Two streets from Fort Bucher, a small restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

This is a stronghold of the Imperial Army's Military Intelligence in Ruhr City, and Caesar Jr., who is familiar with it, came here with Joe and a group of others, and temporarily requisitioned this small restaurant as the headquarters of the operation.

Lieutenant General Otto, Mark Police Academy and others had quite thoughts about Little Caesar's behavior, and their faces were extremely strange.

As one of the commanders of the Royal Knights, Caesar the Younger was able to know the distribution of the strongholds of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and could requisition them with a single word...... The military intelligence in the stronghold was extremely cooperative and had no objections......

Thus:

First, I heard that His Royal Highness Sarian almost single-handedly covered the sky in the army system and received the support of almost all army generals, which is indeed true, and even the military intelligence bureau of the army system obeyed Salian's orders.

Second, little Caesar must be a close confidant of Salian, otherwise how could he, as the commander of the Royal Knights, order the intelligence officers of the extremely independent Military Intelligence Bureau?

Third, His Highness Salian's methods are really good...... The only object of the Royal Knights' allegiance is Her Majesty the Empress, and Salian was able to subdue Little Caesar for his own use, this strength is among the members of the royal family, I am afraid that in addition to Her Majesty the Empress, there is anyone else who can compare with it?

Lieutenant General Otto, Mark Police Academy and others secretly interpreted a lot of information, and their feelings became quite complicated.

Only Joe admired the decoration of the small restaurant for a while, and then picked up the large wine glass brought by the waiter, and poured a large sip of mellow, slightly bitter dark beer.

After a pleasant hiccup, Joe sat down at a log dining table and looked at little Caesar with a wink: "Your Excellency, your people, and Lieutenant General Otto's people, as well as the people of the Ruhr City Regional Supervision Department, can't they all storm Bucher Fort?" This makes me very puzzling......"

Little Caesar stood at the table, exhaled heavily, and then stretched out his hand to the side.

The owner of the restaurant walked over, placed a scroll more than three feet long on the table, and slowly pulled it open, on which was a well-made map, looking at the unique five-pointed star bastion shape of the castle on the map, which was a full map of Fort Bucher.

Little Caesar slapped him in the center of the map, raised his head and gave him a serious look at Joe, Lieutenant General Otto, and everyone present.

"First of all, what you are seeing now is an Imperial secret...... After leaving here, I will not admit the existence of this map, and whoever dares to say a word to the outside world will be severely punished by the laws of the Empire. ”

Joe's eyes widened as he stared straight at the map on the table.

The Imperial Army's Military Intelligence Bureau had set up a base in the neighborhood near Fort Bucher, and it was so quick to produce a detailed, precise map of Fort Bucher...... Joe had a vague feeling that this had the flavor of making Fort Bucher an imaginary enemy.

"Of course I won't say a word to the outside world...... Joe nodded vigorously and promised: "My tone is the tightest, I'm a qualified Imperial police officer, so I won't say a word to people...... Tsk, what is this map for? ”

Little Caesar glanced at Joe, then shook his head and said, "Joe Rong Ritu, I hope that what you said and did today is indeed targeted, not nonsense and nonsense...... Otherwise, even if there is a letter of instruction from His Highness, the responsibility you have to bear afterwards will definitely be something you can't bear! ”

Joe looked at Little Caesar a little annoyed, and then took another sip of beer: "Then, let's go back to the Daisy Hotel for dinner, and then go to bed...... Dear little Lord Caesar, I am also in the service of the Empire......"

Lieutenant General Otto bent his fingers, knocked heavily on the table with his middle knuckles, and glared at little Caesar very unhappily: "Enough, little Caesar, Joe grew up watching me, this little guy...... There will be no wanton behavior. However, the Butcher family ...... Damn, how could it be them? ”

Little Caesar stared at Joe deeply, and took a parchment notebook from the restaurateur's hand.

He opened the notebook and began to recite the information.

The Butcher family, one of the founding directors of the Ruhr Region Coal Metallurgical Complex, ranks among the top three in the Ruhr Region, and can also squeeze into the top 100 super-rich people in the entire empire, the top Junkers, with the title of Duke of the Empire.

The Butcher family now has 1,578 direct and collateral members, and 1,149 live in Fort Butcher all year round......

For the food and clothing of more than 1,100 people, the total number of waiters, maids, gardeners, grooms, handymen, etc., in Fort Bucher, exceeded 3,000. These more than 3,000 people all possess a certain amount of combat effectiveness, and if they are equipped with new flintlock pistols, then their lethality should definitely not be underestimated.

The Butcher family has deep pockets, and the people who live in Fort Butcher go out, even the most unpopular side clansmen will be escorted by at least a professional bodyguard. Therefore, in Fort Bucher, there are more than 2,000 professional guards whose strength far exceeds that of ordinary people, reaching the level of 'strong warriors' and even 'knights', and even 'extraordinary'.

