Chapter 115: Revolution Defense War - Collapse (2)
Cleaning up the scene took far longer than I expected.
I had sent Damien De Millbeau’s Southern Army to advance on Nancy, but Shandra, leading the pursuit, kept sending a steady stream of prisoners.
The Imperial Army would surrender if they thought they’d be caught by the pursuit unit, surrender if they were hungry; in short, they surrendered far too easily.
Later, perhaps because she ran short on troops, Shandra even sent surrendered Imperial soldiers to our garrison without any escort, and they obediently walked all the way to our main force and quietly became prisoners.
What is this farce…….
As a result, with the number of prisoners exceeding 30,000, nearly matching the size of our remaining forces in Valois, Desaix and I were swamped trying to manage them.
If prisoners of that scale were poorly managed and a riot broke out, there would be no greater disaster.
As for the one responsible for this whole mess, her reaction was...
-Your Majesty, isn't this a bit much? It's not just effective, it's excessive!