Chapter 3 / The Meat Grinder Under the Command Knife
"What?! The son of the Rose Amfield family was beaten at Citibank?! And it was our people who did it?!"
Archibald, Earl of Dianthus, almost spit out the tea in his mouth. He lowered his voice: "What's going on with that kid?! He was arrested by the sheriff just two days after he came here. Now he finally came out, why did he get caught by us again?"
One of our own was beaten?!"
The envoy looked innocent: "Sir, you asked us to go to the Citibank headquarters to incite the little nobles gathered there, so our people went in to observe for a while, and it happened that the son of the Ross Amfield family came to visit Citibank.
, as soon as they came in, they stabbed the sore feet of those little nobles. Because Sir, you told Sir Eret and his friends not to disclose their identities, so Heller and the others, who didn't know the identity of Sir Eret at all, rushed up and beat Sir Eret into pig heads.
, our spies can’t stop us..."
"..." Archibald rubbed his forehead, he was ready to bear the wrath of the prince's palace, "Then where are Sir Eret and the others now?"
"This..." The messenger hesitated.
"Say!" Archibald patted the back of the chair, "There's nothing you dare to say!"
The messenger spoke quickly: "Now they are carrying Sir Eret and are rushing towards the Duke's Palace..."
Upon hearing this, Archibald coughed violently and almost lost his breath. At this moment, noisy shouts came from outside the hall of the Duke's Palace. Sitting opposite Archibald
Marquis June of Hailiu stood up from his chair. He frowned and looked at the maid in the center of the hall——
"Miss Iofetta, what is going on outside? Where is Sir Ivan Ian? I need him to give us, the nobles of South Ridge, an explanation."
The subject of Marquis Hailiu's question was a girl standing in the middle of the hall with her hands folded. Her beautiful long hair, which was so white and flawless that all the aristocratic girls in the imperial capital couldn't help but envy them, fell from her shoulders and fell to her
The slender waist of that plain white dress.
The girl has an angelic face and a slender body comparable to the devil, but her face and expression are like those of an ice elf, frozen and silent, without friendship.
Hearing Marquis June's words, the girl turned her head and looked at him coldly: "Marquis Hailiu, Master Ian is infected with Nanling Fever and cannot see anyone."
"I've been listening to this rhetoric for six months!" Duke Hailiu suddenly became furious, "Is it possible that Yi Wenyan can still have a high fever for six months?! If he lies again, he has to find a new point.
What’s the reason!?”
After hearing the girl's words, the dozen or so noble people in the hall, who were at least Viscount Corolla and above, became excited. They were all sitting on the chairs in the hall in twos and threes, and now they all stood up.
Seeing their actions, the girl looked cold, but she seemed to have already received the order. She raised her right hand——
Following her movements, from the shadows in the corner of the hall, more than ten girls wearing maid uniforms, but with iron masks on their faces, breastplates on the clothes, and steel skirts around their waists shone like silver mirrors.
Walked out slowly.
More than a dozen pairs of steel boots made a heavy sound on the floor tiles, and their figures were revealed little by little from the shadows. The steel shields held by the armored maids in their left hands were as high as half of them, and the long swords held in their right hands were cold.
Sparkling, shining with the light of magic.
Facing the nobles with cold faces in the hall, who were standing back-to-back with their attendants in a circle with bare hands, the white-haired girl said in a cold tone: "Your Excellencies, I don't want to remind you again that this is the Duke's Palace. If you think that the Duke
If you can do whatever you want without his nearest elected officials, please don’t blame us maids for being rude..."
As the highest-ranking noble among the nobles present, the Marquis of June was so angry that his face turned redder than a pig's liver when he heard the white-haired maid's words. He wanted to roar, he wanted to curse. If he had a sword in his hand, he would have rushed forward to recall those years.
, but he didn't, so he could only gnash his teeth and squeeze out the words: "Please help me convey my greetings to Sir Ian, and remind him for me -"
"Please don't bully others too much!"
At this moment, someone suddenly knocked on the door of the Duke's Palace. Even inside the Duke's Palace, faint shouts and curses could be heard from outside the high wall.
Marquis June was stunned for a moment, but he soon realized the intention of the visitor from the scolding words. He couldn't help but laugh. He didn't know why things happened so coincidentally, but he was already prepared.
, smiled and watched how the dead kid who had offended the public was pulled out of the Duke's Mansion.
When he thought of this, he couldn't help showing his arrogant smile again, and the grievances he had suffered from that dead kid in the past eight years seemed to be wiped away in an instant——
He raised his chin and looked at the white-haired girl: "This time, Sir Evan Ian still doesn't plan to come out? If this continues, the door of the Duke's Palace will soon be smashed by the poor and excited people outside.
.”
