The morning glow reflected the sky red, and white clouds floated in the blue sky.
Victor opened his hazy eyes, lifted the animal fur blanket on his body, and stood up from the city wall. Stretching, he rubbed his face with the palm of his hand, wiped away the large piece of eye feces in the corner of his eyes, and turned to look at the big school yard not far from the city where the noise came from.
"Grandma, I can't live this day. It's so loud every day so early in the morning that people can't sleep..." Victor muttered and kicked several subordinates who were lying on the city road and sleeping soundly: " Wake up, get up for me, don't sleep, the inspectors will come over and see you are still sleeping, and they will reward you with a whip! Get up for me... "
This is the north gate of Windbury King City. Victor is a ten-man captain who guards the city gate. His ten-man team is responsible for opening the city gate and closing the city gate. Small and cheap.
"Boss, it's still early. Why did you wake us up? Isn't the clock in the city still ringing? We don't need to open the city gate before eight o'clock. You see, the sun hasn't risen yet, so let us go again." Snooze for a while." A veteran soldier named Kelisha shouted sleepily.
Victor was so angry that he kicked hard in the past: "You still have the face to say, if you and Fatty hadn't insisted on me going all-in yesterday afternoon, not only would I have lost the entire team We have to replace the old wolverine and his team on night shift. Otherwise, we would be sleeping in the barracks comfortably, and how could we run to the city wall to blow the wind all night!"
Ke Lisha said unconvinced: "That's because your hands are smelly. The old Wolverine shook it one three four to show that it was giving money, but you just shook it one two three. I didn't see the old Wolverine's face at that time." Are you smiling like a chrysanthemum? You still don’t admit defeat after losing all your money, and you propose to gamble again. If you lose, our team will replace the old Wolverine and they will go to the city wall to work the night shift. As a result, the old Wolverine threw three six , didn’t you cause us to go up the city wall to blow the wind?”
When Krisha said this, Victor's face turned red, and he even became a little annoyed: "Then why didn't you say it earlier, and insisted that I bet all the money, and then I lost all the money and told Old Wolverine , use them to bet on the night shift at night. Didn’t you and Fatty also objected at the time? We lost and now we’re just nagging for a fart…”
"...Don't quarrel, okay, it's annoying early in the morning, why don't you think of a way to get some warm stomachs to warm up. Numb, those lazy people in the barracks won't think of it until nine o'clock at least To deliver food to us, they have to serve those silly birds and uncles first. Maybe the food will be delivered at ten o'clock..." A chubby veteran leaned against the city wall, wrapping the leather blanket tightly around his body.
Kelisha immediately changed the object of the quarrel: "Fatty, you just want to eat, you are as fat as a pig..."
The fat veteran was very impatient, opened his mouth and cursed: "It's none of your business, labor and management are lenient, it's not like you who care about everything, and your mind is smaller than the tip of a needle. If you lose, you lose, and the past is over. Now there is a point of nagging. The only thing that makes me regret is that bullshit grand duke. Once he came, we would have no good life. The good job that was supposed to be in charge of defending the palace was gone. For extra money, even the salary was cut in half, it's really insane... "
Fat Ba's scolding immediately aroused the sympathy of the rest of the soldiers, and for a while they babbled about the greetings and disrespectful words of Grand Duke Fesabrun. They were originally a brigade of guards guarding the Rose Palace, directly under the queen's jurisdiction. Being on duty in the palace is a good job, not only the salary is good, but from time to time, those nobles are willing to pay a lot of money for inquiring about some secret things in the palace. In addition, there are some disadvantages and humane benefits, like Fat Ba was the permanent guard of the palace kitchen at the beginning, but after eating too much good food, he became fat like dough.
However, when the Grand Duke Fesabrunn came, it was the palace guards of this brigade who first used the knife to set up Mawei. These small soldiers were sent to guard the four gates of the royal city, replacing the original private soldiers of the nobles in the southern provinces.
In order to fight for the control of the four gates of the royal city, the nobles of the southern provinces had fought many times in private. As a result, the Grand Duke Fesabrun ordered them to obediently hand over the matter for the sake of a border ranger regiment. After leaving the four city gates, they also sent themselves to a dead end. Without the gates to enter and exit at will, they are just chickens trapped in the royal city. Grand Duke Fesabrun can kill them whenever he wants...
Commander Victor was so frightened by his subordinates' disrespect towards Grand Duke Fesabrun that his face turned pale: "Shh! Shut up! You don't want to kill me and don't implicate me. How many people did His Royal Highness kill in the second half of last year?" Have you forgotten? How many of those nobles who used to dominate us are still alive? When we were sent to dig the pit, we buried dozens or hundreds of corpses. Those powerful nobles Have you forgotten how many we knew that we buried in the ground and fertilized?"
