Lüders at this moment can be described as very subtle and eerie.

On the surface it seems to be just a little depressed, there are more military police on the streets, and besides there are no more changes. In fact, even ordinary people began to perceive the undercurrent surging beneath the surface of calm, and how could the well-informed bigwigs above not be aware of the low pressure in the air that was increasing in power every second.

As more and more defeated troops retreated, the news of the defeat that had been covered was finally presented to the people, and along with the bad news about the fall of the fortresses of Sedan and Verdun, all kinds of terrible rumors about the heresy of the pointed ears poured into Lüders. A considerable number of the defeated soldiers suffered a serious mental blow, and it was inevitable that they would exaggerate the situation of the enemy, and some of them, in order to clear their own guilt for fleeing before the battle, further added fuel and vinegar, magnifying the strength and terror of the defense force by more than ten times. Supported by the horrific rumors of all kinds of seasonings and the horrific appearance of the defeated soldiers, the citizens of Lüders immediately fell into panic.

Pointy-eared ghosts are murderous machines that have no humanity, no mercy and no sympathy, no personal thoughts, and no discussion of chivalry and humanitarianism with you. They have only one thing on their minds - to carry out the dictator's orders, to kill Charlemagne, to kill Charlemagne, to kill more Charlemagne. The front-line pigs in steel helmets and iron boots are thinking about how to kill Charlemagne as quickly as possible, and you have only two options in front of these two-legged beasts and humanoid devils - be killed on the spot, and be killed after surrendering. Comparatively speaking, the former is easier, and with the latter, the ghost beasts will not let you die too quickly.

The above information can only be described as terrifying, and what really suffocates the citizens is the part about how the Defence Forces deal with civilians. According to the colorful descriptions of the defeated soldiers, the ghost animals do not like the brutal massacre very much, they prefer "games", and it is the civilians who act as game props. The content of the game is varied, such as drawing a few people to line up to see how many people can be pierced by a bullet, another example of forcing a group of civilians to run back and forth in a minefield with a gun until everyone is killed, and another example is to find a group of pregnant women, everyone bets on whether the belly is a boy or a girl, multiple births or only children, and after the bet is completed, use a bayonet to cut open the belly of the pregnant woman one by one to see who wins and who loses

Compared to these tyrannical "games", the gallows are merciful.

In fact, the Defence Forces did have records of executions of civilians in occupied areas, but they were carried out in the normal legal process, with ample evidence, and in the end, they were always carried out by hanging and beheading – the Defence Forces insisted that the executions were the treatment of soldiers, and that civilians were either put on the gallows or guillotined. Incidentally, some villages without guillotines were simply cut down on a chopping board where the prisoners were pressed to chopping vegetables with axes.

The citizens of Lüders don't know these secrets, they only know that the ghost beast is coming, and this day will not be able to live.

Panic swept through Lüders like a plague, and everyone had to sit down and think carefully about where to go.

Escape?

Where to flee? The whole world is full of Charlemagne's enemies, and falling into the hands of the barbarians who have a blood feud with Charlemagne will never end up any better than falling into the hands of ghost animals. The road to neutral Ceres has been blocked by pointy-eared ghost animals, so it's a good idea to join hands and jump into the sea together, and maybe there will always be a few lucky people who can cross the ocean and find an uninhabited island to spend the rest of their lives.

Stay?

Waiting for the ghost animals to come to the door to raid the house and destroy the door? Of course, this will not work, but if we are a great drop of good people, and we also lead the way for the imperial army, will we not only save our lives and property, but also have a chance to climb up? Even if we don't do anything, at least we must leave a way back for ourselves.

So overnight, countless housewives began to make the black, red and gold tricolor flag of Alfheim, and the skilled tailor beauty also embroidered the vivid Black Eagle flag of the Wehrmacht. The men rushed to buy the half-body uniforms of the dictator through various overt and covert relationships, and the underground training classes in various elves were full, and there was a situation where demand exceeded supply.

Moderation, reserve, dignity, patriotism - these beautiful words have disappeared without a trace, as if they never existed, and those who once shouted "Kill the light" and "Long live the war" were either citizens of Lüdes or insane.

