"Sergeant Major, Dr. Thomas has seen it, it's nothing serious, it's just that I'm so tired that I've fainted."

Otto, dressed in a long shirt and cotton robe, exhaled white air and walked into a commander's barracks with a charcoal fire in the Beiguan Military Fort, and said to Angus, who was writing an urgent letter with a quills under the candle.

"How long did you say they were running? Two of the four horses had already blown up their lungs, and the other two were also driven to override, and it took a month or two to barely recover. ”

Ron and Aron got horses with the help of the Lucers South Merchandise store and then drove south day and night, and for the two days they barely slept, spending most of their time on horseback riding or walking, except for eating bread to satisfy their hunger and drinking and feeding the horses. After finally arriving at Boulder Town to see the patrol team, the two finally couldn't hold back and fainted, and the patrol team was worried about accidents, so they sent someone to send the two back to Beiguan Military Fort overnight.

"But it's okay if people are fine, they were already fainting when they were sent back, and I don't know if something happened to them if they were adults~" There was some heat in the room, and Otto took off his cotton robe and put it on the chair.

Art has been away from the valley for more than a month, and after the completion of the Thorne City mission, he led people to the capital of the Kingdom of France, thousands of miles away.

However, Ron and the others did not carry anything like a secret letter, so Otto and Angus did not even have a quasi-letter.

"Your Excellency has always been cautious, we have no rivals in Paris, they should be in no danger. I guess Ron and the others must have come back to win, and the Lord said that once the Dean family's heresy was convicted, they had to do it immediately. "Angus was involved in the entire operation to destroy Assasin, so it is necessary to be more clear about the deployment of Art.

"I hope~" Otto drew the Holy Cross on his chest.

"Sergeant Major, what are you writing about?" Seeing that Angus's pen was already full of parchment, Otto asked suspiciously.

"A letter to Tignets and the Minister of Justice, a letter of warning to Tignets and the Minister of Justice, that a large number of bandits have recently been looting in the southern border of Tignaz, and the citizens of the county have asked for help from the patrol team, and some people claim that these bandits are ...... disguised by the private army of the Dean family."

Otto glanced at Angus's writing, "But the adults haven't yet~"

"Brother Otto, Ron has returned, and he must have taken the Lord's military orders with him."

Otto thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, "After you write it, I will immediately send someone back to the wooden castle to find the old butler to stamp the coat of arms of the lord, and once Ron wakes up and confirms, we will send it out immediately." I just don't know if Redogan is ready there~"

Angus picked up the rough straw paper and gently dried the handwriting ink, "Don't worry, Redogan has been preparing for more than a month......"

Otto and Angus were still discussing in a low voice in the barracks, and the sentry on duty knocked on the door, "Two adults, Chief Ron is awake, he is anxious to see the two adults, but he can't walk. ”

When Otto and Angus heard this, they immediately put on thick clothes and went out of the room, and ran towards the barracks of the medical team.

Walking into the medical barracks, Aaron was still unconscious, but Ron was holding a large bowl of warm clear soup and pouring it into his mouth.

Seeing Otto and Angus coming in, Ron hurriedly put the wooden bowl in his hand on the small table beside him, and said to several guards in the barracks, "You guys go down first, we'll be fine."

After the medic left, Ron tried to get out of bed, but his legs were so sore and sore that he couldn't get up.

Otto and Angus stepped forward to stop Ron.

"Ron, do you have a secret order?" Angus gets straight to the point.

Ron nodded and said solemnly, "Master Military Order!"

Otto and Angus instinctively straightened up.

"Order, from now on, the two lieutenants of the Legion Otto and Angus, take over the Wells Legion and all the armed forces under its command, and the barony will all enter the preparation for battle. Time is of the essence, and Otto and Angus quickly begin all operations as planned. Ron breathed a sigh of relief as he conveyed Art's military order word for word.

"Yes! Obey the orders of the Lords. Otto and Angus spoke in unison.

"Brother Ron, how are they, my lord?" Otto walked over to the wooden bed and handed Ron the bowl of consommé.

