When mentioning the coming-of-age ceremony, Gabbri's god sè was quite calm, but when Du Wei mentioned the words "fiancée", Gabri's expression was a little unnatural, he seemed to glance at his brother, but deliberately jumped away from the topic: "I heard that you killed a holy knight, and you are still a great knight." ”

Gabby looked at Du Wei's face.

Du Wei frowned slightly, and then smiled: "Oh, the news spread so quickly." ”

Gabri sighed, slightly worried: "Brother, I know what you have to do, there is always a reason for you." So no matter what you do, I'm on your side...... But don't forget that our mother is a devout member of the church. The mother was very sad to hear the news. ”

Du Wei thought for a moment, and suddenly sneered: "Hmph, it's the church and religious office on the Luolin Plain, what did you say when you came to your house?"

“...... The Catholic of the Religious Institute of the province of Kotte came to my house once before I left, nominally to give me a few gifts to congratulate me on my upcoming coming-of-age ceremony, but ...... It must have been deliberately passed through the mouths of the servants in the house and then into the ears of the mother. ”

Du Wei sneered: "These gods always like to play these tricks." He glanced at his brother, "How did you do that?"

There was a hint of determination in Gabby's eyes: "What else can I do? Before I came out, I broke the legs of the two servants in the family who were chewing their tongues in front of my mother, and then told my mother that the struggle between imperial power and divine power has always existed. Now that our family is tightly tied to the royal family, there are some things that we have to do. As for the churches in the province of Kotte...... I have ordered that this year's religious contribution tax be reduced by fifty percent, and these guys don't dare to run to dìdū to complain. ”

Du Wei smiled. I'm very satisfied with my brother's growth. After all, the person who will be in charge of the Rollin family in the future cannot be a gentle sheep, but must be a lion who dares to fight against everything that provokes his territory!

"By the way, after your coming-of-age ceremony, there are two major events, one is naturally married, and you want to marry your fiancée, and the second...... It's your future. According to the tradition of the past. The heir of the Rollin family naturally wants to enter the army. Do you have any ideas of your own?"

The two brothers rode on their horses and walked side by head. After Du Wei's question was asked, Gabrie did not answer immediately. But he lowered his head and pondered for a while, when he looked up. The young man's face was full of sincere expressions: "Brother, where do you want me to go?"

Du Wei was stunned for a moment, he looked at his younger brother who had grown up, and said with a smile: "You have grown up, you don't have to listen to my arrangement for everything, you should have your own opinions, I can only give you some advice." But I can't help you decide anything. ”

As he spoke, Du Wei suddenly reined in his horse. Seeing his younger brother sitting on his horse with his spine straight, he suddenly smiled and untied his cloak casually. Throwing it to Gabry, he said softly: "Dìdū is not the south after all, it is still very cold at night, you put this thing on." ”

Gabre looked at his brother and looked at his brother's face. The two brothers are fifty or sixty percent similar in appearance. In contrast, the fourteen-year-old Gabrie is more focused on the image of the Rollin family's tradition: strong. The contours of the face are also more square. He was not even fifteen years old, and his face was already covered with a faint fluffy soft beard. It's Dewey. The eldest son of the Rollin family, however, seemed to be thinner than his younger brother, and his shoulders were not as broad as Gabri's.

From this point of view, when Gabrie grows up, he is afraid that he will be more like the old Count Raymond than Du Wei, the image of an imperial general.

On the contrary, Du Wei is more like a civil servant.

After glancing at his brother, Gabri immediately wrapped his cloak without hesitation. Du Wei smiled with satisfaction: "Okay, let's say, what do you think?" You tell me first, no matter how much I say now, I also have some status, which department you want to go to, I will definitely let you get your wish. ”

"I want to go to the army and become an officer in command, even if it is a junior officer, just like my father did back then. Gabby's voice was firm: "I don't want to go directly to the headquarters to be a civilian soldier, that would be too boring." ”

"Start as a junior officer in the army?" Du Wei muttered for a while, but stopped talking.

