"It's not that it's hard to eat......

The man reached into McKenzie's set lunch box, pulled out a piece of boneless fried chicken wings, and spoke.

"But if you can, let's eat something sweet, a small amount of salt is not bad, but long-term excessive intake is not good for the body. ”

The man was covered in a robe, his vague silhouette outlining his tall figure and slender limbs, his face was hidden by the hood and the dark, and judging from the voice of his voice, he was about 4 or 50 years old, and the tone of his speech revealed a sense of disobedience to his age.

"What? Don't complain so much? You're mistaken. It's an important preparation, and you can't fight a good war when you're hungry, so it's okay to get some quick food to wrap your stomach, but better food is more morale-boosting. You should know more about this kind of thing than I do—"

There was no one around, but the man continued to talk more and more energetically, as if he was chatting with someone with great interest.

"Wow, you said you were going to hike the mountain, why do you want to do such a troublesome thing? yes, yes, I did say that 'using magic can leave traces, and the guys who have been attacked once must be on high alert, and they will definitely be on the lookout for this.'" Therefore, it is necessary to hike the mountain and get as close to the target as possible to ensure the accuracy of the operation. But this is this, that's that, it's true...... In short, it's all your fault for being too troublesome. ”

Before you say that, think about where you stand. ”

The same voice came out of a very different intonation, and the previous frivolity was gone. Majesty and fortitude trembled in the air. A wand of civilization with a red gem studded on the top poked out from under the black robe, and the carefully camouflaged wand pointed to the front of the nothingness, and continued in a metallic tone:

"Also, why does that ship have such a strong escort force, can I suspect that you deliberately concealed this information?"

"Don't be so angry, we are also accomplices, there is no need to do things that are not good for us, right?"

There was a voice of justification from the other side of the void, probably for fear of annoying the collaborators, and that cynical attitude had subsided a lot.

"Even though I used to be a member of the equivalent inner circle, those guys have always been wary of me. After that incident. All of the secrecy codes associated with me have also been cancelled. If it weren't for the backup numbers of a few peripheral staff members and an Enigma machine, I am afraid that I would not have even been able to get the information that "Pieter Strassel will be on an important mission". As for how many guards were on board...... Do you think it's such a core thing that those guys will be so aggressive that the guys at the perimeter level will know about it?"

“......”

I don't know if I agree with this statement. The man fell silent. The intimidating atmosphere still permeated his entire body.

"Don't worry. Despite the loss of a squadron of griffin knights, the crown prince has been able to confirm the authenticity of the information and our value, and now the guys in the consortium are jumping up and down. Get busy looking for traitors. It's all as we expected—"

It is precisely because they know the secrets behind the consortium and the mode of operation of that organization that they can assert their reaction. As a secret organization, Alfheim's greatest protection is "stealth", so far, the elves have spared no effort to maintain this protective clothing, and at the same time feel at ease with their security measures, once the proud security system has a loophole, their reaction must first panic, and then like ants that have been stabbed in the nest, they start to investigate and repair the loopholes......

It's good that it's well-organized and well-organized, but on the other hand, once you're familiar with how it works, it's easy to guess what to do next.

Even Alfheim is not immune to this problem.

The sacrifices that can be made for this......

"Hey, hey, partner, make no mistake. This is not a human war, our opponent is not a human race, not an intelligent species, a dangerous species, an ancient species, and even whether we can call it an individual is doubtful. From my personal point of view, it would be more appropriate to think of him as a mobile walled city with unlimited troops and equipment. As he was given the title, a transcendent race that transcends a known race, is one, and is a veritable transcendental race. To deal with such an opponent, it is just that this kind of sacrifice is already very cheap. ”

“...... I don't need you to remind me of this kind of thing. ”

As if spitting out dirty things, the answer was extremely unpleasant.

Of course, he knew that what he wanted to achieve had to pay a price, and it was by following this ancient principle that he was able to achieve outstanding feats, from one victory to another, until finally the wings were broken. Similarly, it was at the cost of the lives of his subordinates and the trust in him that he was able to survive to this day, secretly plotting revenge plans.

I know it too well, I understand it too well, and that's why I hate this principle so much.

But now, he no longer has the qualifications and leeway to complain, and the matter has come to this point, and he can only let it go.

"How's your preparation? There's not much time left for us. ”

"There's no need to rush—"

His voice was flirtatious again, and he replied with a sneer:

"There's still half an hour to finish, so just wait for that time to pass. Although they are all imps, they are also pure blood magicians, and the guard force is not a vase ornament, as the previous daredevils have proved it, in order to ensure that one fell swoop, wait a little longer. ”

Putting away his wand, the man in black sat back in the shadow of the cliff, looking out at the railroad tracks below, a gloomy whisper leaking out of his lips.

"Besides, I want to meet my old acquaintances sooner......"

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The pearl of the Istel, the two most beautiful cities of the Crown of St. István, Buda and Pest, have been completely destroyed.

Without exaggeration, fierce street fighting had already left the city in tatters, and after the battle ended, Titans began to systematically destroy the surviving buildings again, three days after the battle ended. With the last explosion, all that remained of the Crown Collar's metropolis was rubble.

