Section 37, run-in period
The new recruits watched the mercenaries' relaxed and comfortable, and their dissatisfaction gradually accumulated to the peak, but no one dared to stand up because they knew that they had sold their destiny for more than a dozen copper coins.
"Everyone gathered." Suddenly, Rodney and Taylor began to assemble the mercenaries. Although the mercenaries were dissatisfied with the behavior of interrupting the meal, they quickly arranged in a row.
Rudolph walked out of the tent and saw the gathered soldiers. These soldiers were naturally divided into two parts, mercenaries with few people but were strong at first sight, and timid and confused new soldiers with many people on their faces.
"Taylor, Rodney broke up all the people." Rudolph glanced, but even when the nobles appeared here, the mercenaries did not restrain themselves at all, and they joked with each other from time to time.
"It's the master." Taylor and Rodney immediately mixed the recruits and mercenaries according to Rudolph's orders.
"Sir Rudolph, I have something to say." Suddenly, the bald mercenary Lanbert walked out of the crowd and said to Rudolph.
"What's the matter with Lanbert?" Rudolph inserted his thumbs on the leather belt around his waist, and spread his legs to look at Lanbert in front of him.
"Mr. Rudolph, we have always been friends who have been through life and death. We are very familiar with each other. Now we are separated. This will not guarantee combat effectiveness." Although Lanbert respects the people of the Habsburg family, he believes that Rudolph is making trouble and no one will hand over his back to the broiler with confidence.
"Landbert, you have already handed over your destiny to me on behalf of your companion. Are you going to tear down the employment contract so soon?" Rudolph said to Lanbert with a stern face.
"Of course not." Lanbert quickly lowered his head. Although the mercenaries did not like to restrain themselves, once they signed a contract with their employer, if they tear them apart without sufficient reason, it would become a stain on their career. Mercenaries with a little self-esteem would not do such a thing.
"Then do it immediately according to my orders." Rudolf ordered in an unquestionable voice. He must establish authority in front of the soldiers, so that they can understand that both mercenaries and new recruits must obey their orders unconditionally.
"Rudolph?" Taylor, who was standing aside, looked at Rudolph in surprise. He knew very well that the mercenaries would not do it easily according to Rudolph's orders, but he did not expect that Rudolph was so firm. This was definitely not pretentious, but a kind of confidence from the bottom of his heart. But where did this confidence come from?
Now, no one questioned Rudolph's orders anymore. The mercenaries and the recruits were mixed together. However, when the mercenaries turned to the recruits, Rudolph clearly saw that some mercenaries were unfriendly to collide with their shoulders.
"Well." A young farmer wearing a felt hat and blonde was hit by a mercenary. Although he was wearing a shabby thick linen shirt, he had a pair of stubborn eyes, and he was not as cowardly and inferior as other farmers.
"What's wrong?" The mercenary who bumped into the farmer was bald Lanbert. His already burly figure was even more condescending when he stood in front of the farmer.
"Hans, Hans." The other farmers whispered in a worried voice to remind the young farmers that they knew that these mercenaries were killing without blinking, and were afraid that their companion Hans would be killed by Lanbert.
"Why did you hit me?" Hans wiped his face with the back of his right hand. He stood up from the ground, but even though he stood on tiptoe, he was still far behind Lanbert.
"Haha, so what if you hit it, are you expecting me to apologize to a broiler?" Lanbert bared his teeth, and he approached the farmer Hans and looked at him condescendingly.
"I'm not a broiler, I'm a mercenary like you now, so you have to apologize to me." But Hans rubbed his nose, but he didn't let him go. He glared at Lanbert.
"Hey, I'm quite brave." Robert smiled and hugged his arms, looking at the fun. The mercenaries were originally a group of fierce and fierce guys. When they were idle, they would fight after getting drunk. This was undoubtedly their only interesting entertainment.
Sure enough, the other mercenaries showed a look of watching the fun, and some even quietly opened gambling plates, but most of them bet on Lanbert.
"Enough, Lanbert, you should find an opponent that matches you." Rudolf said at this time. He looked at the farmer who confronted Lanbert, thin and thin. Apart from his wildness and stubbornness, he was not an opponent of mercenaries like Lanbert at all.
"Sorry, Lord Rudolph, this is what he provoked me first. As a mercenary, you cannot be indifferent to provocation." But Lanbert did not intend to listen to Rudolph at all. He knew very well that if he gave in at this time, then these recruits would think that the mercenaries were weak and could be bullied.
