Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 368 Scapegoat

  Francois took the initiative to arrange it, and Joseph did not pretend to refuse, and immediately said seriously: "With the help of the Guard Corps, we will be able to completely solve this gang of gangsters as quickly as possible!"

   "I am very relieved about this." Francois no longer doubted Joseph's ability, "Speaking of which, have you paid attention to the situation in the west?"

   "West... Do you mean the border conflict between the Sdar Kingdom and the Castelia Empire?" Joseph asked.

   "Exactly."

"Be more concerned. I heard that both sides have deployed a lot of troops. It seems that they want to take this opportunity to formally resolve the historical issues and determine the ownership of the Marcy area." Although Joseph was busy all day , but it is not clear about the disputes in neighboring countries, "You mentioned this because..."

Francois took a sip of his wine: "According to the information we have so far, the war between the two parties is definitely inevitable, and the scale may not be much worse than that of Bash. And this level of The war broke out on the border of our Bresci, and we will have to send troops to intervene in it. In this way, we will not only go to Bash with the Welland Allied Forces, but also send troops to solve the side of Stall and Castelia conflicts, more than half of our energies will be involved.”

  Joseph understood what Francois meant: "Are you worried that the Equality Association will seize this opportunity to become more active and engage in some big actions that have bad influence?"

"This has to be guarded against." The scene of the Equality Council attacking the government building a year ago is still vivid, and Francois is afraid that after a year of dormancy, the Equality Council will come up with a new one when they have no resources. Moth, "The war over there will start in a few days, and nothing will happen to Laizein."

   "Don't worry." Joseph reassured again, and at the same time saw the purpose of Francois' conversation.

  The breakthrough made by the Independent Mixed Division today in the operation to eliminate the Equality Society is only part of the reason why François decided to fully support himself.

  He asked himself to come here today, in fact, specifically to give himself the command of the Guard Corps. Even if the independent editor didn't destroy the Equality Society today, he still wants to see this side tonight.

Because even though Francois was extremely unwilling to see the situation where the military power was concentrated in one hand, under the pressure of various external factors, under the temptation of restoring the monarchy and ascending the throne, he still had to let the independent mixed division and The guard corps twisted into one rope to maintain the stability of Laizein.

  But this does not mean that Joseph and the others have made so many layouts before. It is superfluous to work hard with Arthur to eradicate Maguire.

   Gaining the support of François, and making Arthur, the leader of the follow-up Guard Corps, willingly hand over military power, is the most beneficial situation for Joseph to let the Guard Corps be used by himself and the Equality Club.

  Although the equipment of the Guard Corps is not as good as that of the independent mixed division, and its military quality is also far behind, it is an armed force of more than 30,000 people. After being integrated with the independent mixed division and the War Department of the Equality Society, the army of 50,000 to 60,000 people will become the sharp edge of the revolution, sweeping Brexi with the will of the people.

   "I will notify Maguire later, and then the two of you will see how to coordinate your work in private, and come to me to solve any situation." Francois gave Joseph a lot of power.

"Well, this new coordination is estimated to take a few days to complete. With the full support of the Guard Corps, we will also need to make some improvements in our follow-up operations. In short, I assure you that within half a month we will definitely achieve Even greater results, the chaotic party will be wiped out within a month, and Lezein and Brecy will be at peace!" Joseph promised François with his chest up, without blushing.

  —

   Late night

  Equality Association, terminus, conference room

"Among the seventy-nine comrades who acted with the independent mixed division this time, only two were hit by stray bullets and caused minor injuries. They are currently receiving proper treatment in the independent mixed division camp. The other comrades are for safety's sake , were all imprisoned." Ross came back specifically to report on the resettlement of the captured comrades.

"This kind of arrangement is the best. If you want to do a show, you have to do it well. You can't be caught and serve him with food and drink. When the news reaches Francois, Joseph and the others will not be able to explain it. ’” Boin didn’t mind that his acting comrades were locked up, and he even suggested that a proper interrogation could take place.

