Episode 70 Directorate Government – Guardian of the Revolution (2)
Raphael Balian, who was at the Northern Army headquarters, was receiving the report with an expression of disbelief.
“what?”
“That’s it. “It is said that the prepared accusation was canceled because Bishop Richelieu suddenly fell into a coma.”
“What kind of bullshit is that?”
An old man who was fine until morning is suddenly in a coma?
It may seem absurd, but what happened happened.
Balian desperately stretched out his hand and pulled out his bishop that was lying on the chessboard and laid it down.
At the most optimal time, everything was going perfectly as planned, but the bishop who was supposed to win the most important cause failed like this?
Even if you are unlucky, how can it not be like this?
“her.”
A laugh escaped me.
According to the plan, Bishop Richelieu would have accused the National Assembly of election fraud, used his personal connections to incite the citizens, and led the army to dissolve the National Assembly.
While the Marquis de Lafayette is away, if the National Assembly is accused of election fraud and is dissolved, a prepared new constitution is announced, and an election is held, the people who are disappointed with the National Assembly will support him, the hero of the republic.
Once I took over power, I was planning to try to appease Lafayette, and if that didn’t work, I would have no choice but to purge him along with Richelieu…
“I’ll be thrilled.”
If this happens, the justification itself becomes insufficient. Is it possible to back off now?
If things went wrong, he intended to blame Richelieu, but Richelieu ended up like that.
If we release Dejet now, saying it was a misunderstanding, can we just pretend it never happened? Why is it so simple when there is no one to take responsibility for?
I never thought it would turn out so unluckily.
Could something like this happen at a time like this simply due to bad luck?
“Your Excellency Commander!”
Balian’s worries were cut off by his subordinate’s report.
“what?”
“It is said that an emergency standby order has been issued to each unit of the Confederate Army!”
“what? how?”
Louis Desget has already been secured.
What if there is no one in command who can issue orders to the entire Confederate army?
“The order was issued in the name of the Marquis de La Lafayette…”
“What?”
The Marquis de Lafayette definitely left the capital.
He acted only after receiving a report to Jeonseo-gu that the Marquis had personally moved with them and moved away from the capital through Sejak, who had infiltrated the procession accompanying the envoys.
There is no way that the marquis, who was on his way to conclude formal diplomatic negotiations, could already return to the capital, and even if he could, he would not have done such a thing.
They managed to pass the diplomatic relations with the support of the Revolutionary Party despite opposition from their own faction, the Central Party, but they broke it again through their own arbitrariness?
If he did something like that, the Marquis’ political career would be over.
Then what?
“under.”
There is only one person who can do this.
A man whom everyone knows that Pierre de Lafayette trusts implicitly.
Balian’s eyes turned to the chessboard.
As a queen standing tall on the enemy’s side.
An order has been prepared in advance in Lafayette’s name, and if the Count of Aquitaine issues it, the southern army will ignore the chain of command and follow the Marquis de Lafayette’s orders.
There was clearly an opponent sitting on the chessboard he had prepared just for entertainment and fun.
Emergency standby order? It was an order that did not need to be given.
It wasn’t that they were trying to do something with the Confederate army, but they were showing that they could do something.
That order is a declaration of war.
A demonstration that they already know what he is doing and have no intention of just letting him go like this.
Bad luck?
Balian was certain at this moment.
That black witch clearly read their intentions and eliminated Richelieu in order to hinder them.
I don’t know what they did, but they even included a warning that he too could end up in the same way.
“Your Excellency Commander…?”
Balian looked at his men gathered here and burst into laughter.
“Ha ha ha ha ha! “That’s cool!”
“dismissal?”
Didn’t you think that they would be disappointed and sad if they suffered without knowing anything?
Goosebumps ran through Balian’s whole body.
Indeed, the Marquis de Lafayette dared to lure him away from Raphael Balian.
He believed that he would win and made the woman he had been around so much sit at this chessboard.
Balian sat down in front of the chessboard.
“Okay, let’s give it a try.”
Balian raised his pawn in salute to his enemies who had cornered him.
“Now, where do you think we’ve come this far?”
* * *
Eastern Lorraine, Kingdom of Francia.
Alexandre Werther, who received Raphael Balian’s orders, departed leading the main force of the Northern Army deployed in the border area.
Now that the wartime mobilization order has been lifted, there are only a small number of troops stationed in Lumiere, regardless of whether it is the Northern Army or the Southern Army.
Most of the elite troops who had experienced the previous war were deployed in the border area with the Germanian Empire.
phone. It is the most insignificant of chess pieces and is not of much help right away, but it is the final hidden card that can become any piece once it reaches the end of the chessboard.
The border guard of the northern army led by Werther was the pawn that Balian had called in in case of emergency.
And the commander, Werther, was looking at the road with an arrogant frown on his face.
To be precise, it was Count Damien de Mirbeau who was standing awkwardly on that road, scratching his head.
“Count Mirbeau. “What on earth are you doing now?”
“It’s training, it’s training. Haha.”
Werther slowly turned his head and looked at the southern soldiers who were blocking the road and sitting here and there, leisurely killing time.
“What kind of training are you talking about by sitting still and blocking the road, not even on the side of the road?…”
“Oh, I’m going to feed the kids. Wouldn’t it be a lunch box for training? haha.”
Damien spoke very shamelessly, and Werther once again looked at the southern troops who were leisurely killing time.
“No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like you’re eating.”
“We were supposed to start with training and receive food later, but it looks like they are a little late. “I’ll have to pay tribute later!”
“No, then just make way for our troops to pass and you can eat later-”
“Yes? “After all the hard training, I finally made him take a break to eat, so what kind of criticism would I get if I delayed eating?”
Can’t you even see our military that’s cursing you guys right now?
