Chapter 11: The Siege of the Garrison

Yes, it is indeed not suitable for ordinary travelers to wade into troubled waters. But the identity of the traveler is just a disguise for Annelin. And the commission he accepted on this trip was to let him come here to stir up this bucket of muddy waters.

Annelin silently put on her hat and walked in the direction of the cheers. This large street in the carnival stretches all the way to the center of the most central square.

From the small alley, I looked towards the main road where cheers rang out. A large carriage with a noble insignia passed in front of his eyes. Annerin's eyesight is much stronger than that of ordinary people. From a distance, through the car window, he could vaguely see a young nobleman sitting inside, looking out of the car window.

In the carriage was the lord of the place, the eldest son of the Northern Marshal of the Uhtred Empire.

Name... As for his identity, there seem to be many strange rumors circulating in the empire, saying that this lord is actually the illegitimate son of His Majesty the Emperor, otherwise how to explain that the children of the earl's family are summoned into the palace from time to time, and even stay for several days.

What's more, almost no one in the empire has ever seen his mother. The young master of the earl's family seems to have appeared suddenly, as if Count Beson has such a son overnight, which can't help but make people suspicious. You must know that the Count of Besson at that time had never married anyone at all... How did a son suddenly pop up?

Amid the lively celebrations, Annellin quietly blended into the crowd. And followed the flow of people to the square in the center of the city. Here, when Annelin saw the lord stepping out of the carriage without concealment, he almost couldn't help but cry out in shock at the sight of the lord who had met him a few days ago.

Annerin quickly lowered the brim of her hat and hid herself in the crowd.

At this moment, many of the doubts that trapped Annerin can be reasonably explained. But he didn't have time to think about it now, and the cheers around him had stopped. The lord had already arrived in the center of the square, escorted by the knights, and had begun to approve the thieves, and the verdict was about to be announced.

In an inconspicuous corner, Annalin quietly gestured to the sheriff he had bribed not far away...

"Your lord, please announce your verdict. ”

The speaker was none other than the Welsh Governor, who now looked solemn and upright, as if he had complied with the coming ruling. Of course, for him it was just a bunch of thieves, and it didn't matter if they lived or died. He just wanted to deal with the defense of Bishui City as soon as possible, so that he could return to the capital to recover his life.

Mayfield nodded, just as he wanted to make a decision according to the laws of the Empire. A person in the group of thieves stood up coldly, and he interrupted tremblingly: "Wait... Wait, my lord!"

"Is there anything else you'd like to say?" Mayfi stopped and looked at the other man.

The thief who stood up looked around cautiously, then plucked up the courage to ask, "My lord, if I can expose the conspiracy of the others, will it alleviate our crimes?" ”

"It depends on what you're exposing about. Mayfield glanced at the thief with interest, as if looking forward to what he was going to say next: "If what you say is of sufficient value, I will consider it." ”

The thief nodded, and glanced at Wales, who was standing not far from Mayfei, intentionally or not. This made the chief instinctively feel that something seemed to be wrong, but just as he was hesitating whether to stop it from going forward, it was too late.

"My lord, the officers under the Welsh Governor's command had coerced a few thieves outside the city of Clear Water to rob them of their belongings. The leader of the thieves had a loud voice, as if intended to be heard by all the people present.

"Shut up, cunning!" exclaimed one of the Welsh officers, but anyone could hear the tremor in his throat. The officer even drew his sword excitedly and tried to go up and kill the thieves, but was immediately taken down by the knight of the guard. And the mercenaries led by Amanr immediately stood between the thieves and the garrison. The sudden accident made the atmosphere between the garrison and the guards on the side suddenly tense to the extreme.

The people on the outskirts of the square were fanning the flames everywhere, shouting and cursing at these garrisons. And they didn't want to get past the sheriff, shouting that they would send the garrison officer to the gallows.

"Lord Wales, don't your men know how to observe etiquette in front of your lord?" Matthew, the chief guard, turned his head and glanced at Wales to the side, reminding him unhappily.

Wales' mind at this time has already exploded. He never dreamed that there would be such an earth-shattering turn before he left. But fortunately, his brain was not broken, and he would not openly stand against this lord on such an occasion, and he shouted angrily: "A bunch of waste! Whoever let you still be out of the ranks, give me a retreat!"

After drinking the garrison, a cold sweat was already oozing from Wales' back, and he looked nervously at the young lord not far away. And when he saw that the lord was still looking at the thief with a blank face against the mass riot around him, Wales was already in a panic. He knew very well what the group of officers under him were doing on weekdays, and if they were all stabbed, he would have no chance of mediating and easing them.

It's just weird. If it had been a different time and place, Wales would have taken its 800 garrisons with them. They were the garrisons of the Empire, and they were not under the lord's command in the first place, and they were neither subject to his jurisdiction nor under his orders. And even if this lord wanted to arrest the garrison officers, he would not be a threat to them at all with just a few dozen guards knights and those rabble mercenaries.

But now, not to mention these garrisons, even he himself can't go. They were chased by thousands of civilians on the periphery of the square, including mercenaries and adventurers. If Wales chooses to forcibly leave or offend this lord at this time, this group of people will definitely rush up and tear them apart under the leadership of mercenaries and adventurers, not to mention that there is also a group of powerful guards knights watching them, and even those mercenaries who escort thieves will wait for the opportunity to move when the time comes.

Wales keenly felt that all this was so unusual!

He even suspected that there was a group of people with ulterior motives who were inciting this group of people to coerce them. Because in normal times, these submissive people would not dare to fight against them so unscrupulously. And the damned sheriffs turned against them at such a critical moment, turning a blind eye to the mercenaries and adventurers who were taking the lead.

Mayfield waved his hand, calming the angry crowd for a moment, and he turned to look at the thief with a solemn expression: "You see, this is not something to joke about. ”