The expedition is over.

Despite the prevailing voice that "the war is about to be won" and the news of military victories from the front lines continued, the expedition had in fact come to an end.

The biggest link that prompted countries to put aside their contradictions and join hands to wage a "holy war" against the principality was the long-standing contradictions between humans and orcs in terms of race, creed, territory, and so on.

But before you know it, this bond has begun to tear.

"Bloody Sunday" - the final official name for the bloodshed that took place in front of the Tuileries Palace - various versions of the information about it are spreading rapidly, and the Prime Minister and his agents are doing their best to block the news, but the information about the tragedy is still spreading. To make matters worse, there is a lack of information to guide the spread of all sorts of terrible rumors. After those who had fled Rüdes had infiltrated the crown through a special channel, the last bit of hope for the Charlemagne family was shattered. The people of the crown, who until the last moment were waiting for His Majesty the King to "do justice", were thoroughly enraged, believing that a government that had shot at peaceful petitioners could be credible.

From this moment on, Charlemagne was no longer "us" but "them" for the people of the Crown Lord, and it became the basic consensus of everyone to completely get rid of the Bourbon family's rule over this land and establish an independent country.

"There have been similar things in the past, but in the past only a few nobles wanted to fight and become independent. Most of the nobility, the army, and the people were content with the status quo. And now, the determination of the nobility, the army and the people is united. ”

Brunhill read the last line and put the report in a bag covered with "Class A Classified", and sighed softly. Then she noticed that the red pupils were facing her.

"They are not destined to succeed. ”

Li Lin asserted.

Brunhill nodded approvingly.

One might think that the most elite troops of Charlemagne's army were already on their way north with the crown prince, while Titans was drooling over Castile on the southern border, and that it was the best time to launch an independent uprising at a time when Charlemagne's army was scattered and the crown was all in love, but this was not the case.

Thanks to the well-developed railway system, Charlemagne was able to quickly draw several field divisions from the Titans stationed in the south to suppress the rebellion. Face the well-equipped, well-trained, and morale-boosting Titans. Equipment, experience, training, qualified soldiers - except for rations and peasants with pitchforks. The insurgents, who lacked almost everything, had no chance of victory. According to the estimates of the General Staff of the Defense Forces, they can hold out for a month at most, and if they receive foreign aid, they can hold out for an additional month.

But they are unlikely to get any foreign aid. The human camp has not yet been completely divided. The determination of other countries to resist Charlemagne's dominance is far from unified. Even the best diplomats of our time could not muster many allies and help in a war that had no hope of victory.

The people of Albion hated Charlemagne. But now they need Charlemagne's army to attack the Duchy. Castile gritted their teeth at Charlemagne, but they had not yet recovered from the humiliation and heavy losses of the Seven-Day War, while the Laplands were reluctant to get involved in the war with their ally Charlemagne. Once Charlemagne began to suppress the crown leaders, it would be nice if they could maintain their neutrality, and if they were not careful, they would send troops to assist Charlemagne, and His Majesty was even more troubled by this kind of thing, and he also did not want to see Charlemagne too powerful, but the unity of the coalition and the religious authority on which it was built were more important, and the consistent conservative position of the pope himself and the Church meant that they would not have a favorable opinion of ideas such as "revolution" and "progress", and they would have a reservation of sympathy for the insurgents. So until the situation becomes clear, Emir will remain neutral and will not provide any substantive assistance to either side.

There are still two forces left, but the crown leader can't be counted on either. The Duchy is in the north and the coalition is pinching the forces, and has no interest or energy to pay attention to the rebellion in the enemy country, and the crown leader is not brain-dead enough to risk being surrounded and suppressed by the entire human camp to find the woolly bears to help; not to mention Alfheim, who no one knows, the black hands behind the invisible scenes have never been optimistic about the crown leader from the beginning, and they do not want the crown leader to win the war of independence, and then reduce their strategic value in the future war of various countries besieging Charlemagne.

The crown leader can only try to complete the independent business on his own.

"However, we will still provide assistance, limited to intelligence and a small amount of weapons support. ”

Regarding Li Lin's opinion, Brunhill once again nodded in agreement.

