Seeing Ante come back with a sluggish face, Alan frowned, and didn't flick his forehead as usual, just said: "It's okay to fail, I have other preparations, you don't have to be too sad." As a newbie, it's understandable to fail once or twice once in a while. ”

Onte tapped his cheek with his finger: "She just kissed me three times." ”

Alan was lifting the water bladder to drink, and he almost choked when he heard the words. He wiped the water stains on his mouth and scolded with a smile: "Then you should be triumphant, why do you seem to have lost your soul." It's good that you're a man, and if you want to change to a woman, you think you're being taken advantage of. ”

Onte glared, then blushed, and puffed out of the tent again. Alan narrowed his eyes and said, "This kid hasn't tasted a woman yet, right?" It's a rarity. ”

Vooch sighed.

I discussed with a group of caravan bosses for a long time just now, but I couldn't come up with a result. This matter was like a dead knot, and the old regiment leader thought to himself, should he really hand over the three masters and servants as Dalang said? Voodge shook his head.

Then Felin's cry sounded outside, and then she saw her precious daughter enter the tent. Seeing that Feylin's face was excited, the haze in Walch's heart was a little thicker. is such a daughter, how can she not be reconciled to the mountain city is the end of her life.

Fei Lin couldn't stop laughing as if she had no heart or lungs, and then grabbed Woch and said, "Father, I have a way." ”

Woke knew what she was referring to, and shook his head and flicked her forehead, "What can you do?" ”

He asked as if he was joking, but Fei Lin really whispered in his ear. Wald's eyes gradually lit up, and he finally broke his thigh and said, "It's a good idea, why didn't I think of it." Felin, you're pretty good-headed. ”

Feline's eyes were curved into crescent shapes.

In the afternoon, the caravan continued its journey and arrived at the mountain castle at nightfall. After a day's journey in one day, almost everyone in the mountain city was dumbfounded and tired. Alan and Belmode were still in good spirits, and they still had time to look at the city of Ryced, which was built on the edge of a mountain. Storm City in the Frontier Lands is also built on a mountain, but the city of Rykd is not only close to the mountain, it can even be said to be built on the mountain.

The city gate is at the foot of the mountain, and the guard wall with a height of six or seven meters is built with a large stone that is a meter square, and the whole section of the wall is gray and simple, but compared with the commercial heavy pond of the Ark Port, it has a condensed bottom. The gate is divided into two layers, the outer layer is made of iron fences made of black iron, and the inner layer is a thick wooden gate that opens left and right. Each black iron of the outer bars is the thickness of an adult's arm, and requires a noose wheel to rise. It can be seen that once this fence is placed in wartime, it is difficult for ordinary siege tools to break through the city from the front. When it is this iron fence, I don't know how many tons of black iron will be used, and only a city like Shancheng, which is rich in copper and iron deposits, has enough materials to cast such an iron gate.

There is a dark fortress of three meters on the guard wall, and a guard tower of five meters, which are evenly distributed on the guard wall. There are also six defensive guns, which can cover an area within a kilometer outside the city. In addition, there are also large ballistas and other tools of war, and it can be seen that Rykerd is willing to spend money on city defense.

Alan saw it in his eyes and silently wrote down these arrangements. As the caravan entered the city, the iron fence slowly rose, and the procession passed through the gates, through the dark vaulted passage above, into a small square paved with gravel at the back of the city. From the square, you can enter the main road of the mountain city, Gray Stone. This will illuminate the mountain city, making this city built on the mountain even more magnificent.

The caravan settled in a hotel in the middle of the city, and as soon as they settled down, Chidori's mercenaries seemed to be unable to bear the loneliness of the journey, and did not care about the toil of the day's journey. They all changed their clothes and flocked to the tavern in the mountain city to buy and get drunk. Standing in front of the window of a room on the second floor of the hotel, Alan smiled faintly.

Following.

There was no suspense about the castle lord's mansion in the mountain city, and it was built on the highest part of the city. The location of the city lord's mansion is a natural platform on the mountainside, which is originally inaccessible from the town below, so it is necessary to ask a certain city high to open a mountain road that can be used for two carriages in parallel. This mountain road named "Coiled Snake" is surrounded by mountains, and I don't know how many white bones are buried under the roadbed. Until now, in the middle of summer, fireflies can still be seen in the middle of the night on the mountain road, which are the scale fires born from countless white bones under the foundation of the mountain road.

The people who live in the mountain city are reluctant to approach this snake mountain road.

In the hall of the city lord's mansion, the earl's roar was faintly heard. This made the servants carefully walk around the hall so as not to be seen by the Count of the fishpond. But servants can hide, but Jarting cannot. He didn't want to stand here and bear the Earl's thunderous wrath, but as a staff member, he had nowhere to hide, and he only hoped that the storm would subside as soon as possible.

