Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 272

2021-03-08

Chapter 272 The Way Forward
When the last drop of wine is consumed, the farewell banquet will end .

Mrs. Mitchell gave the Colonel a new pair of stirrups and a new pair of boots as gifts, in accordance with Platonic custom.

Bode laughed and put on new boots, and then threw the old shoes out the window to show that he was completely free from bad luck.

It is interesting to say that Winters used the way of the country of galloping horses to catch up with Colonel Bode, but the Platonic people present were actually Colonel.

A confused Captain Mason was sent back to his apartment by Heinrich, talking about his breeding experience before leaving.

And Colonel Bird wanted to speak to Winters alone.

Leaving Mitchell's House, the two strolled along the banks of the St. George River, chatting about anecdotes about Luyuan.

"I can't walk." Colonel Bode looked at the two boulders on the shore: "Sit down for a while."

"Okay." Winters had long wanted to leave .

After sitting down, Winters slowly extended his left leg, unconsciously uttering a groan.

"Why do you feel like an old fogey?" Colonel Bode teased: "Get up and sit down and hum."

Winters tapped his left knee and answered easily : "In the battle on the west bank of the Netherworld River, this side was trampled by a horse's hoof. It was almost better, but the weather has turned cold recently, and the unfathomable mystery has started to get sore and itchy again."

Colonel Bode was silent for a long time before speaking. , his tone was full of guilt: "I haven't thanked you yet. If you hadn't come back to save me that night, I would have died."

"No need to thank you." Winters pointed to the back of his head and smiled Said: "I got hit here, and I can't remember a lot of things that night."

"I'll tell you."

"Forget it."

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“Thank you.”

Winters laughed and said nothing.

Winters has changed, so has Colonel Broad.

Once the colonel was burly, enthusiastic, laughing loudly, scolding fiercely, like a majestic stallion;
Now the one-armed soldier is silent, quiet, too thin to support his clothes, and his appearance Aging precedes age, and the mind is more vicissitudes than appearance.

While he still retains a positive sense of humor, it's hard to come out - something Winters understands best.

The two sat on the boulder and listened to the river surging in the dark, and they were silent for a long time.

It was Colonel Bode who spoke first. His attitude was as witty as ever, and he said jokingly: "No wonder I said at that time that I would marry my daughter to you, but you were reluctant to do so. It turns out that your horse already has Halter."

Winters in respiratory arrest: "Don't mention this to Nava Young Lady Lei."

"Afraid of what?"

"I'm not afraid... Forget it, I formally ask you."

"Don't worry." Bodler couldn't help laughing, patted his junior's shoulder: "How can you tell the ladies about the gentlemen?"

"That's right! That's right!"

"You little fellows from childhood schools." Bode's eyes filled with pity: "Through childhood, I had too little contact with women, and I didn't Knowing whether it's good or bad."

"You never went to preschool?"

"I didn't even have a prep school back then!" The colonel laughed heartily: "I'm twenty Entering the Academy, the rite of passage is over."

"Times are different." Winters defended himself feebly.

Colonel Bode laughed even more happily, as if casually asking: "Do you have any plans for the Teltown Department?"

"The sword swings over the shield, the bow and arrow Fly over to the armor block." Winters picked up a few small stones, launched the stones with the flying arrow technique, and distorted the flying direction of the stones with the deflection technique: "There is no plan, but there is an idea."

"Yes. Tell me about it?"

"There's nothing I can't tell you." Winters laughed, and he drew the map in midair with his fingers: "I want to divide Iron Peak County into upper and lower parts according to the direction and distribution of rivers. , middle and lower parts.”

“By upstream and downstream?”

“No, by watershed.” Winters explained: “So there is only Wolf Town in Lower Tiefeng County. , Black Liquid Town, and Five Mastiff Town."

Colonel Bode spit out a name softly: "Lieutenant Bud."

"Lower Iron Peak County is vast and sparsely populated, with 20,000 people. Many refugees are placed there. Bud is in charge."

