Chapter 283 It's entirely possible!
In this small room, the sound of silver coins colliding could be heard repeatedly, accompanied by the rustling sound of account books turning pages.

The financial activities of the entire Grand Rapids City are concentrated in this small area.

Since mid-February, the Magdeburg Chamber of Commerce has taken over virtually all activities of the Rapid City Council, especially finances.

It was almost completely moved to the headquarters of the Magdi Chamber of Commerce and stepped into the red tower.

After all, Catherine, the hostess of the Magdi Chamber of Commerce, is now the interim ruler of Rapid City and the commander of the Rapid Army.

In Rapid City's current war cabinet, four of the six people are Catherine's people.

During this period, citizens and craftsmen have been actively raising funds and contributing manpower to expand the military force, purchase weapons and equipment, and repair the city walls.

The first batch of 1200 Fran mercenaries have arrived in Rapids City via Kasha County.

Today, Rapid City has a 2000-man city guard, 1200 Fran mercenaries, 1400 mountain mercenaries, and Catherine's own 900-man direct guard.

At the beginning, she relied on the cavalry of her direct guard to seize the city gate of Rapid City and drowned the mayor originally appointed by the church in a water tank.

After that, Catherine quickly hired a 1400-man mountain mercenary army, and cooperated with the black knights bought from Darnay to raid and defeat the Temple Knights stationed nearby, thus securing her position.

In the past few days, Carter and Mitternich have been running around, using both soft and hard tactics and building up momentum, and with the support of the Aiel people, they have successfully gained the allegiance of half of Lower River County.

Currently, the southwestern part of Rapids City bordering Cassia County is basically under Catherine's rule.

Rather than domination, this relationship is more like vassalage and subjugation.

However, this was only temporary. The church was simply caught off guard by the successive uprisings. The next six months would be the period that would determine its fate.

As the logistics director of the Rapids Army, Pettier had heard Lady Catherine's analysis of the situation in the previous meeting, so he naturally did not dare to slack off.

Holding a slide rule and aligning the multipliers, Pettier did mental arithmetic while sorting the accounts into categories and putting them in order.

"Come here, come here, I have something nice here..."

"What is this? Is this the new "Sister in Distress"? "

"Even more exciting than The Nun's Tragedy, it's the battle report from Jeanne d'Arc!"

Putting down the slide rule, Pettier rubbed his eyes, walked around the wooden table and came to the clerk at the door who was responsible for receiving and sending letters.

"what happened?"

"It's the battle report from the Salvation Army of Jeanne d'Arc."

Fort Jeanne, the Salvation Army?
Pettier had heard the name before; he had often heard it from his friends during the months he had been ill and bedridden.

It is said that they are a group of peasant rebels who escaped from the Blackbone Swamp.

A company of imperial orders was stationed at Fort Joan of Arc for the express purpose of arresting these peasant rebels.

Since it is a battle report, does that mean they were wiped out?
Fort Jeanne is located behind Rapid City. If the Saviors who are holding back the Imperial Order Company are destroyed, they will be the next.

"Give me Kangkang!"

Snatching the battle report from his subordinate, Pettier reached out and grabbed the report, reading it quickly.

But after a few glances, he suddenly leaned his head towards the paper, his eyes almost sticking to it.

"Mr. Pettier, is there a word you don't know?"

There was an immediate sound of amusing laughter nearby. Pettier had an easy-going personality and got along well with his subordinates.

But today he did not laugh along. Instead, he pointed at a name and asked sleepwalkingly, "Horn Garrar, is this the real name of the Pope?"

"Yes, didn't you know?"

"I've been sick since July last year, and I've been recovering ever since. I joined the Rapid City Citizen Guard in February after I recovered...So the leader of the Savior Army is Horn Garrar, isn't his name Hoss Garrar?"

"No, that's his uncle."

"His uncle's name is Segar, how come it became Hoss?"

Several subordinates looked at each other, and one of them asked tentatively: "Do you know him?"

"More than just knowing each other, he and I were both accounting apprentices at the Grocers Guild. We rented a loft and slept together for more than a year!"

As Pettier responded, he continued to read the battle report. He read it several times before falling into his chair in disbelief.

"How could he do this? He is the Holy Grandson, he..."

This kind of excitement is like knowing that your adopted roommate who slept on the lower bunk in college and used to tap his toes every day and then get beaten with a reed pipe has become a warlord in Southeast Asia half a year after graduation.

Who can take it easy?
Before Pettier could recover, Carl pushed the door open with the fresh battle report. "Impossible, this is impossible!"

Behind him followed the smug Sissi, who was wearing a smart, slim-fitting hunting suit. He was clearly a man wearing men's clothes, but no matter how you looked at it, he looked like a woman dressed as a man.

