Chapter 807: Sneak Attack
From infiltrating the royal forest to shooting a domestic sheep in a village serving the royal family, Isabel Walton could have infiltrated the village and captured the keeper of the hunting grounds. Perhaps this mission behind enemy lines had no time limit, and she could be full of her fighting skills in the dark, or she could use brutal and unreasonable means to violate, oppress and insult the Scots' tactical thinking of fighting at night. In short, the night is her world, and she is the queen of the night.
Lured by the burning campfire and the smell of roasted whole sheep, the gamekeeper plunged headlong into the trap she had designed. Surrounded by 32 members of the sneak attack team, he could only throw away his longbow and one-handed sword and kneel on the wild grass. Hands are tied up for the next step of interrogation.
Of course, this is the hunting ground of the Scottish Royal Forest, and the caretaker of the hunting ground is definitely not the only one. The team leader, Isabel, had the two members keep an eye on the direction of the country house, while the knightly squire Ralph Earle, who was fluent in two Scottish languages, interrogated the caretaker.
At the commander's request, Ralph did not say that he was English, but only asked the caretaker in Low Scottish about the personnel stationed at Blackness Castle, the defenses, etc. Most of the rest of the squad sat around the campfire, munching on hare meat, game fowl and fresh lamb from the Scottish family.
Halfway through the interrogation, the gamekeepers salivated at the crowd munching on fresh meat. Eventually, unable to bear the smell of meat wafting into the air, he said to the knight's squire across from him with expectant eyes, "Brother, I've told you everything I know. You... Can you give me some meat to eat? ”
Ralph hesitated to his feet, walked over to Isabelle, who was munching on the hare's meat on the other side, and whispered in his ear in English, "Madame, he wants some meat, can you give it to him?" ”
Isabel, who was holding a hare leg, turned her face to look sideways at the caretaker, who was swallowing her saliva, and nodded, "Yes." However, let him find us two or three wagons for the delivery of goods. ”
"Carriage?" Ralph blinked, feeling a little strange.
"It's about an overnight walk from here to Stirling Castle, and you'll have to pass through a lot of towns along the way. Ralph, I don't think you want the Scots to be killed before we even capture the Queen, do you? Isabel said as she tore off a strip of hare meat with her teeth.
"No, ma'am, I don't want to."
"Good, go ahead."
Wine and barbecued fresh lamb, not tortured or killed by a sword, the hunting ground keepers were convinced that they were their fellow Scotts. However, the infantry half-armor and various weapons worn by the other party made him suspect that the real identity of this group was probably the squire of a certain Scottish nobleman.
After gratitutively taking a lump of barbecued lamb, the caretaker devoured it. "Incense! It's so fucking fragrant! The caretaker, who was biting on the fragrant mutton, kept muttering in his heart. It appears that the Scottish man, who was the caretaker of the royal hunting grounds, was only able to eat fresh meat once in a while during religious festivals.
"Hey, if you don't say anything more, I'll have to take your meat." Ralph reached out and kicked his opponent's leg cross-legged on the ground, threatening him in an unfriendly manner.
"No... Not... Brothers... Not... I will say. The caretaker said that the smell of the mutton made him almost swallow his tongue.
"Goo... Mutter... "One of the team members, lying on the wild grass at the edge of the forest, gave a secret call to Isabelle, who was sitting under the tree. Isabel then threw away the bones that still had some hare meat in her hand, stood up, bowed and trotted over to the two team members, and asked in a low voice, "Did you find anything?" ”
By this time, two members of the team had each been given two barbecue wild fowl to feed their hunger, and one of the team members pointed to the village house on the northwest side of the forest, "We seem to see people coming out of the house." ”
Isabel's falcon eyes scanned back and forth at the village in the darkness of the night, and she commanded, "Very well, if you find anyone coming, report it to me immediately." ”
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After the two team members continued to monitor the movement of the village, the members of the sneak attack team caught two more hunting ground guards who had come looking for a companion. Ralph, a Scottish translator, interrogated two more guards separately. Immediately after compiling the various information, he reported the results of the interrogation to his female commander, Isabel.
As the clock approached 4 o'clock in the morning, Isabel began to arrange a sneak attack and capture of Blakeness Castle with her well-fed teammates. After explaining the sneak attack, Fast asked the commander, "Your Excellency, will you allow me to dispose of these three Scots?" ”
Ready-to-go, Isabel glanced at the three guards kneeling on the ground, "No, I still need them to find the carriage for me and open the castle gates." ”
Afterwards, the raiding team made a rapid march towards the castle along the wild meadows east of the royal forest facing the coastline. As she approached the castle outside a stone wall on a narrow stretch of land, Isabel ordered her team to lay in ambush on a small hill on the left side of the coastline. On the left side of the hill is the only road leading to the castle, and on the right is a forest belt near the coastline.
Isabel, who was lying in ambush on the hill, observed movement near the walls and found only two Scottish halberders dozing inside the iron fence at the end of the road on the left. Then Baldwin was called, and Fast and the other five team members slowly crawled to the hilly place near the city wall. At this moment, a stepped path paved with stone slabs at the foot of the city wall appeared in front of several people.
There is no doubt that it was a path used to patrol the outer strip of the castle. Isabel and the others quietly stood up and secretly approached the city wall, leaning against the city wall and slowly walking to the castle gate on the left side to hide. Then he sent a secret message to the team members on the hill to release the three captives, and told them to plead with the halberd guards guarding the gate to open the door.
Isabel hid behind the walls and aimed her bow at the three guards standing in front of the gates. He tilted his head in the direction of the gate, meaning to ask them to summon the sergeant to open the door. After the three guards shouted a few words at the two sergeants inside, one of the halberd soldiers opened his hazy eyes and stared at the three of them and shouted, "Get out, this is the royal prison!" ”
"Sergeant, I have news of the English that I need to report to the Knight!" A caretaker said something suddenly.