"It looks like this." Colonel Bode pondered: "Is Middle Iron Peak County the rest of the area south of the St. George River?"

"Yes, the remaining five towns of the eight southern towns are Middle Tiefeng County. North of the St. George River is Upper Tiefeng County." Talking with quick-thinking people is easy, and Winters bluntly added: "Upper Tiefeng County is the most It is rich and has the largest population. Technically speaking, Gervoudan, located on the north bank of the St. George River, also belongs to the Upper Iron Peak County." Talking and laughing: "I see... you are using the method of dividing cabbage, one layer is wrapped in one layer."

"If you face the newly cultivated Legion, it really looks like cabbage. The more you go out, the more dangerous it is. The more you go in, the safer it is." Winters didn't deny it, but his words changed, and his expression became serious: "But if you face the Hurds, it's like a cabbage being cut open with a knife, and the flanks are completely exposed."

"Where in Tiefeng County, you won't send troops?"

"No." Winters said with a blank face: "Let it go to Bard."

"Get on the iron. What about Feng County?"

"No, Beiba Town is not loyal to me."

"For this reason, why don't you send troops to help them?" Colonel Bodefaint smile .

“No.” Winters confessed frankly: “Because they are not loyal to me, it is difficult for me to obtain supplies and mobilize manpower in Upper Iron Peak. It is not suitable for combat, so I do not send troops.”

"What are you going to do?" Colonel Bird's expression gradually became serious.

A stone flew out of Winters' hands and exploded in midair in an instant: "I want to have a decisive battle in Zhongtiefeng County."

"The premise of the main battle is that both sides are involved in the battle. They all have the will to fight for the main force." Colonel Bode asked curiously, "How do you know that the Teltown people are going to fight in Zhongtiefeng County?"

"I don't know." Winters said quietly: "And if I were the enemy chief, I would try my best to avoid the main battle."

"There are many barbarian tribes, many factions, and the establishment is fragmented. The disadvantage is that it is easy to collapse on the first encounter when fighting a big battle. The advantage is." The upper Principal sighed: "Flexible, dozens of light cavalry is an army."

Winters said lightly and happily: "So the focus of this campaign is not to command my troops, but to command the Teltown troops. Let them fight me on the battlefield of my choosing."

Colonel Broad was stunned at first, then frowned, and finally laughed out loud.

"I know why Arpad likes you so much." The colonel slapped Winters on the shoulder vigorously: "Youngster is really terrifying, dare to think and do it, I'm really old!"

"Don't be in a hurry to boast." Winters was rather helpless: "How to mobilize the enemy, I haven't figured it out yet. It's really... In any case, the result is impossible and worse, so I have nothing to worry about."

Colonel Bode deliberately said with a straight face: "After determining the strategy, the process of trying to get closer to the strategic goal is tactics. If I were to command, I would not even have the idea of "commanding the enemy"; , I will also deny it with various reasons. You already have a direction, is this not good enough?"

The elders' praise is more unbearable than the scolding, Winters urgently changed the subject: "You said Arpad What?"

"I appreciate you."

Winters played with the stones casually: "I didn't find it."

"He gave all the jugs. You, don't appreciate you enough?" Colonel Bird raised his eyebrows and asked, "When I was a warrant officer, I never saw the jug leave him."

"Is there such a thing?" Winters Laughing, he always thought that the jug was thrown at him by Arpad.

"Of course, everyone knows General Arpad's lucky jug, which is his body protection charm!"

"It can't protect the body." Winters couldn't help but smile : "Scrapped."

"Scrapped?" Colonel Bought stared.

"Hold a buckshot for me." Winters pointed to his left chest: "Here."

Colonel Bode laughed heartily, tears streaming down his face. After laughing, the colonel wiped away his tears and said, "Since Arpad is mentioned, there are other things I want to ask you."

"Please." Winters sighed inwardly.

"Did you kill General Sackler?" Colonel Bode complexion changed, his eyes sharp.

