Chapter 15: The Rogues
Cuckoo leaned against the doorframe, listened to their conversation, and said to Russell, "I need you to escort me to Finn, can you do that?"
Russell pondered the location of Finn City, and suddenly realized that Finn City was not adjacent to the imperial capital? Why is the current news all pointing to San Caron, which must be extremely dangerous, can he really discover the truth? It seems that what he urgently needs now is to recruit some warriors to enhance the combat power of his team.
In Dinar's face, Russell didn't care about what Cuckoo did to him for the time being, and her destination was the same as the direction Russell wanted to go, and after discussing the details with Carter, it was estimated that there should be no news to be found in the Viscount, and Russell agreed to her commission.
Bidding farewell to their helpers, they prepared to go to the Viscountdom's square to recruit some mercenaries who would follow them. Russell, who was riding in gray ash, looked at the other three who did not speak, and wanted to say something interesting to ease the atmosphere, and just as he was about to speak, a herald ran over in the distance, shouting: "Quickly avoid, quickly avoid!" Russell and his party hurriedly rode their horses to avoid.
Then, the city gate in the distance slowly lowered, and before Russell could react to what happened, Carter had a calm face and said, "Looking at this situation, there should be a foreign enemy attacking." ”
Sure enough, after a quarter of an hour, an archon came to the square and said to the panicked crowd in the square, "There is a group of rogues from outside the city, who somehow bypassed the sentry yesterday and are coming to the viscount. Rest assured, the Viscount's forces will defeat them!"
"My cattle and sheep haven't been brought in yet!" a farmer wandered anxiously.
"What are you, my wife and children haven't entered the city yet!" said an old man anxiously.
There was a part of the common people in the city who did not live in the city, and their family property was more or less not brought into the city, and the square suddenly became noisy.
The consul ignored the pleas of the civilians, and with a wave of his hand, a number of bailiffs with clubs ran into the crowd to control the chaos in the square. Seeing that the chaotic scene below gradually subsided, he continued: "I am ordered by Viscount Haile to recruit adult men and mercenaries in the city to defend the city, and those who disobey will be punished with treason!"
Looking at the rusty dagger distributed in his hand, Russell fell into deep thought. Although he was somewhat dissatisfied with the Viscount's forced conscription, his attention was more focused on the armament of the nearby soldiers. Most of the soldiers are dressed in leather armor, but many places have fallen off and faded, except for the equipment of the commanders, it is still reasonable, but the weapons of the general soldiers are generally old and damaged, this is a viscounty, a city close to the border of the empire, is every imperial city such a dilapidated combat preparation? Can such a force win against the barbarians? Russell couldn't help but shudder at the thought of the soldiers wearing these equipment.
"The Viscount is here!" heard the cries of the soldiers, Russell looked over, and not far away, the Viscount put on his armor and took a delicate axe, and walked to the city wall.
He stood on a high place and said to the soldiers, "On the other side are just down-and-out rogues, who are not vulnerable at all, my brave soldiers, raise your swords and slaughter these bastards, and those who kill the leaders of the bandits will be rewarded with three thousand dinars!"
In the field in front of him, black oppressive centaurs gradually appeared. The viscount couldn't help but darken his face when he saw the number of rogues on the other side. The cuckoo said on the side: "Look at this, it is estimated that there will be more than 200 people, how did so many people come around?"
The soldiers, who were originally full of fighting spirit, also lowered their faces one by one, and some of the timid people's legs trembled slightly. Without waiting for the viscount to give the order, an arrow "brushed" and hit an unlucky soldier, the leather armor on his body could block the arrows that came from him, but the leather armor did not work, the arrow pierced his chest, he covered his chest, and fell to the ground.