Chapter 568 [Roland Man!]

"Be careful, put the ropes in a tight position!"

"Damn it, did the Logistics Department send this transporter?"

"Okay, stop scolding. We are fighting now. I heard that Mulan City has been surrounded for many days, and the strong men have been recruited to the front line."

"Is the situation that bad? Why did those grassland barbarians suddenly become so powerful?"

"Shh, whisper, move quickly."

This is a pier at the uppermost point of the Lancang Canal. If you continue to go west after passing here, the river will become narrower and more rapid. When you enter the mountainous area, there is no value for water transportation.

The geographical location of this pier is less than dozens of miles from the edge of the northwest part of the Roland Empire.

After passing Lengquan Pass, even if you enter the border of Nulin Province.

It is still peaceful now, mainly because it relies on the military defense line formed by the new Duke of the Empire, Panin, has not been broken through by the grassland people. The grassland people besieged the important military defense center composed of several cities. Panin still firmly blocked the grassland people in front of him.

Several ships have already landed, and the docks here have been requisitioned by the army - in fact, civilian merchant ships have basically never come here.

Lan Lan hid in a tung oil barrel and was carried off by a military civilian who came on board. Along the way, she heard these messy conversations outside, but she just held her breath carefully.

On the shore, supplies have been temporarily piled up in the warehouse - it is actually a temporary shed, which is good enough to shelter from wind and rain.

Not far from these supplies, Gu Le was taking his men off the boat. The Minister of Internal Affairs first stretched and then quickly left the dock with his men. They took out the token of the inner guard and easily recruited some horses from the military commander on the dock.

The officer Boggins, who was responsible for escorting the military supplies this time, saw Gu Le and others leaving, and finally let go of his heart.

He quickly ran to the warehouse, looked at no one around, and whispered: "Hey? Are you still here? They have left! Come out quickly!"

Boggins shouted several times but received no response. He searched carefully and found a tung oil barrel tilting aside... empty!

Have you... gone?

Boggins wiped his cold sweat and sweared in his heart that he would never accept such a commission again, and that the little money he earned was really unnecessary.

...

Lan Lan left the dock while the chaos was in the chaos. Some peasant women happened to send food to the men of the dock, so Lan Lan mixed into the crowd of these peasant women and left quietly.

The clothes she wore was worn out in a very worn way, but she had not washed them for many days, and her hair was unkempt and dirty, which was not eye-catching.

After leaving the dock, Lanlan quickly asked the way out from a group of civilians. After using more than a dozen copper coins, she bought some dry food from a civilian and headed towards the northwest.

...

Lengquan Pass has begun to be transformed.

There were infantrymen from a battalion temporarily drawn from elsewhere.

The temporary military camp was stationed on the east side of the broken earth wall of Lengquan Pass. In addition, there were more than 3,000 civilians working here.

Their task is to level the road along the way and ensure a transportation supply line to the northwest as much as possible.

And Lan Lan heard another amazing news here.

This news is said to have been confirmed to be true by the people in the army. However, this news circulated in this place closest to the front line, but unexpectedly inspired the somewhat chaotic morale and people's hearts.

This news is:

Tulips’ family has sent troops!

The official news is not very accurate. After all, during war, a lot of news may be outdated.

But this news seemed to be taken seriously by everyone.

It is said that just the day before yesterday, the day before Lan Lan disembarked, the Tulips' army had already set off.

The original Tulip Furniture Army, the Second and Third Infantry Regiment, was mixed into an infantry division and headed to the border between the Tulip Furniture and the Noorin Province.

As for the purpose of sending troops... Of course, no one thinks that the Tulips' army is to deal with Panin. Although in the northwest, many people vaguely understand that the Tulips' family seems to have some conflicts with the emperor in the imperial capital, as everyone thinks, their own family is their own family after all. Since the Tulips' family has sent troops, they must have attacked the barbarians on the grassland.

Although a temporary mixed infantry division, with only two regiments and even less than 10,000 troops, this person seems a bit pitiful compared to the prairie people and more than 100,000 cavalry.

But no matter what, the Tulips finally sent troops, and this is the best news!

...

When Gule arrived in Mulan City, the outer area of ​​Mulan City had turned into scorched earth.

Wherever the iron hooves of the grassland people went, villages and towns were turned into ruins. Panin also implemented a strategy of firming the walls and clearing the fields like the Tulips family. However, it seemed that because it was too sudden, and because Panin took over Nulin for too short time, it was not as strong as the Tulips family, and it was not enough to evacuate.

Wherever Gu Le went, he would occasionally see some corpses and dead bones along the way. Judging from his costume, they were all Rolanders.

These discoveries put the soldiers who accompanied Gu Le into silence.

About thirty miles outside Mulan City, Gu Le and his people climbed a hillside and could see the dense tents in the distance.

"These damn grassland barbarians, those tents are like piles of feces pulled down from the wilderness!"

Gu Le sighed softly when he heard someone in his entourage muttering like this.

"Sir, how can we enter Mulan City? Look at this, the grassland people have surrounded Mulan City. It is probably difficult for us, such a few people, to break through the grassland people's camp..."

This is already a bit tactful.

