Late at night in early spring, a convoy sneaked out of the main entrance of Sapsburg and followed the trade route to Provence into the dense forests of the southern hills.

The convoy carried four wagons and was escorted by ten heavily armed soldiers. The wagons were covered with wheat straw and miscellaneous goods, and each carriage contained four strong guards in armor and arms. Angus and Lusignnan also hid in the carriage with two sentry horses of the sentry cavalry.

After leaving Sapp and entering the southern hills, Art and Ron left the convoy with weapons and food and sneaked into the dense forests on both sides of the trade route, quietly crashing to the left and right of the convoy.

The convoy then proceeded uncharacteristically, camping during the day and making its way in the dark, unusually slowly, until dawn broke on the third day, when it reached a hilly ravine twenty-nine miles from Sapbourg.

At the top of a cliff on one side of the canyon, several dark shadows appeared in a gray-white morning field.

The second leader of the mountain bandits, who was carrying a notched axe, reached into his crotch and grabbed it, and said impatiently: "Chief, do it!" They camped and rested during the day, and they rushed at night, and they also sent dignitaries to cut off the surroundings to prevent us from approaching the survey during the day, they must be afraid of being robbed, if they didn't carry valuable goods, how could those mongrels who had always been pampered suffer like this? The news brought by the cripple must be true. ”

The bandit leader stared at the convoy that was about to pass through the canyon with a glimmer of pre-dawn light, and the four wagons were deeply rutted on the trade route, obviously loaded with heavy loads, and definitely not just some wheat and grass groceries, as they seemed.

The leader of the bandits spit out the chewed grass roots in his mouth and said, "This group of people is too cautious, we can't see the carriage clearly at night, and we can't touch their camp during the day, and we have been following them for two days, and we don't even know what the goods they are carrying. This group of people is certainly not simple, and I think we should be careful. Now we have finally gathered thirty or forty more men, but we can't be careless. ”

The leader of the mountain bandits suffered a disaster last year, when he had just joined a large group of bandits with seven or eight rogues, but the first time he followed the bandits to attack the grain convoy, he was beaten by a group of black-robed soldiers, but fortunately he was very clever, and he withdrew when he saw that the situation was wrong, otherwise he would have become a pile of white bones in the mud by now.

Since then, the leader of the mountain bandits has stopped a lot, but all caravans with elite escorts do not provoke, and only rely on plundering passing small traders and pedestrians, and occasionally have the courage to lead people to sneak up on some small settlements of three or five peasant households, rape and plunder, and hide in the dense forest and hills before the lord arrives with his troops......

Such days until the arrival of the second leader of the mountain bandits, the second leader of the mountain bandits is a deserter who killed the commander and left the army with a few **, he joined the team of the leader of the mountain bandits last winter, because of some bravery, he was promoted by the leader to the second leader of the mountain bandits. This guy is bold enough, and his heart is black enough, and soon after joining, he took a few of his subordinates to attack a settlement of more than a dozen families, killing all the old and weak, plundering all the property, forcing the farmer to be a mountain bandit, and the peasant woman became a plaything.

Next, the second leader, who became more and more courageous, led the bandits to attack the small caravans and small settlements everywhere, and the harvest was very rich, and the group of mountain bandits also grew larger, from twelve ragged minions to nearly thirty bandits with weapons in hand.

The ambitious second leader persuaded the cowering bandit leader to storm the richest fort in a radius of 100 miles, but the bandits were beaten by the guards of the fort and the young and strong leaders as soon as they climbed the wall, leaving seven or eight corpses behind them.

The second leader was unwilling, and after a long time in Sapp on Thursday, he gathered a group of scattered bandits to form a larger group of bandits, and the number of bandits had exceeded thirty.

A few days ago, the bandits in the eyes of the Sapu Castle came to the news that the only son of the lord of Sapu Castle would carry a huge amount of coins and valuable goods to Provence to trade, and the leaders of the mountain bandits thought that these huge coins and goods should not be allowed to slip away like this, not to mention the glittering gold and silver coins, if the Sapu Castle wanted to use these money to come to Provence to mercenary troops to attack them, then they would not have a good life in the future. So they're going to have to vote anyway.

However, the second leader's proposal to immediately lead people to attack was not approved by the leader of the mountain bandits, because he noticed another news provided by Sap's eyeline - a group of black-robed cavalry came to Sap Fort, although the eyeliner repeatedly emphasized that they only came to Sapp to get engaged to the lord's daughter, but the leader was afraid of what happened to the group of bandits last year, so he was reluctant to make up his mind......

"How's it going, Chief? Let's go! A minion with a single-edged knife was also agitating loudly.

The leader of the bandits was about to whisper a shout at the little minions when a few bird calls came from the mountain, and then there was a commotion in the convoy at the exit of the canyon.

"You idiot, hurry up and pick up the money for me and pack it up!!" Felix yelled at the guards next to a carriage. Because the soldier did not pay attention to the stones in the road as he pulled his horse, the wheels of the carriage cracked on the stones, and a small wooden box full of silver coins fell to the ground, and the coins in the wooden box fell to the ground.

Several of the convoy's guards hurriedly stepped forward to stand guard around the carriage, and the soldiers hurriedly loaded the coins on the ground into the wooden boxes.

