[Tiefeng County]

[Retvodant]

A week after the news that the "Xinken Land Legion" and the Xinken Land Expedition Army jointly sent troops to Jinghu County reached Rewodan, the messenger of Hong Qiangwei was finally able to meet with the "Iron Feng County Guardian" again.

In his private name, Winters Montagne invited Major Mel and Major Nevitz to his private residence to have dinner with him. The two majors couldn't help but feel excited.

Major Mel and Major Nevitz have been visiting for some time and have been treated lukewarmly.

Although Tiefeng County has done its best to meet their living requirements, it is strictly prohibited from leaving their residence at will and is not allowed to contact people other than designated receptionists. It is called protection, but it is actually house arrest.

Winters Montane had only once formal negotiations with the two majors, and did not give any substantive responses.

Major Mel and Major Nevitz showed full understanding, generosity and confidence in all of the above.

After Major Mel informed Winters Montagne of the price offered by Red Rose, he no longer put pressure on him to meet Captain Montagne.

He was leisurely playing cards, reading books, basking in the sun all day, and occasionally hunting with the reception staff, as if his real purpose in coming to Tiefeng County was to relax on vacation, and as for which side Winters Montagne would turn, he didn't care at all.

Days passed day by day. When the war in the new land rekindled, Revodan seemed particularly calm, like an isolated island in the stormy waves: shops were open as usual, markets were held on time, construction sites on the south bank were still noisy from morning to night, construction workers could still buy affordable flour after work and buy a small piece of candy for their daughter.

Until the news of the troops sent to Maple Stone City reached Iron Peak County for a week, Major Mel and Major Nevitz were invited to the house of Winters Montane for a banquet.

The Tiefeng County garrison has eight officers' residences, arranged neatly on both sides of a stone road that can accommodate two carriages in parallel, across the street, and protected by a circle of walls high by one person and a team of guards.

Winters' residence is located in the southeast corner of this small neighborhood and is not the largest and best house.

The largest and best house is located in the middle of the neighborhood and originally belonged to Major Ronald's family.

After the Battle of Blood Mud, Major Ronald's family moved out, the house was vacant. Winters originally wanted to move in, but he did not expect to be taken first by Major Seber.

After Major Seber came to Revodan, he moved into the apartment that originally belonged to Major Ronald with confidence, and commanded other "redemptioners" officers to occupy all the remaining idle apartments.

So Winters could only continue to live in the small house, so his dining room could only set up a dining table, and because of this, he did not invite others to accompany him—at least when he was talking about the reason why he did not invite other guests as an interesting story, he told Major Mel and Major Nevitz.

"Captain Montagne's life is really frugal." Major Mel looked at the furnishings in the restaurant - nothing else except a few paintings that don't know where they are.

He politely said compliments: "But with your current status, living here is a bit shabby and aggrieved."

"It may be a little shabby, but it's not aggrieved." Winters, who was sitting in the main seat, poked out his upper body, and worked hard to bring back the pot with beef stewed from the other end of the dining table, serving himself: "The house is small and warm."

Anna, who walked into the restaurant with another main dish, saw this scene, and kicked Winters' chair with a smile and calm expression, silently warning the latter - pay attention to the table etiquette!

Winters immediately obediently put the pot back in place and arranged it.

Anna glanced at the three guests apologetically and walked to the kitchen again.

As soon as Anna left, Winters took the pottery back to her.

"Sorry, I'm used to it." Winters apologized, but he didn't mean to stop in his hand. He raised his chin at the third guest and said half-jokingly: "This pot of beef is too close to him. If I don't move faster, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat a piece."

The third guest at the other end of the long table, Axel of Orange, burst into laughter: "Shouldn't this be my opinion? When I was in the academy, I was hungry every night, and you had to bear at least the same amount of responsibility as the General Affairs Officer."

The old but timeless Army Academy joke made the four people sitting around the dining table smile knowingly.

"When you were studying," Major Mel asked with a smile with a look of reminiscence in his eyes: "General Secretary or Lieutenant Colonel Morton?"

"No, it's been replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey." Winterston said, "But the food served is still as bad."

