Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 421 Chapter [-] Military Exercise True Sight

While the leader of the Glorious Federation was thinking about the future, in the Imperial Army camp west of the canyon, Xiahou officials were eating today's breakfast restlessly, listening to the shouting of the Imperial Army soldiers outside the tent.

In the past few days since he came to the front line of the Burning Crystal Canyon, Xia Houyan didn't see much of the magic weapons hidden in the regular army of the empire, but he was deeply impressed by the shouts of these soldiers in the camp:
The drill time of the regular army of the empire starts at seven o'clock in the morning and lasts until six o'clock in the afternoon;

Therefore, every day, there would be the sound of shouts echoing over the imperial army camp, which lasted for a full eleven hours, until the sun was about to set, and then the flags and drums died down.

——Different from the imperial establishments such as the Central Army and the Eastern Army, Frost Maple Ridge hired Karen Leperg as the head of the Pioneering Army when it made a fortune, so it also misappropriated the training mode of the Demon Army. Even Mountbatten has not changed since he took over the staff:
Like the demon army, the Igor pioneer army should pay more attention to subjects with strong practical significance such as individual combat, physical training, shooting and shooting, and tactical coordination during training. Not too keen.

This also led to the Xiahou officials who live next to the Imperial Army's camp with their own soldiers under the fence. They are quite uncomfortable with the environment here. Every day, they are stunned by the loud shouts outside the tent, which makes their eardrums ache. .

In the early morning of this day, he also used a knife and fork to dismember the fried egg on the dinner plate amidst the deafening shouts of the Imperial Army.

Alice Comstock looked at the lord with a distressed expression, stood behind him, and gently massaged his temples with her hands.

Although Alice is called "Captain of the Frost Maple Ridge Guard", since the lord always gathers strong men around him, there are actually not many occasions where she is really needed to protect the lord's personal safety.

Therefore, in this lord's tent, what Alice usually undertakes is actually more of a maid's task...

—Of course Miss Alice Comstock enjoyed it herself.

"His grandma's..." Xia Houyan listened to the noise pollution outside the tent, and was so irritable that he looked like an office worker who just came home from overtime. He accidentally found a group of aunts dancing in the square in the community, "Full camp soldiers, shouting from the morning At night, and from night to morning, can you still shout to kill the federal orcs on the other side of the canyon?!"

"Just calm down and turn a deaf ear..." Master Laurie, who was eating at the side, rolled his eyes, thinking that young people nowadays are too pampered. Wasn't the scene hundreds of times more lively than this when I visited the brothel?
——In Phoenix Terrace, the land of broken souls, the leaders of the Igor family used to gather together to eat a big pot meal in the hall of Vincent Palace. Xia Houyan often ran over to have fun with the people when he was free;

Now that people are strangers in a foreign land, the senior leaders of Shuangfengling who went north still tried their best to preserve the glorious tradition of the territory. Every morning, they went to the lord's tent to have breakfast together, and held a morning meeting by the way.

"Yeah, you'd better adapt to the environment here." Sean Mountbatten, who was sitting on the side drinking vegetable soup, also persuaded the lord, "Among the staff of the Central Army, there are a few of my classmates who were in the military academy back then. , I asked them - said that the Marquis of Lane Grant specially ordered the soldiers to shout loudly during training, so as to show that the Imperial Army has sufficient manpower and high morale - it is also for the opposite side of the canyon The orcs watched."

"The Marquis Grant is such an idiot..." Upon hearing this name, Xia Houyan felt annoyed and muttered curses.

"To the idiot Marquis Grant!" Eldridge raised his soup bowl high, and touched the lord across the air.

——If you want to say who in the Igor family hates Marquis Lane Grant and his Central Army the most, it must be Pavol Eldridge, a veteran of the Eastern Army.

"Speaking of the Marquis Grant..." Sean Mountbatten finished his soup, wiped his mouth delicately with a handkerchief, and cast a questioning look at the boss, "...Lord Lord, he invited our Igor family Have you made up your mind about participating in the military exercise? Are we going to participate or not?"

"Participate! Why don't you participate?" Xia Houyan lowered his head and bit the mutton chop, and replied sullenly, "I have led troops all over the country and fought so many fights, how can I be afraid that the military exercise will fail?"

All the senior members of the family felt that the nature of these two things, military drills and fighting, seemed to be different...

...But no one will correct the lord's misconceptions.

"I don't know what projects will be included in the military exercise." Master Laurie picked his nostrils and said, "Speaking of which, I really want to see what skills those elf magic archers and elf mages in Yongsun City have."

