"I see. ”

Roland, who had been quiet, spoke, and looked at Li Lin again with narrowed eyes.

"The capture of all of Charlemagne could provoke a violent reaction from other camps, and could even turn into a fight against other countries while suppressing the resistance in the occupied territories. But if it is only to disarm Charlemagne and ensure that he does not get involved in disputes with other countries in the future, all parties can accept it. No, it is necessary to accept that after the terrible war, the people and the country are exhausted, and no one will refuse this kind of proposal to eradicate strife. Politicians can't go against this trend of thinking, and they can't come up with counterarguments or alternatives, and everyone will agree in the end. ”

"Definitely. ”

Responding indifferently, Li Lin's gaze shifted to Roland, and his calm gaze seemed to urge Roland to say his choice.

Taking a deep breath, the boy continued in a resolute tone.

"Above all, no one can violate 'the laws created by the agents of God's will, and no one can change or reject the laws set by God, whether they want to or not.' ”

Rousseau has an accurate statement in his description of the relationship between the legislator and the Constitution.

-- This is a noble doctrine beyond the power of the laity, which is why the legislator should entrust his decision to Shinto. In order that divine authority may restrain those who cannot be moved by human deliberation. But not everyone can speak for the gods, and it is not when he claims to be the spokesman of the gods that people can be believed.

It is dangerous not to be a god but to act as a "lawgiver" when the divine light is gone. People will, in turn, hate the laws that bind them, feel ashamed or ashamed of having accepted them, and will find ways to deny the laws they have accepted. And even the legislators themselves have denied it. This is the limit of being a "human being", so the constitutions of the past and present have always given people the image that "the people themselves chose that constitution", because the only thing that people cannot deny is themselves.

But Li Lin is completely unrestricted in this regard.

He is a dictator in substance, a transcendent race that transcends all races, is not bound by any law and morality, his power can interfere with the all-powerful existence of material forms and spaces, and he is a "divine agent" that every race cannot and dare not deny. In the eyes of all beings who cannot intersect with the mother goddess. He is almost equal to God.

A law established by a god. Who can deny it? Who dares to deny it? The moment the constitution was presented at the post-war international conference, everyone had no choice but to move forward according to the set script and take to a new stage to start a new round of performances.

"It's not peace. It's not about eradicating strife, it's just a 20-year truce. ”

“......”

There was no affirmation or denial, Li Lin silently accepted Roland's gaze.

Roland's statement bears a striking resemblance to Marshal Ferdinand Fossy's assessment of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, though the old marshal complains that the defeated country has not been cleaned up thoroughly enough. Roland was worried that the defeated country had been cleaned up too thoroughly.

"Charlemagne was indeed disarmed. There will never be any more wars with other countries, but the strife itself has not gone away. Rather, because of Charlemagne's complete defeat and the loss of the ability and power to conduct the war, Alfheim can concentrate on digesting the results of the war and preparing for the next war by integrating resources. ”

On both sides of Li Lin's detached expression, Brunhill cast a warning gaze, and Nidhogg's eyes became colder and colder, enough to shake the killing intent in the air to increase the concentration a little bit. The room temperature also seems to be getting colder.

"There is nothing wrong with preparing for war in peacetime, and the fundamental purpose of national defense is to prevent war by preparing for it. But...... In order to survive, it is necessary to build a consortium. In order to establish Alfheim independently, to fight Charlemagne in order to go out of the shadows to the sun, to prepare for a new war in order to preserve the fruits of victory, is there an end to this cycle?

Roland, who stood up, stared at Li Lin closely, with a faint hint of heat in his purple eyes.

"Whether it is strategic, tactical, or technical, the elven camp has achieved an incomparable advantage, and if a full-scale war really breaks out, I believe that it will definitely be able to win the final victory. Economic, political, military - there will be a real master-slave reversal at all levels. But there is no dialogue, no reconciliation, and the domination of force, economy, and theocracy alone is not even more frustrating in the hearts of the people, and when the time comes, the other races will be standardized by technical means, and all resistance will be completely eradicated from the ideology? This almost almost complete technology can be quickly applied to ordinary people as long as it is simply transformed. ”

Li Lin didn't say a word. Facing his adoptive father, who was close at hand and out of reach, Roland said in a voice with clear emotion:

"There is no reconciliation, there is no innovation, only the strong and the weak are opposed, and then the whole world is rigidly fixed for a future that continues...... Do you think this can be called the future? The man who decided to stand in front of everyone as a messenger of the gods thinks that this kind of thing-"

"There's no question of good or bad, it's just that it's the way the world works. ”

The categorical interruption made Roland's body seem to sway, and he continued in a metallic voice:

"Has humanity changed since the collapse of the old kingdom of Gilmania? Has there been any change in the way humans think after the introduction of new technologies? How do you empathize with people who close their eyes, cover their ears, and pretend they can't hear or see anything?"

