Book 682 The Legion of Three

Zhou Shu once made a very strict mistake by introducing gunpowder into the White Moon Kingdom and the Forest Country, causing the two countries to still engage in an arms race, secretly researching related weapons.

He was glad that his knowledge of explosives was limited, which meant that gunpowder was not really valued by the two countries, and both the White Moon Country and the Forest Country seemed to be more inclined to use magic to drive cannons and shoot solid bullets.

Now he has learned a little lesson, and while taking advantage of the convenience of civilization, he also considers the receptivity of the new world. As for firearms, he believes that there is absolutely no way to copy them in the West Country, from the principle to the imitation, which is definitely something they can't understand.

Miss Micha had seen Zhou Shu use firearms, and she was quite disdainful of it at the time, thinking that this kind of thing was neither gorgeous nor handsome, and it was definitely useless.

Now this box of firearms is a little different from Zhou Shu's small pistol before, but in terms of style, Honeytea Turrell can still feel it, and it should be similar to the thing that made noise before.

Zhou Shu grabbed one casually, and after fiddling with it for a long time, he finally found the switch of the safety bolt and the return clip. Slowly find the bullet of the same model, and slowly reload. After it was done, more than ten minutes had passed.

The ten minutes of waiting did not bore Her Royal Highness, but instead looked at this qiē with great interest, and even the sadness caused by her brother's death was skipped because of this curiosity.

Finally managed to get an assault rifle of unknown model, Zhou Shu flicked the trigger on the corner of the wall, and the sound of dada da broke out in less than a second, and a string of bullets shot out.

Before shooting in the cabin, the bullet directly penetrated the wooden walls and floor, and it was over, and it was very safe. Now it's a stone house, and these bullets are firing out and crackling in all directions. Jumping around. Fortunately, Zhou Shu reacted quickly and used her arm to block a bullet that was fired at the princess's head, otherwise she would have followed the dead king.

Her Royal Highness didn't realize that these things that crackled against the walls would be lethal. He was also puzzled by Zhou Shu's sudden arm in front of him. It wasn't until she saw a projectile embedded in Zhou Shu's muscles that she figured out what a firearm was.

Master Zhou grinned and pulled out the rifle bullet. The bullet after this bouncing reflection was not very powerful, and it did not cause much damage to him. The wound on his arm stopped bleeding instantly, and then the flesh slowly began to heal.

In the afternoon of the same day, Her Royal Highness Tid sat on the throne of her brother, or rather the throne of her ancestors, facing the nobles and vassals of the royal court, discussing the matter of avenging the king.

As a princess, it is difficult for Her Highness Tiddle to control her courtiers as a ruler. In the rather magnificent Great Hall. She just sat there, watching the courtiers under her noisily discuss the military, but no one asked her opinion.

This kind of thing is also expected by her, it is useless for her to interject if she wants to, it is better to honestly wait for them to discuss the result. As a princess, the outcome of this final deliberation was to be informed, and Tiddlerum was ready to hear their conclusions in defiance of what they had discussed.

The court of the West Country was basically divided into three factions, representing the interests of the military, the nobility and merchants, and the sects. Representatives of the aristocracy and merchants advocated war and revenge, and they were the last people who wanted to see their citizens disappointed in their country.

Although small traders and hawkers will be more willing to make a fortune, it is specific to the entire merchant class. Naturally, I hope that the country will be smooth and peaceful. The same is true of the aristocracy, the interests of the state are their interests, if something goes wrong with the state. Naturally, the ruling class is not having a good time.

For the present form, the king was murdered, and the people were excited. If war can appease this restless emotion, then it is better to start a war.

Comparatively speaking, the military, which is generally supposed to belong to the main fighting faction, is opposed to this unwise, unwinnable war. From the point of view of those who are experts at war, as soon as this retaliatory march is launched, the enemy's traps will eat away at the last of the kingdom's vitality like monsters. The current army can no longer afford more losses. Although the West Country still has a large rear that can be supplied, the dead Patronus cannot be supplied.

Now the patron saint of the empire has been universally preserved in the army. The price that humans have to pay to kill those things is enormous. The armies of Nishinokuni have been evading the enemy's powerful patron saints, gathering the remnants of their elite to attack the enemy's weak points. Fortunately, there are still enough remnants. This allows the military to maintain its ability to defeat the enemy.

If a brainless revenge is launched at this time, which is equivalent to suicide, then it is equivalent to throwing the last dependence of the country into the water.

Opinion on the temple is always important. This is because the temple representative of the court meeting is the guardian deity. A few ape guardian spirits who are not good at fighting and have little faith in them enjoy official positions in the West Country as messengers of contact with humans.

Their opinion is clear, the Patronus will not be involved in this war. The power of the Patronus can no longer be weakened.

On their side were four heroes who had been shaped by the dead king. Their power comes from the patron saints of the bird clan, and they naturally won't participate in the battle without the patronus spirits participating.

