Arc of Gunfire

General Auchinleck of the United Kingdom arrived in Barras on September 11.

At this time, Wang Zhong had already moved his headquarters to King Baras City. However, he did not live in the palace of King Balas, but occupied a manor of a nobleman.

The palace was naturally left to the progressive Barras force of the Free Officers' League.

When General Auchinleck arrived at the expeditionary force headquarters, he was obviously very angry. After entering the door, he scanned the headquarters with his eyes. When he saw Wang Zhong, he immediately locked the target, then strode over, shouting as he walked: " This is different from what we agreed on!”

Wang Zhong couldn't understand what he was shouting because the United Kingdom's old LD accent was too strong, but Emilia dutifully acted as a simultaneous interpreter.

Yakov originally planned to translate, but when he saw Emilia translating with a pleasant voice, he touched his cheek and chose to shut up.

Wang Zhong handed the signed document to Yakov, then leaned back on the leather swivel chair he had captured from the nobleman, and looked at Admiral Auchinleck: "My friend, what's different?"

Emilia continued to translate.

After hearing this, Admiral Auchinleck roared: "We are negotiating to make the emperor's brother the new king, not to establish a republic!"

Wang Zhong: "Shall we let the emperor's brother become the new king? The leader of the Free Officers Alliance, Meyer Abdulla, also agrees with this. Now Baras needs a king to unify the conservative faction, and wait for the war to be won and the situation to be stable. Come down, gradually carry out economic reforms, win over the conservatives, and finally achieve..."

Admiral Auchinleck interrupted Wang Zhong: "Isn't this what your secular faction did in Ant? Is it really necessary to repeat it like this?"

Wang Zhong: "It is necessary. We hope that Baras will no longer be your colony. We hope that the people of Baras can also enjoy the convenience brought by industrial society and live a good life, instead of producing industrial raw materials for your United Kingdom. , harvested by you with scissors."

Admiral Auchinleck stared at Wang Zhong for a few seconds, gritted his teeth and said, "Is it really okay for you to say this in front of your allies?"

"Why can't you say it? Can you still form an alliance with Prosen?" Wang Zhong spread his hands, "No, no, Prosen is the main challenger now. You can only endure it until you defeat it."

Admiral Auchinleck: "Don't forget, you have been praying for us to open a second battlefield! In order to mobilize the Prussian army and reduce the pressure on you guys!"

Wang Zhong: "Yes, but you didn't open a second battlefield? You were even defeated by the Plossians in the Mamluks. If the Plotsans hadn't run out of supplies, the canal would have been filled with Plotsans." Yes.

"I might as well tell you that if you don't open a second battlefield next year and regain the Carolingians, the Ant army may fight all the way to Antwerp."

In fact, it couldn't be done because Ant's logistics capabilities were too poor. During the final stage of Operation Bagration on the Earth side, another Luo Shuai's army was exhausted, so there was no way to support the uprising troops.

After that, it took the Maozi on the earth four months to gradually recover and launch another attack.

Logistics is Proson's limiter and Ant's.

But the facts do not affect Wang Zhong's bragging to scare the generals of the United Kingdom.

Admiral Auchinleck snorted: "I heard that Ant's Rokossov was a famous general, but I didn't expect him to be a braggart! First, take a look at the situation map of your country, and look at the large areas of land that have fallen! "

Wang Zhong: “I’ve seen it, it’s really big, but we will recover most of it by the beginning of next year.”

Auchinleck snorted again and changed the subject: "You said that Barras's Free Officers Alliance agreed to elect the emperor's brother as king. What about them?"

Wang Zhong: "In the palace, they are trying the guilty nobles and - and His Majesty the King."

As soon as he finished speaking, the liaison officer of the Free Carolingian Air Force laughed: "Are we familiar with this matter? How about we give some veteran advice to the progressive young people in Barras?"

Admiral Auchinleck squinted at the Carolingians and snorted disdainfully. It seemed that the world would never be able to make the Carolingians and the United Kingdom put aside their prejudices against each other.

Wang Zhong: "Anyway, if you want us to deliver King Tutka, that's not possible. We have already issued an announcement that the king will be hanged tonight.

"But after we agreed to hang the king, we gave the spotlight to the emperor's brother. I think it's better for him to be ready to give a speech immediately after hanging the king.

"As long as the former King Tutka is said to be the root of all problems, I think the people of Baras will support the new king."

Admiral Auchinleck stared at Wang Zhong for a long time before saying, "It doesn't look like there is any trick."

Wang Zhong just smiled slightly, thinking that there was no trick. This was obviously a conspiracy, so just proceed step by step.

Because it was a conspiracy, Admiral Auchinleck had no choice but to ask: "You mean, I have to go to the Barras to negotiate?"

