Chapter 20: Master Hook is sacked by horse thieves
In March 2104 York's calendar, everything came back to life, and the weeds in the fields grew sparsely. The farmers, who had been frightened by the horse thieves and hidden, came out one after another, returned to their stations, gathered their slaves, followed in the footsteps of spring, and began to plow.
After the horse thieves were repulsed, Pierre's self-confidence began to swell, and began to expand the army on a large scale, the children of the surrounding farmers, the children of the minor nobles, and some idle civilians were all conscripted into the army, and the army soon reached 2,000 people, the difference is that George did not train the troops as before, because George thought that this army had an obvious aristocratic style, and some people looked down on George, who was born as a slave, secretly disobeyed George's orders, and constantly had people speak ill of George behind his back.
Over time, problems continued to arise, and small groups gradually formed in the army, which began to crowd out slave-born soldiers, even though they had long since been freed from slavery because of their exploits, and the children of the farmers looked down on them as untouchables.
George had already guessed such an ending to a certain extent, but he was still very disappointed after seeing it with his own eyes, this was the end of his desperate fight. Blood was exchanged for only the disgusting and contemptuous eyes of others.
George felt that there was no need for him to stay here, and he wanted to do another thing, George asked to see Pierre, and said to Pierre: "Lord Pierre, I have trained a lot of city defense troops recently, I feel that my mission is almost completed, you know, I am an idle person, I hope to be able to go to the fortress around the terrain to reconnoitre, or go hunting, and if I stay in the city, I will suffocate to death, and you can also arrange for your cronies to take over the city defense army!"
Pierre pretended to be unhappy and said, "George, you see, I am now the time to employ people, if you start to be lazy now, I will have no one to use!
Pierre was very excited when he heard that his cronies around him had taken over the city defense, but unfortunately Pierre's acting skills were so bad that he couldn't show the excitement and urgency at all.
George said: "Lord Pierre, according to the current training method, the city defense army will become stronger and stronger, and you can continue to expand, and then General Ancas's 500 men can be completely ignored! “
Pierre was thoughtful, suddenly remembered something, and said: "George, you are really a careful person, you don't say that I have forgotten." Ancas also has a good friend named Hook, Hook's residence is the largest and very wealthy, Ancas often provides Hook with weapons and armor, and Hook also transports a lot of food and goods to the private territory of the Myron family from time to time in his private name. George, you know, all those things have become private property, but those things belong to the state!"
George said: "Lord Pierre, the Myron family dares to do this, and this Hu Ke is too bold!
Pierre asked, "George, can you come up with a way to bring the Hook family to a ruin?
George thought for a while and said, "Master Pierre, I have a solution, but the means are a bit disgraceful, if you agree, I will do it, and promise to take the Hook family down!"
Pierre rolled his eyes and said, "What's not glamorous, George, you don't have to tell me the details, I don't want to know, I just know that the Hook family is definitely going to be unlucky!"
George laughed and said, "Mistress Pierre, I have one more request, I want to take my previous slave troops away for this mission, you know, legend has it that Lord Hook has an armed team of 350 people, I want to have a fighting force to help me complete the mission." ”
Pierre thought for a moment and said, "Can more than 100 people kill 350 people?"
George said mysteriously: "Of course the regular army can't, but the horse thieves can!"
Pierre was stunned and said, "I see, are you sure this is possible?"
George replied, "Don't worry, Lord Pierre, you won't show a single clue!"
Pierre poured a glass of wine, tasted it for a while, and said, "George, go ahead and do it! I hope to see the Myron family prostrate at my feet during my tenure, and I can do a little too much to achieve this purpose! George, remember, I haven't seen you today, you go down!"
George thought to himself, this big-bellied Pierre is not a complete waste, and there is still a little bit of courage and ruthlessness, otherwise he would not agree to his own method.
Georges took his descendants from Pierre's troops at night and quietly left the fortress in the middle of the night. These people couldn't stay in the city defense army for a long time, and they all happily left with George!
Leaving the fortress, George made sure that no one was following him, and then made his way down the mountain stream towards the hidden stronghold.
After arriving at the Hidden Canyon, George saw that Attaya was training with the knights, and after a while, Attaya's figure was a little thinner, but her face had more freckles. Forehead... Retching...
When the knights in the canyon saw George, they all stopped practicing and nodded to George.
Ataya flipped off her horse, ran to George's side and said, "General, do you know?
George comforted Ataya, "Ataya, I ate so much meat from the war horse that the horse thief died before, why don't you see fat?
Grape couldn't help but smile and said: "I'm laughing to death, Ataya, I see that you have grown stronger during this time, it seems that the person who marries you in the future must be stronger than you first, otherwise you will flatten people with your ass." “
The knights behind Ataya laughed, and Ataya was extremely ashamed, and her already purple-black face looked even purple. Pouted and stopped talking.
George then took out a large piece of cottage cheese, threw it to Ataya and said, "Okay, I brought you your favorite cheese this time, don't pout, you can hang the bottle later!"
Ataya suddenly smiled, rubbed her black hands on her body a few times, and nibbled on a large piece of dried cheese.
In the previous battle, George found that a surrendered horse thief was very good at using a spear to assassinate on horses, and after communicating with him, he learned that he was a herdsman before, and was forced to join the horse gang by horse thieves, and he thought about breaking away from the horse gang countless times over the years, but finally took refuge in George's account, which made him feel a lot.
Basel said: "Wherever a person like me flees is a fate of exploitation, Lady Luck blessed me to meet you, you rescued me, gave me myself, and I fought for you regardless of my previous suspicions." I am willing to follow you forever and fight for you!"
