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Volume 3: Stormy France Chapter 120: Claude¡¯s Helplessness

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    "It's broken!" Claude was now surrounded by thick clothes, all of which were pulled from the dead body.  During the war, the situation was special, and Claude himself was not very "noble", so he was not very shy about wearing the clothes of the dead.

    But what he said was bad, and it woke up many of the drowsy personal guards.

    Being cold and hungry, they did not dare to sleep soundly, fearing that once they fell asleep, they would fall asleep forever and meet God.  But in the past two days, Claude suddenly decided to open up the food supply (even if it was open, it was only a little better than the previous days, otherwise, with the appetite of these strong men, they might not be able to finish a full meal.  The second meal), in his words, everything should have results in just a few days, so there is no need to deliberately save food.

    If the situation does not arise by then, this is not what the hungry and cold Burgundian soldiers have considered. Anyway, if they persist until now and surrender, no one can say anything wrong.

    "My lord, why is it so bad? Aren't we all fine now?" a guard asked.  In fact, they don't have to think about any retreat now. The worst they can do is surrender, which is not a bad outcome.  Moreover, Petain and the others learned from their mistakes and found that Western Qin did not treat prisoners in a barbaric way, and there was still a chance of being redeemed. Therefore, they did not feel that anything could be "broken" now.

    Claude didn¡¯t speak any more, as if the noise just now was entirely his sleep.  When the surrounding guards saw that their master was silent, they wisely stopped asking questions. Anyway, this was not an issue they needed to consider.

    And the reason why Claude stopped replying was indeed the same. Even if he told these personal guards the reason, it would be just a useless effort. It is better to save some effort.  After all, even I can't solve this predicament now.

    He now somewhat understands the approach of the Western Qin people. The existence of emotions is just as a bait.

    Fishermen will naturally not eat the bait themselves, but need bait to lure big fish to the bait.

    Originally, Claude had been wondering why, to this day, the Western Qin side only surrounded him but did not take the initiative to attack.  At first, he thought that Xi Qin wanted to force him to surrender, so he adopted this method of siege but not attack.  But he gradually realized that this idea was unreasonable. If Xi Qin really considered it this way, then he should have sent an envoy long ago to persuade them to surrender.

    " And there has been no movement at all in Western Qin so far, so it must not be to persuade them to surrender.  The remaining possibility is to use a small group of them as bait to attract the Burgundian army to rescue them, and then use all their strength to defeat the reinforcements.

    Claude didn't know that the academic name of this tactic in Middle-earth was called encirclement and reinforcements, but this did not prevent him from understanding its meaning. What's more, he himself was the general who liked to play "tricks" most in the Burgundian camp.  , naturally understand better than ordinary people that if things are abnormal, there must be a monster.

    A few days ago, there were many Burgundian soldiers on the mountain peaks who had no choice but to break out due to food shortages.  At that time, Claude knew that such reckless actions would be tantamount to death, so he did not exclude any personal guards, but just let ordinary soldiers do this. Firstly, it could save a lot of food, and secondly, only by letting most of the people know that the only way to break out of the encirclement was  Only if he died, the remaining soldiers would stay here with him.  Thinking about it now, if the Western Qin side deliberately let go of one or two defeated troops, counting the time, it is estimated that the reinforcements of the Duke of Burgundy would have arrived near the Belfort Mountains by now.

    That¡¯s why he said ¡°it¡¯s broken¡± just now.

    However, there is nothing Claude can do about this.  Originally, he thought that Western Qin was preparing to persuade them to surrender, so he increased the food supply per meal a lot. But now it seems that this is not the case at all.  Of course, if Western Qin is really planning to encircle the area for reinforcements, then their value is also gone now. When Western Qin destroys the Burgundian reinforcements and withdraws its hands, it will be time for them to be captured.

    Claude looked into the distance, and all he could do was sigh deeply.

    He now finds more and more that, let alone the other generals of Burgundy, he himself, in terms of "conspiracies and intrigues", is completely childish compared with the people of the Western Qin Dynasty, and is not even qualified.

    ¡°And I was planning to ambush the Western Qin army at the beginning, but now that I think about it, I feel like a poor alchemist apprentice, proudly playing with his work in front of a master alchemist.  Little did he know that in front of the master, his works were full of loopholes.

    ?? If it was said that the ambush failed at first, it can be attributed to the fact that the generals on the Western Qin side were cautious and cautious.  But the subsequent disastrous defeat in the Battle of Basel made Claude think calmly these days.

    Presumably, Western Qin must have seen through its arrangement in the Belfort area from the beginning, or it may have suspected that Burgundy was in Belfort.It was not just the five thousand men stationed in the river valley area, so there were frequent harassments that night, which caused the energy of the entire army to be greatly reduced one night and the next day.

    And, more importantly, it also completely angered all the generals on the side. At the same time, it also made oneself think that their military strength was nothing more than this, making the Burgundy side's conquest on the second day become so reasonable.  Now that Claude thought about it, at that time, he was afraid that he could not suppress those generals who were bent on fighting and seeking revenge.

    Looking back now, all this seems not difficult to see through.  But even so, I was still not careful enough, and I really underestimated the Western Qin people, letting P¨¦tain and Dassault lead the exhausted troops, and continued on their way.  After arriving at the gates of Basel, the combat effectiveness of the Burgundian soldiers was undoubtedly at its lowest point. They should have rested for a night and fought again the next day, but they made the mistake of directly attacking.  In this battle, where they had no advantage in the first place, coupled with all these mistakes, the balance of victory was not on their side at all.  Even if the Western Qin people did not set up an ambush in the end, but directly defended on the city wall, Claude also understood that they would probably fail in the end. The only difference was that they did not enter the city, and they could more or less escape with some troops, and  The entire army will not be wiped out.

    His last support was well-intentioned, but it was precisely because of this that P¨¦tain and Dassault felt that they had a chance to win. They dared to rush into Basel without any scruples, and they fell into the trap that the Western Qin people had planned.  There is no escape from the trap.

    It can be said that among them, the Western Qin people's strategies were connected step by step, and they entered the final failure step by step.

    Of course, Claude would not know that it was precisely because of his last joining that he almost broke the limit of the people of Western Qin. If he had not come, Bai Zhou could have retreated into the city earlier, instead of letting Meng Shan leave the city for a bloody battle.  , taking huge risks in vain.  It was precisely because of his arrival that the Western Qin people's plan almost went wrong.

    So his mistake was not that he didn¡¯t come, but that he only brought too few people.  The impact on the Western Qin people's plan can be corrected completely.  If he had used all his troops at that time, the outcome was still unknown, and at the very least, they would not have been wiped out in one battle, and even the two nobles were captured.

    This also indirectly caused the morale of the Burgundian soldiers who stayed in the Belfort Mountains to drop significantly. At the same time, their strength was insufficient, and they were finally conquered without thinking.

    Claude looked at the direction where the Burgundian reinforcements might arrive, hoping that they would be more cautious and not step into the trap set by the Western Qin people again.

    Admittedly, even Claude himself felt that this was just wishful thinking on his part.

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