The twelve-story wall was built by Duke Newman who invited three great magicians from the Magical Guild of Bena Province to detonate two cupola spikes buried in the middle of the mountains on either side with their 'Flame Blasting Technique'.

It was these two hundred-meter-long stone spikes that collapsed and blocked the Dodan Gorge, on which the craftsmen of Bena City built the nearly 400-meter-wide wall with a large number of iron-bearing shale stones, which reached the mountain walls on both sides of the canyon and merged with the mountain.

The rough surface of the shale has now been made into battlements by stonemasons, and the walls are particularly wide, even if there are many crossbows on them, there is still a lot of space behind them to store various materials.

Surdak and Quartermaster Handel inspected the fortifications of the city walls, and to their delight were the ordnance of the walls in good condition.

It is estimated that Mayor Marco did not have any excuse to move the ordnance on the city wall, so that these ordnance could be preserved.

"I will truthfully report the situation here to the military department, and specifically the military department and the Wilkes City House of Representatives make a final decision, after all, Mayor Marco is a noble baron, protected by the orders of the nobles of the Green Empire, even if he goes too far, we have no right to intervene." Quartermaster Handel touched the cold rocks on the wall, looked at the lush woods at the foot of the mountains on either side of the canyon, and said slowly.

He turned his head to look at Surdak and said with a smile: "The nobles who are willing to run to the remote border towns on the ground, no matter what he is now, when he was young, at least he was a group of people who were willing to dedicate their youth to the empire, even if the military department had a tough attitude, it is estimated that the House of Representatives should come forward to protect them." ”

Surdak also knew that the nobles of the Grimm Empire were themselves a class of power, and even the sweat and pores of their bodies were protected by the Imperial Code, as long as it was not a heinous crime such as treason, murder (nobles), and heresy, there would rarely be a death penalty in the Imperial Code.

In fact, Surdak didn't think that Mayor Marko would be guillotined by the military department, and it was estimated that at most he would pay a fine and send him to a more barren and remote place, such as being a warden in a remote island prison.

Handel said: "They have probably calculated, the material supply convoy of the Logistics and Military Quartermaster Department is about to arrive in Dodan Town in the next few days, and they want to make a fortune in the next few days, probably because they have offended others too hard, so that they will be like this." ”

Surdak tells Handel, the quartermaster, about the slave trade group that Mayor Marco secretly controlled, and was sacked by an adventurous group of exiled criminals controlled by the traders, who were later in the woods outside the town.

Handel suddenly realized, patted his thigh and said: "I'll just say, something must be wrong, it turns out that it's because of this incident, generally speaking, the local merchant group doesn't dare to offend the local governor too much anyway, but I have also heard of the boss behind the trading firm here, he can be so bold, it seems that the contradictions between the two are not piled up in a day or two." ”

Surdak took an alloy bow from the guard soldier next to him, and the grip of the bow back of this alloy bow was wrapped around the hem of linen thread, and the grip was very good, and the back of the bow was also polished brightly due to frequent wiping.

Surdak was a former shield warrior, but later learned to ride and became a knight with an aura of power, but his bow skills were not very good.

However, he didn't pick up the alloy bow to show off his archery skills, but to draw the alloy bow to the full, and throw it into the air.

Standing on a 40-meter-high wall, the steel arrow falls in a parabolic shape when it reaches the highest point. fell, falling to the grass two hundred meters below the city wall, it was still full of strength.

About two-thirds of the arrows were stuck in the dirt.

Quartermaster Handel knew that Surdak had something to say, so he withdrew his gaze and stared at him.

"Even if the alloy bow is thrown, it can only shoot two hundred meters, can the Wilkes City military department support a few catapults?" Surdak asked Quartermaster Handel.

