The city of Bena Horse is located in the southeast corner near the slum of City of Bena.

Just across the street from the slave market in the city of Bena, it is considered the largest horse market in the province of Bena.

Due to its proximity to the slums, it is one of the least safe areas in Bena.

As soon as the Luther's magic caravan arrived at the gate of the horse market, it was surrounded by a group of people, and the coachman tried to use his horsewhip to disperse the crowd around him, but those people did not care about the coachman's angry scolding, and the carriage was forced to stop at the gate of the horse market.

The group of people surrounded the carriage of the magic caravan, and one of them reached out and pulled the door open, and they looked like hungry outcasts saw the free food, and shouted hoarsely to Surdak and Hathaway and others in the carriage:

"Lord Lord, do you want to buy a war horse?"

"I have high-quality war horses in my hand, all of which are selected from the pastures of the Glyava region of Salta Province, do you want to take a look......"

"Lord Lord, do you want to take a look at my Qinglin horse, although it is a retired old horse, there is absolutely no problem with bringing it back to the horse farm for breeding."

"My lord, I can find you any kind of horse you want......"

Several of the people in the carriage were visiting the horse market in Bena City for the first time.

Beatrice and Hathaway had never been to such a place, and were so startled by the crowd that they could barely speak.

The magic caravan was forced to stop, and Surdak jumped out of the carriage first, and when he saw Surdak with a straight face and did not say a word, and was clearly wearing the uniform of the guard battalion, the group of horse dealers dispersed to find the other nobles who were ready to buy horses.

Hathaway and Beatrice, who were in the carriage, also jumped out of the carriage with Surdak.

When the group walked into the horse market, there was a smell of stinking horse manure everywhere, but fortunately it was not summer, and there were no gadflies and flies.

Next door is the cattle and sheep market, the cattle and sheep in the market are mainly used to eat meat, when passing there, the wooden poles on the side of the street are hung with bloody fresh meat, many citizens are willing to take the car here early to buy some fresh beef.

Surdak was followed by a groom who was a horse breeder at the Marquis of Luther and was said to be very experienced in watching horses.

Hearing that Surdak wanted to visit the horse market in Bena, the Marquis of Luthor asked Surdak to take the groom with him.

The groom was silent all the way, and when he came to the horse market, he followed Surdak calmly.

Many of the horses in the horse market were fenced off, and several horse farm owners were leaning against the fence and chatting, and it seemed that the topic was also related to horses, and there was some forage scattered in the manger next to the fence, and several horses were huddled together. The rest of the horses couldn't make it up. There are also horses tied to stakes, most of which are the most common Gubolai horses in the horse market, but there are also some tall horses, and war horses such as the Qinglin horse and the black-scaled horse are rare.

There are a lot of people in the horse market, and when someone stops by the fence, the owner of the horse farm will come over and give basic information about the horses, and someone will complete the transaction and lead the horses away.

The road here was muddy, with boots on top and mud under their feet, but Hathaway and Beatrice were both wearing swordsman's light armor and long leather boots, but even then the two had a hard time walking on the dirt road covered with mud.

Not too far from the entrance to the horse market, Surdak stopped in front of a fence in which there was a very strong Qinglin horse, with a very good coat color, excellent size and muscular lines, this horse attracted many onlookers, and the owner of the horse stood in front of the fence and boasted about the Qinglin horse very proudly.

Qinglin Horse belongs to the very high-quality war horse of the Green Empire, it has a stronger physique than the Gubolai Horse, and its explosive power and sprinting ability when running are much stronger than the Gubolai Horse, only in terms of endurance, the Qinglin Horse is slightly inferior to the Gubolai Horse.

I didn't expect that as soon as I walked into the horse market, I would meet such a good war horse.

Surdak stopped and stood behind the crowd to listen to the horse's owner:

"It was brought back from the Kenda plane, the original owner was a knight, and he died at the hands of the demon swordsman in the battle of the Varat Valley Seal, this horse was also injured at the time, and when he came back from the front-line battlefield, he was almost skinny, and it changed hands to me several times, and I carefully raised it for nearly half a year, and now he has recovered, and he is in good condition."

