Chapter 60, Emergency Preparedness

"No! No! My God! By the Goddess of Mercy!" The farmer saw several black shadows appearing on the horizon, and was almost scared out of his wits.

I saw a few robbers riding bad horses, wielding tomahawks and longbows rushing towards the family in the middle of the road.

"Run! Run!" The farmer subconsciously beckoned his family to run away: "I'll stop them! Run!"

"What nonsense are you talking about! You are the only labor force. This family can live without me, but it cannot live without you!" The farmer's father and the boy's grandfather picked up a pitchfork, his old face full of determination: "You run away!"

"Quick!!!" After speaking, the old man rushed straight in the direction of the robber.

The two children were still standing there blankly, and they still didn't understand what happened.

"Grandpa...Grandpa?" The boy froze on the spot, looking at his grandfather's back: "Grand...Grandpa?"

"Run! Lucas! Clara! Woohoo~" the peasant woman dragged her two children and fled desperately, with tears welling up in the corners of her eyes, she knew that her husband's father was using his own life delay.

"Father!!!" The farmer put his mother on the cart and pushed it with all his strength. This place is not far from Mijodenhaven. As long as he can run for a short time, he might have a chance of survival .

"Hand over all the valuables!" In the distance, the robber's greedy voice could be faintly heard.

But the sudden response made the family stunned.

"That's right, I'm talking about you guys, hand over all the valuables to me! Then... save your life here!" A knight wearing a full set of chain mail and breastplate suddenly appeared on the side of the road. A knight was riding on a war horse, with a white wolf knight badge on his chest, holding a warhammer and shouting at the robbers rushing in the distance.

His voice was more greedy than that of the robber.

"FUCK! It's the White Wolf Knight! It's a trap! Get out, everyone!" There were five robbers rushing forward. They rushed over when they heard the cry of a child, but they actually met a White Wolf Knight? !

The leading bandit was short in stature, armed with a long gun, and was riding a short rotten horse. Seeing a white wolf knight approaching in front of him, he tightened the reins in fright. The robber also threw a dog to eat mud.

"Give it to me!" Ryan rode past the old man, stretched out his hand and grabbed the pitchfork from the old man without any explanation.

"Of course, honorable Lord Knight!!!" The old man replied subconsciously with his hands empty.

Ryan threw the pitchfork in his hand fiercely. The pitchfork flying in the air pierced the sound barrier and pierced into the chest of the first robber, knocking him off his horse and bringing down another robber by the way.

"I have no choice but to fight!" At this moment, there were only two robbers left. They knew that the bad horses and naughty horses they were riding were definitely not as capable as Ryan's war horse, so they could only turn the horse's head and prepare to fight to the death. .

Ryan ran fast, and the two robbers had just turned around, and Ryan had already passed by them.

Two heads fell to the ground.

The next thing was very simple, Ryan ignored the pleadings of the robbers with a smile on his face, repaired the remaining three robbers, then picked up the pitchfork, and handed it to the old man: "Give it back to you. "

"Thank you, Lord White Wolf Knight!" The old man immediately reached out to take it, and then knelt down very excitedly: "Thank you! You saved our lives. May I have the honor to know your name?"

"My name is Ryan, 'Sledgehammer' Ryan."

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When Ryan came to Miljordenhaven, he led several horses by himself, and there were still many tattered armor and weapons hanging on the horses.

If you take these things to the black market and resell them, you should be able to sell them for a pretty good price.

Ryan thought so.

Thinking of making a lot of money without any effort, Ryan is in a good mood.

He likes robbers best.

Because if the other party is a robber, Ryan can justifiably become a real "bandit" and take everything from the other party directly through violence. Everything is legal.

Unlike the robbers he let go when he was in Hordalan Mountain, those robbers were villagers who could not survive. They were forced to be robbers because they had no choice but to do so. In this case, if Ryan killed a few leaders, the remaining It is an ideal result to disband the villagers who have not lost their conscience.

