There was a dense and continuous sound of horses' hooves, rapidly approaching from far to near, and Han Shuo, who was patrolling the progress of the project on the city wall, saw the knight Captain Varclan, who was riding a high-headed war horse, and ran anxiously all the way over.
Varclan, who had dismounted, trotted all the way to the wall in front of Han Shuo, and looked up at Han Shuo breathlessly: "Lord City Lord, the caravan transporting chariots and other equipment from Hailan City was robbed by several bandits on the way.
When the robbers spoke, they had to pay 50,000 gold coins before they could hand over the chariots and other equipment. ” The scale of the bandits wandering from Hailan City to Brettel City was not large, and when Han Shuo ordered these equipment from some chambers of commerce through Phoebe, he not only reminded them to be careful of those bandits on the way, but also asked Varchland to send someone to pick them up in advance.
According to Han Shuo's judgment, those small bandits should not have the courage to make a move, and now when they heard the news of Varclan, they asked with a gloomy face, "You mean, several bandits joined forces to move?"
Varclan's face was a little embarrassed, and he nodded and replied: "Yes, one bandit will definitely not dare to attack, but this time it is a combination of five bandits, and some of the guards of the caravan can't resist it at all."
Lord of the city, those damned robbers are killing themselves, and I will immediately lead the knights in the city to eradicate all these bandits. ” "Wait" Han Shuo snorted, stopping Varkland's impulse, and thought for a moment before asking, "How many people know about the news of our purchase of those chariot equipment?"
"This time, the soldiers who went to the halfway pick up know, what's the matter, my lord" Varkran was puzzled, not understanding why Han Shuo would suddenly mention this matter.
With a cold snort, Han Shuo said, "How could those robbers be so lucky to know that the caravan would come that day, and how could they suddenly unite and dare to extort our gold coins after robbing the caravan, don't you think this is a little interesting?"
As soon as these words came out, Varchran was shocked and shouted: "My lord is saying that there may be annihilation among our people."
"Not perhaps, there must be" Han Shuo suddenly shouted: "I won't hold you accountable for your dereliction of duty first, give you half a day, find out that Annihilation and execute me In addition, the next time you recruit soldiers, don't absorb them at will because of a lack of people, and anyone with an unclean background will be kicked out for me" "Yes," said Varclan, leaping onto the horse, galloping out of the horse with a cold face.
This matter is in his charge, there is such a big mistake he can't get away with it anyway, when Lawrence asked him to arrive in Brettel City, he explained to him that from now on his life and death Han Shuo can completely decide, and Varclan, who has seen Han Shuo's strong strength, understands that Han Shuo is by no means a soft-hearted person, and while cursing the traitor in his heart, he quickly thinks about the way to quickly find out him.
An hour later, on the wide marble square in front of the City Lord's Palace, a total of three hundred knights, all with their heads tall and shining on their armour, were neatly arranged under the orders of Varchran.
Not to mention the dereliction of duty this time, the military posture and momentum of these knights have been refined in his training, and they do have the demeanor of a great knight order, which shows that Varkland is indeed an outstanding knight officer.
Han Shuo sat in the City Lord's Mansion, not caring what method Varclan would use to find out the Annihilation, just thinking about how to eradicate these bandit obstacles on the way from Hailan City to Brettel City as soon as possible.
During this time, all of Han Shuo's attention was focused on the Seven Duchies that might come back and loot at any time, but he ignored some of the large and small bandit groups along the way.
There are more than a dozen bandits along the way, all of them are some small bandits who can't get on the stage, only hundreds or even dozens of people, and the big bandit groups that wander between Brettel City and the Seven Duchies are not at the same level at all.
After the last time Tu Luoda was killed, Han Shuo thought that those little robbers should not dare to act rashly, so he didn't take them to heart.
Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, it was these little robbers who stabbed them in the back and snatched away the war equipment worth 100,000 gold coins, which made Han Shuo have the murderous intent to completely destroy them.
The road between Brettel City and Hailan City is the most important passage between Brettel City and the Lancelot Empire, if Bretl City wants to develop this road safety is self-evident, if the immigrants have not yet arrived in Brettel City, they will be robbed on the road first, I am afraid that no matter how wild Han Shuo said, no one will dare to settle in Bretl City.
"It's them who are looking for their own death, it's not that I don't give them a way to live" Han Shuo sorted out his thoughts, his fingers unconsciously tapping on the armrest of the chair, and said resolutely.
Varchlan lived up to Han Shuo's trust in him, and it only took two hours to find out the annihilation, who it was Han Shuo didn't see, but he heard a terrifying howl of pain coming from outside the City Lord's Mansion.
This kind of heart-numbing scream lasted for a while, and after five minutes, Varkelan walked in in awe, and respectfully performed a humble salute in front of Han Shuo, Varkland said in a low voice, "Lord Earl, I have been derelict in my duty. ” Sitting slightly straighter with his lazy posture, Han Shuo glanced at Varkland coldly and asked, "It's been tried?"
Nodding, Varchran replied: "There are three soldiers who have just joined, all of them are mixed in with the surrounding robbers, because I see that they are strong and strong, and at this time there is a shortage of people, it is my dereliction of duty to let them join the knights without careful examination, and I ask the Earl to punish me."
As Varkelan said, at present, Breitl City is the time to employ people, and there is really too little talent like Varkeland who can lead the team and train soldiers, and Varkland's momentary negligence is indeed a dereliction of duty, but Han Shuo has no candidate who can replace him.
