Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 461 Chapter [-] Struggle and Preparation

The last prison van, full of military political prisoners, slowly left the "Gulag Castle" and Jiaoshi Town under the roar of the "General Type I" magic engine, and embarked on the long road to the south of the empire .

To the relief of many imperial regular army officers and soldiers, this noisy "military inspection and purge campaign" did not last for a long time:
On March 31 in the imperial calendar, Sean Mountbatten, Chief of Staff of Frost Maple Ridge, who was in charge of the review, announced to all the senior officers of the Imperial Army on the town square in front of the "Gulag Castle" that he was identified as a federal spy. Immediately after the list of political prisoners, it was officially announced that the cleaning work of the Imperial Army had been successfully completed;

Afterwards, the Shuangfengling Military Inspectorate, which was frightening in Jiaoshi Town for a while and could stop children from crying at night, withdrew from the "Gulag Castle" without stopping, and returned to Elm in the north by car. Fort station.

Seeing the four goshawk striped flags, which symbolize the supreme majesty of the military inspectorate, also slowly fall from the outer wall of the "Gulag Castle", the imperial officers and soldiers in Jiaoshi Town felt a bit like a dream for 30 days. feel.

On the way back to Elm Castle, Xia Houyan was really in a good mood.

For one thing, Shuangfengling's assistance to the Imperial Army in cleaning up the traitors this time is not doing nothing for nothing:

After Master Ernst Heinkel's emotion and Bob Brook's understanding, Grand Duke Rosario finally pinched his nose and agreed to join his "White Death" dwarf musketeers Temporary loan to Shuangfengling, right as a reward for hunting spies during this period.

The "White Death" dwarf musketeer holding the "Mosin Nagant musket" is the best long-range sniper team in the whole continent, and it is also an international column sent by the northern dwarf country to the empire to deepen the friendship between the two countries;
As early as in Tumubao, this group of proud dwarves were somewhat dissatisfied with the bloated and corrupt imperial regular army, and because they lacked enough respect for their identity as a sub-race for a long time-they have always held the banner of the great unity of the Haven race Frost Maple Ridge is undoubtedly a more attractive employer for them;
Therefore, Grand Duke Rosario lent the "White Death" dwarf musketeers team to the Xiahou officials indefinitely as labor expenses, which can be regarded as a cheap and affordable favor according to the meaning of these northern dwarves.

However, no matter how many calculations Grand Duke Rosario made, Xia Houyan felt that the deal was worthwhile:
The joining of the "White Death" dwarf musketeer means that the main lineup of Igor's pioneering army includes dwarf musketeers, elf magicians, and "Dan-Azler" sub-orcs in addition to the wasteland humans as the main body. , "Enziai" troll doctor, blood elf lawbreakers who surrendered to the revolution, and all kinds of grotesque undead creatures-except for the lack of giants that have long since disappeared on the mainland, the racial composition of this wasteland army It's complicated enough to overwhelm even the whitest left of American civil rights fighters.

In addition, what Xia Houyan really valued was actually the "Mosin Nagant musketeers" equipped by the dwarf musketeers:
This ultra-long-range sniper rifle developed by the dwarves of the Cold Bone Mountains did not use too much magic skills in the production process, it is completely the supreme crystallization of pure mechanical technology!

Xia Houyan once borrowed a musket from a dwarf legend buddy to study it. He found that the production technology of this dwarf firearm would not lag behind even if it was put on the earth. Quite delicate.

Xia Houyan speculates that the reason why the "Mosin Nagant Gun", which is very close to the design idea of ​​the earth's hot weapons, has not yet shined in the Haven Continent is purely because the elemental power led by magicians is too cheap and powerful , and the manufacture of the "Mosin Nagant Gun" is extremely expensive and slow, and it is not cost-effective in comparison.

——Probably only the dwarves who have not been blessed by the elemental gods and rarely have magicians in the race will choose another way to create this long-range weapon that is used to replace elemental power.

However, there is never too much firepower reserves: due to productivity issues, the entire Chilling Mountains can produce only a few dozen "Mosin Nagant muskets" in a year, but this is not at all in Frost Maple Ridge. question:
With the "Universal Type I" magic engine powered by the little devil, the Igor family can completely set up a complete and mechanized copycat version of "Mosin Nagant" in "Huangya Cave", a territorial military industry distribution center south of the Manhattan Laboratory The "Musket" production line brought a little industrial revolution shock to the hard-working dwarves of the Coldbone Mountains.

