Chapter 57: The Assassination (I)
Since the battle of robbing relatives on a rainy night, the eyes of the entire imperial capital have been focused on Qin Shouzhuo, wanting to see how Qin Shouzhuo and his supporters will react, depending on the actual performance of both sides, everyone in the imperial capital will consider the issue of taking sides. As the focus of the crowd, Qin Shouzhuo returned to school calmly after recuperating, and even moved out of Rafael's villa and lived in an independent dormitory.
The contact with the head of the Christina Academy was not discovered by outsiders, on the surface, Qin Shouzhuo just calmly went to class, got out of class, and hurriedly completed the order of the imperial military department's self-propelled magic cannon, but everyone knew: This matter is not over!
After completing the order from the military department, Qin Shouzhuo packed up his bags and walked into the rolling back mountains of the Imperial University, officially disappearing from the sight of the crowd, but every week he would drive his iconic horseless but fast-running "ironclad car" back to the Imperial University for a secret meeting with Princess Sophia.
No one knows what the secret meeting will be, but it is believed that it is nothing more than the situation in the imperial capital this week, especially the movements of Victor Mu and his Templar Order. The magnates of the imperial capital stared at it for a long time, but found that the other party was just a secret meeting and did not take any radical action, Qin Shouzhuo seemed to have given up and chose Her Royal Highness Princess Sophia as his lover, and it was common sense to infer that this was the best choice.
Everyone's eyes ignored a person, because compared to the people who were active on the big stage of the imperial capital, this person was too small, so small that it was ignored.
In the second week of Qin Shouchou's entry into the mountain, he signed a small personnel transfer order: the chief shopkeeper of the Shiweitian Chamber of Commerce, Villette, was transferred to the Shiweitian & Aegean United Industrial Company as the chief manager, and the Shiweitian Chamber of Commerce (which is actually a grocery store) was handed over to the circulation department of the Aegean Chamber of Commerce.
A small person can no longer be small, a chamber of commerce that has just been established with a strange name of only about two dozen people, no one cares about the existence of these little people, and the imperial capital will be established and closed down every day by a chamber of commerce like them, and it is useless to have one of the eight major chambers of commerce in the imperial capital as a guarantee.
The day after he became the chief treasurer of United Industries, Velvet, a grocery store shopkeeper, walked into the back mountain of the Imperial University with a group of magicians who had no bright future and could only specialize in magic power machinery. It was above board, but no one paid attention to the actions of a mere group of craftsmen.
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Just when Qin Shouzhuo hid in the mountains and showed weakness to the enemy, the Holy See faction, whose morale had risen greatly due to the arrival of Victor, began a purge of the imperial faction's forces. A series of victories after Victor's arrival dealt a heavy blow to the Imperialists, and the first to be purged was the old power of the Holy See, Honglu Temple.
This department in charge of foreign affairs has always been the superior strength of the Holy See, this time it simply cleared all the imperial factions out of the ranks, and one Shaoqing and three directors were assigned to 15 places or ordered to be officials, and more than 30 people were demoted and demoted, and the entire Honglu Temple became monolithic and extremely pure.
In the defense of Honglu Temple, the imperial faction that was defeated and sunk in the sand collapsed, in just two months, the three Shangshu that were originally in their hands, one derogatory, one Zhishi, 8 squires fell 5, Jiuqing originally occupied 5, this time lost 3 in one breath, and even the Yushitai was lost.
For a time, in the ten mile pavilion on the outskirts of the imperial capital, there was an endless stream of cars full of cars leaving Beijing, and they were often still sending friends today, and tomorrow it would be their turn to leave;
The head of the hundred officials, the imperial prime minister, had white hair overnight.
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On the night of April 5, 4824 in the Illuminati calendar, the Empire's chief archmage, Dingle Dion, was still lit up in the tower. The old mage is nearly 80 years old, and he still studies hard day and night, and the way of magic lies in decades of hard work, and the ancients are honest and do not deceive me.
