Chapter 52: Occupy the Manor

El led a few horsemen to gallop across the field, and when he saw the three of Lorlist, he rode up alone.

"My lord, we have won a great victory, and even their camp has been captured by us. El's face flushed with excitement, and he shouted at the three Lorlistes from afar.

When he arrived, Lorist asked, "What are you doing?" to walk them?"

"No, Knight Bodfinger told me to search the neighborhood and make sure not a single slave hunter escapes. El replied.

"You say we captured the camp of the slave catchers?" asked Lorlist.

"Yes, Locke, you were so powerful that you killed them and tried to flee back to the camp, and we took advantage of the situation to occupy their camp with a charge. Now the dead fat man has let people carry him to the camp of the slave catchers, and he is cleaning up the spoils, and let me see you and let you go back quickly. "Although El has become a knight of the Norton family, he is the most unscrupulous in words, often talking and forgetting the identities of the two, and treating himself and Lorist as the mercenaries who went out on adventures in the first place.

Lorist also felt most comfortable with El: "Are our casualties large?"

"Casualties? The two slave soldiers chased too quickly to pay attention to their feet, one twisted his foot, and the other fell on his heel, breaking his lip. Both of these unlucky bastards were about to be laughed at to death. More than half of the slave hunters died, and the remaining 100 or so were arrested. By the way, Locke, hurry back, there are still more than 2,000 captured slaves in the camp of the slave hunting group, and you are up to you whether to stay or let go. El said.

"There's no hurry. Lorist said, turning to the old man who was following the horse, "Hey, old man, where did you get those slaves in your camp?"

The old man looked a little miserable, his body was tied with five flowers, the rope was still in the hands of Dores in front of him, and he still carried five bundles of throwing guns on his back. Because Lorist cherished horsepower, and if he wanted to ride a horse and was worried that his mount would carry too much weight, he unloaded his throwing gun and let the old man carry it. He said that although the old man looked old, he was a golden three-star star, and his muscles and bones were very strong, otherwise he would not have come here in one go, and a few bundles of throwing guns were just trivial. The old man had just escaped with his life, and he could only accept it when he knew that Lorist had changed his ways.

At this moment, Lorist asked him, and the old man hurriedly replied: "Master, these slaves have been bought or captured from the kingdom of Redlis in the past six months, and I heard that the first few times they went, they broke several villages, and the old ones were killed, and the young ones were captured. ”

Alas, life in troubled times is as cheap as dogs, and as a peasant, you not only have to deal with the endless levies and labor of the lords, but also have to avoid military disasters, especially those slave traders who take advantage of the fire to rob and murder. Once the village is breached by these slave hunters, these peasants are still with their families one moment, and the next moment their family members are killed, and they become slaves.

Lorist said with disdain: "Old man, as a golden three-star swordsman, why do you want to mix with these people who are not as good as pigs and dogs and do those things that hurt the heavens?"

The old man cried out: "Master, I can't help it." Six years ago I passed by with my granddaughter and wanted to go to the city of Moriente. As a result, my granddaughter was seriously ill in Port Ametrin, and she had no money for treatment, so she joined the slave hunting group and saved her granddaughter. I haven't killed a single slave in six years, but I've helped a lot of people......"

The old man turned out to be the captain of the city defense of a small city in the former Krisson Empire, and the family was doing well, but later the three princes competed for the throne, and the civil war first affected the area where the old man was located. The old man's son and daughter-in-law are dead, and his wife's grief is gone. The old man, fearing that his only granddaughter would also have an accident, became a deserter, and carried his twelve-year-old granddaughter over the mountains to the city of Moriente, but the little granddaughter fell seriously ill in the port of Ametrin. When the old man was desperate, he met Slov, the leader of the slave catcher, and had to join the slave catcher in order to save his granddaughter, and then he has been mixed up until now.

The old man defended himself, saying that the head of the slave catcher, Slov, also knew that he did not like to do slave hunting, so he put him in charge of the garrison camp here, where he had helped many slaves to avoid harm.

