Extraordinary Voyage Chapter 277: Thomas Gregory
It was in the morning, and the weather in Nisk was fine.
It is another good day for tourists to travel.
However, in the headquarters of the garrison on the north side of the "Leiden River" estuary, the atmosphere is somewhat solemn.
Compared with the extravagance of a banker, this is a poor meeting room.
The rough polished rough stone walls and floor, in order to ensure the strength of the fortress, even the ceiling is extremely low, the walls are opened with a few narrow windows that only allow adults to lean out.
Even in the daytime, they have to resort to gas lighting.
A spliced long table covered with green flannel and two rows of heavy wooden chairs on each side constitute the entire meeting room, which is the same shabby style as Major General Coverdale's office.
Oh, at least the decorations on the wall today are slightly better than his office.
On the uneven wall, there was a flag of the Kingdom of Tyrol, a navy flag, and the alliance "tulip cross flag" that was specially hung up because of the complexity of the participants.
Here.
The military meeting, including the garrison officers of the country, the reinforcement representatives from the six countries, and the church wall knights, has been going on for a long time.
"Report to Your Excellency Commander, the information as of this morning.
The six fixed maritime observation points from Nisk to the border of the far sea did not find any anomalies.
In addition, our two battleships and twelve cruise ships are divided into four groups, and the whole route is cruised in a cycle of six days. The situation is the same.
The news of ‘Leiden Valley’ and Hudgens’ next attack has apparently spread far, and most people who should know already know.
Even we have a record of more than ten consecutive days, and we have not seen a pirate ship at sea. "
In the Garrison Command, a colonel adjutant in charge of responding to maritime threats finished his report and sat down again after saluting.
"Hmm!"
Sitting at the top of the conference table, Major General Coverdale, the commander of the garrison commander with a knife in his hand, nodded slightly, then looked at another officer sitting next to him, his light blue eyes filled with pressure.
"Colonel Wilde! Your joint mobile unit has been stationed in several big cities for some time. I want to know what you have gained during this time?
Especially the intelligence agencies have identified the elite subordinates of Huggins active in the cities along the route. How many have you found of these mice? "
The colonel named Wilde immediately stood up and saluted the commander:
"Report Your Excellency!
We have mobilized the Kingdom’s garrison officers and alliance reinforcements to form a mobile force consisting of 28 extraordinary men and 120 apprentice pinnacles.
There are three groups, one group is stationed in the capital Brandenburg, the other group is stationed in the city of wealth, Golden Lion City, and the last group is maneuvering along the ‘Leiden Valley’.
A lot of new faces have poured into various cities during this period, which proves that many forces have focused their attention here.
We did not take care of those who proactively reported their identities. In the past few days, in cooperation with the city defense forces in various cities, we arrested a total of 23 pirates who showed signs.
After the interrogation, it was confirmed that the five people captured in the two small cities of Como and Macerata were direct subordinates of the Pirate King. "
The colonel paused, with a look of shame on his face:
"But no matter how tortured, we couldn't get other people's hiding place from them, including their purpose of coming here this time.
Basically, it can be determined that all the subordinates of the Pirate King use passive one-line contact, at least in their subjective sense, they do not understand the purpose of their trip.
Furthermore, the military's advisory team used all available methods such as hypnosis, divination, and psychic, and failed to get more information from them. "
Major General Coverdale frowned, obviously a little dissatisfied with their work.
As the highest-ranking military chief in the "Leiden Valley" region, after so long, I didn't even know where the enemy's target location was. I really apologize for the trust of His Majesty the King.
Never mind the maritime patrols that were not the focus. The garrison officers and elite troops who had high hopes on the land could not even catch the only clue of the "pirate king's lineage".
However, the general knew that losing his temper was of no use, so he patiently continued to ask: "Where are the Golden Lion City and Brandenburg?"
As the two largest and most important cities in our jurisdiction, these two places must not be missed.
Even if the "Golden Lion City" has a third-tier church bishop and a great knight from the Dutch banking group all year round. Count Mars, the consul of "Brandenburg", is himself a veteran knight who has experienced many battles and is one of the guardians of the White Swan Crown of the Royal Family of Tyrol.
They are strong, far stronger than reinforcements.
Looking at the general's face carefully, Colonel Wilde bit his head and said:
"The Lord Mars allowed us to enter the city and sent his own guard to cooperate with our inventory, but it has not been rewarded for the time being.