George said, "Basel, I found that your spear is very good, and I want you to train a spear cavalry, and you will be the captain of the spear cavalry!"
Basel hurriedly knelt on the ground and said tremblingly: "No, no, General, I can't, I'm still in charge of training!"
George said earnestly: "Look at our people, we are basically all slaves, in terms of background is not as strong as you, you are still a herdsman, you don't care about your background, as long as you have the confidence and ability, bring the team out, then your future will be even better! As for your previous identity, I hope you don't mind, we are only talking about ability now, regardless of origin!"
With tears in his eyes, Basel shouted: "General George, you are my reborn parents, I will definitely live up to your expectations and bring the team out!
George added: "Basel, the goods we have gained in the war will be distributed to the soldiers who have made meritorious achievements, and then divided equally, and I will not directly dispose of them!"
Basel's eyes widened and he said, "Chief, you are the savior sent to us by Lady Fortune, I praise you! I think all of our soldiers who fought under your command will be grateful for your kindness!"
George laughed and said, "Basel, don't be a sycophant, now I will hand over 100 pikes to you, I hope you will turn them into spear cavalry as soon as possible, otherwise I will whip you!"
Basel immediately slapped his hand on his chest and said loudly: "General, you wait for my good news!"
The day after arriving in the ravine, George reorganized his troops, and had Ataya lead 100 scout cavalry, dressed as horse thieves, and spare a lot of way, emerging from a relatively secluded wood, towards Lord Hook's manor.
Hook's garrison was also patronized by horse thieves, but Hook had many slaves and private soldiers, so he transferred his resources to the fortress early, evacuated the private soldiers to the fortress, and left many slaves to be ravaged by horse thieves in the territory.
After hearing that the horse thieves had evacuated, Hook led his private soldiers and began to collect the slaves in the garrison and began to resume farming.
The status of slaves in Hook's garrison may be the lowest, most of the slaves in other territories do not use shackles, and many of the slaves in Hook's garrison are tied together with long shackles, and the private soldiers in the garrison are worse than thieves, and when they find beautiful slave girls, several people take turns to spoil them, and if the slave girl's family resists, they will be brutally killed by the private soldiers. Slaves, however, could not flee, because they would die faster without food.
The private soldiers of the Hook Territory had been hiding in the fortress for almost three months, and now after returning to the garrison, they were like tigers coming out of the cage, bullying and beating the slaves in groups.
George asked Ataya to find a hidden col to hide all the knights, and led 10 knights into Hook's territory.
When the slaves saw the horse thief go and return, they were all frightened and fled, but the horse thief did not kill people and rob things when he saw them, as they used to do, but went to the place where the private soldiers were stationed.
George chose to raid the patrol at Hook's station, and the 10 knights were led by himself, all wearing the sheepskin jackets of horse thieves and armed with scimitars.
Hook's patrol all lived in tents, with no military facilities around, and they were lazily lying in tents.
As George approached, he began to howl loudly, slashing at the patrol with his scimitar.
The patrol team was quite scared at first when they saw the horse thief, after all, the horse thief was notorious, but seeing that there were only 10 of us, they gradually began to regain their courage, and then picked up their swords and rushed towards us.
It was no problem for 10 knights to kill dozens of him and then run away, but in order to attract all the opponents into the ambush area, George ordered everyone to flee in defeat.
As soon as the patrol saw that the horse thieves had run away, they mounted their horses and began to pursue, and those who did not have horses simply ran and chased, and in the blink of an eye, more than 150 people began to chase 20 horse thieves.
After arriving at the ambush site, more than 90 people who were lying in ambush on the uphill showed their figures and began to throw short spears, which had a very high hit rate, and the opposing patrol soldiers fell like wheat harvesting.
Hook's patrol team is basically composed of civilians, the will to fight is very fragile, usually bullying and bullying unarmed slaves is okay, when it comes to real knife and real gun fighting, one runs faster than the other, and after more than 30 people fall in front, they begin to retreat, one runs faster than the other!
George gave the order to pursue: "Assault the whole army, leave no one alive!" After that, the scout knight roared out, and the short spear fired in succession, and Hook's patrol did not run far, and all of them were chased and killed by the scout knight.
George ordered the troops to begin a search for supplies, taking away all the enemy's armored horses, and then drove the slaves to begin the retreat.
When George returned to the stronghold with a large number of slaves, these were stunned by the slaves brought back, thinking that he was going to be unloaded by horse thieves as military rations, but he didn't expect that there were still some people in the stronghold in the canyon who they knew, and suddenly there was a unique confession meeting.
George saw that the atmosphere was almost over, and said loudly to the slaves: "I am George, I used to work in the house of Master Ngawang, I believe that some of you know or have heard my name, I am like everyone else, I only want a bite to eat, I hope to live my life in peace and stability, but I just met this group of damn horse thieves! A calm and peaceful life has turned into a fight of licking blood with knives! Many relatives and friends have died under the scimitar of horse thieves, we have not hidden, we have not given up hope, we have fought bloodily!" We've chosen a path that will allow us to be human again! Now, I'm giving you the right to choose! You can choose to join me, or go back to the garrison as slaves, you choose!"
All the slaves shouted loudly: "General, we choose to fight, we will not go back! We choose to follow you! You are our savior!"
A few days later, rumors appeared around the fortress of Amesvalon that a few sporadic horse thieves were still around, looting slaves in the vicinity to make them jerky.
Farmers on the left and right began to ask for help from the garrison of Amesvalon, promising to pay a large tribute of money and food in return if they received protection from the garrison!