Chapter 235 Determination

Sooner or later Gevaudin will come.

On the other hand, Winters was waiting for them.

Outside the town, Winters met Captain Epel, who was stopped by a sentry.

"Just let me stand here." There was only one guard beside Epel. Seeing Winters from a distance, he laughed loudly: "This is not the way to treat guests!"

Epel is not Winters' direct predecessor, but he helped Winters a lot with Dussac Jr.'s service.

The last time Winters went to Gevaudin's garrison, Epel also entertained him warmly.

When Winters saw Epel, a smile appeared on his face: "Sorry, Captain. A house is being built inside, and it is very dusty, making it inconvenient to entertain guests."

"What's there to be sorry for?" Epel laughed heartily: "Aren't you also a captain?"

After speaking, Epel took out a silk package from the guard's saddle bag.

He slowly opened the package in front of Winters. Inside was a captain's uniform.

Epel explained gently: "I don't know your specific size. I thought Asco was about the same height as you, so I made this uniform based on his clothes. The tailor is the best in Gevaudan, and the materials are first-class." one."

"Thank you." Winters did not reach out to take it.

Epel looked at his younger brother carefully and sighed: "At this time last year, you were about the same height as Asko. Looking at it again this year, this suit is a bit too big. If it doesn't fit, you can change it yourself. ."

Winters also sighed, took the uniform with both hands, and slowly asked, "I want to know... who gave me this military uniform?"

"Plato Republic." Epel smiled.

"Which republic?" Winters responded with a warm smile: "First? Second? Third? Or the Republic of General Adams?"

…

The King's Castle Faction reorganized the Grand Council and announced the resolution to reorganize the [First Republic] into the [New Republic], causing an uproar in Plato and even the Alliance.

The Blue Blood Faction, which was confronting the King's Castle across the river, immediately responded violently.

Amidst the roar of guns and cannons, the [Provisional Military Government of the Plato Republic] was established in [Hongchuan], the capital of Jiangbei Province.

Arpad Duyaum was appointed [Marshal of Plato] and controlled all affairs, big and small.

The military officers and blue-blood parliamentarians who followed Arpad became members of the military government one after another.

The military government declared: The establishment of [the Pseudo Republic] violated the "Charter of the Union", Plato immediately entered a state of war, and the enemy was the Pseudo Republic.

"'Under the protection of the Lord and the justice of the world,' the provisional military government will not give up until the pseudo-republic is eradicated and the filth of Plato is wiped out."

The Second Republic had little reaction to this, because they had already defined the "Arpad Gang" as [a rebel party].

In the land of the old Plato Republic, two teams, two governments, and two countries suddenly appeared.

The situation is changing so fast that it is dizzying to see.

Fortunately, the Republic of Plato has a vast territory. Even if it is divided into two halves, it will still be larger than the combined area of ​​the United Provinces and Veneta.

In order to distinguish the "two countries", people privately called the Zhuwangbao government the [Second Republic] and the Hongchuan military government the [Third Republic].

Of course, whether it is the King's Castle or Hongchuan, the full name engraved on the crown is still "Plato People's Republic", excluding adjectives such as second and third.

Because the Second Republic claimed that he inherited the legal system of the First Republic.

The Third Republic claimed that it was the First Republic from beginning to end.

In May and June, the two sides fought successively in the heart of Plato, with each side winning or losing.

In the end, the two armies, both tired and exhausted, vaguely formed a confrontation across the river.

However, with the continuous supply of troops and supplies, the Second Republic has steadily suppressed the enemy.

In July, during the bloody night in the Castle of Kings, General Szekely died.

The Grand Chancellor of the Kings' Castle [Grove] was still stripping away Szekely's military power bit by bit, but in the blink of an eye, the main pillar collapsed.

Arpad spied the fighter planes and launched counterattacks one after another, defeating the frontline commander Major General [Roland] who was personally appointed by Grove.

The armies of the Second Republic north of the Ashliu River were wiped out, and countless corpses drifted down the river, even into the moat of the Fortress of the Kings.

But Arpad failed to break through the Jinliu River after all. The confrontation across the river not only did not break, but gradually stabilized.

These were all things before September.

When the two armies fought with blood, Winters was unaware of the triggering of a new round of war.

During that time, all he could think about was "What will we eat tomorrow? What will we eat the day after tomorrow? What will we eat the day after tomorrow?"

It wasn't until Father Carman brought back the news that the remnants of the [Montagne Brigade] were in Gevaudan, and Winters rushed to the county capital to join his comrades, did he learn what happened to the outside world after he escaped from the Castle of the Kings.

…

And now, Winters Montagne, the main participant in the bloody night at the Castle of Kings, asked Epel with a smile: "Which republic? First? Second? Third? Or the republic of General Adams?"

