Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 404 First Kill
Soon after, a group of people gathered on the square in front of the Niangniang Temple.

In addition to the ten gray knights sent by Lama Wang and a few prosecutors who assisted in the investigation of the case, many priests also came.There are more than a dozen priests of Ross who are going to join in the fun, but they are not the protected ones who are holding back, and they don’t need to be specially selected to watch - in fact, these people have rich "experience in the world" and are skilled in putting on armor. Grab your weapon and get ready to go.

In addition, Captain Lucas, who was in charge of training recruits, was called over urgently, and was currently wiping his long sword beside him.Seeing Guo Kang approaching, he immediately poured out his bitterness, saying how difficult these recruits are, but fortunately he used some tricks to suppress them for the time being.

Guo Kang was not too surprised by this.After all, the family helped find the talent, and with Guo's prestige in the army, he must have some skills.It's not a surprise that they can deal with those recruits who come from all kinds of backgrounds this time.

A military judge sent by the adoptive father also arrived.He was carrying a cane, along with several guards and a scribe with a bookcase.At this point, everyone that Guo Kang was waiting for had arrived.

However, Father Mikhail who was going to lead the way was not here.Father Andre, who had been with him before, said that he had to set off first to find his companions so that he could arrange for the support there.Guo Kang nodded and asked everyone to pack up and prepare to go.

There are not many people here.The leading knight captain suggested that more people should be called, or that Guo's servants should also be called.However, Guo Kang felt that instead of waiting slowly, it is better to act quickly.Anyway, no matter how they gather together, there will not be many more people, and it is impossible to form a numerical advantage.Timing and accuracy are more important than numbers.

After convincing everyone, everyone began to make final preparations.Guo Kang also took out a few guns that he had been tinkering with, and loaded them with gunpowder and projectiles.

The most excited person was Guo Ponu instead.There was nothing wrong with her this time, but she didn't know what she was happy about. She was cheerful all the way, and kept introducing her experience to Guo Kang.I also asked him if he was used to wearing armor, whether the weapon was smooth, and even the tightness of the belt on his waist, he had to stretch out his hand to pull, asked him if it was in the way when he moved, and whether the sword was hanging firmly.

Guo Kang thought she should care about herself first, but Guo Po Nu said she was already ready.When she goes out every day, she wears the chain armor given by her mother under the robe, and hangs a sword. She looks ready to slash at any time, so there is no need to worry.

The Gray Knights knew Guo Ponu and didn't take it seriously.The priests were a little surprised by her performance, but judging from her well-prepared appearance, she was probably a veteran, so they didn't say anything.

Of course, just because she's alive and kicking doesn't mean everyone has the extra energy.According to the custom, in order to save energy, they boarded several church carriages.Guo Kang was carrying a box, was dragged up by Guo Ponu, and set off with everyone.

The carriage driving out of the Niangniang Temple is actually very conspicuous, and anyone who cares can probably notice it.Of course, this kind of car with only the church logo on it is actually equivalent to writing other information very clearly.A local snake with a sense in mind will not run out to stop it.

The carriage came to the other end of the city, and stopped beside a dilapidated block.

"We have arrived at Zhulinfang, get ready to get off." Someone reminded.

"There's not much bamboo forest in this place." A new priest muttered.

"The planning of new urban areas is generally unacceptable." Guo Kang explained: "Otherwise, we don't have to go here."

Although it looks much dilapidated than the previous city center, this is actually the "new city" of Dadu.At the time of Guo Gai, it was still a piece of farmland; later, Guo Di reorganized the city and cleaned up a large number of blocks that were built randomly in the previous years.However, more people continued to pour into the city, and they quickly gathered in the remaining open spaces, and it didn't take long for new slums to form.

In Guo Di's plan, this place should be a bamboo forest. On the one hand, it beautifies the environment, and on the other hand, it directly provides materials to the city for use.However, not long after this place was planned, it became a place where people of all kinds gathered.Later, the management gradually became abolished, and most of the bamboo forests that were brought in from the East with great painstaking efforts were also cut down and became materials for simple huts.

"There doesn't seem to be any bamboo in this place." Another Father Ross commented, "No wonder I haven't heard from Brother Mikhail these days."

