Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 230 Interrogation

As the Blue Feather Regiment looted the city in the Principality of Eskirin, the fighting continued this winter. In the Principality of Eskirin, where smoke is spreading, countless residents flee their homes in wagons with their wealth in the cold, trying to avoid the war. So at the end of the snow, countless refugees emerged on the roads of the three southern counties, carrying large bags and cattle carriages, trying to leave the territory already occupied by the aggressors.

Markci started to earn a lot of money by setting up checkpoints on the highway, and the cost of clearance he offered was the sky price. A person collects a small silver coin, and a wagon's customs clearance fee is a small gold coin. Although these are gold and silver coins made by the Principality of Eskirin, they are almost two to one exchange prices compared to the Silver Tall Golden Krone in the Kingdom of Ovilas. Two small silver coins are exchanged for the Silver Tall in one kingdom, as are gold coins.

However, most of the wealthy people fleeing with their families in carriages in this cold winter's weather are still paying for customs clearance. Instead of paying attention to the cost of this passage, they would be willing to pay extra tips for the courtesy of soldiers and not harass their families for not robbing them of their belongings, or even buy a hot meal at a high price.

This gave Markci another chance to earn extra money. He simply partnered with the village elder to set up a large tent next to the road as a temporary roadside hotel. In an 82-point model, he let several people out of the village become cooks and domestic servants. He severely cut another knife on the fleeing wealthy people who were passing by. They sold twice as much as the town price...

“Sir, I don't see why these people have to flee. Don't they know that running to Fort Swan can only take a while longer? When the next two second-line regiments arrive, the Blue Feathers may attack Fort Swan. When the Duchy of Eskirin dies, do these people have to die in Swan Castle?” Mike stood next to Claude and asked.

Claude stood at the edge of a prominent cliff with Mike and Big Gemmy, watching a crowd of cars and crowds crowded down the mountain lane paying customs fees before the gate. Even the guy who sat down in the big tent of a restaurant on the side of the road from time to time was familiar with greeting him with a loud voice, asking for a bottle of expensive wine to drink there and talk...

“In fact, most of the town dwellers do not run, and these fleeing people are mainly afraid that we will settle our accounts after autumn. The three southern counties are the most famous mineral and military areas of the Principality of Eskirin, and these individuals are more or less associated with these industries, or have significant interests. Now that we occupy the southern three counties, we are temporarily unable to clean up the mineral and military industries. After all, the Blue Feather Regiment is busy taking over a larger area due to insufficient troops.

If these people don't run at this time, and the kingdom stabilizes itself by sending people to clean up the mineral and military industries, then they will be slaughtered for all kinds of crimes and even sentenced to hard labour, so knowing that of course they are going to run, they will be free for a while, and maybe they will be able to run to another country. Moreover, they colluded with powerful figures in the Principality of Eskirin and ran to Fort Swan with anticipation of reclaiming the lost land, when their property and interests could return to them. ”Claude explained.

“Then why are we letting them go? We can arrest them.” Mike asked again.

“Oh, what do we do with them, we don't get orders. In addition, cleaning up their property is a matter for the Kingdom's internal affairs department. If our army intervenes, it will only be hard and uncomfortable. This case will be brought to the attention of His Majesty the King. None of the leaders of the General above are willing to seek these troubles themselves. Besides, it is not good that they have brought us the speed of flight...” Claude, it is still clear that the Royal Army is only responsible for war, it is strictly forbidden to put their hands within the scope of the duties of other departments. Major Ledfank has said these things several times during the meeting.

“Come on, put your gun on your back and go see the mountain forest behind Squirrel Village. The old man has said it several times, saying that the wolf howled in the middle of the night. Let's go on a tour to see if the wolves show up near the village. Some of them must be eliminated in case the soldiers on duty outside at night are put at risk.” Claude turned away from the cliff, and there was nothing to see down there.

Heavy snow covered mountain forests and animals lacking food would be close to village towns, as Claude knew when he was in White Deer Town. The snow was thick in the mountains, and Claude walked around with Mike and Big Grimes and found a few lines of wolf claw prints. Looks like it's not a pack of wolves, but an old wolf or a lone wolf expelled from a pack of wolves came near Squirrel Village looking for food and had to find a chance to kill it, otherwise soldiers stationed at the entrance of the village at night are likely to be attacked by hungry lone wolves.

When Claude returned to the cantonment site, a soldier was found waiting for his return.

“Lieutenant Claude, we intercepted a carriage at the crossing with a lady and her two maids...” the soldier reported.

“Well, then what?” Claude asked, "What's the idea of this guy, Markie?

“Well, Lieutenant Claude, we found this in the car.” The soldiers handed over a parcel in their hand.

Claude opened the package and looked more serious, because the package contained two demolished Obash 3 type firewire guns, and he picked up a gun accessory and looked at it. Apparently, it was an old man who dismantled the guns, and the accessories were removed intact and without any signs of violence.

“You tell Sergeant Markzi to bring me the wagon and the three women, and I'm going to ask them where the guns came from.” Claude commanded.

“Yes, Lieutenant Claude, I'll do it right away.” The soldiers withdrew immediately after saluting.