Ron took the wooden bowl and poured the remaining wheat paste into his mouth, and replied, "Brother Odo, Sergeant Major, don't worry, everything is going well on the master's side." He told me to hurry home first, so that we could cut off the Dean family before the Inquisition arrived in Besançon, and Earl Balwyn had agreed to your plan. ”

"As we passed through Tignets as we headed south, Hawkeye collected the actions of the Dean family in recent times. Obviously, they have been prepared, the old Dean is hurriedly selling the family business that he has been operating for many years, and they have sent a large amount of money to Besançon, thinking that they must have exchanged their life's wealth for the lives of Dean and his son. ”

Angus nodded, "Redogan also sent back a secret message saying that recently, a group of powerful robbers ran to the neighboring county to rob everywhere, and it is rumored that it was the private army of the Dean family in disguise, and they also wanted money and went crazy to run to the neighboring county to loot. ”

"Sergeant Major, let's get into action at once, and I'll send someone to return to the wooden castle overnight with your two warning letters to seal it, and send someone to the county town and Besançon early tomorrow morning. You also immediately ordered Redogan to get into action. ”

Angus clenched his fists and waved them a few times, and said excitedly: "Finally, tmD is going to cut off this rotten meat!"

"Big Brother Odo, I will go to Redogan early tomorrow morning to personally direct their actions, and you should also hurry up and let the Wells Legion prepare for battle."

"Good!"

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

In the cold winter of January, the weather is cold.

The snowflakes that had lasted for several days finally stopped, and the snow all over the mountains began to melt little by little under the cold and hot winter sun, and the road that had been lost in the vast white plains also reappeared little by little.

In a village half a day's east of the county town of Tignats, the old squire (rich peasants) Juan, who was lying on a chaise longue in a leather jacket with a fine silver wine glass, was sipping on the expensive Bodot wine, and the squire's rat-tail beard was trembling with the sage's rat-tail beard by the fireplace in the main hall of a house in the center of the village.

This village is one of the few villages directly under the jurisdiction of the county town of Tignets, and the acting lord is the county governor, Viscount Pierre. There is no lord in the village and the elder {village chief} is the king, and this old squire with a rattail beard is the village elder.

The old squire's father was one of the earliest participants in the "New Reclamation Movement" in Tignats, and the decades of hard work of father and son have resulted in nearly 100 acres of fertile land that can feed a dozen civilian families even in the most extensive and lazy farming methods.

There was a middle-aged maid and two serfs in the house, and there were eight hired peasants in the village who rented his land, and the old squire had a windmill mill in the village, and his eldest son also ran a bakery in the county town of Tignats, and the wealthy squire's family was able to earn eight thousand puffens a year, after deducting the taxes paid to the court lords and the church, which was enough for ten urban families, and more so for twenty or thirty peasant families in the countryside.

With this solid family background, the old squire can live comfortably in the cold winter every year.

But this winter the old squire is destined to be sad.

The old squire drank the little wine at the bottom of the cup and was about to refill the bottle, when suddenly there was a bang in the front yard, the courtyard door was slammed open, and a dozen rough men armed with knives, axes, spears, and swords, dressed in various clothes and hideous faces, broke into the courtyard.

The unkempt man with a mouth full of rotten teeth kicked over the serf who was blocking the courtyard, put the broad axe against the serf's head, and said viciously: "Be honest, don't force me to chop off your head!"

The serf lay on the ground trembling and did not dare to make the slightest movement, and the servants and family members in the house also hid in the room and did not dare to open the door.

One of the bandits, who had rushed into the courtyard first, ran out of the main hall and said to the leader, "Leader Rig, Lord Juan is here."

The vicious leader lifted his axe and stepped on the serf, walked into the main hall and shouted at the old squire who was slumped motionless on the chaise longue: "Lord Juan, I have come to borrow some money from you on behalf of the Dean family......"

Half a day later, a group of robbers came out of the house with two two-wheeled ox carts in their arms, and several of the robbers who were driving pigs and sheep still had a few old hens with fluttering wings tied to their waists.

The "Dean family" "borrowed" 17,000 finnigs from the old squire Juan's house, and two carts full of grain, cloth, coarse salt, silverware and other materials.

The leader of the team, Rig, rode the green mule "borrowed" from the old squire's house and walked in front, and the green mule could not run without a saddle rein, so Rig was just for fun, he let the green mule under him walk slowly, only to tear and chew the old hen in his hand that was not very cooked, and his mouth was full of oil splashes.

