The best attack is to attack strategy, then diplomacy, then the army.
The Art of War · Attack by Stratagem.
As Lynn adopted a strategy of attacking the heart above all, the situation turned around.
The enemy's resistance was no longer as fierce.
Sheffield and Jean Charles had some talent for military affairs.
But knowing how to fight wasn't enough.
They also had to understand politics and know how to maintain morale.
Why were they fighting? What were they fighting for? What could they gain by dying?
These were questions every army in every era had to face.
Lynn's army was pure in its convictions, as pure as during the French Revolution or the independence of the Thirteen Colonies in North America.
Freedom, democracy, fraternity.
Establish a republic and secure human rights.
The nobles represented by Lynn had become bourgeois nobles and military nobles.
At the same time, Lynn was a social reformer and a Philosopher King.
When it came to fighting, the Olesian Army simply went wherever Lynn pointed.
But the vampires, the Blood Ghosts, and the conscripts who had been dragged here had no reason to fight.
The ensuing siege progressed much faster.
The Olesian Army hadn't surrounded Guanglan. It was only attacking from the front.
That meant they weren't trapped like beasts in a cage; they still had a way out!
This gave Sheffield and Jean Charles, along with the others who still wanted to resist, the idea of retreating to a more defensible position.
Mikhail Julius was an old noble from the era of Louis's grandfather. He was the mild-mannered sort, and his current position was to buy time.
Every location was putting up resistance. Given the Empire's sheer size, could the Olesian Army occupy it without deploying several million troops?
Buy time until the