Handel only felt that his feet were a little weak, and he said to Surdak with a slumped face: "Commander Surdak, you really dare to think about it! You probably don't know that the production of catapults in the Ordnance Workshop in Bena City is less than 100 units per month, not only because the main poles of the catapults require adult ironwood, but also because the magic rune plates inlaid on each catapult are not available at all, and it is said that the Inscription Masters Guild has suspended orders for magic rune plates for other catapults in order to ensure the construction period of the magic pattern construction. ”

Surdak once participated in the Battle of Moyun Ridge, when the 57th Heavy Infantry Regiment attacked the demon legion on Moyun Ridge, and once transferred two catapult regiments to participate in the battle, he did not expect that catapults were so popular in Bena Province.

Seeing Surdak pondering, Handel continued: "These dozens of catapults were only produced by the Ordnance Workshop with the approval of Duke Newman's own handwriting, and according to the requirements of Charles the Great, forty percent of the catapults produced by each province every month should be handed over to support the plane wars in other provinces of the empire. ”

The planes of the lords of Bena Province are not currently attacked by the Dark Legion, so they are in a relatively good situation among the many provinces of the Empire.

However, even if it was not directly attacked by the Dark Legion, the main army of the province of Bena is now trapped in the Warsaw plane of Handanaar.

Moreover, all kinds of strategic materials in Bena Province must be allocated a certain quota to support other provinces of the empire.

Handel complained to Surdak: "The rest of the catapults still have to support the Bena Legion in the Warsaw plane, and the rest of the entire province is distributed according to demand, and the strategic ordnance of the catapult will not be the turn of the White Forest Plane in any case!" ”

As a veteran quartermaster for more than 20 years, Handel knew these things very well.

Finally, he took Surdak's hand and said bitterly to him:

"The fire-scale bullets that were transported this time have also been accumulated for a long time, and when the beast tide attacks the city, it can be saved, and the beasts killed by the fire-scale bullets are basically useless all over their bodies, it is far better to shoot them with bows and arrows, even if there is a hole in the fur, they can be sold."

"I know, when you say that, I think of one thing, and I will ask you to bring more salt next time." Surdak patted his forehead and said.

"Salt?" Handel was somewhat incomprehensible.

Surdak smiled and said, "When the beast tide comes, so many beast corpses can't be eaten, I am going to marinate them all and make bacon, and if you can't finish eating, you can also put them in the storage room, and it won't be bad for many years!" ”

Handel looked dazed, but Wilkes City was not short of salt, and only said: "Bacon? Okay, next time I'll send you a cart of salt......"

Then he thought of something, and reminded Surdak: "Commander Surdak, what you have to do now is to make a list according to the real needs here as much as possible before I leave, the materials sent next time may not be as complete as this time, but it will definitely be replenished in a targeted manner." ”

Seeing that the military headquarters of Wilkes City still attached great importance to this beast tide, Surdak felt a little more relaxed in his heart, and said, "Okay, the list will be handed over to you tomorrow morning." ”

The three of them walked down the rough stone steps to the bottom of the city wall, and they saw a clerk of the town hall running up from below.

Perhaps it was because he usually neglected to exercise, only climbed more than a hundred stone steps, used his hands and feet at the same time, and looked flustered, sticking his tongue out of his mouth like a dead dog.

Seeing Surdak, the clerk sat down on the steps in prostration, gasping for a long time, and then said:

"Commander Surdak, Mayor Marko took all the belongings in the treasury of the town hall last night and secretly left Dodan Town with his family!"

Surdak sent Samira to spy on Marko last night, and he had a premonition that he might slip away with his money.

Now I wasn't too surprised to hear that Mayor Marco had really run away.

But in front of everyone, he still had to pretend, frowning and asking in a deep voice, "Why do you only report now?" ”

The clerk's face turned pale, and he whispered to Surdak: "Those of us who are subordinates, where do we dare to spy on the mayor of the town, but someone still found that the tax collector was tied up in the vault, and we rescued the tax officer, only to know that it was the mayor who took away the treasury property." ”

Surdak looked at Handel, who looked shocked, and said, "Let's go to the town hall." ”

Handel didn't expect that the mayor of Dodan Town, Marco, would be so breathless that he would abscond with the money.

