On the Seven Towers

Xiao Chen and Catalina came to the rear of the marching team and found Wang Jiyuan in a magic crystal truck. The latter was having a meeting with Shi Hao and other officers.

Xiao Chen and Catalina handed their horses to the orderlies on the side and climbed into the magic crystal truck.

As soon as Xiao Chen stepped on the cargo bed, the truck started and drove into a pit on the ground. The body of the car with poor shock absorption system shook violently, almost knocking Xiao Chen off the car. Fortunately, Wang Jiyuan had quick eyes and quick hands. I stretched out my hand to stop him from falling.

"Be careful, this car sits like a massage chair and can loosen bones." Wang Jiyuan joked.

"My butt hurts while riding, it's good to have a change of taste." Xiao Chen thanked Wang Jiyuan with a smile and asked Catalina to sit down and report the situation.

"I have dealt with the Marquis Baldini of Suero City before. In addition, Robert, the former steward of Baron Goya's family, is now one of our agents here. The Ministry of Commerce has already begun to take over the former Baron Goya's family. Because of the trade routes under my command, we have sufficient penetration into Suero. Because I was involved in all these matters earlier, Peng Ziyi from the Intelligence Department entrusted me to assist Catalina in investigating the intelligence." Xiao Chen got down to business. The organization is very clear, "This time she contacted various parties and mainly collected three aspects of intelligence. One was the movements of the nobles in the city and nearby, the other was the defense strategy of the city guards, and the merchants' attacks on us. Coming to take over Suero’s reaction.”

Catalina said: "Our dispatch of troops this time was faster than Count Carlos. Therefore, the reaction of the nobles in the city seemed a bit slow. However, before I came back, many nobles were already preparing to evacuate. You must know that after the previous war with the Duke of Greenwood City, especially the treatment of Alano Town, many nobles felt that we were targeting the entire aristocratic force."

"Haha, they feel right. If we don't get rid of these people, how can we afford to come here from such a far away place?" Wang Jiyuan said with a smile.

Catalina obviously didn't like the nobles either. She didn't care too much about Wang Jiyuan's words: "Yesterday they started to pack things for evacuation, but in the past two days they also expected that it might be unsafe outside, so there were several houses inside The city's nobles and big businessmen have made an appointment to escape together this afternoon."

"Where is Marquis Baldini?" Wang Jiyuan asked.

"The Marquis of Baldini is currently hiring mercenaries, recruiting slaves, and reorganizing the city guard. Two days ago, I tried to contact the commander of the city guard, Baron Gregory. The baron had already expressed his intention to join us. Now, we can open the city gate directly for us. But we didn’t expect that while we were talking, the baron’s mansion was raided by the marquis’s bodyguards. The marquis’s bodyguards were very strong, and there were actually several mid-level warriors. I immediately He used a random teleportation scroll to escape, but Baron Gregory failed to escape. I later found out that he was killed on the spot by the Marquis’s bodyguards.”

"I didn't expect that the situation you encountered was so dangerous. Peng Ziyi didn't let you instigate rebellion in the first place. It's so dangerous for you to act on your own!" Xiao Chen didn't know about this before, but he became a little angry when he heard this.

"I have the scroll. They can't catch me. Besides, there is no absolutely safe time to find out information. If you were really afraid of death, you wouldn't do it." Catalina said, "When I walked out of the city this morning, I Saw Baron Gregory's head impaled on the wall."

"Killing the chicken to scare the monkeys." Shi Hao said, "It seems that Marquis Baldini is determined to defend Suero."

"And not only Baron Gregory, but the Baron's cronies in the city guard, businessmen in the city who had the idea of ​​surrendering and doing meritorious service, and several guys who usually didn't deal with the Marquis were all picked out and beheaded."

Xiao Chen frowned and said, "Could he have other ideas and just make a gesture?"

"He has prepared his army for war like that, and he still has the same attitude?" Shi Hao asked back.

"That's not necessarily true. If when we get here, we encounter a city that can be broken at a glance, will we still care about Baldini's attitude? He can only make Suero more difficult to chew, and his own bargaining chip The more he will do. As for rectifying his subordinates, it is also necessary. Before he makes a bid, his younger brother will be sold out first, and maybe his head will be used as a stepping stone. Is it unbearable? "

Shi Hao was stunned by what he said, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized that it was not unreasonable: "You people have so many crooked ideas, how could you come up with such a place after just two turns!"

"Then you mean, Baldini is still worth contacting?" Wang Jiyuan asked.

"I think it's worth a try, because last time about Baron Goya, I met him several times under the recommendation of Master Icasa. Speaking of which, we still have business cooperation, and there are some Baron Goya's The property was finally given to him. I thought maybe we could talk to him.”

Wang Jiyuan did not reply directly to Xiao Chen, but continued to ask Catalina: "How is the defense of the city guard?"

Catalina took out a small book, which showed the city walls of Suero, and many numbers were marked on the walls and houses: "Suero's city guards originally only had more than a thousand people, but usually there are only five. A hundred people were stationed in the city, and most of the remaining ones were used to manage order in the outer city. After the purge by Marquis Baldini, there were less than a thousand people left, but the Marquis also hired four large mercenary groups. There are about a thousand people, and he also recruited more than 800 people from the slave camp, including his own guards, there are about 3,000 people.

In addition, he also asked various nobles to requisition some of their guards. I didn’t have time to find out exactly how many of these people there were. I only heard that he forced all the nobles and merchants who wanted to evacuate to leave a considerable number of guards and supplies, otherwise they would not be able to leave. In addition, there are also many nobles who are willing to stay and fight. The status of nobles was originally earned through military merit. Many people think that this time may not be an opportunity to earn military merit. "

Shi Hao sneered and said: "Then you have to have a life. Aren't these speculators afraid of getting mixed up in the mob and eventually being picked on by us?"

Xiao Chen said: "That's not necessarily true. Staying is just a gesture. Even if you lose the battle and use teleportation to evacuate, you have resisted, right? As long as the kingdom does not want to fall, we cannot treat these heroes badly."

"It's all a routine!" Shi Hao snorted disdainfully.

Wang Jiyuan said: "No matter what, the enemy's strength is still considerable, we cannot underestimate the enemy!"