Chapter 455: The Appearance of the Mole
"Then what are we to do now? Petain has sent so many knights to Savoy, so will the defense of Provence be left to ordinary soldiers? Isn't he afraid that we will send an army to break through the Provençal line and directly divide the whole of France into north and south? How can he have the audacity?"
Jonas said suspiciously, at this time, although the scale of knights is much larger than ten years ago, but four thousand knights, this is still a large number, especially for four dukedoms, this is almost all, so many elites are mobilized to Savoy, and then an army of 30,000 people is placed in Savoy, then the defense of the line of Provence will inevitably be relaxed, Petain does not know the specific strength of Genaya, nor does he know what Genaya's military strength is, and he is afraid that Il will leave a hand and arrange an elite army in Genaia?
Almost instantly, a terrible thought suddenly appeared in Jonas's mind, he looked at Andreas, and couldn't help but say: "There are traitors in our army! Marshal Pétain knew about Il's deployment plan, he knew that Genoya was not strong enough to attack, did he?!"
"I think so, brother, you are in complete agreement with me, Petain was not a gambler, and he had never been a gambler in his military experience, which is one of the reasons why Amed did not want to believe us, and he was willing to take such a big risk and transfer the whole army to the Duchy of Savoy, leaving only a few reserves to be stationed on the line of Provence, if there were no traitors, then Petain was crazy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" Andreas replied pertinently, and Jonas's guess was exactly the same as his.
"Damn, what's wrong, Andreas, do you think it's us, or Il's, or the other dukes?" Jonas knocked on the table angrily, the mole made him very frightened, his brain kept filtering the confidential things that he and Andreas had said, thinking if there was a third party in it, he had to arrest all those people and interrogate them one by one to find out the person who might be the mole.
At this time, Jonas completely lost the gentlemanly demeanor that a nobleman should have, facing the enemies hidden in the shadows, Jonas was like a tribesman living on an isolated island in the sea, he was alone, surrounded by sea water, and there was a danger of rising tide at any time, but it was not certain when it would be.
The fear of the unknown can sometimes make people crazy, especially when the unknown is likely to kill you, and the same is true for Jonas, his panicked brain is running rapidly, thinking about all the people who may be moles, arresting them, isolating them, torturing them, he must know the truth.
"It can't be us, all the French who do business in Genoya have been under our surveillance for a long time, they can't have the opportunity to leak secrets to their homeland, as for whether the Genoya people have defected to France, I think there is, but the people around us are confidants, they will never surrender because of a little interest, the problem is not in Genoya, it must be in Il or other dukes, where Il told the news of Susa to those dukes, and some of those leaked the news。 “
Andreas calmly analyzed, for his own people, Andreas actually did not trust as much as he said, but at this time, the citizens of Genoya were already very panicked, if some terror was added to it, it was very likely to affect the normal life of the city residents, just because of a trumped-up mole problem, which Andreas did not want to see, so he denied this statement, but behind the scenes, he had decided to arrest all the attendants in the entire villa first, and then re-interrogate, compared to Jonas, it is obvious that for the people at the bottom, Andreas's methods are more ruthless。
"Duke Il would never do such a stupid thing, what good can he do if Genaya falls? He will only lose a treasury that provides him with taxes, he needs Genaya's money to build him a beautiful palace, and he also needs money to build villas in various places in Susa to support his countless illegitimate children, in the same way, our colleagues obviously will not do such a stupid thing, Gennaya has gathered too much wealth, controlled by the Susa, even if the share is small, it will definitely not be a small number, it is better than nothing, not to mention that this money is very large, enough to improve their quality of life by a grade, so I believe that my colleagues in the Duchy of Susa will not do that, and the latter guess is more likely。 “
Jonas shook his head and denied Andreas's first guess, the Duchy of Susa has stupid people, but their level is generally not too high, as long as they have the right to discuss politics, most of them are still clear-headed, Jonas does not think that these people will be stupid enough to cede their interests to another strange country, after all, it is an enemy country of the empire, stripping a large amount of wealth from their hands to an enemy country, no one will believe the promises they made before the war, the nobles are not stupid, they will definitely not do that。
"You mean, the other dukes?" Andreas frowned, this was the worst answer, because it meant that the Duchy of Susa had been involved in a conspiracy, and they knew it too late, and more importantly, their father was in the middle of this trap at the moment, which made Andreas a little scared, so he instinctively resisted this answer, and he couldn't help asking, "Why?" Even if the duke is in the empire, he is already a very noble status, why should he let the empire be dusted, what can he get? bigger than the duke, can he still become a king or an emperor?"
"I don't know, but we have to understand one thing, that is, this mole is not as simple as we think, let's not think of him as a duke, he is very likely to be any one of the duke's team, this is not certain now, so we must consider it carefully.
