Volume 1 Once Upon a Time in the South Wind Iron Castle
After a day's delay in the Twin Mountains of Lundner, the "Quartet" mercenary group arrived at the Iron Castle, and King Kelman's army had already moved north. Most of the mercenary groups have also left.
Speaking of Iron Castle, this is the southernmost castle in Maine and the northernmost gateway to King's Province. This core fortress runs from north to south, and the logistics needed for the war are also transported here. In addition, there are iron mines all around the Wind Iron Fort, so it is also a place where weapons and armor are produced. Most of the ordnance and armor of the elite Ressa Legion are produced here.
After many years of Prince Ressa's management of various parts of Maine, Fort Windiron is now a military castle of considerable size, and is no longer a small castle that only provides armaments.
Even King Kelman, who led his army through the Iron Castle, couldn't help but admire Prince Ressa's good governance. The important places such as the cantonment station, the armament station, and the wrought iron station were all separated one by one, and the entire fortress was planned carefully and efficiently.
The garrison in the city has been expanded several times, and now it can accommodate an army of 50,000 or 60,000 men. Now that the King's army had moved north, it was quite empty, and only a few mercenary groups remained in the huge camp.
Leaving the large army in the camp and standing by on the spot, with Xia Ye and Langyun thinking about it, there should be no problem. So the "four young", of course, are now the "five less", leading a dozen or so vigorous mercenaries and the lizard green scales of those carriages to the forge.
Onien was dressed in light leather armor today, and wore a dark brown bean hat, revealing a few strands of short chestnut hair to give the morning sun a halo, very playful, no matter how you look at this cousin, this cousin is much more tender than Alwin's cousin.
As soon as the war between the two countries began, a large number of armor and blades were needed on the front line, and the business of these wrought iron shops in the city was too busy. People don't bother to care about their small orders of more than 100 pieces, and there are processing fees for cutting and sewing like this, so few are willing to take their orders.
Chen Zhu easily found a family that did not directly refuse, so after saying that, he added a lot of prices before people were willing to take this job. Besides, a few of them are in a hurry, and the price increase is reasonable.
After paying the deposit and finalizing the time for picking up the goods with the shopkeeper, several people also smiled bitterly, saying that it was not easy to do something, and they couldn't help but sigh that it was still good to use real money, and no identity was as good as this thing. Onian, who was beside her, sounded reasonable.
"Yo, where did you get the green scaly skin of so many falcon-billed lizards, the armor made of this thing is a good thing. The man with a rough square face casually picked up the lizard skin on the carriage and played with it, and did not forget to raise his eyes to look at Alvin and his party who were about to leave.
This square-faced man has towering cheekbones, a raw face, and scars of different lengths on his cheeks, which does not look like a good stubble.
In line with the principle that more things are better than less, the Elwin and the others didn't pay attention to him and walked straight out. Who knew that this square face kicked on the wall and stopped Laiwu, who was walking in the first place. At this time, several burly retinues flashed behind the man, all of them in heavy armor and swords in their hands.
The four of Lai Wu are also used to being bullies in Salyushi, and looking at the other party's posture, they naturally understand that they are playing today.
"Lao Tzu hasn't finished speaking, what are you in a hurry to go? The square-faced man spat on the ground with a mouthful of thick phlegm, "I said, a few little brothers, I see that your green scale skin is good, and this armor will be finished in a while, can I borrow dozens of sets from my brother?"
This Pingshui meets, and it is quite polite to say that it is borrowed from that. However, I think there must be a loan but not a return.
"No, who are you, you can borrow if you say borrow. Chen Zhu walked up and scolded.
"Hey, who am he asked?" the square-faced man turned his face to look at the few attendants behind him, and laughed wildly.
The entourage also laughed along, and their feet were not idle, and in the blink of an eye, they had surrounded Laiwu and the others.
The dozen or so mercenaries who came to carry the materials were separated outside, and when they saw that the regiment commander and others were surrounded, they realized that the situation was wrong, and they all pulled out their blades to surround the square-faced man and others, and looked at these uninvited guests vigilantly, ready to do it at any time.
But the square-faced man and his entourage never looked back at all, obviously not paying attention to the people behind them.
"Little brother, I'll tell you again, you can listen well," a man with thin eyes stood up and said loudly, "This is the leader of our Wolf Moon Mercenary Regiment, Lord Xiyu." ”
"I'm still going to have chickens. Chen Zhu scolded back, "I've never heard of it, what kind of wolf moon mercenary group, why don't you call it a hammer mercenary group? ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the Quartet mercenary group outside laughed.
