The military school's fence was made of bricks and was less than 1.7 meters tall to save money. Winters felt that the female thief should have entered and exited by climbing over the wall. Now that the person has run away, the only way to know what the female thief stole is by asking the entire school to count the items and see what is missing.
"Where are the people! [Expletive]! Where are the guards!" A loud shout came from outside the house.
Oops, Winters thumped and was busy chatting in the room, forgetting his duty of standing guard. The four students hurriedly ran out of the student duty room.
A senior officer riding a tall maroon horse dismounted, whipped the four of them without explanation, and cursed angrily: "Gangdu [expletive] won't stand anymore?"
"Report! Beimen Night Post! Six people were supposed to be present, but four were actually present!" Winters was whipped inexplicably, and the place where he was whipped felt burning pain, and there was even more anger in his heart.
But he knows that the military academy is the army, and he must not be forced to do so at this time. The light was not good, so Winters didn't recognize who the other party was, but he could tell from the military uniform that he must be a senior officer above a major.
"Where is the officer on duty?" the senior officer asked sharply.
"Report! We went to scout the place where the fire broke out!" Only then did Winters see clearly who the officer in front of him was.
This is a face with sharp eyebrows and hawk-like eyes, a rhinoplasty and thin lips. He is the head of the military academy headquarters, the nominal second-in-command of the Army Officer Academy, and the actual head of the family.
"Why didn't you report the fire?" The head of the department was still angry.
"Report! I don't know!" Winters yelled in response, and he really didn't know.
Most of the people who live in the school are low-level faculty members with military ranks below major and live in officers' quarters. Although schools have prepared single-family residences for school officers and higher-ranking officers, senior officers generally find other places to buy homes outside the school.
So it wasn't that the teacher who was on duty with Winters didn't want to report it tonight. In fact, he didn't know which school leader was staying at the school tonight. He still wanted to find out the situation first before reporting it.
"Ring the assembly bell! Emergency assembly! Get everyone up! Let everyone line up at the North Gate playground!" The head of the department did not continue to embarrass the four students and immediately gave the order to the four students.
"Yes!" Winters and the other four accepted the order and immediately ran to ring the assembly bell.
"Wait a minute." The head of the department used a riding crop to stop Winters who was about to lift his legs and leave: "What happened to this arm?"
"Report! There is a thief! The thief used a knife! He was repulsed by me!" Winters did not dare to talk nonsense and described what happened in his most concise language.
Facing the furious head of the department, Winters did not dare to say, "The thief ran out of the school, and I did not stop her and let her escape." However, he also believed that he was not lying.
"Who dares to risk their lives and run wild on the Army's territory!" The head of the department was furious, exactly the same as the teacher on duty: "Come to me tomorrow and give me a detailed report."
"Boom, boom, boom, boom" the assembly bell was rung as if it was life-threatening, followed closely by the sharp whistles of the night-gang students. Like a beast awakened from its sleep, the sleeping Army Academy was awakened by the muster bell.
The quiet theme of the night was replaced by noise. The awakened military cadets in various dormitories jumped out of bed, grabbed their clothes and quickly put them on. They didn't have any equipment to carry, so they dressed and hurried out the door.
Someone outside the door shouted: "Assemble at the North Gate playground! Assemble at the North Gate playground!" This was an order from the head of the department to trainees on the Night Guard.
In this era without portable tinder, military schools have no time to light fires during emergency gatherings at night. Everything must be done in the dark, and the students went to the North Gate playground in the dark with the faint moonlight.
The crowd moved like a school of sardines in the sea, huddled together in silence, but moving forward uniformly, creating a strange and regular beauty.
The military students who quickly poured out of various dormitories quickly merged into the North Gate playground. The vanguard lined up at the front, while the others quickly looked for their place in the queue.
Winters also ran back to the queue at this time, and Ike was shocked by the wound on his shoulder. But small talk is not allowed in the military formation, so the two can only communicate with their eyes. Each district team began reporting and summarizing from beginning to end.
The instructors came from the stables and rode around the phalanx of officers and students. A spellcaster teacher brought a bunch of torches from the warehouse, lit the torches with the fire spell, and distributed them to each teacher.
The entire North Gate playground was illuminated by fire at this moment. The students have already stood in an orderly formation, waiting for orders.
The director was riding on his beloved horse, watching from the front of the playground as the cadets from the Army Officer Academy gathered in an orderly manner in the darkness, and nodded with an imperceptible amount of expression on his face.
“The department was supposed to have 174 people in one year, but it actually turned out to be 174!”
“The second-year department was supposed to have 175 people, but actually there were 173!”
“The three-year department was supposed to have 172 people! In fact, there are 172 people!”
"Report to the head of the headquarters! Student brigade! 521 people were expected to arrive! 519 people actually arrived! Report completed."
"Everyone! Stand at attention!" The headmaster's deafening voice resounded through the entire school. He obviously used amplification technology: "Three minutes! Bring all the tools! Set off to put out the fire! Disband!"
The college formation suddenly dispersed again, and Winters also ran to the warehouse to get tools. But he was actually a little surprised. If there was a fire, it would catch on fire. If there was a fire in a residential area, it would have nothing to do with the military academy, and the military academy would not be affected.
Several officers on duty who had set out to investigate the fire also came back at this time, and they quickly reported the situation to their headquarters.
After hearing the report, the minister immediately sent a messenger to inform the military academy and other senior officers of the Union Provincial Army Department of the situation. At the same time, he sent a messenger to the two infantry brigades of the Union Province Army stationed outside Guitu City to ask for help.
The students quickly returned and stood in a neat square formation again, but this time everyone had a few more tools in their hands.
The director didn't waste any words, and with a wave of his hand, all the cadets of the military academy formed six columns and marched along the main road towards the port area of Guitu City.
"What happened?!" Ike didn't find the opportunity to ask Winters until the phalanx took off.
"Meet a thief and get stabbed." Winters summarized the whole story as briefly as possible.
"What kind of thief would use the knife?"
"I don't know either."
"Are you okay?"
"Flesh wounds."
"Shut up!" The instructor who was patrolling on horseback beside the student column sternly stopped Winters and Ike from whispering. The two did not dare to talk anymore and had no choice but to follow the column.
They walked all the way through the low and dilapidated slums in the outermost circle of the city, the ruins of the demolished old city wall, the smelly workshops of leatherworkers, the messy houses in the port area, and finally Arrived at the location of the fire.
Only then did Winters understand why the military academy had to go out to put out the fire when the residential area was on fire.
Because the first arsenal of the Grand Senas Gulf States Alliance Army is burning.
