Chapter 355: Reconnaissance (Part 2)

The town of Tours is not big. There are only dozens of families in the town, and about 500 people in the town. Most people in the town make a living by hunting, and most of them are hunters. The town belongs to Baron Maud, and the baron's tax just falls on the line of food and clothing for the people. After paying taxes, there is still a certain amount left. It's not rich, but it can be considered a worry-free life. The baron has always ignored this town near the edge of the territory. Except for the father of the tax collector who will appear in the town every spring, it is difficult to see the adults in Storm City at other times.

But this year seems to be an exception.

Not long ago, a group of soldiers entered the town and brought the baron's conscription order. All healthy men over 15 and under 50 in the town must unconditionally join the army. Hearing this news, people were a little panicked. Storm City has conscription all year round, but most of them are voluntary. This is the first case of this kind of compulsory conscription. Under the mobilization of the mayor, dozens of people in the town were forcibly conscripted into the army.

He has to train in an open field outside the town every day, and he is not allowed to go home until dusk. And in the next month, they must follow the army to Storm City. At that time, they were already real soldiers.

People began to inquire about the reason for the sudden conscription in Storm City, and it didn't take long for them to know that the compulsory conscription was not only carried out in the town of Tours. The same situation happened in several other towns under the jurisdiction of Storm City. Men were recruited, sent weapons and trained them. Some even said they would have to go to war soon.

war!

Storm City has hardly heard similar words in the past ten years, and this place is located on the border of the empire. Even though Storm City is already in the upper middle of the few jazz collars in the vicinity, it is still a barren land for the aristocratic and wealthy families in the empire. None of the great nobles were interested in bringing troops to the frontier, let alone war.

As for the city of Sur not far away, or another jazz collar in the Blood Rock Wasteland, neither of them has enough strength to compete with Storm City. Over the years, it has been suppressed by Storm City, which somewhat makes the people in the territory a little proud.

But now, war has come to this land, and there is no more terrible news than this.

In the evening, many women gathered outside the mayor's house. The aged mayor sighed and opened the door to let them in. When the women came into the house, they asked the mayor to intercede with the lords of Stormcity, and demanded that the army at least let their sons come back. The reason is simple. All the middle-aged men in the family were forcibly conscripted by the army, and their families could hardly sustain themselves.

Men are the most important labor force in a family. Now there are no men in the family, no one plows the land, and no one goes hunting in the mountains. Nor did Sir Maud pay any stipend for it, and it made it difficult for every family to make ends meet.

Facing the angry women, the mayor can only promise to go to Storm City to see the situation in the next few days.

Let's talk about the details when he comes back. Only then did the women let the poor old mayor go, and the mayor sighed heavily as he watched them go back. And why would he want to, his favorite grandson is now training outside of town. Thinking of this, the mayor's heart ached.

The training outside the town had just ended. After a hard day's training, the recruits' mental and physical strength was almost exhausted. This satisfied their instructors. The men in Tours Town are all physically fit. As long as they are trained and learn the necessary knowledge, they can barely go to the battlefield. It's just that when he thought of the army returning from Sur City, the officer's face was not very good.

He never thought that the two main armies in Storm City, Fury and Storm, would return home in a disastrous defeat, and even Captain Mogu was captured.

This is absolutely a great shame!

No soldier would like to see the army he served in defeat, so this officer was assigned to Tours to train recruits. He did his part and hoped that these soldiers who went out of his hands would shine on the battlefield . He was strict, even harsh. Once a recruit does not do well, he will not only be punished, but may even be beaten severely.

Officers believe that only then can they remember their mistakes and never repeat them.

Before disbanding, he counted the number of people, and suddenly found that one of the recruits was missing. Wook, the 16-year-old grandson of the old mayor. That slippery kid always fails to complete the amount of training he assigns. The officer was very impressed with the boy, so when he counted the number of people, he immediately found that the boy was not in the crowd.

"Who saw Wu Ke?" He said sternly, and fixed his eyes on a few half-children who usually hang out with Wu Ke.

The eyes of the boys flickered, and the officer pointed out: "Five lashes each, this is the punishment for knowing and not repaying. If you don't say anything else, you will beat me to death. My subordinates will never allow deserters. "

Soldiers like tigers rushed into the crowd and dragged the boys out. Without any explanation, they swung their whips and beat them. Several men in the crowd were their fathers and rushed out angrily. The soldiers were also uniformed and rewarded with a few whips. Before the five lashes were finished, one of the youngest boys was already crying, "I said, I said. Wu Ke ran away, and he said he couldn't bear this kind of training."

