The running Knights can reach a speed of 40 kilometers per hour.

The entire army set off in the morning, and the Knights separated at noon. At less than four o'clock in the afternoon, a thousand people arrived at the Heqiu Town, whose first established target was near Batagier City.

Seeing a group of strange knights rushing towards the town, the civilians in the whole town threw away the hoes and shovels in their hands, and hid in the dilapidated thatched huts and did not dare to show their heads.

Joneshull ordered: "Vissue Marcus, lead the team to the town to find local officials and find news."

Marcus took the order and returned in less than ten minutes.

"Sir, I have found out that the officials of the Flame Kingdom in Heqiu Town have fled. The nearest town is the Wild Boar Town ten kilometers away, which is the outpost closest to Batagier City."

"Ten kilometers, only a 10 or 20 minutes away, walk to Wild Boar Town!"

A thousand people did not stop at all and continued to rush to the next town. Fifteen minutes later, the horse's hooves stepped into the wild boar town. However, under the setting sun, the town was very quiet and there was no resistance. Several residents of the town were arrested and only after asking were made clear.

Four hours ago, the officials of the Flame Kingdom of Wild Boar Town had already packed up their belongings and fled from their ruling government residence, leaving no letters left behind.

Not to mention a bit of food, as for those civilians, they have to spend at least an hour to scrape it for a little food, which is simply too slow to advance.

In front of the empty ragged castle.

There was only one civilian responsible for caring for the castle.

"Is there such a small population here?" Joneshull entered the castle that was supposed to belong to a nobleman, and said in a bad tone to the civilian lying on the ground in front of him.

He replied tremblingly: "Great nobles, sir, if they were before, of course they were not such a person. At that time, in addition to the lord, there were at least two or three thousand serfs and civilians in this wild boar town. However, since the new system of the Flame Kingdom came out, a lot of the land of the nobles and the men were forced to be given to us. The men did not need so many serfs to farm, so many serfs were resold to the Flame Kingdom. Now 80% of the serfs here have been transported to the Flame Kingdom.

Some civilians heard that the royal capital not only allocated land, but also gave away free houses. If they were to work, there would be free white bread and broth. Now not only civilians, but also some of the little nobles who could not live on their own, gathered in the Fire King City to pave bridges and build roads. It was the local consul who issued the new decree some time ago. When the consul left, he gave me ten copper plates and asked me to take care of the government affairs department and let me clean the hygiene inside on time."

After listening to the common people.

Joneshull frowned and thought deeply: "Sure enough, knowing that the army was approaching, these guys from the Flame Kingdom fled early... But isn't that stupid dragon in the Flame Kingdom really afraid that these nobles will cause trouble? How dare they deprive the nobles of their land? It's damn!"

Joneshull, who is also a noble class, is naturally very unhappy with the actions of the Fire Kingdom. This is simply to kill the nobles like them!

He immediately made a quick decision: "Go out here, it is about ten kilometers away from Batagir City, and you can arrive in half an hour. It's a bit late now, so we rushed outside the city and stayed outside the city!"

"Sir, are you too close to Batagier City?" Deputy Laiden reminded.

"Keep alert at night, I hope they can abandon the city and launch a sneak attack on me. If not, we will attack the city directly for a night, and I might even think they will welcome us into the city."

As long as the nobles of Batagir were tactful, they could quickly advance into the next big city and even meet with the Marquis.

In fact, it is not difficult to destroy Batagir City in the eyes of these thousand people.

After all, the time for the Kingdom of Flame took over the Iron and Steel Principality was limited, and it only took one or two months to complete the calculation. One or two months was not enough to completely control the entire Iron and Steel Principality.

This is why Renault did not first recruit and expand its troops, because even if the troops were expanded, the quality of the troops was not high, and even to a large extent, there might even be two or five children. So he simply gave up recruitment and instead gathered the population around the capital, so he would at least ensure that even if the war started, productivity would not be lost much.

Limited strength.

Now the Kingdom of Thorns, Grand Duke Sparo has summoned all his followers and pushed the Kingdom of Flame with 80,000 elite troops. At least in the eyes of these nobles under their command, if there is no external factors interfering, this battle is a great opportunity to seize credit. The nobles under Grand Duke Sparo often win battles, and no kingdoms around are afraid of being beaten by their force, which has led to their extremely inflated confidence.

