A low-intensity wilderness encounter has ended.

Ron patrolled the area, making sure there was no danger, and then returned to the battlefield and picked up the sword in his hand, ready to make up for the wounded enemy who fell to the ground.

Art waved his hand to stop Ron's movements, and ordered, "Ron, there is no need to mend the sword, it is still useful to leave them." You go and tell Bass that all you need to do is capture the Little Stone Fort and guard the main passage of the manor, and the rest of the people don't have to worry about it. A small manor has not been taken for a long time, and the wounded soldiers are still waiting to be treated. ”

Bass and Kazak were ordered to take seven or eight soldiers to occupy Winston Manor, and many vigilante soldiers and serfs had escaped from the estate, so it was difficult for Bath to clean up for a while.

After a few moments, Buzz came running to tell Art that he had captured and cleaned up Winston Manor, and Art instructed Otto to transport all the wounded soldiers to Winston Manor.

"Take these wounded enemy soldiers and prisoners into the manor and lock them up, and give me a good look at the fat pig with missing ears. Send someone to guard the surroundings, and I'm going to rush back to Tignats. Art commanded Bass.

"Ron, you go and bring the horse, and follow me back to Tignets to find Mistress Pierre." Then he got on his horse and drove away......

…………

In the city of Tignac, Viscount Pierre was shouting at the captain of the city guard in the official room: "What's the use of you running to report now, why don't you know how to stop that fat pig?" What do you say now!! ”

"My lord, who knew that Bob guy actually took those people to surround the patrol team~~"

"Alright, you hurry up and rush to Winston Manor with thirty escort sergeants, and pray that those guys on the patrol team haven't had time to cut off Bob's pig's head!!"

"How do you know it must be Bob who was killed?" The captain grunted.

"You know what, go!"

The captain of the city was just about to go out to gather the soldiers, when the guards outside the gate reported to the patrol officer Art asking to see him.

It's time to come, and Pierre is quickly thinking about how to resolve this farce that is not easy to clean up.

Art entered the office and stood silently at Pierre's square table.

After half a sound, Viscount Pierre said: "I know everything, Bob is still alive, right?" ”

Art pulled half of his ear out of his bosom and placed it on Pierre's wooden table.

Pierre glanced at half of his ears and loosened his heartstrings, and said, "It's okay, you have to teach him a lesson, otherwise he thinks the whole world is his." However, I hope you can think about it calmly, after all, the person behind him is something you and I can't afford to mess with. If you kill him, you won't want to live well in the Count of Burgundy. ”

"My lord, if I wanted to kill him, I wouldn't have stayed until now." Art replied coldly.

"But my soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, you have to give me an explanation! Otherwise, the Minister of Justice and Bishop Orlov won't let you pass like this~"

The chief guard standing on the side saw that Art had no reverence for Viscount Pierre, and scolded loudly: "Art, what are you, the person sitting in front of you is a lord nobleman. Also, don't always talk about the court and the bishop, who TM doesn't know you used to be ......"

"Jerry, shut up." Pierre stopped the chief of the guard.

Pierre got up from the chair, glanced at Art and Ron behind him, sighed, and said, "Okay, let's talk about how to clean up this stupid farce~"

Art put forward the conditions one by one: first, to immediately send the healers and priests of Tignets to Winston Manor to treat the wounded soldiers; second, that Tignets paid for the redemption of Bob and the soldiers of the vigilantes; Third, Iot, the owner of Winston Manor, was left to the patrol team to dispose of it.

"Art, I promise you the first condition, and I will send a healer to Winston Manor at once; The second condition can be considered. But I can't promise you the third condition, because Winston Manor is the land conferred on Ioat's father, Count Bernard Capet, the Vice-Chancellor of the Court, and now that the elder Sir Iot has died, the manor is theoretically a fief of the Vice-Chancellor. If you want to fight Winston Manor's idea, you'll have to think about how to deal with the Vice-Chancellor's wrath. However, Winston Manor has some personal property of Ioat, and you can discuss this with him......"

This time, Pierre basically did not refuse Yat's conditions for three reasons. First, Art was a direct officer of the Minister of Justice, and the county of Tignats had no authority to deal with him directly, and if Art really reported the beginning of this farce to the Minister of Justice, Pierre would definitely be questioned by the court. Second, Bob and the vigilante soldiers were all imprisoned in Winston Manor, and Pierre could ignore the lives of the vigilante mongrels, but he couldn't let Bob die in his own precinct, and he didn't dare to offend the vice-chancellor. Third, Pierre is a man of great talent, and he admires the unknown and ruthless guy in front of him.

In the end, Art received a ransom of 2,500 pfennigh and 5,000 pounds of grain and wheat seeds from Viscount Pierre to compensate the patrol for their losses. As a condition, Art must ensure that Bob and the rest of the vigilantes are returned safely to Tinetz along with their weapons, and that Art must withdraw from Winston Manor by noon tomorrow and ensure that it is not damaged or plundered......

When Art returned to Winston Manor with Jerry, the head of the guard, with a few healers and priests, Otto told him the bad news - shortly after they left Winston Manor, Iotte, who had escaped in a field encounter, saw that the manor had been captured, and in desperation, he took several manor guards and serfs to try to retake the manor, and attacked and killed a patrol soldier who was guarding the manor, and was caught by Odo, who arrived in time, and cut off an arm.

