Three days later.

In the evening, there was still silence in the positions of Falkenridge's army on the southern outskirts of Dean City, and the time for Grand Duke Jon to make a final counterattack by McCarthy had arrived, but it was clear that McCarthy's group had not carried out this order, and had not even thought of attacking tentatively to deal with it.

The battle did not break out at dinner, and both sides were preparing their own meals for the evening, and the Falkenridges were fed much better than the Stasi, and some troops were even given dehydrated peas and some dried vegetable leaves. Everyone talked and laughed in their trenches, rejoicing in the increasingly comfortable life on the front line.

There wasn't any decent food on Stasy's side, at least in the McCarthy cluster, which was far away from Dean City. Most of the soldiers had only a few poor potatoes for food, and a few troops had only some moldy expired food to feed on.

In the afternoon, Falkenridge's army concentrated all sorts of artillery and mobilized a full fifty Hellfire Cavalry to launch a heavy fire raid on the positions of the Stasi defenders.

The flames continued like a torrential rain for half an hour before they stopped, and some of the positions of Stasi's army were completely destroyed by the heavy artillery fire, so that McCarthy finally had to give up these places that had been changed beyond recognition.

"But, General McCarthy...... In this way, instead of carrying out the order to attack, we have abandoned part of our defensive position, if His Excellency the Grand Duke Jon had known about it...... We're in a dangerous situation. ”

The chief of staff pinched his own cup, to his superiors, and the last hope of Stasi's army, General McCarthy said.

McCarthy looked at the map of the war zone that he had looked at countless times, and watched one place after another that he had memorized in his heart become occupied by the Falkenridges, and his heart was even more sad. He pointed to the stout arrows on the map that represented Falkenridge's troops, and sighed helplessly, "I said a long time ago, a counterattack will only lead to a faster demise. Using our limited forces to hold back the enemy in urban street battles is what we should be doing now. ”

"But, General, the last envoy sent by Archduke Jon has left us an ultimatum, telling us that if we do not attack tonight, then Archduke Jon will send someone to replace us, and arrest us and hang us. ”

The Chief of Staff leaned back in his chair and spoke.

McCarthy laughed out loud, and after laughing twice, he turned to his chief of staff, and said in a very witty tone, "Who will replace me?" If His Excellency Lord Jon could find a replacement for me in his group of rubbish, he would have had us arrested two days ago. Who's going to be in my position at this time? I'm afraid no one wills, right?"

Sure enough, in the underground bunker of Dean City, far away, Grand Duke Jon was angry that McCarthy refused to carry out his orders, and in front of a group of generals and officials, Grand Duke Jon threw his beloved golden cane, and then lashed out at McCarthy for being a bad wolf without conscience, just like the nobles of Thorobart.

"Bastard, this is a betrayal of me, a betrayal of the great motherland and his oath! Why doesn't he attack? Does he want to watch me be killed in Dean City?"

After confirming that McCarthy did not lead the rest of his army to attack Falkenridge's army, Grand Duke Jon slapped the table and shouted to a group of military advisers and officials.

"Lord Jon, this is McCarthy's personal betrayal of the entire Stasi! I suggest that he should be stripped of his rank of General Stacy immediately, and then find someone to take over the troops under his command, and take these troops to attack Falkenridge's army, and relieve the pressure on the front of Dean City!"

A military advisor looked at Grand Duke Jon, who was already in a trance in front of him, and finally suggested - at this time, he didn't care about using the honorific title prescribed by Grand Duke Jon, and of course Grand Duke Jon himself didn't have much energy to pay attention to this matter.

Not all people in high positions are really capable people, and sometimes the only thing they know about these small people who have taken advantage of special times to reach the top is how to frame others. As soon as the situation becomes out of their control and prediction, they are thrown into disarray, forgetting even the most basic principles in panic.

"So, you're going to take the place of McCarthy?"

Karl, who had been standing to the left of Archduke Jon, was clearly a real man, and when he heard this suggestion, he raised his eyebrows, and his cold eyes stared at the fool who was talking nonsense, and he wanted to kick it over and shut his mouth forever.

"I ...... Of course not, but there are still many high-level generals......"

