I will be crowned king

After carefully interrogating a certain beast slave mercenary leader, Fabian finally figured out the whole story of the attack:

The Sailing City Council...or in other words, Bernard Morweis learned the information about the Winter Torch City meeting from the newspapers, and offered extremely high rewards to members of the various colonial councils, plus Anson Bach, regardless of life or death.

Because of their generous spending, they have indeed attracted many bounty hunters and various "unofficial groups" large and small... Whether they are pioneers or wandering lone wolves, the chaotic new world has no shortage of such people wandering on the edge of civilization. exist, and many of them are even funded "semi-official" groups.

Segren is a representative of this type of person.

They generally have a deep cooperative relationship with the local autonomous assembly, and can assemble a team anytime and anywhere to meet the needs of some big shots; they usually serve as thugs, guards, and police co-ops, and during war they serve as skirmishers and scouts. They belong to the called group. The "professional outsourcing" army comes and goes quickly.

In order to ensure that the mission was successful, or that in addition to disgusting the Clovis people, it could also cause some substantial harm, the Sailing City Council hired Segren's mercenary group at a high price... Of course, he was just one of them.

Since it is a professional team, it is of course fundamentally different from those laymen who fight alone. Before setting off, these mercenary groups collected a large amount of information about the Storm Division and Winter Torch City through different channels, and learned in detail about the strength of both parties. gap, then...

There's no after that.

Realizing that Yangfan City had simply sent them to die, the leaders of the mercenary group decided to take the money and run away after some discussion.

Of course, they did not have the guts to attack the Confederate Congress, but they still had the guts to defraud money by attacking the congressmen, and they were very bold.

In order to ensure that they could get the down payment from the Sail City Council, they formulated an extremely detailed and thoughtful plan that seemed very feasible. Naturally, the cost also increased; but Sail City didn't even think much about it, and was very generous without counter-offering. I gave you the budget, and it was paid in full.

The mercenary leaders were surprised and happy: they were happy because it was so easy to get the money, but they were surprised because the Sailing City Council was eager to see whether the money was well spent - they had to set off as soon as possible.

Segren felt his chance had come.

As one-quarter of the "beast slave blood" and the least popular among the mercenary leaders, he offered to be responsible for executing this plan; the other mercenary leaders were naturally happy that someone would die on their behalf, and they immediately agreed.

In return, Segren received the largest part of the budget, and even obtained part of the manpower and equipment of other mercenary regiments, including a brand-new twelve-pounder field gun - the one that almost blew Anson into the sky.

At the same time, due to the expansion of the team, Segren suddenly became the overall person in charge of the entire operation: although the scattered attackers and small groups in the city were independent, they were willing to obey his orders.

As a result, this beast slave mercenary group suddenly expanded from a few hundred people to nearly 2,000 people - at this scale, without the Storm Division, they could even attack Winter Torch City directly.

But Segren knew very well that the mercenaries under his command were not good enough in front of the regular army...or the Clovis army. A frontal attack would definitely lead to death. Only street fighting in the city would have a chance of winning.

He used various methods to insert those lone wolves and small groups of adventurers and bounty hunters into the various colonial teams heading to the Winter Torch City Screaming Conference as escorts; as for part of his beast slave mercenary group, Traveling across the wilderness, the other part acted as "followers" and "servants", acting together under the protection of those small teams.

In name, of course, it is to maintain contact and "unity and cooperation"; in fact, it is to monitor the entire process. Once a team is discovered to be trying to rebel, these beast slave mercenaries responsible for "protection" and "liaison" will be the executioners.

In this way, on the day Anson and a group of colonial representatives arrived, Segren quietly sent more than two thousand mercenaries and bounty hunters into Winter torch city.

As for weapons - Winter Torch City is a holy land for adventurers. One-third of the jobs are based on exploration or supporting services. All kinds of weapons are necessities of life here. Even in the colonies of the New World, they are definitely worthy of the title. Full of unique martial virtues.

