Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keel and the others packed up, and immediately led them back to the northwest gate of Grass Rat Town.

When they came to the gate again, Kiel and the others noticed that there were more soldiers at the gate, and blocked most of the people and goods who were going out of the town.

"Why? Why didn't you let us go out! It was fine just now!"

Some groups of people carrying a small amount of goods gathered inside the city gate, clamoring and getting angry at the soldiers guarding the city gate.

But at the city gate, the caravans and pedestrians entering the town were not stopped.

The soldiers in the western provinces were not easy to mess with. They were surrounded by the crowd and cursed and questioned. They were also not good-tempered. They immediately pushed down the people surrounded by them: "This is an order from above! Don't make trouble for me, I don't know." If you go out, you are not allowed to go out! Go back to the hostel and wait for the order, if you have nowhere to go, just squat on the side of the street and don't block the road!"

The people who were on the ground were afraid of the shining sword drawn from the soldier's waist, and immediately retreated obediently.

But at this time, a large caravan steward came over. The middle-aged man was dressed in gorgeous clothes. He pointed to his carriage and team behind him friendly and asked, "So, what about us?"

Facing the management of this large caravan with dozens of people under them, the soldiers have another expression. They know where the salary they receive from the lord comes from, and they deal well with these big men. Less benefits.

"Hey, my lord, may I ask which chamber of commerce your caravan belongs to? Although people are not allowed to leave the town temporarily, the chamber of commerce is the most reliable partner of our town. As long as you are a large chamber of commerce that cooperates with the town , you can leave the town directly after inspection.”

Then the businessman pointed to the logo of the Chamber of Commerce on the carriage behind him, and the speaking soldier immediately stood up respectfully, let the carriage of the caravan go forward, and was inspected in the open space inside the town gate.

Originally, some people wanted to gather around to find fault after seeing this scene, but the soldiers immediately changed their faces, which made ordinary people and ordinary businessmen retreat.

When Kiel and the others walked in from the gate of the town, they saw such a scene, but except for Kiel and the eight members of the Nightingale militia squad who laughed at this in a low voice, the others looked indifferent.

After entering the town, walk directly along the widest street to the center of the town, and soon come to the square in the center of the town.

At this time, the Anvina knights were leading dozens of soldiers waiting here. The soldiers were so majestic that the onlookers did not dare to approach them. They only dared to gather at the small street on the side of the square and point at them.

Seeing that Kiel brought someone over, Pawei, who was dressed like a soldier, immediately walked over with a wave: "I'll wait for you."

"It's not too late, is it?"

Pawei shook his head, and then shouted to his uncle: "Lord Anvina, the Kendalls are here."

The Anvina knight nodded, waved his hand without saying anything, and walked along the street to the southwest of the town. The local soldiers immediately strode to keep up.

Keir also waved to his companions and followed.

Fanny in the team was wearing a gray cloak that covered her face, and even her face was tightly wrapped, for fear of being seen by the people around her. Her heart was pounding, and she felt nervous and scared when she glanced at the people around and pointing at them.

Her feet became weaker and weaker, but Lubis saw her cowardice, reached out and grabbed her arm, and half pulled and half carried the girl to keep up with the team.

Grass Rat Town is neither big nor small. The bustling place with wide streets and shops is naturally not big, but it is also messy and poor. Most of the town's slums still live in it, but it occupies a lot of the town.

The narrow streets made of dry hard mud hadn't rained, otherwise, if you stepped on it, you wouldn't know how deep your shoes would sink. Moreover, the open-air gutter where every family dumps excrement is right next to the street, and every household on the side of the road has to use slate and wood planks to cross the gutter at the door of the house before walking to the street.

But this is convenient for each family to dump their excrement at night as soon as they go out.

This also leads to the smell of the slums being very 'natural', or too 'artificial'.

Most of the soldiers under the Anvina knights were not from here, and they rarely come here on patrol, so they pinched their noses as soon as they entered here, and after holding back for a while, they had to let the air with the smell of excrement enter them nose.

Keir sniffed his nose with an indifferent look on his face, he has been tested.

What is this, it's just a trivial matter.

Rubis and Imore couldn't bear it the most, and Rubis even had to use his other hand to take out a handkerchief to cover his nose, while Yimore stretched his face, slowly adapting to this place with a painful expression.

