Mercenaries and Adventurers

Seeing that he had nothing to do here, Kil shrugged at the two guards who were following behind him, and the three of them strolled around the militiamen running around and returned to the city.

Soon, they were captured by Knight Rumi on their way back. A group of ten militiamen had been organized by Knight Rumi and handed directly to Kil, asking him to take them into the city to receive equipment.

"Yes." He responded loudly, then scratched his head and waved to the ten militiamen: "Follow me."

When entering the city gate, several city gate guard friends stopped Kiel and his party. After a semi-formal explanation, they walked through the city gate accompanied by guard Koliko.

As soon as they entered, Knight Crow, who was standing on a wooden box drinking something, stretched out his hand to signal them to come over.

Boom boom.

Knight Crow lightly stepped on the wooden box under his feet twice and said to Kil, "Kiel, open the wooden box and show the boys their equipment."

After finishing speaking, he lightly jumped onto the box next to him.

Kiel came over with a ten-man militia, then untied the ropes of the sturdy wooden box, opened the big wooden box with a creak, and displayed ten sets of equipment that were neatly arranged inside.

"Put them on now, and hold the clothes you change by yourself. By the way, the rest of the militiamen in the team, except for the captain and deputy captain, also have a spear. Kil, come here with eight spears." Knight Crow ordered .

"Yes."

Kil turned to hold the spear, while the two guards guarding the door returned to the door of the guard bunker and continued to stand guard.

The ten militiamen looked at each other, and then reached out to the big wooden box at the same time.

"I want this!" Someone eagerly took out a simple leather and wood helmet.

This kind of helmet has a frame made of solid wood and is completely covered with animal skin. It is simple in shape but also protects the areas on the top of the head that should be protected.

The forehead, ears, top of the head, and back of the head, these vital parts of the head are all simply protected.

More militiamen scrambled for the boots provided to them in large wooden boxes.

To be honest, the simple wooden-soled leather boots provided to the militiamen were not exquisite in workmanship. When Kil was in the warehouse, he discovered that these boots were mass-produced by a shop.

Moreover, boots do not have individual sizes. Each one is made as large as possible, and most of the time your feet will dangle in the boots after wearing them.

But this is really a good thing for many militiamen who don’t wear shoes at all when living in villages or farms.

After all, their feet are now only wearing a pair of "fur shoes" mostly sewn from the scattered fur of their own domestic animals.

Who has worn this before?

Put it on, put it on!

Watching the militiamen fighting for the boots, Knight Crow pursed his lips, feeling that it hurt his eyes. After all, each militiaman took off his fur shoes. Not only were their dirty and black soles exposed, but a smell gradually spread out.

The Koliko guard who was standing aside with his hands folded calmly stepped back one meter.

But there was no expression at all on his face.

The captain and deputy captain of the team had relatively well-off families, so they immediately took out the rationed crossbows. The two of them took out the crossbows, simple short robes, leather and wood breastplates, helmets, etc. one by one and put them aside. , then they took off their outer clothes on the spot and put on the simple clothes they were given.

Then he took off his shoes, put on his significantly larger boots, put on his leather and wood breastplate, put on his helmet, hung the crossbow string firmly on the arm of the crossbow, and then hung the crossbow on the hook on the right side of his breastplate. place, and then the matching dagger in the box is hung on the left side of the breastplate, and the face-sized hand shield made of solid wood is directly attached to the left arm.

Later, two freshly dressed and energetic Kendall militiamen appeared.

With the correct demonstration from the two of them, the other eight ordinary militiamen in the team finally knew how to wear these equipment. They were not fools. Soon all ten people finished wearing them. After Kiel distributed the spears to the militiamen, they stood On the side.

"Well, it's good now." Knight Crow nodded with satisfaction, and waved his hand for the militiamen to return to the camp: "Go back, go back to the camp. After returning, let Knight Rumi send another team over. After dark All militiamen must be dressed before this."

The militia team happily wore these clothes, then carried their spears and hugged their previous clothes, and walked out of the city gate accompanied by the Koliko guards.

