Iron Powder and Spellcasters

   Chapter 236 Determination

   Gervodin will come sooner or later.

   Conversely, Winters was waiting for them.

   Outside the town, Winters meets Captain Epert who is stopped by the sentry.

   "Just let me stand here." There was only one guard beside Eper, who saw Winters from a distance, he laughed loudly: "This is not the reason for hospitality!"

  Epper was not a direct predecessor of Winters, but he had helped Winters a lot in the service of Little Dussack.

   The last time Winters went to Gervodin's camp, Epert also gave him a warm reception.

When   Winters saw Eppel, there was also a smile on his face: "Sorry, Captain. The house is being built inside, and it is dusty and inconvenient for guests."

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

   After saying that, Eper took out a silk parcel from the guard's saddle bag.

   He slowly opened the package in front of Winters, which contained a captain's uniform.

Eper explained gently: "I don't know your exact size, but I thought Asco was about the same size as you, so I made this uniform according to his clothes. The tailor is the best in Gervodin, and the material is first-class. one."

   "Thank you." Winters didn't reach for it.

Eper looked at his younger brother carefully, and sighed with emotion: "At this time last year, you were still about the same size as Asco. Looking back this year, this dress is a little 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... Who?"

   "The Republic of Palatu." Eper smiled.

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

  …

   The Kings and Castle factions reorganized the Great Council and announced the resolution to reorganize the [First Republic] into the [New Republic], causing a great uproar in Palatu and even the Alliance.

   The blue blood faction who confronted the kings and castles across the river immediately responded fiercely.

   Amidst the sound of gunfire, the [Provisional Military Government of the Republic of Palato] was established in the capital of Jiangbei Province [Hongchuan].

   Arpad Duyom was appointed as [Marshal of Palatine] and controlled all affairs, big and small.

  The officers and blue-blooded congressmen who followed Arpad became military officials one after another.

  The military government announced: The establishment of the [pseudo-republic] violated the Charter of Sovereignty. Palatu immediately entered a state of war, and the enemy was the pseudo-republic.

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

   The Second Republic did not respond to this, because they had already defined the "Arpad Gang" as [rebel].

  On the land of the old Palatu Republic, two teams, two governments, and two countries appeared at one time.

   The situation is changing so fast that it is dizzying.

   Fortunately, the Republic of Palato is vast, and even if it is divided into two halves, it is larger than the combined area of ​​the provinces and Veneta.

   In order to distinguish the "two countries", people privately refer to the governments of the kings and castles as the [Second Republic], and the Hongchuan Military Government as the [Third Republic].

   Of course, whether it is Zhuwangbao or Hongchuan, the full name they engraved on the crown is still [Palatu People's Republic], excluding the second and third adjectives.

   Because the Second Republic declared that he had inherited the jurisprudence of the First Republic.

   And the Third Republic claimed to be the First Republic from beginning to end.

   In May and June, the two sides fought one after another in the heart of Palato, winning and losing each other.

  In the end, the two armies, who were exhausted by teachers and veterans, vaguely formed a confrontation across the river.

   But with a steady stream of replenishment troops and supplies, the Second Republic has stabilized the enemy.

  July, in the **** night of the Kings Castle, General Sackler died.

  The Grand Chancellor of the Kings Castle [Grove] was still depriving Sackler a little bit of his military power, but in a blink of an eye, the pillar collapsed.

   Arpad saw the fighter plane and launched a series of counterattacks, defeating Major General [Roland], the frontline commander appointed by Grove himself.

  The army of the Second Republic north of the Jinliu River was swept away, and countless corpses drifted down the river, even into the moats of the kings' castles.

  But Arpad failed to break through the Jhinliu River after all, and the confrontation across the river was not broken, but gradually stabilized.

   These are all things before September.

   When the two armies fought **** rivers, Winters, who triggered a new round of war, didn't know it.

   During that time, all he thought about was "What to eat tomorrow? What to eat the day after tomorrow? What to eat the day after tomorrow?"