As long as there are sufficient resources, it will be a breeze for Shuangfengling to distribute individual self-defense weapons to every citizen of Shuangfengling and realize the red neck dream of "everyone has a gun to fight"!
In addition to the gains on the books of the "White Death" dwarf musketeers, what Shuangfengling obtained in this "Military Inspection and Cleansing Movement" also has a huge wealth that is not humane:

intelligence.

Even Xia Houyan himself didn't expect that when a person was put on the tiger stool as a suspected collaborator, in order to prove his innocence, they would unscrupulously spit out many shady secrets from their mouths:

After the purge campaign ended in less than a month, the confidential information that was compiled into volumes and placed on the lord's desk was as thick as three big "Ci Hai"—the content recorded in it was taken care of by a high-ranking officer of the Imperial Army How many mistresses, how many kickbacks have been received by so-and-so in how many years, and which soldier in the battalion and company of the Central Army is actually a hidden deep cabinet. have.

Xia Houyan could even believe that as long as he relied on these accumulated military secrets, he could even let the regular imperial army go there.

Of course, on the surface, he still openly stated to the Grand Duke Rosario and Quentin's chief of staff that Shuangfengling has no intention of meddling with the personal privacy of the regular army officers and soldiers of the Empire, so all the information collected during the interrogation will be Incinerated and destroyed after the "military inspection and purge campaign";
As for whether the great, glorious and correct Duke of Shuangfengling left a backup and sent people to Shuangfengling for safekeeping before publicly burning these priceless information, I am afraid that only the king of hell will know. up.

It is precisely because of the huge profits made during this trip that Xia Houyan, who originally planned to take the Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe back home after the Battle of Tumubao, still has the mentality of a gambler to "make a bigger fortune" , I deliberately stayed in Fort Elm for a few more days.

During the entire period when the Frost Maple Ridge Labor Art Troupe supported the north, Katerina not only sat in the wasteland to keep Frost Maple Ridge in order, but even sent reinforcements to Elm Castle three or four times in succession.

According to Katerina, this is because the bandits on the wasteland have long been wiped out, and Rock Creek City, which was taken over by Leon Houston, did not dare to do anything wrong. The Land of Cracking Soul, which was surrounded by powerful enemies, is now stable and peaceful. It looks like the Alps alone in the vortex of the world war.

Under such circumstances, the pioneer recruits recruited by Frost Maple Ridge from the towns on the left bank and from all over the mainland are really doing nothing and doing nothing, except for patrolling back and forth along Route 66.

Together, Katerina and Mayor Joel decided to pack the girls and send them to the Burning Crystal Canyon in the north, so that these young soldiers who grew up in peace could have a taste of the gunpowder of war:
From the beginning to the end, under the leadership of the lord, Shuangfengling adhered to a concept, that is, the real elite soldiers must be honed in the long years of war!

In addition to these reserve teams from the base camp of the land of broken souls, the revolutionary youths recruited and brought in by Shuangfengling during the six months of going north, also stayed in Elm Castle with the Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe.

Therefore, this unassuming small castle located at the northern end of the Burning Crystal Canyon has actually gathered an elite armed force that can make any continental force invincible and frightened:

The first is Shuangfengling's old-fashioned elemental armed "Northern Blizzard Mage Group".

Although the name is quite unlucky, after being joined by the Lianhualing Wandering Mage headed by Master Molière, the power of this team of magicians is already a bit scary: the original "Northern Blizzard Mage Group", basically based on Calvino The Eternal Sun City mage group under the command of the master of spiritual songs is the skeleton, mainly composed of water and wind elven magicians, and the fighting style of the entire team is also somewhat flashy and elf-like;

But the wandering mages from Lianhua Ridge are different: this group of idlers who have been outside the rule of the empire for a long time, are not as pampered as the high elves of Eternal Sun City. The streets of black guns settled down.Their magic style is also full of the most simple, old farmer-like pragmatism—in other words, they just practice whatever spells kill, ruthlessly, and violently. As for the gorgeous magic effects, Ioli Subsyllabic elegance and elemental virtuosity, these useless embossments, to hell with me!

