Back on December 30, the 50th year of the imperial power, Bucharest, the barracks south of the city, the 15th squad of the Imperial VIP Protection Team, this platoon-level combat team has been here for more than ten days, since receiving the task of reconnoitring here, they spent half a month running from Brandenburg here.

After entering Romania, they did a lot of work, and there was indeed a serious conflict between the nobility and the commoners, but they did not find much sign of a rebellion.

After the fifteenth squad entered Bucharest in a high-profile manner, they sent a squad or small group of reconnaissance forces to many surrounding towns, and in the vicinity of the Romanian capital, it seemed that the contradictions between people of different ranks were calmer than in the provincial borders, in short, everything seemed to be normal.

When the twenty-seventh day of the big year came, Lieutenant Hawke of the fifteenth squad ordered a comprehensive contraction, and the troops scattered into the surrounding towns came back one after another, and by the Chinese New Year's Eve, the entire south of the city barracks, except for the fifteenth squad was still going out normally, the city guards belonging to Bucharest, almost no one could be seen, which made Hawke extremely contemptible, are these people civil servants?

Regardless of these nominal troops, he was ready to go back immediately after the year, but his adjutant, Staff Sergeant Haig, jumped out: "Captain, don't you think it's too normal here? The leaders of several groups who went down to reconnoiter have reported that when they asked someone to understand the situation, the answers were too similar, and the captain should pay attention to this situation!"

"The same situation, the natural answer is much the same, it's nothing, we'll go back after the New Year!" said Hawke, who crossed his arms and crossed his chest as he watched his soldiers on the playground practicing normally.

"Captain, besides, the situation in this barracks is also very suspicious, those veterans have slipped home at this time and said that they have said in the past, but how dare those recruits sneak away? It doesn't make sense!" Sergeant Haig was also looking at the soldiers who were practicing on the playground.

"Haig, you're too worried, the military discipline in this place is sloppy, and you have also seen that in addition to the new recruits, the old soldiers, how many qualified soldiers are there? The upper beam is not right, how can you keep the lower beam from crooked? I think this phenomenon is very normal, those recruit eggs are just the same. Hawke walked out of the makeshift office, walked to the edge of the training ground, and shouted a few shouts, and the soldiers on the playground immediately worked hard.

In a small building not far away, two people were also watching the training ground: "Sancho, didn't our people withdraw and let them suspect it?"

"Oh, my lord, that Hockage is so stupid that he still thinks that the people who live in the barracks with them are unorganized and undisciplined veterans and a whole bunch of uneducated raw melons and eggs, and there is nothing to worry about. The man named Sancho glanced contemptuously at the playground, and said respectfully and with a little humor to the man standing beside him.

"Take care of them, until tomorrow morning, I don't want anything wrong, tomorrow is their day, let them live these last few hours. With that, the lord turned and left.

"Yes, my lord, you can rest assured that I am here. Sancho bowed down to see the lord away, and by the time he straightened up, the lord had already disappeared, and he turned around again, and continued to monitor the playground, although he did not look at it, in fact it was all the same, and around this barracks, there were already more than two hundred soldiers, and in their opinion, none of the fifty soldiers in the barracks wanted to leave here alive.

At nightfall, the soldiers of the fifteenth squad who had finished their day's training found that today's food had not been increased because of the festival, but had been seriously reduced, and as the elite armed forces of the empire, they showed strict discipline, and none of them raised any objections.

It was their leading commander, Lieutenant Hawke, who was quite complaining, and chattered about a meal, but unfortunately, none of the Roman Roni orderlies came to deal with the chief.

After the meal, Haig, who was a staff sergeant, found an opportunity to say to him: "Captain, the situation is not quite right for dinner today, those Romanians are too lazy, I am afraid that the situation will change." ”

"Hmph, these people are just taking advantage of the festival to give me a little face, you see this barracks, there is no one at all, they are disgusted that we are still here and not leaving, so they just make me some pig food to drive us away. "Lieutenant Hawke still doesn't see anything in these appearances.

"Haig, is there any news from Team Fourteen?" After being reminded by Haig repeatedly, Hawk felt that it was better to be careful, and he asked like his deputy in charge of almost all the miscellaneous items.

"Not yet, the last contact was last week, and there wasn't much new, but they reminded us that maybe the Romanians would make a little bit of a move, and that this calm is an anomaly in this period of intense conflict between rich and poor. Although he had said these words once last week, he thought about it today and said to Hawke again.

"Okay, let's be careful, add double posts tonight, double the number of secret posts, report the situation at any time, send someone out, find a way to contact the fourteenth team, and order them to move closer to us. Hawke looked at the sky that was already completely dark, and after being reminded by Haig, he also felt that the atmosphere was so strange at this time.

