Twice robbed in a year, Lane Manor was largely emptied.

Anyway, it was close enough to the door of the house, and Art didn't worry about the difficulty of carrying too many things, so he just like he did when he "ransacked" Biltenburg, and looted all the materials in the inner fort of Ryan Manor.

Gold and silver treasures, weapons and armor, food supplies, horses and livestock, iron farm implements, and valuable goods, these did not need to be arranged by Art at all, and his men were already familiar with the road.

Today, there are more and more people in the valley, from iron pot cooking utensils to wooden barrels and spoons, from lame wooden tables to clay pots with missing corners, from candlesticks to wall nails to needle spinning threads...... Whatever could be used in the valley and not reported by the army was rolled up and taken away by the soldiers.

These things can be taken back to the valley wooden fort from the grocery store in exchange for equivalent copper coins or wine and bread, although the soldiers who receive high salaries are not short of those copper coins, but they are used to being poor and are always reluctant to let these things be thrown away~

If you are poor, you will see that everything is a treasure.

However, the soldiers still kept the military discipline, and the scope of the looting was limited to the inner fort of Lane Manor, and the oppressed serfs escaped again, and several of the oppressed serfs even volunteered to join the patrol officer Art's team......

"My lord, all the important supplies have been loaded, a full eight carts, not counting the trophies captured by the soldiers themselves. Moreover, we also selected more than 20 young men from the imprisoned peasant soldiers and serfs, and five or six of them took the initiative to ask to join us, and he was usually oppressed too much by the lord of the manor~"

"How are the brothers killed and seriously wounded in the war arranged?" Art asked.

"The seriously injured brother was sent to Boulder Town for treatment last night, and the brothers who died in the battle will also be brought back to the valley for burial, and now they are all at the doorstep, I want to let the souls of the brothers have a resting place." Otto replied.

Art nodded approvingly, "The herald is leaving, and we're going home!" ”

When Yat led his army with prisoners of war and supplies to the Boulder garrison camp, Tignats County was boiling.

The news of the destruction of Lane Manor and the killing of the lord Baron Bazel has spread throughout Tignaz through the peasants who have taken it from the battlefield of Lane Manor.

People are shocked by the new court frontier baron and border inspector Art? Wood? While Wells committed a heinous crime, he also celebrated the murder of the great villain, Baron Bazel.

At a time when the county was in an uproar at this time, there was some turmoil in the county town of Tiniecs.

The magistrate, Viscount Pierre, had already received an urgent letter from the Inspector, and he had already guessed the "crime" that Art was going to commit next, so when someone reported that Lane Manor had been breached, Pierre's face did not change.

"My lord, what can I do? The Patrol Officer led his troops to trespass on the lord's territory and killed a baron, which is not something we can handle. Hurry up and report to the court, and let the court send someone to deal with the baron Yate who doesn't know the depths! "The new magistrate of Tignacs was already frightened when he got the news.

Pierre turned around and scolded the panicked sheriff, "What are you panicking about! It's not the first time that Ryan Manor has been breached! Besides, you saw Bazel's bastard's head cut off? ”

"My lord~you~ What do you mean?"

"I'm waiting for the second letter from that unusually domineering new baron!"

"Second letter?" The sheriff did not understand Pierre's words.

Pierre didn't explain the sheriff's doubts, he paced in the office room, and said to himself: "I thought he would take Wincheston under the knife, but I didn't expect him to actually see Lane Manor, that bastard of Bazel also ran into the devil, he deserved it!" ”

Two days later, the county of Tignac sent a letter to the court of Besançon, accompanied by two documents from the court of the Inspector of the Southern Frontier......

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At Wincheston Manor, old Dean fidgets in the house.

The housekeeper of the manor didn't understand that his master would be so anxious, and said with relief: "Master, fortunately, you took the initiative to show favor to that devil, otherwise it would be our Wincheston Manor who would suffer."

Old Dean stopped walking, glanced at the housekeeper, and said, "Gestures?" Will that guy let us go because of my overtures? What he is afraid of is the backer behind us! This bastard is too heretical, he ignores all the "laws" at all, and you can't touch his bottom line at all, it's too dangerous to confront such a person~"

"Master, then we have to get rid of him while he is still fledgling! Keeping him will be endless. The butler suggested.

"Get rid of him? Easier said than done. I wanted to prevent the Chancellor of the Exchequer from becoming a knight on charges of colluding with bandits, but we were killed and it took 50,000 Dophines to clear our name~"

"Is that the group of people who let Young Master Dean raise him with a lot of money~"

"Now you can only take this risky move~ You immediately send someone north to find the young master and tell him to start acting as soon as possible~"

Old Dean had a gloomy murderous intent on his face......

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In Boulder Town, a three-day journey south of Wincheston, Art is patrolling the garrison camp.

Because the garrison camp of Boulder Town is located in the wasteland, it is still half a day's distance from the nearest small stream that often breaks water, and there are no other resources that can be used except for wild grass and boulders, so the internal construction has been in a relatively backward state.

Until now, the camp could barely accommodate less than 30 people. As early as last summer and autumn, the defense of the camp was gradually improved, with arrow towers, battle positions, sharp pile barbs, trench traps, etc.

However, the shortage of timber led to the soldiers of the patrol team in the camp still living in the camp tents, and the drinking water consumed by people and animals every day had to be carried back to the small stream in the southeast.