"You must not see it." Xia Houyan shrugged, "Master Virgil confirmed with me that the purpose of the elf reinforcements from Eternal Sun City is to 'rescue the noble elf hostages', not to help the imperial army Fist... This group of elves with lofty eyes have made it clear that they will not participate in military exercises and play monkey games for the imperial people-now, they have sent a letter to the federal orcs on the other side of the canyon, and they are going to use negotiation means to rescue the kidnapped Miss Wendy!"

"These elves in Eternal Sun City have already come to the front line, but they still try to stay out of the war..." Mountbatten sighed and shook his head at the stupidity of the elves.

"I'd like to see what our general Virgil will do when the federal orcs don't know anything about the so-called 'hostages'... It can only be said that his brain is really brainless for a long time. It will rust." Xia Houyan smacked his lips, raised his fork, and pointed at the senior family members present with warning, "The same goes for all of us, this time the opportunity to go north is rare, we must take a good look at the empire and the federation. Let’s see how the main regular army fights, and also look at what the real continental war is all about—don’t be complacent about our Shuangfengling’s own way!”

All the young horses nodded in agreement.

However, everyone obviously lacks sympathy for General Virgil's misfortune: in fact, normal people understand that in this kind of race war where life and death are at stake and there is no room for maneuver, the first to die must be those who do not take sides The wall-riding faction—it's a pity that the elves in Eternal Sun City obviously lack a basic understanding of this.

Everyone was still talking nonsense, when the curtain of the tent was lifted suddenly, and Knight Commander Alan Cousins ​​got into the lord's tent in a hurry.

"Allen, why are you here so late?" Xia Houyan raised his fork and gestured for the empty space at the end of the table, "We also left you a plate of breakfast, eat quickly."

"Thank you, Lord Lord!" Alan Cousins ​​sang, but he didn't sit down to eat immediately, but said mysteriously, "Guess what I did just now?"

"If you fart, let it go." In view of the harsh environment in the camp, the officials of Xiahou these days are very impatient.

Captain Cousins ​​reached into his crotch, and mysteriously took out a piece of paper:

"My lord, I just went to the headquarters of the Central Army for a while. You know, I have some acquaintances there, so I went over to chat... It was a coincidence that I was allowed to stay in their file room. Here, I borrowed this thing..."

It is written as "borrow" and pronounced as "steal", which everyone understands.

"What's this?" Xia Houyan glanced at the paper in Cousins's hand, and vaguely caught a glimpse of the big red title that read "Confidential Documents of the Imperial Central Army Headquarters".

"This is the military exercise plan drawn up by Commander Grant!" Captain Cousins ​​stretched out his fingers triumphantly, and flicked the document in his hand, "The performance subjects of the Imperial Central Army and the Eastern Army in the military exercises are all in It says "[-]" on it! There is a saying, "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles." Let's first understand the situation of the regular army of the empire, so as not to lose face in the military exercise..."

Xia Houyan let out a "huh" and signaled to Master Laurie beside him to take the proposal from Cousins.Sean Mountbatten, who was sitting on the other side, looked at Commander Cousins ​​with interest:

"Knight Commander Cousins, you should know that stealing confidential military documents is a serious crime that will be beheaded according to the laws of the empire, right?"

"Can it be considered stealing about our close allies?" Cavalier Commander Cousins ​​said sternly, "On the contrary, the regular army of the Empire clearly wrote the military exercise plan, but they kept it in their brooms and didn't show it to us—— Is this too much?!"

Sean Mountbatten was speechless and gave a thumbs up.

He felt in his heart that if Aaron Cousins ​​hadn't been favored by the lord and his father and made a knight, it would be pretty good to be a spy in the Whitehall of Rose City in this life, and he has the skills of most of today's Qualities that Whitehall spies don't quite have:

Ya is really shameless.

Xia Houyan, who had always regarded the laws of the empire as nothing, didn't bother to care what laws Cousins ​​had violated, and hurriedly read the military exercise plan of the imperial army in the hands of Master Laurie.

This letter of proposal signed with the words "Personally prepared by the Marquis of Lane Grant" recorded in detail the subjects and performance order of the military exercises arranged by the regular imperial army.

In addition to the military parade, which is the main content of the military exercise and used to promote the country's prestige, there are also many military exercise subjects that have attracted Xia Houyan's special attention:

The first is the aerobatics and bombing performances of the Imperial Eastern Army "Lancaster United".

The Griffin Air Cavalry has always been the armed force that the regular army of the Empire relies on and is proud of the mainland. The two elite air forces, the "Lancaster Air Force Wing" and "Stuka Air Force Wing", are led by the dragon knight Wall Baron Fugang personally trained and formed.

The giant dragon is as famous as the phoenix and the overlord of the sky in the Haven Continent. Under the training of a dragon knight, the flying skills of these imperial griffin cavalry are of course outstanding-although they are very proud of the "Lancaster Air Force Wing". Weiming has long been heard, but Xia Houyan still wants to take this opportunity to observe the excellent fighting methods of the imperial air cavalry.

