Chapter 528 "Run!"
"It's probably fake news again. Isaac's intelligence system is still unreliable. All the news the North has received recently is fake news."
Hotch pouted.
"First, a little white-haired girl defeated an entire army, and then there were moving skeletons - damn, didn't Isaac himself find it strange?"
"Well, maybe Mr. Isaac has his own reasons."
"Humph, he swore before that all of your resistance forces were wiped out, and it almost delayed the important matter." Hodge still looked angry.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. I heard that the fortress has been completely completed?"
"Yes, but it has not been named yet."
A month ago, when the expeditionary force just learned that the resistance army was still resisting and had not been wiped out, they delivered a large amount of supplies in a short period of time and built a fortification on the spot to prepare for the future influx of enemies.
As it turned out, the enemy was indeed like a tide, but it was an ebb tide, and the expeditionary force could not catch up with the speed at which the enemy surrendered.
The fortification remained unused.
Now a whole month has passed. The expeditionary force has been conquering everywhere while crossing fortifications and building the railway northward. Now they are almost reaching the Canary Mountains in the north.
At this point, the main railway line from Blood Harbor to the Northern Border has basically been completed. Perhaps some railway networks will be built in the Northern Border in the future, but that is a matter for the future.
After the railway was built, many things became much simpler.
In the past, searching for Count Basil was like looking for a needle in a haystack. After all, the North was too vast, and finding an army was almost an impossible task.
But now with the railway, it doesn’t take much time to make a round trip. Scouts can be sent out at regular intervals to search, and with the railway as the center, the entire search range has been greatly expanded.
I believe it won’t take long to get Basel out of the North.
Octavia was able to escape because she was in the westernmost part of the North, and her territory bordered the Empire for a large area, so it was not difficult for her to sneak into the Empire.
But Bazel wants to get through? Now all the cities in Octavia's territory are occupied by the resistance army. It is basically impossible for Bazel to get through silently. It should take only a few days to catch him.
This means that the last hostile force in the North will also surrender. Now the entire resistance army is gearing up to capture Bazel and bring him back to Castel for a severe trial, and then let Nora chop off his head with one knife.
This is quite difficult, after all, they have to be captured alive, which is what the expeditionary force is least good at. In the previous battles, the opposing commander basically had to use a shovel to collect them.
"There are quite a lot of people stationed in that fortification now. There are some expeditionary forces, but more are your resistance forces."
"What are they doing stationed in the fortifications?"
"Why else? I don't want to leave." Hodge spread his hands.
"All your men must follow you to fight this last battle before returning. I think this is unnecessary - what kind of splash can those people like Bazel make? Octavia's army is much larger than his, but the Archduchess still fled to the Empire. Who knows which church she has converted to now."
Gwen wanted to persuade Hodge not to take it lightly, but after thinking about Bazel's Winter Wolf Cavalry and Frost Guards, she shut her mouth again.
Whether it was the cavalry's charge or the heavy infantry's shield, there was not much difference under the expeditionary force's heavy machine guns.
Sometimes Gwen feels that bullets are the true equalizer, bringing death to everyone equally.
"We are now in the Canary Mountains. A lot of people have gathered here. The train will be back soon. We will send them back and then we will go back to the fortifications." Hodge flipped through the notebook in his hand, confirmed it again, then raised his head with some confusion.
"Gwen? You."
Hotch closed his mouth. He saw that Gwen had her eyes slightly closed at the moment and was waving slowly at him, signaling him to be quiet.
Hotch's hand went to the holster at his waist.
Damn, this is a military camp. Although it is relatively simple being on the front line, why didn’t anyone react with so many sentries around?
The next moment, Gwen drew his sword and rushed over. Hodge rolled on the ground, hid behind a pile of boxes, drew his pistol, and took off the safety.
He carefully poked his head out, only to find Gwen standing in a daze by the distant wall. Hodge observed the situation calmly for a while and decided to go to the duty room to call for some reinforcements.
"Hodge, look at this"
Gwen seemed to have discovered something and pointed at the ground and muttered to herself, but Hotch ignored her and trotted to the house not far away.
Soon, a team of fully armed resistance fighters followed him, and the soldiers in the duty room had already sounded the alarm.
Hodge has always been cautious. Gwen has a keen sense and has helped the expeditionary force a lot. Hodge chose to trust her. At most, he could just treat it as an emergency assembly drill.
After instructing the soldiers to be on guard everywhere, Hodge came to Gwen, only to find that the girl was frowning and looking at the ground in front of her.
Hodge looked down and was immediately stunned.
"Run away?"
These words were clearly written on the ground, and the handwriting was quite hurried. Hodge looked around. This was a location close to the wall, but also inside the military camp, and it was impossible for outsiders to come in at will.
"Is this handwriting familiar to you?"
"The handwriting is unfamiliar, but it feels familiar." Gwen said something very strange. Her expression was also a little strange, and she was obviously very concerned about the handwriting on the ground.
"Run away, this should be a warning." Hodge narrowed his eyes. He did not forget that the expeditionary force was guided all the way to find the resistance army, and someone was helping them secretly.
But the man was never found. Afterwards, Isaac and his mother-in-law tried to investigate but found nothing, so the matter became an unsolved case.
"Run away. I didn't write the reason, or even where I was running to. I just wrote, run away quickly."
Hodge hesitated for only a moment, then turned to the soldiers around him and ordered: "Blow the whistle, emergency assembly!"
The alarm was sounded before only to remind the soldiers to stay on standby and warn them of unknown situations. Only soldiers on duty would assemble.
Blowing the emergency assembly whistle is the highest level of response. All soldiers who hear the whistle must stop all tasks and immediately assemble to prepare for battle.
This whistle is usually sounded only when a battle has already occurred.
The soldiers beside him were also surprised, but their bodies had subconsciously executed the order, and the sharp whistle pierced the tranquility of the early morning.
After just a few breaths, a large number of soldiers poured out of the barracks, and more whistles sounded. When you hear the emergency assembly whistle, you must continue to pass on the message to prevent the soldiers who blow the emergency whistle from being killed in the battle, causing others to not hear the whistle.
The quiet military camp became lively almost instantly.
(End of this chapter)
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