Chapter Twenty-Five: Infiltrating the Barracks
After Wren and the eighth master left the hotel, they first went to the lying bar, and after the eighth master bought a pot of wine, he took Wren to the inner city. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The inner walls of the White Rock Castle are taller than the outer walls, so you can see them at a glance during the day, so you don't have to look for them with great difficulty.
The entire inner city wasn't huge, smaller than Belltown, but it was much more heavily guarded. Soldiers standing guard and patrolling can be seen everywhere on the battlements. Each of the four corners of the inner city has a small tower, and the small towers can be seen from each other. Seen from the unobstructed by the wall, there is a small alarm bell hanging inside, which will be quickly sounded if an enemy is spotted.
There is a five-meter-wide moat outside the inner wall, and access to the inner city is achieved through a wooden drawbridge that can be ridden by three horses. There are such drawbridges on three sides of the inner city, only one side has a water gate, usually the chains are lowered and the iron fence is not allowed to walk together, when the chains are pulled up, the boats can follow the moat into the channel that leads the water.
The plank bridge was lowered during the day and guarded by more than a dozen heavily armed soldiers, making it difficult for ordinary people to approach. At night, the boardwalk is pulled up as a gate to block the entrance to the inner city.
Wren pretended to be the servant of the eighth master and followed the eighth master into the inner city, and the soldiers who guarded him recognized the eighth master, greeted him cordially, and let the eighth master go directly without checking.
Smoothly enter the inner city, the buildings inside are relatively low, and the buildings are relatively spaced apart. Most of them are elegant chic courtyards, others are shops and entertainment facilities. The streets are paved with beautiful white marble slabs, and instead of going straight to the outer city, the streets bend haphazardly and connect the buildings of the inner city. The streets are lined with elaborate marble columns with lampshades. Vast expanses of green space and trees dot all the open spaces in the inner city, making you feel as if you are in the lap of nature.
In the middle of the inner city, there is a majestic and solemn black iron stone cast blockhouse tower, the fort tower has seven floors, the top layer is higher than the inner city wall, and you can see the outside. At intervals, the tower is home to a splendid lifelike stone statue guarded by many guards, and is supposed to be the administrative building of the city.
All this beauty did not attract the attention of the two, one was accustomed to it, and the other did not pay attention to these things.
"The inner city barracks are over there. The eighth master pointed to the side of the fork in the road and motioned for Wren to go with him.
Soon the two of them followed the road, passing through the middle of the two high courtyards, and saw the barracks area behind a river.
The barracks are the size of four football fields and are surrounded by rivers that flow from outside the city. There are stone slabs on both sides of the river, and there are only two entrances to the barracks area, both of which are crossed by small bridges over the river. The closest to Wren and the Eighth Master is a ten-meter-long stone arch bridge that can cross two horses side by side. The bridge is guarded by two guards, and behind the stone bridge there is a path leading to the barracks wooden guardrail gate. There is a sentry wooden arrow tower on the left and right sides of the guardrail gate, and there is no one to guard it now.
Much farther away, on the other side, there is a five-metre-long wooden bridge, which can also accommodate two riders in parallel, with wooden gates, which are now closed and unattended. After entering the wooden door, you can follow the road to the back door of the barracks, and the back gate is also closed. There are also wooden arrow towers on both sides of the gate, and there are no soldiers guarding them.
The whole camp is surrounded by a two-person high wooden fence, and it is not easy to see the situation inside clearly from the outside, but you can see some wooden houses and some marching canvas buildings, and from time to time you can hear the practice sound of swords clashing and soldiers shouting inside the barracks. Now should be the time for cooking in the barracks, the smoke has been curling in the fence, the two guards guarding the stone arch bridge are a little lazy leaning against the stone bridge guardrail, the wooden-handled iron spear is casually leaning on the side, and the two are chatting as if no one is around.
The eighth master asked Wren softly, "What's the name of the person you're looking for?"
Wren replied, "Zhuo Si." Anda!"
"Okay, you wait here for a while. I'll go over and ask them. The eighth master asked Wren to wait under the eucalyptus tree on the side of the road for a while, and then he walked towards the two chatting guards on the stone arch bridge.
Seeing the eighth master walking towards them, the two guards greeted the eighth master happily. Then the eighth master also walked up to them casually and joined them in chatting. After a while, I saw that the eighth master felt something out of his arms and threw it at one of the guards, the guard hurriedly caught it, then looked at the things in his hand, and said goodbye to the eighth master happily.
The eighth master walked back to the eucalyptus tree where Wren was waiting and said to Wren, "It's not called Zhuosi. The people of Anda. Their new Legion Commander did come in recently, but not by that name, maybe under a pseudonym, maybe not the person you're looking for. That corps commander happens to be in the barracks, what are you going to do next. ”
"I'm going to go in and check in person. If we really recognize the wrong person, we will leave immediately. Wren said to the eighth master.
"It's a barracks inside, and even I can't just go in. The eighth master said.
"It's okay, I'll sneak in, Eighth Master, you can wait for me outside. Wren was still determined to go in and find out.