"It's entirely possible." Sissi greeted the confused Pettier and followed Carter upstairs. "Ask Lady Catherine, and you'll get the same result."

Ignoring Sissi, Carl stubbornly went upstairs and came to Catherine's office.

Catherine did not sit in the office, but sat in the tea room outside the office, talking about a booklet with Brother Martin from the Blago Monastery.

Seeing Karl rushing over, Catherine knew what was going on at a glance. Before Karl could speak, she said directly:
"They're not kidding you. I've confirmed it. It's real." Catherine pointed to the office. "The heads of three Knights of the Imperial Order are inside. I hope this will break your prejudice."

Karl was hit hard by Catherine. He hummed twice, walked quickly to the door of the room, hesitated for half a second, and then pushed the door open.

"What do you in the Blago Monastery think of this holy grandson? His identity as the Pope..." Catherine asked casually.

"Dean Juanno once said that if it is good for the Thousand River Valley, then we should believe it." Picking up the book "Salvation Instructions", Martin flipped through it casually. "We may not be able to clearly prove that he is the Pope, but we can deny that he is the devil."

"As long as he keeps winning and denies that he is the devil, then he can only be the saint's grandson and the pope." Picking up the porcelain teacup with swirling floral leaves, Catherine took a sip of the steaming black tea and stuffed the biscuit into her mouth.

Holding the statue of the holy figure, Martin smiled without saying anything.

The mahogany door that had been closed before opened again, and Karl walked out like a sleepwalker, followed by Sissi with a smirk on her face:
"How is it? It's true, isn't it?"

"That's 100 Knights of the Imperial Order. If I could see it with my own eyes..."

"That won't do." Catherine put down the teacup gracefully and stretched lazily. "I still need you to help me deal with those half-hearted knights and the coalition forces of the northern temple knights."

Karl sat down on the chair: "I never thought that the biggest hidden danger behind us would be solved by this group of farmers...the Savior Army."

"Yes." Catherine swept the biscuit crumbs on her knees to the ground, and a smile appeared on her face that had been worried for several days. "This way, those scum knights will be more stable, and we can finally get rid of them."

At that time, Catherine's minimum hope was that the Salvation Army would entangle the Order Company, and the highest hope was to defeat the Order Company and drive them out.

But the Salvation Army gave everyone a big surprise.

Not only did the imperial edict only leave a few dozen squires and knights escaping, but even the royal knights were driven away.

There is a huge difference between defeating and annihilating!

Under the current circumstances, as long as Catherine can successfully open up the road to the east.

Then Longsand County, North County, South Mound County, Lower River County and Kasha County can be connected immediately.

The fierce mountaineers of North and South Mound counties, the food of Ibe Plain and Kasha County, and the secret party army of Black Snake Bay in the south can advance continuously.

If we can just connect the middle part together, all will be fine if we remove all the edicts of Joan of Arc.

You can advance directly to Feiliu Castle, or retreat north to join forces with Meliati.

By then, the number of troops in the battle will reach 9. Currently, Prince Kongdai’s 8 imperial companies, oh no, imperial companies, have seen this and they have to think carefully whether to take action.

The Kingdom of Leia is currently on the brink of civil war and is unable to take care of them.

Qianhe Valley’s dream of independence has never been so close!

Unfortunately, the teacher couldn’t see it. Catherine’s expression suddenly dimmed and the teacher couldn’t see it.

"It's getting late. I should go." Martin stood up, made the sign of the cross, and bowed to Catherine.

Sissi smiled and handed him the backpack: "Is Dean Ludwig so anxious? He came here just now and asked you to go back?"

"No, I'm not going back." Martin stuffed the booklet into his backpack. "I'm going to Jeanne d'Arc to see with my own eyes how Lord Horn plans to build a world like the one in The Way of the Savior."

After saying goodbye to a few people, Martin put on his hood and disappeared into the stairwell.

Looking at Martin's departing back, Catherine suddenly spoke up: "Sissi, what does this Saint Sun Horn like to do? Does he have any living relatives or friends? Is he married?

So, you make a list of these, the more detailed the better, and give it to Mitternich tomorrow, um, before tonight.

You will prepare tomorrow and go to Fort Jeanne the day after tomorrow to discuss with the respected Lord Horn how to attack the church forces in Gouhu Township."

If this Savior Army really has the strength to defeat the Imperial Order Company, then as long as we win them over, wouldn't we have the power to balance the existence of Meliati?
In this era, whoever controls violence has the most say.

"Ah?" Xixi blinked. "I have to go to the port to clear customs this afternoon."

"It won't run away if it's two days late." Katherine pinched Sissi's shoulders and said earnestly, "You have to prioritize when doing things."

(End of this chapter)