Wang Zhong: "That's right. I hope you can lower yourself and communicate with them. Their leader, Meyer Abdullah, is a reasonable and wise man."

"Is he your lackey?" Admiral Auchinleck asked.

Wang Zhong: "Absolutely not. They support us voluntarily."

Admiral Auchinleck looked at Wang Zhong suspiciously.

Wang Zhongxin had a bad idea. On Earth, Dai Ying and A Mei couldn't understand why people kept surrendering, so they made up a brainwashing theory.

When Wang Zhong was a child, he thought brainwashing was cool. At that time, there was the game "Red Alert". Wang Zhong liked to use the Yuri faction the most. This faction was mainly characterized by brainwashing.

Later, when Wang Zhong grew up, he found that real brainwashing did not require any strange scientific equipment at all, but was called "144-hour visa-free", which was simple but effective.

Thinking of this, Wang Zhong looked at Admiral Auchinleck with pity.

Admiral Auchinleck left with a curse.

Wang Zhong turned his head and said to Popov: "He must think we brainwashed those Balas youth."

Popov shook his head: "They will never understand what happened to these young people. If one day they understand, the same thing will happen to him."

Emilia stood by with a solemn expression, saying nothing.

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When the former King Tutka saw the gallows, he immediately cried, and his whole body lost strength and was about to kneel on the ground.

The people in the square of the royal city saw him and immediately became agitated, throwing all kinds of things they could get at this tyrant who didn't care about the lives of the people.

Wang Zhong originally thought he would see some common props like rotten eggs, but he found that the people of the Royal City of Barras could not afford eggs, so what they threw at him was cow dung, and possibly human feces.

Wang Zhong could smell the smell even when he was standing on the viewing platform.

Mayer Abdullah walked up to the execution platform and gave a speech to everyone: "People of Barras! Next, I will list the misdeeds of the former King Tutka!"

Wang Zhong listened silently to Mayer reading one by one, and each one could arouse his anger.

Admiral Auchinleck suddenly said: "After you read like this, will the people still need a new king?"

Wang Zhong: "The people will not change so quickly. In Ant, we also distributed doctor sausages, cheese, caviar and champagne for more than ten years before we won over all the people to our side. Before that, the old farmers in the countryside regarded the Tsar as their 'little father'."

Admiral Auchinleck did not answer.

The scroll in Meyer Abdullah's hand that recorded the king's sins was very thick. He unfolded the scroll while reading it, dragging the part he had read directly to the ground, resulting in a long strip of fine handwriting.

Admiral Auchinleck looked at the scroll and cursed: "Did it write that the king had no toilet paper when he took a shit?"

Wang Zhong: "Don't you know? The Baras are the same as the Baharas, they don't use toilet paper to wipe their butts."

Admiral Auchinleck paused for a second and replied: "Brahmins and Kshatriyas still use it."

Are they actually using it!

No, are they really not using it?

Wang Zhong didn't know how to complain about Admiral Auchinleck for a moment.

About half an hour later, the long scroll was finally read to the end. Meyer Abdullah held one end of the scroll and raised it high: "Everyone, the king's charges have been read out! Does anyone want to question it?"

The Barras people shouted: "No!"

Meyer Abdullah: "So, what is the verdict on the king?"

"Guilty!"

All the Barras people present shouted together: "Guilty!"

Admiral Auchinleck pursed his lips: "Damn it, after such a trial, no matter how well-founded the royal brother's background is, and how orthodox the legal system is, his authority will be greatly weakened."

Wang Zhong: "It's okay, as long as the conservatives still recognize this king, the people of Barras in the city... at least you don't have to consider what they think before the war is over."

"Before the war is over..."

Admiral Auchinleck's expression was not good. He should have thought that after the war, the old colonial imperialist United Kingdom would have a harder and harder time.

While Wang Zhong and Auchinlek were talking, Mayer Abdullah pronounced the verdict loudly: "King, guilty! Execute the execution immediately!"

King Tutka in the prison car cried like a pig being slaughtered.

At this time, a handsome and tall Baras man walked onto the prison car, looked at Tutka and said: "Brother, you are too ugly."

Tutka saw the man and shouted as if he saw a savior: "Save me! Save me! My dear brother!"

The royal brother drew out his scimitar, and Tutka's head was cut off.

He raised his head high: "Baras will be reborn today!"

The Baras man was still in a daze.

Wang Zhong looked at Admiral Auchinlek: "Is this your arrangement?"

Auchinlek smiled slightly: "Of course, don't underestimate the old empire, the newcomer."

Wang Zhong squinted his eyes. He had a lot to say, but the most urgent task now was to end the war and eliminate Plossen.

So he chose to remain silent.