"Lord Richard, we should be able to keep them."

Zebul was a little puzzled, in his opinion, although the person on the other side was strong, but with him and the poisonous scorpion lion, it should be enough to fight.

The rest of the people were dealt with by Richard and the two Vanguard Knights, and their chances of winning were not low, and they should not let these sneak attackers go.

"It's not worth it."

Richard shook his head, and after confirming that the other party was far away, he put the angel necklace in his hand back in his arms.

It's not worth it for him to use an angel necklace, and it's not worth it for Zebul and the manticoree to take the risk.

The situation is unknown at night, and the town of Ridge is not their home field, so it is best to annihilate the invading enemy,

The opposite side has the ability to retreat and he doesn't want to force it, and if the other party has any ambush at this time, he can only force him to use the hole card of the angel necklace.

Richard is now a little insecure about the next journey, and even for Wang Du,

Be cautious and be as cautious as possible.

Who knows, within the kingdom, or in the core area of the kingdom, it will be attacked, and the power sent by the other party is not weaker than the power of the top nobles,

If it weren't for Richard's many hole cards, he might really be a corpse on the ground at this time, and the angel necklace was Richard's last hole card.

"Let's count the damage."

"Yes!"

After a short contact battle, Richard's side lost more than a dozen men,

The main losses were the two teams of Northland cavalry brought by Richard,

Although this group of cavalry is elite, it is only an ordinary unit, the two captains barely reach the level of quasi-knights, and the rest are only at the level of elite soldiers.

In the case of such a high proportion of knights on the other side, it is not normal if the losses are not large, if it weren't for the fact that Richard's side occupies a certain advantage in high-end combat power and shares a lot of pressure, the casualties of these Northland cavalry will only be greater,

In addition to this, several sentries set up at night were also touched,

The bright and dark whistles they arranged were like jokes in the eyes of the other side, and this group of people was simply familiar with this place.

With mental calculations or unintentional, the sentry arranged by Richard was touched without any warning.

"Lord Richard, there's still a mouth."

"Take it down and see if you can ask for something."

"Yes."

In the process of cleaning up the battlefield, it was found that several wounded but not dead people were very normal,

If you meet your own people, you can save them, and if you can't save them, you can save them, and if you meet the other party, you will see the situation, and if you are too seriously injured, you will be happy.

If you want to ask questions, try to get help.

The other party withdrew a little embarrassed, and naturally it was too late to take away his wounded, so it fell into the hands of Richard at this time.

Richard wanted to know the origin of this group, he still hadn't figured out which god he had offended and made such a big battle against him.

"Lord Richard, the other party killed himself."

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Obviously, this group of people is a bit of a big problem, such dead soldiers are not something that ordinary forces can cultivate.

Richard didn't bring any interrogation masters this time, the group of people he is bringing with him now are okay to fight, the interrogation is completely a layman, and he also gave the other party a chance to commit suicide.

But fortunately, Richard already had another guess in his mind...

The sky was slightly bright

Finally, someone watched the hotel where Richard and the others were staying from afar.

The sound of fighting in the middle of the night last night almost alarmed the whole town,

Except for the man who shared a hotel with Richard and was forced to flee the fire in the middle of the night, everyone else shrank inside the house and did not dare to take their heads.

People in this era don't have much to look at the excitement, and they are afraid that they will accidentally hurt the fish in the pond.

"Lord Richard, the matter you asked the detective to be clarified has been clarified."

Richard and the others didn't fall asleep in the second half of the night,

After simply collecting the corpses of his companions, Richard ordered people to go to the town and start an investigation.

By the time the day dawned, it was obvious that there were some eyebrows.

"Those bodies last night, after being identified by several innkeepers, many of them were from the Ridge Town Garrison,

Now that the garrison's camp is empty, it should be that the group left directly in the evening. ”

Richard's expression didn't change significantly, and the result was clearly what he expected.

