Hearing the words "war on the Western Front" on the radio, Palatina couldn't help but prick up her ears, breathe lightly, and listen intently. Based on her years of experience listening to "enemy stations", Roland occasionally revealed the latest information that the Imperial military had not yet grasped in the "Fireside Chat" column—and she had such a hunch at the moment.

"Mr. Rogge, speaking of the battlefields on the Western Front, I happen to have good news to announce. Just an hour ago, Marshal Pavel, commander-in-chief of the Western Front, had written to me that the four train guns that the Imperial Expeditionary Corps had painstakingly transported to the east bank of the Turbid River had been destroyed by our resourceful and brave partisans who had infiltrated the enemy's positions just last night! ”

"Oh my God! Thank you Lady of Fate, this is great news! The compatriots on the Western Front can finally sleep well, and they no longer have to worry about being woken up by a huge cannon shot from twenty miles away! Rogge exclaimed exaggeratedly.

Palatina in front of the magic radio couldn't help but frown. Roland's revelation on the radio that it was the guerrillas who sabotaged the train cannon was a bit unexpected, and she thought that such a major task must be carried out by the top agents of the Far Eastern military, but it turned out to be just a few guerrillas who had the audacity to add good luck.

Rogge was very interested in not asking about the specific identities of the guerrillas who destroyed the train cannons, and Roland only called on all the compatriots in the Far East to thank these unsung heroes, and promised that he would personally award medals to these heroes after the war. But Palatina, by virtue of her deep knowledge of Roland himself, and through the cordial tone he inadvertently showed when talking about the guerrillas, concluded that Roland was very familiar with them, and even had a good friendship.

How could a dignified regent of the Far East know a few little-known guerrillas? Unless those people were well-known before the outbreak of the war and had crossed paths with Roland.

Palatina turned off the magic radio and lay her hands on her cheeks in deep thought. Four figures emerged from her mind, and the more she thought about it, the more suspicious she felt.

Early this morning, when she led a team to infiltrate the vicinity of Cold Creek Town to investigate, she met four Far Eastern guerrillas on the way. Although the other party lied that they were local villagers, Palatina recognized at a glance that two men and one woman had come from Gudi Village to participate in the guerrilla war on the banks of the Zhuolang River.

It is also a coincidence that three years ago, when she visited the Far East as part of a non-governmental delegation, she was accompanied by Roland to visit the "Valley Village Commune", a successful example of agricultural reform in the Far East, and also visited the local village office with Roland, and met the local village priest, druid, and sheriff, that is, the young Peter who was full of nonsense this morning, and the so-called "big brother" and "little cousin". As for the young woman who traveled with Peter, Palatina was the first time she had seen her, and she was also a member of the partisans.

Because Palatine had hidden her sights when she visited Vale Village, Peter and the others did not know her, so they tried to lie and get by. Palatina was influenced by Roland, and had a somewhat favorable impression of the three of them, although they were in a hostile camp, but considering that the other party was just a low-status militia, even if they were killed, it would not have any beneficial impact on the battle situation, so she simply showed mercy to her subordinates and let them go.

Now that I know that the train cannon was infiltrated and destroyed by four Far Eastern guerrillas through a secret passage, I recall the scene of meeting Peter and the four this morning, especially the embarrassed image of the other party covered in muddy water, which is clearly the traces left by crawling in the muddy secret passage. The more Palatina thought about it, the more suspicious she became, and basically concluded that Peter and the others were the real culprits who destroyed the train cannon, and after succeeding, she absconded through the secret passage, foreseeing the cavalry team she led on the way, and lied that she was a local villager for fear of revealing her identity, and was forced to flee north because of the war.

"I was so stupid to let them go!"

Palatina sighed. However, in addition to self-blame, there was also a little doubt: if he had known that Peter was the culprit of the sabotage of the train cannon, would he have killed them?

Once upon a time, she thought it was a stupid question, how could a soldier show mercy to an enemy, especially one who had just wreaked havoc on her own ordnance?

However, since leading her army to suppress a peasant uprising in the empire last year, killing with her own hands many landless and hungry people, including the leader of the uprising, Priest Mintzel, Palatina has been disgusted by the blood on her hands. War no longer excites her, and killing only wears her.

"What if they knew what Peter had done? Killing them will not bring back the 'old Charlie' who has been completely destroyed, it is nothing more than venting his anger. Palatine sighed and muttered to herself.

She was well aware that her current state of mind was no longer suitable for serving in the army, but the soldier's sense of mission and the pressure of public opinion on her father did not allow her, the daughter of the Imperial Marshal, to retreat from the battle, and could only grit her teeth in this position that she increasingly hated until the day the war ended.

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Around the early hours of May 3, four heavily guarded Imperial train guns "Old Charlie" were sabotaged by Far Eastern agents who had infiltrated the position—a sudden turn of events that slowed down the crossing of the Imperial Expeditionary Corps by a full day. On the morning of May 4, when the facts of the case were revealed, and the underground secret passage where the Far Eastern agents relied to infiltrate the position was discovered and completely blocked by the Imperial military, General Engel let go of his worries and was about to continue the operation of crossing the river, when he was stunned by a sudden bad news from the Golden Horn.

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On May 3, 1625, on the same afternoon that four train guns on the positions of the Imperial Army on the Western Front were destroyed by agents from the Far East, the Far Eastern Navy and the Parnia fleet defeated the Imperial fleet at the Golden Horn. This was the first real and indisputable victory for the Far Easterners since the outbreak of the war, and the "Great Tsunami" operation orchestrated by the Imperial military was declared bankrupt by the rout of this war, and for a long time to come, the Far Eastern Navy would firmly control the sea on the battlefield, and the "Golden Horn Victory" was a major turning point in the entire war, both at the time and in hindsight.

The victory in the Battle of the Golden Horn brought an immediate benefit to the "Far Eastern Court", that is, the Parnia Legion fighting deep into the "Twilight Valley" was relieved, and the Vlad royal family can now devote all their forces and resources to the southern front; At the same time, the Far East and West Front Group Army, which had long been on the defensive on the east bank of the Zhuolang River, also benefited from this and finally ushered in the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive.