"In this world of great controversy, the good and evil gods of Varestianyu are secretly arranged, trying to enforce their will on the earth, but the Far East is not a place outside the law, let alone a gold rush paradise for religious adventurers!" Finally, Roland concluded his speech with a solemn proclamation: "My lord Sindra, the goddess of fate is happy to see people pursue the truth in their own way, but no one may infringe on the freedom of others under the guise of freedom of belief, and must not spread false reasoning and heresies that endanger public safety under the banner of missionary work, otherwise he will be severely punished, and we will not compromise on this matter!" ”

Roland finished his speech, and the applause rang out again.

The clergy of Sindra Church were the first to stand and applaud Roland. In fact, the chief pastor Boris has never understood why Sindra bestows the glory of the "elect" on a hairy boy who does not talk about how devout his faith is, and Roland has not made any outstanding contributions to the mission in the past two years, until this moment, he stands up as the voter of the goddess of fate to express the hearts of all Sindra believers, and insists on establishing the dominant position of Sindra Church in the future Far Eastern religious circles, which makes Boris and other clergy deeply gratified, and they no longer have the slightest reservation for Roland, the "young master".

Mr. Paul Pullett was a stepping stone for Roland to enter the political arena of the Far East tonight, but he did not mind, and was glad to find that Roland's speeches provided him with inspiration, especially Roland's vivid descriptions of the cultists of all stripes, which would surely be of interest to the readers of the evening newspaper.

The banquet didn't end until late at night, but it was a success. The leaders of the "Awakening faction" and the Kolas family, who represented the military forces, bargained and finally reached four agreements, on the basis of which a political alliance was established to determine the future of the Far East, and the prospects for the revolution became clear.

According to the cooperation agreement, the Kolas Legion will receive all-round support from the "Awakening faction" from money to hundreds of military supplies to public opinion propaganda, and the logistics are guaranteed, and what the Kolas father and son have to do is to lead the Legion to recapture the Fort of Atonement from Krautz and establish a new order that is more in line with the interests of the "Awakening faction".

In the eyes of Roland, a traveler from the earth, the great changes that are taking place in the Far East are in fact a social revolution with a capitalist nature.

In this era of the rise of the Magical Industrial Revolution, the social system in Varess can be described as diverse. The Far East was not the first region to break out in the bourgeois revolution of our time, but for the giant of the Holy Assanian Empire, which was in its twilight years, this revolutionary storm originating in the Far East was destined to have an unprecedented impact on its rigid system, and the world pattern of the world that had not been easy for a thousand years in Varess would also trigger a series of chain changes.

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At the same time that the Klas father and son hosted a banquet for the representatives of the "Awakening Faction", Klautz also held a battle meeting with his generals at the Knights' residence.

"Just this morning, the garrison of the train station outside the city was withdrawn, and the strength of a battalion only came back with less than 100 people, and the heavy casualties were secondary, and what made me even more troubled was that they brought back a bad news, the station had been captured by the Rudolph rebels, and the occupation of the station meant that the railway traffic was controlled, and in two days at most, the main forces of the rebels would all arrive outside the city, and by then we would be surrounded by 30,000 troops and fall into a desperate place."

Klautz spoke in a heavy tone about the current grim situation, but the expressions on the faces of the generals present did not change, and this bad news was actually expected by everyone.

At the beginning, Lieutenant Colonel Erwin and Colonel Junius had a heated debate over whether or not to send troops to the station.

Junius thought that there was little point in leaving a small number of troops to garrison the station, and if the rebels returned in the military column, the total number of troops would be far greater than that of his own remaining troops, and the garrison would not be able to prevent the enemy from entering the station, which would only cause meaningless sacrifices. A more aggressive approach would be to station all the Knights at the station, send scouts to tightly control the market towns along the railway, and use magic to monitor the movements of the rebels and attack them before they enter the station.

But Erwin objected to this, arguing that Junius's plan was not feasible. The reason is simple, your own forces are not enough to control the long and winding railway lines of communication, and dispersing your forces will create opportunities for the enemy to take advantage of, after all, the rebels also have a group of mages who are proficient in detection magic, and the whereabouts of the knights cannot be kept secret from the rebels. Erwin was more worried that the rebels would divide into two ways, one way to contain the Knights, and the other way to directly seize the empty defense of Fort Atonement, which was fully capable of being done with the strength of the Kolath Legion, and once they lost the Fort Atonement, they would be cut off from the supply line and face the threat of total annihilation.

After listening to the views of both sides, Krautz thought that Erwin's view was more reasonable. If you lose the provincial capital, there is no danger to defend in this fertile field of the Far Eastern Plains, and you can only retreat all the way west to the fortress of Ulino Pass, the gateway to the inland provinces of the Empire, it will be equivalent to giving up the Far Eastern Province to Rudolf Kolas, which is unacceptable to him in any case. However, the strategic location of the train station could not be completely abandoned, and in the end there was only one compromise option: leave a battalion to garrison the station, immediately notify the command headquarters when the rebels were on the train, and hold the station while waiting for reinforcements from the main force.

The compromise scenario also proved to be the worst scenario. The rebels arrived first not in a military column, but in a large magical airship carrying a number of giant eagles. The battalion stationed at the station was bombarded from the air at dawn, and when he heard the train whistle while hiding from the bombs, he was too busy to take care of himself, let alone prevent the rebels from entering the station. When the news reached Klautz, the troops remaining at the station had been routed, and the rebels had successfully disembarked from the station under the cover of the air force, fearing that he would be ambushed by the enemy if he attacked before dawn, and finally failed to make up his mind to retake the station.

Judging by the reconnaissance of the vulture horse cavalry after dawn, Krautz had to admit that he had made a terrible mistake. He thought that the first to return to Fort Atonement must be elite cavalry, but to his surprise, the first rebels to return by train turned out to be mainly artillerymen. If he had known this detail, Krautz would have led the Knights to attack last night and annihilate all the rebel artillery units in front of the platform, and once the rebels lost their weapons to attack the city, their own situation would have been greatly improved.