"Oh, it seems that today is the death date of your fat pig. Thin slit eyes scolded back.
"Joke, I don't have much meat, can you see this 'silver lining'?" Chen Zhu scolded with a smile.
Hearing such an apt description of "a glimmer of sky", the other three of the four young people immediately laughed back and forth, and even Onian couldn't help but laugh.
Being teased like this, this thin slit eye seems to be annoyed and angry. The rest of his entourage laughed and worked hard.
The head of the regiment named Xi Yu tugged at the corners of his mouth, his face became more and more gloomy, he stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers, and two teams of people rushed in from outside the long street, all of them were wearing the same heavy armor equipment as those entourage.
These dozens of people once again surrounded the members of the Quartet Mercenary Group on the periphery, and this kind of encirclement layer by layer seemed a little funny. Obviously, at this time, the momentum of the Quartet mercenary group was a little shorter.
Alvin looked at the look of the square-faced man named Xi Yu, and pulled the chestnut-haired man behind him to protect him, he felt that he would definitely not be able to run today.
A few to a few "friendly exchanges" are also commonplace for the stubborn four young people, but the other party has dozens of people who want to do it with you, and they really haven't encountered it, and they can't help but be surprised by what the other party is coming from.
Besides, this is still in front of everyone's eyes, or in this important military town Wind Iron Fort, during the battle with Tingxiao, openly doing things to his own people, if this is transmitted to the Ministry of Military Affairs, then this Wolf Moon Mercenary Group can be completely treated as treason. Alvin and the others couldn't figure out why there were such bold and reckless people?
"Oh, I remember, I've heard of this Wolf Moon mercenary group. Most of the fugitives and rogues in this group are serious crimes, and I don't know how to get it, so they got a place in an official mercenary group in the Ministry of Military Affairs, and there are quite a few of them, more than 1,500 people. Keba said in a suppressed voice.
"And this mercenary group?" Alwyn whispered in surprise.
"If you want to fight, anyone can use it. But as soon as you said that, I also remembered that I went to the Ministry of Military Affairs to register that day, and it seems that I saw this mercenary group. Lai Wu said.
"These people are too bold, they don't even ask when they come up, and they just plan to rob us of our things?" Chen Zhu said in surprise, "It's like we don't know people in the military department." I don't believe this, so I will go to the Ministry of Military Affairs and not convict them of treason?"
"They are all people who are used to killing people and licking blood from the knife edge, can they be timid? Do you look at their appearance, as if they are afraid that we will go to the military affairs department?" Kaiba glanced at Chenzhu, "If they really want to be investigated, they will run back and continue to be their fugitives." ”
"Didn't you notice that they had followed us all the way out of the camp?" reminded the chestnut-haired man.
"No wonder, it turned out to be looking all the way. Do you mean it's easy to bully us when there are few of us?" Alvin said in a cold voice.
"Heh, muttering endlessly? Let me ask you again, do you give this green scale armor?" asked Xi Yu with a sneer. Just now, he was pretending to be borrowed, but now he has changed his words directly.
"What, you still want to do it here?" Lai Wu said disdainfully, "I really don't believe you have the guts." ”
However, the other party really has.
I saw that the square-faced man waved his hand, and the mercenaries of the Wolf Moon Mercenary Group suddenly burst out with their swords.
Seeing this, Lai Wu also yelled: "Do it!"
Immediately, the two gangs fought together, and as soon as Fang fought Alwin, he found that the other party was really not an ordinary ruffian, all of them were agile, and they were fierce and vicious. Coupled with the absolute superiority in numbers and equipment, Wolf Yue's side quickly cut down the dozen strong men of the Quartet Mercenary Group on the periphery to the ground.
And the battle in the inner circle was also very difficult, Lai Wu, Kaiba and Chen Zhu faced off against the thin slit eyes and those burly entourage, and the number of them suffered a loss, and the three of them could only barely defend back to back. The main reason is that the other party is more ruthless and vicious than the young nobles, without those flashy martial arts, the moves come towards the key point, and the three of them are a little restrained. What I am most afraid of encountering in a fight is this opponent with the same style as myself, and the opponent has been immersed in this style for a long time, far more than himself.
The leader of the Wolf Moon Mercenary Regiment, Xi Yu, came up and took Alvin directly, while the other two followers behind Xi Yu entangled the chestnut-haired man.
Magicians can be completely crushed by martial arts in this kind of not wide alleyway terrain, and Alvin can rely on instant magic and air rifting to get rid of the melee combat of the Universe. However, O'Nien's body has not yet healed, and he is really not at ease when she faces the two martial arts alone.
