Chapter 61: Murder Incident in the Caravan Accompanying the Army (14)

Keir waited for everyone to pack up, and then immediately led them back to the northwest gate of Grass Rat Town.

When they arrived at the gate again, Kiel and the others noticed that there were more soldiers at the gate, and they blocked most of the people and goods who wanted to leave the town.

"Why? Why don't you let us out! We were fine just now!"

Some groups of people carrying a small amount of goods gathered inside the city gate and became noisy and angry at the soldiers guarding the city gate.

But at the city gate, the caravans and pedestrians entering the town were not blocked.

The soldiers of the Western Province were not easy to mess with. They were surrounded by people who cursed and questioned them. They were not good-tempered either. They directly pushed down the people gathered in front of them: "This is an order from above! Don't cause trouble for me. I can't tell you." If you go out, you are not allowed to go out! Go back to the hotel and wait for orders. If you have nowhere to go, squat on the side of the street and don't block the road!"

The people who were lying on the ground were afraid of the bright sword drawn from the soldier's waist, and immediately retreated obediently.

But at this time, the steward of a larger caravan came over. This middle-aged man was dressed in gorgeous clothes. He pointed friendly at his carriage and team behind him and asked: "So, what about us?"

Facing this kind of large caravan manager with dozens of people under his command, the soldiers had another look on their faces. They knew where the salary they received from the lord came from, and they had good dealings with these big shots. Sometimes they had troubles. Less benefits.

"Hey, sir, which chamber of commerce does your caravan belong to? Although people are not allowed to leave the town temporarily, the big chamber of commerce is the most reliable partner in our town. As long as you are a big chamber of commerce that cooperates with the town , you can leave the town directly after inspection."

Then the merchant pointed to the Chamber of Commerce logo on the carriage behind him. The soldier who spoke immediately stood up respectfully and allowed the caravan's carriage to move forward and be inspected in the open space inside the town gate.

Originally, some people wanted to come around and find trouble after seeing this scene, but the soldiers immediately changed their faces, which made ordinary people and ordinary businessmen retreat.

Kiel and the others saw such a scene when they walked in from the town gate. However, except for Kiel and the eight members of the Nightingale Militia Team, they laughed softly at this, but the others looked indifferent.

After entering the town, we walked directly along the widest street towards the center of the town, and soon arrived at the square in the center of the town.

At this time, Knight Anvina was waiting here with dozens of soldiers. The soldiers were so majestic that the onlookers did not dare to get close. They only dared to gather at the small streets beside the square and point at them.

Seeing Kiel bringing people over, Pavey, who was dressed like a soldier, immediately waved and walked over: "I'll be waiting for you."

"It's not too late, is it?"

Pawe shook his head, and then shouted to his uncle: "Sir Anvina, the Kendal people are coming."

Knight Anvina nodded, said nothing, waved his hand, and walked down the street in the southwest direction of the town. The local soldiers immediately followed suit.

Kil also waved to his companions and followed them.

Fanny, who was in the team, was wearing a gray cloak that covered her face, even her face was tightly wrapped, for fear that the people around her would see who she was. Her heart was beating loudly, and when she glanced at the people around them who were pointing and looking at them, she felt nervous and scared.

Her feet were getting weaker and weaker, but Lubis noticed her cowardice and reached out to grab her arm, half pulling and half carrying the girl to follow the team.

Grass Rat Town is neither big nor small. It is a prosperous place with wide streets and shops, but it is messy and poor. The slums where most of the people in the town live, take up a lot of the town.

The narrow streets made of dry hard mud were almost untouched by rain, otherwise you wouldn't know how deep your shoes would sink in if you stepped on them. Moreover, the open-air sewers where excrement is disposed of are right next to the street. Households on the roadside have to use slates and wooden boards to cross the sewers in front of their homes before they can walk onto the street.

However, this is convenient for everyone to throw away the excrement at night as soon as they go out.

This also results in the taste of ghetto being very ‘natural’, or too ‘artificial’.

Most of the soldiers under the Knights of Anvina were not from here, and rarely came here during normal patrols. Therefore, as soon as they entered here, they pinched their noses. After enduring it for a while, they had to let the air filled with the smell of excrement enter them. nose.

Kil sniffed his nose and looked indifferent. He had been tested.

This is nothing, it’s just a trivial matter.

