Chapter 640: Fox Wanted to Advance Too Much

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Fox's words plunged the commander-in-chief into deep thought.

If it could be said that he previously didn't know what was going on, then now he at least had a direction.

After all, this intelligence was truly too important to him, who was like a headless fly.

Thus, he immediately called someone to compile and bring over the intelligence from that day.

Waiting more than ten minutes later, the commander-in-chief, after finishing reading this intelligence, finally knew about the matter of that day.

Indeed.

Just as Fox had said, there was indeed intelligence that day about the allied forces of the kings lining up in long queues to do something.

The matter happened towards the evening.

As for what was at the end of the long queues, it was unclear, because they were truly too long, plus it wasn't good for the scouts to continue going deeper.

So in the end, they could only come back and report first, and then decide whether to increase the intensity of probing.

But because mana turbulence would appear starting from zero hours that day, although quite a few captains knew about this matter, they did not investigate deeply.

Some people even wrote a summary of 'no need to pay attention to these matters' in the reports.

The key was that there wasn't just one or two such people.

Rather, the majority of the captains responsible for patrolling that day had left similar messages.

So the final result was that it was left unsettled and forgotten.

This made the commander-in-chief so enraged that he nearly blew his top, and with a smack, he slapped this report onto the desk.

"All these guys who signed are dismissed from their posts and incorporated into the vanguard unit to let them atone for their sins."

The vanguard unit was an existence like the point men, the guys charging at the very front of the troops.

But this existence charging at the very front didn't have an extremely high mortality rate like the point men of Blue Star.

Instead, because they ran at the very front, there were many opportunities to perform meritorious deeds and harvest spoils of war.

Alright.

Actually, with their previous attacking method, there indeed wasn't any mortality rate to speak of.

But it was different now.

With the intensity of the opponent's magic coupled with the terrain advantage, standing in the front row was courting death.

Didn't you see that the one hundred thousand people of the first wave of attack were all suppressed at the foot of the small hill right now, unable to move?

Just with that single strike, at least several thousands to ten thousand people must have died.

Therefore, this decision by the commander-in-chief was basically equivalent to sentencing them to death.

This forced some implicated brigade commanders to step out.

It couldn't be helped. These people were either someone's brother-in-law or someone else's sworn brother. At the very least, they were people who had sent benefits, and there were even those planted inside in preparation to seize power.

They couldn't not step out.

"Commander-in-chief, isn't this punishment a bit too heavy?"

"Yes, Commander-in-chief. The way I see it, why not just directly expel them? Letting them go to the rear to produce food isn't bad either; it just so happens that the farm over there is short of people."

Thus, the people who stepped out began to deploy their respective rhetoric, wanting to make the commander-in-chief change his mind.

However, this time the commander-in-chief was thoroughly and completely angry.

What a joke. That you accepted benefits is your business, but now that an incident has occurred due to dereliction of duty, someone always has to take the blame, right?

It can't possibly be that I, the dignified commander-in-chief, take the responsibility for you. Does that even make sense?

"Do you guys want to join them as well?"

The commander-in-chief glanced at these eloquent brigade commanders, and his icy tone instantly made these brigade commanders calm down.

What a joke. Just saying it out loud was enough; who would truly be willing to throw themselves in?

"By the way, what's your name?"

The extremely furious commander-in-chief looked at Fox after giving a cold snort.

Fox immediately took up the conversation.

"Fox, Fox Gallio, respected Your Excellency."

"Very good, Fox. Although your intelligence this time was a bit late, it is indeed useful, and your guesses are also very reasonable. I will have someone verify it. Then, as a person who has rendered meritorious service, what reward do you want?"

The look the commander-in-chief gave Fox became much gentler.

After all, this guy had provided him with a train of thought, and at the same time, also provided him with an excuse to exculpate himself.

If he didn't promote this kind of good subordinate, then it would be too unjustifiable.

Or rather, compared to these idiots, a subordinate like Fox who truly did things and truly thought for him, this commander-in-chief, was what he needed.

"Commander-in-chief, I have an attack plan here; I wonder if I can talk about it?"

Upon hearing about a reward, Fox immediately wanted to advance and make progress.

But he profoundly knew that now was not the time to advance, or rather, he still needed some authority.

This way, it would be easier to walk after advancing.

Otherwise, if he advanced first without prestige, then he would only have suffering to endure afterwards.

He wasn't the kind of good superior who would have heart-to-heart talks with people to solve problems.

"Oh! An attack plan? This is interesting, tell me about it."

Originally, the commander-in-chief wanted to promote Fox to be a brigade commander managing one hundred thousand people.

This way, he would have an extra trusted person under him, and doing things would be more convenient in the future.

As a result, the other party didn't seem to want this reward, but instead said he had a set of attack plans?

Good, good, good!

He originally thought the other party had only helped him find a good excuse, but he didn't expect him to actually have talent in this aspect?

Although he didn't know what this plan Fox mentioned was yet, it didn't matter.

What was important was that he was thinking about it.

Instead of being the kind of idiot who, upon encountering a situation, first asked him, the commander-in-chief, 'what to do'.

Damn it, if I knew what to do, would I still need you bunch of useless gluttons to ask?

"Well, the matter is like this. After seeing this intelligence, this subordinate was worried that the other party would make some big moves, so that very night, I contacted a friend in the shelter to dig out a blueprint that was accidentally obtained previously."

"Because of the mana turbulence previously, I was unable to go out and move around. So today, when I heard the brigade commander say that you, Commander-in-chief, were gathering us here, I brought it over together."

The brigade commander, who had never thought he would suddenly be mentioned, felt as sweet as if he had eaten honey at this moment.

Although previously, because of the other party speaking out of turn, it made him, as the brigade commander, a bit embarrassed.

But now, bringing up the brigade commander at such a crucial juncture instantly won the brigade commander's favor.

He even forgot about the matter of speaking without authorization earlier, crying out in his heart that he really hadn't misjudged the person.

And over here, while Fox stood in the middle of the main tent talking eloquently, he also conveniently took out the blueprint and handed it to the front of the commander-in-chief's desk.

This blueprint was none other than the blueprint for the [Magic Disorder Device].

What contacting a friend, what digging through the shelter... these were all lies told by Fox with his eyes wide open.

How exactly this blueprint came about, he himself knew best.

But at this time and under the circumstances of this occasion, this kind of rhetoric would definitely have a much better effect than telling the truth no matter how you look at it.

And in fact, it was indeed so.

When the commander-in-chief's eyes lit up after finishing reading the blueprint and understanding what this device did.

With this thing, then even if this war was lost, not only would he not be punished, but he might even possibly enter the core circle of the Exorcists.