Chapter 25 Countermeasures

In the darkness of the night, a circle of people sat around the campfire, and Evan was chatting with some of the old men he met on the road, and as the conversation deepened, he also had a preliminary understanding of the civil unrest in Ramqvist's territory after his death.

It turned out that Ramqvist's original wife died early, but he had too many concubines, which also represented that he had many heirs, among which a son left by his original wife was older than the third among the many male heirs, named "Marven"!

His two older brothers were their dear fathers, and they had children before they were married, the eldest was called "Anthony" and the second was called "Gail".

Anthony is domineering, reckless, bloody and violent, and rude like most Vikings, while Gail is thinner but vicious, calculating, and unscrupulous when he fails to achieve his goals, like a poisonous snake that can take someone's life at any time.

may be due to the age of the brothers, the annual raids in the territory are the cooperation of the two brothers, and Ramqvist due to physical and courageous reasons, these years basically do not attack with the clan, completely take on the role of the shopkeeper, enjoy life.

As for him and the third child of the original match, Ma Wen, he completely inherited his temperament, arrogant and exaggerated, casual and spontaneous, thinking about women all day long.

But Ramqvist's sudden death, even the heir was not designated, this is bad, the eldest and the second have not only been robbing over the years, but they have slowly cultivated some people who are loyal to them, and the third is born from the original match, although he has a bad temper, but he has been recognized by the elders in the family.

Originally, the result of the matter was that the tribe held a meeting to decide that Marven would inherit the territory, but the eldest and second were not convinced, and directly made trouble.

This is good, the remaining brothers who have just become adults did not surrender out of intention, they jumped out directly, and there was a conflict, they left separately, and began to frantically rob the population and expand their strength, but even so, in the end, the elders in the clan support the third child, so the third child's strength is also the strongest.

But the other brothers did not dare in their hearts, they swept almost all the civilians in the territory as if they were crazy, forcibly requisitioned all the people they met, regardless of old and young, men and women, and collected all the materials, and each established a stronghold in order to prepare for a long-term struggle, this madness also put the civilians in the territory in danger for themselves, and few resistance is the end of being cut down.

At the beginning, they not only gathered the population, but also fought with each other from time to time in the hope of eating each other, but there was a big gap between the strength and weakness of several aspects, the eldest and the second and third almost swept the other brothers, but as time went by, the fourth of them, who was originally unknown and just became an adult, did not know what method Lu Dao used, after he killed the fifth and sixth brothers, the strength in his hand suddenly jumped to the third Ma Wen, and he could fight with the eldest and the second.

At this moment, the original many forces suddenly became four, they fought with each other, and countless civilians died, but in the end, it was useless for them to fight back and forth, the biggest force was in the hands of those elders, they supported the third child born to Ramqvist's original match, after several battles, they were all defeated and retreated, according to the words of the old man Louis, it should not take long to defeat several other people and restore peace in the territory.

Evan couldn't help but feel annoyed when he heard this, "It's really a human head and pig brain, one party is too strong, won't the other three parties join forces to fight first?" In such a situation, they have to work independently of each other, isn't that the rhythm of looking for death? What a fucking stupid"!

Evan now wants to smoke these fools to death in his heart, and he really fulfills the sentence, "I'm not afraid of god-like opponents, I'm afraid of pig-like teammates, this is even more stupid than pigs, and I can't even get a second generation of officials, and it's a waste of food after eating for so many years in vain."

According to Louis, they were some old and infirm, no one wanted them to be such a burden, and they would usually be killed, so in order to avoid being killed, they hid in the mountains and forests, due to their old health and other reasons, and their weapons were all snatched away by those who rebelled, they had to pick up wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, and they were hungry until they were met by Sam, who went out to look for prey.

After listening to their story, Evan could not help but think, and in this way, when the morning light of the next day pierced the darkness and the sun rose again over the shoreline, they left all their remaining supplies to the poor old men, and turned back on the way they had come.

In fact, last night, after Evan got such news, he immediately sent a few guards to chase the route of the other two teams, he didn't know that the situation was so chaotic, he didn't want his people to be attacked and co-opted needlessly, so he decided to retreat to safety first.

Two days passed, and the thirty or so people who had been scattered gathered together again, and five or six of them were injured, but none of them seemed to be very serious.

These wounded men and horses were Ole's team, who met Ramqvist's eldest son on the road and sent out a small team to grab the population, and there were not many about twenty people on the other side at that time.

At that time, I met a team that might have thought that they were also in other teams to find people, and they didn't give them a chance to speak at all, and rushed over directly to kill, which made just contact, the two sides were like fire and water, in a white-hot state, and began to fight, after killing a few people on the other side, Ole saw that the situation seemed to be wrong, and decisively ordered a retreat, seeing them fleeing, the other party also chased them far away, and the most rearly saw that they fled quickly, so they had to give up and continue the pursuit.

Evan analyzed the information that everyone had compiled and what the old men said, and finally decided on a plan, in the following days, in order not to cause unnecessary trouble and fighting, more than 30 of them basically went out day and night, and slowly approached the current Marven's temporary military camp.

That night, after a night of travel, they hid in a dense forest before dawn, and standing at the edge of this dense forest, they could see in the distance the improvised tents and the habitat enclosed by wooden fences.

Hiding behind a huge oak tree, Evan stuck his head out to look at the camp in the distance, he looked very carefully, almost everywhere he could see, and as he looked, he lowered his head and marked something on a piece of bark. It wasn't until two hours later that his figure turned and disappeared into the vast forest.

This went on and on, for two whole days, almost at regular intervals every day, and the emaciated figure could be seen here in the morning, noon, evening, and late at night, and then he would look closely at the camp in the distance, sketch and draw, and then disappear into the forest.

Late that night, in the pitch black all around, in the originally silent camp, a group of Viking warriors chatted in a low voice while patrolling the camp, and just where they had just patrolled, suddenly a group of figures scattered and ran in several directions of the tribe.

This is the moment when Evan has decided to act after a few days of observation, and tonight he will bring the original situation of unequal power between the two sides back to a state of equality.

Seeing the people he brought with him, going everywhere according to his own wishes, Evan himself did not hesitate, and took the five guards around him to touch the largest and most luxurious tent in the middle.

From time to time, their figures dodged behind the obstacles around them, and the cat bent over and approached the tent step by step, and they saw four guards standing guard outside the tent from afar, Evan waved his hand back, and pointed a few times in the air, following the four figures behind him, and immediately lurked in different directions, which is also the gesture password taught in the collective training, and now the trained clansmen of the Evan tribe have basically become familiar with the meaning of this password.

As the four figures rushed out, Evan and one of the remaining guards, hiding behind a simple tent, looked out at the warriors standing guard in front of them.

It's the second half of the night, and it's also the most sleepy time for people, Evan still knows these truths, only to see that four figures suddenly appeared behind the four soldiers who were napping, and I didn't see any movement from those figures, the four guards who were still in a daze fell back slowly, and directly leaned their entire backs against the people who attacked them behind them, and then the four figures dragged the bodies of the four guards very quickly and disappeared into the darkness.