Both brothers remained silent, but Gabrie occasionally secretly looked at Du Wei from time to time, watching Du Weidi's eyes change, and he was also a little apprehensive in his heart, not knowing if his brother would support his decision.

He made that choice for a reason. Their father, the late Count Raymond, the last patriarch of the Rollin family, when Raymond was young, after the coming-of-age ceremony, he directly entered the imperial [**] team as an earl, instead of choosing to be a civilian in the command, he directly entered the Northern Storm Legion, and was a low-level officer for three years, starting as a cavalry commander, then a captain, and finally became a commanding officer in the last three years.

Of course, the speed of this promotion is naturally like a rocket, after all, his identity is the heir of the Imperial Rollin family. But even so, it is rare among the aristocracy, because most wealthy nobles will not send their heirs to the grassroots level of the army with difficult conditions to endure hardships, but will choose to seek a good position in various departments of the dìdū, and then slowly mix the qualifications, and when they reach a certain age, they will be sent to the local army, directly serve as a senior officer, mix for a few years, and get some "banditry" and "maintenance of local law and order" and so on, you can return to the dìdū with honor, get a rank of general in the military, or seek a position of no lower rank in the high command......

This is the career of most wealthy and aristocratic heirs, which is very smooth, and they don't have to suffer too much.

At that time, Raymond was an outlier, he refused to stay in the military command, but ran to the most difficult conditions among the four main battle legions of the empire, guarding the Storm Legion in the northern frozen forest, although he was promoted to the commander of the army in three years, and he also relied on the influence of his family, but he was willing to endure hardships, which was admired by everyone, and. The Storm Legion was the most difficult place in the empire at the beginning, he had personally led the army to fight against the demonic beasts in the frozen forest, and he had also fought with those poaching smuggling mercenary groups with real swords and guns, he had been injured, and he had also made meritorious contributions, but these were actual merits without water.

Originally, he did. It's enough to make people admire him. Everyone thought that as the heir of a famous martial arts family in the empire, he did enough to show that he was good, and then he should be able to go back to Dìdū to enjoy his blessings.

But he didn't!

He ran to the Northwest Army again! He served as the commander of the local cavalry regiment for a year, and led people to fight those murderous horse bandits and steppe people in the northwest for a while!

Arguably, the two hardest main battle regiments of the Empire, he

I've been to them all. Suffering, bleeding!

The empire has been peaceful for two hundred years, and the wealthy nobles, including many so-called martial families, have gradually become mediocre and obsessed with peace, and few people are willing to suffer and hone themselves like Raymond.

Now, it's clear that Gabri also wants to follow in his father's footsteps.

Du Wei was pondering. Instead of answering Gabre immediately, the two went all the way back to the Duke's palace in Dìdū.

When I came to the door, I looked at the familiar house and courtyard, although it had been expanded, and now the Duke's Court looked more magnificent than the old Earl's Court.

"Your Earl's Court, you haven't chosen an address yet. Du Wei smiled: "There have been too many things recently. And, I'm sorry for you, this family...... It turned out to be yours. But His Highness rewarded me with the Duke's Palace. So, over some rìzi. You're also moving. ”

Gabrie laughed, "Okay." My brother, this house is yours. That is, mine, between the two brothers, there is nothing to share. ”

The servants came over and took away the horses, and the cavalry guards who had entered Beijing with Gabri also went down to rest, and Du Wei took his younger brother directly and returned to the study first.

A moment later, the servants brought dinner, and the two brothers sat down at the table in the study and had a simple barbecue.

Gabri ate it very sweetly, and finally wiped his mouth and said with a smile: "Speaking of barbecue, it's still delicious that you make with your own hands, brother." ”

"Anyway, you're here now, and there will be a chance in the future, and if you're free, I'll make it for you to eat." Du Wei smiled.

Then he gently threw away the knife in his hand, his face regained seriousness, and he looked at his younger brother: "Okay, let's talk." ”

Gabry also had a solemn face, and he and Du Wei sat back at the desk, looking at his brother's serious face and frowning slightly. Gabry could feel that as his brother grew older, his titles and official positions became higher and higher, and the authority in his hands became heavier and heavier, and the power between his eyebrows became more and more heavy.