Steward Linden, who had been waiting nearby for a long time, quickly came over with four guards, closed the large empty wooden box, and then tied the rope to the wooden box again. Then he took the people, passed the wooden stick through the rope, and tied the empty wooden box. He swung the large, light wooden box and carried it to the bunker where the guards were stationed.

Subsequently, groups of militiamen entered the square in small groups and received their full set of equipment from Knight Crow. Seeing that some of them didn't know how to wear these things, Knight Crow asked the idle Kiel to step forward and guide the militiamen to wear and receive the equipment.

With Kiel on board to help, the process gradually sped up. The later militiamen had naturally seen how other people wore them in the camp outside the city. With Kiel's help, they were able to quickly replace the various shabby clothes with neat and uniform militia equipment.

-

As the afternoon passed, it was approaching dusk. The last batch of militia teams all received their assignments and walked out of the city gate square.

Knight Crow patted Kil, who was tired from talking and guiding him, and the two of them walked directly to the camp outside the city.

As soon as Knight Crow left, the government office occupied the other half of the square and quickly occupied the entire square with donkey carts and supplies.

Some people brought in fire pots and oiled torches for lighting, and some people rushed over to clean up the excrement excreted by the donkeys. These things would be collected and poured into the sewage outlet.

It's not that the people of Kendall don't know how to fertilize and irrigate the land, but with the help of the annual spring floods, the fields near Kendall City are all the most fertile and high-quality land.

There is no need to pour fertilizer, and there will be the freshest fertile land for them to use every year.

Of course, it is not that no one has the idea of ​​​​discharging these random sewage. Transporting these discarded things to other villages will definitely be welcomed by the locals.

But except for the nearby Dismal Forest Village in the mountains and forests on the west side of Kendall City, the other villages are still far away. A simple trip to transport excrement is really not worthwhile.

So gradually, no one did this in Kendall City.

Kiel followed Knight Crow out of the city gate. When he arrived at the militia camp on the road outside the city gate, he saw hundreds of militiamen neatly dressed and with spears like a forest. The appearance of the entire team was very different from before.

The militiamen all wore the same clothes and equipment. The difference in whether each family was rich or not was no longer visible. All the militiamen put away their worn-out clothes. Now they gathered in the middle of the road, listening to Rumi standing high up. The knights gave speeches for their training later on the road.

Basically, all the militia members have participated in the winter militia training in previous years, and are basically proficient in using spears and crossbows. Some of the people whose families have money and land have also practiced the use of machetes and ordinary long swords since childhood.

But after all, large-scale battles cannot be satisfied by simple training like before. Knight Rumi not only requires the militiamen to recall various team formation trainings on the road ahead, but also requires each of them to be proficient in various war talents. Skills required.

Basic war organization skills such as long-distance marching, quick camping, quick cooking, response to night camp attack, battle launch, pursuit cessation, defensive retreat, etc.

Not only do ordinary militiamen need to master these and know what to do when needed, but it also requires the two captains of each team to know when and what to do for the entire team.

Of course it is most natural to obey orders, but Baron Kendall spent so much money on the county militia, so he naturally had no intention of making these militia as mediocre as the troops under other nobles.

That night, Knight Crow and Knight Rumi prepared all the militiamen to prepare for departure tomorrow.

So at night, many militiamen secretly went to the sewage outlet and drainage outlet of Kendall City and washed their dirty clothes with the clean river water from the drainage outlet.

No one knows how the city of Kendall ensures that the entire city has clean water during floods.

Keel didn't know either. He guessed that this might mean that there was a large water purification device under Kendall City that was not usually used and was only activated during spring floods.

Or a large water purification project.

Originally, it was like a feudal world in the Middle Ages. Keir couldn't believe that there could be such a thing. After all, other people around him were not surprised by it, or even didn't notice it.

But since he has lived here for a long time and has witnessed the harvest festival and spring floods, he feels that everything appearing in the other world is relatively normal.

Divine magic is not simply about praying to the gods for power. In the hands of local priests, they can use it to their advantage.

-

Before dawn the next day, before the chickens and dogs in the city woke up, the militiamen outside the city were already being urged to get up.

After wiping their faces with old clothes that had not yet dried, most of the militiamen woke up.

