General McHale wanted to know the answer to this question more than anyone else.
A month ago, when the Imperial Ministry was discussing how to attack the Luersun Kingdom, which was arrogant and dared to provoke the great Candela Empire, although everyone agreed that such a small country did not need to be taken seriously at all and could be dealt with by just sending some people. However, he insisted on sending these three legions to take charge of the invasion of the Luersun Kingdom.
The reason is that one of the legions is the legion he was in before, belonging to his old subordinates, and his wife's brother was also arranged by him to serve as the captain of the cavalry brigade. He wanted to use this opportunity to give his old subordinates and his wife's brother Earn some military exploits so that they can be promoted in the future.
But he never expected that this attack on a small and inconspicuous country like the Luersun Kingdom would actually capsize in the ditch. The final result was that the empire's army was defeated.
What made him even more angry was that in order to allow his brother-in-law to gain maximum credit, he deliberately placed the cavalry brigade he led in the vanguard position. As a result, in the first battle, his brother-in-law The cavalry brigade he led was completely wiped out in the attack by King Luersun's army. Even his wife and brother were also killed and were not spared.
Although he has always disliked his glib brother-in-law, he is his wife's biological brother after all. Now that he is killed in battle because of his own arrangements, one can imagine how sad and angry his wife will be after learning the news.
General McHale, who knew this well, vented his anger mercilessly on General Cook, who led the operation.
"Trash! You commanded a total of 50,000 elites, but you couldn't even defeat the 20,000 people of the Luersun Kingdom, and the casualties were so heavy. What shame do you have to stand here? If I were you, I would have committed suicide long ago to apologize. !”
General Cook looked at General McHale with a cold face. Not a word was spoken.
Although both of them can be called generals, General McHale was awarded a medal by His Majesty the Emperor himself and was officially recognized by the Imperial Ministry as one of the five highest-level generals to protect the country. He has extremely high status throughout the empire. His status and reputation are far beyond what he, the commander of the local army, can compare with.
So even though he was dissatisfied, he could only remain silent and did not dare to make any rebuttal.
General McHale cursed angrily for a full twenty minutes before he stopped breathing heavily. Then he took out an official document from his arms and threw it to General Cook.
"Because of your failure, the military has relieved you of your leadership duties, and now I am fully responsible for this operation. As for you... just wait to be held accountable by the military!"
General Cook opened the official document and looked at it. He found that the content inside was not too unexpected, so he put it aside.
"Sir McHale, I cannot deny this failure, but I must remind you that the combat effectiveness of King Luersun's team is far beyond imagination. I hope you can be more cautious."
General McHale muttered: "What? Do you still want to make excuses to defend yourself? How can the combat effectiveness of a mere Luersun Kingdom be strong? As a commander, you have achieved such results. Do you think you can just find someone? Can I get away with an excuse?"
"I'm not defending myself, but the troops of the Luersun Kingdom are really weird. They..."
General McHale waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, stop talking nonsense, you have nothing to do here."
General Cook's face flushed from suppressing his emotions. He originally wanted to give a few more reminders, but when he saw the impatient expression on General McHale's face, his heart became cold. He couldn't help but snorted coldly and strode away.
"Trash!" General McHale looked at his back and spat hard, then began to study the battle report left by General Cook on the table.
After studying for a while, General McHale couldn't help but frown.
Judging from these battle reports, the army of the Luersun Kingdom seems to be really weird.
Because according to the battle report, every time the two sides fight, the Luersun Kingdom can always launch an unusually dense rain of arrows to attack first, and then when the official battle begins, the Luersun Kingdom’s army is extremely mobile and always It makes it difficult for the soldiers of the Candela Empire to even touch them. At the same time, they can also launch some very strange long-range attacks, and they are extremely lethal.
This resulted in the two sides almost never having any serious battles, which resulted in the Candela Empire's army suffering heavy casualties and eventually being defeated.
"What a joke!" General McHale threw the battle report on the table. "How can there be such a strange army in this world? This Cook can't even make excuses for himself?"
The situation described in this battle report was really incomprehensible to General McHale, so he simply didn't bother to pay attention to the contents of this battle report and decided to do what he wanted.
What he brought this time was the Third Army of the Imperial Army's regular army. Although it was still 50,000 strong, its equipment and training were far superior to the 50,000 local army soldiers led by General Cook. Their combat effectiveness was naturally far greater. win.
