Both the adjutant and Kenny believed that Archduke William should shrink his defenses at this time, relying on the defense of the city of Ryan with high walls and deep ravines, coupled with the rich material storage in the city of Rien, which was enough to hold on to the Grizzly Legion, and as long as they could hold on, there would definitely be a turnaround. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

But William, who has a tough personality, never thinks that he can survive by blindly defending, you must know that if you defend for a long time, you will lose, and no matter how strong the city wall is, it will not be able to stop the enemy's attack, not to mention that William's men do not have so many soldiers to defend the city in turn. William, who is an attacking man, knows that his only chance is to ambush the Grizzlies once again, and only then can he fight small and win as much as possible.

But even if William wants to ambush the Grizzlies, it will not be an easy task. The morale of the remnants of his defeated soldiers, the choice of the location and time of the ambush, and how to hide from the nobles in the city of Rien were all difficult problems in front of William.

William looked at the topographic map of the city of Ryan in his hand, and deeply admired the foresight of his father, the old Grand Duke Wagner, who had the idea of raising troops, and had already sent people to map the mountains and rivers in the Varu Empire one by one for the needs of war. Now William has found a suitable place to set up an ambush from this topographic map: Pearl Valley.

It was a series of valleys, small valleys connected one after the other like a necklace of pearls, and William's intention was to set up ambushes in these small valleys and use false ambushes to confuse McShuna. With McShuner's temperament, when they encounter suspicion, they will definitely ask the soldiers to be vigilant and waiting, and when they keep encountering different situations in the valley, they will become more and more nervous, until they will have a mental relaxation after they have successfully walked out of the Pearl Valley, and at that time, William will be waiting for them outside the Pearl Valley.

As for the soldiers' will to fight and morale, Archduke William gently stroked his forehead, since the defeat of Oz City, those soldiers who fled back with Archduke William have all lost their souls and are powerless, even if the officers are scolded and whipped, they are only like the walking dead and mechanically obey orders, completely devoid of the spirit of the past. The fall of his hometown, the death of his colleagues, and the blows of Archduke Wilhelm are also bearing, so he understands the feelings of those soldiers very well, if it were not for the glory of the Wagner family to remind and inspire him at all times, I am afraid William would have been decadent long ago.

Glory, glory, these are getting farther and farther away from the current Archduke Wilhelm.

Walking out, William came to the temporary barracks station. Before entering the barracks, I saw from a distance that there was no one at the sentry post at the entrance of the barracks, and the gate of the barracks was so wide open, as if everyone was welcome to visit casually. Archduke William walked into the barracks station, and there were some soldiers sitting lazily in the barracks around him, even if Archduke William approached, they still looked listless, and they didn't bother to pay attention to anyone at all.

Looking at these decadent soldiers, Archduke William's heart felt a pang of sadness, this is the strong army he has spent years building, and it was beaten like this in just one battle. But in an instant, a wave of anger swelled up in William's heart, how could the soldiers he had painstakingly trained be so depressed and decadent, how could he be so unable to withstand the blow of defeat?

"Assemble! assemble!" commanded Archduke Wilhelm in a loud voice. He even ran to some of the lazy, sloppy soldiers and personally kicked them in the ass to urge them. Hearing Archduke William's order, several officers ran out of the barracks and assisted Archduke William to reluctantly gather the soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit. Of course, you can't ask too much for the queue military posture or something.

"Look at you, one by one, are you still worthy of being elite soldiers?, no, are you still worthy of being a soldier?" reprimanded Archduke William.

"Yes, we were defeated by those hateful Lorraine mages, I admit it, but that's not a reason for your decadence! We've been kicked out of our homes, tell me! You tell me out loud! Don't you want to fight back and regain our lost homeland? Don't you want to go back to the South at all? Don't you want to be with your family again?"

Archduke William shouted at the top of his voice, and his high-pitched questions woke up the languishing soldiers.

"Yes, of course!" replied a muscular soldier with tears in his eyes.

"But, what are we going to do back? are we alone?" the soldier asked, weeping, wiping tears from his eyes.

"Alas!" a sigh came out of the mouths of the soldiers, and everyone had little hope for them.

"Tony, I remember your name is Tony, and you were the first to sign up when I was recruiting in the small town of Rania three years ago!" William called out the soldier's name.

"I remember that you have a younger sister at home, don't you want to answer the beautiful town of Rania again and reunite with your parents and sister?"

"And you, Aaron, I remember you had a beautiful fiancée, don't you want to go home, don't you miss her?"

"You, Buck, your mother has always been in poor health, you came to the army just to earn some military merits and save some money to treat her, are you just so decadent, regardless of whether your mother lives or dies?"

Archduke William called out the names of the soldiers one by one, asked them one by one, and the soldiers he asked were all crying with tears in their eyes, from left to right, after asking a row of soldiers, Archduke William looked at them who were crying, and said loudly: "I don't know if you want to go home, if you want to be family, but I tell you, I want to!"

"I want to go back to the south, I want to see my people again, I want to go back to the Grand Duke's Mansion again, I want to make my homeland more beautiful and rich, I want my people to live more stable and happy, for all this! Even if I die, I will die on the way home!"

The sonorous voice of Archduke Wilhelm shook the hearts of the soldiers, yes, who would not want to go home, who would want to be adrift in a foreign land?

The big man Tony wiped the tears on his face with his sleeve fiercely, and said loudly: "Your Excellency, I am willing to follow your side, I want to go home, I want to return to my hometown, return to my family, whoever dares to stop me, I will fight with him!"

"Yes, we want to go home too, we are all willing to follow you, as long as you are willing to take us home! we will fight with them!" the soldiers were full of emotions and shouted loudly, although their voices were chaotic, but William's heart was secretly happy that the morale of the soldiers had finally returned. (To be continued.) )