"Didn't they end up being sold by you?" said El disdainfully, "Old man, since you know that the slave trade is immoral, why don't you go away after your granddaughter recovers from her illness, and you have been with them for six years. ”

"I want to go, but am I leaving?" the old man smiled bitterly, "After my granddaughter recovered from her illness, we were taken to Slov Manor, where we have lived ever since. It was Slov's stronghold, heavily guarded. It's okay for me to go in and out alone, but I can't run away with my granddaughter. What's more, Slov himself is a gold-level swordsman, and his cousin Pike is a great swordsman. After a long time, I had no choice but to accept my fate. ”

Lorist's expression was a little serious: "Old man, can you introduce the situation of the head of the Slov regiment, and what is the Slov manor." And the details of his cousin's great swordsman named Pike, the more detailed the better. ”

The old man had been in the slave hunting group for six years, and he knew these situations very well. He said that the leader of the slave catcher group, Slov, was a mercenary in his early years, and then he didn't know how to meet a slave trader in Nubit Harbor, so he formed a slave catcher group to start a slave capture business, and the former Krissian Empire Civil War gave the slave catcher a good time to fish in troubled waters, and the business has become bigger and bigger in the past six years, and the slave catcher has grown to the scale of nearly 300 people today, and even the local lords are helpless Slov.

When Slov had the money, he built a manor castle covering thousands of acres in the hills west of the small town. It was inhabited by relatives of the members of the slave hunting group, and nearly 800 slaves were responsible for the cultivation and daily work of the thousands of acres of vineyards on the estate. In recent years, the wine produced by the Slov estate has become very famous.

The Slof Manor was heavily guarded, one was the terrain, and the other was enough manpower. However, in recent years, Captain Slov has been seeking a title of nobility, and he wants to turn himself into a territorial nobleman. Last month, he brought a group of men to the royal capital, and then he had to go to the port of Nubit to settle the bill, and he would return in about ten days as planned. Because the slave catchers are still here, the defense force of Slov Manor is the weakest now, with only a dozen silver swordsmen and a fifty-man garrison of black iron who guards the suppression of slaves.

Captain Slov himself is a golden two-star swordsman, but he has made a fortune in the past few years, he has become pampered and fat, and his strength seems to have declined. His backer is the Pike Great Swordsman, and the two are said to be cousins......

"Did you fight that Pike Archswordsman?" Lorist asked.

The old man nodded and replied, "I have exchanged hands, and at the harvest festival banquet the year before last, the people of the slave catcher group coaxed Master Pike to show his hand. The Pike master chose me as his opponent, and I fought him for about ten rounds, and when I noticed that he was uncertain, I hurriedly threw up my sword and threw in the towel. In fact, I estimate that there should be no winner or loser within a hundred moves. ”

Loris nodded, knowing what to expect.

"That's right. What's your name, old man?" asked Lorlist.

"My name, my name is Injerek. The old man replied.

......

While speaking, the camp arrived, and Lorist saw that the gate of the camp of the slave hunters was open, so he rode his horse in, but saw Shi Fatzi sitting on a soft couch and was on fire in the square in the middle of the camp. The reason was that Shi Fatzi was injured and couldn't write, so he casually found an old student to help him remember, but the old student's handwriting was very poor and always wrote wrongly, which made Shi Fatzi anxious. The old student also had a great temper, and was scolded by Shi Fatzi twice, threw the paper and pen in his hand, and said that Lao Tzu's hand is to cut people with a sword, not to write with a pen, you let Lao Tzu help and ask for this and that, Lao Tzu didn't wait, patted his ass and flashed people directly, which made Shi Fatzi angry half to death.

Lorist smiled and dismounted to pick up the pen and paper, and handed it to Dorus next to him: "Dorus, you go to the slave over there to find a few words to write, and let them follow the knight of Schreed to listen to the orders." El, you go and fetch Knight Bodfinger and Telman, and we'll meet here for a discussion. ”

Telman, Bodfinger and two of his comrades hurried in.

