"Master, you're dying, do you want to continue to be punished?" Ron pulled up his soaked cuffs as he walked over the stone house.

Art glanced up at the sky, a few remnant stars dotting the endless night.

"That's all for today, don't rush to kill people. I'll give you two days to shake out all the things Assasin taught them, and let Stanley assist you, and you two will write down exactly what he has shaken out. ”

"Wait until he has poured out all the contents of his stomach before beheading the public." Yat's tone was very flat, but his heart was unusually turbulent.

The waterboarding lasted for half a night, and before the second bucket of water was half filled, the guy on the table who was bent on death had already and urinated, and Art did not rush to ask, he asked Ron to use up the remaining half bucket of water before calmly interrogating.

At the beginning, this guy just confessed that he was a killer, and the purpose of this trip was to assassinate the court frontier baron Art? Wood? Wells, who insists that he is only hired by the head hunter to seek revenge, but Art will believe this, and begins waterboarding again.

The guy was tortured by an inhuman torture again, and finally couldn't bear to confess that he and his dead companions belonged to an organization called Assasin, and probably knew that Assasin had the shadow of a certain dignitary behind him and the patronage of a wealthy businessman in Tiniets......

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Early the next morning, Art summoned Otto and Angus, who had returned from the scout, to the stone house and told them about the results of last night's torture.

"Assasin is a sect founded by pagans that originated in the *** region and has been dedicated to assassination for hundreds of years. According to the man's confession, the Assasin lurking in the western city of Thorne was not the infidel group, but was founded by several members of the Assasin who had been exiled to Burgundy under the recruitment and employment of a powerful person, also under the banner of Assasin. ”

"This magnate is the lord of the province of Jonah, Count Bernard, but there is a shadow behind this assassination organization, which has been providing them with a huge amount of money."

"It's the Dean family, when we were fighting in Provence, the elder Dean began to form this assassination organization, and now there are twenty-three people in Assasin, and two of them poisoned us. When they learned that we were recruiting soldiers for the Legion, they disguised themselves as two honest bankrupt farmers and infiltrated the Wells Legion in order to assassinate me......"

"According to him, Assasin has been planning a huge conspiracy recently, but this guy is just an ordinary killer and does not know the specific content of the conspiracy, but he often hears the word "southeast mountain", and I guess Bernard intends to use these poisonous snakes to secretly get rid of the enemy......"

"No wonder it sounds familiar to you when you talk about Assasin, it turns out to be a pagan assassination organization, and I remember that I have heard this word said in the Holy Land." ”

"My lord, this is the second time that the Dean family has sent a killer to assassinate you, and each time it is more and more vicious, we can't wait any longer, we must deal with this poisonous snake as soon as possible." Otto is angry that Art has always been reluctant to do something to the Dean family, and the Dean family is a killer move every time, who knows what kind of danger it will be next time.

"The Dean family has become a life-and-death rival, and I will start the matter of destroying the Dean family as soon as possible." Art also had a hunch that the Dean family could no longer sit still, and this kind of assassination would definitely not stop there.

"My lord, when is it as soon as possible, if you want me to say that I will directly lead the troops to attack Wincheston Manor, and capture Dean and his son with a sword." Otto was a little angry, and he was less thoughtful than before.

Art didn't reproach Otto, and waved Ron to fetch a secret letter and handed it to Otto and Angus.

The two of them read the letter for a long time, and asked in unison, "Wincheston is in the army?" ”

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Wincheston Manor, a noisy and noisy place.

Centered on the small settlement where the lord of Wincheston Manor was located, along the newly built wooden walls of the manor, the surrounding open space was full of all kinds of haphazard military tents, cloth sheds, and grass huts.

There were also many people who threw aside their short spears and sticks, squatted on the fire in front of the shack and stared at the gurgling wheat paste in the deep bucket pot, a burning stick kept reaching into the pot and stirring and trying, and the cooks did not care at all that another filthy fellow was pouting and pooping next to the fire;

A little further away from the manor settlement, a few peasants with swords and axes and spears were laughing and walking towards the camp, with a few chickens and ducks and some food looted from the surrounding villages hanging from their short spears......