The general, too, knew that he had said the wrong thing, and his voice grew quieter, but he still did not want to lose face in front of the Grand Duke Jon, and finally quietly bumped Karl, and then closed his mouth in amusement.

Before Karl could speak, he was interrupted by Grand Duke Jon. Now the titular leader of the whole of Stacy, a time-traveler from another world, is a little delirious, and when he speaks, he occasionally bursts out a few words that people don't understand, and the indistinct ones must be listened carefully to be able to distinguish: "General Carr, do you mean that McCarthy is irreplaceable in his troops? This is a very dangerous act! This is to treat the troops of our motherland as his own private army!"

At this time, if you still hold your hat, can you really hang McCarthy, who can fight well, and then replace him with a fool, you can change the tide of the war?

Karl glanced at Grand Duke Jon, who was angry, and for a moment questioned whether his choice was correct. He didn't know how long he could hold out, or what reason he could find in this group of people who had already been defeated.

"Attack! Attack! McCarthy's troops have launched a counterattack in the southwest!" an officer glanced at General Karl, whose face was already as gray as the bottom of a pot, and felt that the atmosphere in the room was very wrong, and quickly said: "McCarthy's troops have just begun to attack!"

Everyone looked at this inconspicuous little character in the room, as if waiting for him to continue speaking: "Before the start of this meeting, General McCarthy finally tried his best to mobilize half a division of troops and decided to launch an attack on the southwest corner of the city of Dean! Look at the time, it should have started by now, right?"

His haste gave Karl a glimmer of hope, and he quickly stood up and said, "Your Excellency Grand Duke Jon, General McCarthy did not refuse your order at all, but because the troops were too scarce to launch a counterattack on time. We'll wait a few more hours and we'll hear the good news of his counterattack. ”

"Then let's wait for him to attack! at least he's always on the front line, and he's a little more familiar with the environment than we are. The general, who was trembling with fear from Karl's eyes, quickly echoed and said, "Let's wait another hour...... No, wait two more hours! If he doesn't attack, then discuss the removal and trial of him!"

If you really dare to remove McCarthy, there is a possibility that the army will mutini immediately! When the time comes, Falkenridge's army will cover up and enter the city, and you and I will die without a place to be buried! Karl swallowed this sentence, because on the other side, Grand Duke Jon had already spoken: "Very good! Just follow this plan!"

With a few hours of delay, Karl naturally had a way of fooling Archduke Jon. When he returned to his headquarters, he immediately ordered all his soldiers to shoot and fight another limited battle with Falkenridge's army. He wanted to use an offensive operation that didn't exist at all, and the results that didn't exist, to cover up the fact of disobedience for McCarthy.

An hour later, Grand Duke Jon and his men heard artillery fire from a distant land, and the sound of fires and explosions in the night made Grand Duke Jon feel refreshed.

He seems to have forgotten his order to hang McCarthy, and issued a message to commend McCarthy for not launching any attack - for a ridiculous reason, he even praised McCarthy for launching the attack on time, repelling the attack of the Falkenridges, and turning the tide of the entire Dean City.

In this attack, a whole squad of officers of Dean City fell in the path of the charge, all of them poor people who were crushed by despair and reality, and voluntarily chose to sacrifice their bodies for their country. The officers led the charge and fought so stubbornly that they pushed a portion of Falkenridge's army back some distance.

"I think Archduke Jon is crazy, why should he reward me, a sinner who didn't obey orders?"

McCarthy smiled wryly and threw the compliments on his desk, complaining to the chief of staff next to him: "He's judging the current situation in the office based on his voice and a bunch of idiots, and that's a joke with his own life!"

"I think this is his last resort to comfort himself. ”

The chief of staff looked at the document, and then put it on McCarthy's desk again: "He is now more willing to believe lies, to believe in combat plans that are simply impossible to achieve...... I don't want to believe the truth we say, and I don't want to believe that we are still fighting for this country until the last minute. ”

However, the next moment, before his words could fall, a terrible air raid siren suddenly sounded in the air.

About seven thousand meters away from this headquarters, a specially modified Hellfire Cavalry was opening its bomb magazine and dropping a huge bomb towards the center of Dean City.