They were very interested in this exotic plant and were curious along the way.It's a pity that if it weren't for the sparse withered yellow bamboo poles on the roadside, it is still proving that some bamboos are still tenaciously surviving. It is estimated that no one can find the connection between this name and this place.

Therefore, Guo Kang hesitated for a while, but still did not answer them.After all, although this place is called "Xincheng Bamboo Forest Square", there is neither a district plan nor a large bamboo forest, and it doesn't look like a new city.The name is the same as the "Holy Roman Empire", and people with thin skins don't know how to explain it...

Fortunately, everyone didn't pay much attention, because Father Mikhail had already greeted him.

Next to him was a tall, thin young man, dressed in tattered sack-like clothes, also without shoes.Seeing everyone coming, Father Mikhail introduced that this is his new student Alexander, and this time he will lead everyone to find someone.

Alexander greeted everyone timidly.Guo Kang reached out to shake his hand, he wiped his clothes hastily, then lowered his head and shook his fingers.

In fact, although his clothes were shabby, his face and hands were washed very clean, and there were no stains on his clothes, except that there were some mud spots on the trouser legs.The copper cross hanging on the chest is also polished, and it can be seen that it has been kept as clean as possible, but seeing these "big men", it is inevitable to feel inferior and panic.

However, this kind of mentality cannot be reversed by Guo Kang with a single sentence, and there will be something that will open his eyes in the future.So, he just encouraged the other party, and went to ask Father Mikhail.

Next to the two of them, there was a more conspicuous existence - a bear lying on the ground, lazily basking in the sun.

"Is this your partner too?" Guo Kang asked with a smile.

"It's called Misha." Father Mikhail patted the bear's head, and said with a smile: "It is indeed a reliable partner. With it, I have never been like Andre, who was killed by idlers. been entangled."

Guo Kang looked at the bear's size and thought it made sense.

Before, he had only seen Nikita raised by old Ivan. By comparison, he felt that Misha was a circle bigger than it.I just don’t know if Misha also loves speeches...

After everyone—and the bear got to know each other, Alexander led everyone along an alley and walked in.

"We came at the right time today." On the way, Father Mikhail said to Guo Kang: "Sasha and I went to visit believers yesterday, and found that Sergey's men went to Vladimir's house to rob people again. Look at the In Misha's face, they restrained themselves a little, but they will definitely bring more people back today. If we are quicker, we can probably catch the right one."

"Stealing people?" Guo Kang didn't react immediately.

"Everything has been robbed long ago, and the only one left is worth the money." Father Mikhail said, "If anyone can't get the price they are satisfied with, they will sell this person. Vladimir Their son and daughter have been snatched by them for a few days, so now they are targeting the couple."

"When I was a child, my grandfather used to scare me, saying that bandits came from the grasslands and wanted to capture us as slaves, so we are not allowed to run around." A younger priest said with emotion: "Unexpectedly, now the bandits have come to the city. ..."

"Where there are bandits, they are all church members." Father Andre also learned to be eccentric.

"He said yes?" The knight captain was a little unhappy.

"That's true." Father Mikhail said: "The church's regulations prohibit the sale of believers as slaves, but everyone knows about the actual implementation. When they can control it, they will hire heretics to help resell it; When they lived there, they simply didn’t act, and even argued the other way around—they would say that because they are church members, they would definitely not be involved in this kind of thing, so as to force themselves to excuse themselves.”

Everyone was silent for a while.

Although there is no logic at all in this statement, but there is no logic, but it shows that there must be logic behind it.Everyone can guess what's going on by looking at the situation here.

Everyone walked forward in silence.Along the way, this team with distinctive armor attracted the attention of many people. Guo Kang simply asked people to raise a banner to gather more onlookers.

Vladimir's shed was not far from here, and Alexander quickly led everyone to the place.However, there was also a group of people muttering and watching over there.

Father Mikhail walked over, everyone seemed to recognize him and gave way.He asked a few words in local dialect and sighed again.

"Let's go directly to Sergey's warehouse." He shook his head and said, "He has been kidnapped."

The knights looked at each other, and Captain Lucas and the guards beside him also sighed.The military judge remained stern and unmoved.Guo Ponu was still following Guo Kang. Hearing this, he shrugged, smiled wryly, and patted Guo Kang again.

