"Open the gates, let us out!" ...... "Yes, open the gates, if you don't open them again, we'll do it ourselves!" Inside Fort Riptide, at the closed gate, a group of strong men wearing inferior leather armor or chain mail gathered together and charged the Riptide Castle court guards who prevented them from opening the gates. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Stop, stop! What are you doing?" De Jong, the captain of the palace guard of the Stormgard Kingdom, ran all the way down from the city with dozens of guards, and saw this group of strong men who were making noise, he was stunned for a moment, and then the anger on his face became even stronger, "Robin, what are you doing here?"

Seeing the two-handed swords and spears in the hands of the palace guards, the strong men all shrank back, only a middle-aged man with inconvenient legs and feet did not retreat, seeing De Rong, he instead dragged a lame leg forward two steps, straightened his strong chest, and said loudly: "De Rong, you came just in time, I want to ask you, what are you doing?"

"You ask me, ask me what I do, Robin, your legs are crippled, and your brain is crippled!" De Jong changed his eyebrows in front of King Solas, and rebuked the acquaintance named "Robin" unceremoniously.

"Well, let me ask you, De Jong, is there an orc calling?" Robin held out a hand and pointed to the gate behind De Jong.

"Yes!" said De Jong, who did not hide anything - he could not hide such a thing if he wanted to, but he might as well admit it neatly, "That's why I want to ask Robin what you are going to do? Are you afraid? Do you want to escape? Are you worthy of the Earl?"

The man in front of him called Robin was De Jong's former comrade-in-arms, and the two served together under Count Tas, in a battle to clear out the bandits, Robin was injured in one of his legs, and there was no way to continue to be a soldier.

A man with one leg can be described as "not easy to live" in Stormgard, a country where military merit and force are supreme. Fortunately, Count Tus remembered the old days and hired Robin as his gardener, so that he could earn an income and support his family. The Earl died a few years ago, and the eldest son of the Earl inherited the title, and he did not have any prejudice against the old man left by his father, and continued to hire Robin as the gardener of their family, all of which De Jong knew.

Even De Jong himself was deeply favored by Count Tas, and if it weren't for the Earl's recommendation, it would be difficult for De Jong to sit in his current position. De Jong has always respected the Earl, and even though his own status soon surpassed that of the Count of Tarth, he still saluted the Earl as a subordinate. Officially, De Jong felt a deep hatred for Robin's behavior at this time.

Since the news of the fall of Stormwind City reached the Northern Subcontinent, the Kingdom of Stormgard has been expanding its forces, and almost all adult combat-ready males have been absorbed into the army. As a result, most of the men De Jong was able to mobilize in Fort Riptide were former veterans like Robin, who were unable to serve in the military because of their disability or other reasons, and instead became servants of the nobility begging for food.

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid, my legs are gone, but my hands are still there, and I say I'm afraid of orcs, my old fellow, when I'm not rusty enough to cut the throats of those green-skinned cubs!" said Robin, as if insulted, slapping the hilt of his sword on his waist and loudly refuting De Jong's words—and in fact it was more uncomfortable for the men of the Arathi Heights to be called a "coward" than to kill him.

"Then what are you doing? I recruited you here so that you could help defend the city, but you still caused trouble for me? Do you know what you are doing? Let me tell you Robin, you are disobeying military orders and gathering a crowd to mutiny, do you want to be the internal response of the orcs?" After a few years in the aristocratic circle, De Jong has also become a little noble, and he gave Robin a big hat of "defecting to the enemy and betraying the country".

"Bah!" Robin spat unceremoniously on the ground, and said to De Jong with a mocking, "Don't talk to me about this, I will kill the orcs later, Lao Tzu is definitely not worse than you! I know that you are busy building fortifications to defend the city, and you don't have time to listen to my ramblings, I only ask you, De Jong, the people in the city are people, and the people outside the city are not people?"

The strong men who had originally flinched under the pressure of the palace guards were all excited under the instigation of Robin's words, stopped their retreat, and used their flesh and blood chests to advance fearlessly to force the blades in the hands of the guards. At this time, the palace guards were a little flustered, and they all turned their eyes to their superiors - this orc has not yet attacked, is it going to attack their own people first?

However, the palace guards received no answer from De Jong, and their prefect fell silent at this point - yes, what about the people outside the city?

Although Fort Riptide was built on the foundation of Rapids, the capital of the Empire of Araso, it was impossible to encompass all of its inhabitants within the high walls. There are also many people who live near Fort Rapids, but they have not entered the city at the moment, and more importantly, they don't even know about the orc attack.

"People outside the city ......" De Jong was silent for a long time before he spat out a few words with difficulty, and it was difficult to continue—should he say it himself, and the people outside the city would be left to their own devices?

"Everyone here has an acquaintance living outside the city. Are you going to let us do nothing here and just pray to the Light that the orcs don't find them?" Robin saw De Jong's reaction and slowed his tone slightly—he was a little too excited just now, but there was definitely something wrong with De Jong's approach, because he ......

"It's useless, Robin, it's too late. De Jong whispered.

"Late?" Robin was stunned for a moment, suddenly thought of something, limped a few steps angrily, grabbed the gorgeous collar of De Jong's guard's robe, and said loudly, "What is late?

The palace guards on one side, seeing that their commander was offended, stepped forward to pull Robin away, but De Jong waved his hand to stop him, and he let the tall Robin grab his collar, almost lifting himself in the air, and said regretfully: "It's too late, the door, it's already sealed." ”

"Sealed?" Robin only felt his hands soften instantly, loosening De Jong's collar, and he staggered back two steps, looking at De Jong in front of him.

De Jong's collar was messed up, but instead of tidying it up, he whispered, "It's my fault, Robin, I admit it." After seeing the beacon fire at the outpost, I sent scouts to reconnoiter the situation, and when the scouts reported back to me that they had seen a large group of orcs from afar, I immediately ordered the gates to be sealed. At that time, I didn't think of people outside the city......"