In March, everything is rejuvenated, the earth is picturesque,

Hasenrimbaud, who hurried back from Kyoto in Gaul, was not at all in the mood to appreciate such a beautiful scenery, and he received an urgent report from the Eastern Front, although he had been so prepared and had a deep understanding of the obviously meaningless armistice, and the famous Gallic general Hasenrimbaud broke out in a cold sweat

The Falcon Army has launched a new offensive in the spring!

How is it possible! It is incredible that it turned out to be the most unlikely Eastern Front...... Is the other party crazy?"

Hasenrampo swept his eyes over the emergency report in his hand, muttered to himself, raised his head, his eyes were full of bloodshots, and he was frantically looking for an answer on the map marked with the staggered defense lines of the two warring sides behind him, he didn't expect that the stalemate line of the war between the Gallic Empire and the Falcon Empire, but the direction of the attack made him completely confused, and even had a feeling of being burned off guard, the 200,000 Falcon Empire troops that were at a disadvantage first spread out a huge and long attack line in the eastern section of Rasti, and the place where the attack fell was on the most unlikely eastern front！

On the map of the Rasti region, the eastern front is definitely an ideal defensive zone, the eastern front is the place where the mountains and plains of the Rasti region are connected, and in terms of geography, there is the Seine River that crosses the entire east as a block, and the Falcon army and the Gallic army are facing each other on this line.

When Hasenlampo was first deployed, he ordered the destruction of all the bridges on the Seine in advance, and placed heavy troops on the banks of the Seine to form a momentum to block the advance of the Falcon Army.

The Seine was 130 meters wide, the water was rapid, and it was the rainstorm season, the Seine was so strong that the river overflowed the embankment and stretched to both sides, more than 200 meters wide, and the soldiers of the two armies stood on the bank of the river. It is almost impossible to see the face of the enemy on the opposite side, "there are no dead ends, the strength is superior, the terrain is superior, no matter how good the Falcon Army is, there is really no possibility of taking the initiative to attack at this point!" Such a statement was put forward by the Gallic generals at the last military meeting, and the Gallic generals also agreed with this statement

Unless the opponent is crazy, he will use this as a breakthrough in the attack! Even the experienced Hasenlimbo believes that this Seine defense line occupies the right place at the right time. It is a strategic dead line on the entire defense line, which means that as long as the Falcon Empire army dares to attack, as many as they come, they will die!

Compared with the eastern front, where a big war is unlikely to break out, Hasenlimpo attaches more importance to the central line area composed of more than a dozen cities and the western front area dominated by the plains, because the cities on the central line are not fortresses after all, although they have been reinforced and transformed in winter, the terrible siege weapon Thor possessed by the Falcon army can undoubtedly easily tear open the breach in these non-fortress 1 city areas, and then the army will pour in. Engaged in brutal street fighting, the Falcon Central Army, which numbered as many as 80,000 on the opposite side, was also an opponent that Hasenlimbo did not want to engage head-on

These Falcon Empire's central armies were extremely well-armed and had high morale in battle. Brave and fearless, never knowing what death and fear were, it was clearly superior to the Gallic second-line army that held the city, but there were as many as seventeen cities in four lines of defense. Layered on top of each other, intertwined with each other, there are rivers between them. Like a huge deep web woven by giant spiders, even if it is attacked and some of them fall, the other cities are enough to bring the Falcon Army, which is good at attacking, to a standstill, and finally lose its sharpness.

The middle line is a trap set by Hasenrampo, it seems easy, but in fact it is extremely tough, in the last battle of Rasti, the fat man would rather choose to attack the direction of Bruges supported by heavy fortresses than entangle with the Gauls in the middle line, and it is for this reason,

In order to reduce the contradictions between these local garrisons, Hasenlimpo could only cluster 190,000 garrisons into cities in the middle line areas, and these local garrisons were drawn from all over the Gauls in winter.

Because of the shortage of first-line troops and the shortage of time, the second-line garrison regiments drawn from various places on the Gallic side numbered as many as 24 with a strength of 190,000

The last 110,000 men were transferred back from fighting the Slavs in the north.

