When Weiss came out of the General's office, Octavier was waiting for him in the hallway, with a meaningful smile on his face.

"Your Excellency, Commander, I have been ordered to report to you!" Weiss gave her a standard military salute.

"You figured it out so quickly!" Octavir nodded, "Good, very good!" ”

Weiss responded, "I'm always quick to make decisions, and it's a great honor to be able to play alongside you, Instructor, again." ”

"It's good to figure it out, let's not talk about that, let's go see Nikolai! Your good partner. Octavier said.

Half an hour later, in the military sanatorium on the outskirts, Weiss saw his former best friend again. This guy looks a little funny at the moment, with gauze wrapped around his head and a strap hanging from his arm, and he is lying on the hospital bed reading a book, and he is actually reading a book of romantic poetry. Weiss smiled and asked her, "Didn't it make you feel at ease in the rear?" How did you go to the front again. ”

Nikolai replied-for-tat: "You've run away to do your old job, why can't I?" ”

Weiss smiled, "But, I'm back intact!" It's you, on the other hand, who make yourself like this. ”

"Intact?" Nikolai snorted, "Show us that scar on your stomach!" ”

Weiss scratched his head and said, "It seems that I can't hide anything from you!" ”

Octavir laughed, "You two are so funny! When you were at the Batton Military Academy, the two of you were inseparable, and you were simply brothers with different appearances. I haven't been together for a few years, and it's still that tacit understanding. ”

"At that time, he didn't know who I really was!" Nikolai suddenly looked at Weiss very seriously and said, "If you knew, would you still hang out with me every day?" ”

"Ahh Weiss felt that he had encountered a proposition, about his relationship with Nikolai, he also occasionally thought about her, in fact, he had always regarded her as a very good brother, even after knowing his gender, he did not think about it, but a kind of brother's desire to protect the younger brother. When it comes to appearance and character, Nikolai is actually impeccable, but the real obstacle is the huge identity gap between the two, even if the other party doesn't care, Weiss is difficult to overcome, not to mention that Nikolai has never shown his heart, so there is no need to speculate too much, or even make himself amorous.

After thinking seriously for a few seconds, Weiss replied: "At the Batton Military Academy, we are the best partners and the best brothers, and it has nothing to do with identity. ”

"I'll just say it!" Nikolai told Octavier that it seemed that they had talked about something in depth before.

"Men are unmarried, women are unmarried, what does it matter." Octavier joked, but the topic began and ended with her, and she went on to say to Nikolai: "Not very good news...... You have been severely ordered to never touch an airplane again unless you are far from the front line. ”

Nikolai immediately argued: "How can a warrior leave the gun? The front line is my paradise! ”

Octavier seemed to have been entrusted with the task of persuading Nikola Doga: "The Lebold family has made enough sacrifices for this war, and if you make any mistakes, it will be too cruel for an old man." ”

Speaking of this, Nikolai no longer argued, but hung his head helplessly.

Weiss stretched out his hand and touched her head as he had done in the past: "There is no difference between the front line and the rear in war, it is a hero to go into battle to kill the enemy, and it is also a hero to train pilots and improve flight techniques, so you don't have to care too much about the form." ”

Nikolai nodded, and then, she suddenly thought of something: "By the way, why are you two here at the same time?" Could it be that you are going to carry out some kind of mission? ”

Weiss looked at Octavier, who said, "Well, I can't hide anything from you. But don't worry, we've just teamed up to plan an operation, and this operation will probably never appear in the historical record! ”

"Going soon?" Nikolai asked.

Seeing her reluctance, Octavir smiled and said, "No, we'll be in Liberty City for at least two weeks, and he can visit you often until you're discharged." That way, you don't have to rush to get out of the hospital! Then, we're going to do it, and it shouldn't take too long. You see, the two of us are acting together, are you going to tell me to protect him, or should you tell him to protect me? ”

Nikolai laughed and gave a clever and reasonable answer: "You protect each other and must return safely together." ”

After visiting Nikolai, Weiss followed Octavir back to their new station. To be precise, the location of a special service unit on the outskirts of the capital. There, hundreds of special service soldiers are undergoing rigorous training. Now that Weiss has officially moved in, Octavier officially briefed him on the planning of the operation. This plan is not as thrilling as imagined, and their purpose is actually very simple, which is to save a group of people. Before Weiss joined, the special service force had already formulated a rough combat plan, it can be said that it is completely in line with the logic of the current war, that is, with an elite combat force to infiltrate the enemy area, break the defender's vigilance, rescue the relevant personnel, and quickly leave on their own transport, its real difficulty lies in the fact that the target is more than 4,000 miles away from their own control area, and even the latest flying ships need to fly for seven or eight hours.