  Ross wrote down what Boyne said: "Then I'll go back and talk to them."

Adel, who came back together, then said: "At night, Arthur and I met again. This time he heard that the independent editor really took down several sites of the Equality Society, plus the news from Maguire. Knowing that François has now handed over the command of the Guard Corps to Joseph, he began to have confidence in our capabilities and was very willing to cooperate."

  Byne had expected this. Under the general situation, a little Arthur couldn't play against them at all.

"We have finalized the specific plan for tomorrow this time. He hasn't had time to decide on the assassination candidate, but the assassination time and the murderer's evacuation route after the assassination have been arranged. At ten o'clock tomorrow night, Maguire will be there without accident. Work in the office. When the time comes, Arthur will send someone to assassinate him, and let the assassin flee to the area of ​​​​our patrol troops to kill him on the spot. You also arrange the same time to go to the parliament to make some noise, and everything will be done You're done." Adel said.

   "Morais." Boyne looked at Morais who was mainly in charge of this matter.

   "No problem, then we will act at ten o'clock tomorrow." Morais agreed.

  A cadre participating in the meeting said: "Joseph went to see Francois at night. Francois has handed over the military power of the Guard Corps to him. Is there still a great need for us to cooperate with Arthur?"

Verak, who was smoking silently, took a puff of his cigarette and flicked the ash into the ashtray: "We have already dealt with Arthur, and now it will be very troublesome to turn around and work with Maguire. And Maguire has too many thoughts, why not Arthur is in control."

   "Well, this matter must be aroused tomorrow." Morais hadn't shot for a while, and was thinking of taking the people from the war department to practice guns again this time.

"Our Propaganda Department has also been deploying personnel to the Guard Corps to do propaganda work recently. With the experience accumulated by the independent mixed division, the speed should be faster this time." The Propaganda Department led by Piaf also participated. .

   "Okay, all departments act according to the original plan." Boyin nodded slightly.

"I think it is necessary for us to analyze the conflict between the Kingdom of Stall and the Empire of Castelia." As the meeting was about to end, Keating brought up another extremely important matter," Joseph said, Franco Va concluded that a large-scale war would break out between the two countries, and the war would spread to the territory of Bresci, so he was already organizing the army to intervene in the past. Let's not talk about what important information Francois has. , before the opponent started to fight, we made preparations first, let's talk about the impact of this shot first."

Boyne probably knew what Keating wanted to say: "Francois is going to go on an expedition with the Welland Allied Forces, and he will also send troops to intervene in another large-scale war. If the energy and strength of the company are involved in these two things, we will It is the best time to occupy Laizein."

   "Yes, this should be our best chance to make a move. Judging from the time, it will be about a week later." Keating said.

   "...Our current preparatory work is coming to an end. Once we hold the Guard Corps in our hands and each branch station is ready to respond, there is really no reason to wait any longer." Boyin said after a few seconds of silence.

   Everyone looked at each other involuntarily.

   They control Laizein openly and aboveboard, and the day of liberating Brecy is coming soon.

"Currently, we have set up a total of 71 sub-stations in the major cities of Brexi. Now these sub-stations are carrying out propaganda work, recruiting reserve members, and purchasing weapons." said Liszt, the head of the Coordination Department, "very It’s hard to say whether the sub-stations are ready or not, it can only be said that the more time goes on, the more prepared everyone is.”

"The time is not in a hurry. The war does not end when it is fought, but in order to deal with various emergencies, we must always be ready to control Lezein and liberate Brecy. We must make sure that if we decide today, we can start action tomorrow, or even on the same day, to overthrow this country with thunderous power and build a brand new world." Boyin looked at the participants seriously, "I will give the last one to each department first. Time limit, June 15th. Complete all preparations before June 15th, after the 15th, we will wait for the opportunity, any day may formally change the country.”

