Chapter 378

Of course, duvet could not have known the origin of general alpai, the commander of the Fourth Infantry Division of the royal guards.

How could duvet, the commander-in-chief of the friendly army, not know who it was in such a great war concerning the fate of the Empire? However, Duwei did not expect that this alpai would dare to make such an extraordinary move.

According to the information in Duwei's hands, general alpai is still quite young. As a senior Imperial officer with the rank of general, he came from an ancient family with a long history in the south of the Empire. This family also has some ties with the royal family... But this is not unusual.

And he's a new man in the imperial army. Because of the coup of the imperial capital more than two years ago, the imperial city guards were reorganized on a large scale after the coup. The original second division guarding the imperial capital was abolished because of its collective participation in the coup Rebellion (of course, more than 4000 officers and soldiers fell into Dewey's pocket later).

After a large-scale reorganization, the current fourth division was made up of 5000 veterans of the imperial city guards, thousands of elite reserves drawn from various places, and 10000 soldiers drawn from the southern army. It is worth mentioning that Du Wei got the news that the Fourth Infantry Division of the royal city guards had 500 royal guards specially assigned to alpai by Prince Chen.

It is at least an obvious sign that the Regent can give 500 royal guards: the background of this alpai is not simple.

General alpai, now 31, is a standard young officer. He was born into a rich family, but his family has never had a deep foundation in the military. Dewey only roughly understood that this general alpai, more than two years ago, was just a province in the south. A deputy commander of a local garrison. In just over two years, taking advantage of the coup, Prince Chen needed to reorganize the army on a large scale in order to strengthen his control over the army. Among them, he had to select and upgrade a group of young soldiers. According to the military's resume, when general arpai was the commander of the local garrison in the south, he managed the local public security very well. At the same time, local order was stabilized, and some military contributions were made to suppress bandits.

Suppressing bandits

Dewey laughs at the word. This kind of excuse, but outsiders can, but Duwei himself was born in Wuxun family, his father was once the No. 2 big man in the military. Does Dewey know the inside?

Generally speaking, all officers with family background. In the local army, it's just gilding. As long as you spend two or three years in the local area, accumulate some military experience and qualifications, and then, under the operation of family relations, you can add the vague concept of "meritorious suppression of bandits" to your resume.

What is suppressing bandits? It's ridiculous. The South was the richest part of the Empire. Where are so many bandits?

If it is the northern storm corps, they are responsible for inspecting the frozen forest and hunting Warcraft every year, and often have small-scale battles with mercenary regiments and private armed hunting teams of some families who enter the frozen forest to poach. These can barely be counted as military contributions.

But suppressing bandits in the South can make people laugh. There is no room for large-scale bandits to survive in the fertile and peaceful South. The so-called "suppression of bandits" is mostly boastful. Sometimes, the arrest of one or two thief gangs can be described in the report as an exaggerated military contribution to pacify the bandit rebellion on one side.

Of course, this alpai can be built in just over two years. From a commander to a general, in addition to his family background and these so-called "bandit suppression" military achievements, he met the best opportunity!

After the coup d'etat in the imperial capital, the imperial city guards, the first main battle army of the Empire, went through large-scale reorganization and cleansing. In order to strengthen his control over the army, Prince Chen naturally did not use the proud old men in the army, but chose a group of young men, because they were young people. The foundation is not deep. It's also easier to control. And this alpai is one of the beneficiaries.

From a commander to a general. It took him just over two years. And it's still in the imperial landlord's army, the king's city guards!

However, Dewey himself is also the type of person who has been promoted with terrible speed. If we say "young people", then Dewey himself can be regarded as the biggest "young people" in the Empire. Now I come across the same typical young faction. Originally, if this guy was smarter, he should try to be more respectful to himself. After all, in this northwest war, although Dewey was not explicitly appointed as commander-in-chief, Dewey's position is the highest among the commanders of several armies on the battlefield. With emotion and reason, this alpai should also show a little respect to Dewey.