"Captain, it seems a bit inappropriate to give orders to the Fourteenth Squad, right?" Haig thought about the instructions given to them by the division commander when he came out of the imperial capital, and reminded Lieutenant Hawke a little.

Although in the Guards, two squads that are on duty at the same time are under the command of a senior officer in the absence of clear instructions from the command department, in this mission, it is precisely this situation that Hawke of the 15th Squad, the rank of lieutenant, and the captain of the 14th Squad, Link, his rank is only a second lieutenant, according to the traditional habits of the Guards, the 14th Squad should accept the leadership of the 15th Squad without a clear order.

But Haig thought about another instruction that the division had pointed out to them, although this instruction was ignored by the fourteenth and fifteenth squads collectively, but it was this instruction that clarified the command of their two squads, and unfortunately, none of the two squads received the command.

The command of this operation was given to the commander of a reconnaissance team composed of mercenaries, and this commander made both Hawk and Link extremely unconvinced, because, this commander was just the leader of a mercenary group a month ago, for the mercenary group, even if it was the top level, after the national emergency bill was activated, the mercenary group was all taken over by the army, it was just a battalion-level combat team, and it was also a second-line unit, under normal circumstances, a regular squad of their Guards, fully capable and powerful to lead such a battalion-level combat team。

Therefore, when the command fell into the hands of such a mercenary commander, the two captains were naturally not convinced, but because of this order, the fourteenth squad was also out of the control of the fifteenth squad, so it was Haig's suggestion to Chief Hawke.

"Whew~" Hawke exhaled heavily, he stood in place, and the Haig behind him almost crashed into him, Hawke looked up at the sky again, and said for a while: "Where is the unscrupulous mercenary earl?"

"Nedrak, their men tried to contact us, and we didn't pay attention, but we have been following their movements, and they don't move forward when they get to Nedrak, and it seems that they have the intention of holding on to that important place. "Haig's mind is like a computer, and if you look at it once, you will carve it into it.

"Hehe, they seem to be quite able to carry out the order! I remember that the order given to them by the military department was to hold on to Nadrak, and once the situation changes, control this back road for us!" Hawke smiled sarcastically, in his opinion, this is a sign of lack of progress, Haig looked at Hawke, Hawke was also looking at him, the two looked at each other for a while, and laughed tacitly together, for them, do they still need someone to guard the back road for them?

However, it is better to have someone to guard the back road than to have no one to guard it, and Hawke ordered again: "Send another man to Nadrak, and let the Lord Earl guard Nadrak until we return in triumph." ”

"Captain, he's the commander of our operation!

"Is there anything wrong? Does he understand military affairs? A mercenary regiment leader, I heard that he took the princess's line, so he is so successful, this time let him command, just to give face to the military department, otherwise he will not let him guard in Nedrak, could it be that he can still be our colt?" Hawk glanced contemptuously in the direction of Nedrak.

"This, this is hard to say!"

"It's hard to say a! If you want to order us, wait until he really becomes a colt, go down and give orders! Hawke said with a smile.

Soon, two horsemen rushed through the empty streets, galloped out of the north gate of Bucharest, and galloped towards northern Romania and Nadrak, respectively.

A few minutes later, their movements were already on the table of Don Quixote, the commander of the Romanian provincial city defense forces, he looked at it twice, and immediately said to his adjutant: "Sancho, send a few people, you can't let them contact the others, from now on, I will make the fifteenth squad deaf and blind!"

"Yes!" Sancho answered, and quickly went out, three minutes later, in the barracks in the north of the city, more than thirty soldiers led their horses, quietly walked out of the barracks, and quietly passed through the city gate, and after they left the city more than two hundred meters, they took off the sackcloth wrapped in the horse's hooves, and the mouth of the horse's mouth, and then the thirty soldiers turned over and got on their horses, and they automatically divided into two teams and chased down the two soldiers who had left the fifteen squads before.

At about half past ten that night, Hawke, who was already preparing to lie down and rest, was called out to by Haig: "Captain, the secret sentry found a suspicious figure wandering at the camp gate at the west gate of the barracks. ”

This situation was no longer an insignificant event at this time, and no matter how big Hawke was, he did not dare to joke with the lives of fifty brothers, he jumped out of bed, dressed in three or two, ran to the west gate, and secretly ran to the side of the secret sentinel, and he asked: "Hohenheim, what is the situation?"

"Captain, the snack bar across the street was closed when the sun went down, but now it's open again, and a few of the diners there, well, don't look like diners at all, and they're all eating, and they always look at us from time to time. The sentry, Hohen Shaoheim, pointed to a brightly lit snack bar across the road.

If Yu Wusheng is allowed to stand here, it is likely that he will not be able to see it, after all, the place where he used to live, around half past ten in the evening, is when the nightlife has just begun, and now in this place, most residents will choose to choose as soon as it gets dark, so such a snack bar that has closed and reopened has naturally become the target of suspicion by the sentinels.