The two guards didn't care. Compared with the smell of excrement, they who dealt with the rotting corpses in Kendall City thought it was nothing more than sprinkling water.

Fanny's own home is here, which is quite normal, but she kept looking in one direction, as if she was looking at her home, but then remembered something, and suddenly lowered her head, not raising it again.

Going out to be a prostitute naturally has the acquiescence of the poor family, but knowing it at home and knowing it at neighbors means very different things.

She didn't dare to let the neighbors she knew see anything, even if what she was doing at this time was far from being a prostitute.

-

Yesterday, Keir naturally informed the Knights of Anvena about the territory of the Yisi Knife Gang, and his source of information was naturally Scar Parry, and Scar Parry was with other people before the two days happened. Some people secretly inquired about the details of the Yisi Blade Gang.

The Yisi Knife Gang has two faces, one is for ordinary people in the town, and it is just the most powerful new gang among several ordinary gangs in the slums.

The other one is the one dealing with shop merchants in other parts of the town. It was a powerful face with the backing of the Thieves Guild, doing whatever it wanted to merchants.

Although some local shop owners represented by Scar Parry did not dare to oppose the 'cooperation' of the Yisi Knife Gang, they took advantage of their local advantages early and learned about the situation of the Yisi Knife Gang in detail.

If this kind of thing does not happen, it is estimated that in a year or two, these shop owners will completely stop thinking about what to do.

Having said that, at this time.

The Anvina knight slowed down and led the crowd to stop on a street away from the Yisi Knife Gang.

He turned around and waved at Kiel, who hurried over.

Knight Anvina took out a detailed map of Grass Rat Town from his waist. To Kiel's surprise, this map was not abstract as he imagined, but very detailed and clear. He looked at the street when he came, and he could even find the route he had come from on the map.

Mr. Pawei and the soldier captain were not surprised. They naturally knew that this was an advanced skill that their lord had mastered when they served in the army.

The soldier captain himself was a soldier under the knight's service at that time. He retired with the knight earlier and returned to live in the territory arranged by the earl for the Anvina knight.

"Here is where we are now." The Anvina knight lowered his voice very low, but the voice was very loud.

Keir looked at the map, and the knight marked a small house with charcoal on the map. This is the lair of the Yisi Blade Gang who will attack later.

And they were right there.

"Furlong, you lead twenty of your best soldiers from this intersection to the street behind the opponent's lair, hold there, arrest any suspicious persons immediately, and immediately attack while surrounding there when you hear my attacking sound. .” The knight ordered to the soldier captain.

The soldier captain knocked on his chest to express his understanding.

Then Knight Anvina said to his nephew: "Pawei, you take fifteen people, and enter the residents' houses on the side next to the opponent's lair from here, and let those residents be honest, while your people crawl Go up to the roof, and be careful not to let them run off the roof."

Pawei nodded to express his understanding, but then he realized something, and he hit his chest again.

The knight then spoke to Kiel: "Kiel, I saw that your men were carrying crossbows and supporting two people to Pawei, and then you took the rest of your people to the place on the other side of the old lair. Residents’ homes are the same, go up to the roof, and don’t let the other party escape from the roof.”

Keel knocked on his chest, it should be.

Finally, Knight Anvina pointed to the end of the street: "I will take the remaining soldiers to attack from the front and try to capture them alive. I want to know what they have been doing these days. Of course, those who dare to resist will defeat them. That thief named Yisi, capture him alive. I'm still useful."

"clear!"

"clear!"

"clear!"

The three of Keir should be at the same time.

The knight waved his hand, and the three led the team to disperse.

Kiel ordered a Nightingale Militia Squad militia, as well as Kayan Guards to Pavey, to support their long-range shooting capabilities. The main reason is that the throwing spears behind the local soldiers are too powerful, hitting the torso of the human body, and it is easy to be fatal without timely magical treatment.

Although the crossbow bolts are just as deadly.

Pawei immediately led his men into the homes of several residents facing the street, and regardless of their objections and questions, he drove all the residents into a house, let a soldier guard them, and all the others climbed up the narrow and steep stairs to the residents' houses. roof.

Residential houses here are all next to each other, with a narrow distance of less than one meter between them, which is a distance that people can jump directly over.