Sitting in front of his brother at this moment, Gabrie suddenly had a wonderful feeling in his heart: looking at his brother now, it was like looking at his majestic father back then.

"You want to go to the bottom of the army to hone yourself, and I'm proud of your courage. Du Wei spoke slowly, his voice was low: "Which army do you want to go to?"

Gabriel smiled, and he could tell that his brother seemed to support his idea: "Naturally, you don't need to think about the local garrisons, and you know what those local garrisons look like! ”

"No, Gabbri. Du Wei shook his head: "You may not know in the Luolin Plain, in fact, in the past two years, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been rectifying the local garrison army, disarming and reducing a large number of redundant personnel of the local garrison, and the rì regular training and military records have also been rectified, which is much better than back then." ”

"I don't want to go to the local garrison anyway. Gabby muttered.

Du Wei smiled: "If you don't go, you won't go, then do you want to go to the main battle legion? or the Wangcheng Guard?"

"Forget about the Wangcheng Guards! The Wangcheng Guards are still stationed in dìdū, I just don't want to stay in dìdū. ”

Du Wei sighed, he vaguely guessed his brother's plan, but out of respect for his brother, he still asked, "Where do you want to go?"

Gabry smiled, he wrenched his finger and said: "The newly established Thor's Whip, I was originally very interested, the newly established legion, I heard that the weapons and equipment are quite good, and many new weapons are given priority to them, I really want to go." However, the commander of this legion is Arpay, although I have been staying in the Lorraine Plain, but I also know that this Alpayi and my brother are not in the right match, they are the enemies of our family, so I naturally can't go to his men, otherwise I won't give him half death. ”

Du Wei smiled, looking at his younger brother's face with his familiar childishness. There is some warmth in my heart.

"Needless to say, the Southern Legion has been guarding that swamp all year round, and the southern ...... But the South is too peaceful, and the Southern Corps has been disarming and transferring people for many years, and the Navy has been expanded, and a group of people have been drawn from the Southern Corps. When the Wangcheng Guards were purged, a group was drawn from the Southern Legion, and this time when Thor's Whip was established, a group of backbones were still drawn from the Southern Legion. Now there is only an empty shelf left in the Southern Army, and the actual combat effectiveness is probably not as good as that of the local garrison! I don't want to go to that kind of boring place. ”

"Do you want to go north?" said Du Wei solemnly.

"Yes, the Stormwind Legion is my first choice. Gabry smiled: "You also know that when my father was young, he first served in the Storm Legion, and now the corps commander General Rostock. It's a good friend of my father's back then, and if I go, he will take care of me, so you don't have to worry about me. ”

Du Wei sighed in his heart, but his face remained silent, and he said slowly: "What about the Storm Legion? ”

"It's not bad to go to the northwest dúlì division. Gabry smiled: "But that's your place, and the Northwest Division is also under the control of you, the Minister of Military Affairs of the Northwest, and it's your army, although I'm interested in it." But I'm worried that people will gossip. I want to hone myself, I don't want to stay under the protection of my wings. ”

The last sentence shows Gabbri's heart.

Du Wei faintly frowned.

Because he knows very well that these two choices are very bad!

If it was peacetime, of course Du Wei would not object to his younger brother suffering a little, and it would not be bad to go to the Storm Legion. Although the frozen forest can be somewhat dangerous. However, as long as you send a few more family masters to escort you, there should be no big problem.

Isn't that how my father came back then?

But. Now it's different!

Gabby didn't know. But Du Wei knows!

Within a year, the sinners will invade from the north. At that time, the Stormwind Legion bore the brunt!

Although Du Wei didn't want to attack his younger brother's positive xìng, but as an elder brother, he was also selfish! In the future war, as the Storm Legion defending the front line of the empire, it will be the first army to engage with the army of criminals, and the casualty rate will inevitably be very high!

