Soldiers from the Wolf family walked past the Civic Guard.

The Civic Guard soldiers appeared to be terrified of the mercenary soldiers, and when the mercenaries in strange uniforms approached, the Civic Guard soldiers left the street and ordered the citizens not to leave their houses.

The mercenary soldiers only crossed two blocks before they were joined by the Wolf family's family members and thugs who had remained in the city. The soldiers stationed in the town had almost disappeared completely, which made the mercenary leader of the Wolf family suspicious, and he wanted to clear a mansion and defend it, and then have the Wolf family contact the arrogant Civic Guard captain Heredin and ask him to come and negotiate.

"Mercenaries are not the warriors of many years ago," said a man from the Wolf family, "When I was a child, when I was in Zhivadin, even the mercenaries of Wiki would never have had their own ideas after receiving orders from their employers. ”

"My lord," said the leader of the mercenaries, "I have been ordered to come to prevent other nobles from usurping the Wolf family's estate. If we can negotiate a solution, we will provide you with the best backing. These soldiers of the Civic Guard are strange everywhere, I'm afraid''"

"What are you afraid of? You're afraid that even if the Valans are gone, your sissy forces won't be able to defeat these Valans who have raised up their puppets. ”

The soldiers behind the leader of the mercenaries heard such an insult, drew their swords and shouted to kill that Hereddin to prove their courage.

The Wolf man stood on an abandoned carriage and said to the soldiers around him, "Soldiers! You don't have to worry about anything! You all know, this brutal Oriental Victor. What a coward! He sold his sister and gave it to the Norman man to bud. This is the opportunity to meet His Majesty the Emperor. Victor sold his family to Salander as slaves, and he was able to scrape together enough money. Bribed some short-sighted nobles to speak for him, so that the emperor was hoodwinked into giving him this appointment. When has this free city been constrained by outsiders? When has this city paid one less gold coin? All of this was almost destroyed by the hateful Orientals. If you have eyes, you can see how many free people the Easterners have slaughtered here, if you have noses, you can now smell blood in the streets, if you have heads. You should know that sooner or later this hateful Oriental will have to pay the price! ”

"I've heard that the Valans fled the city the other day with a big cart of stuff. It's true, we've seen with our own eyes, that they fled like a pack of dogs in that armor that was outdated hundreds of years ago. Victor himself is said to have died, and when he raped a blind girl, he was severely injured by the blind girl's brothers with a red-hot iron rod, whether he was seriously injured or dead. Now the Varans have fled. Now you have nothing to worry about, the soldiers in the city are only some kind of citizen guard supported by a group of Valans. The hypocritical Victor says that this is the citizens' own guard, but unlike Eastern Vicchia and Rhodok, Svadia does not have its own city council. Nor did it have its own noble council. Who is this Citizen Guard loyal to? Undoubtedly, or Victor! Who does the legitimacy of this citizen guard come from? Victor, of course. He talked to himself and deceived the citizens into helping him. In order to oppress the merchants and nobles who oppressed freedom from below, and deceived His Majesty from above. in order to get more benefits. He must have been injured a long time ago, these days. His lackey Hereddin plundered the city's riches everywhere, and behold, they fled in a hurry as soon as they got their hands on the goods! This shows that the Valans have gone on a long journey! ”

"But Heredin is still there! The Valanites did not disband the Civic Guard before leaving, which gave Heredin, a lackey, an opportunity, to recruit these puppets and decide to continue the evil deeds of the Valans! But how many people can he use? A hundred, or a hundred and fifty? Who are these people? I say to you that the bravest men in the city have died to the devil of Valan, and these people will be remembered by us, and the rest are commoners, pimps, beggars, and prostitutes! As the man said this, the mercenary soldier looked at himself with a smile, and then at the thugs around him, and the man knew that he was speechless, but he could only bite the bullet and continue, "Anyway, I mean that the one who is sitting in the city lord's mansion and doing perverse things is just an empty bag!" He used the horrors of the Valans to protect himself, and he wanted to send the Wolf family's business, but he still did not destroy the barriers, nor did he release the freedmen. He was just a small tax contractor for the Stone family, and eventually became the head of the Stone family's local business. His behavior has violated the agreement between the nobles, not only our Wolf family will punish him, but even the Stone family and the Roland family, the feudal lord of the Stone family, will punish him! ”

"Let's go to the mayor's residence!" The men of the House of Wolf cried out, "Tear down the evil execution grounds of the Wallans, raze the walls around the square, capture that Heredin, and make amends for the Wallans!" Did you know that Victor looted a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, locked up the dungeon with the beauties of the city, and stuffed his kitchen with barbecue and wine? He does not grill meat with wood, but uses the spices themselves as fuel to roast meat. He never drank ordinary wine, only muscat wine. He has a lot of wealth, and it is impossible to take it all with him, and everything you find in the mansion can be plundered at will. Don't worry about this angering His Majesty, you have no idea who our family has allied with, and you don't know how many nobles are on our side, ready to let Victor die a good death! He's finished, Hereddin is finished, the rule of the Valans is finished, now, soldiers, draw your swords and rush to the Mayor's Mansion and go on a killing spree! ”

The soldiers erupted in enthusiastic cheers, but instead of acting immediately, they looked at their mercenary officers.

