Roland's optimistic prediction has yet to be tested, but there are indications that the situation is indeed the same as the analysis he made that evening.

The airship successfully rescued Evgenia and his party while exposing itself to the enemy's field of vision, and on this night, even the most insensitive people often felt that something was watching them from behind, and it was conceivable that Klautz's party was shining the "Dawn" with "detection crystals".

Now that her whereabouts have been exposed, Jennifer did not bother to hide any longer, so she simply drove the airship around the city with a swagger, and by the way, opened the hatch and threw down thousands of improvised leaflets, announcing to the people in the city who persisted in the struggle: General Rudolph Koras is about to return to the Fort of Atonement and lead the people loyal to him to overthrow the tyranny of the Empire.

Ironically, before writing this leaflet, Roland consulted the manuscript provided by the Rev. Witte, the Letters to the People of the Far East, which Archbishop Philip never read in public. Roland admired His Excellency the Archbishop's imposing style, unceremoniously "borrowed" the best passages from it, and shamelessly changed the publisher from Philip Wallenstein to Rudolf Kolas......

The archbishop's flamboyant writing combined with Roland's clever cut-and-edit made the leaflet far more powerful than a bombshell on the battlefield of public opinion, causing a sensation in the city that night, and the revolutionaries demoralized by the bloody crackdown drew courage from the leaflet and pointed the finger of struggle against Krautz and his knights loyal to the Empire. Encouraged by the leaflets, there were many riots and arsons in the city that night, and the vigilantes patrolling the night were also attacked so frequently that the sight of the dark alleys made me feel weak, and God knows if there was a mob hiding inside and preparing to beat the sticks.

The Dawn's swaggering behavior naturally attracted a large group of vulture knights to besiege her, and Jennifer drove the airship straight into the stratosphere at a height of 10,000 feet, and the vulture could not breathe normally in such a thin air environment, so she had to give up the chase.

While Krautz was struggling to keep the capital safe, the next afternoon, the vanguard of the Kolas Corps arrived at the station outside the city in a military train. The small force left behind at the station by Krautz attempted to sabotage the tracks, but was forced to flee the station under the pressure of airships and eagles before they could do anything. The train entered the station under the cover of the air force, the doors were open, and the heavily armed officers and men of Kolas disembarked in a procession and occupied the station on the spot, providing a safe base for the artillery that would then be unloaded from the wagons.

The Aurora airship slowly landed on the square in front of the platform, and Rudolf Kolas, accompanied by Roland and Evgenia, stepped out of the airship to review the troops. After two years, the hastily formed militia unit has now grown into a disciplined and tactically advanced iron army on the battlefield, and the neatly lined up officers and soldiers with solemn faces have brought a strong visual and psychological impact to Yevgenia and his party.

In fact, the force that arrived early was only a small part of the Korath Legion. Due to the lack of railway capacity, the 1st Cavalry Division, the 2nd Cavalry Division, and the Heavy Infantry Division were still waiting to board the train thousands of miles away, and the troops that returned to Fort Atonement in the first military column were all carefully selected by Rudolph, including the 1st Artillery Brigade under the command of Yuri Popov and Jack Duvalin, the 1st and 2nd Regiments of Grenadier under Ivan and Alexander, as well as Merlin's Mage Regiment and Boris's Priest's Regiment and Kafta's Mechanic Warlock Regiment, with a total strength of about 6,000 men.

Artillery, grenadiers, and those with smaller numbers of technical units were given priority, and the heavy cavalry and chasseurs on which the Kolath Legion relied to shock the Far East did not return to the Fort of Atonement in the first place. This arrangement was a slightly bizarre arrangement, and those who did not know the inside story might suspect that Rudolph had made the mistake of putting the cart before the horse, but Roland fully agreed with his father's decision: considering that the Fort Atonement had to be taken by force, and that there was a high probability of a street battle with Krautz's men, the traditional cavalry and infantry were far less useful than artillery, grenadiers, and grenades.

Although Yevgenia's underground intelligence network was sabotaged by Klautz and his party, they continued to work in an atmosphere of terror, and the news of the arrival of the Kolath Legion at the Fort of Atonement in a military column was spread that afternoon, and most of the core members of the "Club of the Awakened" who had been evacuated outside the city earlier paid close attention to the situation, and as Roland had predicted, they rushed to the station as soon as they learned the news to meet with General Rudolf Kolas, the undisputed leader of the current Far Eastern Revolution.

In Roland's view, this club-based "small circle" already had the rudiments of a political party and would continue to play an important role in the future political and social activities of the Far East.

That night, Roland accompanied his father to set up a banquet to entertain these distinguished guests, and the banquet was also a stage for the game between the two sides.

After a cursory look at the list of visitors, Roland found that although most of them belonged to the members of the "Awakening School", their interests were not completely consistent, and they could be divided into four small groups according to their occupations, namely, government, industry, academia, and media.

The first group is government officials, of whom Lloyd, the former mayor of Krasbourg, is represented. To Evgenia's surprise, the mayor of the Great Falls, Yodel Stolypin, who was not a member of the club, also traveled thousands of miles to attend the event.

Roland wasn't surprised by Yodel's appearance. The recent conversation at Karon Falls had built trust between him and Yodl, a high-ranking official in the Far Eastern Province, and it would take a lot of courage for the mayor of Yodl to appear publicly on such an occasion, which would be tantamount to risking his life on Rudolph. Considering his cold attitude towards Rudolph at the beginning, the radical change in stance is worth noting.

In any case, Jodel's astonishing actions set an example for the bureaucracy in the Far East, and as the situation develops, it is foreseeable that more of the current mayors of the towns will fall to the Kolas, which is undoubtedly good news.

The second group present at the meeting were merchants, industrialists and private bankers with a background in loan sharking. This group is the mainstream of the Club of the Awakened, and in addition to Yevgenia, the "Queen of Hotels", there are also two influential tycoons - Zahar, the capital's financial leader, and Zinovi, the provincial steel magnate.