The next morning, Cons' troops set out to leave the village and advanced towards a small town.

Thirty kilometers were completed in a short time. The vanguard, the troops where Cons were, could already see the small town standing on the plain.

Cons, who had sharp eyes, saw the farmers working in the fields outside the city early in the morning. However, strangely, there was a person walking around in each field, as if they were supervising the work.

Suddenly, the farmers and supervisors first looked back at the city wall, and then all looked at it, as if the guards on the city wall had discovered Cons and the others and informed the people under the city.

Immediately, the supervisor seemed to have received some order and waved his whip to urge the farmers to return to the city.

After a while, the crowds that were originally scattered outside the city rushed into the city gate like ants. Then the suspension bridge on the moat was pulled up, and shaking figures appeared on the city wall.

"Ida, do you know the situation in this city?" Cons asked as he walked forward, leading his horse and following Ida.

Ida has indeed made Cons admire him in the past few months. Many town intelligence departments know about it. If Cons doesn't determine that Ida was also sent by the princess, he had already asked Ida how he knew so much.

"Sir, the city lord of this city used to be named Kuode. I heard that the ten kilometers around this city were his land, so I could become the city lord. I don't know if it is now.

"This city is very small, and it can accommodate up to five thousand people. It can hardly be called a city, but it should be called a fort. However, just now, I saw the farmers working outside the city. I roughly estimated that 20,000 people are indispensable. Has it been opened for expansion?" Ida shook his head at the city. He didn't understand that so many farmers could actually squeeze into such a small city.

While speaking, Cons and his group had already arrived at a place three hundred steps away from the city and stopped. This is the so-called effective range of bows and arrows. It is better to stay vigilant when you don’t understand whether the opponent is an enemy or a friend.

Except for Carlo walking to Cons, the rear army and the baggage team stayed behind, the other team leaders led their troops to surround the entire city in an enemy state. They wished that the city had been occupied by bandits or betrayed by the city lord, so they could immediately attack the city and make the first contribution.

However, although they were anxious to make contributions, they were still careful not to step on the farmland, because Cons, who was reminded by Carlo, gave the order.

Standing in front of him, Cons realized that the city was really small, only one kilometer wide. No wonder his troops surrounded it in an instant.

Cons looked carefully and found that the city wall was only five meters high, and the moat was only four meters wide, and it was still a stagnant water. However, the city wall was still solid and was stacked with large stones.

At this time, someone shouted on the city wall: "Which unit are you from?" Although the voice was loud, Shin's tone was obviously panicked.

Ida was about to step forward, but Cons had already walked out first. Ida was shocked and hurriedly shouted, "Sir!" and wanted to follow.

But he was stopped by Cons, "It's okay, don't follow him." Cons smiled and walked forward alone.

Cons walked unsuspectingly to a hundred steps away from the city wall and shouted: "I am the front-line bandit suppression commander, where is your city lord?"

The voice on the city wall paused for a moment and then rang again. This time, he asked in a suspicious tone: "Both front suppression? Which country..." But he stopped before he finished speaking.

Cons, who had a sharp ear, heard a sound that only came from the city wall when he was slapping. When it was strange, a head was poked out from the city wall and waved to him and shouted: "It turns out it's Lord Cons, the youngest one is Kuode, the city lord of a city. Hello! Open the city gate, put down the suspension bridge, and line up to greet him!"

As the man retreated, people suddenly came and went on the city wall, and the suspension bridge was also put down with an unpleasant sound.

"Sir, it seems that this Kurd is very informative and knows your name. But..." Ida came forward and whispered to Cons. Although Cons did not let him come, he was afraid that Cons would make any mistakes, so of course he violated the order and followed Cons early in the morning.

Cons looked at the slowly opened city gate, smiled and said, "Did their words from which country make you suspicious?"

"Yes, sir, it seems we must be careful with this Quad." Seeing that Cons had noticed this, Ida nodded and said yes.

"Well, I'll bother you." After seeing the city gate open, a fat middle-aged man ran out happily, guessing that it was Kuod, so he ended his conversation with Ida with this.

"Sir, please see Lord Cons." Kuod ran to Cons panting and immediately knelt down and saluted.

Cons, who was stunned by his big gift, quickly helped him up, but was immediately flattered by Kuode, and he didn't know what to do, so he could only look at Kuode speechlessly.

Ida knew that the commander would not deal with this, so he hurriedly came out to remind Cons: "Sir, let me introduce your troops." At this time, the besieged troops had been reorganized, and the generals were already standing behind Cons.

"Oh, Lord Kuod, this is Lord Ida, this is the captain of the personal soldiers, this is the leader of the Carlo team, this is..." Cons, who woke up, hurriedly introduced his main officer to the fat middle-aged man in front of him.

Kuod's face was filled with smiles, nodding and bowing, while saying things like long-term reverberation. However, he realized that except for the personal captain and the team leader named Carlo, the other officers were reluctant to give gifts, and their eyes showed anger at him.

Seeing that the smile on his face was a little stiff, Ida smiled slightly and came forward to whisper: "Master Lord, please don't be surprised. These priests are unable to make contributions to the city, so they don't have any good looks now. Please forgive me."

