Chapter 27 Dock Warehouse

The fact that Lynd became the captain of the cavalry caused a small commotion in the Tyrell camp. Not to mention those who stayed in King's Landing with Duke Mace Tyrell a year ago, almost all of them this time Everyone who came to King's Landing from Highgarden was a little surprised by Lind's promotion.

Not long ago, Linde was demoted from knight squire to scout team. Now in just over half a month, Linde became Fertimo Klein's knight squire again, and he also gained the title of captain of the cavalry team. The real power is really incredible.

However, those who have seen Linde's strength also know that it is only a matter of time before Linde becomes Lord Fortimo's knight attendant again. Even though the process is a bit fast, the result is not too beyond everyone's expectations.

However, they were more concerned about the news that Linde had formed a cavalry team than they were concerned about Linde becoming the captain of the cavalry.

Although they are both soldiers, the difference between cavalry and infantry is like the difference between civilians and nobles. Compared with infantry, even weapons need to be prepared by themselves. Cavalry, regardless of horses, armor and weapons, will be distributed by the Tyrell family. This is not only Including remuneration.

So when the news of Linde's formation of the cavalry spread, many people came to Linde, hoping to join the cavalry.

Faced with this situation, Linde didn't do anything. He directly selected ten people from the guarding soldiers. It only took a few minutes to exercise the right of selection given to him by Fotimo, without giving any rights to others. Opportunity for bribery.

Many people secretly said that Linde was stupid for not even taking advantage of such a good money-making opportunity, and some people who were not selected also questioned the qualifications of the people he selected, because all the people he selected had gone with him some time ago. Those who hunt in the forest are all hunters and have superb shooting skills, but the problem is that they cannot ride horses and have no basic conditions for cavalry.

This makes many people think that Linde made such a wrong choice because of his inexperience. Some people are even waiting to see Linde's jokes. After all, Linde has been so popular during this period that it has attracted some people's attention. dissatisfaction, but Garland and others did not pay attention to this matter at all. Perhaps in their view, even if the cavalry team formed by Linde had problems, it would not matter, and they could just regard it as a normal consumption used to train Linde.

As for Linde himself, he also had no intention of explaining. After selecting the candidates, he took the equipment and horses with him that day and began training on horseback in a relatively secluded open space far away from the Lion Gate.

After the training, he spent his own money to take his men to the dock area tavern in Slime Gate for drinking. In just a few days, his relationship with his men improved a lot.

With the arrival of Duke Tywin Lannister, the banquet of Prince Joffrey, the king's heir, was also held on time. Garland, Fertimo and others also went to the temporary residence of the Rose Family in the city early, and followed Mestili The Duke attended the Red Castle banquet together.

Because there were no restraints on their heads, everyone in the camp became more relaxed, and many people even ran to the competition ground to watch the excitement.

Although the official tourney will not be held until tomorrow, there are already many free knights from various places gathered in the tourney. Most of them are not famous, have no property on hand, and cannot be hired by the nobles. They can only participate in the competition. The tourney is a way to gain fame and find yourself a suitable master.

All in all, Lind is already pretty good. He was able to successfully become Fertimo's knight attendant, and gained the attention of Garland Tyrell. By joining the Tyrell family, as long as nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely be able to become a knight in the future. If the knights of the Tyrell family have achieved military exploits in time, it will not be a problem to become a wealthy knight.

However, among the knights participating in the tourney, they are not the only ones who come for the opportunity to become famous. There are also some knights who come purely for the generous prize money of the tourney.

You know, for tournaments held in other places, the prize money of 10,000 gold dragons is already very good, but Robert Baratheon is extremely martial and loves tournaments. In the year after he ascended the throne, he held one There were three tourneys, one was when he had just ascended the throne, the other was the wedding to Cersei, the daughter of Duke Tywin, and the third one was when Cersei was pregnant. The prize for the winner of each of these three tourneys was as high as 20,000. Other participants such as the runner-up and third runner-up also receive considerable bonuses.

