After collecting enough wagons to reach a deceptive number, the Prussian army began to march towards Ay, and at the same time, after receiving the report from the scouts, Lucien immediately began to secretly rearm the French army under his command and some of the French-minded gentry army.
On August 24, the so-called coalition baggage team disguised by Germain's department entered Ayi, and the garrison in Ai City also made quite a lot of arrangements for the safety of this baggage team, although the coalition garrison in Ai City was only 100 people, but this did not mean that Grum only had 100 people in his hands to mobilize.
Under Grum's orders, nearly 500 police and militia from the entire Ayi region were mobilized to the vicinity of Ayi City, and at the same time, Grum also bought horses and wagons in Ayi, and grain from the warehouses in Ayi City began to be loaded into these wagons.
Outer Grum claimed that the grain and baggage in the warehouses in Ayi were used to support the army at the front.
Not only Jermain and Grum were prepared, but Lucien and others were also prepared.
"Baptiste, this time our target is the enemy's forward army, this forward army has three hundred guards, plus the cavalry that appeared a few days ago and the garrison in Ayi, then the enemy's strength will be five hundred.
In order to move quickly, I am prepared to send 3,000 men to attack this baggage team, and in order to prevent this from being the enemy's complete set, I need you to take the remaining 1,000 men and the armament of the various gentry I have assigned to you to guard the perimeter!
At the same time, you have the mission to destroy as much as possible the traces of the battle after the battle is over.
You know what I mean?
” Baptiste nodded earnestly after listening respectfully to Lucien's order, and then asked with some confusion on his face: "But, Your Excellency, since the enemy has transported such a huge amount of supplies with a single striker.
Then it is obvious that the enemy's subsequent main force must be transporting an unimaginable amount of supplies, in that case, why don't we just make a big one?
” Hearing Baptiste's words, Lucien raised his eyebrows and then said to Baptiste: "Baptiste, you think too simply, the enemy has three hundred men in one striker.
Then it can be said that the enemy's main force of the Chinese army must be more than 1,000 people, although we have the advantage in our strength, but once we engage the enemy on a large scale.
That will undoubtedly expose our whereabouts to the eyes of the enemy!
And once we reveal our whereabouts, and we dare to attack a baggage team of this size, those enemies will surely consider us a serious danger!
You know, the reason why we have been able to succeed many times during this time.
The main reason is that the enemy does not regard us as a serious problem.
After all, compared with the enemy's tens of thousands of male troops, the strength of our army is really a little weak!
” After Lucien's words, Baptiste's face became a little stiff, as if he did not take Lucien's opinion very seriously.
However, after all, Lucien was the supreme commander of this army, so Baptiste had to suppress the proud thought in his heart, and asked with some humility: "So, Your Excellency, where are we ambushing the enemy this time?"
"The direction of the enemy is to the west.
Then let's wait until the enemy has just left the Ayi region and set up an ambush on the enemy's path!
” The reason why there is no ambush in the Ayi area.
The reason is very simple, after each attack, the coalition forces must send people to inspect the local area, and in order to prevent this French base in the Ayi region from being exposed, Lucien naturally tries his best to avoid attracting the attention of the coalition forces to the Ayi region.
After listening to Lucien's words, it was obvious that Baptiste understood Lucien's intentions, and then Battista consulted with Lucien about some details.
At this moment, Yarman also led the army to the vicinity of the Ayi region, but after learning about Jermain's plan, in order to cooperate with Jermain, Yarman did not order the army to play the banner, and even in order to cooperate with Jermaine, Yarman also ordered half of his army of nearly 4,000 people to transport the grain and grass of the army to continue to the Ayi region disguised as the main force of the baggage team.
Naturally, Yarman personally sat in this baggage caravan, while the Prussian cavalry of more than 1,000 people moved to the south of the Ayi region under Yarman's orders.
Sure enough, when the main force led by Yarman appeared near the Ayi region, it immediately caused a commotion throughout Ayi.
"What the hell are these Prussians going to do?
A baggage team actually sent more than 4,000 people to escort it, which is simply ..........."
Speaking of the back, even the most gossipy people in the whole Ayi couldn't help but be a little speechless.
