On the walls of Rwanacre, Lidakus's face looked terrible, the situation became more and more severe, the weather was cloudy and rainy, the temperature dropped below freezing, the ice could be seen on the city walls, the woods outside the city had been cut down, on the one hand, the enemy could not be left with wood to make siege equipment, on the other hand, the sight of the defenders on the city walls could be widened, and the wilderness outside the city was full of refugees waiting to enter the city, dense queues, with bleak sadness and helplessness on their faces, dragging their families and pulling the wagons, from outside the city to miles away

"Let the gate guards show me the list of counts!" Lidarchus finished inspecting the defenses, walked down the wall and instructed the lieutenant behind him, "I need to know how many people have entered the city in the last few days."

"Yes, Lord Governor!" the adjutant nodded, and hurried away, and soon he brought the statistical roster from the city guard,

"What a surprise!" Lidakus flipped through the roster, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "These refugees are all from the border area, the southwest army carried out a comprehensive sweep of the border area, drove them all out, and set fire to their houses, in just a few days, the number of refugees who fled to Rwanaca City exceeded 50,000, you know, the total number of people in the entire Rwanaca region is less than 100,000, that is, the entire Rwanaca is forced to stand on our side!"

"That's what I said, but with so many people pouring in at once, I'm afraid there will be a problem with our food!" said the adjutant with an ugly face

"Food is not a problem!" Lidakus smiled disapprerovingly, and closed the roster in his hand, "Have you ever heard of people starving to death in areas near the sea? Although it is winter, the water temperature in the inner bend of Rwanaca is higher than that outside, and a large number of fish are unconsciously concentrated in the inner bend, as long as the fishing manpower is increased, at least we can survive this winter, but the other party did not expect that they did us a great favor by doing this" "Among these refugees, there are many young people who are suitable for fighting. In normal times, it would have been almost impossible to recruit so many people, but now, it is only necessary to ensure that they and their families have a safe place and food!

The adjutant respectfully wrote down Lidakus's words with a pen, and the adjutant's name was Nelson, who was Lidakus's right-hand man in logistics. He has been with Lidarchus for 5 years, close to forty-five years old, his temples are already covered with gray hair, and he looks like an old-fashioned person, but in fact, Nelson has a flexible mind, is good at mental arithmetic, and has a knack for accounts.

He was a very cautious man. Nor in his sleep, he has a penchant for revealing military secrets to anyone,

The affairs of the logistics department seem to be complicated and useless, but in fact, they belong to the key secret agencies that are named by the fat man every time. Otherwise, the enemy only needs to understand the logistics movement, and can easily judge the Falcon Army's next plan, the scale of the mobilized troops, and the composition of the troops. If there is a lot of fodder for the war horse, it must be a cavalry, and if there are many arrows. It must be the infantry that is dispatched, and if it is an armor-piercing crossbow arrow cluster, it must be the Imperial Central Army

As the brain executive of the logistics department, Nelson's storage zài allows Lidakus's logistics transfer to be completed in a kind of ease, and therefore, the officers of the logistics department have exercised their due rights, that is, when the boss is not present, everyone openly talks about the boss's rights, and uses their imagination to guess the reason for the bad mood of the logistics department's brain.

Some people guess that it may be because he didn't get promoted! quarreled with his wife, played cards with Minister Lidarchus and was tricked, and lost a bet with Vice Minister Piris...... And so on all kinds of speculation,

But the "creation" that was unanimously "appreciated" by everyone and won the "grand prize" was the words of an adjutant from the Ministry of War: "The fact is that it is for the sake of Minister Lidarchus, as everyone knows, Minister Lidakus has decided to let Nelson go to the local office, and as soon as he leaves the side of the lord, our Nelson has lost such an unrequited love, of course, he is very disappointed, no wonder he is in a bad mood, we should comfort him more!"

Everyone laughed when they heard such a reason! Everyone knew that Nelson was definitely a normal big man, and he would never like men, and what he said above was just a joke! In fact, the real reason for Nelson's bad mood was that he was now forty years old, but he was still growing wisdom teeth! This was what made him depressed.

Rwanacre's defenses were constantly strengthened, and Lidakus was a logistical expert, with a commendable ability in the use of resources, and he ordered the walls to be thickened and thickened, and more than 7,000 young men from the refugees were recruited into the army, equipped with armor and weapons captured from the warehouses in Rwanacre, and the silt in the moat outside the city was dredged, and the more than 2,000 barrels of crude oil barrels stored in the warehouses were fully pushed to the front line.

There were 500 barrels on the city wall, and the wall under the city wall was filled with other 1,500 barrels, Lidakus had already made up his mind, if the city of Rwanaca was broken, he would order these crude oil barrels to be ignited, and it seemed that they were ready, Lidacus began to wait for the time when the southwestern army appeared under the city, "Lord Governor, Lord Dustrunkai, Lord of the Admiralty, is here!"