The man of the Wolf family was a fool, he was not an officer of these soldiers, it was not his job to raise morale, and even if he incited the soldiers, the soldiers did not dare to say anything in front of their own officers. For an army that is loyal to a certain person. The best thing to do is to convince this person, not an entire army. The man of the Wolf family should actually be the mercenary officer the most at this time. Instead of coercing the mercenary emotions to force the officer to give orders.

The officer looked at the Wolf man with disgust and put on his helmet. He said to an officer beside him, "Take twenty men, clear the streets, stay at the street corner, and be ready to retreat." Then he called out to the soldiers beside him: "Rest of you, follow me to the city magistrate's mansion and arrest Hereddin." Do not take the initiative to attack any citizen, and do not kill members of the Civic Guard who are not hostile. Do not plunder without permission. ”

After giving the order, the thugs of the Wolf family looked at their master with dissatisfaction. The mercenary officer's order clearly refuted the decision of the Wolf man, point by point.

The mercenary soldiers immediately divided twenty men and set about clearing the streets full of rubbish, tearing down the window nails on the side of the street and filling the ditches. The rest of the mercenary soldiers began to form columns, quickly crossing the streets to the city governor's residence. None of the soldiers of the Civic Guard stopped the mercenary army along the way, and it was not until in front of the Municipal Governor's Mansion that a thirty-man guard warned them not to approach. The mercenary soldiers dispersed the army with spear shafts and unsheathed swords.

At this moment, a dull creaking sound emanated from the walls of the square.

The gates of the ramparts of the square were opened.

More than thirty people of the Civic Guard immediately withdrew.

This mercenary soldier is looking for a way around the ramparts to the city magistrate's residence. The mob came out with weapons in pairs, and when they saw the mercenary soldiers in front of them, they were shocked and angry. The mob turned back to those behind them and shouted, "The Varans are cheating! "The Varans are out there!" "Take the weapon! Take the weapon! ”

The mercenary soldiers did not have time to explain. The mob at the front was squeezed out by the mob behind them, and by the time the people in front realized that something was wrong, the mob behind them, who had received the wrong information, had already thrown their short spears out. Mercenary soldiers constantly pushed and shoved this mob. They were asked to return to the square, but the mercenary's warning was misunderstood by the terrified mob. They thought it was another evil game of the Valans. Mercenary soldiers and mobs crowded around the narrow door, pushing each other, and then. A mercenary soldier who had been beaten several times finally drew his sword and stabbed one of the most arrogant mobs. After the first drop of blood flowed out, the rest of the matter was out of control. The mob also began to fight back, no longer just fleeing for their lives, for they had decided that they would not be able to survive without defeating this 'Valan' army at this time.

The mob had weapons thrown at them by the Civic Guard, and as they were about to begin their fight order against the Valans, the Civic Guard soldiers told them that they had been spared by the Valans.

Half an hour ago.

The captain of the soldiers of Swadia said to them, "The Varans now hand over your fate to yourselves. ”

The captain pointed to the corpses next to the mob, "These are the results of your cannibalism, and what you have done in the town all these years has been paid for today." From now on, as long as you no longer break the law and oppress the citizens, then the Valans will treat you as well as the citizens. Now, decide for yourselves what to do, and the Lord Governor has suggested that you bury these corpses, for though they had done as much evil as you did, they are now dead, and their bodies have been used for many days. If you stay here and dig ditches and bury the dead, I think you will live well and be free to live until you die of old age. "Of course, if you don't bury them, we have nothing to say, so we can leave now." Decide for yourself. ”

The mob couldn't believe that they had such good fortune for a moment, and they were still looking at the captain of the soldiers suspiciously. The Valans have a lot of bad intentions, and at this time, they can set themselves free just by burying the corpse?

But once they knew that they were free, there were more and more people who did not want to stay and bury their former comrades, who hated the Valans more than they loved their associates, and who did not know if the Valans would make good on their promise not to arrest them again.

Some of the bravest have taken the lead in agitating those around them.

