Lieutenant Frank couldn't refuse because of General Michael Schmidt's force. He felt that if he refused, he would be shot.
The lieutenant was forced to write a document and hand over half of the amount to Schmidt in advance. He could only write a letter to complain to the crown prince.
The crown prince quickly replied that he understood.
Schmidt tacitly used the money to purchase various urgently needed supplies from the Genoese people. Of course, he also knew Sean's little idea - to keep the benefits in Genoa.
Anyway, this money was picked up for free. There was no need to look at the faces of the civil servants or ask the military bureaucrats for instructions over and over again. The money was spent comfortably. As for what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thought, he didn't care at all.
Schmidt did his part.
In fact, the field hospital couldn't spend that much money at all, and he took the opportunity to "appropriate" most of it to buy scarce military supplies, half of which were gunpowder and half of which were warm military uniforms - he felt that Sean's military coat, military boots and
The standard sweater has good texture and functionality, is warm, wear-resistant and lightweight. The only drawback is that it is not gorgeous enough.
It just so happens that now Genoa, or to be precise, the town of Vichy, can produce its own products - the Vichy branch of Bess Machinery and Kang's Textile, as well as some factory owners who have close relations with the Civil Defense Force and Sean.
Due to the short distance, it not only saves delivery time, but also allows Schmidt to buy more at the same price, without middlemen making the difference.
Everyone is happy.
But this is all a thing for later. At the moment, Sean can only take out some medical supplies from his own reserves and send them to the field hospital for emergency treatment. He feels that General Schmidt has money now, so all these supplies have been discounted by him and cannot be used in vain.
deliver.
A company of soldiers was busy for most of the day, cleaning up the inside and outside of the hospital. They repaired everything that needed to be repaired and replaced everything that couldn't be repaired.
After Sean's efforts, General Schmidt agreed to add more manpower to the field hospital, otherwise it would not be able to cope with the needs of the 500 wounded.
The sheets used by the wounded were all replaced with white cotton sheets, which were changed every three days, cleaned and sterilized with boiling water. Lime was sprinkled on the ground, and ventilation was paid attention to every day. When the weather was fine, the wounded were carried to the yard to bask in the sun.
All utensils, including tableware, must be disinfected before use every day. The food is of higher quality, and the wounded drink thick broth at least twice a day.
Half a month later, "only" twenty of the wounded died. Most of the wounded looked much better, and some were discharged one after another.
Schmidt was shocked when he heard the news. He came to inspect and praised Dean Gay greatly. When he heard that Sean only came twice in the first few days, his mood became very bad. This made Dean Gay
I always thought I had said the wrong thing.
In the afternoon of this day, the weather was rare and sunny in winter.
The soldiers of the Civil Defense Force are stationed five kilometers outside Longa City. This area belongs to the rear. They have nothing to do except train them. They have no turn to patrol or conduct reconnaissance.
In order to find something for the soldiers to do, Sean held a football tournament in the army. Today is the final. Two football teams belonging to the 3rd Company and the 8th Company compete for the final championship and runner-up.
The golf course is very simple. It used to be a large flat wheat field, but of course it was abandoned due to the war. It was flattened with stones, white lines were drawn with lime, and a few poles were erected, and it became a golf course.
The competition on the field was fierce, but most of the onlookers were not officers and soldiers of the Civil Defense Force.
General Schmidt suddenly appeared on the sidelines. He was wearing a new army coat today. The supplies he ordered from the Genoese began to arrive.
The sound like a roaring mountain and a tsunami could be heard endlessly. Schmidt patted the soldiers in front:
"Soldier, what are you doing?"
"Kick the ball, idiot!" The soldier didn't even look back.
"What?"
"Kick..." The soldier looked back and immediately turned pale, "General, I..."
Schmidt pushed the soldier aside and said, "Isn't this just a game? It seems to be a bit interesting."
While he was talking, the football flew to Schmidt's feet. At this time, the players on the field and the officers and soldiers watching the game knew that the commander-in-chief was coming.
Schmidt imitated the player's posture and volleyed with one kick. Unfortunately, the kick was crooked and he used too much force. He fell to the ground on the spot and made a big fool of himself.
There was silence.