Xia Houyan saw with his own eyes more than once that the fire mages of Lianhualing conducted human experiments on the battlefield to test how to use the least magic power to burn the most enemies into candle stubs by chanting the magic spell;
They even put forward some suggestions for improvement of the lord's necromancy: These wandering mages who are not afraid of anything, not only did not show any aversion to corrupted magic, but instead expressed the "unrestricted use of necromancy" by the lord. "Excellent skill" - of course, this did not stop them from pointing out to the lord boldly that the latter's way of holding the spell when chanting the necromantic spell was too lengthy and inefficient.

As famous as the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group", it is the newly formed heavy armor armed "Tekka Group" of the Igor Pioneer Army.

After a long period of accumulation, this mechanized force has been equipped with a total of twelve Shuangfengling Type 41 "Apocalypse" chariots, and 25 "Igor-Igor" chariots also powered by the "General Type I" magic engine. [-]" armored personnel carrier.These newly put into use armored vehicles eliminated all the cavalry accumulated in Shuangfengling almost overnight and turned them into reconnaissance auxiliary troops.

Relying on the infinite mana from Purgatory, the steel monsters of "Tekkadan" can send the elite infantry of Shuangfengling to any quiet street on the mainland with unimaginable high mobility—and if the street If it is not quiet enough, the demonic "Bofors" magic cannon installed on the top of the "Apocalypse" tank will be responsible for shooting the weak flesh and blood of any blockers into blooming flowers of hope.

The traditional mainland siege weapons accumulated in Shuangfengling were also added to the "Tiehuatuan" organization after being blessed by the "Universal Type I" magic engine. A crushing situation at the level of technological generation difference has been formed.

——After seeing the unparalleled combat power of the "Apocalypse" chariot, Grand Duke Rosario and Quentin's chief of staff repeatedly proposed to buy several of these black high-end vehicles from Shuangfengling, but Xia Houyan used Only the middle finger responded to them: the most important weapon of a country cannot be given to others, and he is well aware of this simple truth.

Compared with the "Northern Blizzard Mage Corps" and "Tiehua Corps" that have proven themselves on the battlefield, the newly formed "Liberator" Air Force Wing in Shuangfengling is a completely new face.

At the beginning, everyone thought that it was a bit of a big deal for the lord to decide to form a territorial air force just because of a steel dragon "Sindagosa" that could soar through the sky. Long, in any case, cannot be counted as an "air force wing".

Everyone's doubts disappeared after a military exercise in Fort Elm:
Because at the end of this exercise, when the "Liberator" air force unit appeared, apart from Sindragosa flying across the sky screaming and casting shadows on the ground with its huge dragon wings, the lord also waved his hand , and I don’t know which corner pulled fifty griffins out:

This group of griffin beasts that appeared suddenly and glided across the sky, all of them had loud calls, all of them were vigorous, all of them were covered with iron sheets, and all of them were covered with ghostly magic power.

Under the questioning eyes of everyone, the lord categorically denied that these griffin beasts were evil undead creatures made by using the mounts of the fallen imperial air force in Fallen Dragon Mountain, but claimed that they were the latest military achievements of Shuangfengling's "Manhattan Laboratory" ——"Hellcat" type "bionic mechanical fighter"...

However, if the people of Frost Maple Ridge who watched the lord secretly go to the Falling Dragon Mountain every month, and watched Master Ernst Henkle knocking on the iron sheet day and night, if they would believe the lord Such nonsense, then they might as well cut off their brains and connect them to their butts...

To the surprise of all the observers, with this group of undead griffins produced in the same way as Sindragosa, the territorial air force that the lord has always been thinking about may really be able to develop based on this brand-new unit: as long as one trains A batch of qualified pilots, then this group of undead birds with iron protection must be stronger than the empire's previous griffin airriders!
The only problem is, where should I get enough supplies of griffin carcasses in the future...

These three major fist troops, together with those that traditionally constituted the main combat sequence of the Igor pioneer army, are equipped with cosine steel armor, hippocampus hand crossbows and ancient elf daggers, with death knights leading the army in front and dwarf musketeers in the back The Frost Maple Ridge heavy infantry in the formation...

Even the Shuangfengling staff officer, who had been educated in many imperial military schools before, felt a sense of shock that he couldn't understand when faced with the group of killing machines hidden in Elm Castle.

(End of this chapter)