But for this kind of robber who specializes in robbing houses and attacking travelers and farmers on the road, Ryan thinks that there is no need for mercy. Letting them go is just letting the tiger go back to the mountain. He said that the only kindness is to punish them on the spot.

Then their ill-gotten gains are their own.

The good mood didn't last long. When he noticed the situation at the gate of the city, his original mood disappeared completely.

Crowds of soldiers are constantly running on the city wall, all kinds of defensive equipment have been assembled and reinforced, the non-commissioned officers loudly yell at the soldiers to hurry up, and at the same time, they are strictly interrogating those who want to enter the city, looking for possible signs of the barbarians. spy.

The barbarians are coming! This is the information Ryan obtained from the villagers he met earlier.

"Crushing Bear" Bireg led more than 4,000 barbarian troops into the hinterland of Nord, burning, killing and looting everywhere. Since almost all the troops were on the front line to resist the barbarian attack, the internal defense of Nord was empty. When the king finally turned his troops to deal with Bireg, the barbarian army had already carved a bloody road in Nordland.

Yesterday, Mijodenhaven received a report from the front that the bear tribe led by Bireg was heading straight for Mijodenhawen! It seems that something in this port city is attracting them madly.

The city that received the alert entered into a full-scale martial law, and the soldiers who hadn't been fighting for a long time continued to gather. All the conscripts gathered under the order of the Lord Earl and received weapons in the arsenal.

Ryan jumped into the city very easily, but before he could take a few steps, a group of heavily armed soldiers surrounded him, and the leader of the army dismounted, walked up to Ryan, and saluted him: "Hello! Mr. White Wolf Knight 'Sledgehammer' Ryan! It is a great honor to meet you, and our lord, Earl Albert Baker, invited you to join us in the ongoing military meeting."

"Of course, but please allow me to go back to the hotel and settle down." Ryan knew that he was preparing for battle.

"Okay, we'll wait for you here."

Hurrying back to the hotel, Ryan found the sorceress sitting in the lobby waiting for him, her long legs in tight black leather pants and high-heeled boots raised: "Ryan? Why are you coming back now? Let me tell you, the barbarians are heading towards Here it comes..."

"I know." Ryan hurriedly put down his things, and then handed over all the seized ill-gotten gains to the innkeepers. Most of these innkeepers have some dark ways to deal with these things.

"So, Ryan, we can't wait for the boat to go out to sea anymore. I talked to Sister Dietlinde, why don't we build a teleportation array, go directly back to Sky Dome, and then use the teleportation array there to go directly to Marienburg?" Teresa immediately stood up and followed him upstairs: "What do you think?"

It was only then that Ryan noticed that the lobby was full of people, ranging from businessmen to citizens, shopkeepers, and farmers. Everyone was discussing the barbarian invasion, and everyone's face was full of tension: the barbarians are coming!

"That's a no-brainer. There is no stable teleportation array here. If you want to build it yourself, the cost of it may be higher than the commission you paid this time, right?" Ryan rushed up to the third floor, Trey Sha followed closely behind him: "But you know, this city has mobilized a lot of defenders because of the war, and now even with conscripts, the defenders will not exceed a thousand! This city is very It may be impossible to hold on!"

"There are still militiamen." Ryan opened the door of his room and said lightly.

"Militiamen? Those peasants are of no use, they are only responsible for sending them to death..." Tereza just halfway through her words, suddenly closed her mouth subconsciously.

She had promised Ryan that she would treat everyone equally.

"I'm going to the pre-war meeting now." Ryan didn't refute her on this point, because Teresa was actually right, and that's all the militia could do. The man reached out and patted the sorceress on the shoulder: "If you don't want to, then you and Ms. Dietlinde can be teleported directly back to Skydome! I am a knight of Nord, and I must fight to defend my country!"

"No, I will stay and fight the enemy with you!" The sorceress rejected the man's suggestion.

"...Thank you." Ryan nodded: "What about Alfred and the others?"

"The paladins have gathered at the Church of Justice. No one can stay out of this battle." Teresa replied calmly, and then watched Ryan leave in a hurry.

