290. Arrive at the county seat
While Li Xiang and Sun Xiaoyu met with Kashya during their journey, Yang Qianyu and other companions led a large group of alchemy soldiers to Brettnia City from another way.
More than a dozen sturdy riding horses carried Yang Qianyu and other male companions, while other female companions rode three giant four-wheeled carriages, and Liu Tianyu, Mi Zhansong and Xu Wenjie served as drivers respectively. And following the passing cars was a vast and hundreds of people on foot.
The members of this walking team have a uniform attire, and they all wear light brown long-sleeved jackets with turn-out stand-up collars, armbands embroidered with swords, spears, bows and shields on one side of the long sleeves, a white shirt underneath, white corseted trousers, and knee-high dark brown leather boots on their feet. At the waist of this suit, a brown belt resembling a skirt is wrapped around it, connecting the upper and lower bib pants to the belt on the leg. Everyone carried a huge backpack, and it can be inferred that the weight of the backpack must not be light, but these people can follow the galloping horse team with such a huge backpack, and it makes people suspect that these seemingly bulging backpacks are actually empty.
"It's weird to be able to keep up with the horses with such a big backpack." Ruan Kunpeng, who was riding on a horse, turned his head to look at the walking team behind him, and scratched his head in annoyance. "I mean, they can't be seen as human, right?"
"What do you say?" Shi Jinxin, who was riding beside him, gave Ruan Kunpeng a roll of his eyes and said, "As long as you are not stupid, you can see the current appearance of these guys." ”
Ruan Kunpeng grinned awkwardly and stopped talking—but he was not to blame for his concern, because the rucksacks carried by the alchemy soldiers who followed them were so large that they could be summed up as 'too much for the neck, too much for the hips, and more than the shoulders'. Even if such a rucksack is unloaded, carrying it on the body will affect the action, let alone a full load. It is an incredible thing for an ordinary traveler to be able to walk normally with such a backpack on his back. And what these alchemy soldiers are doing now is carrying such a huge and heavy backpack, following behind the galloping horses and carriages, and galloping wildly without blushing or panting.
It doesn't look like a human being at all, even though he/she is not human.
"Brother Yang." Ruan Kunpeng rode a few steps forward to Yang Qianyu's side and expressed his worries. "Will these alchemy soldiers be seen?"
"The way it looks now, it will definitely be seen." Yang Qianyu replied as he turned his head to look at the alchemy soldiers who were speeding with the team behind him. "Tell the rest of your companions to slow down the team as you approach the county town and move at the same speed as a normal mixed infantry team. Minimize our prominence as much as possible. ”
"Understood." Ruan Kunpeng nodded, and then rode away to pass a word to the other companions.
Yang Qianyu shrugged with a wry smile when he saw Ruan Kunpeng leave. In fact, it was not their intention to let these alchemy soldiers march so swaggeringly, but as a last resort. Because they would cause panic in their horses, whether they were riding or riding in a car, these alchemy soldiers had to rely on foot to go out. However, for alchemy soldiers, there is no need to worry about the consumption of physical energy, so their marching speed is not much worse than that of galloping chariots and horses, but there is no need to worry that they will fall behind. As for the non-human abilities displayed by the alchemy soldiers, if they were seen by outsiders, they would indeed arouse suspicion, but if they were mixed into a large team, the uniqueness of such a small team of a few hundred people would not be obvious. Brettnia, the place where the troops of the lords and nobles of the county were assembled, was such a place. As long as you pass through the crowd and bring the team to the destination in a low-key manner, you can go to the front line with the allied forces of lords and nobles in the county. As for whether the infantry can keep up with the chariot brigade, the question is not really a problem. There are very few units in the alliance of lords and nobles that can achieve complete chariot riding - most of them are elite troops directly under the lord with chariots and horses, and foreign mercenaries can only follow all the way on foot unless they can bring their own vehicles (most of them cannot afford to equip them, of course). Such a mixed infantry and cavalry army naturally marched not much faster, and the alchemy soldiers naturally followed such a team to march together, so it was naturally not very conspicuous.
Therefore, what Yang Qianyu and the others have to do now is to ensure how to bring this alchemy soldier unit under their command to Breitnia City and minimize the exposure along the way. Fortunately, there were not many densely populated towns on the way of the procession, and the few country farmers they met on the way would avoid it in horror when they saw such a procession of hundreds of people, and had no time to look at the clues of the people. So along the way, no outsiders noticed the strangeness of the alchemy soldiers.
In this way, after two days of marching, the whole team finally arrived at the main city of Brettnia, 'Brettnia', near the evening of the third day of departure.
Upon arrival in Bretnia, the Travelers did not bring the alchemist soldiers into the city - in fact, this was impossible. In the entire county of Bretnia, there were about seven or eight noble lords, and the armies they brought out in each 'War of the Demons' combined numbered in the thousands. No city could have allowed such an army to enter at will, even if every city had a few thousands, if tens of thousands, tens of thousands. Therefore, every time the noble lords of the county gathered in the county before the 'Demon War', they stationed their troops in the garrison area designated by the city defense army outside the county. As for the noble lords, they can live in the city with their knights and a small number of guards - in fact, the noble lords of these places have villas in the main city of the county where their fiefdoms are located, and the difference is only a matter of size and luxury.
The Leopold family of Cassa also had a villa in the city of Bretnia. Arriving at the county half a day earlier, she took a few knights with her to the county town after settling down with her troops. Originally, Kaxia invited Li Xiang and Sun Xiaoyu to live together in the family villa in the city, but Li and Sun politely refused under the pretext of waiting for Yang Qianyu and other companions to meet. Kasha had no choice but to enter the city on her own, and before leaving, she solemnly invited everyone from the Xuanyuan family to be guests in her villa in the city.