Rubis and Yimol couldn't bear it the most. Rubis even had to use his other hand to take out a handkerchief and cover his nose, while Yimol had a long face and a look of pain on his face as he slowly adapted to this place.

The two guards didn't care. Compared with the smell of excrement, they thought it was just a splash of water after dealing with rotting corpses in Kendall City.

Fanny's own home was here, which was quite normal, but she kept looking in one direction, as if she was looking at her home, but then she remembered something, and she lowered her head suddenly and stopped raising it.

Naturally, one has the tacit approval of the poor family to work as a prostitute, but the meaning of knowing it at home is very different from knowing it by the neighbors.

She didn't dare to let the neighbors she knew know anything, even if what she was doing at this time was far different from that of a prostitute.

-

Yesterday, Kil naturally informed the Anwena Knights about the territory of the Yisi Blade Head Gang. His source of information was naturally Scar Pari, and Scar Pari had been with other people before what happened in the past two days. Some people secretly inquired about the details of Yisi Daotou Gang.

The Yisi Knifehead Gang has two faces. One is for ordinary people in the town. It is just the most powerful new gang among several ordinary gangs in the slums.

The other one is the one dealing with shop merchants in other parts of the town. It was a powerful face that relied on the Thieves Guild to do whatever it wanted to the merchants.

Although some local shop owners represented by Scar Parry did not dare to object to the 'cooperation' of the Yisi Blade Gang, they took advantage of their local advantages early and learned about the situation of the Yisi Blade Gang in detail.

If this doesn't happen, it is estimated that in a year or two, these shop owners will completely give up the idea of ​​doing anything.

Speaking of which, at this time.

Knight Anvina slowed down and led everyone to stop a street away from the Yisi Blade Head Gang.

He turned around and waved to Kiel, who hurried over.

Knight Anvina took out a detailed map of Grass Rat Town from his waist. To Kil's expectation, the map was not as abstract as he imagined, but rather very detailed and clear. He looked at the street he came from and could even find the route he took on the map.

Mr. Pavey and the soldier captain were not surprised. They naturally knew that this was an advanced skill that their lord had mastered when he served in the army.

The soldier captain himself was a soldier under the knight when he was serving at that time. He retired with the knight earlier and returned to the territory arranged by the earl for the Anvina knight to live.

"Here is where we are now." Knight Anvina lowered his voice very low, but it was still loud.

Kil looked at the map. The knight used charcoal to mark a small house mark on the map. This was the home base of the Yisi Bladehead Gang who was about to attack later.

And they were right next to it.

"Fron, lead twenty of your best soldiers from this intersection to the street behind the opponent's lair. Guard there. If you see suspicious people, arrest them directly. If you hear the sound of my attack, immediately attack while surrounding them. ." The knight ordered to the soldier captain.

The soldier captain tapped his chest to express his understanding.

Then Knight Anvina said to his nephew: "Pawei, take fifteen people and enter the residents' houses next to the opponent's nest from here. Let the residents stay quietly while your people climb up." Get on the roof and be careful not to let them escape from the roof."

Pavel nodded to show that he understood, but then he realized something and hit his chest again.

The knight then spoke to Kil: "Kil, I saw your men carrying crossbows to support two people to Pavel. Then you took the rest of your men to the other side of the stack lair. The same goes for residents' homes, go to the roof and don't let the other party escape from the roof."

Keir hit his chest, it should be.

Finally, the Anvina Knight pointed at the end of the street: "I will lead the remaining soldiers to attack from the front and try to capture them alive. I want to know what they have been doing these days. Of course, those who dare to resist will defeat them." That thief named Yi Si, capture him alive. I’m still useful.”

"clear!"

"clear!"

"clear!"

The three of Kiel should be at the same time.

The knight waved his hand and the three led the team to disperse.

Kil ordered a militia squad of Nightingale militiamen and Kayan guards to Pavey to support their long-range shooting capabilities. The main reason is that the short spears thrown by the local soldiers behind the back are too powerful and hit the human torso. Without timely magical treatment, it is easy to be fatal.

Although the arrows of the crossbow are just as deadly.

Pawe immediately led his troops into several residents' homes facing the street. Regardless of the opposition and questions from the other party, he directly drove all the residents into a house and put them under guard by a soldier. The others all climbed up the narrow and steep stairs to the residents' homes. roof.