The wasteland and the shortage of water and wood, Boulder Town has been established more than a year ago, and many pedestrians and caravans have come here, but they have all finally shaken their heads and left this unlivable and dilapidated place......

"My lord, as you can see, this is not as good for settlements as the border. Not to mention the lack of firewood, the main thing is that it is too far from the only nearby water source. Every day, we had to pull two wooden carts on pack horses to fetch water from the stream in the southeast. And even the stream will stop flowing in the driest part of winter. If it snows, we can still melt the snow, but if we really catch up with the days when we can't even see snowflakes, we have to run back to the Beiguan jungle to get water~"

"We tried to recruit a group of homeless people to live near Boulder Town, but the homeless people turned around and left after seeing the situation, and now a few of the homeless people in the camp have reluctantly agreed to stay and work for us because of our promise to provide food and water." On the battle position on the outer wall of the camp, Obote followed behind Arter and kept complaining.

Hearing this, Art scratched his head, "The matter of firewood can also allow the valley and the caravan to send people to transport it regularly and hoard it for use in the camp. But this drinking water problem is really not easy to solve, I can't send someone to bring you water from the valley? Even if you send it, you can't hoard it like firewood. ”

"Yes, my lord, drinking water is the biggest difficulty. We have tried to dig wells in and around the camp before, but no water has come out~"

"How deep have you dug your well?" Art asked.

Obote replied, "It has to be at least twenty feet deep, and that's the limit." If you continue to dig down, it will be easy to tower well~"

Art's hand tapped a few times on the battlement of the outer wall and said, "Dig a deep well!" This is a wasteland, not a mountain, and the water level is not too deep. You find time to go back to the valley, and ask the old butler to think of a way to see if you can manage to continue digging. I'll have the artisans of the valley come here to do it. ”

"As long as the drinking water problem is solved, your biggest problem here is gone. Moreover, the main body of the Beiguan Military Fort has been completed, and I will let the construction steward send craftsmen to work with materials to build the Boulder Town camp in front of me. ”

"Thank you, sir!" Obote replied.

After talking about the difficulty of drinking water and the problem of camp construction, Yate turned to Obote and instructed: "Obote, you are the commander of the patrol team, and when I return to the valley this time to settle down, the patrol team will be expanded, and the size of the patrol team is initially expected to be expanded to more than thirty people." ”

"More than thirty people? All crammed into Boulder? Obote didn't think the decision to increase the garrison in Boulder Town was very clever.

"No, no, Boulder Town's capacity is limited, and it can't withstand it for a while. My initial plan was to establish a sentry post on the north-south trade route from the southern border post to the line of Ryan Manor to the north. Every other way, a suitable location is selected to build a sentry post, and two or three border patrolmen are stationed to be responsible for inspection, protection, public security, and early warning in their respective sections. And Boulder Town, as a resident hub, manages the entire trade route~"

Obote nodded, "Of course, this is better, but the amount of money and materials needed will increase dramatically." ”

"I knew that the money would naturally come back from the caravan that passed by. This is only my initial idea, and you should think carefully about it, and come up with a detailed plan when I convene the military council. ”

"It's my lord!"

"Let's go, let's go down and take a look at the trap and pit outside the wall~" Art stepped down from the battle position on the outer wall and walked towards the outside of the camp with Obote......

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In the evening, the only son of Redogan, who had returned from the large estate of Bazel in the northeastern part of Tignats, rushed to Boulder to meet Arte.

The second leader of the bandits, who had once risen to power by virtue of honesty and honesty, was now the most powerful bandit leader in Tignats, and although the fifty bandits under his command were not the largest, they were all equipped with swords, spears and axes, and a few of the leaders also had standard leather armor and armor, and even horsemen who fought on horseback.

Of course, behind all this is because of Yat's manipulation.

Since the secret surrender to Art, Redogan's "bandit army" has rarely lost in the battles of the bandits in the county, because every time they encounter a tough opponent, a black-robed army will suddenly appear and cripple the opponent, and then Redogan will lead his "well-armed and well-armoured" army to beat the water dogs......

After a year and a half, all the bandits in the county knew that Lei Dogan could not be provoked because he had someone behind him.

Art secretly supports Redogan, who is also a "sensible" person, and every time he captures valuable supplies and weapons and armor, he will choose the best one and quietly send it to the Boulder Town camp.

And he is very obedient to orders, as long as Art raises his hand and pointes, Redogan will immediately lead people to pounce and bite......

An official and a bandit maintain an inexplicable relationship.

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In a large military tent in the camp of Boulder Town, Art will personally pour a glass of wine and send it to the bandit leader Lei Dogan, "Lei Dogan, I have worked hard for you for most of the past six months, and your sergeant major and Obot have already told me about it." I am very happy with you! ”

Redogan quickly got up and took the glass with both hands, "It's all up to Lord Baron. If it weren't for you, I'd have been a pile of bones. ”

"My lord, this attack on Bazel's manor is not because we are unwilling to fight hard, but because their reinforcements are too fast~"

Art waved his hand, "It's not your problem, originally your role is to attract enemy reinforcements, your mission has been completed, and you also have a battle merit." ”

"Thank you, thank you, thank you."

"I summoned you here today, firstly, to listen to your thoughts and needs, you do things for me in a down-to-earth manner, and I can't treat you badly. This second is to give you an explanation of the tasks for the next period of time. ”

"You first tell me your thoughts and requirements~"

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