Chapter 282: The City of Kings

The carriage of the royal manor was not a four-wheeled carriage, but a two-wheeled carriage. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info is a board car surrounded by a circle of wooden boards. However, since it was Viscount Timba who wanted to ride, the steward of the manor ordered his subordinates to clean up the carriage, hang tapestries around it, and move a sofa to put on it, so that it became a nondescript carriage.

Viscount Timba leaned back on the couch and fell asleep, while Carrick and Tugger moved two small stools to sit on either side of the couch. Lorist sat next to the coachman as a guard. As for the Hannu and the Dumb Slave, as slaves, they could only sit on the footsteps behind the carriage, and when the carriage stopped or went uphill, they had to come down to help push the cart.

The Kingdom of Haneabada is an archipelagic country that does not produce horses per sew. Therefore, selling horses from outside is also a lucrative business. It's just that the risk is very high, because the horses get sick and are not used to long-distance transportation on sea boats, and often a third or half is left after arriving, and they have to raise the price to avoid losses. Of course, these are all good horses and famous horses, and horses that are generally used to pull goods are not so particular.

The horse pulling the cart was a Northland horse, and the horse's butt was also branded with the number of the royal manor: 19. The coachman was also a slave overseer, and in order to win the job, he promised many benefits to his companions, and everyone knew that sending Viscount Timba back to the royal city would be rewarded.

Seeing that he was about to reach the royal city, he encountered a large army on the march, and the coachman skillfully drove the carriage to the side of the road to make way for the road, preparing to wait for the army to pass before continuing on the road. Unexpectedly, Carrick jumped up and down in the carriage and cheered loudly like a chicken's blood, which immediately attracted the attention of the knights who opened the road in front.

Several knights rode up to the carriage and shouted, "Who are you, what do you want to do here?"

Viscount Timba woke up from the sofa in a daze, yawned and asked, "Why don't you leave?"

The coachman had already respectfully indicated to the knights the ownership of the carriage and the identities of the passengers transported, and the knights, hearing that it was Viscount Timba, the younger brother of the Grand Princess, had escaped from the enemy who had occupied the port of Nubit, and they did not dare to make a mistake, so they left four men to guard them, and the other two rode back to report it.

After a while, a large group of knights swarmed in, bringing with them a richly decorated four-wheeled carriage.

The knight at the head was a forty or fifty-year-old man with a beard, and he laughed and came up and hugged Viscount Timba: "My poor little Timba, you are finally back, do you know how much your sister has taken care of you? Before I left, she asked me to find you and bring you back, but I didn't expect that I would complete this task so quickly." Haha, get in the car, I'll send you to the palace to see your sister......"

So Viscount Timba was put into the splendid carriage, and did not even say a word of goodbye to everyone. Hannu and the dumb slave saw the opportunity quickly, ran over and stood on the footboard outside the carriage, the big man with the mustache recognized the two slaves of the Viscount of Timba, waved his hand, and the gorgeous carriage carrying the Viscount Timba and the two slaves drove away......

In the process, Carrick, Tugger, and Lorist are all ignored and become part of the background. Seeing that the carriage was gone, the big man knight with the mustache gave a low order, and a group of knights rolled away again.

The carriage of the royal manor remained on the side of the road and waited for the army to pass. Carrick was already dumbfounded, he didn't expect that he would be left behind by Viscount Timba, and now he was penniless, and he didn't even have a place to live in the royal city.

The coachman was scolding, the big money owner was gone, and this trip was done in vain. Without Viscount Timba, there would be no reward, and I didn't know how to tell those companions when I went back. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and the coachman became angry at Carrick, scolding him badly, accusing Carrick of not going crazy and luring the knights over, and as a result, Viscount Timba was gone. The coachman was ready to strip Carrick naked, and bring his sword over for the freight......

Carrick cowered in the corner of the carriage without biting, this time his head hung like a gelding. In terms of status, he is not comparable to the coachman, and he is at least a slave overseer in the royal manor, he is only a small steward of the inner city lord's mansion in Nubit Harbor, and now Nubit Harbor is still in the hands of the enemy......

Lorist gave Targer a look, Targar understood, felt out a Jinford stuffed in the coachman's hand, and smiled to the coachman to show himself the identity of the vice president of the Petersen Chamber of Commerce, the eldest young master, and promised that there would be another reward when he arrived in the royal city, and he would not let him run in vain. Then he chatted with the coachman.