Lorist first briefly introduced the situation of Slov, and then said that while the defense of Slov Manor was weak, he would take advantage of his unpreparedness to carry out a sneak attack, occupy the manor first, and then deal with Slov and his cousin Pike Archswordsman, who would return ten days later.

Lorist plans to let the old man who called Ingerek surrender take him into the manor to deceive the gate first, and then Tryman will lead people to attack to quickly destroy the resistance forces, and finally let Dorus and the slave soldiers occupy and clean up the entire manor. El led a group of slave soldiers who could ride horses to cordon off the entire manor on the perimeter, making sure that no one in the manor escaped the net. When the dust settles, the camp here can be abandoned, and everyone will move to the manor.

During the attack on the manor, the camp on this side was under the control of Bodfinger to ensure that there were no accidents.

There was no objection to Lorlist's arrangement, but Bodfinger was worried that Lorist would have an accident if he took the old man with three golden stars to trick him into opening the door. Rod Wells, who was standing on the sidelines, said, "Why don't I go with Mr. Norton, it's okay to stay here anyway, I'm bored." ”

Finger was overjoyed by Rod Wells' volunteerism and patted him on the shoulder and thanked him repeatedly. Lorist hurriedly thanked him: "Mr. Rod, sorry for your trouble, thank you very much for your help and help to us......"

Rod Wells hurriedly returned the salute, looking at Lorlist's skills and performance, he was very polite at the moment: "Mr. Norton, there is no need to be polite. If you don't mind, you can just call me Ross like Borg. ”

Lorist laughed and reached out to shake him, "Okay, Rose, you can call me Locke too, my friends call me that." ”

......

Lorist went to take a shower and changed out of his blood-stained clothes. He also asked the old man named Injerek to wash it, change his wet pants, and when he saw that everyone was ready, he and Ross took Injelek and rode off to Slov Manor.

The Slov manor was about six or seven kilometers away from the slave hunters' camp, and the buildings on the hills that we could see as we turned west along the avenue and walked west through the small town. Lorist chatted and laughed with Rose all the way, and soon arrived.

Rose is a very straightforward and heroic man, he said that his father was also an old mercenary, and he got this high-level fighting spirit cheats in his early years and left it to him, hoping that his son could become a legendary mercenary. As a result, Rose heard a lot of stories about knights and princes fighting on the battlefield when he was a child, and when he grew up, he hid from his father and became a soldier, hoping that he could become a knight, which almost caused his father to have a stroke.

In the White Lion Legion Ross was a brave and fearless general, and after the end of the Civil War, the White Lion Legion was disbanded. Rose returned home to find that his relatives were gone, and he had nothing to worry about, so he and a few comrades formed a small mercenary group to go out on an adventure. Coincidentally, he rescued a slave trader who was besieged by bandits, and then was hired by the slave trader to be a bodyguard and followed him to the port of Nubit. Then he met Bodfinger, and when he said that he was going to buy slaves to form the Norton family's private army and go to the Northlands, he became interested and took Mons Malek, who was also unwilling to stay in Nubit Harbor, to follow Bodfinger here.

The process of taking Slov Manor went well, Ross didn't even make a move, and the throwing gun carried by Lorist solved the problem. The gatekeepers saw that the old man was in front of him, and quickly lowered the drawbridge and opened the gate of the manor. Lorist swung his sword a few times and slit their throats. The other defending silver swordsmen deceived the Lorist people, and more than a dozen people flocked to it.

Lorist pulled out the throwing spear hanging on the horse, like thunder, fast as lightning, shot after shot, throwing the spear into a rain of guns, more than a dozen silver swordsmen who rushed directly carried down more than half, and the remaining few prepared silver swordsmen swung their swords to cut off the throwing spears, but then the continuous burst of throwing spears still penetrated their bodies. The three shots were thrown, and there was not a single standing enemy in front of Lorlist.

The old man Yingjerek saw that his legs trembled, and he was glad in his heart, but fortunately he knew each other and surrendered quickly, so he saved his old life. Ross watched from the sidelines in amazement and praised the stunt.

