Chapter 554.

Chapter 554 Confusion
Lieutenant Colonel James Walton, the battalion commander of the 6th Infantry Battalion of the Aldar Army stationed at the border of Emden, was now very depressed.

After waking up early in the morning, the Lieutenant Colonel first went to inspect the soldiers’ morning training as usual, and then returned to his quarters to prepare for breakfast.

Just as he took his first bite of bread, he suddenly received a telegram, which came from the signal tower at Lakemore.

Lakemore was the territory of the Herson family, a Viscount’s territory and one of the original vassal territories of Emden, and this telegram was sent by Viscount Herson, the lord.

The content of the telegram surprised Lieutenant Colonel Walton – next door, Earl Birgitta Bazel led an army suddenly broke into Lakemore, the reason is to chase a bandit, the Viscount Herson who has few soldiers can not stop him, and can only be trapped in his own castle. Although Count Bazel’s army entered Lakemore without committing acts of violence, it is continuing its march to Emden.

After the war of the usurpers ended, Paul brought Emden, which was directly ruled by the Kent family, under the administration of the Council of State, but showed considerable leniency to those Kent family bannermen, and after making them swear allegiance to the Greiman family anew, allowed them to keep their own territories, and apart from practicing laws that must not be repugnant to a few basic principles given by the Court of the Lords of Alda, and joining the Customs Union, the Otherwise they were allowed to be self-governing.

There was no pressure on the small group of lords to renew their oaths; they had accompanied the old lord, Maltz Kent, to the last moment of his death, as vassals of the House of Kent, and as they had contributed both men and arms to the war, they had fulfilled their oaths to the old lord, and as Maltz Kent and his heirs no longer existed, the original oaths had lost their basis for validity.

At this time every one made a sensible choice whether to wring Paul Gleiman’s thigh as his enemy or to hug him as his vassal.

Viscount Herzon was one of the more active among the group of surrendered vassals, but his active performance was not like the others – kissing Paul’s ass or kissing Paul’s boots during his audience with the feudal ruler – Herzon’s active was in keeping up with Lakewood at all times in the territory, like all kinds of legal texts, administrative regulations, and taxes, and even things like the city hall and the police station, synchronized to the point where an average person from Arda feels no discomfort when moving to Lakemore.

Moreover, Herzon had also sent his nephew – the Viscount only had daughters, and his nephew was his heir – to study at the Wise Academy in Lakewood, which, according to traditional concepts, was already tantamount to being admitted into the mass, although Paul didn’t care too much about that.

In other people’s eyes, Viscount Helsong is more like an administrator assigned to the local area of Lakewood Town than a lord of a party.

Viscount Hurlson’s positive has received a generous reward, every time the lords of Lakewood Township gathering, Paul has favored him. More critical is that the town of the lake on his territory for a large number of investment – road construction, building factories, mining, which used to the funds, equipment, technology, the town of the lake, you just out of a piece of land plus a few people on the line, a penny do not have to pay out, after earning the profits of the fifty-fifty split account.

By this way, the wealth of the Helsinki family to let other people red in the eyes of the speed of the accumulation, than before from those poor peasants on the body of the copper pick much faster.

Lakemore Viscount collar played a very good demonstration role, many bannermen began to more or less follow the Hurlson family practice, even if the lick does not come …… cough, to attract not come to the lake town investment, Alda’s many practices for how to develop the territory is also a good reference.

In particular, the rule of Biddle Fort Brett Shawn Viscount, in the war of the usurper, the Shawn family was severely punished with an indemnity, a number of generations of people accumulated wealth instantly to the bottom, and even had to go into debt for the rest of the day, and once not enough to make ends meet, Viscount Shawn even considered whether it is directly to sell the territory to the Count of Gleiman, who is now loyal to himself.

In short, for the lake town, Lakemore is a demonstration base, coupled with the fact that the Herson family is now the bannerman of the Gladman family, sheltered by the lake town, Lieutenant Colonel Walton can not ignore. After taking a few hasty bites of his meal, the Lieutenant Colonel ordered the guards to go and gather the officers of the entire battalion, intending to lead the army to Lakemore to stop the Earl of Bazel’s army after informing them.

The Earl of Bazel had also participated in the War of the Troglodytes, belonging to the side of the then Anti-Kent Coalition, but had only joined in the second half of the war. Recently, he was still negotiating with the Customs Union, and he wanted to join in but disagreed with the distribution plan for the common tariff, so he had yet to be accepted as a full member.

This is a lord and the lake town relationship is not good nor bad, but without a hello into the Gladman family territory is also too much, Walton Lieutenant Colonel decided to use a strong military power to let him know difficult to retreat, first and the other side of the reason, if the other side is not reasonable then have to fight, Walton Lieutenant Colonel really look down on the Northwest Bay other territorial army.

In accordance with the regulations, the Lieutenant Colonel first sent an encrypted telegram to the town of Lakewood, explaining the reason for this action.

And then the depressing thing for Lt. Col. Walton came.

First of all, Lakeheart Town quickly wrote back to him, but the content was a bit unbelievable to him, it even told him to give Earl Bazel’s army a free pass, and also said that Bazel came only because he was invited by Lakeheart Town, and that the sender of the telegram was the staff department.

The army’s communication code had just been changed not long ago, and the encryption was end-to-end, so Bazel didn’t doubt the authenticity of the telegram’s content.

But if a foreign army was invited to enter its own territory, shouldn’t the 6th Infantry Battalion, which was the garrison, be notified first? What if there was a misunderstanding.

Despite such doubts, Lieutenant Colonel Bazel decided to carry out the order and intended to send a few guides to Count Bazel’s army.

However, he received a telegram immediately afterward, the content of which made his heart skip a beat – the town of Lakewood was under the control of the rebels, and any information from there should not be trusted. The letter is addressed “To all battalions ……”, which means that every battalion commander will receive such a telegram.

In particular, the telegram came from the 51st District and was sent by Chief of Staff Schroeder.

As one of only eight battalion commanders in the Alda army, James Walton of course knew about the Fifty-first District, but why was Lord Schroeder in that place, and what was the matter with what he said about Lakewood being controlled by the rebels.

Lt. Col. Walton, and the officers under him, were thrown into great confusion by these two telegrams.

Which side should be believed. Was it Lakewood? Or the Fifty-first District?
(End of chapter)