Look at those soldiers outside!

Their morale is so low, not only our troops, but also the entire French army.

Can such an army win the war?"

Obok glanced at the dejected soldiers covered in mud outside, and sighed helplessly.

How can the morale of the army be high if it always loses battles?

Even he, a general, had no hope for the prospect of war.

"France needs a victory, a victory that can be spoken about.

Not only France, but the whole of Europe needs a victory.

Only with a victory can the coalition forces continue to fight and overcome their phobia against the Ming army.

Albock! Look at me, sometimes lies have to be told."

Leclerc looked at Albock with his blue eyes.

"Okay!" Aibok sighed.

The morale of the army actually needs to be improved by lying.

What is this thing...!

While Leclerc and Abock were talking, Leclerc's messenger was standing next to Napoleon.

"There is no one here, just tell me!" Napoleon noticed that the staff officer's eyes were always looking at the guards not far from Napoleon.

Obviously, this distance was not enough to prevent what he said from being heard.

Since His Majesty the Emperor said there was no problem, the staff officer had no choice but to say so.

"There were more than a dozen divisions on the west bank of the Don River, but only more than 11,000 people escaped.

Most of the rest were killed in action.

The victory we achieved on the west bank was actually the Ming army's active retreat.

This battle..." The staff officer hesitated.

"Speak!" Napoleon held the leather gloves and shook them on his hands.

It has been raining in Ukraine and the weather is very cold!

"We actually lost this battle!

And we lost miserably. General Leclerc, I beg you to punish me.

However, in order to boost morale, the general sent a telegram reporting the victory.

The general said, we have lost too much and cannot afford to lose again."

"I can't afford to lose anymore!" Napoleon raised his head and glanced skyward.

It has been raining for four consecutive days, and now the sky is blue and cloudless, and the air is frighteningly fresh.

Taking a breath of fresh air will make you moan comfortably.

But Napoleon didn't feel this way. He felt very depressed and even felt a little tight in his chest.

The morale of the army actually has to be maintained by false victories.

The battle has reached this point...!

It concentrated the military power of all Europe, with up to 5 million troops.

Napoleon felt that with so many troops, he could fight to the ends of the earth.

But when it came to the battlefield, the coalition forces became even larger due to the participation of Israel.

Can……!

But the war has been going on for a year, and victory is still in the mirror.

Throughout the winter, the French army tried their best to launch an offensive.

In the Battle of Tsaritsyn, the French army was almost burning their own marrow.

But in the end, it failed.

Correspondingly, the Prussians had an army of more than two million people, but they had been fighting on the northern front for a long time.

Out of an army of more than two million men, only more than 300 people were killed throughout the winter.

As for the losses caused to the Russian and Ming armies..., only God knows.

Seeing that His Majesty the Emperor seemed very depressed, the staff officer did not dare to speak any more.

His Majesty the Emperor's coercion is still very intimidating to a young major officer like him.

"Go down!" Napoleon let out a long sigh and said softly.

"Yes!" The staff officer saluted and left as if he had been granted amnesty.

"Tell me what you know." Napoleon looked at the scenery of the Dnieper River for a long time and finally spoke again.

Only then did the intelligence staff who were waiting aside dared to come over and salute.

"Forget it, skip the red tape. Tell me what you know!" Napoleon waved his hand.

"What the major just said is basically true. Our army on the east bank of the Don River has been basically destroyed.

The troops who escaped lost all their heavy weapons, or in other words, they lost all their weapons.

The troops on the west bank were also the Ming army who took the initiative to retreat, rather than our army repelling them.

General Leclerc did not lie on this point."

"Where is the main force of the Ming army going?"

"Heavy rain has covered up all the ruts, so we can't find them yet."

"Find it out as soon as possible!" As an excellent tactician, Napoleon couldn't stand knowing nothing about the battlefield.

But there is no way, the French army does not have an air force.

It is impossible for an airship to perform such a mission, and battlefield reconnaissance can only be carried out by the light cavalry, risking their lives.

Of course, they will also bribe those Russians to do things for them.

However, with the intervention of the Ming Dynasty's supervisory forces, it became increasingly difficult to bribe the Russians, or the informants would be arrested and then publicly executed.

Either that or everything you get is false information.

On several occasions, the generals on the front line misbelieved the intelligence and caused very heavy losses to the French army.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, you just received another piece of information ten minutes ago."

"explain!"

"It is reported that Prussian representatives went to Athens and had close contact with the Ming people there.

Moreover, Da Honglu, who was in charge of diplomacy in the Ming Dynasty, also went to Crete after a short stay in Athens."

"Is there such a thing?" Napoleon frowned.

There was civil strife in Prussia recently, and Frederick was actually killed by an unknown guy.

Bismarck also failed. Now, the group of people active in Prussian politics are all small fish and shrimps, guys whom I didn't know before.

Napoleon had sent Lar to visit Berlin to see how good those young men were, but he did not expect that no news came back from Berlin, but news came back from Athens first.

Do the Prussians want to make peace with the Ming Dynasty?

If this were the case, it would not account for the Prussian offensive found on the northern front.

As of today, the battle report from the Prussians states that they have advanced thirty kilometers.

It is said that the Russian army and the Ming army were destroyed, and there were more than 50,000 people!

Napoleon believed in the thirty-kilometer march because his most powerful marshal, Davout, had personally seen it.

But he didn't believe in the annihilation of 50,000 people.

After all, Davout's telegram stated that he had not seen that many corpses.

There were at most three to two thousand Russian corpses.

The Russian army and the Ming army are completely different things.

The former is fish belly and the latter is steel.

It is very easy to take a bite out of the Russian army, but if you want to take a bite out of the Ming army, the result will only be a mouth full of broken teeth.

"Send capable people to Athens immediately and make sure to find out the matter."

"yes!"

"Send a telegram to Ra and ask him to come to Kiev after completing his trip to Berlin."

Napoleon was considering whether to leave a way out for France and for himself.
To be continued...