Chapter 1287 Smoker’s Resolution and the Four Seas (Two in One)
"Luce, what do you think about me applying to the headquarters to be transferred to the garrison branch in the Grand Waterway?" Smoker said to a sergeant under his command.
It was already the third day after the Revolutionary Army attacked Rogge Town and the Straw Hats entered the Grand Channel.
The navy in Rogge Town was vulnerable in the hands of suspected revolutionary army cadres, but... the official statement at this time, or the official news received, was that the Straw Hats broke through the Rogge Town defense line and attacked the revolutionary army. Not much was mentioned - just the fact that he almost killed Colonel Daschi.
As for Guan Liyuan's rank in the revolutionary army, the official understanding should be something like "a grassroots cadre of the revolutionary army"...
Yes, although Guan Liyuan expressed his identity as a "retired veteran cadre" in front of Smoker, it was obvious that Smoker did not report it truthfully for some purpose.
Moreover, the other marines present at the time were all knocked unconscious by Guan Liyuan, so it was all due to Smoker's mouth - as for the reason why the navy fainted, it was also attributed to the fruit ability!
Because after the navy woke up, they still had symptoms of nausea and dizziness, which were not exactly the same as the Overlord's Haki. Therefore, the Navy headquarters did not see Guan Liyuan releasing the Overlord's Haki, so there was no doubt about it.
Dasqi also received timely treatment. Now her injuries have stabilized and she survived being stabbed through the heart. The navy doctor also had to say that this was unlucky...
At the same time, even when her life was in danger, Dasqi still put the navy's responsibilities as a top priority, which also won the approval of Smoker and reported it to the headquarters.
As for being killed instantly... Although it was a bit embarrassing, it was a gap in hard power after all, and Dasqi was still very young, so instead of being punished, she was commended as a positive figure.
It is said that during this time of near-death, Dasqi had a more thorough understanding of the "iron block", and it may not take long for him to reach a state where his foundation is solid and his domineering power is self-generated.
At the same time, Smoker had been somewhat silent in the past three days. The navy in Rogge Town only thought that he was in a bad mood after being slapped in the face, but they did not know that Smoker had been studying the charts these days. ——Although the part about the Grand Line is not accurate, it at least has a general "meaning".
That day, Smoker called Staff Sergeant Loos, pointed and drew a circle on the map, and told him his decision!
Russ looked at the map and found that Smoker was pointing to the Kalez Island area, which belongs to the middle and front part of the first half of the Great Channel. Further forward is one of the largest divisions of the Navy - the G8 Fortress Division, and the Seventh The sea train business district is centered on the city of water.
Backwards...there is no explicit "backwards"!
Although in the first half of the Great Channel, in theory, if there is no "permanent pointer", it needs to be advanced island by island in order, divided into seven routes.
However, due to the existence of empty islands and other islands that are difficult to land on, the routes are often not coherent, and many times it is impossible to "start from one to the end". Although there are seven starting points, there are often more than seven parallel routes, and sometimes there are less than seven. Seven parallel routes.
The location of Kalez Island is rather awkward. The former island is an uninhabited island, and because it is difficult to land on, it can only be landed with a permanent pointer or with a fixed ocean current twice a year, so it belongs to the Great Channel. relatively remote islands.
If there was a permanent pointer, it would not be far from the island countries such as the Magnetic Drum Country.
However, judging from the statistical results of the World Government, the area of the island is not small and the environment is not bad. If it can be added as a sea train station in the future, the potential is not small.
As for now... Kalez Island is one of the few places under the jurisdiction of the World Government in the Great Channel.
Although Smoker has not seen it with his own eyes, judging from the situation in the East China Sea, the situation there is definitely not good - let alone "gold from the sky", a jurisdiction that cannot even pay normal taxes, the world government The base layer is most likely to "rot".
Now Smoker has chosen just such a place...
After looking at it, Luz asked with some concern and some tentativeness: "Colonel, if you are transferred to the branch, I'm afraid your future career will be..."
