The ogre's movements were fast, and in less than five days, an army of monsters appeared on the border of the forest, and it was impossible for such a large group of monsters to hide from Locke Town. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Soon the council chamber of Locke Town received the news that the monster was about to attack the city.

"How many of those monsters are there?" In the meeting room of the town hall, the chief councillor of the town hall, Count Royce, asked the sheriff Crews in attendance.

"About five thousand, more than half of them goblins, a small half of them are gnolls, and less than three hundred ogres." Cruise gave a very simple introduction to the composition of the monster.

"And how many of us are there?" Another MP asked.

"There are about 200 people in the security team and 300 people in the city defense team." Because Locke Town is just a town, it is not qualified to have a garrison, and the city defense team, in fact, their own name, to put it bluntly, is still a militia team, and it is under the jurisdiction of the sheriff. But the number of people is also much more than the average town, no way, who called Locke Town is located on the border, and there is money, others have both needs and can afford it.

"So we're only five hundred?" One MP was a little worried: "Will it be too little?" ”

"The number of people is a little less, after all, for so many years, Rock Town has not encountered monsters attacking the city, there are too many people, and the finances can't stand it." It wasn't a question that Cruise could answer, so Count Royce took over.

After explaining to the councillor, Earl Royce asked Cruise, "Do you think this is enough?"

Cruise thought for a moment and said categorically: "Not enough! ”

"Not enough? We have strong walls and complete city defense weapons, and 500 people can't stop those monsters? Cruise's answer was obviously unsatisfactory, and Count Royce said with a frown.

"Even if we have these advantages, it's not enough. The number of monsters is 5,000, and our people are only 500, which is 10 to 1! At that time, those monsters don't have to attack the city with all their might, as long as they take turns to attack the city, we can't stand it, and we can be tired to death! ”

Cruise said this, looked at the crowd to see that they didn't object, and continued.

"And those monsters are obviously not out of the nest, they only have less than 300 ogres, my scout told me, that ogre tribe has at least 1800 to 2000 numbers, or even more, but where are the other ogres? This is obviously the vanguard of monsters, just to deal with these monsters in front of us, our numbers are not enough, and after that? ”

Cruise's answer made all the councillors present frown, not because Cruise was wrong, but because what he said made too much sense. However, there are still people present who have different opinions.

"Those ogres who didn't come, they should be old and weak, women and children, you can't even imagine how you became this security captain!"

These words completely refreshed the lower limit of IQ, and it is completely bull's head is not in the horse's mouth, what others are saying, what are you talking about! Others are discussing increasing the number of troops, and you are talking about the old and weak women and children of ogres, whether you have listened to others or not, I don't know where the point is.

caused everyone to turn their heads to look at the person who spoke up, and as expected, it was the straw bale, the little white-faced Morris. The parliamentarians who can sit here are basically people with passing IQs, and they all frowned when they heard this stupid nonsense speech.

Count Royce also looked at this idiot with a headache, thinking to himself why this guy hadn't left yet. In fact, what happened at Solam's house the other day has now spread throughout Locketown, and even these councillors know about it. But no one is aggrieved by this guy, he didn't pay attention to what he did, and he behaved so badly, almost all the nobles wanted this guy to disappear quickly, it was too embarrassing for the nobles.

However, he could not be allowed to disturb the meeting, and Count Royce had to give Cruise a look and let him explain.

Cruise was also surprised, this guy still had the face to come to the town hall? However, his boss gave orders, and he patiently explained.

"Ogres are different from us humans, except for cubs, there are no other old, weak, sick and disabled, not strong enough, old ogres will be killed and eaten, as for female ogres, there is no difference between them and males from the outside, as long as they are adults, they are warriors, regardless of gender."

Female ogres are really no different from males, except for the crotch, of course. Because ogres eat meat as soon as they are born and are not lactating at all, female ogres do not have two clumps on their chests, and ordinary people cannot tell them apart from the surface. As for the elderly ogre, Cruise is wrong, there really is, but only for ogres who can cast spells.

Hearing Cruise's explanation, the little white face said a little sneeringly: "Oh, there is such a saying, haha....." and then shut up in the contempt of everyone.

Seeing that this guy shut up, Count Royce turned his head and asked, "Is there any solution?" ”

"Yes, the first one is to ask for help, I remember we asked for help before the arrival of winter, why didn't the reinforcements arrive?" Cruise is very strange, the style of their Silver Moon Kingdom is also resolute among the nations, it is impossible for a thing to drag on for so long and there is still no response, not to mention that it is not easy to rush in winter, it has been a few months, and it has climbed to the end.

