But Andrew didn't have time to calm down and listen to the praises of the military judge. He continued to order Xia De:

"You send someone outside the city to arrange it, inform the elders of each village, and let them organize all refugees into the city in an orderly manner, and the location is set in the city, and any free room is their residence, and 300 soldiers are responsible for the supervision; in addition, before sending food to those people, the elders of their village must sign a statement supporting the Republic against the rebels, and announce the content of the notice to them, and the statement does not need to be too long, and you will draft it, and I do not need to look at it; in the end, all the pig heads who are ready to come and get money will be arrested for me, and they will not need any interrogation to be escorted to the near square by the gendarmerie to carry out collective shooting! Damn, I hate others taking advantage of the situation."

"As for orders, General!" Xia De retreated and worked hard to get a series of tasks he had just obtained.

After seeing Xia De away, Andrew closed the door again and locked himself in the room. Then he walked to the abandoned fireplace, and seemed to say to the air: "Come out, my friend!"

Shortly after the words fell, the decorative stone slabs on the wall of the fireplace suddenly opened, and a dark secret passage appeared. Slowly, a middle-aged man crawled out from inside and stood in front of the general.

The secret passage should be quite clean. It can be seen from the man's clean coat that the entire secret passage is often used by someone. The man who came out wore a priest's black robe, but did not hide his face and head. Under the golden hair, there is a face that makes people feel extremely kind.

"Are you here to listen to my confession?" Andrew asked quippedly, knowing that the priest in front of him was one of the main leaders of the rebels, a Father Benier who was preparing to help him jointly suppress the rebellion of Vonde, and his choice of the church as the base camp was to facilitate the secret talks between the two.

"No, my child, God hates Satan's people." Father Benier replied seriously.

"Haha, it's so interesting. God's messenger also cooperates with Satan's followers, and intimate cooperation." Andrew laughed unscrupulously.

"Oh, is there?" Father Benier's eyes looked confused, as if he didn't know what the general in front of him was saying.

"Of course! He provided angels as guides to help the general eliminate the people who were preparing to assassinate him and came to the city smoothly; he also provoked the relationship between peasants and rebels, and guided a large number of refugees to the city; in order to help Andrew himself solve the food problem, he also sent a few unlucky profiteers or spies, and the large amount of food they brought... Do you want me to continue talking about? Father Benier! But are those foods real? No sand or other situations happening." When Andrew saw Father Benier, who was unrelated to himself, he began to talk about the tacit cooperation between the two.

"The general is indeed smart and famous. He can see at a glance the arrangement I made a month ago. Indeed, those merchants were sent by Count Huster, but they were from my own suggestions, and the food they brought was provided secretly by me. Most of them were originally sand, but I secretly replaced it with real food. Haha, it is indeed very refreshing to deal with smart people." Father Benier no longer concealed it and said with an open and honest smile.

Andrew was still a deputy gangster, and he kept asking the priest for food.

"But my food is still not enough, and the ones you send for free can only protect the entire military and civilians, and the infinitely pious people of God outside the city for 12 days. Dear Father Benier, you will never let my soldiers go to war with hunger."

"Of course not!"

"What about the other food?"

"There is no other food, and everything you can give to you."

"Damn bastard, do you want to lie to me? Or you don't have much food."

"Yes, Houster has not much food anymore, and they only have less than a month of military ration supply."

"You bastard priest, for one month, my people don't think they've starved to death first. Slowly, slow, unless you tell me the exact location of their main granaries and let me burn them in a fire, so that everyone can be fair to each other in terms of food supply."

"As you wish, I just hope that you can speak more civilizedly before the messenger of God, my general!" Father Benier handed Andrew a note, which noted the specific location and course of action of the rebels' main granaries, as well as some other data.

"Haha, I am Satan's darling!" Andrew jumped up excitedly.

"No, God wants me to influence you, maybe you can still become a Catholic saint, at least your godfather thinks so." The extremely serious Father Benier seemed to be telling the truth.

"Oh, is there any benefit? If you do, I can call God dad. By the way, I heard that if you become a saint, can you learn from your ignorant girls'*?" The shameless Andrew began to learn the bad habits of the nobles.

"The priests have no *, only the inglorious bastard nobles of Houster are happy to do it. Well, the boring topic can end, does the general want to know the current situation and action plan of the Houster rebels?"

Seeing that the priest was a little impatient, Andrew nodded quickly, stopped the endless topic, and sat aside and listened to Benier's narrative.

