A not-so-or-beautiful carriage drove through the dilapidated city gates, and the sparsely populated streets saw one or two people occasionally with resentment and despair in their eyes, a silent protest against the misery of life.
Brettel City was not as dirty as Han Shuo expected, it was only slightly better than the scenery he had seen along the way, a few lazy soldiers looked indifferently at the carriage entering the city, and actually did not interrogate him about his origin and asked him to collect the gold coins entering the city, it seemed that Bretl City was indeed on the verge of death.
"Hey, may I ask where the City Lord's Mansion is" Chester asked a beggar-looking civilian with a smile as he pulled the reins.
The civilian, who was lying lazily catching fleas in the sun, looked attentive, as if he had not heard Chester's questioning at all, and did not even raise his head.
"A silver coin, where is the city lord's mansion" Chester, who was born poor, had a good understanding of the temperament of this poor person, and asked with a smile again.
The addition of a silver coin had an immediate effect, and the beggar, who had just been deaf, seemed to smell the tempting fragrance of the gold coin, and suddenly focused all his attention on Chester, pointed in the direction of East Street, and said: "Go straight for three hundred meters, and the highest and worst mansion is the City Lord's Mansion." ” A silver coin glittered in the sunlight and slid down to the ground in front of the beggar, and Chester did not thank him, but jerked his horse, and the carriage slowly departed in the direction of the city lord's mansion.
The beggar hurriedly picked up the silver coin and clutched it tightly in his palm, and then looked in the direction where the two had left, and muttered, "There are people who have come to Breitle City, either as profiteering merchants, or as the legendary unlucky earl, what a wretched fellow." ” Once Brettel City was invaded, the City Lord's Mansion would become the object of key care, the walls of the tall buildings were not solid, and there were several holes that had been blown up that didn't seem to have been repaired until Han Shuo's carriage drove into it.
There were only a few scattered five maids and a dozen soldiers.
These waitress and soldiers looked indifferent to Han Shuo, who had taken over, and they didn't have the enthusiasm and deliberate catering that a subordinate should have, and of course, that kind of welcome banquet that was normally held in other areas was even more impossible.
The City Lord's Mansion was at least five times larger than Han Shuo's mansion in Orson City, but this City Lord's Mansion was really useless except that it was large enough, since it was the City Lord who left first in every invasion, the City Lord's Mansion that was often not garrisoned by soldiers was the first to be looted.
Some of the things that the city lord could not take for the time being were wiped out in the repeated attacks.
What was ridiculous was that Han Shuo actually saw that a piece of white jade floor had been lifted and taken away, leaving behind a large square cavity in the collapsed ground, which allowed Han Shuo to imagine the true situation of Brettel City.
"Help me explain the current situation in Brettel City," he said, and sat down in the ruined hall in the center of the City Lord's Mansion.
Han Shuo said to Dick, the person in charge of the dark curtain here who heard the news.
Dick is a forty-year-old man, with an ordinary appearance and only the bridge of his nose appears relatively tall, which is the characteristic of some mountain people in the local Brettel City, Dick respectfully saluted Han Shuo, and said in an imperial Chinese language that seemed a little awkward: "Bretl City took a total of five hundred family soldiers when the previous city lord left, and the total number of soldiers in the entire Brettel City is only more than three thousand.
The city has fewer than 50,000 inhabitants.
More than 3,000 soldiers were simply not enough to guard the gates of the city of Breitl.
What's more, these soldiers often escape faster than civilians, and the defenses of Breitl City have been broken again and again, and they are now almost defenseless without funds to repair them.
Most of the real local Brettle mountain people live on the surrounding steep mountains, which produce some valuable ores, because the mountain people are very skilled in the terrain above the mountains, and the mountains are indeed very difficult to attack, so they can resist every invasion of the seven principalities.
So far, Breitl City has been relatively safe.
Because several Grand Duchyes have experienced dozens of invasions, large and small, they all understand that there is actually no oil and water to fish in Brettle City, and for them, it is no longer possible for them to spend time looting Breitl City to get due returns, so there have been no more invasions in the past few months.
On the contrary, some of the mountaineers in the mountains around the city of Bretre guarded the mines, which became the target of some robbers and private soldiers.
However, the mountainous people who occupied the geographical position were not as incompetent as the soldiers of the Empire.
So far, they have been able to survive the mountains."
