Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 341 Quietly Entering the City

After listening to Chairman Rogge's explanation, Xia Houyan and several other southern lords suddenly realized.

Rock Creek City is an old-fashioned metropolis built in the era of "Doomsday War". Although the Rock Creek City Castle in the center of Rock Creek City has been repaired several times over hundreds of years, it still basically retains the original architectural structure and design. Program.

This also means that, compared with the architectural style that is prevalent in the empire today, which pays too much attention to flashy and false reality, the ancient Rock Creek Castle still retains the military-oriented architectural design of the ancient times.

This also means that, like those other ancient castles, the interior of Rock Creek Castle is designed with various secret passages!
——During the war, once the castle was under siege, these secret tunnels could be used to attack the enemy and retreat for the evacuation of the defenders, playing an incomparable tactical role.

More importantly, the secret passages in the castle are often regarded as secret by the city lord, and are only passed on from generation to generation within the family, which fundamentally eliminates the possibility of foreign enemies using the secret passages—of course, if If the family is in turmoil, then...

...ahem.

President Rogge’s suggestion is also very simple:
Didn't your coalition of nobles think of a way to get the Duke of Houston and his "black priest" out of Rock Creek Castle?

——With Leon Houston Jr., who is familiar with the tunnel structure of Rock Creek Castle, the problem is solved!

As long as you send a team of elites to sneak into the castle through the tunnels of Rock Creek Castle, you can capture the thief first, and capture the king first, and directly capture the Duke of Houston and the black priest inside this turtle shell, without having to fight against the strictly guarded castle. The defenders confronted each other head-on.

This suggestion was immediately unanimously approved by the southern lords:
The hastily formed coalition of nobles is not a red army. If such a large army enters the city, it will undoubtedly have a devastating impact on the daily life of the civilians in Rock Creek City—all the dirty things that happened in Peacock City are enough for them to take warning ;

And if only a small group of elites were sent to go undercover to arrest the Grand Duke, there would be no potential political problems.

As for the elites—they are all big brothers in the south, who doesn't have many elites?
Therefore, after the Duke of Frost Maple Ridge, the "President of Southern Military Affairs", nodded, several southern lords also agreed to immediately recruit strong men from their own subordinates to form a "Houston Duke Hunting Operation" walking in the shadows (and tunnels) Team", sneaked into Rock Creek Castle to perform the mission!
The long-standing problem of how to get the Duke of Houston out of the turtle shell has been solved, and President Rogge of the "New Boston" Chamber of Commerce has also successfully left a deep impression on the hearts of the southern lords.

Taking in Leon Houston, offering advice and suggestions for the coalition forces, and especially embracing the thigh of Frost Maple Ridge, the above-mentioned glorious deeds all demonstrate President Rogge's superior political sense and inferior human dignity, including Moby Dick Many southern nobles, including the Marquis, could not help but sigh:

How the hell have I never met such a useful dog before!

As for Lord Frost Maple Ridge himself, he is quite satisfied with Rogge's performance, and he offered Ya a vacant position as Director of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Frost Maple Ridge - if Frost Maple Ridge plans to fight a trade war with any territory in the future, It is estimated that this product will have to be dispatched.

After dismissing the joyous Rogge, Xia Houyan took a few southern nobles and turned to chat with the somewhat embarrassed Leon Houston.

These veterans in the political arena, of course, are not idle and have nothing to do with this little brat.

Before the Duke of Houston was put to death, the fate of Rock Creek City and even the entire Grand Duchy of Houston was still unknown—if the Duke of Houston was really convicted of treason, His Majesty the Emperor would imitate the attitude he almost treated Eagle's Rest at the beginning, and put the entire Houston family It's not a surprise that the title has been wiped clean;

However, if His Majesty the Emperor is lenient, then Leon Houston, the first heir to the Houston family, will undoubtedly become the new ruler of this giant southern city.

There is only one thing, the southern aristocrats are completely sure:
No matter who dominates the territory of the Grand Duchy of Houston in the future, I am afraid that it will be under the influence of the Frost Maple Ridge and the Igor family for a long time:

Now, no one would take the young-looking Lord Frost Maple Ridge as a fool—after defeating the orcs, he urged the coalition army to go north to attack the Duke of Houston. It was definitely not doing charity, but obviously wanting a share of the future in Rock Creek City.

So in any case, the southern nobles must first understand how Leon Houston is——

——If there is no accident, this kid is likely to become the puppet lord of Rock Creek City in the future, governing the Grand Duchy of Houston under the actual control of Frost Maple Ridge or other forces;

The drama of "killing the uncle and helping the nephew" is indeed classic enough to help suppress local dissent.

The result of the exchange with Leon Houston made the southern bigwigs both gratified and disappointed.

