Ever since the Great Pruss took root in the Northlands, the Weegand tribe, who live deep in the swamps of the North Sea, has been a great threat. These swamp people live in a much harsher environment than the Great Pruth, making every Wiegand who can survive the swamp a rather terrifying warrior.

"Is the information reliable? I mean, how much time do we have left? José. Mayor Joyce quickly calmed down from his shocked state, grabbed José's hand, and asked.

"I can't say when those people will start moving, my lord. "In the worst-case scenario, maybe they're on their way to action right now, but I don't think they're going to be that fast." With that, José put down Joyce's clenched hand, turned his body to the door, and continued:

"The number of Wiegand people who have entered the Ko this time may not be a small number, but the heavy snow at the beginning of this spring is really too big, not only our grain has frozen to death, but the Wiegand people are not having a good time. I reckon it won't be difficult for them to come up with five hundred to a thousand marauders. ”

Mayor Joyce's face turned pale, this was a large-scale invasion he had never encountered in his life, and he remembered that the last time the Wiegand came to the Northland to ransack, his old tribe was raided, and only he and Mender escaped because they happened to be working in the royal court in the North Sea.

According to survivors of the invasion, the Wiegand people involved in the sacking of the Horde numbered no more than a hundred warriors.

"Let's go, José. Joyce clenched his fists several times and lowered them, and finally said, "You are still young, take Vedia and the young people of the town with you." You're young, not old enough to be tethered to this town. ”

Jose had never seen Joyce look like this, and couldn't help but be taken aback: "My lord, it's not your style to surrender without a fight. If you think about it, we're not necessarily going to be defeated, and these Wiegand people aren't necessarily going to be coming for the town. Perhaps, they just ransacked a few villages around the town and left. ”

"Is there anything else in our neighborhood besides this town that is worth mobilizing a whole thousand men?" Joyce yelled at Jose, his voice faintly reaching the outside of the house, and the horses leading by the door stumbled uneasily.

Vidia stood outside the door and followed the mercenaries as usual, frolicking intimately, and he was now pulling a bow and arrow almost as tall as him, trying to aim at an apple that the mercenaries had placed on the twenty-meter fence.

With the dull sound of bowstrings, an arrow that smoothed its head smoothly crossed the distance between Vidia and the apple, and then knocked the apple to the ground, winning a round of applause from the group of mercenaries who stood by and watched the excitement. One of the mercenaries closest to the fence ran over and picked up the apple, tossed it to Vedia, and shouted at him, "This is what the marksman deserves!"

After taking the apple, Vedia did not rush to eat it, but took the apple and looked around to determine where he had hit, and finally, he found a scratch on the edge of the apple at the beginning, and looked at this scratch, Vidia shook his head a little lost.

"You've done a good job, lad. Hope, the mercenary standing beside Vedia, spoke comfortingly. "It's not your problem, I'll give you some sharpened arrows later, and you can try again then. ”

"Really, can I use a real bow?" Vedia cried out happily, and after three months of practice, he was now finally qualified to use a bow and arrow. Vidia put down her bow, jumped up and gave Hope a heavy hug, then turned and ran to a horse tethered to a nearby tree, and shouted to the mercenaries, "You promised me that if I could grow as tall as a horse's legs, you would tell me to ride a horse." Vidia said as she gestured at the horse's leg.

While the mercenaries were still laughing and not taking it seriously, Vidia had already climbed onto the horse's back and untied the horse's reins.

The fiercest of the horses Vedia rode - it was a tall white horse. Speaking of which, this horse is a good military horse brought back by José from Abbasquia ten years ago, it was born in the royal stable of Abbasquia, and no one has ever been in its saddle except for José's knight who often rides it.

In the face of the uninvited guest on his back, the white horse looked a little uncomfortable, and it slowly shook its body to express its dissatisfaction, but Vedia on horseback didn't care so much, he stuck to the white horse's back like a gecko on the wall.

“jiaqi!” Vidia mimicked the mercenaries in his own childish voice, and he clenched his horse's belly as he screamed.

The mercenaries were in a mess now, and they couldn't let Vidia run around on horseback now, nor could they just go up and catch him off his horse—it would be easy to startle the horse, and maybe even more chaos.

In the end, it was the mercenary Hope who came up with a solution. He instructed the mercenaries to follow Vidia, trying to give him some simple horse control methods first, just in case of a bigger accident, and he decided to go to the mayor's house and ask him to come out at the risk of being scolded by the knight of José.

For Vidia, these mercenaries are like some of their relatives, they are not only their father's subordinates, but also uncles who watch them grow up, and for these mercenaries, Vidia is also a ray of sunshine in their mercenary lives, no matter what, they don't want this little angel to have a little accident.

"May Sardinia bless your soul, Mr. Hope. Mende, who was standing not far from the mayor's house, saw Hope hurrying over, so he greeted him, "Lord Jose has something important to discuss with the mayor, and you may not be able to get over until a while." ”

As a mercenary brought out by Ho Sai, Hope knew what it meant to be forbidden, and he anxiously spat at his feet, and then stepped on and on it.

"I can only hope that everything is safe. Hope thought to himself.

