Great time travel

Chapter 28, Peep from Another World
Currently taking over the armed forces of the city of Ita Rica and the entire Earl of Vermar, Princess Pinna's personal guard "Rose Knights" is not a real army strictly speaking, but its influence in the upper echelons of the empire is great. quite broad.

The first birth of this group was the "Knights Game" played by Princess Pinna with the noble children when she was 12 years old.At that time, Princess Pingna, who was still a child, occupied an abandoned castle on the outskirts of the imperial capital, and enthusiastically gathered a large group of noble children for "military exercises".At the beginning, it was just a pure war game, but later it gradually became regularized. Instructors were recruited from retired imperial veterans to teach swordsmanship, bow and arrow, and horseback riding. They also raised funds to purchase military equipment and repair the living facilities of the fortress. He also recruited attendants for the "little knights"—anyway, Ping Na is a princess after all, and the children who play with her are either rich or expensive, as long as they act like a spoiled child with their parents a few times, this thing is still worth asking. owned.Next, Princess Pingna led her partners to gradually formulate the commandments and rules of this "Game Knights", oaths, various ceremonies, and class system to regulate the daily life of the members. They are all children, but they are already quite decent.

Then, as the first batch of members gradually grew, those male regiment members had to leave the regiment one after another when they reached the age where they had to serve in the army or become officials.Although some of the female members left because they wanted to receive bride training, there were still many more men than men, so the entire knights became more and more yin and yang, and women accounted for the majority.However, there are also many younger boys who apply to join. Some of the reasons are that they want to cling to the powerful and make friends with the princess and the female noble heirs, but more simply want to "play with the beautiful big sisters" ...

In the end, Princess Pinna's personal guards turned into a wonderful group composed of athletic girls and children, who have activities for two or three months every year, somewhat similar to the boy scouts or military summer camps on Earth.And the emperor and the Senate also felt that it seemed good to have such a group - the education system in this world was extremely backward, and even magicians had to be taught by master and apprentice, and there were basically no schools in the true sense.Even the cultural and military studies of the children of the imperial nobles mainly depend on the parents to spend their own money to hire private teachers, but not everyone has the means to recruit good teachers, and teachers with good knowledge may not be good at teaching, and often make mistakes Parents are always worried when things happen to their children.

Now Princess Pingna has led the organization of such a group, which can rely on the power of the royal family to recruit experienced retired officers from the army who are good at leading troops to teach military skills and combat experience; seconded court scholars and precious books from the royal family to teach the royal family The cultural knowledge at the child level allows the children of the minor nobles who participate in it to also have access to teaching resources at the royal level.Even a child with a poor head can take this opportunity to meet the descendants of many wealthy and dignified people and expand his circle of contacts.It is even possible to find a suitable opposite sex from it and conclude a happy marriage.At the very least, you can control your own naughty children and not run out to cause trouble, which will save a lot of trouble for the parents.

For this reason, the Imperial Senate and Emperor Molt II issued the establishment and military flag to Princess Pinna's "Game Knights" a few years ago, and officially named it "Rose Knights". And the three teams of Huang Qiangwei, also equipped with barracks, training grounds and logistics institutions, thus becoming a semi-regular military education institution equivalent to the short-term military academy for the imperial nobles and the upper-class boy scouts.Although the veteran generals of the empire didn't take this seriously, some of the powerful children and retired military officers who were keen to pursue their careers saw the benefits hidden in it, or they simply took a fancy to the beauties in the knights, Ruyun, and crowded into the "Rose Knights" one after another. Instructor.The noble ladies of the empire also felt that this was a social occasion that was just as beneficial to finding a future son-in-law as balls and receptions, so they enthusiastically asked their daughters or younger sisters to join them.

In this way, Princess Pingna, the founder and head of the Rose Knights, became the host of a military salon in another world, the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, and perhaps also the owner of a marriage agency—even though it was only a young military academy, she still In the form of a short-term summer camp, and even Princess Pinna herself is not very clear about how to exert this rather subtle political influence, but it has actually shown some effects... For example, Emperor Molt II was in the last When leaving the capital, the reason why Princess Pinna was appointed as the regent was because she was the "Child King" in the Rose Knights, and had more or less good ties with the main nobles of the empire.Although those rebellious nobles still don't know how to listen to her little girl's instructions, but for the sake of their children still hanging out in the Rose Knights, they should also leave her with a bit of dignity...

Of course, in the final analysis, the Knights of the Rose is still a boy scout in essence, and it is also a boy scout of a noble girl with a delicate body.Although it cannot be said that there is no combat effectiveness at all, no one would think of sending this army to the battlefield unless it is a last resort.Since its establishment, the Rose Knights have only served as a guard of honor for several celebrations and sacrifices.Even at the moment when the imperial capital has turned into a vast ocean and domestic rebellions are rampant, the Senate has only given Rose Knight a relatively safe evacuation mission, and has no plans to let him participate in actual combat—as long as there is still Who would be willing to let their daughters and children go to the battlefield with a little room for diversion?

