The next morning, when the sky was just dawning, a large number of black-pressed Tubis knights gathered under the city of Nedor.

Anthony, who was wounded, stood at the front of the line, quietly listening to the knights come to report the number of people, and the whole knight order had been assembled. Anthony then turned around and whispered to the other three regimental commanders, telling them about the next combat operations of the Nedor garrison. In a few words, Anthony had said all the meaning, and then he turned on his horse, and led the knights to set out at once, galloping all the way west.

Just as Anthony was leading the Knights out of Neddo, behind the mountain pass at the boundary of Dragon City, there was a huge camp of the Knights.

Originally, I thought that after coming to the Dragon City realm, the people would be out of danger, and then everyone could take a good rest. But in reality, the situation is much more embarrassing than they imagined.

On the empty plains on the north side of the Longcheng River, there are refugees everywhere. And the refugees that Cook and the others escorted are just the tip of the iceberg of this refugee. With so many refugees suddenly crowded, the Dragon City territory didn't have time to settle down at all, so everyone had to be stationed here first, and a Dragon City Knights were responsible for guarding the mountain pass.

There is only this knight group left in Dragon City, and the other knights have already been sent to the battlefield on the west side, and the kingdom war in the past two years has almost hollowed out the entire Dragon City, and now Dragon City is short of food and soldiers, and its strength has been greatly reduced. Fortunately, the summer harvest season arrived, and the territory received a bumper harvest in time, which brought a ray of life to Dragon City.

The leader of the Dragon City Knights is named O'Higgins, Chinese New Year's Eve, who is an experienced commander of the Order and the most effective assistant to Thatcher, the Duke of Dragon City. O'Higgins acted steadily, treated people warmly, had a great sense of justice, and was very considerate of the people. In order not to let the refugees go hungry, he did not hesitate to take out all the food of the knights and distribute it to the refugees.

However, almost all the refugees from the nearby territories poured here, and the number of refugees was as high as hundreds of thousands, and the little food of the Knights alone was not enough for the refugees to eat. For this reason, O'Higgins was so anxious that he sent three groups of guards to Dragon City in a row, urging Duke Thatcher to quickly deliver food to help the refugees.

After arriving in Dragon City, everyone was hungry all the time, which made Cook look a little decadent. This was originally the hope of all the Knights, but after coming here, they couldn't even eat, so there was nothing to talk about fighting against the barbarians to avenge the death of their relatives.

Finally, a guard caught fish from the river, cooked it, and handed it to Cook to eat. But when Cook saw the eyes of the countless children, looking at him pitifully, Cook had no choice but to lick his parched lips and give the fish to the hungry children little by little.

The fish was not enough to be divided, and each child was given only a small piece, but they were very satisfied and thanked Cook again and again. Cook twisted the last fish bone, reached into his mouth and chewed it, for Cook it was good to have bones, although it didn't taste good.

Miller was lying on the ground and sleeping, and it was better for him to sleep when he was hungry, so that he could kill time and save energy.

In the distance, there was a sound of horses, and it seemed that someone was so hungry that he was killing horses for meat. It was the nobles' own horses, and no one could control them, and everyone had only envy.

Just when Cook was hungry, Robit appeared in front of him with a large piece of roasted horse meat: "Hey Miller, get up, there's horse meat to eat." ”

Hearing that there was something to eat, Miller rolled over and got up, looking at Robit and Cook in a daze.

Robit smiled, reached out and pulled a knife from his waist, cut off small pieces of horse meat, and divided them among Cook, Miller, Derain, and Mompot in turn.

Miller ate the tender horse meat and asked Robit, "Robit, where did you get this meat, it tastes really good." ”

Robit replied, "A nobleman from Widden killed a horse and gave me a large piece of meat, and the five of us barely ate it. ”

Seeing that Mompot also got a share of the horse's meat, Carter, Lisa, and Mariala, who were sitting not far away, had to look dryly.

Not so selfish, of course, Monpot ate a small slice of it and then handed Carter the other slice he had been given. Carter was very selfless and handed the piece of meat directly to his sister Lisa, instead of eating it himself.