"What?" Guo Kang asked back.

"When you go to the place, if someone pesters you, don't talk nonsense, just kill the leader." Guo Ponu ordered in a low voice in Chinese: "You have to do it yourself."

"Ah?" Guo Kang didn't react for a while, and didn't know what she meant, but the team had already started to turn around, and Guo Ponu also stepped back to ask Lucas what to order, so he didn't bother to ask. .

The people watching Vladimir's shack followed suit.

They didn't take the opportunity to steal the unguarded shed—Father Andre told everyone that this was actually because the contents inside had been snatched up by Sergey's men long ago, not even a single rag was left .

If the rescuers invited by Father Mikhail can save Vladimir, everyone will continue to be neighbors; if not, other people will move in to replace the Vladimir family and continue to work hard. , pay a meager protection fee to Sergei's gang - or be sold by them one day, and continue this desperate cycle.

Even though most of the team were veterans and itinerant priests who had seen the scene, it was inevitable that they would feel emotional, which made the atmosphere a little depressed.

There is no planned "road" here except for an avenue that traverses the Fang District.All they could walk was a path squeezed between shacks and sundries because of people coming and going.Moreover, because too many people stepped on it, the road surface of the trail has become muddy.

There is also no reliable drainage facility here, so although it is a flat land, you can always see rancid stagnant water everywhere.All kinds of garbage are also piled up randomly, making the environment even more dirty.Lucas complained that it made him feel like he was back in Cologne.

It is still winter, and there is already a bad smell. I don't know what it will be like when it gets hot.But the only good thing is that there is no feces and urine on the street here.According to Father Mikhail, this is because the local water source and excrement are controlled by Sergey's gang.

Residents can only go to the only two water sources to fetch water and go to the toilet in a few fixed places, otherwise they will be beaten and robbed by the gang—because after the composting technology was introduced in the Purple Horde, human excrement and urine can be used Yes, so gangs also rely on this to make money.Therefore, the newly moved Slavs were often beaten for it.

And a few years ago, there was new news that now that technology has improved, feces and urine can also be used to make nitrate.This thing is a military product, and the profit is bigger and more stable, so the gang intensifies, sending minions everywhere to inspect, and if there is feces and urine on the ground, they will beat up the surrounding residents.

Some gangsters simply made trouble out of thin air, slandering the residents for deliberately pulling all their shit outside, blatantly not giving face to the gang boss, and extorting more money.Up to now, it has developed to the point where everyone has to shit on the big brother every day. If they can't do it, they are disloyal to the gang, and they will be beaten to the point where it is outrageous.Therefore, the people here are miserable, saying that they don't know any wicked people who don't fight well and insist on playing shit.

It's a pity that Guo Kang was promoting the matter of heaping nitrate, so he didn't have the nerve to interrupt...

The warehouse of Sergey's gang is not far away, in a house near the main road.This is a rare decent house in the block, and there are a few people carrying things at the door.The windows on the second floor are covered with iron bars, and someone can be seen looking out from the inside.Obviously, there are more than ordinary goods in this warehouse.

Guo Kang asked everyone to stop at the open space in front of the warehouse, stepped forward together with Father Mikhail, and asked loudly, "Where is your leader?"

A man who looked like a small leader poked his head out from behind the door, and when he saw Father Mikhail, he immediately showed an angry expression.

"You old bastard, you're still not reconciled, are you? Who are you looking for?" He asked loudly.

"Don't worry about him, I'm the leader." Guo Kang said in a deep voice, "Your leader Sergey and your two subordinates are still engaged in kidnapping and illegal slave trading after joining the army. We need to investigate."

However, the little boss looked completely unconvinced.

"I don't care who you are, I think you are here to find trouble!" He quickly glanced at the team brought by Guo Kang, and then shouted to the side: "Ivan Ivanovic, call all the brothers!" Come! I want to see how brave this old man is, dare to fight against us!"

A minion by the corner stood up immediately after hearing the words.

"You want to resist the military law?!" The military judge immediately shouted: "Harboring prisoners in the army, regardless of the military and civilians, is the same crime; ganging up to resist the military law, the crime is aggravated. You better think about the consequences!"

