Mercenaries and Adventurers

However, the new generation of young people in Thor Village have basically never seen the skills of knights, because the original knight lords of the local strange wind grassland died many times in the battle against the harpies. These young people, even some I think the knights are not as great as the story says.

Therefore, these strong young men rushed towards the Rumi knight recklessly, intending to knock down this knight, and then knock down another knight riding a tall horse.

how to say.

Knight Rumi laughed mockingly, and the warning has already been done, and these young people who are calling at him at this moment must be repaired.

Without any other means, he directly opened his palm, and hit the head of the village young man who was calling in front of him with the bottom of his palm.

Boom, a young male villager who was nearest was hit by the Rumi knight, as if he took the initiative to meet him, his eyes blurred, and he fell to the ground.

Another one, boom!

A strong girl was hit on the forehead with a muffled grunt, and immediately fell to the ground limply on all fours.

If you distinguish carefully, you can still see that Knight Rumi has tried his best to restrain himself when dealing with women. And his method at this time is more mainly to rely on the strength of the person rushing over, to face the head of the person with the palm of his hand, and hit it unexpectedly, but the person who was beaten will use his own strength to push him I was knocked down by myself.

This trick is the method he used to deal with stubborn and arrogant soldiers in the army. It doesn't hurt people, but it is effective.

Boom, boom, boom, several times in a row, the young people in the village who ran over and tried to attack him fell to the ground one after another, which made the scene look much weirder and absurd.

Not far or near was full of people watching, every time one was poured, the people around gasped, and naturally some people shook their heads, thinking that it should be taken for granted, the local villagers really have no common sense, and let most young people provoke them like this a knight.

Fortunately, the merchants could see from the order and the scene that the Kendalls were unwilling to provoke human life, and they had tried their best to restrain themselves.

The young people in other villages were not fools either. Seeing the exaggerated fate of their fellow villagers who ran fast ahead, they gradually stopped and hesitated.

Someone cursed a few unclean words, Rumi Knight glanced over, and immediately closed the mouth of the speaker in fright.

At this time, because of Knight Rumi's short-term obstruction, not far behind him, Knight Crowe had gathered his strength, and with the faint khaki light visible to the naked eye emerging from the dirt wall under the horse's hooves, Knight Crowe pulled Tighten the reins of the war horse, and the strong war horse that has won the master's heart jumps on the spot.

It jumped up to a height of three meters, and then landed heavily on the spot with all four hooves.

boom!

There was a deafening sound, and the earthen wall below the gate of the passage below collapsed like a wild dog with its spine broken.

The passage gate underneath and the small rooms on the left and right sides of the passage were buried, and dust and sand gushed out from the sloping passages on both sides, spreading far away.

The caravans heading towards the inner passage of the village all turned their heads and faces away, or covered their mouths and noses with their palms, or raised their cloaks to cover their faces.

The constant tremors caused by the collapse of the soil wall on the ground quickly disappeared, and the frightened horses quickly calmed down under the comfort of the caravan driver.

Because it was spring, it had only rained a few days ago, so neither the wall nor the ground in the passage was very dry, so the dust and smoke brought by the collapse disappeared quickly.

When the never-ending wind on the Strange Wind Grassland roared and blew away the dust, the only thing that appeared in front of everyone was the Crow Knight who was stationed on the ruins of the earthen wall.

As if he had done a small thing, Knight Crowe flicked the reins, and the tall and strong armored horse walked over the collapsed ruins with small steps, and stepped forward to stand with Knight Rumi.

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Knight Rumi blew a whistle, and soon, his war horse also jumped, and jumped over the uncollapsed earth wall lightly.

Looking at that posture, even a war horse wearing horse armor can easily jump over the three-meter-high village wall at one time. All the villagers who saw this scene fell silent.

"How? Do you have anything to say?"

Knight Crowe asked directly to the village elders and middle-aged people who came up silently.

The old people who held authority and management in several villages looked at each other, and then knelt down according to the etiquette of the empire. A few of them knelt down, and other middle-aged villagers also knelt down.