Han Shuo was silent for a while, then snorted coldly and said, "I'll write this down for the time being, if you can atone for your sins in the process of encircling and annihilating those bandits, I will forget your dereliction of duty this time." ” Varchlan nodded heavily, bowed solemnly, and said loudly: "Rest assured, Lord Earl, this kind of thing will never happen again, and the robbers who participated in the robbery will not want to escape, as a knight I promise you." ” "Alright, gather a hundred knights you have brought, and we will go to the robbers' den to see if these robbers are qualified to take the fifty thousand gold coins in my hand."
Han Shuo squinted his eyes and stood up, Varchlan clearly felt the strong killing intent coming from him, and he knew in his heart that those robbers who were bold and reckless this time would definitely pay a terrible price.
At night, the sky was as dark as a canvas smeared with thick ink, and this moonless night was extremely unsightly, and the flames were blazing in the direction of a humid air overgrown with weeds.
In a long river in the shape of willow leaves, there were more than a dozen huge rafts, and on the rafts stood many strong figures who also held torches, and the noisy chatter came from the people standing on the rafts.
Riding on his war horse with a torch, he frowned at the robbers on the raft in the small river in the distance, and cursed: "Cunning robber, I didn't expect to set the place of trading here, this is a bit difficult." ” This area is quite a distance from Breitl City, not between Hailan City and Bretel City at all, but in the center of Breitl City's leading path to the Seven Duchies.
The last time Han Shuo captured Helentina with six magic crystal cannons, it was from this river to Brettel City, but because of the six heavy magic crystal cannons, he only wasted two days returning to Brettel City from here.
This time, Han Shuo's group, which was purely composed of knights, only took half a day to arrive here at night as agreed.
I have to say that this time the robbers did choose a good place, taking advantage of the convenience of the raft, once they took 50,000 gold coins, they could quickly get away from here, and Han Shuo and his party, who were all knights, could not pursue them under the obstruction of the small river.
The location of the transaction was temporarily notified by the robbers, and by the time Han Shuo knew that it was in this place, it was too late to prepare, and they had fallen into passivity before they knew it.
"This group of robbers is not very simple, they have been properly arranged all the way, and they have made us a fool.
Once they have the gold coins, they can easily escape with the help of rafts, and the knights cannot pursue them at all, and it seems that we have really encountered a group of difficult robbers this time.
Han Shuo looked at the flaming bandit in front of him and said to Varkland.
"Lord Count, how is this to be.
Even if the Lord is a necromancer, those dark creatures can't do anything in the water," Varclans said to Han Shuo worriedly, he was ready to atone for his sins, but he had all his enthusiasm and planned to make a big deal in this transaction.
"There are a few light magicians on the other side, it seems that these robbers have already planned, these light magicians should be here to guard against me.
Well, could it be that this matter is not so simple, someone is secretly calculating us" Han Shuo and a Yin Demon had just passed, and he first saw two low-level light magicians, and whispered in surprise.
A mid-level mage of light and a high-level mage of light, this level of mage has a limited effect on high-level evil knights, but if a flying gargoyle gets close to them, even a mid-to-high-level holy light illumination technique can bring considerable damage to the gargoyle.
Therefore, Han Shuo, who saw the existence of the two light magicians, immediately had an extra heart, waved his hand and said to Varkland: "Stop for a while, I'll take a look at the situation first, if it's a trap, let's retreat immediately." ” Up to now, there was only one of the three Yin Demons that Han Shuo had refined, which made Han Shuo's observation not as fast as before, and it was impossible to cover the entire audience as before, in his heart, Han Shuo had already begun to think about whether he should spend some time and retreat and cultivate a higher-level Xuan Demon to come out.
A Yin Demon went around the raft on the river, and he really found the war equipment purchased by Han Shuo, among which there were even Fu Binen and Jack of the Buster Trading Company, the two of them were tied up by the robbers, and two snowy steel knives were on their necks, and Fu Binen Jack's expressions shrank, obviously frightened a lot.
In addition to Fulbian and Jack, there were also a dozen or so merchants from various chambers of commerce, as well as more than thirty chamber guards who were caught and detained, all of whom were also tied up and sturdy, surrounded by robbers.
The Buster firm, which won Cameron in a big gamble, became a big chaebol of the imperial comptoir, Cameron suffered a huge loss and lost the trust of many chambers of commerce, but the Buster firm took advantage of the situation and gradually became active among the major comptoirs.
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This time, the war equipment purchased by Han Shuo was transported by the Bust Commercial Bank and some other chambers of commerce, and if they didn't get off to a good start for the first time, it would affect their impression of Brettel City, and it might be difficult to continue the cooperation in the future.
Therefore, not only Fubinn and Jack, but also the safety of the captured merchants and the chamber of commerce's guards were equally important.
If he couldn't ensure their safety, even if he killed all of these bandits, it would be difficult to make up for the losses in the future, looking at the tightly guarded bandits, Han Shuo had a headache for a while.
"Dox, what should I do next?"
asked a rough-looking two-meter-tall man, apparently the leader of a robber, on the raft at this time in front of a young man with a resolute face and an ambitious glint in his eyes.
This young man is dressed as a robber minion, this young man who is nearly one meter nine tall, standing there straight like a spear that would rather bend, the fancy bandit costume can't hide the ambition in his eyes at all, the young man named Dox glanced at the bandit leader, and said confidently: "Don't worry, I thought clearly in advance, these captives that you didn't let you kill will make them scruples."
What's more, in this small river, we also have the advantage of a raft, and the two light magicians recruited with a lot of money can block the invasion of gargoyles, and this matter is foolproof, I don't think they have a second way out except to give money. ” "Dox, the civilian wizard of the Imperial Academy, it turned out to be him, no wonder" Han Shuo, who heard them speak through the Yin Demon, the Yin Demon circled around the young man and muttered.
To be continued: