You call me a big treacherous evil?

026 A flash of thought in the depths of the soul

After traveling all the way in RUA, we arrived at Narga, a port temporarily opened by the Western Front Corps.

Victor and Joseph who got off the boat felt as if they were stepping on soft cotton even if they were walking on solid ground.

But they don't have much time to rest.

At this time, the comrades in the Western Front Army had already prepared carriages for them.

According to the plan, they will rush from here to Lujia, one of the three large logistics transfer stations of the Western Front Army, where there are now three infantry divisions confronting the military police and officers.

With a little help, they can become part of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.

But Victor and Joseph must move quickly.

Because although the entire Western Front Corps was in a state of chaos, most of the troops blatantly refused the emperor's order.

Some troops even imprisoned their officers, preparing to blackmail the emperor to stop the war.

Commie is by no means the only organization trying to enlist the support of these soldiers, though.

Including the right-wing National Socialist Party, the bourgeois Liberal Party, and even Anarchy began to contact these soldiers secretly, trying to win their support.

So Victor's speed must be fast enough.

Just when Victor and Joseph jumped into the carriage and were about to go to Lujia.

The local commi organization sent them a telegram they had just received.

The emperor thwarted a rebellion in the capital by the bourgeois party of December [-]th.

The traitorous Capital Guards were now disarmed awaiting trial, and the Emperor had ordered the recall of Army Group South, which was only fifty kilometers away from Constantinople, back home.

The emperor's order to retrieve Army Group South would only complicate the situation.

Unlike the Legions of the Western Front who were exhausted and did not want to continue the war.

Although the number of the Southern Army Group is only one-third of that on the Western Front, they have been pressing the Hammer of the Dansk Empire since the start of the war.

Basically, it can be said that they are eating hot pot and singing songs all the way, and they will soon be able to fulfill the long-cherished wish of the Lucian Empire for hundreds of years, and their morale to capture Constantinople is extremely strong.

If there is any unit in Lucia that is as loyal to the royal family as it was before the war, then apart from the Knights of the Kingdom, it is estimated that it is the Southern Army Group that has not encountered any troubles.

After receiving the news, Victor's bowels turned green with regret.

If he had known that there would be a rebellion in Fort St. Nicholas, Victor would never have come to the Western Front Army to win the support of the soldiers.

Instead, they directly took the First Army on board all the movable naval warships, and rushed to Fort St. Nicholas directly from the sea.

As long as you win there, you can declare the abolition of the emperor's rule and seize the power of Lucia.

After seizing power, the next thing is much simpler.

Faced with this situation, Victor, who had a flash of thought deep in his soul, dragged Joseph all the way and rushed to the warning ship.

While startling the captain of the Vigilance, Valery, Victor also asked his own question.

How long will it take for the Vigilance to return to Port Phelps?

How long would it take for the Vigilante to reach Fort St. Nicholas when it was fully loaded with soldiers and their equipment?

How many battleships in the First Fleet can keep up with the speed of the Vigilance?

Facing the three questions of the soul, Valery quickly gave his answer, and also found out the chart of the North Sea, explaining to Victor why he needed so much time.

If it is a large fleet maneuvering, how long will it take to reach Fort St. Nicholas.

And Valery, who had already guessed what Victor might want to do, also told Victor.

Because of the previous naval battle with the Teutons, the garrison fleet of Fort St. Nicholas is now either sinking on the bottom of the sea or waiting for repairs in Port Phelps.

There is only a small fleet stationed at the Gotard Island Naval Base leading to the port.

If there is a landing there, the biggest threat is the three forts in the port of Fort St. Nicholas.

Valery took out a small-scale map of the vicinity of Fort St. Nicholas, and marked Victor on the map with a pencil.

These three forts are located on Gotard Island, which has the fleet just mentioned, and near the beachheads on the left and right banks of the port.

And Valery noted on the three forts, which are equipped with six powerful 365mm heavy guns.

This kind of heavy artillery is enough to sink the only two remaining battleships in the First Fleet, and it is a powerful threat that cannot be ignored in landing operations.

If you want to attack Fort St. Nicholas by sea, you need to solve the threat of these three forts first.

Victor looked at the map and began to think.

Obviously, a head-on charge is killing you.

Since ancient times, the behavior of naval warships and fortress guns shooting at each other cannot be said to be a suicide attempt, but it can only be said to be attention in the next life.

Because of the limitation of the battleship hull, at the same technical level.

As long as it's not a fight to beat up children.

Naval strongholds can have thicker armor, longer gun barrels, more ammunition, and faster reloads than battleships.

With so many together, the fleet has an overwhelming numerical advantage.

Otherwise, they would not go to the naval fortress, usually outside the range of the naval fortress, to block the enemy fleet in the port.

So it is obviously not possible to force the front.

But... so-called fortresses are often conquered from within.

Now that even the capital guards have rebelled, how much loyalty can these sailors who are responsible for defending the port have left?

What makes a fort indestructible is never the fort itself, but the tenacity of its defenders.

If the defenders are strong, even an ordinary building can become an indestructible steel fortress.

If the defenders are weak, even a well-equipped steel defense line is just a castle on the beach.

Victor quickly calculated the time to mobilize the troops, and let the troops board the ship and prepare for the landing operation.

