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The Governor Hughes stood up and smiled slightly: "And what about your plan? ”

"In my plan, you are the key. El Salvador solemnly said: "Although our collective strength has an absolute advantage, we also have our greatest weakness: we are not a whole, we are a group! We have too many members, and I am not sure whether all of our members have a firm will! You know, some guys are easily shaken, and some guys are unambitious and just want to stick to the rules, and some just want to maintain the status quo." But now, the time has come to make a choice! There is no 'maintenance of the status quo', and there is no 'maintenance of balance'! There will be no more! We are faced with a war, and I must make sure that all the members of our collective do the same! Now that the Emperor has taken a risk, he has made the most crazy move! We must show our toughness and determination! If we hesitate, or rather cowardly, then all the members within us may waver...... After all, the governors of the Northeast region you know have never had any great ambitions, and those guys don't have the courage to overthrow this empire at all, they just want to be honest and be a rich man. We have to break the illusions of these guys!"

"I don't need you to tell me this, I'm not a fool. Hughes shook his head, "I need to hear more...... favorable conditions for me. ”

He looked into Salvador's eyes, the kindness in his eyes faded little by little, and the edge gradually revealed: "Osculia to me, it does sound good, but ...... Do you think that's enough? Don't be naïve, El Salvador. Osgilia is very close to me, right in the palm of my hand! When we overthrow this empire in the future, whether you promise it or not, whether others agree with it or not, this place will be mine! Because it is so close to my territory! No one else can get it but me! That is, no matter what, this place will be mine!"

There was mockery in his tone: "You can't buy me with 'what belongs to me', can you? ”

Salvador paused, he exhaled and looked Hughes in the eye: "What do you want?"

Hughes smiled, his eyes slightly crooked as he laughed, and then he took out a piece of paper from his sleeve with a list of items on it, and slowly pushed it to the other side of the table.

Salvatore glanced at it and took a breath: "You actually made a list?"

"Of course. Hughes smiled: "Otherwise, what do you think I was doing with afternoon tea just now?"

Salvatore snorted heavily, picked up the piece of paper and looked at it, the ink on it was all new, especially the last line, which was obviously just written.

Salvador looked at it in a hurry, and his face sank to the extreme: "The price you ask for is too high, you know, you do these things for yourself." ”

"But the gun shot the first bird. Hughes smiled lazily, "I'm the first to come out, I'll be hit with all the strength of the royalist army!" So, I think it's reasonable to ask for some compensation. ”

"Military spending...... Grain...... Weapons...... Hmph, your Armenia produces the best iron ore, do you need us with weapons?" Salvador frowned dissatisfiedly.

"Oh, you don't need weapons, but I need a warhorse. Hughes's attitude hardened: "Ten thousand fine war horses! Mind you, I'm talking about war horses! If I see a horse or a mule, then I don't promise to act irrationally in a fit of rage." ”

"Ten thousand, that's not a small number. Do you want to equip a cavalry corps?" Salvatore sighed, "I can only promise that I will try my best to convince other members and allies to agree to your terms." ”

"Very well, so can we celebrate the happy cooperation first. Hughes smiled.

Salvatore snorted and looked at the last line of newly added text at the end: "Daphany and Adeline, you want both girls?

"Of course, I'm very happy to hear you're here. And I was overjoyed to hear that you had brought these two precious gifts. So, I made some small additions to this list during afternoon tea. ”

"Daphne......" Salvador sneered, "Her title of Crown Princess is just a joke for us." But...... She's a member of the Minas family, and no matter what, having a Minas family hostage in her hands is always a big bargaining chip...... You've got a good plan. And Adeline...... What are you thinking? Odin?"

"Don't forget, our princess, her title of 'princess' is not just Byzantine! I heard that in the Odin Empire, the powerful Odin God Emperor has always cared about his little niece. ”

"Well, I promise you, anyway, even if I object, you won't allow me to take them. Salvatore shook his head, but finally stared at Hughes: "I'm going to warn you, it's kind advice." It's okay to work with the Odin as a last resort...... However, if you want to make friends with the Odin, then you will definitely regret it later!"

"I will take your advice to heart. Hughes lifted his eyelids.

Salvador was relieved, and he put away the list: "I don't have time to stay here, I must leave immediately...... There's still a lot of work waiting for me. ”

"I can guarantee that my army will be marching early tomorrow morning and making a threatening gesture against Osgilia. Hughes immediately made some practical promises: "But I won't send people to die in vain! Ten days! I need to respond within ten days, you and other allies will respond, or else...... You know what that means. ”

Salvatore glanced at Hughes, got up and strode to the door, and when he reached the door, he suddenly stopped, turned his head and glanced at Hughes: "Change it." ”

"What?"