Count Albert Baker, the "tax collector" Earl of Mijodenhaven, was standing in his three-story castle, and his two knights were standing in front of the map, checking the battle situation.

Albert is a middle-aged man in his forties. His appearance looks softer and gentler. He is not a rough man like Villard. He has dark circles in his eyes and some unhealthy flushing on his face.

Standing with him were two of his knights, Nikolai, nicknamed "Knight of the Nut," and Valdemar, nicknamed "Knight of the Bamboo Pole."

"I really don't understand why this group of bastard barbarians are coming towards Mijoden Haven? I really can't think of any reason for them to come to us? You must know that they are very close to Winter City Already!" Albert first scolded, when he just received the informant, he really couldn't believe why Bireg came towards his territory, you know, Mijodenhaven is located on the west coast of Nord , with natural mountains as a defense, and it is only four or five days away from the empire's territory. Not only that, but there is also a pass on the way to Mijodenhaven-Ok Pass.

"According to the intelligence of the scouts, Bireg's order was issued without warning. His troops originally planned to attack Cold Winter City directly after destroying several villages, but... the bear tribe suddenly abandoned it. Most of them were seized, and the force marched towards Mijoden Haven!" The Walnut Knight Nikolai was an elite middle-level ranger with mid-length hair, and his weapon was a mace and a large bow on his back.

"The problem now is that our defensive strength is insufficient!" Bamboo Knight Valdemar is an elite high-ranking knight who keeps his size. He likes to use lances and firecrackers. They are members, and their strength is very average, because the most powerful knight under the command of Earl Mijodenhaven is participating in the war against the barbarians in the north.

Mijodenhawen originally had a standing army of 500, but after the king issued a call-up order, Mijodenhawen responded to the call and dispatched a large number of troops to the front line. Now the standing army in Mijodenhawen is less than 300 people, even if it is an emergency It is also a big problem to recruit all the conscripts and whether they can gather a thousand defenders.

But the barbarian army has four thousand people!

"Anyway, when is it expected that Bireg and his damn bear tribe will arrive under the city wall?" Albert knew that it was useless to entangle why the barbarians suddenly rushed towards his territory now. God knows what those heretics were thinking in their minds. What are they?

"The defenders of Oak Pass will try their best to delay Bireg's footsteps, so that Mijoden Haven can improve its defense as much as possible..." Walnut Knight Nikolai frowned, his face was covered with grease, obviously he had eaten it just now Meat.

The Oak Pass is built on the mountain, and it is the only way between Mijodenhaven and Winter City. Mijodenhaven was not on alert because of the barbarian invasion before, and it is precisely this pass.

"There are only 200 defenders at Oak Pass. We can't hope that they can delay Birig's footsteps for a long time. My knights, tell me, according to the worst case, when will the Bearman tribe arrive at us? Under the city walls?" Albert waved his hand to signal that there is no need to count those who have.

"The soonest... the morning after tomorrow, thousands of barbarians will arrive in Mijodenhaven." Valdemar, the bamboo pole knight, thought for a while and gave an answer.

The room fell into silence.

At this moment, the guard standing at the door stood at attention and saluted, and then Ryan walked in: "Hello, Your Excellency Albert!"

"Hello! White Wolf Knight Ryan, I am Albert, Earl of Mijodenhaven, welcome. We need your strength at this critical moment." Albert immediately stepped forward to greet him.

After briefly describing the current situation, the four stood in front of the map again.

"Ryan, you have participated in many wars with the barbarians, and you know their fighting power best. According to our current strength, can we hold this city?" The Lord Earl turned his attention to Ryan for help.

"Then you have to tell me how much power this city still has."

"This city can probably gather about 300 soldiers. Besides, if all conscripts are recruited..." Albert set his sights on his clerk.

The clerk came up: "There are about 600 registered conscripts."

"What about veterans?" Ryan asked.

"Even including the retired veterans, there will be no more than 800 people at most." The clerk replied.

Ryan was silent for a long time, and finally spoke in Albert's expectant eyes, his voice was a bit obscure.

"Call up all the militia."