In May, after months of training, Art finally decided to take his army to rid the entire county of Tinets of mountain bandits.

There are three reasons for this large-scale crackdown on bandits: First, they want to train the army's actual combat capability by eliminating bandits with backward weapons and equipment and low combat effectiveness, and by the way, they can also seize a lot of booty from the bandits to support the army's expenses; In any case, only after there are no rampant bandits on this road, it is possible for merchants to travel from south to north to carry out trade, and his own caravan can walk safely and smoothly on this road, and the next steps can be continued; The third is to increase his influence, whether it is to build a certain prestige in Tignats or to give a satisfactory answer to the nobles of the court in order to attract their attention.

Art knows that "it is easy to defeat bandits, but it is too difficult to find them; It is easy to annihilate partially, but it is too difficult to encircle and annihilate all of them", so his plan was to start from the southern border outpost and form a crushing trend from the south to the north, while clearing out the scattered bandits, and at the same time driving the bandits scattered all over the country to the wasteland and dense forests in the north.

Throughout the month of May, the army fought five battles with mountain bandits throughout the southern part of Tinets County.

Thanks to the "Eagle Eye" that had been planted in the manor villages throughout the county and the information collected by the border outposts from passing pedestrians and merchants, Art mastered the traces of a group of bandits with a large number of people in the south, and led his troops out of the valley in early May, and in just over 20 days, Art led his army to kill 17 bandits, captured more than 30 slaves, and seized 3,000 more than 1,000 dolfins, more than 2,000 pounds of grain, and six large animals such as cattle and horses. This kind of battle did not meet the ideal of Art's expectations, but these mountain bandits and robbers were indeed not rich, and if they were really rich and food, they would not risk serving this rice bowl that was easy to lose their heads.

The army also suffered battle losses. In addition to the wear and tear of weapons and armor, in several battles, the Yate army killed three people and seriously wounded five people, most of these soldiers killed and seriously wounded were recruits who had not been promoted to war for a long time, and they cowered and did not dare to face the enemy when they fought, and even the sword and axe raised after knocking down the enemy did not dare to cut down, and as a result, they were killed by the bandits who had reflected on it.

After exterminating several gangs of bandits in the south, Yat's goal was basically achieved. After personally testing the strength of the Yat army, the bandits scattered in the southern border of Tignaz began to flow north, either fleeing to the northern wastelands or hiding in the jungle valleys, and more often gathered near the village fort manor on the line of Lane, Thorne, and Bura, because in addition to the north-south trade route, only these places could still have food and supplies for the bandits to plunder.

All of a sudden, the city of Tignats was constantly being attacked by bandits from all over the country, and although he received a letter from Art in advance, knowing that this was Art's strategy to eliminate the bandits, Viscount Pierre still cursed the "culprit" Art fiercely while scratching his ears and cheeks.

Scolding and scolding, the matter must be resolved, and Art is really doing things, so the calm Viscount Pierre pacified all parts of the county and strictly ordered to strengthen defense, and at the same time constantly sent people to send orders to urge Art to move the army to the north as soon as possible and eliminate the bandits that plagued all parts of the country as soon as possible.

And although Yate does practical things, it will never do things that are at a loss. On the one hand, he demanded money, food, supplies, weapons and equipment from Viscount Pierre, and on the other hand, in the name of raising food and wages to eliminate bandits, he collected the security tax from the villages and estates in the county that were attacked by bandits.

Of course, the process of collecting taxes this time was much smoother than when Yate collected food and wages a year ago, not only because the various places had been made scared by bandits, but more importantly, Yate led the army into the village and entered the fort.

They were wise and forced, for not long ago, a small village that refused to pay the bandit tax to Art had been raided by a group of robbers of unknown origin on the night of Art's withdrawal, killing the squires and plundering several wealthy households. Although Art made it clear that what happened to the village was definitely not his own doing, they were immediately robbed as soon as they left, saying that it had nothing to do with him, who would dare to believe it........