"This kind of thing ......"

wanted to refute it with the intervention of the consortium and the operation of public opinion, but in the face of Li Lin's assertion, Roland found that any refutation was pale and powerless, and his eyes, which had always remained resolute, also showed a little wavering.

The consortium has provided new technologies and new ways of life, but people's minds have not changed, and it can even be said that they have become more degenerate.

More resources are needed to sustain prosperity; The need to open up colonies, the need for stronger armaments in order to divide the colonies, and the need for stronger armaments to find ways to eliminate all possible obstacles -

It is easy to shift the blame to the consortium. But it can't stand up to a little scrutiny.

The strife between the nations, the strife between the kings and the nobles and the church, the strife between the humans and the orcs - existed before the rise of the consortia, and with or without the intervention of Li Lin, the existing and almost institutionalized strife will continue to exist, and all Li Lin has done is to intensify all the contradictions. Even without his intervention, sooner or later, the flame of struggle would have spread and exploded, engulfing everything and burning to the ground.

"There is no possibility of mutual understanding and peaceful coexistence between human beings and most of the intelligent species. Peace is an illusion for them. Coexistence is a nightmare. Of course, their claims have their own reasons, but they want to make the illusions of those who have no possibility and do not want to change realize their illusions. Don't you need to train first?"

The corners of his mouth twisted again, and Roland's whole body stiffened in the face of a face that seemed to be on the other side.

Educate the wisdom of the species, manage the world - it can be done. There is only God and God's recognized spokesman. This is the absolute law.

The eyes that could always perceive the opportunity spoke silently, and Roland felt weak when he was stared at by that gaze.

"I'm not trying to dismiss your ideas. Acknowledging the rational elements of different ideas, learning from them, and absorbing them is a mature practice, and it is also the bearing of an adult. But an ideal is an ideal after all, and it is beautiful because of its ethereal nature. However, the reality is heavy and cruel, can your ideals support the weight of the whole world? Enlightenment at all costs? Even if it pushes thousands of people into hell?"

Pushed away by an invisible hand, Roland felt a sense of stepping on the air.

"Don't say you haven't thought about it. After all these years out there, the Governor has also been in the job for a while, and you should know that while you have power, you also have responsibilities and karma on your shoulders. Just with enthusiasm and youthfulness, it can't be called bearing, let alone bear the weight of the world, and in the end it will only be crushed by reality. ”

Continuing with this, Li Lin got up and left the table. His back became crooked and twisted, and Roland felt a bottomless abyss open under his feet, so he could only stand there blankly.

"Think about it. ”

Li Lin's voice became very distant. I dimly felt that Brunhill had left the dining table and picked up the intercom and said something, but his body and mind could not move.

You can't do it without thinking. Before being swallowed up in this bottomless abyss, don't think about it. The more anxious he became, the more confused his thoughts became, and Roland clearly felt that his fingertips were getting cold and hard.

"You still have a lot to learn. The world is very large, and what you see is only a corner of the landscape, and I will be happy when you can fully understand what true righteousness is. ”

Li Lin lowered his hands holding his chin, and almost at the same moment, Jerus and De Kell entered the room. Although Roland wanted to turn his head to look at the two people behind him, his body still couldn't move. It wasn't until his two arms were grabbed and he turned his body half-forcedly that Roland took a step like a foot sewn into the ground.

Dragged away, just before crossing the hatch, Roland stopped and looked back at Volento, who was sitting at the end of the table. Ignoring the cold gaze on the left and right sides, the boy let out a hoarse cry.

"Are you going to become a god to rule the world? Siegfried Otto Lelin!!"

The calm air in the restaurant instantly condensed, and his eyes first focused on Roland, and then shifted to Li Lin. Why such a question was suddenly asked, Roland himself did not understand very well. However, the idea that Li Lin's answer would decide something was not shaken.

