Chapter 2822 Elimination of Counter-Revolutionaries (Ⅱ)

General Vasa was forced to have no choice but to send someone to investigate the inside story of this sensational "defection case", and finally found Laval without accident.

When questioned in the military court, Laval admitted that he had learned of the officers' plan to defect the day before.

He himself did not participate in this matter, but he did not report to his superiors in a timely manner because of his fellowship.

Although General Vasa had no personal relationship with Laval and was once looked down upon by Laval, he valued Laval's talent very much. Whether he publicly or privately praised Laval as the most tough general in the Continental Army, he didn't want to be overwhelmed by this scandal. A death sentence for Laval's military career.

But having said that, after all, Laval made the mistake of not reporting what he knew. If he did not punish him, he would not be able to explain to the Continental Congress and the officers and soldiers under his command.

After careful weighing, General Vasa finally made a verdict, confiscated Laval's one-year salary, transferred from active duty, and was sent to a small town in the mountains in the northwest of Forge Valley as the mayor, and he took a vacation to recuperate.

General Vasa's intention is obvious, to hide Laval for a period of time, and wait until he avoids the limelight, and then recall him to active duty in the future, and reactivate this rare hero.

If someone received such treatment, they would most likely be grateful for the kindness and generosity of the Commander-in-Chief, obediently dormant for a period of time, in order to make a comeback in the future.

However, Laval is not an ordinary person, and his thinking is different from ordinary people.

This famous New World general from an aristocratic family has always had an extreme temperament and high self-esteem. He believed that he was not wrong. He had already suffered a great humiliation when he went to a military court for questioning. This made him deeply humiliated, thinking that heroes were useless, and his thinking became more and more extreme.

Benedict Laval spent a period of depression in the small town. With the success of the Fizhen Army in the south, especially after the fall of Leiden, Laval's belief in the victory of the independent revolution, It also tends to collapse step by step.

Compared with career setbacks, conceptual shocks had a greater impact on Laval's changes in thinking.

Despite his reputation as a "butcher" and having fought side by side with cultists and even demons, Laval is not a devil or demon believer as many people think. In fact, he is a "non-mainstream" paladin.

The times are developing, and various extraordinary professions are also constantly improving and evolving with the passage of time, becoming very different from the image when they were first born.

The most typical one is Druids. Fundamentalist Druids are like the painting style of "primitive religion", while reformist Druids are like "Ring of Harvest". Both are Druid societies, but there is a big difference Like wolves and dogs.

This change from time to time is also evident in the profession of paladins.

The ancient paladins adhered to the eight knight creeds, advocated "absolute justice" and "infinite justice", and did not deal with evil forces under any circumstances, even if it was just temporary cooperation against greater evil forces.

As an old joke goes:

A paladin broke into the tavern, first cast a shot of "detect evil", and then slaughtered all the melon-eaters judged to be of the evil camp... He thought he was eliminating all evil, but in the eyes of normal people, this was purely Crazy!

This kind of fundamental paladin is simply an anti-human paranoid, unable to adapt to the changes of the times, and it is almost extinct today.

Replacing the fundamentalist paladins are the reformist paladins who are more flexible in their behavior. The common feature is that they are no longer so obsessed with the standpoint of black and white, admit that there is still a large gray area that can be turned between good and evil, and advocate Compromising "relative justice" and "limited justice", and different factions have been differentiated on this basis, of which there are three most widely known.

The first category is the paladins who swear the "Oath of Dedication" and advocate justice, virtue and order. They are actually the "modified version" of the fundamental paladins. Most of them believe in kind gods and are honored as "white knights".

George Vassar is a perfect example of a "white knight".

The second category is the paladins who swear the "Oath of the Sages". Their creed is to respect tradition, love nature, and advocate light and life. It is their duty to maintain the balance of nature and fight against evil forces and undead creatures. They often fight with goblins, elves, Drew The Iraqi and Rangers form an alliance, often referred to as the "Green Knights".

The last category is the "black knight" who swears the "Oath of Vengeance" and vows to punish the enemy. In order to uphold the justice in his heart, he will not hesitate to kill and have blood on his hands-this is also the most extreme and deviates from the fundamental purpose A paladin, let alone righteous or not, is probably not even considered "kind".

Compared with the "White Knight" and "Green Knight", the "Black Knight" with extreme thinking and unscrupulous actions is often more likely to go astray and fall into the evil way.

Benedict Laval is a "Black Knight" who swore the "Oath of Vengeance" when he was young.

The strong will to avenge his mother prompted him to hate all the Asa tribes. However, under the coercion of the Far East Emperor Roland I, the Continental Congress agreed to form an alliance with the Asa tribe of the Volsung tribe, which contradicted his beliefs , I felt a lump in my heart.

If that's all, it's not a big deal. After all, during the Mineral War in 1622, the colonists and the aborigines also cooperated for a short time out of common interests, which did not prevent the two parties from turning against each other due to conflicts of interest afterwards.

What makes Laval even more depressed is that the Emperor of the Far East has been providing military training to the aborigines of the New World free of charge for the past two years. It is said that there are currently two batches of no less than 7,000 young elites of the Asa ethnic group receiving training at the Kourasberg Military Academy.

When the young Asa overseas students return from their studies, they will go directly to the front line with a large number of advanced weapons and equipment from the Far East, and become the backbone of the fight against the Fizhen invading army.

If the situation really develops in this direction, the situation of the Continental Army will be embarrassing.

The War of Independence has been fought for nearly two years. Except for the occasional flash in the Baden Wetlands, the Continental Army has been passively beaten for most of the time. From north to south, it has lost many battles and lost countless cities.

Now, the Continental Congress has fled to an overseas isolated island, the main force of the Continental Army is trapped in a corner of the Forge Valley, and the south is even more in danger, leaving only the last stronghold of Delin Town.

Today, it can be concluded that the Continental Army is really no match for the Feizhen regular army.