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A not-so-or-beautiful carriage drove through the dilapidated city gates, and the sparsely populated streets saw one or two people occasionally with resentment and despair in their eyes, a silent protest against the misery of life. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Brettel City was not as dirty as Han Shuo expected, it was only slightly better than the scenery he had seen along the way, a few lazy soldiers looked indifferently at the carriage entering the city, and actually did not interrogate him about his origin and asked him to collect the gold coins entering the city, it seemed that Bretl City was indeed on the verge of death.

"Hey, where is the City Lord's Mansion?" Chester asked a beggar-looking civilian with a smile as he pulled the reins.

The civilian, who was lying lazily catching fleas in the sun, looked attentive, as if he had not heard Chester's questioning at all, and did not even raise his head.

"A silver coin, where is the City Lord's Mansion?" Chester, who was born poor, had a good understanding of the spleen and surname of this poor person, and asked with a smile again.

The addition of a silver coin had an immediate effect, and the beggar, who had just been deaf, seemed to smell the tempting fragrance of the gold coin, and suddenly focused all his attention on Chester, pointed in the direction of East Street, and said: "Go straight for three hundred meters, and the highest and worst mansion is the City Lord's Mansion." ”

A silver coin glittered in the light of day, and slid down to the ground in front of the beggar, and Chester did not thank him, but jerked his horse, and the carriage slowly departed, heading straight for the city lord's mansion.

The beggar hurriedly picked up the silver coin and clutched it tightly in his palm, and then looked in the direction where the two had left, and muttered, "There are people who have come to Breitle City, either as profiteering merchants, or as the legendary unlucky earl, what a wretched fellow." ”

Once Brettel City was invaded, the City Lord's Mansion would become the object of key care, the walls of the tall buildings were not solid, and there were still a few holes that had been blown up that didn't seem to have been repaired, until Han Shuo's carriage drove into it, and there were only less than five maids and a dozen or so soldiers scattered around.

These waitress and soldiers looked indifferent to Han Shuo, who had taken over, and they didn't have the enthusiasm and deliberate catering that a subordinate should have, and of course, that kind of welcome banquet that was normally held in other areas was even more impossible.

The City Lord's Mansion was at least five times larger than Han Shuo's mansion in Aosen City, but this City Lord's Mansion was really useless except that it was large enough, since it was the City Lord who left first in every invasion, the City Lord's Mansion was often the first to be looted if there were no soldiers stationed.

Some of the things that the city lord couldn't take away for the time being were wiped out in the attack after attack, and it was ridiculous that Han Shuo actually saw that a piece of white jade floor had been lifted and taken away, leaving behind a large square and collapsed broken hole, which allowed Han Shuo to imagine the real situation of Brettel City.

"Can you help me introduce the current situation in Brettel City?" Arriving at the ruined hall in the center of the City Lord's Mansion and sitting down, Han Shuo said to Dick, the person in charge of the dark curtain here who had heard the news.

Dick is a forty-year-old man, with an ordinary appearance and only the bridge of his nose appears relatively tall, which is the characteristic of some mountain people in the local Bretl City, Dick respectfully saluted Han Shuo, and said in an imperial Chinese language that seemed a little awkward: "Bretl City took a total of five hundred family soldiers when the previous city lord left, and at present, there are only more than 3,000 soldiers in the entire Brettel City, and there are less than 50,000 residents in the city. More than 3,000 soldiers are simply not enough to defend the gates of Bretel City, not to mention that these soldiers often escape faster than civilians, and the defenses of Breitl City are broken again and again, and now they are almost lost without funds to repair them.

Most of the mountain people of the real local city of Brettel live on the surrounding steep mountains, which produce some valuable ores, because the mountain people are very skilled in the terrain above the mountains, and the heavy troops of the mountains are indeed very difficult to attack, so they can withstand every invasion of the seven principalities.

So far, in fact, Brettle City has been relatively safe, because several Grand Duchyes have experienced dozens of invasions, large and small, and they all understand that there is actually no oil and water to fish in Breitl City, and for them, it has not been possible to reap the due rewards for spending time to loot Breitl City, so there have been no more invasions in the past few months.

On the contrary, some of the mountaineers in the mountains around Breitll City guarded the mining fields, and became the target of some robbers and private soldiers, but the mountaineers who occupied the territory were not as incompetent as the soldiers of the Empire, and so far they were able to barely survive the ...... in the mountains."

