After hearing Sylvia's words, the people of the caravan didn't know what to say for a long time, and many people thought that Sylvia must be crazy, she had already gained glory, status and rights that no one else could get in their lifetimes, and she gave up like this, except for a madman, it is absolutely impossible for a normal person to do such a thing.

On the contrary, the wandering knights who originally revered Sylvia even more admired Sylvia, because they knew very well that if they were in Sylvia's position, it would be absolutely impossible to give up everything and leave.

As for the inference that Sylvia was driven away, no one would think like this, because as long as you think about the various rumors, Sylvia's status and prestige in Touscent, coupled with the military power she controls, only she can drive the others away, and absolutely no one can drive her away, not even the Duchess.

On the subsequent road, Sylvia pointed out the safety of the caravan a little, and the caravan leader found that Sylvia's problem was very reasonable, so he simply handed over the caravan's escort to Sylvia, of course, the cost of hiring was naturally a lot.

Sylvia didn't give up, and after the caravan guards worked, she began to rearrange the caravan guards according to her vision.

For example, the knights are integrated together and assigned to the back of the caravan, so that if they encounter an enemy, the knights have enough space to launch the first round of attacks on the enemy.

The mercenaries were placed in the middle of the convoy, and they were surrounded by heavy vehicles, which could be quickly formed in the form of a defensive formation in the event of a sudden attack.

Bounty hunters, on the other hand, are used as scouts, and their abundant tracking instincts allow them to spot anomalies in their surroundings through clues, giving the caravan plenty of time to defend.

After Sylvia's arrangement, the originally chaotic convoy of the convoy became orderly, and the speed of the march was much faster, and a camping point that was expected to take evening was reached just after noon, so the caravan had to modify the itinerary and continue on the road, waiting until it reached the village about half a day's journey from the camping point and set up camp again.

The location of the village chosen by the caravan leader to camp is not near the trade route, but on the hillside away from one end of the trade road, this village is mainly planted with a kind of hemp, which is one of the main raw materials for cloth, this kind of cloth made of hemp is very strong, durable, and not easily corroded by the sea, so it was often used by the Nilfgard Empire to make military uniforms and sails.

Although the Nefgard Empire has a great demand for hemp, the purchase price of hemp raw materials is not high, and the villages that grow hemp can barely make a little profit from each year's harvest, and the real earners are the big merchants and big lords who have mastered the weaving workshops, and the Nefgaard Empire will buy all kinds of fabrics made of hemp at a price ten or even dozens of times more than the raw materials of hemp.

It is precisely because of the huge benefits contained in the hemp, so the villages that did not grow hemp, were divided into small plots by those big nobles and big merchants, and everyone could only buy the hemp in their own territory, and the hemp in that territory could only be sold to the owner of the land.

This decision was very beneficial to the nobles and merchants, because they did not have to raise the price and squeeze the profits because of the purchase of hemp, and at the same time avoided some unnecessary competition, if anyone needed to expand the land for the acquisition of hemp, they only needed to buy a piece of land sold by others, and if there was any dispute, there was a committee established by the merchants and nobles to arbitrate.

For the Nilfgard Empire, this order was equally beneficial, as they were able to obtain a stable supply of flax cloth without having to spend extra energy on trivial matters such as purchasing hemp and making cloth.

But for those villages that grow hemp, this order is definitely not a good thing, because they have been chained to the cultivation of hemp for generations, but they can only get a very small profit.

Because of this, these hemp cultivation villages wanted to rebel, and the first step they did was to stop selling hemp to nobles and merchants, and at the same time announced that they would stop growing hemp and grow grain instead.

The behavior of these villages simply touched the money bags of these big nobles and big businessmen in the Nifgaard Empire, and those nobles and merchants naturally would not allow this, so they openly sent people to appease these villages, and secretly tried to teach these villages a lesson, and let them know a little powerful.

The caravans that traveled between Touscent and Medina were well-informed people who knew very well the contradictions between these villages and the great nobles and merchants, and they did not want to get involved in these contradictions, so when they chose to camp, even if there was a village next to the road that could allow the caravan to rest better, they would not choose to camp here, but went to camp in other open areas.

However, this time the caravan leader chose this village can be regarded as a little selfish, because he had encountered a bandit in the past, the caravan suffered heavy casualties, and he also received serious injuries, and the caravan people thought he was dead, so they left him on the side of the road at random, and the result was that the villagers of this village found him and took him back to the village for treatment, so that he could survive.

Not long ago, he received news through his own channels that he knew that this village was also one of the villages that refused to sell hemp and was ready to change to grow grain, and the nobleman who controlled the purchase of hemp in this area was a military nobleman with an extremely violent personality, and this nobleman had decided to use this village as the object of his own authority, and was ready to send his personal guard to disguise himself as bandits and kill all the people in this village to warn other villages.

The caravan leader had planned to leave the caravan in a safe place and set up camp, and then he rode alone to the village to report the news, so that the people in the village could leave the village before the nobles' personal guards arrived, and return when things had calmed down.

However, with the addition of Sylvia and others, the caravan leader also had other ideas, especially the caravan actually came to the booked camping site half a day in advance, and this camping site only needed half a day to reach the village, he felt that this was a revelation from God to him, so he decided to take the caravan to the village, and let his caravan guards and Sylvia be their protectors without knowing it.

In this way, everyone was unknowingly taken by the caravan leader to this small village, which was not very large, and there was no inn in the small village, because of the relationship with the caravan leader, the caravan was arranged in a fairly spacious open space on the edge of the village.

