Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 172 Glory Fortress
After more than a week, Rhodes arrived at Glory Fortress alone.

"Take off your helmet." Before entering the fortress, a guard at the door stopped Rhodes and said.

Rhodes took off his helmet according to the guard's instructions. He didn't have the unique characteristics of the Nords. People who didn't know him would definitely not be able to guess which country he was from, and the guards would definitely not make things difficult for him. .

"I'm an ordinary mercenary cavalry soldier. I came here to find opportunities in the war and restore the glory of our ancestors." Rhodes said while handing over a few silver coins to the guard.

After the guard took the silver coin from Rhodes, he moved out of the way, and he smiled at Rhodes, "I won't talk so much nonsense to you earlier, for aristocrats like you who are in decline, I will spend a day with you." I saw a dozen or so at the gate of the fortress."

Rhodes silently led the horse into the fortress.

There were quite a few mercenaries coming and going at the gate of the fort just now, but those few mercenaries stopped him, probably because they saw that he was alone and the armor he was wearing was relatively expensive, and after taking off the helmet, he revealed a young s face.

The Fortress of Glory was not as tense as Rhode had imagined before, so he decided to find someone in a tavern to ask about the latest situation.

Rhodes came to a very lively tavern, handed the traveling horse to the groom in the stable, and walked into the tavern.

After finding a place to sit down, he ordered a glass of wine from the barmaid.

"How is the war going now?" Rhodes asked a bearded mercenary next to him.

He gave Rhodes a strange look, probably wondering why the people in the fortress didn't know about this kind of thing.

Rhodes refilled a glass of wine with the bearded mercenaries next to the tavern maids.

"This glass of wine is mine," Rhodes said again.

The bearded mercenary took a sip from his wine glass, and then said without hesitation, "Now the Kingdom of Nord has gained the upper hand in the war. The army led by the Marquis Alger was defeated by them the day before yesterday, and the Marquis himself was captured. I remember a few weeks ago he said brazenly in the square of the fortress that he would be able to collect and pay the lost land, hehe, this time his face was embarrassing. Not only did he not recover the lost land, but the Nords would come here in a few days gone."

"Can the Roman Empire hold this fortress?" Rhodes asked.

"Why can't it be defended?" The bearded eyes widened, "Since the fort was built, it has never fallen. Last year, those Nords broke through more than a dozen castles in a row, and they finally returned without success in front of this fort. I haven't asked yet, which country are you from?"

"I was born in Gulfstream City, Kingdom of Fish." Rhode said what he had thought up before.

"It's a peaceful city. No war has ever spread there, unlike where I was born." The bearded mercenary sighed.

"Then which country are you from?" Rhodes asked curiously, he knew that the mercenary must be sharing his own story by saying this.

"I don't know which country I am. I was born in the south of Winterfell Fortress and the north of Glory Fortress. The two countries are always fighting there. Today it belongs to Nord, and next year it belongs to the Empire. Neither country treats the people in that land as human beings, and they all raped and plundered there. But that's good, I don't have any psychological burden whether I kill the Nords or the imperials." The bearded mercenary finished speaking Then he spit on the ground.

The army in this world is like this, lacks discipline, and no one will restrain them. Most nobles allow their soldiers to burn, kill and loot villages and cities ruled by the enemy. Not only can they and the soldiers make a fortune, but also It can also allow soldiers to vent their emotions and maintain a certain combat effectiveness.

Only a very small number of nobles who attach great importance to honor will restrain their soldiers from doing such things.

"Then who will command this fortress? Or who should mercenaries like us go to?" Rhodes asked.

The bearded man turned his head to look at Rhodes,
"Although it is commanded by the emperor, it is well known that the emperor of the empire lacks military talent. He is not good at fighting or fighting. The actual supreme commander should be the Duke of Lambert Campbell. Although the emperor's only relative The younger brother is the Duke of Elvis Lionel, but because he is so outstanding, our cowardly emperor fears him very much. It is a pity that Duke Elvis was born a few years later, otherwise if he is the emperor, this The world is even more exciting, and I am looking forward to his confrontation with King Nord on the battlefield." The bearded mercenary boasted that he knew these great nobles very well.

"Then who should mercenaries like us report to?" Rhodes repeated the previous question.

"Don't look for anyone. Every day at noon, those nobles will send people to the tavern to recruit mercenaries like us. They will also record things like the weapons we are good at, so that we can be arranged in the right place. This idea It was thought up by Duke Elvis. I still remember that I could only use weapons such as swords and axes, but they arranged me to play with bows and arrows on the city wall, if I hadn't cleverly hidden behind the battlements Otherwise, I would have been shot into a sieve by those Nord rangers." The bearded man showed a look of fear after speaking.

The Nord Rangers are the most elite archer unit on the entire continent. The arrows they shoot are not only accurate, but also very powerful, and can even pierce the plate armor of a knight.

The only ones who are stronger than them are the eagle archers of the court of Anu, but there are too few eagle archers, never more than 30, while the Nord rangers have at least a thousand.

A hundred Nord rangers can suppress all the archers on the entire wall so that they cannot lift their heads.

"Are those noble commanders living in the fort's castle?" Rhodes asked again.

"Yes, but some commanders live in towers next to the city walls." The bearded mercenary replied.

Seeing that the bearded mercenary's glass was empty again, Rhodes shouted, "Give me two more glasses of wine!"

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Rhodes drank with the bearded mercenary until the evening and learned a lot. Since he drank some wine, he decided to go out to check the situation tonight, and then do it tomorrow night.

He took out the night clothes in the system space, which was a new set that he got in the ten consecutive draws in River Valley City, so he gave the old set to Bruce.

Otherwise, if this kind of convenient equipment is given to him, it will be difficult for people to find out if he goes out to do things at night in night clothes.

After Rhodes changed his clothes, he jumped out from the window on the second floor...

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(End of this chapter)