Why did the lord rebel

The sky is high and the clouds are light, with a slight breeze.

The Imperial Army joint camp located on the edge of Jiaoshi Town was as quiet as usual.Its well-proportioned white military tents reflect a golden brilliance under the afternoon sun.

A group of writers from Shuangfengling, who wore black-and-gold goshawk-patterned "Military Inspector" cuffs on their arms, strode past the gate of the Jiaoshi Town barracks with arrogance and arrogance.

Corporal Finn squatted at the gate of the barracks and gnawed on bread. Hearing a few unfamiliar Central Army sergeants beside him, they lowered their voices and talked a lot:
"Hey, have you heard! Last night, the Shuangfengling Military Inspectorate arrested three more people! Lieutenant Gregory was still sleeping in the tent, and was dragged out of the bed!"

"Lieutenant Gregory?!" Another sergeant of the Central Army said in amazement, "How could he be a collaborator? Vieri, have you forgotten that Lieutenant Gregory killed several orcs with his own hands when he was in Black Creek Forest? of the head!"

"Normal people would think that Lieutenant Gregory is a spy!" The Central Army sergeant named "Veri" snorted, "But you have to understand that if the military inspection team under Lord Igor arrests you, it doesn't mean that You are a spy, it just means that you are suspected and need to be 'quarantined'! Well, Sergeant Federico of the [-]st Battalion finally proved his innocence after being taken away for three days and survived unscathed Did you release it back?—In other words, if you have no ghosts in your heart, why are you afraid of being captured by the military inspection team? At worst, you will spend two days in prison, and you will be free again!"

"That's what you say, Sergeant Vieri..." Another sergeant of the Central Army said with a bitter face, "But what if the Shuangfengling military inspection team tortured and forced the captured people to confess their crimes?" what to do?"

"Lord Duke Igor's subordinates shouldn't be so despicable... right?" Sergeant Vieri looked suspiciously at another Central Army sergeant.

Corporal Finn felt a little ridiculous when he heard the bizarre speculations of these chattering non-commissioned officers.

He stuffed the remaining croissant into his mouth, then patted his butt and stood up, ready to leave.

Unexpectedly, the central military sergeant named "Veri" suddenly stretched his neck and shouted:

"Finn! It's you, Corporal Finn of the [-]rd Company of the [-]th Brigade of the Second Legion!"

Finn blinked, turned to look at the other party, a little confused and said:

"...Uh, it's me... Excuse me, do I know you?"

"Although you don't know me, I know you!" Sergeant Vieri stood up with a smile, and gave Finn a lazy military salute, "'Witness to the death of Commander Grant',' Hellsurvivor', 'The Man Who Lived at Citadel'...Corporal Finn, you're quite a celebrity in our Scorch Township now!"

Finn took a step back, and looked at the somewhat overzealous Central Army sergeant with some vigilance:
"Uh... May I ask if you have anything to do with me?"

"No, no! It's nothing special..." Staff Sergeant Vieri scratched his hair and laughed, "That's right, the brothers have long known the name 'Finn Who Lived', and I really want to hear what you said about Grant. The circumstances under which the Commander died, and the story of how you survived that disaster..."

Corporal Finn sighed.

Since he escaped from the Tumu Castle on March [-]th, he has told the same story to several high-ranking nobles of the empire, the Frost Maple Ridge military inspection team who was in charge of examining him, and all the friendly officers and soldiers who were full of curiosity and gossip. Thirty or forty times, it's a bit tired and crooked.

He was struggling to think of a reason to prevaricate these imperial non-commissioned officers, but he heard Sergeant Vieri laughing and saying:
"Hey, Corporal Finn, I heard that at that time, the federal orcs had already occupied the fort and started killing inside. Even the walls of the fort were stained red with blood...isn't that right?"

"Uh... There were indeed a lot of orcs in the castle at that time." Corporal Finn sighed and replied helplessly.

"That's weird..." Sergeant Vieri stared at Finn playfully, "...It is said that you watched a bastard orc shoot through the head of our beloved Commander Lane Grant with a hand crossbow. But ah, Corporal Finn, why didn't you go up to block the arrow for Commander Grant? Why did you escape from the earth-building fortress that was all enemies? Why didn't you act like a real honorable man? How about dying with Commander Grant like a soldier of the Empire?"