For these troops, Hasenlimpo was also troubled, the rudimentary configuration of the light infantry, the soldiers of these troops, who were originally inhabitants of the northern regions, had fled to the south because of the invasion of the Slavs, and the Gallic military ministry took advantage of the need for food in winter to recruit a large number of young men among them, forming four new infantry regiments to fill the Rusti Line,

As Rasti's reserve forces, the 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 24th Gallic Infantry Regiments, respectively,

Most of the soldiers of the four reserve regiments had only just undergone a short month of training and were poorly equipped. The interior of Gaul has not experienced the baptism of war for decades, so the weapons transferred from the military arsenals in various places are mostly old, rusty swords, moldy leather armor accumulated over the years, I don't know which emperor's shields were forged during the period, and the bald helmets of the top were gnawed off by rats, this kind of uneven equipment and the low morale of these soldiers made Hasenlimpo worry about the combat strength of these four new infantry regiments, "Although there were 110,000 people, the nature of the indiscriminate filling was too strict"

Hasenlimpo commented and transferred these troops to the second line, as a reserve, mainly in the plains of the western front, the undulating mountains that continued from the eastern front, where they began to fall and gradually became flat, the cities were scarce, and most of them were abandoned fields,

The defensive conditions on the Western Front are very insufficient, and it is also the only part of the entire defense line that Hasenlampo believes is likely to be broken through by the Falcon Army in a short period of time.

In order to fill this gap, in the 50-mile area of the Western Front, in the past winter, Hasenlimbo has mobilized hundreds of thousands of Gallic displaced people to artificially erect thousands of stone towers resembling pillboxes on the plains of the Western Front, each of which is more than five meters high and has a lookout post on it.

The thick stone walls were strong enough to withstand the attacks of ordinary trebuchets, and a small team stationed in it could resist for more than two days, and Hasenlimpo deployed his strongest Eighth Army Corps in the core area of this watchtower, plus four new infantry regiments as reserves, two of which were placed here, with a total strength of 170,000 men, which was the top priority of the entire defensive line.

During the long winter, the Gallic troops were under the weight of the Falcon Army. It was also able to maintain a certain centripetal force, but a winter peace allowed something that was suppressed at first to burst out

The aristocratic soldiers from the rich regions began to show their normalcy, riding sturdy war horses, wearing armor printed with their own coats of arms, followed by the retinue of more than a dozen families, and running past the soldiers of other troops with great force, the horse's hooves shook the soil on the ground without any scruples, completely ignoring that the ragged soldiers next to them were their comrades.

Three garrison regiments on the Kyoto side. It is also a light hussar with a number of 20,000 people who show off their eye-catching purple color, these cavalry often pull out in clusters, and the posture of running up is overwhelming, rushing to their own camp with the pride of the Kyoto people, watching the soldiers guarding other areas of the camp scurrying in panic, rolling all over the ground to dodge, these galloping Kyoto nobles laughed on horseback for fun. And he is proud of training friendly troops to resist the enemy's cavalry invasion

Infantry regiments from remote areas, often numbering less than 5,000 men, had no say in the matter, and could only defend some remote towns. The equipment was only light leather armor and shabby short swords, and there were almost no cavalry, only the regimental commander with two cavalrymen on horses as a façade, and the soldiers were lazy in discipline. There was no training all winter,

This war completely squeezed out the military power of the Gallic side. Being able to lose 300,000 people and quickly fill in 300,000 in one winter is enough to prove the military potential of the Gallic Empire, but the huge contrast between the troops also makes these garrisons with different mentalities full of contradictions.

The aristocrats in Kyoto looked down on the local hillbillies, and the local nobles thought that the nobles in Kyoto were all sons and daughters who had no attitude as soldiers

The rich areas looked down on the homeless people in the poor areas, and thought that such colleagues were simply cannon fodder, and it was a humiliation to the entire imperial army

The poor areas also disdained the luxurious style of the nobles in the rich areas, and the gorgeous armor and conspicuous retinue were completely like flowers in the greenhouse, and no matter how beautiful they were, they could not withstand the invasion of the cold wind.