Schmidt stood up with the help of his adjutant, his face flushed, and he laughed at himself:
"Well, I have lacked exercise recently. Do you young people look down on me, a fifty-five-year-old man?"
"Don't dare, General!" Everyone on the left and right suppressed laughter.
The whistle blew and the game continued, with an officer explaining the rules to General Schmidt in a show-off manner.
"Well, offense, defense, cover, entanglement and deception are just like fighting. It's very interesting." Schmidt nodded.
At the last moment of the game, the score between the two sides was 2 to 2, so a penalty shootout was necessary, which pushed the fierce atmosphere of the game to its climax.
In the end, three consecutive teams won the championship, and each team member plus the substitutes received a gold medal - made of real gold, worth at least one month's worth of their military pay.
After watching the game, General Schmidt was still impressed and believed that this sport could be promoted in the military.
Sean accompanied him to inspect the Genoa Civil Defense Force's garrison. This militia left a deep impression on him. It was neat and uniform, with a high degree of serious line beauty. In comparison, the friendly army's dormitories were like doghouses.
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Sean suspected that it was the food provided by the Civil Defense Force in the evening that impressed him more.
"It's such a crime to be extravagant," General Schmidt commented. "Are you southerners all rich? The soldiers have better food than our officers."
"My Commander-in-Chief, we just ask the rich to collect their share of the money." Sean replied.
"But it's difficult, right?" Schmidt was stunned and pondered.
"That's true. A rich person would rather spend money on a famous horse without even frowning, but if you ask him to pay an extra shilling in tax, he might fight you tooth and nail." Sean nodded.
So far, this topic has been discussed. Schmidt does not want to go into depth and is not interested. This kind of problem has always been within his scope of consideration:
"Sean, I have received a lot of supplies in the past half month. Those misers finally opened the cash box. And your two hundred thousand cash has been almost spent. It is the time when the army is strong. Now I am more powerful than ever.
Have confidence. As the New Year of 1832 approaches, I hope to completely wipe out the rebels and restore peace."
"I wish the general a victory." Sean said, "We Genoese are also looking forward to this day coming soon. In fact, if the war is not ended as soon as possible, morale will be affected, and the New Year is coming soon."
"Yes, the New Year is coming, time flies so fast. This also requires the full help of your Civil Defense Force, which is an army that can be reused." Schmidt said.
Sean immediately expressed his position: "The Genoa Civil Defense Force completely obeys your command!"
The next day, General Schmidt held a military meeting at the counter-insurgency headquarters in Longa City.
This can also be regarded as a pre-war mobilization rally, with generals and schools gathering. Sean and his two main deputies also attended the meeting.
At this meeting, intelligence from all aspects was first integrated to analyze the composition and strength of the enemy's forces, as well as the tactics that the rebels might adopt.
Daguerre City is located exactly at the intersection of the Moore River and the Longjiang River, and is bordered by major rivers on three sides. Although there is a fleet of our own navy on the Longjiang River, it is difficult to capture it with artillery attacks alone.
Landing on the ground can only become a living target for rebel artillery.
The only role of the naval fleet is to blockade the rebels and prevent them from escaping on the river.
Only the area west of the city can be attacked by land.
However, with the city of Daguerre as the center, the rebels built layer upon layer of fortifications in the dense villages and towns on the periphery of the city, and built forts and fortresses at some strategic points.
If the government troops want to reach Daguerre City, they must eat these fortified villages and towns one by one. In addition, the terrain of this area is crisscrossed by waterways, which is not conducive to the deployment of large-scale troops, and the government will definitely pay a heavy price.
But hard bones have to be chewed, and General Schmidt, who is known for his unruliness, also feels the pressure. If the war drags on to next spring, even he will feel ashamed.
General Schmidt prepared to attack along the communication line on the west bank of the Moore River with his most trustworthy and powerful 1st Unity Division as the main force. He handed over his left wing to the Genoese Civil Defense Force, and part of the army was on the east bank of the Moore River.
, advancing step by step until the troops arrived at Daguerre City.
The process of military preparations had begun long ago, especially General Schmidt who had collected two hundred cannons of various types, and he was ready to level Daguerre City with absolute strength.
This military meeting became General Schmidt's talking point, and the officers assigned to the easy task were visibly relieved, especially those troops advancing from the east bank of the Moore River.
