Chapter 185: Surprise Attack on Huming City (8)
Within Luolin Empire, Huming City, war conference room.
Fifteen senior generals from the Luolin Empire's Northern Defense Command were gathered in the combat conference room in Huming City.
There is a huge map hanging on the wall to the north of the war conference room.
Anyone who has some knowledge of the geography of the Britannia Empire and the Rollin Empire can tell at a glance that this huge hanging map is the border between the Britannia Empire and the Rollin Empire. District map.
Next to this huge map, stood an old man with white hair and beard.
In addition to the old man, the other 14 senior generals gathered around a huge round table in front of the map.
None of the 15 senior generals in the conference room were wearing armor, they were all wearing civilian clothes.
According to the regulations of the Luolin Empire, whenever a formal military meeting is held, the generals participating in the meeting must wear their armor neatly.
Tonight's meeting is just a less formal meeting, so there are not so many pedantic rules to abide by. Therefore, none of the 15 senior generals participating in this meeting wore any armor or carried any weapons. Any weapon.
On the round table, there are a large number of side dishes and drinks.
Unlike the Britannia people who love black tea and the Shilan people who love wine, the Rollin people don't have anything in particular that they love.
Therefore, the drinks placed on this round table are of all kinds.
There are wine, juice, black tea, green tea, purified water...
The 14 people gathered around this round table can just choose whatever they like to drink.
While drinking, you can also eat the side dishes on the round table.
If it were a formal meeting, of course it would be impossible for them to have a meeting while eating and drinking like this.
But as I said just now, this is a less formal meeting. The purpose of tonight's meeting is to have a relaxed meeting.
Therefore, the 14 people sitting at the round table were drinking various drinks and eating delicious side dishes while listening to the explanation of the old man standing next to the map.
The old man held a long thin stick in his hand, pointed at the map, and said:
"As everyone knows, three-quarters of the Rachel Knights of the Britannia Empire, totaling 150,000 people, have already assembled in Carania."
After saying that, the old man waved his thin stick and pointed at the small square marked "Calania" on the map within the Britannia Empire.
"If my judgment is correct, the 150,000-strong army of the Britannian Empire should begin to march toward the east within the next few days and launch an offensive against the Frankish Empire."
Speaking of this, the old man's mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly, and his face was filled with unconcealable joy.
The 14 people sitting at the bottom and listening quietly to the old man's explanation were also like the old man, with the corners of their mouths slightly raised and joy on their faces.
"This is really a God-given opportunity!" the old man said in a somewhat excited tone, "Our Luolin Empire is planning to launch a major counterattack against the Britannia Emperor Empire this spring, and just at this time the Britannia Empire The Niya Empire wants to use troops against the Frank Empire!"
As soon as the old man finished speaking, a general below answered:
"Yes! This is really an excellent opportunity! Taking advantage of the moment when the Britannian Empire launches an offensive against the Frankish Empire to launch a counterattack, the success rate of our counterattack will definitely increase greatly!"
The other generals sitting next to him also answered:
"And the troops mobilized are the Knights of Rachel!"
"Now, there are only 50,000 soldiers of the Rachel Knights left on the southern defense line of the Britannia Empire! How long will it take if we don't launch a counterattack now!"
"This time, we must let the Britannias spit out all the territory they have invaded from our country over the years. Not only must the Britannians spit out all the territory, but we must also ask them to return it to us in double the amount!"
Looking at the high-spirited generals below, a satisfied smile appeared on the old man's face.
Before a war begins, there is nothing more joyful than the generals' high morale and eagerness to fight.
The old man coughed slightly.
After hearing the old man's coughs, the generals who had just been having a heated discussion immediately shut their mouths obediently.
After the entire conference room became quiet, the old man continued:
"As everyone knows, because the Britannian Empire will launch an offensive called 'Spring Awakening' against the Frankish Empire this spring, our spring counterattack plan has been postponed."
"We plan to wait until the fierce battle between the 150,000 Rachel Knights soldiers of the Britannian Empire and the Frankish Empire is in full swing before launching a major counterattack. Only in this way can the effect of the counterattack be optimal."
"Because I don't know when the Britannian Empire and the Frankish Empire will start fighting fiercely, but it will probably be in April or May."
"Therefore, there is no date set yet for when our spring counteroffensive will take place."
Having said this, the old man chuckled a few times, and then continued:
"Actually, it doesn't matter when we start the counterattack. Anyway, the 200,000-strong army for the counterattack has already been assembled on the northern defense line. The supplies sufficient to supply the 200,000-strong army for the major counterattack have already been prepared, so it doesn't matter when the counterattack starts."
"I believe that everyone must be looking forward to this major counterattack that will start in one or two months, but we must not take it lightly or get too excited and get carried away."
The old man now changed into a more stern tone.
"So the purpose of calling everyone to this conference room tonight is to reiterate and review with you the various deployments of this major counterattack, and to inform you of some new adjustments to the deployment of troops."
After saying that, the old man raised the thin stick in his hand again, pointed at the map, and prepared to review and reiterate the deployment of this major counterattack with everyone, as well as inform some new adjustments to the deployment of troops.
At this moment, the door to the conference room was violently opened.
A panicked soldier rushed into the conference room.
"General! No..."
However, before the soldier who broke into the conference room finished speaking, he was rudely interrupted by the 15 senior generals in the conference room.
"Asshole!!"
"What are you doing! Show me the occasion! Didn't you see there's a meeting going on here?!"
"Which army are you from?!"
"Didn't your commander tell you not to break into the war conference room without permission?!"
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Although the old man standing next to the map did not reprimand or abuse the soldier like others, he frowned and looked at the soldier with extremely unhappy eyes.
Although tonight's meeting is just a very informal meeting where everyone does not need to wear armor and can eat and drink.
But even so, this was a military meeting.
No matter how informal it is, soldiers cannot intrude so roughly.
The soldier seemed to be frightened by the group of generals who loudly reprimanded and abused him. He quickly performed a military salute and then apologized continuously.
Looking at the panicked expression of the soldier, the old man suddenly felt a bad premonition surge in his heart for no reason.
The old man raised his hand and pressed it several times in mid-air.
After seeing the old man's action, the 14 generals sitting around the round table immediately stopped talking.
However, everyone still looked at the soldier with extremely displeased eyes.
"What happened?" the old man asked the soldier in a calm tone.
"General, general!" After seeing the old man allowing him to speak, the soldier hurriedly said, "Huming City was attacked!! Countless enemies invaded Huming City!!!"