Seeing that his subordinates closed their mouths and their faces turned pale, Victor continued to reprimand with satisfaction: "We are just soldiers, and there is no noble master who will care about us if we are safe. But gossip and bad things behind our backs are the biggest crimes." Taboo, if someone hears it, it's not you alone, but the ten of us, and even our team will be affected. None of the nobles are kind and soft-hearted. As long as he moves his mouth, we will all be killed Landing! Do you understand? Now cheer me up and stand up, and the patrol team will come over later, so be more energetic so you don't get whipped."
There was a tragic cry from the large school ground not far away, but the sound stopped abruptly.
Victor couldn't help shivering, and murmured, "I don't know which unlucky guy's head is going to hang on the wall again..."
Ke Lisha said next to him: "Yesterday there were seventeen, and today I don't know how many more heads will fall."
Fat Ba looked in the direction of the Grand Campus and said: "Boss, I heard from Old Puke in the palace kitchen yesterday that the thousands of people who gathered for training in the Grand Campus this time were the first batch, and the Grand Duke Feisabrun decided to leave these nobles behind The private soldiers under me and the garrison soldiers brought in last year were reorganized into a garrison army, and I seized the opportunity to sign up voluntarily. After all, I am also a black iron two-star, and it is appropriate to enter a 100-man team leader. But now I found this idea a bit dangling, could such a rigorous training be a garrison army?"
Victor nodded: "Yes, yesterday I heard from Captain Boston that this garrison corps emphasizes discipline and obedience to orders so strictly, it is stricter than regular field corps, and it is said that they will be relied on to guard several It is a strategic location, so the training instructors sent by the Grand Duke Fesabrun are all cold-faced menaces, whipping and beheading at every turn, killing people without blinking an eye. I advise you not to ask for trouble, enter this The Legion has suffered a lot, and you won't be able to bear it."
"Boss, stop talking, the patrol team is here." A soldier with sharp eyes saw the figure of the patrol team coming here on the wall in the distance.
The inspection team is composed of the guards around the Grand Duke Fesabrun, and several teams patrol around the royal city every day. The patrol team that inspected the city wall was also ten people, but all of them were of the silver fighting spirit rank. The patrol team wearing the armed standard equipment of the Feisabrun family walked on the street, and they were in themselves against those who were dissatisfied with the actions of the Grand Duke of Feisabrun. A deterrent and a threat.
"You're not bad, you're a little spirited." It's rare that the knight headed by the inspection team was satisfied with the performance of Victor's team: "Which of you is in charge?"
Victor bowed and said, "My lord, I am Victor, Commander Ten."
The knight at the head of the inspection team said: "Victor, very good, the Grand Duke ordered the gate to be opened one hour earlier and closed one hour later in these two days. In addition, the city gate defense has doubled the manpower. I believe your captain has received the order. .”
"Why?" Victor asked curiously.
The knight didn't ignore him, and explained the reason for the order very kindly: "Because after the winter wheat was harvested outside a few days ago, His Royal Highness ordered that all the winter wheat harvested in the unclaimed territory be transported to the royal city. The door is inconvenient, so the door is opened early. Also, the First Frontier Ranger Corps went out yesterday, and I believe there will be good news in these two days, so we postpone the closing to avoid missing the messenger, understand?"
Victor nodded, then watched the inspection team leave.
Fat Ba said excitedly beside him, "Boss, if those convoys come, we can get a bag of winter wheat to cook porridge for drinking. The newly harvested winter wheat porridge is fragrant and thick, and it tastes great."
"Let's talk about it, see if the transport team is coming over there. It's so early for such a long team! Krisha, go ask Captain Boston, didn't you say that the manpower has doubled? Why haven't you sent anyone yet? , I won’t open the city gate if they don’t come.” Victor said, looking at a long line of carriages that appeared at the end of the road in the distance outside the city.
The team sent by Captain Boston was Victor's enemy, the ten people led by the old Wolverine. Old Wolverine used to be a mercenary, Black Iron Three Stars, everyone forgot what it was called, only his nickname was Old Wolverine.
The alarm clock in the city rang, and it rang seven times, and after a while, it rang seven more times, and after a while, it would ring seven more times before the end of the timekeeping.
"It's time, old Wolverine, please open the city gate, we won't go down, it's tiring to run up and down." Victor stood on the city wall and shouted down.
The old wolverine cursed and cursed: "You thought you could spare time to play in the city today after winning yesterday. The paralyzed Boston sent us another errand, and the labor and management were rushed over before they had breakfast. I wish him the best of luck. From now on, I won’t raise my young wife when I see him!”
Victor's team stood on the city wall and laughed. Victor's heart moved, and he yelled at Old Wolverine: "Old Wolverine, the transport convoy outside has arrived. Go get a bag of winter wheat, and we'll go to the tower over there." Cook porridge and drink... "
The old wolverine didn't know if he heard it. He nodded and directed his men to open the city gate. Victor leaned on the top of the city wall and looked down, watching the long transport convoy arriving in front of the city gate. Several people jumped out of the car full of sacks and negotiated with the old Wolverine, and then got out of the car He took a sack and handed it to the old Wolverine, who got out of the way, and the carriages began to slowly enter the city.
