Cecil leads, in the study room of the Lord's Mansion, Gawain carefully looked at the piece of information that Amber had just sent.
"It seems that the news of the 25th Brigade has been successfully delivered to their master." Gawain raised his head and looked at the half-elf standing next to him. "Currently, there are already many people from the south. Knights from more than forty fiefdoms gathered under Count Horsman's command with their retinues and militia. Their actions were completely undisguised. Those knights who responded to the call were walking on the road in broad daylight. Messengers delivering messages between noble territories can also be seen everywhere. "
"In fact, the nobles themselves don't hide it when they do these things," Amber picked up an apple from Gawain's table and held it in his hands. While nibbling quickly, he said vaguely, "Originally, except for Cecil who has a military intelligence agency, who would be able to come up with such an intelligence system like you, and to say the least, the situation is It’s already like this, there’s no need for them to hide it anymore.”
Gawain sneered and shook his head: “Now I’m just waiting for a formal letter. According to those traditional nobles. According to the rules, a declaration must be sent before the war begins."
Amber stopped chewing the apple with a confused look on his face: "Speaking of which... although Ansu and Typhon have already arrived. A peace agreement was signed, but once the civil war breaks out in Ansu, will the Typhons really not immediately tear up the agreement and add insult to injury?"
Gawain looked at Amber in surprise: "You? I can still think of this, that's some progress."
"I'm always thinking hard, okay! I just don't have those dirty tactics of yours!" Amber stared, her cheeks bulging. , "And I wanted to ask this from the beginning, but I never found the opportunity!"
Gawain looked at Amber's serious and angry look, and couldn't help but smile and shook his head: "Tis Of course Feng won't come in, at least not now."
Amber looked puzzled: "Why?"
"Typhon and Ansu have been together for hundreds of years. "Jiaodao, they know the characteristics of the Ansu people very well," Gawain patiently explained, mixed with his own speculation, "Do you remember that I specifically confirmed something with that Clement? Emperor Typhon also has all things around him? People from the Death Society... So from the beginning, this 'peace agreement' was just a show, but so far, this show will continue to be played, Rosetta Augustus will watch An. Su fell into a civil war, and watched Ansu sink deeper and deeper in the next few years, becoming weaker and weaker until the kingdom was almost falling apart. Then he would step in and reap the benefits, but before that, he would never treat Ansu Su took action because he knew... once Typhon takes action now, Ansu's civil war will end immediately."
Amber blinked and seemed to understand what Gawain meant.
"The invasion of the Typhons will quickly unite Anzu. The Grand Dukes of the Three Realms have not established enough hatred yet, and they are likely to unite against the outside world." Gawain put down his hand.Information, his impressions and analysis of the three border dukes of Ansu came to mind, "Victoria Wilder in the north chose to support a puppet king to stabilize the country, while Silas Loren in the east chose to be loyal to the blood of Morn to rebuild. The glory of the First Dynasty, Franklin Baldwin of the Western Territory was rarely involved in royal party disputes, but half of Ansu's economy relied on his border trade... No matter what role each of the three dukes played in this civil war, the methods adopted Whether they are smart or stupid, but at least one thing is certain, that is, they are all using their own logic to protect this country. I think Rosetta Augustus must have investigated and understood this.
Speaking of this, Gawain suddenly sighed slightly: "The only thing I'm not sure about now is whether there is some kind of 'tacit understanding' between Prince Edmund and Emperor Typhon, whether they are in a relationship. A huge gamble... If so, then the death of Francis II would be so lamentable."
"Did he just die in a scene and a gamble outside the scene..." Amber muttered. Looking at the apple in his hand, he suddenly felt that it had lost its flavor, "Perhaps everyone is looking forward to this civil war, and only the old king truly believes in peace... I really don't like the stupidity of nobles. Logic."
A knock on the door interrupted Gawain and Amber's conversation.
The door to the study room opened, and the tall and muscular Reverend Wright appeared at the door.
Gawain looked at the only priest in the territory with some surprise: "Mr. Wright, is there anything wrong?"
"Lord," Wright bowed slightly and then said bluntly, " I want to go to the battlefield."
Gao Wen was stunned. He really didn't expect this: "Go to the battlefield?"
"I saw the news in the newspaper that a war is about to begin. Right?" Wright took out the "Extra Number" he picked up and said, "I want to join the war." Gao Wenwen also wanted to explain to the other party the current professional military system, command system and traditions in the territory. What difference does the chaotic private military system make, but after seeing the serious expression on Wright's face, he only asked one question: "Tell me the reason."
"I know there is a group of priests from the church "I joined the army of the Southern nobles with the Church Knights," Wright said calmly, "I want a chance to face them head-on."
Gawain looked at Wright quietly for a long time, and finally vomited softly. Tone: "You should know that the Cecil Combat Corps is different from ordinary private soldiers of nobles. It is not possible to meet the standards of going to the battlefield if you have the courage to sign up. Moreover, there is currently no official chaplain in the army. ”
“I know, I have also seen those ray guns. They are things I have never used, and it is probably too late to learn them temporarily.” Wright nodded, “But I can go to the logistics. , to help build fortifications, or to carry the wounded. I know the knowledge of bandaging, first aid and herbal medicine, which should be useful on the battlefield."
