Chapter 1204: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole
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In the end, Prince Henry agreed with Lotus Ste's decision. Melty stayed behind to keep him safe, while Lotus himself took two knights into the city to find out what was going on.
The main thing is to investigate the current situation in the city of border stops, as well as the attitude of the border archduke's camp towards the destruction of the royal family of A.
In this regard, Lotus, who has lived for decades, is still relatively experienced, and naturally has the means to find out the news he wants.
As long as he is sure that there is no danger in the city for the time being, he will come back and lead the entire team into the city. This time will not last long.
Of course, in addition to finding out the news, Lotus entered the city first to prepare for the White Rose team's subsequent entry into the city - their group's outfits were too conspicuous, and they had to prepare a set of clothes that could smoothly blend into the city without attracting attention!
And these, the White Rose Knights fled all the way in a hurry, and even the weapons and equipment were a little insufficient, and the other sundries were naturally not fully prepared in advance.
Therefore, the things needed to disguise the identities of a group of more than ten people still need to be purchased by Lotus when he enters the city.
They would never be able to swagger into the city directly wearing the armor of the White Rose Knights, as they would definitely expose their tracks to the forces of the Grand Duke of the Frontier as soon as possible, and even to the people of the Empire who might be lurking in the city of the Frontier.
It's better to disguise yourself as a normal civilian and sneak into the city. And that's why Lotus only took two knights with him. Too many people can increase the likelihood of accidental exposure.
After deciding, Lotus chose two comrades-in-arms he knew well, Doron and Buck, and followed him into the city.
The three of them took off the armor of the White Rose Knights, and also took off the inner chain mail, leaving only a simple shirt, and also removed swords and other weapons.
When ordinary mountain civilians lived outside the city, it was indeed possible to carry iron weapons for self-defense, but it was absolutely impossible to have a sophisticated weapon like the knightly sword of the White Rose Knights, at most it was just a very ordinary machete or something, and it might even be just some agricultural tools such as axes and sickles.
Therefore, it is impossible for the three Lotus to carry their own weapons into the city, and they can only pretend to be ordinary civilians without suitable identity cover. Although for a large city like Frontier City, the daily flow of people out of the city and into the city is extremely large, and it is impossible for the city guards to carefully check everyone who enters and exits the city gate, but if you look a little unusual from the appearance of your clothes and the equipment you carry, it is impossible for the city guards to be blind enough to pretend not to see it, and they will definitely interrogate you with a more serious attitude, or at least try to ask you about your identity and origin.
Therefore, if you want to disguise yourself as an ordinary civilian who will not attract the attention of the city guards, you must make yourself look like an ordinary civilian.
It's just that they can't carry neither armor nor weapons, and the combat effectiveness of the three Lotus will inevitably be greatly reduced, and if they encounter a crisis in the city and need to fight, the current situation of being defenseless will become very bad.
The three Lotus knew that this was a bit risky, but they had no other way than to hide some simple weapons such as daggers under their clothes.
War horses naturally can't be carried, ordinary animal husbandry horses and war horses used by the army, you can see some differences just from the appearance, a civilian-looking person rides a war horse that only soldiers can have into the city, that is simply telling the city guards that they have a problem.
Therefore, the horses of the three were also left in the depression to be temporarily taken care of by the other White Rose Knights. This depression is hollow inside, surrounded by lush reeds and grasses on the periphery, like a wall, which can block the view from the plain from afar, and even the height of the war horse, after entering this depression, it will become very inconspicuous from the outside, and it is a good hiding place.
Although the area of the depression is too small to hide too many troops, just hiding the dozen or so people of the White Rose team is completely fine.
However, just as the three Lotus were about to leave, Melty suddenly stopped them.
Looking at the puzzled gazes of the three Lotres, Melti directly handed Lotus two small clay pots.
"It's ......!" Lotus's eyes widened suddenly, he had already guessed what it was.
"If you encounter an enemy and it's really difficult, spilling the powder inside into the air near the enemy should help you get rid of them. Melti explained, and then took out another cloth bag, from which she took out six medicine bags about the size of a coin, tied with leaves and rhizomes, and handed them to the three Rotes.
"This is the corresponding antidote, you can each take the next one now, and the effect of the medicine will last for an hour. ”
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According to Prince Henry's description, Lotus and Melty were generally clear about how to find the so-called neighboring ally. This neighboring ally, who is also the representative of the neighboring country, is responsible for liaising with members of the royal family of A when some special circumstances arise.
It can be regarded as one of the back roads that the A royal family has prepared for itself a long time ago.
The other party's ostensible identity is a businessman who has been rooted in the city of Biansai for many years, and he runs an antique pawn business in the city, and the shops are usually relatively remote and deserted, because there are not too many customers at ordinary times, so it is convenient to do some hidden things that need to be avoided by people.
According to Prince Henry, after entering the city, as long as you find the shop and communicate with the envoys of the neighboring countries in it, you can gain the trust of the other party.
Moreover, Prince Henry also said a very important message - the previous king of the kingdom had the foresight to foresee this situation today and made some arrangements early.
