On a country road ten miles north of the city of Thorne, the sun had just set when a bright moon slowly rose. By the faint light of the moon, from a distance, the group rode slowly along the country road from south to north.

"Lord Viscount, your contribution this time is not small." In the middle of the procession, a man on horseback said to the man in front.

"This is just the beginning, the best is yet to come."

"Today we burned 50 carts of grain and grass for the enemy, and killed more than 100 people. Anyway, the Earl has to give you a lot of money. ”

"That's it!" The man riding in front of him smirked. "Brothers, as long as you follow me and work hard, your benefits will be indispensable when the time comes. If I have a bite of meat to eat, I will have you a mouthful of soup to drink. ”

"Good~"

"Good~"

The other men on the horses echoed the call, raising their weapons aloft in the air.

"It's almost time to reach the camp ahead, so let the brothers hurry up and keep up. When he returned to the camp, he immediately reported to the Earl the Earl the burning of the enemy's grain and grass today."

"Yes, Lord Viscount. Everyone, keep up, hurry! ”

I saw a group of people speeding up and walking towards the dense vineyard under the hill~

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"Lord Marquis, you look for me." Art, who had hurried over from the Wells legion garrison, was guided by the guards to the command camp of the Liberation Army.

"Cousin Art, come here." Flender, who was studying the parchment map on the table, beckoned Art to come to the table.

"Lord Marquis, this is~" Art asked puzzled, looking at the map on the table.

"Here's a map of the area around the city of Thorne." Flender said to Art as he carefully observed the terrain around Thorne City.

"Sit down and talk."

"Lord Marquis Xie."

"I called you here because I have something important to tell you."

"Lord Marquis, please speak." Art immediately sat upright.

"Yesterday, the grain and grass we had brought from Besançon was burned by three hundred cavalry a day's journey outside the city of Thorne, and more than a hundred soldiers and miscellaneous servants who were escorting the grain and grass were all killed, and none of them survived." Flender's tone was filled with anger.

"What?" Art was shocked by the sudden news. "Lord Marquis, didn't you say that the Western Army had all retreated to the city? How could anyone still attack the grain delivery team of the Liberation Army? Art regretted it as soon as he said this. I saw Flender's eyes fixed on Art, dissatisfied with the questioning of the guy in front of him.

"Lord Marquis, I mean~"

As soon as Art opened his mouth to explain, Flender held out his hand and motioned for Art not to say more.

"I was too careless this time."

It wasn't strange for Art to come out of someone else's mouth, but it was rare for Flender to say something like that, which would undermine his own majesty.

"I thought that all the men and horses of the Western Army had already been forced into the city of Thorne by the Liberation Army, so some of the soldiers who were originally escorting grain and grass were transferred to outside the city of Thorne. This led to the annihilation of the grain transport team. There was a rare remorse in Flender's tone.

"It's me who underestimates Bernard too much. The cavalry of about 300 men must have been secretly left outside the city by him during the retreat to the city of Thorne. Flender told Art what he thought.

"Lord Marquis, do you mean there is still a cavalry team of the Western Army on our periphery?"

"That's right. They must be hiding somewhere around the city of Thorne that is not easy to find. ”

"Lord Marquis, with all due respect. We must not take the city until this cavalry is destroyed. ”

"Tell me what you think."

"According to the attack on the grain convoy, it shows that one of the tasks of this cavalry corps is to destroy the indispensable grain and grass baggage of the army in our rear. Once they succeeded, our food supply could not be guaranteed, and we were forced to retreat in the end. ”

Flender didn't speak immediately after hearing this, but just paced back and forth in the tent with the long sword at his waist in his left hand.

"I don't think they're just here to sneak up on our food." After a while, Flender spoke.

Art hurriedly stood up and asked, "Lord Marquis, do you mean that this cavalry team has other purposes?" ”

"Yes, it would be a great trouble if this cavalry corps, numbering three hundred, suddenly appeared behind us while we were attacking the city of Thorne."

Hearing Flender say this, Art felt a chill in his back. If it were true as Flanders had suggested, the besieging army would be in danger of being attacked from the flank.

"Lord Marquis, do you know where this cavalry is now?"

"According to the patrol soldiers, they followed the horseshoe prints all the way to the intersection to the north and found that there were horseshoe prints on every road, and they had no idea which direction the mongrels had run in." In the face of this cunning army, Flender was a little helpless.

"Lord Marquis, that cavalry is clearly confusing us. They used horseshoe prints on trade routes to make it impossible for us to determine the direction in which they were fleeing. It can be difficult to find them. But~"

"But what?" Before Art could speak, Flender was anxious to know the answer.

