer a lively Galvez, because he is the only one who genuinely works hard for the Spaniards.

Aside from that, the mercenaries who are fighting for the Count probably have the best reason to care about the safety of their employers.

However, the reality is quite the opposite.

Smugglers were actually coerced into going to war.

Since the Earl took over the smuggling business of Charleville's rifles, the threshold for smugglers to do business has been artificially raised to the sky.

The cost of purchasing has not changed, the choice of merchants has become less, and the competition with peers has become a Shura field, in order to get an order, they not only have to fight for financial resources, but also for patience and life.

They wish that the Earl would die quickly, so that this deformed business model would collapse quickly, and return to the good old days when they only needed to be greedy and vain.

It was the Baton Rouge Legion that was really reluctant to let the Count die unexpectedly.

They had made a lot of money from the recent smuggling, and even the lowest soldiers had tasted the oil, all of which the Count had brought them.

The Count is the guarantor of their interests, and once the Count dies, they will lose all their money and will no longer be able to touch the slightest profit.

However, they are the last force in the parties involved who do not want the war to end.

The Earl's slowing down of the offensive after unraveling the crisis in New Orleans was largely due to their interference.

Not to mention the count's enemies among the French nobles......

With this group of people watching behind their backs, the Baton Rouge Legion as an individual, and each one of them is not worthy of being trusted.

It's really ...... Wheels within wheels.

The Count was confused by this twine-like relationship between friend and foe, but it was Lorraine who grasped at once the common denominator of all relations, interests.

In the name of performing his duties, Yacharin, who was newly promoted to adjutant, invited nearly 40 people above the rank of lieutenant colonel of the regiment to a banquet in New Orleans.

At the banquet, a heated argument broke out between Karen and Eero over the intrigues of the Indians, and the quarrel became almost universal.

The next day, the Felt Battalion was ordered to begin a jungle drill with the theme of "the Chitimacha tribe fell to the British, and the Indians intended to bypass the frontal battlefield and attack the French military camp".

The soldiers could not understand what reason the Chitimacha tribe, which had been close to France for nearly a hundred years, to turn to the British, but the soldier's duty was obedience, and Lieutenant Colonel Erwin, who had always cherished his words, did not like to explain anything to his subordinates.

This is how the training begins, and one practice is five days.

The Felt Battalion did not find any enemies in the empty jungle, and there was no intention of ending this outing, which did not know whether it was true or not.

This was a surprise to the Count, who began to reassess the value of the Baton Rouge Legion to him.

This group of lazy French soldiers did not want him to die, and there was a rare tacit understanding between them on this one thing alone.

So the Felt Battalion stepped in.

The actions of this strong army made a large-scale land ambush a false one, and it was no longer possible for the Indians or the English to block the Count's retreat, and as for small attacks, it was a matter for Cren and Eero to worry about.

Lorraine began to concentrate on preparing for the water battle, and the absence of the two strong arms of Clen and Acharin on the perennially breezy Lake Pontcharin would be a new subject.

Enemy...... Where exactly?