Andrew's defense on the Brittany Plains was solid.

The two ends of the Fakao Mountain Pass opposite the base camp are only less than 300 meters away. As soon as you walk out of the forest, you will see a vast plain that climbs upward. Around 1,000 meters, the soldiers of the Vondae Legion spent a day building an arc-shaped defensive position covering the entire pass, and a deep and wide trench was dug at the front of the position. When the attacking rebels climbed out of the trench with difficulty, they would directly face another strong chest wall 50 meters away, which was the best shooting position for smoothbore gunmen. Before this, the chargers had to continue threatening more than 20 artillery overhead. In order to broaden their horizons, the commander ordered the angels to organize a large number of strong refugees to cut off all the trees in front of the position and pile them together in designated locations. Andrew also asked the soldiers to drip some flammable grease on it.

Originally he considered whether he needed to cover up his fortifications, but now it was completely unnecessary. All actions were made public, thanks to Princess Sophia. Due to the arrival of this Spanish princess (in the eyes of the rebels, perhaps the defected Captain St. Martin threatened from the Evande Legion), Hustre had to take a gamble and ventured to attack the Republican army, which was waiting for the battle, without the support of artillery. In their opinion, 50,000 to 10,000 troops were more than five times different, and there must be a possibility of a turnaround. Because of the lack of food, the transportation channel with the Bay of Biscay must be opened for a period of time so that all kinds of supplies on the Spanish navy fleet could be successfully transported to the rebels. The faster the time, the better, otherwise, the Spanish royal family would likely reach some kind of compromise with Andrew, who owned the hostages, and sell the interests of the rebels.

What's more, Andrew still has a large amount of treasures in his hand, and is as greedy as the mountains. After several days of repeated consideration, Houster finally made the decision to prepare to attack the Republican army. It was March 31 (tomorrow) at 2 a.m., and the attack was a sneak attack.

Two hours after Houster issued a sneak attack order to the rebel leaders, Andrew received top-secret documents of the opponent's combat deployment in his tent. Andrew immediately notified the middle and senior officers in the army to convene the pre-war military parliament 10 minutes later, and he handed over the rebel combat plan he had just learned to the officers for circulating. From the officers' reactions, Andrew could see that his subordinates were full of confidence in the battle and had no frustration or complaints before retreating. There was even a lieutenant talking to his colleagues about the topic of victory.

Andrew frowned, obviously he liked this overly optimistic argument. The general asked everyone in a teasing tone: "Officials, citizens, from everyone's rich expressions, I saw your desire for victory. Haha, so too. Victory is not difficult, it should be said to be very simple, but it lacks some connotation and lacks a little magnificent color. I suggest that the legion abandon artillery support and position defense and fight a heroic frontal battle with the rebels. How about?"

Hearing the commander's proposal, Major Neck heard some sarcasm. Not even inside and outside the statement, the original officers of the other Wandai Legion nodded in agreement. They all longed to fight with the rebels in a head-on battle to wash away the shame of the past. But they felt a little puzzled that the upright Lieutenant Colonel Xiade and the brave Brigade Commander Dawu were silent, staying in their own position and remained silent. There was also a mysterious expression on their faces, which made people wonder.

Andrew looked at the group of cute fools under him, a little amused. A few days ago, when he ordered the fortifications of Laroche and retreated to the Brittany Plain, many of them had tried their best to oppose it, because only the strong fortifications could withstand the attack of more than five times the rebels. Now, they knew that the rebels in front of them were short of food, no artillery, and their morale was declining, so they began to pluck themselves up in a bold manner to end the war with a high-sounding sound.

It was really a pity that they could think that they agreed to fight the enemy with 10,000 to 50,000 at night. Even if they win, their casualties would be astonishingly high. Andrew didn't want to maintain his good habit of loving soldiers (every time the battle ended, the commander would have to run to the wounded soldiers to perform some mission-style condolences and apply medicine in person), and died of exhaustion in the field hospital. What's more, with more pensions, General Andrew's pocket of rich and wealthy generals would have to spend less gold coins.

Alas, how did the tactical ideas of the Black Fire yao era be so conservative. No wonder the Prussian Army Major General, Karl von Klauswetz, who was defeated repeatedly and could only steal the cat, wrote this "About War" with many loopholes, which was regarded as a classic of artistic warfare by military strategists across Europe and the United States. This classical strategic theory that exaggerates the theory of "war itself requires unlimited use of violence" is still very popular, but it is unknown that more than two thousand years ago, Marshal Sun Wu of China clearly pointed out that "the war is a trick", "the superior army attacks the plan, the second is the enemy, and the next is the enemy. The method of siege is a last resort."