Seeing Surdak looking this way, he craned his neck and introduced Surdak:

"Look at how tall it is, how tight its muscles are, if it is on the battlefield, it must be a very fast horse!"

Surdak was a little moved, so he asked, "How much are you going to sell?" ”

The owner of the horse seemed to be very interested in Surdak, and immediately separated from the crowd of onlookers, came to Surdak's side, invited him to the fence, let him feel the majesty of this blue-scaled horse up close, and let him reach out and touch the green scales on the horse's body, and then straightened up his chest and said proudly: "Fifty gold, I will take this horse for only fifty gold!" Of course, this saddle is mine and will not be given to you as a giveaway! ”

Surdak didn't know how much a blue-scaled war horse cost, and when he heard the horse's owner's offer, he was slightly stunned and said, "Well, it's so expensive......"

He leaned closer to see the Qinglin horse, which was not timid, and was obviously a trained war horse.

Surdak asked the groom behind him, "How is this Qinglin horse?" ”

The Luther's groom squinted his gray eyes and took two steps forward, huddled in front of the fence to take a closer look, and the owner of the horse tried to explain to him, but was glared at by the groom coldly, and only then took a step back with a look of curtle.

The groom whispered in Surdak's ear: "This is a retired war horse, due to the long-term battle on the battlefield, the body has accumulated a lot of dark wounds, even if it is bought back, it will not live long." ”

The owner of the horse had apparently heard the Luther groom, but he had not retorted.

He just whispered beside Surdak: "Even if you can't go to the battlefield, it's a good horse, you can take it back to the ranch as a stallion, and it will definitely help you earn back this expense." ”

"You say to be a stallion? That's it? The Luther groom glanced at the belly of the horse and asked, "Do you think it can still be used?" ”

The owner of the horse farm sneered, and his face turned red and white and he stopped answering.

Surdak didn't just buy one horse this time, he wanted to build a cavalry battalion, and he needed at least hundreds of war horses.

Seeing that the groom was really very experienced, he decisively gave up the Qinglin horse.

Surda took Hathaway forward for a while, and the Guboren horses in the fences on both sides looked a little thin, and the groom followed Surdaak, and was very mean to deal with these skinny horses: the packbag of wheat might be fine, but if you want to carry a knight in full armor, it is estimated that the horses will lie down on the spot after not taking twenty steps.

Passing past the lean horses, Surdak saw in front of him a tall Guborian horse tethered to a stake, looking very powerful.

The owner of the horse was very enthusiastic about the horse, saying that it was a very experienced horse.

The groom of the Luther family walked up to the horse without a word, stretched out his hand and tore open the thick lips of the Kubolai horse, looked carefully at the teeth inside, patted the horse's head and said to Surdak, "This horse is almost eighteen years old!" ”

The owner of the horse looked at the groom with an embarrassed look on his face, and watched Surdak and his party leave.

After the age of fifteen, ordinary war horses gradually enter the age stage, and this horse is obviously eliminated from the battlefield.

There was a large group of horses in the fence at the back of the horse market, but there was no one next to this fence, and this group of horses was obviously more energetic than the other horses in the horse market, and they could still walk around the fence at will on such a cold day.

"Why is there no one here?" Surdak was a little strange.

The groom from the Luther family came up again and explained to Surdak: "These are all crosses between northern war horses and local horses, and they are all eliminated after screening, and they look strong and tall, but in the summer they are very afraid of heat, and they don't have any meat on their thighs, which means that their endurance and explosiveness are very poor, and they can't run at all when they charge, and I don't believe you can slip around the field in them." ”

Surdak was a little frustrated after stopping the groom's evaluation, there were nearly a thousand horses in such a large horse market, except for the war horses eliminated on the battlefield, there were some miscellaneous horses.

"There doesn't seem to be much good horse ...... here"

"There are still a few Gubolai horses that can be trained into war horses! It's just that even if I can pick it out, these horse owners are not stupid, and they definitely don't take advantage of the price. The groom looked at the fence around the horse market.