At this time, I could only bite the bullet and say: "I guess I can't run far, do you want to send some cavalry to chase along the way?" ”

As the group walked down the wall, Surdak asked the clerk named Earp for some information before he said:

"Mayor Marko's family should have left Dodan Town last night, it's about a day's journey by now, Andrew, you find a few local guides in the town, send a team of cavalry to all possible paths, and be sure to get Mayor Marco back."

"Yes!" Andrew gave a military salute and rode away.

Quartermaster Handel glanced at Surdak with some sympathy, and secretly lamented that he was unlucky, five pass towns, he chose Dodan Town, since he arrived in Dodan Town in the morning, he has not been able to eat a good meal until now, and he has encountered such a dirty thing as the mayor absconding with money.

As soon as he had followed Surdak up the city walls, he had exhausted the last of his strength, and now he did not even have the strength to ride a horse, so he beckoned to his deputy and asked him to call his magic caravan, and when he saw the coachman holding a plate, he took the last bit of peas into his mouth, and wiped his oily mouth with his sleeve, and felt even more hungry.

……

Mrs. Luna sat at her desk with a haggard face, her usually meticulously combed hair a little loose.

She held a quill in her hand and wrote absentmindedly on a piece of parchment, she didn't know what she was writing, she only felt that her life, which she had been able to live with, seemed to have been turned upside down all at once.

Although she has been coldly regarded and spurned by the people in the town in the past few years, after all, the person behind her is Mayor Marko, the most famous consul in the town, and those who spit on her will still look flattering in front of her, and she also pretends not to know the gossip that these people are talking about her behind her back.

As long as life is passable, she is the love of Mayor Marco. What does a woman have?

Anyway, in this town, Mayor Marco's love. She is not the only woman, how many women still can't envy her!

She knew that in the past two years, she had been a little older, she was middle-aged, and there were already a few shallow wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, and even Mayor Marco had rarely spent the night with her recently, and she knew that Marco had found two more young sisters in the town, and her life was not as comfortable as before......

But after all, he is still the secretary by his side, and he needs to at least help him handle some official business.

But now, she was completely panicked.

Without Mayor Marco behind her, holding up an umbrella to protect her from the elements, she didn't know what her life would be like for the rest of her life.

Mrs. Luna is married, and her husband's family is also a prominent member of the town.

Now Marco ran away like a lost dog, and he didn't take himself with him! Mrs. Luna covered her face, and she couldn't even think about the rest of her life......

A magic caravan was parked outside the town hall, and Lady Luna quickly cleaned up, rubbed her somewhat stiff face, and stood up to greet the people who had rushed to clean up the mess.

Surdak walked into the town hall.

The receptionist standing at the front desk immediately stood up, and the other officials who were standing in the lobby on the first floor and were talking about it also consciously gathered around.

Seeing Lady Luna coming down the stairs, Surdak asked with a serious face, "How is the tax collector?" ”

Lady Luna reached out and tucked her long sideburns blonde hair behind her ear, and smiled at Surdak with a pretense of composure, saying:

"Still in the lounge, tied with a rope. Night, double. His legs were so swollen that he couldn't walk. ”

Surdak frowned, and when he saw so many people surrounding the reception hall of the town hall, he said with some displeasure:

"Take me to see it."

Mrs. Luna led the way in front, and instead of going up to the second floor, she walked straight down the hallway on the side of the reception hall.

Surdak followed behind and asked:

"Is the town's damage counted?"

Lady Luna stopped, she didn't see the young commander furious, and thinking that he was a sane man, handed the prepared account book to Surdak to let him know the accounts of Dodan.

Surdak was not reached for it.

As a local garrison, Surdak had no intention of taking over the town of Dodan.

Lady Luna cradled the account book back to her chest and pursed her lips, "All the 1,357 gold coins in the vault's safe have been taken away by the mayor. ”

Surdak was a little stunned and asked, "There are only more than 1,300 gold coins in the treasury of Dodan Town?" ”

Lady Luna frowned slightly, the more than 1,300 gold coins were almost accumulated from the tax revenue of Dodan Town for the whole year.

But what she read in Surdak's eyes was, 'Is there only a little bit of money?' ’