Chapter XVII: The Value of Sacrifice
Under the city of Marseille, the remnant sun is like blood. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The entire city wall was full of people, and the armies of the royalists and revolutionaries were intertwined and slaughtered.
The hum of bows and crossbows, the clashing of weapons, the roars of people, the shouts, the wails, filled the entire space, and everyone was fighting for it.
Arnold's armor was shattered, covered in blood, and surrounded by enemies, he roared wildly, swinging the mace in his hand, sending waves of blood through the crowd.
Miss Sophie, who was also covered with blood and messy hair, shuttled among the many enemies, quickly wielding the bayonet sword in her hand, causing one enemy after another to fall with her vital points.
Senior Sister Sofina was also full of red eyes, gritted her teeth, and with a short stabbing sword in one hand, she led a team of warriors to frantically besiege a strong man with an axe.
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Finally, a distant trumpet sounded, and the tide of enemies slowly faded, leaving only corpses in the ground.
Seeing the enemy far away, many of the soldiers of the revolutionary army fell to the ground, some were still able to struggle to get up, and some were completely out of strength and could not stand up.
Those who could still move supported each other, carried the detached and wounded on their backs, and busily cleaned the walls, pushed down the corpses left behind and burned them, and repaired the broken equipment of the city in preparation for tomorrow's battle.
Since the beginning of the spring, the royalists have been increasing troops to the side of Marseille, and later sent many strong people from the Holy See to change their appearance and secretly join the royalist army, and every day the strength of the royalist army is increasing, and finally, they officially began the offensive.
Unlike the original petty fights, now they are pouring out of the nest every time and attacking Marseille with all their might, so that the revolutionary army has to defend with all their strength, and they can only defend with all their strength.
The siege never stopped, and both sides suffered heavy damage.
But the royalists seemed to have made up their minds, and they continued to increase their troops, except for the two regular legions that remained in Paris, and the rest of the believers and nobles who rushed to Paris to support were all sent to the front line of Marseille to carry out a frantic attack regardless of losses and casualties. wants to completely extinguish the fire of the revolutionary army, which is about to burn the prairie fire.
In the headquarters of the revolutionary army, in the big tent of the Chinese army, the regular meeting was held as usual.
The generals in the camp tent have long since lost their original brilliance, most of them are in tattered clothes, many of them are wounded, and their expressions are also very sluggish, only the voice of the report is still some strength.
"Today, our army lost 483 people, nearly 1,000 serious wounded, and countless minor injuries. ”
"The Marquis of Davout, the lord of Montpellier, has promised to help us, but he is still reluctant to send troops, but the supplies for aid have already departed, and it is expected to arrive in Marseille in three days. ”
"Relying on the cheapness of defending the city, today we have probably killed 6,700 Holy See lackeys, including 14 people above the master level, and we still haven't found any martial saints participating in the war. ”
"The replenishment of our army's troops is still too slow, and the number of cities that fully support us is almost to the limit, and the number of supporters from other places is also declining. ”
"The wounded barracks are full, and every day people are seriously injured and dying and being carried out, and now we are in short supply of all kinds of medicines, and we hope to find a way to deploy some from the rear. ”
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No one likes bad news, but after so many days of fighting, the bad news is still unstoppable and coming, leaving everyone frowning and worried.
They all looked at the short, middle-aged man on the throne, their eyes full of questions.
They don't know why this god of war, who has always been full of scheming and invincible, should use such a simple, blunt, or even stupid method to fight those royalists.
Even Miss Sophie, who has always been indifferent and does not participate in arguments or express her opinions, couldn't help but let out a tired and helpless voice: "Great Marshal, I don't understand why we have to fight here with those decadent and backward royalists, we can fight more flexibly, smarter, and make the losses smaller." Even if we secretly abandon this city of Marseille and risk attacking Paris with the whole army, it is better than fighting them to the death, at least we still have some preparations in Paris, and it will not be difficult to open a city gate when the time comes. And here, we will only be consumed little by little, one by one. ”
Out of trust in this legendary god of war, the other generals' exhortations were very tactful and gentle. But Miss Sophie's words today were so straightforward, even more like complaining, which made the military tent quiet all of a sudden.
The silence in the military tent did not last long, and the great military god spoke: "Since everyone has such questions, then I will make it clear today." ”
The short figure slowly stood up, standing surrounded by everyone, looking extremely tall.
"You rescued me, begged me, needed me, so that I could save France, not that I should defeat these royalists. It's easy to defeat them, but it's hard to save France, and it's hard to revive France. We have accumulated many and deep evils in France, and the biggest cancer is the Holy See! If we want to revive France, we must completely eradicate the Holy See, and this is not easy!"
"The Holy See is too big and too strong, and some of them really go all out, and none of these people here can survive, so we can only outwit. Patriarch Richelieu developed this plan for the general election of the cardinal in three years, and he wanted to ascend to the cardinal position by virtue of this immortal achievement, and his plan was not supported by everyone in the Holy See. The vast majority of what he can use now is his own power. ”
"If we defeat this group of royalists, and then destroy the Holy See and kill the noble believers all over France, this will naturally eradicate the power of the Holy See in our France, and this will inevitably lead to a counterattack by the entire Holy See, and we will absolutely not be able to resist such a counterattack. ”
"What is the foundation of France? It is the aristocracy! It is the support of the nobles who have strength, knowledge, fame, and ability. And what is the basis of the Holy See's existence in France? It's not the cathedral, it's also the aristocracy! The nobles who no longer support France, the French royal family, the French people, and have turned to support the Holy See and the belief in the Martial Gods! The nobles who are now eyeing us outside the city!"
"Only here, in the city of Marseille, can we destroy them openly and justly!
"It is by no means meaningless that we are sacrificing here! We are here to truly eradicate the Holy See, for the revival of France tomorrow! To make the vacillating and neutral aristocrats see the weakness of the Holy See and the hypocrisy of the Holy See. To be able to see another option, to choose another possibility, the one that we can completely get rid of the Holy See and truly revive in France!"