The people of the crown leader are not stupid, especially those nobles, they can also see the disparity in strength between the two sides. At present, they are angry with the Crown Prince's various policies that harm their own interests, and they also have great indignation at "Bloody Sunday", but they are still essentially nobles who put their own and their family's interests first. It's a bit difficult for them to die for an illusory ideal, in a war where there is no hope, and to join ordinary people. Failing to give them a little stimulus and confidence, and to have some illusions about the future, will not be enough to allow the independence movement to turn into war and thus achieve the desired effect of Yalfheim – to stifle the chances of a peaceful settlement and to sow the seeds of future conflicts.

The crown should be a quagmire of war, a dung pit that can sink into Charlemagne's waist, just as the Boer War was to the British Empire, the Vietnam War was to the American Imperialists, and the Afghan War was to the Soviet Union – both sides would shed enough blood to water the flowers of other countries. Of course, the flowers of Alfheim are by no means the flowers of freedom.

The "Bloody Sunday" has already lit the fuse, General Hainau and the Governor of the Governor, Count Rakosi Matthis, who are far away in the city of Buda, are fanning the flames, Viscount Kosuth Lajosh, lawyer Nagy Imre, and Colonel Mauretel Parr, who are on the line with Agent Stasi, are actively taking action, and ordinary people are accumulating anger waiting to erupt. He didn't have to worry about it anymore. It's time to move on to the next stage of the issue.

"How's the contact with Titans going?"

"In the name of 'preventing emergencies', they have not yet begun to develop a plan for the battle in the event of an event, but they have proposed several candidates for a commander who can deal with them, the most vocal of which is Viscount de den Bach Tsilevsky, the deputy national commander of Titans, who is recognized as an expert in law and order warfare, and is currently the most suitable person for this kind of work. ”

It's a good fit, but it's not a big deal.

"Contact our friends. ”

Li Lin hooked the corners of his mouth and said to Brunhill, who began to record:

"Sue Elder Sù Witt...... Soon, there will be a noticeable change in the situation in the human camp. Ask them to be prepared to make contact with Albion. Then contact Walsingham and ask him to pay attention to what is going to happen to the crown leader. ”

Charlemagne, who constantly won military victories. The crown of an uprising is about to break out. There is also the United Principality of Albion and Rus, which was brokered through the company Guò V.E. - the elements for peace are ready to be celebrated.

For the intermission before the start of the next war, it is worth a toast.

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The city of Buda in early summer is a time of great travel. Nobles tired of living in big cities often choose this cool time to head to Buda or the city of Pest across the Istre River. Indulge in the picturesque scenery and sumptuous cuisine. People walk in front of the giant eagle (Turul) in front of the Buda Palace. Wander between the castle hill, the banks of the Istre River and Andráhistraße, pop into your favourite restaurants=, cafés, theatres and hotels, or spend a fortune on Wattsstraße, where expensive shops and high-end food outlets are located. Aristocrats and the rich are here to watch their dogs and horses. Merchants, hawkers, and farmers also benefited from heavy consumption, and basically one month's busy work was enough to earn three months' living expenses for an ordinary peasant family.

Nowadays, the cities of Buda and Pest are unusually deserted, not to mention tourists, even beggars, cats and dogs, except for the continuous spewing of black smoke from the chimneys of the island of Zepel in Istres, and you cannot feel a trace of life from this former tourist destination. The long golden fleur-de-lis flags hanging all over the streets waved weakly, and the red slogans "Holy War Victory", "Co-prosperity and Coexistence", and "Royal Paradise" were particularly dazzling.

Why is this so? The "False Ideological Defense Wall" isolates tourists for one reason, but the more fundamental reason is the Crown Prince's various occupation policies.

From the moment the occupation forces from the mainland set foot on the Crown Territory, they treated the people of the Crown Territory as potential saboteurs that they had to guard against, and they took strict precautions. In addition to enacting laws that make it a compulsory obligation for the people to denounce relatives and friends, they also dispatched a large number of spies and secret agents to set up eavesdropping techniques in public places to grasp the changes in the ideological dynamics of the masses. The prison was filled not only with political, ideological and criminal prisoners, but also with many prisoners who had been brought in for inexplicable reasons, including aristocratic students who were dissatisfied with the occupation forces, citizens who could not afford to pay heavy taxes, peasants who "stole" 10 kilograms of corn from the fields of collective farms, slaughtered a pig that had not yet reached the required weight (a difference of 5 kilograms) or killed a sheep.