  It wasn't until Father Carman brought back the news that the remnants of the [Montagne Brigade] were in Gervodin, and Winters rushed to the county capital to meet with his comrades in arms. He didn't know what happened to the outside world after he escaped from the castles.

  …

   And now, Winters Montagne, the main participant in the **** night of the castles, asked Eper with a smile: "Which Republic? The first? The second? The third? Or the Republic of General Adams?"

   "There is only one Republic of Palatu." Eper didn't answer directly.

   He took off a small piece of dust that fell on the uniform, but the dust still left a small white mark on the cloth: "You don't need to worry about it, just think it was given to you by Major Ronald."

   "Major Ronald, is he okay?"

   "He's very good." Eper laughed: "It's just not in a good mood."

After laughing, Captain Appel gradually became serious, and he stared into Winters' eyes and asked, "Are Andrea Cellini, Richard Mason, and Budd all with you? "

   "Yes," Winters simply admitted.

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

   Winters nodded.

   The sentry beside him turned and ran towards the barracks, calling someone to go.

   "Is Asko alive?"

   Lieutenant Asko was a Gervoudan officer who followed Bud and Mason to "suppress the bandits", and of course he disappeared without a trace.

   "Association is fine and uninjured." Winters answered honestly, "He's learning to weave straw shoes recently."

"It's good to be alive." Eper took a long sigh of relief: "He just got married four months ago, and I was afraid all the way, afraid that I wouldn't know how to face Asko's new wife, and it was good to be alive. "

"rest assured."

  Epper's conversation turned, his brows furrowed unconsciously: "The expropriation team sent to the south of Gervoudin was all led by you?"

   "Yes." Winters didn't hide it.

Eper chuckled lightly, and his expression was still three-pointed with relief: "I knew, how could a bandit have such skills? It must have been done by his own people. I suspected that it was you, but everyone said that you were dead. , there are people who say that they have seen your body, and this idea is also dispelled."

   "Many people died, I just survived."

"You know what?" Eppel 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 toe of Senior Eppel's boot.

Appel asked with a wry smile: "But I'm a little strange. You are the mayor of Langtun Town. You can stop the expropriation team coming to Wolf Town. Do you want to intervene in the expropriation team?"

   "I... the five towns and villagers asked me to be their protector." Winters blushed slightly.

  Eper was stunned at first, and then laughed, tears streaming down his face.

Suddenly, he put away his smile and frowned: "Protect people? Are you still the Earl of Wolf Town? You are an officer, a guardian of the republic system with ten years of enlightenment education! Protector? Do you want to be independent in the republic! Dominate one side! Be a nobleman?!"

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

   "Then what do you want to do?"

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

   "I'll send you the transfer order!" Eper took out four lacquered orders: "Captain Montagne, you can go back to Veneta."

   He carefully took out a wooden box, which contained a golden cross of olive leaves.

Eper 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, bring this military uniform, bring this Go back to the medal.

   Don't worry about military status, we will give you a page and turn it around. Your military exploits will also be recorded truthfully, and no one has the right to gossip about you. The orders of Cellini, Mason and Bud are also here, and they can go or go. Let's go... let's go. "

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

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

   "Which Republic gave me orders?" he asked.

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

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

   "There is no army headquarters in the castles of the kings, only the army committee."

   "Then that's not my fault." Winters smiled brightly.

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

   "Don't go."

   "Okay, then come to Gervodin." Eperre tore the four transfer orders to shreds: "You don't want to leave, we are very welcome. Major Ronald needs an experienced deputy."

   "Gevodan will continue to forcefully levy money?" Winters asked rhetorically.

   "It's not that Geraldine wants to, and Major Ronald doesn't want to either." Epert bitterly defended: "General Adams has given a death order, and the materials we have collected will also be sent to Maplestone City."

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

   "Then what do you want to do?" Eper widened his eyes and shouted.

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

  Epel stood still for a while.

He suddenly grabbed Winters by the shoulders, because the speed was too fast and even a little broken: "You stupid boy, do you know what you are doing? You only have a small town, and you have to fight against Gervodin and New Zealand. Reclamation, the whole New Reclamation Corps, even the entire Palatu! They move their fingers and you're done! We're saving you! Don't be silly, go home! You're a Veneta, you don't need it Bleed for Plato!"