This tourney to celebrate the Baratheon dynasty having a heir has been publicized a few months ago, and the announced championship prize has reached an astonishing figure of 50,000 gold dragons. Such a huge prize is not to mention Victoria. The continent of Stroh has arrived, and even the knights from the continent of Essos can’t wait to rush to King’s Landing.

According to some statistics, there are more than a thousand knights participating in the King's Landing Tournament this time. This does not include the archers and warriors participating in archer competitions and team battles. If included, this number would be even more. Twice as high, so some people say that the scale of this tourney is definitely greater than any previous tourney held on the continent of Westeros.

The influx of such a large number of warriors into King's Landing City is undoubtedly an extremely severe challenge to the security of the entire King's Landing City. The total number of soldiers in King's Landing City's capital defense team is only more than a thousand people. A warrior with rich combat experience, Duke Arryn, Hand of the King, ordered that all participants in the tourney were not allowed to enter King's Landing and could only live outside the city, completely leaving the trouble outside the city.

With so many energetic warriors crowded together, conflicts and frictions are inevitable. Every day, you can see constant disputes in the slums outside the King's Gate and on the banks of the Blackwater River. Fighting and fighting are commonplace.

The job of the Capital Guard was to wait until the battle was over, collect the corpses, and confiscate the remaining property on the corpses as fines. If the corpses were claimed, they would pay a sum of money and take them away. If no one claimed them, they would be thrown directly into the black water. In the river, float along the river to Blackwater Bay to feed the fish.

Before, the conflicts that took place in the slums were limited to ordinary warriors, but the conflicts that took place in the competition field these two days became conflicts between knights.

Before the official competition, the knights need to check the field, especially the width and length of the field according to the length of the horse, using their own legs. This allows them to find the correct rhythm and calculation when riding the lance. Choose a good shooting position so that you can hit the enemy accurately.

It's just that the measurement time before the start of the tourney is mainly reserved for those knight participants of the great nobles, while ordinary knight participants will not have any measurement time at all, so these ordinary knights have to choose to measure before the official tourney begins. Measure ahead.

Although the venue may be adjusted after the tourney begins, for ordinary freedom knights, having measurements is better than not having measurements, and at least they will feel better psychologically.

However, the venue was only so big, and nearly a thousand knights rushed in all at once to measure the venue. No one was willing to wait, so disputes arose.

So in the past two days, the knights in the competition field have come to fight one after another in advance, and there is no chance to see this kind of good show in normal times. For a while, the guards in each noble camp who had nothing to do came one by one. Arrive at the arena early and wait for the show to begin.

When Linde and others arrived at the venue, it was already a little late. Because they needed horseback riding training, it was already close to dusk when they arrived at the competition venue. From the conversations with people around them, they learned that ten exercises had been held here during the day. There were several fights over the order of the survey sites, and two free knights even died in the fights. Both knights were the second sons of minor nobles, and their deaths in King's Landing did not cause any ripples.

Although the sky had darkened, the onlookers were not satisfied yet. They took the initiative to find firewood and lit the braziers around the arena, lighting up the entire arena and allowing those knights who had not yet had time to measure the field to continue competing. With the qualifications measured, they can continue to watch the fun.

After Linde arrived near the venue, he and his men were scattered by the bustling crowd around them. Or, to be more correct, he deliberately used the crowd to separate himself from his men.

After losing sight of his men, he quickly squeezed out of the crowd, and then walked along the small island on the Blackwater River to the fish market port located outside the city wall of Mud Gate.

Through the opportunity of inviting his men to drink here two days ago, he quietly found out the environment in this area and found the location of the special warehouse in the dock area.

This warehouse is located on one side of the Mud Gate, close to the city wall. On the other side of the city wall is the security office of the Capital Guard. Although it is separated by a city wall, as long as something happens to this warehouse, the golden robes in the security office will immediately It only takes a few minutes at most to go out and go around the city gate to the warehouse.

This warehouse is used by some large merchants to store relatively valuable goods. Usually they are guarded by their own caravan guards, but this time the people responsible for the safety of the goods in the warehouse are not only caravan guards, but also the capital garrison. The golden robe made some people wonder what kind of goods were stored in the warehouse.

