Lord of War

The Sunset Red Tavern in Hongye Town welcomed three somewhat unusual guests today.

The owner of the tavern personally served these three people. Just seeing his hand holding the tray kept shaking, one could tell that the owner was not at ease at the moment.

But if you think about it, if anyone's shop in Hongye Town is surrounded by a group of mercenaries, I'm afraid it will not be easy.

In the past year, this mercenary group, which was supposed to bring a sense of security to Hongye Town, has brought a kind of fear to the townspeople here, especially in the past few days. Don't leave the house easily unless necessary. It’s just that the taverns in the town can’t help it. These mercenaries come to the tavern to drink every day, and sometimes they will knock on the door from the morning, so other shops can close the door and ignore everything, but there is no way for the few taverns in the town. do it.

And for the sake of safety in some aspects, there are no maids working in these taverns now.

The tavern owner managed to put the tray on the table, and then placed the food on the tray in front of the three guests one by one. I don't know if it was because of being too nervous or too scared. When the boss picked up the last steak, he accidentally shook his hand and spilled some of the sauce inside.

"Yes..., yes..., yes...," the tavern owner became even more nervous now, a simple sentence with only three words, but he couldn't say it for a long time.

"It's okay." Xiao En shook his head helplessly, and said with a smile, "Are you afraid of me?"

"Yes." The tavern owner nodded, then his face changed drastically, and he immediately shook his head, "It's better" not to go...

Sean chuckled lightly and said, "Don't worry, we won't renege on our debts."

So, the tavern owner showed a smile that was uglier than crying.

"Well, such a small amount of food may not be enough, you can order a few more steaks." Sean glanced at An Nuo's plate, his conversation with the tavern owner was only a few seconds, and An Nuo's plate had already been licked It's so clean, it looks so clean that it can be used as a mirror, "My companion... is more edible."

"A few copies are not enough." An Nuo said in a low voice.

"Then how many copies do you want?" Sean said a little bit dumbfounded.

"three……."

"Three copies?"

"Thirty copies."

Sean was a little speechless.

Then, he turned his head and glanced at the boss. The boss seemed to know what Xiao En was going to say, so he could only say with a bitter face: "There are thirty copies in stock, but there are not enough people in the store, and, "..."

Having said that, the tavern owner looked sideways at the other people sitting in the hall, his expression very disturbed.

This tavern with the sunset red signboard is one of the famous old signboards in Hongye Town. It is said that it has been handed down from the generation of the tavern owner's grandfather's grandfather. But later, due to poor management, it almost closed several times, so the tavern became more and more dilapidated. Although the wine sold in this tavern can be said to be the most authentic in Hongye Town, and there is such a special food as red maple noodles, but This also means that the consumption is more expensive, so the Sunset Red Tavern has been unable to make ends meet for a very long time.

But today, Sunset Red Tavern ushered in an extremely brilliant day

Of course this splendor,

Not what the tavernkeeper wanted.

In the hall, nearly twenty tables were already full of people.

These people are clearly divided into two factions: both factions wear standard clothes, one red and one blue, but the styles of the two clothes are somewhat different. The group of people in red clothes are mostly older, basically around 30 years old. The weapons placed by the table are mainly two-handed swords, and a few are equipped with shields. There is a coat of arms embroidered on their clothes , looking at the shape seems to be a snake.

There is no doubt that this group of people are mercenaries.

The biggest difference between mercenaries and mercenaries is that the former takes war as their main activity, so their weapons and clothing are relatively uniform standard equipment. The more famous the mercenary group, the more they will pay attention to their own military discipline. At the same time, they also have stable logistics and reserve recruits, and because the mercenary group often participates in war activities, the more famous the mercenary group, the more terrifying the fighting power, and the types of arms are also different. The more complete they are, the more complete they are; while mercenaries mainly deal with commissions. Although they occasionally participate in wars, they are indeed not as good as mercenaries in terms of training and military discipline, and there is no uniform standard for weapons and clothing. Totally varied.

In order to distinguish the main difference between the two, the mercenary union added a word "hired" in front of "mercenary" to distinguish the two. But in fact, no matter whether it is a mercenary group or a mercenary group, once the scale becomes larger, the two will usually merge and develop at the same time, so in the end, it is actually the same goal by different routes, and there is no real distinction in a strict sense. On the other hand developed mercenary regiments or mercenary regiments.

In the hall, apart from this group of mercenaries, the other group wearing blue uniforms were young people, only a few middle-aged men over 30 years old.

Their weapon is also a standard weapon, but it is a long gun. The body of the gun is made of wood, and there is only an iron gun head installed in the front. This kind of thing costs a few copper coins. There are weapons shops all over the street, and the production is not good at all. Any technical content is required, even an apprentice blacksmith can do it.

So the identities of this group of people are easy to distinguish, the militia group of Hongye Town.

Why these two groups of people appeared here at the same time, Xiao En knew very well.

