Chapter 628 Wipe the Gun

"My lord, we just heard from a businessman outside... Earl Mirno's team is collecting food, but because they couldn't find any food, they let the knights go and plunder everywhere..."

"Yes, my lord, there are some people here who heard the news and fled here in advance."

Guarding the city gate will naturally hear all kinds of gossip, mixed with true and false, and there is no reference value at all.

Just as we were talking, a caravan arrived at the gate of the city, and the escorted mercenaries and drivers added up to a total of twenty people, and they lined up a row tens of meters long outside the gate of the city in a noisy manner—— The soldier Fang did a routine inspection, and the leader of the caravan stuffed a bag of silver coins with a flattering smile before letting him go.

After the team passed, Wright pointed with a smile: "Look at them, how do they look like after being robbed? You guys, don't listen to the wind and the rain!"

"Yes, yes, what your lord said is true! There are two other caravans coming in the morning. How can there be so many caravans? Isn't this a prosperous place now..."

How dare the city defense soldiers have any objection to Wright's words? They took out half of the coins and stuffed them in the past, while laughing and cursing and chatting about other things. It's just that they didn't see the hidden eye contact between Wright and the caravan leader, but they were surprised why the captain of the guard still didn't leave.

They didn't dare to ask why the captain of the guards wasted time here, so they could only chat about the upcoming Holy Prayer Day, but within ten minutes, they all found something strange in the distance .

The area where the temple is located is a plain with excellent daytime visibility, so when a few black smoke suddenly rises from the distant villages and towns, everyone can see it clearly.

"What's going on... something is burning?"

There was more than one column of smoke, and quickly changed from two to five, judging from the location, they basically matched the surrounding villages. The two city guards at the door looked puzzled, because they had never seen such a battle in their life, so they had to instinctively look at the captain of the guard, Wright, who had not left, as if asking for help.

And the captain of the guard looked solemn, and quickly made a decision: "Clear out all the people at the gate of the city! I will take the guard team to investigate later!"

"Yes! My lord!"

The two city soldiers did not suspect him, and hurriedly ran to disperse the pedestrians near the city gate according to the order. And Wright turned around and rushed towards the camp where the guards were located - but what others didn't notice was... a sneer appeared on the corner of the captain's mouth.

"Ready to start..."

Wright rushed back to the barracks where the temple guards were, and truthfully reported what he had just seen to the bishop in charge of defense. The latter also saw the black smoke and heard the warning bell ringing in the city at this time, so he immediately ordered the troops to go to support without any doubt - so the temple guards who hadn't gone out for many years finally had a mission, and hurriedly panicked Zhang's men began to gather and mount their horses, and five guard captains including Wright each led about forty guards on horseback to check what happened.

At present, there are about 600 garrison troops with horses in the Temple City. There are less than 400 cavalry units left, and only a little over 300 infantry units.

As for the city defense army...the only thing these young people who have never fought in battle are to stand on the city wall and look out curiously.

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"These stingy guys, they would rather give food to those moths than sell it to us!"

"Where is so much nonsense! Just grab it!"

Similar scenes are being staged in villages outside the Temple City. The "Holy Cult" knights with messy equipment and no tacit understanding at all are really no different from bandits at this time—or, in other words, many of them are actually I used to be a bandit, so it was very easy to do this kind of work of grabbing food.

The villagers never thought that there would be so many knights with tall horses coming to plunder, and they ran away in panic for a while, and among the knights who were not restrained, there were naturally some who had been holding back for many days and had their brains full of sperm.

Therefore, there are not a few people who get off their horses and catch women to solve their "personal problems"-they are no different from wild beasts in a state of war. Someone set fire to the village after looting...

"Damn! Who set the fire!?"

Zach, who was looting a village, cursed loudly. He looked at the smoke column not far away, and wished he could rush over and hack the person who set the fire to death. ? Are you afraid that others will not know that you are making trouble?

This kind of behavior is very stupid, so no matter how hard the "Crusader" knights did during the robbery, they did not set fire to the house. However, they naturally don't know... When the "Holy Cultists" who are full of bad faith ran out to "request food", they had already become an important pawn for the "Snake Cross".

The "Viper Cross" believers hiding in the team set their own villages on fire, so when the "Crusader" knights found out, it was too late to stop the spread of the fire... They could only watch the black smoke rising Days, and try to speed up the pace of looting.

The number of knights who came out to collect food was not too many, about 20 to 30 people went to each village-for a village, 20 fully armed knights were enough to wipe out all possible resistance forces. And there are also some auxiliary soldiers who are preparing to transport food, which add up to more than forty people. A total of seven villages near the temple were attacked and looted, and all were later ablaze with black smoke. So when the cavalry from the "Temple" came rushing in, they almost blocked the "Crusaders" who were robbing inside and outside the village face to face!

Seeing burned villages and murdered villagers, where did the Templars not know what happened? However, the temple guards who had a little understanding of the situation did not attack immediately, because they knew that the robbers who burned, killed and looted in front of them were nominally the army of the kingdom, and their immediate boss was Earl Mirno, who was in the limelight.

If you rush into a fight with the other party, it will not only be a simple contradiction of the village being robbed, but will rise to the question of "does the 'Rosie Cross' take the Karen royal family seriously"...

Now that the "Viper Cross" has been almost semi-openly walking in the central and eastern part of the Karen Kingdom with the support of Charles II, if the "Rose Cross" fights with the royal army at this juncture... the consequences will be absolutely disastrous!