426. chapter 424 423 The Great Maginot Defense is officially started!

Chapter 424 423.The Great Maginot Defense Line Officially Breaks Ground!

“His Excellency the Major um, Colonel looks much more haggard compared to when we parted last night.”

In the office of the Blood Vulture Cloister, Murphy was sitting with his chin propped up with his hands interlocked as he said to Colonel Fraser and Major Ron, who were in full military attire in front of him:
“It seems that the two of you have traveled a long way and should not have rested well last night in our poor countryside, this is my host who has not treated his guests well.”

“Nothing to do with your hospitality, His Excellency Governor Murphy.”

Colonel Fraser tried to hide his emotions, but the first time in his life that he had encountered such a situation made it difficult for even the best of his education to act as if nothing had happened.

To avoid any more embarrassment, the colonel with the dark circles under his eyes then went straight to the point:
“My adjutant and I have come here today to discuss with you the issue of the location of our military observer mission, the orders given to us by Marshal Loren require us to choose our own location and shoulder the issue of the authority of the soldiers of the Kingdom of Canary Blossom in the Black Plague.

Please understand that we are not the armed forces of Transylvania and are not under your control in time of war.

Therefore the issue of authority must be clarified in advance to avoid certain situations that would be embarrassing for both sides at a later stage.”

“Although I am not a soldier, I can fully understand your concerns.”

Murphy didn’t dwell too much on this issue as he pointed to the map hanging on the wall of his office and said:
“But in reality, even if I release my power in this regard to you, I reckon that you don’t have much choice in the battlefield on the frontline between the Dark Baron’s Territory and the Filthy Swamp.

The easternmost part of the defense line, the Crimson Fortress complex, occupies a quarter of the entire width of the battlefield by itself, while the Maginot defense line that we are already building encompasses a large portion of the rest.

Even if Marshal Loren himself had come, he would have had no choice but to camp in the area west of the battle line.

This is also our suggestion to you, you can establish your own defense zone near Lake Thurepus close to the Cato region, which will allow you to receive direct material support from the Cato region, otherwise you will have to set up an outpost camp deep into the Filthy Swamp alone.

With that said, I must share with you important information brought back to us by the scouts of Transylvania.”

Murphy picked up a document from his desk and handed it to Fraser, who took it in his hand and scanned it its expression became more and more serious.

He quickly read the contents and handed it to his adjutant, Major Ron, whose heart thumped at the first sight of the document.

The advance guard of the Dark Mountain Jackals had actually appeared in the Filthy Swamp? And a huge army of undead skeletons had been organized?
What the hell kind of bad pre-war conflict link was this?

That is to say, once the Observer Corps camped ahead there was a great probability that they would be immediately drawn into the war between the Transylvanians and the Jackals?
This made Major Ron very worried.

He knew very well that although the officers of the Observer Corps were prepared to participate in a brutal war, the fact that the war had come so quickly was still beyond the expectations of them young men, and it seemed that Marshal Loren’s prediction of the war situation was also a bit too optimistic.

“The footsteps of the Black Plague are going to be faster than we thought.”

Colonel Fraser said in a deep voice:

“So there isn’t much time left for us to acclimatize to this suffering land?”

“To be precise, I would suggest that you skip the ‘acclimatize’ part.”

Murphy shrugged, and in the gentlest of tones, he said the cruelest of words:
“Unless you are willing to stay behind the safety of your backs all the time, you are going to have to fight to the death, weapons in hand, against the ferocious jackal warlocks and their skeleton armies the moment you set foot in the Tainted Swamp battle line.

In addition, as an obligation to our allies, I must remind you that we will be sending our elites into the Filthy Swamp on a large scale in a maximum of fifteen days.

That means we will launch a resolute expulsion and attack on the Jackal clan that is entrenched in the swamp and try to bring the Filthy Swamp, which is a strategic location, under our administration.