   It was not long after midnight, and there were still ten days before June 15th.

Within ten days, the Kingdom of Sidr and the Empire of Castelia will inevitably go to war, Francois will also send a large army to intervene, and the Equality Society will also take down Francois' last hole card in Lezein- Guard Corps.

Ten days later, when the time is ripe and ready, hundreds of thousands of Equality comrades will emerge from all over Bressis to overthrow the rule of the bourgeoisie composed of François and the dignitaries, and lead the people to initiate a Great liberation movement.

   "Okay, everyone, let's prepare for tomorrow's affairs first. We will win in the end. The meeting will be adjourned." It was late, and there was an important action tomorrow, so Boyin didn't let everyone discuss this matter any more.

  Out of the conference room, most people left one after another and went back to the room to rest.

  Verak will not participate in the feigned attack on the Guard Corps to rescue the Parliament faction, so there is still plenty of time for him, so he went directly to Vikenji, August, and Clark to continue learning Bash.

   Morais took the cadres of the War Department, and Adel worked out a detailed action plan for the night of the 5th in another conference room.

   Piaf and Ross also did not rest. The backbone of the Propaganda Department gathered in Piaf's office to discuss the follow-up propaganda work of the independent mixed division, guard corps, and sub-stations.

  From this night, the Equality Society's full-scale counterattack officially began the countdown.

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  One day later, on the evening of June 5th, at 9:58

  Guard Corps Station, Maguire's Office

   Maguire sat on a chair and smoked boredly.

   General Joseph temporarily took over the Guard Corps, which made him feel a little relieved.

   Someone is willing to help him take risks, help him solve big troubles, and leave soon after Lazer is stable, leaving himself an unconstrained environment, which is of course the best.

   "Hiss... Huh..." Maguire smoked a cigarette, thinking of this as a vacation with nothing to lose.

   Under the smoke, his eyes narrowed, revealing a faint killing intent.

  He knew that Francois was sending Arthur to stare at him. If he was a little careless, the position of head of the guard regiment would be replaced by Arthur.

  Now that the corps has been handed over to Joseph to command and mobilize, he can free up his hands to deal with this powerful threat.

   "Boom boom boom."

   "Who?" Maguire was planning how to separate Francois and Arthur, but there was a knock on the office door.

   "Captain, it's me, Edgar." A voice came from outside the door.

   "Enter." Edgar was one of Maguire's confidantes, and he allowed the other party to come in without any doubt.

  Edgar outside the door glanced at the guard in front of the office door, pushed the door open and said, "Commander."

   "What's wrong?" Maguire asked coldly with his legs on the desk.

   "I have something important to report to you." Edgar turned and closed the office door, and walked to the front of the office.

"what-"

"Don't talk, if you dare to make any movement now, I will shoot immediately." Before Maguire could finish asking what was going on, Edgar raised his pistol neatly and pointed it at the horse who was only one meter away from him. Quill.

   Maguire's forehead suddenly burst into cold sweat, and the whole person woke up instantly from the drowsy state: "You..."

   "I didn't intend to kill you, I just have a request." Edgar comforted the frozen Maguire, "You follow my instructions and write a letter to François, and I will leave after writing."

"W-what letter? What's wrong with you?" Facing the muzzle that could end his life at any time, Maguire could hardly maintain his composure. "You are my most trusted subordinate. If you have any difficult needs, you can contact me directly. Say, why make it so embarrassing?"

   "I don't want to burden you. You can finish writing the letter according to my request. As for what is going on, you will know tomorrow." Edgar said.

"Okay..." Maguire judged from Edgar's words that he would not hurt himself, and his limp body was able to move a little bit, "I will, I will write, you must not shoot, be careful fire."

   Speaking, Maguire raised his hands, put his legs down from the desk, then carefully took out the letter paper from the side, and picked up the pen.

   Edgar approached and said: "Write, respected Mr. President François."