On the other hand, Vidia seems to be completely unaware that he is in danger, on the contrary, he feels that he has never been so good since he was born. The houses, the fences, and the trees in the town all looked completely different from what they normally looked from the ground, and wherever she wanted to go, she could get there much faster than usual, and listening to the sound of the wind blowing in her ears, Vidia felt her heart get drunk.

"Master Vidia, are you alright?" In the eyes of the mercenaries standing on the ground, Vidia was like a maple leaf floating in the wind, and as he continued to shuttle directly through all corners of the town, they could only think of a drunk walking.

The little girl who swept the floor at the door of the clinic is now a mother of two children, and she sat at the door of the clinic touching her belly that was starting to bulge again, and watched her children crawl around on the stone slabs at the door with great interest.

As the sound of the horse's hooves sounded, the mother looked suspiciously in the direction where the sound of the horse's hooves came, but saw Vidia galloping in the direction of her two children, and the mother couldn't think too much in her head, so she rushed to Vedia's horse, wanting to protect the two children behind her.

Looking at the woman running out of the shop, Vidia still thought about calling out "Aunt Wangda" sweetly, but the horse under him was startled by the sudden appearance of the creature in front of him, and subconsciously thought of jumping over the woman.

If this happens, not to mention how likely Wangda will be to escape from the horse's hooves, there is a good chance that the child behind her will not be saved.

At this critical moment, a brown horse rushed out at a speed faster than the white horse. A familiar voice reached the ears of Hakuba and Vedia: "Stop!"

As he spoke, the knight on horseback grabbed the reins of the white horse, leading it around the door of the clinic at the last moment when it was about to jump.

At the moment when Hakuba was closest to Wangda, Wangda seemed to not only be able to hear Hakuba's heavy breathing, but could even almost feel Hakuma's blazing body temperature.

For the first time, Vedia felt a little scared, lying on the back of the horse and sticking out her tongue in shock.

And on the other horse was none other than the original owner of the white horse, Knight José.

Hope eventually couldn't hold back, and forced his way into the mayor's house despite Mender's obstruction, interrupting the conversation between the two men. When the José knight heard about this, he immediately mounted another horse from the tree where he was leading the horse and caught up with Vedia, which prevented the tragedy from happening.

"Are you embarrassed to lie on your horse, your behavior is a disgrace to the knight!" said Knight José, who gasped three times in a row, but finally couldn't hold back and yelled at Vedia. Then he said in a slightly mild tone: "I have 100,000 urgent things to do now, and I will teach you what real horseback riding is when I come back." ”

With that, Knight José climbed down from his horse and, with the help of the mercenaries who were following him, picked Vedia off his horse. After a brief apology to Wangda, the Knight José switched to his horse, gave a few simple instructions to his mercenaries, and headed out of town.

Looking at the figure of the knight José galloping on horseback, the young Vidia's eyes sparkled with both longing and admiration. Even in the face of such a big setback, Vidia did not waver in the slightest from his dream of becoming a great knight like José Knight.

Soon after the departure of the knight José, Brother Mender hurried over, and before one of the mercenaries recounted the events to him, he guessed the general course of events by the sounds he had heard and the scene at the scene. Looking at Vidia, who was surrounded by mercenaries, and Wangda, who was silently bringing her child back to the clinic, Mende's heart let out a heavy sigh.

On the first day he saw Vidia being sent to the mayor's house, when he saw the child for the first time, he not only felt familiar and familiar with the child's appearance, but the air of death that permeated the child, which was exactly the same as the breath he had when he was boarding in the mayor's home tribe.

"This child is destined to have a bloody life, and no matter how much you give, there is nothing you can change. A voice of despair suddenly sounded in Mende's heart.

Mender shook his head, trying to get the thought out of his mind, telling himself that Vidia was just a child, and that this incident was just an accident for first-time horseback riders.

Mayor Joyce was standing alone in the room, and although he was worried about Vedya's safety, he knew that even if he was involved, it would hardly be of much help, and besides, he had more important things to do. Although the mayor's wife was dissatisfied with her husband's attitude, she also knew in her heart what kind of person her husband was.

For the development of the town, he can give everything, including his two sons. In order to provide a suitable outlet route for the furs and good honey produced in several villages near the town, the mayor let his eldest son go on an expedition, but accidentally encountered bandits on the way, and because he was unwilling to let the people of the town hand over the food used by his family for the winter in exchange for his son, he was torn to pieces by the bandits on the road with a cartload of goods like those goods.

The mayor had promised his wife countless times that no matter what happened, he would put the child first. For the past ten years, under the protection of the José Knights, the town has been stable and stable, and the mayor has kept his promise, and now that the town is in crisis, the mayor has reverted to his old ways.

Joyce's mind kept echoing what the Knight José had told him. Don't let fear dominate you, the town you went down first is very different from what it was back then. The establishment of the empire and the surrounding vassals made it possible for the town to receive foreign aid, and for this possibility, the knights of Jose had decided to seek help from the surrounding territories. Joyce's heart, however, was as bright as a mirror.

When the bastards heard the news, they would only hurriedly put away the crops in their fields, find as many young farmers as possible from their fiefdoms and pull them over to fill the manpower in their fences, and then close the fences tightly, waiting for the Wiegand people to leave before they cautiously poked their heads out. The knights of José are an outsider, and I don't know how unreliable these chiefs are.

The real confidence to protect his town should still be on the last two points that José Knight said.