Chapter 966 The short-handed marshal wants to show off his power!

Just one day after Murphy received the distress letter from the Genoa Peninsula, a battle report on the front line of the Genoa Peninsula was also sent to the Dorode Fortress by Lake Shurpers. At this time, he was conducting battlefield deductions with several generals.

When Marshal Loren saw the battle report, he exploded on the spot.

"boom"

He said nothing with a sullen face, and the putter he used to push the chess piece on the sand table was hit hard by his hand.

This scene made several generals around them look at each other, and then everyone reacted.

For Marshal Loren, who pays attention to his daily appearance, such a direct emotional change can only prove one thing: something must have happened on the front line.

Under the hint in the eyes of the marshal's adjutant, General Soros, several generals in charge of specific affairs decisively put down their putters and temporarily left the deduction room with their respective staff officers. After everyone else left, the gloomy-faced Loren was depressed

The anger finally broke out.

"Eight of our seventeen towns in the northern part of the Genoa Peninsula were captured! I don't know how those commanders fought! Almost overnight, the front line that was originally still stalemate became what it is now."

The marshal cursed in a loud voice that suited the temper of a dwarf:

"Because of their failure, our first blockade was completely opened, and the other nine towns were forced to fight on their own. Now it is too late for the soldiers to retreat.

The gnolls' speed advantage means that they must have completed the encirclement, but those guys don't attack the city.

They are tempting us to abandon the position of the second blockade and take the initiative to rescue those trapped.

They are forcing us to give up our firepower advantage and engage in mobile warfare with them.

Those halflings didn't destroy the damn thing they made when they evacuated the city. Now my soldiers have to face a group of savage gnolls armed with halfling firearms. Those guys have begun to drop bombs with trebuchets.

Okay, what kind of monsters and monsters will I have to face in a while?

A group of mechanized gnoll thugs driving steam walkers and attacking the city under cover of artillery fire?!

Those weak little people really fail to accomplish anything and fail more than they do!"

Although he knew that the situation was critical, General Soros still couldn't help laughing when he heard the word "weak little man" coming from the mouth of Marshal Loren, a dwarf.

Hold it in!

Can't laugh!

If he laughs at this moment, his glorious military career may be over.

"Ahem, there is another way, Marshal."

General Soros reminded him in the tone of a professional soldier:

"We don't need to send ground troops to rescue our soldiers. The 3rd Armed Airship Wing of Port Chardeau is currently resting and replenishing supplies at Dorode Fortress.

We can imitate the tactics used by the Transians in using airship bombing, and temporarily borrow the armed airships of the Halflings to carry out a large-scale bombing of the besieged area. The firepower suppression from the sky will create an opportunity for our soldiers to evacuate.

The Jackals have absolutely no air power, there's nothing they can do about it."

"But we don't have the crazy incendiary bombs of the Transians, Thoros."

Loren sat on a chair and unbuttoned his first button, then took out the dwarf pipe. He thought deeply and said:

"According to the analysis of the battle reports sent back by Colonel Fraser, or now Brigadier General Fraser, in the absence of corresponding weapons, it is difficult to bring out the firepower advantage of the halfling armed airship.

The heavy bombs we currently have are more focused on attacking fortresses rather than large-scale fire bombings. It is difficult to reproduce the tactics of the Transians.

Those halflings who were taken into our care are all stubborn. They are unwilling to imitate the weapons of destruction of the Transians. They say that it breaks the bottom line of the civilized camp. Damn the bottom line! Their city is about to fall.

Now it is the Plantagenets who are bleeding and dying for their land, and for the first time I have discovered that these halflings are actually more stubborn than my compatriots."

"This is indeed a problem."

General Soros nodded.

He glanced at the sand table behind him, and after thinking for a moment, he said:

"Do you still remember Brigadier General Frazier's report on the Lord's Position War on the Maginot Line? In addition to bombing, the three armed airships of the Transians also conducted a quite shocking attack on the Jackal Grand Overseer.

Airborne beheading.

When we lack bombing firepower, we may be able to take a similar decision. If there is no way to cover the evacuation of our soldiers, then it is better to do the opposite.

Airdrop necessary supplies and elite soldiers into the besieged towns to strengthen their confidence in holding on and buy time for a larger deployment of troops?"

"That's a good idea!"

Marshal Loren blew out a smoke ring and said thoughtfully:

"Halfling airships are equipped with enough engineering parachutes. As long as the soldiers are brave and courageous enough, they can achieve far faster deployment than usual. The 3rd Airship Wing has six airships and only needs two round trips.

Enough supplies and reinforcements can be sent to the besieged town.

Moreover, this new method of warfare has already proven its value in the Maginot Line. We must learn it as soon as possible and master it skillfully.

Alas, before trench warfare and tunnel warfare were fully understood, airborne tactics followed one after another!

