On a manor fifty miles south of Biltenberg, Baron Jeffrey's "army of bandits" was completely out of the blue.

Baron Jeffrey gathered more than a hundred soldiers (peasants) to come to the southern manor to exterminate the bandits, but they waited for a whole day, not to mention the bandits, and there was not even a shadow of a thief around.

At this time, there were constant quarrels in the manor.

Baron Jeffrey didn't care whether he exterminated the bandits attacking the manor or not, and the lord of the manor promised him 20,000 Fenney to send troops to "military expenses", but he didn't even want to escape with a copper coin; But the owner of the manor didn't do it, and he wanted to take away 20,000 fennig without encountering a mountain bandit, which made his heart dripping blood constantly after being stingy all his life.

Baron Jeffrey kept slapping the table, and his tone was almost a roar: "Old man, it was you who pleaded in your letter and offered 20,000 pufferes to raise troops from the territory to help you suppress it, what does it have to do with me that your own news is wrong, and I bothered to gather troops and I am here to attend your banquet?" ”

"If you don't take out the money again, I'll take someone to rummage through it myself!! Don't say that my soldiers are even more savage than those mountain bandits. Baron Jeffrey's tone was threatening.

The lord of the manor looked like a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, and replied in a strange voice: "Lord Baron, I have to remind you that this manor is a direct fief of the Hohens family, and you must not forget that there is a city of Tebrun to the east of Birten. ”

Baron Jeffrey, who flashed his waist, was already on fire, and when he saw that this old thing dared to threaten him with the county magistrate and the Hohens family, his temper completely attacked, "Someone! ”

The chief guard, who was waiting outside the door, pushed the door and entered.

Baron Jeffrey commanded the chief of the guard: "Master Challis has forgotten where he put his money, you can take someone to the manor to help him find it, and you must search for it carefully!" Jeffrey's last words were said through gritted teeth.

The chief of the guard was about to turn around and go out, but the lord of the manor hurriedly grabbed the chief of the guard, and then turned his head and squeezed out an awkward smile and whispered to Baron Jeffrey: "Lord Baron, you dissipate your anger, dissipate your anger, I didn't say no~"

Baron Jeffrey glanced at the head guard, who exited the room.

The lord of the manor continued to squeeze his smile and said: "My lord, you see that my manor has a poor harvest this year, and the farmers can't wrap their stomachs, and they really can't take out so much money for a while. Do you want to take less? I also left some money and food for everyone to live~"

Baron Jeffrey sneered and sarcastically said, "The farmers on your manor are indeed poor and hungry, and that's because you vampire knocked their bones to sour the oil." They are poor and I believe it, but I don't believe it at all when you call it poor. 20,000 fennigs, don't think about a copper coin less. ”

"Eight Thousand Fennig~"

"Twenty thousand pfennig!"

"10,000 pfennig, any more will kill me~"

"Eighteen thousand phenny, no matter how little I do, I want your life!"

After some bargaining, Baron Jeffrey and the manor finally reached an agreement, and the owner of the manor reluctantly handed over 15,000 fennigh for the "military expenses", and Baron Geoffrey promised to keep ten soldiers in the manor for a week to defend against possible banditry.

"Go to the manor and catch a few pigs and sheep and slaughter them, and in the evening we will hold a celebration feast for Lord Challis, so that the guys can eat and drink enough and rest, and tomorrow morning we will return to Biltenberg." Baron Jeffrey walked out of the gate of the manor's inner fort and commanded the chief of the guard who was following him.

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"It's getting late, if Jeffrey sees through the trap of the bandits gathering in the south, it's time for him to return with his army, and we must leave Biltenberg before dark." Art constantly urged the officers and soldiers who were running around in Biertenburg to search (loot).

The open space in front of Birtenneburg was already filled with all sorts of seized goods, from oxen and wagons to iron anvils, from spiced butter to cous, from cloth and satin to fur antlers, from blankets to iron pots...... Everything that can be sold, used, and taken away is piled up here waiting to be loaded.

