"In fact, I've already done that." Rudolph placed an uninked piece of paper on the table, "I want to tell him about the impending events in the Keafness, and I will not be able to make him aware of my true intentions, which will require a little more thought in the choice of words." ”

Roland smiled slightly: "You might as well pretend to know nothing about the movement of the Far Eastern Knights, and frankly tell Krautz that our army has ended the war in the north and was ordered to return to the division Fort Atonement to garrison, on the way I heard that there was a civil unrest in the capital, and there was also gossip that Archbishop Philip was the main messenger behind the rioters, and then asked Krautz if he knew about this matter, and whether he needed our army to return to Fort Atonement as soon as possible and cooperate with his knights to maintain order in the provincial capital." ”

Rudolph gave his son a thumbs up: "Very good, the wording is impeccable!" Haha, when Krautz received this letter, he was so anxious that he couldn't sleep, and rushed back to the Fort of Atonement overnight to settle accounts with Philip...... Do you guess that he was afraid that our army would arrive at the Fort of Atonement before he could take control of the situation, or was he more afraid that Philip's plot would succeed? ”

Roland shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands: "I can't guess, but I'm sure when Krautz returns to the Fort of Atonement...... This play is going to be even more exciting. ”

Rudolph quickly finished writing the letter and asked Master Merlin to use the "Item Teleportation Technique" to send it directly to Klautz.

Roland had always felt that it was a waste to send a letter with the 7-ring spell, but there was an advantage to this: it didn't need to know where the recipient was.

Rudolph then presided over the meeting, and it was quickly agreed that all hopes of stopping Archbishop Philip could not be pinned on Klautz, and that our troops must hurry up and return to the Fort of Atonement and take the initiative in the development of events.

The legion was immediately disengaged, and all the troops were mounted and marched hastily, and it would take five days at the earliest to reach the provincial capital. If you take the Magic Train, you will be able to return to the Cioneppur in a day and night. It stands to reason that the Kolas Legion did not have the right to use the railroad march until it was authorized by Philip, but the urgency of the matter was not so much, and Rudolph immediately decided to drive the whole army straight to the nearest train platform, forcibly take over the station, intercept the passing trains, and temporarily use it for military purposes.

It would take at least 300 wagons to transport an army of 30,000 wagons, not to mention heavy equipment such as artillery, and it would not be easy to organize such a large-scale transport capacity in the Far Eastern provinces, where rail traffic was underdeveloped, and the most optimistic estimates would take two to three days to gather sufficient capacity, which was still far from quenching the thirst of the Fort of Atonement, which could get out of control at any time.

Roland suggested that he and the Giant Eagle Wing take the airship back to find out the rumors first, and reach the Citapur by tomorrow morning at the latest. Rudolph accepted his offer and offered to go with him by airship, and the father and son set off first, leaving the army under the care of his generals, and the 30,000-strong army followed the airship into the air and set out for the station.

……

Philip Wallenstein, Governor and Archbishop of the Imperial Far East, who had just celebrated his fiftieth birthday, looked older than his age, and his haggard face was just as he felt at the moment. Standing on the high attic of the Temple of Pero and looking out the window, the streets of the Citapur seemed as calm as before at night, and the sporadic lights mostly came from the taverns, providing a place to dissipate the sorrows of those drunkards who were not living well, and the occasional barking of dogs in the distance made the old man who ruled the city feel a little frightened.

Philip turned back to his desk, picked up the evening newspaper and flipped through it absentmindedly.

At this moment, a young priest in a white robe walked into Philip's study, looked at the plate on the table, and the steak and bread were not touched, and the creamy mushroom soup had long since cooled down and condensed into a greasy pudding.

"Teacher, you haven't eaten properly for several days, I'm afraid that if you stay up like this, your body will have problems."

Philip glanced at his student and secretary and shook his head slightly, "I have no appetite, Witt, give food to the servants to eat, don't waste it." With that, his gaze returned to the newspaper.

Witt glanced at the newspaper in Philip's hand as he was packing up his dishes, and was surprised to find that the Bishop was actually reading the Evening News, and seemed to be interested in the long newsletter about the Koras Legion heading north to the Lucian Plateau to exterminate the Dragon's Eye bandits.

"Teacher, the news published in the evening newspaper is very unreliable, most of them are made up based on some rumors to attract attention, do you want to read the daily newspaper?"

Witt's suggestion out of kindness was rejected by Philip with a smile, and he said unabashedly: "The articles published in the daily newspaper are all written according to my intentions, and they are not as interesting as the gossip in the evening newspaper, especially the evening newspaper's report on the war in the north still has a certain degree of authenticity and is worth referencing." ”

"Teacher, in the past two years, the evening newspaper has never stopped advocating the victories of the Kolas Legion in foreign wars, first boasting of Rudolph's wisdom and prowess, commanding the legion to defeat the orc bandits many times, and finally completely destroying the orc army in Icewind Dale, saving the dwarves, and recently repeatedly praising the Koraz Legion to fight north in the mountains of Lucia, and joining forces with the Kitlanders to defeat the 'Dragon's Eye' that has dominated the plateau for many years...... Could it be that a group of heretical militia gangs are really as invincible as the evening newspapers touted it? It's unbelievable. Werther said confusedly.

"Of course, there will be some boasting in the report, after all, this evening newspaper was funded by Rudolph's mistress Yevgenia, but most of the content is true, and I have verified this through other channels." Philip frowned, "Rudolph is a man who is both ambitious and talented, two years ago he had already trained his militia regiment to be an elite unit not inferior to the regular knights, otherwise he would not have the confidence to fight the orcs, after two years of campaigning, the Kolas army has been fully tempered on the battlefield, and while fighting thousands of miles, it has also won popularity and expanded its influence in various parts of the Far East, and the size of the legion has also swelled rapidly, and now it has long exceeded the strength of a division and can be defeated with the assistance of the Kitlanders." Dragon's Eye' is also possible. ”

Witte reluctantly accepted the teacher's opinion, but he still had questions: "There is also a column in the evening newspaper, I don't know if you have noticed, it is said to follow the northern adventures of Roland Kolas, the son of Rudolph, those bizarre and absurd adventure stories are always true, right?" ”

Philip smiled: "Remember that proverb? If a prince is not able to become the hero of the bard in his youth, he is destined to be a mediocre monarch even if he ascends to the throne in the future. ”

Werther was stunned for a moment and asked blankly, "Teacher, what do you mean ......?"

"It's time to become famous, my boy." Philip patted the student on the shoulder, with a complicated expression, "Rudolph knows this very well, he raised his son in the same way as raising a prince, of course those adventure reports about his son have moisture, but do you think about who ordered the evening newspaper?" Mostly the uninformed, vulgar townspeople who are happy to believe the vulgar tales of the young hero's victory over villains and monsters, no matter how fictional Roland Kallas's adventures may be, it is an indisputable fact that he has become an idol of the young people of the Far East, and it has to be said that the Köras father and son are very good at using newspapers to shape their public image, and a good public image is undoubtedly of great help to the father and son to realize their political ambitions. ”