The military technology brought by those foreigners has overwhelmed me, a veteran, but every war idea is so practical and shocking. It has subverted the existing war system and made me feel like I am back in the country.

His academic career at the Bourbon Military Academy."

"Who says it isn't?"

General Soros also nodded helplessly. He discussed the action plan with the marshal and quickly formulated a plan and handed it over to several other generals of the Pioneer Legion to coordinate and advance.

The elite soldiers of the Pioneer Corps in the fortress are already in a state of war, and the supplies are all ready. Now you only need to select a group of soldiers to get on the airship and familiarize yourself with the operation of the parachute before setting off. The parachutes of half-length people are mechanical and can be opened at a scheduled time.

Airships can also hover for long periods of time, meaning they don't need to make dangerous high-speed parachutes.

When the Jackals have no anti-aircraft firepower, the soldiers of the Pioneer Legion can land over the target, which greatly improves the safety of airborne landings.

However, the support for the besieged areas is just the beginning. Marshal Loren does not intend to let his soldiers be beaten by the jackals on the front line, but he stays safely in the rear without fighting back. He has decided to lead the pioneering army to the Genoa Peninsula.

Have a head-on confrontation with the Jackals on the battlefield.

This does not come from the dwarf marshal's character of advocating offense, but is based on realistic needs.

Now that King Louis has decided to support the Halflings, the Pioneer Legion, as the only elite currently deployed in the Cato region, must shoulder the important task of opening up the battlefield. If they cannot establish sufficient advantages in the Genoa Peninsula now, then wait until the Jackals break through Xia

The situation will only get worse when Erdo Port moves north in a big way.

In other words, the Black Plague of the Transians has ended, but the Black Plague of the Plantagenets has just begun.

Alas, we Plantagenets are going to have our own black plague, and that's too bad!

It was in this scene that Fraser crossed Lake Sulpe and came to Fortress Dorod. He came to report to the marshal and accept his promotion to the military rank. By the way, he met his father who was currently in the Cato area.

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Because of Colonel Fraser's outstanding performance in a series of previous wars, King Louis promoted him to a brigadier general with emotion, making Fraser the youngest general in the history of the Plantagenet Kingdom. But unfortunately, Fraser

Brigadier General Lei Ze himself was not as excited about this promotion as he imagined.

From the beginning of the Black Disaster to the present, Fraser has seen the brutal way war works, and is no longer the somewhat idealistic and romantic young aristocrat he was before.

He has lost friends and suffered defeats. He has dealt with jackals in dangerous swamps, and when desperate times have come, he has carried weapons to fight those barbarians in close combat. It is like a piece of good steel being forged and beaten. His character

The romantic part was subsided and replaced by a more calm temperament.

In the eyes of Marshal Loren, Fraser has now become an outstanding warrior that he recognizes, and this is a commander who left his own pioneering army.

This is your own soldier!

"well done!"

In a very simple but ceremonial ceremony, Marshal Loren, who was standing on a chair, personally placed the brigadier general's star on Fraser's head and handed him a command knife forged by the kingdom's craftsmen.

The marshal praised:

"Brigadier General Fraser, you have become a role model for the courage and wisdom of the Kingdom's soldiers! Because of the dissemination of your three volumes of realistic and shocking "Black Disaster Records" in the country, more people have realized what kind of battle we are dealing with.

Confrontations with dangerous enemies have made our people aware of the noble duty of brave soldiers traveling in this era.

Just last month, the number of recruits who volunteered to serve the kingdom recorded at various recruitment points in the country broke the record.

This is all your fault!

Your Majesty originally planned to hold a grand ceremony for you at Plantagenet Palace, but unfortunately the war changed day by day, so I had no choice but to give you a hard time."

"It is my duty and my honor to be loyal to the king and country! Marshal."

Fraser responded with standard military salute.

This sonorous answer made the generals and officers watching the ceremony applaud, and the ceremony ended perfectly in a warm atmosphere.

But then Brigadier General Fraser declined the banquet arranged for him. It was not that the young Brigadier General did not show respect to his colleagues, but mainly because he brought a battle report about Transia, which the marshal took very seriously.

"Are you sure that the Transians are going to send an expeditionary force to support Port Chardeau? And you have no actual evidence about the possible conflict in the Kafhoka area."

In the marshal's office, Loren looked at the clearly organized report submitted by Fraser, and asked in a cautious tone:

"You have to know, Brigadier General Fraser, the former news is fine, but the latter one is directly related to the way Transia and the Kingdom of Nordtov get along. To be more serious, it is even related to the situation in the central region that is not yet stable.

Once this news is true, our country's border strategy will most likely be changed accordingly."

"I'm sure, Marshal."

Brigadier General Fraser said in a deep voice:
To be continued...