(Battle of Runes) Chapter 142 Caitlin outwits the warship, one ear of the imperial capital
After last night's deliberations, Poppy and Shadow decide to carry out Max's final proposal.
The next day, Poppy summoned 200,000 officers and soldiers stationed in Demacia to garrison Etistan and announced in public that Chen Yin had resigned from the post of general of Demacia, which instantly caused an uproar in the whole army.
Immediately afterwards, Poppy announced the second news, she and Shadow will also resign as generals of Demacia respectively, and prepare to follow Chen Yin on an expedition to Shadow Island, and the remaining Demacian officers and soldiers can bring enough food and grass to disband and return to the imperial capital of Demacia, or completely abandon the identity of Demacian soldiers and follow Chen Yin on an expedition to Shadow Island.
It seems to be expected, and it seems unexpected, none of the 200,000 soldiers chose to leave, they all firmly followed the footsteps of the general Chen Yin, even if they gave up their nationality, they did not regret it at all, from the eyes of the soldiers, Poppy found a new spirit, that spirit, called the honor of the soldier.
Although the garrison of Demacia has been withdrawn, the reinforcements of the Pittover Federation and nearly half of the strength of the Biddles family are still stationed here.
After learning that Chen Yin had returned to Ortistan and was about to leave for the Isle of Shadows, Catelyn was once again overwhelmed.
The last time the more than 30,000 people who helped the War College garrison Ertistan requisition ships to the Isle of Shadows was an emergency that the Biddles family had done with all their might.
Now to send another 200,000 troops to the convoy of transports, this is simply an impossible task.
Caitlyn had been thinking about it all morning with her hands on her forehead, still not thinking of a solution.
"Sister! Chen Yin has arrived in Ortistan, I'm going to set off to meet him, don't you really go to see him? ”
At this point, Colin arrives at Caitlin's room and asks again.
Seeing that the relationship between Chen Yin's boss and his sister Caitlin is getting better and better, Colin occasionally fantasizes in his heart that when Chen Yin's boss becomes Chen Yin's brother-in-law, this seems to be good. So, before he left, he came to test his sister's attitude again.
"Shut up! Don't mention that bastard to me again!! Every time, I'm giving someone a problem! I'm going to see him, where am I going to find him that transport!! If you want to go, don't dangle in front of my eyes, I'm very annoyed now! ”
Catelyn's sudden irritability frightened Colin into running away from her.
When he fled to the door, Colin suddenly thought of something, blinked his eyes and said, "Sister, it's a bit troublesome to spend money to hire civilian ships from the surrounding area every time, why don't you want to borrow a naval ship from Demacia?" Aren't we allies of Demacia now? ”
After saying this, Colin was afraid that Caitlyn would continue to scold him, and ran away in a hurry.
But Colin's words made Caitlyn's eyes light up, yes. Although Chen Yin fell out with the Demacian royal family, we Pittover are still their allies, for example, I asked their naval forces to escort our important supplies? And then hijacked their warship......
But in this way, the relationship between Pittwolf and Demacia is in trouble, for Chen Yin's sake? Is it worth it? He's not a general anymore......
The little abacus in Caitlin's heart began to crackle again, and the result of the calculation was a loss, a loss, a loss. Because Demacia's cooperation with Pittover is not only military, but also civilian trade is more frequent, Demacia is also the most important exporter of Pittover luxury goods.
Forget it, bet, those 200,000 Demacia soldiers are willing to accompany him to be willful once, and I will also accompany Chen Yin, the bastard, to be willful once!!
After deciding on a countermeasure, Caitlyn immediately called several core members of the Biddles family and began to lay out the next plan.
Three days later, the royal family of Demacia received a bunch of valuable gifts from the Pittover Federation, which made Gavin IV very happy, and when he heard that his allies needed to transport a batch of important supplies back to China and wanted to borrow Demacia's Western Sea Fleet as an escort, Gavin IV agreed without hesitation.
Twelve days later, the fifteen formations of the West Sea Fleet, which had arrived at the harbor of the Great Fence Military District, were greeted with the condolences of the enthusiastic Pittover friendly forces on each ship, and a large number of drinks, delicacies, and gifts were delivered to the ships, which the officers and men of the Navy laughed at.
In the evening, in addition to the soldiers who stayed on duty on the warship, 80 percent of the officers and men of the navy were invited to the banquet in the military town of Dafen.
They were then disarmed and imprisoned by the 20,000 Pittover Union troops who had already been in ambush.
It only took half an hour for the good men of the Biddles family to wait in the harbor to completely control the situation, snatch the 15 warships, and start sailing towards the port of Ertistan .
At this time, the Pittover army of the Great Fence Military Town also urgently packed their bags, and they wanted to join Chen Yin's troops who were about to depart there before the warship arrived at the port of Etistan.