The white-haired girl gave Marquis June a cold look. For some reason, Marquis June only felt a chill running down his spine——
"""boom!"""
Then, rows of gunshots rang out.
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The maid rescue team with red cross sleeves on their arms put the aristocratic gentleman who was on the ground, either a knight or a baron, clutching his head and moaning, onto a stretcher, and carried him to a clinic near the Duke's Palace.
In the few years since Sir Ivan Ian returned, private clinics near the Duke's Palace have sprouted up like straw, specializing in treating bruises. There are also a dozen doctors with really good skills who have been invited to attend military night schools.
It is a sight to teach the soldiers of the New Model Army on battlefield first aid.
Standing in the study room on the top floor of the Duke's Palace, Yi Wenyan looked at the messy scene of "bodies" lying on the ground in front of the Duke's Palace, and thought thoughtfully: "Have all your Excellencies settled properly?"
"Yes, Master Ian." The white-haired girl who was in the hall before was now standing behind Yi Wen. She turned over the report in her hand, "Except for the ninety-four sirs who were fainted by the coma gas.
In addition, twenty-three of you were injured by rubber bullets, and thirteen more were suppressed by the Maid Swordsmen in the final hand-to-hand combat. Two of them were seriously injured and may need treatment from priests before they can recover.
"
"Ha..." Yi Wenyan sighed and left from the window. He walked to the desk full of documents and picked up a report placed on it: "The young master of Ross Amfield's family"
What about? And his little maid who disguised herself as a man, a close disciple of Sword Master Maxwell? How are they?"
"They have all been rescued." The girl reported to Ivan Ian, "Sir Eret was slightly injured, Miss Franiel was a little frightened, and there were three high-level warriors among the people who rushed into the Duke's Mansion.
With a Fallen Martial Saint of the first level of truth, they were probably the ones who knocked Miss Frank unconscious."
Having said this, the girl couldn't help but raise her head and look at Su Zuo: "But I don't understand, Master Ian, why did you specifically order us to rescue the two of them? Since the purpose of their trip has been confirmed, then take advantage of the situation to kill them.
Wouldn't it be better to get rid of the two of them and put the blame on Earl Archibald?"
The girl's tone was calm, but there was murderous intention in her words. Yi Wenyan had no doubt that as long as he had given an order, the girl would have been able to kill the two of them without anyone noticing in the previous chaotic battle that was like a child's play.
Killing in the crowd.
Yi Wenyan shook his head with a wry smile. Now he has grown into a teenager. He is wearing a shirt and breeches that were popular in the Victorian period in his previous life. In accordance with the fashion of imperial nobles, both men and women, to have long hair, he tied a low ponytail behind his head.
His height has also exceeded the average, reaching 1.8 meters, a height that was once out of reach for him in his previous life.
After sighing, Ivan looked at the girl: "Iofita, do you think Prince Rose Amphire would be very happy if he learned that his only son died in White Rose City, especially in front of the Duke's Palace?
We know the reason why he sent his son to Nanling, so do you think when he got this bad news, who was the murderer he immediately thought of?"
"..." Upon hearing Yiwen Ian's question, the girl named Iofita did not answer, but remained silent.
Yi Wenyan paused, and then continued: "Yes, your Excellency the Prince will hate me immediately without waiting for more accurate information - or in other words, if I were Archibald,
Then as soon as I learned that my men accidentally injured Sir Eret, I would immediately order the spies to kill the two people in front of the Duke's Palace. At that time, in the heart of the prince, he would bear the responsibility of a poorly protected person.
, and since it is such a black deal, the prince can't do anything to him. On the contrary, on my side, whether I killed him or not, I have to face the questioning and punishment of the Emperor of Aenolia."
"What's more, compared to Nanling, which is spread all over our eyes, the public opinion around the prince who is far away in the imperial capital is beyond the reach of the current Duke's palace's intelligence control capabilities. As long as there is someone in the prince's ear, even if Sir Eret is not
I killed him, and the prince will really regard me as the murderer."
Putting down the documents in his hands, Yi Wenyan leaned on the table, took a sip of coffee, and in the first few years he was not used to drinking this kind of coffee with a mellow taste, but now he can no longer drink it.
I can't bear the sourness in bad coffee.
Looking at the girl who was lost in thought, Ivan stirred the cup with a spoon: "Also, Iofita, didn't you ask me earlier why you suggested to my father, Duke Feldnan, to delay the attack on New Zealand?"
What's the progress of Longge City? We know clearly that as long as he doesn't come back, these Nanling nobles will not stop for a moment."