The group of people who attacked him in the middle of the night were obviously very familiar with the town, and they looked like local forces, and they had a lot of military crossbows, plus from the end of their fight to the present,

The garrison in the town didn't even react, even if it was watered, it should always be washed, and it hadn't appeared yet, so the truth would be obvious,

But after the results were obtained, Richard's doubts were even greater,

This small garrison was apparently assigned to attack him in conjunction with other forces.

Even this garrison has long been out of the Kingdom's official state, and has been in a low-key dormant state before, and it was suddenly activated to deal with him at this time.

"Lord Richard, the mayor of Richie Town has brought it."

"My lord, I don't know anything!"

As soon as the mayor of Richie Town entered the door, he immediately knelt down in front of Richard, and through many understandings, he already knew roughly what happened last night,

also learned the identity of the person in front of him, whether it was the identity of the earl or the identity of the new marquis, he was a big man in a small town.

This big guy was assassinated in the town last night, and he didn't want to have anything to do with it.

It's not like he's never seen how dark these nobles are, and when he encounters a tyrannical lord, he can peel off a layer of skin if he has the slightest suspicion.

He can't help but be careless.

Richard followed the voice,

The mayor of the town was a bald man of about fifty years old, with a fat head and big ears, and he obviously made a lot of money from this position.

However, Richard was not interested in whether he could catch it or not, and this town was not his territory, so he couldn't manage it so far.

He just wanted to get more information from the mayor.

But looking at him like this, Richard doesn't have much hope, and he is probably just a fool.

"Okay, I'll ask you something, and you just need to answer truthfully."

"Yes, yes, sir."

"Tell me about the garrison first."

"There are a hundred people in our town's garrison, and all of them are full and there is not a single vacancy."

"Why?"

Although Richard asked why the other garrison did not have a vacancy, it sounded strange at first glance,

But in fact this is the norm in the kingdom,

The captain of the local garrison has a conscience to eat one-third to one-quarter of the vacancy.

In a place like Richie's Town, there will be basically no war, and there are no powerful bandits in the hinterland of the kingdom.

Although there are 100 garrisons, there will be no war.

It's normal to eat half of the vacancy, but the mayor of the town said that there is no vacancy, and there is obviously a problem.

"Alas, it's not that John guy is pretending to be high, I discussed with him when I first took office, and I shared half of the money with him, but he refused.

He came before me, and the garrison was full of his men, and he really refused, and I, the mayor, couldn't do anything about him. ”

The mayor's attitude towards empty pay is simply justified, if it were under Richard, he would be able to directly draw his sword and cut him down at this time.

"And where is John now?"

"I don't know, I don't know where he ate the leopard, dare to attack you."

The mayor of the town is actually not stupid, from the corpses of these garrisons and the empty garrison camp today, he has already guessed that last night's attack is related to the town's garrison,

He also really felt wronged, and he didn't eat a penny, and he took the cauldron for nothing.

"Have the town garrisons been making any recent moves, or strange moves?"

"No, except for not eating empty salaries, the garrison of our town is no different from the garrisons in other places, just train a few times a year, just deal with the errand of the royal capital,

If it's really abnormal, is it okay for our town garrison to train more often? ”

If Richard heard this before the attack, he would have thought that the captain of the garrison was an upright officer who had come out of the mud and was not stained.

Now it sounds,, there's a big problem.

"Oh, by the way, the garrison has been ordered by the above to send out to check the remnants of the Rising Sun God Cult, and it seems that it has gained quite a lot."

Obviously, the original captain of the garrison managed the troops very solidly,

The mayor doesn't seem to be able to get involved at all, and a lot of things are only superficial.

"Cult of the Rising Sun?"

When he heard the name again, Richard was almost immediately sure that this incident had something to do with the church.

Well-trained soldiers, strong men of unknown origin, and strong-willed dead soldiers.

Now, in addition to the official power of the kingdom, there are not many forces that can meet these conditions at the same time.

And the kingdom officials have no possibility of targeting him at all,

Although there was no direct evidence, Richard had almost determined the forces of the attackers by this time.

(Late but arrived)