Lord of Hyranza

"He went to the city defense brigade, and supplies were also delivered there."

Suldak tapped his forehead, thinking that Mayor Marko rushed to clear out the supplies from the warehouse of the City Defense Brigade yesterday, and it seemed that he knew that these supplies were about to arrive.

If it wasn't for the people from the armed group of the trading house to stop those trucks yesterday and let Mayor Marko transport those supplies away, but he didn't know it.

Well, once these materials transported from Wilkes City today are sent to the warehouse of the city defense brigade, the accounts in the warehouse of the city defense brigade will really be rotten.

"Isn't Duodan Town responsible for the daily expenses and supplies of the city defense brigade?"

Suldak asked Quartermaster Handel.

Quartermaster Handel patted the wooden box vigorously, rearranged the gap exposed by the tarpaulin on the wooden box, and said:

"Under normal circumstances, this is the case. However, the once-in-ten-year beast horde in Invercargill's Demonic Beast Forest, the strength accumulated by Dodan Town alone cannot withstand those monsters."

He looked at Surdak with comforting eyes, and said:

"So during the outbreak of the beast horde, there will be a steady stream of material resources brought in from Wilkes City. You don't need to worry about this."

Quartermaster Handel felt that the subject should be changed, so he asked Suldak:

"By the way, how about the material reserves in Dodan Town? I think after ten years of accumulation, there should be a large amount of materials stored."

Suldak rubbed his nose, and said a little depressed:

"In fact, the material storage situation in Dodan Town is not optimistic."

Quartermaster Handel flipped through the notebook in his hand and said:

"The mayor of Dodan Town should be Baron Marko. He has been in charge of Dodan Town for about 15 years. I believe he must be very experienced in this beast horde."

"Wait until we go to the city defense brigade to take a look, you will probably know that the war reserve here is actually a bit poor." Suldak said this, then turned to Selina and asked: "Samila is back No?".

Without raising her head, Selena counted the number of supplies and said, "Not yet."

Suldak told the cavalry squadron leader who was leading his men to carry the boxes: "Ofland, you are in charge of today's patrol mission, call Gulitum before departure, pay attention to safety."

The squadron leader quickly agreed:

"Okay, my lord."

The military camp was a bit chaotic, with supplies piled up everywhere.

Overland Squadron Leader led a team of cavalry and ogres, led the horse and left the barracks, heading towards the gate of the north city wall.

……

In front of the warehouse gate of the city defense brigade, Quartermaster Handel and his deputy looked solemnly at the empty warehouse, and said to Suldak:

"The situation here is really more serious than expected. I will truthfully report the situation here to the governor of Wilkes City and the Speaker of the House of Representatives."

Seeing Suldak standing in front of the warehouse without saying a word, Quartermaster Handel also knew that the cavalry battalion commander of the Luthor Legion would not bear any responsibility because he had just changed defense to Dodan Town.

Quartermaster Handel said in relief:

"But don't worry, our logistics department has prepared a large amount of supplies in Wilkes City, and will send them over in a steady stream in the next period of time. The geographical location of Dodan Town is too important, Dodan Although the canyon is only a short dozen kilometers, it is one of the five passes in the Sorobur Mountains."

"In order to ensure that the town of Dodan will not fall, reinforcements will be called in. This time, we will rely on the main force of the Luthor Legion to resist the beast tide in the Invercargill Warcraft Forest."

Suldak shook his head and said:

"A rebellion broke out in the Tarapakan area of ​​Bena Province. Lord Marquis led the main swordsman regiment to stabilize the situation in the Tarapakan area. Before the situation there is stable, there will be no more reinforcements. "

Quartermaster Handel said:

"The deputy head of the Chester army will send some reinforcements from other towns in the Bailin plane to come here."

Suldak said to Andrew: "Let's go to the top of the city wall to have a look."

Suldak, Andrew, and Handel climbed up the city wall along the long "zigzag" steps. There are two squadrons on the north wall of nearly 400 meters, and about 120 city guards. These guards wear armor and weapons. Everything is still complete, and the noose on the rolling stone wooden frame on the top of the city is still coated with a layer of anti-rust grease.

A row of bed crossbows on the city wall is covered with tarpaulin, and these bed crossbows are fixed on the bosses of the city wall.

Suldak tore off the tarpaulin, and saw that although the bed crossbow inside was a bit old, it was still intact.

