Chapter 297: Everything Goes According to Plan

The rebels have been defeated in successive battles, and almost certainly not at the level of the princess's own command. To achieve this kind of command, at least relatively complete battlefield intelligence is required, and aerial reconnaissance is almost indispensable, and it must not be an ordinary reconnaissance method, which cannot be calculated just by sitting at the command headquarters.

However, Van Meer personally came to chat with Kevin, and continued to let the rebels launch a surprise attack in person, but he was still defeated. This made Van Mill doubt his own judgment, and people are always reluctant to believe that others can do things that they can't do, especially when their strength is obviously much stronger than the other party. But unfortunately, Kevin is already familiar with the surrounding terrain, and it is not the first time he has secretly commanded after all, and even when the battle is fierce over there, Kevin still talks and laughs and maintains his acting skills.

But things didn't end so simply, when Van Mill left, the strong condemnation left behind had to make Kevin vigilant.

The kobold are not a big country, and the big countries can not take strong condemnation seriously, and at most attack each other. And in the face of the condemnation of big countries, small countries cannot be fooled by the past.

Today's wars are not fought casually, as a change of regime, wars should not involve civilians, and acts such as slaughtering civilians or using civilians as shields will be condemned by the Church of Light, and in serious cases, they are even directly defined as dark or evil. After all, once the necromancer directly slaughtered the city to fill the number of zombies, this is the pain of the whole continent, and those who rashly expose this kind of pain are equivalent to the public enemies of the continent in serious cases.

But when war breaks out, it is almost impossible for civilians at the bottom to try to survive. Both sides have ways to circumvent these rules, and at the same time condemn each other with the rules. However, it cannot be said that the rules set by the Church of Light are stupid, because at least they prevent the massacre of the city, or the mass slaughter of the army, etc., while also allowing the two sides to fight within the rules as much as possible.

Regular battles usually have fewer casualties than unregular battles, and in the end, rules protect the weak after all, and it really doesn't work without the Church of Light at this point.

And as for whether the kobold princess actually burned her own civilians? Of course not. Civilians are the cornerstone of her rule, how can they be burned to death casually. By the time of the battle, civilians had already moved into the mines, and a few daring men had come out to watch and witness the flames engulf the enemy. This undoubtedly brought the princess's prestige to its peak, and with the bard's blow, the princess seemed to be the god of war.

On the other hand, although a fire burned down many houses, the key farmland, mines, caves, shops, etc. were not destroyed. And what burned down were mostly dilapidated, useless houses. With the development of the main city, there will inevitably be a large number of old houses facing demolition, and now in the case of proper calculation, a fire will save time and effort. At the same time, the 500 enemy vehicles that had been burned by the fire were basically immovable, and the magic array inside might have been burned, but this shell was not so easy to burn off. As the population here grows, these shells can be used as temporary shelters to solve the problem of housing difficulties for a large number of people. It's a lot of work.

However, no one else can see this, and the Imperials only need to say, "You burn the civilians." "Even if the civilians lined up and danced one by one in front of the Imperials, the Imperials would turn a blind eye.

In order to prevent the Empire from making a fuss about this, Kevin contacted the princess through the raven that night, and asked her to gather an observation group from various countries the next morning to visit their city, and everything would be clear.

However, the next day, when the messenger sent by the princess came to deliver the message, the Imperial refused to go because of the danger of the battle there. It was a ridiculous excuse, and the Dark Elf Ambassador immediately mocked it, but the Empire ignored it. And as the people of the empire did not go, one of his allies also advanced and retreated together, and none of them went.

But thankfully, there are still people who are willing to see it. With the Dark Elf ambassadors as the mainstay, plus several other small country observation groups, Kevin is also rare to join in the fun. At the same time, the Light Priest in the city was also pulled over a few for reasons such as saving the world.

The princess personally received everyone and took everyone to patrol the city, of course, due to Kevin's original special status here, they all did some facial modifications, put on some beards, and got a mask or something, lest the kobolds recognize that this is a god's leader, and come over to worship together.

It is not easy for kobolds to recognize the faces of the human race, and Kevin did not leave any portraits for them to admire, and his memory is basically blurred after a long time. At this time, mixed in the crowd, as long as the princess doesn't say anything, there will be basically no problem.