In fact, General Schmidt did not dare to let these guys who only fight with the wind take more responsibilities.
Except for the Genoa Civil Defense Force, General Schmidt placed high hopes on Sean and asked him to protect his left wing, although Sean did not want to go to great lengths in his heart.
Once a general succeeds, all his bones will wither, and war means death.
If you put aside those so-called achievements, Sean's responsibility is to protect his subordinates as much as possible, but he will never stop moving forward because of fear of death.
After receiving the mission, Sean began to prepare for the war.
At this moment, the city of Daguerre was filled with the tense atmosphere before the war.
The city wall of Dagai City was originally a roughly circular city defense building. This is a city with a long history, so its city wall is tall and generous enough. The rebels spared no effort in manpower and material resources and built many prismatic structures on its periphery.
The fort fortifications are mainly triangular and hexagonal.
Outside the prismatic fortifications, a large number of moats and earth embankments were built, which together with the bastions formed a solid defensive posture.
It is said that these professional designs were all made by the professor, the Commander-in-Chief of the Free Army.
The residents of the city were ordered to work in the reinforcement of the city's defenses. The rebels then tore off their disguise and forced them to work day and night to transform Dagai City into a well-defended and fortified city.
Residents have paid a price for the trust they gave easily in the past.
When the rebels were besieged by government forces within a 100-kilometer radius centered on Daguerre at the end of November, residents found that the money in their hands was becoming less and less valuable. Firewood for cooking was more expensive than food.
Don't even think about coal. Later, they found out that they couldn't buy food, so they had to "volunteer" to become free labor for the rebels.
Not long ago, they followed the rebels into the mansions of rich people and merchants' warehouses, and were overjoyed to get a silver spoon or a piece of brightly colored cloth.
A group of coolies carried a cannon to the top of the city, then put it on an iron cart frame and transported it to the bastion connected to the city wall. Each bastion was equipped with at least six cannons, forming a shooting dead zone.
Fire Network.
Most of these artillery pieces were cast by the rebels themselves. In order to prevent the chambers from exploding, they were cast to be extremely heavy. The rebels preferred to cast mortars that were easy to manufacture and easy to move, and they were placed on earth embankments outside the city.
In order to cast these cannons, the rebels found all the iron tools they could find in the city, including kitchen knives, iron pots and even horseshoes.
As a small leader among laborers, Bill was in charge of a labor force of 200 people because he was ruthless and had a way to make the laborers complete their tasks quickly and well.
He has a beard and several terrible scars on his face, making him look extremely vicious. As long as his eyes stay on a certain worker for one more second, the worker's complexion will immediately turn pale, and then he will be summoned.
Beaten.
No one knows his origins, they only know that he came when the rebels came to Daqer, and soon got a job in engineering and construction by fawning over some middle-level figures among the rebels.
He is equivalent to a contractor, and he will get some rewards for doing things for the rebels. For this reason, he hired 10 thugs, all of them are ruthless characters, either fugitives or rogues or professional gangsters. Through them, Bill managed these 200 laborers.
Submissive.
Bill served the rebels very hard.
Today should be the time to transport and deploy the last batch of cannons, because the moment of the final decisive battle has arrived, and even a bereaved dog in the city can feel the increasingly tense atmosphere.
Standing on the city wall, Bill looked past the "Freedom Army" soldiers and looked at the fields outside the city.
Under the gloomy sky, there was no living thing in the fields except those Free Army soldiers.
His eyes stopped at a high ridge outside the city. There was a church there, but it was demolished to strengthen the city defenses, leaving only a pile of rubble.
It's getting colder and colder, and it might snow in the next two days. This is the coldest time of the year in Guinea.
A group of Free Army leaders came over surrounded by a man. Bill quickly lowered his head and drove the workers away from the city.
The workers were dejected, and some had the courage to look at Bill with flattering faces.
With a cigarette in his mouth, Bill gave everyone a wooden sign. With this wooden sign, the workers could get a little food to eat, that's all.
Although Bill is fierce and never relents in beating people, he will not deduct the workers' rations - which may be the entire rations for their respective families.
While handing out wooden signs, Bill glanced at the figure at the top of the city.