To achieve the highest war effectiveness at the minimum cost of casualties has always been the first element Andrew needs to consider. Even if it will seriously damage his image, it will be spared. According to a catchphrase he often talks about, "History has always been written by the winner, and I am the winner!" Unfortunately, except for Dawu, who is also the adjutant, who can still understand his war ideas, others either make absurd suggestions or blindly believe in themselves and are at a loss.

I wanted to take the opportunity of a military meeting to get rid of the harassment of the willful princess, but I lost my mood. Andrew waved his hand and asked Dawu to replace him to make future combat deployments, and he ran outside and went out to have a happy life.

Before leaving the headquarters tent, Andrew, who was worried, called a guard beside him and told him to go to Princess Sophia's residence to investigate, in case he ran into the difficult woman on the way. Five minutes later, the guard replied that Princess Sophia was still taking a nap, and others said that she wrote too late last night.

Writing is a diary. Hehe, what a wonderful thing it is to peek at a girl’s diary, just like when I was in middle school. When Andrew thought of this, a shameless smirk appeared on his face, completely forgot that there were still a few guys standing beside him who liked to inquire about the general’s privacy, as bored and boasted after dinner. God knows that after a supper, there will be countless erotic stories about the general and the princess, which will be released soon.

The main artillery positions are set on the hills in the middle of the battlefield. There are 10 large-caliber artillery pieces, with 24 pounds and 16 pounds of shells each. With their height advantages, the shells can cover every corner of the rebels' attack. There are 16 remaining 4 to 8 pounds of small-caliber artillery pieces, which are scattered in the other two artillery positions on the left and right, killing the enemy at close range.

When Andrew walked to the central artillery position, he found that the fortifications had been completed. On the plain opposite the hill, more than 20 gunners were measuring the artillery launch rulers on the battlefield tomorrow. A conspicuous peugeot was set up at each distance to provide an accurate reference for the artillery launch at night.

"General Andrew!" A familiar voice came from behind. Andrew looked back and it turned out that it was his old friend Ravashi who ran over.

Andrew greeted him with a smile, but found that Ravashi's face had become much thinner again. Seeing his black hands covered with fire, he believed that it was the result of many days of hard work, so he asked with concern: "My friend, what surprise do you want to tell Andrew."

"Of course I have nonsense! I wanted to ask someone to call you, but you came here by yourself. It happened, just right!" Ravashi, who rushed over, pulled Andrew before he finished speaking, panting and returned to the temporary ammunition depot again. Poor Andrew sighed that his extremely clean white gloves were stained by others, and he felt very distressed.

Ravashi asked someone to bring a 24-pound shell and put it in front of the general. This was a round, black and heavy guy. At first glance Andrew looked nothing special with other shells, but just opened a deep hole in a certain position on the bullet body, which was very small.

"What's this?" Andrew fiddled with it novelly, and picked it up, and found that the shell was not solid, a bit like a grape bullet, but much heavier than the grape bullet.

Ravashi didn't say anything, and took out a slender fuse, gently inserted it into the small hole in the bullet body, and explained calmly: "Blooming bullet, my general! This is the flowering bullet you want. Currently, the equipment can be on a 24-pound and 16-pound cannon. Its effective range is the same as a solid bullet, and it can reach 1,500 meters. I believe that it will continue to fire more than 50 shells without blowing up, and the time for the bomb body to explode can be grasped at will, the method is this fuse of different lengths, huh, it is also called the lead. Just..."

"Flowering Bullet? Hahaha, my dear Director Lavashi, you can always bring me unexpected surprises." Andrew, excited, almost jumped up to celebrate, interrupted Lavashi without thinking, only caring about his own happiness.

Long before entering Laroche City, Andrew asked Ravas to develop a flowering bullet for himself that can explode on its own according to the time requirements after being fired, so as to shoot enemies with dense formations. This flowering bullet is different from the previous grape bullet. Although the grape bullet can also self-destruct into countless shrapnel after being fired, its range is too close and can only attack close-range enemies within 40 meters on the flat ground. As soon as the bullet body is out of the barrel, it will crack around and cannot control its explosion time. What's more terrifying is that once the number of fires is too many, there is a possibility of a blow-off.

As early as the battle in the Oliuer Valley Plain, it was because of the huge power of the grape bomb that the besieged coalition forces on the valley plains stopped climbing the hillside and ensured the safety of the rifle company. At the same time, due to the side effects of the grape bomb, at the end of the entire battle, at least six artillery bombs had a blast accident, losing more than 20 excellent gunners a hundred times. Andrew has always been worried about this. He has always hoped to develop a flowering bomb with a long range, safe and efficient fire, and can control the explosion time.

