Chapter 433 [Like a pin and needle feel]

"How is the result of the investigation?"

Du Weiwei held a cup of tea that stirred up steam in her hand and slowly savored it.

Standing at her desk was an officer who was no more than 30 years old. He had a medium figure, short hair, and mediocre facial features. He was the type that he could not find if he was thrown into the crowd, but there was a faint sense of lust between his eyebrows.

As he said that, Du Weiwei pointed at the officer and smiled at Dixon and Captain Hook, who were also sitting not far from the hall and were accompanying him to taste tea, saying, "This is my military adjutant, Luo Wei."

Although he is just an adjutant, being able to serve as the person around Du Weiwei is definitely a confidant and direct leader.

Dixon and Hook looked at each other and turned to the officer named Lovey again, with a little attention in their eyes.

"Lovey, tell me about the results of the investigation." Du Weiwei's tone was very calm: "No need to be obscure. Mr. Dickson is a magician and knowledgeable. Perhaps his knowledge can provide us with some help."

"yes!"

Lovey saluted a military salute in a normal manner, nodded slightly to Dixon and Hooker.

The two guys hurriedly put down the hot teacup in their hands and returned the gift.

Lowe calmly took a booklet under his armpit and put it in his hand, turned it open, and slowly started the report in a slow tone:

"There were 137 dead bodies we found - in addition to the burial site No. 1, we found the burial site No. 2 at a distance of about 200 meters.

There were a total of 137 corpses, all of whom were male. From the physical signs, they were judged to be professional soldiers. And they were... cavalrymen."

"Oh?" Dixon couldn't help asking, "Why do you judge this?"

Luo Wei raised his head and glanced at Dixon. After receiving Du Weiwei's nod, he replied in a straight manner: "The muscle dissection of the inner thigh of the deceased's body, the roughness of the skin, and... the wear of the inner trousers on their legs. The deceased should have had the habit of riding a horse for a long time before his lifetime."

"...Okay, I didn't say it." Dixon shrank his head.

Luo Wei continued: "Everyone's underwear is the same style and texture. It can be judged that these people were soldiers before their lives. Only in highly disciplined troops like the army can there be such a standard underwear. In addition, several clues were found from the investigation."

Du Weiwei was obviously shocked. She took a sip of tea slowly and whispered: "What clue? Keep talking!"

"First, among these dead, in addition to the fatal injuries that caused death, many people found some scars of varying degrees. The scars... are all old injuries and old injuries. So we judged that these people were not only soldiers in their lives, but also soldiers who had truly experienced battle formations! Because the empire is generally in a peaceful state, even many main troops have not experienced real wars. Although the training is strict on weekdays, the intensity will never be too high, and it will not cause scars such as swords and other sharp weapons on their bodies.

These people have so many old scars left on them, and they have obviously been on the battlefield.

Looking at the entire empire's army, only the Storm Legion in the north, which has been stationed on the Kaspersky Line on the northern border for a long time, will occasionally have small-scale conflicts with the orcs.

Or it is Thunder Whip. Thunder Whip, as the most fully trained mobile standing legion in the empire, is often dispatched to carry out small-scale military tasks in some places, such as suppressing bandits, quelling small-scale mutiny and rebellion, and even pulling them to the grassland for training... and... the imperial capital nine months ago."

At the end of the conversation, the officer named Lovi paused a little and looked up at the duchess in front of him.

Du Wei nodded without saying a word: "Speak on!"

"The second point, from the degree of decay of the corpse, these people will not die for more than fifteen days, which means...their death should be shortly before the rebellion broke out in the Northwest Independent Division.

Similarly, we found the bodies of soldiers killed due to internal strife when the Northwest Independent Division broke out. Compared with the corpses dug out from the border, it is obvious that the degree of decay of these corpses is more serious, so we judge that the death of these people was earlier than the rebellion of the Northwest Independent Division."

"The third point is that we compared the underwear fabric on the deceased with the military uniforms in stock.