“I killed it,” Winters readily admitted.

"Why kill him?"

"There are many reasons, but in the final analysis, I want to kill him."

"Kill if I want to?" Colonel questioned.

Winters replied calmly: "Yes, kill if you want."

"Do you want to kill anyone else?" the colonel asked with a sneer.

"I thought about it before."

"What about now?"

"Faded."

"Faded what?"

"The hatred has faded." Winters wrinkled his nose: "And I found that killing a person is not good. Kill Sackler, and Teckler. Kill Arpad, and Valpa Germany. Kill one, and there are ten others waiting to take over. It's boring."

"Killing one person is not good, so you need to kill more?" Colonel Bode gnashing teeth: "What the hell do you want to do? !"

"What do you think?" Winters asked rhetorically.

"I think?" Colonel Bode eyes wide staring angrily, shouting: "I think you are ambitious! When you see an opportunity, you seize power by fair means or foul! Want to trample everyone on the soles of your feet. I don't care if you kill thousands of people for it!"

Winters took a deep breath, sighed, and asked the colonel with a smile, "You said, an animal that looks like a wolf , howling like a wolf, walking like a wolf, so is it a wolf?"

"It's not a wolf, is it a dog?" Colonel Bode sneered.

"Yes. Everyone will see it as a wolf and treat it like a wolf, so what is it?"

"Of course it does!" Colonel Bode roared like thunder: "Don't betray me here! I just want to know what you're doing? You're not a wolf? Then tell me, how are you different from a wolf."

"Think What to do?" Winters said bitterly, "If only I could know."

"I fucking beat you brat!" . The majestic and savage stallion rushed out of the vicissitudes of the body.

"You can't beat me." Winters pressed the colonel back to the stone: "Relieve your anger, I'll talk to you slowly."

Colonel Broad gasped heavily, violently cough.

Winters didn't speak until the Colonel was out of breath.

He looked at the black river under the night, and recalled with some nostalgia: "In the beginning, I pretended to be a robber and went to ambush the grain collection team, so that Revodan would not come to Wolf Town to force food. , I know what I want to do."

"Pretending to be a robber?" the colonel sneered.

“I can’t really be a robber, can I?” Winters as it should be by rights rhetorically asked: “I have an appointed garrison officer, is it necessary to openly hostile to Gervodin?”

"And then?"

"Then I found out that it doesn't make any sense to just protect Wolf Town. Although other towns have nothing to do with me, if the entire Iron Peak County is on fire, Wolf Town will definitely be It will turn to ashes.”

“So your territory is getting bigger and bigger…”

“So I started thinking about the root of the problem.” Winters lowered his head and fiddled with the pebbles in his palm. : "The problem is not with the common people, nor with the soldiers who carry out orders, or even with those who directly give orders like Major Ronald.

People hate the soldiers who ask for food, and they hate Gervodin by the way. The gentlemen in the city, because they are directly exposed to these two floors.

And the real problem lies with other decision makers at a higher level, but the decision makers are hidden behind the agents, so there will always be It creates an illusion that the Duke is good, and the Duke's servants are bad."

"So you are going to deal with General Adams?" Colonel Bode narrowed his eyes: "After the war started, The only thing that matters is how to end the war. Even if you do beat General Adams, have you thought about how you're going to end it?"

Winters didn't answer directly, but said with a smile, "To tell you the truth— Don't laugh at me either. I really had a little 'savior' feeling in the beginning to win Gervodin and Iron Peak County.

“savior? A groan came from the depths of Bode's nose: "What about now?" "

Winters was a little disillusioned: "Now I realize that it was my salvation that made the people of Tiefeng County no longer need it." "

Winters simply sat facing the colonel, looking directly into the colonel's eyes: "If it weren't for me, if Iron Peak County was still under the control of the new Legion, what do you think it would be like now?" "

Colonel Bode turned his head and looked towards the river, without looking at Winters or speaking.