"Damn it!" the officer yelled, "Find him and bring him back. If he refuses, he will be executed on the spot!"

After a while, several soldiers left the camp with a vicious dog with its fangs protruding from under its lip. The barking of dogs rang out in the forest, and it didn't take long for the soldiers to find Wu Ke in a bush. The innocent boy hoped that he could escape by hiding in the forest, but unfortunately, the dog's sensitive nose found him out.

"Come back with us!" The soldier pointed a gun at him and said expressionlessly.

Wu Ke yelled: "No, you will torture me to death. Even if I can't die, after that. I have to go to the battlefield. No, I don't want to go to the battlefield. I don't want to die."

"The officer said, if you don't go back, you will be executed now."

"Really? In that case, it's better for you to die!" Wu Ke pulled out a dagger and rushed forward frantically. Looking at him, a look of regret flashed in a soldier's eyes, and he let go of the rope leading the vicious dog. The vicious dog immediately jumped up and wrestled with Wu Ke, another soldier next to him unhurriedly raised his rifle, and shot Wu Ke in the back when he turned over.

Gunshots rang out three times in a row.

Wu Ke fell to the ground, and the neck was bitten by the vicious dog. He only felt that his body was getting cold, how much the boy missed the old days. Unfortunately, there is no going back. When the soldier indifferently pulled up his legs and dragged him down the mountain, Wu Ke suddenly saw a young man of his age appearing in the forest ahead of him. The boy's silver hair was shining faintly under the moonlight shining through the gaps in the leaves.

Behind him, a giant snake appeared from the shadows, stopped behind the boy and watched all this quietly.

Then, darkness struck.

After Wu Ke and the soldiers disappeared, Allen patted Bai's head and said, "Let's go, let's go to another town."

Bai lowered his head, let Allen sit on it, and then swam among the undulating ground of the mountain forest with gentle movements. In Alan's hand is a simplified topographical map, which shows key information such as the town of Tours, its population, and garrisons. That night, Bai advanced sixty to seventy kilometers in Maude's territory, passing through three small towns. The information of these small towns is recorded on Allen's sketch map.

Another day passed.

When night fell, Allen opened his eyes and got out of a tree hole. Since the afternoon, Allen has been training on source power. Constantly allocate part of the generated source power to the heart to strengthen this important organ, in order to have more chances of winning when advancing to the awakened state. So after the long Yuanli training, the growth of Yuanli is very limited.

However, during this process, Allen's source of power was a bit more dignified.

He called Bai, and King Snake took him on his way. And after more than an hour, Allen saw the lights of Storm City.

Storm City is located at the foot of a continuous mountain range. There are very strange minerals in the rocks of this mountain range, which will reflect the moonlight at night and show a faint blue fluorescent light. Therefore, this mountain range is called the Deep Blue Mountain Territory. The other side of the Deep Blue Mountain Territory is adjacent to the coast. Therefore, the people who blow in the city, the wind blows all year round.

This is also the origin of the name Storm City.

Seen from a distance, the scale of Storm City is about twice as large as Sur City. The back of the city relies on the dark blue mountain range, and on the other side, a towering guard wall is built to protect the entire city. There are pointed arrow towers on the guard wall, and the two dark fortresses attracted Allen's attention.

High walls, heavy artillery, plus a certain army. If you want to lay down such a well-defended city from the front, the price must be high. Allen silently recorded all this, and said: "It's a pity that we can't enter the city, otherwise we will have the opportunity to find out their troop deployment and the number of troops."

He does not mean that. Bai, who was lying on the side with his big head, opened his eyes, raised his head and arched Alan. Allen looked at it in surprise: "Do you have a way?"

Bai tilted his head and rolled his eyes upwards, as if blaming Alan for not underestimating it.

Allen was angry and funny, patted it on the head and said, "Then leave it to you."

Bai nodded, the snake turned around and swam into the forest.

At this moment, in the City Lord's Mansion of Storm City, Mo Gu was walking back and forth in his office with his hands behind his hands, looking very irritable. At this time, there was a knock on the door, and before he could agree, his son Joey strode in. He said in a deep voice, "Father, there is news about Mr. Roger."

"How is it? Has Roger's slave-hunting regiment set off?" Roger asked immediately.

Joey sighed and said: "Mr. Roger's reply was that we were a step too late. Before receiving the news, his slave capture regiment had already set off, so he could not support us."

"What?" Maud slammed his fist on the table.

Joey tentatively asked, "How about we call Dick?"

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