Datang: My father is the head bodyguard

As Wang Yan and Shi Kuan led the team into the city and began to figure out the situation, more bizarre things followed.

"Yan'er, what's going on over there?"

Wang Yan looked at Shi Kuan at one end of the street: "No movement, no popularity, a dead city?"

Shi Kuan felt something was wrong: "Search carefully."

"There is a situation!"

Several soldiers shouted loudly, and soldiers from various units all gathered together. Wang Yan and Shi Kuan squeezed to the front: "What's going on?"

Wang Yan saw his soldier pointing at a piece of wooden floor. He squatted down and tapped lightly. There was a hollow sound of tapping on the hollow wooden floor.

With almost no need to give orders, the soldiers quickly surrounded the wooden board, with their guns loaded against the wooden board.

Wang Yan fumbled and found a gap. He gestured three, two, one with his left hand, and pulled the board apart in one go. A large number of flashlights and gun muzzles were pointed at the space below.

"No firing! There are all women and children down here! Brother Kuan, go and report to the general and ask the soldiers brought by the judge who can speak to them to come over."

Shi Kuan reacted quickly. He was afraid that the messenger could not explain clearly, so he went over to report to Yuchi Jingde in person, and trotted out of the city gate.

"General, there are living people found inside, but they are all women and children. We don't understand the language. We need to speak their language."

Yuchi Jingde frowned: "Are they all women and children? Ask them to follow you and ask what's going on. You said they are all hiding in the cellar. Let more people search from house to house. It's nothing to stay in the cellar all the time. "

Soon, Shi Kuan led people back to Wang Yan. Wang Yan said a few words to the soldier in charge of translating: "Ask them why they stay in the cellar and why there are no men in the city."

The translator spoke toward the cellar. The women and children inside were not surprised when they heard the familiar language, only frightened. They piled deeper into the cellar, away from the entrance of the cellar.

Shi Kuan found it strange: "Hey, they are not afraid when they see us outsiders, they just sit like this. But when they hear their own language, they shrink in? That's weird!"

Wang Yan looked at the soldier in charge of translating: "What did you do, you kid, that people scared you?"

The boy scratched his head, that shouldn't be the case. He had a good chat with those fellow villagers when he was under military control of the castle. It doesn't make sense.

"!@%!@￥@!%!@%"

Wang Yan grabbed him and said, "What are you talking about? You're gibbering."

"I told them we meant no harm."

Sure enough, after he finished speaking, there was a noise below. It was probably because he hadn't spoken for several days. His voice was very hoarse. Shi Kuan was more careful and asked someone to tie a few bottles of water with armed belts and hang them down.

"They asked if Frankie was dead. They also said that the men had been captured and they could only hide here."

Wang Yan scratched his head: "What is this? Who is Franky? Who captured the man? Who are they hiding here from?"

After some negotiation, Wang Yan probably understood what happened in the city.

"Three months ago, our lord left here to discuss matters with King William in Coventry, and never came back. Just when we felt something was wrong, Coventry sent a man named Franky’s knights came to help manage the city.”

"You didn't ask that Sir Franky, how is your lord doing?"

The woman took a deep breath: "My husband asked about it, but he was put off on the grounds that he had no right to tell it and it was a military secret."

"In the following month, Franky started a lottery in our city and needed men to work as laborers. At first, there were only 500 people, and then a thousand. Within half a month, almost all the men in the entire city were recruited. labor."

"My husband was also forcibly taken away from his home at that time. No one knows where they went or what they were doing."

Wang Yan and Shi Kuan began to analyze: "Is the time point for recruitment right after we kill the wave of cannon fodder and then occupy the castle? This is the case in this city, and it should be similar in other cities. Write it down and report it to the general. .”

The woman saw Wang Yan and Shi Kuan talking and stopped talking. After their discussion was over, she glanced at the soldier in charge of translating and received a look of approval before continuing to speak.

"Then Franky became more and more excessive here. First he kidnapped young girls, and later even...even pregnant women were not spared. They would carry out naked female corpses from the palace day and night. Some people were unwilling to do so. He was ravaged to death and began to seek opportunities to assassinate Franky."

"In order to ensure success, many women died. Until one day, the army in the city left, leaving only Franky and his staff. We knew the time had come."

"About ten days ago, the team responsible for the assassination took action. We were notified to take water and food into the cellar to take shelter. If the assassination failed, the entire army would not be annihilated."

Wang Yan thought of the corpse he saw in the square. It was very luxuriously dressed and had a lot of blood stains on it. It was highly decomposed. The time was right.

"Tell her that we will ensure their safety and let them come out to the square to see if the person on the gallows is Franky. If so, let them persuade the people in the cellar to come out. We will only rest here. One night and leave early tomorrow morning.”

After figuring out the matter, Shi Kuan went back to report the news. Yuchi Jingde saw that there was no danger inside, and was about to ask the old cannon to use explosives to expand the city gate to allow part of the supply convoy to enter.

Shi Kuan told Yuchi Jingde the whole story, and Yuchi Jingde snorted: "What are they afraid of when there are so many people? I have played five thousand against one hundred thousand, I have also played five hundred against twenty thousand, and now I have my hand Can the 15,000 fully armed Tianwei troops down there be enough to survive?"

Shi Kuan also analyzed: "General, there is a question. They said that their lord left and never came back. General, do you think...?"

Yuchi Jingde thought: "Either under house arrest, or already dead, the man was taken away. He has seen the firepower of our Tianwei Army. He wants to defend the city, fight positional warfare, and defend the country."

Shi Kuan happened to see Xu Ping who was directing the engineering work: "Xugong!"

Xu Ping turned around and saw that it was Shi Kuan shouting: "Brother Kuan is here!"

Xu Ping, who was jogging all the way, arrived. After performing military salutes with Yuchi Jingde and Shi Kuan, he waited for military orders. Unexpectedly, Shi Kuan asked a question.

"How many people can I give you to build a strong city in three months?"

Xu Ping scratched his chin: "Fortified city? Build a fortified city? Are cement and glutinous rice tubes enough?"

Shi Kuan looked at Yuchi Jingde: "Can't it be built without cement and glutinous rice?"