For this reason, there was often a lot of unpleasant quarrel between the local garrison camps

It is normal to fight in order to get more food, a dozen is a group fight of thousands of people, and it is normal for a hundred or so people to die, and quarrels in order to occupy the best barracks position, both sides can drown people with saliva, and even launch a huge collision, thousands of people are mixed together, and it is like a real battle,

In order to seize the barracks and his own sphere of influence, he fought privately in order to prostitute prostitutes and pursue women

There are three infantry regiment commanders who have not really gone to the battlefield, so they were seriously injured and carried down by the attendants, and their mouths are still shouting that they want to fight each other endlessly, little Rasti, at once gathered half of the strength of the empire, hundreds of thousands of hot-blooded males, it is even more lively than a frying pan,

"What a mess that can't be sorted out!"

One winter, Hasenlimbo's head was too big, and he received all kinds of reports, in addition to accusations, threatening letters, and even various requests that were submitted directly with the family name, what was required to increase the military salary, saying that the military salary was too small to be enough to spend,

It is required to expand the barracks, preferably with each officer having his own single room,

React that the food is not palatable, ask to hire a private cook, react that it is too cold and no one warms the bed, and ask for a personal maid,

All kinds of bizarre requests, really make Hasenranpo cry and laugh, in terms of authority, although he Hasenranpo is the general person in charge of the defense of the Rasti region, but against almost the entire empire of the local family, Kyoto Hao, without the supreme authorization of the emperor's majesty, what can he be a small army commander!

And in terms of the Imperial Military Department, there are also considerations that make him shout helplessly, this is a dignified imperial army of 400,000, half of the military strength of the Gallic Empire

It is enough to rejuvenate the country, and it is enough to destroy the country!

With the lessons of the Julils family, the betrayal of the Murphy Legion, and the ingratitude of the southwest and northwest, even Hasenrambo, a famous imperial general who was at the forefront and worked hard to resist the advance of the Falcon Army, the Imperial Military Department did not dare to fully trust it this time,

The appointment of the real head of the 400,000-strong army was not issued until the end of winter

This time, Hasenranpo returned to Kyoto to attend the meeting for this purpose, and at the military pre-meeting held by His Majesty the Emperor, Hasenranpo asked the emperor with a sincere expression. Send a general in charge, and frankly say, "The subordinates are incompetent, and I am willing to use myself as my deputy, and I only hope that the empire can make a quick decision, otherwise, the 400,000 army will be in chaos, and if a unified command system cannot be formed, the minister is worried that the empire's army will collapse by itself before next spring!"

Enraged, the Emperor asked why the Ministry of War had not yet issued an appointment. The Ministry of Military Affairs had no choice but to reluctantly appoint Hasenlimpo as the head of the department

But as a diversion, an envoy of the emperor will also be sent to supervise the battle command,

While the Gallic War Department was still arguing over who could take on such an important role as overseeing the war, the authority of the 400,000-strong army and the fate of an empire fell on the hands of Hasenrampo, a famous Gallic general, with the first wave of attacks from the Falcon Empire

On the day he received the report, Hasenlimpo traveled day and night, and finally ran thousands of miles in seven days to get back to Rasti. At this time, the falcon army on the other side of the Seine, the demarcation line, had begun to rumble the drums of war, and countless trebuchets were deployed by the falcon infantry along the shallows of the riverbank. Stacks of catapults were piled up next to the huge trebuchet levers, like rows of giants with huge arms standing on the other side of the river in the drizzle, and the nerves of the Gallic army on the opposite side tensed up

A qiē is indicating. The all-out attack of the Falcon Empire is imminent,

Garrisoned along the Seine was the Gallic Fifteenth Army, with 70,000 men. On the other side of the river, the Falcon is the old powerhouse of the Falcon Empire, which has suppressed the Northwest Legion in the Dorok Mountains for more than a year, and is well-equipped, sharp, and known as the Northwest Legion of the Falcon Empire with its mountain assault ability

The flood was rolling and mixed with the debris of the mountains, and the clear water of the river became muddy as a result, and the banner of the Falcon Empire cracked in the wind, "What is the number today?" Croissat rode on his horse and asked, "March 7th, my lord!" A general of the Northwest Legion behind him replied, "Seven, then it's today!"

