Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 94

2022-01-16

Chapter 94 The Secret Society
After realizing that the defenders of Tacheng were racing against time to consolidate the fortifications, he personally The two Corps Heads who approached for reconnaissance immediately returned to Red Sulphur Port.

It was night when the two Corps Heads rode back to Red Sulphur Harbor. Not caring about the battle for command, Leighton, who returned to the Red Sulphur Port, immediately ordered San Marco Legion to hand over the city defense to the friendly army, and then led his headquarters to Tacheng lightly overnight.

The third "Great Veneta" Legion will take a rest in the Red Sulphur Port for a day, and then join the San Marco Legion with two Legion's baggage.

The brazier and torch lit up the central square of the Red Sulphur Port, with Antonio and Layton on horseback watching the emergency assembly of San Marco Legion distributing twine.

Many people in this day and age suffer from night blindness, even when the moon is bright at night. Therefore, qualified officers will try to avoid night operations as much as possible, but at this time the situation is urgent, and the Veneta people can't manage so much.

One end of the hemp rope is tied around the waist of the soldier in front and the other end is tied to the hand of the soldier in the back. Only in this way can no one be left behind, lost or escaped during the march. This is a clumsy approach, but an effective one.

When ready, the St. Mark's Legion set off from Red Sulphur Port in four columns.

Antonio with facial expression grave raised his hand and gave Layton a military salute. Layton, who also had facial expression grave, did not return the salute, but just waved his hand, then left with a whip, and came to see him off Antonio didn't say a word.

Civilians of Red Sulphur Harbor hid in their houses, peeping from cracks in doors and windows to watch the movements of Veneta's army. A few days ago, the vicious Veneta soldiers went door-to-door to arrest people. They were still vivid in their minds. After seeing the Veneta soldiers just heading out of the city, the residents of Red Sulphur Harbor sighed in relief.

However, the city head changed the king's flag, and a Veneta army left, but a new Veneta army came. No one knows what will happen tomorrow, and the people of Hong Kong Red Sulphur fall asleep in this anxiety.

Winters didn't rest, he was waiting anxiously in a room at Legion 3.

The door was pushed open and Antonio walked in. Winters stood up to salute, but Antonio pressed his arm, patted his shoulder, and said nothing.

What happens when a man sees his son drowning? Whether he can swim or not, he will jump into the water to save people.

What happens when a commander faces a "pit viper stinger" situation? Even if he has a guilty conscience, he must "break a strong man's wrist".

But when the two identities overlap, things get complicated.

On the day the Third Legion was ambushed, Antonio abandoned Winters and his Hundred Men Squad. Winters didn't know what was going on inside Antonio at the time, he knew it must be bad.

This is something that can't be helped. Fighting always kills people. He doesn't resent his adoptive father for this. After being tempered as a true officer on Red Illusion Island, even if there was a grudge in his heart, he has already let go.

But he didn't know what to say to Antonio either, so he didn't say anything and Antonio didn't say anything. Since it is difficult for men to communicate frankly about feelings, most of the time they simply do not communicate.

And there are more important things at the moment.

"I've found the person the Secretary of State of the Province asked you to look for." Winters blunt said what he thought needed to be known to Antonio as soon as possible.

"en?" Obviously Antonio didn't react and was stunned.

"A corpse, to be exact." Winters bit his lower lip.

"Lionel..." Antonio tried to recall: "...the person he asked me to find before he left? It seems to be called..."

"The horse La, Mara, the special envoy of the Inter-Provincial Secretary of State." Winters reminded: "When Secretary of State Lionel leaves, please send Mr. Mara's ashes."

"Older , memory is really bad." Antonio smiled wryly and asked inexplicably: "Did you find that person on Red Iwo Island? Did he die on Red Iwo Island?"

Winters took With a deep breath, he said in a low voice, "No, not on Red Sulphur Island... in Hailan City, in the morgue of the garrison headquarters - the person who was assassinated in the pier was the special envoy of the Secretary of State of the United Provinces. "

Antonio was confused at first, then held breath cold air, he asked Winters solemnly: "Are you sure?"