Then he cast his eyes on Joseph who also understood what he was thinking, and his eyes radiated excitement.

"Comrade Joseph, I have a plan and I need you to persuade the party and the comrades in the Revolutionary Military Council."

As Victor spoke, he took a pencil and quickly drew on the map.

"Due to the mutiny of the guards at Fort St. Nicholas, the emperor will not have too many troops at his disposal."

"If we manage to launch a successful landing, supported by naval gunfire, we are quite capable of taking Fort St. Nicholas."

Although Joseph's eyes were burning with flames, he still restrained his excitement and asked Victor.

"But the problem of the naval fortress, how to solve it?"

Victor made a point on the map with a pencil.

"I have two options to solve this problem, but the question now is, Comrade Joseph, can you afford the command task this time?"



027 Square

Victor himself, of course, personally took the troops to send greetings to the emperor.

After Victor went to Kang, he even prepared the rope for His Majesty the Emperor.

Just wait for His Majesty the Emperor to choose his beloved street lamp.

Then let the emperor recall the joy of swinging as a child in the revolving lantern of life.

But the so-called unsatisfactory life is likely to happen, even if Victor finds this opportunity.

He also couldn't bring his troops straight to St. Nicholas Fort to "respect (♂) the emperor and beg for adultery."

It is a very important task for Kang Mi now to control the Western Front Army, or even control part of the Western Front Army.

Compared with the military adventure of going straight to Fort St. Nicholas, the most urgent thing is to bring the Western Front troops under the control of Commy.

Only with the support of Lucia's current largest armed group can it seize power, or stabilize the power after seizing power.

So Victor could only tell Joseph his plan.

Let Joseph take the piece of paper on which he drew a bunch of things, and the three blank papers on which the battle plan was written, and return to Port Phelps immediately on the Alert.

To persuade the Revolutionary Military Council to support and agree to the implementation of this plan.

Victor Bento, on the other hand, boarded the carriage again and started heading to Lu Jia.

With the speeding of the carriage, Victor also began to think about how he should persuade these soldiers to join him.

After all, the average education level of frontline soldiers is there. If you talk about production relations and exploited surplus value with them, they will most likely just look at you in confusion, not understanding what you mean.

And the simple and crude nationalist slogans like the national society or the bourgeoisie, such as "Make Lucia great again!" or "It's the halflings who stole the job opportunities that make everyone's life so miserable! It's all the halfling's fault!"

This kind of simple and crude way of stuffing a concept into their minds makes them think that their misfortune in life is because foreigners or domestic minorities have stolen their wealth and job opportunities, which makes them so down.

This approach can effectively hide the original contradiction between the exploited and the exploited, and instead allow the proletariat to start fighting among themselves.

After all, compared to the big capitalists and noble emperors that you may never see in your life, a relatively weaker target that you can see every day can vent their anger and attention more effectively.

So Victor had to come up with a slogan that would resonate more with the soldiers. It had to be simple and easy to remember, like "Eat his mother, wear his mother, and don't pay for the commee!" This simple and easy-to-remember slogan.

The carriage was running so fast that Victor had already arrived at Lu Jia before he could figure out what to say.

But it seems that he came a little late.

On the largest square in Lujia, countless soldiers are surrounding the sculptures in the square.

Listen to a man in a yellow trench coat give a speech.

Outside the square, Victor heard words such as "inferior (♂) and other peoples (♀)", "living space", "land under the sun", "warm estuary to the sea".

Hearing these remarks, Victor knew that he seemed to be a step behind.

But it's not too late for him to come, because there are not so many cheering soldiers among the soldiers who listened to his speech.

In other words, this speech has not yet fallen into a frenzy, and I still have a chance.

As soon as he got off the carriage, a man with a tin horn in his hand, wearing a Lucian gray military uniform, and carrying the rank of sergeant on his shoulder hurried over.

"Is it Comrade Victor? I am the branch representative Andrei, why did you come here?"

Victor smiled awkwardly.

"Sorry, I ran into a little trouble on the way."

Victor smiled and took the tin horn from Andre.

"How long have they been starting?"

"Half an hour."

Victor unbuttoned his collar and stretched his neck.

"Then it's still too late."

After finishing speaking, Victor walked towards the square with the tin horn in hand.

This time Victor heard clearly what the man in the yellow trench coat standing in front of the statue of Queen Catherine was saying.

"Our great country has been betrayed! Those halflings, communists stabbed you in the back as you fought!"

"Think about it! The war has been going on for five years, and now that Brandenia and Franche have launched a counterattack, the defeat of the Teutons is just around the corner!"

"Just when we were about to win, these despicable people conspired to launch a riot! Just to steal the fruits of victory from us! They are a group of traitors! They should be hanged on the street lamp!"

Just as the yellow windbreaker was talking about street lights, Victor also walked behind the crowd and raised the tin horn in his hand.

"You poor thing, what nonsense are you talking about?!"

Victor's resonant voice instantly overwhelmed the next words of the yellow windbreaker in front of the statue.

Many people turned around in surprise to look at this man in a lieutenant's uniform with several high-ranking medals pinned to his chest.

"What did you say?!"

The man in the yellow windbreaker didn't seem to expect that someone would sing against him.

After giving a look to the men with red and black armbands around the statue.