Werther swallowed the words that had filled his throat with difficulty and then spit them out.
“If you don’t get out of the way right now, the Northern Army will-”
But before he could finish his sentence, the Southern Army’s meal arrived.
“Oh there you are! I’m here! Children! “Bob has arrived!”
“Oh oh oh oh-!”
Werther was on the verge of throwing a tantrum when he saw the Confederate soldiers openly lighting a fire, preparing to eat, and starting to forget their packed lunches.
‘Shall we wipe out the damn sin?’
I don’t know if information was leaked or what, but it seems clear that the Southern army jumped out without proper equipment or supplies compared to the well-prepared Northern army.
But Werther took a deep breath and calmed his anger.
In any case, only he and a very small number of Northern Army leaders are aware of Balian’s coup attempt.
If you order to attack your allies out of nowhere, your subordinates may become agitated and it could easily lead to a civil war.
That is not a matter he can decide on his own. If you do anything wrong, Balian in the capital will accuse you of treason.
In the end, Werther had to grit his teeth and send a messenger to the capital asking for the policy.
Of course, Damien was comfortable.
As I watched my men leisurely blocking the road and forgetting their lunch boxes, I was trembling with fear that the northern army might attack.
As soon as Christine learned that the northern army headquarters had sent a messenger to the east, she dispatched the messenger to Damian of the southern army in the east.
Of course, that was the only way to respond, so of course it had to be late, and upon seeing the order sent by Christine, Damien was so shocked that he hurriedly dragged out unprepared troops and blocked the road.
‘The Count of Aquitaine, that witch-like woman!’
Damien trembled as he recalled Christine’s threat written in the order.
She had forgotten when she gave up her rights to the County of Mirbeau and joined the revolutionary government, but when she was first taken prisoner by the Marquis de Lafayette, she had the right to tax that she had taken from him.
Christine ordered him to do whatever it took to stop the Northern army, threatening to charge him an amount equivalent to his tax rights if he failed.
Thanks to this, Damien de Mirbeau trembled with sorrow and fear and began to desperately think about how to further hinder the Northern Army.
Of course, it was his own profit.
* * *
Lumiere is in the afternoon as a fierce battle continues.
Raphael Balian was sitting in the Northern Army command center, glaring at the chessboard.
Balian eventually had no choice but to acknowledge the other person.
If it were a tactical fight on the battlefield, I wouldn’t lose.
However, what is happening now is ultimately a battle of cards prepared in the areas of information warfare and politics.
At most, the Marquis de Lafayette’s political partner and lover, whom he regarded as his lover, is responding astutely as if he had predicted everything he could do in advance.
In the end, Balian decided that there was nothing he could do and gave orders to secure Christine Daquitaine.
In the chain of command, it is possible to somehow cover up Louis Desget, who belongs to the same military and is a subordinate, even if it is unreasonable, based on his position, but if he arbitrarily arrests the Count of Aquitaine, a member of the National Assembly, by framing him, it will never be possible to get away with it.
It was heartbreaking for Balian, who deep down did not recognize anyone other than the Marquis de Lafayette as an opponent, but that terrible woman eventually brought him down to a position where he could not move unless he did something.
“Your Excellency Commander!”
Balian, who saw the expression on the face of the adjutant who hurriedly entered and saluted, frowned, then smiled and asked.
“What kind of rain are you going to see again?”
“A messenger from General Nicolas heading to the Aquitaine mansion has arrived. “That’s…”
“Say it quickly. “Because I’m busy.”
“The saint is performing in front of the Aquitaine mansion, so there is no time to squeeze through the crowd…”
“Huh. Hahahahaha! “It’s awesome!”
Using a saint as a shield?
As Raphael was laughing, the adjutant looked at him and asked.
“Your general asks if you should just forcefully suppress and secure it. What should I say?”
“it’s crazy? Tell them to withdraw. “You must never touch a saint.”
Even if the coup is successful, the Marquis de Lafayette, who is blinded, decides to die with her, making it difficult for her to sleep well at night.
So, I sent it to you with the solemn promise that even if you secure Christine Dakiten, you must not harm her even a single hair.
But in front of the citizens, he touches a saint who is loved by the entire nation and even his subordinates? It is no different from suicide.
“Hahahaha….”
Raphael Balian laughed as he picked up the enemy bishop from the chessboard and placed it next to the queen.
“Hey, is this completely checked? “How long did she figure out our plan?”
“Your Excellency Commander!”
Balian laughed at the call of another subordinate.
“What is it again this time?”
“They say the National Assembly has been convened. I think it’s because of the events that happened today…”
“Haha…”
There’s nothing strange.
The acting commander of the Confederate Army was captured by the Northern Army, and although it did not start a civil war, the continued war of nerves and fighting with Christine D’Aquitaine continued to the point where people knew, even if they did not like it, that something was going on in the capital.
“I rather like it.”
Balian got up and put on his hat.
I admit it. On this side, that woman is a monster.
But it would be different if it were a fight between armies.
Did that woman push herself like this because she had the confidence to handle herself?
It is not normal for someone to feel alive even though they are clearly in a corner.
“Your Excellency Commander?”
“Assemble the troops. ”
“Yes old!I understand!”
Now that things have come to this, we must forcibly dissolve the National Assembly and force a breakthrough.
Even if it means giving up the plan to create a beautiful appearance supported by the citizens through elections, they must take control of state affairs and neutralize the Confederate army before the Marquis de Lafayette returns.
He had planned to avoid civil war at all costs, but Balian put even that out of his mind at this moment.
Even if blood is shed, this country should be ruled by a greater hero, not an incompetent and self-destructive Congress.
Either gain everything or lose everything.
“Okay, the die is cast.”