In the history of Europe, because of population reasons, except for the Napoleonic Wars, each country took out the largest mobilization force, and the battle between the rest of the countries was basically less than 100,000 troops, and the battle of more than 100,000 people in Europe can definitely be called a battle that determines the fortune of the country.
And with such a limited total force, being able to send out more than 4,000 people to guard a baggage team is unheard of for everyone in the Ayi region.
When the news reached Lucien and Baptiste's ears, the expression on Lucien's face was fine, but Baptiste's expression had changed drastically.
In Baptiste's opinion, the enemy's baggage team had a maximum of about 1,000 guards, and no more than 2,000 at most, and the so-called vanguard plus cavalry was only 400 people.
It was on the basis of this estimate that Baptiste would make a proposal to Lucien to demand the annihilation of this coalition baggage force, because in Baptiste's opinion, his own strength was three times that of the enemy!
But now Baptiste doesn't think so, the Prussian army of more than 4,000 people, not to mention that this strength is about the same as the number of French troops under Lucien, even if there are so many fewer people, Baptiste will not mention any stupid talk about the baggage team of the all-annihilated coalition army.
The prestige of the Prussian army can be said to be thunderous throughout the European continent, even if Baptiste did not fight with the Prussian army, but just look at Lucien, this general who is enough to platoon in Baptiste's opinion is in the top five in France, and the empty left arm seems to show the prestige of the Prussian army at all times!
"The enemy's forward and main forces are separated by a distance of more than seventy miles, and this distance would take nearly a day even for a rapid march, so as long as we move quickly, we do not have to worry about the enemy's reinforcements!
The key now is that we must not startle the snake, and at the same time, you must restrain your subordinates, the enemy soldiers are approaching, and we must not reveal the location of our base camp!
In addition, the various departments immediately quietly left in units of 100 people and arrived at the predetermined ambush location this evening!
” After Lucien's order, this deserted barracks immediately regained its dead air, and if they did not enter this barracks, I am afraid that no one would have imagined that this small and deserted barracks actually lurked nearly 5,000 French troops and hundreds of militia troops.
After learning that Yarman personally led the army to the vicinity of the Ayi region, Germain's face immediately showed an excited look, since Germain had made a series of arrangements for Germain's plan, there was no doubt that as long as this operation was successful, then he Germain would get the first credit for this operation, and even he would become a great hero of the entire coalition army!
On 26 August, Germain led 100 cavalry and 300 infantry to escort the so-called large number of baggage out of Ayi, while Graeme personally led more than 400 men to escort him.
Soon after the Prussian army began to move, Lucien also received news that only Lucien and nearly 2,000 French soldiers were left in this barracks, and the rest of the soldiers had already used the night to go to Lucien's predetermined ambush site in the past two days.
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"Very well, let's go too!
Baptiste, remember the task I gave you, this mission is about our survival, you must not be careless!
The whole of France is watching us, and we must not be sinners of France!
” After giving Baptiste's orders, Lucien led his personal guard to Raz in the western part of the Ay region.
The 3,000 French troops that had been sent out earlier were used by Lucien to ambush the strikers of the so-called baggage team of Germain, and the remaining 2,000 armed forces in the base camp would be led by Baptiste to take charge of the tasks assigned to him by Lucien.
Riding on a horse, although Jermaine looked calm on the outside, it could be said that Jermaine was nervous and excited at this time.
Germain knew that this was an opportunity for him, and it could even be said that this time could be the biggest opportunity of his life!
But this opportunity also coexists with death, as early as when he arrived in Ayi, Germain knew in his heart that this mission was half life and death, and whether he lived or died depended on what the old man of God thought.
However, the moment he left Aya, Germain was also ready to die, after all, no one knew where the French would attack from, so Germain ordered his soldiers to be ready for battle at all times.
The day after Jermaine left Ayi, Yarman's vanguard arrived in Ayi, and Graeme had become the commander of the light pole in the city of Ayi, and only two guards were left under his men, and the rest of the soldiers were all loaned to Jermain.
When Yarman learned of Germaine and Graeme's arrangement, Yarman first praised Graeme, although Graeme only lent Germain more than ninety people, but at this moment, for Germain, every soldier is very precious.