"There must be something strange about these corpses, smeared with poison or something! You remember the last time Big James happened! He and the six remaining men followed the vicious instructions of the Valans and ended up killing each other. There was only one man left to deal with the bull, and he ended up being topped with minced meat! We can't listen to the Valans. They told us to bury the bodies just to let us stay here a little longer. Who knows how long it will take. Will something change? Let's go right away, go right away! ”

"But, my friend is in there, and I want to bury him." Someone said.

"Then you dig a hole in the vicious Valans! Here we go! More retorted.

By this time, the mercenary soldiers had arrived in front of the mayor's residence, and the team of thirty was stopping the mercenary soldiers from advancing.

While the Civic Guard was dispersed, the mob, unwilling to stay and bury their comrades, opened the doors of the Mayor's Mansion and prepared to flee, when they ran headlong into the heavily armed mercenary soldiers.

If they have mercy in their hearts. If they stayed and buried their companions, they would have not suffered a catastrophe, they would have dug graves in the square for hours, and then avoided anyone's blows. If they choose to stay, there will be a barrier to protect them and allow them to live freely in the end, but they pull open the door and clash with the mercenary soldiers.

Now, they have chosen their destiny.

If the mob hadn't come out so quickly. My Valan soldiers and the elite soldiers of the Civic Guard, who had already laid an ambush, would immediately launch an attack on the mercenary soldiers, crushing them in the street in front of the mayor's residence: the narrow passages of ramparts and street walls would take a devastating charge. No army can perform as well as it should, not even this elite mercenary force.

But now, mercenary soldiers are entangled with the mob. We can hide in the alleys of the apartment and wait and see.

The 'Valans' who fled the city the other day were all Khreddin men wearing Valanite armor. They took all the goods that Herreddin had bought and the inventory of the Roland and Stone families, and they were to be transported to a safe place in Paraven. I commissioned Hereddin to hand over a letter of reconciliation with the Stone family. In my letters, I pointed out their deception of His Majesty, and I told them that it was impossible to revert to the previous confusion, for His Majesty had made up his mind, but the estates of the nobles could be preserved, and that as compensation for their losses, the Stones and the Roland families would each receive a portion of the Wolf family's estate, all at the behest of His Majesty the Emperor.

The real Valan soldiers and the elite soldiers of the Civic Guard have been hiding in a fire-damaged apartment in the city these days. It belonged to the cowardly merchant, whose apartments had been burned down, one of which had been renovated by the new owner and had begun to attract tenants, the ground floor had been used as a cloth shop, and the other had no plans to be renovated for the time being. The nobles who plundered the merchant were none other than the Stone family, to whom Hereddin was loyal, and it didn't take much communication for Hereddin to understand my plan.

If Hereditin can keep House Roland neutral to me, and if I can visit the Normans myself, then the power of the nobility will no longer be enough to shake my rule as a municipal magistrate.

If I'm going to, I'll leave here tomorrow and go to Paravon to make peace with Ania and attend a Norman feast.

Today, though, I still have a mercenary army to defeat.

Half an hour later, most of the mob had been killed, and a few were on their knees with their wounds, begging for forgiveness from the 'Valans'. The mercenary soldiers were furious, wondering why these mobs thought they were Valans.

Their mercenary leader had given the order to retreat, but a group of Wolf thugs blocked the streets and encouraged the soldiers to go in and arrest Heredin.

Woo~~

The warning horn of the Valans sounded--- "Get out or attack." ”

Like mercury pouring out of the building, the Valan soldiers and the Civic Guard, dressed in Swadian armor, poured into the streets, and although all of them were equipped in Swadian style, the Valans and the Valañe eagle flags fluttered above the densely packed troops.

The Kugit cavalry trotted out of the alley and stood at the forefront of the Valan soldiers. When six or seven horsemen stood side by side, almost filling the street, I walked side by side with the two horsemen promoted from the Civic Guard, rode on horseback, and walked to the front of the cavalry.

My boy squire ran over and handed me a spear, then ran to the other side and helped me set up my shield.

The mercenaries had just finished fighting the mob, and at this time they were almost in place, looking at the Varan army that had fallen from the sky in confusion.

I raised my hand.

Woo~~

The Valans warned for the second time.

As soon as the horn stopped, more than 160 heavily armed soldiers, led by the galloping cavalry, followed me and rushed towards the mercenary soldiers.

The cavalry around me, as is customary for the Valans, shouted their names as they charged.

"Krusetel the Kujit!" "Marcus the Swadia!" "Swadia Tuka!"

I, on the other hand, shouted, "Victor the Valan! ”

Our cavalry ran over the dense mercenary infantry, and the Valan soldiers who followed behind slashed the mercenaries one by one. )