Chapter 164: Factional Conflict
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On the night of the upheaval, Feder evacuated east overnight with his men and Leon, the former leader of the rebels whom Patrick had rescued. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć When Info left the Sweet Cookies Chamber of Commerce, his friends Escor and Miranda had not yet returned, and Feder wrote a handwritten letter to the Chamber of Commerce, to the effect that if they needed help, they could go to Dutim City to find the Potato Mercenary Group.
Fide and his party did not stop in any city of the Duchy of Noo, they even spread faster than the bad news, and it took less than two days for the group of more than a dozen people to return to the territory of the Duchy of Mageni. As soon as Fide and the others entered the Duchy of Mageni, the subordinates sent by Selena appeared in front of Fide and welcomed them back to the city.
"Captain Fed, are you still having fun with the wedding party?" Selena and Jasmine, the two squadron leaders, stood in front of the mercenary's quarters, they looked in good spirits, apparently not having received any news of the wedding upheaval.
Fidel nodded to his men, and he immediately called all the captains for an emergency meeting. Also brought to the room for the meeting was Leon, the stocky man whose face was obscured by his hair and beard.
"Oh my God, isn't there a marriage between the Duchy of Noo and the Kingdom of Cose?!" Jasmine exclaimed as soon as she heard what had happened that night, "and Princess Margaret, who had just become the wife of the Lord, has been taken away again, and she is now a widow or..."
"If a princess of a country joins a widow's mercenary group, it might be a spectacle!" Noor tried to show off his humor, but it didn't make the other captains laugh.
Feder waited until all the captains had quieted down before asking Patrick to bring Leon, a man with gray hair on his sideburns, who was at least in his fifties.
Patrick explained, "When the inner banquet hall was on fire, I and the other gladiators were watching from a distance, but he," he said, gesturing to Leon with his eyes closed, "escaped from the banquet hall, still wearing the leather armor of a Duchy guard." I thought he was a deserter at first, but he knocked a friend of mine unconscious and tried to steal his gladiator's suit. I didn't know he was Leon, the former leader of the rebels, until another rebel who had escaped from the banquet hall called out his name, and I didn't know that this guy was a big man. ā
Fett had already heard the explanation that night, and he even suspected that Patrick was a member of the Rebels, but it was only a fleeting and unfounded speculation.
"Then I took him out with me, and no one else knew about it, and another rebel in prison clothes was strangled by Lyon. When the other captains heard this, they looked at Leon's hands. The man in his fifties had large hands, arms thicker than Noor's, and at first glance he was not a man to mess with.
Feder crossed his fingers and held his chin with the back of his hand, "Since he doesn't want to say anything, the other captains and I plan to imprison him for the time being, maybe later..."
"Imprison me, there's no need for that!" Leon opened his eyes and stared at Fidel viciously, like a hungry lion, so frightened that Lukka immediately drew his iron sword, "I am the leader of the rebels! Being with you mercenaries is already degrading my status! But I can tell you, I allow you to be given a chance, a chance to get rich!"
Leon's voice was so loud that even the water in the glass was spilled by his voice.
"A chance to make a fortune?"
"Hmph! As soon as he heard that he was rich, he showed such a face!" Leon raised his head and pointed his nostrils at Fidel, "I'm not afraid to tell you! The reason why Lutz's group of children want to get me out is not for anything else, but they want to use me as a bargaining chip so that he can get more say in the rebel army! But that kid is dead now, and the other leaders think I'm dead, and they won't be wary of my counterattack! If you're smart, do what I say!"
"With such a big breath, a prisoner has begun to command us. Squadron Leader Jasmine said behind him. The other captains were also very disdainful of Leon's words, the rebels were already united with the potato mercenaries, and the words of the former leader of the rebels were obviously not worth believing.
"I didn't say anything just to see what you were capable of, but it turned out to be just a bunch of wretched!" he suddenly stepped forward and slapped Lukka on the shoulder, drawing his opponent's iron sword. But before he could grasp the iron sword, Fed slammed the glass of water on the table and slammed it into Leon's neck! At the same time that Leon was spilled with water, Noor and Patrick rushed up, holding Leon's hands down and forcing him to kneel on the ground.
"Scum, let go of me, you shit!" Leon's strength was so great that he almost broke free of Noor, and the other captains surrounded him, controlling the man as powerful as an ox.
Lukka withdrew his sword and asked Vittorio, "Why are you rebels all this kind of guy, and so is Mary, who is still imprisoned downstairs, it's quite unreasonable!"