In any case, since then, the behavior of the village manors has been much more positive, and often as soon as Art and his army have arrived at the entrance of the village, the lords and squires have already carried money bags and food to meet them at the intersection of the village fort......

"Sir Klaus, you said that your lord had explained to them that the events of that night had nothing to do with us, so why did those villages see us as if they were bandits?" On the way out of Bula, a new soldier from the second squad of the third squadron couldn't help but whisper to the squad leader Klaus why the villagers looked at them so strangely recently.

Klaus was silent for a long time, and finally turned sideways to the guy who had just been promoted to war and whispered, "How do you know that it really has nothing to do with us?" ”

The soldier thought for a moment and said, "The adults have said that it has nothing to do with us, and we really didn't do anything in the village!" ”

Klaus smiled and said, "It really has nothing to do with you, but where did Master Angus and the Sentinels go that night?" Why were only the squires and the two rich families who insulted the adults in the village fort robbed, but the other villagers were unharmed? ”

The soldier replied, "Didn't the Sentinels go out to patrol that night?"

"Sentinels? Can the patrol patrol all night? Can the Sentinel stain his armor with blood? Man, you're thinking too much of us adults! With that, Klaus stopped the conversation and motioned for the soldiers to concentrate on the march......

At the head of the marching procession, Art, who rode forward, was followed by Angus, the lieutenant of the legion.

Angus was half a horse's head behind Art, and sighed softly, "My lord, these guys are like that, if you don't give them a little threat and teach them a lesson, they can really treat us as begging for food." You see, aren't you much more obedient now," Angus smiled and patted the bulging pouch in the front saddle,

Art tugged on the reins slightly, trying to slow down and let Angus's lagging half of the horse's head catch up, but Angus always kept half a horse's head behind, Art no longer paid attention, turned his head slightly and replied: "Some guys are so ignorant of the general situation, and they are kind enough to persuade him to sneer at you, as long as you show your sword, he can kneel down immediately." They don't want to think that although I collect money, I am better than the garrison in the county town that only collects grain and pays taxes and never does anything......

Arte paused and said, "But this kind of thing should be done as little as possible in the future, after all, this is not enemy territory, and our soldiers are not bandits who only care about plundering regardless of enemy and enemy." As a last resort, I don't want the army to get involved in these conspiracies, especially my own people. ”

"My lord, there will be more people and things to contact in the future, and sooner or later these dirty jobs will need to be done~"

"Later? I'll make my own arrangements in the future! ”

Angus no longer asked questions about dirty work, and changed the subject: "My lord, this time we swaggered all the way, I am afraid that it will arouse the suspicion of more people, and those surrounding lords will not rest assured that a waking lion will sleep next to him."

Angus's suspicions were not unreasonable, and Art replied, "Sergeant, we have been doomed to be watched since I was knighted and knighted, and not long ago I had a great celebration in the valley, and those who were eyeing us were already sharpening their swords. This time, I took the army to various places not only to collect the security tax of bandits, but also to take the army out and around, so that those who peeped and doubted us could see our fangs, and also think about whether there was a pair of sharp teeth to eat us......" After saying that, Art lightly clamped the belly of the horse, took Felix and two cavalry retinues at the intersection in front of the village and headed west.

The infantry leader who followed behind the two glanced at the road to the east, stopped and asked, "My lord, aren't we going to Fort Andermatt to the east to continue the levy?" ”

Angus turned his head to look at the red-haired officer and said with a smile: "Kazak, are you really confused by money?" Fort Andermatt to the east is the territory of Baron Antaas, and we are not poor enough to squeeze our friends~" After saying that, Angus also beat Ma to the west to keep up with Yat.

Only then did Kazak remember that Baron Antayas had a great friendship with his own lord, "Yes, yes, how can we extort money from our friends." ”

Kazak said to himself and ran back into the ranks of the soldiers.

Thirty heavily armed infantry and a few baggage men quickened their pace with five four-wheeled wagons loaded with food, vegetables, fruits, and cloth supplies, and kept up with the pace of the cavalry. 166 net

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Chapter 131: Clearing Out the Bandits