Art took a short spear that Otto had picked up and poked the tip of the spear a few times at the bandit leader who had fallen unconscious, and after making sure that there was no danger, he walked over, took off the belt around the bandit's waist and tied his hands tightly behind his back, and then asked Otto to bandage Ron briefly and then go to guard the surroundings.

Art himself removed the water bladder from his waist, took off the bucket helmet of the bandit leader, and poured the water from the top of the bandit leader's head.

The bandit leader was awakened by the cold water, opened his eyes in a daze, looked up and saw a guy with a sword facing him, a closer look is the guy who was fighting at the fort gate just now, the bandit leader was startled and retreated, wanted to get up and fled but found that his hands had been tied behind him, and he gave up resistance after struggling a few times.

Art pointed the tip of his sword at the bandit leader and said, "Don't struggle, you can't escape." ”

The bandit leader stared at Art viciously, his face full of murderous anger. Art didn't talk nonsense with the bandit leader, and directly cut off the bandit leader's left ear with a sword. The bandit leader rolled on the ground in pain, and the anger on his face was replaced by the fear of death in an instant, and he begged for mercy in his mouth: "My lord~, please ~ you let me go~"

"Spare you? Did you know that your head could be exchanged for at least 500 pfennigs? ”

"My lord~, I have money, I'll give you money." The bandit leader tried to cover his ears with his hands, but he couldn't break free of his hands.

"I want your money, but I don't need you to give it, we'll take it ourselves." Art said and made a gesture to cut off the bandit leader's other ear.

The bandit leader pressed his head tightly against the fortress wall, looked at the bloody sword in Art's hand in fear, and pleaded with a crying voice: "My lord, I have more money ~ a lot ~ only I know where to hide?" ”

Art stopped the sword he was about to cut and asked sharply, "Where?" Say it."

The bandit leader seized a glimmer of life, the panic in his heart was relieved a little, he regained some senses, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at the fort wall above his head and said: "My lord, you let me climb over the fort wall first, and I will tell you when I climb over the fort wall, anyway, I can't take the money with me." ”

Arte didn't know the fox's cunning, so he didn't give the bandit leader an answer at all, and directly stabbed the bandit leader's thigh with a sword, holding the hilt of the sword in his right hand and twisting it, the bandit leader grinned in pain and his face distorted.

"If you don't say it, you won't have the legs to run for your life."

"I say! I say! The belongings were buried under the stables next to the lord's hut, under the stables~"

Getting the answer, Art no longer twisted the sword stuck in the bandit's thigh.

"I'll ask you one more question, and I'll let you go." Art drew his sword from the bandit's leg.

The bandit leader seemed to see the hope of survival in Art's eyes, and quickly replied, "My lord, if you ask, as long as I know it, I will tell you." ”

Art put his head close to the head of the bandit leader and asked, "Why did you capture Alsburg?" Don't tell me you're trying to plunder the property. ”

"I~we~ just covet the wealth of Alsburg~" The bandit leader's eyes were a little evasive.

Art pressed his sword against the bandit's leader's head, and his eyes showed murderous intent: "I said, don't say that you dare to capture Alsburg just for wealth. ”

The bandit leader couldn't be fooled, so he had to explain the ultimate goal of capturing Alsburg.

The leader of the bandits was indeed a big mountain bandit in the Boge Mountains, and at the beginning of last summer, a guy who claimed to be a knight of the court guard of the Duke of Swabian Hohenzollern came to the bandit nest in the Poge Mountains, and he brought a letter from the court of the Duchy of Swabia......

It turned out that the Duchy of Swabia was instigated by the Duchy of Lombardy in the south and wanted to expand its territory to the Earl of Burgundy in the west, but the two countries had not been at war for many years, and Swabian had to test the reaction of the Earl of Burgundy and the Duchy of Burgundy behind it, and if the troops were sent to invade the territory and they were worried that the Earl of Burgundy and the powerful Duchy of Burgundy behind it would raise troops to kill, so the mountain bandits and robbers became the best choice for the Duchy of Swabia to test the reaction of Burgundy, captured a number of small villages and outposts.

