Two miles south of Thorne, there was an abandoned abbey in the woods, and Angus stood anxiously on the ruined towers of the abbey, watching, and a task force of soldiers evacuated from the west gate did not arrive here in time to assemble, I wonder if something had happened.

In the cemetery in the backyard of the monastery, several soldiers were digging several shallow pits with their swords, and the bodies of several task force soldiers transported from the southwest gate waterway had been transported back by the out-of-town response team led by Father Robert in a wagon downstream on a riverbank. What followed was the arduous escape, as it was impossible for them to flee with their bodies, and those soldiers who had been badly wounded in the night raid had to be taken to a remote village in the southeast to settle down.

After a while, Angus saw several figures returning in the distance, and climbed down the dilapidated tower in a few steps to the backyard cemetery, where Father Robert was giving farewell to several corpses covered with white cloths.

Angus interrupted the ceremony and said, "Father Robert, our people are all here, we can't afford to delay time, we must evacuate immediately, and you must also sneak into the city to report to the adults."

"Remember, when you enter the city, go to the church east of the city, and Dawson will pick you up outside the church and take you to the safe house in the city."

Angus said as he handed Robert a short knife with a wooden handle for self-defense.

Robert rejected Angus's kindness, "I am a priest, and the holy garments on my body are the best weapon of self-defense." ”

Angus smiled, "You see that I treat you like an ordinary soldier, so you must be careful." ”

Robert nodded, muttered a few words and drew a cross on his chest, signaling that several soldiers who had died in battle would be buried......

After a while, the abandoned monastery, which had been bustling for more than ten days, returned to its former silence and dilapidation.

Outside the monastery, on the road to the south, a caravan of two cavalry and five carriages and ten chariots in carriages suddenly appeared and hurried south......

A caravan-like procession not only did not carry any goods, but instead sent the guards away in a hurry, and this strange thing would soon reach the city of Thorne, and anyone with a little brain would think that there must be something unusual about this caravan......

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When the caravan galloped away on the southern road, on the road half a mile near the south gate of the city of Thorn, a priest wearing a dark gray round-necked sacrificial cloak and driving an ox cart slowly marched slowly on the road leading to the south gate, and the ox cart also placed a few priests' clothes and some bread, potatoes, apples, beers and other things, it was obvious that the priest had accepted the "offerings" of the civilians along the way.

The ploughing cattle are very slow, and it takes a long time to complete the short half-mile journey.

When I came to the city gate, the old rules had changed. In other words, on weekdays, the soldiers defending the city will only carefully check the people who enter the city, especially the merchants who enter the city, but the people who enter the city today will basically not be blocked and checked, as long as they consciously pay the commercial tax, they can enter the city smoothly.

On the contrary, those who came out of the city were examined repeatedly, and several carriages were parked in the open space on the south gate, and several soldiers looked at the carriages repeatedly as if they had gold hidden in the wooden wheels of those carriages.

The priest got out of the car and led the oxen past the unattended sentry post, and the tax collector got up and took off his hat and bowed in salute, and the priest nodded slightly in return.

Entering the city gate, the priest grabbed a soldier who looked like a small officer guarding the city and asked, "Son, what are you doing here?" Why don't you ignore the people who enter the city and check the people who go out of the city? ”

The petty officer guarding the city was originally a little emotional because he couldn't continue to exploit the merchant brigade in the city, but when he turned around and saw that it was a priest marching, his attitude immediately eased up, and replied respectfully: "Honorable priest, last night a mansion of a wealthy merchant in the north of the city was in trouble, and the robbers sneaked into the mansion and killed all the guards and servants of the wealthy merchant, and they also robbed the relatives of the wealthy merchant. The Governor of the Municipality {similar to the Mayor} ordered that the gates should be guarded and that the robbers should not be allowed to leave the city. ”

"Priest, you have to be careful in the last two days, the city is not peaceful, according to the brothers of the northern city, those people are ruthless, many of the servants and guards of the wealthy merchants have been cut off their heads, and they have also disguised the mansion, if it were not for the death of someone in the tavern next to the mansion, the security team rushed to see, maybe they would not have found such a shocking disaster."

"It's just a devil~" said the little officer guarding the city, drawing a cross on his chest.

