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Chapter 255 Jump Over Like A Frog
"Would you like a cup of refreshing tea?"

Helmut put a steaming cup of coffee beside little Franz.

With the escalation of trade between Frederick and Mrs. Sophie, more and more local products from the southern continent appeared in the cups and dishes of Wessen.

Little Franz picked up the coffee cup and took a big sip. Some condensed milk and a lot of sugar were added to the coffee, which could provide a lot of nutrition for the high-speed brain while refreshing.

His brows were slightly frowned, and his eyes never left the map on the table.

The map shows the lowlands of the Mahe Valley and the surrounding terrain. Several large red arrows go upstream from the mouth of the Mahe River next to Majiapu City, pointing directly to several larger towns by the river. Each town is divided into Several small red arrows point to the surrounding villages.

Helmut stood aside and asked him, "You seem nervous?"

Little Franz replied: "Can you not be nervous? The commander actually gave me command of this battle. What if something goes wrong?"

Helmut smiled and said, "Why don't you report to the commander and let me take command instead."

Little Franz turned his head to look at him, and said seriously: "If you have nothing to do, you can go and see if the horse manure on the war horse has been shoveled."

"What does the fortune teller say?"

When it came to work, Helmut stopped joking and replied seriously: "The result of divination is that there will be a heavy rain in 5 to 7 days."

Little Franz's brows tightened.

He has been able to memorize every line on the map. Judging from the work on the map, it will take at least 10 days to take the water route from east to west from the estuary to the upper reaches of the sea and occupy the main towns in the entire area. The new rainfall has caused the river to rise, and it is feared that many bridges in the upper reaches will be impassable.

"Change the battle plan." Little Franz said suddenly, "Stop occupying one city before starting to occupy the next one."

"The commander once said that when we have a maneuver advantage, we can jump like frogs over areas that are not valuable or difficult to capture."

Helmut immediately said, "But the towns along the river are important."

Little Franz nodded and said, "They are all important, but none of them can pose a threat to our fleet."

"Then change the order of attack. The army attacking the westernmost town will advance to the river mouth first, and go upstream regardless of the towns along the way to reach the target."

"The order of entering the estuary is allocated according to the assigned targets, from west to east, regardless of the towns outside the targets."

Helmut looked at the map and estimated the time, then nodded and said, "I think it's possible. This way, we can attack all targets at almost the same time, which can reduce the time by almost half."

Seeing that he agreed, little Franz said, "That's the way it is."

Helmut took out a small notebook to record his latest orders, arranged for the relevant staff to formulate a new plan, and complained at the same time: "Alas... the commander is right, the leader is really talking, and the work is broken. Pulled some people out of bed."

Little Franz was too lazy to complain about him, and pointed to the south and said: "The most important thing now is to guard the land passage to the south. Who do you think should be in command?"

As long as Phocas does not have dementia, he will definitely send troops to recover the lost ground. This is not just a military issue, but also a political issue.

Now the [-] army of Phocas and his men is assembled in Constantbul. They don't have so many ships, and they can only attack by land.

It doesn't matter where the eight people go, the marching route of 8 people has to be particular. There is only one mountain pass with a relatively gentle mountain from the south into the Mahe area. There is a road here, and there is barely enough space and water.

According to the plan, the Mahe area was attacked by the Wesson Army, and then digested by Dragases himself. During the digestion period, the Wesson Army was commanded by Franz Jr., who also served as the division commander, to block the land passage in the south and consume the counterattacking enemy with positional warfare.

Now that Franz Jr. is the commander-in-chief, naturally he can no longer go there to squat in the trenches. Helmut needs to lead the staff and cannot leave. The only two brigade commanders under the Wesson army are Heinz and Bernd. , but they all need to command their own troops to attack the Mahe area.

The problem of Wesson's lack of talents has arisen.

Helmut also had a headache, thought for a long time, and said cautiously: "How about... let the commander go."

Little Franz thought about it, no matter in terms of availability, ability or prestige, only the commander is indeed the most suitable.

The problem is, the commander said at noon that he only does aerial reconnaissance.

"That's a good idea," said little Franz. "You can tell the commander now."

Helmut's face turned dark all of a sudden, it's already late at night, who knows if the commander and Princess Mary are in great harmony of life.

"No, no, no!" He immediately shook his head like a rattle, "Go ahead, you and the commander grew up together, so I shouldn't beat you to death."

Little Franz said with a straight face: "Your Excellency, Staff Officer, I order you to ask the commander to come here now."

Helmut wanted to hit someone, but the senior officials crushed them to death, so he could only carry out the order himself.

He reluctantly turned to leave, but suddenly saw a trainee staff officer on duty laughing there, so he ordered: "Metzger, go and invite the commander."

Metzger was taken aback for a moment, and looked at the staff officer with a resentful expression.

Helmut smiled and said, "Didn't you always say that you have a good relationship with the Commander? You even taught the Commander. Tony and the others don't think you will assassinate the Commander. Such a task is most suitable for you."

The rank of senior officials crushed people, Metzger looked around, and he had the lowest status as a trainee staff officer, so he had nothing to say.

Within 5 minutes, Metzger came back with a smile on his face, and Frederick followed behind him.

As soon as Frederick entered the headquarters, Franz Jr. asked, "Commander, did I disturb you?"

Frederick went over angrily and kicked both him and Helmut in the ass.

Since leaving Wayne City, Frederick and his sister have hugged and kissed at most, and have not carried out great harmony in life. I still understand the truth that we should not take it lightly during marching and fighting.

"What's the matter?" Frederick walked to the map and asked.

Little Franz explained what he had just discussed with Helmut and the new order, and finally asked him to sit on the southern front.

Frederick became thoughtful after hearing this.

At this stage of the campaign, the strength of the Southern Interceptor Corps was the strongest, and it concentrated more than half of the technical equipment of the Wessen Army.

At the same time, the enemy that the Southern Front Corps has to face is also unprecedentedly powerful. The background of the Dongpulan Empire is not comparable to the coalition forces of the original counts and the army led by the prince Casimir. The enemy's mage group is even stronger. It is not ruled out that the Fashen hired by Phocas in the past two years will go out with the army.

Wesson's army is not very intimidating to the magic sword master this time, because Richard Nall will come to meet him, and he can contain two existences of the same level.

Psyche was going to organize several annual meetings of the Wesson Science Society, so she didn't come this time, but she gave Frederick a little trick to scare the other party if necessary.

Similar exercises have been carried out several times, and Psyche and Richard Nall also joined the Whetstone Unit to participate, and the entire army did not have much psychological pressure on this.

At that time, as long as a position is built in a suitable place, the gap in the strength of the two sides can be made up.

So Frederick believed that Franz Jr. could fight this battle well.

"It doesn't matter." Frederick said to Franz Jr., "The battle in the coastal area is actually mainly about politics. Helmut can be in charge of coordinating and commanding here, and Prince Dragases is in charge of political matters. It’s no problem for you to go to the southern front to command.”

"I'll go to the southern line with you too. If you fail, I'll take over."

He made up his mind to train Franz Jr. and Helmut, so naturally he would not miss this opportunity, he just had to stabilize the morale of the army himself.

The official level crushes people to death, Frederick said so, and little Franz can only do so.

(End of this chapter)