This kind of bed crossbow has a free turning angle of about 800 degrees, and a pitch angle of about 800 degrees. The range of the giant crossbow bolt is about [-] meters away, and the radiation area is freely in the canyon area between [-] and [-] meters.

Once the beast horde passes through this area, it will be out of the range of the bed crossbow and enter the area covered by the longbow shooter's arrows.

Quartermaster Handel was relieved to see that the armaments on the city wall were very complete.

Suldak opened the bed crossbow and put the winch safety bolt on, and told Andrew behind him: "Recently, we will do a routine maintenance on these bed crossbows on the city wall."

He then asked the squadron leaders of the two city guards who were on duty on the city wall: "Who in your guards is usually responsible for maintaining these bed crossbows?"

"Reporting to the commander is Latu, the captain of the seventh team." One of the squadron leaders replied, "He's over there, Latu, come here..."

The squadron leader waved to a city guard who was leaning against the wall and looking out.

A vigorous young aborigine, wearing a set of light armor, made a "splashing" friction sound when he ran, but the young man didn't care. He was like a tireless donkey when he ran. Go to the squadron leader.

"Are you Latu?" Suldak looked at the young aborigine and asked him.

Seeing Latu's broad forehead and slender eyes, Suldak immediately remembered that in the town square, this young man was beside Aung San, and the two had very similar faces, ready to be tortured together. Now it seems that he is very energetic.

"Yes, Commander!" Latu gave a substandard military salute to Suldak.

Suldak asked Latu: "I heard that you have been maintaining these bed crossbows?"

Latu also said bluntly: "When we entered the city defense army, our captain was a craftsman who was responsible for maintaining the bed crossbow on the north wall. He taught me this craft before retiring."

Suldak walked over, patted Latu on the shoulder, and asked him: "I want you to ensure that these bed crossbows can be used normally when the beast horde comes, can you do it?"

Latu stood up straight and replied confidently: "Don't look at them as a little old, but as long as you put on the bowstring, they can still be used!"

Seeing a piece of green grass on the gentle slope at the foot of the mountain outside the northern city wall, Suldak felt a little more relaxed. He held on to the wall stacks of the city wall, looked through the Dodan Canyon through his eyes, and looked at Inverka in the distance. Jill Forest of Warcraft.

……

Jeremy, the warehouse manager of the city defense brigade, was sweating profusely, running back and forth between the two warehouses.

Ten four-wheeled trucks unloaded two entire warehouses of materials. After these materials were loaded into the warehouses, the material warehouses of the City Defense Brigade finally became more attractive. Captain Hans did not show up from last night until noon today, making Jerry Mi felt a little uneasy.

Mayor Marko and Captain Hans have gradually emptied the warehouses of the City Defense Brigade in the past few years. When they were there, Jeremy didn't think there would be any problems. The whole town of Dodan was not yet Marko The mayor has the final say, these materials are also purchased with funds from the town.

As long as Captain Hans doesn't raise any doubts, it doesn't really matter whether there are these materials in the warehouse.

The commander of the Cavalry Battalion of Langdon's Legion had never asked about the city defense battalion.

He didn't think this matter was too serious. At most, the town replenished the armaments and supplies in time, so what's the problem?

Yesterday, the armed forces of the trading firm actually stopped the wagon full of armaments and supplies, the mayor of Marko was unable to drive back those mercenaries, and the captain of Hans finally left the city defense brigade in embarrassment, which made the warehouse manager Jay Rimi felt a little flustered.

He was holding a parchment booklet, carefully recording the supplies in the warehouse, when he saw the town clerk running in from outside panting. He and this clerk happened to be neighbors, and they often get together Drinking, but he rarely came to the city defense team.

Seeing the warehouse manager Jeremy, the clerk ran over with his hands pinched around his waist, panting heavily, and asked him, "Brother Jeremy, is Commander Suldak here?"

Jeremy pointed to the north wall, and said to the clerk, "It's on the wall. Earp, what can you do with the Commander?"

The clerk wiped the sweat off his face and said to Jeremy: "I have an emergency to report to the Commander. Mayor Marko secretly left Dodan with his family last night!"

Warehouse manager Jeremy's hand trembled slightly, the sheepskin account book slipped from his hand, and fell to the ground with a 'click'.