"The 'Armenian district' you just mentioned, I think...... The Kingdom of Armenia, perhaps a better name, His Majesty King Hughes!"

Hughes smiled, and he looked at Salvatore with the same complicated eyes: "I think it's a good idea...... Well, again, I think the Kingdom of Rodria is also a good name...... His Majesty the King of El Salvador!"

※※※※Cāo is in full swing on the training ground.

In the distance, the young men galloped quickly on their horses, and small teams kept making various tactical formations.

Nearby, some of the recruits were doing the most basic assassination training, which was the most basic cavalry combat skills, and the assassination of charging on horses was very different from that of infantry. Lian Rì's training made these recruits who had just been added to the 13th Corps already look like cavalry.

After the last battle, the 13th Corps, which had suffered heavy losses, was reorganized again - anyway, for a unit with the largest damage rate in the history of the emperor, this was already commonplace. Most of the soldiers drawn from other units are veterans, and replenishing in this way can minimize the loss of combat effectiveness, for these newcomers, they are not rookies, and the only thing they need is to dissolve into the collective of the 13th Corps.

But the biggest trouble is...... Many of the new recruits were not cavalry—although some were cavalry in other units, but by the standards of the Thirteenth Corps, they were far from qualified.

Ruhl's strategy was to draw a part of the original 13th Corps' own "mounted infantry" to supplement the real cavalry force, and foreign recruits to supplement the original "mounted infantry" banner regiment.

At this moment, the chubby Ruhl was standing next to the training ground, squinting at the group of soldiers who were performing a cāo exercise on the training ground, and these soldiers were making standard movements that mimicked immediate assassination under the guidance of the instructor.

Ruhl's eyes were fixed on a figure standing to the left of the first row.

The slender figure was none other than the special observer sent from Dìdū: His Royal Highness Garcia, the Crown Prince of the Empire.

I don't know what madness this highness had, and on the first day of going down to the army, he made a strange request: he asked to go down to the most basic troops, eat and live with the soldiers, train together, and truly experience the life of a soldier.

Ruhl began to think that this Highness was only afraid of a whim, but when these rìzi came down, he found that this Highness was serious!

The legendary crown prince, who pays the most attention to appearance and etiquette, these rì came to the front line of the troops, crawling and rolling with the soldiers, making mud and dirt on the training ground every day, living in the most rudimentary tents, eating with the soldiers in a pot and spooning, and even not bathing for several days, and squaking and sweating together with other soldiers in the tent.

At this moment, looking at the young man holding a horse gun on the training ground, Ruhl sighed in his heart: Who dares to say that this highness is an incompetent little white face, it is simply blind!

In the whole army, there are no more than ten people who know this highness, and the other officers and soldiers at the bottom do not know this new comrade-in-arms around them...... Anyway, there are a lot of new recruits that have been added recently.

Let the adjutant beside him invite the crown prince who was in training, and then in the shocked eyes of all the soldiers, Ruhl took off his cloak and put it on the crown prince, and solemnly saluted him. There was a stir in the queue.

The crown prince sighed, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, and glanced at Ruhl: "It seems that my soldier's career is over?"

"Yes, it ended early. Ruhl smiled bitterly: "I'm sorry, Your Highness, from now on, you can't continue to experience the life of a soldier at the bottom of the front-line troops." We need you to be in a more important position......"

Garcia nodded, he didn't say anything immediately, but first washed his face with the water from the adjutant from the bystander, wiped the water on his face clean, and then sighed: "dìdū...... Something happened?"

"Yes. Ruhr took out an urgent military order that had just arrived from Dìdū: "Your Highness...... War, here!"

There was no trace of surprise on Garcia's face, he just nodded, took the order and glanced at it, and then sighed: "It seems that the father really did it." Haven't you found my teacher's killer yet?"

Ruhl rolled his eyes: "You have also seen the content of the military newspaper, I don't know more than you. ”

The fat man sneered in his heart: What kind of drama! Will that old boy really die in Cavihill? What are you kidding!

