Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 55

2021-02-03

Chapter 55 Guard of Honor

In the morning light, a beautiful three-masted ship appeared on the sea, On its main mast hangs the flag representing the Emperor of the Muluo Empire, and on the second-highest mast hangs the coat of arms of an aristocrat unknown to Winters.

With the same three masts, this boat is not comparable to a small boat like the Skua. The three-masted ship in front of him is a magnificent warship. The stern and bow buildings are three stories high. The towering ship building looks like two humps standing on the deck.

A small boat like the Skua is like a dwarf in front of a giant in front of such a large ship, and the opponent will be crushed to death if they move their fingers.

"It's coming, it's really making us wait," Andre whispered to Winters.

Winters yawned: "mysterious and secretive, and I don't know which great character it is."

As a temporary honor guard, before dawn, Winters and Ann Derek was at the High Level of the Navy Pier just outside of Seablue City, and was now sleepy to death.

Bard was lucky to lose because he was a little shorter. Winters and Andre, along with eighteen other apprentice officers, were unfortunately singled out, and are now holding long halberds and wearing armor as a guard of honor for the Army.

As the investigation turned inwards to the Army, Winters was at ease. Because all regular officers have a higher rank than him, a trainee officer is not qualified to question any regular officer.

While the military police are theoretically the tools the Army uses against its own people, Field's military police department is different.

The Military Police Department of the Army Headquarters is essentially only a guard, and the headquarters wall is the boundary of its jurisdiction. The "gendarmes" are normally only responsible for standing guard at a few gates, and have never arrested anyone.

So Winters has been on duty in the office recently, doing some chores of sending and receiving documents, arranging shifts for the gatekeepers, and drinking tea and chatting with scribe Moluc to pass the time when he has nothing to do. There is still a lot of time to deal with his personal affairs, such as ordering steel cones, helping Elizabeth make a scabbard, and helping Giovanni to get patterns.

At the same time, the two school officials were working hard outside to investigate the case.

Proficient in firearms, proficient with swift swords, chin wounds, and no alibi on the day of the assassination, not many army officers meet these conditions.

Most army officers only know how to use firearms. They are the people who command the musketeers, not the musketeers. And as Gnar said, many officers throw away the sword technique after leaving the academy because it is hardly used. For example, Warrant Officer Montagne, since he got on the boat home, he has never practiced sword technique again, and he can beat Major Moritz by eating his old hands.

A hundred years back, even kings and dukes must wear armor, mount warhorses and rush to the front line.

But with the change of military concept, the size of the army has become larger and larger, and the officer has become a technical occupation. The empires in the north obviously have ready-made officers like military nobles, and in recent years they have also imitated the Confederacy in setting up military academies.

Personal prowess is no longer a commander's main criterion, so only those who are serious about hobby sword technique and shooting will stick to practicing these things.

Major Moritz, who has been hiding for a while, can finally stop playing deaf, because Winters' description reminds him of a small group, the Duelists Club.

The Duelists Club is a small association within the Army. Its members are mainly Army officers who like the fighting skills of hot and cold weapons. They will meet and compete regularly. It is not a secret society, as long as interested army officers can participate.

Moritz thought it could start with the members of the Duelists Club, and rarely volunteered to take on the task of getting the list of Duelists Club members - because the Major himself was also a member of the Duelists Club.

But after only two days of free time, he came to work again. The headquarters selected the twenty tallest among the trainee officers this year. Winters was told that he had been honorably selected for this year's officer honor guard of the Veneta Army.

Only then did Winters know that every year, twenty of the Army's trainee officers will be selected as the so-called "Officer's Honor Guard". To put it simply, it is to dress dignifiedly, and then be a puppet in various important occasions of the army.

Because any major event Xiaoqing will be called to be a human flesh statue, so no official officer likes to do this job. In the end, only candidates can be selected from the trainee officers, and they will be changed every year.

Andre and Winters were both unlucky to be selected, so they were standing on the pier early in the morning, dew on their armor, and they didn't know who they were coming to greet.

When passing the artillery fort on the outer circle of the Navy Pier, the artillery deck of the incoming ship and the gun doors on the poop opened one by one, and the dark artillery stuck its head out.

From Winters and Andre's point of view, the battleship's hull spewed one after another blue smoke, followed by a roar of thunder over the sea.

The warship is firing its cannons.

The reloading of the artillery took time, and the thirty-two-pounder short-barreled gun, which was used to destroy enemy ships at close range, even required the sailor to hoist out of the hull to reload. When a warship enters the port of another country, it can show that there is no hostility on its own side without loading shells and emptying its barrels. It has evolved into this special etiquette over time.

The naval artillery fort also fired back.

It wasn't until closer that Winters discovered that the battleship's hull was lavishly decorated with oil paints, wood carvings and gold cladding.

The extravagant decoration has no effect in actual combat, it is purely to show the style and majesty of the Imperial Family, and Winters can't help but despise this flashy imperial style from the bottom of his heart.

Under the guidance of the pilot boat, this gorgeous and mighty battleship slowly stowed away its sails and landed lightly on the navy's pier.

"The First Artillery Group! Fire!"