   "You're wrong, senior." Winters was extremely happy: "I'm a serious Paratus officer, and my military registration is still in Paratus!"

  Epper 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 a little respect.

  Bud, Andre, and Mason rushed over from the barracks.

  Eper looked at the three people behind and asked calmly: "You are going to follow him, right?"

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

   "That's good." Eper nodded and asked again, "Can I take Asko with me?"

   "Sorry, senior, no." Winters replied a little embarrassedly: "Asscientist wants to drink and eat meat again. Originally, he only owed fifteen hundred man-hours, but now he owes two thousand."

   "Okay, I'm leaving." Eper didn't say much nonsense, nodded at a few people, stepped on the stirrup, and galloped away.

   Winters kept watching Eper, until the senior disappeared behind the hillside: "Let's go."

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

  …

  Epper did not go far, and after riding for about two kilometers, he stopped.

  He and his **** took off the iron bits of the war horse, and took out two bales of corn from the saddlebag, as if they were resting their horses.

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

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

   They are not farmers, they are spies and spies of Gervodin.

   "How?" Eper asked.

The lead scout replied: "The villages in Wolf Town are all normal, and no soldiers were found living in peasant houses. However, a large military camp was built in the center of the town. Couldn't get in."

   "I also saw the military camp." Eper smiled and shook his head: "But I couldn't go in and have a look. My junior, I'm thinking carefully."

"That?"

  Captain Eppel re-bridled the warhorse: "You wait here."

  Eper and his guards got back on the road and rushed to the Blackwater River Walk without stopping.

   For a journey of more than 20 kilometers, I only stopped the horse once.

   By the time they reached their destination, the forest on the north bank of the Heishui River, the warhorse was already frothing from exhaustion, and its sides were dripping with sweat, as if it had just been fished out of the water.

   A hunter-like man was waiting for Captain Eper. When he saw the captain coming back, he immediately led the captain to the depths of the woodland.

   Deep in the woods, Major Ronald was waiting for Epel.

   "How?" Major Ronald asked.

  Epper shook his head with a wry smile.

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

   The sergeant's scolding came and went in the forest, and there was the sound of tapping on the trunk, which was to wake those who were asleep.

  The cover formed by the canopy came down, and stood up a piece of black people.

   Winters, Ronald... They all had the same military training, and they were all too familiar with each other.

The annihilation of the    Cellini Centuries may have been an accident.

  But after Bud and Mason's troops were also "annihilated", if Major Ronald didn't understand what was going on, he was a pure idiot.

   Winters was so obvious and reckless that it was impossible for Gervodin to not notice.

   So Major Ronald came along with two brigades.

   Ronald gave Winters one last chance to get out, but he didn't take it.

   Then, Gervodan has only one option left—violence.

   Ronald was going to smash the rebellion with one punch.

"Let's go now! Be quick! Don't give him time to react!" Major Ronald summoned all the officers: "They're not sleeping on the farm, all the rebels are in the barracks in the center of town. That's good, we can do it in one fell swoop. Destroy them."

  The forest was silent, the centurions were silent.

"What we have to face is not rogues or bandits, but an organized and disciplined army. The commander of this army has received the same training as us, and in terms of actual combat experience, it is even richer than you and me. This is not a bandit suppression, this is a civil war! Do not be careless if you are fighting in the same room."

   The eyes of the centurions became a little dim.

  The banks of the Ember River—the heart of Palatu—have been turned into battlefields, but the fires of war have yet to reach new ground.

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

   "Our soldiers lack training and morale is low." Major Ronald glanced at his subordinates: "But there are two good news, their soldiers are equally poor in training and morale, and we have an absolute superiority in strength!"

   This is Gervoudan's all-out blow, and it has to be a clean and deadly blow.

"Intelligence shows that Winters Montagne is a very powerful spellcaster." Major Ronald deployed standard anti-magic combat forces for this: "Don't give him a chance to melee, find him, Blow the trumpet at once! Captain Eper!"