The weather had been cloudy since yesterday, until this afternoon it finally began to rain, and the night was even darker under the dark clouds.
At some point, a dark shadow appeared on the top of the magic tower, and he used the rope to slowly descend along the outer edge of the magic tower, and quietly came to the only window on the ninth floor where the light was still on. Under the cover of the rain, he gently lifted the latch, and his eyes were close to the crack in the window to probe the situation in the room.
There was darkness everywhere in the magic tower, only a dim magic lamp hung on the head of Master Dingle, and at this time, Master Dingle seemed to have made some new discoveries and was writing at his desk.
Seeing that there was no notice inside, the black shadow gently pushed open the window, turned inside, and gently closed the window, and there was hardly a sound in the middle, but there was still a trace of fresh wind blowing in, Master Dingle seemed to sense something, the shaking pen paused, and after a while, he continued to write.
Sensing Master Dingle's abnormal movement, the black shadow who was closing the window was so nervous that he didn't dare to come out, and his whole body froze. It wasn't until Master Dingle started writing again that he couldn't help but relax and let out a sigh of relief:
"Whew...... Hmm!"
The subtle exhalation sound failed to arouse the alarm of Master Dingle, but the black shadow himself was half frightened to death, and quickly covered his mouth with his hand, staring at the target with big eyes, and it took a long time to confirm that the other party did not notice, and his head was already covered with sweat. Thankful for the relaxation of the target, the black shadow gently moved himself into the shadows of the bookshelf and hid, closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief, pressing his chest with one hand, as if his heart was about to jump out.
Feeling his breathing steady, the black shadow continued to touch behind Archmage Dingle under the cover of the shadows between the bookshelves, and finally stopped behind a large bookshelf, less than 5 meters away from Master Dingle.
"Squeak~~Touch!Step~Step~Step~Step~"
There was the sound of someone walking downstairs, and after a while, there was a glimmer of light from the staircase, and a tall young man came up with a magic lamp, and the black shadow quickly hid behind the bookshelf, trying to reduce his presence.
"Werther?"
"Grandpa, it's me. ”
Master Dingle put down the pen in his hand and put away the manuscript on the table: "During the day, you said that you had a question to ask me, but now you can ask, and I happened to finish writing." Cultivation matters, just ask, grandpa, as the chief archmage of the empire, will explain to you in as much detail as possible. ”
The visitor smiled, scratched the back of his head with his right hand, and smiled a little shyly: "I just want to hear grandpa talk about the battlefield, the first grade is coming to an end, and our class A will be preparing for the actual trial at this time next year at most, and I heard that it is very likely to go to St. Martin's Fortress to have a look." ”
"Holy ...... Martin Fortress ...... ......"
Hearing this name, for some reason, Master Dingle seemed to remember something, a little distracted, his speech was intermittent, his eyes flickered, and he looked thoughtfully at his adopted grandson.
"Well, the patron saint of the northwest, the fortress of St. Martin," Witte Dion looked relaxed, and moved a stool to sit opposite Archmage Dingle: "I saw that the records said that you participated in a large-scale defense of the fortress of St. Martin as an archmage with His Majesty the Emperor, who was still the emperor at the time, but it only mentioned that the Imperial army made a decisive contribution to the victory of the battle, and there is no more detail. ”
"Why did you suddenly remember to see this?"
"Hmm...... The reason is indeed to prepare for the next year's experience, and I accidentally saw that record," Witte Dion got up and prepared a cup of tea for Archmage Dingle and himself: "It just so happens that my grandfather rescued me from that side back then, but when I opened my eyes, I was already in the Blue Moon Kingdom, and I don't know what happened in the middle." ”
"Hmm...... It's been 10 years...... It was really a tragic battle...... "Master Dingle held the teacup, stared at the tea, and unconsciously rubbed the teacup with his hand, and the whole person fell into memory......
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In the autumn of 4814 in the Bright Calendar, under the fortress of St. Martin.