"Bastard! How do you arrange the sentry posts? Are you all blind? "I didn't expect that not a single soldier died in the battle, and after the battle, he was actually wiped by someone's neck, and Yat was angry.

"Drag that bastard up for me!"

Edot, the ashen lord of Wincheston Manor, was dragged up like dead dogs by the Buzz men, and in a fit of rage, Art cut off Iot's head with a sword, despite the dissuasion of the chief of the guard.

Art looked at the chief guard with blood-red eyes and said softly, "Lord Jerry, you can go back with Lord Bob and his soldiers."

The chief guard was also shocked by Art's "ferocity", "Lord Art, I have no intention of accusing you, but if you kill Iot, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the court deputy to explain it." ”

"Thanks for the reminder."

"Otto, send Lord Jerry away. Then send two battle groups to patrol the manor, and if anyone enters or leaves the manor, they will all be killed!! ”

After the chief guard left the manor with Fat Bob and a group of soldiers, Art said to Ron, who was beside him: "Ron, go find a pen and paper, I will write a letter that you will ride to Lusesen overnight and hand it to Lord Bishop Orlov and tell him ......"

............

Looking at the back of a man and two horses galloping towards the north, Art clenched his left hand on the hilt of the sword, turned around and ordered: "Odo, forcibly requisition all the ox carts and carriages in the manor, take away all the money and grain materials that can be taken away, and distribute all the grain and wheat seeds that cannot be taken away in the barn to the serfs in the manor, and we will return south overnight tonight~"

"Yes! My lord, what about Iot's wife and children? ”

"Leave some rations and give them to the priests."

"Yes!"

............

Upon learning of the murder of Iotte, Viscount Pierre arrived at the lord of Winston Manor early the next morning with more than 30 soldiers defending the city, and by the time the group arrived at the manor, the patrol team that had "ransacked" Winston Manor had already run away without a trace.

Seeing that the manor itself was intact and there were no more casualties, Pierre breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself: "Yate at least knows the bottom line. ”

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Six days later, in the palace of the Marquis of Besançon, the voice of the Vice-Chancellor of the Court, Count Bernard Capet, grew louder and louder, almost roaring, "Lord Marquis, this is Lord Balwin's men!" He dared to openly besiege and occupy my estate, and to kill the son of one of my knights, and to plunder the property of my estate. Lord Marquis, I beg you to do me justice by cutting down that bastard who defied the king's law. ”

The Minister of Peace, who had not spoken on the wooden bench at the bottom of Vice-Chancellor Bernard, stood up and said, "Vice-Chancellor, you have been saying that my Border Inspectors have captured your manor for no reason, plundered your property, and killed your vassals, but the news I have received is not quite what you said. So saying, the Minister of Justice took out an open letter from his cuff and presented it to the Marquis of Ivrea with both hands.

"Lord Marquis, this is a letter presented yesterday by Bishop Olof Hannes of Luces, who is willing to vouch for the authenticity of the letter. Please take a look at it. ”

The Marquis took the parchment, opened it and looked at it for a while, looked up at the court vice-minister and asked, "Bernard, where did you know the news that Winston Manor was attacked and plundered and the lord of the manor was killed?" ”

The deputy glanced at the parchment letter in the marquis's hand, and replied: "It was sent by Bob Score, the magistrate of Tignac City, who was seriously wounded in the battle to rescue the captured manor~"

The Marquis turned to the aged Prime Minister of the Court and asked, "Prime Minister, has Pierre reported this matter to you?" ”

"Lord Marquis, the palace can only receive a letter from Tignets once every five days, and judging by the time, Pierre's letter should have arrived at the palace now, so I will send someone to take a look."

"Hurry up and get it for me."

In a few moments, one of the palace guards handed the marquis a well-painted post letter, which he opened and compared the two letters for a while.

"Hmph, Lord Vice-Chancellor, let's take a look~" The Marquis said and threw the two letters to the Vice-Minister, who was in a cold sweat on his forehead.

Before the deputy minister could finish reading the letter in his hand, the voice of the Minister of Justice sounded again: "Lord Marquis, this border patrol officer named Yat has cleared out two bandits and killed four bandits since he took office last year, and one of them is a habitual bandit who has been rampant in the southern border for many years. Moreover, he has also trained an elite team, which is being ordered to patrol all parts of the southern border to suppress bandits and robbers. ”

The Minister of Justice paused, glanced at the Deputy Minister, and continued: "As far as I know, the Deputy Prime Minister said that this Sheriff Tignets named Bob has not only not killed a single robber in his more than a year in office, but it is also rumored that he has done evil and oppressed the good during his tenure as Sheriff Tignets. In the autumn and winter of last year, a large number of displaced people poured into the southern border, and the palace ordered all localities to eliminate the bandits, but this magistrate not only did not catch half of the bandits, but cut off the heads of many civilians and risked the military ......"

............

The long-standing rivalry between the Earl of Bernard, the Vice-Chancellor of the Court, and the Earl of Balwin, the Minister of Justice, was finally ignited by an incident on a small estate on the southern border of the Earl of the Empire......

A day later, the outcome of the Winston Manor incident came out, and the sheriff of Tignez, Bob Scorey, was dismissed from all duties and recalled to Besançon to await his death, and Bob's hopes of being knighted after coming to the south to win military exploits were dashed; And the punishment of the Southern Frontier Inspector Art was a little softer - ordering the Southern Frontier Inspector Art to return all the materials he had plundered from Winston Manor, and not to set foot in Winston Manor territory for half a step in the future.