Mercenaries and Adventurers

Here the road deviates from the river bank, which is separated from the road by the woods along the river.

The road gets closer to the town, running along the town's outer walls.

There is no house outside the city wall, but inside the city wall there is smoke from cooking.

You can also hear the sound of clang, clang, clang, and the crowing of poultry.

The town is built on a small hill, so the whole town is an irregular circle (I later learned that it looks more like a kidney). Moving forward along the road under the city wall, Zhao Jineng felt that the road was going uphill, so he sat more stably and didn't fall down.

It didn't take long for the convoy to reach the end of the road, the gate of the town.

This city gate is a stone city gate, compared with the wooden city wall next to it, it looks much taller. Since the town was built on a hill, there was no protective measure such as a moat at the gate of the city, but a semicircular trench was dug in front of the gate.

Zhao Ji looked at it and grinned. There were no bamboo, wood and metal spikes in the trench, but a lot of garbage piled up in it.

After the convoy approached the city gate, they slowed down. The farmers got out of the donkey cart, and Jamura also carefully got off in front of the donkey cart.

In the car Zhao Ji was riding in, the farmer in front helped Zhao Ji untie the ropes tied to his hands before getting out of the car, and gestured for Zhao Ji to get off the car with him.

Zhao Ji followed the donkey cart forward slowly, and Jamura walked two steps quickly to the gate of the city to go through the formalities of entering the city with the guards at the gate.

The city gate is in the shape of metal fences, tall and heavy, and the gaps between each fence cannot be penetrated by even the smallest child, and each metal fence is printed with unknown symbols, and some symbols are shining against the sun at this moment faint light.

There were three guards standing at the door, talking to Jamura. The guards wore a suit of hard cowhide leather armor, including chest, waist, skirt armor, knee pads, greaves, shoes, upper arms, and forearms.

The overall color of the leather armor is brown, and large pieces of cowhide are processed to be hard and tough. There was no helmet on his head, the metal helmet was being tied by a rope to his belt around his waist. Two guards carried shields on their backs and steel swords with sheaths on their waists. A middle-aged guard carried a large sword on his back and a long dagger with sheaths on his waist.

Jamura beckoned to Mr. Wolfe to come over.

Mr. Wolf took a parchment from his luggage and stepped forward. He handed the parchment in his hand to the middle-aged guard. The middle-aged guard didn't look at it after taking it. He held it in his hand and talked to Mr. Wolf.

After a while, two people came out from the city gate, one was dressed as a guard, and the other was dressed as a warrior.

This person was wearing long leather boots and tight cloth trousers with the hems of the trousers inserted into the leather boots. The upper body is a compact beige thin long gown and a long leather brown vest. A pair of belts fasten the long vest. The cuffs of the long gown are rolled up to the elbows. Two copper wrist guards are wrapped around the wrists, and cloth strips are wrapped around the hands. The most conspicuous thing is a pair of metal coat of arms hanging on his chest vest, the coat of arms pattern emits a faint but flickering light.

As soon as the man in warrior clothes came, the guards saluted him, and Jamura stepped forward to hug him in surprise. The two patted each other's shoulders and called each other's name.

Zhao Ji understood the other party's name, and Jamura didn't call the other party's full name, but called out affectionately: "Claw."

Crowe should be the chief guard of the city gate, and he is familiar with Jamura, but he should not have seen him for a long time. The two talked about the old days enthusiastically, and it was Jamura who remembered that Crowe took the parchment from the middle-aged guard.

He opened the sheepskin scroll and looked at it, then walked to the side of the donkey cart, opened the cover of a woven frame, which contained unhusked wheat, and looked down at the sheepskin scroll in his hand, feeling a little confused.

Jamra saw his friend's confusion,

Stepping forward, he pushed aside the surface of the grain in the frame with his hands, and underneath were slices of dried lake fish.

"This is to prevent moisture and smell." Jamura explained to Crowe. "You know, in the wilderness, there are more beasts than humans, and their noses are more sensitive than humans. Otherwise, the caravan would not be able to bring the dried fish back from Umi Lake Village."

"Didn't you do this before?" Crowe asked suddenly.

"The caravans have been attacked several times. Those wild beasts will even specifically stare at every truck coming out of Wumi Lake Village. They never attack the trucks that go in."

"They will gather and try to kill the donkey and force the caravan guys to flee."

"Soldiers are bloodless, haha, you can get cart after cart of dried fish." Crowe continued, "If it were me, I would ambush them a few times, kill them all, and there would be no wild beasts to attack!"

Jamura rolled his eyes at Crowe, and said teasingly, "I'm afraid that the dried fish might not go into the beast's mouth, but it will go into yours."

"How can I eat so much." Crowe justified, raised his hand to signal the guard to let him go, he handed the parchment in his hand to the guard who brought him, and said to him: "These are from Wumi Lake Village Dried fish is the tax of Jenny-Ranessa Knight, give this to the tax official, he knows that there is no need to collect city gate tax."

"Understood, I'll go right away." The guard walked through the city gate with the parchment.

Jamura signaled the drivers to enter the city. He said goodbye to Crow and agreed to meet at the tavern in the evening. Zhao Ji and the farmers walked beside the donkey cart and moved forward together.