When Kuod heard this, he unconsciously wiped his sweat-free forehead and squeezed out a smile to Ida, "Thank you for your advice."

He was indeed sweating because he had only about a thousand soldiers. How could he be the opponent of these people?

When Kodd was listening to Cons introducing the officers, he was also secretly looking at the soldiers carefully. He found that the soldiers not only had distinct armor, but also extraordinary momentum, which was the momentum that only the battle-hardened troops had.

"Is it true that Cons led his troops to wipe out bandits from all over the country and had no defeat? There are also those who are bullshit in the royal city, which is easy to solve. There are at least 10,000 fierce soldiers here now! And these generals want me to betray me, so I can use my corpse to exchange for credit! Damn!"

While greeting the officers with a smile, Kuod greeted the officers while cursing in his heart.

"Master Lord, won't you introduce your subordinates to us?" Ida reminded him when he saw that some people had walked out of the city and lined up on both sides.

"Ah, look at me, I just want to admire the style of the generals, but I forgot these things. Sorry, please let me introduce my subordinates." Kuod slapped his head and hurriedly pulled Cons towards the city gate.

Ida waved his hand and the personal soldiers hurriedly followed. Carlo signaled the palace to return to his troops to guard.

"This is the city defense captain, Rusner." Kuod said, pointing to a man who was in his thirties and thin.

The man quickly smiled flatteringly and bent down. The sharp-eyed Cons immediately saw a slightly red slap mark on his right face. It seemed that he was the one who had just called.

Quad then pointed to a strong man wearing armor and a big sword beside Rusner and said, "This is the leader of the mercenary regiment invited by the city to assist in defense, Mr. Guters." Quad was obviously more polite when introducing him.

The cold light in Guters's eyes flashed by, and he casually bowed, as if he saluted Cons.

When Cons returned the gift, Ida asked Kuod: "Master, how many defense forces are there in your city?"

"Oh, there are a total of 1,000 soldiers in the city." Kuod replied with a hurried smile. Based on his feelings, the captain of the personal soldiers was more difficult to deal with than Cons.

"So how many mercenaries are there?" As soon as Kuod finished speaking, Ida asked.

"Uh, I have to ask Mr. Guters." Kurd hurriedly pushed the question to Guters.

Guters glanced at Ida coldly and said reluctantly: "Two thousand people."

When Cons heard this, he was shocked. Such a small city has 2,000 mercenaries, so what about other cities? The mercenary forces in these cities should be more than enough to deal with 10,000 bandits.

But the area is still harassing by thieves. In this way, it should be doubtful that the city lords from all over the country have had sex with thieves.

"Haha, Lord Cons, please go to the city to rest. The official has prepared some wine to welcome the adults." Seeing the stiff atmosphere, Kuode hurried out to smooth things over.

Cons originally didn't want to enter the city, but with Quad's warm greeting and Ida's hint, Cons finally brought his personal soldiers into Kaiyi City. Quad originally wanted the officers outside the city to go in and rest together, but how could those team leaders leave the soldiers and go in by themselves? What other unexpected situations do they hope will happen?

As soon as Cons entered the city, he was startled. As Ida said, more than 20,000 people were squeezed out in the city. The passages inside the city gates looked densely packed with tents at first glance.

It was not a military tent, but a simple tent composed of several wooden sticks and cloth pieces. This immediately turned the city gate passage only two meters wide.

There were dull eyes standing outside the tent, the men dressed by farmers, while the women and children were hiding in the tent that could not be blocked. None of the women showed up, but the children in tattered clothes looked up from the tent and looked up at Cons and his group.

All of these children have pale faces and thin skin, but their eyes are more energetic than adults do.

Kuod was a clever man. When he saw Cons floating towards the civilians, he hurriedly explained: "Sir, these are all tenants of the officials. In order to avoid being plundered by robbers, they all rushed into the city, making the city very crowded and dirty. Please forgive me."

Speaking of this, he sighed and said in a tone full of compassion: "But...ah, who said I am their city lord? If I don't take care of them, who else will take care of them? Are you allowed to be ravaged by bandits outside the city? I can't do this!"

Suddenly he changed his tone and said hatefully: "Sir, you must destroy those hateful bandits! They will never be destroyed, and we people cannot live with peace of mind in one day!"

As he said that, patted his chest and continued with a righteous intent: "Sir, if you have any help from the minister, please speak out, and the minister will definitely cooperate!"

Yida suddenly interrupted and said, "It's great. It's rare that the city lord is kind-hearted. Now our army is not strong enough. Please ask the city lord to assign the city defense troops to our army's command."

"Uh, sir, isn't there no one in this city to defend? What if the robbers come?" Kuod was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that his polite words would be used by the captain of his personal soldiers.

"Haha, Lord City, have you hired 2,000 mercenaries? They have the ability to protect the city. Besides, we will not let the robbers enter the sphere of influence of a city.

"Is everyone unwilling to do it? Suppressing the bandits is a matter of benefiting the country and the people. I think as the mainstay of the Qihong Kingdom, of course, I am willing to hand over the city defense to Lord Cons, the commander-in-chief of the bandit suppression, right? Lord Kuod City Lord?" Ida tightly held Kuod.

How can a personal captain speak like this to a person with a higher official position than him?
Chapter completed!