Hearing the news, Lijie's little face turned pale in an instant, and the most fearful thing still happened, which made her raise her head and look at Rod and Garcia with some trepidation, trying to ask for help from them——— but the next scene surprised Lijie.

Hearing this, neither Rhodes nor Garcia changed their faces, and the fortress commander smiled at Rhodes and waved his hand.

"Okay, I know what to do, you can step down."

"Yes, Daiin."

Hearing Garcia's order, the herald immediately obeyed and left, and after he left, Garcia strolled to his desk, then picked up a bottle of red wine and shook it at Rod.

"Mr. Rod, would you be interested in having a drink with me?"

"I'm sorry, I'm not interested in being alone with a man, but then again, Mr. Garcia, since we've repelled the enemy attack, how about I propose a celebration tonight?" Everyone is very tired after so many years, and it would be nice to have a lively party, isn't it? ”

"Well, that's a good idea, I'll go and prepare for it right away, and I'll ask you to be sure to attend when the time comes, especially Miss Lijie."

Saying this, Garcia even turned around and looked at Lijie and smiled.

"This time, you commanded and led the mercenaries to hold the defense line of our Cloud Peak Fortress, and at the same time captured hundreds of enemy soldiers, this is a great achievement, this banquet, you and those mercenaries must also participate, I will definitely let the cooks bring out their best dishes to entertain you."

"Oh, it's nothing, Commander Garcia, that's what I'm supposed to do............ Wrong! ”

Hearing Garcia's invitation, Lijie instinctively nodded in response, and then she seemed to have reacted to something, and couldn't help but look up at Garcia and Rod helplessly and panicked. "Garcia, Mr. Rhodes, the Fortress of the Garland of Thorns has fallen, and the enemy forces are deep in Parfield, shouldn't we do something?"

“……………”

Faced with Lijie's question, Garcia and Rod glanced at each other, and then Garcia helplessly spread his hands and looked at Rod with a complaining look. Rod, on the other hand, shrugged his shoulders and hung up as if he had nothing to do with himself.

"What does this have to do with us? Lijie, our white spoon task has been completed, okay, don't think about it so much, go back and have a good rest, you have been busy for so long, you must be tired, take a break, relax, come to the banquet in the evening, as for other things, you don't need to think about it. ”

"But ..............."

Hearing Rod's words, Lijie frowned, she couldn't understand why Rhodes would show such an attitude, obviously the situation was so tense at the moment, the army of reformers had penetrated deep into Parfield, and she didn't know what they would do. But now, instead of being as nervous as they imagined, Rhodes and Commander Garcia were still here leisurely discussing what dinner dance? Is this something they should be doing now? But before Lijie could finish speaking, he saw Rhodes stand up, interrupted Lijie's speech, nodded to Garcia, and then spoke.

"Then, General Garcia, I'll take my subordinates back to rest first, take care of Jingshen, and look forward to your celebration banquet in the evening."

"Please rest assured, Mr. Rod, I will definitely prepare well............" Garcia said this, and glanced at Lijie next to him with a hint of a vague smile. ……… I hope you will be able to devote yourself to it and enjoy it. ”

"I'm looking forward to it."

After saying this, Rod patted Lijie on the shoulder, and then turned to leave. Lijie looked at Rod's figure, and then looked at Garcia, who was sitting on the chair again, with his legs crossed on the table and drinking red wine leisurely, squinting his eyes and starting to pretend to sleep, and finally turned around and hurriedly followed Rod out of the room.

"Mr. Rhodes!"

Lijie trotted all the way to Rod's side, looked at his peaceful face, which didn't seem to have anything out of the ordinary, and asked uneasily.

"Are you really going to do that? Well ............... Parfield"

Rhodes stopped, and he turned his head to look at Lijie beside him.

"Lijie, you are a qualified adjutant, I know that you have this ability, and I also learned everything you have done from Qilian, I have to say, you have done a very good job. As an adjutant, you are qualified. However, as a manager, you are completely unqualified. ”

"Mr. Rhodes?"

Hearing Rod's words, Lijie was stunned, she looked at Rod, and she didn't understand why Rods would say this to herself. However, Rod also noticed Lijie's confusion and uneasiness, he reached out and patted the girl's shoulder, then turned around and continued to move forward, while motioning for Lijie to follow, and just when Lijie followed Rod in confusion and walked towards the outside of the fortress, Rod's voice sounded again.

