Chapter 72 Employment
Ma Shen looked at the Lannister soldiers who rushed towards him in exquisite armor on the opposite side, damn it, the Lannisters are really rich, and the ordinary guards are equipped with this kind of expensive armor, which is not at all comparable to the leather armor worn by the Stark family guards who charge beside him, and the armor worn by one Lannister soldier is at least comparable to the total value of the leather armor worn by 10 Stark family soldiers.
However, good equipment does not mean that the combat effectiveness is strong, Ma Shen looked at the Lannister soldiers who rushed in front of him, gritted his teeth, and crashed into them with the guards of the Stark family.
In an instant, blood splashed, weapons collided, shouts, and screams were mixed together, Ma Shen was on the side of his body, holding a sword in both hands to block the two spears on the opposite side, and took the opportunity to get close to the two Lannister soldiers, but a spear was pierced on the side, Ma Shen took a step back to block it, one held the sword, and the other hand held the spear violently, and pulled it hard, directly pulling the spear with the spear.
"Drink" Ma Shen took the sword and slashed at the neck of the Lannister soldier who was pulled by himself, and no longer paid attention to the life or death of this soldier, snatched his spear and threw it at a Lannister soldier who was about to attack the enemy on the ground, and at the same time leaned back to the side, dodging the three spears that stabbed him, there was danger all the time on the battlefield, so that people could only pay full attention to the attacks around them, and there was no time to lower their heads and look at the results of their battles.
Those beloved women (men) died, and then hugged her (him) on the battlefield and cried bitterly, while the people around them were still fighting on their own, and the scene would hardly appear on the real battlefield, the enemy would not care if you were sad or not, it was best to hold your lover in pain and tears, and you could take the opportunity to kill it with a knife.
The brown-bearded soldier who had led the way to Aid's rescue with Ma Shen let out a scream, a spear piercing his stomach, and more spears piercing his body.
Ma Shen on the side didn't know when he fell into a siege, in such a short period of time, almost half of the Stark family soldiers lost their combat effectiveness, and here, the loss of combat effectiveness also means death.
Maybe the combat effectiveness is not determined by the equipment, but obviously the soldiers of the Lannister family are also well-trained, so when the strength of the two sides is about the same, the equipment has an absolute advantage, the spears of the soldiers of the Stark family will often cut from the armor of the soldiers of the Lannister family, even if they are stabbed, there will be hard armor to block, and the cloth armor worn by the soldiers of the Stark family may be okay in terms of defending against sword slashing and sword strikes, but for sharp spears, it is accurate to stab and stab.
"Stop it all!" Fortunately, a group of capital guards came running over.
"When did the speed of these golden robes become so fast. Jaime glanced at Jory on the ground, and the Stark guards, who had suffered heavy casualties, and had been worried that his warning was not strong enough, but now it was okay, the guards who died here were almost half of the Stark soldiers in King's Landing.
"Let's go. Jaime climbed onto his horse and shouted to Eddard, who had been trying to rush ahead, "Lord Stark, please put my brother back." ”
Whirring, Ma Shen gasped and watched the Lannister soldiers besieging him leave, picked up a spear on the ground, measured the distance a little, and threw it hard, and the white horse under Jaime's seat flipped to the ground with Jaime.
Still a little close, Ma Shen shook his head in disappointment, waiting for the Lannister soldiers to attack, but he didn't expect the Lannisters to still evacuate quickly.
"Are you alright, Lord Eddard," Ma Shen asked as he walked quickly to Ed's side.
"You saved my life, Sir. Ed looked at Jory's corpse at his feet with gloomy eyes, "Jory has been my captain of the guard for more than eight years, and I must get justice for him." ”
Unfortunately, Ed was unable to do justice for Jory in the end, and after learning that Ed had been attacked, King Robert hurried over, and Queen Cersei defended that it was Eddard's bodyguard who came out of the brothel drunk and attacked Jaime, so Jaime was forced to resist.
So in the end, under the order of King Robert, Ed could only agree to King Robert with grievances, let his wife release the little demon Tyrion, and no longer pursue the matter.
Unexpectedly, then the king first said to Ed that he regarded Ed as a brother, and then said that Ed wanted you not to accept the appointment of the prime minister, so he appointed James as the prime minister, and in front of the scoundrel King Robert, Ed could only accept the king's appointment again and became the prime minister, the hand of the king.
After that, the king went hunting under the pretext that hunting would clear his mind, and entrusted everything to Ed.
Ma Shen could only watch the situation deteriorate step by step, Ed still reminded him as in the original book, but for the sake of his perseverance and sense of responsibility, Ed refused to leave at this time, at least until King Robert returned from hunting.