It doesn't sound like a long time, but it's in the heart of the Norman Empire, the most powerful military empire on the planet, and their homeland defense is not for nothing. A closer look at this plan reveals that there are many things that are difficult to achieve, for example, how to find a target of about 100 people from a town inhabited by thousands of inhabitants and protected by thousands of soldiers, which is a challenge, and there is also a problem that they need to worry about, that is, how to break up such a large number of guards. Octavier told Weiss that the original plan was to use 200 to 300 Special Forces soldiers to rescue about 100 special targets, which added up to exactly the capacity of a light high-speed transport ship. As for the strength of the defenders, the special forces have some information, but it is not enough and not detailed enough, it is known that most of these Norman soldiers are relatively young, and they should not be veterans of the previous war, judging from the training they have received, the combat effectiveness should be below the elite marine troops, maybe slightly stronger than ordinary field troops, so Octavier feels that it is not too difficult to solve the problem.

Such a plan cannot be perfected in a moment. After talking about business, Weiss asked her about her experience in the past few years, in fact, since Aocheng, there have only been a handful of opportunities for them to meet. Weiss has been fighting guerrillas, experienced unforgettable defeats, and ushered in proud victories. Octavir told him that he had experienced a lot of battles over the years, gained a lot of experience, and met some people and things. Most of the time, they were on special missions, such as solving important enemy targets, and for more than a year, they had taken out three military governors and two dozen senior officers stationed in the occupied territories. Octavier quipped that in fact, Weiss's brother was also on the blacklist, but for some reason, it was not executed. "Have you been to the Romance?" Weiss asked, somewhat curious. Octavir stared at the blue sky and pondered for a moment, "No, I haven't been, but I've studied too much about it in this time. Do you know? This information was previously inaccessible to us. So. More and more, I realized that he was not the same evil place as we had imagined. ”

"Anyway, this is our first time on Norman soil, and everything has to be done with extreme care. All the mysteries may continue as we explore, and may remain secrets forever. Weiss said, "Will we meet Dr. Z again this time?" Missing him is my long-standing regret, I would have had the opportunity to bring him back before, but between him and Nikolai, I chose Nikolai, do you say this choice is right? "There is no absolute right or wrong, you choose, you don't regret it, that's fine." But...... If we save Dr. Z before the outbreak of the war or in the early stage of the war, we can actually avoid a lot of casualties and greatly shorten the process of the war, but the situation is different from the past, the Norman technology gap has gradually closed, so we will not go out of our way to break through for him, if he is there, of course we will save him, if not, let it be! ”

As they talked, the camp was filled with the sound of melodious music, the music of a training break, which Weiss didn't pay attention to at first, but as the music continued, his attention was drawn to it. Because that song is so good, not only is it good, but it also seems to be able to inject energy and vitality into people. He asked Octavier, whose song is this? Octavir smiled, "Can't you hear? ”

Sure enough, it's her!

"What's the name of this song?" Weiss asked curiously.

"Look up at the starry sky, it's good!" "It's one of your favorite songs for front-line soldiers, what's the matter, can't you guerrillas hear it?" ”

"We have been living in enemy-occupied areas for a long time, and there are only enemies around us, and there is no beautiful singing voice from us." Weiss replied.

"Oh! She is about to go to the front line to work in the army, and it may take two or three months to go! How about it, are you interested in coming with me to say goodbye to her tonight? Octavier said, "You can get an autographed photo of our big star!" ”

Weiss smiled politely: "If you can go, of course it's good." ”

"Okay!" Octavir replied cheerfully, but then she looked at Weiss, who thought she had something difficult to say, or something she was embarrassed to talk about. As a result, Octavir lowered her voice slightly, but was still talking about business: "You say...... In fact, the Norman Empire had some opponents, they had their own organizations, they had their own arms, was there a way for them to carry out guerrilla warfare? ”

Weiss thought for a moment: "Guerrilla is a state, not just a form. In my personal understanding, the act of rebelling against the rulers in one's own country is not exactly the category of guerrilla warfare, but a kind of resistance, or rather, resistance. Strictly speaking, I think they can follow the model of guerrilla warfare, but it is very, very difficult because they may lack the support of the population, and the most important point of guerrilla warfare is to get the help of the local population. ”

"Hmm...... What you say makes a lot of sense, of course, this is only a preliminary consideration, because the opponents within the enemy want to use our power to overthrow the rule of the Hohenstaufen royal family, and we feel that it is far from time, but it can be properly cultivated, so this time we will go to the Norman Empire and consider bringing them some resources, and at the same time we will get some support from them. Octavier said.

Weiss said: "There are two sides to everything, we can help them, we can get their help, or it may be the other way around, we may involve them, they may also betray us, everything is possible, we have to think about all kinds of possibilities, prepare for the worst." At the same time, from the line of intelligence services. Eliminate hidden dangers as much as possible and find out something wrong early, what do you think? ”

Octavir nodded, and cast her gaze into the distant sky.