The army cooks who had gotten up earlier than them had already prepared a fragrant breakfast with the help of the night watch militiamen.

Kil, who had not taken off his clothes when he went to bed last night, put on his armor and boots, and went straight to the bowl to get food. A Crow Knight's morning meal is no different than that of an ordinary soldier.

So Kil also went to eat together. He couldn't indulge in Knight Crow's food like he did two days ago.

Several different tubers are minced and poured into a large pot, with simply crushed stale wheat grains added, and the soup is half ready in one pot.

Next is the chef's trick. Put the marinated fat meat tied with a rope into the soup. When oil stars float on the surface of the gradually thickening soup, the cook pulls the rope again, lifts out the fat meat, and keeps it. Use it next time.

Although it doesn't look like much, this thing is very hungry.

Each person is given a cheap wheat cake or bread made in the city yesterday, and this food will last everyone throughout the day.

The next meal will have to wait until the evening.

It's not so bad now. When Kiel was eating, he heard from the cook that after leaving Kendall County and marching in other places, the supplies at that time would basically depend on what was available locally in the places he passed by, and he would eat whatever was available. When he couldn't buy anything, he could only eat a small amount of pickled products and wheat flour stored in the army.

The main reason for not bringing prepared food is because of the storage time of baked wheat cakes and bread.

But I heard that in a kingdom in the far north, they have bread that can be eaten for half a year. It is even said that this kind of bread can even defend against arrows!

Kiel didn’t believe it anyway.

The hunting bow in the hunter's hand can penetrate his armor at close range, how could it be blocked by the solid bread?

Nonsense!

If we really want to follow the legend, then that kingdom does not need to forge armor at all, and directly gives the soldiers armor baked with strong bread, which can be used as military rations and can withstand shooting.

Invincible belongs to yes.

You can also hold a round pancake-shaped bread in one hand and a spindle-shaped bread in the other. Now you are fully armed, really armed to the teeth.

Ha ha.

While eating, Kiel used these words to tease the cook, which earned him a blank stare and laughter from the surrounding militiamen.

After a quick meal, Keel returned to the tent, fed the two horses with hay to fill their bellies, then dismantled his tent, rolled up his bedding, and stuffed everything into his carriage.

After putting saddles and reins on both horses, Kil then helped Knight Crow dismantle the tent.

Knight Crow returned to the city after eating early in the morning to make final preparations before departure, while here two personal guards loaded the tent and things into a carriage.

Knight Crowe has two carriages accompanying him. One is here and the other is still in the city. I heard from them that they will come out with the lord's team.

Other militiamen in the militia camp are also packing their luggage and supplies.

Naturally, the ordinary militiamen did not have accompanying carriages, so they had to carry their own belongings. But there were not many things, and the heaviest thing was the tents and bedding for the entire team, which needed to be carried on their backs by the entire team.

The simple tent is useless once it is dismantled. Each person can take a small amount and carry it easily behind his back.

Knight Rumi asked everyone to stay in place as a team after finishing sorting out the situation to free up space on the road.

After a while, Knight Crow wore the extremely heavy armor he wore when he wiped out bandits in the winter, riding the tall and strong monster-like horse, followed by a covered carriage drawn by two horses.

The knight came directly to Kiel and the others, and without dismounting, he asked two guards to set up the carriage. The servant who originally set up the carriage saluted and left.

"Kiel, let the two of them hang your carriage on the back of my carriage with a rope. You get on the horse and follow me."

Knight Crow ordered.

"Yes, Lord Knight."

Gere stepped on the stirrups and climbed onto his horse. And handed over his luggage carriage to two guards.

He then followed Knight Crow.

His horse was a little afraid of Knight Crow's war horse and was unwilling to get close. Kil had to constantly comfort it, and then gave it a little courage to let it follow the tall war horse.

Knight Crow brought Kil to the door of Baron Kendall's big tent, where Knight Rumi was already waiting.

"Claude, your movements are really slow."

As soon as he came over, Knight Rumi rode close to Knight Crow and complained to him.