After some interrogation in the Inner Fort Mansion, the castle's steward explained the location of Baron Jeffrey's vault, and Art led people to recover a chest containing 300 large silver marks and 24 large gold coins from the vault, and the butler explained that these coins worth 77,000 Douphines were all the property of Baron Jeffrey.

Everyone didn't believe that a baron of a wealthy castle had only so much money for many years, and they all asked to torture the dying butler again, but Art still believed it, after all, Jeffrey was only a baron. Years ago, when the Artsian family was at its richest, it only supported fifty standing soldiers, and after the huge expenses, the family's surplus wealth was only 100,000 puffines, and now Swabia is in the midst of war, Jeffrey must spend a lot of money to support the war in order to gain the favor of the lord, in addition, he must provide and equip more soldiers to deal with the large-scale conquest that may break out at any time, and after maintaining the huge expenses, it is not small to have 70,000 Dophines.

In addition to the coins, Art also recovered five sets of silver tableware, three fine pieces of porcelain, and a large number of valuables such as pearl agate and silk brocade, which Art estimated to be worth at least 20,000 fennigs.

To Art's regret, however, Birtenberg's arsenal was almost empty. This is not difficult to understand, the north is the main battlefield, and the baggage and ordnance from all over the country are given priority to supply the northern army, and Biltenberg must also send a lot of weapons and armor to the north, besides, Baron Jeffrey has just collected a large number of troops to go to the south to "suppress bandits", and the only remaining spears and short swords and armor shields in the arsenal must have been taken away by Jeffrey.

Art's army only captured a dozen sets of weapons and armor from the remaining enemy soldiers in Biltenberg, and also found a hunting crossbow and a steel short-handled battle axe in Baron Jeffrey's bedroom.

The looting outside the inner fort was also carried out intensely, except for the thatched huts of the poor and the church of the Holy Lord, no one went to loot, the taverns, grocery stores, blacksmiths, tanners, breweries, bakeries, and slightly richer houses in the castle became the focus of the Yates army's care, taverns, breweries, bakeries, and other places could be calmed as long as they obediently handed over money and valuables, but the blacksmiths, tanners, and weapons shops were not so lucky, except for the collection of money and materials, All the tools and raw materials in the shop, even the craftsmen in the shop and their families, were packed and taken away by the army, these were the materials and labor that Art urgently needed, and he could not just leave it to the enemy.

In front of the open space in the inner fort, Art was directing the soldiers to load the roughly counted captured materials into the wagons, in front of the inner fort, in addition to the eight four-wheeled carriages carried by the army, there were also three four-wheeled carriages and six two-wheeled ox carts, as well as eight or nine donkeys, mules, horses, ploughing cattle and a dozen pigs, sheep and livestock.

Bas came out of the Inner Castle dungeon and found Art, and reported: "My lord, all the people imprisoned in the Inner Castle dungeon have been interrogated, and in addition to the two who have indeed committed serious crimes, there are twelve serfs who cannot pay their taxes, eight slaves, and three small traders. ”

Art was surprised: "You can speak Swabian?" ”

"Those three petty traders are Burgundian cloth dealers, and they speak Savoyan." Bas explained.

"Oh, no wonder."

"The two felons stayed, and the rest of the people gave them some food and took them all away, so that they could help carry the supplies." Art took all of these people who might be useful.

Buzz asked again, "My lord, what about Jeffrey's family?"

"They are all nobles, we can't hurt them, but if we let them go like this, I won't be reconciled."

Art paused for a moment to think about it, and replied, "Take Jeffrey's wife and son away, and let the others go when we're gone." Let them bring a letter to Jeffrey, and within a month send 50,000 pfennigh to Tarburg to ransom his wife and son. ”

Buzz turned and left to make arrangements.