In the final analysis, it was because of the idiot An Nuo who knocked down the five mercenaries--if it was Sean, he would definitely choose an alley, and then kill all five of them without anyone noticing: but An Nuo, that idiot, stopped five mercenaries sitting on the road casually, punched the other party without knowing what was going on, and then beat the five people directly after receiving a few hard punches. Get down.

It's okay to hit the ground, but the place An Nuo chose was the square in Hongye Town, so this scene was naturally seen by many people.

"Brother, are you kidding me?" Sean thought helplessly after knowing the situation.

But fortunately, An Nuo didn't know what kind of short-circuit it was, at least he didn't kill these five people, so the matter didn't come to the point where the two sides had to fight with swords and guns as soon as they met, otherwise Sean would not continue to enter this town, he turned around and ran away with An Nuo and others, at least he would not come back until he gathered his troops.

As for the purpose of the militia group, it is to prevent these mercenaries from causing any embarrassing things. According to the vague words Sean heard from An Nuo, after he and Cecilia worked hard to restore them, and after making side-talks from the tavern owner, he finally figured out that a conflict broke out between the mercenary group and the militia group a few days ago Afterwards, the conflict between the two parties finally moved from the ground up to the surface, and now no one accepts the other.

But just from this point, and the fact that An Nuo can fight five at a time, Sean has a relatively side-to-side understanding of the strength of this mercenary group.

The only thing that is still unclear is the strength of the head of this mercenary regiment.

Just when the boss was a little embarrassed and helpless, the door of the tavern was suddenly pushed open by someone with great strength, or full of aura, because when the door was pushed open, the sound was very loud. Strong enough to completely attract everyone's attention, a big man with a figure not inferior to An Nuo just walked in with a heavy hammer in his hand.

When the opponent lowered the hammer, Sean could even feel a vibration from the ground.

The weight of this heavy hammer can be seen.

Sean's gaze turned from the opponent's heavy hammer to the middle-aged man, and then to his face: a barbarian, his blood should be from the wild land. Now, Xiao En is more interested in this mercenary group, because the tribes in the wild land will never easily join any organization outside the wild land. If this mercenary group can let such a barbarian join, then It must have some connection with the tribes in the wild land.

"Who injured our Habinder snake just now?"

Different from Annuo's urgency, this barbarian's voice was very loud, and when his voice came out, it almost knocked down the roof of the entire tavern. However, this point is also unique to the tribe in the wild land. After all, for a place where wars often occur, momentum is often more important than others, because it will affect the morale and reputation of a tribe.

An Nuo looked up at the other party, but soon lost interest. For him, arguing with this big man who was about the same size as him was far less comfortable than eating a few more steaks. Of course, the main reason is that Sean didn't open his mouth, so An Nuo, who followed William's instructions, naturally kept his mouth shut and ignored the other party. Anyway, Sean will naturally be responsible for such quarrels and the like.

A mercenary stood up suddenly, pointed at Xiao En and the others: "Deputy commander, it's them! I was also in the square just now, and I saw it with my own eyes."

"Heavy Hammer, don't mess around!" A middle-aged man from the militia suddenly stood up and said in a deep voice.

His expression was actually a bit disturbed. After all, the deputy head of the Harbind Snake in front of him is also a well-known murderer in Hongye Town, and once he gets mad, only the head of the Harbinder's Snake can subdue him, so This middle-aged man was very unwilling to face this barbarian. But in the current situation, if he doesn't stand up and speak out, then the militia group may really be divorced. After all, this is a militia team formed by relying on blood and courage, and I heard that the new lord is about to arrive. At that time, this mercenary group will definitely be driven away. If there are some bad rumors in Hongye Town, it will definitely affect the development of Hongye Town.

Under such circumstances, the middle-aged man from the militia would stop it.

"Hmph!" The barbarian known as Heavy Hammer glanced at the middle-aged man, snorted heavily, and shouted, "This is none of your business, get the hell out of here! If you dare to intervene, don't Blame my heavy hammer for falling on you."

Hearing this, the faces of all the militia members changed.

In fact, if it weren't for the heavy hammer and their regiment leader that the Snake of Harbinder had, in the eyes of the Hongye Town Militia, this mercenary regiment was actually just a mercenary regiment similar to himself and others. They may not have rich combat experience, and their personal strength is somewhat inferior to the opponent, but he is twice as many as the opponent in terms of numbers. If the two sides really fight each other, the militia will certainly suffer heavy casualties, but Harbin The end of the mercenary group of the German Snake will never be better.

It is precisely because of this that both parties have actually maintained some kind of restraint. Even if there were occasional provocations and mutual abuse, no one really started to fight. The few times of conflicts with a scale of more than a dozen people actually had winners and losers. Complete suppression, which is why the Hongye Town militia has so far been fighting spirit.

If it was true that they were being bullied all the time, how dare this militia group come out to meddle in their own business, it would have been disbanded long ago.

