Chapter 1724: Defeat

At this moment, the King of Saxony was still waiting for good news from Prince Soubise.

Not long after, a servant led Prince Soubise, who rushed hurriedly into his Wanggong.

As soon as the King of Saxony saw Prince Soubise, he hurried forward, his face immediately showing joy, and asked:

"Prince, is there any good news?"

"Has the Longyan Unit been wiped out by you?"

Hearing this, the already gloomy Prince Soubise's face darkened a few shades more; he let out a cold snort and sat down on his own.

The King of Saxony was stunned; he had never seen Prince Soubise like this before.

He frowned and asked the servant in a low voice: "What happened?"

The servant dared not conceal it and whispered in reply: "Prince Soubise has been like this since returning from Halei Mountain. It is not just him; the entire Holy Cross Army seems dejected, completely lacking spirit."

Hearing this answer, the King of Saxony's heart skipped a beat, and he understood many things in an instant.

He looked at Prince Soubise's face, and his own expression sank as well.

"Defeated?"

Prince Soubise nodded.

"How could this be? The Longyan Unit shouldn't have known about the Holy Cross Army's movements."

Prince Soubise took a long breath, exhaled, and smiled bitterly: "The Longyan Unit indeed did not know of our movements."

"If they had known, I would have been carried back!"

The King of Saxony was stunned, looking at Prince Soubise in shock.

Others might not know, but he was very clear about just how powerful the Holy Cross Army led by Prince Soubise was.

This unit was an existence capable of cutting straight through Berlin.

The unit was composed directly of French troops, unlike the Holy Cross Army led by Douglas, which was composed of troops from many different countries.

Moreover, this unit was the elite among elites.

Prince Soubise was decisive in battle; the Holy Cross Army cavalry he led had always been invincible and ever-victorious, and he had never heard of an opponent capable of making him return in defeat.

Thinking of this, the King of Saxony stared at Prince Soubise in astonishment and asked in a deep voice: "What exactly did the Longyan Unit do?"

"What exactly happened that could cause you to be defeated?"

Prince Soubise recalled the battle against the Longyan Unit and the road of retreat after the defeat; he had thought about it for a long time.

From the perspective of the operational plan and intelligence, no matter what, the Holy Cross Army should not have been routed in this battle.

However, the reality was placed right before him.

"The intelligence you provided me about the Longyan Unit's camp was fake!"

"That was a trap!"

The King of Saxony was stunned, his voice rising several octaves: "What!"

"A trap!"

"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"

"Such a large camp of the Longyan Unit has been on Halei Mountain for more than a day or two."

"Our Saxony troops have attacked it several times; although we were never able to truly get close to the Longyan Unit's camp, judging by every trace, this camp could absolutely not be fake."

"There should have been at least ten thousand Longyan Soldiers inside."

Prince Soubise shook his head and said: "No, there might not have even been ten Longyan soldiers inside."

"The fire I set at the time, that Longyan Unit camp you saw, is now buried in a sea of flames."

"But even so, we didn't force out many Longyan soldiers to attack."

"On the contrary, the troops we sent to lure them out and launch a surprise attack on the mountain were caught off guard by Longyan soldiers who suddenly appeared from all directions."

"Fortunately, our cavalry unit did not expose their tracks at the time, otherwise, our cavalry unit would very likely have been wiped out by these Longyan soldiers as well."

After hearing these words, the King of Saxony sat powerlessly in his seat.

They had never doubted the location of the Longyan Unit's camp.

From every aspect, this camp was the Longyan Unit's base of operations in Saxony; there should have been no dispute about this point.

But judging by Prince Soubise's battle results.

This Longyan Unit camp was actually fake, and ridiculously fake at that.

In that case, their Saxony troops had only been attacking a fake Longyan Unit camp all along.

From that time on, the Longyan Unit had been releasing all kinds of false information.

And collecting all kinds of information on their Saxony troops.

So they had been fighting such an opponent all along.

Thinking of this, the King of Saxony realized the terror of their opponent.

Facing such a terrifying Longyan Unit, the defeat of the Holy Cross Army seemed to become entirely logical.

This was information warfare!

But the defeat of the Holy Cross Army also filled the King of Saxony with an endless sense of powerlessness.

He did not know how to face this Longyan unit, or at least, he did not know how to defeat such a Longyan Unit for now.

Prince Soubise sighed and said gloomily: "The Longyan Unit is an opponent that no unit can afford to underestimate."

"Their strength is not just in their superficial equipment."

"What is even more powerful is their strategy."

"In this battle, I am defeated and convinced."

Prince Soubise looked at the deeply shaken King of Saxony, stood up to salute, and said apologetically: "I am sorry, Your Majesty the King, I must tell you that for the upcoming war, your Saxony troops can only face it alone."

"The Holy Cross Army I lead has an even greater mission that needs to be completed."

"My apologies."

After saying this, Prince Soubise stood up and left.

The King of Saxony did not stop him; he watched the back of Prince Soubise as he departed, taking with him all of their hopes for the Sachsen Army to defeat the Longyan Army.

But he had no reason to be able to stop Prince Soubise from leaving.

After Prince Soubise left, the King of Saxony immediately summoned all the troops in the country to guard Saxony's current economic lifeline: the heavy industrial zone at the foot of Halei Mountain.

Although the King of Saxony could no longer see any hope of driving the Longyan Army away.

The King of Saxony was extremely worried that the Longyan Army would rush down from Halei Mountain and destroy their heavy industrial zone, which, to the King of Saxony, was an absolutely unbearable loss.

Amidst endless panic, the King of Saxony summoned the nation's troops to defend the safety of the Sachsen industrial zone.

A full one hundred thousand Sachsen troops surged together toward the central region of Saxony.

Yet the King of Saxony always felt the troop strength was too low, so he issued a conscription order.

He forced the people of Saxony to become soldiers.

According to incomplete statistics, the King of Saxony had gathered at least one hundred and fifty thousand Sachsen Army troops.

A force several times larger than the Longyan Army was not intended to annihilate the Longyan Army.

It was merely to hold onto Saxony's heavy industrial zone.

In the King of Saxony's estimation, this force could at least hold out until the end of the war.

And at this moment, the heavens were not kind.

Not long after, Saxony welcomed a great gale amidst this cold weather.

This great gale would completely change the fate of Saxony.

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