Chapter 543 Rebellion 11 Fifty-one
Chapter 543 – Rebellion 11 Fifty-One Districts
“You say Chief of Staff Schroeder is not at home? What about other places? Have you looked?”
A wave of panic went straight to Bourgain’s head.
The officer reporting to him spread his hands helplessly.
With his hands clasped to his chest, Bulgan continued to pace the floor, only his pace was no longer as steady as before.
Calm down! Calm down! Burgam, you can think of a solution.
Suddenly, a flash of light went through his brain.
Wait a minute, it seems like it would be more favorable for himself if Chief of Staff Schroeder wasn’t in Lakewood instead. In any case, Schroeder was second only to Paul Gleiman in the Arda army, if he was here but didn’t cooperate with his actions, no matter what kind of solution he took, it would cause some trouble.
And it would be much better if he wasn’t here.
And ……
Thinking of this, he immediately took action, “Follow me!”
Bulgan waved towards the officer who had come to report to him.
The two of them walked out of the office, and the two subordinates who were guarding the outside then followed. They quickly passed through the wide corridors of the staff headquarters building, then followed the stairs to the third floor.
The entire building was already under Bulgan’s control, so they traveled unhindered all the way.
He stopped in front of a door.
“Break down this door!”
Bulgan barked, and the two men following him sidestepped and slammed through it as hard as they could with their shoulders.
After a few consecutive clangs, the door to the room was smashed open, and several people immediately stepped inside.
“This is Chief of Staff Schroeder’s office!”
Unlike the panic he had shown just a moment ago, the current Bourgain was almost ecstatic, and with his very good eyes he immediately spotted what he was looking for.
A round seal rested quietly in a box of sealing clay on his desk.
He took a few steps over to the side of the desk, and as soon as he did, he picked up the seal and examined it closely.
“There’s no mistaking it, this is the official seal of the staff department, with it, our various actions thereafter will be much more convenient.”
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Owen Schroeder, the chief of staff of the Arda army, and two of his own guards rode along at a furious pace, and were very fortunate to get away before the militia blockaded the town of Lakewood, and then kept on traveling on horseback in the southeast direction of Lakewood for more than three hours, and didn’t stop until they came across a forest.
Schroeder and his guards stopped their horses and let their panting mounts rest for a few minutes.
The old knight pulled a pistol with a thick, short barrel from his belt, then raised it toward the sky and pulled the trigger. The pistol didn’t make the loud sound of an ordinary musket, but rather a muffled thud, followed by a bright ball of light emerging from the muzzle, which, with a whoosh, shot straight up into the night sky. Ascending to the mid-air, the mass of light suddenly exploded with a bang, countless bright spots scattered around, like a flower that bloomed in a flash.
Schroeder put away his pistol and quietly gazed at the dark forest in front of him, the only sound left in the air was the hissing of his mount’s panting.
It was only a few minutes, a few points of light suddenly appeared in the depths of that dark and dense forest.
Soon, the points of light became clearer and clearer, and in the end, it could be seen that they were a few lanterns that were getting closer and closer.
“Which lord is it?”
Several knights sprang out of the dense forest, and under the illumination of the lanterns, it could be seen that they were all dressed in the garb of the Arda army.
Schroeder replied, “It is I, Owen Schroeder.”
“So it is Lord Schroeder, are you entering the fifty-first district?”
When the leader said the second half of the sentence, his tone leaked out a bit of uneasiness, after all, coming to this place in the middle of the night, and also the arrival of the titular Chief of Staff himself, it was obvious that something very urgent and very important had happened.
“I want to see Herman and Claude at once; there is something very urgent to discuss with them.”
As expected, the several soldiers who came to greet Schroeder were shocked in their hearts, something big might have happened in Lakewood.
“I know, Lord Schroeder, please follow us closely with your guards, you will be able to see the two of them in half an hour.”
District 51, initially for the purpose of crusading against pirates, Paul picked out a secluded area in the forest near Lakeheart Town, where he conducted the training of new recruits and formed the initial three infantry battalions. Later, as the army expanded, this place was no longer used for the training of new recruits, but was changed to the development and manufacturing of weaponry – of course the weaponry here refers to the gunpowder weapons unique to Arda’s army, and it was only since then that this place was formally named Area Fifty-One by Paul.
Gunpowder weapons are the most confidential things in Alda’s army, Paul felt that before he could gain enough security, it was better to hold these things firmly in his own hands alone, so the production of gunpowder and gunpowder weapons were all carried out in the fifty-first district, an extremely secret place. The people who knew about this place in Area 51 were only limited to a few senior officers of the State Council and the army, and those veterans and junior officers who had once trained here thought that this training camp had long been abandoned.
Since Area 51 was a secret base, it was of course very tightly guarded, in the woodland connecting between Area 51 and the outside area, there were traps everywhere, and they would change every once in a while, which was why Schroeder needed to wait outside the forest for the people inside to come out and greet him, even he didn’t know how to get to the newest safe path.
Of course, Schroeder didn’t run to the fifty-first district to take refuge.
Few people knew that the Arda Army actually had a ninth battalion in addition to the eight battalions on the surface, and this ninth infantry battalion existed exclusively to guard the Fifty-first District, and even when Paul downsized the army for the sake of saving money before, this infantry battalion retained its complete establishment for reasons of secrecy-Paul didn’t want to transfer the soldiers to divulge even the slightest bit of information about the Fifty-First District.
Schroeder’s purpose in coming to District 51 was to use this infantry battalion against the insurgents in Lakewood.
As for the secrecy …… home has been stolen, it is obvious that the priority of counterinsurgency is a little higher.
Schroeder and his two guards followed the soldier who led the way for them in the forest and circled around, and after about half an hour, the scenery in front of them opened up. Under the bright moonlight, a cluster of buildings the size of a small town appeared before their eyes.
Area 51 was not only a production base for weapons and equipment, but also had a living function. All the people who worked here, whether they were engineers in charge of research and development, workers carrying out production, or administrative staff in charge of management and logistics, as well as the officers and soldiers stationed here, their families were all received in this secret area – -Again, for the sake of secrecy.
In order to accommodate these people, in addition to the military industrial park, Area 51 also has stores, farms, workshops and a series of production units that produce all kinds of goods for people’s livelihood, to name a few, and even schools and theaters.
As for whether the people inside have the need to communicate with the outside world …… please, most people in this era have never left the village of their birth in their lives.
In short, this is a small town located in the depths of the forest with a certain degree of self-circulation ability, just as the legendary Cold War U.S.S.R. cities that can not be found on the map in general.
(End of chapter)