Felix jumped off his horse and ran to the soldier in a rage and kicked the clumsy soldier down, "Let you die!" Hurry up and pick it up and hide it, I want your head for one less silver coin! ”

The soldier quickly got up from the ground, trembling and put the coins on the ground into the wooden box, and then put the wooden box back on the wagon, and covered and hid the wooden box with wheat straw.

Felix pretended to look around for a while, and after making sure that there was no danger, he turned his head to look at the morning light that was gradually spreading outside the mouth of the canyon, and shouted to the convoy behind him: "It's almost dawn, go out of the canyon and set up camp next to the small hill outside the valley!"

The convoy slowly moved out of the canyon to the barren hills outside the valley mouth......

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"Chief, money! Money!! It's all money!! You believe it this time, right? I'll just say that these mongrels have something good in their stomachs, whatever, let's dig out their bellies!! The second leader saw the scene on the canyon trade road just now, and his eyes were about to fall out.

Rao is mountain bandit leader can't resist swallowing a piece of fat that has been sent into his mouth, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and whispered to a few mountain bandits around him: "Let's go, go back and forth to check, if no one follows before and after, today we will gather the guys to eat this piece of fat!" With so much money, guys can eat and drink without worry! ”

Soon, a few mountain bandits who were following the lookout post on the top of the slope slipped down the ridge into the dense forest, and made sure that there were no ambushes behind the convoy......

On the other side of the canyon, in the dense grass on the top of the mountain, where Art and Ron were crouching. It wasn't until a few of the bandits' figures left the hill that Art moved his body a little, and then instructed Ron on the side: "Ron, I estimate that the wolf has taken the bait, you go back to the convoy in a while, tell the sergeant major that they are ready, it is estimated that the bandits will do it today." I'm going to follow the bandits, trying to find out their bandits' lair, and even if they don't come, we can go straight to the wolf's lair!" ”

After saying that, Art's figure chased the mountain bandit's tail and disappeared into the dense forest.

Seeing Art leave, Ron turned down the hill and ran towards the barren hills where the convoy was stationed outside the canyon......

Outside the canyon, the convoy stopped.

Angus got a signal that no one was watching, and got out of the wheat straw on the wagon.

"Your Excellency Angus, I have sent a guard post around the perimeter." Felix walked over to the carriage and cleared the grass for Angus.

Angus stretched his waist and twisted his head, and said to Felix: "Young Master Felix, hurry up and let people set up the camp tent, I have heard your actions just now, since Lord Yat has sent a signal to "lure the enemy", it means that those mountain bandits are about to move." ”

Felix hurriedly ordered several guards to work together to set up three camp tents, and after a while, the soldiers huddled in the carriage entered the camp tents one after another to continue hiding, and a heavily armed soldier was arranged to guard the places around the barren hill where the mountain bandits might peep, so as to ensure that the situation in the camp would not be seen by the mountain bandits.

Ron walked from the canyon toward the camp, and Felix hurried forward to greet him.

"How's that going, Brother Ron? What about Lord Arte? Felix asked anxiously.

Ron stared at the carriage in the camp and said, "My lord said that the bandits should be ready to do it today, so that the camp can be prepared to deal with the raid of the bandits at any time." The old man now went to track down the bandits, and he said that if the wolf refused to enter the trap, we would rush into its lair. ”

"Great!!" Felix couldn't contain a burst of excitement on his face, and he traveled on this trade route in the dark for two or three days, but the mountain bandits and robbers were slow to move. The guards also complained a lot, especially those who were curled up in the carriage and couldn't move, and they were almost and pee in their pants for the past two days.

Felix took Ron into the tent and found Angus.

"Lord Angus, Lord Art has already sent a message back, the mountain bandit should be done today, he is now going to track down the mountain bandit's lair, let us be ready to deal with the mountain bandit raid at any time." Felix didn't know anything about battle formations, so the things that came all the way to camp and defend the sentry posts were deployed by Angus, and then Felix personally arranged them.

"Young Master Felix, you should do three things now, one is to make the surrounding posts more vigilant, but on the surface it must look lax. The second is to let other exposed soldiers protect the fire and roast the bacon to make a relaxed appearance. The third is to immediately send some food to the young and strong guards in the military tent, so that they can put on armor and weapons after filling their stomachs, and be ready to rush out of the camp to fight at any time. In addition, you'd better tell the soldiers and guards how much money you will reward them for killing a bandit, fighting in the field is not as good as defending the city, fighting is a bloody fight, bandits have to work hard for money, you also have to let your guards have the strength to kill bandits and receive rewards......"

Felix made a note of them one by one, turned around and went out of the tent to make arrangements......

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Ten miles northwest of the convoy's station, in a dense forest, in an abandoned settlement, more than thirty mountain bandits sharpened their swords, and several leaders of the mountain bandits discussed the specific steps of the raid in a ruined ruins.

After a flurry of cursing and arguing from several reckless men, a simple and crude plan for attacking the camp was formed.

The second leader of the mountain bandits tore off the broad axe behind his back, stood on a stone, and shouted at the mountain bandit minions who were busy in the ruins: "Guys, the leader said, go immediately, and make a fortune with the guys today!!"

The minions waved their knives, forks, and clubs in their hands, roaring and screaming, and their eyes seemed to be full of shining gold and silver coins......