After a while, Tuba, who was in charge of guarding the gate and the fort wall, returned to the inner fort, "My lord, the sentinels reported that there was no enemy in the vicinity just now, and Ron has now led the sentinels to the twenty miles to the south and set up a sentry post. ”

"Okay, you guard the fort gate, you can't let anyone go, now we are acting with our heads up, and we can't be careless."

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"Search me carefully, don't be careless, these guys must be hiding their goods." Patters, the leader of the first group of the third team, is collecting goods from a house with two soldiers.

Patters's leather armor lining had been replaced by a new fine linen coat, a pair of thick and comfortable cowhide boots were put on his feet, and a delicate deerskin bag hung around his waist, which was full of captured silver-plated cross necklaces and other small items, and the clothes, shoes and socks of the other two soldiers had been replaced with more expensive and comfortable clothes, shoes and socks, and some loose items were also packed in their arms.

According to Yat's military regulations, valuables and weapons and armor must be handed in, but these odds and ends can be kept in the soldier's own possession.

On the other side of the house, Kazak was leading the soldiers of the second squad to collect shovels, shovels and other agricultural tools from the households, and two ploughshares were placed on the ox cart outside the house.

A soldier behind Kazak looked enviously at his brother who was searching for goods in the house, and complained to Kazak: "Sir, what are we collecting these farm tools for, there is no farmland around Tar Fort. These things are bulky and take up space, so it is better to grab more food and go back. ”

Kazak turned around and shouted: "Weiz, where did you get so many words, since the adults have arranged it is naturally useful, if you talk more, I will remove you from the position of team leader." ”

The group leader named Wezzy immediately shut up, withdrew his eyes, reached into his bosom with his right hand, took out a set of delicate shaving tools seized from the owner of the bakery, looked at it again, smiled with satisfaction, and followed Kazak closely.

In the bedroom of the Lord of the Biltenneburg, Angus was treating a seriously wounded soldier who had been hit by a heavy stone thrown down from the battlement wall of the Inner Fort during the attack on the Inner Fort, and the round shield protected his head, but the soles of his feet were smashed by the heavy stones, and the entire surface of his feet had been shattered into flesh, and several of Bai Sensen's phalanges were exposed.

Angus tied the wounded soldier tightly to the bed, and the two assisting soldiers put the wounded soldier's smashed soles on a wooden pier and pressed them, Angus poured a large mouthful of strong ale into the wounded soldier, stuffed a rag in his mouth, and spilled the rest of the ale on the wounded soldier's feet, and when the wounded soldier let out a dull roar due to severe pain, Angus took out a red-hot steel short-handled battle axe from the fireplace, quickly raised it and slashed it hard, and the wounded soldier's broken soles were cut off together, and the wounded soldier fainted after a spasm.

"You two find a clean cloth to bandage him to stop the bleeding, and if the bleeding stops, apply the herbs, and God will do the rest." When Angus finished speaking, he grabbed the sheets, wiped the sweat from his forehead, wiped the blood on the steel battle axe, touched the black and shiny axe, pinned the battle axe to his waist, and then went to check on the other two wounded soldiers who had been wounded by arrows in the abdomen and stabbed heavily in the back......

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As night fell, a long fire dragon composed of more than a dozen torches outside Biltenberg was slowly marching in the direction of the southeast mountainous area. More than a dozen wagons of large and small were full of goods, and serfs and slaves who had just been freed also happily followed the wagons with grain and farm tools.

At the front of the convoy was Att, the leader of the horse, on both sides of the convoy were more than thirty soldiers in armor, and behind the convoy was Angus, who was driving his horse forward and looking behind. Further south of the avenue was the Ron Sentinel Cavalry, which roamed the Sentinels all day.

In the face of this group of guys of unknown origin who are fighting with open fire, the village manors along the way are closed and unable to shrink until the long fire dragon escapes into the mountains to the west, and a few slightly bold guys go out of the gate to look west, but they hear the miserable horn sound from the direction of Biltenberg behind them~

"Mom! There is an enemy attacking Biertenberg!! A few guys wiped their cold sweat and shrank into the village fort wall.