Chapter 723 Bad Finance

The northern city wall is made of a large amount of shale containing iron ore. In order to build this twelve-story city wall, it is said that Duke Newman invited three great magicians from the Magic Union of Bena Province. The 'explosive flame technique' detonated the two soaring stone thorns buried in the middle of the mountains on both sides.

It was these two 400-meter-long stone spurs that collapsed and blocked the Dodan Canyon. The craftsmen of Bena City built this nearly [-]-meter-long road with a large number of iron-bearing shale strips on top of it. The wide city wall, which reaches the mountain walls on both sides of the canyon, is integrated with the mountain.

The rough surface of the shale has now been made into wall stacks by masons, and the city wall is also very wide. Even if there are many bed crossbows on it, there is still a lot of space behind to store various materials.

Suldak and Quartermaster Handel inspected the defensive facilities on the city wall. To our delight, the ordnance on the city wall was well preserved.

It is estimated that the mayor of Marko did not have any excuse to move the ordnance on the city wall, so that these ordnance can be preserved.

"I will truthfully report the situation here to the military department, and the final decision must be made by the military department and the Wilkes City House of Representatives. Mayor Marko is a noble baron after all, and is subject to the noble regulations of the Green Empire. Protection, even if he goes too far, we have no right to intervene." Quartermaster Handel said slowly, touching the icy rocks on the wall and looking at the lush forests at the foot of the mountains on both sides of the canyon.

He turned his head to look at Suldak, and said with a smile: "A nobleman who is willing to go to a remote border town on the plane, no matter what he is now, when he was young, he was at least a group of people who were willing to dedicate their youth to the empire. Even if the military has a tough attitude, it is estimated that the House of Representatives will come forward to protect them."

Suldak also knows that the nobles of the Green Empire are themselves a class of power, and even the pores of their bodies are protected by the Imperial Code in every possible way. Rarely is there a death penalty.

In fact, Suldak never thought that the mayor of Marco would be sent to the guillotine by the military. It is estimated that at most he would pay a fine and send him to a more barren and remote place, such as the island prison where he became a warden. The drudgery of class.

Handel added: "They probably calculated that the supply convoy from the Logistics Department will arrive at Dodan Town in the next few days. Make it what it is now."

Suldak told Quartermaster Handel that the slave trade group secretly controlled by Mayor Marko was looted by an adventure group composed of exiled criminals controlled by the trader group. Later, these exiled criminals were also in the woods outside the town.

Only then did Handel suddenly realize that he patted his thigh and said, "I'll just say, there must be something wrong. It turned out to be because of this incident. Generally speaking, the local business group would not dare to offend the local governor too much, but I have also heard about the boss behind the trading firm here, he is so bold, it seems that the conflict between the two did not accumulate in a day or two."

Suldak passed an alloy bow from the guarding soldier next to him. He wrapped a circle of flax thread around the handle of the alloy bow. Bright.

Suldak used to be a shield warrior, and later learned riding skills, and became a one-turn knight with a halo of strength. His bow skills are indeed not very good.

However, he didn't pick up the alloy bow to show off his archery skills, but to draw the alloy bow to its full capacity and throw it high into the sky.

Because it is standing on the 40-meter-high city wall, the steel arrow flies to the highest point and then falls in a parabolic shape. When it falls on the grass 200 meters below the city wall, it is still full of strength.

About two-thirds of the entire arrow was inserted into the soil.

Quartermaster Handel knew that Suldak had something to say, so he looked away and stared at him.

"Even if the projectile of the alloy bow can only shoot 200 meters, can the Wilkes City Military Department support a few catapults?" Suldak asked Quartermaster Handel.

Handel only felt that his feet were a little weak, and he said to Suldak with a slumped face: "Master Commander Suldak, you really dare to think! You probably don't know about the stone throwing at the ordnance workshop in Bena City. The monthly output of the catapult is less than a hundred, not only because the main pole of the catapult requires adult iron wood, but also because the magic rune board inlaid on each catapult cannot be bought at all. It is said that in order to ensure the structure of the magic pattern Orders for magic rune plates for other catapults have been suspended.”

Suldak once participated in the Battle of Moyunling. At that time, the 57th Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment attacked the evil ghost army on Moyunling. He once dispatched two catapult regiments to join the battle. Nassau is so popular.