You are free to choose to participate or stand on the sidelines, or even be prepared to mock us mercilessly, all of which is acceptable to me, but I never want the fourth and stupidest choice of ‘dragging our feet’ and ‘tripping us up’ to occur!”

“The soldiers of the Kingdom of Goldfinch are never afraid! We wouldn’t do such a thing to our own allies either, it’s not like it would do us any good.”

Major Ron spoke in a deep voice.

Murphy swept a glance at the tiger-headed young man, who spoke lightly with the characteristic gloom and cold arrogance of a vampire:

“Let’s save that for after you’ve proven yourselves on the battlefield, both of you, the way we Transylvanians differentiate between friend and foe is very simple, as long as you’ve taken out a Jackal from the Dark Mountains, then you’re our friends in this war.

Let’s hope you guys move fast enough to catch up with the upcoming war.

Lastly, I’ll leave it to Major Ron to talk to Consul Miriam about the garrison, Lord Fraser, I need you to stay here.

You and I have some more important topics to talk about.

I assure you, as Governor of Transylvania, that this is very important both to the Kingdom of the Golden Sparrow and to House Carpe.”

With Murphy’s words at this point, Fraser simply couldn’t push back, and not needing him to actually face Miriam, who had just dealt him a hard blow, also made him feel a weird wave of relaxation.

He signaled with his eyes for Major Ron to go about his duties.

The latter returned him a peculiar expression eerily rich in meaning to the point where it could form a fan chart for in-depth analysis, leaving Fraser with a pang of discouragement.

After Ron left, however, the atmosphere in the office became a little lighter.

After all, Fraser and Murphy still had a good personal relationship, the two men had fought together in the same disaster, and they were in a cooperative relationship, much more proper than a cold military position.

“There’s no need to be so tense, relax, Fraser.”

Murphy said as he stood up and with a graceful gesture poured himself and the Colonel a glass of wine, he twisted his head and handed it to Fraser:
“You see, I’ve suddenly realized the fourth thing you and I have in common besides being equally young, equally handsome, and equally brilliant. We are both now faced with the torment brought upon us on a spiritual level by a difficult and haunting lady.

Why the angry look?
Did you think that as a vampire lord I wouldn’t monitor everything that happens in my domain?

Is there something wrong with your understanding of the word ‘vampire’?”

In the face of Murphy’s flirtation, the colonel coldly accepted the glass of wine, but did not drink it.

He always divided his business and private time very clearly, and he didn’t want to make any strange insights on this issue, so he waited in silence for Murphy to say the main topic.

It was a great pity when such lack of cooperation prevented Murphy from seeing the fun he wanted.

However, the main thing is still to say, Murphy sipped his wine and used onomatopoeic techniques to tell Fraser what happened to the merchant caravan escorted by Becky at the Transylvanian border.

The truth of this matter did not spread under Murphy’s suppression, thus after hearing that Becky’s caravan was in danger because her own mercenary group defected to the Wolfsbane Vampire side, and even Becky herself almost died in this conflict, Fraser’s expression quickly became extremely ugly.

No wonder after this meeting, Becky was treating herself with a nose and eyes, there was indeed a reason for her nominal fiancée’s anger towards herself.

“How undignified!”

The colonel was on the verge of gritting his teeth.

He tried to maintain his comportment, but the fire that danced in those eyes couldn’t be extinguished, and this incident was a terrible pitfall for the Carpe family’s reputation.

“There’s no need to be so angry, if the Carpe family could rely on their own power to find the Wolfsbane clan’s hidden eyes among you, then you would probably be honored by all the rulers of this world.

The problem of blood servants is a trouble shared by all the regimes on the continent, the Carpe family is just unlucky, but I think you should still describe the problem carefully to your father.

The first time could be described as an accident.

But the second time it comes up again that can be your own reasons.”

