Lord Highlander

   Chapter 721 710. City Defense Brigade

The mercenaries of the armed trading group were still surrounded by five wagons full of goods. Surdak walked to the side of the wagon and looked at a wagon full of barrels of black wagons that gave off a strange smell. Kerosene, almost fifty or sixty barrels are loaded in the nearly six-meter-long carriage, and the oak barrels are covered with a thick layer of rainproof tarpaulin.

Suldak walked over and uncovered the rainproof tarpaulin. The oak barrel was still covered with the seal of the city defense brigade. He turned his head and stared at Captain Hans behind him and asked, "Captain Hans, are you preparing these black fires?" Where did the oil go, do you know that if you embezzle combat supplies without authorization, you will be investigated by the military court of the military department of Bena Province?"

Then he walked to the second four-wheeled truck and pulled a corner of the tarpaulin of the carriage. Inside was a thick wooden box. Surdak drew out the Bloody Crescent and slashed at the corner of the wooden box with a sword. When it was cut off, the heavy crossbow arrowhead made of fine steel with a long length of fine steel ruler dripped down with a 'crash'.

  Captain Hans covered his forehead with his hand, hurried to behind Suldak, and said guiltily:

   "Commander Suldak, please listen to my explanation. These supplies are not owned by the City Defense Brigade. These supplies..."

   Captain Hans looked at Mayor Marko, his Adam's apple twitched, and his eyes were full of pleading.

Mayor Marko took two steps forward, coughed, and said: "These combat supplies were originally purchased by Dodan Township for the city defense brigade. Since Commander Suldak took over as the commander of the city defense brigade, Regarding the battle preparation materials of the city defense brigade, do you also need to prepare them?"

  Surdak stood next to the four-wheeled truck, staring at Mayor Marko and said:

"Mayor Marco is really good at calculating. You had applied to Dodan Town to purchase a batch of war supplies, but you didn't pay the money to the trade group. Now you want to transport this batch of war supplies. Before the beast horde is approaching, we should repay this batch of supplies to the trading firm, so as to clear up the previous debt, right?"

  The residents of the small town watching around heard what Suldak said, and all their eyes were on Mayor Marko.

   You are not fools. If you really want to use supplies to pay off the debt owed by the trading firm, the mercenaries of the trading firm's armed group will probably not block the gate of the city defense brigade and detain the five four-wheeled trucks.

   It was clear that Mayor Marko wanted to transfer the supplies, and the trading house was worried that the arrears would become a dead debt, so they blocked the five carriages in front of the city defense brigade.

   "Ahem..." Mayor Marko didn't know how to explain for a while, standing in front of the gate with red ears.

  The head of the trading firm, Anthony, winked at the mercenary captain of the armed group.

   "You guys quickly get off the carriage." The mercenary captain understood and ordered the mercenaries of the armed group on the carriage.

  The mercenaries who climbed onto the carriage jumped out of the carriage one after another.

  Suldak with a straight face, told the coachmen who drove the carriage: "You take these war supplies back to the warehouse."

"We need to re-check the account list of the warehouse. Since it is a war preparation material, the town hall of Dodan Township has no right to transfer it at will." Suldak first glanced at the mayor of Marko, and then said to the person in charge of the trading firm: " Anthony, I don't think the trading house would mind the payment being delayed for a few more days, right?"

   "Of course, the trading firm still has patience." Anthony, the head of the trading firm, said with a smile.

   Several coachmen raised their whips, turned the four-wheeled truck, and drove back to the city defense team.

  Suldak said to Mayor Marko:

   "Mayor Marko, I hope there is nothing wrong with the details of this account. I will submit an application to the Wilkes City Military Supplies and Logistics Department for review of the accounts. Now, these materials cannot be shipped out of the city defense brigade..."

   Several subordinates beside Mayor Marko stood up and wanted to stop the four-wheeled carriage in front. Before the subordinate who ran in the front could reach the front of the carriage, he was kicked away by Andrew who rushed up diagonally.

   "Commander Suldak, what are you doing?" Mayor Marko asked Suldak.

  Suldak stared at Mayor Marko, and said to him coldly: "I hope you can sort out the accounts of the recent town..."

   After finishing speaking, he turned and walked into the courtyard of the city defense brigade.

The mayor of Marko turned pale and red for a while, but he didn't have the confidence to follow Suldak into the city defense brigade. He just let out a muffled grunt and rushed back to Dodan Town with a group of followers, even unwilling to Take a look at Anthony, the head of the trading firm.

  Anthony, the head of the trading firm, glanced around and said to the mercenaries of the armed group: "Let's go!"

  In an instant, more than half of the group of people surrounding the city defense brigade dispersed.

  Only Hans stood at the door profusely in sweat, watching Mayor Marko lead the people away with a bitter face, and could only bite the bullet and return to the courtyard of the city defense brigade.

  …

   Nearly 300 city guards stood in the yard. When they saw Suldak walking in, they quickly moved out of the way.

This group of guards in light armor are basically young people in Dodan Town, most of the guards are aborigines in the town, and they stared at Suldak in fear. He stopped in front of him, his eyes scraped across the faces of each guard like a knife.

  Suldak stood in front of the crowd and said loudly:

"Looking at your faces, you are young and full of vigor and vitality. You shoulder the heavy responsibility of guarding Dodan Town. Your family and friends live in the town. This wall is very important for Wilkes City. It’s just the first barrier against the beast tide, but for the town of Dodan, those monsters will rush into the town after climbing over the wall, I don’t want you to be cowardly, selfish, bloodless fighters.”