If you don't know, you will definitely think that Winchester Manor has been overrun by rogue bandits, but these hundred or so people are indeed a "private army" belonging to the palace guard knight Dean.

Separated by a wall, the manor is much better.

Although the seven or eight tents built against the inner wall were also chaotic, the colors of the tents were uniform, and the soldiers who came and went between the military tents were very different from those outside the wall, compared to the bandit-like scraps of the outcasts outside the wall, the soldiers inside the wall were simply the most elite warriors in the world.

The soldiers stationed in the seven or eight tents on the inner wall were considered to be distant visitors, they were a professional soldier drawn from the border legion of the province of Saône in the western border of the Count of Burgundy, numbering fifty-eight men, and a flag corps, led by a knight of the western frontier and two cadet knights.

Unlike the rabble outside the walls, the Frontier Legion is an army under the control of the palace, and the soldiers are supported by the county where they are stationed, so their armor and weapons are also complete......

More than two dozen people wearing cotton armor and wearing saucer helmets looked like manor guards stood guard in and around the manor mansion, they were the most elite guards of the Dean family, mainly composed of caravan guards and wandering mercenaries.

In Wincheston Manor, the Knight of the Frontier Leader is negotiating with Dean and his son.

The knight who led the border army had a somewhat gloomy face, and said to the two opposite sides in a strange manner: "Sir Dean, old Mr. Dean, you have to be willing to spend money, how can you raise soldiers without spending money?" You and I are like the untouchable beggars outside the wall? If you really start a war, those untouchables can only be substitutes for the dead, what you really need is dozens of elite soldiers in my hands! ”

Obviously, this border commander has come to ask Dean and his son for military money. He was ordered by his lord, the Earl of Bernard, to travel to Wincheston Manor with the soldiers of the flag team, but not to protect the territory for the Dean family.

How can young Dean accept blackmail, once he opens his mouth, the appetite of these ** will definitely grow.

"Lord Connor, you didn't come to Wincheston with your army to defend the territory of my Dean family, according to the orders of Lord Count Bernard, your primary purpose is to guard against the army in the south, and to do things for Lord Earl. And the Dean family has been generous enough to not only provide you and your army with a garrison but also to provide you with food. ”

"As for your statement that military pay cannot be transported from the west for a while, this is not something we can solve."

The baron named Connor's lead didn't care about this, the Frontier Legion had always been a garrison, although they were only temporarily transferred to station, and the baggage was still provided by the west, but after all, the distance was long, and he could not expect the officials of the garrison to be kind enough to send the military pay here.

"Sir Dean, this is the third time I have asked you for a military salary, you have used these words to perfunctory me every time, I am reasonable, of course I know that you are generous enough, but those savage fellows under my command do not have the same consciousness as me, they abandon their wives and children regardless of the hardships and dangers of the road to run to this poor place to garrison, in order to earn a few copper coins to feed the family, if the military salary is not paid for a long time, the soldiers will be in a commotion~" The leading knight slowly got up and drew the armed sword at his waist several times intentionally or unintentionally, The intent couldn't be more obvious.

"You~" Dean didn't expect that the army of the dignified Frontier Legion was also such a scoundrel, and he was a little angry for a while, and he stood up and stared at the leading knight Connor with round eyes.

Seeing that the two were facing each other like fighting cocks, Old Dean, who had been sitting on the side of the chair and had not made a sound, got up and raised his hand, "Dean, you sit down, Master Connor, please sit down too." ”

Dean knew that this time it was perfunctory, so his father had to go out, so he obediently sat back in the chair, and the knight of the lead also stared back at Dean and sat back.

"Lord Connor, your request has been agreed to by our Dean family, and I will have the butler send the military salary of Baifeni to your military camp this Saturday, and the military salary during the stay at Wincheston Manor will be paid by our Dean family." Dean Sr. directly agreed to Connor's request.

"Father!"

Dean Sr. raised his hand to stop Dean from interjecting.

Seeing that old Dean was so bold, the leading knight was of course happy in his heart, "Then I will thank Mr. Dean for those soldiers under him, I will say that the Dean family is the richest family in Tignaz, and they are all people with status in the Count of Burgundy, how can they be so stingy, since this matter has been negotiated, then I will not bother much." ”

Saying that, the leading knight was about to turn around and go out, he was afraid that the treacherous and cunning old Dean would suddenly regret it.