Staring at the plain of broken bricks where there was no trace of the city on the photo, Roland's eyebrows were almost twisted together, and after looking at a few more photos, his hands trembled.

God knows how hard it took him to resist the urge to slash, and he was just a little bit away from smashing the table with one punch.

In order to intimidate the people of the Crown Leader and prevent them from revolting, Titans was tacitly allowed to use terror. They executed this order very well, almost ruthlessly.

Titans was not in the habit of captive. They do not accept surrender. The massacre of prisoners of war and civilians who had surrendered was also common, and would not be shown to the Republican Wehrmacht and militia. In the photographs taken secretly by Stasi, several Titans soldiers were caught using axes to dismember prisoners who had been wounded in a street fight. In another photo, several Titans soldiers are raping hospital nurses and nuns. There was a guy who looked like a non-commissioned officer slashing them with a knife. The grenadiers on the side were preparing to drop bombs on other wards.

The two photos alone already made him feel sick. But this is only the beginning, and for those lucky enough to survive, the darkest story is the death march to the prisoner of war camp. Prisoners who could not walk were immediately killed by their escorts and thrown into a ditch. The captives were denied water and food, and were allowed to lie down in puddles and ditches to drink water during rest periods, and hundreds of them died of dysentery after drinking dirty water.

As a city that had humiliated Charlemagne and had been captured after several bloody battles, Titans had a reason to vent his anger on those who surrendered. The senior generals were aware of the atrocities of the soldiers, but they themselves were incorrigibly fanatical, and could not expect one group of fanatics to stop another. Moreover, the practice of retaliating against prisoners of war was a common practice in the armies of various countries, and even if individual commanders still had mercy, they could not give an explanation to their subordinates who were eager for revenge, so they simply turned a blind eye and allowed their subordinates to do whatever they wanted.

Retaliation against enemy forces may be obfuscated by the smear tactics of "everybody does it", and atrocities against civilians can only be described as "heinous".

At the very beginning of the campaign, the soldiers of Titans were told that they were allowed to send 10 kilograms of parcels home. This is actually a subtle encouragement of robbery, because the only thing that can be sent is canned luncheon meat that no one wants. Many of the soldiers who participated in the Titans tried their luck with the dream of making a fortune, and it was the stories of the veterans who participated in the "Seven Days War" who made their fortunes and those glittering trophies that drove them to endure harsh training and boring lives. Now that they have finally seized a good opportunity, they are naturally not far behind.

Charlemagne had a passion, and the inhabitants of Buda and Pest suffered. The masters of Titans robbed everything, art, clocks and jewelry, clothes, pants, shoes and socks, tables, chairs and benches, pots and pans, cats, dogs, pigs and chickens...... Some soldiers recruited from the countryside even set their sights on the fountain in the ruins of the Avoo headquarters building, summoning the sapper brothers to use explosives to tear down the fountain sculpture and take it away. Another group of soldiers had never seen the flush toilet, a high-end and high-grade modern civilization weapon, and used the flush toilet as a tool for washing, putting things in it to rinse and dry, and when the water was flushed, everything was washed away. As a result, the flush toilet has the nickname of "stealing machine......

The looting was so large that each house was visited by at least several groups of soldiers before it was demolished, and sometimes even the officers were not spared, and at least one lieutenant colonel and two majors were robbed of their mounts, coats and medals. Among the many looted items, the most popular were watches and pocket watches, and when a fool who had robbed an officer was caught, the gendarmes rolled up his sleeves and trousers to reveal 30 watches, and about 20 pocket watches hung from his clothes. The wretched creature was shot on the spot, and the gendarmes divided his spoils.

Even more terrible than robbery and murder is rape, and as an ancient military practice, mass rape is not an uncommon phenomenon. On the one hand, the soldiers did this to satisfy their sexual desires, and on the other hand, the defilement of women was also a means of humiliating the vanquished, and it also brought a collective sense of reward and satisfaction to the victors. In order to humiliate the Crown Collar to his heart's content, the Titans GIs went after the woman.

Rape targets ranged from 6 to 70 years of age, with both men and women being assaulted, with some victims being assaulted as many as 22 times. In the Pest quarry area, drunken soldiers raped their mothers and wives in front of children and husbands. The 12-year-old girl was dragged away from her parents and violated by 10 to 15 soldiers, and after the first group left, a second group came to emulate their atrocities.

Many men have been beaten to death to protect their wives and daughters. Women would rather commit suicide with their children than endure this horror. Shockingly, the female soldiers of Titans also participated in this atrocity, and many middle-aged female support personnel occupied orphanages, schools and other facilities, selected boys with better appearance and physical condition, and then violated these boys on their desks in the classroom, and those who did not comply were severely beaten or killed on the spot. Stasi's candid masters dutifully captured these scenes, preserving the scene of the middle-aged mature woman pushing back into Zhengta......