What is gratifying is that Leon Houston seems to have not inherited his uncle's cunning and cunning character at all (this may also explain why his family branch has declined)-Xia Houyan and several fellow lords agreed that Leon Houston is the most powerful man in the empire. The typical playboy with no ambitions, in other words, the perfect candidate for a puppet.

But to my disappointment, this guy is too ambitious!

In the process of communicating with a group of aristocrats, apart from worrying about his personal safety, Leon Houston's biggest concern is when he can go to the city to see his little prostitute lover!
And when Count Dimitri hinted secretly that Leon might be in charge of Rock Creek City in the future, the little bum was most concerned about whether he could legally marry prostitutes in the future—and how many he could marry!

——According to the laws of the empire, noble lords don’t actually have to abide by monogamy like ordinary people, but almost all imperial lords only marry one wife (and hook up countless lovers) because they believe in the Supreme Holy God, according to the canon of the Supreme Church of;

The lords of the southern border never expected that the Houston family has been passed down from generation to generation, but there is such a treasure who wants to marry a nest of prostitutes and go home!

But, Xia Houyan has a bit of a crush on Leon Houston, a bum:
First of all, the two of them are about the same age, and both have experienced a sensual and dandy life—if it wasn’t for the revelation of the death of the Igor family’s father, Vincent, and the transfer of the Igor family to the Wilderness of the Cracking Soul, we The Mr. Elliot Igor may still be ruining the seniors and female teachers in the Mage Academy City;
Secondly, Xia Houyan actually admired Leon Houston's fighting spirit against the feudal ethics of the empire, because for some ulterior reasons, sometimes he felt that marrying a man was not enough...

……

A few hours later, inside Rock Creek City, outside the castle.

It was early this morning that the Southern Allied forces approached the city;
In the meantime, after a lot of wrangling, planning, and Chairman Rogge's outing of the city to offer advice, the sun has already set and it is already dusk in Rock Creek City.

Under the mediation of the bald mayor of Rock Creek City, the town of Rock Creek City has declared a peaceful liberation. The Igor pioneer army and Count Dimitri's Trout Fort troops have successively settled in the key nodes of Rock Creek City Town, controlling lived in this southern town;

During the period, although some diehards loyal to the Duke of Houston tried to resist, they were eventually imposed a ruthless dictatorship by the iron fist of the revolution without any suspense.

As a result, in the entire Rock Creek City, there is only the most central Rock Creek Castle left, which is a tough bone.

Just now, the Southern Allied Forces symbolically dispatched a few local hooligans with loud voices to shout at the closed iron gate of Rock Creek Castle to persuade them to surrender, but the response they got was only sharp crossbow arrows and cold silence.

So Xia Houyan made a decisive decision to implement "Operation Market Garden", dispatching an elite special warfare team to sneak into the Rock Creek Castle through the tunnel, and arrest the Duke of Houston and the black priest!

At this moment, the northeast side of the castle of Rock Creek City has been cleared by the Igor pioneer army to clear out a military martial law area. The towering Castle of Rock Creek City blocks the golden sunset. On the stone brick streets in this area, cast up long silhouette.

Pavol Eldridge once again wore the iconic CQB heavy armor, holding a large shield in his left hand and a dark dagger in his right hand. He walked in front of the crowd without bending his knees, and made a burst of clanking metal Crashing sound.

Eldridge, as a former fierce general in the Eastern Territory and a confidant of the Duke of Frost Maple Ridge, did his part to serve as the captain of this special warfare arrest team code-named "Rainbow Six".

In front of him, stood a row of more than a dozen team members in various costumes, all of whom were experts from the southern territories—including the Tide Caller from the Giant Whale City, and the Flame Marksman from Longshan County, There are men in iron armor and mages with white beards.

With such an elite team, let alone sneaking into the castle to capture the Duke of Houston, it is not impossible to assassinate the king.

Captain Eldridge saluted the team members, briefly introduced the tasks that everyone was already familiar with, and then carried the cloth bag and began to distribute the necessary equipment for this operation one by one.

——In this regard, the team members are actually a little confused:

Because whether they are mages, warriors, or shooters, these southern warriors already have their own handy possessions, and there is no need for Shuangfengling to distribute any extra outfits;

But when the "action equipment" was actually in hand, they were dumbfounded:

Because the "operational equipment" issued by Eldridge is neither a hand crossbow, nor a staff and long sword, but the latest issue of "What does the lord eat today" for each person, and a hand-sized, bright red "Selected Quotes of Prince Eliot Igor"...

"These are theoretical weapons! Rune water!" Eldridge announced loudly, holding his pocket, "After drinking it, shout 'Lord Duke of Frost Maple Ridge bless' three times, ah, invulnerable!"

(End of this chapter)