"Alas...... It's not to blame those orcs, Silvermoon City gave news before, saying that the orcs in the West are a little ready to move, and Silvermoon City has no extra troops to rush over, originally let us wait, but after entering the winter, those ogres haven't moved, and we haven't reported it again, so it's like this. ”

“....... If there are no reinforcements, it will be very troublesome, but what about those noble private soldiers? There are quite a few noble territories around Locke Town, so what about looking for them? Cruise understood, it was they who were too careless, they thought that those ogres would only be able to make a move at least after the beginning of spring, in fact, these monsters would suddenly move out at this time, even Cruise, and he didn't expect it.

"Most of the nobles have gone to Kohler City, and only a small number of nobles have come to our Rock Town, so there are not many nobles' private soldiers, how many come?" As he spoke, he looked at a young parliamentarian and said that he was young, but it seemed that he was at least in his 30s, but among these councillors, he was relatively young, except for the little white face.

"About 300 of them, and quite a few of them are knights." This is already a lot of power, after all, to be awarded the title of knight, at least a level 10 professional. Of course, it is not excluded that those who inherit the title of knight are the second lords, but there are not many such people.

"Well, that's all there is to Cruise, and it looks like we're on our own. Do you have any other options? ”

"Yes, start recruiting those adult men into the army, even if it's useless at first, but the last few battlefields are about the same, and you also have to recruit those adventurers, although they are a rabble, but they are better than those untrained civilians, and the power of the temple, they are also a lot of force."

"Well, I've agreed to all of that, what else do you have to add?" Count Royce was satisfied with Cruise's handling and asked the other councillors.

"Agree", "agree", "agree", and the other parliamentarians also agreed.

Just as he was about to adjourn the meeting, Morris, who had been silent just now, spoke again, "I think we should get out of here and go to Kohler City, it's safer there, and wouldn't it be better to leave this place to those untouchables to guard?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the venue became silent.

Seeing everyone looking at him dumbfounded, the little white-faced Morris was a little inexplicable, was there anything wrong with what he said? Just now he heard that there were more than 2,000 ogres, and all the people were soldiers, so he wanted to run. In his mind, if it's so dangerous, why stay here?

And then all the parliamentarians didn't bother to look at him, what should they do. Only Count Royce looked at him with a headache and said, "If you run away, no matter why, you will be deprived of your noble status." With that, he left.

In the Silver Moon Kingdom, there is such an iron law, when a foreign enemy attacks, no matter what, the nobles have the duty to defend the territory, and they can't escape from the battle. Violators were stripped of their nobility, permanently demoted to commoners, and their property confiscated.

So these councillors are gone, once they leave, their family will be done, and it is not a big deal that they are dead, if they affect the family, then they are sinners. However, they all secretly sent their families away in advance, and if the nobles died in battle, the kingdom would not pursue their families.

The little white face is stupid, he doesn't know this at all.

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The atmosphere in Locke Town suddenly became tense again, and those people from the security team began to recruit strong men from door to door, but fortunately, these people all knew that if the monster really captured the town, then everyone had to finish playing, and the monster should not be captured, so most people were still relatively positive.

And the adventurer's guild also posted a mandatory task, this kind of task is performed by every adventurer in the city, any adventurer who refuses, will be disqualified as an adventurer, and then arrested by the security team, prosecuted for desertion, and generally end up staying in the bitter kiln for a lifetime, doing a lifetime of hard labor.

As for the task, even if the money is not much, but there is still money to take it, so even if they are reluctant, those adventurers can only pinch their noses and admit it. It's better than squatting in a bitter kiln.

Naturally, Solam and the others were drafted, but they had a good relationship with the security forces, so they were assigned to an arrow tower, which could shelter them from the wind and snow, or at least not freeze.

Considering that adventurers are generally very loose, the town hall specially allows a group of adventurers to follow a team of soldiers, which can also make them a little more obedient.

And the soldiers stationed in the arrow tower with Soram are all Harris's subordinates, and they are also very familiar with Solam. So Solam and they are quite comfortable staying here, they don't have to patrol or stand guard.

Among them was the young guard who listened to Soram's bragging at the city gate that day, Soram learned his name this time, his name was Luen, he was just 18 years old this year, because his father and Harris were friends, and after his father's death, his mother asked Harris to recruit him into the vigilante.

"Boss Solam, did you say we can stay this time?"

"Of course you hold on, why do you ask?" Solam lay lazily on the edge of the fire wrapped in a thick blanket. He thought he would be very nervous, after all, this is a war, but Soram didn't feel anything, as if this was a normal thing, he was surprised that his nerves could be so thick.