Suddenly, a rider rushed into the village, ran to him, grabbed the reins, and hurriedly reported: "Leader Rig, our brother has encountered resistance in the village of Bula, and the chief has ordered you to quickly rush to the village of Bula with your men to assemble and attack!" The rider turned his horse's head and left, and he had to go to the next village to give the order to assemble.

"tmD, there are really people who are not afraid of death. Leave three men to escort the goods, and the rest follow me to support the Grand Chief. Rig threw the old hen to the ground, jumped off the mule's back, pulled out the broad axe on his back, and led five or six robbers in the direction of the village of Bra......

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

In the county town of Tignats, the official room of the lord's hall, Jerry, the chief of the knight guard of the Inner Palace, rushed into the room with two letters warning of banditry, "My lord, two more villages have been looted by bandits, still under the banner of the Dean family......"

The magistrate, Viscount Pierre, had already placed a large number of such warning letters on his desk, and the letters mentioned the Dean family without exception.

This time was supposed to be the most dissipating time of the year, after all, large bandits also had to avoid the cold and winter, and small bandits scattered bandits could not cause big banditry.

But this winter this year is really like a demon, and the banditry that has been subsided for a long time suddenly broke out intensively. Within two days, seven villages and four manors in Tignats County were plundered by mountain bandits, who, as if pre-agreed, singled out the lords and rich families of the village estates, and shouted "only the rich, not the poor", and when the robbers entered the village, no one resisted except the lords and rich households.

The wealthy lords with a slightly better attitude were lucky, and the robbers swaggered away after robbing their families of valuable goods; If they encounter resistance, dozens of people will gather in a moment, tear down the wall, break down the door, kill people and set fire, loot the lord's rich family, not to mention, and force the civilians in the village to enter the rich family's house and scrape everything away......

Pierre took the letter handed over by Jerry, threw it on the table without even looking at it, looked up and asked, "Do you believe that someone from the Dean family did it?"

Jerry shook his head, "The Dean family wouldn't be stupid enough to do that, and our eyeliner said that the "wild people" of the Dean family have been haunting the neighboring counties recently, and they don't always at the doorstep. ”

"But if we don't believe it, it doesn't mean that those lords and rich families in the county don't believe it, the reputation of the Dean family is really not good over the years, and the private army they have recently raised often steals chickens and dogs in the county and oppresses civilians, and the county people are already very disgusted with the Dean family."

After Jerry finished speaking, he said to himself: "But to be able to suddenly attack so many villages in just two days, the origin of these bandits is definitely not simple, and there are definitely people behind the manipulation."

Pierre sneered, pulled out a letter from the desk, and threw it to Jerry, "Look at this, there is an answer." ”

Jerry took the letter and read it, and said, "My lord, this is a warning letter from Baron Arte, the border patrolman, and the border patrol officer has the duty to clean up bandits, is it not strange?"

"The letter was delivered this morning, and the person who delivered it has already gone to Besançon." Viscount Pierre added.

"Huh? Is there anything wrong with this? Jerry put down the letter, still a little incomprehensible.

Pierre gave him a blank look and reminded: "The nearest outpost of the patrol team is in Boulder Town, Southern Wasteland, from the attacked village to alert the patrol soldiers to the patrol officers to the patrol officers, and the border patrol officers will write a letter to report to the county seat, at least two days?" And the letter was delivered this morning, just a day and a half after the first village was robbed. ”

"The letter mentioned that more than ten village estates such as Sauron and Bula were attacked by bandits from the Dean family, and Bra had not been attacked by bandits when they wrote this letter~"

"And you see, there are only two places in the whole of Tinetz, except for the county town and Dian's house, that have not been alerted to banditry - Sapp and Andermatt, one of which is his father-in-law's domain and the other is his friend's territory......"

Pierre didn't go on.

Jerry added a little aftertaste and exclaimed, "My lord, you mean~"

"I didn't say anything, and you don't have to speculate." Pierre interrupted Jerry.

"Shall we send someone to take a look?"

"Pie! It must be sent, since the one in the south likes to act, we will accompany it. You sent a few soldiers of the county garrison to visit a few villages and estates that had been plagued by bandits, at least to show that we were not paid for nothing. ”

"Yes!" Jerry left the office with a heavy weight.

When there was no one in the room, Pierre picked up the warning letter on the table with the heraldic seal of the Baron of the Frontier again, and said to himself: "The demons are fighting, and mortals are ......suffering."