Chapter 720 709. Blocking the door
From a distance, I saw two soldiers from the city defense brigade waiting at the gate of the barracks. When Suldak rode through the gate of the barracks, the two city defense soldiers quickly saluted Suldak.
Sulda grabbed the reins of the horse, turned to them and asked:
"Are you waiting for me?"
Two soldiers from the city defense brigade showed embarrassing expressions on their faces, and they stepped forward and said:
"Yes, Commander Suldak."
Suldak asked calmly:
"What can you do with me?"
The two soldiers of the City Defense Brigade seemed a bit embarrassed to speak. They looked at each other, and finally summoned up their courage and said:
"Commander, the city defense brigade has encountered some troubles. Mayor Marko said that you are the commander of the city defense brigade, so I want you to deal with it."
Suldak frowned.
In the morning, the mayor of Marko still looked like he wanted to hold the city defense team in his palm and was unwilling to hand it over. Unexpectedly, I can't wait to hand over the city defense team now.
Suldak asked in a deep voice, "What happened over there?"
The two soldiers of the City Defense Brigade were even more embarrassed, lowered their heads and said: "The armed group of the Town Trading Company blocked the door of the City Defense Brigade."
The city defense team of a dignified town was actually blocked by the armed forces of a private business group, and there was no way to fight back...
Suldak didn't know what to say, so he just said to the two soldiers:
"Understood, I will go there as soon as I make arrangements!"
"Yes, Commander."
The two fighters agreed and walked away in desperation.
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Suldak rode into the barracks and casually asked the guards at the gate, only to find out that the patrol led by Samira and Gulitham hadn't returned yet. Probably the ogre had tasted the sweetness yesterday and wanted to try hunting today. Wild game in the woods.
The barracks had already started preparing dinner, and the smell of scones and wheat wafted from the dining room.
Twenty or so aboriginal herdsmen are carefully brushing a group of ancient Bolai horses beside the stables. Since they joined the cavalry battalion, these war horses have been carefully brushed almost every day.
And they have to go outside the town every day to cut the white glass grass and green hairy vines.
To feed the thousand horses in the barracks, besides having to go to the pastures outside the town every day, they also need to prepare forage for the horses to eat at night. War horses that eat concentrated materials can grow fat.
Ordinary ancient Bolai horses can't carry heavy cavalry wearing a full set of heavy armor and a full set of weapons. They can barely carry them in time, but they are also unable to charge. It's heavy!
Only ancient horses that have undergone special breeding and weight gain training can barely bear the weight of heavy cavalry.
With these aboriginal herdsmen, Suldak has saved a lot of trouble that he hadn't considered before.
Andrew had just finished training the cavalrymen. He stood shirtless under the stone wall and took a shower with a group of cavalrymen.
The sound of water, talking and laughing mixed together, a group of men lined up, waiting to take a bath on the side of the bathing wall.
Seeing Suldak coming on horseback, Andrew walked out from the bath wall naked, and put on the 'Earth Shield' magic pattern structure again, without any linen shirt inside.
Suldak was very speechless, feeling that no matter how precious this 'Earth Shield' magic pattern structure was, he didn't want to take it back from Andrew and put it on himself again.
"Come out with me."
Suldak jumped off his horse and said to Andrew who was shaking his wet hair.
Andrew threw the towel to a cavalry squadron leader behind him, and asked Suldak:
Suldak asked him: "You know?"
Andre smiled, and walked side by side with Suldak. He was dressed in the 'Earth Shield' magic pattern structure, looking heroic and extraordinary.
"I heard from the locals that the commercial armed group blocked the gate of the city defense brigade, and they know something inside." Andrew said.
Suldak asked: "What's the inside story?"
Andrew took the reins of the horse from a cavalryman, and while following Suldak out of the barracks, he said: "I heard that the truck of the trading house was stopped by the city guards at noon, and both sides The commotion was very unpleasant, but after all, no problems were found at the trading company. When the convoy left Dodan Town in the afternoon, the armed group of the trading company blocked the gate of the city defense brigade. I heard their reason I want to recover a sum of money owed by the city defense brigade."
"Mayor Marko really has a good temper!" Suldak snorted.