The logistics camp of the Northwest Independent Division has stored a large number of military training uniforms and military underwear. According to the inventory, we have taken stock of the fabrics of the clothes that were stored cover a total of nine batches. In other words, the Tulip Workshop has produced a total of nine batches of fabrics from two years ago to today, and the logistics warehouse of the Northwest Independent Division has been reserved.

We took samples from nine batches separately and compared them with the underwear fabric on the deceased, but none of them matched them.

The conclusion is: either, these fabrics were produced in Tulips Workshop, but they were two years ago - but we don't think it's a big possibility.

Or... these military fabrics are not produced from Tulips Workshop. After all, the family has authorized this military fabric to other merchant groups in the Empire to manufacture similar products many years ago.

We will need to spend some time collecting different batches of stock fabrics from other business groups to compare them to further determine the source of the clothing fabrics on these deceased people - in this way, we may be able to find out the origin of these people more likely."

"The idea is good." Du Wei nodded slightly, expressing his agreement with Luo Wei's work: "Is there any?"

"Some." Luo Wei nodded: "The fourth point is an unexpected discovery. The medical officers in the army took samples of the dead body and obtained some discoveries. We found something from the food residue left in the stomach sac and intestines of the deceased."

"oh?"

"These people must have been to the Orc Kingdom and came back shortly after they returned from the Orc Kingdom. Because the food residue found in their stomachs contained residues of food unique to the Orc Kingdom."

Speaking of this, a serious officer actually smiled. He glanced at the duchess, then looked at the two guests around him, and smiled faintly: "In order not to affect the appetites of several people, I won't say what it is."

After pausing, Lovi continued: "Depending on where the corpse appeared, there should be two possibilities for these people to appear here: either they have just left the seclusion and were preparing to go to the Orc Kingdom. Or they have completed some mission from the Orc Kingdom and are returning. Based on the above inspection results, we are more inclined toward the second possibility: these people should have been attacked and died on the way back from the Orc Kingdom."

Dixon and Hook looked at each other, and a hint of surprise appeared in their eyes.

On the one hand, I didn’t expect that the Tulips’ family’s examination was so careful. After examining the body, they immediately came up with so many interesting clues.

On the other hand, it was shocking!

An imperial army actually became an organization and ran to the orc kingdom? What did they do? What did they do? What secret missions did they do? What shameful things did they do?!

Although the Orc Kingdom and the Roland Empire have not had a war for many years, the hostile attitude still exists. At least... the private merchant groups may have gone there, but the Orcs will never allow the Roland Empire's army to drive to their territory!

These dead soldiers...how did they run to the orc territory?

At this moment, Du Weiwei's expression also became gloomy.

This matter has become more and more strange and shocking!

Will the empire's army actually have contact with the Orc Kingdom?

Is it collusion? Or... something else?

But Lovi, yet he hadn't finished speaking!

"Sir, there is still a fifth point..."

Du Weiwei was immediately shocked and looked at Luo Wei intently: "And? Keep talking!"

Luo Wei's body was straight. Although this guy was slow and meticulous in his words and actions, his body was full of an old-fashioned and rigorous image of a soldier. After standing here and talking for a long time, his body did not shake at all.

"After the preliminary investigation, our biggest doubt at present is: who killed them by these people."

Luo Wei's face was old-fashioned and said slowly: "There were 137 dead. Judging from the signs of the autopsy, everyone was powerful and strong. They should have quite good combat power. From their limbs, especially many parts of their palms, they should be people with strict military training and military skills. From the signs examination, most people have different degrees of calluses in their palms. Thumbs, tiger mouths, and thick joints, so they should be good at swords, swords, spears, and even bows and arrows.

Such a group of 137 people with great strength, rigorous training, and even had war experience... are considered to be an "elite force", and this evaluation should not be excessive. And those who can kill an elite team composed of 137 professional soldiers are so the ones who do it...

We made some estimates. Based on the average combat power of the main division of the ordinary main combat standing army of the Roland Empire, if we want to eat an elite force composed of 137 people, and it is likely that it is a cavalry unit equipped with war horses, at least three battalions, that is, a total of 900 people, can it be completed."