Another example is the "White Death" dwarf musketeer team that has been praised repeatedly by the Grand Duke Rosario before. This time, they will perform target shooting in the military exercise: the dwarves from the cold bone mountains in the north have never trained archers. Traditional, but relying on superb engineering skills and saltpeter deposits in the Chillbone Mountains, successfully formed an army of musketeers.

Due to searching for ores in dark mines all year round, the dwarves have very good eyesight. It is said that Lester Frosthammer, the master dwarf berserker, can even track every fly in the air with his eyesight.With such strong eyesight, coupled with the newly developed "Mosin Nagant Musket" blessing, this group of dwarf musketeers have the ability to stand on the top of the city and accurately call any moving target in the canyon.

And the Imperial Central Army also refused to fall behind in the military exercise: According to the plan, the Marquis of Ryan Grant took out his wife, the coffin, and the household registration book this time, and sent the legendary "Red Skull" team to participate. military exercise. The "Red Skull" is a heavy infantry regiment built by the empire at a high price, and all members are equipped with magic armor. They hold the "Occam Reaper" sickle made of "Babylon dense grain steel", which can Slicing through any armor like butter, it's a veritable battlefield meat grinder.

Originally, the "Red Skull" was an elite force responsible for guarding the imperial capital of Gyeonggi, and would never be dispatched to meet the enemy easily. The last time it was mobilized was when it was urgently stationed in the imperial capital during the "Kemal Manor tragedy" to prevent the federal infiltrating troops.The central army suffered heavy losses this time, and the Imperial Army finally gritted its teeth and sent the "Red Skull" to the front line of the Burning Crystal Canyon.

If even the "Red Skull" suffers losses on the battlefield, His Majesty Basil and Quentin's chief of staff may suffer a sudden cerebral hemorrhage.

As for the magic performed by the imperial magicians at the military exercises, it is rather commonplace: human magicians are the strongest and most famous elemental controllers in all countries on the mainland, and their magic is commonplace for everyone, without any sense of mystery.

Finally, there is a military exercise subject called "Hercules Test Firing Ceremony" in the plan. Except for a title, there is no explanatory text, and it is mysterious to know what kind of aircraft is being used.

"...'Hercules'?" Sean Mountbatten rubbed his chin when he saw this subject, and pondered, "I heard when I was in the Imperial Military Academy that for decades, the military has been secretly developing a The heavy weapon named 'Hercules'... Could it be that it has finally been successfully developed and is ready to be brought to the civil castle for test firing?"

Xia Houyan was not too impressed with the new products made by the engineers of the empire's "Molten Valley", so he continued to read.

——In the plan drafted by Marquis Lane Grant, after all the subjects of the Central Army and the Eastern Army were completed, there was a big "Shuangfengling Friendly Force Free Exercise Subject" written brightly, which looked very aggressive.

"Niang Xipi..." Xia Houyan averted his gaze from the proposal with some gloom.

After watching the preparations made by the two regular armies of the empire for the exercise, he suddenly felt guilty:

Because, compared with the Eastern Army and the Central Army with deep foundations, Shuangfengling doesn't seem to have any good exercise subjects. The previous victories they achieved in the southern border are not so much crushed by equipment and combat power. It is said that it is a strategic victory brought about by the right time, place and people;
If you really want to display the conventional armed forces of Igor's pioneering army on the battlefield in the east, it's actually a bit self-defeating——

——After all, the strategic reserve that Shuangfengling really relies on is the kind that is not allowed to be broadcast on TV...

You can't really let the soldiers of the Igor family go to the school to perform dramas and sing Beijing opera, right?
The lord was still biting his teeth with a worried expression on his face, and Alan Cousins ​​said with a bit of entanglement:

"Well, my lord, just now, I learned two things from my friends in the Central Army, one good news and one bad news - which one do you want to hear first?"

"Bad news?" Xia Houyan decided to follow Gu Kaizhi's teaching of eating sugarcane.

"People from the Central Army told me that in order to show their support for the front line in the east, the empire will send a delegation from the imperial capital to visit the military exercise in the civil castle. The lords from all walks of life are even rumored to have envoys from the demon race." Cavalier Commander Cousins ​​said cautiously, "So, if we mess up the exercise, then Shuangfengling will lose face to the whole continent..."

"Face? Can the face be eaten?" Xia Houyan waved his hands depressedly, "What about the good news?"

"Your fiancée, Countess of the Holy Soul, Isa Sandria, is also in the viewing group organized by the imperial capital. This time, she will come to the front line together." Knight Commander Cousins ​​reported blankly.

(End of this chapter)