Major Nevitz, who had been seldom talking, also cleared his throat and said, "I still remember the story. A guy who was admitted to school outside had his first meal in the cafeteria. He took out a rat tail from the vegetable soup, and scared him to panic and shouted 'Rat, there is rat meat', and then the classmate next to him said to him..."

Major Winters, Axel, and Major Mel said in unison: "Then don't you eat it quickly?"

After saying that, the four of them laughed and slapped the table while laughing, shaking the cups and plates jumping around.

Anna walked into the dining room with a soup cup in her hand. When she saw the four people at the dining table laughing, she also raised her lips and asked, "What are you talking about? You are so happy?"

"Watch something that only we understand." Winters smiled and took the soup cup and placed it on the table.

The main dishes were already on the way, and Winters' eyes swept over Major Mel and Major Nevitz, and nodded slightly: "The two seniors, the conditions are limited and the hospitality is not good enough, so please forgive me."

"Only foxes and wolves will blame the owner for not being rich in dishes." Major Nevitz said a Paratu proverb, saying, "We should apologize to you if we did not bring gifts to our door."

Major Mel also smiled and nodded in thanking him.

In fact, Major Mel and Major Nevitz didn't care how many plates were placed on the dining table, or even whether there were plates on the dining table.

Winters Montane entertained the two in the form of a family dinner—a move that conveyed a sense of friendship that was already more delightful than any delicious dish.

Not to mention that Winters Montane also invited a special guest, Mr. Alpha of the Port of Scoop, and Axel Orange, the second lieutenant of the United Provincial Army.

As one of the leaders of the "rebels" was invited to the "Guomin" home as a guest, Axel was obviously not very adaptable. Although his behavior still maintained his demeanor, his eyes and tone were somewhat embarrassed and confused.

In contrast, Major Mel - who remained calm and chatted and laughed. From the imperial secrets of the imperial family to the most popular drama in the United Provinces in recent days, he knew everything; from the history of Veneta's development from a city to the history of Paratu's horse farm that has the most hope of winning the championship this year, he can continue to talk about anything.

Even the dirty jokes that could not be escaped from on the dining table were able to grasp the standard, not only to make the only lady feel embarrassed, but also to make Anna laugh along with her.

It seemed as if Axel had appeared here, he had no idea at all; it seemed that the decision to "send envoys to Tiefeng County and put internal responses to the shovel port" was not the regime he was loyal to.

...

Major Mel was certainly confident that he could be so calm.

Since the Fengshi City sent troops in mid-May, publicly announced in the name of "Xinkendi Legion Headquarters" that it would expel the "Alpad rebels" and recover Jinghu County, the struggle that took place within the Xinkendi province has shown a one-sided trend.

The siege troops of [Newly formed Xinkendi Legion] and [Newly formed Xinkendi Expeditionary Army] launched an offensive along the provincial avenue, advancing rapidly and unstoppable.

The defense line of Lan Qiangwei's army was vulnerable. The towns of Jinghu County, which had previously announced the change of flags, are now loyal to the Kings Fort Council one by one.

Every time a village, town, and the army headquarters of Fengshi City were reclaimed, they would send groups of messengers to Vorne County, Leiqun County, Bianjiang County, and Baishan County - of course, Tiefeng County was indispensable - to report victory.

Because of the huge publicity of victory in Fengshi City, in the current Xinkendi Province, even hunters living alone in remote forests vaguely heard from the merchants exchanging supplies that "Jinghu County is fighting"; even the old woman in the countryside who was illiterate, she knew that the "army of the official office" was winning steadily; as for those who were closely following the war situation because of their vital interests, there was no need to say more.

The same is true for Tiefeng County - it is no exaggeration to say that the civilians in Tiefeng County are far more concerned about the war than the civilians in the other four counties.

On the ridge of the refugee farm, in the workshop in Forge Township, and next to the fireplace of the Revodan mansion, there are well-informed people talking loudly.

The audience was either worried, unable to hide their fear, applauded, or secretly happy... Because of the differences in interests or emotions, they responded with different attitudes.

