The battlefield hospital is set on the banks of the Francoli River, with a white-backed red cross flag flying above, which is a unique symbol of the Desay-style battlefield hospital. Unlike the Spanish captain’s impression, the battlefield hospital is not a few simple tents, lonely on the bank of the river, but consists of rows of staggered wooden houses.

This was a masterpiece that took a week to the construction workers of the safe village at the request of General Saint-Sil. It was said to be a field hospital. In fact, there was no French soldier inside, and they were all transferred to a safe village with better conditions.

In addition to the doctors coming and going in a hurry and nursing staff wearing blue clothes, there are more patients in the hospital. They wear uniform striped robes and walk or talk in groups in groups of three or five.

A half-height wooden fence surrounded the entire hospital, leaving only one entrance and exit. Within the fence, there were only doctors, nursing workers and patients, no distinction between nationality, ethnicity, or position. Therefore, at the entrance and exit, more than a dozen fully armed French military police were responsible for the hospital preservation. They wore masks and strictly inspected all hospital patients who were about to enter to prevent knives and guns from being mixed in.

The Breader, who came to the field hospital with the Passel brothers, also came to the battlefield hospital with a baker of Hruna, about 20 years old, carrying two large rattan boxes. The young baker enthusiastically introduced to Passel that most of the patients who could walk out of the hospital were recovered, and his father was one of them. They came here 5 days ago to seek treatment. The baker came here this time to pick up his father and discharge him.

Passel asked the young baker strangely why he wanted to carry two big boxes and whether he wanted to leave Hruna. The latter nodded helplessly and said that it was to pay off the debt. Because the French army had told the hospital that the treatment of the Spaniards was paid, and if the various treatment fees could not be paid, he had to go to the safe village to pay for his work. After hearing this, Passel was speechless.

After successfully passing the inspection of the military police, Passel carried his younger brother to a large wooden house painted in eye-catching red. Because at the entrance of the hospital, after a brief question from an assistant physician, it was initially judged as an infectious disease and asked Passel and his younger brother to go directly to the infectious disease clinic.

"It's a severe dysentery! After taking the medicine, the problem is not too serious, but it requires at least 10 days of hospitalization and rest. In addition, please pay the medical fee and drug fee, a total of 500 riyals." After the diagnosis, a French-military officer said to the patient's brother, Passel. As for Caseva, after taking the medicine, he was sent to the infectious disease ward by a nursing worker, and Passel was refused entry.

The military doctor also casually told the Spaniards that if they don’t have money to pay the diagnosis and medical expenses, it doesn’t matter. The hospital can sign a contract with the patient and wait for the patient to recover, and go to the factory in the safe village to work for 200 days to deduct all treatment costs.

Passel rejected the goodwill of the military officer. As the general's adjutant, he had enough Rial to pay for various medical expenses. Although the fees in the French military hospital were very high, it was already very cost-effective compared to the lives of his relatives.

Then, when filling out the form for the patient and his family's name and occupation, Passel intentionally made a falsification.

France - The military doctor smiled and looked at the young man with deep eyes, thin face, but straight torso, and strong walking. The military doctor knew in his heart that the impersonation must be the Spanish officer in the city. But this was irrelevant. Following General Desay's instructions, he would treat all the Spanish who took the initiative to leave the city. Even the commander of the defender of Gruna, General de Castro, came, and he would be treated the same. Of course, all medical expenses must be collected as usual, and no one Rial could be missing.

Pascell suddenly thought of something, that was his commander, General de Castro was also seriously ill and lacked medicines. The Spanish captain tried to beg the French military officer if he could buy some medicine and bring it back to the city, even if he paid more money, but the French military officer refused and explained that all medicines could only be used in battlefield hospitals.

Captain Passel was disappointed, and he also knew that the French were using the method of inducing the soldiers and civilians in the city to go out for medical treatment to gain favorable impressions and disintegrate the Spanish's resistance. In fact, the French had succeeded, and at least Passel was very grateful. But it would not be possible to ask him to put down his weapons and surrender to the French. If there were other opportunities in the future, Captain Passel would treat the injured and captured French soldiers well and give the latter appropriate treatment.

