After getting the arrival of Yang Yan Group and Tiberius, Leonard can finally relax a little bit. After all, although he has a hostage in his hand, the Sword Gate Castle is not stable, but if Leon really doesn't care about anything directly. If the army returned to the royal city, Leonard really had no confidence that he could resist Leon's army with only one royal city guard.

Although the Yang Yan Corps has nearly 3,000 people, there are actually only more than 2,000 soldiers who can be called soldiers. The rest are slaves who act as cannon fodder and are in charge of assistance, and the mercenaries are not regular troops after all, although there are quite a few. Elite veterans who have survived several wars, but there are not a few people who have just joined.

These people may be stronger and more vicious than professional soldiers, but if they fight in groups, their morale and combat effectiveness will be a few grades worse. Maybe not even the people of Tiberius.

Another advantage of their arrival is that Leonard can convince the nobles to follow him. After all, if he wants to be king in Gaoling, he will not be able to do it without the support of the nobles. Before, he was not strong enough, and the nobles were all waiting to see. , Now that he has an army under him, under pressure, the nobles who are closer to the royal city must consider it carefully, so that Leonard will be able to slowly expand his sphere of influence.

Although Feng Ming is between the sphere of influence of the eldest prince and the second prince, it is not in the middle of the battle. The three are more like a triangle situation, but if the two start to fight, then the Fernando County will soon be will also be affected.

The angle of view turned back to Fengming City. Inside the Michelle Temple, the cotton armor that had been made had already been delivered to Ronan. Ronan took the cotton armor and walked to the training place for the temple guards.

After a brief inspection of the cotton armor, Ronan put it on a dummy standing in the open space, and then waved to a temple guard.

"Come on, let's test the defense of this armor."

"Yes, God chooses adults!"

The guard nodded, then pulled out the standard long sword around his waist and slashed **** the dummy in the cotton armor. The guard drew out his long sword, and Ronan stepped forward to examine the wound.

The long sword successfully broke through the layers of protection of the cotton armor, but it also reduced a lot of power, and did not cause too much damage to the dummy inside.

Then Ronan experimented again with an axe, a spear and a bow and arrow. The main source of defense power of the cotton armor is the iron pieces sewn into the interior, so the defense power against slashing and stabbing is similar, and there are two layers of cotton cloth. Padded with leather, the defense against bludgeoning is stronger than pure iron armor.

Ronan is quite satisfied with the defensive power of the cotton armor. This armor is barely enough as the standard armor for infantry. Ronan does not have more funds to equip the soldiers with better weapons and armor.

The number of Ronan's troops is definitely not comparable to the strength of the other three princes who are competing for the throne, so Ronan can only narrow the gap in number between each other through equipment and training, and then use the cutting edge brought by the system. strength to win.

"Call Priest Ashley here." Ronan said to the temple guards who were a little out of breath after the experiment. These temple guards have not participated in battles for many years and are used to being pampered. Ronan thought that he would have to train them well during this time. , these guys are part of the combat power in his plan.

"Are you looking for me?" Soon, Priest Ashley came. He was also a person that Ronan planned to support. He is now forty-five years old and is the second most important person in the Temple of War in Fengming City after Marcel. , the main thing is that his relationship with Marcel is not very harmonious, and the relationship is even worse after losing in the bishop competition in the early years.

"You took two guards to the Candlelight Chamber of Commerce's blacksmith shop to find the manager of Walter, saying that I asked you to go there, and in the name of the temple, let him make 300 sets of cotton armor made for me! This is Funds." After speaking, Ronan threw a purse to Ashley, and there was still a lot of money left in the purse after buying the armor. What's the meaning.

"Okay, I'll do it now." Ashley bowed slightly and turned to work.

After finishing the affairs of the temple, Ronan returned to the earl's mansion. Today is the last quiet day. The intelligence of the dark lines has been collected. Tomorrow, we will start contacting various targets, whether it is coercion or inducement.

But there was an episode on the way back. The man named Sean who had reminded him in the pub in the outer city, who had a relationship, walked through the street where he was ambushed that day from the side alley. walked in front of him.

"Sir Rodrit, I have something to tell you."

"Your name is Sean, right? I still have some impressions of you." Ronan raised his eyebrows and said, looking at the man standing in front of him.

Sean bowed and waved, motioning Ronan to talk to him in the secluded place next to him. Ronan was not afraid of his tricks, he followed him to the side alley, and at the same time signaled Meryses to be on guard outside~lightnovelpub.net~ Sir, I have a deal that I would like to discuss with you. ' Sean whispered.

"What can you bring me?" Ronan was simple and clear.

"The criminal evidence of the officials in the city, I can provide you with a lot of other information, as well as personnel and equipment!"

"Oh? Let's hear it." Ronan was rather interested.

"I am the son of the former leader of the Fengdao Gang, but the current leader used tricks to kill my father and forged evidence to win the leader, because my father is very famous in the gang and has many supporters, Therefore, he can't deal with me openly, and I have always been careful, so I can live until now.

But as time went on, after some of my father's old men in the gang retired, my situation became more and more dangerous. It can be seen from the events in the tavern a while ago that people like Sergey have completely Don't take me seriously. "

"Since your life is in danger, why don't you leave here?"

"Fengdao Gang is my father's hard work, and it should be my thing, and Fengming is my home, so I'm not willing to leave like this!"

"What do you want me to do for you?"

"Help me get rid of David, the current leader of the Fengdao Gang, so that I can take the opportunity to rise to power. I have developed some confidants in the gang over the years. After I become the leader of the gang, I can put these years into the gang. Evidence of the officials taking bribes and the ledger of transactions with David will be handed over to you!"

"Okay, I will send someone to kill the man named David on the grounds that it offends me. At the same time, I will send you some soldiers to help you seize power. Don't let me down, Sean." Then Ronan patted it. Sean's shoulders walked out of the alley, leaving only a little excited Sean still a little lost in the alley.