"Understood, understood, please rest assured Baron, we will fight with all our might!" The knight hurriedly agreed, and the other squires nodded desperately.

There's no way, everyone is stronger than their own group combined, how can they resist? Even if they resist, it is definitely the result of failure, and these squires are not fools, and of course they will not fight against the powerful William for the sake of the so-called reinforcements that have not yet arrived.

"Very well, you know each other very well, then you might as well live in the castle first, and let your retinue go and transfer you all first!" William didn't plan to let them return to the turf himself, as they might have escaped.

"Then, go back to your rooms, dinner is not available for the time being!" William said with a smile.

The squires listened to the lack of food, and although they were a little dissatisfied in their hearts, no one dared to express a trace of dissatisfaction in the face of William's obscenity.

"I really didn't expect you, you have a way!" Baron Bair exclaimed.

"It's not a way, our side is strong, I only plan to let them be cannon fodder, it is estimated that after the end of the war, the Earl will also order their execution, I can not only execute them in disguise, but also weaken the enemy's strength!" William said proudly.

"What do we do next? Waiting for the arrival of the enemy? Baron Bair threw the question to William.

William rubbed his smooth chin and thought for a moment, he still didn't have a definite plan for the enemy.

"Why don't we fight an ambush!" William said on a whim.

"Ambush?" Baron Bair repeated, this young nobleman had just inherited the title of his father, who had died of wounds in the last Cheker war, and had inherited his father's title, and he had not fought a few battles since he had grown so big, and the only real big war was the Battle of Denlenburg.

"That's right! It's an ambush! The more William thought about it, the more determined he became, and he patted his thigh and said.

"Norwen, do you know the number of enemies and the route of the march?" William asked, Nowen had gotten the information from Registrar Ruggie before he left.

Norwin took out a piece of parchment from his pocket and said, "Viscount Lausas mobilized a thousand serfs, more than two hundred armed infantry, more than three hundred archers, more than sixty knights, and at the same time he also hired, more than two hundred mercenary infantry with medium equipment!" Their journey is to pass through the middle of the Levin Forest in the north of Sutton Town, reach Sutton Town, and seize this place, and the guess of Secretary Ruggy is that they will take Sutton Town as a logistical support! Norwin picked out the important documents on the parchment.

"Lewin Forest, where about the soldiers and civilians lay some traps?" William looked up to ask Baron Bayer's opinion.

"It's okay, but it shouldn't be too late, the other party has more than 2,500 soldiers alone! If the traps are sparse, it is difficult to cause large consumption. Baron Bair also had a keen instinct and said.

"Indeed, but I don't intend to let the traps consume a lot of their troops, I need to hope that they can panic in the forest and make them tired!" William confidently said that this tactic was quite common in the Celestial Empire, and in the records, the mountain barbarians in the north also often used this tactic against the jihadist soldiers of the Northern Expedition.

"How many days will the enemy get to us?" William looked up and asked Norwen.

"According to the information provided by Secretary Ruji, before we set off, they had already marched for two days, and it was estimated that it would take ten days to reach Sutton Town, and we marched for five days, and they had already walked for seven days, and we should have two to three days to prepare!"

"There are three days left, I think we should let all the inhabitants move to the rear first, after all, there are not many inhabitants in the castle, let them help set up traps, and then move away!" William muttered to himself.

Baron Bair nodded in agreement.

William was still pondering in the dim light, the number of enemies was really quite a lot, although the light infantry was not strong, but the number of more than a thousand people was still quite terrifying, plus armed infantry and mercenaries, as well as archers, knights, he regretted a little that he only brought this little people.

"No way!" William suddenly burst out of his mouth with two words.

"What's not going to work?" Baron Bair, drowsy, was awakened by William's words, and asked with sleepy eyes.

"You can't let all the civilians move, their logistics are not well supplied, they will definitely have to plunder everywhere, if all the civilians are moved, then there will be no place to plunder, they will definitely go straight to the castle!"

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Baron Bayer was silent for a while, then said, "Isn't that good?" They are very logistical and will definitely retreat, and if we go straight to the castle, we will have a greater advantage! "He really couldn't understand William's brain circuitry.

"Just go straight to the castle? There are more than 2,500 people on the other side, and there must be some speculators in the army, right, we came in a hurry, and brought those speculators and other allies? How can this wall, which is more than four meters and less than five meters, be defended? The casualties will definitely be large! William said angrily.

"And what do you think should be done?" Baron Baier was a little unhappy, in his impression, including his father, he also taught him this, if the number is inferior to the enemy, the castle must be defended, the castle is the guarantee of the safety of the nobles, is there a loss in defending the city?

"Leave some villagers and let them be bait, the other party plus speculators, it is estimated that more than 3,000 people can participate in the battle, it is difficult for our 1,000 people to defend the castle, after all, this castle is a bit rudimentary, leaving the villagers of a large village, they are bait, and we ambush outside, how?" William laid out his plan and the plan.

Baron Bair fell into deep thought, he did not connect with the lives of the villagers, in fact the nobles rarely pity the names of serfs for the sake of war, although serfs can bring them wealth, but in war, serfs only mean consumables, things like arrows.

What's more, this is not something that can bring him wealth, his people, there are no nobles here, most of them are knights' fiefs and squires, and the rest are the villages directly under the earl, even if they are used as bait, he is not distressed.

And William, although he was born under the red flag and received the party's "advanced education", but after five years of tempering, he still had no extra mercy, and there was still no psychological pressure to push out one or two hundred serfs as a bait.

"Two thousand five hundred people need a lot of food, if you want to prepare food for two thousand five hundred people for more than a month, even the earl is very distressed, so I speculate that the enemy's food will not be too much, plus the winter villages are harvested, and they have hoarded food for the winter, they only need to plunder those two or three to get together, so I plan to leave a village, and we will be there to catch them by surprise, how?" William said.

"Well, I don't have an opinion, I'll listen to you!" Baron Bair gave decision-making power to William.