Chapter 2381 Eastern Expedition Routine

"Recently, the city is not peaceful. George can't leave the barracks for the time being. He has to wait until mid-June to ask for leave. Martha blames him a lot for this."

"Thinking back many years ago, when I was a little girl, I dreamed of leaving my hometown and going to Midgard to find my father."

"However, now that my father has sent a letter inviting us to meet, my mood is not so urgent."

"Maybe what I have been really longing for is not fatherly love, but just using 'finding my father' as a high-sounding excuse to cover up my real purpose of trying to escape the shackles of the family and pursue a free life."

Rebecca took Joan's arm and walked in the garden, expressing her contradictory feelings.

"So do you want to see the Sir?" Joan asked her.

"It's not a question of whether you want it or not, but your duty as a daughter." Rebecca was silent for a long time, and then said, "Frankly speaking, when I think of that... stranger who left the family 18 years ago, my heart I can't calm down, there is resentment, more nervousness and timidity, Joan, can you accompany me to Midgard to meet my father? With you by my side, the atmosphere will not be too awkward."

"But I'd be embarrassed."

——Joan almost blurted out, but fortunately, his emotional intelligence came online at the critical moment, and he swallowed the words back in time.

"It's expected to leave in mid-June, right?" Joan thought, "It just so happens that I'm going back to Midgard University this summer to attend the annual meeting of the Arcane Society. Lord."

"Okay, that's the deal!" Rebecca rarely had a smile on her preoccupied face.

"The letter you wrote to me this morning also said that there may be a big disturbance in the city recently, but when I came back, I found that the streets and alleys were quite lively, and everything seemed normal. Did you hear something wrong again? news?"

Qiao An took the initiative to change the chat topic from family to current affairs, hoping to help Rebecca put aside her worries for a while.

"My dear master mage, you really don't hear anything out of the window, and concentrate on learning! Why do you need to inquire? Isn't it all bad news flying all over the sky recently!"

Rebecca gave him a charming white look, and then said: "Let's talk about the turmoil in the city of Leiden, let's talk about it later, let's talk about the root cause of the turmoil in the city, that is, the poor performance of the Imperial Expeditionary Force on the Far East battlefield. , It's simply eye-popping!"

"Speaking of the day you were on vacation, on April 16, the Imperial Navy Fleet set sail from the Marina City Naval Base on April 16, led by the Imperial Navy Commander Charles Lucien himself, and sailed northeast. Days later, he entered the coral sea area and launched a combat operation codenamed 'Great Tsunami'."

"The Imperial Navy plans to land on the Parnia Peninsula, and cooperate with the Engel Corps in the Eastern Theater to launch an offensive against the rebel-occupied area from the east and south at the same time."

"The combat plan seems to be impeccable, but the actual implementation has become sloppy. The navy encountered stubborn resistance from the Parnians in the Golden Horn, and it was still unable to land on the beach."

"The battle for the Port of Parnia continued intermittently until the beginning of May. The Far East Navy went south to the Coral Sea, and cooperated with the Parnia Navy that was blocked in the port to raid the Imperial Navy. They fought a beautiful battle that won more with less .”

"In the Battle of the Golden Horn, the Imperial Navy suffered an unprecedented defeat. Nearly half of the ships were sunk or captured, and the rest of the ships were forced to flee the warring waters, giving up the command of the sea."

"Misfortunes never come singly. On the same day that the Golden Horn naval battle broke out, the eastern theater also suffered a great humiliation."

"A group of Far East spies sneaked into the position of the Engel Corps stationed on the east bank of the Zhuanglang River through underground secret passages, and completely destroyed the four 'train guns' that had been transported to the opposite bank of the river with great difficulty. Then escaped smoothly."

"In hindsight, the sabotage of the train gun by spies was an obvious sign of danger. Just three days later, the Far East rebels launched a counterattack and regained their position on the east bank of the Zhuanglang River."

"On May 10, the Far East rebels launched an operation to cross the river, using the magic airship and a giant magic warship named 'Rudolf' as air transport vehicles, constantly going back and forth between the two sides of the river, bringing the officers and soldiers ready to go and packing boxes The weapons and equipment were transported to the west bank of the Zhuanglang River, and took over the abandoned west bank positions of the imperial army."

"During the many previous air battles, the magic airship on the empire's side was defeated by the Far East Air Force, and had to give up the air supremacy on both sides of the Zhuolang River. We watched the rebels airlift across the river, and there was nothing we could do."

"Judging from the latest news released by Yunwang, as of the afternoon of May 13, the entire rebel crossing operation has been successfully completed."

"Now, the Imperial Expeditionary Corps has only the last military stronghold left in the Far East, the Olivier Fortress."

"Even ordinary soldiers know that the Far Easterners are about to launch a general attack on Fort Olivier. As for whether they can defend this fortress, even Commander-in-Chief Engel has no idea."

Having said that, Rebecca couldn't help sighing, feeling worried about the prospect of the Imperial Expeditionary Force.

Joan had actually seen the things Rebecca said on the news page of "Cloud Net" a long time ago.

Knowing that the Imperial Expeditionary Force had suffered a defeat in the Far East, Joan's initial mood was mixed.

As a supporter of the anti-tax movement in the colonies, he sympathized with the injustices suffered by the people of the Far East. Today the empire sent troops to suppress the rebels in the Far East, and it is hard to guarantee that tomorrow they will not send troops to suppress the fellow citizens of Yalfheim who participated in the tax resistance.

From this point of view, Joan has every reason to share the same hatred with the Far Easterners, so he exchanged all the savings in his cloud account into Far Eastern national debt, and used his wealth to support the Far Easterners in resisting tyranny.

He did so out of righteous indignation, not a well-thought-out investment strategy.

In fact, Joan was not optimistic that the Far East rebels would be able to stop the iron heel of the empire, and he also knew that most of his investment would be lost. However, the evolution of the situation on the battlefield soon exceeded his expectations.

When the news of the Far Eastern Navy’s defeat of the Imperial Navy in the Golden Horn Bay was just disclosed on the cloud network, most people were skeptical. After all, the tonnage of the Imperial Navy’s ships and the caliber of the artillery were more than one grade higher than that of the Far Eastern Navy. There was no reason to lose so badly.

At that time, Qiao An also suspected that the two sides would win or lose each other. As an institution funded by the Kolas government, "Cloud Network" was likely to boost morale and exaggerate the advantages of the Far East Navy.

However, the follow-up good news confirmed the veracity of Yunwang's report from different angles. With the continuous exposure of details, the doubts on the Internet have become weaker and weaker.

At this point, Joan had to accept the reality: the Imperial Navy was really defeated.

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