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Closer to home, in Ma Tong's guess, the "Rose Knights" should be a gorgeous combination like the women's gymnastics team or the AKB women's idol group.But in fact, in the city of Ita Rica, visitors from other worlds did see a lot of beautiful female knights with graceful figures and beautiful looks. The number of rough men and demi-humans was several times that of the female knights.

In this regard, senior sister Ma Tong couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Political commissar Guo felt that this was normal, and there was nothing unreasonable-"... Isn't this very normal! Originally, European knights in the middle ages of the earth did not just refer to military affairs. A person, but represents the most basic combat unit. A knight usually has several to a dozen horse or foot attendants to follow and serve, responsible for duty and night watch, and even serve as infantry and archers on the battlefield. Let the knight maximize his fighting power. Otherwise, if he is the only one without the help of his attendants, he may not even be able to wear the tin can armor! Moreover, his horse will soon be covered by the heavy full body armor overwhelmed...

At present, in this city, most of the knights who ride tall horses, look brightly armored, and have neat robes are indeed children and young girls.As for the adult men in the Rose Knights, most of them were poorly dressed and of low status. They were probably serving as attendants, servants, and foot soldiers—they were not members of the Knights, but just servants serving the members of the Knights.You see, after deducting these men who are not members of the Knights at all, the Rose Knights are indeed basically a troop of female knights..."

——In short, the Rose Knights is such a wonderful army with women and children serving as officers, and adult men serving as cannon fodder infantry.

Even so, because the empire at its peak during the expansion period was filled with an extremely strong atmosphere of martial admiration, the overall appearance of the Rose Knights did not degenerate to the level of the noble generals of the late Ming Dynasty that Wang Qiu and the others had seen.In addition, because the regular members of the Rose Knights are either rich or expensive, they have sufficient financial resources, and the armors, weapons and horses they are equipped with are also of the highest quality.Princess Pingna hired experienced retired military officers as instructors, so in general, this knight order still has a certain combat effectiveness.

When Wang Qiu and the others were wandering in the city, they saw a small group of female knights who were ordered to sweep the Appian Avenue and wipe out the bandits along the way. Limited, but Princess Pingna is still sending small troops to fight against bandits. On the one hand, it is to reopen trade routes and raise food, and on the other hand, it is also to accumulate some practical experience for the rookies under her command.At present, it seems that the actual combat performance of these new **** knights does not seem to be particularly disappointing.

Of course, even if this knight order still has a little combat power, it is still vulnerable to visitors from other worlds with rich combat experience.

"...A total of more than 100 knights, most of them are young women, and there are less than 500 adult male knights. There are about [-] attendants and infantry, but no priests or magicians accompanying the army have been found, nor Find any dragon riders flying on pterodactyls..."

Wang Qiu silently calculated the strength of the defenders in the city, and then he smiled, "...Actually, with just a few of us, we can kill the entire Knights and take down this city. Of course, with so many charms It would be such a pity to kill the beautiful knight of the world..."

"...Even if you don't use Doraemon's black technology props, the active equipment of the People's Liberation Army alone is enough to conquer this continent."

Hearing such vulgar words, Political Commissar Guo gave Wang Qiu an annoyed look, but he didn't blame anything—after having gone through so many weird plot worlds and experienced so many catastrophes , If you want to talk about noble and selfless ideological consciousness in another world, it seems a bit too hypocritical, "...But, don't forget, peace is the most important thing in everything. We are not here to fight, even if we need to make Some gestures of military deterrence are just bargaining chips for negotiating with foreign regimes. These powerful children of the Rose Knights may become a communication channel between us and the rulers of the empire... So if it is not a last resort, try not to It is better to kill easily."

"...Wait! Professor Guo, what do you mean? The country has mobilized so many troops to come to another world, but they don't want to fight?"

Regarding this, before Wang Qiu could respond, Ma Tong frowned and couldn't help but interjected, "...Is there anything wrong with this matter?"

"...Of course I'm not mistaken, we are not the kind of Long Aotian protagonist who shouts 'I can't help my fate' all day long, only knows how to fight and kill!"

Political Commissar Guo sighed, shook his head and spread his hands "...Actually, as far as I know, the central government has never intended to destroy or conquer this foreign empire. Our people's soldiers are not here to conquer this world Yes, because the 'gate' on Arnus Hill is not a permanent existence, but can only be opened for a few years. No matter how much land is laid down, the country cannot occupy it, and it is even too late to develop resources on a large scale. Therefore, this world is actually only of research value, unless hundreds of thousands of Chinese are willing to immigrate here permanently, like at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and are planning to establish a country here and achieve a hegemony... But Even so, the conquest of other worlds is only a matter for the immigrants themselves, and the country and the government have no obligation to do it for them—even in the late Ming plane, we never took the initiative to send the People's Liberation Army to attack the Qing army, Ming army and rogues! Those sites were conquered by the traversers themselves by recruiting troops and organizing troops..."

——Well, I have to admit, although from the perspective of a traverser, Commissar Guo’s attitude is obviously a bit useless—he clearly has the military strength to crush the entire continent, but he is so timid, and peace is the most important... However, considering the actual situation of the Time-Space Gate, from the perspective of a national civil servant, Political Commissar Guo's point of view is very reasonable, taking into account the interests of the country and the government to the greatest extent...