Under Dick's introduction, Han Shuo gradually gained an understanding of the situation in Brett City.
After Dick finished speaking, Han Shuo glanced at one of the soldiers in the City Lord's Mansion and said, "Gather all the soldiers of Brettel City to the front of the City Lord's Mansion for me, I want to see what these soldiers look like." ” "Yes, Lord Earl," the soldier replied lazily, riding a thin and weak horse unhurriedly, and slowly drove out of the city lord's mansion.
"Your Excellency, you'll be disappointed."
Dick shook his head and sighed as he said to Han Shuo.
"I know.
However, I want to make it easier for me not to be disappointed in the future," Han Shuo said with a chuckle, then frowned and remained silent.
After nearly two hours, the soldiers scattered all over Brettel City gathered in front of the City Lord's Mansion one by one unhurriedly, unorderly and undisciplined, all of these soldiers were not too strong, perhaps because of the food, there was a sick complexion, that kind of mental state that was scattered without a trace of military spirit, indicating that their combat effectiveness must be vulnerable.
The long swords, bows and spears in their hands were all rusty and inferior quality, Han Shuo even felt that a sharp weapon forged by a dwarf could break all their weapons, only one-third of the soldiers of these more than 3,000 people were young and prime-aged, and the rest were older twilight old men, who could expect this kind of person to have combat effectiveness Han Shuo stood on the high platform of the City Lord's Mansion and looked at it for a while, pondered it with a calm face, and grinned: "From today onwards, your good days are over, all soldiers over the age of fifty will be eliminated from this team, and I will guarantee your normal life for this part of the people."
The rest of the soldiers will be fed with food, you will be given new weapons, armor and horses, and of course you will be tortured by brutal training, waiting for the next invasion to wash away the shame of the past with blood, and the city of Brettel with me will be changed. ” The soldiers below were old and noisy, indifferent to Han Shuo's proposal to let them leave the army, but they were full of doubts about Han Shuo's guarantee of food and clothing for them.
The young people looked at each other one by one, slowly thinking about the meaning of Han Shuo's words, not knowing what he wanted to do.
"Lord Earl, are you really here" Next to Han Shuo, Dick, the person in charge of this place, looked at Han Shuo in extreme surprise and asked.
"City Lord, even if more than a thousand of us have obtained weapons and war horses, do you think that with such a dilapidated city wall, we can withstand the attack of one or twenty thousand bandits or thirty or fifty thousand regular troops of the Seven Duchies" A rough-looking soldier with a beard looked up at Han Shuo above and shouted.
"These are not for you to take care of, as a soldier, if you can't stop the invasion of the enemy, you will use your own heads to wash away the shame of defeat, and if you dare to survive and escape, I will cut your necks one by one."
Han Shuo looked at this strong man coldly and opened his mouth to scold.
"City Lord, I think you better leave here as soon as possible, this place has been abandoned by the Empire, you think that you can change the status quo of Brettel City without about 100,000 Imperial elite soldiers to defend it, Brettel City will never be able to change this situation of being invaded, if you are looking for death yourself, please don't take us with you, okay" The soldier was extremely disdainful, turning a blind eye to Han Shuo's coldness, and retorted excitedly.
"Whoosh" A dark brown luster flashed, and no one could see clearly what was passing through, anyway, this soldier who was agitating and justifying Han Shuo, a good head was thrown like this, and the blood spurting from his neck was like a paintbrush outlining a vivid picture on the ground.
"From now on, all you have to do is to follow orders, you don't need to have any doubts, even if you have doubts, they will rot in my heart" Han Shuo shouted with a cold and murderous spirit, the kind of ruthless butcher-like ruthlessness made the soldiers below silent one by one.
A team of more than a hundred people riding bright war horses and holding bright weapons slowly drove towards the City Lord's Mansion, and one of them, a man wrapped in silver armor and carrying a silver spear, bowed slightly to Han Shuo on his war horse, and said, "Lord Earl, the Earth Knight Varchlan will serve you and obey all your orders. ” Without thinking too much, Han Shuo also knew that this Varkland must have been arranged by Lawrence, from this person's body, Han Shuo sensed the killing aura of a tragic warrior, and understood that this person must be a truly experienced soldier, so he immediately glanced at the soldiers of Bretle City below with ill will, and said with a smile: "Varkland, from today onwards, they will be handed over to you, train them in the most cruel way, and I will not blame you for the unfortunate death during the training." ”: