flstandardbreds Chapter 166 Encirclement
Chapter 166 Encirclement
After a while, the old man slumped on the ground, with several Crusader Knights and the cavalry guarded by the soldiers who had disarmed them. At the end of the road, smoke and dust gradually rose, and the leading Crusader Knight and other Crusader Knights arrived here.
"Are all these people released because of you?" The late-arriving commander of the Crusaders asked the knights guarding here.
"Captain, after I entered the city, I followed your orders and went into the tavern. But this bandit provoked me, so in order not to attract more attention, I killed his accomplice and hurriedly left the tavern. Unexpectedly, the local lord and his men chased after me."
After listening to the knight's explanation, the captain couldn't help but slap his helmet. Although his brothers were good at fighting and knowledgeable, it was indeed a bit unfair to ask them to go on reconnaissance. It seemed that he would have to let professionals handle this kind of thing next time.
Thinking of this, the captain looked around, then looked at the old man who was slumped on the ground and asked the knight:
"Who is he?"
The knight scratched his head and responded in confusion:
"I don't know but he came here in a carriage, so I guess he has the highest status among these people."
After thinking for a moment, the team leader walked towards the old man opposite. After he reached the old man, he stretched out his metal-guarded hand and said to him:
"Hello, I am Payne, the leader of the Knights of the Cross. Can you tell me your identity?"
The old man looked at the captain who was protected by armor, sighed and said to him:
"I am the city lord here."
Seeing that he had found the real culprit, the captain squatted down and looked at the gloomy city lord opposite him and asked:
"Then I have something to ask you, I wonder if you know..."
"It's about the Kas monster, right?" Captain Paying was interrupted by the city lord before he finished speaking. Then the city lord said with a horrified look in his eyes:
"You don't understand at all. That person, no, that monster, is simply impossible to kill. If you do this, all the people in this town will be slaughtered!"
"Really? I don't believe it. Are those cavalrymen next to us and the soldiers in your city all transformed from scarecrows?" Captain Paying asked with a little surprise. If it was a monster, the captain would have seen it in the indigenous uprising war. In his opinion, if the other party was really a monster like the Son of God, the information about it would have spread long ago. Why would he be a bandit leader next to a small town?
Seeing that Captain Pa Ying didn't care about it, the city lord suddenly became anxious and shouted angrily while leaning on his crutches:
"What do you know? Let's not talk about the bandits. That monster alone can kill everyone in the town. How much damage can a few knights and those militiamen do to it?"
At this time, Captain Pa Ying asked back:
"Then why didn't you report it to the church or His Majesty the King? I remember this town was a subordinate territory of the King. Why didn't you tell the King about such a big incident? Also, even if your soldiers are a bunch of rubbish, couldn't you hire some mercenaries to assist you?"
Hearing this, the old man hesitated for a moment, then lamented:
"Mitlan needs soldiers to go to the front line to resist the invasion of the Yoda people. Those mercenaries followed the army like wolves smelling meat. The rest are a bunch of small mercenary groups drifting with the flow, except for the elderly, the weak, women and children. It is simply a fantasy to rely on them to fight against that monster and his men!"
"Where is Black Watch? I remember that Saint-Remy, not far from here, is the headquarters of the Black Watch mercenary group. Can the monster you mentioned withstand the attack of thousands of people and artillery?" Captain Paying asked doubtfully when he heard this. Compared with other mercenary groups, Black Watch is indeed cost-effective, with a large number of people and high quality. Looking at the age of the city lord, he must have been operating here for decades. If he wants to defeat the monster he mentioned, he should be able to hire a few thousand people by gritting his teeth and using his accumulated savings as expenses.
Hearing this, the old man hesitated for a long time, and finally responded with a stuttering voice:
"I...most of my money has been paid to His Majesty the King, and the remaining money is not enough to hire mercenaries..."
"So you send a large number of women and children to that monster every month. Is this your way of protecting the people?" Captain Paying also saw that Old Deng was afraid that the monster would destroy his pampered life, so he made a contract with the monster. No wonder the knights intercepted a carriage loaded with women and children on the road before. It turned out that the city lord acquiesced. This coward used the people in the city to exchange for his comfortable life, and even dared not say a word when the people in his territory were bullied by those bandits. If this happened in Forest Territory or Franche-Comté, the militia would have crushed it long ago.
Thinking of this, Captain Pa Ying drew the long sword from his waist, pointed it at the panicked city lord opposite, and angrily reprimanded:
"You handed your people over to a demon just for your own pleasure. How are you any different from those cultists? Logically, I could execute you right now, but since you didn't participate voluntarily, I will let you go."
When the city lord heard that Captain Pa Ying had let him go, he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but Captain Pa Ying's next words almost frightened him to death:
"But, as atonement, you must bring your soldiers with us to defeat that monster."
"Cough, cough, cough." The city lord was so scared that he coughed a few times. After catching his breath, he quickly pleaded:
"I really can't go. My old body will fall apart before I even get there. Why don't I order my knight to go with you?"
However, just as he finished speaking, Captain Paying picked him up, opened the carriage door and threw him in.
"What a joke! The monster must have known about this by now. If we delay any further, the whole town will surely be burned to the ground."
After closing the car door, Captain Paying said to the knight beside him:
"Tell the Blackwatch mercenaries to go out and destroy the man-eating monster and its accomplices in one fell swoop."
After seeing the knights going away, Captain Pa Ying suddenly found that he seemed to have no idea how to get to the bandits' lair. When he was about to open the car door to ask the city lord, a yellow-haired bandit lying on the ground caught his attention.
"Pa!" With the crisp slap from Captain Pa Ying, the yellow-haired bandit woke up in severe pain. When he opened his eyes, he saw a big tin can staring at him opposite him. He was so scared that he almost jumped up.
"As a bandit, you should know the way to your lair." At this time, Pa Ying asked in a cold tone. He was unwilling to speak politely to this accomplice of the devil.
The yellow-haired bandit also knew that if he didn't do as he was told, he would definitely end up dead in the wilderness like the previous bandits.
"I, I'll lead the way. I'll take you there right away!"