On the economic front, Heinau and Rakosi and their gang blindly pursued the path of heavy industrialization and agricultural collectivization with "the characteristics of the crown prince" in disregard of the actual situation. Shouting the slogan of "catching up with Albion in three years, catching up with V.E Company in five years", a large number of "iron and steel complexes" were quickly launched, blindly pursuing the production targets of steel output and other industrial products, regardless of cost and product quality, only hoping to be able to meet the targets set by the crown prince. I don't care at all whether the pots and pans can be smelted into qualified steel in simple small earthen furnaces, whether tens of thousands of kilograms of grain can grow on one acre of land, whether there are livestock, agricultural machinery, and leaders who understand agriculture in the collective farms that have been hastily put together. While advocating "endless quotas", people are forced to work excessively. Those who fail to meet the quota are either sent to prison or mysteriously disappear.

At the same time, the crown prince also created a zào to bring the crown tie into the "public ownership society". Whether it was a small restaurant employing 10 people or a small family-style shop and workshop, it was "nationalized" and became the property of the crown prince. Then all of these people, with the exception of some industries necessary for the functioning of society, were sent to work as workers in the factories on the island of Petzel. Every day, he ate and lived in the factory, the food was poor, the rest was very little, and the salary was a military ticket. The authorities also issued a large number of public bonds to the people to make compulsory purchases, which in essence was a harsh collection of miscellaneous taxes, which further increased the burden on the people.

The result of the expropriation was a sharp contraction of economic activity and famine, with excellent grain harvests on the one hand and people relying on turnips and catching cats and dogs on the other.

In addition to this, the Governor of Rákosi also strengthened cultural control and ideological suppression, openly abolished the dominance of the Magyar language, designated Charlemagne as the only official language, and boasted about the Dauphin Louis. The Crown Collar's textbooks and propaganda have almost rewritten history, and even the history of technological development has fabricated many lies, such as the fact that the crown collar's children were told that the locomotive, cannon, musket, and clock were all invented by the crown prince. In order to completely Charlemagne, even the traditional crown collar insignia and flag were abandoned and replaced with the flag of the kingdom of Charlemagne, and the white shirt and blue trousers were all replaced by Charlemagne's blue military uniform, which seriously hurt the self-esteem of the crown collars.

With the terrible news of Bloody Sunday, it is no longer possible for the oppressed to the limit to remain silent, and the most obedient and hard-working people in these countries have nothing left but a life. Since the crown prince and Charlemagne's royal family are determined to take even this life, let them pay enough price.

Churches, farmhouses, colleges, cafes, theatres...... Revolts were being prepared in various locations, and the priests emptied the floor under the statue of the Mother Goddess and benches, hiding the smuggled arms inside. The peasants hid their knives under the haystacks and beds and ran around to spread the word of the uprising to other villages. The students of the Zlinny Military Academy began to draw maps of the city, marking the various barracks and possible places where the occupation forces might be assembled, and in the evening, the Engineer Academy secretly climbed to the top of the school and mapped it with the help of instruments to map the location of the artillery fire. Cafes and theaters became traffic stops, and information and orders were constantly disseminated from the "Pedolfi Club".

The insurgents were well aware that they had no upper hand in terms of weapons or combat strength compared to the occupying forces, not to mention that Charlemagne had a large number of troops to support him. Even with the patronage of certain powers, the gap would not be bridged in a short period of time, so they wanted to be as prepared as possible - to accumulate more supplies, to train the rebel troops more, and to persuade more nobles who were on the fence to join the cause of independence.

One side does not want to see an uprising and is actively guarding against it, while the other side is temporarily silent in order to increase the chances of success. Under the influence of the intentions of both sides, for a time, there was a peaceful scene in the various crown collars that was enough to make people fantasize.

In the oppressive silence before the storm, a speech by the second-in-command of the Doge's Palace, Gro Erno, ignited the fuse of the uprising, which began in an unexpected way. (To be continued......)