But now the two sides are actually only one step away from completely tearing their faces apart. The official document sent from Fortress Tonis a few days ago had caused a truly large-scale conflict between the two sides. In the end, it was the head of the regiment who did it. That's why the militia suffered a big loss, and hundreds of people were affected by it. Fortunately, no one was killed. Perhaps it was because of this that the two sides did not really tear each other apart.

But with the arrival of the new lord, this will happen sooner or later.

I heard that the new lord arrived at the Black Swan Castle in the Angloda Mountains yesterday, and I believe he will come to inspect the territory under his name in the next few days. It’s just that the people in Hongye Town heard from the mercenaries of Harbind’s Snake that the lord seemed to bring less than 200 people here, so Harbind’s Snake, who was a little nervous, seemed to have calmed down because of this, even Instead, they intensified the exploitation of the townspeople.

The most notable point is that these mercenaries used to pay for drinking, but in the past few days, the taverns have stopped paying for drinking, which caused two taverns to be forced to close one after another. However, these mercenaries did not go too far, at least not like the mercenaries in Dabronn Town, who actually attacked houses and robbed women. Anyone who dared to resist was killed by them. Originally, there were nearly five A small town with thousands of people is almost turning into a dead town now.

However, Heavy Hammer's arrogant attitude really annoyed many young militiamen. They were filled with righteous indignation, and they stood up one after another as if they wanted to refute something, but they were stopped by the middle-aged man of the militia. In the conflict a few days ago, there were more than 200 people in their militia group, but the mercenaries of Harbin's Snake were only a little over a hundred. In the beginning, it was indeed their militia group that relied on their numbers to suppress Habin The Snake of Virtue, but when the leader of the mercenary group made a move, they were immediately defeated.

But at this moment, Harbinder's Snake has a heavy hammer that is not inferior to their leader, so this middle-aged man needs to be cautious.

As a result, the mercenaries of Harbinder's Snake showed contemptuous and mocking expressions on their faces, which made the militia members even more angry. Several people had already clenched their spears by their sides, as if they were about to rush up and hit them hard Compete.

Although Heavy Hammer is a barbarian, people from tribes in the wild land, even the most mindless barbarians, are more cunning than ordinary barbarians. Therefore, he has a panoramic view of the changes in the faces of the militia members. Before coming here, his regiment leader has already explained that he should try not to fight with the militia. Just frighten them, but if the other party is really disobedient, then It is not impossible to teach a little lesson.

Of course, the members of Harbinder's Snake knew very well that if the heavy hammer made a "lesson", then it would be impossible to be as measured as their leader, and they would definitely die. But since their leader dared to say such a thing, he naturally considered the consequences, so those of them who are members of the regiment just need to follow suit.

But now, heavy hammer is still very satisfied with the reaction of the militia group, so he pointed at Sean and snorted coldly: "Little one, tell me, are you the ones who shot and injured us?"

Everyone's eyes turned to Sean at this moment.

But different from what everyone imagined, Sean didn't show any panicked look. Instead, he turned his head and looked at the big guy named Heavy Hammer: "Your name is Heavy Hammer?"

Heavy Hammer raised his head proudly, exhaled a breath from his nostrils, and said, "That's right! I am Heavy Hammer! The deputy head of Harbind's Snake!"

"You are a good candidate for the head of the unit. If you don't stay in a wild place, what are you doing in this kind of place? Let me guess which tribe you are from." Sean asked lazily, "Stonehammer tribe The tribe of the barbarian king? The tribe of the eagle? The tribe of the lion king? The tribe of the war drum?"

Every time Xiao En uttered a tribe name, Zhong Hammer's eyes widened in shock.

These tribes are all well-known big tribes in the barren land. The later the order, the stronger the tribe. And these tribes all have one thing in common, that is, there are barbarians living in these tribes. According to the barbarian custom in the wild land, the names of the best barbarians in the tribe will have the word "hammer" after their names. They are all one of the candidates for the next head of the tribe, which is similar to the heirs of the nobility.

But most people don't know the customs and tribes of the barren land. Even those kingdom troops who have been fighting against the barren land for a long time, at most they only know the names of the tribes that can force them to retreat. After all, the entire barren land has more than There are hundreds of tribes, how can it be possible to remember or even understand the situation of these tribes, so I can freely say the names of these tribes and the customs of the wild land like Sean, in places other than the wild land , is extremely rare.

People like this usually have deep friendship with various tribes in the wild land.

At this moment, Zhong Hammer's attitude towards Sean became somewhat respectful: "Which tribe are you a distinguished guest?"

It's no wonder that the heavy hammer is like this. After all, the customs and fears of the barren land have been deeply implanted in the souls of the tribes in the barren land, and they also believe that the great wizard will always observe their words One party, disrespect for the distinguished guests of the tribe will bring bad luck, that's why the heavy hammer is so respectful.

It's just a pity that no one except Cecilia knows that Sean is a distinguished guest of the wild land tribe. This guy is nothing more than a magic stick. PS:: Too lazy to cut, 5K words big chapter. (To be continued) [] If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. )