Why did the lord rebel

While everyone in Shuangfeng Ridge was busy preparing for the next "Hercules" air strike in the rear, and General Virgil's life was undergoing drastic changes, the fighting on the battlefield in Burning Crystal Canyon was like a scolding battle in the fan circle on Weibo. It never stopped.

The mammoth charge that started on the afternoon of October 24 did not achieve any particularly remarkable results:

The dangerous terrain of the burning crystal canyon, which is high on both sides and low in the middle, originally meant that the fronts of the empire and the federation were easy to defend and difficult to attack—even in the most tense period of the war, the orcs had to rely solely on mammoth raids to rush to the territory controlled by the empire. On the west side of the Ardennes Highlands, that is also a very difficult task;

What's more, after the ceasefire between the two sides, the human side has made [-]% defense preparations:

If the incendiary bomb made by Frost Maple Ridge dropped by the "Lancaster Air Force Wing" from the air is just an appetizer, then the magic landmine buried secretly by the cunning Grand Duke Rosario really constitutes the secret of Dr. Hannibal. cannibal feast.

Almost all the strength of the ice demon mammoth comes from their huge size and the ancient fur that resists both monsters and monsters;
However, the magic landmines are aimed at precisely the lower three roads of their lack of protection chassis.

The magical flames that rose from the ground without warning overturned the vanguards of the federal mammoth swarm almost instantly, knocking these terrifying ancient behemoths to the ground, and let the bitter mammoths at the top of the civil castle stand for a long time. The dead human soldiers broke out in loud cheers.

After the ice demon mammoths at the front of the charging group were banned by magic mines, they immediately posed a huge obstacle to the Federation's follow-up attack: Although these unlucky elephants did not die, they fell to the ground due to serious injuries and moved. No, their huge bodies directly turned into a natural repellent horse lying in the center of the canyon, blocking the charge route of other mammoths:

After all, the Ice Demon Mammoth is not Liu Xiang. Although they are surprisingly heavy and fast, they are not good at jumping, and it is even more impossible for them to jump over these hill-like mammoths when charging.

The unwilling orc commander could only order the subsequent mammoths to avoid this place as much as possible when charging, and continue to attack the Ardennes Highlands by making a circle from the south.

——After all, the federal orcs are just showing off their muscles in a deterrent manner, and they never thought of laying down a civil fort today!

Private... holding... these inexplicable new words made Grand Duke Rosario a little dizzy.

"Then, who is the actual controller of the 'Shuangfengling Second Machinery Industry Group'?" Grand Duke Rosario asked with difficulty.

"Great kindness, great virtue, unforgettable!" Xia Houyan patted his chest, and then said with a bitter face, "I also want to reduce the price of military supplies produced in our territory. Grasshopper! But please understand, the key issue is that we, Frost Maple Ridge, have always practiced a free market economy in the Land of Cracked Souls! Including 'flame sandwich candy', all military supplies produced by Frost Maple Ridge are The military industrial enterprises in the territory set their own prices - as the head of the territory and the head of the government, I have no right to interfere with the pricing power of these military industrial enterprises or force them to sell at lower prices..."

This discovery shocked Grand Duke Rosario, who had been immersed in the military for a long time and had a close relationship with the imperial staff.

"Yes, it is not our Shuangfengling official that makes these 'flaming sandwich candies', but the 'Shuangfengling Second Machinery Industry Group'!" Xia Houyan explained with conviction, "This is a privately held military enterprise , the territorial government has no direct jurisdiction.”

After sitting down at the table, Grand Duke Rosario didn't even take a sip of hot coffee, he just stared at Mr. Xiahou, straight to the point:
"Eliott, is there any room for a reduction in the price of those 'flaming candies' provided by your territory?"

"Your Excellency the Grand Duke!" Xia Houyan looked at the smiling Grand Duke Rosario and asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"

Seeing that Lord Lord and Grand Duke Rosario had arrived, the staff of Shuangfengling quickly stood at attention and saluted.Sean Mountbatten ordered a few trainee staff officers to help the two big men clean up a round table for sitting down and talking.

Of course, the Ice Demon Mammoth originally relied on overwhelming power to attack the enemy's line. Once it detours during the charge, not only the charge potential will be greatly weakened, but it will even eat several more Griffon shots on the way. Molotov cocktails dropped by the cavalry.

"Army...a military industrial enterprise?" Grand Duke Rosario was dumbfounded.

