Chapter 49 Doubtful
On May 27, 872, Is declared war on Baisos on the sixth day.
It was the second night that Roger and Jessica arrived at Hetante City. On the first night, after a few people's discussion, it was decided to withdraw all the civilians in the city from Hetante City and scatter them to nearby towns to avoid casualties in the battle to defend the city. However, despite the mobilization, there were still civilians born and raised in the city and refused to leave their homes. Therefore, there were still more than 100,000 civilians in the city. Fortunately, the Is army seemed to be waiting for something in Linxi Town and had not yet attacked Hetante City.
"Hawking, have all the people in Hangu Town evacuated?" Roger asked. After learning that Is declared war, he immediately sent people to Hangu Town and informed them to evacuate all the people in the town to a remote village for a while. He had a premonition that if he did not do this, the Is army would most likely send people to Hangu Town to capture his parents and family.
After learning about this, Hawking led the town garrison members to the city to support Roger with Carre, leaving only Dean and some guards to protect the members of the Caesar family.
"The Third Young Master, except for some old people who are unwilling to leave, most of them have been evacuated." Hawking replied.
"Oh, where are my parents settled now?" Roger asked anxiously.
"I settled in a remote village very close to the Mist Forest. Many of us have never been to that village." Hawking said.
"Yeah, that's fine..." Roger nodded.
"San Young Master!" At this time, a person ran quickly from afar and shouted while running.
"Oh, what's the matter?" Roger looked closely and saw that it was Hanks who he had only subdued a few days ago.
"Just just now, the chief guard of His Highness, Adams, said to you when you were in the room you lived in, and found that you were not there. He happened to meet me, so he asked me to tell you, if you see you, please go to the No. 17 private room of the Red Shan Butterfly Bar in Hotante City to find her, and say there is something important to discuss." Hanks said breathlessly.
"Hongshan Butterfly Bar? Why would she think of running there to discuss things?" Roger was slightly surprised.
"Okay, I'll go right away, you can do it yourself!" Roger responded and said to Hawking: "Sorry, I'll lose my companion."
"Okay! Master, go and do your business! I'll go find my guards. These bastards are like country bumpkins who have never entered the city. Once they arrive, they run away. I have to go find them one by one..." Hawking cursed.
Roger smiled, turned around and rode straight to the Red Coral Bar.
As soon as he got off the horse, a guard immediately came up to hold the horse, and then another guard led him to the Red Coral Bar.
After a long time of twists and turns, Roger finally arrived at the dark private room No. 17. He saw that in addition to Jessica, Singer and Adams were also sitting here, and there was another middle-aged man who looked like a mercenary in the private room. He looked like a warrior in his clothes.
"Roger, let me introduce you to you: This is Kate, the leader of the Holy Sword Mercenary Group!" Jessica said with a smile.
"This is Princess Jessica's sweetheart, Master Roger! I'm here to hear the name of the first genius of Enpei's Magic Academy for a long time!" Kate held out his hand with respect and shook hands with Roger.
"Oh! Captain Kate, hello!" Roger also saluted. However, he always felt that he had heard the names of Kate and the Holy Sword Mercenary Group somewhere.
"Roger, the superficial identity of the regiment Kate is the leader of the Holy Sword Mercenary Group of Hetante City, but in fact he has another identity, which is the person in charge of our Baissus intelligence department in the Hotante area." Jessica introduced with a smile.
Roger was shocked at this time. It seemed that the king had already installed spy surveillance in the fiefs of various nobles. I don’t know if the Hangu Town of his family was there.
"Your Highness, you will be invited here with a special secret code next time. This is an important military report." Kate said with a serious expression at this time.
"Well, Kate, please continue! Now everyone in this room is full of trustworthy people!" Jessica nodded and signaled.
"A few days ago, Princess, have you sent someone to Hetante City to find the Marquis of Rudendolf?" Kate asked first.
"Yes! Two cavalrymen have been sent over, hoping that Rudendolf will send troops to Hangu Town to wipe out the bandits. As a result, these two people have never come back after they went there. I asked the Marquis yesterday, and he said he didn't see these two people coming to him. I thought they were assassinated by the Isles army or thieves on the way." Jessica said after recalling for a while.
"Actually, two days ago, when I was at the city gate, I saw two cavalrymen wearing guard uniforms entering the city. It probably was the two people you mentioned, but they never saw them leaving the city after entering the city lord's mansion. I think they must have encountered an unexpected situation." Kate said solemnly.
Adams stood up at this time "Hao": "Kate, do you mean-they were killed by Rudendolf?"
"There is this possibility, because Ludendorff's behavior was very abnormal during this period. Five days ago, he personally led a large group of cavalry out of the city, saying that he was going to suppress the bandits. But when he came back two days ago, there was not a single captive bandit, and no one in his team was injured or killed. The bandit suppression was too bizarre. It was hard to believe that he had not even encountered a bandit." Kate introduced.
"Kate, I think something is wrong when you say this!" Jessica said, but a layer of frost was covered with a beautiful face.
"I came to Hetante City yesterday and had been in contact with Rudendolf for one day. I felt that he was really too calm and was a bit terrible. Now there are only 5,000 garrison members withdrawn from each town in the city. However, Linxi Town, more than 200 miles away, has 80,000 troops stationed in Is' army, and it is estimated that they will come soon. However, Rudendolf is not panicked at all, and handles affairs in an orderly manner. It seems that he doesn't care about Is' invasion." Jessica said happily.
"There are only two explanations for this situation: one is that he knew Is going to invade for a long time, so of course he was mentally prepared; the other is that he didn't have to take Is' invasion at all." Roger thought for a while and analyzed further.
"The first speculation must not be explained. Even if he is better than our intelligence department, I first learned about Is' great changes. But I don't think he has a way to resist Is' 80,000 troops." Kate first denied the first inference.
"That means, there is no need to worry about Ludendolf's invasion of Is!" Adams and Singer looked at each other and said in unison.
"Haha, doesn't that mean that our respectable Marquis of Rudendolf is suspected of colluding with the enemy?" Although Jessica said this with a smile, her tone was cold, and everyone could hear the murderous intent in her heart.
Chapter completed!