That's why the knights are wary of the opponent jumping over the wall in a hurry after being surrounded and escaping from such a place.

If you want to surround, surround them all, leaving no gaps for the opponent to escape.

Kiel was one step ahead of the soldiers of the Anvina Knights, and rushed to the other side of the Iss Knife Gang's lair ahead of time.

As the temporary captain, Keir took the lead and broke through the gate of the residents' house.

"who!"

The door of the house was smashed, and the residents who were having breakfast in the house immediately held the metal fork in their hands and questioned the comer, but after seeing the heavily armed Kiir and the militiamen, they panicked.

The owner stretched out his arms to shield his family, while the young son picked up a wooden chair and threw it at Keir.

The elven metal shield was in front of him, and after blocking the opponent's chair, Kiel went up and hit the young man in the stomach with a punch. Looking at the man who was about his age lying down on his knees, he then explained: "The lord knight has an order to borrow your house for a while to crack down on the gangs in the town. Let's cooperate and don't ask for trouble."

However, the family in the house did not believe what Keir said. The reason was simple. They were all outsiders and did not wear the soldier uniforms that the local people were familiar with. Naturally, no one believed what they said.

In this regard, Keir scratched the helmet on his head and waved helplessly: "Take their family to an empty house, leave someone to guard, and the others follow me!"

Keir no longer cared about the protest of the owner of the house, and rushed up the stairs of the house directly, and continued to follow the stairs to the third floor after reaching the second floor.

The third floor is even lower, full of useless miscellaneous woodwork, and some wood and mud toys left by children when they used this place as a secret base.

Pushing open the wooden window on the side of the third floor, this half-person-high window just allows people to climb out. This kind of window that opens from the inside is also the place for residents to get in and out of the thatch that keeps the rain on the roof of their houses.

Keel was the first to come out squatting with his head down, and then stepped on the creaking roof hay to the roof.

The subordinates filed out, and every time one came out, Keir directed that person to squat on the surrounding roofs.

The militiamen quickly arrived at the place indicated by Kiel, then took out their crossbows and began to string and nock arrows. Lubis pulled Fanny by the window, and it was naturally not Fanny's turn to play at this time, he just wanted to guard the girl who could identify the murderer.

Zambirus squatted behind Kiel, and together with Kiel, he observed the lair of the Eth Knife Gang.

-

The lair of the Yisi Knife Gang is not a house, nor is it the arrogance of the previous Scar Chamber of Commerce with a whole street. As a gang, they have people, but their wealth is limited.

So as Kiel saw from the roofs of the neighboring residents at this time, the Yisi Daotou gang connected several houses in the residential area together, and built several suspended wooden bridges and walkways in the middle, which was artificially built. A stronghold lair with an inner courtyard.

Both the front and back of the stronghold are facing the street, but there are popular illegal business shops at the main entrance. According to Scar Parry, the few front shops on the street are a small casino, a grocery store selling mixed goods, and a gambler. A tavern selling news where thugs, thugs, speculators, and gang thieves often gather.

Behind the store is a yard surrounded by buildings. Keel saw that there was a well and a stable in the yard, but there was no carriage. After all, it is not a gang that relies on serious business for a living.

The houses on both sides of the yard belonged to the Yisi Knife Gang, with three floors, apparently where gang members lived.

On the other side of the yard is a house facing another street, but there are no shops here, only a large wooden door facing the street for entering and exiting carriages and the normal door of the house.

Kiel saw that Pawei had already led people on the roof at the place directly opposite him, and at the back door of the Yisi Knife Gang, the soldier captain had already led people into position.

So he looked towards the main entrance of the gang lair, and with a loud noise, mixed with the sound of soldiers shouting to attack, a fight broke out at the front door.

At the same time, the captain of the soldiers at the back door heard the sound of the Anvina knight in front swinging a huge ax and breaking through the wall, and immediately led people to slam into the two wooden doors of the back door.

There was a brass lock on the wooden door that allowed the carriage to pass, and it was quickly shattered by the swings of two strong soldiers, and the fallen brass lock was picked up by the soldiers in their bags.

After all, it is made of copper. Not to mention the value of the lock itself, the weight of the copper alone is no less than dozens of copper coins.

This side went smoothly, but the two soldiers who hit the back door of the house returned without success, because the back door of this seemingly ordinary house turned out to be extraordinarily strong.

