Desaivi left with the men, and she agreed to join forces with Byron against the Brotherhood of the Greenwoods.

Of course, she is also conditional. Desaivi has a grudge against the Brotherhood, and according to the game, the bandit force that Desaivi joined is in competition with the Brotherhood, and it is normal to have conflicts.

However, the exact details are unknown, unlike in the game, Desaivi did not tell Byron about his past as soon as they met, and Kress only knew a little about it.

She did have a robber husband, but he had been dead for a long time. As for the rest, Kress doesn't know.

This created some problems for Byron to recruit Desaivi, as he didn't know where to start. But winning the Brotherhood of the Green Forest is always a good start.

Byron gathered all his troops and procured a lot of provisions, horses, and weapons.

In order to strengthen the combat capabilities of his soldiers, he paid for a batch of cuirasses, better quality chain mail, to arm them.

The horses of the heavy cavalry were all dressed in horse armor, and each man had a spear.

The hussars, on the other hand, were armed with a large number of javelins, and the horses were replaced by fast horses.

Considering that the people of the Brotherhood liked to hide in the forest, the terrain was not suitable for large-scale troop movements, and the movement of horses would be restricted.

Byron deliberately organized the light infantry into squads, and used the nearby woods to rehearse what to expect in a woodland melee.

He even brought in the women who accompanied the battalion to help the soldiers with chores and boost morale.

Moreover, Byron also prepared soft armor and a coat with the same peony logo for them, so that even in battle, they could make a proper effort.

Of course, Byron also issued a military order, and the mercenaries who dared to touch these women would chop their hands directly, whether it was his own mercenaries or those he hired.

It took Byron a week just to prepare for battle, and the number of dinars cost him close to 10,000.

In order to win back face, Byron made a bloody investment.

And after the failure of the previous night attack, the Brotherhood of the Green Forest is not as arrogant as before.

Byron's one hundred and fifty soldiers, plus fifty light infantry and twenty light cavalry employed by him, plus fifty regular soldiers who accompanied them in their attack on the Brotherhood, the Brotherhood had to avoid it.

Byron's scouts searched for them for days, but they were not found. So although they were ready to fight, they could only wander from village to village.

For each day wasted, Byron spent 20 dinars to replenish supplies and to pacify the villagers who had been disturbed by them. In addition, the troops were paid every month, and occasional dinners were held to boost morale, and the high amount of expenditure gave Byron a headache.

If this continues, Byron's pockets will not hold up.

Originally, after the "cold war" with the Kinte, the profits of Byron's industries fell a lot, and it was difficult to solve even the salaries of the troops. Such a waste of silver coins was nothing short of torture for Byron.

Manid wrote to advise Byron to stop the mission, and he was ridiculed by Alleyne for thinking from the perspective of a businessman. In fact, Alleyne has always looked down on Manid as a small businessman, and the other party is not satisfied with his arrogant attitude.

Jamila also sent a list, all of which were deficits. She reminded Byron that if it went on like this for a month, the loss of the Peony mercenaries would make Byron's waist deflat.

Because of this, Byron went on fire for two days, and even personally led a team with Fatis to find traces of the robbers, but found nothing.

It wasn't until Desaivi reappeared that they figured out the exact location of the Brotherhood of the Green Forest.

According to Desaivi, the leader of the Brotherhood of the Greenwoods, Ike, was fierce and cunning, and he set up his base camp in a remote forest fifty kilometers away, based on an old military outpost. There is also a lumber yard around as cover.

There had not been many people stationed there in the past, but this time, because of Byron's purge, the various branches of the Brotherhood fled back there, numbering more than two hundred. In other parts of the forest, there were a number of small camps that served as sentry posts, and the number of people added up was about a hundred.

After more than three years of Ike running the bandit camp, it has become a simple fortress.

There were improvised wooden walls, earthen ditches and drawbridges, as well as a stone watchtower that had been abandoned for more than a hundred years but was still in use, serving as Ike's last line of defense for his residence and camp.

Moreover, Desaivi told Byron that there were many archers and many hunting traps, and that with their abundant manpower, it would be difficult to attack rashly.

The information provided by Desay Vid delayed Byron's offensive plan a little.

He told the news to the knight who was leading the team, and the knight expressed his shock and reported the news to the lord of the place.

There is a gang of robbers in his own territory, and he has also established a camp that takes care of everything, and no lord will be happy to hear it.

So the baron, who was in charge of the forest, sent twenty guerrilla archers to the knight to fight with them.

While the knight was reporting to the lords, Byron hired craftsmen to make simple rams and small ballistas that could be carried by four people, as well as long ladders with stands.

Again, this is an expenditure of a few hundred dinars, but it is very necessary.

In addition, despite the fact that Alleyn was a little opposed, Fatis was a little disagreeable, and Bandak was a little puzzled, Byron accepted a gang of robbers to join.

According to Byron, he inquired into the details of this gang of robbers, whose sins were not much higher than those of some mercenaries, and it was not impossible to give them a chance to mend their ways.

In fact, Byron is using this to signal to Desay that he does not care about her status as a bandit.

14 robbers, who were taken over by Byron and turned into 11 mercenary sentinels and 3 mercenary swordsmen. Byron added a little manpower, and also gave himself a little bad reputation.

It's not a crime, but many people are against soliciting robbers, and they're sure to say a few words, but that's about it.

The Peony mercenaries and the other mercenaries, as well as the knight named Lund, led their troops to the forest, and Desaivi gathered more than twenty bandits and robbers to join them on the road.

Thanks to this small force of Desaivi, the eyeliner of the Brotherhood was eradicated along the way. It wasn't until Byron's troops arrived at the lumber yard that Ike spotted them.

He had been alarmed by the late return of the sentinels and scouts, but he had not arranged for the evacuation in time out of confidence in the Brotherhood's intelligence gathering.

The cavalry embraced by Peony quickly overwhelmed the bandit army in the lumberyard, and the two hundred bandits of the Brotherhood were trapped in their lair.