The scene in the city is naturally in ruins, with dilapidated houses and buildings everywhere, large scorched areas that are shocking, and even green smoke is rising, and corpses are still being moved. But from a professional point of view, the fact that such a fire was extinguished in just one night shows that the fire is completely under control.

Although the place is dilapidated, every kobold has a smile on his face, everyone seems to have a job to do, and everyone is full of enthusiasm. From this point of view, the princess's governance is still relatively successful, and as long as it takes time, it will inevitably be a prosperous main city.

When the princess led the crowd on the tour, she also condemned the rebels' attacks, even if she had no more power, but still had to speak out. In the evening, everyone had finished their rounds and returned to the original main city.

Subsequently, there was a large number of verbal sessions, and the national congress was held at the headquarters of the Church of Light, and the words "appeal", "concern", "concern", "concern", "protest", "solemn protest", "condemnation", "strong condemnation", "regret", "deep regret", and so on, constantly popped out of everyone's mouth. This is no longer something that Kevin can do, they can only wait for the results to be obtained over there, and analyze the meaning of the empire based on this.

The main purpose of the empire is, of course, to balance the combat power. At present, it is difficult to achieve victory by simply commanding the rebel army in secret, so there are only three options, either convince the princess to be more sensible, or sell more powerful weapons to the rebels, or find an excuse to take matters into their own hands.

Neither choice is for Van Mill, the leader of the dragoons, to decide, and he also needs to wait for a meeting from above. However, once he decided to take action himself, the dragon knight could immediately fly over and squirt the kobold princess to death with a single breath of dragon breath.

During this time, Kevin also kept thinking, if the empire really implemented this decision, how should the kobold princess respond? After thinking about it, he felt that it was difficult after all, this was not only the gap in strength, but also the princess's territory had no depth, and there was nowhere to run.

Kevin didn't keep these speculations, so he told the princess directly. The princess didn't say anything, she was very calm. She just asked, what's there to make up for? What's next?

Speaking of the next step, it was naturally the work of the swing man, and at this time the upper levels were desperately meeting, and the rebels did not dare to attack again after being defeated, and the princess was slightly restrained because she had just been condemned. A rare short period of peace has brought the businessman with a keen sense of smell into action again.

The swingman took the initiative to find the kobold princess and proposed to set up a factory for the kobold to do hard work to build an imitation magic sword. The two sides hit it off, and the agreement was signed on the same day.

There is no factory, so as not to be used as a target by the other party, all the kobolds involved work in their own homes, and the swingers provide drawings, basic tools, basic materials, and upfront funds, and the princess does not need anything else except labor. It's hard to say yes or not to such a good thing.

But this matter is also impossible to keep secret, after all, there are so many people involved. The Imperial merchant immediately got the news, and of course he was very anxious, so many people copied his products, but at this time there was no way to complain.

After only a few days, the market was almost full of imitations, disgusting to the merchants of the empire, and disgusting to the countless wealthy people who bought the original ones. It is almost impossible to prohibit it by law, and the law here is incomplete. Then it can only be solved by force, simply and rudely.

However, the swingman is also a person who has been in this area for a long time, and someone wants to find a mercenary group to kill this person, and the people in the mercenary group basically quit when they saw that it was him. It's really not a matter of money, it's that the risk is too high, not to mention the casualties after the miss, and it also reduces the reputation of the mercenary group, a mature mercenary group should know what can and can't be accepted.

Only one person who didn't seem to know much about the market sent someone to assassinate him, and the result was self-evident, and the next day he also announced a refund, saying that he would ask for another high-mindedness.

The Imperial merchant had no choice but to report the situation to the higher authorities and wait for a reply. Kevin didn't make any hints either, as long as he is a mature businessman, he should be able to think of the most suitable solution. All that's left to do is wait.

Three days later, the meeting at the Guangming Headquarters finally ended its discussion, and the accusation that the princess burned and killed civilians was not established, and it was inconvenient for the Imperial people to send troops directly, which really made Kevin and the others breathe a sigh of relief.