Well, Ma Shen knew that King Robert would be attacked by a wild boar and be badly injured during this hunt, and he would hang up after returning short, so it would be even more impossible for Ed to leave King's Landing at that time.
However, Ma Shen did not do nothing, at least 20,000 gold dragon coins were taken out from the reluctant little finger.
With money, you can do a lot of things, such as spending money to hire a lot of people.
"Bang" Ma Shen casually put a money bag on the table, and the money bag made a dull sound, which immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the tavern.
"Hey, you guys, do you know what's in there?" said Ma Shen, looking around the tavern, "It's money, not that little copper plate, and there's no stupid silver deer printed on it, so guess what's in this bag?"
The breathing of the people in the tavern became heavy, and Ma Shen laughed: "You guessed right, it is full of shiny gold dragon coins, and ordinary people may not be able to earn a gold dragon coin after ten years of work." “
Ma Shen said, instantly pulling out a short blade and stabbing it into a groping pig's hand.
"Ah, spare your life, my lord," cried the owner of the groping.
Everyone in the tavern suddenly became agitated, just looking at the pale golden armor on Ma Shen's body, and no one dared to make a bird.
"You're the wolf slayer!!" a skinny drunkard suddenly screamed as he looked at Ma Shen's face.
"Good vision, reward you. Ma Shen pulled the short blade out of the groping pig's hand and gently flicked a golden dragon coin into the drunkard's arms.
It's really a golden dragon coin, everyone is looking at the golden dragon coin in the arms of this drunkard, this guy looks very easy to deal with, and this golden dragon coin will belong to me later, more than one person in the tavern thought so.
Looking at the ill-intentioned eyes of the people around him, even a few people who drank and bragged with themselves just now and called themselves brothers and sisters also issued a greedy gaze at the golden dragon coin in their arms, and the drunkard held the golden dragon coin in his hand with some uneasiness.
"Don't look at it, since you know that I am a wolf slayer, then you should know that I won a prize of 20,000 gold dragon coins in the first martial arts competition, and I have more gold dragon coins here. Ma Shen picked up the money bag on the table and shook it gently, attracting people's attention.
"Get out of the way" A big man pushed away the crowd, walked up to Ma Shen, and said angrily: "I don't know what I can serve." ”
It seems that there are still smart people here, knowing that no one will be idle to send money, Ma Shen said lightly: "I need some subordinates to do something for me." ”
"What are you doing?"
"To protect some people, pay 3 gold dragon coins first, and 20 gold dragon coins after completion. Ma Shen took out three gold dragon coins from his money bag, put them in his hand and waved them at the big man.
"I did it!!" the big man immediately decided and slapped the table hard.
After listening to Ma Shen's words, everyone gathered around, it turned out that he was recruiting subordinates, he said earlier, as long as he gave money, he could contribute these hundreds of catties of fat.
"I'll come too!" "Your Excellency, take me." "My lord, I'm much better than him, like him, I can fight two. ”
Why don't you say that you are going to fight ten, Ma Shen rolled his eyes, saw the people who were about to surround him, turned his head and said to Luo Ao: "I'll leave it to you next, what I need is someone who can kill people, not a drunkard and gambler." “
Luo Ao leaned on the surging crowd, and replied with a bitter face, all the inns and taverns in King's Landing City were visited by the adults in front of him, no matter how carefully he selected, he had hired more than 100 people so far, I really don't know what the adults are going to do with so many people, spending money like running water, this adult is usually stingy to death, why is he so generous now.
Ignoring this attendant who couldn't understand his thoughts, Ma Shen looked at the heads of people who came up, and there were not many people who could really complete the task and get the 20 gold dragon coins, and I am afraid that most people would not be able to get the 20 gold dragon coins at that time, which was equivalent to Ma Shen buying their lives with 3 gold dragon coins.
Money makes people crazy, Ma Shen shook his head.
And Ma Shen's big move was known to almost everyone in King's Landing, not to mention those who had many ears and eyes.
"A rabble of drunkards, gamblers, and lowly mercenaries. Queen Cersei smiled contemptuously when she heard the news, unconcerned.
"This wolf slayer is interesting. Varys smiled like a Maitreya Buddha.
"I wonder what he's going to do with this rabble?" Littlefinger thought, the wolf slayer didn't look like an unwise man.
Since no one could know what Ma Shen's true purpose was yet, the magnates of King's Landing were all indifferent to Ma Shen's madness, and these rabble, in their opinion, dozens of well-trained soldiers could deal with it.