"Sir, we just heard from the merchants coming outside that... Earl Milno's team was collecting grain, but because they could not find the food, they began to let the knights rob them everywhere..."

"Yes, sir, some people here escaped to take refuge in advance after hearing the wind."

When guarding the city gate, you will naturally hear all kinds of gossip. The real and fake are mixed, and there is no reference value at all.

As he was talking, a caravan came from the city gate. There were about twenty mercenaries and coachmen escorted by the front and back. He was noisy and arranged a team of dozens of meters long outside the city gate. The soldiers in the city were routinely inspected, and the leader of the caravan put a bag of silver coins with a flattering smile on his face before he let him go.

After the team passed, Wright smiled and pointed, "Look at them, how do they look like they were after being robbed? You guys, don't listen to the wind and rain!"

"Yes, yes, what the lord said! There were two other caravans coming in the morning. How could there be so many caravans in normal times? Isn't this a prosperous place now..."

The city defense soldiers dared not have any objection to Wright's words? They took out half of the coins and stuffed them over, and laughed and scolded and talked about something else. But they did not see Wright's hidden eye contact with the caravan leader, but they were wondering why the guard captain had not left yet.

They didn't dare to ask the captain why they had to spend time here, so they could only talk about the upcoming Holy Prayer Festival. However, within a dozen minutes, they all noticed strange things in the distance.

The area where the temple is located is a plain, with a great view during the day, so when a few black smoke suddenly pops up in the villages and towns in the distance, everyone can see clearly.

"What's going on... something is burning?"

There were more than one smoke pillar, and soon they changed from two to five. Judging from the location, they basically matched several villages outside. The two city defense forces at the door looked puzzled, because they had never seen such a formation in their lives, so they had to instinctively look at the guard captain Wright, who had not left next to him, as if they had been asking for help.

The captain of the guard looked solemn and quickly made a decision: "You clear out everyone at the city gate! I will take the guard team to investigate later!"

"Yes! Sir!"

The two soldiers in the city were without doubting him and quickly ran to disperse the pedestrians near the city gate as ordered. Wright turned around and rushed towards the camp where the guard was located - but what others didn't notice was... a sneer appeared on the corner of the guard's mouth.

"It's ready to start..."

Wright rushed back to the barracks where the temple guards were located, and reported the situation they had just seen to the bishop in charge of defense. The latter also saw the black smoke and heard the bell ringing in the city to warn, so he immediately ordered the troops to support him without any doubt. So the temple guards who had not been out for many years finally had a task and quickly began to gather together and board the horse in panic. Five guard captains, including Wright, each led about forty guards on horseback to check what was going on.

At present, there are about 600 garrison troops in the Temple City, which is the result of multiple cuts. Therefore, when the Temple Guards of the Temple roared out of the open city gates, there were less than 400 cavalry troops left in the city, and the infantry sequence was only a little over 300.

As for the city defense force... the only thing these young people who have never fought a war did was stand on the city wall and look out curiously.

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"These stingy guys, they would rather give food to those borers than sell them to us!"

"Why are there so much nonsense? Just grab it!"

Similar scenes are being staged in villages outside the Temple City. The "Saint Cult Army" knights, equipped with messy and no tacit understanding, are really no different from bandits at this time - or in other words, many of them have actually been bandits, so it is very easy to do this kind of food grabbing work.

The villagers never thought that there would be so many tall horse-headed knights to rob. For a moment, they were panicked and fled everywhere. Among the knights who were not controlled, there were naturally those who had been holding back for many days and had been worms. Therefore, there were many people who got off the horse and caught women to solve their "personal problems" - they were no different from wild animals in the state of war. After some resistance, some people could not help but wield swords to kill people. Not long after, someone robbed and burned the village with a fire...

"Damn it! Who set the fire!?"

Zach, who was robbing a village, cursed. He looked at the smoke pillars that were rising not far away, and wanted to rush over to kill the fire-killing person - kill him, rob him, rob him, what does it mean to set fire? Are you afraid that others will not know that you are causing trouble?

This behavior is very stupid, so no matter how much the "Holy Cult Army" knights did not do anything to burn the house. However, they naturally didn't know... When the "Holy Cult Army" and other groups of people with bad water came out to "collect grain", they had become an important piece that fell down by the "Virgate Cross".

The believers of the "Virgate Cross" hidden in the team ignited their village, so when the "Holy Knights" discovered it, it was too late to stop the fire from spreading... They could only watch the black smoke emerged into the sky and try to speed up the robbery.

There were not many knights who came out to collect grain. There were about twenty or thirty people in each village. For a village, twenty fully armed knights were enough to eliminate all possible resistance forces. And some auxiliary soldiers who were following him were preparing to transport food, which totaled about more than forty. A total of seven villages near the temple were attacked and robbed, and then all ignited black smoke. So when the cavalry of the "Shrine" rushed to the scene, they almost blocked the "Holy Cult Army" who were robbing face to face!

Seeing the burned village and the killed villagers, the Templars didn't know what happened? However, the temple guards who understood the situation did not immediately launch an attack because they knew that the burning, killing and abducting robbers in front of them were nominally the kingdom's army, and their immediate superior was the Count Mirno, who was now in the limelight.

If you fight rashly with the other party, it is not just the contradiction of being robbed in the village, but it will rise to the question of "the 'Rose Cross' and does it take the Karen royal family seriously"...
Chapter completed!