In mid-March, Hust had indeed mastered more than 50,000 troops, and is currently hidden in a forest less than dozens of miles from La Roche. Due to Spain's free aid, the rebels already owned more than 30,000 rifles and short guns, a total of 30 artillery pieces, including 3 18 pounds and 1 24 pound large-caliber cannon. However, there was an abnormal lack of ammunition. Each rifle was equipped with only 30 bullets, and each cannon could only be fired 8 times, because no one in the rebels could create fires. The relevant specific data were recorded in the note.

The soldiers were all peasants who had just dropped their hoes. The military quality was very poor, unorganized and disciplined. They had just been trained and could not even stand in the basic queue. More than half of the people had not fired guns, but their morale was very high. When fighting, they were not afraid of death. They had no special cavalry, and only officers above the captain level were equipped with war horses, and the artillery was driven by ox carts or manpower. However, the Spaniards sent an elite colonial cavalry of 1,000 people, commanded by a colonel named Fonsoto, and trained the soldiers of Houster, including managing artillery firing.

In addition, General Houst commanded the rebels to launch a full-scale attack on the morning of the fifth day after General Andrew arrived in the city of Laroche, which was a frontal siege. According to the combat deployment of Huster and Fonsoto, he hoped to capture the city within 3 days. At present, Father Benier has less than one-third of the strength within the rebels. He hoped that Andrew could annihilate or defeat the main force of the rebels under the city, so that his angels could inspire more rebel officers who hoped to reconcile the nation and further take over all Hustle's power in the rebels.

"If I'm not wrong, you are inciting Houster to prepare to siege Laroche," Andrew asked.

"Yes, it is necessary to attract Hustle's attention to you, mobilize all his troops under the city of Laroche, so that the angels of God can regain the initiative of the army from the Count's hands, provided that the general must first severely damage Hustle's morale." Father Benier explained.

"Why don't you send someone to kill Houster? This is more convenient, why do you need me to destroy him?" Andrew was a little puzzled. This was also a question he had been considering for a long time.

"The reason is very simple, there are two. First, the leaders of the rebels still believe in Houster. Killing him rashly will only make bad things, so that his rebels will return to the forest to continue fighting. I believe this is not what the general wants to see; second, it is that I intend to let the general win the perfect victory in this battle, which is part of the peace agreement with your father-in-law. Is it sufficient explanation?" Father Benier asked back with a smile.

Andrew nodded without saying anything, but Father Benier continued:

"God will help you, I will help you, and many people will help you! The angels will hand over accurate information to you every day; there is no shortage of all kinds of weapons, and the fire has the Director Lavasch to serve you; a strong defensive fortress is enough to resist the attack of Hustle; you also mobilized 2,000 of your army troops in Toulon in the name of the Army Department, and at the normal marching speed, they will also arrive on the 3rd to 5th day of your holding on to Laroche. The gap in numbers is just a number, and the peasants do not have much combat power. If I am not wrong, you have the confidence to win this battle and end the turmoil in Vendé. I just hope you a little, general!"

"I hope I'm what'

"Don't make too many killings."

"It's okay. I have the right to pardon issued by the National Council. But your religious people are not friendly to me. I will never let Sao Xixi ask them to come and cause trouble for me."

"Well, I have arranged it for you. As long as you do a not-too-hard performance tomorrow, you can win their hearts." The priest leaned over and muttered in Andrew's ear.

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"Haha, my priest, you are so despicable. You actually want me to do such disgusting work," Andrew asked again after hearing Father Benier's disgusting plan, "Why do you want to help me?"

"It is not only helping you, but also helping yourself, and the innocent people of God in the Vandai area. More than one year of war has caused more than 100,000 people to die in the battlefield. Countless mothers have lost their sons, wives have lost their husbands, and children have lost their children. I have seen too much and don't want to numb myself anymore. Reconciliation among the French nations is imperative. The priest is faithful to his church, but I love my country more. Although I don't like the republicans, including you, I hope that our cooperation can bring peace to Vandai and let the gospel of God spread again in every corner of Vandai. The French can no longer be in the guns of the French." Father Benier did not hide anything. Andrew saw the honesty and kindness that a true clergy possessed from the firm eyes of the other party, although behind it was full of conspiracy and betrayal.

"Give me a liaison officer, Lord Priest."

"No problem, a rebel major has been following you and following you into the city of Laroche. At this moment he is waiting for your summons outside this church, and he will accept any orders from the general, including leading your men to attack the rebels."

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Chapter completed!