Facing the straight gaze and questions, the lips were closed one by one behind the single rose on the dining table.

"Now I define myself as a container. ”

"...... container?"

"To carry the will of the Mother Goddess and the demands of those who have been banished to the ends of the world, I will become a god or a demon if they wish, and the so-called Divine Will Agent was born for this. ”

Feeling a deep gaze pierce through his body, Roland lost his voice.

It is impossible for man to become a container, to hollow himself out to accommodate other wills - just imagination feels creepy, but it can be said from Li Lin's mouth, but there is no sense of contradiction at all.

After all, have I ever seen the true face of this man? Thinking back to the unchanging beauty of the black hair and red eyes. Dragging the exhaustion and emptiness that seemed to be communicating with the phantom, Roland silently walked out of the room.

Before the door closed, Roland looked back at the back. The end of the rose that strives to bloom. The lips covered by the hand seem to be smiling.

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After the door closed, Brunhill couldn't help but sigh, shook his head slightly, and asked aloud:

"Is that good?"

"Young people's passions come and go as fast as they come. Don't worry, once you've really felt the weight you have to carry, your mind will calm down. ”

Calm answer. Without further explanation or other superfluous words, Brunhill, who understood the Archon's thoughts, automatically switched his mind to business mode.

As if to match her adjustments, Li Lin asked:

"How's our friend doing?"

"Not too optimistic. ”

Retrieve the briefcase that had been set aside. Brunhill pulled out a document and handed it over.

According to the document, the situation is not only "not very optimistic", but in the words of the Duke of Marlborough, a complete disaster.

Albion, who has a long tradition of pit people and a wealth of experience, still smelled danger from all kinds of clues at the last moment. But in front of this last chance to save the home fleet of the royal navy. Albion's higher-ups have fallen into the hell of choice.

It stands to reason that there is no need to think about anything at this time, and in line with the nature of burying Charlemagne alive with sacks, the Albians should immediately preemptively abolish Charlemagne's navy, and then completely defeat Charlemagne from land with their allies. But before the United Principality of Rus' was too aggressive, as a result, the army strength of both sides was greatly depleted, and now after jumping into the trenches against Charlemagne, everyone found that the army strength was not enough......

On paper. The total strength of the army of the royal family of Albion was 320,000, and the army of the United Principality of Rus' was 600,000. Coupled with the 200,000 men of the Castilian Army Academy, a total of 1.12 million against Charlemagne's Royal Army and Titans, a total of 580,000 men, it seems that there is no suspense that the coalition forces will crush Charlemagne, and the defeat of the arrogant bandits is just around the corner. In reality, however, due to factors such as war attrition and the formation of a new army, nearly one-third of the divisions and regiments of the coalition forces were newly formed combat units, and nearly one-third of them were frame units composed of rookies who had just learned to kick the right steps. The peasants, who had just swapped their pitchforks for rifles, could not be expected to confront Charlemagne's race beasts who practiced bayonets with living men.

Of course, with advantages in strategic depth, resources and population, the coalition forces always won in the end. The price to be paid for this alone would make even the most cold-blooded soldiers and politicians shudder -- a war that lasted for 30 years, killed an entire generation or even two generations of young people, turned towns and villages into ghosts, and cost hundreds of billions of national dollars, and finally occupied a vast ruin, and managed tens of millions of hungry inhabitants of the occupied areas......

But no one who has no hole in his head will like this kind of "victory".

It's not that the top level of Albiang has no brains, but their brains are not big enough, and they don't open up in this direction, so the last solution they came up with is to drag.

It's not that the adults have been distracted by appeasement, and have all become fools waving the Munich Agreement into the microphone and shouting "Peace in our generation has been guaranteed". Peace is precious, but it is foolish to close your eyes when war comes. The highly realist Albion hierarchy was well aware of this, and they had no hope or thought of satisfying Charlemagne's greed through concessions. Their plan was to put out a good-looking but doomed bait to prolong the negotiations and delay Charlemagne. As long as the summer drags on, the weather in the Strait of La Manche will deteriorate sharply, and all combat operations of Charlemagne's navy will be forced to postpone because of the weather, and everything will have to wait until next year. By then, the newly formed unit has completed its entire training and will be able to give it a go.

