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Chapter 171 The Magical Siege (Part )
Major General Marlowe thought he was a smart man.

A brilliant and intelligent man.

When Prince Chris's vanguards outside the city just started using food to recruit people, Major General Marlowe received the news immediately. At the same time, his officers suggested that the garrison regiment could take advantage of this opportunity to attack and defeat the enemy outside the city.

This has the potential to succeed.

The players led by Xiaodao were few in number at that time. The entire Tiger Regiment had less than a hundred people outside Oncandra, and they had just fought a battle with the bandits who were fighting against the Wallace Rebellion. They were not at the peak of their combat effectiveness.

If Marlowe is willing to use the refugees as the vanguard, drive them to the front to block the players' volleys, and then the soldiers of the garrison regiment charge from behind, in one wave, he can really defeat the Tiger Regiment and repel them.

However, we can only repel them; annihilation is impossible.

On the one hand, the players have strong combat capabilities, so if they can’t win, they can still run away.

Secondly, Marlowe's garrison has no horses and is now composed entirely of infantry.

Without a horse, how can you fight a decisive battle?

Just like the Song Dynasty, its winning rate in foreign wars was actually higher than its losing rate, but it was because it did not have enough cavalry. It could defeat the enemy but could not destroy the enemy's manpower. Even if it won, it was the same as not winning.

Marlowe was well aware of such things, so he rejected the proposal to attack out of hand.

Why attack?

There is no need. Attacking and repelling the enemy means seizing the food in their camp. But how much food can there be and how long will it last for the garrison?
The garrison had some food to eat, but what about the refugees in the city?
Regardless, why not give them some?

So, forget it and save your energy.

Besides, aren't the enemies outside the city using food to recruit refugees?

Marlowe asked the soldiers to help the pseudo-prince's army outside the city spread the news so that more hungry refugees would leave the city to find food.

Since you are using food to hire people to work, I will drive them out. I want to see how much food you have.

In addition, with fewer starving people in the city, the atmosphere of despair in the city would be much lessened. Marlowe also took the opportunity to disperse the soldiers of the garrison regiment and go around killing the ruffians who took advantage of the fire to loot.

This trick really worked, and the order in the city was gradually restored. The refugees were attracted by the food outside the city and poured out of the city in groups.

The ruffians who had originally planned to take advantage of the chaos to make a fortune were beaten to a pulp by the soldiers of the garrison regiment and dared not cause trouble again.

At that time, Marlowe was standing on the city wall, looking at the refugees outside the city lined up in long queues, waiting for Prince Chris's vanguards to distribute food, with a satisfied smile on his face.

He knew that this move of his not only stabilized the situation in the city, but also indirectly weakened the strength of the enemy outside the city.

If Prince Chris has limited food, these refugees will sooner or later become dissatisfied due to the lack of food, and at that time, cracks may appear within the enemy forces outside the city.

However, it is not enough to stabilize the situation, we must also strengthen ourselves.

In order to recruit people, you need food.

Where is the food?
They can be found in the homes of wealthy families in the city and in the warehouses of grain merchants.

These wealthy families had originally stockpiled a large amount of supplies, preparing to sell them at high prices when there was a famine in the city. Now that enemies appeared outside the city, they simply stopped selling food and waited to see how the situation developed.

These people were not afraid of Prince Chris's troops, because in their view, no matter who wanted to rule, they would need their support and their officials. Because there are always people who profit from national disasters, and those who can profit from national disasters are definitely not ordinary people, because ordinary people do not have the resources and ability to do so.

Major General Malo also thought about whether he should raid these guys' warehouses so that he would have food.

However, he could only think about it and could not do it.

The reason is simple: among those who hoarded food were his family members.

Marlo Benson is a nobleman. What can he do about what his father and other brothers and sisters have done?

I really can't just chop them all up with a knife.

So, let it be. Major General Marlowe felt aggrieved, but there was nothing he could do.

All he could do was to send soldiers to maintain the fragile order in the city, drive out the refugees in the city during the day, open the city gates at night to let them in with food, and at the same time send people to guard the city gates, and each person would take half a pancake as an entry tax.

Thanks to this city gate tax, Marlowe was able to obtain enough food to feed the entire garrison.

In the next few days, Marlowe felt that this was not a good idea... he should take the initiative.

Major General Marlowe stood on the city wall, looking at the busy refugees and Prince Chris's vanguards outside the city, and a bold plan gradually emerged in his mind.

He realized that his passive defense not only failed to solve the problem fundamentally, but also gave the enemies outside the city more opportunities to breathe and prepare.

He needs to change his strategy and take the initiative, but not to fight, but to "work".

Yes, Major General Marlowe was very innovative. He took off his military uniform, put on tattered clothes, and took more than a hundred soldiers with him. He mixed in with the refugees and came to the enemy's camp. He received hoes and shovels and started working.

He was going to sneak into Prince Chris's camp to conduct reconnaissance and find out about the enemy's troop strength, food reserves and tactical plans.

Then, on the same day, the logistics teams of other players arrived, bringing food and reinforcements.

The number of players in the Mountain Tiger Regiment camp quickly expanded from less than a hundred to five hundred.

In addition to the elite players, there are nearly a thousand militiamen, some of whom are support for the Extreme Warriors and some are from the Mountain Tiger Regiment.

When these people arrived, whatever ideas Marlowe had originally had were gone... No, another idea popped up in his mind.

This Prince Chris is more reliable than the current Bagnia Republic in every way, and he is also more orthodox than the latter.

Marlowe knew better than anyone how he became a major general. At the same time, he knew even better that although the war reports of the Republic against the Restoration Army were written in brilliant colors, it seemed as if the Republic was moving from one victory to another.

But in fact, the battle situation came to a stalemate under the walls of Helgeland, and Count Dirac Sisso was a more capable fighter than imagined.

Marlowe was well aware of how the Republic's Third Infantry Regiment had lost, and in his view, the First and Second Infantry Regiments on the front would soon follow in their footsteps.

Even if these two legions defeated Count Dirac Sisso, or even killed him, and captured Helgeland, so what? The Restoration Army was gone, but could Prince Chris and the others deal with it?

Marlowe was unsure and wanted to wait and see for a while. It would be even better if he could get a letter of surrender from Prince Chris.

(End of this chapter)