Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 302 Bandits

After an evening of rest in Amis City, Claude continued his journey with Mike and Big Grimes, crossing the Odin Mountains one day and one night, rushing for another day, arriving in the evening in the county of Caffirette County, in the city of Nichida.

This is why we swim again, when Claude joined the army in Cafelezt County and walked from here to the battlefield. However, he was still a member of the Blue Feather Legion. Until now, the Blue Feather Legion had been extinguished in the gray smoke of the Kanas Plains, while Claude had been mistaken and dumped by the Blue Feather Legion as a parcel at the Amis City Guard Battalion and transferred by the Grand Prince to the Ranger Battalion. Now that Claude has been promoted to the rank of captain, and has been awarded the Knight's Medal, who would have guessed the situation?

Claude decided to rest for two days in the city of Gonidad. It was indeed tiring to cross the Odin Mountains. Neither Mike nor Big Gemmy had had a good rest. Mountain highway insurance, coupled with the occasional passage of large convoys of cargo convoys on the highway, Claude's three-man five-horse carriage from time to time allowed the convoy across the street to slow down the entire journey.

Claude also decided to pay a visit to the original Legion Battalion, where the remnants of the Blue Feather Regiment were said to have returned long after its demise to the Legion Battalion in Cafelezt County, where the Kingdom decided to reconstitute the new Blue Feather Regiment. Claude had already heard through Captain Duriolo about the second Battalion of the Rangers and the eleventh battalion of the first division of the Blue Feathers Regiment, and the second battalion of the Rangers had been severely damaged. But Berklin was fine. The kid was smart. He wasn't ready to escape. The squadron he led ran back to most of his men.

As for the 11th Field Battalion of the Blue Feather Regiment, that is the old army that Claude reported to, and, like the rest of the Blue Feather Regiment's field forces, the light cavalry of the Principality of Kanas was lost on the prairie. Except for the treatment facility at Camp Eleventh, which was dragged to the end of the regiment, some of the wounded and medical personnel fled during the current hostile situation on the front. Dr. Perente, whom Claude cared about, was among them, and he and the medic he knew, Bell, were fortunate enough to meet the retreating Bell Klinn and then flee back under the escort of Bell Klinn.

Claude just wanted to see Dr. Pellent, who had a fight with a veteran when he joined the army, went to the treatment center twice, and Dr. Pellent put a lot of effort into him. If Dr. Perente hadn't saved him, Claude wouldn't have had the scenery. It was his leg that was injured in the battle to capture Wilfgang, and it was the medicine that Dr. Perente deliberately delivered that cured his leg through the wound, avoiding the fate of being amputated for infection.

So coming to Gonidad City is a must to visit Dr. Perente at the nearby Legion camp. Unfortunately, when Claude went to the regiment camp the next morning, and did not find Dr. Perente, he encountered Lieutenant Moster, who was an instructor who favoured Claude when he was recruiting, but is now Captain Moster. It was an unexpected surprise, Captain Moster didn't expect to see Claude again, and Claude, like him, became a captain officer with a knight's medal on his chest, so that he had to salute Claude first.

At noon, Claude was dragged by Captain Moster, and they went back to Nicaragua to find a pub to drink in. Captain Moster said that he had not accompanied his troops to the Kanas Prairie because he had been wounded and had been rehabilitated in a treatment camp in the rear for most of the year, that is, in a treatment camp, where he had heard of the demise of the Blue Feather Regiment, after which he had been ordered to return to the Regiment camp here and to reconstitute the Blue Feather Regiment, currently acting commander of the new 11th Field Battalion.

Claude asked about Dr. Pellent, and Captain Moster told him that Dr. Pellent's composition was no longer in the Blue Feather Corps. Following that tragic defeat, a treatment camp was said to have been organized on the eastern border of the former Principality of Eskilin to receive the wounded who had fled, and Dr. Perente and the rest of the medical personnel were transferred to the past. When the treatment camp was later dismantled, the files of Dr. Perente and the medical personnel were removed, as if they belonged to a treatment centre under Front Line Command, and Captain Moster had no idea where they were.