He didn't want his brother to take the risk!

And the northwest dúlì division...... In fact, this army is simply a cover made up by Du Wei and Prince Chen!

This Northwest Division is actually not an army at all! Because after the destruction of the Northwest Army, the threat on the grassland has been blocked by Du Weixian, so there is no need to station a large army in the northwest. This Northwest Dúlì Division was actually quietly made by Du Wei and Prince Chen......

The Imperial Air Force of the future!

Over the past two years, the large factories established by the Empire in the northwest have produced a steady stream of hot air balloon airships, which have been technically modified and updated, and have begun to be equipped on a large scale

The Northwest Dúlì Division, and a lot of training, this army will come in handy in future wars!

This Northwest Dúlì Division, the prototype of the future Imperial Air Force, will definitely have to fight to the death with the criminals on the battlefield. For the safety of his younger brother's life, Du Wei doesn't want Gabri to be a pilot!

I remembered the fighting power of the sinners described in the letter that Bai Hechou sent back to him with witchcraft.

Those rhinoceros warriors whose strength is comparable to that of human mid-level warriors, and those orc soldiers who can go berserk at any time to improve their combat effectiveness...... A powerful fighting machine made by the dwarves.

Look at my brother's young face again.

Du Wei shook his head resolutely!

"Brother, I said, I respect all your choices, and I won't force you to do anything. But, as your brother, I need to speak my mind. Du Wei's face was solemn, and his eyes were fixed on Gabbri: "I personally...... Oppose you to go to the Storm Legion or the Northwest Dúlì Division. ”

"Why?" Gabbrey did not immediately retort in a hurry, but calmly questioned Du Wei.

This performance made Du Wei very satisfied. It's good that my brother finally looks like an adult, instead of a frizzy child.

"I don't hide it from you. Du Wei sighed, and he lowered his voice: "This matter is still a secret, but after half a year, it will be announced." ”

He suddenly took out a map of the empire from under the table, spread it out on the table, and raised his hand to the place in the frozen forest: "I think you know about the fact that the demonic beasts of the land were rampant in the frozen forest two years ago. That incident cost the Stormwind Legion dearly. ”

"Yes. ”

"Very well, then I tell you, this is just a prelude. Du Wei's voice was full of cold flavor: "In the next year, in the north, north of the frozen forest, there will be a large number of ...... Vicious races that we never knew, and never knew, invaded! They weren't human. It's alien races, they have at least a million troops, and they have a lot of combat power! Their goal is not to make trouble for a while like those monsters. It's for ...... Exterminate humanity! This is a big war! The frozen forest will be at the front line!"

Gabre was stunned.

There was a sudden deathly silence in the room!

Young Gabrie looked into his brother's eyes, and then at the location of the frozen forest on the map.

Such a news may be difficult for anyone to believe and accept for a moment!

The continent has been peaceful for hundreds of years! For a long time, for the people of the Roland Empire, the only known enemy was none other than the Northwest Army, a separatist warlord, which had now been bulldozed by Du Wei.

And then there's the steppe outside the Kilimano Mountains, those steppe barbarians. But it's just a local scourge, not a big threat.

If you are reluctant to pursue it, there may be Nanyang...... But the proud Roland people don't regard the natives who rowed boats with spears as "enemies" - they don't qualify!

"North?"

"North of the Frozen Forest?"

"Not a human alien?"

Gabby asked three questions in a row.

He could see that his brother was definitely not joking!

"The only person who knows about this now, Dìdū, is His Royal Highness the Regent, who may have told Lord Robustschane, but only to the core power of the Empire. There won't be more than five people. And other than that, the only one who knows the news is the Pope of the Temple Land...... Also, the chairman of the Magic Guild, Yago Doug, should have been informed. ”

Du Wei slowly moved his finger: "You also know that we have established a military defense line in the north of the empire, and it is a very long defense line built at the level of an empire's first-class military fortress - the Kaspersky Defense Line! Is it necessary for us to build such a line of defense at any cost......?

