Tosh was the staff officer of the Vega Brigade.

Before entering this brigade, Vega used to be his faith, and he has always regarded it as the most worthy commander to follow.

Until he was transferred by various means to the separate brigade 'Victory'.

He eventually discovers that reality and fantasy are completely different.

First of all.

Vega never took the initiative to ask for the opinion of the staff committee, which made him useless as a well-known staff officer who wanted to make a show, and he even felt that he was inferior to the adjutant Iro.

Second.

Even if he took the initiative, Vega never followed the advice of his staff.

Whether it was the previous battles, large and small, or the recent battles between Saint Radiance City and Saint Laurent City, even if he cited dozens of pieces of evidence to prove that it was absolutely impossible to win the attack on Saint Radiance City and Saint Laurent, in the end, Vega still insisted on going his own way.

But didn't the end result be a victory?

There is nothing to be dissatisfied with, the facts have proven his opinion wrong.

Perhaps this is the case from what has happened, but as a professional staff officer, Tosh is not a civilian who is short-sighted. Although the final victory was indeed beyond his expectations, ah, what is the use of taking Saint Laurent and the city of Saint Radiance?

Vega was killing herself, Tosh was completely sure of that.

And because Dandry, the commander of the independent brigade 'Victory', was directly killed by Vega, Tosh felt that he was the second-in-command of this force, and he had the obligation and must be responsible for the lives of the soldiers.

Therefore.

At the meeting, when he heard that Vega was going to find Thea, that the affairs were to be handed over to the adjutant Iro, and that Mennonite's sailors were arranged to control public opinion, he knew that the opportunity to return home had come.

Not two days after Vega left, Tosh began his plans.

As a staff officer with a professional background, the ability to draw up plans and implement plans naturally goes without saying, and because he is the chief staff officer in the army, he can get in touch with the core of the army in peacetime, so it is not too simple to copy the operation of the naval army.

bribe the trolls and spread rumors...... It should be called the truth!

A set of combo punches.

Mennonite was thus caught off guard and thus lost the opportunity of public opinion.

At this time, he ordered the navy to control public opinion, but it was too late, and in the end, Tosh commanded the army.

With the kingdom on the offensive, Tosh's plan came to an end.

By now, the whole city is already panicked, and the civilians dare to throw stones at the Imperial soldiers today, or in a few days the angry populace and the recruit army will point their guns at the Imperial soldiers, and the truth will be revealed that Vega is not in the city at that time.

In the case of intensified internal contradictions and a frantic attack by the royal army outside.

When the time comes, as long as he lets the navy take the lead, then the soldiers will support him to the command platform, and then he can directly order the whole army to break through and retreat, and use this army to go north and return to the empire safely.

As for Vega's life or death?

Tosh didn't care about an officer who didn't value his staff officers, it was just his former idol, an officer without a vision.

No matter how powerful such an officer is, it is not worth following.

He picked up the plan and threw it into the fire, and tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, his plan would be completed, and he, Tosh, would be the savior of the army, and he would let Vega know the fate of offending the staff.

But on the second day.

Tosh, who was originally calm and sat firmly in the Diaoyutai, received a message.

The winds of public opinion shifted, and overnight, the commoners and recruits of the dynasty were convinced of the news that Princess Siasan was in the palace, and more people signed up for the army, vowing to defend the city of Saint Laurent.

In addition to dynasties, there were also imperial soldiers who changed their attitudes.

Early in the morning, it was rumored in the army that General Vega had broken through the ranks, but he closed his retreat again and thought about the strategy of breaking the enemy, saying that he would use 20,000 people to swallow the kingdom's 20 armies, so that the kingdom would know what a real war was.

"What a joke!"

Tosh's lungs are about to explode.

Is there a possibility of winning 20,000 against 200,000?

No, now is not the time to dwell on this.

Tosh was the one who really knew about it, and he wouldn't know if Vega and the princess weren't in the city?Who was talking nonsense in the open, was it the damned traitor Menno?

"Sooner or later, I will cut off the heads of traitors in this kingdom with my own hands. ”

Anger did not engulf Tosh's reason, and he was very puzzled in his heart, for more than a month, Mennonite had been eaten to death by him, and now what way could he change the direction of public opinion in the entire city of Saint Laurent overnight?

"Soldier, tell me. ”

Tosh casually asked a passing Imperial soldier, "Who told you that General Vega is still in Saint Laurent?" ”

"Huh, don't you know?"

The soldier looked at the staff officer Tosh suspiciously and said: "The commander of the regiment all claimed that General Vega went out of the customs last night, and all the officers were invited to the dinner, and then General Vega retreated again to think about countermeasures. ”

I chuckled in my heart.

Tosh's face turned blue with fright, and he couldn't help but mutter, "Could it be that Vega has returned?"

Fearful, he went to the military headquarters to find out what was going on, but he found that a large number of senior officers did not know what was going on, just like him. Even if questioned, Adjutant Ilo only told him not to deny the matter in public, and violators of military law will be dealt with.

Vega hasn't returned yet.

From Iro's words, Tosh instantly understood the key, and even thought of the entire operation.

On the way back, he asked a few civilians in a row, and the answer was that the princess was still in Saint Laurent, Lord xxx was of noble character and upright, what Lord XXX said could be false?

Back in the officers' quarters, Tosh slapped his thigh in frustration.

He never thought of using the status of these celebrities and sages and high-ranking military officers to make a fuss, this top-down method of controlling public opinion is much more efficient than his bottom-down method.

"This Mennonite also has two brushes. ”

"No, this must have been arranged in advance by Vega before leaving. ”

Perhaps, he had expected the situation to deteriorate to this extent, and deliberately left it behind. ”

"In a way, I'm really inferior. ”

After laughing self-deprecatingly, Tosh said confidently: "It's a pity that you never expected that there would be a staff officer like me interfering in public opinion, even if your methods are powerful, but the fake is fake after all, and it can still be messed up." ”

Tosh has figured it out.

As an imitator, he is destined to be unable to surpass the forerunner of public opinion operation, and the operation mode without innovation is destined to be unable to keep up with the rhythm of the forerunner, but he also has a decisive chess piece in his hand that reverses the direction of the wind-

His staff membership.

As soon as he, as a core officer, stood up and declared: Vega and Thea were no longer in the city, then Mennonite's public opinion would be self-defeating, because there was no more authoritative existence in the whole of Saint Laurent in this matter.

He didn't plan to use this piece at first.

Once used, it means that he is openly rebelling, and Mennonite and Iloh will guess that he is the mastermind behind this matter.

If Vega had been in the city, he would have died without a body.

But as long as Vega is not there, you can be a little relieved.

After all, he is the real second-in-command of the army, a mere adjutant and a traitor to the kingdom, which will not affect his control of the army at all.

Tosh straightened his uniform and headed for the Place Royale in Yves Saint Laurent, where he wanted to make the matter public, radically exacerbating the conflict between the commoners, the recruits, and the soldiers of the Empire.

Therefrom.

The next day, he would be able to take control of the military with all the expectations and give the order to retreat.

Tosh raised his head to look at the gloomy sky, and said slowly: "Originally, I still wanted to play the role of a loyal minister, and I didn't want to fight for the notoriety of betraying the commander, but in order to send the soldiers back to the empire safely, and in order to be able to go back alive, I will definitely not back down." ”

"I'm right. ”

Tosh clenched his fists: "Defending Saint Laurent and trying to defeat the 200,000 Kingdom Army is simply a joke with everyone's lives, and now it is the most correct choice to break through to the north." ”