Just when Lidarchus was pondering what the Southwestern Army wanted to do, Dustroncei, who had just won a victory on the sea, found him, although the Imperial Navy had achieved an absolute victory, but there were also several dragon teeth that were damaged in battle, and the nearest port was Rwanaka "My lord, Your Majesty has sent an urgent warrant, asking you to lead the army to withdraw from Rwanaca immediately!" Dustrenkai walked in and handed Lidarkus a letter of order in his hand "Evacuate from Rwanaka?" Lidakus took the order, his eyebrows frowned, in this order, the fat man explained the reason for the request to retreat from Rwanacre, and Lidakus's face became whiter and whiter.

No wonder the other party took the initiative to drive away the refugees, obviously deliberately allowing himself to expand his strength by accepting refugees, so as not to be afraid that he would slip away in advance because of fear, otherwise, the "bait" of Rwanaka would lose its effectiveness enough to contain the Falcon Army, and the person who arranged this trap must be a genius. It's terrible, I'm still proud here, I don't know that I've fallen into the trap designed by the other party!

Beads of sweat could already be seen on Lidarchus's head, walking back and forth, but now it was winter, and the temperature outside had reached the point of splashing water into ice, which showed the shock in his heart

"The transport fleet should arrive in the afternoon, and when the time comes, please lead the troops and leave by boat immediately!"

Dustrenkai looked at Lidakus, who was a little out of shape, and said in a deep voice, "The other side's naval threat has been cleared by the fleet. I have to rush to the new place of operation at once, so I can't delay here any longer, and we'll see you in Normandy then!"

"You're going on another combat mission?" asked Lidakus, tucking the order into his arms, uncertain

"Yes, according to the task assigned by His Majesty, we will directly enter the southwest sea this time and look for fighters that have severely damaged the opponent!" Dustrengkai hesitated for a moment before saying with a regretful face, "It may take half a month or more in terms of time, it's a pity." I'm afraid it's already December, and I wanted to go home, but my wife has just given birth to a son, and it seems that it will be until next spring!" There's a successor!" Lidarchus said congratulatorily, his voice stopped, and he suddenly said resolutely, "In that case, I decided not to evacuate for the time being!" "Why?

Dustrunkay's eyes were bulging. looked at his old boss in disbelief,

He knows his old boss too well, in terms of ability. It's definitely first-class, but in terms of courage, it's just a little bigger than ordinary people, but it's not so big that it can carry 100,000 enemy troops on its own

From the bottom of their hearts, the generals have a lot of complaints about Lidarchus's rise to the position of governor by virtue of his qualifications, but in terms of the navy, they are grateful for the contribution of the former admiralty, and they can't just sit idly by, Dustrenkai hurriedly persuaded loudly, "Why? My lord, are you crazy? You know, the other side has gathered more than 100,000 troops, and your troops are only 5,000 people, and your majesty has given up the plan to support, you stay and wait for death!"

"That's why I can't leave!" Lidakus seemed to let go of a sigh of relief and smiled calmly, "Have you ever thought about what will happen to these refugees who have fled into the city if I lead the army to evacuate from Rwanaca ?

"And you lead the fleet into the southwest sea, not to mention the long-distance travel, the supply points are also difficult to connect because of the unfamiliar sea and land, continuous combat, no matter the ships and sailors are bound to be exhausted, the shortage of supplies is inevitable!" "If I abandon Rwanaka, where will your fleet go to resupply when it returns?"

"Do you want to let the brave soldiers embark on the long sea journey home on an empty stomach, exhausted and empty? You know that anything can happen, and if you encounter another storm or something, the elite of the Imperial Navy will be completely destroyed, and at that time, you and I will be sinners of the Empire."

"But it's too dangerous to stay......!"

Dustrunkai also wanted to continue to persuade, "I have just defeated the southwest fleet at sea, and the other side will definitely be enraged by the defeat and launch a crazy counterattack, with the current weak forces of the adults, it is completely impossible to hold Rwanacre!"

"Don't worry, it's not as bad as you think! I dare to stay, naturally there is a way to hold Rwanacre" Lidakus's eyes flickered, he shook his head disapprerovingly, and said slowly. Don't forget, I may not be a competent general, but I am a diplomat, I know too much about the changes in the attitude of the country, and I am also a logistics officer, without the assistance of the navy, if the other side wants to capture the city of Rwanaca on both sides by the sea, it must take a frontal assault posture, and I have prepared a generous gift for them, which will make the other side dare not take a step forward!"

"What kind of gift?" Dustrenkai asked uneasily, it was incredible to be able to block the gift of a hundred thousand troops

"It's very simple, there are still 2,500 barrels of crude oil in Rwanacre," Lidakus looked left and right, and found that no one had anyone to whisper, "Actually, I have already thought about it, what slogans such as a desperate war are used to boost morale, I only need to pour 100 barrels of crude oil into the moat a day, and the flame burning on the moat is enough to support the moat to burn for fifteen days." Unless the other party can fly, then cross the river of flames!"