The orcs launched their heaviest offensive in nearly 50 years that summer. As the leader of the human race, in addition to the 100,000 garrison legions stationed in the fortress, the Holy See also mobilized 70 legions of light, including 10,000 Templars, 350,000 foot cavalry, and also mobilized three empires and four kingdoms, twelve principalities and countless dependent territories, a total of 120 legions and 60W people.
All of a sudden, the entire northwest war clouds were thick, and the human side gathered a total of 1.05 million troops to fight a decisive battle with the attacking orc kingdom, vowing to fight for thirty years of peace.
At the beginning of the battle, the human side had the idea of annihilating the orcs, and after determining the movement of the orcs, on the one hand, they sent a small number of reinforcements, making it appear that the size of the orcs was underestimated, and held the fortress, on the other hand, they concentrated all the cavalry, collected a large number of horses, created a group of mounted infantry, and actively sent scouts to find a road.
The fortress defense force relied on the fortifications to start a tug-of-war with the main force of the orcs, in addition to the first-line fortress group was defeated by a surprise attack, and the defenders abandoned the city and fled, every step of the back of the orcs advanced particularly difficult, especially several main fortress groups along the line, and the fortress garrison that occupied the terrain advantage gave the orcs a heavy blow. In just a few days, many positions changed hands repeatedly, and the strong combat effectiveness and fearless fighting style of the Legion of Light deeply affected every soldier on both sides of the battle.
The smooth assault phase of the campaign disconnected the orc army, allowing the defenders of the fortress to see an opportunity to launch a decisive counterattack. The commander of the defense, Sir Karajan, led all his reserves, surrounded the Orc Forward Legion, which was advancing too quickly and disconnected from the main force, on the Lorraine Avenue where the fortress was connected to the front line fortress group, and immediately launched a war of annihilation.
In order to ensure the safety of the main force besieging and annihilating the Orc Advance Legion and cut off the connection between the Orc Advance Legion and the main force, the 5,000 infantry of the Eighth Regiment of the St. Martin Garrison was ordered to seize the Lorraine Pass and hold out until the main force ended the battle. Under the siege of more than 3W orc infantry, the Eighth Legion held on to that small hill for 4 days. During this period, the orc army occupied the main position three times, but they were all driven back to the starting position in the subsequent counterattack organized by the Eighth Legion, and no one remembers how many times the orcs repelled the attack.
After hitting the back, the orc infantry was also killed, and many soldiers hid in the pile of corpses after being beaten back, and when it was time for the next attack, they jumped up directly to join the attack, and suddenly appeared in front of the human soldiers, ensuring that the offensive echelon rushed to the main position almost without interference.
In just four days, when the Eighth Army was ordered to retreat, there were still 337 people left, and the leader was actually only a deputy commander, and from the corps commander down, nearly 2/3 of the military commanders of each team were killed.
The hard fighting of the defending troops finally made the orc commander make a wrong judgment, believing that all the human reinforcements had appeared on the battlefield and his flanks and rear were safe, so he concentrated all his forces on the frontal battlefield and strengthened the offensive. Finally, when it was determined that all the Orc Kingdom legions had been gathered under the fortress city, the Defense Command ordered a large corps to intersperse with detours, more than 15W cavalry, 8W infantry, and 7W sappers, baggage and other auxiliary troops, along the perimeter of the main battlefield directly into the outermost fortress group of St. Martin's fortress area, which is now the logistics base of the orc army.
At the beginning of the battle, the fortress complex was still relatively intact, and the accompanying engineering units immediately began repairs and built new fortifications in the direction of the rear fortress.
The news that the back road was cut off reached the main battlefield under the fortress, and the orc army was in an uproar, in the case of lack of food and medicine, and the wounded could not be treated, they firmly broke through to the native of the orc kingdom, and finally surrounded by the Terran coalition army that had been waiting for a long time outside the Lorraine Pass, and after persisting in fighting for 3 days, except for a few high-end combat forces that broke through and disappeared, most of them were annihilated, and mankind won the victory of the 28th Holy War.
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