"There is only one Republic of Plato." Epel did not answer directly.

He picked off a small piece of dust that fell on the military uniform, but the dust still left a small white mark on the material: "You don't need to worry about this, just treat it as if it was given to you by Major Ronald."

"Major Ronald, is he okay?"

"He's fine." Epel laughed: "He's just not in a good mood."

After laughing, Captain Epel gradually became serious. He stared into Winters's eyes and asked: "Are Andrea Cellini, Richard Mason and Bud all here with you? "

"Yes." Winters admitted simply.

"Let them come out, I want to meet them."

Winters nodded.

The sentry beside him turned and ran towards the military camp, calling for help.

"Is Asko still alive?"

Lieutenant Asco was the Gévaudan officer who followed Bud and Mason to "suppress the bandits", and naturally he disappeared without a trace.

"Captain Asko is fine and not injured." Winters answered honestly: "He is learning to knit straw sandals recently."

"It's good to be alive." Epel let out a long sigh of relief: "He just got married four months ago. I was scared all the way, afraid that I didn't know how to face Asco's new wife. It's good to be alive. "

"rest assured."

Epel changed the topic and frowned unconsciously: "Did you lead the plundering team sent to the south of Jevaudan?"

"Yes." Winters didn't hide it.

Epel chuckled lightly, with a hint of relief in his expression: "I knew how could a bandit have such ability? It must have been done by one of our own. I suspected it was you, but everyone said you were dead. , and some people even said they had seen your body, so the idea was abandoned."

"A lot of people died, I just lucked out."

"You know what?" Epel put his hand on Winters' shoulder and said emotionally: "When we realized it was you, me, Major Ronald, and every one of your seniors. We Not only are we not angry, we are happy from the bottom of our hearts because you are still alive.”

Winters also became silent. He lowered his head and looked at the tips of Senior Epel's boots.

Epel asked with a wry smile: "But I'm a little surprised. You are the resident officer of Langtun Town. You can just intercept the collection team coming to Wolf Town. How do you get to Blackwater Town, Five Mastiff Town, Xiaoshi Town and Niuti Valley? Do you want to join the collection team?"

"I...the folks from the five towns asked me to be their protector." Winters' face turned red.

Epel was stunned at first, then laughed until tears flowed from his eyes.

Suddenly, he stopped smiling and frowned: "Protector? Are you still the Earl of Wolf Town? You are an officer, a defender of the republican system who has received ten years of enlightenment education! Protector? Do you want to separate yourself in the Republic! Dominate one side! Become a noble master?!"

"No, I don't want to." Winters also looked directly into Epel's eyes.

"Then what do you want to do?"

Winters did not answer, but asked: "Then what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to send you a transfer order!" Epel took out four lacquer-sealed orders: "Captain Montagne, you can return to Veneta."

He carefully took out a wooden box, which contained an olive leaf gold cross.

Epel looked a little unbearable: "We are sorry for you, and we are very grateful to you. But now, we can only ask you to go home. Go back to Veneta, Winters, take this military uniform and this Take the medal back.

Don't worry about military status, I'll pass you through in no time. Your military exploits will also be truthfully recorded, and no one will be qualified to gossip about you. The transfer orders for Cellini, Mason and Bader are also here. If they want to leave, they can leave. Let's go... let's go. "

Winters did not take the transfer order, but took the wooden box.

He took out the gold cross, carefully stuffed it into his trouser pocket, and threw away the wooden box.

"Which republic gave me the transfer order?" he asked.

"What do you mean?" Captain Epel raised his eyebrows slightly.

"I am an officer of the First Republic, and I only obey the orders of the Army Headquarters in the Castle of Kings."

"There is no army headquarters in the King's Castle anymore, only the army committee."

"Then you can't blame me." Winters smiled brightly.

Epel asked directly: "You don't want to leave?"

"Not leaving."

"Okay, then come to Gevaudan." Epel tore the four transfer orders into pieces: "If you don't want to leave, we welcome you. Major Ronald needs a deputy with rich practical experience."

"Will Gévaudin continue to extort money?" Winters asked.

"It wasn't Gévaudin who wanted to do it, and neither did Major Ronald." Epel argued bitterly: "General Adams issued a death order, and the supplies we collected must also be sent to Maple Stone City."

Winters spread his hands: "Then I don't want to go to Gevaudan either."

"Then what do you want to do?" Epel stared and yelled.

"Farming." Winters was not intimidated by the senior's aura at all. He sighed: "Give everyone a stutter."

Epel stood stunned for a while.