"Official career? Can the current navy talk about this?" Smoker said disdainfully while blowing out smoke.
"But the headquarters may not approve the transfer order, right?" Lu Sijin asked in part.
Smoker stared at him for a while, and then said: "There will always be a way! And there are many guys who don't want me to stay in the headquarters. I take the initiative to be transferred to the branch, so there should be... a good chance."
"What you said makes sense, and I am willing to follow in your footsteps." Luz said.
"Well, after that, as my adjutant, we will go to Calez together." Smoge said and let him leave.
After Luce left Smoker's office, he was a little relieved - knowing that when Smoker came to find him, Ruth had already prepared for the worst!
Yes, Luz is also a member of ANBU and the undercover agent who guided and tested Smoker before...
After Guan Liyuan left, he had already informed him that he could leave, because Guan Liyuan also understood that after exposing his knowledge of Smoker, that is, admitting in disguise that there was a revolutionary army undercover around Smoker, Luz would definitely become Smoker. object of suspicion.
However, Ruth took the initiative to stay and refused to give up the mission midway, and he believed that even if Smoker guessed that he was an undercover agent, he would have another chance to gamble!
Judging from the final result, although it is not the best, at least it is not the worst.
Smoker has probably guessed Luce's identity, and is also hinting to him that he hopes to use the power of the Revolutionary Army to push him to Kalez Island - in fact, even if there is no Revolutionary Army, a nasty guy like Smoker, If you are willing to take the initiative to leave the headquarters and work in a branch, many people will be happy to see it happen.
To a certain extent, Smoker is also reaching a "limited" consensus with the revolutionary army in disguise.
It seems that Smoker did listen to what Guan Liyuan said. Although he would not join the revolutionary army or go against the World Government, which in his view was an "unjust" act, he acquiesced to what Guan Liyuan said, A "guy like him" can play a greater role squatting in one place and ensure that justice spreads to the greatest extent!
Indeed, just half a month later, Smoker's transfer order was officially approved. Smoker, including Luz, brought several navy members who were willing to follow him and took up his post after another half month.
In addition, he was "promoted" to major general in an exceptional manner - but at most it was considered a promotion by one level, or even only half a level. After all, the military rank of the headquarters is theoretically one level higher than that of the branch, and in practice it can often be regarded as two levels higher. !
"Hey." Smoker snorted disdainfully when he saw the order. He was neither excited nor disappointed, just disdainful.
Although he skipped the brigadier general and was directly promoted to major general, because he jumped from the headquarters to the branch, he almost gave up the price of his future career. Therefore, Smoker felt that this was someone who couldn't wait to leave...
When Smoker was 18 years old, he was the martial arts champion of the new recruits of the headquarters. Now he is only a major of the headquarters. Although compared to ordinary people, he was promoted very quickly, but you must know that Smoker was similar to the """ in the imperial examination. "The Number One Scholar", and change two reference objects...
Drake was a supernova among pirates when he was 31 years old, which means that before he was 30 years old, he was already a major general in the headquarters, and the second level of Big Smoke, and you must know that Drake did not join the Navy until he was 19 years old, Bismoog. It will be three years later.
And Kirby in the original work is even more impressive - he joined the navy for three years and has been promoted to colonel of the headquarters, and is on the same level as Smoker squatting in Rogge Town... Even if there is a revolutionary army secretly The assistant Dasqi is not so fast!
After all, the revolutionary army couldn't win over a veteran navy like Garp to support the "undercover".
In contrast, one can also imagine how unflattering Smoker's behavior was in the navy at this time.
In the original work, if it weren't for Luffy's contribution, I don't know how long it would have taken to be promoted to brigadier general. As for the subsequent G5 branch lieutenant general... it's not actually a big promotion, and it also benefited from Hawks headed by Akainu. Smogg, who was assigned to a higher position in the navy and also aimed at expanding the navy's influence in the great waterway, had a slightly better official career.