Murphy said gently waving his hand:

“It’s not this that I really want to talk to you about, that’s just an introduction, what I want to talk to you about is ‘Twilight’ . While this has the potential to pull you into a vortex of horror as well, I feel that at your current level and with your background, it’s absolutely necessary for you to know this. So next, don’t interrupt my description, have any questions present in your mind, verify them in your own way, and come back when you get your answers.

I believe that at that time you will be able to understand that I and my Transylvania can be just as good a help to you in matters outside of the Black Plague.

Of course, you can choose not to believe it, after all, such things sound bizarre.

But the fact remains that beneath the dazzling light of that ‘Sun King’ of yours, you have them equally in the shadows of your nation.

And I guess the brighter the light, the thicker the shadows behind it.

Based on the secret I’m about to tell you, I demand that you must provide the necessary camouflage for a ‘Special Intelligence Force’ under Transylvania’s command while traveling to your quarters.

By this I mean that I have to tell you in advance that there is a local clan of jackals at my service.

So mind your soldiers and don’t let them hurt ‘one of their own’ by mistake.”
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At the same time Murphy was revealing the existence of “Dusk” to Fraser, in the distant area of the Barony of Darkness near the Tainted Swamp, the “General of Troops”, Happy Stick, was getting out of the saddle of his beloved Shadow Mane Warhorse, “King of Shadows”. “Shadow King, his beloved shadow-maned warhorse.

He was as big as a half-giant, and he walked with the wind at his feet.

The oppressive force of his body, combined with his battle-scarred winged cavalry armor and the “one-to-one replica” of the Emperor’s commanding sword at his waist, made this guy invisibly emphasize his current status.

He appeared in this land where the air was filled with a rotten and cold smell due to its proximity to a swamp under the name of “General Commander of the Construction and Operation of the Maginot Defense Line”.

Behind Happy Stick, the Tiger Leopard Riders followed closely.

As the commanding officer of the rapidly expanding Scarlet Hammer and Sickle Regiment, these veterans had already picked up the military skills that they had put down in their past lives under the constant refinement of war in the game.

It could be said that Happy Stick’s current group was the most special of all the player groups in Real Otherworld.

Others are here to play the game, they are here to “fight”.

This is a classic P society player base camp, which is filled with wild eagle war criminal group, high artillery leveling stream of consciousness, neutron extermination efficiency party, alien canned wholesalers.

Per capita, it’s the hoi polloi who view gesture siege nets as pre-dinner entertainment, the crazies who carve 100% war mobilization into their bones and the ruthless people who pull in 95% of their tax dollars to support the war.

Especially after Murphy decentralized the player recruitment authority to the second level guild, the Scarlet Hammering Corps was the first organization to raise the level of the guild to this level, invited by the Happy Stick personally a group of veteran war veteran sixes and Yamaguchi Din quick victory flow of the gods this will already be in the reality of the body to start working out, ready to participate in the “defense of Transylvania” holy war. The war of “Defend Transylvania”.

To put it more literally.
Murphy has loosened the reins of the most rabid war dogs under his command, and a group of “war enthusiasts” led by Happy Stick are ready to show off their skills.

“That’s not a bad ditch to dig.”

On a high ground overlooking the defense line, Happy Stick’s adjutant Tiger Leopard Rider Pro put down the monocular in his hand, and he said to Brother Stick:

“It’s worthy of being a trench dug under the personal guidance of Professor Chen, who has experienced militia training, not only is the depth perfect and crisscrossed, there are even enough traffic trenches and half trenches reserved for different uses, and even reinforced with a perfect drainage system.

I don’t even think there’s a need to build any ground forts!

Just taking a picture of these already dug trenches and posting it to the group would be enough to make that group of already qualified guys wail.”

“Bullshit!”

Happy Stick’s voice had a hint of weakness in it that he couldn’t hide, and he rubbed his somewhat itchy neck as he whispered:
“Really think this is a game? There’s no such thing as a reopening here, we only get one chance! Everyone will have to play through if we lose the fight! These trenches in front of us are just the most basic step, this is just the foundation of our defense line!