"It would be much easier if they came to us on their own initiative." Art deliberately sells Guanzi.

"You mean to let them sneak up on our food convoy one more time?" Flender spoke immediately, a light flashing in his eyes.

"Exactly, Lord Marquis. When they attack the food convoy, we can send cavalry to annihilate them in one fell swoop! ”

"Good!" Flender was quite satisfied with Yat's plan. Only by luring out that cavalry can they all be annihilated, so as to relieve the worries of the army.

"I'll leave this matter to you, and I'll send six hundred cavalry from the army to cooperate with your operation this time. If you can wipe out that cavalry once and for all, I'll give you another credit. ”

"I am willing to serve the Marquis!" Art bowed, his heart extremely excited.

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When Art returned to the Wells Legion station, he immediately summoned Task Force Leader Stanley to his tent. He was instructed to disperse his men and secretly search for traces of the cavalry. According to Art's analysis, the enemy must have planted sentry scouts near the garrison of the Liberation Army and the Wells Legion, and once the baggage team of the large army is discovered, it will immediately go back to inform the main force of the cavalry.

Although the terrain around the city of Saône is mostly plain, there are some low hills. The land near the hill is usually mainly planted with grapes and other melons and fruits, and it is not a problem to hide a cavalry of 300 men at all. But there are too many places like this around the city of Thorne to search for one by one. Even if they find it, they can't be annihilated immediately, and they can only use grain and grass as bait to lure the cavalry out.

The next day, Stanley returned to the garrison with his men. After covert reconnaissance by the task force, they discovered that the enemy was divided into two groups of sentinels. One of them was in a village half a day's east of the Liberation Army, and the other was in a ruined manor half a day's south of the Wells Army. In order not to alarm them, Stanley left a few people to monitor the movements of those people, and he hurried all the way back to report the military situation.

Because the cavalry team had previously attacked the grain and grass of the Liberation Army, Art did not plan to lure the enemy to attack through the Eastern Front this time, but asked the baggage team to take fifty chariots of the Wells Regiment and escorted by one hundred light armored infantry south to the city of Kodor to "transport grain". After the task force confirmed that the tail that had been following the baggage team did not follow all the way, the men and horses of the baggage team accelerated to the border line between the province of Thorne and the province of Kodor, loaded the fifty carts of grain and grass that the Count of Kodor had sent to transport to the Restoration Army after receiving Flender's secret order, and then drove all the way north.

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"Chief Spencer, did you think that the mongrels would come and attack our grain?" A soldier in cotton armor who was following Spencer, the captain of the Welsh Legion's baggage team, asked.

"What are you afraid of, the adults have already made arrangements to ensure that they will not let the brothers suffer." Spencer said, squinting at what was draped under the linen.

As one of the early group of key officers who followed Art, Spencer had no doubts about Arte's arrangement. He knew in his heart that Art would never gamble with the lives of the Wells Legionnaires. When Art told Spencer about his plan, he didn't hesitate to take on the dangerous mission. But he still put on that set of chain mail before leaving, and although his life safety was guaranteed, it was always right to prepare with an extra hand.

"The team behind hurriedly followed, and everyone rested when they arrived in the village in front." Spencer, who was walking in the middle of the line, shouted to the soldiers behind him.

Early the next morning, the baggage team pulled fifty wagons all the way north. In half a day, they will be met by someone sent by the task force to pick them up.

The scorching sun was in the sky, and after half a day's march, the inner lining of the group was already soaked. While more than sixty coachmen and one hundred soldiers of the baggage detachment were resting in the shade of a tree, the contingent arrived on horseback from the north.

"Is everything ready, Sir. Spencer?" The man dismounted and immediately walked towards Spencer.

"Don't worry, I've already explained everything." Spencer stood up and patted his chest to the task force.

"Okay, let's go now."

"Let's go, let's go." With that, Spencer ordered the baggage team to continue on their way.

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At this time, five miles ahead of the baggage caravan, the cavalry that had intercepted the grain and grass of the Liberation Army a few days earlier had left the lair again after smelling the prey.

A few days ago, according to the report of the spies sent, the Welsh regiment in the south sent a team with fifty wagons to the south of the city of Thorne, escorted by more than a hundred light armored infantry. According to the analysis of the cavalry who led the previous leader, this army should have gone to the south to prepare food and grass for the rebels. So he sent people to continue to spy on him, and once the army with heavy grain and grass "appeared" in the field of vision of the cavalry spies, he immediately notified the base camp. The cavalry will immediately head to the new "hunting grounds" to continue the next hunting spree......