And the second point, who was this traitor hired with? This is not clear to us, whether he was hired by the French royal family to sell intelligence in order to damage the empire, or because he had a deep contradiction with the empire, or with the Ulrich family in Lower Lorraine, all this is unknown, so we must all take it into account, and this is only a hired direction, and in addition, is it possible that he was employed with the other four forces in the empire? or, even the royal family? We must know that the current empire is in the midst of great changes unseen in three hundred years, and our emperor is likely to come from another family, which is a big deal for every family, and the best way to make one's family a royal family is nothing more than two, one is to strengthen oneself, and the other is to damage the enemy.
Strengthen yourself, this is difficult to do, every family that has the strength to compete for the throne of the emperor of the empire, has a historical heritage of thousands of years, the accumulation of the family and the power in the empire have developed to the largest scale that a duke can have, and then expand, unless a new technology is born, or a new culture is generated, otherwise it is very difficult to take a step forward in their territory, and at this time, damage the enemy, in order to widen the gap between the two, is the best choice, this point, we must also take into account, the empire is not a monolith, the best power to hurt us will always break out from the insideI think we should think about that even more. “
Jonas also calmed down at the moment, some people will not be angry and lose their minds after falling into fear, but Jonas is a group of people who will be absolutely calm after entering a state of fear, so his state recovered very quickly, and analyzed it at the moment, so that Andreas on the side also nodded again and again, and after Jonas finished speaking, Andreas immediately said: "
Jonas, the two types of people you described, the scope is too large, if you want to find out, it is impossible in a short time, and now, they have occupied Savoy, and the initiative of the war has been held on the side of France, which will directly lead to the loss of the momentum of our troops fighting on the front line, resulting in the inability to play their due combat effectiveness, and this is only the most superficial damage, the traitor is still there, who knows what he will do, if it is a force in the empire, then it's okay, after all, we are all subjects of the empire, even if we do it, we will stop at it, but if the traitor is FrenchIn the war fifty years ago, the Empire lost Alsace-Lorraine, and if this time we took the initiative to provoke the war and lost it again, what would be the dignity of the Empire?"
"Andreas, you're right, as you said, we may not have time to find that traitor, that's the case, all we can do now is write a letter of our thoughts to Il and let them take care of it, and what else can we do? “
Jonas said helplessly, in the face of Hongda's war, the power of the individual is really very small, even Jonas, Andreas is also a smart person, if he is coaxed, it will be useless, face the bleak reality, this is what they should do, not to mention that the current reality is not particularly bad, at least there is still room for maneuver in the Lower Lorraine War Zone, and it is not a dead end, as long as Il can make the right judgment, and the entire Duke Group can operate effectively, then even if there are traitors, Jonas thought, there will not be much problem。
Andreas is obviously not so optimistic, the traitor can know that Genaya has not deployed too many troops, which means that his status should not be too low, because when Il took two knights to the north, he left behind the armament of a knight order, which is a false shot, deliberately letting Marshal Petain know that Susa's offensive ability is not so weak, and there are not many people who know about it, after all, those northern dukes will not know who the commander of the knights is, so naturally they don't know where the knights are, whether they are formed or not, and the people who can know this are only Il's people and important ministers, and the dukes.
After all, the dukes also have to know the military dynamics of their allies, especially the Duchy of Susa is close to the border of the Kingdom of France, and it is very likely that a war will break out between the two, and it is very possible to ask from the perspective of concern, as for whether it is the Duchy of Susa's own people who exposed this matter, Andreas now feels that it is impossible, after all, if there is really something wrong with Susa's interior, then the speed of Marshal Petain's attack will not be so slow, but it should be very fast to take Savoy, and not start military operations when the French army on the front line has already suffered tens of thousands of casualties。
The slow speed of attacking Savoy is the proof that the traitor cannot be a native of the Duchy of Susa, and this point also makes Andreas's heart even more worried, those dukes, Andreas does not understand, and for the affairs that he does not understand, it is what Andreas hates the most, especially when this matter can threaten his interests, it is hated, at this time Jonas wants him to relax, this is really a difficult thing.
But as Jonas said, there was really nothing he could do, and the quickest passage between Lower Lorraine and Susa had been cut off by Marshal Pétain, and if he wanted to send the message again, for the sake of safety, he would have to go around the whole Alps, and then from Austria, Bavaria goes, the time it takes along the way is definitely enough to divide the real victory and defeat of this battle, if Andreas does that, it is absolutely stupid, what he should do now is to do what Jonas said, take care of Genaya, and then send the letter to Il through the way of flying pigeons, and give this task to Il to do.
This makes Andreas very insecure, it's not that he doesn't believe in Il, but Jung is there, and when it comes to the problem of relatives, Andreas is difficult to think rationally, even if Il's only ten percent chance of not catching this traitor, then Jung's risk factor will increase a lot, and this is a huge disaster for Andreas, he doesn't want his relatives to die in someone else's conspiracy, this is a teenager's love for his father, there is no need to question it.