The priest listened to what the little officer had told with horror on his face, and said angrily: "God will definitely punish these devils."

"No wonder I saw a caravan leaving in a hurry on the way into the city, and I must have heard that there were robbers in the city who did not dare to enter the city to do trade." The priest said a word, intentionally or unconsciously, and planned to continue into the city.

"Wait, Priest!" The speaker did not intend to listen, and the junior officer immediately stopped the priest who was about to leave.

"Son, is there anything else you can do?" The priest turned his head and asked kindly.

The little officer stepped forward a few steps forward and asked, "You just said that you met a caravan outside the city that was leaving in a hurry?"

"Well, yes, it should be a caravan, but their guards are all riding horses, as if they are in a hurry to leave, and the carriage is also empty, I think they are planning to come to the city to buy merchant goods~"

"Do you see clearly? How many centaurs do they have? Which way did you go? The little officer's eyes widened.

"Two horses and five carts, twenty or so, went south."

The petty officer immediately pulled over one of the soldiers defending the city and ordered: "Hurry up to the lord's hall and report to the governor of the city, that is, there is a team that has fled to the south, and it is very likely that it is those robbers." I'll lead someone to catch up first. ”

The soldier was still a little confused, and the junior officer kicked over, "You are going quickly!" ”

"Yes~Yes!" The soldiers reacted and hurried towards the city.

The petty officer ignored the priest and walked straight to a carriage waiting to be checked, and opened the carriage driver, "Your carriage has been requisitioned by us, and you will come to the city gate to pick it up at night." ”

As he spoke, he beckoned two of his soldiers to jump into the carriage and drive out of the city gate and run south......

The priest looked at the van that was drifting away, drew a cross, and whispered, "God forgive me for my righteous lies."

With that, he pulled the ox cart and walked towards the east of the city......

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At ten o'clock in the afternoon, martial law in the city of Thorne had not yet been lifted.

On the second floor of a granary in an alley in the east of the city that had been abandoned for many years, Father Robert took off the tattered clothes covering his body one by one and changed them into a clean squire's regular clothes.

Robert took a big sip of a glass of wine from Art, and said, "God, I can't believe I'm doing something almost crazy with a madman."

Art took the empty wine glass from Robert's hand and said with a smile, "Compared to chanting in the church all day, I guess you like this kind of adventure."

Robert stared at Art quietly, a knowing smile on his face.

"Lord Art, you're here~An~An~"

"Safe House!"

"Yes, you've found a good safe house, not to mention that most people wouldn't think that the "robbers" would hide in the middle of the city, and even if they did, it would be difficult to find this place. Father Robert was once again impressed by Art's whimsy.

Robert went straight to the east of the city after entering the city, and after asking a few passers-by, he found the chapel, and Dawson of the task force was waiting at the door of the church disguised as a beggar.

Father Robert did not have a direct chance for Dawson, and he led the ox cart through the side door of the church. Robert was a member of the clergy, and wherever there was a church, there would be a place for him. Robert visited the priest of the church {abbot), left the ox cart in the church, and left the church under the pretext of visiting a friend, and Dawson quietly followed him, found a no-man's land, changed Robert and took him to the safe house.

"Father Robert, what's going on outside the city?" Art gave Robert a short break before asking about business.

Robert also sat upright, and replied: "According to your arrangement, after burying the soldiers who died in battle, Sir Angus has already galloped away with the soldiers on horseback and chariot in disguised caravan, and the defenders of the city are already aware of their movements, and should be pursuing them at this time......"

According to the evacuation plan made in advance, Angus would take most of the soldiers of the task force to flee south on horseback and chariot in disguise, and Robert would inform the defenders of the caravan's whereabouts, so that the troops in the city would mistakenly think that the captured Assasin members were taken by the caravan, so that the opponent would definitely send a large number of troops to chase the caravan.

As soon as the Angus had achieved their goal of convincing their opponents that the Assasin captives had been taken out of the city by the caravan, they would immediately turn to the east and make the illusion that they were going to run east with the Assasin members......

Once he had succeeded in misleading the enemy, Angus would dismiss the "caravan" before it could be caught up and intercepted, place the wounded in a very remote village in the south under the guise of being wounded by bandits, and then divide the rest into groups of three or five, pay the fare, and flee to the southeast, and then assemble at Fort Sap within ten days......