After sending his younger brother out and paying the fee, Passel was about to leave the hospital. When he reached the gate, a French military police stopped him and shouted Passel's name and military rank.

Facing the Spanish captain with a slightly panic expression, the French military police just smiled, handed Passel a package wrapped in a blue ribbon, and turned around and left.

After taking the package, Passel ran back to Hruna as if he was escaping. He hid the package in the dark cabinet in the room, and it was not until late at night that he returned to the room where the doors and windows were closed. Passel carefully unbuttoned the blue ribbon, lifted up the only wrapped wooden box, revealing a red heart-shaped enamel hanging chain inside, opening the exquisite hanging chain cover, revealing a half-body portrait of a familiar woman. The woman was sitting on a soft chair with a backrest, with a rich body and a peaceful expression, and holding a four- or five-month-old baby in her hands.

"Monica!" In front of the portrait of his heart, Passel tightly grasped the chain, and tears were like a spring. When he wiped the tears and put his eyes back on the portrait, the baby in the woman's arms became the focus. Passel was ecstatic because he knew that the one in the portrait was the crystallization of himself and Monica Acoreda, and was also an illegitimate child.

There is also a letter at the bottom of the wooden box, which was written by Monica to her lover. In the letter, the woman narrated her lovesickness for Pascell in a plain but not losing her attachment. The disease told Pascell that Monica and Pascell are currently living well in Barcelona. However, because others criticized her for being pregnant and having children inexplicably, she had to leave the original baron's residence and chose to live in seclusion in another secluded manor.

Monica Acoreda also revealed that she was a general named Andrew Desay, who gave her and her son great help. Not only did she help find her residence, but she also left some coins for Monica, who was short of money. It was also the help of the general's subordinate who invited an experienced doctor late at night, so she did not die from the terrifying postpartum bleeding when giving birth to Little Passel.

Monica hopes that Passel will have the opportunity to show her gratitude to General Desay and return the loan of 10,000 Rials. At the end of the letter, Monica hopes that Passel will return to Barcelona as soon as possible to visit her and their son, Passel Jr.

In the letter, Monica always mistakenly thought that General Desay was a Spanish general and was full of gratitude for him, but Passel knew it very well. But he could not raise any resentment in his heart to hate the French general with ulterior motives. At least the latter had saved the lives of three relatives, younger brother, lover, and son for him.

From the beginning of the Huaru policy implemented by Desai on October 5, to the present, the confidence of the military and civilians in the city of Hruna is rapidly fading. Whether officers, soldiers, or ordinary civilians, relatives have gone to the French hospital for treatment. At least 3,000 people have left, or are about to leave Hruna, to comply with that medical contract, and to work in a safe village controlled by the French.

If I asked a week ago, would Hruna surrender?

Passel absolutely believes that those who say such words should be executed, and the bodies are hung on the top of the city for public display.

But now, when the French stopped bombardment of artillery fire and did not engage in infantry attacks, the city seemed to have returned to peace and quiet in the past, but it was just an illusion. The situation became the most desperate moment since the city of Hruna was besieged by the French army. The city guards refused to execute the orders of General de Castro, and did not stop the crowd who wanted to enter the French hospital because their relatives and friends were among them.

On both sides of the ugly city streets, faces that were blackened by smoke and blood were still not washed, because the withered and haggard people were busy. Among the countless ruins, collapsed houses and broken churches, they desperately dug out valuable things, silver candlesticks, golden pocket watches, shiny tableware, and even weapons and guns to exchange food with the French army outside the city.

The bells of the Church of St. Mary no longer call the police because there are no bell ringers; there are no hawkings from newspaper vendors in the streets and alleys, because there are no announcements anymore; the priests no longer hold mass, because the servants of God and the believers are worried about their livelihoods; there are no more people singing war songs in the square, because no one has any hope for victory.

The silence of death enveloped the entire city from time to time. People's hearts began to be filled with sadness and helplessness, and the dying city struggled in silence. Therefore, it is necessary to surrender. This is a common idea for people, but no one said it, but just hid it in his heart, just like hiding the idea of ​​being about to commit a crime.

