The Northern Orders are stationed in north-east Victoria all year round, and their main duty is to stabilize the north.

Unlike the south, the north is mostly a fief of the great aristocracy, and there is a high concentration of heavy industries, such as extractive industries, raw material industries, processing industries, etc.

Unlike the relatively poor and chaotic south, the aristocracy and tycoons in the north did not want to live in a "dangerous" environment, so they were willing to spend military funds to support the expansion of the northern military districts.

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At first, the Northern Military Region had less than 100,000 men, but as Victoria's economy grew rapidly, it became a technological and economic powerhouse, and the number of troops continued to expand.

During his lifetime, King Wilansen personally ordered a ceiling of 300,000 troops for the Northern Military District.

This quota is already for the sake of the faces of the major nobles, otherwise, 200,000 is enough.

But just half a year ago, when King Wilanson was so ill that he couldn't interfere with power at all, Frey privately expanded the Northern Military Region to 400,000 after disarming the Southern Military Region.

Frey's idea was simple.

At that time, he was unable to control the Southern Military Region and the Border Guards, and King Wilanson's illness was getting worse day by day, and both Ormon and Gleason were wary of him, so he had to prepare for the future.

To this day, the foreshadowing of the past has played a role.

In the early days of the turmoil, Frey successfully assassinated Gleason and assigned Medders to successfully stabilize the frontier military district, while the Southern Military District, with a total strength of only 300,000 troops, could only support it.

This is a sure win, as long as Omon falls, when the country stabilizes after the infected are cleared, and then find a way to kick Witt out of the military system, the commander-in-chief of the four major military regions of the empire will all be replaced by people he trusts.

However, Frey could never have imagined that this good game would never be able to fall when there was only the last move left.

At the same time, what he regarded as the most useless chess piece before miraculously staged a "extreme turnaround".

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Half a year ago, the Northern Military Region began to recruit new recruits, and the military department did not have any hard requirements for this, regardless of the region, as long as it was an adult male under the age of 30 with a Victorian citizenship card.

It's a normal process for annual conscription, but this time it's a little different.

The previous Southern Military Region underwent two major disarmaments, and a total of 200,000 active-duty soldiers were forced to retire.

Although retired soldiers will receive subsidies from the Empire, it is better to give people fish than to give them fish, and with a small amount of subsidies, most of the "unemployed" soldiers have nowhere to go.

Forced by life, some people choose to go back to their hometowns to farm, some go to work in factories, some go to the sea to do business, and of course, some people choose to join gangs or become mercenaries first.

However, of the 200,000 soldiers who were laid off, only a few made these choices.

Because there is another inside story about the recruitment of the Northern Military District, in order to speed up the recruitment, the military department did not conduct any screening at all.

In this way, the soldiers who had been laid off in the Southern Military Region before went to the north and joined the Northern Military Region after several rounds.

From an objective point of view, the military department did a confusing act of "taking off his pants and farting"; if Frey had not had a ghost idea, the military department could have directly transferred 200,000 people from the Southern Military Region to the Northern Military Region, and the conscription could have been saved.

But Frey didn't, he knew that many of the recruits in the Northern Military District were from the south, and he didn't care.

Frey's idea is very simple, soldiers are born with a sense of belonging, and if they are directly dispatched, there may be the possibility of "being in Cao Ying's heart in Han".

In this way, they will be directly laid off, from soldiers to ordinary people, and then mixed with the recruits who come from the north to join the Northern Military District, so that they will be "northerners" through and through.

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Frey's analysis of human nature is on point, and he is prepared for what may happen in the future.

But he didn't expect that Verin's first decision after succeeding to the throne was not to remove Ormon and Gleason, but to directly order the nationwide expulsion of the infected.

Although shocked by Verin's boldness, this incident can also be a reason to kill Ormon and Gleason, and Frey also raises his hands in favor of it.

However, the foreshadowing of disarmament and conscription was secretly buried.

Soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, and if it is only a rebellion and crusade between military regions, then even if the soldiers are reluctant, they will basically obey the orders of the current commander.

But if you let the soldiers burn down their homes, that's a different story.

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After the full-scale outbreak of the Civil War, the Northern Military Region has always stood still, but although its body has not moved, its heart has not been idle for a moment.

The Northern Military District has 400,000 men, of which at least 70,000 of the 100,000 new recruits are from the south.

Although the officers tried their best to block the real situation in the south, there were still people who could receive information through various channels.

These soldiers whose hometowns are in the south heard the names of the cities that had fallen one by one in the south, and the infected people had to start smashing and looting the inhabitants of the cities because they were forced to survive, and to tell the truth, their hearts were pinched.

It's just that, although they have mixed feelings, they are now soldiers of the Northern Military District, and at the same time Victorians.

This is the decision of the Empire, and if they take off their military uniforms and return to their hometown in the south now, it will be a naked violation of military rules and can be dealt with by a military court.

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In this way, these soldiers who stayed in the barracks of the Northern Military District, but came from the south, were tormented in extremely complicated moods.

Until a certain day.

They were approached by a girl with long orange hair and a plaid skirt under a military uniform.

The girl belonged to the Northern Military Region with them, and she claimed to be from the Special Brigade of the Military Region, codenamed bagpipes.

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In just a few days, Bagpipes, in her capacity as an officer of the Special Forces Brigade, secretly informed all the soldiers from the south in the barracks of her plan.

Not surprisingly, this "mutiny" was strongly supported by the soldiers.

Of course, it is not enough to have the support of soldiers, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Military District is the eldest son of the Capet family, and in addition to the 70,000 soldiers from the south, there are more than 300,000 pure "northerners" stationed in the barracks.

To this, bagpipes came to find another person.

The man's name was Siriph, and his identity was the deputy commander of the Northern Military District.

At the same time, he has another identity, a comrade-in-arms of General Gleeson and General Ormon in their youth.

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With the covert support of Deputy Commander Siriv and the help of more than 70,000 soldiers of the Northern Military Region, the bagpipes finally carried out this "earth-shattering case" committed by the following crimes.

Coincidentally, the time she chose to do so was the day before the Confederate forces launched their general offensive.

The commander-in-chief of the Northern Military District, Kapesimit, had just received an order from the military headquarters and had not had time to order the military region to move to the north-south border, he was killed in his office by Zhengda Guangming.