Although the young man was unwilling, under the pulling of others, he knelt down unwillingly.

After these people expressed their surrender according to the etiquette of the empire, Knight Crowe and Knight Rumi looked at each other, and the friends who had been friends for many years immediately exchanged ideas.

Then Knight Crowe said aloud: "Hmph! The people of the Kingdom of St. Hulls shouldn't practice the etiquette of the empire. It seems that even after migrating here for many years, there are still many people who don't know where they fell?"

After finishing speaking, without giving the villagers a chance to speak, he continued, "Our troops are stationed in the village tonight, so hurry up and get ready to welcome them! Don't worry about anything else, we're just passing through."

After speaking, he turned his horse's head and rode out from the first hole in the wall that collapsed just now, leading and ordering the army to enter the village. The Rumi knight ordered the caravan to be driven to empty the scattered carriages inside the village wall, and wait to park the army's logistics carriages.

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Seeing Knight Crowe coming back, Baron Kendall immediately ordered the army to enter the village in batches. At this time, the sky has gradually dimmed, thanks to the flat terrain of the grassland, there are no towering mountains blocking the place where the sun sets in the distance.

Otherwise, it is usually dark at this time.

The soldiers were a little anxious at first, not knowing how to spend the night tonight in the presence of strong winds and flying monsters. Could it be that he just slept on the grassland like this?

Maybe in summer, but not in windy spring.

The temperature at night will still be much lower than that during the day, and after the strong wind, the body temperature will be lower. If you don't live in the camp overnight, I'm afraid that many people will be frozen to death overnight.

Kiel followed a group of militiamen who had been ordered to walk ahead of the team, and was the first to enter the village.

When he looked at it from a distance, he felt that the low buildings in the village occupied a very large area. After entering the village, he realized that the buildings built by the villagers themselves were really big, and it was amazing that although the villagers They were dejected, but they still led the caravans to gather their horses one by one, and then led them into the interior of the building one by one through the semi-underground passage built on the side of the low building.

And each caravan also squeezed their carriages together one by one in advance, and then tied them up with ropes.

"What are they doing here?"

Kiel caught a caravan boy for questioning.

This fellow was a member of the military caravan, and he didn't know it. He just followed the order of the caravan steward, and they followed what other local caravans did.

Keir slapped his head and turned to ask Bloodfang.

This guy is an old fritter on this commercial road. He walks back and forth several times a year. Naturally, he is very familiar with this place. He must understand why he did this.

"Why link the carriage?"

Xueyasite was stunned, and then pointed to the sky: "There will be a particularly strong wind at night. If it is not connected, the carriage will be blown away by the wind overnight. Although it will not run very far, but the goods transported Carriages colliding with each other will still cause damage to the goods. And although there are marks on the carriages of each caravan, once your own carriage is mixed with the carriages of other caravans, the other party secretly erased the marks before dawn, completely If you don’t recognize the ownership of the carriage and goods.”

He shrugged, and what he didn't say was self-evident.

"It is estimated that some brazen caravans with a bad reputation will forcibly occupy other people's carriages and goods?"

Keel guessed.

Xueyasite gave a strange smile, and added: "When I didn't do this before, someone actually came up with the idea of ​​running on this windy grassland with an empty car. Although the risk is greater, but But I specifically came up with this idea. It would be best to be able to swallow the entire carriage, if you can’t swallow it, you can move some goods to take advantage of the chaos in the morning.”

While speaking, groups of soldiers walked in in a tight and neat march, followed by logistics carriages. Although the villagers in the local Thor village were unwilling, the soldiers of the Kendalls had all come in. At this time, they could only smile and guide the soldiers and the large number of carriages of the Kendalls.

Like the caravan, the carriages of the logistics team were required to be close together, and then the horses pulling the carts were released, leading them into the building through the passage. Knight Crowe arranged for a team of soldiers to watch their horses, not to Let the horses mix with other caravan horses.

Although it is their advantage to mix together, after all, the horse breeds of the local caravans in the western provinces are much better than the horse breeds used by the Kendalls.

There are also differences in price.