Sylvia was a little puzzled by the caravan leader leading the group to camp in this off-the-road village, because the village was not a suitable place to camp in any way. However, this was the location chosen by the caravan leader after all, and she didn't say much, plus the village could provide some supplies, so the shortcomings of camping in this village were ignored.

It wasn't until the caravan formed a defensive camp according to Sylvia's instructions and Sylvia began to arrange the defense of the camp that the caravan leader invited Sylvia aside and told Sylvia what might happen tonight.

However, what puzzled the caravan leader was that Sylvia did not scold or blame him for this, but looked at the other party calmly, looked up and down with scrutinizing eyes, and then said, "The caravan should be yours, right?"

"Not quite mine. The caravan leader shook his head slightly and explained, "There are also two nobles' shares, and I am only directly responsible for managing the caravan. ”

"Is it worth it?" Sylvia asked, "Is it worth it to lose your caravan for the sake of these villagers?"

"They saved me before. The caravan leader said in a deep voice.

Sylvia calmly asked, "But have you thought about the rest of the caravan, and they are in danger because you have been used by you to repay your kindness?"

The caravan leader was unable to answer this question, but lowered his head with a look of shame on his face.

Sylvia didn't say anything more, turned around and prepared to return to the camp, but the caravan leader then spoke: "My lord, you better let them stop camping and set off overnight......!

"There's no need! it's just a bunch of bandits!" Sylvia interrupted the caravan leader and said in a deep voice, "You remember that there are no nobles' personal guards at all, just a bunch of thieves. ”

With that, Sylvia hurried back to the camp, then indicated where to set up camp, and came to the tent that the caravan had prepared for her and Leo, where Leo was strengthening his control over the power of blood in his own way.

"I know where the voyeur you found hiding in the woods came from!" Sylvia said directly to Leo after entering the tent.

"Where are you from?" asked Leo in a two-hearted manner.

Sylvia then repeated what the caravan leader had told her.

"Do you need me to deal with them?" asked Leo.

Although the voyeur had long since left, Leo was able to trace his whereabouts based on the traces he had left behind, and then find the location of the noble personal guard.

"No need!" Sylvia shook her head and said, "I haven't been active in over a month, so it's time to warm up with these guys." ”

Seeing that Sylvia had already made a decision, Leo didn't say anything and asked Sylvia if she needed help, and Sylvia just asked the villagers to protect this existence when the battle happened.

Later, Sylvia went to Geralt and explained the situation.

Although Geralt and the others were indignant that they were being used, they did not say that they wanted to leave, and they all stayed, while Sylvia left them in the caravan camp and was in charge of guarding the camp.

Then she met separately with a few of the most prestigious members of the Wandering Knights, Mercenaries, and Bounty Hunters, and told them that there might be a battle tonight, and that they were ready to go.

Several people wondered why Sylvia knew about this, but Sylvia didn't say anything more and didn't say anything about the caravan leader.

The admiration for Sylvia made the wandering knight immediately believe Sylvia's words and said that he would follow Sylvia's arrangement, while the mercenaries and bounty hunters, although they were a little confused, did not ask much, they all felt that no matter whether or not someone came back to attack here in the end, it would not hurt for them to be prepared for defense.

So, Sylvia began to rearrange the defense of the camp, let the bounty hunters set some improvised traps outside the camp, form a barricade of vehicles, and block the outside, and then the defense of her camp was handed over to Cassirer, because Cassirer was the highest person in the camp, and he was also the one who actually participated in the war.

Sylvia herself, with her heavily armed wandering knights, left the camp and disappeared into the darkness outside the camp.

Sylvia's series of actions, there was no concealment at all, everyone saw it, and some smart people immediately realized that something was going to happen, so they found a safe place to hide first.

At this time, the caravan leader also led the villagers to the camp and accepted the protection of the caravan.

There were not many villagers in this village, only about two hundred, and the number of people was slightly smaller than that of the caravan, because when Sylvia surrounded the barricade with a horse-drawn carriage, she expected this to happen, so the area enclosed by the barricade was greatly expanded, and the camp of more than two hundred people would not feel crowded when they entered the camp.

And the people of the caravan did not object to this, because they all thought that the battle that might come later was caused by the caravan, and they all felt a little guilty in the face of the people in this village.

Because of the addition of the villagers, the camp immediately became a lot more lively, although these villagers could not add much to the combat effectiveness of the caravan guards, but the word "outnumbered" is still used here, at least the panic caused by Sylvia's actions just now quickly dissipated from the camp, and everyone sat around the campfire chatting and bragging.

The lively atmosphere in the camp made Angoulan, a young girl, look extremely excited, and she walked around, inquiring about all kinds of rumors, listening to the mercenaries and bounty hunters bragging about each other, as if it were a bonfire.

As time passed, everyone also felt sleepy, and those who had tents went into the tents to rest, and those who did not have tents spread a blanket on the ground not far from the campfire, and rested on the spot.

Most of the mercenaries and bounty hunters were rested by Cassirer, leaving only a few people to be on duty, and Geralt and Regiel couldn't sleep, so they joined the night watch.

A few hours had passed, and it was late at night, when ordinary people were extremely sleepy, Geralt and Regiel, who were in charge of the guards, heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance almost at the same time. They climbed to the roof of the car and looked at the place where the sound had come from, only to see more than a hundred torches appear in the darkness, and they approached it as fast as they could.

Upon discovering this, they immediately shouted to wake up the people in the camp and took out their weapons and prepared for battle.