Not only do we have to build enough permanent fortifications at all terrain points, but we must also complete the construction of reserves and rest areas underground.

I need General Maxim to send the soldiers under his command, the locals have little experience in trench warfare and must be trained from now on.

There is also the issue of firepower.

I don’t know what Brother Loyalty is thinking and what his plans are, but my request is that before war really breaks out, I must have enough firepower in my positions to deny the other side a large-scale operation I know it’s hard for everyone, so I won’t lionize you by asking for super-heavy artillery like the ‘Big Bettys’, but at least give me enough mortars, will you?

How hard can that thing be to make?”

“You have to be considerate of Brother Loyalty. His pressure is no less than ours, not only does he have to provide fire support for the Maginot defense line, he’s also in charge of making firearms for the People’s Army, and he doesn’t even have many skilled workers right now.”

The Tiger Leopard Cavalry-Soldier next to him shook his head and said:

“I don’t think it’s possible that the early part of this battle will be less of a bayonet fight, speaking of which, yesterday a brother translated a full set of ‘Militia Training Manuals’ into the Arithmetic Treasure Pearl for us, and he also went along with the finely edited version of the ‘Barefoot Doctor’s Handbook He also got a copy of the refined version of the ‘Barefoot Doctor’s Manual’.

It’s about time we got down to the business of training military doctors, Brother Stick.

I think you know very well how much a functioning field hospital can do to boost and sustain morale in this context.”

“That job is out of our hands.”

Happy Stick said somewhat glumly:
“Lord Murphy appointed a very strange guy to train the military doctors to form a field hospital, that guy is called ‘Pants Off Demon’, that said, was there this guy on the forums before? How come I’ve never seen him before?”

“You haven’t seen many people, it’s not like there were only that many people back then, the brothers who have entered the game one after another in these two weeks alone are more than 150 people.”

Tiger Leopard Rider-Lin shook his head and said:
“You’ll have to get used to the change, more strangers will be joining us in the future . Speaking of which, I have a ‘special case’ to report to you.”

“Uh, go ahead.”

Happy Stick took out the blueprints of the battle line he had begged Professor Chen to plan for himself and examined them in his hands, mentally contemplating how he was going to build this battle line he was in charge of, while listening to his adjutant’s words.

And Pro looked around before he lowered his voice and said:
“The commander of the engineer company when I was a soldier contacted me out of the blue yesterday, and he asked me what I had been planning to do by inviting my comrades from the past. After I told him the situation, the old company commander said that he was interested as well, and asked for a copy of the link.

But from what I remember that company commander of mine was very curmudgeonly, he had no interest in the game, but now he’s so eerily enthusiastic about it, so I’m skeptical…”

“Shhh.”

Stick’s heart tightened.

He immediately stopped Pro from continuing, but a few of the people next to him wore some sort of heartfelt expression, and after a few seconds of contemplation, Happy Stick shook his head:
“Whatever! It’s out of our hands, let people come if they want to! But let’s make it clear in advance, after coming in, he has to listen to the command! Otherwise, let him start another stove.”

“He did say yes to this one.”

Pro said, scratching his head:

“The old company commander said that he would obey orders and listen to command, and also said that he could help us recruit more veterans to enrich our guild. Alas, this is obviously something we’ve dreamed of before, why do we feel a bit scared now?”

“Don’t be afraid.”

Rod was also weak in his own heart.

But he knows that this should give the brothers eat a pill, so he put on a look of fearlessness, forked his waist and bragged to:

“Don’t look at their seniority, but in terms of combat experience they are not as good as us, fighting here is different from outside, and the army has always been a place that relies on strength!

Don’t be shy, brothers.

Outside you call him Captain, in here he’ll salute you! All of you, be cocky. Show them your old player spirit. Hmph, let’s start with this Black Plague War, let’s show them our real skills!”

(End of chapter)