Bourbon had not had a peaceful time in those years, with wars going on and forth, and the South having become a pot of porridge, and in the letters my wife sent me, I repeatedly mentioned that there were many citizens, and they were citizens of the Old Passage, who had been overwhelmed by the heavy taxes.

But what makes me thankful is that the wars took place in the south, and the northern fleet never reached the south because of the need to maintain order in the north, so these wars were also very far away from me, so far away that they were just words written on paper to me, very strange.

However, by the time I was 49 years old in '31, it seemed as if my good fortune had run out, and the god of the sea was trying to add another fire to this increasingly noisy world, and to draw our otherwise quiet north into strife.

Well, it is a bit shameless to use the word quiet to describe the North, not to mention the intervention war a few years ago, and in the years after the end of the intervention war, I could feel the chilling undercurrent of the Northern Passage, and this fruit finally blossomed and bore fruit in 31 years.

The rebellious Bourbons of the Northern Passage could not bear it anymore and declared independence from Bourbon this year, making it Lorne the capital and naming the country "Bourbon Northern Passage".

When I heard the news, I was less shocked than I had imagined, probably because of the precedent of the Southern Passage, and the anger in my heart for this group of rebels was actually less than the troublesome feeling of "going to war again".

"The Palace of the General Assembly will certainly not sit idly by and let the last of the three channels of the island belong to Bourbon be lost, so the Palace of the General Assembly will definitely send troops," my colleague in Uttana swore assurances, "and this time it will certainly not be as stinky and long as the last one, because now Bourbon is not fighting another heavyweight." ”

I selectively agreed with his assertion: "The intervention of the General Palace will definitely send troops to intervene, as for whether it is stinky and long? Then I don't know, don't forget, the veteran mutiny in the southern district is still going on." ”

At the end, I also added: "Moreover, even we can guess that the Great Hall will interfere in this matter, do you say that before the Great Palace orders are issued, will the rebels in the Northern Passage take any action?"

Another colleague of mine eagerly replied, "One of my old classmates had seen their general Fokodo before, and according to my classmate's description, this Fokodo was a bold man, and I think he would have made a move,"

Before he could finish speaking, there was a commotion in the distance, so we stopped what we were doing and sent messengers to see what was happening.

After a while, the messenger returned, and reported to us bad news: "It is the rebels of the Northern Passage, and they have surrounded Uttana, but for now they are only besieging it. ”

"Heh, those guys are waiting for us to attack. But don't worry, it's definitely not a big deal, and with the pitiful size of the Northern Passage, even if we only have one main city now, we can easily defeat them," a colleague said confidently.

He was confident, but there was a bit of gloom in my heart.

Can Bourbon really succeed in suppressing the Northern Passage this time? Boris is like this, first in the civil war in the Passageway, in which the Bourbonites defeated the Gloryists, and then after a few years they launched a war of independence, and after nine years of fighting, they became independent from Bourbon; now that the Northern Passage has finished the civil war, and the Bourbonites have defeated the Gloryists, will it take another nine years to fight and then become independent from Bourbon?

The next few days were strange days, the rebels of the Northern Passage were outside the city without attacking, and we continued to do our own thing inside the city, and there was a temporary peace between the two sides.

And this peace lasted only three days, and on the third day an urgent order came from the Great Palace, and sure enough, as we expected, the order from the Great Palace was to "counter the rebellion".

After the order of the Great Palace was issued, the defenders of Uttara made two failed assaults on the besieging army, so they retreated into the main city and took advantage of the fact that the defense system had been greatly strengthened in recent years. And there is no need to be careful about the supply problem, because the Northern Fleet controls the sea dominance, so Ute Dana is constantly being replenished.

However, what made people suspicious was that the Northern Fleet was slow to carry out a general attack on the rebels, and the hearts of the people in the city began to stir, saying everything. One of the most credible theories seems to me is that the General Palace intends to wait until the rebellion in the Southern Passage has been suppressed before sending troops over, and until then, the Northern Fleet will have to do its own efforts.

O Poseidon, the attrition suffered by the Northern Fleet in the last intervention has only recovered a little more than seven layers until now, if the enemy to face is only the rebels of the Northern Passage, it can barely hold it, but I have been in the Northern Passage for more than ten years, of course I understand, how can the enemy only have the Northern Passage!

So over the next few days, I went back to what I had done in Lorne, sleeping in my workplace next to the docks every day, ready to flee as fast as I could when Uttana's city broke.

Later, the battle situation came to a strange game of changing houses, and our army's raiding force led by André successfully captured Lorne, while Uttana was betrayed by the inner ghost and was captured by the rebels. The only thing to be thankful for is that I once again escaped from Uttana with my supplies.

