At the engagement feast, Art was toasted by the enthusiastic people of Sappburg and the elders of the squire, and despite the presence of Angus and Ron Lusignan, he drank a lot and slept all night in the rooms of Lord Galvin's mansion.

It wasn't until noon on the second day that Art got up from the bed with her heavy head on her shoulder, and the maid standing at the door hurriedly walked into the guest room with a new set of regular clothes lining to wait for Art to wear.

"No, I'll do it myself." Art refused the servant's waiting, and took his clothes and put them on.

"What time is it? What about my guards? Art asked.

The servant bowed his head and replied, "Back to Master Art, it's noon, your guards drank too much yesterday, and they are still sleeping in the guest room in the front hall." Miss Lottie herself waited for you to sleep last night, and Miss Lottie came to see you early this morning, and now she has gone to the kitchen of the house to prepare food for you. ”

A noble lady personally waited for her drunken self, and Art was a little embarrassed, and he said to the maid in front of him, "Yes, then you thank Miss Lottie for me." ”

The maid couldn't help but smile softly and said, "Master Art, if you thank you, you should keep it and tell my young lady in person, she will be here in a while." ”

As soon as the servant's words fell, Miss Lottie, dressed in silk tight-fitting casual clothes, walked from Langfang to Art's guest room with a small wooden tray.

"Thank you, Lottie, I drank too much yesterday and bothered you."

Lottie put the tray on the wooden table next to the bed, picked up a bowl of fragrant venison soup, handed it to Art, and said, "Yesterday, your guard Ron drank too much to keep you out, and I was worried that the servants would not take good care of me, so I personally arranged for you to sleep, but your guards are really powerful, and they have drunk my brother and the knight squire elders in the castle unconscious." Especially that Ron and Felix drank until midnight last night, I just went to see Felix, and he was still vomiting in the room. ”

Art smiled and said, "Felix just turned fifteen years old and Ron is about the same age, and the two of them can drink together." ”

Lottie straightened the belt around his waist and said softly, "Well, yes, Felix has already consulted with his father yesterday, and he said that he wants his father to intercede with you and let you allow him to enter your legion for some training. Felix has been spoiled by his father since he was a child, and now he is rarely willing to endure some hardships and go through some hardships, so don't refuse his plea when the time comes. ”

"Why didn't your father send him to the lord's house to be studied by his attendants?"

"The year before last, my father sent Felix to Viscount Jonathan's house as a boy-in-waiting, but he didn't expect Felix to beat up Lord Jonathan's only son shortly after he went, and he was sent back by Mrs. Jonathan. Felix is honest by nature, but he has a bad temper, and if he doesn't like him, he will do it. Lottie complained about her brother.

"If Felix really wants to come to my legion for training, I don't need Lord Galvin to say it himself, I can agree now. But you have to tell your father that entering our army has its own rules in the army, hardships and hardships are indispensable, and occasional war injuries cannot be avoided, so don't say that I didn't take good care of him when the time comes. "Art has been in contact with Felix, he feels quite good about this future brother-in-law, although he has been favored since he was a child, but his personality is still very atmospheric, and unlike Baron Galvin, this guy likes to fight in battle, and he also has some martial arts.

"Alright, I'll go tell my father and Felix." With that, Lottie picked up the shirt that Art had changed and was about to leave.

"Lottie, let Ron wash these clothes, I'm embarrassed to let a noble lady do these chores for me." Art hurried to stop Lottie.

"Alright, drink the venison soup. If you're really embarrassed, hurry up and build your knight's mansion~" Lottie said and left Arte's guest room with a shy face......

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In the afternoon, in the official room of the Salp Lord's Hall, the two of Attangus were discussing with Baron Galvin and his knight of the inner palace and captain of the castle guard about the suppression of the enemy.

"Lord Galvin, our greatest difficulty now is not to worry that the robbers will come to attack Sapbourg, and how to wipe out the wild wolves that are roaming around. Since I became a border patrol officer, I have exterminated several groups of bandits, but they have basically attacked me on their own initiative, and we have rarely been able to trace the traces of these guys, they basically have no fixed nest, and they often rob one settlement for a few days, and when they are empty, they move on to the next place to continue plundering. Art said as he tapped lightly on the table.

"Yes, I also sent people to clear it some time ago, but those mongrels led us around in the mountains and ravines, and we chased it for two or three days, and we were worried that the mountain bandits would take the opportunity to harass Sapu, so we had to return. As a result, the mongrels began to appear around Sapp again. Master Galvin frowned, and his tone was filled with anxiety

Art thought for a moment, then suddenly looked up and asked, "Lord Galvin, how soon will your caravan return to Sapp?"

"The caravan was carrying a consignment of stale grain to Provence, and it was estimated that it would return to Sapp in two days."

"How many guards are there in the caravan?"

"The caravan carrying grain this time is only eighteen wagons, but I have sent twenty-eight guards and coachmen, these guards are the elite force of my Sap, and I am worried that those mongrels will attack my caravan, so I have increased the caravan guards."

Art calmed down and thought for a while, then muttered a few words to Angus, then turned to Galvin and said, "Lord Galvin, I have a plan here, let's discuss it."

Galvin frowned and said, "Tell me about it."

