area51novel Chapter 456 Recruitment
Chapter 456 Recruitment
Chapter 456 Recruitment
Rhodes couldn't help smiling after seeing the performance of this imperial officer.
Michel, who was helping the little boy to heal his injuries, stood up and said to the officer indifferently: "We are knights of the Knights of the Glorious Cross, get rid of your stinky hands."
The imperial officer laughed loudly: "I am Viscount Dean of Red Eagle Fort. Now is a special moment. I should be qualified to temporarily recruit you to defend the fortress, two knights?"
Michelle did not speak. In fact, according to the laws of the empire, this should be her obligation. Even though the Knights of the Radiance Cross is a neutral knight order, its headquarters is in the territory of the Roman Empire, and her father is also a member of the Roman Empire. noble.
"I originally prepared the city wall to support you, but when I saw this kind of thing on the road, I couldn't help but help them." Rhodes smiled at the imperial officer.
He was worried that he would not be able to get close to the city wall of the fortress, but now a kind nobleman ran out and could take him there.
"But let her forget it, she's not good at fighting, and she can't help much." Rhode pointed to Michel and said.
Viscount Dean looked at Michelle, then nodded: "The battlefield is where men stay, and women and children really shouldn't be on the battlefield."
Michel frowned after hearing Viscount Dean's words. Just as she was about to say something, Rhodes suddenly said, "Go back and wait for my good news, and take care of yourself."
"You've finished explaining, then let's go." Viscount Dean turned his head and glanced at Rhodes.
Rhodes nodded, walked towards the city wall, and glanced back at Michel who was standing there.
This Viscount Dean looks like he should be around 30 years old, and he is considered a nobleman who inherited the title relatively early.
"How's the war going?" Rhode asked on the road.
"It's not very good. All the cities and castles north of the canyon fortress have been captured. A monster appeared in Nord. I heard that he is four meters tall, his forearm is thicker than a normal person's waist, and he is wearing golden dragon scale armor. , a full punch can even smash the solid gate of Rock Castle." Viscount Dean replied.
"However, the situation will soon be reversed. The Duke of Elvis has arrived with reinforcements. I believe he will be able to kill that freak." He continued.
Rhodes was a little speechless after listening. He knew that he would definitely be demonized, and he had also heard other imperial people describe his image, but how did he become like this when he came to Viscount Dean.
It is actually good to think about it carefully, at least Viscount Dean in front of him will definitely not doubt himself, after all his height is not even half of the Nord freak that Viscount Dean said.
This is the umpteenth version that Rhodes has heard, and one is more exaggerated than the other. Even after breaking through other cities, he was still at the door of a tavern, and saw two ordinary imperial people fighting when they were arguing about their own image. They all believed that the rumors they heard were true.
"Is the loud noise yesterday the sound of the battle between the Duke and that Nord freak?" Rhodes asked again.
"No." Viscount Dean shook his head: "No matter how arrogant that freak is, he will definitely not dare to come to the fort where the Duke of Elvis is a witness, let alone the castle where the Duke lives. The loud bang was the explosion of an oil drum in the castle.
The group of idiots guarding the castle didn't keep the oil barrels well. Now that the weather is so hot, it's normal for them to explode. Fortunately, someone discovered it in time and prevented the fire from burning completely. "
Rhodes nodded. The man who blamed the blame is not bad, but does it also mean that there are really many oil barrels in the castle?
The explosion he made last night did not blow up the castle, and this morning Rhodes saw that the castle was still standing there.
Rhodes arranged too few explosives, and there was a layer of magic on the surface of the castle to protect it.
Just as Rhodes and Viscount Dean were talking, they had already arrived below the walls of the fortress.
"Continue to follow me, don't stay too far away from me, before we climb the city wall, we will go to the warehouse to carry a few boxes of arrows." Viscount Dean said to Rhodes.
"Do you even want to carry it?" Rhodes asked.
"Anyway, it's on the way, and it can save some manpower. Maybe some brothers were killed by Nord's savages because the boxes of arrows we carried up were missing on the city wall." Viscount Dean said.
"Then I'll carry a few more boxes. I'm stronger than ordinary people." Rhodes nodded.
Viscount Dean brought Rhodes and a group of soldiers to the warehouse next to the city wall. The nobles in charge of guarding the warehouse saw that it was Viscount Dean who came. After nodding and greeting him, they let Rhodes and the others enter the warehouse.
This familiar plot.
Rhodes followed Viscount Dean into the warehouse.
But this time he is not going to destroy the contents of this warehouse. If they can capture this fortress, all the contents of this warehouse belong to the Nord Kingdom.
Rhodes felt that if he belonged to the Nord Kingdom, it was equivalent to his own.
He stacked four wooden boxes containing arrows together, pretending to be struggling, and lifted the four boxes in front of him.
"Be careful, don't be brave if you can't move it." Viscount Dean reminded, he only moved two wooden boxes, while his soldiers only moved one.
"It's okay, I think I should be able to move them to the city wall." Rhodes replied, he tried his best to show off his acting skills while recalling his posture when he used to lift heavy objects.
"Then be careful." Viscount Dean didn't say much, leading Rhodes and the others towards the city wall.
Rhode deliberately sped up his pace slightly, which is the subconscious performance of ordinary people when carrying heavy objects.
The city wall is more than 20 meters high, and he pretended to rest for a while when he climbed halfway, and then continued to climb up.
After putting the box on the city wall, Rhodes stood there and wiped the sweat off his face. He wasn't actually sweating, but he did it for the sake of realism, but he didn't know if it would be seen by others.
"You should move less next time, your face is pale." Viscount Dean said to Rhodes.
Rhodes pretended to be weak and nodded. Viscount Dean and his soldiers now looked red-faced and thick-necked because of the heat and fatigue, but he couldn't imitate this, he could only pretend to be exhausted.
"Sit here and have a good rest, and you'll be fine after lunch." Viscount Dean said, and then he walked aside and began to direct the soldiers to move the wooden boxes to the required positions.
Rhodes leaned on the battlements and looked at the Nord army outside the fortress. Catapults were neatly arranged in a row, constantly throwing stones at the fortress.
The fort also used bed crossbows to fight back, but the accuracy of both sides was not good, it was like a fight between gods, and one of them survived.
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(End of this chapter)