"Yes, Master Ian, I can't figure it out." Hearing Yiwen Ian's words, Iofita shook her head with a cold face, "If the Duke hadn't slowed down the attack speed, with the New Model Army's
Strength, as early as three months ago, they had already invaded New Dragon Song City. In this case, the 'New Moon' would not be established, Sir Eret Rose Anfield would not come, and the church's canon executive would not
You won’t be moved by the wind——”
"In this case, nothing will change." Yi Wenyan sighed, and he didn't understand these truths.
He turned to look at the girl's lake-green eyes. Compared with the girl nine years ago, they were so similar, but they were still fundamentally different.
Yi Wenyan couldn't explain his mood, he just put down the silver cup in his hand.
"First of all." Yi Wenyan raised his first finger to the girl: "Eiffel, listen to me tell a story."
"Once upon a time, in a far away place, there was a country built between high mountains and dense forests. This country's national strength was not strong, but its people's character was very tenacious. I will call it 'Monkey Country' for short hereafter. For some reason
, there is another white empire that wants to attack this monkey country, this country is called the 'Eagle Kingdom'. The Eagle Kingdom has a strong fighting capacity, but the soldiers have little interest in fighting. Each of them always wants to finish the war and go home quickly.
So I tried my best to penetrate into the depths of the Monkey Kingdom, hoping to conquer the entire Monkey Kingdom quickly, and then go home to celebrate the New Year."
Having said this, Yi Wenyan paused: "The gap in their strength is as big as the gap between the New Model Army and the Longge Restoration Army - one side occupies absolute weapons and tactical advantages, and the other side occupies the absolute advantage in weapons and tactics.
With the absolute numerical advantage, what do you think is the result? Iofeta."
"According to my understanding, the Eagle Nation with the strength of the New Model Army will definitely defeat the Monkey Nation." Iofita replied simply, "But from what you think, Master Ian, it is the Eagle Nation that will fail?
"
"The Eagle Kingdom won, and it was a lightning-fast victory, and it was hailed as a miracle in the history of tactics." Yi Wen smiled and did not answer directly, "All tactical objectives were achieved in just three months.
All were achieved, the army of the Monkey Kingdom was destroyed, the capital was occupied, and the soldiers of the Eagle Kingdom walked in the streets of the Monkey Kingdom. Patrols, military officers and cannons lined up in long lines all over the streets. However, three years later, the Eagle Kingdom's
The emperor declared the war failed, and all the troops of the Eagle Kingdom were withdrawn from the country."
"..." Regarding Yi Wenyan's story, the white-haired girl just listened quietly, and occasionally a trace of doubt would slip through her deep lake-green eyes.
"The Eagle Kingdom's army invaded too deeply and too quickly." Yi Wenyan sighed, "They only accomplished their military strategic goals and destroyed the established army and government, but they did not completely annihilate the Monkey Kingdom.
It has the strength, let alone the will to resist the people of the Monkey Country."
"In the streets and alleys of the Monkey Kingdom, in the mountains and dense forests, and in the streets and tunnels, as long as the Eagle Kingdom's troops appear, the Monkey Kingdom's attackers will attack them again and again. Even if they kill 10 people, they can only kill 10 people.
A soldier from the Eagle Kingdom dies, but as long as a soldier from the Eagle Kingdom dies, the attackers from the Monkey Kingdom will cheer and feel that they have won a victory."
"Who are those attackers? Most of them are ordinary people, civilians, ranging from children to women, armed by the resistance organization. As long as they have a string-type fireball scroll in their hands, then they are completely
It can kill more than a dozen high-quality soldiers of the Eagle Kingdom, because these attackers are in every corner of the Monkey Kingdom at all times, so unless it is a brutal and inhumane massacre, there is no way to eradicate the threat of such attacks."
Looking at Eiffel, Yi Wenyan smiled faintly: "A nation like the Nanling people who have resisted the empire for so many years can definitely be compared with the 'Monkey Kingdom' in terms of their determination to resist the war.
Because of this, there was the Twenty-One Years War and the Seven Towns Rebellion."
Yi Wenyan raised his palm and looked at his thin and pale right hand, always feeling that there was strong blood flowing down on it——
"Instead of waiting for them to rebel and then carrying out massacres and purges in the name of inhumanity, it is better to learn from the practices of another red empire, the 'Rabbit Kingdom', and fight for ten years in a battle that can obviously end in one year, consuming the enemy's effective strength.
Destroying the enemy's will to fight, slowly squeezing out every ounce of war potential and fighting will of the Nanling resisters, until finally ensuring that all the Longge royal family's troops, reserves, and combat personnel were wiped out on the battlefield——
"
Yi Wenyan clenched his fingers: "This kind of occupation is stable and long-term for the empire."
He has already realized that once he succeeds, he will destroy all the bones, whether it is his own or the enemy's, just as he once said to a certain police officer nine years ago -
This is war!
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