"Obviously, the drawbridge on the front has been raised, and the archers on both sides aim and shoot us easily."

Lund stood at the perimeter of the wall, and watched carefully for a while, until the archers on the wall had shot their arrows five paces in front of his feet.

"And what if we break through the wall and rush in?"

Byron said, standing in front of the simple assembly table, pointing to the model of the camp made out of clay.

"I'm afraid it's not easy, although it's wooden, but it's very strong, and it takes a long time for rockets and rams to break through, and it takes a lot of casualties to break through."

Alleyne shook his head, seemingly unconfident about the few siege weapons in his ranks.

"Maybe we can wait two days, their camp is full of people, cut off their water supply, they can't last long."

Fatis's proposal was to carry out a siege, and it was well reasoned.

Previously, Desaivi had said that there was only one small well in the camp, and that the main source of water was a stream next to the camp. And because there aren't many people stationed here, there's not enough supplies.

If they were besieged for three days, their supplies would be depleted by the two hundred men inside.

When the time came, they would have to come out of the camp and engage Byron with them. At this time, the advantage of city defense is gone.

"The plan was good, but we didn't have enough men to surround their entire camp. And they also have quite a few people on the periphery, and we need to divide our forces to destroy them. ”

Bandak had a lot of combat experience and knew very well how many troops the besieging side would need to take a city. Byron, on the other hand, is obviously understaffed.

Alleyne glanced at Lund, and the other party's gaze left directly. Clearly, he didn't want to be at the mercy of Byron.

"We can just surround their gates and just send people to patrol the rest of the place. No matter where they break through, as soon as they come out, they are doomed. ”

In response to Bandak's question, Fatis also thought of a solution. There is only one exit from the Brotherhood bandits' camp, which is quite reasonable from a certain point of view.

"If Your Excellency Lund has no opinion, how about we surround it first, and by the way, clear out those bandits in the vicinity, in case they come to their aid?"

Byron thought for a moment and looked at the knight Lund.

"So be it, but we're not going to do anything else until the general attack."

The Knight of Lund agreed to Byron's suggestion, but refused to participate in the clean-up of the surrounding bandits.

But for Byron, this is not necessarily a bad thing, at least the robbers have their contents and stolen goods.

The siege soon began, and Byron sent 20 men to guard the stream, and sent Alleyne with cavalry to clear the bandit posts and small camps around the area.

It was not difficult to destroy the robbers on the outskirts of the forest, and Byron and the others only killed two hired cavalrymen and wounded a few men, and destroyed all the scattered bandit posts.

Of course, crossbowmen also played a big role in this. For those poorly armed bandits, the lethality of the crossbowmen in bands was terrifying.

At the beginning of the siege, when some of Byron's troops went to clear the small group of bandits, the main force of the bandits in the camp tried to break through the side of the wall.

However, they bumped into Lund and his troops, and the two sides fought. Byron's crossbowmen then repelled their attack with a dense rain of arrows. At this time, the number of crossbowmen on Byron's side had reached 50, and the quality of the bows and arrows exceeded those of the robbers, and the soldiers were also highly trained, and they shot and wounded more than 20 green forest bandits under the salvo, repelled their attacks, and captured a live opening.

In order to get the news of the camp out of the mouths of this guy, Kress and Desail broke one of his legs, his jaw was almost screwed off, and there were seven or eight knife cuts on his body. It was only after he had told him all he knew that Kress had killed him, and the screaming in the camp had stopped.

The siege had lasted four days, and Byron had cleared all the forest except this camp, killing more than seventy people, taking nineteen prisoners, and some who had escaped, but Byron had not caught them.

To prevent disease, Byron also ordered the construction of simple latrines in the camp and required that the water be boiled before drinking. To keep mosquitoes at bay, Byron also collected a large number of herbs and placed them throughout the camp.

During the siege, the rest of the Brotherhood was unable to come to their aid, and the Peony Mercenary's carriage made daily trips to nearby villages and towns to procure necessities. So the morale of Byron's troops did not drop during these few days.

Desaivi's intelligence and Fatis's guess were correct, and by the fourth day, the other party had begun to lose his patience. They tried to break through from all directions, but all failed. Their numbers decreased, but the number of wounded also increased, and in addition to the hot climate, the attrition of the bandits, who lacked medical resources, became more and more serious, and the scale of the breakout began to shrink.

Moreover, Byron also had the soldiers throw the carcasses of small animals that began to decompose into the walls of the fence. Although this trick is not vicious, the impact on the opponent's combat effectiveness is very great.

Finally, on the night of the fifth day, the Green Forest bandits launched a surprise attack, and this time they were very large, directly lowering the drawbridge and rushing out from the front.

Even if it is a night attack, a hundred bandits with average equipment and limited level raid Byron's troops, this method is similar to looking for death.

However, while the large army broke through, Ike escaped over the wall with his elite soldiers, killing three of Byron's soldiers along the way.

The robbers, after finding themselves abandoned, simply chose to surrender.

In this way, Byron, at the cost of a small number of casualties, captured forty or fifty robber captives.

The next day, Byron's troops entered the camp, which was large enough for one hundred and fifty men, and found dead bodies and sick robbers in the camp that had not yet had time to dispose of them.

It turned out that Byron had used a rudimentary homemade trebuchet to throw small animal carcasses into the bandit camp, and the pollution was not easy to detect.

Unfortunately, a rotting dead rat fell into the robbers' well, killing dozens of patients.

Coupled with the helplessness of the plea for help and the mounting losses, Ike eventually abandoned the camp and most of the soldiers and fled.

However, several heroes say that they would never agree to Byron's move if it were intended to be in a city with innocent civilians.

It's effective, but it's also very vicious. Byron was also well aware of this, so for the sake of fame and his own conscience, he agreed to the advice of the heroes.