Vittorio had been frowning from the beginning, and he hadn't even listened to Luca's words.
"Let's take him down first. Fed and Leon looked at each other, and the stubborn look in the other's eyes told Feder that this man was even more difficult to deal with than Mary.
It wasn't until Leon was taken away that Fid began asking Vittorio about the inside of the rebels.
"There was already a great deal of disagreement and discord within the rebels at the time of my departure," Vittorio said in front of all the captains, "for many reasons, including the capture of the most respected Lyon by the Duchy. Some of the leaders and the funders behind them were afraid of Lyon, because most of the rebels and peasants only obeyed Lyon's orders, but after Lyon's capture was captured, their intention to seize power was revealed. ā
Vittorio told the crowd that Rutz, the son of the Duke of Oldington, was a representative of the new faction, and that they had the support and support of the young rebels, and that Levier belonged to this faction. The new faction has a tough style, even if it is unscrupulous, it must achieve its goal, and the plan to send assassins to assassinate the mercenary leaders in various places is estimated to be the hand of the new faction. The rebels of the New Formation are tired of the slow pace that preceded the organization, and they hope that in ten years... No, overthrow all three principalities one by one in five years, or even all of them.
And in addition to the nascent faction, there are also more powerful conservatives, and the main leader of the conservative faction is the "singer" Ufus. There were several other leaders in the conservatives, whose names he had heard at the last "interrogation meeting" of Vittorio, and Fid also learned that the Grand Merchant of the Duchy of Mageni named Ufus was an important figure in his role as a patron and leader of the rebels, but his power was so large that even the nobility of the Duchy could not attack Ufus. The conservatives advocated the continuation of the past policy, the transformation of all the people at the bottom of the principality into supporters of the rebels by means of propagation, the control of the lifeblood of the principality by occupying all kinds of important materials, and the method of slowly encroaching on the nobles who advocated the eradication of the rebels. This has been going on all the time, but the results have been proven to be ineffective, and it has also caused the conservative rebels to lose a lot.
The third faction was the faction of the leaders who were loyal to Lyon, and the people of the faction of the leaders advocated that Lyon be rescued first, because Lyon was the spiritual leader of the rebels. This old peasant from a poor background led the rebels through impossible difficulties, and all the poor people regarded Lyon as their savior, hoping that one day Lyon would be able to lead the poor people to stand on top of the palace of the duchy and establish a new kingdom.
The last faction is the Pacifists, who are relatively weak and want to be able to negotiate with the rulers of the principalities and then establish a small state in the middle of the three principalities. They dream of using this country as an example, and then slowly making the rulers of the principality understand the beauty and perfection of the state system, so that other countries will voluntarily and voluntarily abandon class rule and join them. Vittorio thinks that the pacifists should be renamed the Dreamers, because they all live in ideals.
"Yes, I think the pacifists are good, whoever likes to go, but if I were the Duke of Oldington, they would not be willing to give their territory to the poor people. Jasmine teased.
In other words, Lutz may have gained the support of the leaders of the various factions in this operation in Ivon City, but because of some accidents, they were all killed in the fire. Selena said.
Vittorio shook his head, "I don't think Rutz has the support of the leaders of the factions, at least the conservative Ufus will not support him, because Ufus thinks that even if the rebels lose Lyon, the rebels can continue to move forward." ā
Fidel thought the same thing as Vittorio. Rutz has made such a big fuss in the city of Ibon that it has offended all the countries of the entire continent, and I am afraid that it will not be long before all the countries will regard the rebels as hostile forces. Whether or not Lyon was rescued, whether or not the nobles of the southern Duchy of Nuo were withdrawn, as Lutz had requested, the rebels were brought to an awkward position. This is obviously not what the conservatives and pacifists want to see, and more importantly, even the leaders will think that Leon has died in this conspiracy, and they will become opposed to the new faction. In this way, it seems that the beneficiary will not be any faction of the rebels, but the rulers of the three principalities and others who hope that the rebels will fail.
"Could that be the case," said Toto the Thin Man, suddenly, "perhaps someone within the rebels betrayed Lutz's plot to the Duke of Aldington, and then the Duke took the opportunity to use this plot to make the countries of the mainland angry with the rebels..."
Lukka immediately retorted: "How is it possible! The Duke of Aldington lost two sons, and his own daughter was also seriously injured, how could the conspiracy to ruin the entire wedding feast be passed under the Duke's nose?!"
Vittorio pondered for a moment and said, "It is also possible that the person who betrayed the information did not confess all the truth, and this result is the greatest benefit for the person who betrayed the information." ā