Lind is also one of the people who is curious about the goods in the warehouse. In fact, after he heard from Littlefinger about his smuggled goods in Todd's pumpkin a few days ago, he was already curious about these goods that he paid special attention to. , and had a little thought, the treat for the past two days was also to prepare for this matter.

The reason why he chose to take action today is because after the tourney begins tomorrow, Mace Tyrell will leave his comfortable little house in the city and stay in a camp tent outside the city with other great nobles until the tourney. Until the end, he would need to be responsible for the safety of the camp and would have no time to do anything else.

In addition, although Linde is curious about the goods in the warehouse, he is not a person who explores secrets at all costs. He will satisfy his curiosity as long as it does not affect himself, but once things become a little difficult , he was not sure that he could enter and exit the warehouse silently, so he would not take the risk.

When the warehouse was first built, the builder may have thought about the security of the warehouse, so he vacated a large area around the warehouse and placed some torches around the warehouse. This allowed the guards guarding the warehouse to guard the warehouse even late at night. You can also see if anyone is approaching.

The idea was good, but as time went by, no matter how good the idea was, it turned sour. Latecomers built all the empty space originally reserved into warehouses to increase the storage capacity. The carefully arranged guard points were also abandoned, and only A wall was added around the warehouse that even children could climb over. Two guards were placed at the door, and some patrols were added around the warehouse.

The tavern where Linde and the others had been drinking these past two days was across the street from the warehouse. Although it was just a small thatched-roofed house, sitting by the window could not see what was going on inside the wall, but Linde still Through extraordinary hearing, he can identify the number of people and the general route of the patrol team inside and outside the warehouse walls.

In addition, he also mastered the patrol time of the City Guard. Although Janos Slynt promised Littlefinger that he would protect the goods in the warehouse, after receiving the money, he obviously did not take this matter to heart and did not Send people to guard the warehouse together with Littlefinger's people, just send a few patrol teams to patrol near the warehouse from time to time.

Linde, who had figured out the patrol pattern, came to a shadowed corner outside the warehouse and waited for a while. After the patrol at this time period passed, he quickly and nimbly climbed over the warehouse wall, landed inside the warehouse, and followed the entire crowd. Like some kind of cat, the person quickly rushed to the corner of the nearest warehouse, easily climbed to the roof of the warehouse through some concave and convex wooden boards on the wall, and then lay down completely on the roof, as silently as a four-legged snake. of crawling across the roof.

Although Linde's current height has reached about 1.98 meters, and his stature has more than doubled compared to when he was in Bai Village. He looks like an upright bear, but with the arrival of the Peace Messenger, The memory of combat experience is completely integrated into himself, but his agility has not weakened at all, which is completely beyond the average person.

With his agility, Linde reached the roof of Littlefinger's warehouse without alerting any guards.

He slowly moved to the edge of the roof against the wall, then turned over, clasped his fingers tightly on the protruding parts of the wall, stepped on some protruding points with his feet, and slowly moved down to a place on the second floor of the warehouse wall. By the high window.

He took out the dagger, inserted it into the gap of the high window, moved it left and right, found the window latch, raised the latch little by little, opened the window smoothly, and looked into the warehouse.

There were several oil lamps hanging in the warehouse, which looked very dim. The reason why I didn't light a torch was probably because I was worried about catching fire.

For the sake of safety, the warehouse is also guarded by people, but it makes no difference whether it is arranged or not, because the person responsible for guarding is already drunk. Judging from the wine bottles on the table, he drank a lot and slept well. Fragrant, the whole warehouse was filled with snoring sounds.

Although the guards in the warehouse no longer posed a threat, Linde still moved carefully. He slightly raised the wooden window, then stuffed his strong body into the window, and squeezed into the warehouse little by little.

After entering the warehouse, he lowered the window slightly, then reached out and grabbed the beam above his head and moved little by little to the guardrail on the second floor. He stepped on the solid guardrail and avoided the loose floor that was prone to making noise. A place within a warehouse where goods are stored.

The entire warehouse was covered by Littlefinger, so it didn't take him long to find the goods.