Claude was disappointed not to find Dr. Perente. After breaking up with Captain Moster, Claude went back to the tavern to rest, and was not interested in visiting the city of Nicaragua. Early the next morning, he took Mike and Big Grimes with him to the carriage to restart his journey.

Seven days later, Ambridge County.

“In front of us is Hessen Town, where we rest for one night, leave tomorrow morning, cross the Black Forest, take the Pan Mountain Road for another half day, and reach White Deer City in the evening. Five years later, I finally went home...” Claude rides on horseback and sighs at Mike around him.

“Sir, I don't know if it would be too sudden for the two of us to go to your house, and the next two of us who live in your house?” McJackie asked. He and Claude both drove on horseback, while the big Grimes drove the passenger and cargo wagon, which had been filled with goods that Claude had purchased at the black market in Fort Ivanos, which was why Claude and McJackie had to ride alongside the wagon.

“Ha ha, it's okay, you two have been with me for so long and have been my brothers. I'm sure my family would very much welcome you. As for accommodation, you can rest assured that there are no other properties in my house. When I left, I left three buildings for my family. I could charge dozens of gold crowns a year for rent alone. Are you afraid of nowhere else to live?” Claude Haha replied with a big smile.

Hesson Town arrived soon, and the only thing that surprised the Claudes was that the doorway seemed a little heavily guarded. This is a sight we haven't even seen on the road, and we don't even have an identity check anywhere else. This is inevitable, as most of the local town guard camps have been drawn to the newly occupied territories and they have not yet been withdrawn from the front line. So many of the veterans who are now serving as local guards are 40-50 years old, and they are very so-so about checking the identity of pedestrians, mostly reluctant to get into trouble.

But with the exception of Hesson, Claude stopped at the door of the first hound tavern that Uncle Oaks brought him to, and asked for a room and a warehouse. This is the way to go, with Claude staying in the room and having three people bathe and wash their clothes, while the warehouse has a carriage and Mike and Big Grimes staying in the warehouse and taking care of the carriage. Moreover, the carriage of the carriage is filled with cargo valued at almost 500 gold crowns.

It's just that the meal just came to the table, Hesson Township guard came, headed by an old man in his fifties, clothed with the rank of lieutenant in the guard, should be a retired veteran, because his military salute was very standard.

“Salutations, Knight Claude.” The lieutenant at this guard battalion checked Claude's three ID cards and laissez-passer and asked: “May I ask? Are you going back to White Deer City? ”

Claude nodded: “Of course, I'm on family leave, and I haven't been home in five years. ”

The lieutenant hesitated to say: "Forgive my taste, Knight Claude, but if possible, I think it would be better if you stayed in town for a few more days and waited for a few more people to get on the road. It would be safer if there were a merchant party...”

“Hmm?” Claude stunned, what does that mean: “Are you saying the Black Forest and Panshan Road are not safe and the wolf is not cleared yet? ”

“Oh, no, not a werewolf. We hired a hunter to wipe out a werewolf in the Black Forest four or five years ago. I also took part in Operation Wolf Hunt, where I found two big gray wolves. In total, we launched nearly a hundred hunters, exterminated four wolves, killed one hundred and forty-five black and grey wolves, and we couldn't hear the wolves howling around Panshan Road and the Black Forest long ago. ”

“The Black Forest and Pan Mountain Road are not very safe right now, as bandits are present in the area," the lieutenant of this battalion explained. The chief, One-Eyed Lamback, reportedly escaped from a hardship camp in White Deer City, gathering thirty or forty bandits to hide in the Black Forest and from time to time come out to rob homes and ambush pedestrians. Although their weapons are not very good, they are crowded and dare to fight. So if you three rush to White Deer City, you can easily be attacked by these bandits in the Black Forest and Panshan Road... ”

“With so many people, wouldn't this gang come out and rob us?” McJackie asked, "Didn't you guys in Hessen ever organize a guard to clean them up? ”

The lieutenant shook his head: "The original guard unit of our town was expanded into a guard battalion after the outbreak of the war and has been sent to the front line and is not back yet. The town later organized our elderly veterans and reconstituted a guard squadron, barely able to guard the town, making it impossible for the bandits to get anything cheap on our side.