Surdak made up his mind to buy some high-quality war horses, so he said: "As long as you can become a war horse, it doesn't matter if the price is more expensive!" ”

The groom walked around the horse market again, and almost in the hands of this group of horse owners, he helped Surdak select less than thirty Gubolai horses, as the groom said in advance, the horse owners were obviously a little reluctant to sell these good horses, but Surdak was a nobleman, and they could not refuse a nobleman for no reason, so they raised the price a little, and each horse was almost a high price of more than 20 gold, and Surdak almost did not make a counteroffer, so he bought the war horses selected by these grooms, A total of nearly 800 gold was spent.

If three months ago, this was almost all of Surdak's possessions, but now to Surdak, it is a small amount of money, at least for the gold coins stored in that treasure room, eight hundred gold coins are really nothing.

Looking at the reluctant look of the horse farm owner, it is obvious that he is reluctant to sell it at this price.

The groom hired two helpers in the horse market, and the three of them drove the thirty horses out of the horse market, and when they came to the horse market, they said to Surdak: "It is estimated that there are only so many good horses that can be pulled into battle here, and unless a new horse owner arrives, there is no need to come again for half a month." ”

Seeing that Surdak seemed a little incomprehensible, he said: "Now the Green Empire's control over war horses is also very strict, and it is difficult for the war horses of good horse farms to flow to the market, and now there are only these old horses left in the horse market, and there is no way to do it." ”

"Lord Marquis said, Lord Baron, if you can't buy war horses in the horse market, you can go to the manor outside the family city to pick some first." The groom reminded tactfully.

Surdak looked down and thought about it, looked firmly at the horses behind him, and insisted, "That's all there is to it!" ”

The horses could not be kept in the city of Bena, but only temporarily in the Luthor family's manor outside the city, where the groom drove the horses out with two temporarily hired helpers, all three of whom were good riders and could ride firmly on their horses even without a saddle.

They had to drive the horses to the manor outside the city before dark, so they were in a hurry.

There are two ways to transport them back to Highlandsa, the first is to take a magic airship, which is convenient and fast, but Surdak needs to pay a lot of freight, and the other way is to rush back to Highlandsa directly from Bednar City by land, but it is currently winter, and there has been a heavy snowfall recently, which is obviously inconvenient to travel by land.

Now they have to pay the expensive shipping costs and take a magic airship to transport these horses back to the city of Highlandza.

and Hathaway and Beatrice boarded the magic caravan waiting outside the horse market, sat in the carriage, thinking that there was not even a decent horse market in Highlandsa City, Surdak scratched his head a little painfully, even if he wanted to buy a horse at a high price, he couldn't do it, I believe that there should be no horse dealer in Highlandsa City who would dare to lie to him like this.

Seeing that Surdak seemed to be worried about buying a horse, Hathaway looked at him with magnificent eyes and asked with some doubts, "Why don't you accept my father's gift?" ”

Surdak stretched his legs flat, took off his mud-stained boots, and threw them casually on the floor of the carriage.

Only then did he end and said to Hathaway: "Although those war horses have not served in the army, but I guess this should be the reserve of the legion, once a plane war breaks out, each battle will lose not only knights, but more war horses, if I get five hundred war horses from the Marquis of Luthor, I guess at least half of the reserve horses of the legion will be taken away, and if this part of the war horses cannot be replenished in time in the future, it will affect the continuous combat strength of the Luthor legion." ”

In fact, Surdak did not say one thing, that is, it did not want the Marquis of Luthor to have some influence over his personal forces.

"So I wanted to look around and maybe someone would be willing to sell it to me! You don't have to worry about my wallet, I found a bunch of salamanders over there, and if I could hunt them all, I should be able to get a good sum of money. Surdak deliberately patted the money bag on his waist.

If Beatrice knew that Surdak's biggest shard was the money that the Gophilo family had been swindled out of, he didn't know what he would think.

Surdak continued: "Next I wanted to go to Constantinople, and the Marquis of Luthor said that there should be the armor I needed. ”

Hathaway's eyes lit up, and she said with some excitement: "My aunt happens to live in Constantinople, and I want to go with you and see my aunt by the way." ”

“…… Well, to have you with me all the way, of course I can't ask for it! Surdak said, holding Hathaway's hand.

But in his heart, he secretly complained that every time he came to Bena City, Aphrodite summoned him with a summoning contract circle, if he rushed to Constantinople with Hathaway, he would inevitably be accompanied day and night, and the summoning circle would not last that long......