In addition to these people, Fort Butcher also stationed a regimental-level private army with a full complement. It was an elite regiment of new flintlock rifles with real-world battlefield experience and better equipped than the Imperial Army, with more than fifteen hundred combatants.

"Private army?" Joe's eyes widened and he whistled.

This is incredible, 1,500 private troops, plus 2,000 elite guards, and more than 3,000 servants with a certain combat effectiveness...... Tsk, the power of the Butcher family is truly amazing.

However, Joe thought about the huge ocean-going fleet owned by the Vettus, and the professional escorts and armed sailors on the armed merchant ships, the total number of which was much larger than that of the Butcher family!

Little Caesar glared at Joe and continued to read the information in the little notebook.

Fort Bucher, looking at its shape and the regulation of the façade and moat, you know that this is a war fort designed for war.

In the weakest and most chaotic period of the Delen Empire, there were rebels and bandits who, led by foreign mercenaries, gathered hundreds of thousands of people to cause chaos in the heart of the Delen Empire.

More than 100,000 armed rebels besieged Fort Bucher, and Fort Bucher, which was garrisoned by only more than 1,000 people at that time, stood majestically under the siege of a hundredfold enemy and remained unbroken after half a year's siege.

"The combat power of the royal knights, as well as the imperial army, must surpass those rebels and bandits back then...... "Little Caesar said to Joe solemnly, "However, the strength of the Butcher family today is definitely comparable to that of the past." ”

The Butcher family has a large number of mines, a large number of workshops, a large number of farms and forests, and millions of workers working for the Butcher family...... Just around the Ruhr city, in the Butcher family's factory, there were two militia regiments with full divisions.

Two full divisions, the total number of combatants is nearly 40,000!

The main business of the Butcher family is the military industry, and their family's workshop can make all artillery from 30 millicalibers to 600 millicalibers, and can make all rifles from old arquebuses to new flintlock pistols, and they can also forge steel long knives, swords, axes, and shields......

"If we do attack Fort Buchel and the Butchers really harbor dissent...... If we fail to take Fort Bucher within two hours, we will be faced with 40,000 militiamen who have rushed to reinforce us in full armor! ”

Shrugging his shoulders, little Caesar muttered: "The Butcher family still has allies, there are in-laws, and his allies, in-laws, in the factories in Ruhr City, also have militia troops...... The militia of the entire Ruhr region, totaling more than one million ......"

Shaking his head vigorously, little Caesar picked up a glass of beer and gulped it down.

Wiping the beer foam from the corner of his mouth, Little Caesar looked at Qiao and smiled bitterly: "I take back what I just said, we don't need any battle plan, and we don't need to mobilize more troops...... The troops stationed around the Ruhr are likely to be friends of the Butchers, and we will send them to deal with the Butchers? ”

Shaking his head, little Caesar said in a deep voice: "They may follow the order and send an army, but ...... The Butcher family would have received the news earlier, and would have prepared in advance. ”

Joe blinked at little Caesar: "Maybe you're thinking too complicated?" We relied on the great strength of you, such as General Otto, to raid Fort Bucher, capture the Marquis of Seejac, and then ...... Forced to break out? ”

Little Caesar frowned in thought.

Lieutenant General Otto frowned.

Mark Police Academy looked at Joe, then at Little Caesar, and then he sighed: "Officer Joe, Fort Buchel covers an area of thousands of acres, with hundreds of large and small buildings, many of which are complex in structure, and there is no shortage of secret passages and secret rooms inside...... Even if we sneak in, how can we find the Marquis of Seeak? ”

"Without thousands of people and several days, it would have been impossible to conduct a thorough search of Fort Bucher." Mark Police Academy sighed: "Things will go back to square one, and our manpower is not enough to fight the Butcher family." ”

After a long confusion in his mind, the Mark Police Academy finally recovered from the shock.

The person Joe wants to arrest is actually inside Fort Bucher?

The Butcher family was involved in the case of collusion with heresy and treason?

As a native of Ruhr City, the Mark Police Academy is deeply aware of the strength of the Butcher family, which is not just a family, but a huge net woven with time, interests, marriage, and power.

To touch the whole body, to move the Butcher family, is to move the entire Ruhr City, to move the entire Ruhr City, is to move the entire Ruhr City region, is to be near the heart of the empire, and a knife is stabbed...... Or even a dozen knives!

Taking a deep breath, Mark looked at Joe with the eyes of a madman: "We stormed Fort Bucher, and then, we can't find the Marquis of Seeak in two hours, then...... We will be surrounded by the militia of the entire Ruhr City, and the private armies and guards of all the big families in the entire Ruhr City. ”

Joe rolled his eyes and placed the empty wine glass on the table: "Why are there so many militias in Ruhr City?" ”

Joe's question caused everyone in the restaurant to roll their eyes.

Little Caesar coughed and said softly: "This, isn't the "Chronicles of the Empire" very clear in primary education? ”

Joe rolled his eyes, and he decided to bypass the topic.