"Master of the nobles, I will fight by myself. I have never lost fighting in my hometown." Hans also said to Rudolf stubbornly.
"Very good, I'm not moving anymore." Lanbert laughed loudly, and he held his left fist in the palm of his right hand, and the fist joints made a crackling sound.
"Wow, Hans, please stop being strong." Hans' friends looked at Lan Bot's arms that raised their muscles high and persuaded them.
"I won't give in." Hans raised his hand, clenched his fists, and his body sank slightly, and his knees bent, looking like a good fighter.
"Enough." But Rudolf did not intend to let the thin recruit farmer fight Lanbert, because he clearly saw that this was not a fight between Lanbert and Hans, but a rebellious mercenary attempt to establish his authority in front of the recruits.
"Mr. Rudolph?" Taylor and Rodney were surprised to see that Rudolph took off his leather jacket, rolled up his sleeves and ended up in person.
"Uh?" Even Lanbert was shocked. He had no idea that Rudolph would actually duel with him.
But Rudolf ignored him. He walked across from Lanbert. Hans opened his eyes wide and did not believe what happened in front of him. A nobleman actually wanted to duel for a lowly farmer like him. Is this a dream? He couldn't help pinching his legs with his hands, it really hurt.
"Come on Lanbert, can you only bully people who are weaker than yourself?" Rudolph clenched his fists and shouted at Lanbert.
"Sorry, I won't fight with the nobles." But Lanbert frowned. He knew what the charge was to hurt the nobles.
"Taylor, Rodney and others, remember that it is a battle between two men, no nobles or civilians." Rudolf straightened his body and ordered everyone loudly.
"Master Rudolph." Taylor was surprised to stop Rudolph. Not to mention the problem of Rudolph being injured in duel with a mercenary, if it was reported that a nobleman actually duel with a mercenary, it would be enough to damage his reputation, but now Rudolph does not listen at all.
"Then, I said your wish is my order." Seeing Rudolph so determined, Lanbert no longer retreated. After all, as a man, if he did not face the challenge directly, he would become the object of laughter from other mercenaries.
Ding, your friend Zhao Kuangyin is online.
Zhao Kuangyin: I felt a sense of fighting. Do you need my help, boy?
Li Qing (Rudolph): No, I will solve it myself.
Zhao Kuangyin: OK, if you can't hold on, please send a private message at any time.
Rudolph refused Zhao Kuangyin's help. He took a deep breath and recalled his previous fight experience at school.
"To respect you, please take action first." Lanbert stood in front of Rudolph with his legs crossed, and pointed at Rudolph and said to him.
"Ha, I look down on me!" Rudolph smiled. He had never been treated like this when he fought, but he didn't feel hesitant and rushed towards Lanbert with both feet.
"Hu." Lanbert stood steadily on the ground. He decided to withstand Rudolph's blow first, so that people would not say that he deliberately attacked the nobles, and as a noble, his fist was not very powerful.
"Ah ha~~." However, Rudolph made a strange cry, and he pointed at Lanbert's lower body and stomped over.
"Ah~~." Lanbert did not expect that a nobleman would use such shameless tricks, which was even worse than a villain on the street.
"Holy Virgin Mary, this trick is beautiful." Ma Xiu, the villain watching the fun, smiled. Unexpectedly, Lord Rudolph was also a fellow disciple.
"This, this~~." Taylor and Rodney were stunned. Rudolph's first move was without any noble demeanor, and he rushed directly to Lanbert's lower body. Lanbert, who was hit by the vital part, covered his lower body in pain, and his bare head was covered with sweat.
"Table." Rudolf was in power and tried to rush to Lanbert's chin with a hard uppercut. With a sound of ping, Lanbert's chin was hit by a punch, and his body leaned back and fell to the ground with a thump.
"Win?"
"Lanbert was defeated?"
"Just two punches?"
"Wow, this noble is so shameless." The mercenaries were not angry when they saw the knocked down. Instead, they shook their heads like a fun watching, as if disappointed with Lanbert's poor performance.
"Hey, do you think this is over?" But an old mercenary with gray hair sneered and said to the others.
"What does it mean?" The other mercenaries looked at him curiously. This mercenary was the person who had known Lanbert the longest time.
"Is Lanbert's nickname called "Is Lanbert's Iron Arm a waste?" the old mercenary explained to others.
"Iron Arm, didn't it mean that he was powerful?"
"No, Iron Arm means that his body is as strong as iron. The nobles' few moves will not defeat him, look." The old mercenary raised his chin and said to the others.
Chapter completed!