However, it happened that Du Wei had expected it!

In the presence of Andrea and governor Bohan, Dewey sent out to the garrison of the king's city guards outside the city to "invite" the general arpai into the city. As a result, the people who were sent back soon came back. One of them came back with an answer from general arpai.

"I've admired the Duke for a long time, but during the war, the military was busy. I'm sorry I can't be invited."

The answer came back, and Andrea and Bohan were stunned. Alpai, how brave!

But Dewey's face was silent, and then he just nodded and sneered.

Hum, this reply clearly means: you are not my boss, you have no power to order me to see you, you can only invite, but I have no time to accept your invitation!

For the sake of this, this alpai is really horizontal enough.

Dewey is not a reckless man, with his current status and status in the Empire. If this guy dares to put on such airs to himself, he must have something to rely on.

"What a big shelf!" It's Andrea who is angry. He suffered extra losses because of the action of the king's city guards today. Naturally, his heart is filled with anger. Moreover, he has great respect for Dewey in his heart. Seeing that this guy didn't even give Dewey face, he said angrily: "hum! But it's just a small division commander. How can he be so proud? Your highness, you wait. I'll take people to the guard camp and tie this guy up! "

He was a hot tempered man and strode out at once, but Dewey laughed. He walked two steps quickly, stopped Andre, comforted the two armies, held him, and then said, "forget it, after all, he is not a subordinate controlled by me, and it's reasonable not to obey my orders."

Next to him, governor Bohan sighed. His eyes were a little complicated. He bowed to Dewey and said slowly, "Your Highness, since that's the case, I can only swallow it. Alas... "

Dewey knew what Bohan was worried about. After the settlement of the northwest army. The governor's land of nurin has no value for its continued existence. Besides, he is not the legitimate group of Prince Chen. Without the northwest army, he will lose power. Even if Prince Chen is a more famous monarch, he won't cut his official position directly. However, it is also expected that he should be transferred from the position of governor and be given a vacant position.

This time, the guards of the king's city failed to save their lives on the battlefield. Seeing Bohan's army damaged, they did not move. Bohan worried that it might be the meaning of the imperial capital and weaken his own strength.

Ridiculous... I don't have the mind to rebel. What's the point of weakening my troops? All 200000 people in Lu highland have been leveled. How many troops do I have?

"But Andrea couldn't help looking at Dewey: "did you swallow that breath? You can bear it, I can't bear it! The dead and wounded are all the same. Why are they all taken away by the guards of the king's city? Decapitation more than 10000? I'm going to hell with alpai!! I've seen it before. It's the first time I've seen it so shameless! "

Du Wei smirked, but said lightly: "general Andre, you are wrong... General alpai just sent me the document asking for merit... Whether to approve it or not has not been decided yet! Let's talk about it. Did you forget? I'm not the commander in chief of this war. I'm not qualified to decide on this military document. It should also be sent to the imperial headquarters. Only in this way can we come to a conclusion! He, alpai, can write a merit list. Can't you? Can he write 10000? Can't you write 20000? "

Dewey's remark stunned Andrea for a moment. To tell you the truth, general Andrea was a strict soldier and believed in chivalry. He had never seen this kind of false report in the army, but he had never done it himself in the beginning. What's more, it's so blatantly false?

"Well, I'm afraid not, your highness. The total number of people killed in the northwest army is less than 20000... If I report that. "

Du Wei snorted: "he does the first grade, you do the fifteenth grade, what are you afraid of? Can't you write? Also, you write beheading 20000... Well, how many people did we capture today in the first World War? 30000? So, thirty thousand prisoners, divide the Stormtrooper and governor Bohan. When you are seven or three, write about twenty thousand captured by the storm corps and ten thousand captured by governor Bohan

Points?

Andrea was secretly amused. He had never heard that military contributions were "distributed" in this way.