Andrew got on his horse, chased after Suldak, and said, "The boss of the Dodan Town Trading Company is not an ordinary person. It is said that his uncle is a member of the House of Representatives in Wilkes City, and he has a lot of status in Wilkes City. From the beginning, it is estimated that the mayor of Marco would not dare to touch the owner of the business easily."
"Let private armed forces block the gate... Isn't that a reason?" Suldak said angrily.
Suldak and Andrew rushed to the city defense brigade.
The city defense brigade was not far from the barracks, and was built under the north city wall. Many warehouses in the city defense brigade were directly built in the holes in the city wall below.
A group of mercenaries stood at the gate of the city defense team, more than a hundred people. They surrounded five four-wheeled trucks at the gate of the city defense team. Obviously suppressed a group of city defense fighters inside the gate.
Captain Hans couldn't even wear a half-piece of magic pattern on his body. He protected the mayor of Marko, and he didn't dare to rush up to disperse the mercenaries of the trading company's armed group.
Mayor Marko stood at the front, pointing at the head of the trading firm's armed forces, and angrily reprimanded him.
The head of the trading firm kept a smile on his face, bowed his waist slightly, and explained something to Mayor Marko.
Suldak and Andrew passed a group of onlookers and rode in. Mayor Marko seemed to see some hope, but he saw that Suldak was followed by less than twenty cavalrymen, and his eyes were filled with disappointment.
Just wanted to reprimand Suldak a few words, but those words rolled in his throat, and he didn't say it after all.
"Mayor Marko, I heard that you came here to hand over the military power of the city defense brigade to me?" Suldak jumped off his horse and asked Mayor Marko loudly.
Mayor Marko coughed in front of so many city guards and armed group mercenaries, and said with a dark face:
"Hans, this Commander Suldak will be directly in charge of the City Defense Brigade from now on. The town has already handed over this right. From now on, you must obey Commander Suldak's orders!"
Then Mayor Marko pointed to Hans and said to Suldak:
"Commander Suldak, this Captain Hans is the captain of the city defense brigade. He is usually in charge of the specific affairs of the city defense brigade. If you have anything to do in the future, just tell him directly."
Suldak nodded, and said: "In this case... As the temporary commander of the city defense brigade, I have the right to resolve the matter at the gate."
His eyes fell on the head of the trading house, and asked him: "So you are the head of the trading company's armed group?"
"Anthony has met Commander Suldak!" The head of the trading firm kept his posture extremely low.
Suldak was not polite, and said directly to him: "Why do your subordinates block the gate of the city defense brigade? According to the security regulations of the Green Empire army, these armed groups of yours have threatened the safety of Dodan Town. I can Bring people to arrest you and punish you for such a dangerous act."
The person in charge of the trading firm spread his hands and said with an aggrieved face: "Commander Suldak, your city defense brigade owes our trading firm a batch of war supplies. This is not a public security incident, but An economic dispute, we did nothing wrong!"
As he spoke, he handed a parchment account in his hand to Suldak, saying:
"Here is the list of accounts. At the beginning, Captain Hans purchased a batch of supplies from the commercial bank, and the mayor of Marko came forward to guarantee that we would pay back in batches within one year. Now the deadline has come. The commercial bank is currently So far, not a single gold coin has been received."
Suldak flipped through the account book casually, stared at Hans and asked, "Can Captain Hans explain to me what's going on?"
Hans quickly wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said frankly to Suldak:
"At the beginning, there was a shortage of supplies for the city defense brigade. We did purchase a batch of supplies from trading houses, but this was also the battle reserve of the city defense brigade. It's just that the money has not been repaid!"
"Then what about the list of combat supplies of the city defense brigade? Captain Hans, can you show it to me!" Suldak turned to Hans and asked.
Then he said to Anthony, the person in charge of the trading firm: "Since this bad account has not been investigated, we can sit together and check the accounts carefully, and ask your people to push these five four-wheeled trucks to the courtyard of the city defense brigade , if it is true that the city defense brigade owes the money, even if I send the bill to the Wilkes City Military Department, I will pay the debt in full."
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(end of this chapter)