With an order, the army's artillery was fired.

Vinetta's Army and Navy neither giving way to the other For more than 20 years, from military budgets to chairs in thirteen-member committees to trivial matters, fight for everything that can be fought some time.

The gun salute just now was a tribute from the Navy. With the Army present, of course, the Navy cannot represent Veneta alone. Therefore, the army also specially pushed over a dozen cannons for the salute.

The people on the boat haven't come down yet, and the two silhouettes that are circling in the sky are gradually getting bigger. The two silhouettes originally looked like they were the size of seagulls, but they were actually flying too high. When they got really close to the ground, everyone on the dock realized it was two terrifying giant beasts.

These two flying birds are like eagles, but ordinary eagles are not so big. The wingspan of these two giant eagles is wider than that of the battleship, and they fly like two dark clouds in the air. Two huge monsters swooped down, and the gunners were frightened and fled in all directions, even if the officers shouted, they couldn't come back.

Two giant eagles landed on the pier gracefully, spreading their wings like a demonstration, screeching towards all around, scanning all around with indifferent yellow eyes. Winters visually estimated that the wingspan of the two giant eagles was at least ten meters long. They stood taller than a floor and stood on the dock as if they were two high walls.

The Winters certainly don't run away like the gunners, the officers' honor guards are completely motionless, because they know what it is. But if he hadn't seen these two giant eagles with his own eyes, Winters wouldn't have believed that such creatures really existed in the world.

"[Blurred swear words]" Winters exclaimed in a low voice: "The pseudo-emperor actually has such a giant eagle, I thought it was a bragging in the history of war."

Andrei didn't answer, his legs were shaking, and his mouth made an uncontrollable clack of teeth.

This can't blame Andre, the fear brought by this giant beast is too strong, as if the legendary monster tore a hole in the book and drilled it out. Andrei was brave enough not to run away with the gunner.

"Afraid of what?" Winters stabbed Andre secretly: "As long as it's a living creature, it must be afraid of cannons. Isn't it a big turkey? A fake emperor can do this kind of flashy stuff. scare people."

"I'm not afraid." Andre replied angrily, but his body language didn't say that.

Two men of low stature came down from the eagle's back, causing a burst of exclamations among the soldiers. The two giant eagle riders wore no armor, just a soft black leather jacket.

One of them stood in front of the guard of honor of the army officers and the officers of the navy, and said loudly: "Supreme's plenipotentiary of Emperor Muluo, minister of the cabinet seal, Narzia count, salute everyone!"

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This man is not tall, but his voice is surprisingly loud, and the entire Navy Pier can hear it clearly.

"Isn't this just trying to give the Veneta people a disgrace? Who do you want to scare?" Andrei said dissatisfied after seeing it clearly.

Winters also coldly snorted: "These mentally handicapped consanguineous people like to engage in such useless things."

The two came to the Navy Pier before dawn to stand by, Now that I have been played like this, I am very upset. Coupled with standing in the back of the queue, they chatted more and more recklessly. A group of soldiers in black half-armor with straight swords on their waists disembarked first, and they stood in a line along the entire High Level of the trestle, extending all the way to the dry bank.

"Is this the loyal heir army of the oathbreakers?" Winters looked at the black armored soldiers: "It's not so much bragging, right? It seems that the oathbreakers still attach great importance to being able to dispatch the loyal heir army to protect them. This is the Minister of the Seal."

The Zhongsi Army is an army established after the current Muluo Emperor Henry III ascended the throne. As the name suggests, this army recruited soldiers from fallen soldiers and orphans of Imperial Family officials who died in the line of duty, and was mainly responsible for guarding the Imperial Palace and protecting Henry III himself. They are the only army that can bring weapons into the Imperial Palace, and they have won the trust of the oathbreakers and are known as the most elite troops in the Empire.

Andre mystifying said: "The oath-breaker himself broke his oath, so he was especially worried that others would betray him, so he made such a thing. Father died, and his son would continue to break his oath. The loyal heirs, in my opinion, should be called the extinct heirs.”

Those loyal heirs in black armor could not hear Andre’s words, but Winters’ mouth was a little bitter. Because he is also a "loyal army" in essence, belonging to Veneta's loyal army.

Many cadets at the Army Officers Academy, like Winters, are the heirs of fallen officers. As Andre said: Lao Tzu died, and the son continued to work hard.

Andre realized his gaffe, and slapped himself through the helmet fiercely: "My mouth...X...really...don't mind..."

"What's the matter...it's okay." Winters also knew that Andre was just remarking unintentionally, but in the end he smiled and comforted Andre.

The mission of the honor guard is very simple, that is, standing with big eyes staring at small eyes on both sides of the road with the honor guard of naval officers. The great characters all sat on the carriage and left, and the honor guard was disbanded.

But Winters, who was about to return to Army Headquarters, was stopped by a stranger.

The late Neogene did exist a giant eagle, the Argentine giant eagle. However, considering the strength of the bones of birds, it should not be able to carry people. The giant eagle in the book is a fantasy version of the Argentine giant eagle, with stronger bones and a longer wingspan that can be ridden by lighter people.

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