However, Dewey had already turned around, picked up his pen, brushed it and wrote a merit list. Asked Andrea to sign his name, Andrea hesitated for a moment, thinking of the behavior of the imperial city guards on the battlefield today. In addition, Duwei deliberately said: "the soldiers are dead and wounded, don't general Andrea want to ask for more pension for them?"

This made Andrea make up his mind. I wrote down my name on this application form. But Bohan looked at Du Wei and seemed to want to say something, but he didn't say it and wrote down his name.

Finally, Dewey signed at the end of the thing.

"Let's send this to the imperial capital quickly! Hum, at that time, you can go to the headquarters to fight a lawsuit at most! The signature of the three of us is more important than that of alpai! Although it's a bit excessive, it's just that he provoked us first. No wonder we did

Andrea was a straight hearted man and then left. But Bohan stayed, and seemed to have something to say to Dewey.

"Your Highness." After seeing Andrea off, Bohan walked slowly over, closed the door, turned and looked at Dewey. Slightly worried: "I'm afraid it's not right for you to do this."

Du Wei faint smile: "what's wrong?"

"That alpai, since he dares to do such a thing, must rely on something. It's certainly not a fool to be the commander of the division and regiment of the imperial city guards. There must be some reasons why he dares to go so far, and.... "

Dewey sighed, "governor Bohan. You and I have been in the Northwest for more than two years. How can we have some friendship? There is no one else here. Just tell me straight away. "

Bohan said with a bitter smile: "although I am angry, it's not unusual that he doesn't help alpai today. He dares to do so in the battlefield, mostly because of the emperor's intention. In this case, I'm afraid that the order to resign will come down in a month at most. "

Dewey nodded. Everyone knew it, and there was no need to say more about it.

"But this alpai... Archduke. If you think about it, he dares to do so, for fear that there is someone behind him supporting his waist. As you are now, even the Regent will give you some face. Who would be so arrogant in front of you? What's more, I've never heard of this kind of thing in the army. It's rare for me to do it so openly and openly. I'm afraid... He was instructed to do so, and dare to play such a trick under your eyes. I'm afraid the people behind him are of great weight... "

Dewey laughed: "governor Bohan, I said, you can tell me straight. Don't beat around the bush like that. I know what you mean. Are you worried that Wang Cheng's guards dare to do this? Is that what the Regent means? "

"Isn't it?" Bohan gave a slight smile. Looking into Dewey's eyes: "Dewey. It's a friendship between you and me. I'm going to leave the northwest anyway. Before I leave, I have a few words of advice for you. Since ancient times, you have to remember the truth of supporting the army. Once upon a time, you supported 100000 troops in the northwest, military and political power in hand, and made so many great contributions. However, because of the threat of the northwest army, the Empire naturally tolerated you in order to rely on you to contain the northwest army. But now the northwest army is gone. Although such things may not fall on you, the central government has never allowed local governments to have too much strength. Otherwise, they would not worry about the appearance of a Second Northwest army, Lu Gao? You are now supporting 100000 troops, and there is a huge popularity in the northwest. I'm afraid... "

After a pause, he said slowly: "originally, in this war, you are the most powerful and in the highest position. You should be appointed as a commander in chief. But the Regent is so clever, but he deliberately missed this point. He just gave you the name of overall planning, but he didn't mention the position of commander in chief. Is it unintentional? The royal city guards have always been the most trusted and trusted army of the central government. It's not the central government's intention that the guards of the king's city are fighting for meritorious service this time. They connive at their most trusted guards to fight for meritorious service. When they finally reward them, we will naturally get less credit. I'm afraid it means to suppress you. "

After that, Bohan did not stop. He nodded to Dewey. "That's all I have to say. In other places, you have a sense of propriety. I won't say more."

Then Bohan left, leaving duvet alone in the room.