It's a very ironic comparison, but it seems a bit inappropriate to blame the citizens of Lüdders on that basis. After all, people who have not experienced the disasters brought about by war, who have not personally experienced the unforgettable pain, terror, and injury, will always irresponsibly clamor for war when they stay in a safe place. Whether it is irresponsible or frivolous, this is the nature of human beings and even the whole society, and if you want to be more serious, it will be endless.

In any case, this atmosphere of "all the people should be obedient to the people" and "everyone should be the leading party" continued until the issuance of Order No. 20. In the face of cold gendarmes and blunt orders, the deviant actions and rhetoric immediately ceased, at least on the surface.

However, in private, the momentum of collusion and covert competition between various forces has become more violent. In order to eliminate the heresies of other factions and establish their own ideas as their sole national policy, the main battle faction, the capitulation faction, the neutral faction, the coexistence and co-prosperity faction, the pro-Albion faction, the Albion integration faction, and the Alfheim faction launched a vigorous internal struggle and dumping in order to eliminate the heresy of other factions and establish their own ideas as the only national policy. From verbal abuse at meetings to murders in small alleys, ugly political battles are staged every day.

Most citizens choose to ignore the chaos in front of them, and it is extremely dangerous to make any tendentious remarks now, and if you accidentally say a word, some "young man with a conscience" or "people with a sense of national concern" will blow you up before the iron fist of the violent apparatus descends on you. If you are lucky, you may be able to save a breath to the gendarmerie and the gendarmes to have a good conversation, but if you are unlucky, you will be put into a sack and sink into the Seine. In the midst of these oppressive and chaotic days, the citizens had no choice but to escape from reality and convince themselves to accept the distorted daily life in front of them through self-anesthesia, until the bell of judgment rang overhead.

The coup d'état of the 17th of the month broke out in an atmosphere that everyone knew but pretended not to see.

Beginning with the fire at the Apple Blossom Pavilion, the coup d'état began quickly and surely.

It was not a large-scale mutiny like the 26th of Fengyue, nor was it as bloody and brutal as the "Night of the Long Knife". Compared to the first two, this coup d'état is hardly even a skirmish. There was neither unnecessary destruction nor unnecessary bloodshed, but the impact on the upper echelons was greater than the previous two.

The coup d'état was carried out by a very good man of troops, and the abilities, personalities, and specialties of each unit and each commander were fully mastered, and how to assign tasks and how to combine the characteristics of the troops to maximize their effectiveness - all of them were repeatedly counted in the minds of the initiators, verified and calculated, and then integrated. The calculations were so meticulous that the real shock was limited to the upper echelons of the royal family and important ministers, and the general people living in the royal capital did not know what had happened until the dust had settled.

Feints, surprise attacks, and assassinations were used to paralyze command centers, while small-scale elites were responsible for arresting and eliminating important targets, and large-scale armed forces were responsible for maintaining order and martial law in urban areas.

A textbook-like coup d'état is a coup d'état that the dictator will applaud and admire when he sees it.

It's just that such a classic coup d'état is said to be led, planned and carried out by the crown prince and the royal army, not to mention Alfheim's side, Charlemagne himself did not believe it. After a series of failures, the whole country has too many points of the level of the crown prince and the elite staff officers in the army general staff, and these people are at most obscene and really let them carry out a coup d'état, and these parallel goods can't even write a plan that seems feasible, let alone let them do it themselves.

To be able to carry out such a perfect coup d'état, at least the following conditions are met:

tight organizational structure;

precise intelligence information;

a vast intelligence network;

elite and incredibly loyal troops;

A leader who is wise enough and has the ability to adapt to emergencies and organize and coordinate;

In King Charlemagne, there is only one organization that has these abilities.

In front of the gate of the Bourbon Palace, the guards belonging to the Marine Corps took their last breath, and the murderers dragged four corpses more than 190 centimeters tall to the side of the carriage with a strangulation rope almost embedded in the neck bone, and four soldiers in army uniforms took over the vacant sentry post.