He suddenly grabbed Winters's shoulders, and because he spoke too fast, his voice even broke: "You silly boy, do you know what you are doing? You only have one town, and what you have to fight is Gevaudan and the New World. The reclamation, the entire new reclamation army, even the entire Plato! They move their fingers and you are finished! We are saving you! Don't be stupid, go home! You are a Venetian, you don't need Bleed for Plato!”

"You are wrong, senior." Winters was extremely happy: "I am a serious Plato officer, and my military status is still in Plato!"

Epel let go of his hands and took a few steps back, because he knew that he could no longer convince the young man in front of him.

He felt that the young man in front of him was too stupid, too naive, and too impulsive.

But he couldn't help but feel some respect.

Bud, Andre and Mason rushed over from the military camp.

Epel looked at the three people behind him and asked calmly: "You want to follow him, right?"

"That's right!" Andre replied loudly: "I've wanted to do this for a long time!"

"Okay." Epel nodded and asked, "Can I take Asco away?"

"Sorry, senior, no." Winters replied with some embarrassment: "Sir Asko wants to drink and eat meat. Originally he only owed 1,500 working hours, but now he owes 2,000."

"Okay, I'm leaving." Epel didn't say much nonsense, nodded to a few people, mounted the stirrups and galloped away.

Winters watched Epel until the senior disappeared behind the hillside: "Let's go."

"Why do I give you a set of clothes?" Andre touched the captain's uniform and commented casually: "The material is good."

…

Epel did not go far. After riding for about two kilometers, he stopped.

He and his guards removed the iron bits from their horses and took out two bags of grain from their saddlebags, as if they were resting their horses.

Not long after, several people dressed as farmers wearing linen clothes, wide-leg trousers and straw sandals came out of the woods.

Seeing Captain Epel, several "farmers" raised their hands and saluted.

They were not farmers, they were spies and spies of Gévaudin.

"How?" Epel asked.

The leader of the spies replied: "The villages in Lang Town are all normal, and no soldiers have been found staying in farmers' homes. However, a large military camp has been built in the center of the town. It is very big, half the size of the town. And the interrogation is very strict. We Couldn’t get in.”

"I also saw the military camp." Epel smiled and shook his head: "But I didn't get to go in and take a look. My junior is very careful."

"That?"

Captain Epel put the bridle on the horse again: "You guys wait here."

Epel and the escort got back on the road and rushed to the Blackwater River trekking site without stopping.

In a journey of more than 20 kilometers, the horse rested only once.

By the time they arrived at their destination, the forest on the north bank of the Blackwater River, the war horses were foaming from exhaustion and their sides were dripping with sweat, as if they had just been fished out of the water.

A man who looked like a hunter was waiting for Captain Epel. When he saw the captain coming back, he immediately led him deeper into the forest.

Deep in the woodland, Major Ronald awaits Epel.

"How?" Major Ronald asked.

Epel smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Ronald sighed heavily: "That's it! That's it! Let everyone gather and rest enough."

The sergeant's scoldings came and went in the forest, and there were also sounds of knocking on tree trunks, which were waking up those who were sleeping.

The cover formed by the tree crown came down, and a dark mass of people stood up.

Winters, Ronald... everyone has received the same military training, and they are too familiar with each other.

The annihilation of Cellini's centurion might have been an accident.

But after the troops of Bud and Mason were also "annihilated", if Major Ronald still didn't understand what was going on, then he would be a pure idiot.

What Winters did was so obvious and unscrupulous that it was impossible for Gévaudin not to notice.

So Major Ronald came and brought two groups with him.

Ronald gave Winters one last chance to escape unscathed, but he didn't accept it.

Then, Gévaudin has only one option left - violence.

Ronald will use lightning speed to crush this rebellion with one punch.

"Let's go now! Be quick! Don't give him time to react!" Major Ronald summoned all the officers: "They did not stay at the farm. All the rebels were stationed in the military camp in the center of the town. This is good, we can do it in one fell swoop. Destroy them."

The forest was quiet, and the centurions were silent.

"What we have to face is not rogues or bandits, but an organized and disciplined army. The commanders of this army have received the same training as us, and in terms of actual combat experience, they are even richer than you and me. This is not a bandit suppression, this is a civil war! Don’t be careless if you are at war with each other."

The centurions' eyes became a little dim.

Both sides of the Ember River - the heart of Plato - have turned into battlefields, but the flames of war have not yet reached the newly cultivated land.

And they were about to fire the first shot of the civil war in the new land.

"Our soldiers lack training and have low morale." Major Ronald glanced at his subordinates: "But there are two pieces of good news. Their soldiers' training and morale are equally low, and we have an absolutely superior force!"

This was Gévaudin's full blow, and it had to be a clean and fatal blow.

"Intelligence shows that Winters Montagne is a very powerful spell caster." Major Ronald deployed standard anti-magic combat forces: "Don't give him a chance to fight in a melee and find out where he is. Blow the trumpet immediately! Captain Epel!"