The residential houses here are all built right next to each other, with only a narrow gap of less than one meter in between, which is a distance that people can jump directly across.

That's why the knight was wary of his opponent jumping over the wall and escaping from such a place after being surrounded.

If you want to surround them, surround them all, leaving no gaps for the other party to escape.

Kil was one step ahead of the Anvina Knight soldiers and rushed to the other side of the Yisi Blade Head Gang's lair in advance.

As the temporary captain, Keir took the lead and took the lead in breaking down the door of a resident's house.

"who!"

The door of the house was broken down, and residents who were having breakfast in the house immediately held metal forks in their hands to question the visitor, but they panicked after seeing the heavily armed Kiir and militiamen.

The owner of the house stretched out his arms to shield his family, while the young son picked up a wooden chair and threw it at Kiel.

The elf metal shield was in front of him. After blocking the opponent's chair, Kil went up and punched the young man in the stomach. Looking at the man who was about his age lying down, he then explained: "The lord knight has an order to temporarily borrow your house to fight against the gangs in the town. Let's cooperate and don't ask for trouble."

However, the family in the house did not believe what Kiel said. The reason was simple. Kiel and the others were all outsiders and did not wear the soldier uniforms that the local people were familiar with. Naturally, no one believed what he said.

In response, Kil scratched the helmet on his head and waved helplessly: "Take their family to an empty house and leave someone to guard them. The others will follow me!"

Keir ignored the owner's protest and rushed up the stairs quickly. After reaching the second floor, he continued to follow the stairs to the third floor.

The third floor was even lower and filled with useless miscellaneous wood products, as well as wood and mud toys left behind by some children when they used this place as a secret base.

Pushing open the wooden window on one side of the third floor, this half-person-high window is just enough for people to climb out. This kind of window that opens from the inside is also the entry and exit place for residents to tidy up the rain-proof thatch on their roofs.

Keir was the first to come out with his head lowered and then stepped on the crunching hay to the roof.

The men filed out, and every time one came out, Keir directed that person to squat on the surrounding rooftops.

The militiamen quickly arrived at the place indicated by Kiel, then took out their crossbows and began to cock their arrows. Lubis pulled Fanny by the window. Naturally, it wasn't Fanny's turn to come on stage at this time. He just had to keep an eye on the girl who could identify the murderer.

Zambirus crouched behind Kil, observing the lair of the Yisi Bladehead Gang with Kil.

-

The home base of the Yisi Knifehead Gang is not just a house, nor is it the former Ska Chamber of Commerce with a whole street of tyrants. As a gang, they have manpower but limited wealth.

So as Kier saw on the rooftops of neighboring residents, the Yisi Knifehead Gang connected several houses in the residential area together, and built several suspended wooden bridge walkways in the middle, which was artificially built. A stronghold lair with an inner courtyard.

The stronghold faces the street in front and back, but the main entrance has a popular illegal business shop. As Scarparry said, the shops on the street that are used as fronts are a small casino, a grocery store that sells stolen goods, and a gambling shop. Taverns where thugs, thugs, speculators, and gang thieves often gather to sell information.

Behind the store was a yard enclosed by a building. Keir saw that there was a well and a stable in the yard, but there was no carriage. After all, they are not a gang that relies on serious business to make a living.

The houses on both sides of the yard belong to the Yisi Blade Head Gang. They are three-story buildings and are obviously where the gang's personnel live.

At the other end of the yard is a house facing another street, but there is no shop here. There is only a large wooden door facing the street that can allow carriages to enter and exit, and the normal door of the house.

Kiel saw that directly opposite him, Pawei had already led people on the roof, and at the back door of Yisi Blade Head Gang, the soldier captain had already led people in place.

So he looked at the front entrance of the gang's lair. With a loud bang, mixed with the sounds of soldiers shouting for attack, a fight broke out at the front door.

At the same time, the captain of the soldiers at the back door heard the sound of the Anvina knight in front wielding a giant ax to break through the wall, and immediately led others to crash into the two wooden doors at the back door.

There was a copper lock hung on the wooden door through which the carriage could pass. It was quickly shattered by the slashes of two strong soldiers. The fallen copper lock was also picked up by the soldiers and put into their bag.

After all, it is made of copper. Not to mention the value of the lock itself, the weight of the copper alone is no less than dozens of copper coins.