After a long time, Du Wei sighed, looked at the ceiling, and said to himself, "Bohan, Bohan, you said two points are good, but there is a third one... The Regent, when he did this, made it clear that he wanted to cultivate this alpai well! What does Prince Chen want to do? By suppressing the northwest army and making a great contribution to this alpai, can we hold him up? Is it for the war in the next two years?

After a while, Philip came to Dewey, looked at Dewey thinking alone, and asked a few questions. As for his most effective staff member, Dewey did not hide it, so he said it. Philip said with a smile, "Your Highness, this is very clear. I'm afraid that the Regent deliberately cultivated this alpai to make him a new rich man. "

Dewey nodded: "just like when I was flattered?"

"That's nature." Philip thought for a moment: "my Lord, in just three years, you will become the Duke of the Empire, master the military and political power, and become rich and powerful. These, of course, have your own efforts and wisdom in it, you can talk about the root cause. Or with the support and trust of the Regent. And now, the northwest army is down, and you... To tell you the truth, Duchess, your strength is very strong. Throughout the history of the Empire, at any time, if there is a person who can have such strong strength as you, even those marshals who hold great power in the history of the Empire. I'm afraid that the military power will be reduced immediately, and then it will be elevated. In this way, the monarch can rest assured! But now, the Regent still depends on you to work for him. If you can't cut your strength, you can only hold one more person to contain you! If you are the only upstart in the Empire. For a long time, I'm afraid you will affect the status of the royal family. It's a means of balance to bring out a new upstart. It's nothing new. I'm afraid the origin of this alpai is not simple. Hum... Don't forget, my Lord. The new chief of the local army, the "whip of Thor", has not yet been appointed! Now, I'm afraid it's probably this alpai. By virtue of the military achievements of pacifying the northwest army and the intentional cultivation of the Regent. Who can object to the appointment of him as the commander of Raytheon's whip? "

After a pause, Philip looked at Dewey's calm expression and frowned: "Sir, it seems that you understand these principles yourself... But why did you deliberately ask general Andrey and governor Bohan to write the official document asking for credit..."

"I did it on purpose." Du Wei smiles: "who doesn't know my temperament in the imperial capital? If alpai is so arrogant in front of me, if I don't respond, I'm afraid it will make some people with ulterior motives oversensitive. It's reasonable to make such a fuss on purpose. Well... Just. I'm afraid we won't be able to compete with the alpai for this document

"That's for sure. If the Regent really intends to cultivate this guy, then this military merit will surely fall on him."

Philip looked into Dewey's eyes and said with a low smile, "you're right, my Lord." He said slowly: "now that we have guessed that alpaye is the new rich that the Regent is going to win, then you deliberately make such a fuss, that is to show everyone a signal: you and alpaye are not in a good relationship! Just imagine. If you and general alpai. Two upstarts, if the relationship is too harmonious. I'm afraid the Regent's heart will be upset. "

Dewey blinked, looked at Philip, and then patted him on the shoulder: "well, you can write another official letter for me, accusing the army of the king city guards general arpai of conniving soldiers to kill prisoners of war, which nearly caused chaos. The wording is more severe. After writing it, you can sign it for me and send it to the imperial capital. Since it's acting, it's better to be real. "

After staying outside the city for a day, the guards immediately set out. Before they left, they sent people to the city to ask for supplies from Du Wei. Du Wei waved his pen and ordered him to give only half of what he wanted. The local people of the imperial guards seemed to know that they were wrong, and they moved the military supplies without saying a word. And that general alpai, from beginning to end, didn't come to see Dewey. It's very rude.

But Dewey didn't seem angry. Because Philip said to him: I'm afraid this alpai is also a smart man. The more he behaves disharmony with himself, the more the Regent will praise him! If he shows too much respect and intimacy to himself now, I'm afraid the Regent will immediately change his mind to flatter others. Hold him up is to balance their own strength, if he and himself go too close, is stupid!