So Alvin has been fighting with Xi Yu not far from the chestnut-haired man, and it can be said that he is quite overstretched to deal with it, and the other party can sit in the position of the leader of the criminals, and his skills must be one of the best in the group.
What Elvin couldn't understand was why this guy chose himself as an opponent?
"A clear-eyed person knows at a glance that Lai Wu is the head of the regiment, and it was Chen Zhu who scolded just now, why did he come up to me?" said Erwin.
"I know you, Alvin Ferry. A sinister smile crossed Xi Yufang's face, "I've seen you at the Pillow Sword Meeting." ”
Alwyn couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, "If the other party knows me, then he should know the details of our group." How dare you provoke trouble with us? How fat are the guts of these bandits? If this group of bandits knew that the princess was here, wouldn't they be going to turn against the sky?"
"Aren't you very showy at the Pillow Sword Meeting? Xi Yu suddenly froze his figure, and said with contempt: "Then I'll kill the three knives and see if you can eat it." ”
Suddenly, there was a long glimpse of a long edge in the chaotic and narrow alley, and the cold light suddenly rose.
If Fang Cai and Alvin were still testing each other, this awe-inspiring sword intent would have murderous intent.
"The first knife - against the waves. "The knife of Xiyu is like a giant against the waves, chopping the waves and breaking the current, arrogant and domineering.
As soon as Alvin saw the knife momentum, he shot more than a dozen ice guns in his hand, took a few steps back from his feet, leaned directly behind the chestnut-haired man, and held up a light shield to cover the two of them.
"How are you?" asked Alwin, leaning over his back.
"It's okay to deal with these two. The chestnut-haired man gasped softly.
"Bang!" "Bang!" Xinyu's madness broke through those ice spears and slashed directly at the outer wall of the light shield, and Alwyn was shocked to the point that his eyes were black, and Venus flew up.
"I took out my housekeeping skills so quickly. Xi Yu pursed his lips and sneered, he glanced at the two entourages who had attacked the chestnut-haired man, meaning that they should not interfere. The two of them went to beat up the three of them.
But seeing that Xi Yu jumped up, he turned around and waved his knife, "The second knife - break the mountain." ”
This knife went down, the oblique edge cut the mountain, the sword shadow burst, the peaks and peaks were broken, and the beasts were frightened.
In Alvin's opinion, this is a knife, and it is clearly more than a dozen knife intents layered on top of each other. The chestnut-haired man could only watch the monstrous sword power in the light shield and cover his face, and he was so anxious and helpless in his heart.
More than a dozen sword intents contained all kinds of frenzied energy, pouring directly into the light shield, Erwin felt that his physical strength began to pour, his magic power was frantically overdrawn, and the feeling of fainting returned.
Alwyn stared at the Celestial Universe in the shield of light, allowing bloodlines to begin to spill from his nostrils and the corners of his mouth.
Xi Yu smiled contemptuously, clenched the long knife in his hand, and prepared to swing the third knife to end the battle.
"Stop, are you going to fucking rebel!" a loud shout came from the corner of the street.
I saw a person dressed in carved silver armor, stepping into the sky, directly between Alvin and Xiyu, the spear in his hand suddenly chiseled the ground, and after a dull sound, he only heard him roar again: "If you don't stop, don't even think of getting out of this street alive today!"
The two groups of people were in the midst of the killing, but they were stopped by the two roars of this person.
At this time, two columns of silver guards came from outside the street, running in unison, looking at the two groups of people who were fighting with frosty faces. This equipment is also known to Alwin, and it is the standard equipment for official soldiers of the Empire.
"Yo, Lord Castle Guard, why are you here?" asked Xinyu nonchalantly, handing a color to his entourage by the way. These people also took a few steps back, and no longer surrounded the three of Lai Wu in the middle.
Seeing that the situation was slightly resolved, Alwin withdrew the light shield, and the energy between the chaotic knives suddenly poured into his body, as if he was overturning the river and the sea, and the meridians of his body were extremely painful, and the blood was surging. He was unsteady on his feet, coughed, and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Seeing this, the chestnut-haired man helped Alwyn with a worried look on his face.
Alvin wiped the blood from his mouth and smiled silently, his eyes still staring coldly.
