Duke Mikhail did not pay too much attention to Leonid's progress. After all, as the leader of the army, he had too many things to deal with. Even if Leonid was his nephew, he could not pay unlimited attention.
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After returning to the headquarters, Duke Mikhail told his adjutant: "Pay more attention to Leonid's developments in the past few days, and alert me as soon as they suffer serious damage!"
In Duke Mikhail's view, Leonid would not be able to escape the fate of being severely damaged no matter what. The difference was just sooner or later.
So after that, Duke Mikhail was completely busy with his own affairs. There were countless meetings, banquets, balls and salons that he needed to attend every day. He had to find time to pay attention to the logistics and supplies of the army in his busy schedule.
As well as local security and governance issues in the occupied areas, in short, even if he was always energetic, he was exhausted after working for two days in a row.
"These Wallachians are all useless. Did Count Braintree refuse to cooperate with us before?"
The adjutant nodded and flipped through his notebook and said: "According to the reaction of the third department, after the rebels occupied Bucharest and took power, Count Brunret was the first to take the lead in refusing to continue to cooperate with the third department, and later even took the initiative to cut off contact!
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Duke Mikhail snorted contemptuously: "Really? This bastard is very courageous! Looking at his groveling look today, I thought he was not very courageous!"
The adjutant asked curiously: "Do you mean you are going to teach them a lesson?"
Duke Mikhail sat on the sofa and stretched his neck, and said slowly: "Knock it on! Although such bastards are annoying, who makes us need their help in maintaining order? We can only bypass them.
I'm back!"
The adjutant nodded and didn't say much. Even though he didn't like a loser like Earl Brunret, he also knew that Russia needed these losers, at least temporarily.
At this time, Duke Mikhail suddenly asked: "You said before that Count Speransky sent someone to send you the latest information. Is it important?"
The adjutant quickly replied: "Count Speranski just said that Bucharest is mobilizing emergency repair fortifications throughout the city. I hope you can act faster, otherwise the long nights will be very troublesome! In addition, he also said that a group of Wallachians have been organized in the city.
, can act as internal response when necessary.”
Duke Mikhail finally showed interest for a year, and sighed: "This boy did not do a bad job! He has met a noble man, and he can perform well this time... Well, tell the count, I will
Speed up and tell him to continue to reserve strength and contact more Wallachians who are willing to serve the empire. I will notify you when they are needed!"
Speaking of this, Duke Mikhail seemed to be lost in memories, and after a while he said again: "It seems that someone is really good at making people happy. All the good friends with him have changed. I don't know that our boy can also do it."
You can't just follow the prosperity..."
At this moment, Duke Mikhail suddenly remembered, it has been two days, and there should be some news from Leonid. Why didn’t the adjutant say anything?
He frowned and asked, "Is there no news from Leonid yet?"
The adjutant looked at Duke Mikhail and replied hesitantly: "There is some news, but there is still a gap between... and what you expected..."
【animal?】
Duke Mikhail is a little confused about what a gap is, or what a gap is. Is it because Leonid's losses were not as great as expected?
The adjutant smiled bitterly and said: "Colonel Leonid's loss is very small. To be more specific, it should be very slight..."
"Small loss?!"
Duke Mikhail screamed out. Because the loss was small, he could understand it, because Leonid might have used trenching tactics to the extreme, but it was wrong if the loss was very small. After all, this was a war, and he couldn't
I believe that the Wallachians just watched Leonid digging trenches without asking anything, and there was bound to be combat contact. How could the losses be so small?
The adjutant explained with a wry smile: "Not only are the losses slight, Colonel Leonid has made considerable progress. He has already broken into the city and is preparing to divide the enemy..."
This made Duke Mikhail even more surprised. It was not unusual to break into the city in two days. Anyone could do it as long as they attacked inside regardless of the loss. But the damage would be very slight, so that would be a fantasy.
He lost his voice and asked again: "How is this possible? How did he do it?"
The adjutant explained: "I didn't believe it at first, but after checking it myself, I found that Colonel Leonid did not lie. His regiment did break into the city of Buftea and removed several key defensive supports of the enemy.
At most, the enemy defenders in the city can be completely divided by tomorrow night..."
The adjutant took a breath and then explained: "I have observed the tactics adopted by Colonel Leonid. He completely abandoned our traditional siege tactics, used a large number of tunnel operations, and used grenades and explosive packs to open roads, trying to avoid simultaneous attacks.
The enemies were fighting each other step by step, and the Wallachians were not used to Colonel Leonid's new tactics, so..."
Duke Mikhail was a little speechless, because he had never heard of the attacking troops not adapting to the enemy's tactics, but he had never heard of the defending side not adapting to the attacking tactics. This made him a little curious about Leonid.
What tactics were adopted?
In fact, there is nothing new. It is to reduce dogfights, do not choose to fight hard when encountering the enemy's strong defensive support points, and push artillery to the front line as much as possible instead of using infantry to attack.
When encountering a scene where artillery cannot perform, they either switch to tunnel operations, dig directly under the enemy's fortress, and then blast it. Or they use the earthen artillery invented by Li Xiao to drive away, which is what later generations pla used in the Liberation War.
Although gasoline barrels are hard to find these days, it is not difficult to find a few blacksmiths to make a thin copper pipe with a large enough caliber.
Although the copper sheet is expensive, Leonid is not short of money! Moreover, Duke Mikhail has instructions to have enough gunpowder, so he uses dozens of kilograms of black powder at a time to invite the Wallachian defenders to fly in a plane
It's very easy.
Under the double blow from the sky and the underground, the Wallachian defenders soon found it difficult to support. After all, most of these so-called National Guards were monks halfway, and their military quality was not very good. In the past, they could rely on high morale and solid troops.
The fortifications held on, but once the fortifications failed to play a big role, they would naturally not be able to come up with any decent means to fight against Leonid...