This slight action immediately infected Cook, who hurriedly got up, took two slices of meat directly from Robit's hand, and then walked over and handed them to Lisa and said, "There is not much food, only three slices of meat, you can divide them." ”

Under Lisa's grateful gaze, Cook returned to his place and sat down, and then Cook said to Robitt: "Those two slices just now should be given to me, and you can eat the rest of the meat, you don't need to give it to me anymore." ”

Robit replied, "Why, we are all brothers, and of course we ate meat together." ”

After speaking, Robit finally cut the meat in his hand into five pieces, one for each of the five people.

After Miller finished eating, he didn't forget to lick his fingers, glanced back at Carter, and then said to everyone: "It's not a way to go on like this, and I don't know when the Duke's food will be delivered." ”

Delan was the eldest, and he held his injured right arm, got up and asked Captain O'Higgins in the distance, "Captain, is there any news from Dragon City?" We're all going to starve here. ”

O'Higgins walked over quickly after hearing this, he glanced at the refugees around him, and then secretly took out a few sweet potatoes from his arms, and took turns to distribute them to everyone and said, "First of all, the Duke's grain cart and horse are already on the way, and the food should be delivered soon." ”

After eating the horse meat and sweet potatoes, Miller was happy, took the sweet potato and ate it in embarrassment.

A few people ate fairly well and rested together against the stones.

In the afternoon, the knights of the mountain pass suddenly blew their horns, which was a signal of an enemy attack.

Cook rolled over and stood up, putting on his armor and sword with quick movements. Miller, who was beside him, also roared and put on his boots, looking for his short sword everywhere. Robit was not in such a hurry, because his armor and sword were not left with him, and after getting up and yawning, Robit reached out for his spear and quietly watched the two of them go about their work.

O'Higgins was very anxious, and he called from afar, "Cook, quickly call your hundred knights, and we will set up our defenses together." ”

"Okay, Captain." Cookler pulled his belt and gestured at Mompott.

Mompot didn't have a spear, but he carried a sword at his waist and a bow on his back, and led the knights as fast as he ran toward the pass.

Robit, Cook, and Miller walked behind, and they seemed accustomed to the barbarians' endless pursuit, and did not seem particularly anxious. The most important thing is that the three brothers are together, and there is nothing to worry about, but they seem very calm.

Twelve-year-old Carter followed, with a small axe in his hand, and seemed to want to go into battle.

Cook turned around and asked, "Carter, why are you here to protect your sister and them?" ”

Carter glanced back at Lisa, who was standing with Mariara, looking at him.

Carter then replied, "I'm a man too, and it's my responsibility to protect my people." ”

If you think about it carefully, you are not much older than Carter, and at the critical moment of life and death, you don't care so much. Carter then joined the guard, and Montpot found a short sword and handed it to Carter, placing him next to him.

On the plain outside the mountain pass on the west side, the barbarians had two Black Knights lined up, and an infantry camp was arranged in front of them. The number of barbarians was unexpected, and a large area of the plain outside the entire mountain pass was full of barbarian army camps.

Of all of them, Delan was the most experienced in combat. At this time, Delan was wounded in his right hand, and he still stood in the middle of the team with a sword in his left hand, staring intently at the position of the mountain pass. For Deran, although he had participated in the battle of Yuguan, it was only in charge of the defense of Yuguan Fortress, and this was the first time he had seen three corps lined up at the same time. The number of enemy troops shocked Delan a little, and for a while he didn't have a good idea, just thinking about fighting the enemy army with the knights in the mountain pass to the end.

It was also the first time for Auginsis to encounter such a large enemy army, and he also seemed a little flustered, and only reminded his five knight captains: "There are hundreds of thousands of refugees behind you, as well as the entire Dragon City territory. I know every one of you is scared, and I am scared too. But we are afraid that if we do not solve anything, our kings and princes have been killed by them, our kings have also been occupied by them, Dragon City is our last hope, and we have no way back. ”

Listening to Auginsi's admonitions, a dark cloud appeared on Robit's face, he always felt that this war should not be fought like this, at least Oginsi's mobilization before the war was far from enough.