The fiefdom increases by 1 soldier in 1 second, and the empress kneels down and begs not to rebel

At the same time, Macedonian Arms Factory.

"Sir! Our reinforcements should be evacuating." The messenger hurried into the operations room and reported the current situation to Davis.

As soon as he finished speaking, Davis growled with a sullen face: "What do you mean by should? Evacuating means evacuating! Fighting means fighting?!"

The messenger's face froze, and he said hurriedly: "The sound of the shelling is getting farther and farther away from us, so..."

Davis waved his hand to interrupt him before he finished speaking, then lowered his head and sighed heavily.

As early as 3:30 in the morning, the Yan army that had launched an artillery attack on the factory gradually stopped the attack. Davis thought that it was because they had consumed too many shells, but without accurate intelligence, the troops in the military factory absolutely could not take the risk to go out, so he just ordered the soldiers to repair the fortifications during the time when the enemy stopped the shelling.

But around four o'clock, the sound of artillery fire rang out again, and it was far louder than the previous bombardment. However, the enemy was not attacking the military factory. This made Davis realize that it must be their own reinforcements that had arrived. It was their participation in the battle that caused the Yan army to shift the direction of attack to the rear.

The arrival of reinforcements is definitely good news for the military factory. As long as they can suppress the Yan Army and launch an effective attack, then when the Yan Army shows signs of defeat, the military factory can send troops to take the initiative to attack and echo the reinforcements, and annihilate all the enemy forces with a pincer attack.

Davis was waiting for such an opportunity, but the prerequisite was that the Yan army's position was broken and his own reinforcements were approaching the outskirts of the military factory, but such an opportunity never came.

After several hours, the artillery line deployed by the Yan Army outside the military factory still showed no signs of withdrawal, and according to reports from the soldiers, the roads leading out of the factory were also guarded by the Yan Army. This allowed Davis to judge that the reinforcements' attack had not made much progress and the Yan Army could still withstand their offensive.

In this case, the troops in the military factory must not be sent out easily. The Yan army is likely to continue to launch a fierce attack and take the opportunity to break into the factory. Once the factory falls, the Yan army can use the military factory as their position to fight a protracted war with their own reinforcements. This is definitely not what Davis wants to see.

For this reason, when Lieutenant General Harris proposed to send troops to attack the Yan Army several times, Davis suppressed it with the words "It's not the most appropriate time yet."

By this point, Davis had realized that the reinforcements not only failed to suppress the enemy, but had even retreated. There was no doubt that the reinforcements must have suffered heavy casualties in the fierce fighting for several hours, and were forced to retreat.

Davis sighed heavily and stroked his face, his face full of frustration.

If the reinforcements had not fought in this battle, he would not have been so depressed. But since the reinforcements had arrived and had fought with the enemy, they had ended up in the current defeat. So the higher the hope, the greater the disappointment and frustration at this moment.

Unlike Davis who looked depressed, Harris who also hadn't slept all night beside him was full of anger. He stared with bloodshot eyes, suppressed the anger in his chest and said in a low voice:

"We missed our best opportunity."

"If we can send troops to attack the enemy at six o'clock when the battle is at its most intense, we will surely make them exhausted from dealing with the attacks from both sides."

"With the front and back attacks, one of us and the reinforcements will surely be able to break through the Yan Army's line! As long as we break through one of them, we will definitely be able to defeat them next!"

As he said this, Harris turned his head slightly and glanced at Davis.

In fact, Harris had said this several times tonight, but each time he failed to get Davis to make up his mind to send troops to attack. Now that the reinforcements had retreated and the good opportunity to attack had been completely lost, Harris was left with only anger and regret in his heart.

He could imagine that the reinforcements had suffered huge casualties. After all, the Yan army's artillery bombardment had not stopped for the past few hours. But now it has turned out to be such a result. How could this be accepted?

Davis is indeed a commander with many years of combat experience, but tonight, he was too conservative. To say that he was tactically conservative is not even an enough to describe him. It should be said that his passive combat made his side miss the opportunity, which was a serious mistake!

Now, Davis felt the hostile look from Harris. He turned to look at Harris and said:

"Harris, it's not that simple."

"The Yan army is closely guarding our factory. Even during the two most intense hours of fighting, these troops did not withdraw. Isn't this obvious enough? Because they are not worried that their rear will be broken through by our army."

After saying this, Harris folded his arms, turned his face away and snorted coldly, obviously he did not agree with this statement.

Davis said to himself: "Our troops can indeed cause some harassment to the enemy, but without fortifications, their artillery shells can cause heavy casualties to us in a very short time. If they take the opportunity to rush in, our reinforcements will be in vain."

He shook his head and sighed again.

"The military factory cannot be lost. Even if the reinforcements fail to defeat our enemies in this battle, they can at least cause them some casualties."

"When more troops arrive, we..."

Before he finished speaking, Harris couldn't help but interrupt and said, "I think we have missed the best opportunity."

"Since we didn't defeat the Yan army this time, they are already on guard, and the next battle will be even more difficult!"

"you......"

He lowered his arms and turned to Davis. The anger in his eyes turned into helplessness. He shook his head and said:

"Forget it, there's no point saying anything now, it's too late."

"I just hope they don't suffer too many casualties and can organize the next round of counterattack."

"And when the next counterattack is launched..."

At this point, he stared into Davis' eyes and said word by word: "No matter what you do, I will lead my soldiers to attack. I would rather die in battle than be tried in a military court."

"How can we watch our troops being bombed by the enemy and do nothing?"

"Has the importance of the military factory surpassed the lives of countless soldiers?"

After he finished speaking, Harris pursed his lips, turned around and walked towards the door.

"Lieutenant General Harris!"

The officers called out to him, but Harris ignored them and left the operations room in silence.

His departure plunged the command room into silence. Everyone remained silent with complicated expressions on their faces.

Davis supported himself on the table with both hands and lowered his head weakly at this moment.

After a long while, he slowly raised his head, looked at the people around him and asked:

"I....."

“Did you make the wrong decision?”

As soon as he finished speaking, his deputy Tachino immediately responded in a loud voice: "Sir! You have considered everything very carefully! Judging from the current results, if we had sent troops a few hours ago, the Yan army would have definitely rushed into the factory. Their long-range firepower is too strong and we have no way to deal with it."

"Although the reinforcements' attack was temporarily repelled by the Yan Army, I think they will organize the next round of attack soon, and our military factory is still unbreakable!"

"And when the reinforcements sent by the Heinrich Military Base arrive, we will be able to counterattack the enemy and they will be wiped out!"

Tachino's voice was loud, but when he finished speaking, no one agreed with him.

So he straightened his chest and scanned everyone's face, but still got no response. Finally, Tachino had to face Davis and just look at him straight.

Davis pursed his lips, nodded slightly at Tachino, then reached out to take off his hat and scratched his hair randomly.

"Hold the line and wait and see what the enemy's next move is," he said weakly.