Chapter 393 Talleyrand's Tour Around Europe

Cornwallis grimly gazed at the distant rudimentary bastion for a full half-minute before finally gesturing to a staff officer beside him:

"Send the order, leave one battalion to continue the siege, the rest of the troops are to bypass this damned thing!"

Regrouping and taking a detour could delay them a day or two, but it was better than being disgusted by that broken "barn."

Yet, merely an hour and a half later, several squads of hussars successively brought back the news that less than three miles south of that "barn," two similar structures had been discovered.

And farther away, there seemed to be more...

These defensive fortifications densely guarded nearly all the traffic arteries, with three built at the crossroads of key strategic nodes!

In a strategy game, perhaps one could micro-manage the troops to squeeze through two bastions, after all, their cannons could not possibly cover a range of two or three miles. But in actual combat, this was completely impossible.