Only this group of bandits, who had escaped from the hardship camps in White Deer City, and some criminals who had fled military service in the three southwestern counties, operated in the area of the Black Forest and Panshan Road, outside the jurisdiction of our town of Hessen. So it is the duty of White Deer City to clean them up, and we have no right to go into the Black Forest and the mountains to hunt them down. And there's nothing we can do with our current guard.

In our experience, as long as the number of people travelling with us exceeds seventy or eighty or more, equipped with self-defence weapons, the bandits will not dare to come forward to attack the ranks. Because most of them are already wanted in White Deer City, basically every bandit's head has a good bounty, and the lowest one has five gold crowns.

So a lot of past merchants formed a team and had to come out and attack, so maybe this trip will make a lot of money. This gang attacked a large merchant group more than a year ago, when there were more than sixty of them. As a result, they were beaten to death by merchant escorts, leaving more than 20 bodies behind.

The merchants sent the bodies to White Deer City, where they received a bounty of nearly two hundred gold kroner, and they sensationalized White Deer City. Since then, the bandits have never dared to attack a crowded past, robbing only a handful of pedestrian vehicles and occasionally looting farms on the outskirts of White Deer City for supplies. White Deer City used to send guards to hunt them down, but they fled to the depths of the Black Forest, leaving the guards without success... "

The bandits seem to be a little too worthless. Generally speaking, a large merchant brigade consists of 40 or 50 four-wheeled wagons with more than 200 individuals, some 30 or 40 escorts. Six dozen murderous bandits can't even rob a large merchant squad, instead they send more than 20 heads, which sounds like no threat at all.

“What are the weapons and equipment of these bandits?” Claude asked.

“I'm not sure about that either, but according to some of the dealers who came across the gang, they were mostly equipped with stone crossbows and arrows, or they made them themselves. There should be two guns, which they stole from a farm, very old-fashioned, and most of the rest were spear knives and axes and other cold weapons.” The lieutenant said.

“How many more people in town are going to White Deer City now?” Claude asked.

“Unfortunately," the lieutenant replied, "you're a little late, a team that just left for White Deer City this morning. The three of you are going to White Deer City right now, but if you can wait in town for four or five days, you'll be ready to go to White Deer City for more than 50 people in no time. ”

Claude shook his head: "That's not necessary. We won't wait in town to get the team together. We're leaving tomorrow morning. As soldiers of the kingdom, the three of us are not afraid of these bandits, and we are all armed with guns, and if they dare to attack us, we cannot ask for it, and perhaps we can get a large reward from them. ”

“Knight Claude, I hope you'll reconsider.” The lieutenant of this guard battalion would like to persuade him to continue, but with the determination of the three Claudes, he can only return to Claude once again.

Early the next morning, the three Claudes drove their carriages out of the town door to the Black Forest, disregarding the dissuasion of the Hessen Town Guard.

Before Claude left, he told the friendly lieutenant of the guard that if they did meet the bandits, they would have abandoned the horseback and fled, but believed that they would have made the bandits pay a heavy price.

The carriage was pulled by two horses, Mike and Big Gemmy, both sitting in the carriage's driver's seat, with their respective guns beside them. The ropes of the two golden horses are tied behind the carriage to follow the carriage, and Mike and Big Grimes can abandon the carriage and ride the back golden horse away if needed.

As for Claude, he accompanied him on a horseback with two guns on his side, one from his Obash III and the other from the black market in Avenasburg. The shotgun should have been flown from the home of a Duchy nobleman or stolen by a soldier as a trophy for sale on the black market. It is a specially made shotgun with a shotgun that is said to kill a fierce boar within a range of about 20 meters. In addition to its close range, it also has the disadvantage of having a large backseat, but this is not a problem for Claude.

The reason Claude bought the shotgun with heavy gold wasn't because the gun had a decorative pattern of gold and silver on its surface, but because the name was inscribed on the gun: Librevide. Miloski. This is Claude's first lover, Sonia from Squirrel Village. The name of Baroness Ro Vacoussili's father, the famous firearms maker of the eastern part of the continent.

The shotgun was the work of the Baroness' father, and Claude bought it when he saw it, and it was a tribute to the Baroness. I just didn't expect this commemorative shotgun to come in handy...