Finn was startled by the barrage of questions.

Beside Sergeant Vieri, several imperial non-commissioned officers who were still smiling and watching the fun had slowly stood up.They stared fixedly at Finn as he came forward and surrounded him faintly.

"Sergeant Vieri..." Finn calmed down and said in a deep voice, "...I've said it countless times, when the evil orc who shot and killed Commander Grant was about to shoot a crossbow at me, it was Elliot Lord T Igor he-"

"Admit it, Corporal Finn." Vieri mercilessly interrupted Finn's defense, looked at Finn with pleasure, mockery and disdain, and made a cruel assumption, "— You're a traitor, aren't you? Just because you're a disgraceful Confederate agent, the orc bastards in the fort would be merciful enough to spare you, right? You're only here because you betrayed your country Survived the nightmarish battle, right?"

"Sergeant Vieri!" Finn protested, raising his voice, "I don't have one! You can ask E—"

"If you have anything to say, you can go and talk to the Shuangfengling Military Inspectorate in person—and we will make sure that you, a traitor who killed a thousand swords, will be handed over to them in a well-tied condition!" Wei Wei Eli looked at Finn greedily, as if examining some kind of extremely precious prey, "The military inspector team can say that as long as they can report and confiscate a damn federal agent, they can get a full reward of ten gold coins." Gold!"

"What?!" Finn was horrified to see that the surrounding Central Army sergeants had already surrounded him with evil smiles on their faces.

One of the non-commissioned officers even raised the oil-soaked hemp rope in his hand, and shouted triumphantly:

"Don't be afraid, Finn, it's just a 'quarantine'—if you're innocent, why should you be afraid of the Military Inspectorate?"

Beads of sweat had slowly oozed from Finn's forehead.

Just as he was anxiously considering whether to draw his sword to defend himself, there was a crisp sound of horseshoes.

The sergeants of the Central Army surrounding Finn were stunned for a moment, and then they stood up straight like a ghost in the daytime, and gave a military salute respectfully and meticulously.

Seeing this, Finn hurriedly turned around.

The visitors were a group of Frost Maple Ridge soldiers riding tall horses - each of them had a black-bottomed goshawk-pattern armband wrapped around their arms, which made all the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army terrified.

And the leader of this group of riders is a Shuangfengling officer who looks very young, but has an extremely grim face and wears a gray military cap with a large brim.What shocked Finn the most was that the Shuangfengling officer's armband was not embroidered with the golden eagle star of an ordinary soldier, but two crossed golden swords on the maple leaf shading.

The "Military Inspection Team" temporarily formed for the purpose of "reviewing military affairs and cleaning up internal traitors" is divided into three levels:
The lowest-level "Military Inspector", with the armband of an iron eagle with gold stars on its head, is responsible for specific inspection and detention work;
The second-level "Military Inspection Team Leader", with the armband of a golden giant sword on the maple leaf shading, is the leader of ordinary military inspectors, and is often responsible for managing the review and cleaning work of an entire brigade-level establishment;
And only the most senior "Military Superintendent" is eligible to embroider two crossed golden swords on the cuffs - so far, only two people have this title:

One is Duke Eliot Igor himself, who was entrusted by the Grand Duke Rosario to form a military inspection team...

...and the other one is the Chief of Staff of Frost Maple Ridge who is in charge of leading the specific review work, "Baron of Keel Peak" Sean Mountbatten.

The group of knights galloped all the way, then pulled the reins abruptly beside Finn's group and stopped.

The leader, the Frost Maple Ridge officer, who was wearing the double-sword armband, raised his large-brimmed army cap on horseback, and swept the crowd one by one with his cold eyes from his pale gray eyes, and finally stopped on Finn:

"Corporal Finn?"

"Yes, it's me!" Finn hurriedly stood at attention and saluted, "Hello, Chief Inspector Mountbatten!"

Sean Mountbatten nodded in satisfaction, and then squinted his eyes at the Central Army soldiers gathered around Finn, who were about to arrest him.

He obviously didn't know what kind of scene was happening here before he arrived.

