Arknights is too real, right?

The Northern Military District is stationed in northeastern Victoria all year round, and their main responsibility is to stabilize the north.

Unlike the south, the north is mostly the fiefdom of the great nobles and has intensive heavy industries, such as mining industry, raw material industry, processing industry, etc.

Unlike the relatively poor and chaotic south, the nobles and wealthy people in the north did not want to live in a "dangerous" environment. For this reason, they were willing to spend military expenditures to support the expansion of the Northern Military Region.

At first, the Northern Military Region had less than 100,000 people. However, as Victoria's economy developed rapidly and it became a technological and economic power, the number of troops also continued to expand.

When King Willanson was still alive, he personally set an upper limit of 300,000 troops for the Northern Military Region.

This quota is already for the sake of the nobles. Otherwise, 200,000 would be enough.

But just six months ago, when King Willanson was too ill to interfere in power, Frey privately expanded the northern military region to 400,000 people after disarmament in the southern military region.

Frey's idea is simple.

At that time, he was unable to control the Southern Military District and the Border Guards. King Willanson's illness was getting worse day by day. Both Aumon and Gleason were very vigilant about him, so he had to pave the way for the future. .

To this day, the foreshadowing has worked.

In the early days of the turmoil, Frey successfully assassinated Gleason and assigned Medes to successfully stabilize the Border Military District. At the same time, the Southern Military District, with a total strength of only 300,000, could only struggle to support itself.

This is a sure-win situation. As long as Ormen falls and the country stabilizes after the infected are eliminated, and then finds a way to kick Witte out of the military system, the commanders-in-chief of the four major military regions of the empire will all be replaced by those he trusts. people.

However, Frey could never have imagined that this good move would fail when there was only the last move left.

At the same time, the chess piece that he had previously regarded as the most useless miraculously staged an "extreme comeback."

Half a year ago, the Northern Military Region began recruiting new recruits. The military department has no strict requirements for this. Regardless of the region, as long as they are adult males under 30 years old and holding a Victoria citizenship certificate.

This is the normal process for recruiting every year, but this time it's a little different.

The previous Southern Military District experienced two major disarmament, and a total of 200,000 active soldiers were forced to retire.

Although retired soldiers will receive subsidies from the empire, it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish. With a small amount of subsidies, most of the "unemployed" soldiers have nowhere to go.

Forced by life, some people choose to return to their hometowns to farm, some go to work in factories, and some go overseas to do business. Of course, some people take a different approach and first choose to join gangs or become mercenaries.

However, among the 200,000 laid off soldiers, only a few made the above choices.

Because the recruitment of soldiers in the Northern Military Region had other secrets, in order to speed up recruitment, the military department did not conduct any screening at all.

In this way, the soldiers who had been laid off from the Southern Military Region moved to the north and joined the Northern Military Region.

From an objective point of view, the Military Department committed a confusing act of "taking off his pants and farting". If Frey had no other ideas, the Military Department could have transferred 200,000 people from the Southern Military District directly to the Northern Military District, thereby eliminating the need for conscription.

But Frey didn't. He knew that many of the recruits in the Northern Military Region were from the south, and he didn't care.

Frey's idea is very simple. Soldiers have an innate sense of belonging. If they are directly deployed, there may be the possibility of "being in Cao's camp and being in Han".

In this way, they are directly laid off, transformed from soldiers into ordinary people, and then mixed with the new recruits from the north to join the Northern Military Region. In this way, they become "Northerners" through and through.

Frey's analysis of human nature is very good, and he is prepared in advance for what may happen in the future.

But he never expected that Verin's first decision after succeeding to the throne was not to remove Ormon and Grissom, but to directly order the entire country to kill the infected.

Although he was shocked by Verin's boldness, this incident could also be a reason to kill Ormon and Grissom, and Frey also supported this with both hands.

However, the foreshadowing of previous disarmament and conscription was quietly laid.

Soldiers have a bounden duty to obey orders. If it is just rebellion and crusade between military regions, then the soldiers will basically obey the orders of their current commanders even if they are reluctant.

But if you let soldiers burn your home down, that's a different story.

After the full-scale Civil War broke out, the Northern Military Region remained stationary, but although the body remained motionless, the mind was never idle for a moment.

There are 400,000 people in the Northern Military Region, of which at least 70,000 of the 100,000 new recruits are from the south.

Although military officers tried their best to seal off the true situation in the south, information was still received through various channels.

These soldiers whose hometown was in the south heard the names of the cities that had fallen in the south, and the infected people had no choice but to start smashing and robbing the residents of the cities because they were forced to survive. To be honest, their hearts were twitching.

However, despite their mixed feelings, they are now soldiers of the Northern Military District and also Victorians.

This is the empire's decision. If they take off their military uniforms and return to their hometown in the south, it will be a blatant violation of military regulations and can be dealt with by a military court.

In this way, these soldiers who stayed in the military camps in the northern military region but came from the south were suffering from extremely complicated emotions.

Until one day.

A girl with orange hair and a plaid skirt under a military uniform found them.

This girl belongs to the same Northern Military Region as them. She claims to be from the special brigade of the military region, and her code name is Bagpipe.

In just a few days, Bagpipe, as an officer of the Special Forces Group, secretly informed all the soldiers from the south in the camp about her plan.

Not surprisingly, this "rebellion" received strong support from the soldiers.

Of course, it is not enough to have the support of soldiers. The commander-in-chief of the Northern Military Region is the eldest son of the Capet family. In addition to the 70,000 soldiers from the south, there are more than 300,000 pure "Northerners" stationed in the military camp.

For this, Bagpipe also found another person.

This man's name is Sirif, and his identity is the deputy commander of the Northern Military Region.

At the same time, he also has another identity, the young comrade-in-arms of General Gleason and General Aumont.

After receiving the secret support of Deputy Commander Sirif and the vigorous assistance of more than 70,000 soldiers in the Northern Military Region, Bagpipe finally carried out this "shocking crime" committed by the following people.

Coincidentally, the time she chose to take action was the day before the southern coalition launched its general offensive.

Capesimit, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Military Region, had just received the order from the military headquarters and before he had time to order the military region to move to the north-south border, he was killed in his office openly.