Arc of Gunfire

Chapter 313 Engagement Ceremony

If we just try it, there shouldn't be any harm.

So he said to His Majesty Belinsky: "Maybe I can talk to them."

Belinsky was overjoyed: "The officers of Plossen have a good impression of you. You can talk to them and it is indeed possible to persuade them to rebel."

Wang Zhong: "No, most of the officers should be nobles, right? They should not betray the country for various reasons. I can talk to the soldiers of Plossen, especially those civilians from the lower class."

Belinsky raised his eyebrows and asked curiously: "First of all, I am not questioning your ability, I am just curious about how you plan to start."

Olga was also listening expectantly on the side, and it seemed that she was really eager to know what Wang Zhong was going to do.

Wang Zhong: "I plan to start from two directions. First, I have witnessed a lot of atrocities of the Plossen army. People with conscience must be very tormented in the Plossen army. I plan to find these people.

"Second, most of the dividends of Plossen's expansion must have been left in the upper class. As long as the lower-level soldiers realize that the benefits they have gained from fighting on the battlefield have been swallowed up by the upper class, it will be fine.

"We need to make them understand that surrender is not treason. The real traitors are the generals who started the war and used the blood of the people of Prosen to buy their own extravagant lives.

"They should organize the Prosen People's Army, fight back to the motherland, and send the emperor to the guillotine."

Although Belinsky was well-informed, he opened his mouth wide after hearing Wang Zhong's words: "This... I just asked you to find a way to let the Prosen people enter our factory to produce things with peace of mind. You actually want to form a Prosen People's Army?"

Wang Zhong: "I just said that there is such a possibility. The Prosen people will definitely try to form a puppet army as cannon fodder."

Bishop Lafkid had been listening to the conversation between the people. At this time, he suddenly said: "They did organize it. According to the intelligence we obtained, many Ante people in the occupied large cities such as Agsukov and Roniezh have become puppet soldiers and puppet police.

"In addition, the insider of the prisoner-of-war camp also sent intelligence that a Khazarian went to the place where the local prisoners of war in Khazaria were held every day to mobilize the prisoners to join the Khazarian Free Army.

"There is also intelligence that the enemy has recruited 15 battalions of puppet troops from our surrendered troops and named them the Eastern Battalions."

Wang Zhong: "Look, since the Prosens can form the Eastern Battalion, we can also establish such a force. Of course, we cannot rule out that some people pretend to surrender and then turn against us on the battlefield. We have to carefully identify them.

"In addition, we can rely on building a sense of collective honor to avoid such individual defections."

Belinsky looked Wang Zhong up and down again: "You make sense. Popov submitted a very detailed report called "Observation of General Rokossov's Working Methods", which carefully introduced your working methods and believed that these methods were more effective than ten thousand sermons.

"I read the description of your working methods in the report, which is very good. I have ordered this report to be handed down to each bishop accompanying the army as an official document and fully implemented.

"Now you are actually planning to incite the Plosen prisoners to rebel and establish the Plosen People's Army?"

Wang Zhong: "It's just an idea, it may not be achieved."

Belinsky was shocked: "Okay, I'll give you a note tomorrow, you go to the prisoner-of-war camp and try it as much as you can. It doesn't matter if you fail. I didn't expect to do such an outrageous thing."

He paused and changed the subject: "Now let's discuss your engagement ceremony. It's ready here."

Wang Zhong: "Then let's start quickly."

Belinsky: "Won't you wait for the guests?"

As soon as the voice fell, a military vehicle drove along the road inside the manor.

Belinsky: "Look!"

Olga stretched her neck to look at the approaching car and asked: "Whose car do you think this is?"

Wang Zhong had already used the plug-in to check who was sitting in the approaching car, so he said confidently: "It's Turgenev and his adjutant."

The car approached, and Olga recognized the people in the back row before Lyudmila: "It's really Turgenev! Is your eyesight so good?"

No, I just turned on the plug-in.

Wang Zhong: "Of course, how can you spot the enemy's general from such a distance with poor eyesight?

Actually, Wang Zhong was talking about the first time he commanded the T34W to counterattack in Loktov.

But Belinsky thought it was a joke and laughed.

Wang Zhong laughed too, after all, the matter of plug-in cannot be said openly.

Before the Patriarch finished laughing, another jeep came, full of air force pilots.

The driver was Drachenko Grigoevich, the commander of the 4th Attack Aircraft Regiment, and the back seat of the jeep was filled with people like Indians, all pilots.

Wang Zhong hurriedly shouted: "Drachenko! If you flip the car like this, the pilots of a regiment will be written off, you have to be responsible!"

Drachenko: "I will be dead by then, how can I be responsible?"

Wang Zhong: "I'm not kidding, don't be frivolous, be serious! Stop the car, get off, pay attention to traffic safety! Even if you die, you should die in the sky! Don't waste your life in a car accident!"