   After saying these words, some guards raised their heads consciously, puffed up their chests, and their eyes became firm.

"It's like today...the gates are all blocked, and you almost spit in your face, why don't you fight them out?" Suldak scolded, "As a city guard, I was blocked by a group of local armed groups. If you stay at the gate, I will be ashamed for you."

  These city guards are all young people, and their faces turned red when they were scolded by Suldak.

Suldak shouted: "If this happens again in the future, I hope that before I arrive... either you will drive back all those mercenaries, or you will still be defeated by those mercenaries after doing your best." Down, if it is the former, I will personally award you, if all of you are knocked down by mercenaries, I will bring you back, not the cowardly state you are now!"

   "Except for the people on duty on the city wall tonight, everyone run around the yard for me, don't stop before dark!"

  After Suldak finished speaking, the squadron leaders of these city guards issued orders one after another, and lined up to run on the playground.

Captain Hans followed Suldak carefully, but Suldak ignored him, still holding the parchment booklet in his hand, and walked directly towards the warehouse under the city wall, five four-wheeled trucks Still parked at the door of the warehouse, the goods have not been unloaded.

  Below the north city wall, there are a total of ten warehouses transformed from holes in the city wall. The gates of these warehouses here are all iron doors more than four meters high, and the iron locks hanging outside weigh dozens of kilograms.

  A fat man in leather armor ran over from the warehouse and stood in front of Suldak with a guilty look on his face, keeping his eyes on Captain Hans behind him.

  Suldak asked him: "Are you the warehouse manager of the guard brigade?"

  The fat man in leather armor nodded repeatedly, and said, "Jeremy, the warehouse manager, has seen Commander!"

  Suldak ordered: "Go and open the warehouse!"

   "Oh!" Jeremy the administrator hurried back.

  With the rumbling sound, a person pushed open a four-meter-high iron gate.

  After the big iron gate was pushed open by the administrator, Suldak saw the slide rails hoisted on the upper lintel. No wonder such a heavy and heavy iron gate could be opened by him so easily.

  Administrator Jeremy stood at the door of the warehouse, and Suldak and Andrew walked over and looked inside...

  The entire warehouse was empty, except for a mouse that slipped away along the corner of the wall.

  Andrew and Suldak looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a while, Suldak said coldly to the warehouse manager Jeremy: "Go and open all the doors of other warehouses."

  Boom...

  Boom...

  As the big iron doors were pushed away, all ten warehouses were actually empty.

Suldak's scalp was numb. On the city wall, he saw stacks of heavy crossbow shafts piled up in the courtyard of the City Defense Brigade, and the wooden shelves beside the wall were filled with materials such as rolling stones. He thought that the City Defense Brigade had more supplies in the warehouse. Unable to put it down, they piled up these three-meter-long heavy crossbow shafts in the yard.

  In any case, they never expected that Mayor Marko and Captain Hans would be so courageous. The animal horde was approaching, and there were no reserves in the material warehouse, and they even transferred out the last batch of reserves in the warehouse.

   "Where are the standing supplies in these warehouses?" Suldak walked into the empty warehouse, turned around and asked Captain Hans who was standing at the door: "Only those on the truck?"

   His voice echoed in the empty warehouse.

Captain Hans followed behind, lowered his head and said to Suldak: "Oh, even the supplies on the truck outside belong to Dodan Town. The guard brigade gave a copper coin."

  Suldak asked Captain Hans: "The City Defense Brigade has been using Duodan Town's tax revenue to maintain daily expenses and material reserves?"

"It's almost like this. The tax revenue of Dodan Town has not been very good in the past few years. The nobles in the town don't need to pay taxes to the town. The aborigines are too poor to wear pants. The largest business tax is the town Trading houses on the Internet, but they always trade in private, and tax evasion is already the norm." Captain Hans complained to Suldak.

   Seeing Suldak standing silently in the warehouse, Captain Hans said again: "Mayor Marko also has his difficulties, but we still support you very much if you want to govern the city defense brigade."

Suldak walked up to Captain Hans, patted his shoulder, and said in a gentle voice: "Before I came to the Bailin plane, I had been working in the guard battalion of Hailansa City. Do you think I don't understand city guards?" The brigade's operating system?"

Captain Hans cast his eyes aside, and said: "I'm just the captain of the city defense brigade in a small town. You should have your own choice."

Suldak said: "The military department requires towns to withhold a certain amount of tax revenue every year to support the local defense garrison. This is done no matter which town they go to. Regardless of daily expenses or stockpiles, there is a minimum depreciation supplement every year. Now the town of Dodan has been evading this expenditure for so many years, and the lawsuit has gone to the House of Representatives in Wilkes City. It is estimated that Mayor Marko’s title of noble baron will not be able to keep him..."

  Suldak walked out of the warehouse, looked at Captain Hans with pity, and said:

   "You can speak so confidently in front of me, it seems that you really have little knowledge and don't understand anything!"

  Hearing what Suldak said, Captain Hans felt that his legs were a little weak.

   After a pause, Suldak asked him again: "Are you married yet?"

  Captain Hans shook his head and said, "Not yet..."

  Suldak smiled slightly and said:

   "That's okay, at least your child won't be implicated."

  Captain Hans sat down on the ground...

  (end of this chapter)