When Lovie said this, Dixon couldn't help but shout, "This... seems a little wrong, right?"

"Oh?" Love's expression remained unchanged, and he turned his head to look at Dixon: "Do you have any objections to it?"

"After more than 130 soldiers, even if they are elite... would they be so strong? The combat power of the empire's main combat army would not be that bad, right? It takes nine hundred people to deal with them?"

After hearing this, Luo Wei showed a hint of disappointment in his eyes and frowned: "Master, the ratio I mentioned is based on the 'full annihilation'.

Indeed, with the strength of the Imperial War Army, if it is just a normal defeat, it may only require an equal number of elite cavalry. The difference in quantity will not be too big. But please understand that defeat and defeat are different concepts, and defeat and annihilation are even more of a huge difference.

If it were my Tulips' cavalry, if we wanted to defeat these 137 elite soldiers, we might only need to be equal to them and we could definitely complete it. But if we want to wipe out them all... I mean, after defeating the other party, we can still guarantee that we will kill all the other party and not let the other party run away... Then the number of our personnel must be! Nine hundred regular soldiers. This is the lowest value we estimate. If it is a local garrison army, it may take at least 1,500 people to leave all the elite cavalrymen, and not run away.

Because from a military perspective, if you want to wipe out the target completely, the most common way is to choose a location to ambush, and you need to be equipped with at least several times the opponent's strength and a tight encirclement - this requires a large number of manpower."

Dixon couldn't help but interrupt Lovie again: "Why...you are sure that the other party must be 'completely wiped out'?"

Love looked at Dixon and said lightly: "There are obvious traces of concealment from the burial site of the corpse, and in order to conceal the identity of the corpse, the armor, weapons, badges, etc. were stripped of traces that could indicate the identity. From all these signs, the person who did this thing wanted to cover up the facts, whether it was murdered or silenced the news. This practice was very obvious... If it was not completely wiped out, if the killed party ran away, there was no need to do these concealment things."

Love's words make a lot of sense.

But what made Dixon even more unhappy was the look that the young officer looked at him.

Although this guy didn't say anything, the look he looked at him just now was very obvious, revealing a kind of...

Contempt for your IQ?

Dixon was very annoyed!

As a top student who graduated from the Magic Academy, I am recognized as a magic genius. Naturally, I cannot be a fool!

Moreover, a guy who can get through in the Magic Academy and is recognized as the "sham of the academy" and violates almost all the school rules since its founding... Even if he is the number one troublemaker in history, at least everyone must admit that he is a very smart guy!

But now, I am actually despised by someone who is "chiluo" naked?!

But the officer named Lovie only glanced at Dixon and turned his eyes to Du Weiwei again.

His expression was still serious and meticulous. He continued steadily with his unique tone of no hurry and slowness:

"... According to our judgment, it is necessary to wipe out such an army and not allow the other party to run away. At least it is necessary to have a suitable ambush location, accurate time information, and dispatch more than 900 troops to do so.

An army of 900 people was dispatched at a time, which was already a large-scale mobilization among the army. Such a mobilization must be reported to the upper class of the army according to the Military Law.

The mobilization of more than a thousand people involves logistics, military supplies, prior declaration of military marching routes, etc.

I suggest following this clue to investigate.

But I have a more speculation that perhaps this military operation has been covered up and is a private act.”

"Then the question comes." Du Weiwei sneered: "Looking at the entire army of the Roland Empire... there are only a few main combat legions! There are only those who have the strength, courage and confidence to mobilize more than a thousand people in private, and have the ability to cover up the matter... there are not many people."

"To be precise, no more than ten." Love remained silent, and then he said something even more speechless: "...Duke, you are here too."

Dixon couldn't help laughing.

He suddenly realized that this guy named Lovi was actually quite interesting.

This guy should be the typical guy who is very old-fashioned in doing things and speaking.

In the end, the duchess was included in the suspicion list?

"The last clue is..." Luo Wei said at the end, his tone seemed a little hesitant.
To be continued...