Looking behind him, the large fenced military town that gradually disappeared into the night......
Caitlin sighed in her heart, this time, she really offended the Demacian Federation and the royal family. Chen Yin, the money I earned from you in the early stage has lost more than ten times more at once, you guy, you owe me more and more, I see how you will pay it back then.
At the same time, the border commanders who had returned to the imperial capital of Demacia, except for Alves, who were placed under house arrest in the Graheide family, Wayne who was imprisoned in the royal dungeon, and Pique, along with the other fourteen high-ranking generals of the Great Fence Military Region, were all arrested and thrown into the prison of the North City.
In charge of arraignment of them was the first minister of the imperial capital at this time, Scott.
In just a few days, these generals, who had made great achievements in defending Demacia, had already been tortured into human form.
Scott's offer was simple, with only two. However, it must be jointly signed by these generals for confirmation, the first is that Chen Yin, when he was the general of Demacia, once united with the Gawain family with the intention of rebelling and subverting the Demacian regime; The second is that Chen Yin has been secretly colluding with the rebel leader Silas in the northern provinces, and they intentionally caused the tragedy in the palace castle, in order to kill the king first and then cause chaos.
If these two items are confirmed, and then distributed to the whole continent by the royal family of the Demacian Federation, Chen Yin's reputation will plummet, and even the war college may not be able to protect him from the charges he bears.
However, the toughness of these high-ranking generals in Demacia was beyond Scott's imagination, and no matter how brutal the execution, none of them could bow their heads and give in.
Peake, who was the leader of the president of the Northern Frontier Army, even after being tortured once, pretended to be unable to endure the torture, saying that he wanted to tell Scott an inside story about General Chen Yin. When Scott leaned his ear over, Peake bit his right ear hard, and the guards next to him couldn't separate the two no matter how much they pulled.
In Scott's screams, Pique was finally shattered with a full mouth of teeth, and Scott was able to break free, but his ears were completely left in Pique's mouth. Enraged, Scott disobeyed Gawain IV's orders, pulled out the steel knife of the guard next to him, and stabbed Pique in the chest.
The next day, when he learned that the border general had died in prison, Gavin IV was furious and called Scott to the palace to be scolded. But looking at Scott's heavily wrapped right ear, Gavin IV thought of the moment when the two of them were in prison at the beginning, and he still did not give up his heart and give Scott a more severe punishment.
This practice of raising it high and gently putting it down made Scott emboldened, and he not only intensified the abuse of these border generals, but also began to install his cronies in the various Demacia armies, plus Alves was under house arrest, Alex was suspended, and the left chief Nance was sick every day and could not go to court.
Scott seems to have become the first minister of Demacia's military and political affairs, and his authority even surpasses that of the previous governor of Germany, Zhao Xin.
However, his title spread more rapidly among the people, the first traitorous minister of the Federation of Demacia, the first villain of Demacia, and in the end, the most widely circulated is the title of "One Ear Chief", which is also very much in line with Scott's current image, and his only remaining ear has also become a sneering handle for people before and after tea.
When this nickname reached Scott's ears from the market, he was furious, and he ordered the Imperial Sheriff's Department to start sweeping the streets and arrest all the people who dared to talk about him behind his back.
The people are like water, the water is soft and light, and it can be dredged and unblocked.
After the sheriff's office captured hundreds of people in a row, not only did it not stop the rumors of the "one-eared chief" in the imperial capital, but various abstract paintings of Scott appeared, and the image was not of course himself, but a mouse with one missing ear and looking extremely fat. These portraits appear on the walls of the streets and alleys every night, or are scattered in the form of leaflets on the streets.
When King Gawain IV learned of this, he called Scott to the palace and scolded him, asking him to immediately release the hundreds of people who had been imprisoned earlier.
In the end, Gavin IV comforted Scott again, telling him to let others say whatever they wanted, without hurting the body or losing flesh, and not to care about the chatter.
On the surface, Scott's submissive words are obedient to His Majesty's will, but he still secretly hates in his heart, he feels that the source of the imperial capital's message is still related to Chen Yin and the dozen generals who were imprisoned, and even the instigator behind the scenes may be the Grahide family who has been hiding in the corner and watching the situation in the imperial capital.
Since you want to stink me, don't blame me for killing you.
In the following week, the generals of the Demacian border army in prison began to die unexpectedly one after another, and since the imperial capital was already controlled by Scott at this time, the news obtained by Gavin IV was tampered with. The situation reported to Jiawen IV was that the border generals in prison had died individually because of the reasons they were tortured for, coupled with the lack of adaptation to the soil and water and the poor diet.
Gavin IV just called Scott and reprimanded him gently, and the matter was settled.
Scott's ambition was further inflated by the success of the deception, and after quietly killing all the border generals in the prison, he began to set his sights on the Grahide family. Fupin Chinese