The papal envoy, Priest Angelo Rota, had protested to Gamitov about the atrocities, but he was surprised by his answer: "Your Excellency. Don't you understand. A soldier has walked thousands of kilometers, has been in a hundred battles, and has died nine times in his life, and wants to have a woman to play with or steal something. Isn't it a matter of course?"

"Bastard!!"

The rage that broke through the tipping point finally erupted. The boy stood up. Black-and-white photos and briefings flew around the carriages, and no one picked up the shocking pictures and text.

Stacy is not a charitable organization, and he has innocent blood on his hands. But Titans' unscrupulous behavior made the professional killers feel a little frightened, and they couldn't think of what to say for a while in the face of Roland, who was angry.

"It's a little too much......"

A striking voice sounded, and the purple pupils who were in the midst of excitement leaned to the side.

"However, it is still within the control range...... Don't look at me like that, you probably want to get that kind of thing. ”

Valrhona returned with a sigh-like look and put down the text in her hand.

Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath of air, Roland sat back in his chair.

From Charlemagne's point of view, the rebellion of the crown leader is not only an impact on the system, but also a geopolitical crisis. Originally, the Crown of Ostoria and St. István was regarded by Charlemagne as the rear, serving as a logistics base during the war, but after this rebellion, Charlemagne found it difficult to believe that these rebellious people would understand the current affairs and be willing to accept the new political arrangement. As long as there is a little faith in the government, it will not help to increase the military guarantee, because Ostoria and the crown are located in Charlemagne's belly, and in the event of a war with a certain power, Charlemagne will not have the extra energy to face the attack from behind.

In the light of geopolitical demands, Prime Minister Richelieu concluded that Charlemagne's interests demanded that its possessions should not only be subject to the suzerainty, but should always close the windows between Charlemagne's possible future enemies. However, given the signs of the rebellion, it is difficult to imagine that such a system of crown rule could be created in a short period of time. It would make Versailles feel that it could be relied upon, and that it would maintain its own friendships with other nations, while at the same time not hooking up with Ostolia, who was closer to Charlemagne and increasingly restless, to build a new nation.

In this way, Charlemagne can only rely on the crown collar of the obedient people after being cleansed with iron and blood, and everyone bows their heads under the bayonet. In order to achieve this, and at the same time not to let the purge go too far, a "model" was needed, so the city of Buda, as the center of the revolution, was singled out to serve as a chicken to kill the monkeys.

For now, this idea is plausible. All atrocities were strictly confined to the whole city of Buda and part of Pest, and there were no atrocities in the crown territory, and after seeing the tragic state of the capital, the besieged city quickly gave up its resistance to avoid the same fate. A week after the meticulous demolition of Buda, the rebellion had largely subsided, leaving only sporadic guerrillas hiding in the mountains and jungles to put up a hard resistance.

The new Crown Governor has not yet been officially announced, but there are indications that Count Gombash Gyulo, the famous Arrow Cross party member and staff officer to Colonel Titans, a descendant of the Crown Leader, may take up the position, and that the Vice-Governor may fall to his subordinate, Viscount Salahi Ferenc.

Undoubtedly, this arrangement was a reward for Titans, and the arrangement of two noble officers of the crown would also reduce the occupation color slightly, and finally, in order to restore order, it would be necessary to implement military control, and the coordination of two staff officers would save a lot of trouble.

If a large amount of supplies, including food, is imported into the crown and the famine is successfully alleviated, order should be restored soon.

Minimal loss, fastest order restoration, almost seamless.

But it is also intolerable to justify mass killing, looting, and rape as "necessary evils" on this ground.

"Think about how order came about, Roland. If it were a world ruled by Alfheim today, and the people of the Crown Lords were rebelling against the Archon, what do you think would happen?"

The crown collar disappeared from the ground—the answer popped up in every head of the room. The consul's creed was "Opinion is allowed, but no resistance is allowed", "Where there is resistance, there will be oppression", "You will not cooperate until you are violent". Maybe in order to deter other people who have similar intentions, but are not crazy enough, they will use even more terrifying tricks to serve.

"Besides, so far, it's not all bad. Isn't it said that an international organization is going to be formed? Although the motives are not pure, there is a place where disputes can be discussed...... By the way, didn't you say that even the song was finalized?"

At the mention of that song, the corners of Roland's mouth couldn't help but turn upward. The finalization of the anthem was proposed by the envoy of the principality, and he did not hesitate to propose to use "The Unbreakable Alliance" as the anthem of the "Monarchical Mutual Aid Society", and after listening to the title and tune of the song, the envoy of Albion actually expressed his approval, and said that Queen Elizabeth would also like Yunyun.

The country of humans and orcs uses the songs of orcs and elves to make songs, which is really ......

Roland doesn't know the true origin of the song, otherwise his sense of surrealism would be even stronger - what could be more surreal than the solemn singing of the CCCP national anthem in the counter-revolutionary base camp before the autocratic monarchs, aristocrats, clergy, and monopoly capitalists gathered to discuss the suppression of the revolution?

Just as he was about to say something and bring the topic back on track, a feeling that something was wrong came up from the bottom of his heart.

In the next second, a strong tremor hit the entire train. (To be continued......)