Soon, the loud wheels rang, and the soldiers' grumbling and the women's screaming came up.

“Mike, you take Gemmy and search the carriage down there and get me anything suspicious.” Claude said.

“Yes, sir.” Mike took Gemmy downstairs.

Then the stairs rang and Markie knocked on the door: "Lieutenant Claude, the man has arrived. ”

“Bring in one at a time and get a correspondent over here to make a record of the interrogation. ”

“Yes.”

The first one brought in was the lady, wearing a thick leather jacket, but still unable to hide her forward and backward figure, Myoman. She also wore a translucent draped hat on her head, revealing only a red lip and a small, sophisticated jaw.

“Miss, please take off your hat.” Claude warned.

The reddish lip split an arc upwards, and the lady giggled: “You should call me Madam, young chief, but I'm glad to hear you call me Miss, which reminds me of the worry-free girl's time before marriage...”

She took off her hat, revealed her face, and Marquette beside her and the reporter on the record had a pig-like look on her face. She is really beautiful, has a sexy and amazing combination, a helpless look on her face, easily arouses a man's desire for protection...

Claude stared at her for a few moments, with no expression on his face, and he had no feelings for a beautiful woman, who had seen much in his previous life. If any more ugly woman learns one of the four great Asian evil tricks to change her face, she can become a beautiful woman, and none of them will be worse than the one in front of her. As an old driver, this happens all the time, and when you wake up overnight, you will often find that last night's beautiful woman turned into an old lady. If I hadn't known this was the reason for the unloading, I might have thought it was the mother who came in the middle of the night to replace her daughter...

Knocked on the table and woke up the two pigs next to him, Claude, pointing to the package on the table: "Madam, please tell me your name and whereabouts and, by the way, tell us how you got these two guns that equipped our Royal Army. ”

Perhaps Claude's indifference to her appearance made the beautiful lady feel a little strange. She stared at Claude for a moment and saw Claude's face or that of the office, frustrated, hesitated for a moment or asked: “I'm Sonia. Baroness Ro Vacoussili, I'm from Pacacia City, and I'm going back to Fort Swan to visit my seriously ill father. As for the two guns, I bought them from someone else with heavy gold. I didn't know they were manufactured guns equipped by your army. I thought they were two very distinctive, privately made guns...”

Pacacia City is a county town in Palo Alto County in three southern counties and is the most concentrated military industry in the Principality of Eskilin. The largest firearms workshop in the Principality of Eskirin is located there, as are many workshops and factories producing ancillary products.

Claude stood up smiling and picked up an accessory from the package on the table: “Baroness Wakusili, the obvious don't speak secretly, it's impossible to remove these two guns so thoroughly without a certain amount of firearm knowledge. Look, like this accessory, it's very difficult to remove them intact, and ordinary people will knock them down with a hammer. Instead of the two guns above you, like, there's no sign of any knocking. I believe you must have bought two complete guns instead of such a bunch of parts...”

“If you knew who my father was, you wouldn't have said that.” The beautiful lady replied without courtesy: "My father is Librevide. Miloski, you must have heard that name. ”

Librevide. Miloski, who is he? Claude looked at Markzi and the correspondent in the record somewhat blindly, and found that they were both a piece of mist.

“Cough, cough, Baroness Vacoussili, who's your father? We haven't heard of him...”

The beautiful lady's face rose red all at once, and that was pissed off, looking at Claude as if she were looking at a hillbilly: "My father was a famous master of firearms on the continent, and he designed a dozen different kinds of firearms, and even several of them became army-mounted firearms in many countries. As his daughter, it was no big deal to disassemble guns from childhood, guns like yours, and my maid easily disassembled them at my fingertips. ”

“Are you talking about Master Byrd?” Claude finally remembers that this Master Byrd is the most prestigious master of firearms design and manufacture in the Principality of Eskirin, and before entering the three southern counties, a list was issued on which the troops must be treated with courtesy and then sent up to serve the kingdom.

It's as if this master Byrd is the third or fourth on this list, which is more important. However, after taking over the southern three counties, it was discovered that many of the people on the list had gone to Swan Castle and were not in their own homes. This Master Byrd was said to have rescued the recurrence of the illness, went to Swan Castle for medical treatment, and let him escape the compulsory invitation of the Royal Army.

If this Baroness Vacoussili is the daughter of Master Byrd, the purpose of carrying these two Obash 3 guns from the kingdom to Fort Swan is obvious: to continue studying and imitating these precisely targeted guns.

Though the Principality of Eskirin has already launched such a name? By the way, the Falciston 185 is a precise firing rifle, but performance is still far short of the Obash III that the Royal Army began to equip. This beautiful lady brought these two guns in for Librevide. Miloski, the firearm master, continued his research, perhaps because of his father's personal interest.

“Baroness Vacoussili, do you have any evidence of your relationship with Master Byrd's father and daughter? If you can't prove it, I'm sorry, but you have to stay here for a few days until we get to Pacacia City to make sure you're clear. Because you carry our Kingdom-style equipment guns, we have to suspect you of being a spy. Please forgive my intrusion, my duty, and I have to leave you.” Claude came to an immediate conclusion of the trial.