The Revolutionary Era in One Piece

Ma En felt that the people who hijacked the grain were closely related to this group of merchants.

But before investigating this group of merchants, we must first deal with the follow-up issues of the village that was ravaged by the soldiers.

First of all, we have to rebuild the village, and to do this, we need a large amount of labor.

Fortunately, the revolutionary soldiers captured many prisoners during this battle.

The revolutionary army had set up a prisoner-of-war camp, in which more than two thousand soldiers were captured.

In order to solve the food problem for the villagers and prisoners, Ma En has sent people back to the base to obtain food.

Of course, the captives were not raised in vain, and their contribution is indispensable to the reconstruction of the village.

In addition to ensuring the reconstruction of the village, it is also necessary to prevent the town nobles from sending people to retaliate against the villagers again.

To deal with this, Marx had set up observation posts in strategic locations along the roads connecting towns to the countryside.

Any disturbance can be discovered immediately and reported to the village.

In order to be prepared for any unexpected events, Ma En decided to wait until the second batch of supplies arrived before launching the operation, thoroughly investigating the truth and putting an end to the food and fodder incident.

Soon, Little Gus arrived with the second batch of supplies and a support team, and he also brought Ma En the latest news from the base.

The war around Port Roland seemed to have landed the Kingdom of Deya in an unfavorable situation. The number of troops from the Kingdom of North exceeded the Kingdom of Deya's expectations. In order to stabilize the front line, the Kingdom of Deya had to launch a new round of military expansion.

Everyone in the village was worried that it would affect the development of the base, and hoped that Ma En would quickly finish the affairs here and lead the main force back.

After hearing the news, Ma En decided to speed up his pace, and some information also gave Ma En some inspiration.

Soon, Ma En asked the people in the village and learned from them that the Kingdom of Norse had conducted a large-scale conscription in the village some time ago. It was called conscription, but in fact it was just conscription of able-bodied men.

No wonder when the troops led by Ma En moved here, the number of young and strong laborers in the village was seriously inconsistent with the number of strong laborers in a normal village.

Next, Ma En decided to deal with the caravan, and asked someone familiar in the village to act as a guide.

Ma En decided to lead a small team of several hundred people to march quickly to find out the truth of the matter.

The rest of the large force stayed in the village to build it and prevent possible threats from the nobles in the town.

Hearing that Ma En would not lead a large force to attack, Little Gus beside Ma En immediately advised, "Mr. Ma En, aren't you bringing too few people? The previous intelligence said that the group of people who hijacked the food also had several hundred people.

If you only bring a few hundred people, you won't have the advantage in numbers. You'd better be more prepared and bring more people. Even a lion will use all its strength to fight a rabbit. You should be prepared for any eventuality."

Maen did not agree with Little Gus's statement, "I believe in the strength of our fighters. If we have the same number of people, we still have the advantage. The most important thing is that we cannot waste time now.

It is better to leave the main force here to help the villagers rebuild the village. As I said, even if a battle breaks out, our revolutionary army has faith and morale, and Comrade Crow, who has performed brilliantly in this battle, is infallible.

Besides, we don't necessarily have to fight a battle, Comrade Gus, the coordination of the large forces here is left to you!"

After saying that, Ma En immediately had someone call Crow over. There was no need to select any more people, and he led the vanguard army to attack directly.

Led by the guide, hundreds of soldiers quickly set off along the trail.

Little Gus could only sigh and look at the departing troops. Only when they were out of sight did he turn back to complete the task assigned by Marx.

Ma En and his troops moved forward quickly in the woods. On the way, Ma En asked the guide for details about the caravan.

The guide said that the caravan had several hundred people, and they often sold goods from the town to the village. Ma En thought that the number of people matched.

The guide went on to say that this caravan was not originally from the village, but many young people in the village joined the caravan and brought it into the village.

Ma En raised his own question again, why the caravan would establish its base in such a remote place in the mountains.

The guide also said he didn't know, but according to other insiders, it seemed that he had offended someone in the kingdom and had to run into the mountains.

The guide went on to say that although this caravan seemed mysterious, they had never bullied the villagers.

Especially after all the food in the village was requisitioned last time, the caravan lent food to the villagers for free.

However, it was also because of these grains that the greedy nobles in the town came to the village again to collect taxes.

But the villagers knew clearly in their hearts that the fault was those greedy and cruel nobles. So now the villagers still have a good impression of the caravan.

After listening to the guide's words, the outline of the situation in Ma En's mind became clearer. Finally, the troops stopped.

The crow also came to Maan's side, "Mr. Maan, we have arrived at our destination."

What the revolutionary army saw was a mountain stronghold with guards on the city walls.

There were armed guards on the city wall. They were very surprised to see hundreds of well-trained troops approaching not far from the city wall, and they immediately became alert.

Fortunately, the guide immediately walked to the gate of the stronghold and contacted the guards on the city wall.

The guards then relaxed a lot, and one of them even disappeared, probably to ask for instructions from the person who could make the decision.

Ma En also took this opportunity to let the people who had just arrived take a rest.

After a while, two people who were in charge finally appeared on the city wall, and a person was lowered down from a hanging basket, who seemed to be the person who came to negotiate.

The person seemed to be petite and wearing a hood, walking towards Man with the guide.

Seeing this, Crow stood in front of Ma En very calmly, as if if the person coming from the opposite side dared to harm Ma En by any tricks, he would immediately step forward to block any danger.

Finally, they came closer and the petite negotiator took off her hood, revealing a girl with short golden hair and light blue eyes, who looked very bright and generous.

"Hello, my name is Lux, what should I call you, sir?"

After learning each other's names, Lux smiled and said, "Our leader doesn't know what misunderstanding we have. So the leader hopes to invite you to the village as a guest. Of course, our village will not open the door until the misunderstanding is resolved."

Ma En stopped the angry crow and said, "I'm happy to go in and talk. Let me and Mr. Guide go in together. He has a friend in your village and he wants to meet him."

At this time, Crow finally couldn't help it and immediately blocked Ma En's way. "Impossible, this is too dangerous. We can't guarantee your safety, Comrade Ma En.

If we must go in to talk, then I must follow you in to ensure your safety." After saying this, Crow stared at Lux.

Lux smiled and said, "Of course, no problem. But you don't have to worry, sir. We won't do anything to our guests."

Seeing that Crow was still mumbling something like "Who knows?", Ma En quickly pulled him back and said, "Well, please lead the way, young lady."

Three more hanging baskets were lowered onto the city wall, one for each of Marne, the Guide, and Crow, and Lux ​​also sat in the original hanging basket.

The four were slowly pulled up, and Ma En and others finally entered the heartland of the unknown force.