Ram was very satisfied with Abu's appearance, his description of Turnest's wealth was accurate, he actively led the way for the Lackadians to help them get rich, he collected grain and straw very hard, he helped Faris twice without hesitation, and he also contributed the captured cattle to little Ram...... He was the first to find out that a large number of reinforcements were coming, and he was really hard and loyal, and he couldn't find a second mercenary who was so good in the whole world!

When they retreated, it was he who carried the battering rams and other equipment in their cabins loaded with the captives they had obtained from the warehouses along the river.

He pretended to be fast and good, so that Ram and the others did not have many regrets about leaving Turnest.

Yes, they failed to break through Turnest, but only because of the will of the truth, and the truth did not do his followers badly, and they returned to the sea safely.

As for Abu's opportunity to help assemble the siege engine, he didn't know that he was the first to get his share into the cabin.

Even if you know...... Nor can this be harsh on Abu!

He doesn't run away, he doesn't bargain on the ground, he works hard, as a mercenary, not a medieval communist, can you ask for more?

The Cambridge History of War rated Swiss mercenaries as the best in the world, citing only one reason: they did not run away. Abu is also fully worthy of this assessment of Swiss mercenaries! He doesn't run away, he just escorts his employers to escape.

Therefore, Ram and the others couldn't be more satisfied with Abu's expression!

They all felt that if they were looking for mercenaries, they had to find someone like Abu!

Abu politely responded to the compliment his employer had given him, but there was no joy in his heart - the great opportunity to capture the fat sheep of Tournest had been lost, and next time—could there be a next time? He helped his employer to pack up the looted goods in time so that they could not rely on his employment fee, but they could have grabbed much more!

He also counted the losses of slaves with distress, and the citizens of the city could write and understand the craft, and the price was by no means comparable to that of the peasants caught in the suburbs, and the young bishop and his knights were even more rare, and even if their subjects and families were reluctant to pay the ransom, they could be sold for a good price in the slave market! And now he can only be satisfied with the cheap captives under the city.

Then his mind returned to the reinforcements.

He knew that the diocese of Turnest was odd, and that the atmosphere here was different from the other Neustrian dioceses to which he accompanied the papal envoy, but he was not at all prepared for the scale of the reinforcements.

Yesterday evening, the Lackadians did not withdraw directly - Faris felt that the city was about to be destroyed, and he thought that the reinforcements were nothing more than a rabble in disguise: "Maybe it's just a flock of sheep with torches tied to their horns!" ”

Others refuted his judgment: "Have you ever seen a sheep that can walk in six columns?" ”

Yes, on narrow roads, the sheep follow one by one, and on the wider avenues, such as the road to Tournest, the sheep are only tightly huddled together under the shepherd's drive. If they are allowed to disperse, there will definitely be a first and a last.

In fact, not to mention sheep, many of them are said to be from the army, and they can't walk in such a neat queue!

Faris was not reconciled: "What if they strung the sheep with ropes, just as caravans use camels?" ”

Some of his reluctance to give up their low-hanging fruit were also clamoring, and in the end, Ram decided to send scouts closer to check on the enemy.

Before the scouts set off, the front end of the fire snake had stopped, and the scouts did not need to get close to see that the torches at the front began to change in combination, from a neat and orderly column to a neat and orderly horizontal formation, which was equivalent to breaking the judgment that "it was strung with sheep tied to torches".

There are still a few bold and particularly greedy and unwilling to lean forward, and then a rain of arrows comes to the front, thanks to the example of Xiao Ram and others, and also thanks to the plan of Jason and others to quickly build a camp, not to fight but to warn the other party, this scout to avoid falling into the same fate as Xiao Ram and others.

"Their arrows are like they don't want money!" The daring scout reported that "no one even left the camp to retrieve the arrows that had fallen on the ground." ”

Ram and the others' faces were ten times more solemn than before, and the fact that the enemy had plenty of arrows made them more troubled than the large number of enemies. It is not terrible that there are many enemies, but what is terrible is that they have equipment commensurate with them - in the northern countries of these days, arrows are more expensive than croppers, and the rain of arrows dispels the conjecture that their reinforcements are hastily brought in by croppers.

Faris insisted on staying: "Those strange arrows may just be the enemy's sorcery!" ”

"But the sacred scriptures have not removed the arrows from our people." Abu said, "This is a pagan place, and we don't have enough amulets with us. ”

Farris snapped: "Truth is everywhere, and there is no place in this world that is infidel!" As long as we chant the truth, it is the same wherever we fight! ”

"Enough!" Ram roared, "It is said that in fighting the infidels you must also be wise, Pharys! It is right to attack the infidels and to please the truth, but when the pagans are powerful because of the support of the devil, it is also justified and permitted by the truth to retreat temporarily. ”

It is his business that Faris, the second devil, is willing to go to hell with those infidels, and Ram, who is just a young man and has just robbed a large amount of money, has never thought of fighting to the death with the infidels, he is here to rob, not to let Turnest only have the truth left.

"If you want to fight these children of the devil, you can go, but you can't take any believers in the truth with you! I'm not going to let your stupidity ruin them! ”

Hearing Ram's threat, Faris fell silent.

At this time, the watchman who was in charge of the lookout from the high platform came to report to Ram.

"What's new?" Ram asked.

"Nothing new."

"And what are you going to report?"

"Because there is no new situation......"

It was only when they climbed the high platform of the previous building to direct the siege that they understood what this headless report meant, and the reinforcements had already built a sizable camp...... This is normal...... What's not normal is ...... The fiery serpent in the distance still snaked its way, and its tail could not be seen at a glance.

Ram and the others didn't know what "the water of the Yellow River came from the sky", but they felt as if their enemies had been summoned by the devil from the cracks of hell.

Torches came and went in the camp, and there were many bonfires, and the queues in the distance still flowed in an endless stream, and the columns changed from columns to horizontals, and then dispersed......

How many people do you have to have?

Are all the people of the diocese of Tournest coming?

Wrong! How could those croppers walk so neatly! This must be a well-trained armed man! As for their number...... Anyway, ten times more than the Rakad, as for how much? Don't you see the reinforcements coming!

With a pair of ten or even more, are you still ready to stay as dumpling stuffing if you don't run? When the time comes, not to mention the slaves they caught, they themselves can fall into the status of a slave will be the manifestation of the truth!

When they returned to the safety of the sea, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief.

There's one more shift tonight.