It was a chaotic time, with many countries on the continent fighting each other for various reasons. So mercenaries who sell their lives to survive roam the world as they did thousands of years ago, and most countries in the world like to use mercenaries - they are cheaper and less troublesome than regular armies. Each country has its own regular legion, but in a border conflict or a long-term war, there will always be a situation where the troops are insufficient or it is not worth sending the regular legion, so it is time for the mercenaries to come out. Some well-known mercenary groups will also be incorporated after serving a certain country for a long time, and successfully go ashore to become the country's legion, so everyone has a full meal and a future. And even if they are wandering mercenary groups, then at least they have "freedom" compared to farmers.

As far as mercenaries are concerned, usually their individual combat effectiveness is stronger than that of ordinary national soldiers, but most of the new mercenaries do not live for more than three years, and now Zhou Zhongmou looks like he is going to become a mercenary again after a thousand years. Becoming a mercenary is actually very simple, you have your own weapons, and then you can report your name casually, and then you can freely combine to become a mercenary - single mercenaries are extremely rare, most of them are combined with each other to form a team of dozens of people - but if you want to become a member of a medium-sized mercenary group with a little security, you also have to go through the team entry assessment.

What is the name of this city Zhou Zhongmou only remembered to inquire now, but fortunately in this city called Burgundy is not difficult to remember, Zhou Zhongmou mainly drank a large glass of wine in the bar and poured an ear of information - although these variants of the Berken language are quite difficult to understand, anyway, Zhou Zhongmou is also an antique, and the Belken language he knows is an ancient language in this year. A lot of the words are no longer used. However, the syntax is okay and nothing has changed much. So he tried to understand a lot. In addition to knowing that this city is called Burgundy, he also knows that this city is the capital of the Forest Province of the White Eagle Kingdom, and it is the largest and most prosperous city within a radius of more than 200 kilometers. As for how many cities there are in this forest province - this seems to be the so-called military intelligence, and the ordinary people who buy drunk really don't know anything - these guys are active within a radius of dozens of kilometers from life to death, and have no idea of what is hundreds of kilometers away.

However, the merchant next to him gave Zhou Zhongmou an answer, and after he invited the merchant to have a few drinks and then stammered nonsense, the merchant told him that the Forest Province was a fairly large province in the White Eagle Kingdom, and it was also so-and-so - here Zhou Zhongmou didn't hear clearly. The fief of Duke So-and-so, and it is considered a rather wealthy province in the White Eagle Kingdom - there are more than a dozen larger cities, all of which have a population of tens of thousands. However, the province borders the Grizzly Kingdom, and has been at war on the border for hundreds of years, seemingly a repeated tug-of-war over the ownership of several fortresses. Hearing this, Zhou Zhongmou also understood why there was such a thing as a mercenary meeting hall here, it turned out that many mercenary groups recruited new soldiers in this provincial capital, and then traveled between the upper echelons to get hired through guò.

There are not many people who become mercenaries in the forest province - in any case, this province is relatively wealthy, and the average farmer can at least be half-full, so it is not a good choice to work as a mercenary. And as for coming here from afar to sign up as a mercenary? People in this era are not so violent. Long-distance travel is a life-threatening affair. And if you want to be it, you can be a local person - no matter how bad it is, you can be a mercenary's side hustle, bandits. But that's the way it goes. Zhou Zhongmou seemed to come and go in the assembly hall and didn't look like a good person, but there were also more than a dozen people, he drank all the wine in one gulp, and led the horse directly over.

There aren't many mercenaries who bring their own horses, so it's also a huge bargaining chip. And when Zhou Zhongmou pulled out his weapon, many of the onlookers took a breath of cold air: "The two-handed sword of patterned steel" Such exclamations sounded in this group of guys who were also veterans, and watching Zhou Zhongmou's action of drawing his sword, many veterans understood that the man in front of him wearing a half-body chain mail and a cloak was definitely not easy to mess with. Zhou Zhongmou's current appearance is a man with a height of 1.85 meters, and he is considered a tall and strong man in front of the group of malnourished farmers and ordinary citizens outside, but among those well-nourished nobles or the guys from mercenary families who have eaten enough meat since childhood, they can be regarded as tall men. Now this one-meter-eighty-five man easily and casually pulled the one-meter-four-five two-handed sword with one hand, and this kind of wrist control can already let the veteran of the mercenaries know that this man's strength and skills are very good.

However, testing is still needed, which determines how much mercenary groups are willing to pay for hiring. However, unlike in the novel, there will not be a big sword master or the like to test the fight, but a few logs were moved out and Zhou Zhongmou used his big sword to cut them open. "That's right, on the battlefield is to look at the front. What kind of tricks and tricks are scum!" Zhou Zhongmou smiled, grasped the hilt of the sword with both hands, and took a step forward. At the same time as stepping down, twisting the waist and driving the arm, the power rose from the ground, all the way along the leg and waist to the arm, the big sword drew a perfect arc, and then the three logs side by side in front of him were cut at the same time - this is not the slightest special effect, the upper half of the log directly slid down. The incision was very smooth, and after Zhou Zhongmou put away his sword, he looked at the cut surface and sighed: "I'm such a dick now" But this is said in Chinese, and others can't understand it.

As a two-handed swordsman who requires skill and courage among mercenaries, their hire fee is one of the highest - because in many cases they are the blade that breaks through the opponent's battle formation, especially when facing the opponent's spear formation. The mercenaries are not national legions, they can hardly afford to raise the so-called knightly heavy cavalry with full armor and cavalry, so it is the two-handed swordsman who plays the role of the assault of the heavy cavalry - this is also reflected in the national army, and the two-handed swordsman is also listed in the national army above the spearmen and sword and shield soldiers, and is tied with the cavalry, second only to the heavy knights. And Zhou Zhongmou, a two-handed swordsman with both skill and strength, still brought his own horse, naturally obtained a fairly high employment price. "Five gold coins a month. That's pretty good. There are also wartime allowances, and even military merit conversion awards, and the contracts in this world are quite perfect. Zhou Zhongmou looked at the contract in his hand, and the clauses on it were obviously the "ancient" Belken grammar he was used to, and it seemed that there were still a lot of things from the past on it. In fact, this is also used by pit people, most of the mercenaries do not have such a cultural level, they can understand their own names the most, and when the man who gave Zhou Zhongmou the text of the contract found that the two-handed swordsman in front of him could understand the provisions, he immediately used the excuse that there were some minor problems in the contract to give Zhou Zhongmou a contract

Of course, this also made Zhou Zhongmou's identity a little more mysterious, when he put down his cloak, everyone saw that his appearance was different from the people present, black hair, dark brown eyes and ivory skin were quite rare in this region of the continent, and he was wearing chain mail, holding a big sword of patterned steel in his hand, and his own horse, which made his identity even more mysterious - ordinary mercenaries don't have so much money. And he can understand these ancient text terms, which makes the people here have a greater misjudgment of Zhou Zhongmou's identity, "At least is it a descendant of a nobleman somewhere?" (to be continued......