"Mistress Connor, wait a minute."

The smile on the face of the leading knight disappeared suddenly, his face turned blue in an instant, and he slowly turned around and looked coldly at the untrustworthy old Dean, "What, you have to regret what you just said?" ”

Old Dean smiled lightly, "Master Connor has misunderstood, since I have promised you, I will not regret it." But my Dean family will never do anything at a loss, and you have to agree to do things for me when you take my military salary. ”

The knight of the lead looked a little pale, "I knew that the Dean family's money bag was hot, anyway, what do you need me to do?" Let's say it first, if you need me to lead troops to help you intercept the business trip or attack and kill the opponent, then the commission is not that~"

Old Dean smiled and waved his hand, "Lord Connor misunderstood, my Dean family has always been harmonious, how could I do these things." I just wanted to ask Master Connor to train the army for me. ”

"Training the army? Do you mean that group of untouchables outside your estate? They have what to train for, and it's not easy to train these guys. Connor didn't think the Dead Spirits outside the walls were worth training, and in the event of a battle, their greatest role was to harass the enemy with their bodies and lives and slow down the enemy's movements.

"Master Connor, you are an excellent commander who is well-versed in military affairs, and with the abilities of you and your elite soldiers, it is not a problem to train these Hundred and Ten to be a little more like soldiers?" Old Dean already knew more or less through his eyes that Art was trained as soldiers by some untouchable farmers recruited from all over the country, and he thought that his newly recruited "private army" was also a pariah farmer, and maybe he could also train it.

The knight of the lead walked around the room for a while with his chin in his right hand, then raised his head and said, "I agree to your conditions, but the salary of my ordinary soldiers will be raised to ten pfennigs per week, twenty pfennigs for petty officers, and forty pfennies for our three knights. ”

"Yes!"

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

After the knight left, Dean walked quickly to Old Dean and asked dissatisfiedly; "Father, how can you accede to their unreasonable demands, these fellows will have an appetite as soon as they taste the flesh. Besides, how else can the recruited untouchables be trained, when the time comes, one person can just send a short spear and force them forward, so why waste money? ”

Old Dean took a sip of his wine glass, and only spoke for a while, "What do you know!" The army soldiers in the hands of that guy in the south are recruited from the untouchables, and they can train the untouched people into elites, so why don't we give it a try? It's always good to have more private soldiers to fight within. ”

"And you can't avoid paying Connor's army pay, and you really expect the West to send their pay to Tignaz? After a long time, those savage soldiers will not be polite, now they only occasionally go to the surrounding villages to rob and have not threatened Wincheston Manor, if you owe pay for too long, those people will not recognize you as friendly territory~"

"Anyway, sooner or later, I have to give it, just take the initiative, and let them take the money to do something."

Dean was persuaded by his father, and he couldn't argue with it.

"Father, it's not that you don't understand this, it's just that we don't have enough money at the moment. The death of that bastard of Bazel cost us 120,000 puffins to the court and his vassals for no reason, and funded the military expenses of 200,000 pfenni to the Count of Bernard, and this time it cost another 40,000 puffins to recruit soldiers to form Assasin again~"

"Shhhh Be quiet! As soon as Dean exited, he was stopped by Dean Sr.

Dean immediately lowered his voice, "It took another two hundred thousand pfennies to form Assasin. Five or six hundred thousand pfennigh are spent, and we don't have much left! ”

Old Dean got up from his chair and replied with a pace: "All the money spent is worth it, as long as the things of the powerful are done, we will take back the money that has been scattered ten times and a hundred times."

"Speaking of Assasin, I don't know if the two guys sent to the south have succeeded, it's been more than a month, it's time to send back the news?"

"Dean, you send a few clever guards disguised as a caravan to the south to find out the news."

"Father, it's useless, it's impossible for a stranger to cross the garrison camp in that boulder, we can't find out the news~"

"Do you have to run to someone's house to get the news? If that guy were killed, the garrison camp in the boulder pile would be as if it were a great enemy, and the number of defending soldiers would definitely be multiplied. ”

"Then I know how to find out ......"