Everything went well here, but the two soldiers who hit the back door of the house failed in vain, because the back door of this seemingly ordinary house turned out to be exceptionally strong.

"Go away, I'll do it!" the soldier captain scolded his men, and then stepped forward in person, no longer hitting the wooden door of unknown thickness with his shoulder, but taking out his weapon - a two-handed tomahawk.

Obviously, this soldier captain imitated his knight lord weapon, but this ax is not so super model, it is still enough for ordinary people to use it normally.

Even it weighs more than ten kilograms.

The ax blade was red, and it was obviously strengthened with magic materials, making it stronger than ordinary steel weapons.

"Haha!" the soldier captain yelled, and while rushing forward, he swung out his ax with both hands, and directly hit the back door of the house specially reinforced by the Yisi Blade Head Gang with the ax.

There was a loud crack, wood chips flying, and the heavy and sharp ax directly smashed a hole in the wooden door. A nervous face was revealed behind the hole.

The soldier captain then swung his ax horizontally and continued to open along the crack just now, Cang!

The ax chopped into pieces of the next wooden door and hit the stone wall door frame with a loud sound.

The soldier captain then pointed the ax straight and pushed the upper part of the wooden door that had been cut horizontally into the door.

Then, ignoring the shouts and obstructions of the young gangster inside the door, he reached into the inside of the wooden door where the wooden dowel was fixed and opened the door.

As soon as the door opened, he rushed inside and kicked over the gang thug who was hitting him on the arm with a stick.

"Tied!"

He said to his men who followed him in.

-

Kil saw the captain of the soldiers at the back door leaving four soldiers at the passage connecting the yard where the carriage could be walked, while the others poured into the back door house of the Yisi Blade Head Gang.

Then there were roars and sounds of fighting inside.

Kil looked at the main entrance, and then saw a half-man flying out of the wooden window of the main entrance facing the yard, wailing.

This man was holding a bloody dagger in his hand, and he didn't know whether it was half of his body that had been stained with blood at this time, or whether it was stained with blood from the fight with the soldiers in the front store.

As the attack officially began, it was not that the Yisi Knife Head Gang did nothing. Many gang members in messy clothes suddenly poured out of the houses where gang personnel lived on both sides of the yard. A wooden window on the second floor of the opposite house opened. A middle-aged man yelled and ordered these gang thugs to go to support the front and back doors.

Keir called out and asked the militiamen to pass over the chaotic thugs in the yard and shoot them all directly at the guy who leaned out of the second-story wooden window to direct.

"Aim at the man and shoot!"

Kiel gave an order, and six Nightingale squad militiamen released their crossbows.

Swish swish swish swish.

A series of crossbow arrows came, but the man seemed to have noticed Kil's shout just now, and saw Kil and others in the opposite room one step ahead.

In a flash, the man disappeared behind the wooden window.

But Kil still noticed the cry of pain coming from that direction among the chaotic sounds.

"Free fire! Don't let them support the front and rear doors!"

Keir ordered because he saw the gang thugs retracting into the house they came out of after noticing people on the roofs on both sides of the yard. Of course, many of them rushed directly into the front and back doors of the house.

A few emaciated thieves wanted to take the opportunity to sneak out through the carriage passage, but were immediately blocked by four soldiers guarding there and started fighting.

The four houses of Yi Si Dao Tou Gang not only have a courtyard in the middle where you can walk around, but they also built a second-story walkway at the corner of the house, so that you can go directly to the house without passing through the yard.

Kiir asked the militiamen to shoot at these places. Although they may not be able to hit the passing gang thugs, it can also bring psychological pressure to those who want to pass, forcing them to stay in place and cannot support other places.

At the back door of the house, Keir heard that there seemed to be a confrontation inside. The fight was not fierce, but the front door was very lively. A series of loud bangs came out, accompanied by the soldiers cheering in unison.

Apparently the Knights of Avina are showing off their skills.

Kil looked at Mr. Pavey from a distance on the roof directly opposite, and shouted to him: "Go down?"

No matter what the other party thought, Kil directly took Zambirus, ran twice on the soft roof, and jumped directly to the roof of the Yisi Knifehead Gang facing him.

call!

Keir jumped across the narrow gap between the houses and landed directly on the opposite roof. But walking on these roofs was no problem, but falling heavily was a big problem.

Both Keir and Zambirus smashed through the roof and landed in a large room on the second floor of the house.