The same murders took place at the posts guarded by the various naval officers of the Palais Bourbon, the open sentry, the secret sentry, the communication room, the communication room, the herald kennel for emergency communication—before the sudden killer could not even give a warning, he became the prey of the strangulation rope and dagger.

out of nowhere;

Out of thin air;

where the hell did it come from?

With this question in mind, the Marines sank into eternal sleep. In fact, if they still have a little room to think, they can easily get the answer.

To achieve the effect of "appearing out of thin air", there are only two methods.

First, use an illusion technique similar to the optical camouflage system to conceal the figure;

Second, the use of secret passages that people do not know and have not been marked on the map.

The killers who invaded the Bourbon Palace used both methods, and the illusion spell could be seen through by experienced magicians, and the secret passage was really unguardable. However, the old palace with a long history of the Bourbon Palace left a lot of unknown secret rooms and secret passages when it was designed, and there were also records of the disappearance of a certain prince and his guards in the labyrinthine underground passages in the royal secrets. Now that you can't even find the original design drawings, even if you know that there may be a secret passage in the Bourbon Palace, you will generally not let people look for it, let alone send someone to explore the secret passage.

So how did these assassins know about the existence of the secret passage, and even mastered the specific paths and entrances and exits, so that they could cooperate with all the naval guards inside and outside at the same time? You must know that after the construction of the Bourbon Palace was completed, in order to keep the secret, even the relevant construction personnel and designers were killed, the original design drawings were lost, and the underground of the Bourbon Palace became a death labyrinth full of traps.

The answer is actually quite simple.

"The gods are omniscient, and those who serve the gods know some secrets, and it is not worth making a fuss about. ”

Stepping on the ground with light steps, the Holy Maiden of Giel swept a trace of silver-white hair, and her eyes, which were almost narrowed into a line, opened slightly, looking at the Bourbon Palace shrouded in night.

That's right.

As she said, the church, which has been expanding its tentacles in all walks of life for thousands of years, has an easy time getting to grips with one or two secrets. For example, in the underground tunnels of the Palace of Bourbon, no matter how thoroughly the Charlemagne royal family took measures to keep it secret, what secrets could be kept in the context of a builder who was a believer, an overseer who was a believer, a designer who was a believer, a supplier of building materials who was a believer, and the soldiers who were responsible for guarding and destroying the mouth were also believers? The words of the workers who don't keep their mouths tight, the details that the designer and the person next to the pillow say inadvertently - the information that is combined can be inferred even without direct contact with the blueprints. As for the remaining details, is this a problem for a church that has never lacked devout dead men?

In addition, the location of all important people was grasped in advance, and the entire map of Charlemagne's ground and underground was fully connected with the crown prince to put the personnel in place. A perfect coup d'état has struck...

"What happened to Her Royal Highness and those supporters of heresy?"

"I am in the Bourbon Palace, and I believe that news will come soon. ”

The man in the robes bent down and said, and the Holy Maiden of Jiel nodded slightly, and her face was filled with an innocent smile.

"There was a long war"

"Huh?"

"The long history of the past, from the small to the unknown turmoil, to the battles that have gone down in history, has connected countless battles, and this is the 'long war'. And it is God's will that runs through these wars. ”

wars in the name of God;

war for God;

wars for God's control;

It's all for the gods.

Pray, fight.

God does not help those who beg for help, and God does not have mercy on those who seek mercy.

War is what the gods want, war is the prayers and sacrifices offered to the gods, and as long as there is continuous fighting, one day, the gods will come, and the kingdom of the gods will come.

Everyone was convinced of this, and everyone went to the battlefield for this, to hell.

However.

However.

Has God really come down?

Will Paradise and Redemption Really Come to Earth?

If the blood shed in a thousand years is not enough to satisfy God, then how much blood should be left to get Paradise? 100 million people? 1 billion people? Is that enough?

No, it will never be enough, and even if the corpses are piled up until the end of the world, God will not be satisfied.

So, this war is not for God, and the war in God's name will end in the hands of this generation.

Giel once again looked around at the soldiers who controlled the streets and the entrances and exits of the Palais des Bourbons, and said the oath.

"For the sake of a world dominated by man. ”

"For the sake of a world dominated by man. ”

The whole street, the whole of Lüders, repeated the phrase.