Du Weidi's voice was full of coldness: "News from the outside world." This line of defense was built according to the Imperial first-class military fortress, but in fact. The standard and cost of its construction is much higher! I have invested sixteen million gold coins in this line of defense! The empire has also paid more than 100,000 laborers and men. Almost half of the Imperial Workers' Office was mobilized to the north. The lowest walls of this line are fifteen meters high, and where we are equipped with ballistas and defensive equipment. The military fortress behind the line was large enough to house more than three legions, as well as a good storage of weapons and forage...... In the past year, grain from the south has been continuously transported to the north and northwest, and I have spent countless jīng efforts to squeeze the cattle, sheep and horses from the northwest grassland. Including the newly formed Thor's Whip Legion, as well as my Northwest Dúlì Division, will be heading north in the near future, and will have a round with the Storm Legion, and then ...... This line of defense will be our wall against the invaders!"

Gabri finally spoke, his lips squirming a few times: "Are these intruders powerful?"

"Very powerful. Du Wei smiled bitterly, for the first time in the past three years, he could tell his relatives: "It is so powerful that I am not sure! The single combat power of these invaders is far above that of us humans." And...... They also possess wisdom, hatred, determination...... And so on!"

Du Wei sighed, his face full of exhaustion.

In fact, he has been very tired for the past three years! It's just that in front of his subordinates, he is the leader, and he can't show the slightest weakness, but now, in front of his trusted brother, he can show his tiredness.

"This is not the Northwest War, it is not a local warlord like the Northwest Army, and it can be suppressed in two or three months. It's not the steppe war of twenty years ago, which can be ended in a year or two...... It was a Great Patriotic War, or a 'war for the defense of humanity', and I even doubt that it would last for ten or twenty years...... Or even longer!"

Du Wei remembered the two "Mythical Age Wars" 10,000 years ago.

That dark era lasted for a hundred years!!

Silent......

The two brothers looked at each other speechlessly.

Du Wei suddenly smiled, turned around and took out a crystal bottle from behind the bookshelf. In the bottle is a hidden wine - this habit, Du Wei also learned from his father Raymond Sr.

He unscrewed the cap and handed it to his brother, "I think you must need two sips by now." ”

Gabrie smiled wryly, "Looks like I really need it." ”

He grabbed the bottle and poured a small half of it hard, choking a few times because he drank it too quickly.

Seeing my brother's cough, his face turned red. Du Wei finally smiled gently, "You are very brave, Gabry. At least after you knew the news, you didn't pee your pants in fear. If ordinary people knew that our human race was about to face such a big crisis of annihilation of the country and the extinction of the land, I am afraid that most of us would

It's going to be a breakdown of panic. ”

"This ...... Why hasn't this been announced?" said Gabriel, smiling wryly.

"I knew this three years ago. Du Wei smiled bitterly: "But we need time to prepare for war! Do you think, if this news is announced, how much panic and chaos will break out in the human world? Under that kind of fear, there will be a lot of civil strife in the empire. In desperation, everyone has no intention of producing...... We need three years, and we need to get the farmers to continue farming for three years. So that the empire could store grain. Let the craftsmen continue to produce, so that the emperor [**] team can get sufficient weapons and equipment. Let the merchants continue to circulate, so that the imperial treasury can wait for sufficient military spending! In addition, in the past three years, we have swept away the warlords of the Northwest Army at any cost and eliminated internal troubles...... You think, if this news had been announced earlier, we would probably not know what the chaos would have been! But now it's good. Most people don't know, so we have prepared the army for war, the reorganization of the army, the accumulation of weapons, grain and grass, the financial reserves, and the construction of the northern defense line......"

"But it always has to be announced. Gabby whispered.

"Yes, in a few months. Du Wei sighed: "Then, chaos is expected. Luckily, though. We are ready for the chaos of bomb suppression, and the reorganization of the local garrisons. And the warlords of the Northwest have been eliminated. At least we don't need to worry about it internally. As for the panic of the people...... It's inevitable. But enough food and weapons have been produced. Panic is panic, as for that...... Believe in us as the leader of the gods. The Pope of the Church will find a way to calm this fear. After all, he is the leader of the jīng gods. ”

Goo-goo-goo.

