"Dididi!" whistles echoed through the hills of the Duchy of Mossart. A group of more than thirty horses rested among a forest on the hills, and a group of soldiers wearing Kaman uniforms were sitting or lying on the ground.

"Captain, it's the signal of the co-captain. A soldier listened attentively to the signals in the mountains and excitedly turned back to report.

Before the words could be spoken, there was a rustling sound in the distant jungle, and before everyone could react, a row of the same horses galloped over the low bushes.

"Captain!", "Captain!" the soldiers resting under the tree got up one after another, "How's the situation?" asked gossiply.

The middle-aged officer, who had just dismounted, took off the water bladder and took a big sip, "Be quiet, let me take a breath." Seeing that the wing commander had spoken, the soldiers fell silent.

"At present, we are about a hundred miles away from the camp of the Red Water River, and eighty miles in front of us is the Chaos Ridge, the northwest gateway of Mossat City, according to the information provided by the commander of the home army, the Chaos Territory is still controlled by a part of the New Ninth Army for the time being, and the rebels are going south to surround Mosat City. This is indeed the case with our investigation, except for a small number of rebel scouts, there are basically no regular troops, and my horse has been running for a whole day and a night, exhausted, and has not encountered the so-called rebels. ”

"Shall we move on, Captain?" asked one of the squad leaders.

"To move forward, it is necessary to ensure that the passage of the army between the Chaos Ridge is safe. De Witt, take your people, go back to deliver the letter, the others, hurry up and rest. The wing captain gave an order to the squad leader who had just spoken.

The scout wing of one hundred and fifty men, after leaving the camp on the banks of the Red Water River, began to probe the battle situation forward. The wing was divided into two, the wing leader personally led half of the men in the direction of Chaos Ridge to the east, and the other half of the men, led by the deputy wing leader, probed south.

At the same time, Kist took his 13th Regiment and set up camp on the east side of the Hongshui River, and Commander Christet finally returned to the camp on the riverside with the last 1,200 soldiers gathered.

"Rika, select three hundred elites from the army and act with the head of the corps, and I will take the rest to the turnaround field. However, we also have conditions, in all battles, we can obey the command of the New Sixth Army, but the ceremony of entering the city, your native army must be the first. ”

After some negotiations, Kerst also agreed to the other party's suggestion, he understood what Commander Christet meant, and the first home army to enter the city was very beneficial to the recovery of people's hearts. He couldn't help but glance up at Commander Christit, "It's a powerful character." ”

While the Scout Wing was galloping through the territory of Mosat, General Calvin and the main forces of the 12th and 13th regiments finally rushed to the banks of the Hongshui River.

Kester guessed correctly again, these remnants of the army really can't fight, and finding a way to let them do something can improve their morale.

General Calvin was very satisfied with the preliminary work of the past few days, including the establishment of a forward camp on the east bank of the Red Water River, including the scouting and the establishment of a supply yard on the side of the Morro River in the rear. Basically, after I came, I didn't need to add anything.

General Calvin's headquarters was also located on the east bank of the Hongshui River, and the entire New Sixth Army, except for a battalion of the 14th Regiment and material logistics troops left on the west bank, all crossed the river.

In General Calvin's headquarters, in addition to the three regimental commanders Duncan, Clark and Koster, there are also two Mossat representatives, Commander Christit and Commander Rika, and now, the Carman Army and the Mossat Army have officially formed an alliance.

Commander Christit is giving General Calvin a detailed account of the Mossat rebellion.

Last winter, around the time when Koster became the head of the 13th Regiment, "Sawyer", an ordinary miner in the Tara Basin mine, an important industrial town in Mosat, killed a number of overseers and foremen because he could not bear the abuse of the foreman, and led the workers of the Tara mine to rebel.

The reasons for the rebellion are complicated, and Christit, as a middle-level officer, has no way to fully explain it, it is nothing more than oppression and abuse, and these miners are all civilians after all.

After taking the mine and the attached smelter, Sawyer immediately occupied the city of Tara, which was next to the mine, and armed an army of about 4,000 men, mainly miners and smelter workers, with the weapons stockpiled in Tara.

The first battle was organized spontaneously by six nobles whose fiefdom was near the Tara Basin, who underestimated the number of rebels and were wiped out in one day.

The morale-boosting rebels, after leaving the city of Tara, swept north through the western wilderness of the Duchy of Mosat, an area where a large number of rural nobles of the Duchy of Mosat gathered, and about fifty low-ranking nobles owned orchards and farmland. At present, the remnants of the army gathered on the banks of the Hongshui River are mainly the subordinates of these nobles.

After sweeping and looting the western wilderness, the rebel army of 4,000 men swelled to tens of thousands, including how many farmers and slaves were coerced, we do not know.