"So I hope that you, Frost Maple Ridge, can provide more help to our imperial army in the days to come." Grand Duke Rosario smiled slightly, "After all, the sooner the war is won, your territory, no,' Frost Maple Ridge No. The Second Machinery Industry Group' will be able to get the final payment sooner—not to mention, the large occupied areas in the eastern border hide a large amount of wealth."

What surprised Grand Duke Rosario was that although the lord was not doing his job properly, the staff of the Igor family still devoted themselves to their work conscientiously.

"Tomorrow, the boss, ah, has to discuss with Miss Alice Comstock, ah, important matters of the territory..." Eldridge did not let go, "No visitors!"

It was already three o'clock in the morning, but a large group of Frost Maple Ridge staff officers, led by Sean Mountbatten, were still discussing something in front of the map wall; The staff's mug was filled with hot coffee.

An inevitable result is a lot of waste: the ammunition that the imperial army had finally accumulated during the ceasefire period was used up a lot after this afternoon.

In addition, there are magic mines set in the canyon by the Duke Rosario with great painstaking efforts-these mines are not only expensive to build, but also time-consuming to lay;
Seeing that the cease-fire treaty has expired due to a sloppy missile, humans may never have the opportunity to lay mines in the canyon again;

"Uh..." Grand Duke Rosario tightened and loosened the handle of the "President Eastern Military Affairs" command knife, "...Pavor, can you tell Elliott that he will come to Tumubao tomorrow to find I talk?"

In order to block the enemy's mammoth attack to the greatest extent, the empire used a large number of these advanced incendiary bombs urgently purchased from Shuangfengling this time.

Grand Duke Rosario fell silent.

After another 5 minutes, Lord Frost Maple Ridge changed into the red duke's costume, led Duke Rosario across the camp, and came to a large tent used as the former enemy's combat headquarters.

Grand Duke Rosario wanted to know with his ass that there must be a countess of stigmata hidden in this tent—maybe she is not the only sister.

"'Waiting to regain the lost land'?!" Xia Houyan protested, "Then we have to wait until the Phoenix Moon in the Year of the Dragon!"

The most painful thing for the imperial military was the "flaming candies" thrown down by the griffin air cavalry.

After the nightmare memories of being run over by mammoths last year, the imperial people are now sensitive to this thing to the point of ptsd-seeing the federation launching a mammoth swarm charge, the imperial army on the Ardennes Highlands can be said to be heartbroken. This afternoon was completely full of cards, and the Griffin Air Cavalry and siege weapons were desperately dropping bombs like they didn't want money, for fear that the precarious defense line of the civil fort would be breached.

About 5 minutes later, Xia Hou poked his head out of the tent with his pajamas on and his face full of displeasure.

"Eliot, you are a great nobleman now!" Grand Duke Rosario gritted his teeth and smiled, "It's hard to talk to you now, we are not allowed to enter the camp, and we can only contact you through the winter embracing pigeons—you Shut us all down!"

The battle lasted until the evening, and the imperial humans on the Ardennes Highlands also had a bit of aftertaste:

The more the imperial staff looked at the battlefield, the more they felt that the other party was playing tricks: because at the same time as the ice demon mammoth group charged, the federal army did not send out infantry regiments to the rear as usual, and there were no wolf cavalry flanking to harass them. An old shaman listlessly brushed a few layers of blessing halos on the mammoth beasts——

"'Shuangfengling Second Machinery Industry Group', all the shares are controlled by Miss Katerina Igor from the despicable territory." Xia Houyan said sternly, "You see, this is a free enterprise through and through. My territory The Führer simply cannot interfere with its functioning."

Xia Houyan blinked:
"What are you talking about? My ears are not very good..."

"The finances of the Imperial Army are also very tight now." After a long time, the Grand Duke said in a deep voice, "We can only pay 50.00% of the payment for the 'flaming candies'—as for the rest, after we regain the lost land in the East, the Empire will The military department will pay you all at a reasonable interest rate."

"From a legal point of view, my sister and I are independent individuals, and this company has nothing to do with me." Xia Houyan pouted, "Do you have any questions?"

——Obviously, although the people of Frost Maple Ridge have been fishing behind the civil fort, the staff of this wasteland territory has already made preparations for follow-up actions in a few days, months, or even years.

With just a simple glance, Grand Duke Rosario noticed that the map hanging on the map wall of the headquarters tent was a detailed topographic map of the Burning Crystal Canyon and its range of hundreds of miles.Between the well-proportioned contour lines, many colorful arrows have been drawn by Shuangfengling, and there are also many marking words written in code.

