Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

At the Pétain Line, the young knight was patrolling the surroundings with the veterans and his own team.

"Sir, footprints!"

A soldier pointed frantically toward the footprints of a nearby sentry post.

The knight immediately pointed the musket in the direction the soldier pointed.

Everyone walked slowly closer and found that there were indeed footprints on the snow, and they were obviously not made by their own soldiers. The uniform footprints were obviously an effect that could only be achieved by the rebels' military boots.

The direction of the footprints was towards the fortress group of the Pétain Line of Defense.

The knight instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

"It feels like a thief has broken into my neighbor's house."

"How did you know that there was a thief in the neighbor's house?"

"I advise you not to ask."

Because the rebel leader and his wife were assassinated by Governor Doug, the rebels declared war directly on Governor Doug.

No one thought there was anything wrong. After all, this has always been Governor Doug's style. Although he tried his best to clear up his dark history of killing his father and then attempting to kill his nephew, Doug has completely established his image as a person who likes to kill his relatives through his actual actions.

When Gray Collar announced that Doug was the mastermind behind the assassination and declared war, Doug's allies, from nobles to soldiers and civilians, all felt that it was Doug who did it. Doug wanted to kill his two nephews at the beginning, so it was normal for him to assassinate his niece and nephew's husband now.

Even though Doug kept arguing, "I didn't do it. I didn't do it." Everyone thought that the governor just wanted to clear himself of suspicion after assassinating his niece.

The Knight also thought so, so he could fully understand the other party's reasons for declaring war.

But what about the declaration of war? Why did nothing happen after firing a few shots on the first day?

The main purpose of the original design of the Pétain Line was to completely lock the western part of the North under the Targon Mountains and physically separate the western part of the North.

For this reason, the defensive power of the Pétain Line can be said to have reached the pinnacle of this era, but it also sacrificed a little offensiveness.

Regarding the offensive ability of the Pétain defense, the Cavaliers can only say that it is like the husband of the aunt next door. It definitely exists, but at least the Cavaliers themselves have never seen it.

So after the rebels' experimental bombardment on the first day, they suddenly fell silent, and instead small groups of troops conducted reconnaissance and harassment of the Pétain Line at night.

The soldiers in the fortress had already suffered from nervous breakdown.

Everyone hopes that those rebels can be manly and attack directly. After all, the defense line is designed in the hope that the opponent can cross the line.

But after the bombardment, the enemy may have understood the hardness of this turtle shell. As long as the people in the Petain defense line did not come out, the rebels would not attack. They just left some footprints or other things every day to prove that they had been there.

The person in charge of the Pétain Line of Defense actually discovered at the very beginning that the gray-collared people directly bypassed the line of defense and walked out of the Giant God Mountains.

We did send troops to stop the other side, but at that time the other side hadn't even set up their artillery.

But the field combat capabilities of both sides were far different. The rebels seemed to be wearing cloth armor, but in fact the enchantments were thicker than plate armor.

And it was not until the battle that the Doug army discovered that the rebels were not using muskets at all, but ray guns that could shoot magic and muskets that could fire continuously by pressing a button.

The weapons of both sides were simply from different eras. On Doug's side, only officers and some soldiers had muskets, while the other side was fully equipped with ray guns and automatic muskets. The firepower of several hundred people was enough to completely suppress the defenders coming from the Pétain Line.

At that time, Doug's army discovered that the enemy had a unit with weak firepower, and judging from the flag, it seemed to be an accompanying military doctor, so they asked the professionals and shieldmen to hold up the shields and launch an attack from this relatively weak point.

Then Doug's army saw a group of terrifying nuns wearing masks.

These nuns would use chainswords to suppress the shield bearers in front, and then insert a special musket, which seemed to be called a shotgun, through the sawed gap.

At close range, no matter how thick the armor is, it cannot withstand a shotgun shell.

This directly caused psychological trauma to the defenders of the Pétain Line.

Is this a military doctor? Is this the War Madness Unit?

In short, after the first day, the Pétain Line had lost the courage to go out and fight.

There are many hills within the defense line, and the number of soldiers means the right to speak. No one is willing to give up his right to speak and die.

In fact, if only strange footprints and some things were left behind every day, it would not cause the defenders of the Pétain Line to become mentally exhausted. The real culprit was some leaflets left behind by the enemy's night attack troops.

The leaflet said that the Black Iron City, which was responsible for allocating supplies to the Pétain Line of Defense, had fallen, and advised the Pétain Line of Defense to give up resistance. Northerners do not fight Northerners, and as long as they surrendered, they would still be good brothers and could play football together.

At the beginning, there were not many leaflets, and the knights and veterans went out every day to look for these leaflets, and then burned them in batches after finding them.

However, when the day came for receiving the supplies, the supplies from Black Iron City had not arrived.

After that, the rumors could no longer be controlled. They spread wider and wider and became more and more outrageous. Some people even claimed that Governor Doug had surrendered and that the Pétain Line was the last isolated force.

However, the Pétain Line stretched across the entire western part of the northern border and could not be completely blocked, so the entire line of defense could still receive news from the outside world.

The good news is that the enemy has not launched an attack at all, and has not even come into contact with the main force of Doug’s army. This war has just begun.

The bad news is that Black Iron City is indeed gone. The enemy not only occupied Black Iron City, but also attacked other towns that could provide support to the Pétain Line of Defense. The rebels almost ignored the Pétain Line of Defense and were preparing to expand their control range outward.

The Pétain Line protected nothing.

Once a rumor starts, it cannot be stopped, especially since it is true.

But something even more horrible happened.

"My Lord, what is that over there?"

The soldier beside the knight pointed to a box left in a corner. After taking protective measures, the knight and the veteran opened the box and found food and some supplies in the box, as well as a note saying that these were supplies left for the traitors in Pétain's defense line.

Even a fool would know that this couldn't possibly be left for the insider. Who would leave a note with supplies for the insider?

The knights and veterans laughed loudly at the stupidity of the rebellion.

Who would fall for such an obvious counter-espionage plot? Even the lowest-ranking soldiers wouldn't do it, right?

But when he returned home at night, the knight pushed open the door and saw the old soldier eating the pancakes that the rebel had left for the traitor.

It feels like the knight pushing open the door and seeing another man in the old lady's house.

Yes, everyone knows that this is a counter-espionage plot, but what if? What if the other party is on the fifth floor? The other party thinks that you think it is a counter-espionage plot, so you openly send supplies to the insider?

When the old soldier saw the knight, he immediately explained: "It would be a waste if we don't eat it. The other side has sent us supplies, why shouldn't we eat it?"

What if what the veteran said was also the rhetoric taught by the other side to the traitor?

The chain of suspicion begins.

The so-called supplies reserved for insiders began to appear in the corners of the defense line. Although the quantity was not large, the locations were just right for patrolling soldiers to find.

Human figures appearing and disappearing at night, strange footprints appearing during the day, teammates starting to behave strangely, the ever-increasing chain of suspicion, and the supplies being gradually cut off.

"Ignore the figures that appear at night. They are not friendly forces."

"Don't use unknown supplies that suddenly appear."

"If you see any unknown leaflets or supplies, please hand them over to the commander as soon as possible."

"If you see any strange footprints in the snow, please ignore them."

"If your teammates suddenly start to act strangely and like to go out at night, please report to your superiors immediately."

"Don't believe the rumors, we haven't failed yet, please stay positive."

The entire Pétain defense line seemed to be caught in a weird story of rules.