"The citizens of Ravenna are going to rebel, they have besieged the castle and the archers are starting to take up the city, these damned Italians!"

"Rebellion?"

Rebellion is not a joke, although tens of thousands of people in the city are citizens, but once they are ruthless to break the jar, it is impossible for us to match it with only a thousand people, and the top priority now is to find out what happened, after all, when they entered the city, although the masses could not talk about eating pot pulp, but at least there was no mass indignation.

I hurriedly ordered Kohler: "You go and investigate the cause immediately, and the rest of the people follow me to the city wall!" ”

I stood behind the battlements and watched the blackened and dressed citizens underneath.

Some of them carried spears and simple leather armor, some carried maces and swords, and some simply held their own wooden clubs and sickles, but judging from their clothing, they were all wealthy citizens, and 2/3 of them could afford personal armament, and it was these people who forced me to re-examine their combat effectiveness.

Kohler hurried up the tower, first anxiously observing the outside of the city before reporting his findings to me.

"My lord, after my investigation, it is said that some of our soldiers, under your banner, ransacked several wealthy citizens, not only robbing things, but also killing citizens, and the citizens feared that our army would sack the city like the conquerors in the past, so they spontaneously armed themselves and tried to surround us."

After listening to Kohler's words, I immediately became angry, and the waste wood under my hands was really well-developed and simple-minded, and they only thought about the bandits' habit of stealing things and making a fortune, and if they won the battle, they didn't know the height of the sky, and they dared to falsely pass on my orders, and trapped me in a situation of inhumanity, injustice, and trustworthiness.

"Archer prepare!"

The bull shouted orders beside me, and the citizens of the city were in an uproar, and several strong men came out of the crowd carrying thick logs sharpened at the top, apparently trying to attack the city gates.

"Don't shoot!"

I hurriedly held down the bull's arm that was about to fall, and stopped him from giving the order to attack, and the archers withdrew their arrows and looked at me incredulously.

"My lord, why are you ......?" asked the bull, puzzled, for it seemed to him that the only way to suppress the disobedient Diao people was by force.

"Counting the wounded soldiers, our total strength has not yet reached a thousand, and there are at least three thousand citizens surrounding us, before things are completely clear, once we give the order to attack, this number will inevitably increase exponentially, thousands of poorly equipped citizens, it is indeed difficult to conquer the castle, but we never go out, the rebels will soon come back, at that time we are in danger, the top priority is to resolve the contradictions, understand?"

I pointed to the crowds of citizens under the city gates, and explained to the bull, but also to all the soldiers around me.

The strong men came to the city gate with a bang on the cone, shouted trumpets in the cheers of the crowd and began to hit the city gate, and the vibration from the city gate spread through the soles of my feet, as if the city walls were really trembling, and the scene at this moment was like the citizens of Paris who had stormed the Bastille, and I myself was the Louis XVI who was guillotined.

The bull walked up to the city wall and looked down from above, and many citizens banged in vain on the iron gate with their weapons, and they seemed to be very loud, and he asked me uneasily: "My lord, what should we do now?" Could it be that they broke into the door before their eyes? ”

My brain was running like a rabbit, and although it was blank and I wasn't thinking about anything, the bulls and the warriors looked at me expectantly, and I couldn't say I didn't have any tricks, did I?

I licked my lips that were dry because of nervousness, and the rough texture made me finally settle down: "Bull, you immediately go and find out the soldiers who have entered the city without value, and let them tell each other where they have been, Kohler is responsible for protecting me, we are going out now and rebelling against the mob theory, in case the situation changes, the archers on the city wall will give me a deadly shot, don't pay attention to these people." ”

I clenched my fists and fully laid out my plan, and the battle of words is always better than the battle of swords, so the atmosphere of self-sacrifice instantly makes me feel a lot taller.

"My lord, the outside of the city is full of emotional thugs, and it is difficult for me to guarantee that there are any spies and assassins under the old duke among these people, please think again."

When the bull heard that I was going to go out to solve the problem in person, he was so anxious that he didn't know what to say, so he could only pull Kohler's sleeve desperately and let him come out.

"I know all of your concerns, but this is already my plan after thinking twice, do you have a better one, let's hear it?"

I stretched out my arms and asked my attendants to tie a few pieces of armor to my chest and lower abdomen to protect the vital parts, then I tied my sword around my waist, took a deep breath, and stepped down the wall, the eyes of the soldiers full of admiration or sympathy or madness.

Facing the closed gates, I tried my best to calm my little heart's speed of more than two hundred miles per second, and Kohler carried his bow and his right hand on his waist, maintaining the most comfortable position for the arrow.

"Open the door."

I said to a few of the soldiers who were holding the latches of the gates, "Raise the iron gates, and you all go to the back, and don't get too close to me." ”

The moment the city gate opened, the citizens who were sweating profusely with the cone on their heads saw me, and they wanted to see Sister Feng, who was carrying a pile of guano on top of her head, frozen in place as if time stood still, and after a while, she thought that we were going to open the city to fight, so she threw away the giant tree in fright, and ran away screaming.

The people behind didn't know what was going on, and they all reflexively followed them, and outside the city gates scrambled to open a small clearing, if you ignored the many shoes that had been trampled on and the weapons that had been thrown on the ground in confusion.

"Run! The Germans have come out! ”

"The devils are going to kill us all!"

"Oh God! Punish these dastardly invaders! ”

Kohler and I walked slowly out of the city, and some of the citizens who had not had time to run away looked at me, and soon they found that there were only two of us, and they all gathered around me with courage, and the wielding tips and spears almost wounded my face, but the archers at the head of the city, with their bows drawn, deterred those who wanted to fish in troubled waters and take advantage of the chaos, and they only crowded four or five paces in front of me to a halt, pushing and shoving not to go any further.

"Please be quiet! I am the highest authority commander here, the Viscount of the German Empire, Randy Adrian Hoffmann. ”

I took a deep breath from my dantian and shouted as loudly as I could, trying to make sure everyone could hear what I said.

"I'm here to solve the problem, not to go to war with you, and to show my sincerity, I'll throw my weapon aside first, okay?"

Saying that, I took off the saber from my waist and threw it aside, anyway, if it really starts, everyone in front of me will give me a look, no matter how strong the martial arts are, I have to rest, so it is better to make a gesture first.

The surrounding citizens were obviously frightened by my posture, and the noise gradually stopped, only some ill-intentioned people, hiding in the crowd to incite the masses behind who did not know the truth, continued to shout slogans and poured forward, but the citizens in front of them joined hands to form a human wall, shouting loudly to the people they knew behind not to move forward.

At this point, I was less nervous, the bull finished his task, gestured at me, and then stood silently beside Kohler, the two of them were still some distance away from me as I asked, but I didn't worry about safety at all, and the two of them stood behind me more securely than locking myself in a safe.

I looked at every face in front of me, and many of them lowered their heads and slowly moved into the crowd, like children who had done something wrong, and their performance told me that in fact, a large part of them were instigated, and the crowd came here in a flickering way, and when I understood this, I was more confident in completing my plan.