In the first few battles, almost all of them relied on the four of them to fight against the enemy's guardian generals, which put the two sides of the war on a relatively equal footing. Without them, the battle would have become completely unequal and would not have been able to unfold at all.

The meeting lasted from three o'clock in the afternoon to nine o'clock in the evening, and it was thanks to the eloquence and sophistry of the merchants and nobles that they were far superior to the soldiers and patron saints, that the two-on-one debate dragged on for so long.

Sophistry is sophistry after all, and two to one is also a real two to one. The final result of the discussion was discussed at nine o'clock in the evening when Tiddlelem's back was sore and his palms were uncomfortable.

The discouraged nobles and merchant representatives compromised and decided to abandon the revenge war.

This situation was completely beyond the expectations of Her Highness Tiddlerum, who had thought that this war would inevitably be provoked, but she did not expect the army to be so rational.

She overestimated her brother's beloved Cheng Dù as a king and came to a wrong conclusion. It made her a little sad, but it had nothing to do with his brother the king. She is sad for herself, and she feels lost for her not strong ability to govern the government.

Faced with a 'no troops' conclusion. Her Royal Highness smiled and waved her hand at everyone, "How can you not send troops." That would have been laughed at forever by the enemy, and there has never been such a stain in our western country. We must fight this battle. If the trust of the people is lost, the country will not last long. ”

Tiddlelem's point had already been made by a nobleman, and she had only repeated it now.

The Patronus and the army were very upset when they heard that the princess had brought up this argument that had already been refuted by themselves. However, the royal family is a royal family after all, and they still have to respect it, so they have to patiently explain it again.

His Highness Tiddlerum waved his hand to the Patronus halfway through this, "Since you gods are not willing to go to war, then quit." This war. Patronus is not required. We need to turn ourselves into the god of vengeance. ”

When the army heard that the princess wanted to send an army without the participation of the Patronus, everyone was stunned.

"Your Royal Highness, I am not doubting your understanding of the war. But I feel like you really need to understand this further. ”

The general had already said it very politely, and in the tone of an ordinary soldier, the meaning of this sentence was probably 'You little girl who has not grown any hair, do you know how to fight?'.

The princess also waved her hand to the military personnel, "Forget it, this revenge is a matter for our royal family, and you don't need to participate." The royal family has its own power and can take revenge on the enemy independently. ”

The princess pronounced the word 'independent' with great weight when she spoke, as if she was declaring her dissatisfaction to everyone present.

Everyone listened to the princess. I thought this girl was crazy. In fact, they are still very strange, they heard that the princess, like the dead king, had a hole in her stomach. I don't know how many guards and attendants were present, but they all saw the princess's internal organs flowing all over the ground. But the problem is that she is now so good and looks in front of her eyes, just an injury wrapped in a circle of wounds.

The palace physicians also received information from the palace doctors, saying that the princess's injuries were recovered on her own, but the specific situation was not explained well by the doctors.

This vague and inexplicable thing makes people feel a little awe of the princess, which comes from the unknown information about her inexplicable recovery.

The unknown is always a source of fear, and now that the princess suddenly said that she could take revenge independently, everyone present naturally remembered the strange thing that happened to the woman in front of her.

Military representatives were probably the slowest of the three members. He is also the most straightforward. Soldiers are indeed very clever when they concentrate on studying intrigues, and they are very slippery in setting traps and using stratagems. But when facing friendly forces, he was unusually straightforward, and his speech was a little unscrupulous.

His Majesty had just finished saying this. The military immediately slapped his thigh to indicate a qiēok.

"Does Your Highness want to use the royal army's private army to fight the enemy? If so, our military is willing to approve of this operation. ”

For the military, the private army of the royal family is a very troublesome thing. These private armies are actually the king's army, which is small in number and well-equipped.

If these king's armies were not raised, the regular army would be able to increase the number of troops at least three times the combat effectiveness of the king's army. In other words, these private armies consume too much, but they are of little use.

Her Royal Highness had no rights until her brother's assassination, but now she had the temporary right to rule the country.

There is no prime minister in the country of Nishi, and it is a very simple administrative model of a king and a three-tier parliament. In such a situation where the king encounters an accident, the king's power is automatically transferred to Her Royal Highness the princess, who has the first right to inherit the throne.

The princess didn't really have much control over the private army, and she didn't think she could get their approval by sending the king's army to death.

The duty of a soldier is to obey orders, not to send them to death. If an order is tantamount to death, then in general, the army will mutiny.

In everyone's opinion, a revenge war without the participation of the Patronus is actually a battle to the death, and there is no need to think about it, this is exactly what happened.

Without the participation of the Patronus, for the army of the West Country, it is like in modern warfare, there are no war machines such as planes and tanks, and there are no missiles and communication equipment. It's the same with just a bunch of big-headed soldiers charging with rifles.

It is strange that when the army, without fire support, is asked to attack a fully manned military base with guns, this order can be guò.

The King's Army was not an army loyal to the King. More often than not, it resembles a guard of honor. They are better at showing their armor before the inhabitants of the city than at war.