"Sure, assassin's accomplices personally I admit it."

"Who is it?"

Winters gritted his teeth and spat out a name: "...It's Lieutenant Colonel Contaire."

"Contaire?" Antonio's color changed suddenly: "He is so bold! Where is the other person?"

"Lying in the medical center, a person is unconscious, and he may not be able to live. Come down. On the day of the attack on the port, Lieutenant Colonel Contell was shot in the stomach and his intestines were pierced. I found a doctor on the island to take out the lead bullet for him, sewed up the intestines, and cleaned the abdominal cavity. He was conscious. I don't think he's lying and there's no need to lie about it."

Hearing that Contaire's life and death was still unknown, Antonio's mood calmed down a little. , he sighed and asked: "Why did Contell assassinate the special envoy of the Secretary of State of the Union Province?"

"It's not Lieutenant Colonel Contell, but the group of Lieutenant Colonel Contell. the hands of others." Winters organized the language and said, "As they say—because Veneta needs the Tanilla Islands."

Then, Winters without omission and in detail He told Antonio all the information he knew.

The special envoy of the State Secretary of the United Provinces Mara did not secretly arrive in Hailan City for no reason. He carried an agreement, an agreement on the Tanilla Islands.

Veneta's thirst for the Tanilla Islands is well known.

Seven years ago, the Fremen began a brutal tug-of-war with their eastern neighbor. business tax.

As a result, since De Bella took office, the tax revenue of Veneta has gone from bad to worse, and the immediate prosperity has declined. The merchants who made their fortunes on the Eastern route went bankrupt one by one.

In the internal trade circle of the Cenas Gulf, the status of Veneta's core transfer station is also facing a strong challenge - the challenge from the Tanilla Islands.

The Tanilla Islands are no longer the wild islands of thirty years ago. The archipelago has prospered rapidly as a neutral port in the cracks of various Great Influences and accumulated a lot of wealth.

The tax rate is going to be raised because there is less tax. When the tax rate was raised, businessmen fled to the lower-tax Tanilla Islands. There are fewer businessmen, and the tax base is reduced. In order to maintain the original tax, the tax rate must be raised again.

As a result, a vicious circle is entered.

"Veneta needs the archipelago" is the exact words of Colonel Comter. Not because of some bullshit pirates, the pirates of the senas have been rampant for several decades, but only in recent years have been emphasized again and again, all because veneta needs the archipelago.

Whether it is to eliminate competitors, or for new raw material origins and commodity dumping places, more importantly, for new ports - ocean ports.

The ports along the Gulf of Cenas are too small and too shallow. The Tanilla Islands are full of deep-water harbors, and to the east of the archipelago is the Ocean of Storms.

Getting Tanilla means not only getting new land, but also getting a new possibility, a new route, a new route across the Ocean of Storms to the Spice Islands.

The Freeman Sultan imposed a heavy tax on the merchant ship, which hurt trade on the one hand, but also made the price of goods from the East skyrocket, making goods from the East more profitable—provided they could Bypass the control of the Fremen.

And the Tanilla Islands means this possibility. After several decades of surveying and mapping, Veneta's navigators have realized that if the earth is a sphere, then the Tanilla Islands can draw a line. Straight to the Spice Islands.

To do all this, you need to pass through the stormy ocean with rough waves and high winds, and through the stormy ocean that has swallowed the lives of countless explorers.

And to pass through the ocean of storms, you need ships that are strong enough and seaworthy enough, dry docks large enough, and ocean-going ports.

It is for a thousand and one reasons that more and more Veneta people realize the great value and potential of the Taniria Islands, especially within the Veneta military.

young faction Veneta soldiers have come to a consensus in heated debates over the country's future: Veneta must seize the archipelago. To further this purpose, at least one secret society was formed within the Veneta army.

The dying Contell refused to reveal more secrets of the group to Winters, but only tried to make Winters accept his ideas and make Winters a part of the secret group.

And Winters got more information about the group in the process.