The only thing that was more troublesome was the twelve-pound field gun... But thanks to the chaos and congestion when entering the city that day, the beast slave mercenaries unloaded the gun from the gun truck and loaded it into a four-wheeler transporting bacon. The carriage successfully deceived the guards.

What happened next was a matter of course: bounty hunters and mercenaries dispersed and sneaked into every corner of Winter Torch City, agreeing to use the sound of cannons as a signal. Everyone would attack the targeted targets at the same time, set fire to Winter Torch City, and finally take advantage of the chaos. Escape.

The beast slave mercenary group was responsible for attacking the Winter torch city militia barracks to ensure that the other party could not quickly stabilize the situation. In the end, they stormed and captured the parliament, using the Confederate members as hostages, so that the rescue army was forced to let them leave.

A simple plan, a careful arrangement, but still very sparse - Segren guessed that Anson Bach, the commander-in-chief of the Clovis army, might be there, but he didn't expect that the entire Storm Division would come!

Although there was a slight situation, the arrow had to be fired; when the sound of cannons sounded, the beast slave mercenary group attacked the militia barracks in the city.

Despite careful preparations, the process was still very dangerous: in order to ensure the security of the parliament on the day, Winter Torch City specially increased its manpower in advance. There were more than a thousand fully armed soldiers in the military camp, which were not the skills of beast slaves and mercenaries. Easily taken.

But at this moment, a coincidental scene occurred: because of the "assassination incident" in the parliament hall, the entire Winter torch city militia became the object of suspicion and was disarmed by Lieutenant Colonel Norton Crosell.

So when Segren led his men to attack the military camp, they were surprised to find that the enemies were unarmed and dejected, sitting neatly in the open space in the center of the military camp, waiting to be examined.

The beast slave mercenaries annihilated the defenders in the city with almost no effort; at the same time, the bounty hunters who received the signal took action one after another, creating unprecedented chaos in the city and successfully preventing reinforcements from all parties from returning to aid the Parliament.

Seeing the opportunity coming, Segren, who was still anxious and thinking about running away, came up with a bold idea - to hijack the Federal Parliament and kill Anson Bach.

With the ultimate dream of a job promotion and salary increase, and becoming a master, Segren led hundreds of beast slave mercenaries and a twenty-four-pound cannon stolen from the warehouse to launch a surprise attack on the unsuspecting parliament... …

"...The whole process was roughly like this, at least that's what he said frankly."

Slowly taking out a notepad full of confessions, Fabian simply summarized: "Although I personally don't think he would lie, but just in case you'd better not believe it all - according to my observation, There are at least two doubts in this."

"oh?"

Anson raised his eyebrows curiously.

"The first thing that bears the brunt is that he mentioned the so-called 'crossing the wilderness' - I have verified this with many adventurers in Winter torch city, and most people think it is a fantasy." Fabian explained:

"That's not to say it's not possible. It's not uncommon for a small group of a few or even a dozen people to avoid safe roads and cross the wilderness if they are well prepared; but the beast slave mercenary group has hundreds of people. According to Segren's Half of the story is that he led them through the wilderness and waited in advance in the city."

"You think he lied?"

"Maybe he really knows a road that can allow hundreds of people to pass safely in the wilderness of the new world without being easy to find." Fabian changed the subject:

"The other party is an indigenous people. It's not surprising that he knows some secrets that we colonists don't know. I just express doubts - after all, if it really exists, it will have a great impact on the inland colonies headed by Winter Torch City. ”

Indeed... Ansen secretly thought in his heart.

You must know that the other party set out from Sailing City. Even if the team is small and can move lightly, the distance is much farther than that of setting off from Beluga Port. In the end, they can arrive at Winter Torch City before themselves and ambush in advance, which proves this The road is not only short, but should also be quite safe.

In the absence of railways, a road that can transport hundreds or even thousands of people must meet at least several conditions: safety, convenience, a stable source of clean water, and the ability to bear part of the supplies along the way.

Therefore, for an army, especially an army with a size of more than a thousand people, the marching routes that can be chosen are very limited; if you can master a road that the enemy does not know, it is almost equivalent to carrying out a dimensionality reduction strike from outside the map.

