Baron Antayas also learned of the Duchy of Swabia's earth-shattering plot against the Count of Burgundy from the mountain bandits, captured by the mountain bandits and rescued villagers.

In order to ensure the stability of Alsburg, all the troops of the reconquest were left here by Baron Antayas, and the patrol team of Arter was also left behind by Baron Antaas at a salary of fifty pfennies per day to assist in the defense, and he had to take Ron on horseback every day to accompany the cavalry led by Sir Druid to scout around Alsburg to prevent the surprise attack of the Swabian army.

During his stay in Alsburg, Baron Antayas sent cavalry to the north to Besançon with an urgent message to the court, and Yat wrote a letter to the court magistrate in which he reported on the situation since he became a border inspector, and according to Baron Antayas, the reason for the battle was that Baron Antayas led his army to the rescue and resisted the bandits from the Boge Mountains who had come to attack Alsburg, and learned from the captured bandits that the Duchy of Swabia was instigated by the Duchy of Lombard to invade the border, asking the court to send troops to garrison various places on the eastern border as soon as possible.

For the next seven or eight days, there was no movement around Alsburg, and Baron Antayas also brought in some healers and priests from all over the territory to come to Alsburg to treat the officers and soldiers wounded in battle. Although a healer was assigned to the patrol team, Art refused the help of the healer who was bleeding at every turn, and insisted on cleaning the wounds and changing bandages of the wounded soldiers every day, and quietly applying mashed herb mud to the wounded soldiers at night. Despite his best efforts to heal the wounded soldiers on the patrol, the soldier whose skin had been burned by boiling dung had festered and did not survive.

So far, three soldiers have been killed in the patrol. As the weather warmed up, the bodies of the soldiers killed in the war could not be preserved and transported back to the valley for burial, so Art had to find a flat area outside Alsburg and bury the three soldiers who died in battle.

The patrol team suffered too many casualties, and although Otto did his best to provide the soldiers with sumptuous food, improve morale, and even occasionally add light beer to the soldiers' dinners, the soldiers on the patrol were inevitably depressed by the death and injury of their comrades and the broken heartstrings after extreme tension.

There was nothing Yate could do about it, after all, many of the soldiers on patrol were ordinary farmers, herdsmen, and laborers a few months ago......

On the fifteenth day of his garrison in Alsburg, there was still no movement in the surrounding area, and Baron Antayas was somewhat unable to support the huge daily consumption of an army of nearly 100 men, and the peasants and soldiers who were about to finish their service felt that the spring wheat had just been sown and needed hoeing and irrigation, and they were clamoring to go home. Baron Antayas had no choice but to leave the Knight Druid of the Inner House with ten guards to garrison Alsburg, which had only about 20 villagers left, and then disbanded all the troops who had been conscripted......

The night before the dismissal of the army, a dinner was held in Alsburg, where everyone received from the baron the pork, mutton, and light beer from all over the country, and the lord's cottage was even more lively, and in addition to the leaders of the various teams, some of the soldiers who had contributed to the reconquest of Ars were also invited to the banquet.

After three rounds of drinking, Baron Antayas came to Art with a glass and drank a beer with him, and said, "Art, are you really leaving?" If you can stay and help me stay for another month, I will provide you with food and drink, and pay you a lump sum of 1,800 pfennigs. In just one month, when I go back and recruit enough troops and peasants to garrison Alsburg, you can leave. ”

Art got up and poured the Baron a full drink, then raised his glass in return and replied, "Lord Baron, it will be the great honor of my life to be able to fight off the demons of hell with a great warrior like you, and I will always praise your bravery. As for your request to garrison us, I beg your pardon for not being able to agree to it, for the duty entrusted to me by the court is to patrol the southern border to maintain law and order, and the war here is over, and the southern border is full of war, and there are more outcasts and bandits, and I must return to the southern border to perform my duty. ”

Art saw a look of disappointment in Baron Antayas' eyes. Swabian was in danger of being invaded, but the baron had no troops to use at the moment, and his small number of defenders needed to defend the fortress of Andermatt in the southeastern mountains of the country, and it would take a long time for the rest of the army in the territory to recover from the battle to recover Ars. Before the court could react, he needed at least a month to recruit troops and peasants to garrison the frontier stronghold.

Art lowered his head and pondered for a long time, then raised his head and said to Baron Antaas: "My lord, I have a solution to alleviate your current predicament, I don't know if you would like to listen. ”

"Tell me about it."

"Since last year, there has been an influx of displaced people in all parts of the south of Tinetz, and I will patrol all parts of the south in the future, and if you trust me, you can allocate me a batch of money and food, and I will go to all parts of the south of Tignets to recruit displaced people and troops on your behalf......

A flash of joy flashed in Baron Antayas's eyes, and he dragged a wooden bench beside Yat to sit down, and asked, "What do you tell me about how to recruit homeless people and troops?" ”

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At noon the next day, on the road back to Fort Andermatt from Alsburg, several armies hurried back to Fort Andermatt with money, supplies, and wounded soldiers, and then returned to their respective villages and settlements.