"Corporal Finn, we are looking for you all over the world. Get on your horse and follow us to the center of Jiaoshi Town." Sean Mountbatten whistled to Finn, and a Frost Maple Ridge knight behind him, Then he led an unridden army horse to Finn.

The tone of the chief of staff of Frost Maple Ridge, who was famous for planning the battle of the Red River Valley, was as coercive as his employer, the great Duke Elliot Igor. feel.

Finn didn't dare to disobey Chief Inspector Mountbatten's order at all, he hurried forward two steps, and hurriedly climbed onto the army horse.

After Sean Mountbatten confirmed that Finn had sat firmly on the horse and pulled the reins, he whistled and led the team of knights galloping towards the center of Jiaoshi Town.

Sergeant Vieri and other central army non-commissioned officers stood blankly in the yellow earth stirred up by the horseshoes, watching them go all the way, until Finn on horseback also disappeared from the end of the field of vision accompanied by billowing dust and smoke. Only then did they come to their senses, and they stood there for a while, looking at each other in blank dismay.

……

Sean Mountbatten and the other members of the Frost Maple Ridge military inspector rode their horses very fast. Finn, who was not good at riding a horse, could barely follow Sean Mountbatten by crawling desperately on his horseback. Barton's side.

Just when he was about to be blinded by the dust particles mixed in the wind, Sean Mountbatten suddenly turned his head from the horseback to look at him, and asked loudly in the wind:
"Just now, what were those Central Army people doing when they surrounded you?"

"Uh..." Finn replied with a bitter face, "...they think I'm a spy who secretly defected to the orcs, and they want to tie me up and hand me over to...you...for a reward."

"What?" Sean Mountbatten yelled "Come on", and then glanced at Finn in disbelief, "But didn't you report to the lord and His Excellency Grand Duke Rosario as soon as you came back from the castle? What happened to the Marquis' sacrifice? I remember that after the formation of the military inspection team, the organization specifically reviewed you to confirm that you are fine..."

"Yeah..." Finn sighed in the wind, "but no one will believe this even if it is said... Mr. Mountbatten, since your military inspection team entered, the entire Jiaoshi Town barracks is Everywhere in the city is scrambling to follow, report, and arrest people, and everyone looks like a spy in everyone's eyes..."

Sean Mountbatten was silent for a moment on the galloping horse.

Then, he turned back to another rider from Frost Maple Ridge, and said bitterly:
"Look, I have already told the lord and His Excellency Rosario that this shitty business of rape will definitely lead to the situation it is today..."

The Frostmapped Rider shrugged in agreement.

"Damn it..." Mountbatten sighed and complained to himself, "...I'm not suitable for doing this kind of thing, and I should have let the lord take Karim Lodge from Soul Splitting Called here to take charge."

Finn didn't know who Chief Inspector Sean Mountbatten was referring to as "Karim Lodge".

All he knew was that after hearing this name, the riders of Shuangfeng Ridge who followed the two seemed to tremble a little.

Sean Mountbatten may also have realized that, in his own capacity, he should not express his complaints so casually in front of an outsider.He nodded and smiled at Finn apologetically, and said:
"Corporal Finn, I'm really sorry, but the extraordinary measures during this period were all necessary to clean up the federal spies... If anyone pesters you again in the future, you can say that Sean Mountbatten has vouched for you Let them come directly to the headquarters of the Military Inspectorate to find me."

Chief Inspector Mountbatten's modest attitude made Finn, who had just been questioned by friendly troops, feel the urge to burst into tears.

He hurriedly waved his hands and said in a hurry:
"No, no, Chief Inspector Mountbatten, these are for the overall interests of the empire, I can understand..."

Sean Mountbatten nodded, pondered for a moment, and said thoughtfully:
"But, Corporal Finn, although you are indeed a 'false' spy who was framed by someone, it seems that we caught a ... 'real' spy yesterday. The reason why I specifically asked you to go to Jiaoshi Town The center is also for this kind of thing...Corporal Finn, may I ask, Captain Rick Greenspan, the company commander of the [-]rd Company of the [-]th Brigade of the [-]nd Army Corps of the Central Army, do you know him well on weekdays? ?”

Hearing this name, Finn's heart, which was already much more relaxed, suddenly tightened up again.