One hour ago, at a regular military meeting, the worried General De Castro fell into a coma again. He was sent to the ambulance center by the adjutant for emergency treatment. The generals and school officials who were still sitting in the conference room looked at each other and were silent. No one proposed to continue the meeting topic, and no one said to visit General De Castro on the hospital bed. Everyone was just waiting quietly, waiting for an event and a character to say what they wanted to express in their hearts.

When Captain Passel returned to the conference room, the officers of the generals, who were originally like wooden stakes, all showed their hot eyes and put them on the captain, making Passel nervous, confused and at a loss. Soon, Captain Passel understood what these people wanted to do, took out the city keys and surrendered to the French?

No! Never! Captain Passel left the venue angrily. In fact, at that moment, he was also hesitating. Now when he was a child, this letter from his lover Monica Acoreda became the last straw that overwhelmed the camel.

Captain Passel surrendered, and he made an excuse for himself to save the life of his fourth relative, General De Castro.

When Captain Passel returned to the conference room again, the officers were still silent. He took out the city keys symbolizing the city of Hruna and said what everyone wanted to express.

Two minutes later, all the officers at the venue quickly reached an agreement and decided to surrender to the French and appointed Captain Passel as his plenipotentiary representative to negotiate with the French army.

At 4 a.m., General Desai readily accepted the surrender conditions of the Khruna defenders, and did not pursue the Spanish to investigate the duties of officers and soldiers in the city, allowing them to retain their military uniforms and private property. Soldiers and civilians can leave the city freely, and officers can choose their place of residence after 3 to 6 months of house arrest.

On October 15, 1809, at 6 a.m., surrounded by Spanish officers, Captain Passel symbolically opened the gate of Hruna, and on behalf of the commander, General de Castro, handed the city keys and the commander's sword to the winner, General Desai.

The defenders of Khruna formally surrendered to the French army!

From June 24, 1808 to October 15, 1809, the city of Hruna, which had resisted the French army for one year and another six months, was finally settled. General Saint-Sil and General Vedir failed to accomplish the regrets, and their successor, General Desai, took him easily to capture it in just 12 days (calculated from October 4), without any effort to spend a soldier, a gun and a bullet.

When Desai accepted Gruna, the original 30,000 military and civilians now survived 14,000. Desai followed the contract as always, healed all injured and sick military and civilians, and gave them food to survive. If there was no money to pay, labor compensation was required. In addition, General Desai was properly placed, and General Desai had assured Captain Pascell that he would not be sent to the Barcelona trial court until General Desai's health was completely recovered.

In history, General De Castro died of a serious illness in prison. And Hruna was not conquered by Marshal Ogero, who never kept his promises, avoiding becoming a hell on earth. Later generations, after Marshal Ogero conquered the city of Kruna, he acquiesced the French soldiers to burn and kill and loot the city in arbitrarily, and finally set fire to the city.

The former Hero City, the fall of Gruna, and the surrender of General De Castro (the adjutant was working on his behalf, and the general himself was still in a coma on his sickbed), caused the Spanish rebel forces in the entire Northern Catalonia region to fall into extreme panic of the leaderless group, and the domino effect began to appear.

When the pessimists saw no hope of victory, they gave up their resistance and surrendered to the French and became residents of another safe village. By the end of October 1809, the safe village had accommodated 120,000 residents; those eternally loyal patriots were still fighting, and they would not put down their weapons, but would only transfer the battlefield to the Southern Catalonia region, or the Aragon region in the west, away from the sphere of influence of the Desai Division.

From October 15 to 24, within just ten days, the Desai Division and its friendly forces in charge peacefully accepted the surrender of all 12 town defenders in the Northern Catalonia region with great strides. At this point, from the south to Barcelona, ​​the capital of the region, the north to the Pyrenees on the border of the French, the west to the Segray River, and the east to the western coast of the Mediterranean. For a time, there were almost no public activities of Spanish resistance forces in the entire Northern Catalonia region.

When the news of General Desay leading his troops to recapture Hruna reached Toulouse, Marshal Ogero, who had arrived in the city, became furious and furious. In anger, he accidentally threw his beloved object, a precious pipe inlaid with countless gems, on the marble slab, and became fragmented.
Chapter completed!