According to the bandit's leader, the knight told him that if he could lead his minions to capture and hold Alsburg at the foot of the Borge, the Duchy of Swabia would make the bandit leader a knight for life, and give him Alsburg as a fief. Since then, the knight has also come to the bandits' lair many times with weapons and supplies, and has also helped train the mountain bandits.

In the early autumn of last year, the bandit leader successfully captured Alsburg under the command of the knight, and after they had been burning and looting in the fort for a while, the knight strictly ordered them not to plunder and destroy the village fort again. They then began to repair and strengthen the fort walls, and deliberately let some of the fleeing peasants go, so that the Burgundian court could learn of the loss of Alsburg as soon as possible. But a long time passed, and they waited only for the arrival of Baron Antaas with a few guards and a hundred or twenty peasants, and on several occasions they repulsed the enemy who had come to take the fort, and the knight returned to Swabia with the conclusion that a Burgundian did not attach much importance to the frontier.

At the beginning of the year, after learning that Baron Antayas had successively gathered the troops of the territory, the bandit leader continued to recruit troops in the large and small bandit nests in the Boge Mountains, and his subordinates reached nearly fifty people, and he also moved his bandit nest to Alsburg and determined to defend "his territory" to the death, and then waited for the canonization promised by the court of the Duchy of Swabia.

However, he did not expect to be infiltrated into the castle by Art's patrol team......

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"So, you're just a pawn laid by the Duchy of Swabia on the border of the Count of Burgundy?" Art was stunned.

"Yes, to my lord, the knight said that this would be an outpost for them to attack the Count of Burgundy~" In front of his life, the bandit leader no longer cares about keeping secrets.

"Hmm~~" Ya nodded in thought.

"Do you have any other belongings?" Art came to his senses and asked the bandit leader with a smile.

The bandit leader was puzzled for a while, "My lord, what do you ~ mean?" ”

"I agreed to let you go, but there are still two subordinates over there, they haven't agreed yet, you have to take the money to buy their lives again~"

"Bastard, you soulless demon...... "The bandit leader who knew that he was being played with suddenly became angry.

Art called Ron, who was on guard not far away, and ordered, "Shut this guy up forever before anyone else arrives." After saying that, he walked towards the battlefield at the fort gate, ignoring the curses and screams coming from behind......

At this time when interrogating the bandit leader, the battle at the fortress gate was nearing the end, and Baron Antayas personally led his troops to climb the fortress wall and surrounded the mountain bandits in the fort along the battle path of the fortress wall, and the mountain bandits who had lost their leader quickly gave up resistance.

At the end of the noon battle, in addition to those killed and slaughtered by the soldiers, there were still about two dozen mountain bandits left in Alsburg.

After the capture of Alsburg, Baron Antaas sent the city guards to patrol around and severely punished several peasant soldiers who made trouble and looted their property. It wasn't until the afternoon that the red-eyed soldiers regained some of their sanity and composure, and Alsburg, after a morning of slashing, finally fell silent.

The next step is to treat the wounded soldiers and deal with the aftermath.

In a swift and fierce siege of the fortress, the attackers under the command of Baron Antayas suffered fifteen casualties, ten seriously wounded, and more than thirty lightly wounded, and suffered heavy casualties, most of which were temporarily conscripted peasants; The defenders of the city died no more than thirty-two people, including nine prisoners who were killed after the battle because the soldiers vented their anger. Judging from the battle losses of both sides alone, it is almost two and a half siege soldiers for a mountain bandit, and this battle loss ratio is still produced when the mountain bandits are attacked from inside and outside, if they really forcibly attack the city, it is estimated that half of the soldiers' lives will remain in front of the fortress wall forever.

As the first contribution of this battle, the patrol team benefited from the leather armor and its own round shield protection allocated by Baron Antaas before the battle, and after the fact, it was counted that only two soldiers in the whole team who participated in the submarine attack were killed, but the number of wounded was as high as nine, of which seven were soldiers who seized the gate inside the fort, and the other two were injured by stones and boiling water while covering the city outside the fort. The nine men who participated in the attack were all wounded, Kazak had half of his finger cut off, Buzz had his calf cut off with an axe and nearly broke his bone, Ron was slashed in the chest with a sword that cut through his leather armor, and even Art himself had his arm slashed by a short spear at the fort gate...... Fortunately, none of the remaining seven people in the submarine attack were fatally injured, but a guy outside the city who was scalded by rolling dung water while covering the city was in danger of his life.