Gabbey took a few more sips.

At this moment, under the stimulation of the wine jīng, the young man's trembling heart could gradually calm down.

He is not cowardly, but when the news of such a big event comes, everyone will always be emotionally confused, even Du Wei, when he knew the place, was the same.

"I'm still going to the army!" Gabby actually poured all the bottles of wine.

His face was red, and he placed the bottle heavily on the table.

"You are the heir of the family!" Du Wei reminded solemnly.

"But I'm a Rollin person!" Gabbrey said proudly: "As the patriarch of the Rollin family, as the leader of the proud Wuxun family, how can the Rollin family retreat at such a great moment! Our family is a part of guarding this continent! Our ancestors fought bloodily for this empire, and our father also shed blood for this empire! How can I, how can I be willing to fall behind!"

"You're going to have a chance. Du Wei smiled bitterly: "However, I still don't think you should go to the front now." You will most likely die in the first wave of the showdown. ”

"I'm not afraid of death. Gabrie shook his head: "The son of the Rollin family, there is no one who is afraid of death." ”

"I know. Du Wei still shook his head: "But you are the patriarch, if you die, who will inherit the family?" Don't forget, now you don't even have a son." You're just coming of age yourself. Before you die, you must leave at least one heir to your family. Otherwise, will you watch the Rollin family, which I have worked so hard to recover, disappear?"

A very calm question, which suddenly made Gabrie silent!

Indeed, in this generation of the Rollin family, Raymond died too early, and Gabrie was still just an adult, but the eldest son Du Wei had already left the family and became a family of his own.

It can be said that if Galley dies suddenly, then the Rollin family may not even be able to find an orthodox heir...... What awaits this great family is only the end of ashes!

"After your coming-of-age ceremony, get married immediately, and the wedding will be simple. And then...... I need you to get your wife pregnant within a year – or sooner. It's a responsibility to the family. As for your position...... The Storm Legion in the North, I don't recommend you to go, because if you go now, you will only play the role of an ordinary low-level officer, and there is not much value in contributing. And I'm going to have some other arrangements for you...... Of course, it's all based on the premise that you agree. You are my younger brother, but you have grown up, and I will not impose my will on you. You can think about it if you stick to your intentions......"

Du Wei smiled bitterly: "Then I can only agree, but I will send a master to protect you and try not to let you die in a low-level officer's post." If the count of the Rollin family died when he was still a low-level cavalry captain, then it would be too humiliating. You deserve a bigger stage, my brother. ”

Gabby stood up and looked at Du Wei: "You are my brother, I am willing to follow your arrangement!"

After a pause, he suddenly whispered, "Brother, this ...... How sure are you about this?"

"You mean war?" Du Wei shook his head: "I'm not sure." I'm afraid this war will last for decades, if not longer, so ...... I have a plan, after three months, I will find a way to pick up my mother from my hometown and send a ship to send her to Nanyang! ”

"Nanyang?" Gabbie was stunned for a moment, but he immediately caught a message: "Do you think that the Kaspersky Line may not be able to stop the other side?

"Anything is possible. Du Wei shook his head: "This is not a war between humans and humans, a war between humans and humans, in the end, one side admits defeat and surrenders, and it is over." But this is a war to exterminate the country and the species! The other side's goal is very likely to be to annihilate mankind! Such a war has never been encountered by mankind for thousands of years. ”

Gabriel looked at Du Wei for a while: "You are my brother, I believe in you, I believe in you unconditionally! I will do whatever you want me to do!"

Du Wei smiled, his eyes were bright, and he shook his brother's hand hard: "Don't worry, I am also a member of the Rollin family! My brother, I hope that after you become a father, you will be another famous general of the Rollin family!"

Gabrey's face suddenly became a little strange: "Brother, can we discuss the matter of marriage again......"