This time, however, we can't go to Edonan, because according to the warnings from the military headquarters, the Edonan forces are now not credible. It just so happened that we received the news from the messenger that Lorne had been captured, and our fleet of refugees fled from Uttarana to Lorne.

When I went to Lorne, I had a doubt in my mind, this time Uttana fell too quickly, and it shouldn't have been.

When I arrived at Lorne, when I saw Andrei, who had not been seen for a long time, and was about to ask him about it, I heard from the squire next to me that because of the fall of Uttana, the former sergeant major of the Northern Fleet resigned (he was responsible for guarding the last main city of Uttana), and Andrei filled the vacancy of the sergeant major at the young age of 44.

When I learned the news, I duly shut my mouth, and when I saw Andrei, I only congratulated him on another step up to the top, and there were only two steps left before the commander of the fleet.

The rest of Lorne's life after that was relatively uneventful—if you neglected to be too busy with logistics, because the rebels were unable to storm a heavily fortified main city without water in Bourbon.

When he met with Andrei again, Andrei disdainfully commented on the rebels: "Even if this person is now, he can already fight back and forth with those northerners, and when the old channel sends more troops, I see how the rebels in the northern channel will still toss!"

After 2 years, the reinforcements sent by the General Assembly Palace finally came over after quelling the rebels in the southern district, and Lorne's soldiers and civilians were very happy, but after I contacted this group of reinforcements, I felt a little bad, this group of reinforcements was full of resentment, and I didn't know what moths would be caused in the future.

And a few days later, Lorne's soldiers and civilians stopped cheering, because they learned from the reinforcements that the Archon had issued the fourth tax increase not long ago, and the taxes were becoming heavier and heavier, and the atmosphere of reinforcements infected the whole Lorne, and Lorne became lifeless.

Looking at the worried crowd, my colleagues and I were not much better. Although the target of this tax increase was not me, I also felt a sense of panic.

Lul VIII is becoming more and more unscrupulous, first reaching out of the old fairway, and then expelling the old fairway in the southern and northern districts, and now he has reached out to the commoners of the old fairway, and he is not far from extending his hand to the nobles, right?

How can I pay my taxes! At this time, I made up my mind in my heart that if Lul VIII dared to collect taxes from me, I would definitely have a good fight with him, and I believed that this matter would definitely win many allies, and there might not be no room for maneuver.

Although the reinforcements were depressed when they came, after all, the strength was there, and the Northern Fleet alone was already able to fight with the rebels.

Moreover, the Northern Passage is a pitiful (for the rebels) coastal area, with all five major cities under the cover of the Northern Fleet, and sea supremacy is in the hands of our Bourbons.

With the victory of the war, coupled with the fierce robbery in the occupied areas relying on the victory, the atmosphere finally began to improve.

In fact, normally speaking, the Bourbon army would not plunder on the mainland, but now that the accumulated taxes of Lure VIII are becoming more and more terrifying, the soldiers' discipline is naturally getting lower and lower.

Fast forward 37 years, and the rebels have retreated to Uttana, using the majestic main city, which we have repaired many times, to put up a final resistance. Of course, this resistance of the rebels is only a futile attempt to stall for time, and this is not only my opinion, but also that of my colleagues.

"The counterinsurgency is coming to an end soon, isn't it?" As the war drew to a close, Lorne's mood became more cheerful and the conversation was full of lightheartedness.

"Yes, when the counterinsurgency is over, I will spend all the vacation I owed before, and go home for half a year before coming out," I imagined the scene after returning home, thinking of my wife and children I hadn't seen for a long time, I couldn't help but feel a little drunk, "When I was young, I often wanted to stay away from home and go out, and now I am in my fifties, and I find that the scenery of my hometown is better." ”

My colleague was about to say something of approval to echo me when a messenger burst into our place of work, and before rushing in, he didn't even dissipate his spiritual power, if this messenger wasn't a fledgling stunned young man, then this time the incident was extremely urgent.

I wish it was the first point, but unfortunately I have lived so long, and most of the time it backfires.

"The Great Palace Order!" the messenger roared, then leaned down and gasped for breath, and could see that he had choked on the way.

"War in the south resumes! The army mentioned in the document will immediately return to the old channel to suppress the rebellion! The logistics department will quickly remove your inventory reserves and use them for counterinsurgency in the south!"

When we saw the list of troops that needed to be redeployed and the amount of money that needed to be spent on the stockpile, my first feeling was that it was a failure, and the second feeling was that it was a bourbon pill.