"Then I'll speak for you." Continue the requisition! Zhengding continues! Peasants flee! The fields are barren! Last year's and this year's stockpile will be exhausted sooner or later, then famine, banditry, rebellion, and then even greater famine! "

Colonel Bird couldn't help sighing.

"Is there a lie?" With every word, Winters' voice increased by a point: "You said I'm going to kill thousands of people?" Yes! That's right! I am afraid that the people that General Adams killed with his own hands are not as many as I have killed! "

Winters pointed to the Gervodin square in the distance, and his imposing manner was abruptly raised: "There, I beheaded dozens of people and hanged dozens of people." Further north - north of Hammer! Colonel Zeppel, many seniors, they all died because of me! "

He stared, and questioned Colonel Bode: "Taking a life with a sword is murder, but taking a life with famine and war is not murder?" General Adams has clean hands and mine has blood, so he is more noble than me? Yes, if General Adams is willing to act, there are people who will praise him for being merciful!

How can there be such a truth under the sun? ! I tell you, General Adams is the biggest executioner! The master who rules the Republic of Palato is the biggest executioner! I put blood on my hands and they put blood on others! "

"I used this sentence to answer before, and I still use this sentence to answer. "Winters stood in front of Colonel Bode, looked down at the Colonel's eyes, and declared word by word: "That's right! Many people will die. But if my men are willing to die for me, my enemies will know. If my men are not willing to die for me, my enemies will know. I would like to ask, how many people are willing to die for my enemy? "

Colonel Bode subconsciously wanted to defend, he said with difficulty: "How could the newly cultivated Legion just watch the farmers starve to death?" As far as I know, isn't General Adams also recruiting refugees to open up wasteland? "

"But did he do it?" He didn't do it! " Winters patted his chest: "sorry, I've done it.

What Adams can't do, I do; what he doesn't dare to do, I dare to do; what he doesn't want to do, I'll do. If it weren't for the monkey butt face to make trouble, in May or June next year, you will see the wasteland turn into a golden Maihai. "

Colonel Bode's imposing manner was completely suppressed.

After a long silence, he graciously admitted, "You did a good job." General Adams recruited the strongest among the refugees to serve as soldiers at most, and let the remaining refugees go to wasteland.

As for the confiscated land, houses and farm animals of the manor owners, they were redistributed to the refugees. General Adams couldn't, didn't dare, and wouldn't do it—he and his men were big estate owners themselves. "

Winters didn't have the joy of winning, he sat back on the boulder quietly and shot the stones into the river one by one.

"The cruel joy will end with cruelty in the end." . There was deep frustration, frustration and confusion in Winters' voice: "But I don't know what else I can bring to people." "

The colonel listened silently.

"I'm just bringing Iron Peak back to its former appearance, and nothing has changed. Therefore, Beibazhen and I are neither cold nor hot, and we are at odds with each other. Winters propped up his forehead: "Not only do I understand them, I think it's reasonable for them to do so.

For them, my replacement of Legion, a new land, is a tax on a different person. Beiba Town thinks this way now, and sooner or later, Nanba Town will also think this way. "

Colonel patted Winters' shoulder, pun: "To be alive is a gift in itself." ”

“On the condition that it can take a life at any time. Winters' voice sounded transparent in the quiet night: "People don't take survival as a gift until they face death, they only take it for granted. This is not arrogance, it is nature. "

He smiled and asked, "If I knew when I was going to die, would I still be here chatting with you?" I have already gone to Nawa Young Lady Lei to get married and have children. "

Colonel Bode laughed up to the sky.

These two people who have faced death can understand best: when death is near, many things that are not important now can become very important. Important; many things that are important now, will become unimportant again.