At present, except for the Fengshi City directly under the jurisdiction of Jinghu County and the battle, the other five counties that have not been affected by the war have tightened their boundaries at the same time.

Additional patrols were sent out, and doubled checkpoints were set, making counties that had been blocked from the inside more airtight.

However, the latest news about the war is still spreading, spreading from the air, in the wind, with rain, to the new land, Paratu and even the Union countries.

Compared with the strict defense of other counties, Tiefeng County chose a compromise method to deal with the propaganda offensive of the "Legis Headquarters".

The Tiefeng County garrison does not allow messengers sent by the "Legion Headquarters" to report victory in various towns, but the Tiefeng County garrison will truthfully repost the content of the "Legion Headquarters" report victory notice - using the channel for issuing the "Communication Announcement" during the Battle of Blood Mud.

Not only that, the whimsical Winters also attached his comments on the "League Good News" in the "Communication Announcement".

Captain Montagne, under the pseudonym "Elec, the engineer officer", helped those listeners and readers who had no military knowledge to squeeze in the water in the news, analyze the actual battle situation, make future predictions, and occasionally attach some map auxiliary instructions.

Winters' article responded well, but after two issues, he felt deeply tired. He instinctively found Senior Mason and left Mason with a dirt.

Although he was unable to ask Senior Mason for help, Winters finally successfully handed over this "glorious and arduous" job to others.

Starting from the third issue, the commentary part of the "Communication Report" was taken over by Lieutenant Colonel Jeska.

At the beginning, the lieutenant colonel scolded Winters with a dark face, but after taking the pen, he wrote in detail and seriously.

To be precise, the lieutenant colonel did not "take over the pen" nor "write articles".

Winters hired two scribes for the lieutenant colonel and also made a comfortable rocking chair for the lieutenant colonel. Therefore, most of the comments on the battle report were completed by "the lieutenant colonel was lying on the chair and the scribe was recording next to him."

In the comments on the battle report, Lieutenant Colonel Jeska pointed out bluntly:

First of all, the so-called "recovered towns" listed by the Legion's Good News are actually mostly small villages. Small Weizi. Even considering that his map has not been updated for more than ten years, those villages and Weizi cannot all become "towns"; secondly, Jinghu County only has two small hills, "Silver Bird" and "Qingmeng", and the rest are hills and plains. Therefore, except for the narrow passage between the two mountains, Jinghu County has almost no danger to guard. However, "Jinghu" has never mentioned that there is a battle at the mountain pass, which can only explain one thing--the "Alpad Rebels" voluntarily gave up the dangerous area of ​​the periphery and chose to clench their five fingers into fists. The lieutenant colonel boldly speculated that this fist would not be placed elsewhere, but could only be placed in Bazenaur;

Finally, the Lieutenant Colonel evaluated the deployment, strategy of the two armies and the commanders of the "Suppression Army" Colonel Saner and Colonel Chloe - of course, it was the "restraint" in the eyes of Lieutenant Colonel Jeska, and it was still the pseudonym of "Engineering Officer Elek".

In addition to finding a new content for the Communications Report, Winters's contribution to the Communications Report is to give it a new name.

With a big stroke, he cut off the second half of the "communication report" and changed it to "communication" - both concise and ink-efficient.

After starting to repost the "League News" and the appendix commentary article, within a few days, the special residence newspaper "Newsletter" issued to the public became the most popular thing in Tiefeng County.

Every day, from morning to night, people stand in front of bulletin boards in various parts of the county, either reading by themselves or begging others to help reading. Several towns even had to send people to take special care of bulletin boards in case someone tear away the "Newsletter" in the middle of the night.

As for the small-sized "Communication" printed on inferior paper, it was even more in short supply. Literary people rushed to circulate and copy, and some copies even appeared on desks in neighboring counties.

"Engineering Officer Elek" has also become the most mysterious figure in Tiefeng County, and everyone wants to see his true face.

...

Since war is the most concerned topic in Xinkendi, the Montane's dining table is naturally inseparable from it, especially when someone deliberately brings the topic to it.
Chapter completed!