However, the Empire's attitude towards both sides also began to shift significantly, with more condemnation of government forces and more support from the rebels. Call them fighters for freedom, and government forces as evil oppressors. It will also sell more advanced weapons to the rebels, while suspending sales to government forces.

Kevin's first reaction when he heard the news was that his eyes lit up: "More advanced weapons!" As if he had a place to use again at this moment.

The next day, ten more advanced tanks arrived and delivered directly to the rebels. The whole process was covered with a tarpaulin, which was very mysterious, and Kevin and the others had no chance to get close.

The battle started on the same day, and the princess also sent ten chariots to meet the enemy's temptation, but this time the other party finally stopped playing bumper car games, and was about 100 meters away, and began to throw things. The full stop behind the full stop chariot finally played a real role at this point.

The three chariots on the princess's side were immediately shot, and the front of the car was smashed into pieces, but the car could still move, and the members of the car seemed to be still alive. From this point of view, the full stop chariot is a little less powerful than the ellipsis, but it can already deal considerable damage to the chariot.

The princess knew that she was not an opponent, so she immediately led her people back to the city. The opponent's ten chariots chased to the city gate, but after all, there were only ten chariots, remembering the fire a few days ago, they didn't dare to kill people after all, so they could only withdraw temporarily.

In this contact battle, Kevin saw it clearly, and his heart was clearer. The rebels have just taken over a new type of full stop chariot, and they are already familiar with it in less than half a day? This is a little too genius, maybe they have no problem driving, but it is definitely not so simple to launch a projectile, attacking moving objects at this distance, easily hitting three, if you want to say that without the help of the Imperials, Kevin will not believe it.

However, if the Imperials make a move, they can make some assessment of the combat effectiveness of the full stop. Kevin can basically tell how well this speculation performs from their throwing trajectory and muzzle velocity, even if they don't throw at the maximum distance. Anyway, Kevin is also in this business.

Not only that, but Kevin also discovered a completely new system during this battle, which is the way vehicles communicate with each other.

The angle of view in the car is limited, and once the cabin is closed, the sound is difficult to hear, and the battlefield command, whether it is the flag or the gong and drum, is not ideal. In the battle between kobolds, there were hundreds of chariots at most, and there were also methods such as going out with the infantry and letting the infantry outside the car listen to the sound, but it was not ideal after all.

In the case of Lou Paule, it is possible to use the contract parrot to communicate, which works very well and is almost impossible to interfere with. However, it is limited to the number of parrots, and the cost is also somewhat high. This can't help but make one wonder how the people of the empire communicated?

Now the answer is finally revealed, through the wind!

The wind does have the ability to carry words, and this is the principle of the wind amplifier, through which the words can be sent to a long distance. However, it is not easy to blow the wind into the vehicle, and it may be necessary to install some kind of receiving device on the outside of the vehicle, and there may be some kind of transmitter on the command vehicle.

At the same time, if it's just the wind, it's easier to interfere with, and a wind spell might blow the information away. The Imperials must have taken similar situations into account, so how did they avoid them?

Intrigued, Kevin decided to plan to start a step-by-step test through the war. At the same time, the empire's fruit cutting factory finally made a decision to relocate a small part of the machinery and set up a factory nearby. Once it moves, it means that under Kevin's nose, stealing its secrets is just around the corner.

Everything went according to plan, step by step, in an orderly manner, and just a few days later, Kevin had already sent his first report back home. You must know that the crow also has the ability to detect magical elements, and he has also learned a lot from Kevin, and he can already feel the elemental state here just by flying around the car body a few times.

In the past few days, Kevin and others have been smiling brightly every day, although in a war environment, it is inappropriate to laugh in the face of such a sad environment, but helplessly, everyone is happy.

But the joy didn't last long, and in early March, an airship slowly landed in the airport, and Van Mill went to meet him with a group of dragon knights. Everyone couldn't help but discuss, who is such a big pomp and circumstance, enough for the imperial people to receive such a reception?

Kevin couldn't help but be a little curious, and he sent the parrot and the crow to watch. The parrot sent back a message: "An old man and a mage have come down from above. ”

The crow, however, had already recognized the two of them: "Bradley, a retired veteran of the Empire, and his retinue." You should recognize. ”

Kevin took a deep breath and nodded, "Yes, indeed." ”