"Yes!"

"My best musketeers are in your hands, and you won't be able to shoot me if you don't see Winters Montagne." Major Ronald's eyes were stern: "There is no comradeship now, only you are alive and dead. !"

  Captain Eper nodded heavily: "Yes!"

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

   "Go!" He waved his hand.

  …

   Gervodin's two brigades attacked at dawn.

  The wolf at dawn is calm and quiet, like a wolf coiled in a den, falling asleep.

  The new recruits who entered the battlefield for the first time, led by the officers, rushed to the town center from all directions shouting.

  The soldiers of Gervodin rushed out from the forest outside the town. One group went straight to the center of the town, and the other group followed the river outside the town from the north side.

  500m, 300m, 100m…

The wooden fence 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 stood up in fright. They stood at the periphery of Wolf Town, at a loss.

   The centurion's vine whip slammed down: "Go! Kill! What are you doing standing there stupidly!"

  The recruits started running towards Wolf Town again, but this time, they didn't dare to let go of their footsteps like before.

   "Major!" Captain Epert panted to find Major Ronald: "No one!"

   "What?" Ronald jumped up in surprise.

   "There is no one in the barracks! There is no one in the town. When I came in the morning, there was obviously someone!"

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

   He punched the tree hard, and the dead leaves and fruit **** fell like rain.

   "Fuck!" Ronald yelled, "Broken!"

  …

  Winters, Ronald...they all have the same training to understand each other's tactical thinking.

   Ronald knew Winters, and Winters knew Ronald.

   But Ronald got it wrong—all Gervoudin officers got it wrong.

   A town against a county is crazy enough for them.

   But they still underestimated the madness, guts and determination of Winters Montagne!

   At the same time, the gate of Gervodin.

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

   A dazed head stuck out from the door and asked vaguely, "Who the **** are you?"

  Revodan had no city walls and fortifications, and the current earthen walls, wooden walls and trenches were made temporarily a few months ago.

   "I'm Ish from Ganshui Town! Sergeant Ish?"

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

   "Who the **** said I'm dead?"

   "Oh...then you're not dead. You can't open the door now, you wait, wait until dawn to open the door before you come in."

  The soldiers outside the door angrily shouted and scolded: "Fuck you! Open the door for Lao Tzu! I finally escaped back, and I'm going to starve to death!"

   "Well, wait for a while." The soldier on the gate said reluctantly: "Now the officer has agreed to open the door. I will go to Lieutenant Elek and ask him to open the door for you..."

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

   A steel nail was shot through his skull, and he first leaned back, then slowly fell forward, and finally fell to the city wall.

   The figures of Lieutenant Colonel Moritz and Lieutenant Juan emerged from the darkness, and the sound of noisy footsteps came from behind them. I don’t know how many people were hiding.

   "What the **** are you talking about with him?" Don Juan's temper was extremely irritable now.

  Ish Sansan of Ganshui Town nodded.

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

   [Revordan didn't come to find Winters, and Winters would take the initiative to find Revordan. Ronald did not expect that Winters Montagne was so bold, so... crazy. Since ancient times, only officials have suppressed bandits, bandits have suppressed officials... Then he is not a "bandit"]

[Background remarks: New Reclamation Province has seven counties under its jurisdiction. The capital of the province is Maplestone City. The New Reclamation Corps, which controls the New Reclaimed Land, is the commander of the regiment [Kevin.J. Adams], which is the Militia of the Wolf Town of Omen , the person who gave Winters the call-up. As the most southwestern county in the province, Tiefeng County, its capital is "Revodan". There are 17 towns below Gervoudan, the wolf town where Winters is located, the smallest and poorest, can be called the edge of the world]

   Quoted in the original text [Major General of the Republic of Palato, Commander of the Regiment of the New Reclamation, recipient of the Order of the Violet, Kevin J. Adams issues this order in accordance with the glorious and inviolable Told Protocol. Langtun Town, under the jurisdiction of the co-administered county, is obliged to provide militia as auxiliary troops when the new reclamation army needs it]

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