After completing the sweep of the western wilderness of the Duchy of Mosat, Blackbeard's rebels did not have the courage to cross the Red Water River into the territory of Kaman, but turned around and headed southeast after robbing a small city in the west, "West Wilderness Town".

At this time, the entire Duchy of Mozart had already reacted, and the Grand Duke was furious, and all the nobles around the capital Mozart City were conscripted, forming a native army of more than 10,000 people, plus the new Ninth Army of the Shang League, which was still training outside the city, and 20,000 people were sent to suppress the rebels.

However, it backfired, those high-ranking nobles had been pampered for many years, and they had long since lost the martial arts of their ancestors, and the training of the New Ninth Army was extremely poor, and more than 20,000 people fought a big battle against the rebels in the Rivette Hills, a hundred and fifty miles southwest of Mosat. To everyone's surprise, Duke Mosat's regular army was defeated, and was completely routed by the rebels in the field, leaving only a few thousand remnants of the army to retreat to the city of Mosat.

The frightened Duke of Mosat, and dozens of his noble lords, hid behind the city wall and shivered, except for sending some officers to collect the soldiers, they only dared to take advantage of the darkness to release flamingos to ask for help from the lord of the merchant alliance~ Xi Hui.

After defeating the Grand Duke's Blackbeard, he became more and more vigorous, and he proclaimed himself "Prince Tara", named several of his main officers the "Four Dukes", and vowed to set foot in the city of Mosat.

After a brief respite in the Rivette hills, part of the army went south to the granary of Mossat and looted all the wheat and grain there, and the other part, led by Blackbeard, surrounded the city of Mosat.

Fortunately, Mozart City is a rare all-stone castle, and the rebels who lack heavy weapons and siege experience have no way to take them for the time being.

Hearing Christit's introduction, Koster got up and added to General Calvin, "I've sent all my scouts out to investigate the military situation east to Mossat City and the situation south of Mosat. ”

General Calvin waved his hand imperceptibly and motioned for Koster to sit down, "Commander Christit, I want to ask, is there really more than 30,000 rebels now?"

Commander Christit thought for a moment, "There are indeed so many people, but there are a large number of slaves and prisoners, and I personally think that the real combatants are around fifteen thousand, and Blackbeard's core army is probably still a few thousand of his miners." ”

"That Blackbeard, what his fighting style is. ”

Speaking of this, Christit couldn't help but exchange glances with Rika beside him, "Don't hide it from General Calvin, we don't know much about Blackbeard himself, we only know that he was originally just a miner, and after taking Tara City, he has been like a headless fly, and he is not clear about his plan." ”

"But," Christit said, "after the battle of Tara (Note 2), the entire rebel army was like a different leader, frantically biting around, looking at their marching map, in just over two months, they had crossed almost the entire territory of Mosat, and we suspect that Blackbeard himself had a clever strategist by his side to help him with advice." ”

That was the end of Christit's introduction, and after saluting General Calvin, she sat down. General Calvin didn't say anything, but slowly looked at the surrounding regiment commanders.

Clark was the first to lose his breath, "General, you just say how we fight, I don't believe it, thousands of miners can have such strong combat effectiveness." ”

Rika couldn't help but smile on the side, "There really are, and besides, they are not a few thousand, but now there are more than thirty thousand." ”

General Calvin stretched out his hand to stop Clark, who still wanted to refute, "It's an exaggeration to say that there are more than 30,000 troops. We, Kaman, you Mosat, with the size of our two countries, can feed 20,000 troops, which is already good. Moreover, after all, only three months have passed, and the growth of the rebels cannot be so fast, and afterwards, you dukes should think about why this is. ”

"Then what do we do now, General!" asked Koster, too.

General Calvin carefully examined the map and did not say a word, and the regimental commanders did not speak, and Rika and Christit glanced at each other, feeling a little bad.

"Koster", finally, General Calvin's gaze off the map, "You're right, keep up with your scouts, and go to Chaos Ridge first." It was a key point to attack and defend, and it was not on the rebels' main attack route. Duncan, you march twenty miles to the south, protecting the flanks of Kerth. Clark, your 14th Regiment, stay with me on the banks of the Red Water River for the time being, we need to build more heavy weapons, let's go with the weapons. ”

Seeing that General Calvin had arranged the task, Rika couldn't help but stand up, "General, what about our home army?"

Note 1: The news that comes from the war is always wrong. The weapons and equipment smelted in the Tara Basin are generally stored in the warehouses of Tara City, rather than in the smelters. Earlier, the information obtained by Koster and others was incorrect.

Note 2: The Battle of Tara, the battle mentioned above, in which the nearby nobles spontaneously led their retainers to quell the rebellion and were wiped out.