With a Kingford in the account, the coachman immediately became amiable and answered all questions. He told Tagger that the knight with the mustache just now was the uncle of the current King Luther III, a knight of the Golden Two-Star Knight, who was deeply trusted by the king. It seems that this time he led the royal guards, and he should be able to recover the port of Nubit soon......

Lorist carefully observes the so-called elite Praetorian Guard that Carrick has boasted all the way to, but he soon feels bored. The soldiers of the Praetorian Guard who passed by the carriage were disheveled, dragged in procession, and complained endlessly, and some of them were still boasting to their companions about the heroic deeds of the few female slaves they had last night, and the soldiers were in a circle asking to hear the details......

Lorist smiled dumbly, is this the elite? worse than the garrison in the family domain. I have been in that hilly area for two days, and it is only today that the Praetorian Legion has set out to fight, and I believe that the Tiger Ross and they are already waiting in the hilly area. Now I only hope that Tiger Ross and they can drag this Praetorian Guard Legion according to their own arrangements, and don't be too ruthless, otherwise they will be afraid of this Praetorian Guard Legion and let them retract back to the royal city, which will affect their plan to save people......

It was only at noon that the Praetorian Guard had passed, followed by a number of wagons carrying logistical baggage, the same horse-drawn cart, but with a dozen or so slaves to help push the carts. The wagons were piled high and full, and it was really difficult for a single horse to pull the cart. Some of the soldiers kept whipping the slaves with leather whips in their hands, constantly scolding "slackers and fools......" or something.

After another two hours, the carriage was finally ready to go. When he arrived at the royal city of Hamidas, Lorist was shocked by the huge castle in front of him, because he did not expect that in this slave archipelago country, there would be a giant castle comparable to the majesty of the imperial capital.

The coachman proudly and proudly said that when the kingdom of Haneyabada was first established, the royal capital was set in the port of Nubit, but the second king, Luther I, decided to develop this royal plain, and it took more than 300,000 slaves 28 years to build this great castle, and named it the royal city of Hamidas after him.

Lorist was feeling a lot of headaches right now, he didn't expect the city of Hamidas to be such a huge castle. To put it mildly, this is simply a replica of the Maple Grove Villa in the family domain, which is built on a jutting giant rock, and there is no other way to attack it except for a two- or three-hundred-meter-long uphill avenue.

The same is true of the current Hamidas King City, which is different from Maple Grove Villa in that it is located on a hill with half of the hill cut off, more than ten times larger than the area of Maple Grove Villa, and from a distance it looks like a city built on a high platform. The ramp into the castle alone is a zigzag as long as a kilometer, and the rest of the place is a stone wall more than 30 meters high plus a city wall more than 10 meters high, and the drop of forty or fifty meters makes the besiegers daunting, and there is no other way than the front hard bar.

In addition to a long siege to make the food run out of food, such a royal city can only fall into the city, but on the way here, I heard from the Viscount of Timba that the royal city of Hamidas has enough food for fifty or sixty thousand people to eat for three years, so it is impossible to even besiege the city, who has nothing to send an army of 100,000 to sit here for three years, it is purely to eat and support, and no one can afford to maintain this cost.

Lorist found that his siege weapons such as wheelwheels and catapults were all useless in front of the city of Hamidas, because of the gap, these siege weapons had to be very close to the city if they wanted to attack the city, so they were also easily attacked by those long-range weapons on the city walls. Considering that even the walls of the inner city of Port Nubit have more than a hundred large crossbows on top of the city walls, it is estimated that the walls of the royal city will be arranged more than less......

Lorist wanted to scold his mother, but he never dreamed that the royal city of this slave archipelago country would be like this, he thought that it would be similar to the royal city of Windbri in the Iberian kingdom at most. How could such a majestic giant castle be built by a kingdom founded by pirates, an overseas country that was neglected by the Gelinthia continent.

At this moment, the only thing that Lorist was glad about was that he had changed his strategy and lured the Praetorian Guard army guarding the royal city to the hilly terrain to fight. After annihilating the enemy in Nubit Harbor according to the original strategy, but to raid this royal city of Hamidas, I am afraid that everyone will be stunned when they reach this royal city......

The coachman, who was sitting next to him, saw that Lorlist's mouth was moving but did not make a sound, and couldn't help but ask strangely, "What's wrong with you?"

Lorist replied, "It's nothing, the egg hurts." ”

"The egg hurts......" The coachman pondered for a long time and didn't understand what this meant, and was about to ask for an understanding, when the city gate arrived.

You have to pay money to enter the city, a small silver coin per person. In addition, because it was a war period, the guards at the city gate were very strict. If Viscount Timba is still around, he can swagger into the city without any money. Now without Viscount Timba, Carrick is in trouble.

