Chapter 44: Fighting Openly and Secretly
In the afternoon, Wayne summoned the large and small grassroots officials in Wasser City.
Middle and high-level officials led by Otero are also not absent.
They all knew that Wayne was going to take care of things, but they still didn't know how to manage things. We'll have to wait for Wayne to notice.
There was no Evans this time, so Wayne had to find a wakewood and knock on the table. Everyone who had just been talking about it looked at Wayne in unison.
Wayne said solemnly.
"I have a habit in Nolan that when I speak, no one else will speak. So I want you to be nice to me. ”
As soon as the words fell, the grassroots officials were silent. Those middle-level and high-level officials who had some insight chattered about it.
"Wayne is too domineering. ”
"The Marquis of Barnfinger doesn't have such a big stance. ”
.....
Knock knock~
The cacophony once again permeated the hall.
"I don't want to repeat it a second time, or you'll leave. I'm not going to force you to listen. ”
This time there was no sound at all.
"I'm here to organize your counterattack this time, the elves are menacing this time, and the imperial army is a little difficult to deal with. Need our help. ”
Otero asked.
"That's what we should do, the question is how we can fight back. But we can't muster an army, we need them to defend the city, otherwise it will not be good if the elves counterattack. ”
Otero is the representative of this group of officials, and Wayne must answer this crucial question.
"If I'm not mistaken, Vaser has a population of 500,000, and there are always 200,000 young adults. ”
The medical level of this world is backward, and it is difficult for civilians to live beyond the age of 40. Therefore, young adults account for a large proportion.
"Does Wayne want these unarmed, untrained civilians to go into battle?"
A middle-aged man with a scar on his face said, his words containing a sense of anger.
"No, I need them to cooperate with the army, the city defense force is not very well equipped right now. They continue to add that I need someone to serve the city defense force. And I still have some plans that need them. ”
The middle-aged man said viciously.
"Lord Wayne, you believe in that Mansur ghost, their city defense army sent troops to the streets almost every day to arrest people as their coolies before the Imperial army was reinforced. ”
Wayne immediately asked rhetorically.
"I'm talking about the equipment of the city defense army, and during today's parade, I see that it is difficult for a soldier of the city defense army to wear a complete helmet and armor. They seized the affairs of the strong men and put them aside. ”
Scar Man couldn't refute it and was defeated.
Wayne didn't want to let go of Otero's lackeys.
"You just spoke, and you didn't show any respect for the nobility. You know what to do. ”
The scarred man's face twitched, and he said with the last stubbornness.
"I will. ”
Everyone else gasped.
Otero shook his heart.
Wayne continued.
"I'll tell you a piece of news now, something happened in the imperial capital. To put it mildly, our wise Emperor His Majesty Olmedo may not have much time. ”
Those low-level officials who were closed off gasped, but because of Wayne's habits, the words that came to their mouths were forced into their stomachs.
And those high-ranking officials did not react so much.
Wayne continued.
"This time, the commander of the Imperial Army, Mars, is the commander of the Iron Shield Cavalry Regiment, and he is loyal to the Great Prince. Now the four princes of the imperial capital and the eldest prince are competing with each other very much. Do you think it's important to defeat Stuyard, or to end the war quickly and go back to help the Great Prince? Mars will be in 10 days at the latest! Guess what the odds are. ”
A layer of cold sweat under the lower-level officials, the upper-level officials led by Otero, are very entangled in their hearts. What if Wayne lied to them? Would they dare to bet.
If Mars did act in 10 days, the odds were!
In fact, it is the safest to take it off.
Wasser was well supplied, and there was a threat from the Imperial Army outside. Slowly wear down with the elves, and wait until the elves are tired, and then attack to have the best chances.
It all depends on whether what Wayne said is true.
Is it true that Mars is going to attack despite the risk of defeat, without the Imperial Army, Vasser can hold out for a few months.
But cooperating with Wayne's actions is equivalent to giving up power in disguise.
Wayne's chance of lying is about six or seven percent, and his power is only temporarily relinquished, and he will come back after victory.
The choice is self-explanatory.
The art of speaking is like that, don't tell all lies, but you can't tell the truth.
In fact, the original thing was that Wayne had made some noise recently, and Mars attacked. He wouldn't risk defeat.
Wayne told the general truth that Nils needed to go back to the imperial capital to help the eldest prince.
The lie is that Nils would not attack rashly at the risk of defeat.
But do they know Niels, they are cut off from outside information.
In this way, Wayne took advantage of the information gap to accept Vasser's executive power in general.
It is possible to make a little stumbling in the actual action.
"And this time we will requisition some people's supplies and give them IOUs in my name. I'll pay it off in a year. The young and middle-aged who are recruited will also be compensated according to the law. Compensation is made according to the daily wage. It is also paid off within a year. ”
Of course, some officials at the grassroots level who are not very smart are overjoyed.
"Long live Lord Wayne!"
Clever as Otero is puzzled, this Wayne is obviously not stupid. It is possible to do such a good thing that is obviously not good for oneself. If they had come to Vasser to drive out Stuad's army as soon as possible, now they were asked to make IOUs in their own name.
Wayne has too much money.
No matter what they think.
Still have to shout "Long live Lord Wayne!"
It's just that they have a belly full of problems, and their voices are obviously not as loud as the grassroots officials behind them.
Now it's the army, and Wayne can vaguely sense that Mansour and Willier don't seem to be at odds.
Mansour said that the black chess city has some family background, but the city defense army does not. But Willier broke through from the black chess market, and he probably couldn't bring out a little bit of his family.
This is also common sense, after all, one army cannot be two commanders. An army can only have one voice.
What's more, Willier didn't refute, this is not the so-called general demeanor and does not compete with villains. It is a very stupid act not to speak out about the shortcomings of your own army in a timely manner. And Willier is clearly not that kind of stupid person.
It seems that the water of the army is also very deep.
When there are 200,000 young adults, enough supplies. These two should listen to me, too.
The main thing is to get them to fight together? Why don't you take Willier and them? After all, they have been fighting for a month on the black chess side, and they are guarding Vasser non-stop.
Well?
Wayne caught a little bit of the spear, no matter how loyal the army of Black Chess City was, it was impossible for him to have no complaints about Willier. After all, Wasser has little to do with most of them, emotionally and logically. Their relatives probably ran away under their persuasion.
They had no motive to defend the city, and it was Willier who forced them to defend the city.
This army may be on the verge of physical and mental breakdown.
If he says about the situation of his army, Mansour, who is at odds with him, will definitely find fault.
After listening to Willier's report, he withdrew them, and Mansur and Otero were definitely not convinced.
But Willier didn't complain to himself, if he took the initiative to withdraw the army in Black Chess City, there would be much less criticism.
But it's all his own reasoning, and he needs to see for himself if this army is like that.