"By the time the army of Thorne had just touched the shadow of the 'fleeing caravan', the target suddenly disappeared into thin air, and I guess the powerful people behind Assasin must have gone crazy. ”

"Lord Art, how many intrigues are still hidden in your belly?" Robert's gaze at Art added to the puzzlement.

"Father Robert, be as sunny as spring to your friends, and as dark as a winter night to your enemies."

Art lowered her voice, "I've never been half a saint. ”

Robert was silent for a moment, then replied, "We are all half saints!" ”

The two of them smiled heartily, and Art handed the glass full of wine to Father Robert again......

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On the first floor of the granary, several core members of Assasin with rags and gagged mouths were rigidly tied to the pillars of the granary with oil-soaked hemp ropes, and their hand and leg tendons had been broken with sharp blades, and the whole person could not stand, so they could only hang on the pillar like a dead pig.

In front of them was a long table with a stick, lame, on which a dying Assasin killer was spitting out water in mouthfuls, his eyes were so bright, that he would not be able to sustain the next waterboarding.

Ron put down the empty water bladder in his hand, picked up a confession with a handprint on the wooden table, raised it and said to the rest of the Assasin members, "I thought he would last until the third waterboarding, it seems that I overestimated your perseverance." ”

"So, who's next?" Ron said as he walked over to the pillars and picked the next person to be tortured one by one.

Ron could see the fear of death in each of them in their round eyes, and after the demonstration of the two Assasins, the rest had developed a great fear of this "gentle torture".

Ron walked back and forth twice, and finally stopped in front of a shivering fellow, and looked down to see a puddle of urine on the ground.

"Alright, it's you."

With that, the two task force soldiers walked over and lifted the limp creature onto the wooden table......

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"Master, those three ordinary minions have all confessed, they have confessed all the charges, and it is clear that the mastermind behind them is the Dean family, but they have not met Count Bernard himself, so the evidence of Bernard's collusion with the infidels cannot be obtained for the time being. However, the Dean family will definitely not be able to escape, these core members have all seen Dean himself, even if the Dean family has a huge net worth, they can't escape this big crime. "Ron has ended the first round of torture and has obtained evidence against the Dean family.

"Master, what to do with these guys who have already confessed?"

Art glanced at Father Robert, who was staring at him, and then turned sideways a little, and replied, "Leave the two heretics and the two leaders, and kill the rest." Leaving the skull and the palm of the hand where the mudra was pressed for pickling are the best physical evidence. ”

"Okay, I'll give them mí yào for the rest of the guys first, so that they can get a good night's sleep." Ron handed Art the three indictments with the handprints on them, and turned to go downstairs to dispose of them.

As soon as Ron went down, Stanley, dressed as a beggar, touched up and found Art, "My lord, Dawson reported that after lunch in Thorne City, a cavalry gathered out of the city and rushed south, Dawson guessed that it should be chasing Lord Angus and they went." ”

Art nodded, "Very well, you send a message to Dawson to keep an eye on the movements of the army in the city, and also let him pay close attention to what the army is doing with the mansion north of the city." ”

"It's my lord!"

"Stanley, did the vigilantes in the city come over?"

Stanley chuckled, "I'm afraid it's hard to catch a thief on weekdays. This morning they circled around the main streets of the city and the hotels and hotels, extorted a lot of money, and then closed the group. At noon, I heard that the target had left the city and fled south, but these guys simply didn't even look like it, and now there was no one on the street to check and hunt for them. ”

This was also expected by Art, and he commanded: "If such a great disaster occurs, Bernard's henchmen will definitely be extremely anxious, and this matter will not be settled like this." You told Dawson to be cautious. ”

"You also have to be on guard against wài wéi, but if there is any abnormality nearby, you must report it immediately."

"Yes!"

Stanley turned around and went downstairs, and after greeting Ron who was cutting off his head, he went out of the back door, and observed the narrow alley at the back door for a while, and then walked out of the alley quickly after making sure that no one was paying attention, moved to a homeless beggar next to the alley, and sat down.

"Dawson ~ Old Master's Secret Order ......"

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