Duwei didn't care about him after the guards of the royal city started.

Finally, on this day, Dewey received a news that he had been waiting for many days!

Rodriguez is back!

The silver night sword Saint came back alone, and his face was not very good. After coming back, Rodriguez brought a not too good news to Dewey

On that day, when the cavalry under lugao was annihilated, the two Paladins were responsible for killing lugao on the battlefield. Although lugao was also very strong, he was not strong enough to reach the abnormal state of Bai He Chou after all. Under the attack of two paladins, he could only go away and lose.

And Lu Gao was really decisive. Seeing that his army had been defeated, he didn't turn around and run back to find guhuadoro. He made a decisive decision, abandoned his defeated army and fled to the West alone!! Anyway, it has been defeated. The defeat of the cavalry has made the whole battle plan of other places fail. It is meaningless to go back and join guhuadoro. So lugao fled West. Under the close pursuit of Rodriguez and Hussein, the three went all the way west, fighting and running, across the whole province of Desa, and finally even across Loulan City, directly into the northwest corridor!

Lu Gao is also a strong man of his generation. He is also a master of both frost fighting spirit and big snow mountain witchcraft. Under the pursuit of the two paladins, they were able to support so many days.

Finally, the three went all the way out of the northwest corridor. If you enter the desert outside kilimaro mountain, if you continue to run, you will enter the northwest prairie after crossing the desert. And at this time, finally, Rodriguez and Hussein catch up with Rugao!

Three Saint level strongmen fight in the desert, but in the scuffle, Hussein stabs Rugao. He also cut off the thumb of lugao's right hand on the spot. Lugao tried his best when he was seriously injured, and also cut Hussein. Hussein got a sword in his back, which nearly cut off the paladin's back.

Lugao took the opportunity to escape. Hussein was unable to chase after his serious injury, while Rodriguez could only bring Hussein back. First, he sent Hussein directly to Loulan city to recuperate, and Rodriguez came back alone.

"Hussein's injury is not a big problem, but I'm afraid it will take a long time. As for Lugo... This guy is really cunning. And his frost fighting spirit is very strong. The two of us worked together to stop him. He was pierced by Hussein's sword in his right chest, and finally cut off his right thumb. Even if he is well injured, his strength will be reduced in the short term. It's just a pity that he ran away at last... "

Dewey nodded: "well, I see. In fact, I should have thought for a long time that this guy, Lu Gao, should be called "Chishui cut off". His greatest enemy in his life is Bai He Chou. I'm afraid that this time he tried to lead his troops to the West and wanted to enter the grassland. He also wanted to rely on his 70000 cavalry to make waves on the grassland. Most of his final goal was snow mountain. Now he ran back to the grassland alone. With his temperament, he would never give up revenge. I'm afraid it will be dormant in the dark for a while in the short term. But after all, the grassland is the site of Bai He Chou. You and I all know the ability of Bai He Chou. There are worries about the White River. Lugao may not be able to survive. "

Du Wei's heart, though also deeply regret. After all, Lu Gao was released. If this guy secretly seeks revenge on himself. I'm afraid I'll be in trouble with his ability to do things like assassination! Although I'm quite strong now, and I have many experts around me, but after all, I have relatives, friends and fiancee. If Lu Gao attacks those people, it's impossible to prevent them... It's a headache.

But looking at Rodriguez's pale face, Dewey also knows that he can't blame him. After all, he and Hussein have tried their best. Lu Gao is a disciple of the former king of witchcraft and the younger martial brother of Bai He Chou. I'm afraid his strength is still above Rodriguez's teacher's blue ocean.

After Rodriguez was asked to go down for a rest, Dewey frowned and thought for a long time. After thinking for a long time, he sighed and asked someone to send a secret letter to Saladin on the grassland and tell him to pay more attention. Besides, Dewey had no other way to think about it.

It's not good news, but Dewey is still in the mood. After all, he still has a lot to do.