The old earl walked around the hall like an angry lion, but whenever he could get his hands on anything, he threw him madly. Jia Ting only smiled bitterly, and if it was him, he was probably more annoyed than the old earl. There was no way, a whole fifty-man cavalry was somehow killed, and there were still twenty hoplites in it. There were only two hundred elite cavalry secretly cultivated in this mountain city, and each heavy cavalry was piled up with heavy gold coins. With the sudden loss of such a mixed cavalry team, Rykde is quite rational before he kills anyone.

Gasping for air, Rykerd shifted his ass and sat down on the only chair that was still intact. The earl had already calmed down, and the old man, who was already in his sixtieth year, opened his blue eyes and asked, "Did you find out, who did it?" ”

Jia Ting smiled bitterly: "It's found out, it's just ......"

"It's just something, don't spit out, let it go if you have a fart."

Jatin sighed and said, "We found their intercepted bodies according to the clues left by the cavalry, and there was only one caravan passing through that place at that time. The caravan hired a mercenary group called Chidori as a guard. If there is no accident, our people are planted in the hands of the Chidori Mercenary Group. ”

"It doesn't matter what kind of birds he is, the people who killed me can't be so cheap for them. Justin, go and inform Shiloh and ask him to bring someone to arrest this mercenary group for me! Raked smiled sinisterly.

Jia Ting coughed dryly: "That's the problem, in fact, there is a thing going viral in the mountain town today." ”

"What's the matter?"

"Last night, when a drunkard was drunk in the tavern, he said that the army of our mountain town was robbing outside disguised as bandits, and he scolded you. When someone heard that he was not convinced, the drunk man took out an army badge. You must know that it is impossible for that thing to escape, and the man also said that he picked it up when he was robbed by bandits outside the city, so people were suspicious. Jia Ting paused, and then said: "Not long after, someone shot a batch of weapons, saying that they got it from a group of bandits. What's worse is that those weapons have the logo of our mall army. Coupled with what the drunk said earlier, this matter became more and more widespread and became more and more troublesome. Of course, I believe that someone is behind this. But in this case, the Earl will not be able to take down the mercenary group. Otherwise, we'll just be left behind. What would have been a doubt will then become a sure fact. ”

Rykerd looked shocked, and then shouted: "Then why are you still stunned here, why don't you hurry up and find out the main messenger behind the scenes!" ”

"Yes, my lord." Jardine exited the hall, but with a wry smile. The earl said it easily, but this mountain city has a population of tens of thousands, and going to find a mastermind behind the scenes is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

After Jarting left, Rykerd's old face gradually lost its luster, and the whole person seemed to have aged ten years in an instant. He stood at the window and sighed, how could he have the majesty of the thunderous fury just now, more like an old man in the twilight. He put his hand on the window edge and said, as if asking himself, "How long can this city and this family last?" The coming storm, Rechd, can you turn the tide? ”

"It's hard." He sighed.

In the hall, the shadow behind a stone pillar writhed imperceptibly, and then a figure with his hands and feet under the cloak slowly walked out from behind the pillar: "The storm is coming, and you plan to stay out of it." Count Luckard, this calculation is inevitably too loud, isn't it? ”

Rykerd didn't look back, but smiled bitterly: "When you find me, I know that both the family and the mountain city are inevitable and will be involved in this storm." ”

"But that's not a bad thing for you. Think about it, if you had been in the past, you would have been so strong. If it weren't for our funding, you would have been able to pull 5,000 soldiers? Not to mention raising two hundred heavily armored knights. The voice of the figure in the cloak was hoarse and unpleasant, like a sharp knife grinding through iron sheets.

"It's useless to say more, in short, after laying down those three territories, Ark Harbor will belong to me. The rest is up to you. Rykerd snorted again: "Daniel, this guy is also scheming, even I don't know that he has dealings with you." ”

The man laughed: "Originally, our cooperation with the viscount was quite smooth, and we are not afraid to tell you." If our cooperation with him can go smoothly, then now these soldiers should be his. And the first to be attacked is not another territory, but your mountain town. So you should be glad he's dead, or you won't be our new partner. Since it's cooperation, then some things have to be spread out. I wonder why you are doing this under the current conditions of the mountain city, and you can't do that by pretending to be a bandit to do that looting. ”

"Count Rykerd, I hope you don't do anything stupid. If you want to get noticed and let people know that we're here. You see, this city doesn't have to be yours. You also have three sons, and any one of them will be enough to take your place in charge of the city, don't you think? With such a threatening remark, the figure retreated towards the pillar and disappeared.

Reckerd was really alone in the hall, and he looked out the window. This winter is almost over, but can the mountain town still see spring? Rykerd didn't know.