The man who unloaded the sack from the wagon stood beside the old wolverine, watching the carriage go into town, joking with the old wolverine, and took off a big leather bag from his body and handed it to the old wolverine.
"Paralysis, it must be ale or something. The old Wolverine has made money now." Victor lay on the wall and thought jealously, but soon he felt the wall shaking slightly.
what happened? Victor thought it was his own illusion, but he heard the trembling voice of the fat man next to him: "Head, head...Look quickly... cavalrymen..."
When Victor looked up, his whole body froze immediately. In the distance, countless cavalry were swarming towards the royal city. That posture was not at all the 1st Frontier Ranger Legion that went out yesterday. The armor and flags were all different. is the enemy...
"Enemy, enemy attack..." Victor managed to make a sound, lowered his head and shouted at the old wolverine at the gate of the city, but unexpectedly saw the person from the convoy who was talking and laughing with the old wolverine being pulled out of the old wolverine's stomach. The dagger, stained with blood, looked up at Victor with a ferocious smile.
It's over, the gate of the city is blocked by those carriages transporting winter wheat and can't close the door. Even if ten of them go down, they will die. The people in the convoy are all pretended by the enemy, and Wangcheng will soon fall! Victor felt his mind go blank at this moment. what to do? By the way, these cavalry came from the direction where the 1st Frontier Ranger Legion marched yesterday, so the 1st Border Ranger Ranger Legion is also finished...
Who has such a strong combat power that can wipe out the First Army of Frontier Rangers and still rush to the city of Windbury non-stop? Reluctantly, Victor looked up at the cavalry rolling in from a distance, and then saw several familiar flags: "The pattern of the angry bear, isn't this the Norton family from the Northland? They are coming again... Pegasus flag , it turns out that the Felim family is also here..."
"Boom" Victor threw the weapon on the city wall and knelt down on his knees.
"Boss, what are you doing?" Fat Ba asked puzzled.
"Throw away your weapons and kneel down like me. Labor and management are protecting your lives! When the people below rush up and you still hold weapons, they will attack you. Hurry up, throw them all down and kneel down to me!" Go behind..." Victor shouted angrily.
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Lorist was the first to charge into Windbury King City, his goal was the Rose Palace. Because Grand Duke Fessabrun lives there, as long as this old guy is captured, then everything will be very simple. The leaderless Feisabrun family is a mess, and you can pinch it as you want. Without the Grand Duke Feisabrun, and the great swordsman Sandi was imprisoned by His Royal Highness, the Feisabrun family would have no one at the helm. Viscount Christopher was his own defeat, and Sylvia The princess might run to her and cry, begging herself to give the Feisabrun family a way out, and she would agree to whatever she thought...
Uh, thinking too much, the most urgent thing is to catch that old dude Feysabrun first, Lorist wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, and continued to gallop towards the Rose Palace.
Behind him, the soldiers of the Pegasus Legion of the Felim family with the flag of the Pegasus and the knights of the Knights of the Angry Bear with the banner of the Angry Bear poured into the Windbury King City from the north gate. El and Reddy, who hijacked and pretended to be the crew of the winter wheat transport convoy, took the family guards and pulled the carriages blocking the city gate to the outside of the city gate. They were anxiously looking for mounts so that they could go after Lorist. .
After gathering and annihilating the First Frontier Ranger Legion of the Feisabrun Family in Walker Town yesterday afternoon, Lorist led the Guard Battalion, the Bear Knights, and Earl Felim's Pegasus Knights to start at seven o'clock in the evening. Heading towards Windbury King City, Bodfinger and Malek led the Rock Legion to follow, and the cleaning of the battlefield was left to Tiger Ross' Flying Tiger Legion.
Originally Lorist wanted to carry out a night raid on Windbury King City overnight, but when he arrived less than ten miles away from the King City, he found that everyone was exhausted. As a last resort, Lorist had to order everyone to go camping in the wild and take a good rest first. Even the iron man couldn't stand the whole night's journey just after the war.
Just attack by force, Lorist thought so. But before 6 o'clock in the morning, the patrolling sentries found a long line of transport convoys. After surrounding them, they asked Lorist how happy he was. It was God's will, and there was a way to break the city. Al and Reddy took the guards who pretended to be the people of the transport convoy and quickly seized the North City Gate, and the Royal City of Windbury fell into the hands of Lorist.
The guards in Wangcheng finally blew the alarm horn, and the bells of the enemy's attack rang in a panic. Some patrols bravely launched a counterattack against the enemy on the street and on the city wall, but they all fell in a pool of blood soon. …
Lorist finally saw the two golden gates of the Rose Palace. He drew out his long sword and rode his horse towards the dozen or so palace gate guards who were waiting...