"I can't help it. I have been preparing for a long time at home, picking and choosing. Hey, it's not like I'm going out for an outing, but my wife actually wants to give me a dress to bring. She said that we are going to the south of the kingdom and we can't lose the face of us northerners. Ha ha."

"Ha ha ha ha."

The two burst into laughter, not knowing what was so funny about it.

Keir didn't laugh.

But what he didn't know was that the people and nobles of the Kingdom of Saint Halls basically migrated from several provinces in the western part of the empire. What was the difference between the north and the south of the kingdom a few decades ago?

While joking, a group of cavalry walked out of the gate of Kendall City. The first rider was the very formally dressed Baron Kendall.

The baron rode out with several followers and more than ten elite guards.

The baron himself took the lead, followed by the entourage and the guards in pairs. The column passed through the road in the middle of the militia camp and headed here.

"Don't speak suddenly for a while. You don't speak until someone talks to you." Knight Crow turned around and told Kil, who nodded heavily to express his understanding.

As a group of cavalry approached the baron's big tent, they gradually shouted to slow down.

Keir saw that the contemporary Baron Kendall was middle-aged, with a slightly muscular face but he looked very smart. The beard on his face was trimmed very neatly, and he was wearing a more formal hunting suit, that is, not armor. Not too formal either.

It looked like he was taking someone out hunting.

However, he still wore a set of eye-catching gemstone equipment, including a crown, necklace, silver wristbands, gloves inlaid with gems, a gorgeous belt, and very expensive-looking gold and silver-decorated boots.

At the same time, he still carried the gem dagger and gem dagger that Kil had seen from a distance last time on his belt.

The baron's horse is very majestic. It is covered with a patchwork leather vest decorated with colorful fabrics. It looks extremely gorgeous, majestic but not scary.

Behind him, the followers were all wearing brighter, but obviously looser coats with close-fitting armor underneath. Their horses are relatively ordinary, but unlike Kiel's horses, their horses are obviously equipped with some large and small wooden boxes or leather bags, and it is unknown what is contained in them.

Later, the baron's personal guards were much more normal. They were dressed the same as the town guards under Crow Knight, except that they were equipped with swords, guns and bows, as well as armor for personnel and horses, and the personal guards all wore a coat with the crest of the Kendall family on them. Chapter cloak.

Looks very elite.

Baron Kendall rode through the militia camp and glanced at the hundreds of militiamen on both sides. He was very satisfied with the dress and mental state of the militiamen.

Therefore, after arriving at his tent and dismounting, he seemed quite excited.

The Baron dismounted, Knight Crowe and Knight Rumi also dismounted, and Kil also turned over and dismounted.

The three lords of Kendall County patted each other affectionately, and then walked into the tent together. Kil saw Knight Crow's eyes and immediately followed behind Knight Crow.

Later, Baron Kendall's entourage also dismounted and followed.

The baron's personal guards did not dismount, but were surrounding the big tent, doing vigilance work.

-

There was nothing in the tent. After the three people came in, they just stood in the middle and talked.

Baron Kendall glanced at Kil, who followed in and stood silently behind Knight Crow, and then said to Knight Crow: "Crow, won't you introduce this young man to me?"

Knight Crow turned around, let go of Kil behind him, and knocked hard on Kil's chest armor with his fist: "Joe Kil. A little warrior who can fight monsters alone. The man who was with Jenny last winter. Together, we completely defeated the Wolf King. I think this young man has great potential, is brave and young, has a good brain, and can learn anything very quickly. So I recruited him as my knight squire, and I brought him with me this time. It means nurturing.”

"Oh, that's good. Haha, young man, I am the local lord, hello."

Baron Kendall patted Keir on the shoulder, and Keir immediately put his heels together and beat his chest in salute.

His face was serious, and he had to be serious. After getting closer to Baron Kendall, he realized that although there was no sense of coercion and bloody murderous intent like Knight Crowe and Knight Rumi, Baron Kendall gave him a feeling of extreme fear.

How to put it, it was like if Baron Kendall moved his finger in front of him, he would die.

Will he really die?

It's true that the various gems on Baron Kendall's body are different from ordinary gems. You can only see them when you get close. Those gems can shine by themselves, and there is full of power flowing inside.

God! This magical gem!