So sometimes in the past two days, Baron Kendall will discuss with the two knights whether he should take this opportunity to replace the donkeys and his personal guard horses with local strong horses.

But that happened two days ago, and this morning they knew about the bad situation of the local horse breeds in the Strange Wind Grassland, so the Lord Baron postponed the matter of changing the horses.

After leaving the Strange Wind Grassland, the price of horses in other parts of the Western Province is also very cheap.

It's not too late then.

Keir also jumped off the horse, put away the horse's saddle, bridle and other horse equipment and put them in his carriage, and then asked the local villagers to drive two of his own horses into the low building.

The horses will be taken care of by the local villagers tonight, and these outsiders can have a good night's rest.

After all the horses and livestock of the Kendalls and caravans were scattered into the low buildings, Keel still felt that the volume of the horses in the low buildings in this village was so large.

At least half of the buildings in the distance are not in use. Obviously, when the villagers were building, they built many redundant ones.

I don't know how much energy and time it will take.

Horses go into buildings, and in fact the vast majority of people do, too. Outside the village, there would only be a few sentinels from each family hiding under the closely packed carriages.

Kil wanted to take Blood Fang into the building with other militiamen to spend the night, but Blood Fang waved his hand, indicating that he knew someone here, and that he would just meet again tomorrow morning.

That being the case, Keir didn't force himself, and he followed behind Knight Crowe.

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Only half of the vest was removed from Knight Crowe's horse, and then he was led by one of his personal guards, and entered the building alone with the Kendall's horse. The same goes for Rumi Knight and Baron.

After dismounting, Knight Crowe led Kiel to join the Baron and Knight Rumi.

"This building is really interesting, don't rush in, let me look around first."

Baron Kendall seems to be very interested in all kinds of buildings, no, it should be said that his family is good at building buildings.

At this moment, he asked Knight Rumi to arrange for the soldiers and support personnel to stay in the building, while he took Knight Crowe, Kiel and other personal guards, and walked around the outer circle of the low and wide flat building.

"If I'm not mistaken, under our feet, complex underground buildings and villages have been built on the ground of this village." The baron looked around and casually pointed to the surrounding ground.

He was quite proud, and first pointed to the whole earthen wall surrounding the village: "Don't look at the earthen wall that Klau broke down just now, it's nothing special, in fact, I guessed it when I saw the wall at first sight. How does the village deal with the monsters flying in the sky."

"My lord, it's a harpies." Knight Crowe added.

"I know it's a harpy. The point, the point is that there are no mounds and depressions around the village, so how did you get the materials for the walls surrounding the village?"

When the baron spoke, everyone around him just listened, with a bored look on his face, obviously not interested in the professional knowledge that the baron is good at.

Even Knight Crow is the same. If it is about combat and martial arts knowledge, the knight is naturally interested, but he is not interested in architecture that has nothing to do with his life.

Only Kiel remained curious, listening intently to the baron.

The baron also saw that only the young man in the group was interested in what he said, so he said to Kiel specifically in the following words: "You know, although the wall with **** is only three meters high, but Because there is no front and rear wood reinforcement, the thickness is about five meters, and it surrounds the village for a week, and the volume of earthwork is very large."

He stomped his feet: "And the soil that protruded from the ground was obviously dug out from the ground of the village. The underground area of ​​this village is probably not small. I believe most of the caravans that come and go don't know about this. "

The baron stroked his neatly combed beard, and judged proudly: "If I'm right, this village is only open to at most half of the area for caravans. The remaining half is for the villagers to live and live in." place."

When he said this, he pondered for a while: "Well, the remaining area is not small. It doesn't match the number of villagers."

Crow Knight suddenly said: "Is there a problem?"

The baron squinted his eyes: "It's hard to say. If the village where you will settle tomorrow night is the same as this village, then it's fine. But if it's different, then it's okay."

Crow Knight and Kiel were a little strange, the baron explained with a deep smile: "We are just passing through, not the local lord. And the master of the western province is not the noble I am loyal to. We don't want anything that happens in this land." eventful."

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Follow Baron Kendall into a low building on the side.