The princess's words sounded like a reckless act on the side of the army. There was no reaction from the Patronus at all. All they need is the royal family's 'I don't need you to participate' and that's what they're for.

As for the merchants and nobles, these people, who were supposed to be the main battle faction, heard that the war they were looking forward to would be such a situation, and they also united to vote against it.

The most important thing to be in state deliberation is the opposition, and a meeting without the opposition can only be regarded as an affair of a bunch of oligarchs. In response to the opposition of these merchants and nobles, the princess showed considerable patience.

"Rest assured, the royal family is not the only one with such a small combat power as the king's army. I'm not crazy. More sane than any of you, I want you to trust me as you believe in me as you believe in my brother. ”

Her Royal Highness the princess has already said that the royal family uses its own army and strength to fight, and does not need the support of others, and will not use other materials. Under such conditions, no one can interfere with the actions of the royal family, and no one is qualified for this.

This call is incomprehensible, and it seems that it is deliberately said so hazy that it reminds everyone of the fact that Her Royal Highness the princess inexplicably recovered from a state of serious injury.

Does the royal family have any hidden power?

Everyone's minds thought a little in this direction, and then chuckled in their hearts at their own childishness and ridiculousness. They believe. There must be a reasonable explanation for everything, and miracles do not happen for no reason.

Miracles are not so simple. Zhou Shu put down his arrogance at Her Royal Highness the Princess, saying that he was going to use the power of the royal family to declare war on the enemy late at night on the third day. Appears behind Team To's station.

This army is about the size of the four legions of the White Moon Country, and there are ten guardian spirits, all of which are small animals, and their combat effectiveness is unknown. They had just taken the new land from the East Country and made a great circle into the hinterland of the West Country, and they were a support force in the war of aggression they had launched.

The king had been hanging up for three days, and Tiddlelem announced her coronation as queen on the second day. The preparation work only took half a day.

Zhou Shu saw the coronation ceremony of the princess twice in a month, and he also began to wonder if he had a little bit of a 'fateful princess'. Fortunately, he knew that his attitude towards the woman Tiddlelime was fearful. It's not the kind of fear, Zhou Shu is afraid that when she will let herself whip her again. It really doesn't feel good.

At this time, Master Zhou felt that he was a bit like the well-known Owari fool in the history of Japan's Warring States period, who once built a city behind enemy lines overnight, and also scared the enemy a lot. Although Zhou Shu is not a monkey, and he doesn't plan to build a 'Night City', but with Dinglan here, it's OK to get some arrow towers out and let his machine gunners play a little. In fact, he's preparing to do just that.

It was still easy for the three warriors to bypass the patrol of ordinary soldiers in this world, and they wore khaki sand camouflage and secretly watched the military camp of the East Country in the golden sandy plains of South America.

The array was still very dense when the armies of this world were stationed together, after all, the view here was so wide that it was almost impossible to take a sneak attack. In this case, forming a dense formation can easily defend against the charge from the enemy's Patronus General.

Zhou Shu had already left the city yesterday to prepare for the battle, and he didn't ask for any information from the army, nor did he have any plans, but he just wanted to come out to see the situation of the enemy army.

He is now in a state where he wants to become famous in a fight, so it is better to be self-sufficient in terms of intelligence.

Thanks to the Book of Summoning, he was able to easily understand if his enemies were able to deal damage to him. Anyway, he was only afraid of the moon god, and the other guardian gods didn't care at all.

The moon god seemed to be far away after the first blow, and Zhou Shu moved at high speed in the wilderness for a whole day, seeing many enemy strongholds, and found no trace of the rabbit at all.

Tiddlerum has now been hidden in a different place, and it is said that it is a newly dug secret passage, which should be relatively safe. Zhou Shu, Freedom Eagle and Nati, as an 'army', began to pay for the princess's blowing.

After staring at the enemy army in front of him for a while, and seeing that their side was peaceful and vigilant, Master Zhou decided to take them first.

He wasn't very familiar with the kind of war, but Liberty Eagle was still relatively good at it. At this time, Zhou Shu very contradictory summoned the summons of the five magic power holders, bowed to them and apologized, and killed them.

The five summons were used to feed the Freedom Eagle, and the magic item ring in her hand absorbed the blood of the mana owner and used it as a magic potion to replenish energy. The plan for this battle was conceived by her, and she was at the heart of it.

Zhou Shu's summons continued to pop out, and in addition to the five dead magic power holders, there were also thirty ordinary male youths. These people were in pairs carrying heavy machine guns bought from the Fool store manager, and they were also incarnated as machine gunners, standing bare-bottomed on the field.

The two old feudals, Liberty Eagle and Natty, were also not very accustomed to men, so Liberty Eagle quickly manipulated Dinglan and let the stones under the ground wrap these fifteen groups of bare-ass men, and made a square stone fortress for them, the kind with the muzzle of a machine.

The Stone Fortress then flew into the sky under the control of the Freedom Eagle and came above the enemy army. After that, machine guns rang out, and an unequal battle began. (To be continued)