Krollissat nodded solemnly, the oncoming wind hit his face with the moist moisture on the river, behind him were more than a dozen generals of the Northwest Legion, the river in front of him was extremely wide, the water was rolling, a general of the Northwest Army threw a stone the size of a human head towards the surface of the riptide where the water was rolling, even such a heavy stone, it only fluttered a little, and it immediately flew down in the turbulence of the flood, and disappeared in a few clicks, seeing everyone's eyebrows frowning slightly," My lord, in such a situation, we simply cannot launch a river crossing operation."

The general of the stone-throwing Northwest Corps behind him stood up, shook his head, and said in a worried tone. Even if we have prepared a large number of catapults, but in the face of such a wide river, such a rapid river, even if the soldiers are wearing heavy armor, they will be ruthlessly washed away, not to mention that the Gauls on the opposite side have been prepared, their number of archers is more than 10,000, and the distance of 200 meters has exceeded the scope of our archers' assistance, and even if our army braves huge casualties and crosses the river halfway, it will immediately be quickly blocked by the other side, and the archers of the other side can calmly shoot our soldiers to death in the river one by one, and the subordinates really can't understand the meaning of His Majesty's order......" "Enough, crossing the river this afternoon is His Majesty's order, and our duty is to carry it out! Assemble your troops, ready to go into battle at any time, and wait for orders"

Croissat interrupted his grumbling with a wave of his hand at the general, and his sharp gaze fell again on the opposite side of the riverbank, where the Gauls' flags fluttered in the wind and rain, and a huge wooden fence was exposed between the barracks

The ridges, the rows of fences, and the temporary defense line made of gray hard soil make everyone's faces not look very good.

After a year of silence, the entire Northwest Army was longing for a day of re-emergence, but not to carry out a battle that seemed impossible, and the order of His Majesty the Falcon was so unbelievable, to cross the river on March 7, occupy the upper reaches of the river, and cooperate with the Southern Second Army to sweep the enemy's middle line!

Even Crolysat, the emperor's confidant, could not fully understand the meaning of this order

As the subordinate said, the flooded Seine is enough to become a strategic danger, there is no breakthrough that can be opened at all, and their own long-range troops are almost unable to support the troops crossing the river, and more than half of their soldiers are light infantry, and they are not suitable for this kind of forced river crossing and assault battle, they can run like falcons in the mountains, but in the rapids of the river, their appearance can only be regarded as mediocre

He took a deep breath and prepared to turn around,

The Northwest Army behind him has been assembled, although it has not yet been put into battle, but the queue is fierce, and the black armor of the 50,000 army is like a black tide pressing on the river beach, giving people the feeling of suffocation all the time

The faces of the soldiers are not very good-looking, and the wide river surface with the torrent rolling is a shock to everyone, and even Crollissat himself is not sure what the result of this comeback battle of the Northwest Army will be, whether it will be ruined or reborn!

"Listen, sir, what is that sound!" Suddenly, a general of the Northwest Army stopped, turned his head curiously to look at the upper reaches of the river, and soon, a faint rumbling sound began to become clear, as if something huge was gliding

"Could it be!" Croissart looked at the direction from which the voice came from with the same curiosity, and saw a dozen small black dots rapidly growing larger and larger from the far side of the river, and the white sails fluttering clearly in the rolling flood, everyone's eyes bulged at once

"Battleship! It's an Imperial battleship!"

Croissatt watched the pupils of the little black dot constrict, his body trembled slightly, and his face flashed with irrepressible ecstasy, he knew that the governor of Rusty had built a small dam in the upper reaches of the river in December last year to accumulate water in times of drought.

But he didn't expect that the Empire would build a dock in this dam

It would have been too easy to temporarily assemble a dozen Imperial warships out of accessories all winter, and now, the whole of Rasti is a land of water, and even heavy warships can sail these rivers

This kind of despicable and shameless person, and who makes the opponent feel desperate, who else is there but the Falcon Majesty! It seems that in December last year, His Majesty was already preparing to break the game! (To be continued......