Yat looked at the wounded soldiers and corpses all over the ground, and instructed the few people who followed him: "Kazak, you are responsible for dealing with the dead and seriously wounded soldiers, find a quiet place to bandage them, and you can go and bandage them yourself." ”

"Ron, go and gather all the lightly injured and non-injured soldiers, those bastards must be dividing their belongings privately, and they will be gone if they are too late." With that, he walked towards the second-story lord's cabin in the center of Alsburg, and Ron picked five soldiers to quickly follow......

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In a dry wooden house in front of the main entrance of Alsburg, two Ars villagers who had been rescued by Baron Antayas were caring for a wounded soldier who had been simply bandaged, and a bonfire was burning in the house with a pot of soup boiling on it.

Tuba took off the thick leather armor on his body, sat on the wall of the wooden house and dipped water on a small grinding stone to cut the gap of the battle axe, the range of action of the sharpening axe was a little large, and the leg wound he had bandaged was slightly cracked, he hissed in his mouth, and quickly adjusted his posture.

Tuba was lying beside a soldier with a thick layer of linen wrapped around his head, the blood had soaked out and congealed into dark black blood stains and scabs, and the wounded soldier had just woken up, struggling to get up and drink water.

"Colin, you bastard is really fatal, you didn't die after being hit on the head with a hammer." Tuba put down the long sword and battle axe in his hand, half-lifted Colin with his left hand, and took a bowl of warm broth on the ground with his right hand and brought it to Colin's mouth. Colin opened his mouth slightly, turned his head to look around, and asked softly, "Where did the short man go?" ”

Tuba put down the bowl and picked up the tomahawk again and began to sharpen his blade, and after a while, he replied in a low voice, "The short man has been summoned by God." ”

Colin felt a pang of discomfort in his heart, he had been hit by a heavy hammer at the most critical moment of the battle in the morning, and if it wasn't for the short man next to him to block the successive blows, he would have been lying in a different place now.

Listening to the moaning and screaming wounded soldiers in the cabin, Colin felt for the first time that he was so happy to be alive, followed by palpitations for the rest of his life.

The door of the wooden house was broken open, and a lame soldier walked in with a few fermented wheat bread mixed with hops, and placed one by one beside the wounded soldier, and said: "This is the refined wheat bread that the adults have found for you, you eat some good ones first, and the adults will come to see you later." ”

Seeing him limping, Tuba stopped his movements, looked up and asked, "Jason, you stupid, you can hurt your legs and feet by holding the wooden ladder outside the fort?" ”

Jason turned his head to look at Tuba who was sitting by the wall, walked over with a smirk, gave all the remaining three breads in his hand to Tuba and Colin, and then touched his head and smirked: "It's not, I was hit by a stone thrown from the castle wall~No~ It's okay, I didn't hurt my bones." ”

"My lord told you to take care of your wounds, and he will heal you. Then I'll go first. With that, he smiled at Tuba and Colin and turned to leave.

Looking at the back of Jason leaving, Tuba muttered: "It's good to be a fool and still laugh like this~"

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"These bastards really think of us as fools, this place has become a bandit nest, how can we only have so much money?" Otto said resentfully.

After the battle, when Art and Ron and a few soldiers rushed to the fort's two-story wooden house that served as the base camp of the mountain bandits, a large group of people were already fighting for money inside, and Baron Antayas personally brought the guards to mediate and promised to distribute the seized goods fairly before stabilizing the situation. After the fact, the property found in the two-story wooden house was not enough to pay for the troops. Odo suspected that Baron Antayas or the knights who came first had hidden most of the gold and silver possessions.

Art walked out of the hut, came to the stable next to the hut, lifted the leather skirt and a soak of urine, and then said to Otto, who came with him, "Otto, I tell you a secret......