But the chili is still too hot. Grand Duke Rosario thought for a while, and simply ignored Eldridge, who was blocking the way, and rushed into the camp of the Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe, ignoring the surrounding shouts and obstructions. The Frost Maple Ridge soldiers... er, "literary workers".

To the astonishment of Grand Duke Rosario, he didn't even enter the camp of the Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe, and he was rejected directly.

When the moon was over and the federal orcs triumphantly called for money to withdraw their troops, the imperial military officer in charge of finance saw the list of military purchases that the regular imperial army had to pay to Shuangfengling after this battle, and his face turned pale, and he almost didn't come up. past.

"But Katerina is your sister..."

After realizing this, the staff officers of the Imperial Army suddenly complained:

When the "Flame Sandwich" explodes, it will splash out a highly viscous burning syrup, forming a burning zone that the enemy cannot pass through; the effect is not bad, but the price is not cheap:
For every "Flame Sandwich Candy" brought to the front by the Frost Maple Ridge Labor Art Troupe, the Imperial Army will have to pay Duke Elliott Igor a full "work cost" of forty gold coins!
According to the honorable lord of Shuangfengling, the price of these forty gold coins is a "friendship price" set by everyone who is willing to sacrifice their flesh for the sake of serving the empire. "The cost cannot be covered;
But the problem is precisely that the "flaming candy" is a special product of the land of cracking souls, and only the Igor family in the whole continent has mastered the manufacturing method-as for the manufacturing cost of a "flaming candy", is there [-] gold coins? , then only the devil knows.

Grand Duke Rosario didn't want to understand how the little bastard Elliot Igor got so many "territorial matters" to discuss.

Although the Igor family is arrogant and domineering, after all, there is no way to get rough on a Grand Duke of the Empire and the commander of the Eastern Army. They can only watch as Grand Duke Rosario rushes to the lord's tent as if he is in no one's land, loudly call the door.

As a result, the Ice Demon Mammoth Swarm of the Federation started at 24:[-] pm on the [-]th and tried until [-]:[-] pm when the night fell, but they failed to get close to the walls of the civil castle. The repeated bombing of large-scale magic and siege weapons had to retreat with hatred.

"It's too late, ah, the lord is discussing with Miss Isa Sandria, ah, important matters of the territory, no guests are welcome." Pavel Eldridge, who served as a watchdog for the Lord Jaap He didn't give his old leader a good look at all, and directly blocked Grand Duke Rosario from the camp.

"You are serious, serious!" Xia Houyan hurriedly shouted, "Wait a minute, I change clothes, let's change tents to chat!"

"Don't play dumb with me, Elliott." It was Grand Duke Rosario who took good care of him, without a cup of hot coffee splashing on the lord's face, "Your 'flame bonbons' are too expensive—— You will not forget, when you first built Frost Maple Ridge, who provided assistance to you?"

On the other hand, as far as the orcs were concerned, as long as the few immobile mammoths in the canyon were cleared away, when they charged next time, there would be an unimpeded road in front of them.

Perhaps the uninterrupted mammoth raids of the federal orcs this afternoon were not aimed at completely breaking through the defense line of the civil fort and completing their efforts in one battle, but purely to retaliate against the hatred that the central camp was blown into white ground, and the demonstrations that the ocean will never forget!

This incident even directly alarmed Grand Duke Graham Rosario, commander of the Eastern Army.God is sorry to see that the "Blood Flower" who has been galloping the world all his life and has dominated the wind and cloud has no choice but to condescend to lower his dignity and go to the station of the Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe in person. Give some discounts on the cost of "flame sandwich candy".

For the federal orcs, a race that attaches great importance to honor, if their own camps are shamelessly attacked by humans, the military still has no countermeasures. Maybe those angry orc soldiers have already mutinied in order to fight!

Xia Houyan just wanted to reprimand the Grand Duke Rosario for forcing credit, but when he heard the words "occupied area" and "wealth", he rolled his eyes again.

"The enemy-occupied area in the eastern border... is rich?" He asked with squinted eyes.

"Of course." Grand Duke Rosario chuckled, "Speaking of the topic of the Occupied Area in the Eastern Territory... I don't know Elliott, do you know someone?"

"Who?" Xia Houyan asked.

"Hyde." Grand Duke Rosario tapped the table with his fingers, "William Hyde."