In addition, the people in the Dutch banking group said that they have the ability to protect their own and their customers’ property, and that we are not allowed to disturb the peace of the city and citizens.
Moreover, Bishop Jasper of the Golden Roof Cathedral also helped them. Although we were stationed there, it was difficult to carry out the investigation because of their non-cooperation. "
Bang——
Hearing the feedback from the "Golden Lion City", Major General Coverdale instantly became so angry that he gave the commanding knife in his hand a heavy beating.
Even if we know that Golden Lion City, an alternative "country within a country", is not easy to deal with, but in the eyes of this kind of pirate king attack, it is still playing this game! Are they not afraid of death?
However, those big bankers don't even give the king's face, let alone take them as the commander of the garrison.
Secretly annoyed for a long while, the major general is also worthy of a stroke of his eyes and spit out two words in his mouth:
"Incompetent!"
I just don’t know who the word general is referring to...
At this moment, I heard a very small voice in the conference room, but most of the people in the room have extraordinary ranks above the formal knights, and they still heard that sentence softly and clearly.
"How can you blame us for not catching the big fish? I don't know if there is a ghost covering these mice?"
The officers in attendance easily discovered the source of the sound, and they all looked at the past, including of course Captain Ivan, who was sitting in the corner of the conference room with only his ears brought over by the old god.
Sit in the position of the Joint Mobile Forces, a young officer with a black hilt and black scabbard long sword in his arms, and a short icy blue hair. He was stubbing his neck under everyone's attention, as if he didn't care that his words would be heard by others.
The major general, who was already unhappy, raised his eyes to see this sting, and he even stretched his face.
"Mr. Thomas Gregory! Do you suspect that the cities along our line have Huggins' internal response?"
As the second place of this "Navy Rising Star", I originally arranged for him to enter the sea cruise team with the first place Ivan Garriott and the third place Bertram Solomon. .
It seems to be important, but there is no too much risk. Haven't you seen that there are no pirates at sea now?
However, it may be that I think my "Snow Lake" is only a Tier 5 cruise ship, and I don't want to be short in front of the other two "Navy Stars". This Captain Thomas abandoned the ship directly and joined the maneuver unit. NS.
It's all right now.
The performance of the mobile unit I belonged to was not good, so I dared to find reasons to shirk responsibility again.
From the moment he came to the report, he directly disobeyed his arrangement, Major General Coverdale has "preconceived" him to characterize him, publicity, impetuous, proud... I don't like it!
Hearing the general’s questioning, Thomas insisted on his point of view without showing any weakness:
"It's not just suspicion, I think it's difficult to explain the current situation with common sense. If there is not enough internal response, it is impossible for a large number of elite pirates to hide so concealed."
The general smiled without anger, and asked again:
"Hehe, common sense?
Do you know how much energy is needed for hundreds of thousands of pirates distributed in cities along the route as mentioned in the hidden intelligence? Do you know what will happen to you when colluding with pirates in the entire Tulip Alliance is regarded as the same crime as pirates?
What kind of big power in the ‘Leiden Valley’ will take this risk, which is tantamount to abandoning everything they have in Tulips, and follow a big pirate who can only drift on the sea all the way to the dark? "
Seeing that Thomas was not convinced and would argue again, the general raised his hand to stop what he had already said:
"That's good, the situation you said is not impossible.
I will assign you an independent intelligence team, how about you going to find the ghost behind the scenes?
You can even choose the personnel of the intelligence department in the garrison. Our time is tight and we will give you up to half a month. If you can’t find it, you can go back to your ‘Snow Lake’ and go out to sea for a cruise mission! "
Wow----
Thomas pushed the chair away and stood up suddenly~IndoMTL.com~ The general's words were right in his arms.
Conscientious that he could not display his talents, he immediately agreed with a loud voice:
"No problem, Commander! These days, I am familiar enough with the Leiden Valley. Just give me an assistant, and my crew is my team member."
Said that he scanned the officer in the conference room pretentiously, and finally fixed himself on someone he had been paying attention to since entering the conference room.
"Hey, hey, what I said, I was watched by a troublesome guy, and the one that should come is finally here."
When Ivan heard the laughter of Patlem Solomon who was sitting next to him.
I raised my head just to meet Thomas's gaze, and I naturally saw the pride in his eyes, and I heard Thomas say lightly:
"Your Excellency Commander, why not let Mr. Irving Garriott be my deputy! The "Navy Rising Stars" who belong to this issue are just taking this opportunity to learn from each other."