Chapter 859: The Increasingly Corrupt Western Battlefield (Part 2)

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"Gabriel..."

El cast a helpless look at Gabriel.

"Can you knock on the door before entering? You always break into my room without saying hello, which makes me very troubled."

"After all, if you catch me doing something that only men would do, even I would feel embarrassed."

Gabriel, who is always cheerful, rarely responded to El's joke just now.

Instead, he raised a piece of paper in his hand and smiled bitterly at El:

"El, I have bad news for you."

Looking at the paper in Gabriel's hand, El only felt that an ominous premonition was emerging from his heart at a very fast speed.

"As you predicted before, the Britannia Empire really launched an offensive against us."

"On April 15, hundreds of thousands of troops set out from the Muhavitz Fortress and captured the Chubol Fortress in just four days. The 70,000 defenders in the fortress were wiped out."

"According to the latest intelligence, not long after the capture of the Chubol Fortress, the Britannia Army split into two groups, one attacking the northwest and the other attacking the east."

Before Gabriel finished speaking, El's face changed drastically.

After the "Hammer" operation ended, El had predicted that the Britannia Empire was very likely to take advantage of the current weakness of the Holy Hilan Empire and send troops to attack them, further weakening the Holy Hilan Empire's national strength.

After making this prediction, El had a fluke mentality.

He hoped that the Britannia Empire would choose to give up this rare opportunity due to its weak national strength.

So when he heard that the Britannia Empire actually came to attack them, El was shocked.

He didn't expect that the Britannia Empire now had the spare capacity to support an army of tens of thousands for an expedition.

What shocked El the most was the fall of the Chupol Fortress.

Although El didn't know much about the Chupol Fortress, he knew that this fortress was a new fortress built by the Holy Hiran Empire with all its strength after the end of the "Hammer" operation.

With 70,000 troops stationed inside, it should be able to stop the Britannia Empire for several months.

However, the answer of the attacking Britannia Army was - 4 days!

It only took 4 days from the beginning of the troops to the capture of the Chupol Fortress.

Excluding the time spent on the march, it should have taken only about 1 day for the Britannia Army to capture the Chupol Fortress.

"The troops were dispatched on April 15th, and the Chupol Fortress was captured on April 19th... How did the Britannia Army do it?" El couldn't help but exclaimed to Gabriel.

Facing El's question, Gabriel shook his head.

"The reason for the fall of Chubol Fortress is still unclear."

"...There must be a traitor." El pondered, "Unless there is a traitor who captured the fortress from the inside, it is impossible to capture Chubol Fortress in just a few days."

"How Chubol Fortress fell - the central government has no time to investigate this matter." Gabriel said in a deep voice, "The central government is now focusing on how to stop the Britannia Army that is ravaging the western territory."

"...Gabriel, do you know the direction of the two armies of the Britannia Army?"

"Ah? I know."

"Tell me the direction of the two armies of the Britannia Army."

As El said, he pulled out a map under the bed.

"I want to calculate where the Britannia Army's target is."

"Ah? Calculate?"

"Hurry up!"

"Ah, ah, good!"

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...

Not only did Gabriel tell El the direction of the two Britannia Army's armies, he also told El all the other information he knew, regardless of size.

El looked at the map in front of him, and after thinking for a long time, he finally spoke:

"If my judgment is correct, the army attacking to the northwest, their target is Otto City in the northwest."

"And the army attacking to the east, their target should be our secondary capital-Ariel, or they just want to lure our main force here, and then have a decisive battle with our main force in the field."

"In any case, this army attacking to the east is definitely the main force of the Britannia Army."

"You only rely on this little information to determine the Britannia Army's attack target?" Gabriel looked at El in surprise.

As soon as Gabriel finished speaking, El shook his head: "It's just some guesses that I don't know whether they are true or false."

"Ah!" Gabriel suddenly screamed, "It's all El's fault that you suddenly asked me to tell you the direction of the Britannia Army's advance, which almost made me forget the main business!"

After that, Gabriel raised the paper in his hand again in front of El.

"In order to help the increasingly corrupt southwest battlefield, the central government has now reassembled 100,000 troops."

"The commander-in-chief of this 100,000-strong army is the commander-in-chief of the Central Guards-Marshal Nikita Belov."

"Then-El, you are also recruited."

"This paper is

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The transfer order for you."

"You will be transferred to the logistics unit of this 100,000-man army and be in charge of a baggage train."

After saying that, Gabriel stuffed the paper in his hand into El's arms.

Looking at the paper in his arms, El's eyes widened.

After the "Hammer" operation ended, Emperor Vasili originally planned to transfer El from a third-class quartermaster to a first-class military attaché in order to commend El's military exploits, so that El would no longer be a quartermaster and become a military attaché.

But El was not willing to be a military attaché. Under his insistence, Emperor Vasili finally changed his reward to El, from a first-class military attaché to a first-class quartermaster, allowing El to be promoted by two levels.

Er was not actually very satisfied with this reward.

El only wanted to be a third-class quartermaster for life and did not want to be promoted.

But it was not easy to get Vasili to give in and change from a first-class military attaché to a first-class quartermaster, so El was embarrassed to refute Vasili's face again and asked Vasili not to promote him.

In the end, El could only accept the promotion.

"Are you going to the battlefield again..."

El smiled bitterly and picked up the transfer order.

"The first-class quartermaster is different. When I was a third-class quartermaster, I only had to do some odd jobs. Now that I am a first-class quartermaster, I have to directly manage an entire baggage team."

"To manage an entire baggage team... I feel tired just thinking about it... huh?"

Before El finished speaking, he made a strange "hmm" sound.

"Baggage..." El murmured.

"What's wrong? El." Gabriel asked in confusion.

As soon as Gabriel finished speaking, El's eyes suddenly widened, revealing a strong excitement in his eyes.

"Got it! The funding channel for developing muskets has been settled!"

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