And now, because of some previous deliberate guidance and the influence of Guan Liyuan's "instructions", Smoker has not turned to the revolutionary army, but he has not nervously started chasing the Straw Hats around like in the original work...
After hearing what Guan Liyuan believed to be his "greatest value", although Smoker did not fully agree with it, he also believed that what Guan Liyuan said was reasonable. At the same time... he had some ideas of his own, which is why he came up with this time. "Workaround".
The same thought can also bear different fruits. Smoker's fruits began to sprout in their own direction...
What was also an unexpected surprise was that because of this heroic performance, Dasqi had just held the military rank for less than a year and was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the headquarters. After Smoker left, he acted as Luo Gezhen Naval Defense!
This is not only the result of the efforts of the officials bribed and won over by the secret service of the Revolutionary Army. After all, the secret service cannot do anything too obvious. A large part of the reason is that the naval branch in the surrounding East China Sea and many branch colonels and commodores strongly recommended Da Siki.
Firstly, it's because Dasqi was relatively "flexible" compared to the "nuisance" Smog before this. Secondly... After Dasqi was promoted, he was only a lieutenant colonel in the headquarters. In theory, he was a lieutenant colonel. The branch colonels are of equal rank, so they won't be overwhelmed.
Out of concern that the headquarters would send another "Smog II" to Rogge Town, the Navy branch and local officials in the East China Sea generally hoped that Dasqi would stay.
It can also be seen from this that Guan Liyuan's gear theory has achieved initial results - many times, the ANBU no longer needs to use too much force, and can achieve its goals by taking advantage of the situation!
One month after the Straw Hat Pirates entered the Grand Channel, Smoker left Rogge Town and entered the Grand Channel. Daschi, who was seriously injured and had not yet recovered, took office despite his injuries...
As for Guan Liyuan, he completed the investigation of the four seas in this month - Rogge Town itself is close to the intersection of the upside down mountain and the four seas, and Guan Liyuan does not need to inspect one island after another, but directly receives the top Anbu Conduct some random checks on the interface information.
Some counseling and correction work has also been carried out. Generally speaking, the problem is not big. The revolutionary army organizations in these four major sea areas have basically made advance preparations!
There may not be many masters, but since the goal is to overthrow the world government, the number of ordinary revolutionary troops is also important.
You must know that the "Navy", which is one of the combat forces of the World Government and is responsible for controlling the sea, dispatched 100,000 people during the war in the original game, all of which were "general officers"!
Although most of them are branch officers, if Lin Linzong includes ordinary soldiers in all branches, the navy has almost tens of millions of soldiers.
This number is actually not surprising. In the original work, when the Alabasta rebellion reached its peak, there were 600,000 royal troops and one million rebels. Although Alabasta is the leading superpower on the sea, its territory is no longer an island, but a It is a small continent, but backed by the World Government, with a navy supported by many alliance countries and jurisdictions, it is not surprising that it can reach five or six times the total military strength of Alabasta.
At the same time, with the population of the Pirate World, there are enough soldiers in the areas controlled by the World Government in the Four Seas and the Great Channel alone.
But now among the four seas, in the East China Sea alone, there are already 60,000 to 70,000 underground revolutionary organizations that are always ready to launch an attack. They have "changed their ways." By detaining and coercing local officials and the navy, there are nearly ten revolutionary organizations that secretly control local areas. Thousands of people, plus the naval officers who secretly instigated rebellion or were controlled by undercover agents, the number of troops under their control is 70,000 to 80,000...
The East China Sea, with a total of 250,000 revolutionary troops, is only the smallest one - after all, the situation in the East China Sea is relatively the most comfortable and chaotic. The West China Sea has a total of more than 700,000 revolutionary troops, and the total of the four seas is nearly 2 million. .