To be honest, his words were much more intimidating than Guo Kang's. The minions hesitated for a moment, and even the one who was about to shout just now staggered and stopped.Hearing the words, the little boss gritted his teeth and replied, "Okay, then I'll go invite Big Brother."

After all, he turned around and was about to leave.

"Don't let him go!" Guo Ponu immediately whispered to Guo Kang: "It's your turn, quick, kill him!"

Guo Kang actually didn't know what to do now. Seeing that she had an idea, he subconsciously followed her instructions, drew out his sword, stepped forward two steps, and chased after her.

"Hey? What are you doing?" The little boss was a little scared at this moment, so he quickly plucked up the courage to drink.

"You think we are few people, so you want to call your gangsters to besiege us!" Guo Kang actually didn't have the determination to kill, so he stopped and raised his sword to threaten him.

"You captured all the civilians here and pretended to be innocent? Quickly release the people upstairs and let us check. You are not allowed to leave either. We will take you to find your leader together."

"What?" Hearing what he said, the little boss became courageous again: "They are all debtors to us, why should we let them go?"

"Others will talk about it later. There is a family that is guaranteed by the priest himself. We must ask the matter clearly." Guo Kang explained: "Did you just arrest a family of four? They don't have any debts or debts, right?" .”

"'One-Eyed Dragon' Vladimir?" The little boss thought of this man: "That's because the big man above has taken a fancy to his son, and he doesn't know what to do. Brothers just teach him a few lessons."

"Let me tell you, forget everything else, leave me alone with this person's affairs." He gradually regained his courage, and instead reprimanded Guo Kang and the others.

"You poor monks," he pointed to Father Mikhail and the others: "You think you are great after bringing a few soldiers, don't you know who is asking for people this time? I advise you to take care of yourself No business, otherwise your broken flag is useless."

Guo Kang had no temper at first, but he made him a little angry instead.It's just that he was careless for a while, and didn't notice that the other party took the opportunity to speak and had already retreated a little.Before he could open his mouth to refute, the little boss jumped back and exited the range of the sword tip.

"I thought you were some kind of person, but I didn't expect you didn't even know about it. Since you were coaxed to die by this old man, don't blame the brothers for being rude. Let's go together!"

He drew out the dagger at his waist, made a throwing posture, and turned half a circle with his feet, ready to take the opportunity to escape.

However, in such a short moment, Guo Ponu had already pulled out a slender iron spike and flung it out.As soon as the little boss raised his hand to his ear, he was stabbed in the arm, screamed in pain, and dropped the sword.

Guo Kang was not ready to make a move at first, but when he saw him pull out his weapon suddenly, he was startled, and instinctively stepped forward to chop.Before the little boss could recover, he slashed twice with his sword and screamed again and again.

It was indeed Guo Kang's first time in such a scene, the more he screamed, the more flustered he became.Seeing him lying on the ground, but still moving, I was worried that he was going to do some tricks against me, so I didn't even think about it, so I hurried on.

He even hurriedly forgot the moves taught by his adoptive father, and just stabbed and slashed subconsciously.Fortunately, when the man started, Father Mikhail and others who were afraid of accidents had already caught up. Seeing that the little boss had been hacked to death, they quickly reminded him that he could stop.

The other minions also tried to resist, but they were finished more quickly.Guo Kang looked around and saw a priest throwing a chain hammer. The iron chain turned around the knife that the other party was trying to block, and smashed a piece of the minion's jaw.

"Keep alive! Keep alive!" The military judge hurriedly reminded the over-excited priests.

Guo Ponu also came over, and looked up and down the panting Guo Kang.

"I told you to do it earlier, but you are still arguing with this guy." She teased, and took out a cloth: "Hurry up and wipe your face."

Guo Kang took it, wiped it a few times, and was surprised to find that there was still blood on his face.After feeling it carefully, I found that there was no pain, so I realized that it was the blood spattered by the little boss.

"Wipe the sword too!" Guo Ponu reminded again.

Guo Kang quickly went to wipe the sword again, and then took it back.

"Hey, that's why I'm afraid I'll come." Guo Ponu curled his lips: "Okay, have you recovered yet? Next is your business."

　After giving up the cheating character limit, chapters are much more comfortable...

　　
　
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