"yes!"

"All my best musketeers are in your hands. If you don't see Winters Montagne, you won't let me fire a single shot." Major Ronald's eyes were cold: "There is no camaraderie now, only life and death." !”

Captain Epel nodded heavily: "Yes!"

Major Ronald took one last look at his centurions. This time, who can come back?

"Let's go!" He waved his hand.

…

Gévaudin's two corps attacked at dawn.

The wolf at dawn is calm and quiet, like a wolf coiled up in its den, sleeping deeply.

The recruits who were going to the battlefield for the first time, led by the officers, rushed towards the center of the town from all directions with shouts.

Gévaudin's soldiers fought out from the forest on the outskirts of the town. One brigade went straight to the center of the town, and the other brigade followed the river outside the town and outflanked it from the north.

Five hundred meters, three hundred meters, one hundred meters...

The wooden walls of the military camp can already be seen clearly.

But Wolf Town is still quiet, even eerily quiet.

A recruit suddenly stopped, and the other recruits also stopped in fear. They stood on the outskirts of Wolf Town, at a loss.

The centurion's grapevine whip struck hard: "Go! Kill! Why are you just standing there!"

The recruits started running towards Wolf Town again, but this time, they did not dare to let go like before.

"Major!" Captain Epel panted and found Major Ronald: "No one!"

"What?" Ronald jumped up in shock.

"There is no one in the military camp! There is no one in the town either. When I came here in the morning, there was clearly someone there!"

Ronald was first surprised, then confused, and finally furious.

He punched the tree hard, causing dead leaves and fruit balls to fall like rain.

"Fuck!" Ronald yelled, "It's broken!"

…

Winters, Ronald... they all had the same training and understood each other's tactical thinking.

Ronald knew Winters, and Winters knew Ronald.

But Ronald had miscalculated - as had all the Gévaudan officers.

To pit one town against one county was crazy enough in their eyes.

But after all, they underestimated Winters Montagne's madness, courage and determination!

At the same time, at the gate of Gevaudan.

"Hey! Open the door!" A soldier slammed the door: "I'm back!"

A sleepy head poked out from the gate and asked vaguely: "Who the hell are you?"

There were no city walls or fortifications in Gevaudan. The current earth walls, wooden walls and moats were all temporarily constructed a few months ago.

"I am Ishi from Ganshui Town! Sergeant Ishi?" The soldier outside the door announced his home address: "Open the door for me quickly!"

"Ish?" The person on the gatehouse chanted the name and asked doubtfully, "Aren't you dead?"

"Who the hell said I was dead?"

"Oh...then you're not dead. You can't open the door now. Just wait until dawn and then come in when the door opens."

The soldier outside the door yelled angrily: "Fuck you! Open the door for me! I finally escaped and I'm about to starve to death!"

"Well, just wait a moment." The soldier on the gatehouse said reluctantly: "You need the officer's permission to open the door now. I'll go find Lieutenant Elek and ask him to open the door for you..."

Before he finished speaking, the soldier on the gate tower suddenly trembled.

A steel nail was shot into his skull. He first leaned backward, then slowly fell forward, and finally fell off the city wall.

The figures of Lieutenant Colonel Moritz and Lieutenant Juan emerged from the darkness, and noisy footsteps came from behind them. It was unknown how many people were hiding.

"What the hell are you talking to him about?" Don Juan's temper was extremely violent now.

Ishi from Ganshui Town nodded sarcastically.

"Come on! Bring this guy over here!" Don Juan shouted and ordered: "Blow up this broken door for me!"

[If Gévaudin doesn’t come to see Winters, Winters will take the initiative to find Gévaudin. Ronald really didn't expect that Winters Montagne would be so bold, so...crazy. Since ancient times, only officials have suppressed bandits, and bandits have suppressed officials... Then he is not a "bandit"]

[Background notes: The New Reclamation Province has seven counties under its jurisdiction. The provincial capital is Maplestone City. The New Reclamation Army that controls the New Reclamation Land has its commander [Kevin.J. Adams], the former Omen Wolf Town Militia. The person who issued the call-up order for Winters. Tiefeng County is the southwestmost county in the province, and its capital is "Revaudan". There are 17 towns below Gevaudan. Wolf Town, where Winters is located, is the smallest and poorest, and can be called the edge of the world]

Original quote [Major General of the Republic of Plato, Commander of the New Reclamation Corps, recipient of the Order of the Violet, Kevin J. Adams issues this order in accordance with the glorious and inviolable "Tolde Agreement". Langtun Town, under the jurisdiction of the Condominium County, is obliged to provide militia as auxiliary troops when the New Reclamation Corps needs it]

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