Chapter 1906: Revelation

The French troops looked at their defeated general and dropped the weapons in their hands.

They had lost this battle, and they had lost it completely.

They lost not only in strategy but also in military force.

Qin Zhangfeng looked at the French troops who had lost their will to fight and said indifferently, "Escort them back to the prisoner-of-war camp!"

The Longyan Army soon escorted these French troops, who had lost their ability to fight, back.

Qin Zhangfeng came to General Kenteer's side and looked at him.

Kenteer did not look at him, only saying coldly, "I have already lost. Kill me and grant me the honor of a soldier!"

Qin Zhangfeng lowered his head to look at him and said calmly, "General Kenteer, since you have already lost, you should know that a defeated general has no right to negotiate terms."

"We also want to know something; we want to learn some information from you."

Kenteer fell into silence; he was a French general and indeed knew many classified secrets.

He was determined to die precisely because he did not want to reveal this information to Longyan.

"I know what you want to know—about your defense plans, about your topographical maps. Rest assured, I will absolutely not tell you a single bit of information!"

Kenteer sneered, "I hope you will not use this matter to humiliate my dignity as a soldier."

Qin Zhangfeng laughed out loud upon hearing this, looking at Kenteer with mockery: "Even now, you still don't know why you were defeated?"

Kenteer was stunned; he watched as Qin Zhangfeng took out the two previous defense plans from his bosom—one contained a large amount of data, while the other contained only partial data.

Qin Zhangfeng, in front of Kenteer, gathered these two pieces of operational data together and placed them under the sunlight.

The shadows of the two maps folded together, and Kenteer's complexion changed drastically.

The information that had originally been missing from the defense plans gradually became clear beneath the folding of these two maps.

It was precisely the intelligence that filled in the gaps regarding their encounter with the Longyan Army's ambush.

"Let me tell you, the information in these three defense plans—no matter which one it is—is all real."

"But they can only complement each other."

"However, if you believed in any one of them, today's outcome was inevitable; they would all lead you toward failure."

Kenteer's body trembled, struck by a massive blow. So that was it...

It was he who had lost...

It was not that his operations had gone wrong, but that this defense plan had a problem.

Kenteer took a deep breath to calm his mind.

Qin Zhangfeng looked at him with interest and said, "Not only that, think about it—you don't think those few French cartographers returned to you so easily, do you?"

"Think about how these topographical maps and defense plans were obtained."

Kenteer associated this with Richard and thought of the merchants and Fang Dalong who provided intelligence to Richard; his complexion changed violently.

He looked up at the smile hanging on Qin Zhangfeng's face.

He had not expected that the information he wanted to keep secret was not even worth mentioning in the eyes of the other party.

Kenteer's expression stiffened, and he completely collapsed; it turned out that from the very beginning, they had fallen into a trap designed by the Longyan Army.

This entire war had been proceeding according to a script written by Longyan.

Qin Zhangfeng patted his back and said, "You should understand now, Kenteer. You lost because of your arrogance."

"From the moment you started the war with Longyan, your failure was already decided."

On the other side of America.

The news that a battle had broken out between the French Colonial Area and Longyan City had already reached Richard's ears this morning.

Richard was pacing back and forth in his office at this moment, extremely anxious.

This time, they had the complete defense plans and topographical maps; with these two things, the Longyan Army's weaknesses would be exposed without a trace, and they would definitely be able to wipe out the Longyan

Army and completely crush Longyan City.

In Richard's office, many French high-ranking officials, just like Richard, were anxiously waiting for reports from the front line.

If Kenteer could break through Longyan City this time, he would become the number one general of France.

His achievements would be enough for him to become a Duke and obtain vast fiefs.

And those who participated in this operation would also receive huge benefits.

Breaking through Longyan City held only advantages and no disadvantages for each of them.

Longyan City possessed a large amount of technology from Longyan; for example, the brewing of Yinzhou Drunk—just by mastering this, they could obtain massive wealth.

Almost everyone was craning their necks, waiting for the arrival of the good news.

The merchants and Fang Dalong, meanwhile, were staying safely and soundly in their Small Tavern.

As for the result of the French troops' attack on the Longyan Army, they had known it long ago.

Not long after, when the sun had just climbed up into the sky.

An urgent report was delivered to Richard.

"Urgent report from the front line: the intelligence was incorrect. General Kenteer has fallen into an ambush by the Longyan Army, and his life or death is currently unknown!"

Everyone was stunned, their complexions changing drastically as they stared fixedly at the military report brought in by the attendant.

It contained a detailed account of what happened.

Richard's complexion changed; after he finished reading, the report fell from his hand to the floor.

The sound of the paper hitting the ground was like a bomb striking a sturdy city wall, shattering with a bang.

Everyone looked at Richard's expression, feeling completely lost; they desperately wanted to know the entire course of this war.

With absolute intelligence in their grasp, their operations should not have ended up in such a situation.

"Lost..."

"How could the intelligence possibly be wrong?"

Richard's eyes lost their focus, and he staggered backward in disbelief; this intelligence had been given to him by Wan Shang and Fang Dalong.

"Right, Wan Shang and Fang Dalong!"

Richard roared urgently: "Bring Wan Shang and Fang Dalong to me!"

The crowd was stunned; as far as they knew, Wan Shang and Fang Dalong had been appointed as Intelligence Ministers by Richard, and they had rarely been seen since then.

Could the intelligence be wrong?

Thinking of this possibility, the faces of the crowd were filled with anger!

If the intelligence was truly wrong, and their troops had ended up in this state, then it was entirely due to human error!

These two Longyan, Wan Shang and Fang Dalong, would have to be held accountable.

But if the intelligence was really wrong, the two of them should have already fled by now!

However, very quickly, the appearance of Wan Shang and Fang Dalong shattered their conjectures.

Not only had the two men not fled, but they had come forward of their own accord.

"Greetings, Viscount Richard!"

The two men bowed with their hands cupped and said.

Looking at the two, the crowd felt quite surprised; Richard was filled with towering rage and shouted coldly: "What is going on with this intelligence? Why did you provide false intelligence!"

"Are you spies sent by the Longyan!"

Wan Shang and Fang Dalong snorted coldly and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "The intelligence we provided is accurate and true!"

"But we do not know who stole the piece of fake intelligence we left at home, that deployment map of the Longyan army!"

Richard was stunned for a moment; that matter had been done by his own people—could the problem have originated from that deployment map?

The crowd was also stunned; the intelligence was swapped?

The person who swapped it must be a spy!

Wan Shang looked at Richard and said coldly: "The intelligence we provided has all been verified; although the information on the deployment map was incomplete, we can confirm that this information is all true."

"But we also received a fake that looked like a Longyan deployment map."

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