And once the war breaks out and fully begins, it will not be a problem for this number to double in a short period of time - now the revolutionary military organizations in the world are just hiding and developing quietly. Once they openly point their swords at the world government and seize the world, With proper control, more people will join, and there will be a wave of explosive growth.
The reason why revolutionary organizations all over the world have developed rapidly is not only the arms channel support and ideological support of the Revolutionary Army Headquarters, but also related to Guan Liyuan's soul ability!
Six years ago, Guan Liyuan discovered a "new use" of his soul power, which was to "stuff" part of the soul of the "Devil Fruit" into an ordinary fruit, and then there would be a "disconnection" between the two. Soul tie, just like the soul connection between the "life card" and the owner.
The so-called soul of a Devil Fruit is a kind of existence similar to the soul, but without thinking. A Devil Fruit that has had part of its soul taken away can still possess the fruit's abilities after being eaten, and after being killed, the new fruit will be stable in the world. The fruit stuffed with part of the soul is regenerated!
On "hard bones" such as the Kingdom of Goa, Guan Liyuan used at least one animal type fruit and even a superhuman type fruit - just the most basic ordinary animal type fruit, only 100 million, which is undoubtedly a must for the revolutionary army. "Little money", and Guan Liyuan also contacted the channel of artificial animal fruits, although the shipments are not many!
In this way, local revolutionary army organizations with Devil Fruits are equivalent to those with the ability to "regenerate". Even if they are wiped out again and again, they can ensure the continuity of the "fire" and can gradually grow more stably.
Of course, the revolutionary army's sudden increase in power also came at a price...
On the one hand, after the "quantity", it is inevitable that everything will fall apart. Just the ANBU used the "Anti-Hero Plan" to eradicate a lot of cancers, and now we dare not say that the team is pure.
On the other hand, in order to quickly rally the team, Guan Liyuan basically spontaneously formed revolutionary organizations in the locations around the world. Therefore, many revolutionary organizations were only nominally subordinate to the revolutionary army. They would also wait for the opportunity and coordinate with each other as Guan Liyuan said. But in essence, most of them are seeking self-liberation...
Although the Revolutionary Army Headquarters has certain control over it due to the spread of ideas, Devil Fruit support, and weapons and equipment support, if Guan Liyuan orders the local Revolutionary Army factions in Xihai to support the revolutionary cause in Donghai, most of them will probably send workers No effort!
But even so, it is already in line with Guan Liyuan's expectations - Dolag's goal is only to make countries independent and form new alliances, rather than to accomplish "unification of the world", something that even the world government cannot do.
While the transportation in the Pirate World is inconvenient, it has also spawned various different civilizations and cultures, which is completely different from the situation in the Naruto World. It is neither scientific nor realistic to unify them, and there is no benefit at this stage.
These two million revolutionary troops, which surged after the outbreak of the war, were able to target all navies in the four seas, which was already in line with Guan Liyuan's expectations.
As for the Grand Line, both in the first half and in the new world, the situation is different from the four seas.
In the Four Seas, because there are many jurisdictions and few franchising countries, there is a lack of independent local power, and the grassroots level of the world government in the jurisdictions is bad enough, so this method can be used.
In the first half of the Great Waterway, there are many joining countries but few jurisdictions, and there is even a big country like Alabasta. Therefore, what we need to do is not to develop potential revolutionary organizations, but to win over the existing forces!
Otherwise, if the same pattern is followed in the great waterway, and all independent forces and navies of all parties are regarded as enemies, I am afraid that it will not be able to develop at all - an independent country can destroy the domestic revolutionary army in seconds with the speed and efficiency. Much higher than world government.
Therefore, what needs to be done in the first half of the Great Channel is to unite all the forces that can be united to oppose the world government. For this purpose, Guan Liyuan has laid a lot of heavy bait, and the "Sea Train Plan" is just one of them...
Just three days before Smoker entered the Great Channel, Guan Liyuan also entered the first half of the Great Channel. This will also be the main battlefield for the battle between the revolutionary army and the world government's navy!