He buried some things in some hidden places outside the royal capital, mainly a batch of weapons and money, so that when one day in the future, if a member of the royal family A was killed, the survivors could rely on these materials buried in various places to make a comeback at a faster speed.
And it just so happens that inside this side of the city, there is actually a hidden stronghold that the king secretly sent people to bury many years ago. Among them, there are even powerful weapons and equipment similar to the Iron String Bow.
Not many people know about this information, even within the royal family of A, except for the king himself, and only core members such as the first heir to the throne like Prince Henry will be told.
After all, this kind of information must be kept hidden enough to really be effective, so naturally the less people know about it, the better.
This message is really good news for the White Rose Squad, because after fleeing all the way, in fact, the weapons and equipment and other necessary materials of the entire White Rose Knights have become a little scarce.
On their previous escapes, they simply had no way to replenish these military supplies.
This can be seen from the fact that the previous White Rose squad was not even equipped with bows and arrows and crossbows. Many of the bows and crossbows used in the squad were scavenged from the slain Imperial soldiers by Merti herself and then distributed to everyone.
"His Majesty the Wise King has already considered this step early on. Listening to Prince Henry's words, Lotus couldn't help but have a touch of respect for that king on his face.
With this batch of materials, at least the people of the White Rose Squad can be well armed, which will greatly improve the combat power of the team.
Arrows, in particular, are especially valued by Rotes. After all, there is now a strong person in the team who has Melti's archery ability that can be called a divine skill level, and naturally she needs to have enough arrows to give full play to her ability.
Like when she was chasing Newman's cavalry before, although Melti successfully dealt with them without injury, the consumption of arrows was not a small amount.
Even though it only cost one arrow to deal with one person, the number of Imperial cavalry pursuing at that time was more than sixty.
In addition, at that time, in order to provide cover for Melti, the White Rose team also participated in the battle with bows and arrows and crossbows, and their archery skills were obviously far from being compared with Merti, and there were definitely a lot of arrows that were wasted during feints.
Lotus was still worried about how to replenish this material in the future. This kind of thing cannot be bought in ordinary places, after all, there is already a saying that military supplies are subject to official control in this era, and it is generally difficult to buy large quantities of military supplies in the civilian population.
The ruler of every territory will take this aspect of the matter very seriously, and even if there are really merchants who will sell this kind of thing, if the people of the White Rose Team go to trade with the other party, it is very likely that their whereabouts will be leaked.
Now the hidden stronghold that Prince Henry spoke of is just the right solution to this problem. Moreover, this batch of materials in the stronghold, in addition to being used to supplement the armament needs of the team, has other uses for them.
With these materials, even if he has now become a slave of the country, Prince Henry can re-recruit troops and buy horses, and soon be able to pull up a force again, even if the materials in those strongholds are necessarily not enough for Prince Henry to re-establish the country, but at least it should be enough for the initial development funds.
Moreover, Lotus and Melty also learned that there were still some things that were quite important to the royal family of A in those strongholds, that is, some contract documents.
His Majesty, the visionary King, had been secretly investing in various places early on in some industries that could make a lot of money and profits, such as ...... Mining important metal minerals such as gold, copper, and iron ore!
His Majesty, under the guise of concealing his identity, hired agents to deal in the minerals, and left behind the corresponding sovereign deeds for these properties. Whoever holds these deeds and verifies them with the appropriate authorities can legally obtain the ownership of these properties.
Critical metal minerals are a very large asset and can be exploited continuously, both in terms of the value of gold for the commercial economy and the value of iron ore for military armaments.
As long as these are mastered, Prince Henry wants to revive the A royal family, and the process will be greatly reduced.
Thinking of this, Lotus suddenly understood.
I'm afraid that there is also a reason why the B Empire is so closely chasing Prince Henry. The empire may have learned about these strongholds of wealth and materials through some means, and wanted to get a breakthrough from Prince Henry's side, find out these strongholds of wealth and materials and take them for themselves.
can let Prince Henry use it to make a comeback, and there is definitely not a small amount of wealth and materials contained in these strongholds, even if it is the top of the empire, they don't want to give it up easily. What's more, if Prince Henry is allowed to get these things and develop them again, it will only bring trouble to the empire, and the upper echelons of the empire will naturally want to put an end to this situation.
"Father is indeed a wise and wise king. Prince Henry nodded proudly at Rotes' emotion, and said solemnly: "This time, in addition to looking for the envoy of the neighboring country, I hope you can also confirm the situation of the stronghold in the city here." To be honest, it was at least a decade ago when my father first set up this stronghold, and I don't know when he last inspected and maintained it. In order to ensure the concealment of the stronghold, it is possible that it may not have been investigated for several years. ”
At this, Prince Henry paused, looked at Melti, and continued:
"After so many years, no one can guarantee that there will be any accidents in that stronghold, and you need to go over to confirm the situation first. ”
Obviously, what he said was actually mainly to Melti.
Melti's unusually powerful listening ability has a very unique advantage in reconnaissance intelligence