Seeing Suldak pondering, Handel went on to say: "Only these dozens of catapults were approved by the Duke of Newman, and the ordnance workshop was able to produce them. According to the request of Emperor Charles the Great, all provinces are required to Forty percent of the catapults produced will be handed over to support the wars in other provinces of the empire."

The planes of the lords of Bena Province have not been attacked by the Dark Legion at present, so the situation is relatively good among the many provinces of the empire.

However, even without the direct impact of the Dark Legion, the main army of Bena Province is now Handanar County trapped in the Warsaw plane.

Moreover, a certain quota of various strategic materials within the province of Bena must be allocated to support other provinces of the empire.

Handel complained to Suldak: "The rest of the catapults will also support the Pena Army on the Warsaw plane, and the rest of the entire province will be distributed according to needs. Strategic ordnance such as catapults cannot be used anyway. Go to the Bailin plane!"

As a veteran quartermaster who has served for more than [-] years, Handel knows these things very clearly.

In the end, he took Suldak's hand and said earnestly to him:

"The fire-scale bombs transported this time have also been accumulated for a long time. When the beast hordes attack the city, they can save as much as possible. Besides, the beasts killed by the fire-scale bombs are basically useless. The value is far worse than being shot to death with a bow and arrow, even if there is a hole in the fur, it can be sold."

"Understood, now that you said that, I remembered something, and I will ask you to bring more salt next time." Suldak patted his forehead and said.

"Salt?" Handel couldn't understand.

Suldak smiled "hehe" and said: "When the beast tide comes, there are so many beast carcasses that I can't finish eating. I'm going to marinate them all to make bacon. If I can't finish eating, I can put them in the storage room for many years. Neither will be broken!"

Handel looked blank, but Wilkes City has no shortage of salt, so he just said: "Bacon? Okay, next time I will send you a cart of salt..."

Then he thought of something, and reminded Suldak: "Commander Suldak, what you have to do now is to make a list as much as possible according to the real needs here before I leave, and send it next time. The supplies may not be as complete as this time, but they will definitely be supplemented in a targeted manner."

Suldak saw that Wilkes City's military department still attached great importance to this beast horde, and felt a little relieved, so he said, "Okay, the list will be handed over to you tomorrow morning."

The three walked down the rough stone steps to the bottom of the city wall, and saw a clerk of the town hall running up from below.

Perhaps it was because he was usually negligent in exercising, and only climbed more than 100 stone steps, using both hands and feet, with a flustered expression, sticking his tongue out of his mouth like a dead dog.

Seeing Suldak, the clerk was sitting on the steps with his whole body exhausted, panting for a long time, and then he let his breath go, and then said:

"Commander Suldak, Mayor Marko took away all the property in the town hall's vault last night, and secretly left Dodan with his family!"

Suldak sent Samira to monitor Marko last night, and he had a premonition that he might slip away with money.

Now that Mayor Marko really ran away, he wasn't too surprised.

But in front of everyone, he still had to put on a show, frowning and asking in a deep voice, "Why are you reporting now?"

The clerk's face was pale, and he complained to Suldak in a low voice: "We subordinates, how dare we monitor the mayor, but someone discovered that the tax official was tied up in the vault, and we rescued the tax official. Only then did I realize that it was the mayor who took away the treasury property."

Suldak looked at the shocked Handel and said, "Let's go to the town hall now."

Handel did not expect that the mayor of Dodan Town, Marko, was so impatient that he even absconded with money.

At this time, I could only bite the bullet and say: "I guess I can't run very far, should I send some cavalry to chase along the way?"

A group of people walked down the city wall, and Suldak asked the clerk named Earp some information, and then said:

"Major Marko's family should have left Dodan last night. It's about a day's journey away. Andrew, you can find a few local guides in the town and send a team of cavalry on all possible roads. Make sure to bring Mayor Marko back."

"Yes!" Andrew gave a military salute and rode away.

Quartermaster Handel looked at Suldak with some sympathy, and secretly lamented that he was unlucky. Among the five pass towns, he chose Dodan Town. Since arriving in Dodan Town in the morning, he has not been able to After eating a good meal, I also encountered such nasty things as the mayor absconding with money.

Just following Suldak to climb the city wall, he exhausted the last of his physical strength. Now he didn't even have the strength to ride a horse, so he called his assistant to call his magic caravan, and saw the coachman holding a plate. I popped the last peas into my mouth and wiped my oily mouth with my sleeve, feeling even hungrier.