With the dozens of riders here, if you want to break through the camp of the grassland people... it can be said that there is no possibility! The grassland people are best at riding and shooting, and want to rely on dozens of riders to rush forward... The holy master may be able to do it, but Gu Le never does not have such ability. As for the people under his command, it is definitely a dead end.

Even though I know the matter of dying, I am afraid that few people will be willing to do it.

Gu Le glanced at the spoken subordinate and suddenly smiled: "Who said we were going to enter Mulan City?"

"Uh? Sir?"

After hearing Gu Le's words, the inner guards and soldiers beside him were stunned.

After receiving an order from the imperial capital to go to the northwest, Gu Le did not tell his subordinates about his mission to come to the northwest this time, and because of the strict discipline, no one would ask - the rules of the inner guard, just execute the orders.

But everyone generally has a consensus. This time I came to the northwest, I should go to Mulan City to meet the largest military commander General Panning, the northwest. As for what tasks are being carried out, what will the commander say at that time, and what will everyone do?

But now, when he came outside Mulan City, Lord Gu Le suddenly said, "Isn't it important to Mulan City?"

If you don’t enter Mulan City? What should you do in the northwest?

Go to Tulip House? Don’t joke. The Tulip House has broken up with the emperor. Ordinary people don’t know about this, but the inner guards are clear about it. The situation in the northwest this time is that the Tulip House brings wolves into the house. What should I do when I go to Tulip House?

So where to go? Go to the Northwest Fortress? Well, that Darling Chen was sealed off the Baron of Rova City... But what is that guy visible? Just what role can the army of thousands of people in his hands play in such a war?

In addition... what are the functions of your own inner guards coming to the northwest?

Gu Le looked at his subordinates' puzzled eyes and said lightly: "Concentrate everyone, I have something to say."

The personnel soon gathered on the hillside, and even the guards not far away were called over.

Gu Le glanced at his subordinates with a very calm look. It can be said that these are the most elite and most confidant teams among the inner guards. They are the most powerful elite teams he has cultivated in more than a year after taking over the Interior Minister. Many people even had the confidant teams that Gu Le had been secretly cultivating in secret during the years when Hilo was dormant.

He can call out everyone's name, everyone's, resume, everyone's strengths, weaknesses, and even everyone's hobbies...

"Now, listen, I have something to announce."

"Our mission to the northwest this time is to go to the army of the King of Grassland, and seek the meeting with the King of Grassland as the special envoy of the Emperor of the Roland Empire."

"I brought His Majesty the Emperor's handwritten letter of the country, and brought the intention to truce. The letter of the country includes some concessions made by His Majesty the Emperor to the grassland people, as well as...the strategy of compromise."

Everyone was surprised!

The dignified Roland Empire is going to bow to the prairie barbarians?

"grown ups!!"

Gu Le's adjutant couldn't help but shout out first.

Gu Le waved his hand at him and said coldly: "Listen to me first!"

Everyone was silent immediately.

"You are all internal guards. Logically speaking, you are the ones who know the most about various news and situations. Don't you know the situation that ordinary people don't understand? Now the Tulips family is almost equivalent to treason. With the invasion of the grassland people, it is impossible for the empire to deal with two powerful enemies at the same time. General Panin is now very hard to support in the northwest. Now the Tulips family has sent troops. We have already learned this news on the way, but... we have not received any news of the Tulips family fighting with the grassland people's army for a long time. What does this mean? I think everyone should be able to guess."

No one speaks!

"I don't agree with the peace request." Gu Le finally sighed. A sick blush appeared on his pale face, and he coughed gently: "As a minister of the Roland Empire, my life has long been no longer my own. So... His Majesty the Emperor, the secret order given to me is to find a way to reach a ceasefire agreement with the Grassland people and grant me full authority. Even if necessary, I have the right to sign a contract with the Grassland people with your Majesty's plenipotent representative.

Our mission is to successfully sign the armistice agreement by asking for peace and signing the armistice agreement, and then we can return to the imperial capital to report our duties...

……but!!!!"

At the end of the day, Gu Le suddenly raised his voice.

His eyes darkened and he said word by word: "We have also prepared a backup plan, which is also approved by His Majesty. The backup plan is that if the request for a peace ceases to be rejected by the Grassland King..., then, in order to restore the crisis, we will carry out an extremely dangerous and undoubted task."

Gu Le let out a long sigh and his gloomy eyes swept across all the inner guards: "At the negotiation table, assassinate the Grassland King!! The grassland people are tribal. Once the grassland king is killed, they will definitely fall into civil strife! Then the pressure of General Panin in the northwest will greatly reduce! The grassland tribe without the grassland king is a pile of loose sand! But... I don't think there is much explanation for the danger of performing this mission, you all know very well.

In the tent of the grassland people's royal court, not to mention that there must be master guards around the grassland king... It is very difficult to succeed.

Even if we succeed... if we kill the Grassland King in the camp of more than 100,000 grassland troops, we will definitely not be able to escape alive!

In other words, if we execute this backup plan, we will die regardless of success or failure!"

When Gu Le said this, he paused deliberately, and his eyes swept over his subordinates one by one.

What made him feel relieved was that although some people's eyes shook for a moment, everyone's eyes became firmer soon!

The inner guard is the emperor's most confidant team, the most loyal direct line, and the hard work that Gu Le has cultivated for many years.
To be continued...