"Heh, and asked me why I came. If you don't come again, are you planning to kill everyone?" The city guard glared at Xi Yu, "You Wolf Moon Mercenary Group has a lot of ability, if you don't keep the Tingxiao people, it's quite ruthless to attack your own people." ”
"We passed by here just now, that is, we wanted to ask these little brothers to borrow a few pieces of equipment, but we wanted to disagree with each other, so we started to do it. It's really a problem for the city lord. Xi Yu said shamelessly with a shy face.
Now the young aristocrats know where the big and small scars on this guy's face come from, and their feelings are shameless.
Lai Wu immediately took a sip, "Phew, are you borrowing? Aren't you robbing openly? Let me tell you, this matter is not over, I don't believe that the Ministry of Military Affairs has not cared about this matter." ”
"Heh, the child's family, this is going to the military department to cry for your father and mother?Without your father who is a duke, I'm afraid you won't be able to live?" Xi Yu grinned and sneered, then glanced at several young nobles, and said disdainfully: "You few, don't you just dare to hide in the shadow of your father." ”
Lai Wu and the others couldn't help but be surprised when they heard this, and they let out the same sigh as Alvin in their hearts, "Knowing that you still dare to move us, didn't this bandit leader eat the courage of an ambitious leopard?"
"That's enough!" the city guard roared, "Yu Chen, do you really take yourself seriously? You really treat me as a city guard to eat dry food? I don't think any of your mercenary group wants to live today." ”
As soon as the two columns of guards heard this, they collectively took a step, put down the spears in their hands together, and looked at the people of the Wolf Moon Mercenary Regiment with fierce eyes.
As soon as Alwin looked at this posture, he felt that the city lord of the Wind Iron Castle did have some courage.
"Lord Castle Guard, look at what you said," Xin Yu said to the Castle Keeper with a smile on his face, "Even if we eat leopard gall, we won't dare to commit anything in your realm." ”
Half of what he said was for the city guard, and half for Laiwu. Obviously, he was threatening these young nobles to get out of the realm of the Wind Iron Castle, and this matter must not be over.
"Don't you dare to make trouble in my realm? What the were you doing? Do you want to go back to being a rogue?" the castle guard scolded, "I'm sure I'm going to write to the Ministry of Military Affairs for today's matter, so you can ask for more blessings." ”
"Alright, Lord Castle Keeper, let's leave it at that. Xi Yu said with a smile as if he didn't care at all, and then beckoned to the dozens of mercenaries.
"Get out, get out of the Iron Fort with your people now, don't let me see you again in the precinct. The city guard waved his hand, not bothering to look at these gangs of hooligans.
Xi Yu led everyone in the Wolf Moon Mercenary Group to leave freely, and during this time, the "thin slit eyes" also glanced at Chen Zhu proudly.
Alvin looked at the three people on Laiwu's side, the situation was not much better than himself, several of them were basically bruised or purple on their faces, and they also had large and small wounds on their bodies.
"I've never seen such a shameless person," Chen Zhu scolded, "So many people beat a few of us, and we have faces that fart so loudly." ”
"Are you all right?" the city guard lightly swept around Laiwu and Erwin.
"Can't die. Lai Wu glanced at the Wind Iron Castle City Guard.
The castle guard nodded, and without further words, turned around and left.
"Wow, this city guard is also a strange person, just left, and he didn't comfort us?" Chen Zhu looked at the backs of the two guards and said in surprise.
"Condolences to you, when you get to the Maine realm, how can anyone take a nobleman like you who comes from the royal capital seriously. Kaiba said as he patted the dust on his body, "Those of us who didn't follow the big army, people knew that they were all white at a glance, and they didn't bother to stammer." That shameless bastard just now explained the background of several of us so clearly, do you think this city guard wants to deal with us?"
"He's Ressa's henchman, the defender of the Iron Castle, Jizhi Young. The chestnut-haired man beside Alven said lightly.
Now it is very clear why people don't take them seriously, after all, these people who followed Prince Ressa have climbed up by military merit.
"I think I've heard of this man, the Black Rider Silver Gun Jizhi Young, the little gun god of Maine. Lai Wu said suddenly.
"No wonder as soon as the city guard arrived, the shameless Xinyu just now was a little jealous when he spoke. Keba said.
"Compared to this little spear god, I think we are still worried about that bandit leader Xi Yu, I can't hold on to his two knives. Alvin said bitterly.
"Heh, that thing means it's eyeing us. Lai Wu said coldly.
"I really don't believe they dare ... Chen Zhu reacted when he said it, and when he thought of that Xi Yu's frantic appearance, his momentum suddenly became a little shorter.
The chestnut-haired man was afraid that his identity would be exposed, so he didn't make any comments on this gang of bandits in this crowded place.