Therefore, Fabian will be very concerned about this doubt: he does not care whether the other party is lying, and if there is such a path, whether Yangfan City knows it or not, it may have an impact on the subsequent war.

"As for the second thing, it's the assassination against you." Fabian continued, his tone becoming more solemn than before:

"According to Segren's own confession, he didn't know where you were at the beginning, and he had no intention of 'assassination' - according to his original idea, he hoped to capture you alive as much as possible; including after the assassination operation, This is still his main plan."

"The reason for this arrangement, apart from the fact that he learned that the lounge is an annex of the Parliament and can be easily destroyed and can be used as an attack point to raid the Parliament, is that someone told him in advance that you would be there that afternoon. Appear in that room around the time."

"in advance?"

Out of a cautious instinct, Anson immediately caught the key word in the words: "How early?"

"Before you arrive at Winter torch city."

Fabian glanced at Anson meaningfully, and after a brief pause, he lowered his voice slightly and said:

"To be more precise, one day ago, someone told Sherren that you, Anson Bach, would appear in the lounge at that time."

One day ago? !

Anson's expression showed a bit of astonishment. Could the other party predict where he would appear a day ago?

is it possible?

Just when he wanted to ask further questions, Thalia, who had always been silent, suddenly looked back:

"who?"

There was a hint of murderous intent in her cold tone, and it seemed that in just the blink of an eye, this gentle and considerate girl revealed her fangs like those of wild beasts.

"We're still checking!"

The former Guards officer said hurriedly. The sudden chill from the back of his head made him tremble violently. He staggered back half a step and almost lost his balance: "But unfortunately, the progress is not ideal."

"Currently, the only information we can obtain is the confession of Segren himself. In addition, all the beast slave mercenaries who participated in the assassination have been killed by Miss Lisa Bach. I...we really, really don't have more... …”

"Where is he?"

Thalia interrupted "gently".

"Um?"

Perhaps he was overly frightened, but the usually calm former Guards officer's expression was in a daze, and he didn't even hear what the girl said clearly.

"Shaggren, the leader of the beast slave mercenary group." Thalia repeated very considerately:

"Now, where is he?"

This time Fabian finally heard it clearly: "In, in the side hall of the hall - turn left, the small door on the right is there!"

"Very well...thank you, Lieutenant Colonel Fabian."

Lifting the hem of her skirt with her white hands, the girl stood up unhurriedly and saluted the two of them elegantly: "Talia suddenly remembered that she had something to deal with, so she had to leave for a while."

"Don't worry, Talia will not hurt Mr. Segren. She will ask him a few small questions at most... just a few minutes. By this time tomorrow, he will still be alive in this world intact. From the appearance There is no difference from before.”

Intact, on the surface, alive... Anson, who was saying goodbye to the girl with a smile, felt the corners of his mouth twitching crazily.

It wasn't until Thalia had completely walked away that the two of them, whose expressions were so stiff that they turned to stone, let out a silent sigh of relief.

"In addition to these, Segren also provided some information about Sailing City." Fabian, whose body was finally no longer tense, slowly squatted down, leaned next to Anson and whispered:

"Winter torch city, Long Lake Town, Black Reef Port... In addition to assassinations and causing chaos, many adventurers in various colonies have been bribed to provide information related to us to Sailing City; except for a very few who act alone, the rest may They are more or less related to local families..."

"Don't worry about the things that happen on the wall."

Anson waved his hand, this kind of thing is unavoidable no matter what - even if many loyalists in Gray Pigeon Castle have been killed by the empire, as long as the matter does not fall on them, some people will still take chances, even You will think it is smart to do so.

This kind of people want them to give up completely. In addition to the equal muzzle of all living beings and the high street lights, they are to severely damage the "invincible" imperial army in their minds: "About our 'old friend', Bernard Mo Any news about Elvis?"

"Yes, he has already led the main army of Sail City to officially set off." Fabian nodded slightly:

"Target, Black Reef Port."