Lidarchus said with some excitement: "On the fortified walls, what awaits them is a dense rain of arrows and sharp spears of fifteen thousand defenders!" "......"

Dustrunkai gasped when he heard this, this ...... Can there be such a way to defend the city? Isn't this too shameless!

Although he didn't want to admit it, he had to say that this seemingly clumsy but very effective method could indeed make it difficult for the 100,000 troops in the southwest to advance, but he still said worriedly, even if the flames could last for fifteen days, what if the other party would still be close to the city wall and launch a breakthrough! "This is not something that I need to care about!"

Lidarchus shrugged his shoulders in a scoundrel manner. "Do you think that with the nature of a falcon, he would allow a robber to wander in front of his house for fifteen days?" No, he would have run over in a rage, beat this ignorant fellow, and stomped his foot into the ground as fertilizer! Of course, if you are really worried about me, you will leave me five dragon's tooth warships,

I don't have high requirements, as long as the sails are ready. I really can't, I can run with oil on the soles of my feet!, even if they spit and stare dryly, it won't affect me anymore" Lidarchus blinked, and Dustrenkay was furious at the sight. This look is too ambiguous

In the end, considering that the main force of the Southwest Navy was wiped out and would not affect the mission, Dustrenkai selfishly left Lidarchus with a Dragon-class battleship (the so-called damaged) that had been damaged in a naval engagement. It was that the side deck of this Dragon-class battleship was hit by a catapult and a piece of shelling baffle was smashed into the air" and 5 fully equipped Dragon's Tooth battleships, which is simply the configuration of a Dragon-class squadron.

Lidarchus will be this unexpected strong support. Arranged on the sea five hundred meters outside the city, when all the qiē is ready, Lidarchus is already a little impatient to see the shadow of the southwest army, he is determined to create a myth, just like when Salonn defeated the 100,000 elites of the northern army of Ruierdian with 20,000 troops, and established the title of a generation of famous generals, he Lidarchus wanted to resist the siege of 100,000 troops from the southwest army with 15,000 people, and then entered the ranks of the brilliant generals of the Falcon Army in one fell swoop.

The pace of the war is rapidly approaching, and the collision of two huge military blocs from the northwest and southwest has also attracted the attention of the entire northwest, and the focus of attention is called "Rwanaka"

In November, in the dark golden wilderness, under the illumination of the sunset line, the commander of the Third Army of the Southwest Army, who was the vanguard of the army, appeared on the barren hill five miles away from the city of Rwanacre, and behind him, there were 11,000 soldiers of the Third Army, the footsteps of the regular infantry of the Gallic Empire shook the earth, countless frightened birds flapped their wings and flew up from the depths of the woods, countless spears were raised high and flashed in the cold light in the sun, and a long dragon was discharged along the earth

The city of Rwanacre in the distance is not large, facing the sea on both sides, with some low and wide walls, and a mix of spires and domes in the city.

In fact, Rwanaca was originally a supply point into the waters of Xibei, and the local lords took advantage of this, and it took hundreds of years to gradually build the city of Rwanaca from a small fishing boat, with a population of only 20,000 people, and the main livelihood was fishing

Taton is a beautiful man with dark brown hair. However, what impressed others more strongly was the gray and blue eyes. When he was born, he was considered unlucky by his family, and he was almost gouged out of an eye by his biological mother, and when he was ten years old, his mother committed suicide due to mental disorder, and his father became a half-crippled person by indulging in alcohol, and his father, who hid in the second floor of the large mansion, gave up his diligence and integrity in his single days, and slept and ate with Dionysus all day long.

But occasionally, he would limp down the stairs to the first floor, shake off the housekeeper and the nurse, stand in front of his young son, staring at his reddened and cloudy eyes, and angrily scolded, "If I didn't give birth to you, no one wants you to come to this world!"

"It's fine if I didn't give birth to you. At the age of 20, his drunken father inexplicably fell into the river and died, he inherited his father's baronial title, and then became a member of the local garrison.

At the age of twenty-two, because of his outstanding performance in the Kyoto Hunting Tournament, he received a conscription from the Southwest Army.

At that time, the Southwest Army was fighting in the border summer valley of the Gangfei Empire, and Taton was excellent in the battle, and was taken by Algernon Katya, the deputy commander of the Southwest Army, who had just been transferred from Kyoto at that time, and specially transferred him to his command and became a general of the regular army.

Algernonkatya has always thought highly of himself, he believes that those who are incapable are not worthy to follow him, and Taton is a man with full combat ability and command ability. However, his vision is often limited to the battlefield in front of him, "he can be given the highest value of tactical victory in his personal theater, but he cannot see the whole situation." Or maybe his heart is so calm that he is worried about a lot of worries, and he is just a person who is good at fighting. That's what Algernonkatya said about him. "Set up camp on the spot!" Or, Argernonkatya was right about Taton, and the Third Legion, which arrived first, camped out of the city, rather than launching a tentative attack first. (To be continued......)