Unbeknownst to him, when Sir Ernest Walton was about to kill the Scottish man with a single sword, the man actually said a seemingly important news, "Lord Oliver often goes to Lord Maxwell's castle to drink and talk with Lord Lord. Perhaps, you can catch them there. ”

Ernest looked at the other party in disbelief, "Cavalry, did you betray your commander because you were afraid that we would kill you?" ”

"My lord, if you and your men capture Lord Sir or Lord Lord, we can go home and not have to fight this damn battle."

"Hmm. I wish there were more people like you in the Scottish army. Well, tell me, where is Lord Maxwell's castle? How far is it from Annen? ”

The Scottish man replied, somewhat uncertainly, "I remember that on one occasion Sir had some of my brethren escort him to the castle of Kerlefzek. The brethren said that the Lord's castle seemed to be near the coast south of Dumfries. ”

Ernest was suspicious of the man's words, and walked over to Isabel not far away and repeated the conversation. Isabel crossed her arms to her chest in deep thought, and quickly spoke her thoughts, "If you want to know if what he said is true or not, let him take us to the castle." However, we had to pretend to be Scottish cavalry to get to the castle. ”

"This bastard can betray even his commander, and he will definitely betray us."

"He's not going to have that chance." Although the expression of Isabel wearing a humanoid mask could not be seen when she spoke, a hint of strangeness could be heard in her tone. Then she called Sir Alex Ferguson, Baldwin and John Neville to her, "Listen, I want you to get ready to clear the Scotsman camp out of the woods." ”

Sir Alex Ferguson was a little surprised when he heard this, "Your Excellency, wouldn't killing the whole camp attract the attention of the other Scots?" ”

"Now, we're going to Lord Maxwell's castle, so we'll need some Scotsman cavalry armor, clothes, and flags."

"Oh...? Your Excellency, it would be great if you could catch their commander. ”

"Well, I think so too. Wait, I'll go with you. ”

Isabel and her brother returned to the captive and stared at the captive's expression and said to the brother, "Tell him to take us to Lord Maxwell's castle if he wants to live." If he dares to deceive us, we will kill him immediately. ”

After Sir Ernest had repeated the remarks to the captive, the Scottish man hastened to agree, "Yes, my lord, I can lead you there." I swear to God that I will not deceive you and your people. ”

Isabel then had her brother guard the captives, and she and the others ambushed herself and the others on the northern edge of the grove. John Neville, after seeing a dozen or so halberd patrols outside the camp, whispered to her, "Godmother, how can we kill the patrol quickly?" ”

"When the patrol returned to the south and walked east, we followed. Once I've shot the first arrow, you'll all work together, and each of you will be responsible for killing a patrol sergeant and killing the highlanders at the same time. Isabel again mentally counted the steps the patrol would take back to the south, and commanded John.

Just as Isabel had predicted, the patrol was attacked again as it passed the patrol route to the east. After the last halberd of the patrol was knocked down by Isabel with an arrow, a dozen or so quasi-lancers who were lying in ambush in an open field to the right of the eastern patrol route stood up and brandished their weapons almost simultaneously.

The halberders, with no armor and only a metal helmet, tried to resist, but it was too late. In the panic, he was stabbed to death by a quasi-lancer with a sword or smashed through his helmet by an armor-piercing war hammer, and the slightest reaction was also killed by an arrow from Isabel hiding in the darkness in an instant. When the patrol was completely wiped out and the camp was still silent, Isabel quietly let everyone into the camp and clear each tent sleeping one by one.

Having eliminated all the living people, they discovered a ridiculous fact while searching the entire camp. These Scottish cavalry went so far as to replace cavalry armor with infantry half-body armor, and none of the cavalrymen wore full-body plate armor or three-quarter armor. Later, Isabel had Ernest and his captives in the woods brought to the camp.

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Tonight's night was dark, and thick clouds obscured the North Star and the Moon. In this way, Isabel could not determine her orientation from some features of nature, such as the sun, moon and stars. However, she still knew about some situations, such as walking all the way south to the town of Annon to reach the coast; The captives said Lord Maxwell's castle was off the coast south of Dumfries.

She called Ernest to where she was, and the two sat outside a tent. Raising his head and looking at the sky, he looked at his brother, "Now there are two ways, one is to continue to Dumfries to find out the news, and the other is to find Lord Maxwell's castle near the coast and capture Sir Oliver or Lord Maxwell." ”

Ernest was not sure if he could capture the two commanders, after all, he did not quite trust the captives. Sitting on the grass, he looked at each other, "What should we do if the two Scottish commanders are not in the castle?" ”

Isabel was silent for a moment, then affirmed, "We pretended to be Scottish cavalry to occupy the castle. Then he sent a letter to Lord Maxwell, saying that his castle had been plundered by thieves, and that Lord Lords needed to return to the castle immediately to negotiate with the thieves. When the Lord returns, we can catch him inside the castle. ”

"But we don't know where the castle is."

The man said the castle was off the coast south of Dumfries. Well, let's look along the coast. Even if we couldn't find it, we could go back to Carlisle along the coast. ”

"Well, may God bless us to find Lord Maxwell's castle."

"Tie that guy's hands and let him ride a horse to show us the way."

In fact, Lord Robert Maxwell spent most of his time resting in his castle, except for occasional visits to Lochmeburn Castle, south of the town of Lochmeburn, to meet James V. Although he was commander of Scotland's western frontier, he was never formally appointed by James V as commander-in-chief of the attack on England.

After about an hour, Isabel's scout team all changed into the bust of the Scottish cavalry with Sir Oliver's insignia on the cuirass, and hid three-quarters of their own armor and extra weapons and food in the grove before.