"...The medical team needs manpower."Gawain pondered for a long time and finally nodded, "Go and sign up for Knight Byron. Just say that I asked you to go. In addition, you still need to learn ray guns and grenades. I will ask Byron to prepare a set for you. Proper equipment, even if it is not proficient, can at least be used for self-protection on the battlefield."
A smile appeared on Wright's face and he bowed deeply: "Thank you for your understanding."
Then he stood up and walked towards the door, but before he was about to open the door and go out, Gawain suddenly called him from behind: "Mr. Wright."
Wright stopped and turned around : "Lord?"
"Facing your fellow churchmen on the battlefield is different from breaking out into a fight in the streets of the country." Gawain looked into Wright's eyes and spoke calmly, "Have you really thought about this?"
"I have thought about it, Lord," Wright said seriously, "if you face them on the battlefield, you will be the real enemy."< /p>
"More than thinking about this," Gawain said seriously, "I hope you can think about another question before facing them... Do you believe in the Holy Light or the God of Holy Light. "
This sentence seemed to have greatly touched Wright. The tall priest suddenly fell into a brief silence. It was not until several seconds later that he took a deep breath and bowed: " I will think about it carefully, Lord."
"Do you really want that big man to go?" After Wright left, Amber couldn't help but asked curiously, "You have to know, he Now that there is no Holy Light, except for the big guy, he is basically an ordinary person, and he is an ordinary person who has not received training from the combat corps... A person who has never even touched a ray gun, will there be problems on the battlefield? "
"So I let him go to the medical team, and I believe that with Wright's skills, he has the ability to protect himself even without the protection of the Holy Light." Gawain shook his head, "Let him go, he He is a believer, and he must be given a chance to test what he firmly believes in."
In the spring of Ansu 736, on the last day of the Moon of Resurrection, a man rode a tall horse with Hoth hanging on his body. The messenger bearing the emblem of Earl Man and holding a small black and red flag ran along the south bank of the White Water River into Cecil's pass.
The messenger was intercepted at the checkpoint, and the letter he brought was delivered to Gawain an hour later.
In the Lord's Mansion, Gawain took over the letter he had been waiting for from Amber's hand. This was an extremely formal, even grand letter. It was sealed on a gold-lined Inside the lacquer tube, the softest and toughest light parchment and spiced ink were used to write. Between the gorgeous fancy fonts and the awkward aristocratic grammar, there was written the content that Gawain had been waiting for for a long time.
Amber curiously leaned half her head from behind Gawain and looked at the content on the parchment. What she saw was a diplomatic letter with extremely polite wording, but the content was not friendly at all——< /p>
Earl Horsman and forty-three lords with glorious titles and orthodox bloodlines in the south presented their wishes to Duke Gawain Cecil.The Duke extended his greetings and solemnly protested against the recent interruption in the supply of alchemical reagents; solemnly protested against the skyrocketing prices of ores, mining machinery, and metal products; solemnly protested against the Cecil family's deprivation of noble privileges and infringement of surrounding territories; and demanded that the Cecil family immediately Stop destroying the order of the nobility, restore the privileges of the nobility in the territory, and re-regulate the behavior of untouchables in the territory to prevent this bad trend from continuing to spread and affect the atmosphere in other territories...
They also listed Cecil continued to attract refugees all over the southern border, promoted deviant laws, accepted heretical believers suspected of being a cult, freed slaves on a large scale, arrested "sincere and legitimate businessmen", conspired to subvert the Kant territory, assassinated the former Viscount Kant and created a cult There were a lot of incriminating evidence such as rumors, and there were more than a dozen pieces of evidence that were true or false, which even Amber was amazed.
At the end, the letter finally revealed the willingness to "use force to negotiate in order to maintain order."
Amber watched Gawain read the letter carefully, and then saw Gawain pick up the dip pen at hand with a nonchalant expression.
She asked curiously: "Are you going to write a reply?"
Gawain shook his head and wrote a word at the end of the letter:
Read.
"Go and give it to the messenger," Gawain rerolled the parchment and stuffed it into the paint tube, and handed it to the stunned Amber, "while it's still early, let him go back and recover quickly - just I won't leave him for lunch."
"You just write one word?" Amber still couldn't believe what she saw and repeated, "This is not a normal noble at this time! Do you want to keep silent for a dozen times?"
"That's enough," Gawain said with a smile, "As for other replies... Count Horsman will see it."
Amber left with a "reply" in confusion. In the military workshop affiliated to the machinery manufacturing plant, under the personal control of Mr. Nicholas Egg, a heavy-duty orbital accelerating artillery shell was steadily landing. Fall into the shell box.
On the smooth surface of the cannonball, a line of newly stamped text is clearly legible -
Hello fellow debater, this is our argument.
On the last day of the month of recovery, the news of the king's assassination and the Duke of the East's revolt for "revenge" are still on the way, but the first war that will usher in Ansu's changes has already begun.