Chapter 2655 Great Victory in Baden

At this time, Nick Hodge, the mine manager with an uncertain future, brought General Gates' adjutant to find him and showed him an amnesty.

As the news spread, Elder Gu's friends, including Klein, Scholz, Gray Bird, Belling and Robin Hood, all came to congratulate him and bid farewell.

Seeing the friends he had made in the underground world over the years, Elder Gu couldn't help crying, and was reluctant to leave this "exile place" where the sun never shines. After hesitating for a long time, he finally made a decision to continue to stay in the Mining work.

But before that, Elder Gua had to go home. In addition to visiting relatives, he also had to help eldest sister Guaslin deal with the Burgoyne Corps trapped in the Baden wetlands.

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On November 14, Burgoyne, who had been trapped in the swamp for four days, did not want to sit still, and led his troops to make the last effort to break through.

The Feizhen officers and soldiers had realized that this was their last chance, and they acted very bravely. The fierce fighting continued until noon, and they were only one step away from successfully breaking through.

Also at the juncture of the fierce battle, seeing the defense line of the Continental Army being broken through by the enemy layer by layer, General Gates was so anxious that he dropped his teacup in the headquarters, pointed at Laval's nose and said harsh words.

"Can you fucking do it? If you can't, give the troops to me to command, and I will lead the team to charge in person. Find a place to cool off as soon as possible!"

"Your Excellency, don't say such meaningless words. You are from the south, and you are not familiar with the Northern Corps. Taking command in person will not bring any improvement to the situation of our army. You should save your energy." Laval He replied coldly.

"Even if I can't change anything, at least I can do my best and sacrifice my life!" General Gates said angrily.

"It's too much for you to say that. Don't our soldiers do their best and sacrifice enough?"

"I have no problem with the officers and soldiers, they are all brave and good guys, but for you... Mr. Laval, I reserve my opinion!"

When Laval heard this, his face suddenly changed.

"Your Excellency, I beg you to tell the truth, otherwise it will be regarded as an insult to my military honor!"

"Since you forced me to say it, let me just say it, General Laval, have you really tried your best?"

General Gates took a step forward, fixed his eyes on the stern face of his deputy, lowered his voice, and issued a question that only the two of them could hear:

"Please allow me to remind you that this war has reached the most critical moment. Our Boggard allies still don't know whether they will keep their promises. Instead of counting on them, we might as well work harder!"

"But we have tried our best, and all available troops have been dispatched to the front line. What do you want from me?"

"Is that true? General Laval, where are your cult allies? Where's your demon guard?" General Gates smiled strangely, "In my opinion, you can still work harder!"

Laval's face changed, and he turned and left the headquarters without saying a word.

Unless he had to, he didn't want to make too much use of the "conquering order" and the power of demons, which would not only make him more and more subject to the conquering order, but also damage his image as a revolutionary soldier.

After all, decent people don't associate with demons.

However, as General Gates said, the situation on the battlefield is so precarious that it is no longer possible for him to take his reputation into consideration.

As a last resort, Laval once again put on the ring containing evil magic power, summoned the iron cavalry guards from the bottomless abyss, and personally led the team to stop the crazy counterattack of the Burgoyne Corps.

In the bloody battle that afternoon, General Laval's performance was brave. A heavy shell exploded right next to him. His left leg and mount were hit by shell fragments. The horse was killed on the spot. The general's left leg was also blown off.

The guards dragged Laval, who was badly wounded, from the muddy crater, awakened him from a coma, and tried to send him back to the camp for first aid, but the general refused.

Finding himself covered in blood, Laval asked the guard, "Where is my injury?"

"Your left leg, Your Excellency!" the guard replied eagerly.

"Just a broken leg?" LaVar sighed. "I'd rather have my heart blown to pieces by a cannonball."

After saying these inexplicable words, he cast a spell to heal himself.

If you want to completely heal the injury and renew the broken leg, you must use the 7th-level "Regeneration" or a more powerful magic spell. Laval is not a priest. He does not have such spellcasting ability, so he can only use low-level magic spells to heal the wound hastily. It is enough to stop the bleeding, endure the severe pain and sit on the corpse of the horse and continue to command the troops to fight.

LaVar's persistence was not in vain.

At dusk that day, when the battle was at its most intense, more than a thousand Mingurga mercenaries led by Guasilin and Gumoduo finally rushed to the battlefield and launched a surprise attack from behind the Burgoyne corps.

Master Fei never dreamed that a surprise soldier would appear in the muddy swamp behind him, launching a fierce attack from his most vulnerable area, catching them by surprise!

The participation of the Boggards completely shattered the last hope of the Burgoyne Corps to survive the Jedi.

When night fell, Fizhen's troops suffered heavy casualties and had to accept the fate of failing to break out of the siege, and were forced to retreat to the swamp, continuing to wait for reinforcements who had not heard from them.

It wasn't until this moment that Benedict Laval breathed a sigh of relief and was carried to the field hospital on a stretcher.

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Compared with the failure to break out of the siege, General Burgoyne was faced with an even more desperate reality: the food for the troops could only last for two or three days at most.

The 4th Division of the Feizhen Infantry was trapped in the swamp, with heavy casualties, cold and starvation, no reinforcements outside, and low morale... In desperation, General Burgoyne had no choice but to convene a meeting of all school-level officers to jointly decide which team to fight against. The ultimate fate of the troops.

The meeting was short, and most of the participants felt that it was necessary to conclude an agreement with General Gates to surrender on decent terms.

Just as they were undecided, a shell passed through the tent, flew over the table they were sitting around, and exploded not far away.

This roar prompted them to make up their minds to surrender.

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On the afternoon of November 15, Burgoyne sent a special envoy to General Gates' headquarters to propose armistice negotiations.

Gates agreed to the negotiation, and proposed the surrender condition that the Fiji Army should put down their weapons and surrender collectively under the supervision of the Continental Army, and accept the treatment that prisoners of war should have.

A desperate Johnny Burgoyne, refusing to accept this humiliating surrender, wrote back to Gates:

"We can surrender, but we won't be prisoners. Your Excellency must promise to let us go home. If you don't agree, even if there is only one person left, we will fight to the end!"