"You know, Lijie, we're just a mercenary guild, of course, I'm a knight now, but that's about it. I'm not the commander of a legion, and I'm not the nobles of the Golden City. To put it mildly, I am a citizen of the Duchy of Moon, but I am not the king of the Duchy of Moon, and we have the responsibility to ask at all times. And......... You don't trust Her Highness Lydia too much. ”

"I don't really understand............ What do you mean, Mr. Rhodes. ”

Lijie frowned again, she still couldn't figure it out, but soon Rhodes explained.

"As I have said before, Her Highness Lydia does not intend to let this war end sooner rather than later, because the people of the South will not stop their war if they do not feel the dangers of the war for them. If they did not lose their fathers, husbands, children in the war. If they had not been left to the point where they could not even eat hot food on the streets, and had no choice but to compete with wild dogs in the garbage heap, they would still pour more passion and romance into this boring rebellion. If those in the south who are already poor do not have enough to eat, do not have warm clothing, and are always on the verge of death, then this method is of course useless. Because they have lost everything, there is nothing left to lose. But this is not the case, as you and I know, the south is the richest part of the Duchy of Moon, where even the laborers are much better dressed than some of the down-and-out nobles and manor lords in the north. This time, their White Spoon Rebellion and so-called duli are not based on their own survival, but for more profit——— so they will not watch their interests be consumed by the flames of war. ”

As they walked out of the fortress, the heat and the noise in front of them were greeted by the shouts and shouts of the soldiers, and the soldiers who were bound up and followed the guidance honestly, and the painful groans of the wounded soldiers from time to time from the medical camp in the distance.

"Lijie, you should be very aware of the strength of Her Highness Lydia, indeed, the War Legion basically does not intervene in the war between the classes, which is also considered by the Commander of the Throne in power. Bi Jing's ruler is not classified, and if she uses non-classified subordinates to meddle in the affairs between classified, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the people. But even so, the strength in the hands of His Royal Highness Lydia is not a lot, the Northern Legion, the Eastern Mountain Plains, the Court Mage Association, and the great nobles led by the Shania family, these are all die-hard factions of the royal party. But until now, have you seen their white spoon shadows? Even the stupid pigs of the reformists have mobilized tens of thousands of troops to the Pafield Line by now, is it that Her Royal Highness Lydia is not as good as those brainless goods, and even the slightest regular army cannot be transferred at such a young age? Could it be that the Duchy of Moon has really declined to the point where we can only rely on mercenaries to defeat it? ”

"This ..............."

Hearing this, Lijie finally didn't say anything again.

"Truth be told, if Her Highness Lydia had only wanted to suppress the rebellion, all the reformers in the South would have been blowing in the wind in the grove behind the Golden City. But this is useless, in this way, those people will still indulge in the ideals of worshipping their so-called ziyou and duli, and will continue to inherit their white spoon will to follow one after another, if things really come to that extent, then I think that in the future, I am afraid that a group of people will be hanged behind the Golden City every year. ”

"However, my sister had done such a thing before she entered the country, and she was ......... at that time."

"It was a different time than it is now."

In the face of Lijie's rebuttal, Rod shook his head.

At that time, Her Royal Highness Lydia had just succeeded to the throne and did not have enough prestige to convince the public, and the reformers had been planning for a long time, so Her Royal Highness Lydia chose to cut through the chaos quickly at that time, on the one hand, in order to establish her own prestige within the royal party in the shortest possible time, and on the other hand, to delay and suppress the stupid idiots in the south. Now it is different, now that Her Royal Highness Lydia has secured her position and has firmly grasped the principality, she can play a game of chess with those rebels with peace of mind, instead of directly lifting the chessboard and stabbing the knife. The fall of the Fortress of the Garland of Thorns was expected by General Garcia and me. ”

Speaking of this, the corners of Rod's mouth twitched, since the beginning of this war, and Lydia has been moving noble private soldiers and mercenaries instead of sending regular troops, it can be seen that she originally wanted to lure the enemy deep, the prosperous plain, the wreath of thorns, the top of the clouds, and the three fortresses outside the Pafield defense line must be sacrificed to one of them. And since Garling was sent to the top of the clouds by Lydia, it is definitely impossible for this place to be abandoned. Rod also learned from the letter that Marlene had gone to the Flower Field, so the possibility of being abandoned there was basically zero. The rest, there is only the Thorn Garland Fortress——— originally its terrain was not suitable for defense, plus there is only one city after the Thorn Garland Fortress, Calentus, that place is located in the wilderness, the entrance is scarce, and there are no specialties and wealth, it can be said that it is the easiest place to be abandoned. Now it seems that everything is moving in the direction that Her Highness Lydia thinks. And Rhodes also knows very well that his current status is just a low-level knight and mercenary, and the current Duchy of Moon has not yet reached the point where everything is used for everything, so what he is responsible for must only be some preliminary projects——— but this is a good thing for Rhodes, he is not indignant because he was excluded from the war, but is very happy and comfortable. The two hundred subordinates in his hands will not be able to make a splash in the thousands of battles, and the situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, and it is impossible to say that this little bit of his own entry will be sacrificed at that time. And like now, it is the player's forte to take a Jing Ying unit to complete tasks that are not head-to-head combat, and Bi Jing has played this way since he entered the game.

