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Chapter 137 Shocking Intelligence (Part )
What is the most important quality of a general?
Lieutenant General Dalek, once a general of the Kingdom and now an upstart of the Republic, has his own answer.

Be calm and absolute, and will not be shaken by your own emotions or the slander of others.

On the battlefield, the situation changes rapidly. The enemy's tricks, subordinates' mistakes, and even the betrayal of allies may change the course of the battle in an instant.

Only by keeping calm can we make correct judgments quickly in the chaos and develop the most effective strategy.

Dalek knew very well that every decision the general made affected the lives of countless soldiers, the outcome of the war, and even the fate of the country.

Therefore, he is never swayed by anger, fear or hesitation, and his decisions are always based on rationality and a precise grasp of the situation.

But now, the reason that Lieutenant General Dalek believed in told him that the war between the Bagnian Republic and Prince Chris had lost before it even started.

However, Lieutenant General Dalek's emotions refused to believe rational judgment. If the Republic lost like this, then the sacrifice of countless soldiers, the expulsion of the king, his own investment in the Republic, and his family's status in the Republic would all be in vain.

Daleks led the Third Regiment to betray the kingdom, and he and other generals ignored the kingdom's orders and sat back and watched the revolutionaries drive the king away...

Is this possible?
Dalek was absolutely unwilling to let such a thing happen, so, in the military tent, he was so furious about the intelligence, and contemptuously and thoughtlessly regarded what the spies brought back as false.

The information was too real, so real that the Dalek dared not and could not believe its authenticity.

The investment was too great. While the emergence of the Republic helped Dalek and his family soar to success, it also meant that there was no turning back for them.

In fact, the strategic target of the Republic's hasty attack this time was ostensibly the Restoration Army. The First and Second Infantry Regiments were assisting, while the Third Corps led by Lieutenant General Dalek was the main attacker.

In fact, the Republic's main target was Prince Chris. The main attack was by the Third Corps, and the accompanying attack was by the First and Second Corps. The latter's main task was to tie up the forces of the Restoration Army.

The main task of the Third Corps is to eliminate Prince Chris's forces, capture him alive, or kill him.

No matter what, I must find him alive or dead. Prince Chris must not escape.

As early as when Prince Chris appeared in Beach Town, when the Restoration Army was still skeptical, the Republic sent a team to investigate.

Yes, that's right, the Minissian team arrested by Prince Chris, led by Captain Marion of the Palace Guard, set out at the request of the Republic.

The team has an external task and an internal task.

The outer mission was known to everyone in the team, which was to find and rescue Prince Chris, while the inner mission was known only to Captain Marion... to confirm Prince Chris's identity, and if it was real, to kill him.

The mission was issued by a member of the Upper House, who was an old acquaintance of Lieutenant General Dalek. They were all nobles who had watched the kingdom collapse and profited from it, becoming the new elite of the Republic.

This campaign was initiated because of the intelligence and demands sent back by the High Priest Alanka who was lurking beside Chris... For the sake of the new republic, the newly born regime of Prince Chris must be immediately eliminated and its leaders must be eliminated.

I heard that the Restoration Army is sending people to contact Chris. It is obvious that they are eager to get a flag. Even if they will not fully support the latter and send soldiers to join the prince, they will definitely take action and send some supplies.

Don't ask how Dalek knew such things. The Restoration Army and the Republic have close ties, and everyone is a relative. Some semi-public information is impossible to keep secret.

Rather than mobilizing a large army, Dalek prefers to send assassins to complete this task. As long as Prince Chris can be killed, nothing will be a problem.

But for some reason, the Republic sent several waves of well-trained assassins and special agent teams there, but in the end there was no news at all. No one knew whether they died, were captured alive... or had betrayed them.

However, the assassination request written in the secret letter sent by the Republic Congress to the High Priest of Alanka was ruthlessly rejected by the latter... God, forbid me to try to harm Him.

This was truly a baffling rejection. As a vested interest, Dalek was fully aware of the weight of his mission. If he believed this intelligence, then according to the description above, Prince Chris would now be an indescribable monster.

He had an elite force of nearly 5,000 men under his command, an inexhaustible supply of weapons, equipment and supplies, a strong fortress and a united people.

If all this is true, then what's the point of fighting?

He, the Dalek, should have committed suicide early.

The family crest of a stag embroidered in gold thread trembled in the candlelight, and Dalek stared at himself in the gilded mirror... The scarlet ribbon was adorned with jeweled medals, and the ancestral gilded breastplate was engraved with reliefs of twelve classic horse battles.

This battle must be fought and must be won.

He said this to himself in the mirror.

I have made up my mind, but the many difficulties encountered in reality still need to be solved one by one.

"How much of the originally planned military rations have arrived so far?"

Dalek beckoned the quartermaster in the tent to come forward and inquire about the most important supplies for the army.

The quartermaster quickly flipped open the parchment in his hand. His fingers were sweating on the paper. The food reserves that should have been marked with cinnabar were now glowing with a strange blue light.

"Five thousand carts of rye and various foodstuffs were originally ordered..."

The sound of his Adam's apple rolling could be heard clearly.

"Two thousand cars actually arrived, of which five hundred were rye mixed with sawdust..."

"reason?"

Lieutenant General Dalek tried his best to remain calm and asked in a deep voice.

The quartermaster wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and turned over the second piece of parchment.

"A group of rebels entrenched in the town of Doro are responsible. They attacked the transportation channel, burned down the Quartermaster's storage fortress, and defeated the Quartermaster Major Marlow Benson and his troops who were sent to quell the rebellion."

"Rebels? Burn? Defeat!?"

Lieutenant General Dalek took a deep breath and calmed himself down. He found that he could hardly understand Bagnian.

He knew what these words meant, but how could they be so... outlandish when put together?

"According to the intelligence and evidence brought back by Major Marlowe, this group of rebels is suspected to be Prince Chris, or elite soldiers of the Retalia Empire. The Onkandela Council has ordered Major Marlowe to organize troops to suppress the rebellion. Currently..."

"I don't care about that. I just want to know. We originally planned to feed the army for six months, but now we've only received enough to last three months. How are we going to solve this problem?"

Lieutenant General Dalek tried to keep his tone as calm as possible.

"The army has already set out, and the vanguard will reach Bolas Fortress, but the military rations...are so short. If the Council still wants to win, then I have very few tactical options to choose from..."

(End of this chapter)