Chapter 869 (1/2)
”That's Valencia?” Iron Axe adjusted his telescope and was observing a city which looked gray and brown in the distance
”It should be Valencia according to the et it wrong,” said his lieutenant, Bearpaw Like Iron Axe, he was also a for the first batch of Roland's militia soldiers
”It looks a little weird” Iron Axe frowned
”Why?”
”Valencia is a ion and a well-established trading center of Graycastle Together with the old king's city and the Eagle City, they fordoion,” said Iron Axe, ”but don't you think it's weird we've seen very few merchant shi+ps here these days?”
”I've no idea about this,” Bearpaw shrugged his shoulders and said ”The previous pirate attacks ht not dare to coain”
”The attack happened two years ago No e it caused, the merchants should have recovered from the shock by now”
The city wall looked mottled and bloated It seemed to have been thickened recently, but probably because of the lack of stones, they just plastered up the original broith soravels and woodenit look like the early rubble wall in Border Town In addition, the surface of this city as covered with a layer of glittering things Because of the distance, Iron Axe could not clearly discern what they were
However, it was obviously not a comprehensive reconstruction of the city wall The plastered wall sections noere twice as thick as the old wall, but so fro like a construction of a city famous for its wealth
”Who cares No matter what, we must occupy this city” Bearpaw fished out a fire lantern fruit and threw it into his mouth ”His Majesty ordered us to capture the whole Eastern Region, so we have to seize every city we see in this region, even if it's not called Valencia”
Hearing that, Iron Axe helplessly shook his head Bearpaas still a short-tempered person as he had been in the past Once he had set his target, he would go for it with a javelin in his hand, and when he had returned with his capture, the other hunters would still be busy with setting traps and sending hounds to stalk their preys It had been said that even the most ferocious animal in the forest, the black bears, would have been reluctant to confront hiotten his name Bearpaw
Iron Axe believed that Bearpaould have been proher than a lieutenant if he had learned to use his brain Even Van'er was already the commander-in-chief of the Artillery Battalion
Bearpaw continued ”But what matters isn't the battle itself but how to restore order after it If we ion, City Hall will certainly find fault with us However, if we don't resort to violence, it'll be hard for those officials to control the situation here Did His Majesty tell you how to deal with these cities?” Iron Axe was a little surprised by Bearpaw's thought
”No, His Majesty just entrustedon the situation”
”That's a real headache for you But you're the boss here and I'll follow your instructions” Bearpaw grinned
Iron Axe was intrigued ”Oh? What do you mean by this headache?”
”You really don't know or are you just testing ainst his brow ”You're definitely going to have a headache when you have to think about how to deal with those nobles They've held this land for such a long tiet to see His Majesty getting stronger The situation here is complicated When you seize a city here, ale, how are you going toyou the truth?”
”Continue” Iron Axe nodded and realized that Bearpaas not totally mindless
”Hey, you've really never thought about this?” Bearpaw glared ”This Eastern Front Army doesn't have many soldiers We can only station a limited number of them in each city we capture, and they can barely take care of the inner city, but this region used to be Ti to cooperate with us, but what if they'reback the power? Even if there're only a small number of such people, we'll still have no peace from them Once we leave a city, they'll make City Hall a puppet or even kill the officials we send here They've many ways to achieve this, such as poison, assassination and bribery These problems can't be prevented by flintlocks”
”Do you have any suggestions?” Iron Axe asked curiously
”Boss, that's your business” Bearpaw rolled his eyes and spat out the seeds into the tu river
”Let's assume that now you're the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front Army Come on, let's just talk about it hypothetically”
”Well” Bearpaw thought for a long tih ”There's no perfect solution to this probleale can't come to help us, we can only count on time to solve this issue Or we can hire more Rats and take some preventive measures We can follow the example of Neverwinter and build a police team to preserve the order Meanwhile, we must use as less local nobles as possible until the end of this war”