The fat man thought so in his heart, but on the surface he was meticulous: "We must march as fast as possible, and then, rush to King Dìdūqin!" Your Majesty has issued an assembly order, and all the troops loyal to the royal family must move closer to Dìdū and form a coalition to defeat the rebellious...... The national fortune is here to fight. ”

Speaking of this, the fat man paused for a moment and continued to say with a straight face: "This order, Your Majesty is a name issued to all places...... It's written very clearly, His Highness Garcia. His Majesty explained that in the event of any unusual situation in the war, that is to say, if any misfortune arose...... His Majesty himself must have been suddenly mishapant...... Then you will have the power to be crowned emperor on the spot and continue to lead the empire to the final victory. ”

"Towards ...... The final victory. Garcia pursed his lips, his smile complicated.

※※※※ dìdū, the southern dock area of the city.

This is the headquarters of the Gallensian Chamber of Commerce in dìdū, and near the docks is an important business district in Dìdū, where all the large chambers of commerce on the mainland have their own strongholds and warehouses.

At this moment, the head of the Gallens Chamber of Commerce in Dìdū, the Gu Luo, who was quite similar in stature to General Ruhr, was worried about something with a sad face.

Dìdū has been completely blocked, the docks are closed, and the city gates are closed. Coupled with the fact that El Salvador in the red zone broke through the siege the day before yesterday and broke the city gate and fled westward, the martial law level in the city has been sharply increased a lot.

It is said that the Red Zone has been slaughtered to the fullest, and that none of the last captives have been spared, and that all of them have been ordered to be executed by the order of His Majesty in a rage, and even the trial process has been spared.

Because of the unexpected escape of Salvador, the greatest enemy chieftain, General Spann of the City Guard suffered the wrath of His Majesty, and General Spann was stripped of his title and removed from his post on the spot - although His Majesty allowed him to remain in the City Guard as an adjutant. The new commander of the city guard, Lord Adric, was temporarily given to the deputy minister of military affairs, the former general of the 13th Corps, Adric. With Adric's prestige in the army, he was enough to take on this important task.

But the problem is that General Adric himself is not in Dìdū now, he is indeed patrolling the northeast of the empire and putting in order the military affairs of the place.

For Gu Luo, his biggest problem was that because of the total blockade of Dìdū, and it was so complete, it was extremely difficult for him to transmit information to the outside world. As a head of intelligence, he knew very well that the Byzantine Empire was facing a great upheaval, and this change would also have a profound impact on the Kingdom of Lantis!

He had to do something...... Something has to be done!!

And just today, an unexpected guest came to visit.

Sitting in front of Gu Luo was a girl who looked to be less than twenty years old at most, dressed in a white robe, with a little freckles on her face, and her appearance was a little delicate, but she was just delicate, not a beauty.

God knows how this delicate little girl, who looks weak and bookish, ran alone through the city to the south of the city to meet her in this chaotic dìdū.

The only reason Gu Luo saw this girl was that this girl claimed to be "I am a disciple of Lord Kavehill"!

Anything that has to do with the name gets complicated.

So Gu Luo met this girl who looked very quiet for the first time.

"You don't need to know what my name is, you just need to know that I'm a disciple of Master Cavishir. The girl sat in front of Gu Luo: "I know that your name is Gu Luo, a native of Landis, thirty-six years old, a first-class military attache under the Information Inspection Agency of the Kingdom of Lantis, and according to the information I have, you are the fifth candidate for the position of Minister of General Affairs and Communications of the Intelligence Inspection Office of the Kingdom of Landis in the next twenty years." ”

Hearing these words, Gu Luo's face suddenly changed.

"You don't have to worry, these materials were already on my teacher's desk long before you came to the dìdū yourself. The girl's tone was understated, as if describing a simple fact.

"Cavishir...... Lord Cavihill, what does he have to ask me......" Gurro swallowed for a moment, and then he asked a question that everyone was concerned about: "Lord Cavihir, is he really alive?"

The girl's brows furrowed, and her god was very calm: "This question, to be honest, I am also bothered." All I can say is that I don't want the teacher to be really dead...... And I'll be honest with you, the last time I saw my teacher was a few hours before that assassination. So...... I can't tell you if the teacher is really dead, although I still have illusions in my heart...... So, Mr. Guro, if you want to arrest me and kill me, you can do it. ”

"......" Guro sweated: "Don't be kidding, I'm sure someone like Lord Cavishir won't die so easily." Okay, now tell me, you're looking for me, what do you need me to do?"

"It's simple...... Our empire is experiencing a major change, and in the midst of this change, may I ask what position the Kingdom of Landis will stand on. ”