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In addition to observing the military appearance and composition of the Rose Knights as carefully as possible, Wang Qiu and the others were a little surprised to notice a subtle sign: Needless to say, those demihumans who have suffered discrimination and abuse have a perception of the empire .Even the citizens living in the city lacked a sense of identity and respect for the imperial regime in their speech. When it came to the great flood that destroyed the imperial capital and the imperial civil war that broke out across the Romanian mountains, most of the citizens gloated.It feels like a colonial Indian talking about a world war in Europe.

However, this is not an overseas colony far away from the center of the empire, but a transportation hub only 200 kilometers away from the imperial capital!

For this reason, Wang Qiu and the others asked the girl magician Lelai and the old village head of Gota Village, and combined with the information they had already collected, they came to a vague guess—although from the perspective of the entire continent, the imperial capital The city of Urrabianca is roughly located in the south-central position of the Farmat continent, but in fact, the core hinterland where the citizens of the empire live is in the southeastern part of the continent.For a long time, the location of the imperial capital was already the westernmost border of the empire.In the farther west of the imperial capital, the human kingdom on the other side of the Romanian mountains, although they are all human beings, are already very different culturally from the core ethnic group of the empire, which is roughly equivalent to the difference between the Catholic camp and the Orthodox camp in Europe. huge

Therefore, the empire's relocation of the capital to the current location is really a bit of a feeling of "the emperor guarding the country"-of course, it is not passively beaten like the capital of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, but the whole country like Peter the Great of Tsarist Russia who moved his capital to St. Petersburg. Strategic offensive in azimuth... And after a few centuries, the empire has indeed defeated all its opponents and become the supreme overlord of the entire Farmat continent.

But the problem is that while military conquest was rapid, national and cultural integration was not so rapid.Therefore, just like the Tsarist Russian Empire whose capital was later established in St. Petersburg, the imperial capital of this alien empire, Urabianka, was surrounded by people who lacked a sense of identity with the empire.Either it is the conquered people of the former defeated country that lacks a sense of identity with the empire, or it is the vassal state that has been beaten half to death but still refuses to accept it—it can be roughly compared to the countries that joined the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries in the red camp of Eastern Europe. Put the capital of the empire in the encirclement of potential hostile forces.

Among them, the old village head of Gota Village and most of the people in the entire village are the fugitive survivors of a small kingdom that was destroyed by the empire.The blue-haired girl magician, Lelai, belongs to a special ethnic group called the Ruruds. It is equivalent to a gypsy in a different world, and has almost zero sense of identity with any country.

In other words, if the Chinese want to find potential anti-imperial forces to act as allies, or at least win over neutral forces to act as leading parties and brokers, there are already a large group of people around the imperial capital and the "gate". A pleasing piece of good news.

"...I feel that the situation of the empire is really similar to Tsarist Russia! The imperial capital Ula Bianca, located at the eastern foot of the Romanian Mountains and adjacent to the blue sea, is equivalent to St. Petersburg, and the Vermar County at the western foot of the Romanian Mountains is equivalent to the three countries of the Baltic Sea. One, the Elbe Kingdom in the south, which has been an enemy of the empire for many years and was only recently conquered, is Sweden or Poland. As for the territory further west of the empire, it is already equivalent to a colony. A huge prison where many nationalities are imprisoned? The attributives used to describe Tsarist Russia seem to apply to the empire as well."

Wang Qiu took out a stick figure map of the mainland provided by Leilei, frowned and muttered, "...the real traditional territory of the empire is actually in the east of the imperial capital, south of the Headhunting Grassland, and is now occupied by the rebel army of the First Prince ... Is this ... Moscow against St. Petersburg?"

"...Hearing what you said, it really seems like this. If the empire is Tsarist Russia, then what are the headhunting rabbits on the grassland?"

The traveler, the headhunting bunny girl Di Ya, leaned over with great interest and asked, "...is it equivalent to the Mongols in this world?"

"...Come on! With such a pitiful strength of the headhunting rabbit tribe, it is too far behind the Mongols, right?"

Wang Qiu glanced at her, "...At best, it is at the level of the Siberian indigenous tribes..."

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In this way, a group of traversers from another world, after carefully disguised, under the guidance of the world's leading party, successfully sneaked into a foreign city closest to the gate of time and space, and collected enough information. And left safely and smoothly.

No matter from which point of view, the entire reconnaissance operation can be described as extremely successful.

However, when they returned to the place of departure three days after the trip with a relaxed mood, and were about to report to the leaders of the relevant departments at the higher level, they were stunned for a while by the huge changes that appeared in front of them. ,transfixed.

Because, just three days later, on the wilderness where Mount Arnus is located, an unprecedentedly magnificent city has appeared...

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PS: The latest archaeological evidence shows that ancient humans first learned to make wine with things like wild berries and grass seeds, and then the earliest agriculture slowly appeared.In other words, long before the birth of human civilization, there were alcoholics... How should we evaluate this?Human inferiority?