"Go away, I'm coming!" The soldier captain yelled at his subordinates, and then stepped forward in person, no longer hitting the wooden door of unknown thickness with his shoulder, but took out his weapon—a two-handed battle axe.

Obviously, this soldier captain is imitating his knight lord weapon, but this ax is not so supermodel, it is still the level that ordinary people can use normally.

Even if it weighs more than ten kilograms.

The blade of the ax is red, which is obviously strengthened with magic materials, which is stronger than ordinary steel weapons.

"Hey!" The soldier captain roared, and while rushing forward quickly, he swung out his two-handed axe, and smashed the ax directly on the back door of the house that was specially reinforced by the Yisi Blade Gang.

There was a loud crack, and amidst the splash of sawdust, the heavy and sharp ax directly smashed a breach in the wooden door horizontally, revealing a tense face after the breach.

The soldier captain then swung his ax horizontally and continued to open the crack just now, clang!

The ax shattered the next wooden door and hit the stone wall door frame with a loud sound.

The soldier captain then straightened the ax and pushed the upper part of the wooden door that had been cut horizontally into the door.

Then he ignored the yelling and obstruction of the young gangster inside the door, and reached into the place where the wooden pin was fixed on the inside of the wooden door to open the door.

As soon as the door opened, he rushed in and kicked over the gangster who had clubbed him in the arm.

"Tied!"

He said to the subordinates who followed in.

-

Kiel saw that the captain of the soldiers at the back door left four soldiers at the passage leading to the yard where the carriage could walk, and the others rushed into the back door house of the Yisi Knife Gang.

Then there were roars and fighting sounds from inside.

Keir looked towards the main entrance, and then saw a half-body flying out howling from the wooden window facing the courtyard.

This man held a blood-stained dagger in his hand, and he didn't know whether it was sprinkled on half of his body at this time, or it was blood stained by fighting with soldiers in the Qianmen shop.

With the official start of the attack, the Yisi Daotou gang did nothing. The houses with gang members on both sides of the yard suddenly poured out a lot of gang thugs in messy clothes. A wooden window on the second floor of the opposite house was opened. A middle-aged man yelled and directed these gang thugs to go to support the front and rear doors.

Kiel greeted, let the militiamen jump over the chaotic thugs in the yard, and directly shot the guy who leaned out of the second-story wooden window to command.

"Take aim at that man and shoot!"

With Kiel's order, the militiamen of the six Nightingale squads released their crossbow arrows together.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

A series of crossbow arrows came, but the man seemed to have noticed Kiel's shout just now, and saw Kiel and others in the opposite room one step ahead of time.

With a dodge, the man disappeared behind the wooden window~www.readwn.com~ But Kiel still noticed the painful cries coming from that direction amidst the chaotic voices.

"Free fire! Don't let them support the front and rear doors!"

Keel ordered because he saw gang thugs retreating back to the houses they came out of after noticing people on the roofs on both sides of the yard, and of course there were many houses that rushed directly into the front and rear doors.

A few emaciated thieves wanted to take the opportunity to sneak away from the carriage passage, but they were stopped by the four soldiers guarding there and started fighting.

The four houses of the Yisi Daotou Gang not only have a courtyard in the middle to walk around, but they also built a walkway on the second floor at the corners of the houses, so that they can directly support the past without going through the courtyard.

Keir had the militiamen shoot at these places, and while it wouldn't necessarily hit a passing gang fighter, it could also put psychological pressure on those trying to get through, forcing them to stay put and not support other places.

The house at the back door Keel heard that there seemed to be a confrontation inside, and the fighting was not intense, but the front door was very lively, with a series of bangs and loud noises, accompanied by cheers from the soldiers.

Apparently the Knights of Anvina are showing their talents.

Keir looked at Mr. Pawei on the opposite roof from a distance, and yelled at him: "Go down?"

No matter what the other party thought, Keir took Zambirus directly, took two run-ups on the soft roof, and rushed directly to the roof of the Iss Knife Gang facing him.

call!

Keel jumped across the narrow gap between the houses and landed directly on the opposite roofs, but these roofs were no problem to step on, but it was a big problem to fall heavily.

Both Keir and Zambirus smashed through the roof and landed in a large room on the second floor of this house.