The building is all made of adobe bricks mixed with soil and plant fibers. In this regard, Baron Kendall just shook his head, saying that this material is already the only choice after the lack of stone and wood in the local area.

Therefore, the shortcomings of this kind of building are infinitely magnified. It can only build low buildings close to the ground. The two or three floors of ordinary residential buildings are already the limit, and any higher is enough.

However, it is no problem to build lower.

It's just because of this, when Keel walked into the building, he felt that the surroundings were very cramped, with many walls, ceilings and bottoms, and very little space for people to walk around.

After entering from the entrance of the building, the first thing is the straight **** passage, which is a flat passage on the ground, which is convenient for horses and livestock to move around.

Sure enough, at the place directly facing the passage, after passing a wooden fence with a blocking function, there is a slightly spacious stable inside. It is also a stable built half underground.

Although it is a closed building, the air here is not that bad. Obviously, there is an airflow channel for air circulation in the circular stable, and at the same time, there is an opening in one corner that leads to nowhere. At this time, a villager pushing a cart is entering this opening.

Several stacks of baled hay were stacked on the wheelbarrow.

The lighting inside the stables was provided by a firepit in the middle, which provided only a little light, but apparently the horses were fine with that, since they couldn't talk.

The horses are not crowded one by one, because the space in the building is limited, so the stables are mostly partitioned longitudinally by the earth wall in the middle, and the middle of the partition is blocked by local precious wood. The horses live in twos together, neighing The sound of communication came and went.

The three horses of the two knights and the baron were in a separate partition. At this time, their own guards were feeding with fodder, or removing their armor decorations and brushing their bristles with pig hair brushes.

The baron took a general look around here, and then led them out of the stable.

The stables are on the floor closest to the ground, probably because it is difficult for the horses to go down the stairs.

At the entrance to the stables, there are steps going down as soon as you turn. The steps are next to the passages used by the horses. A group of people walked down following the noise from below.

After turning around twice and going down thirty steps, everyone came to the right below the stable.

At this time, the buildings here are roughly the same as above, and they are all circular. What divides the interior of the building is no longer the earth wall facing the center of the circle vertically, but the thicker earth brick pillars.

These columns take up a lot of space, but so far as the baron said, they must be built in this way.

Because the building on the lower floor must support the building on the upper floor, the load-bearing structure of the lower floor must take up more space than the upper floor.

If stronger stone bricks were used ~www.readwn.com~, the area of ​​this layer would be larger, but obviously it cannot be done here.

There is no material.

On the vast grassland, there are only sky, wind, grass, and earth.

The land is both fertile and barren, and an extremely large number of livestock can be domesticated here, which can be completely consumed by the country's animal power. The number of horns, skins, meat, and bones can be piled up into hills.

However, this is also a barren place.

The wood most commonly used by humans has to be pulled from other provinces. The places close to other provinces are fine, and the cost is not particularly high, but the wood in the middle of the western provinces is extremely expensive.

The same is true for stone materials. There is only thick soil under the feet, and stones can only be pulled from far away mountains, and the cost is not low.

Entering the second basement floor, which is a circle smaller than the upper floor, the Kendall soldiers put aside the swords and shields in their hands, lit small oil lamps above their heads for lighting, and spread their bedding on the dry ground , The militiamen sat around and talked together in twos and threes, but their eyes were still looking at the middle of the place during the conversation.

There, under the blackened zenith, there are several fire pits built of adobe bricks, where the army cooks are busy.

The iron pot was placed on the firepit, and the food inside was gurgling and smelling fragrant. From time to time, the chefs looked at the timing and dumped the simply chopped food in their hands into the big iron pot, so that the food was soaked in the soup and cooked.

There are also local villagers pushing carts to deliver the fuel from the firepit. These fuels look the same as the fodder eaten by the livestock above, but there are few differences.

As the baron turned around here, Kiel found that the burning fuel was actually grass stalks. This thing grows well in the local area, so it is extra thick, and livestock with low chewing power can't chew it, and it's not soft enough. See It can only be used as fuel after drying.