"Okay..." Maguire wiped the sweat from his forehead, touched the pen tremblingly, and wrote a crooked line on the letter paper, "You, do you think this is okay? Either, or I will change it Paper rewriting?"

   "No, continue." Edgar came behind Maguire with cold eyes, "Write, I'm sorry to write such a sudden letter."

   "Huh..." Maguire tried to calm down his emotions, and wrote on a new line on the letter paper according to Edgar's instructions.

  When Maguire was concentrating on trying to stabilize his writing, Edgar slowly put down the gun and raised a short knife again.

   "Write, write, and then -"

   "Poof!"

  Before writing the third sentence of the letter, Edgar covered Maguire's mouth with one hand, held the knife with the other, and inserted the knife into Maguire's neck.

   "Woo!"

   Maguire's eyes widened and his body twisted wildly.

  Edgar clamped Maguire tightly with both hands, preventing him from making any big noises.

   Soon, Maguire's movements weakened, and he no longer had the strength to struggle and resist. After waiting for a while, Edgar dragged him aside and put him on the ground. Watching his body spasm slightly, he pulled off his blood-stained coat and calmly wiped the blood on his hands.

   After handling all this quickly, he walked out of the office without changing his expression, nodded slightly to the guard, and walked straight out of the guard regiment's station.

In the deputy head's office, Arthur watched as Edgar's figure came out of Maguire's office and disappeared into the night again. Bold assassination.

  —

  Outside the station

  Edgar ran towards the south according to the previously agreed route with Arthur.

  This morning, Arthur had secretly given him a reward so rich that he could never spend it in his lifetime, and specially arranged someone in the southern district to pick him up and leave Lazein.

He didn't question or worry about Arthur's arrangement, because since he assassinated Maguire, the two of them were grasshoppers on the same rope. Arthur had to ensure his own safety, otherwise he would have to confess if he was caught. his danger.

   Not long after, Edgar, who was running out of breath, saw the front of the main road, and neat rows of cavalrymen were waiting for him under the street lights.

   Is this the person Arthur said to support him?

should be.

  If it was a normal patrol team, they would not block the intersection in a daze and remain motionless. These cavalry were obviously waiting for themselves.

   "No wonder..." Edgar grinned.

  He realized that Arthur had colluded with the independent mixing division, otherwise how could he think of assassinating Maguire with his little means.

   It's just that Edgar's smile just piled up for a few seconds, and then quickly receded.

   "Damn it!" Edgar's hairs stood on end, his mind buzzing, and he turned and fled without staying for a second.

  The cavalry, which was tens of meters away from him, had already raised their guns in unison a few seconds ago, and rushed towards him on horseback.

   "Edgar! Are you crazy!" Edgar scolded himself on the way to flee for his life that he lost his head when he saw the money, and that he would trust Arthur to guarantee his safety!

   It would be strange if he didn't kill himself to silence his tongue!

"boom!"

   "Stop!" The cavalry shot at Edgar.

  Edgar knew very well that as long as he stopped, his life would definitely be gone. He ran hard while raising his gun and firing randomly at the back.

   "Bang bang bang!"

   "Bang bang!"

  After a random shot, the bullets were quickly emptied.

  Edgar decisively threw away the useless iron bumps, looking for an alley that might be able to throw off the cavalry.

   But before he found the alley, there was a "da da da" sound in front of him.

  In a short while, another cavalry regiment appeared, blocking his only way of life.

  Ambush!

   Arthur wants himself to die today!

   Was spotted by a patrol on the street, and he shot himself in resistance, so it was logical to kill him on the spot!

  Edgar stopped, turned his head and looked at the cavalry that surrounded him, and roared: "Ah—"

"boom!"

   "Bang bang!"

   "Bang bang bang!"

   Before he could say Arthur's name, his voice turned into a cry of pain, and then he fell straight into a pool of blood.

  (end of this chapter)