But it wasn't just the Veneta who saw the potential and strategic value of Taniria, the Union Provinces were also aware of it. The Republic of the United Provinces started earlier and laid out the islands earlier. Before the Veneta began to emphasize that the islands were sold by pirates, the United Provinces had already spared no effort to infiltrate the Tanilla Islands, intending to turn the islands into the first island of the United Provinces. Eighteen provinces.

Even the political structure of the Federal Republic allows her to offer more favorable conditions than the Republic of Veneta. It is better to be the eighteenth province of the union than to be another county of Veneta.

It is for this reason that Veneta has become more and more radical, and every time Archon De Bella speaks to the parliament, he must mention the Taniria Islands, and his words are more intense each time.

But Lionel, the Union Secretary of State, raised a new possibility, one that didn't have to spark conflict within the Senas coalition.

His envoy came to Veneta in secret to make a deal, a deal that Debella and Lionel had secretly discussed for a long time: to turn Taniria into Cenas The overseas territories of the Union, maintaining their semi-independent status, are jointly governed by the Veneta and the United Provinces.

This is destined to be an agreement that will not be satisfied by either side, and it is also the reason why the special envoy of the Union Provincial Secretary of State was assassinated.

In all sincerity, Winters does not object to the "everything for Veneta's interests" in Contell's mouth. Acquiring Taneria would be a huge benefit for Veneta, and Winters agrees.

However, since the political reconciliation went against their expectations, Contell's associates openly assassinated the special envoy of the State Secretary of the Union Province, and everything they said could no longer be trusted by Winters.

In Winters' view, these people say "everything is for Veneta's interests", but the actual actions are only for their own political ambitions.

The military is the weapon of the nation, and the academy has always instilled this in its students. However, when the weapon has a mind of its own and even tries to influence the actions of the person holding the weapon, it is essentially a mutiny.

The soldiers who were drowned in the sea, those who were nailed to the stakes, those who were scorched in the fortresses, all died of the ambitions of the Contells.

"That's all I know. Contaire's secret society should be covered by the Duelist Club. These people are already very dangerous. They have tasted the sweetness of violent manipulation of politics. What will I do in the future? I can't imagine it." Winters concluded: "But according to Contaire, they didn't blow up the pier. Another group of people blew up the pier... I don't know if it's true or not."

He Originally, these contents were left in the letter, but since he survived, there is no need to believe it. He was eager to find Antonio to explain all this, just to remind Antonio that there was already a secret political group in the Veneta Army.

No one knows which officer belongs to this secret society, and there are even other officers like Contaire within the Third Legion. And most dangerously, this political group is becoming increasingly violent and aggressive, using killing methods to root out those who stand in their way.

Antonio remained silent.

He thought about it for a while before he said: "...Secret associations, I have heard a little about them. There are many secret associations in the army, but this is the first one who dares to kill people..."

"If you want to check them, I can sneak in. Contaire is trying to recruit me. If he survives, I will use him as a stepping stone. If he dies, it will be easier."

"No, you don't need to look into it, it's too dangerous for you to look into it. You need to be honest with this kind of insidious matter, but now is the wrong time. We've gone to war with Taniria. , it is the time to employ people. If this matter is brought out now, the Military Commission will only deal with it without any pain. If you insist on punishing the public, it will damage the army's battle strength." Antonio frowned said: "You don't need to worry about this, I will go to Admiral Zio and deal with it from top to bottom."

Winters heard Antonio's subtext and said unwillingly: "You mean, Contaire and the others have already tied themselves and Vineta together, can't they handle it?"

"There is no turning back when the bow is drawn, the battle has already started, and what is the most important thing now? End the war. They will be dealt with, but the timing is not right. We need to find a proper way, a way that does not damage the army's battle strength." Antonio frowned into a knot: "Leave this to me, you Don't get involved too deeply."

"You also have to be careful of these people, they even dare to kill the special envoy of the State Secretary of the Union Province, the blood is already on the knife, it will only get more crazy. ... start with your own people." Although he was not reconciled, since Antonio said that he would take over, then this may be the best solution for now.

Suddenly, Winters remembered something and said hesitantly: "There's something else, maybe even bigger than Contaire's..."

"en? What? "Antonio rubbed the temple and asked wearily.

"I...I think I killed a court mage."

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