Telman led people to follow up and occupied the main castle, and then Dorres and Telman cleaned up the entire manor, although they were counterattacked by the garrison of the black iron order guarding the slaves, but under the attack of Telman and the old cadets, after being killed a dozen people, they stopped resisting and were captured, and none of them were hurt. Dorres commented that the captives were simply asking for their own hardships, and that there must be something sick in their minds when they attacked the heavily armed silver swordsmen with leather whips and short swords.

Lorist instructed Telman to take people to the camp to inform Fat Man and Bodfinger to move to camp, bring everyone to Slov Manor, and by the way, let Telman pull all the transport wagons of the camp to the docks, and now let Yuri unload and transport all the weapons and goods.

Then Lorist asked Dorrest to gather the slaves in the manor, wait for the notice, and then bring people to detain the relatives of the slave catchers, and kill them if they resisted. He also sent someone to inform El to strengthen his vigilance, and he was very busy for a while.

The main house where the relatives of the slave catchers were located in the manor suddenly cried loudly, and the fierce slave soldiers broke through the door and drove out the relatives of the slave catchers, and from time to time there were shouts of killing and scolding from some houses or yards.

But these revolts were quickly suppressed, and several richly dressed corpses fell on the side of the road, at the gate of the courtyard, showing the ruthlessness and cruelty of the slave soldiers.

Lorist followed Injerek on horseback to the small courtyard where his granddaughter lived, and along the way the slave soldiers standing guard by the roadside saluted Lorlist, while the relatives of the slave hunters who had been kicked out of the house and stood by the road stared at them with fear or hatred.

Lorist breathed a sigh of relief, he found that these slave soldiers were very well-behaved and obedient, although they killed a few people who resisted in the course of the operation, nothing happened that he did not want to see, no one insulted women, no one stole property, maybe because they knew that taking it would not be their own but would punish themselves, they all kicked people out of the house and stood on the side of the road waiting for the next order.

The granddaughter of the old man, Injerek, was indeed very beautiful, fair-skinned, quiet, with a book in her hand, and a little maid of fifteen or sixteen years old standing outside the courtyard, with a look of horror on her face. When he saw the old man, he pounced and hugged him.

Lorist nodded to the slave soldiers who were saluting aside, looked at the old man's granddaughter, pointed to the small courtyard, and said to the old man, "Let's go in and talk again." ”

The small yard is not big, but it is neatly tied. Lorist entered the room again, and saw a half-written manuscript of animal skin on a table, and when he picked it up, he saw that the handwriting was neat and beautiful, except that the last word was scribbled and the strokes were very long, and it was evident that the slave soldiers had broken into the door and caused the writer to panic and mess with the handwriting.

"Are you copying books?" Lorist asked the girl who was holding the old man behind her, and the girl nodded shyly.

"The handwriting is good. Lorist commented.

"Injerek, it's time to pull your baby out. Lorist said.

The old man's face was disgraced, and he went into the next room and brought out a small box and a book of animal skins. When I opened the small box, it was full of shining golden lights.

"This, here is all my savings over the years, 1,437 gold coins. "The old man was in pain.

Lorist picked up a gold coin: "Old man, do you know how many slaves' sufferings and blood and tears are on this gold coin you earn? If you spend such money, you will be punished, either on your head or on your descendants. Let me help you solve the problem. ”

took out a money bag on his body and threw it to the old man: "Although there are only a dozen gold coins in my bag, each one is clean, and without you, these gold coins reveal a smell of blood and resentment." You can rest assured that you can sleep peacefully under your pillow at night. It's cheap for you, I'll give you this money bag. ”

"As for this water attribute Douqi cheats....... Lorist flipped through the beast skin's Douqi cheats and threw it to the girl next to him: "Let your granddaughter be responsible for copying another copy, it will still belong to you." Your grandfather and grandson have stayed here for the past two days, and this maid can be with you too. Waiting for your disposition. What do you need to tell the soldiers guarding outside the door directly, do you know?"

The old man hurriedly saluted: "Thank you, sir, I will listen to your orders." ”

Lorist walked away with a small box full of gold coins.