"I think you also know very well that the military strength of the reformers is far from that of the royal party, so the reason why they launched a surprise attack in the first place was to occupy as much territory as they could in Parfield while we were unprepared, and when the royal party started to do it, they would go to ask the Council of Light to mediate, and at that time, they could pick up the cheap and sell ——— provided that the royal party would give the Council of Light this face."

And this face-saving party will not give it.

Since Lydia watched the little bubblegum abolish the Arashi Sword Saint, the Council of Light has actually understood this, but they did not tell the reformers, because from the position of the Council of Light, whether the reformers succeed or not, what they do will weaken the strength of the Principality of Moon, and Lydia will not handle it well, and it may even bring long-term ineradicable tumors and hidden dangers to the Principality of Moon. And they only need to put a few cruel words, and then they can sit next to the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

Therefore, for the Council of Light, the best way to do it at the moment is to continue to behave, but in terms of putting pressure on the royal party, it is absolutely impossible for them to be as committed as before, because they should have understood that if they really put themselves in it, then the consequences will outweigh the losses.

"Have you ever seen a monkey catcher? Lijie? ”

"Catch monkeys?"

Hearing Rod's inquiry, Lijie couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, she didn't understand why Rod would suddenly turn the topic to this, but she still shook her head. Seeing her answer, Rod nodded and continued.

"I've seen some monkeys take a heavy clay pot with a hole the size of a monkey's palm, and put delicious fruit in it. When the monkey sees the fruit, it reaches in and takes it, and then it can't hold it anymore......... Then, the hunter can easily walk up to it and catch the monkey. ”

"Why can't you stick out? Mr. Rhodes? Since it can put its hand in, it should be able to reach out. ”

"The reason is simple, when it reaches in, it is empty-handed, and when it pulls out its hand, it is not. And even in the face of the threat of being captured, these monkeys are still reluctant to let go of the fruit in their hands, and in this way, it naturally has no way to break free from the trap, and will eventually be hunted and captured........."

Saying this, Rod narrowed his eyes.

"And now that the monkey has put his hand into the hole, all we have to do is be a loyal spectator and watch how the hunter catches the monkey. Next, Hunter will attack the monkey, but even if he sees the rope in Hunter's hand, the monkey still won't let go of his hand, but foolishly expects that Hunter will come forward and help it get out of danger before Hunter catches him. ”

“………………………”

Hearing Rod's answer, Lijie lowered her head silently, she was not stupid, Rhodes had explained it so clearly, Lijie naturally understood what he meant, and after a while, the girl sighed slightly, and then asked.

"So Mr. Rhodes, what are we going to do next?"

"Our White Spoon mission is almost complete, and now it's up to Her Highness Lydia to see what's going on, but I think in a short period of time, there shouldn't be any more problems with the Top of the Cloud Fortress, and we should focus on our own mission......... I think it won't be long before the reinforcements will be on top of the clouds, and there should be nothing to do with us by then, Lijie, you can rest well in the meantime, and then prepare to go to the frozen lake of Cranmer to complete the next five-star mission. ”

Frankly speaking, coming to the Parfield defense this time, although it has won a lot of political and prestige capital for Rod, it is a very losing choice for a player. Not to mention that the enemy level here is very low, Rhodes has been killing for so long, and he has earned such a pitiful one or two thousand points of experience, but this experience has not been saved, and it has been completely emptied after Grosso released a "lava river". Next, in Fiat, a rare entry broke out and took on a special task of "Fiery Rose", but the result was still a happy ending, although the task given by Lydia was completed, but the system task failed. This made Rhodes very depressed, and since he had nothing to do with the next battle, he also planned to take this opportunity to continue to strengthen himself and the guild, otherwise, if he did it again, I am afraid that he would have to be lowered from level forty to level thirty-nine, which is not a joke.

The two entered as they talked, and soon came to the outskirts of the camp where the mercenaries were, and just as Rod and Lijie were about to step into the camp, they only heard a burst of angry shouting, and then an unfamiliar voice sounded.

"You despicable Yankees, let me go and let me fight you to the death!!"

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