At 21 o'clock on the 6th of the flower month, Lord Belfour sent a letter from Queen Elizabeth to Charles IV to the Albion embassy in Charlemagne, calling for the avoidance of war and the continuation of peace negotiations. By the time Ambassador Albion finished reading the letter in front of Charles IV, it was already 7:15 a.m. on the 8th of the month. The First Porter attack planes of the Mobile Fleet had already departed, and in front of them, the Scapa Bay base was unprepared.

Afterwards, Prime Minister Richelieu found that the date of the signature did not match the time when the ambassador entered the Palace of Versailles.

It turned out that the Communications Section of the base camp had secretly seized all foreign letters, to which Major Esterhach, a staff officer of the Communications Section, explained: "I heard from the Army Headquarters that the battle has begun in the Riga fortress. The war has already begun, and it seems that at this time the letter of the Queen of Albion is also meaningless. So he ordered the seizure and late delivery of all foreign letters, and it was already 1 a.m. on the 8th of the month when the Queen's appeal for peace reached the embassy in Albion.

Major Esterhach is not utterly gibberish. At 1:15 a.m. on the 8th, the first army units attacking the Riga fortress had secretly landed in the Gulf of Riga, a full 5 hours and 45 minutes ahead of the naval air raid.

Once again, the army has held the government hostage with the tactics of "getting down and going up", and the army has not even given diplomats time to pull the fig leaf. This is not the first time Charlemagne's soldiers have done this, and it will not be the last. Eventually, they will pay for their madness, and the war they kindled with their own hands will eventually burn their homeland to the ground, but not now.

"More than half of the battleships anchored in Scapa Bay were burned. A large part of the Sakura special attack aircraft used by Charlemagne's navy used a special incendiary agent mixed with coconut oil and heather oil, which could easily burn through the deck and detonate the ammunition depot, and the dense mooring of ships in the harbor created the conditions for a chain explosion. As the harbor is still in chaos. So far, it is not possible to count the detailed losses, but it can be preliminarily confirmed that 15 first-class battleships were sunk: Royal Monarchy, Royal Oak, King of the Sea, George V, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Princess Mary, Dreadnought, Invincible, Lion, Tiger, Prestige, Counterattack, Glory, and Victory. Among them, Rear Admiral Horace Hood, commander of the 1st Battleship Detachment of the battleship Invincible, and his staff were killed en masse due to the explosion of the battleship's ammunition depot. ”

"How's going on in the Duchy?"

"It's not so good, they have a bit more damage than Albian. ”

Albion was beaten hard. The United Principality of Rus' was also pitted. But unlike Albion, the woolly bears were largely pitted by their own generals.

The front of the confrontation between the principality and Charlemagne and Lapland followed a straight line from south to north: from the fortress of Riga in the north to Chernowts near Transnistria in the south. Its defense zone is divided into the northwest front in the north, the western front in the middle section, and the southwest front in the southern section. At the same time that Charlemagne's navy attacked Scarpa Bay, Charlemagne's army, acting under the Crown Prince's agency, began to lay siege to the fortress of Riga. By this time, the Riga fortress had lost two of its core commanders during the siege: the brave and warlike Grand Duke Nikolayevich was called back to St. Petersburg by his tsar's nephew, and Lieutenant General Brusilov was transferred to Castile to command the "international column", leaving only the incompetent Admiral Kuropatkin in the fortress.

Probably to prove their abilities. Or on a whim, or angry at Charlemagne's night raid to disrupt sleep. I want Charlemagne to taste this kind of suffering. Admiral Kuropatkin organized a night raid and made full use of his brain, which was so smooth that there were no folds, that he invented an "innovative" searchlight and bayonet night raid tactic. In the Admiral's opinion, a powerful magical searchlight provided by a certain company will stun the Charlemagne, and the bear warriors shouting "Ulla" will rush across the battlefield and send the hateful Charlemagneau to hell with their bayonets. With the support of the "new tactics" and the overwhelming numerical superiority of 150,000 to 65,000, Kuropatkin is confident.

Facts have proved that the brains opened by the generals are all filled by the soldiers with their lives in the end. The bright lights only exposed the figures of the Duchy soldiers, who were struggling to move on a battlefield full of mines and craters, and Charlemagne said that he had never encountered such a happy target, but many people pulled the trigger and pulled out tenosynovitis, which was the only small regret.