Under Dick's introduction, Han Shuo gradually understood the situation in Brettel City, and after Dick finished speaking, Han Shuo glanced at a soldier in the City Lord's Mansion and said, "Gather all the soldiers in Brettel City to the front of the City Lord's Mansion for me, I want to see what these soldiers are like." ”

"Yes, Lord Earl!" replied the soldier lazily, and rode a thin and weak horse unhurriedly, and slowly drove out of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Your Excellency, you will be disappointed. Dick shook his head and sighed and said to Han Shuo.

"I know. However, I want to make me not disappointed in the future!" Han Shuo said with a chuckle, then frowned and remained silent.

After nearly two hours, the soldiers scattered all over Brettel City gathered in front of the City Lord's Mansion one by one unhurriedly, without order and without military discipline, these soldiers were not too strong, perhaps because of the food, there was a sick complexion, that kind of mental state that was scattered without a trace of the sharpness of the soldiers, indicating that their combat effectiveness was bound to be vulnerable.

The long swords, bows and spears in their hands were all rusty and inferior quality, Han Shuo even felt that a sharp weapon forged by a dwarf could break all their weapons, only one-third of the soldiers of these more than 3,000 people were young and prime-aged, and the rest were all older twilight old men, who could expect this kind of person to have combat effectiveness?

Han Shuo stood on the high platform of the City Lord's Mansion and looked at it for a while, pondered it with a calm face, and grinned: "From today onwards, your good life is over, all soldiers over the age of fifty will be eliminated from this team, and I will guarantee your normal life for this part of the people."

The rest of the soldiers will be fed with food, you will be given new weapons, armor and horses, and of course you will be tortured by brutal training, waiting for the next time the invaders come to wash away the shame of the past, and the city of Breitll with me will be changed. ”

The soldiers below were in an uproar, indifferent to Han Shuo's proposal to let them leave the army, but they were full of doubts about Han Shuo's guarantee of food and clothing for them. The young men looked at each other one by one, slowly thinking about the meaning of Han Shuo's words, not knowing what he wanted to do.

"Lord Earl, are you here for real?" Next to Han Shuo, Dick, the person in charge of the secret place, looked at Han Shuo in extreme surprise and asked.

"Lord City Lord, even if more than a thousand of us have obtained weapons and war horses, do you think that with such a dilapidated city wall, we can withstand the attack of one or twenty thousand bandits or thirty or fifty thousand regular troops of the Seven Duchies?"

"These are not for you to take care of, as a soldier, if you can't stop the invasion of the enemy, you will use your own heads to wash away the shame of defeat, and if you dare to survive and escape, I will cut your necks one by one. Han Shuo looked at the strong man coldly and scolded.

"City Lord, I think you should leave here as soon as possible, this place has been abandoned by the Empire, do you think that you can change the status quo of Brettel City by yourself? Without about 100,000 Imperial elite soldiers guarding it, Bretl City will never be able to change this situation of being invaded, if you want to die yourself, please don't take us with you, okay?" The soldier was extremely disdainful, ignoring Han Shuo's coldness, and retorted excitedly.

"Whoosh!"

A dark brown luster flashed, and no one could see clearly what was passing through, anyway, this soldier who was agitating and justifying Han Shuo, a good head was thrown like this, and the blood spurting from his neck was like a paintbrush outlining a vivid picture on the ground.

"From now on, all you have to do is follow orders, you don't need to have any doubts, even if you have doubts, they will rot in my heart!" Han Shuo shouted with a cold and murderous voice, the kind of ruthless butcher-like ruthlessness made the soldiers below silent one by one.

A team of more than a hundred people riding bright war horses and holding bright weapons slowly drove towards the City Lord's Mansion, and one of them, a man wrapped in silver armor and carrying a silver spear, bowed slightly to Han Shuo on his war horse, and said, "Lord Earl, the Earth Knight Varchlan will serve you and obey all your orders. ”

Without thinking too much, Han Shuo also knew that this Varkland must have been arranged by Lawrence, from this person's body, Han Shuo sensed the killing aura of a tragic warrior, and understood that this person must be a truly experienced soldier, so he immediately glanced at the soldiers of Bretle City below with ill will, and said with a smile: "Varkland, from today onwards, they will be handed over to you, train them in the most cruel way, and I will not blame you for the unfortunate death during the training." ”

(To be continued)