Drachenko turned around and said to the pilots: "Did you hear that! General Rokossov wants us to die in the sky! Remember, next time if you are hit by the bullets of the Prosons and there happens to be an enemy-occupied area below, don't parachute, rush down and find a tank to crash into! Remember to empty your bullets before the collision! "

The pilots were excited: "This is what we were planning to do!"

"You can't be captured even if you die!"

Belinsky: "This is not good. You should come back as soon as possible. You can still escape when you get to the prisoner of war camp!"

Wang Zhong: "Also, even if you have to hit it, don't hit the tank. You may be able to damage the tank, but the Prosen people are very capable of repairing it and can repair it in a few days.

"No, don't choose a tank as a target. You should hit the oil, which is easy to catch fire and explode. There are also ammunition depots that are good."

Drachenko: "The general thinks our target was poorly chosen! What do you say?"

"Then don't hit the tank. The general is an expert in this field!"

"Yes, hit the fuel!"

Wang Zhong: "But remember the premise for doing this: that is, you are sure that there is no way to parachute and land on friendly forces' positions. To survive, you must ensure survival."

The pilots looked at each other, and finally Drachenko spoke on behalf of everyone: "Got it, General!"

Wang Zhong: "Speaking of which, how did you know that I was engaged today?"

"What Vasily said was yesterday at the Officers' Club in the city, the one next to the Grand Theater." Drachenko said.

Wang Zhong turned to look for Vasily and found that the boy had escaped.

Drachenko: "General, please spare Vasily, he just wants to make the girl happy!"

Good boy, make the girl happy with things about me, just wait!

Wang Zhong opened the book of hatred and made a note to Vasily that he would wear small shoes for him one day.

Just then more cars came and drove into the manor.

From Wang Zhong's perspective, a large number of soldiers with names were running towards him, just like starting to spawn monsters when it was time in a tower defense game.

Also, both the Patriarch and the Tsar came, and now everyone in the city knew that Rokosov was getting engaged.

The senior executives who don't go to the Rokosov Manor now are either the kind who have to be on duty at key positions, or they have something wrong with them.

Wang Zhong saw this posture and asked Lyudmila for her opinion: "Why don't we postpone it for an hour? This way there won't be any embarrassment if someone fails to catch up."

Lyudmila nodded: "Okay. You come to receive the gentlemen, and I will entertain their women."

Wang Zhong gave a thumbs up.

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An hour later, the engagement ceremony finally began. The originally prepared ceremony venue was simply not enough, so it was moved to the large ballroom of the manor - because Wang Zhong rarely held dances after taking over the manor, the ballroom had been idle for a long time.

In addition, the manor has reduced the number of maids, and areas that are not in use are generally not cleaned. The ballroom has also been left here to collect dust for a long time, and now it is temporarily cleaned.

Although the ceremony was temporarily moved to a ballroom, the secular priests who came with the Patriarch were all professionals and quickly built a very formal altar in the ballroom.

The ceremony personnel were also arranged according to the highest standards. There were four priests ringing the bells, standing at the four corners of the altar.

Belinsky put on his solemn robe, stood on the altar, and looked at the guests.

Even the unruly pilots lowered their heads.

Because it was just an engagement and there was no admission, Wang Zhong and Lyudmila stood directly in front of the altar.

Belinsky began to pray: "Today, under everyone's gaze, another new couple came together because of their common interests. I witnessed the germination and growth of their love. I know that this is not just caused by the joy of reproduction. Illusion!”

Wang Zhong wondered if this sermon was a bit strange.

Where is the Lord? Don’t you mention the Lord even a word in your sermon?

You secularists are too secular, right?

"Now, with everyone's witness and blessing, they make a sacred oath!"

As he spoke, a priest held a square plate covered with velvet, with two rings on it.

Because Wang Zhong is from Seris, he thinks of red when it comes to engagement, and is a little uncomfortable seeing blue velvet.

Belinsky came to the two of them and put the engagement rings on the ring fingers of their right hands.

Eastern Saints engagement rings are worn on the ring finger of the right hand by both men and women.

Belinsky: "May everyone bless you!"

It’s everyone, not the Lord.

In a world where there are miracles, where God is not mentioned once in church prayers, who is St. Andrew who founded secularism?

Isn't he a fellow countryman?

Wang Zhong muttered in his heart.

At this time, Belinsky completed the last step and tapped the foreheads of Wang Zhong and Lyudmila respectively with his fingers dipped in holy water.

Belinsky: "I'm looking forward to the day when your children will be baptized."

As soon as Wang Zhong heard about baptism, he thought of the classic montage in "The Godfather". On one side, a child is baptized, and the new generation of godfathers played by Al Pacino solemnly swears in the hymn. On the other side, the thugs attack cleanly and kill the child. All the enemies of the Leoni family were wiped out.

Wang Zhong: "I'm looking forward to it too."

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