Winters sincerely expresses his confusion to Colonel Bird:
"The situation is that I am from Legion. Save Tiefeng County, only to find that Tiefeng County can live well without me. "

"I have seriously reflected - maybe from the very beginning, I shouldn't have thought about resuming production." It is time to eat the grain in the warehouse and wait for the famine to appear. "

"Wait until everyone starts to go hungry." I will send a weapon to everyone who stomach rumbling with hunger, and lead them into White Mountain and Vigne, eating and drinking everything like a swarm of locusts. Then coerce more refugees to attack other places, and finally succeed or fail vigorously. "

"It would be a pleasure to do that." " Winters smiled sadly: "It's much more enjoyable than hanging up and down in Tiefeng County now. "

"Why not? Colonel Bode asked seriously: "Don't you want to be a savior?" Start a fire that burns the world, and you are the savior of the refugees. "

"Because I don't want to." " Winters replied dismissively: "I don't want to be a savior, and I'm not a savior. I am the executioner - I will never deny it. "

"So what do you want? "

"I don't know either! But I can't say this to anyone, I'm like someone who holds a torch and walks in front of thousands of people. If I say 'I don't know where to go', I'll stomp the torch. So what do they do? "

"Can't talk to others, but can talk to me? "

"Yes, I can only tell you." " Winters spread his hands: "After all, you are a bystander. "

Colonel Bird hummed softly.

"But I'm not worried." Winters smiled freely: "Isn't the old marshal forced to join the rebel army? Did he know where to go then? Does he know where he will end up? Isn't it also taking a step and watching a step? "

"What did you say?" Hearing this, Colonel Bode immediately became anxious. He jumped up from the boulder, pointed at Winters flustered and exasperated and asked, "Not enough Iron Peaks, not enough new land, not enough Plato?" Do you still want to be a marshal? ! Why don't you go to be emperor? "

Colonel Bird was shaking with rage.

"Don't worry, I'm just giving an example. Winters took the colonel to sit down and patiently comforted him: "Maybe next year, the red and blue roses will decide the winner and the winner's army will be overwhelmed, so I will flee back to Veneta to do a small business?" In the future, who can tell? "

Colonel Bird panting with rage, shaking Winters' arm.

"Anyway, I want to stop and think." Winters told the Colonel sternly, "I won't expand until I figure out what I can bring to the people, until I've won the allegiance of Ironpeak. If even Tiefeng County can't return, why should I attack other counties? I want to see where to go first, and then move on. "

Colonel Bird sneered: "You haven't been carried away by ambition. "

"I also want to ask you, what is your allegiance, concern, and concern? Is it the government? Is it the army? Is it a republic? Or the people? ' Winters asked back.

Colonel Bird couldn't answer.

"I would like you to stay and help me." "Winters bows deeply to Colonel Broad.

"Help you?" Colonel Bode groaned: "I, Colonel of the dignified Republic, come to be a rebel with you?" "

"Don't help. "Winters straightened up and sat back on the boulder.

one old and one young sat silently without looking at anyone.

Sitting for a long, long time, the two In front of me, the river flows quietly.

"I'm going back to the castles. Colonel Bird said suddenly.

"I'll get you horses." "Winters simply nodded, he was neither surprised nor disappointed: "Arrange someone to escort you - don't worry, it is really escorting you, not killing you. "

Bode slapped Winters angrily: "You brat, so vicious now!" "

"I don't kill you, how can you say I'm vicious? "Winters is extremely aggrieved.

"It's vicious enough to think that! "

"Okay, let's do it." When are you leaving? ”

“If the recruitment fails, will you drive me away?” Colonel Bird laughed angrily, and slapped Winters on the back again.

"It's up to you, I'd like you to stay two more days." Winters is also a little reluctant: "Anyway, when you want to leave, when will I arrange a carriage and horse escort for you. "

"Just a few days." "

"Okay. "

"I'm going back to the castles." "

"No problem. "

"I'm not like you foreign bachelors, my wife and daughter are still in the castles." Colonel Bode sighed: "I have to take it over." ”

[Because of tinnitus, the author has already taken a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at the beginning of the month, and has not completed a course of treatment. Therefore, it is difficult to write a chapter of 6,000 words at every turn during this period of time. The author will try to maintain the normal daily update as much as possible. I apologize here, thank the book friends for their support until now]
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