All the captured cavalry of the northwest army had been handed over to Longbottom to take his men to reorganize. The official document of asking for credit has been reported for a long time.

And there's another important thing that's on Dewey's mind.

Sebastian!

This guy, who has become a beast, has been banned by Dewey with a magic and locked up in his own residence in the city since he was captured by Dewey.

In recent days, Dewey tried several ways, but failed to wake up Sebastian. This poor guy has lost all his memory and completely turned into a wild animal without wisdom. Only he left, I'm afraid he was so afraid of himself.

But even so, Sebastian's strength still surprised duvet. Especially after killing those court magicians, Sebastian seems to have evolved immediately. Originally, he was only good at fighting against frost, but now he has a little bit of magic wave of light and dark!

What's more, Dewey is very curious about his strange physical quality.

In recent days, Dewey has taken the time to do some research. He even took some blood from Sebastian to study. Dewey has already made a simple microscope to study the blood of Sebastian according to his previous knowledge. It's a pity that Dewey's original knowledge in this field was almost blank, and he didn't come up with any results.

But one day, he had a whim. He asked people to bring two dogs and take out a little of the blood of Sebastian. First, he fed a dog a few drops and drank it. As a result, the poor dog exploded and died in a very sad moment. Dewey took out his own simple syringe and injected a few drops of blood into another dog.

Results a moment later, the dog changed, became crazy and irritable, and the strength increased several times, even the cage was almost broken! The iron bar with the thickness of little finger can be bitten off in a few bites! The whole body also became extremely strong. The soldiers who were in charge of the dog all around cut seven or eight swords before they killed the dog.

This result surprised Dewey. However, he was still at a loss. He quietly looked through the notes left by the king of witchcraft, Gulan Xiu, to find some records about the "perfect body", but he didn't find them at all.

It immediately occurred to him that in the secret passage under the governor's house in giliat, there seemed to be the bodies of those strange creatures who had been left behind by the Sorcerer qureshou.

Unfortunately, he is busy now, so he plans to take Sebastian with him and go to giliat city to re-enter the secret Road, dig out the bodies of those strange creatures and study them carefully.

On the morning of the fourth day after the war, after Duwei signed several documents, he sent someone to report the final statistics to the imperial capital. He was relieved, but there was a voice outside the door. The Muse, a boy of the Liszt family, asked to see him.

Muse?

Du Wei listened, and the corners of his mouth moved slightly.

This guy, pestering with himself came to the front line, but how could he really let this guy go to war?

These days, Dewey gave him a leisurely job, let him with his cavalry team, search around, search for those who fled on the battlefield of the northwest army defeated. There is not much danger in this task. Moreover, Duwei sent thousands of people to search the surrounding area for more than 200 Li, and finally sent this guy far away to other places, so as not to cause trouble in front of his own eyes.

Wearing the uniform of a tulip cavalry, Muse strode into the room, knelt down on one knee and gave Duwei a standard military salute: "Your Highness."

Du Wei sat behind the table, raised his eyelids and looked at the boy... Although he looked tired, his eyes in his eyes were full of spirit. It seems that he enjoyed the training these days.

"Everything I told you is done?" Du Wei light way: "I order to search for 20 days, this just a few days, you ran back?"? Muse, don't forget that you are now a little ten man cavalry commander. It's against the military law to leave the battlefield without the command of your superior. "

The Muse snorted with a look of "I knew you would say that" and raised his head and said in a loud voice: "Your Highness! I didn't leave the battlefield without permission. This time I came back in a hurry because... I had a great harvest! "“ "Oh?" Dewey lost his pen“ I caught a big fish! The real big fish! " The Muse's face was excited: "Your Highness, I can't believe it! You can't regret the reward regulations you have set down! " Dewey frowned: "what big fish did you catch?" The Muse blinked: "the No.2 man of the northwest army! Guhuadoro! "