Cook, a loser, led a group of losers and was defeated by the Luersun Kingdom, but it did not affect General McHale's confidence in easily defeating the Luersun Kingdom.
While they were considering specific tactics, the guards suddenly opened the tent and walked in.
"My lord, Lord Russell, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff, would like to see you."
"Russell?" General McHale was startled. "Didn't he set off with the naval fleet? Judging by the time, he should have logged in from the southern coast of the Luersun Kingdom. Why did he suddenly come here?"
After thinking about it, General McHale waved his hand: "Let him come in."
"yes."
After a while, Russell walked in under the leadership of the guards.
"Lord Russell, why are you here? Do you want to say that there was an accident in your navy's operations?" Seeing Russell, General McHale let out a sarcastic laugh without politeness.
The Imperial Army and Navy have always had conflicts due to budget issues. The Army has always been far more valued than the Navy, and its budget has also been greatly tilted. Therefore, when facing naval officers, Army officers have always had a sense of superiority. General McHale No exception.
Russell, however, had no intention of joking at all, and nodded gently with a stern face.
"Yes. Mr. McHale, I am here to tell you that the navy's operation has completely failed. We are unable to penetrate deeply into the waters of the Kingdom of Luersun and successfully land as planned."
General McHale was startled, and then burst out laughing, his laughter full of mockery.
"Ha, I thought that your navy's confident request to attack this time would definitely bring us some surprises, but I didn't expect that it would retreat without even touching a hair of the Luerxun Kingdom. This is simply shame!"
Russell was silent for a moment, sighed softly, and said seriously: "Mr. McHale, I am not here to discuss these meaningless things with you. I am just here to remind you that you must not despise Ruel." Xun Kingdom. They have the support of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and their strength is far beyond your imagination."
"New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce?" General McHale was startled again. After thinking about it for a while, he came to his senses. "I seem to have heard of this name. It's the chamber of commerce that makes those magic air conditioners? What? Is this small chamber of commerce very powerful? The Luersun Kingdom has their support, and we can't even defeat the Luersun Kingdom. Can’t do it?”
"I'm not sure. But... it's better to be careful." Russell shook his head slightly. "Because the Luersun Kingdom has received support from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, the army is equipped with many types of military magic machines produced by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. The performance and power of these military magic machines are completely different from any weapons we have used before, so in When facing them, you must be as cautious as possible.”
"Military magic machine?" General McHale frowned. "What the hell is this? Do you have any details?"
Russell spread his hands helplessly: "The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce protects the relevant information on military magic machines very closely, and I have no way to get the specific information. However, our Imperial Navy purchased three frigates made of steel from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. It is also equipped with some military magic machines. The power of these military magic machines is enough to infer the power of other military magic machines."
Seeing Russell speaking so solemnly, General McHale let go of some of the contempt in his heart, but he still didn't care much.
The military magic machinery of this new Flying Chamber of Commerce may be somewhat unique, but after all, it is just a small chamber of commerce with little reputation. In addition, the Kingdom of Luersun is only a small country. What can it do to the powerful Candela Empire together? threaten
After a few casual remarks to Russell, General McHale issued an expulsion order to Russell on the pretext of having a pre-war meeting.
Of course, Russell could see that General McHale was absent-minded. He originally wanted to continue to persuade him, but then he changed his mind and put away his thoughts.
After leaving the commander's tent where General McHale was, Russell looked at the figures near the camp with longing, narrowed his eyes slightly, and there was a hint of chill in his eyes.
If McHale paid so little attention to the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce and the military magic machinery he mentioned, Russell was almost certain that his operation this time would definitely not go smoothly.
This is of course a blow to McHale and the Imperial Third Army led by him, but if considered from the perspective of the Imperial Army, this may not be a bad thing.
When the Imperial Navy wanted to purchase three frigates from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, it encountered various obstacles. If the Naval Staff had not supported the proposal, it might not have been approved in the end.
The reason for this is that the Imperial Ministry did not pay attention to Russell's analysis report on frigates at all, so they did not care much about it and were unwilling to increase the budget to purchase additional frigates.
This time, the Imperial Ministry still does not pay attention to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's military magic machines, so they can only suffer a loss and have the opportunity to make them pay attention.
Compared to the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Army is favored by the military.
If the army suffered a big loss this time and the military department didn't take it seriously, it would be outrageous... (To be continued...)