Andrew clearly remembered that the flowering shell was originally a "shredded bullet" invented by British artillery officer Henry Tolapnay in 1803. This bullet did not fly away as soon as it was out of the muzzle like the previous grape bombs, but was installed in a hollow shell with explosive drugs in the shell, and it was equipped with a time fuse that could ensure on-time detonation over the target, and it had the dual properties of shotgun and explosive bombs. More importantly, due to the key technical component of the time fuse (fuse), the shortcomings of early or late explosion caused by the difficulty in mastering the length of the drug twist, so it could be loaded into the bottom of the long-barrel heavy gun, instead of being able to be fired at a short-barrel gun, so it could have the same range as the spherical solid bomb.

The historical events are very clear, but it is extremely difficult to develop this kind of shrapnel. Andrew asked all the engineers of the Toulon Army Ordnance, but everyone insisted that it was impossible to implement it at this stage. Andrew, who was desperate, even planned to send someone to the UK to kidnap the artillery captain, Henry Tolap. But later, a lieutenant in charge of logistics support volunteered to suggest to Andrew that the former director of fire yao in Paris, Ravassi had proposed a solution to the flowering bullets, and had started to develop it for quite some time. However, because Ravassi took the initiative to surrender himself, the entire plan was put on hold indefinitely.

When Andrew learned the good news, he asked Balas to release Lavas as soon as he returned to Paris, and lied that Lavas had the secret funds of the tax-protected merchant group. For this reason, Andrew also owed hundreds of thousands of gold francs to his father-in-law. Whenever he thought of this, Andrew's heart felt as uncomfortable as if he was cut by a knife. Fortunately, Lavas in front of him did not disappoint his high expectations. Ten years in advance, he developed a flowering bullet that could be used for practical effects before the British captain.

"It's worth the money, it's worth the money!" Andrew praised in his heart, not for others, but for his correct choice. When he looked up at Lavasi again, he found that the latter looked unhappy. After a long depressed moment, Andrew suddenly realized that Lavasi in front of him didn't like others interrupting his speech. This is the old problem of all scientists.

Andrew hurriedly stood up and apologized to Ravaxi. Ravaxi continued: "It's just that the power of filling the fire is too small. The energy released by the explosion causes the destructive power of the shrapnel to be unable to form a very effective threat, unless, unless the great power fire that the general mentioned before is developed, seems to be called Tienti, or yellow fire?"

"Terenti?" Andrew smiled bitterly. He thought that in addition to knowing various nouns such as nitroscopic cotton, nitrofiber, *, picy acid, Timber (*), yellow fire and cyclone medicine, etc., as for how to develop, extract, fill and safe transportation, he is completely a layman. In fact, in the middle school chemistry textbook, he also introduced the manufacturing method of Timber. Unfortunately, Andrew (Zhao Kai) belongs to the liberal arts subjects and does not pay much attention to it. Now, I don't know about it. Now Andrew really wants to run back and hold a super notebook to come again, so that the chemist who likes to ask questions can satisfy the chemist in front of him.

You can complain in your heart, but in front of others, Andrew, who is very proud, is unwilling to show his ignorance too much. He coughed a few words and continued: "Okay, let's talk about the issue of high-explosive zha medicine later. Let's talk about the specific power of the flowering bullet you developed."

"Well, we used to do live-fire shooting. The victims of the experiment were hundreds of wild goats we caught. After 10 experiments, 6 flowering bullets could be set at 1 to 5 meters above the heads of 50 densely arranged flocks according to time. The average results showed that only 4 sheep were killed on the spot, and 15 were seriously injured, most of which were only slightly injured or not damaged. Do the general need to test them on the spot?" Ravashe was just a scientist who was grateful to him. He felt that he should fulfill all the requirements of General Andrew. He did not consider how many people died due to his invention. After all, Ravashe had been in the military camp in his early years, and he knew that powerful weapons could save the lives of his soldiers. War was cruel, that's all.

"It's powerful enough, enough, my friend! It's a test again, there's no need to do it. Don't worry!" Andrew patted the chemist's shoulder with his habitual movements, but he didn't know that his reckless behavior was too fierce and made Ravaxi grin and hurt for a long time. Andrew noticed Ravaxi's strange appearance and hurriedly did the remedial work afterwards with a smile.

"Those rebels are French, and future French citizens. Less casualties and more deterrence is the king. Haha! I'm so sorry, my friend, Andrew is so happy."

"Okay, General, for God's sake, please be gentle in the future." Ravashi rubbed his shoulders and complained softly.

"Sure, certain. Oh, is there sufficient ammunition?"

"There are more than 1,000 flowering bullets in total, which can ensure that all large-caliber artillery in the main artillery position continue to fire more than 100 rounds. There are still grape bullets in the left and right artillery positions, and there are many, but they are all improved by me. I believe the chance of blowing up the chamber will be much smaller."

"Where is the incendiary bomb?"

"This is simpler. It is nothing more than just a solid bullet heated to a sufficient temperature before launching. It is just to target the piles of wood for night lighting. Although the specific ruler has been measured repeatedly in advance, it still requires more ammunition."

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Chapter completed!