Both Tagger and Lorist had the identification of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce by their side, and they rode in the carriage of the royal manor, and easily passed the inspection of the guards. And Carrick brought a sword with him when he broke through from the inner city of Nubit, and nothing else, plus the coachman hated him for taking Viscount Timba away, and deliberately did not bite to prove it to him, and as a result, the guards were like a great enemy, and they took Carrick over for a long time, and almost stabbed * Chrysanthemum to see if there was anything hidden.

In the end, Tagger gave the coachman a goldford, and each of the guards a large silver coin, and finally asked the coachman to prove that Carrick had come from the royal manor, so that the guards let Carrick go, and after a long toss, they entered the city.

The royal city of Hamidas is divided into five districts, the carriage comes in the east gate, the east city is the largest commercial area, but also a residential area, a total of more than 30,000 residents live here, most of them are the families of the Janissary soldiers, plus slaves, it is estimated that there are about 50,000 or 60,000 people.

Nancheng is the aristocratic district, where all the nobles of the Haneabada Kingdom have their own mansions. Xicheng District is a heavily guarded storage area, the smallest area, but it is the location of the arsenal of weapons and equipment stored in the royal city, and the warehouse of grain and grass materials. Beicheng District is divided into three areas, one is the slave area, the second is the competition area, and the third is the camp area of the Praetorian Guard.

The so-called slave area is the place closest to the north city wall, with dense shacks, and the tens of thousands of slaves here are mainly engaged in the maintenance of the royal city's infrastructure such as garbage removal and cleaning, so that there is a nest in the northern city district.

The competition area is the area where the gladiatorial fighting place of Wangcheng is located, and there are also venues such as dog fighting and cockfighting, and it is also the largest gambling place in Wangcheng. The slave aristocrats of the kingdom of Haneyabada often spent a lot of money here, using the lives and deaths of slave gladiators to win or lose.

The outermost part of the northern city is the camp of the Praetorian Guard, so that even if the slaves in the slave area or the gladiatorial arena try to riot, they will be quickly suppressed without affecting the safety of the other towns.

In addition to the four districts of the east, west, north and south, the most central is the royal court district where the royal palace is located, which is guarded by a high city wall and separated from the surrounding urban districts.

According to Viscount Timba, in addition to the 28,000-strong Praetorian Guard Corps in the royal city of Hamidas, there is also a 2,000-strong palace guard team in the royal court district, and a 1,000-strong city defense brigade in each of the other four districts is responsible for patrolling and defending the city gates and city walls. In this way, the entire royal city was guarded by 34,000 people.

Tager's address to the coachman was a tavern called Flame and Blood, which was closest to the northern city and where El lived, so that he could go to the gladiatorial arena every day to practice his sword.

The carriage traveled for another ten minutes and stopped outside the door of the Flame and Blood Tavern.

Targar took out five golden fords and handed them to the coachman, who was overjoyed, thanked him without stopping, and touted Targer for a long time before driving away.

The environment of the Flame and Blood Tavern is worse than that of the Crow Tavern, and the upstairs rooms are not very clean, but the price is very expensive, costing one goldford a day. Tagger asked for three rooms, one for each person, and then asked the maids and servants in the shop to take the bath first.

The who came with hot water in the tavern wanted to have a mandarin duck bath with Lorlist, and after being entangled for a long time and being sternly rejected, they scolded and stinged, slammed the door and ran to Carrick's room next door, and soon the voice of male * joy * female * love sounded next door.

After taking a shower, Lorist went to Targer's door and knocked on the door, and found that no one was there, so he went downstairs, and saw Targer lying on the counter chatting with the shopkeeper, so he sat down on the table next to him and asked for a bottle of fruit wine to taste and wait.

After a while, Tagger came over and sat down, called the maid to come over and order some food, looked around and whispered to Lorist: "My lord, El is not in his room, I asked the shopkeeper, and the boss said that he had not seen El for two days, and the morning before yesterday he went out normally and said that he would go to the gladiatorial arena to practice his sword, but he did not come back at night or yesterday or today." The boss thinks he may have befriended some nobleman to be a guest, and he disappeared like this last time for two days before coming back......"

Lorist's eyes froze: "What do you think?"

"I wonder if El has an accident, El can't make friends with those slave nobles, he plays a young master who is obsessed with sword training and never cares about others. After dinner we went to the Colosseum, and El and I agreed that he would leave a mark on the outside of the Colosseum......" Targar whispered.

"Okay, we'll go after eating. Lorist nodded.

...... (To be continued.) )