Art cleared his throat and glanced at the few people in the room: "We can use the caravan as bait to lure the bandits to plunder, and then we will destroy the bandits in one fell swoop."

"Tell me more details." Galvin asked, leaning over to put down his glass.

"The reason why those bandits took the risk of attacking Sapp was only to plunder the money in the fort, and some time ago they touched a nail in Sapp and knew that Sap would not be able to eat this piece of fat. Now they are wandering around the sap, and since they want to eat meat, we will send it to the noses of the wolves and let them swallow it with their drool. ”

"Lord Galvin, Sap has a large number of people and complicated personnel, and I guess there must be bandits' eyes in the village, in that case, you will make people "lose their mouths" and reveal that there will be a caravan to carry a shipment of coins and valuables to Provence next week, and then ......"

Art whispered to several people in the house a plan to lure the wolf out of the hole and set up an ambush to counterattack......

Over the next two days, Art took Angus and Ron Lusignan to train Baron Galvin's guards and recruit peasants for Baron Galvin in Sapu Castle.

To Art's surprise, although Baron Galvin was not very interested in the affairs of the battle array, he had a lot of weapons and armor reserves in the arsenal of Fort Sap, according to Felix, his father was a miser, in order to protect the property in Fort Sap and ensure that the caravan was not attacked by bandits, his father had bought weapons and armor for the castle guards and caravan guards over the years.

Since it was to strengthen the strength of the guards in the fort, Art, after obtaining the consent of Baron Galvin, issued the spears and short swords and tomahawk shields and other equipment in the arsenal of the fort to the young men in the fort, in addition to the more than 20 peasant soldiers who had become the guards of the castle were equipped with cotton armor, iron helmets, spears, broadswords, shields and other weapons and armor, in addition to the more than 30 young men in the fort were also distributed a short spear, a battle axe or a single knife and other simple weapons, once there was a real group of thieves attacking, These young men with weapons and simple training can also play an important role in the critical moment of defending their homeland.

On the sixth day of entering Sapp, Baron Galvin's caravan to Provence to transport grain returned, and the leader of the caravan reported to Baron Galwin about the caravan's north-south trade, and Galvin also called Art to the official room.

"Art, you sit on my side." Galvin led Art to the chair beside him.

"Martin, tell Sir Art about the business world." Galvin said to the caravan leader standing at his desk.

"Yes, Lord Art, our caravan has encountered two waves of bandits along the way, one of which is fifteen miles south of Sapp, and the other in an abandoned village forty-seven miles south, because our caravan is accompanied by more guards, so neither wave of bandits dares to approach......" The leader of the caravan explained the situation on the southern trade route............

On the other side, Angus and Ron were also busy, according to the arrangement of Art and Baron Galvin, they were quietly selecting the bravest young men of the Sapp guards and caravan guards with the help of the captain of the Sapp guard and pulling them to the courtyard of Baron Galvin's mansion to train separately with well-equipped weapons and armor, this group of carefully selected warriors had a total of twelve people, they were all guards who had followed the caravan for many years or were the best of the castle guards, Angus issued them leather armor and broadswords, Tomahawks, shields and other weapons and armor, and then specially take them to practice how to hide in the carriage to make a surprise counterattack against the sneaking bandits, and how to form a shield formation to kill each other to protect themselves......

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During the closed-door training of the elites in the Sapu Lord's mansion, in the largest tavern in the Sapu Castle, Young Master Felix, the only son of the Lord of Sapp Baron Galvin, was drinking with the sons of the noble squires in several realms in the tavern.

Felix poured another large glass of ale wine, and said to a few people around him in a vague tone: "I said everyone, do you want to follow me to Provence, I am going to Provence recently, you can follow me to play for a few days, these days are locked up in the castle, and you are going crazy." ”

The son of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old magnificently dressed squire and said, "Young Master Felix, what are you doing in Provence, now there are bandits rampant all around, and how dangerous it is to go out." ”

Felix turned his head and said: "This time we will go quietly, and there will be a warrior escort, there will be no danger, you can think about it, if you want to go out with me to see the world, just say earlier, I will leave in two days, but don't say that I didn't bring you with you." ”

"Young Master Felix, what is the matter that you have to go to this young master in person, didn't your caravan go to Provence before?" Another gentleman asked.

Felix filled the wine glass in front of him with ale, glanced around, and let a few people listen, "This time I will go to Provence with 50,000 fennig and a batch of goods to exchange for a batch of valuable southern goods." My father said that from now on I will take over his business slowly, this is the first time I have gone out to do big business, if you will come with me, I can secretly take five hundred pfennig out of the payment in Provence for you to have fun? How, go or not. ”

"You will give us 500 pfennig for the trade of 50,000 pfennig, and it is so dangerous along the way that I don't want to go." The son of a squire said aloud.

Felix quickly stopped the loud-voiced guy's words, "Be quiet!!" This time I will go to Provence disguised as a small caravan to buy groceries, and the bandits will not be able to look down on them, and there are caravans to escort them, and they will not dare to provoke us easily......"

The "secret" revealed by Felix when he was drunk was quickly poked out by the sons of several equally drunk noble squires.

That night, a lame idler in Sapbburg quietly slipped out of a dog hole in the darkness of the night and disappeared into the vast night outside Sapborg......