Seeing that there were no outsiders around, Otto couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, drove his horse to Art's side at the head of the team, and reported softly and excitedly the gold and silver goods that he had dug up in the stables next to the lord's wooden house when he left Alsburg, "My lord, we earned it this time!" ”

During the war, Art only told Otto and Ron the secret of his private belongings from the bandit leader, and asked them to keep the secret, and when he was stationed in Alsburg, there were many people, and Art never went to take out the bandits' private goods from the stable. However, on the night before the expulsion, Art took the rare initiative to take on the task of keeping watch, and while everyone was asleep, Art took the opportunity to send Otto and Ron to quietly touch the stables and take out the goods.

The leader did not deceive Art, and the gold and silver jewels in the stables were much more than those scavenged from Alsburg, and after a preliminary count there were five gold cakes, forty-five silver marks, and sixty-three deniers, which were worth thirteen thousand dophines. In addition, there is a gold cross with ivory gilt and silver chain, two gold-cast wine glasses, three silver plates, an emerald bead, a string of agate necklaces, and a fine porcelain vial, all delicate and ornate treasures that even Arter has seen the world cannot estimate to be worth, but they should not be worth less than those coins.

All the way, at a fork in the road to the west near Fort Andermatt, the Knight Chloe rode his war horse to the patrol team and found Art, and said: "Art, I will not follow the brigade back to Andermatt, I will walk directly west from here for a day and a half to Berningen, I have already taken my leave to the Baron, I will say goodbye to you, if you visit Berningen in the future, I will welcome you with the highest courtesy." "The middle-aged knight Chloe is one of the few people among the lords who is willing to be friends with the civilian Art, Chloe himself is a person who is good at battle formations, so he is also very optimistic about the powerful Yat and the patrol team he leads, plus Art said good things for Chloe when distributing the war capture, and the two also had a lot of contacts during the station, and their personal relationship was very good.

Art jumped off his horse and respectfully saluted Sir Chloe, "Dear Sir Chloe, I will always remember the friendship of fighting with you, may God bless you." ”

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After a day of simple repairs in Fort Andermatt, Baron Antayas cashed in the remaining two-thirds of the food paid to Arte. In addition, he also paid 1,000 pfenni in advance to recruit the outcasts and troops, and Art also promised to recruit 30 outcasts and 15 soldiers for Baron Antaas within 20 days, and in return Art would receive 500 pfennigs or the equivalent of food.

Early in the morning of the second day, Art sorted out all the supplies and began to return with the patrol team.

Twenty-one men, one wagon, two horses and two mules became eighteen soldiers standing or lying down, fifteen captives serving as coolies, four wagons full of goods, four horses, two mules and an ox, and the goods of grain that they carried on their shoulders.

The price to pay is great, and the harvest is many......

After a day's departure, Art ordered Otto and Bas to escort the captives back to the Valley Wooden Fort with their cattle wagons and supplies and the soldiers of the Border Patrol to repair the prisoners, first, to continue to treat the wounded and restore their morale, and second, to bring the tightly guarded captives back to the Valley Wooden Fort and hand them over to the old steward Cooper, so that the captives could be used as coolies to atone for their sins. Art had told the salvage captives that they could be restored to their free status in the future as long as they were honest slaves and worked hard.

And Art himself led the two people who were better riding, Ron and Kazak, with some money and jewels and the heads of several mountain bandit leaders, to the north, and the soldiers could rest for a while after the war, but Art himself could not rest, and there were still many things waiting for him to do......

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The trio galloped on horseback and arrived at Tignaz in less than two days. At this time, Tignets began to pour in a large number of displaced people from the south, and the law and order here became more chaotic, and every day there were thieves and robbers who were arrested by the soldiers defending the city, and Tiniets's prison was already overcrowded.

After a few months, the aftermath of the "raid" on Wincheston Manor began to appear, and when Yat and his men arrived at the town hall of Tiniez, Viscount Pierre refused to meet with Yat, and ordered the new magistrate to inform Yat of the court's decision to order Art to return all property to Wincheston Manor and not to enter Winston Manor.

Of course, it was impossible for Art to carry out this soft punishment decision, but the head he brought with him could not be exchanged for a copper coin, and Viscount Pierre sent someone to tell Art clearly that he did not want to get any more weapons and material support from Tignaz City, because the court deputy minister had privately ordered Pierre to isolate the border patrol officer personally ordered by the minister of justice, and in order not to offend the deputy minister Pierre had to obey.

The head of the bandit leader in his hand was useless, and the city of Tinets did not welcome the patrol team, so Art had to give the head of the bandit to the new magistrate of Tignats, and then quit Tinets and spent the night in the wilderness north of the city.

The Atteers, who had touched a gray nose at Tignac, continued north to Lucernes......