At this time, at the rebel headquarters located on the outskirts of the city, the new church leader, Ost Brown, the most wanted criminal in both the church and the kingdom, and the guardian of the legion, had been unable to sleep for several nights in a row.
His heart was full of regrets. If he had known it, he would not have agreed to join this fake beggar gang. Now that Sashu is out of power, he can be as weak as he wants. He is a straw bag that will be exposed at the first touch. Being among the rebels is a close call;
But if you think about it carefully, the outside world is in chaos, Solarius's meeting point is thousands of miles away, and he has a bunch of fatal flags on his head. It would be equally dangerous to run out rashly.
Skaar cared about him very much and always sent people to ask him about his welfare. Marissa was like someone who was growing up behind her buttocks, unable to get rid of him and couldn't find a chance to leave secretly.
Oster was distraught and didn't know what to do. Just stay here and take it one step at a time.
On the rebel side, as the team grew, a meeting of hall leaders was held to discuss the next step.
At the meeting, Skar frequently asked Auster, who was present, what his opinion was. The latter had been thinking about how to find opportunities and excuses to leave, and responded with "Uh-huh, uh-huh, ah-ah."
In the end, Skar misunderstood what he meant, "Brother Brown, I know you feel uncomfortable because you were not notified of the last few operations, right? In fact, it's not just you, all the hall masters and disciples who are not directly involved in the battle are not." Let me tell you, this is for the confidentiality of the operation, not because I don't trust you.
I know that you are both capable and hateful. You have never been afraid of the Skitarii or the Guards. You may have less experience in leading troops to fight. I have a suggestion. After you go down, you can find Case and study the county records of Xiazhou and the intelligence of nearby officers and soldiers first, so as to lay a solid foundation for commanding the people in the future. "
Oster thought to himself that there is no harm in knowing more information. Even if he runs away later, he won't get lost and sneak into the barracks and throw himself into a trap. So I ran to the Rebel Logistics Department, got the file cabinet key from the hall leader Keith, and started researching all kinds of information.
Oster already knows that although Black Mountain County is not large, it is located at the intersection of east-west trunk roads and is an important transportation hub and cargo distribution center in the northeastern wilderness. Topographically, it is the first pass between the mountains and the great plains. As the gateway to the Sentinel Ridge Prefecture, it has been a battleground for military strategists throughout the ages. Large-scale battles broke out here during the Troll Wars and Orc Revolts.
There is a regular regiment of the Kingdom stationed in the barracks fortress in the southeast of the town, near the crossroads. They were the ones who drove tanks to recruit soldiers for the Northern Expedition.
On the night when the rebels attacked the granary, this regiment almost sat back and watched the state and county guards being wiped out in ashes, indifferently. At dawn, they made a symbolic circle out of the camp and withdrew without firing a shot. During the period when the rebel activities were in full swing, they never set out again, let alone assisted state and county officials in suppressing bandits.
According to intelligence gathered by Rebel informants, without receiving direct orders from Stormwind City, the Legion commander turned a deaf ear to the local government's requests for assistance in the suppression. Instead, he ordered his subordinates not to provoke the rebels, and took advantage of the fact that the rebels temporarily lacked the ability and intention to attack the strong fortress, and quickly transported the conscripted men to the western port.
Skar has always regarded attacking state and county government offices, retrieving food and supplies, and providing relief to the victims as the rebels' top priority. Then he ordered that if the Kingdom Corps made no further moves, it would not be regarded as an attack target.
This move reached a tacit agreement with the Corps. So in the wilderness of the west, there was a strange scene where the state guards on one side were driven away like rabbits, and on the other side the tanks of the Kingdom's regular army and the rebel chariots and horses kept pace with each other and did not invade each other. Some corps officers even secretly did business with the rebels, exchanging goods and services.
According to the information Auster found, the military system of the Kingdom of Stormwind is divided into two categories. One is the regular corps directly under the kingdom, which implements vertical management, and the other is the rural and county guards in state capitals, cities and towns, which are equivalent to local police and security forces. Coupled with the Skitarii and the Holy Knights affiliated to the church, the kingdom is actually divided into three armies.
Regular corps can be stationed in local areas in peacetime, but they have their own set of independent personnel and financial systems. Soldiers and military equipment expenses are all collected and deployed by themselves, and they are not tainted with the local official system.
The forces that the kingdom can directly command are limited to regular regiments, and the expeditionary forces heading to the north and the colonies on the mainland are also this force. As for the local guards and church skitarii, the kingdom has no control over their establishment and pay, nor the rewards, punishments, and appointments of officers and soldiers. Their obligations to the royal family are limited to nominal obedience. Therefore, there is a saying that the royal power does not extend beyond Goldsmith Town, and the government orders do not extend beyond Stormwind City.
It was also because of this that when Grian Stroman led the Western Wilderness People's Army to submit to the Kingdom and participate in the Northern Expedition, he received such great praise and reuse. To this day, local residents still say that the generalissimo used the blood of the children of the Western Frontier in exchange for the ladder for his promotion.
Auster still didn't understand, although in the history he was familiar with, there were also examples of direct and collateral armies fighting each other, staying away from each other until death, and sitting back and watching the destruction of friendly forces;
But it stands to reason that no matter whether the regular army or the local guard, everyone has sworn an oath under the lion's flag and is loyal to the king's Stormwind Kingdom army, they are still stationed in the same place; no matter how basic human exchanges and mutual help are not harmful, there is no harm. Even if he was feeling sad about the death of a rabbit or a fox, he probably wouldn't be so heartless.
I asked Case, and he replied that about ten years ago, in Dawn State in the east, which is now Dusk State, there was a garrison commander who thought exactly like this. He was good at making decisions and dispatching troops to suppress civil uprisings. As a result, the authorities borrowed his head afterwards. Peace of mind. Since then, regular regiments have stopped doing such stupid things.
Oster didn't care at first, but when Case mentioned the name of the garrison commander, his interest was aroused: Moradim.
This is a name he is familiar with. It is the name of the protagonist of a series of tasks in the game. This quest line is very famous and ranks among the top twenty in the classic quests of Warcraft. The original plot is as follows:
Morgan Ladimore is a paladin who returned from fighting for many years and found that his entire family had died from the undead plague. In his grief and anger, his temperament changed drastically. He accidentally killed two night watchmen with his sword and then committed suicide. Unknown to him, he was also infected by the plague and later transformed into the elite undead Moradim, wandering around. Defeat him and complete the quest line, and you can get a powerful weapon in the early stage, the two-handed giant sword Achius.
This is obviously an abridged version of a fairy tale, and Auster is very curious about what this event was like in real history, or how much it was whitewashed and covered up.
He found a general history of the kingdom and flipped through it. This paragraph of content had been omitted in one stroke and he was unwilling to write another line. I read a few more books and it was the same. The kingdom’s official historical materials were all very tight-lipped about this incident. Case also didn't know much about history and didn't know what the details were.
Auster had no choice but to ask Skarr, who smiled and gave him another volume of "Borrowing Stars for Eternity", "Twilight Forest"; it seems that this book is really the best choice for looking for unofficial history and anecdotes. . And Skar took good care of it, borrowing it in rolls.
Like the previous volume "Masonry Brothers", the story begins with another narrative description;
[North of Crow Ridge, in the endless cemetery, there is never daylight, and it is dark night from morning to night;
In the northwest of the cemetery, near the Liming River, there is a protruding hillside. The darkness there is ten times worse than the surrounding area.
On this day, a tired man, wearing the tattered armor of a senior Stormwind City officer and carrying a two-handed giant sword over five feet long, stepped onto this hillside alone...]