What's more, in their opinion, the surrounding area is theoretically a battlefield that has been abandoned. If you don't take credit for it at this time, you will have to wait until when.

"The only thing to be careful is the hidden troops hidden in this area. There has been a giant dragon vassal with a population of about 1,000 in this area here... However, I may not be so unlucky to meet these guys." After Joneshull said his decision, he asked others to discuss for a while.

In the end, he followed his decision and quickly rushed to the outside of Batagir City.

When the red clouds of dusk filled the west sky, a thousand people had blocked the main roads that were out one or two miles outside Batagier City.

There were no signs of enemy scout knights along the way. But here is outside Batagir City, and you can see some busy civilians busy in the fields.

Joneshull directly ordered: "Start clean up and drive away the serfs, don't kill the serfs at will!" No matter what, Joneshull has not had a complete distortion of his mentality and is far from being indifferent to life.

Raising civilians' finances and food is already the greatest sin he can achieve against civilians.

"Yes, sir!"

The knights under Joneshull quickly cleared the serfs in the town, drove the serfs out of the area they were going to camp, and then began to set up camps. Of course, some civilians were caught and helped the knights complete the work of fixing tents, picking up firewood, carrying water and digging soil.

The knights searched the neighborhood and returned, the camp was already set up.

"Sir, there should be many rats in the civilians who used to inquire about the news. Unfortunately, we only caught two of them. Their kind should have brought the news of our arrival to the city of Batagier." Deputy Laiden reported.

"It's okay, I originally planned to let Batagir City dare to resist us know the news... Tonight they will either be worried, sleep hard all night, or arrange sneak attacks. No matter what, they will not change the end of the battlefield... When we come here, we will conquer and clear!"

After saying the scene, he said harsh words.

Joneshull said again: "Bring two mice here."

The mouse was brought soon and had suffered from flesh and blood, so he had no backbone and said what he knew: "Dear nobles, the highest consul in Batajir City is from the capital. There are twenty-five guards in the city who also come from the capital. The strongest guards among the guards are only a silver-level orc. Most of the others are pig-headed men and werewolves, with a total of twenty-five people. They are usually stationed near the consul to protect the safety of the consul."

Another mouse rushed to say, "But these people are now led by the consul to the city gate, and there is sufficient water and sufficient food. Now the consul and other adults are summoning civilians to defend the city... They may not intend to attack."

"Why don't you plan to attack or escape, but choose to defend yourself?" Joneshull asked.

"Maybe they dare not leave Batajir City without authorization. Once they leave, they will run away and will be severely punished by the Fire King." The mouse said before.

The other man shook his head and said loudly: "Great noble master, Parker is willing to exchange my freedom for his great secret."

"Tell me, if it's really a major secret, I don't mind letting you go." Joneshull gave his deputy a look, and Wright dragged the previous mouse away.

Mouse Parker suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "That's right, the reason why the consuls and the others dare not escape is because there is no possibility!"

"Why?" Joneshull said suspiciously.

"Because...there are people in the city now that people are already panicked, and the nobles themselves have a low sense of belonging to the Fire Kingdom, so this has led to many nobles who have already stared at the consul to death, and are ready to tie him up as long as the consul wants to escape. If you come to attack the city, the men in the city will tie up the consul and give it to you!"

The civilian told Joneshull directly, and it was almost impossible to say that as long as you enter the city, you can get a city.

After hearing this, Jones began to fall into deep thought. In fact, he was a relatively cautious person, but with their current advantages, it seemed that the anxiety in his heart was completely filled.

After Parker finished speaking, he couldn't help asking, "Sir, you promised to give me freedom. I promise to leave Batagier City without looking back."

"Of course, I'll give you freedom now, Wright, take him out." Joneshull said, giving Wright a knowing look.

A moment later, Wright brought another mouse over and said, "Sir, Parker has gained complete freedom." He deliberately emphasized his tone on "freedom".

In this world, there are many constraints when you are alive.

Joneshull looked at the mouse: "Your accomplice Parker has exchanged his freedom for secrets. What about you, if you have a secret worth enough, you can also gain freedom."

The mouse stammered: "Master of the nobles, I...I...ah, by the way, I know, I have a secret!"
Chapter completed!