"How are you going to sneak in this daylight, or don't you wait until the evening to act?" said the eighth master, looking at the bright sun in the sky.
"But won't the drawbridge that comes in at night be put away? Wren agrees that it's inconvenient during the day, but not being able to get out at night is also a problem.
"Don't worry about this, the eighth master has his own way to get out. The eighth master replied easily.
"What if that guy isn't there at night?" Wren voiced another concern.
"Then there's no need to worry, since he is the leader of the legion here, there will always be a chance to meet him. If he's not here tonight, we'll come back tomorrow. The eighth master patted Mo He on the shoulder and signaled the other party not to be impatient.
"Okay. Then we'll do it in the evening. Do you want to talk to them, lest they wait too long and worry about us. Wren remembered that Mo He and Sha Anna were still in the hotel, and it was only noon, so maybe it would be better to talk to them.
"It doesn't matter. I believe that Commander Mo He still has this patience. If not, he wouldn't have been able to walk around with a little girl and survive to this day. The eighth master said to Wren with a smile, and sighed in his heart that this Wren young man's patience is not very good!
After that, the eighth master didn't continue to wander around here, and took Wren down a street to find a noble private entertainment bar, and pushed open the two bar doors and entered. ordered a meal for Wren, then left him alone in the servant's quarters in the corner, and went to chat and play cards with a few acquaintances of nobles. This play of cards on an afternoon, the eight master card skills are good, won a lot of gold coins, called on the Wren to push the door out, see the sunset under the inner city, the flowers and trees are so quiet and pleasant, the loose buildings around are so relaxed, it is really a warm and comfortable place to live.
At night, a curfew was imposed in the inner city, and except for some nobles of high status, the rest of the people who entered the inner city were generally allowed to stay in hotels or stay in the homes of residents in the inner city, and were not allowed to move around. The eighth master knew this, so he waited until the time was almost complete and hid in the woods in the inner city with Wren. After waiting until he couldn't see people clearly, he took two silk handkerchiefs and put them on his face, and quietly sneaked to the wooden bridge behind the barracks.
"I'm afraid that there are garrison magicians in the camp, and I won't use magic to help you if I have to. The eighth master whispered to Wren through the silk scarf.
"Okay! I should be able to handle it. Eighth Master, just wait for me outside. Wren reassured the eighth master that he was still very confident in infiltrating the barracks to find the legion leader.
"I'd better go inside with you, and I'll pick you up quickly if there's any situation. The eighth master waved his hand and told Wren that he wanted to go in.
Wren acted first, he noticed that there were guards on the guard tower at the back door of the barracks, but it was a distance from here, and as long as they were not swaggering and exposed to the moonlight, they should not find themselves. So he climbed to the outside of the bridge, protruding along the bottom of the wooden bridge and climbed behind the bridge, and then carefully removed the crossbar of the wooden door, and gently opened a crack in the closed wooden door from the inside to let the eighth master in.
There was no concealment for the rest of the day, and the two of them could only come quickly to the barracks when the two guard towers turned in other directions. The eighth master first took the handle and let Wren climb the fence, the top of the fence was sharpened, but people could sit between the two logs, so it was convenient for him to pull the eighth master up. Although the eighth master is a magician, his physical strength and strength are still no different from normal ordinary people, and with the help of Wren, it is not a problem to deal with the three-meter wooden fence.
The place where they had climbed was behind several wooden houses, the fences were close to the roofs, and they were blocked by these structures, so that the people inside could not easily see them climbing.
The eighth master motioned to go up to the roof, overlook the entire camp from above, and first find out the terrain of the barracks. So the two of them bent on their waists, carefully climbed onto the wooden roof, and then quietly came to the other side of the roof.
This allowed them to see the situation of the barracks clearly: the roof of the house where the two men were located was in the lower right corner of the entire barracks, and there were six wooden houses of the same style, which were supposed to be the resting places of the officers. In the upper right corner, there is a large area of bare dirt, in which there are some wooden people and arrow targets, and there are several wooden sheds for temporary storage of weapons, which should be a training ground. The stables are on the left side of the training ground. Directly opposite the stables is a small cobbled square with a stone fence and a rain shelter in the middle of the small square. On the other side of the small square in front of the stables, to the left of the two-man house, there was a tall military canvas tent, which should have been the commander's tent depending on the scale. The Great Tent used to be a few stone buildings. Wren recognized such buildings as usually armouries for weapons storage or grain depots for storing grain. The area in the lower left corner is blocked by a stone building, so you can't see what you can do behind it. In the upper left corner of the barracks, there are many military canvas tents, each of which houses three to five people, so that it can accommodate at least three hundred people.
While Wren was inspecting the terrain, the eighth master was alert to the surrounding situation. Three teams of five-man patrol guards patrolled the neighborhood with iron cages and oil lamps, inspecting every dark corner. The main entrance to the barracks had been closed, and the four watchtowers at the front and back gates of the barracks, which had been deserted during the day, were now lit with oil lamps, and one of the guards could be seen standing guard with a military crossbow.
It seems that this trip is too much trouble, and it can't make too much noise, otherwise it will alarm the hundreds of people in the entire camp, and it will be terrible.