Chapter 1586: Escape and Coercion

Duke Ulrich suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to order Chapman and the four of them to be taken out of the prisoner of war camp. Now that they haven't been exposed, they can continue to play their spare heat.

"Let the four of them take the lead, will it be exposed? Later, they will come back to me. If they were to be found to have led the rebels, they would be doomed! Duke Ulrich hesitated.

Wolf said with confidence:

"Don't worry, my lord, Chapman and the other four are not like me. I don't have a long beard, they have a bushy beard for all 4. During this time, in order to blend in with the rebels and not be recognized, all four of them grew beards. As long as the beard is not shaved and the face is dirty a little more, no one will recognize them. When they come back, just shave their beards clean. It's me, I don't have a beard, and I'm exposed this time, so it's inconvenient to get involved anymore......"

This is also the reason why Wolf had to take off his signature clothes and smear yellow mud on his face when he killed Casbal before - he didn't grow a beard and didn't know how to disguise. In order not to be recognized, it had to be like this. Chapman, on the other hand, has four beards that grow relatively quickly. As long as you don't shave for a long time and get your face dirty a little more, it will be difficult for others to recognize.

Duke Ulrich nodded and said:

"Well, when I arrange to escort the captives back tomorrow, I will deliberately send the weakest team of levies to escort their team at the end. I remember, Chapman is now the deputy captain of the rebel hussars, right? Then I'll take the opportunity to let the whole hussar team go......"

Wolf shook his head repeatedly:

"No, Chapman is only the vice-captain, and there is a captain Gates above. If it is all released, when the time comes, this team will still listen to Captain Gates, not Chapman. ”

Duke of Ulrich said:

"This is easy, I ordered the captain named Gates to be taken away alone tomorrow morning, and they will be executed together in the future. Then, you secretly send someone to tell Chapman about the four of their plans. Tomorrow, the rebel hussar contingent in which they were located was the last to be escorted to Stuttgart. In charge of escorting them, I arranged for an officer who liked to drink to carry out this task with a team of poorly fought conscripts. When the time comes, you secretly let Chapman loosen the rope he was tying and let him run away at night. As for the officer and the conscripts, I gave them the trophies......"

The next morning, the Duke of Ulrich and most of the soldiers, escorting most of the prisoners of war, left first, leaving behind a small half of the prisoners of war and some of the soldiers of the army, who were responsible for escorting them in batches.

And the leader of Chapman's hussar squad was a drunkard knight named Hersett. And the 300 soldiers he led were all conscripts with very poor combat effectiveness.

Of course, Hesset and his entourage were not all 2,200 peasant light cavalry prisoners (300 had previously been killed), but only 500.

You know, these 2200 light cavalry are the elite of the rebels. In the previous battles, it also caused a lot of trouble to the officers and soldiers. If it is all released, it will become a big threat. But if it is less, Chapman will not have the strength to attack those estates. Therefore, after much thought, the Duke of Ulrich gave the number of 500 people, which were placed alone at the end to facilitate escape.

Before leaving, the Duke of Ulrich deliberately gave the Knight of Hesset a few bottles of wine......

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Sure enough, the party of the Hesset knights, who had set out in the afternoon, could not help but take out the wine that the Duke of Ulrich had given them and drank them when they camped in a small village in the evening.

These wines, but the Duke of Ulrich got the rye two pots from the North Sea Country, and the price is fierce. Then, two pots of rye and two pots of rye were put into their stomachs, and the Knight of Hesset managed to get drunk......

In the middle of the night, Chapman, who was tied up and thrown into a large yard, suddenly opened his eyes, and then, with a move of his hand, he untied the rope from his hand. The rope in his hand was a slipknot that Wolff had sent to tie for him, just to make it easier for him to break free. Moreover, the man who was sent to contact him last night also hid a dagger in his boots......

After breaking free from the rope in his hand, Chapman, under the astonished gaze of the other awake POWs nearby, pulled a dagger from his boot and cut the ropes from his own feet, and then began to cut the ropes on the hands and feet of the other POWs......

Two hours later, all 200 people in this courtyard were free......

"Lord Charlie, what shall we do now?" The freed POWs gathered around Chapman.

Chapman said seriously:

"Let's first find a weapon in the yard, sticks and bricks. Then, let's go out over the wall and get rid of the two guards outside the courtyard gate. At the same time, attack another large courtyard and rescue more than two hundred other brothers......"

"What if the enemy finds out?" A prisoner of war asked in a whisper.

Chapman waved his hand and said in the same low voice:

"I've seen it during the day, and there are only 300 people guarding our team, and most of them are conscripts composed of farmers, and their combat effectiveness is not stronger than ours. We are the elite of the rebels, can we still be afraid of them? As for the knight, I smelled wine from afar, and I guess he was drunk to death by this time. As long as we get out of this yard and grab weapons, we won't be afraid of those idiots at all! ”

After completing the mobilization, Chapman led everyone out over the wall cautiously and lightly. Then, Chapman and another undercover knight, Hinton, relied on their martial arts skills to sneak outside the courtyard gate and silently kill the three conscripts guarding the door.

Later, the two of them quietly lurked outside the gate of another courtyard, killing four sleeping guards. Then, more than two hundred other rebel hussar prisoners of war were rescued from the courtyard, including two other undercover knights - Leo and Diem......

Subsequently, after obtaining the weapons of the guards, the four undercover knights raided the main house of the manor where the guards lived, with a group of hussar prisoners armed with sticks and bricks......

Under the leadership of Chapman's four, the two or three hundred hastily awakened levies were powerless. The Knight of Hesset was woken up by his men, but his brain was not clear at this time due to a hangover. When he staggered into the hall, he was stabbed and killed by the oncoming undercover knight Leo. If it were normal, Leo and his kung fu would be indistinguishable. However, Hesset was drunk and not sober yet, so he was easily killed by Leo of the same level......

Seeing that the Knight of Hesset was killed, the remaining two hundred or so conscripts suddenly collapsed. Either flee in a hurry, or lay down your arms and surrender.

Chapman did not embarrass them, but collected their weapons and equipped them with the 493 hussar prisoners of war (who were not as well equipped as the levies during the raid because they did not have swords in their hands, and 7 were killed and wounded). Then, the four of them reorganized their ranks overnight and fled before dawn in the direction that the peasant army had intended to ransack......

By the time the city of Stuttgart received the news that "500 rebel prisoners of war had escaped" in the afternoon, Chapmann had already led men to conquer a manor that he had planned to attack.

Adhering to the will of the Duke of Ulrich, after conquering the manor, Chapman and the four not only killed the owner of the manor, but also forcibly recruited all 300 middle-aged men of the entire manor into the rebel ranks.

Subsequently, this team continued to attack the next manor, and continued to coerce all the strong men of the next manor......

According to the plan of the Duke of Ulrich, the task of the four of them was to coop all the strong men of all the estates along the way. Then, deliberately lost to the official army, and let the Duke of Ulrich exchange those strong men for money with the Beihai Kingdom......