In the end, after consuming tens of thousands of shells, the defenders of the fortress paid the price of 70,000 casualties, and Charlemagne's losses were almost one-fifth of that number. The defenders, who had suffered heavy losses, could only retreat into the fortress, hoping that the other troops would "pull the brothers along" for the sake of serving the principality.

The principality had reached its most dangerous time, and everyone was forced to let out a final roar. Sitting back and adding fuel to the fire are not the personality of the woolly bears, they have to fight back, resolutely fight back, not only to get back the lost face, but also to relieve the siege of the Riga fortress.

What is the best way to lift the siege of a fortress? The principality's answer to this is to make a general breakthrough on another front.

"St. Petersburg has ordered Brusilov to return home and take over the post of commander of the South-Western Front. According to the information provided by our internal line in St. Petersburg, Brusilov submitted a battle plan. According to his vision, the offensive of the Principality army would begin with a flood of small assaults on a 320-kilometre front, stretching from the Pripyat Marshes in the north to the Bukovina region in the south, and when the enemy was overwhelmed by so many simultaneous assaults, the follow-up units of the Principality, which had been assembled in large bunkers, poured into a flood of real assault targets. If the plan goes well, it will not only force Charlemagne to lift the siege of the fortress of Riga, but also occupy the whole of Galicia. ”

"Interesting assumptions. ”

Li Lin flipped through the report, his tone relaxed.

It could be a coincidence, or it could be a different path. Brusilov's idea of a campaign was quite close to the "blitzkrieg" of the Wehrmacht. Deceive the opponent into misjudging the direction of the main attack, break through from a weakly defended position, and then expand the results. But Brusilov's idea was more suited to a country with a large population - the Defence Force could not afford to fill a 300-kilometre-wide breach.

"There was innovation, and the tactical level was reasonable, but it was destined to end in dismal results. ”

Putting down the report, Li Lin shrugged.

"It was launched too early and out of touch with the main attack. ”

The Principality Army is still in a period of recovery, which has been undermined by continued support for Castile, and the transformation of the army is still slowly accompanied by problems. And the military-industrial production of the principality can only be said to be in its infancy, the supply of weapons is seriously insufficient, and once they lose the support of the consortium, they will not have enough shells and rifles to supply the front. In fact, until now the principality did not have enough rifles to equip the newly formed divisions, and many had only a wooden stick in their hands, and those who were lucky enough to tie a bayonet to it.

Leaving aside the question of overall strength, it is doubtful how effective Brusilov's offensive will be. Galicia is the territory of Ostoria, and an attack in this direction will soon hit the Carpathian moat, and with the current mobility and transport supply capacity of the principality, it is not enough to support the troops to continue the breakthrough, and in the end they can only stop there and stalemate with the enemy. In terms of the overall situation, the achievements in this direction will not have a decisive impact on the entire Eastern Front, but will arouse the enthusiasm of the Ostorians to defend their homeland and make them resonate with Charlemagne's hatred of the enemy.

"There are also operations in the Principality's navy, and the Sevastopol base is drawing new warships to form an expeditionary fleet, the details of which are not yet known, but it is only known that the commander of the fleet is Vice Admiral Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky. ”

"Don't care about them, those are just Charlemagne's naval records. ”

"Understood. ”

This is no longer the time of Peter the Great, and the Duchy navy, which can barely fight even in the near sea, is no match for the royal Charlemagne navy at its peak, not to mention that they have to fight across the entire Great Green Sea against the enemy fleet that is waiting for work, and the entire voyage is under the watchful eye of the opponent's ubiquitous monitoring posts. All Charlemagne had to do was set up a trap and wait for the exhausted Duchy fleet to jump into it on its own.

It would be a manhunt for history textbooks.

Now, no one cares about this fleet with no future at all, at least no one in the elven camp.

Based on the above information, we can conclude that for at least half a year, the coalition forces will have no way to attack Charlemagne. An effective counterattack will have to wait until at least next year. And this—"

With a snap, all the participants straightened their backs with Li Lin's applause.

"This will be a great opportunity for us. All countries threatened by Charlemagne will support us unconditionally, politically, economically, militarily...... The best opportunity in more than a thousand years is right in front of us, and the dawn of Gilmania's revival has appeared, and now it's just a little bit ......!!"

This last opportunity will soon be completed. In the applause that resounded in the restaurant, the bright red pupils once again resurfaced the face full of confusion and disappointment before the boy left. (To be continued......)