Upon hearing the news of the captivity, the crowd was amazed.

"Northerners!" Jenny exclaimed.

"Even the pot end!" Jason shouted.

"These robbers!" The Great Demon King shouted, "...... I mean, these nobles," it was her turn to cover her face with her hands this time, "and they ...... What about their rituals? What about legal awareness? What about the high faith? How can you just be busy robbing your neighbors when foreign enemies invade! How about fighting foreign enemies too! ”

Alas, I just praised you for not being an idiot, and in a blink of an eye, I left common sense behind, when the northerners invaded, there was no king to come forward to organize a coalition of nobles from all over the country, and they hid in the fortress with the force of these local nobles and village chiefs, and the northerners who lacked siege equipment would be helpless for a while and run out to fight in the field...... I really thought I could fight a hundred! It's better to rob your neighbors when the northerners are coming, Jason silently complained beside the big demon king.

"What are we going to do next?" Jenny asked, obviously, the original plan had been scrapped, "Do you still fight?" ”

"Hit!" Looking at the clouds of black smoke that were still rising, Luo Yi roared, although she was far away, she thought she heard the wind bring the cries of the farmers to her ears.

"Huh?" Jason, who was still addicted to complaining, was taken aback when he heard this roar, "Who to hit?" ”

"In front of you!"

“…… What an idiot......"

“…… What's your opinion? ”

“…… Hit the front. ”

"Cut! Aren't you like me, and call me an idiot! ”

"For it is evident that you have made your judgment on the basis of a sensual understanding that does not want the people to suffer, and I have made a judgment based on a well-thought-out rational understanding—it will be too late for a moment to catch up with the northerners. And the gang in front of you is now robbing your territory! ”

"What, my territory?"

"Didn't your father's family get served in a pot? Who else is the nearest heir besides you? "Such an obvious thing. You didn't even think about it that way, I guess all you have in mind is the throne. Jason thought, "Aren't these guys robbing your territory?" ”

"Oh, oh." Luo Yi is still very uncomfortable with the abrupt end of her tall aristocratic house fight and the fact that she has become the only winner and winner takes all, probably because all the house fighting novels she has read are quiet and good, and the family can still pass on the Guò bloodline quietly and beautifully after the N generations, and the N generations will be inherited without touching the world's fireworks and mundane dust, and I have never seen the change of dynasty make the house fighters who have been busy for half their lives a white and clean land, "Then, now a consensus has been reached." They are in danger of our interests and want to beat them! And for good reason! ”

The neighbors, who were robbing the Earldom of Faisal, did not necessarily approve of this reason, but they did approve of the fist, and sent only a hundred light cavalry to demonstrate, and these people retreated, they had come to take advantage of the fire to rob the peasants, and it was not their plan to fight the heavily armed knights. They had to have that kind of hard-nosed ability, and they should usually do it with the Earl.

After driving away this group of so-called nobles who took advantage of the fire to rob, Luo Yi and others moved the temporary camp to the original site of Count Faisal. It was burned, but the trench was still there, and they met there to discuss what to do next.

"Ten farmers were taken away," Jason reported to his mistress. "But our men caught three horsemen and five who followed on foot, and their ransom was quite offset, but the northerners took all the horses and some herds. We don't know about the damage to other property, because they took all the survivors of the castle away. Some of the books were burned by the next plunderers. ”

They silently looked at the corpses strewn across the ruins, all charred and black, and it was hard to recognize. And the northerners also stripped their clothes and jewelry from their bodies, which made their identity even more difficult to identify. If there is anything to recognize, it is their wounds, many of whom were killed by the axes used by the northerners, but many more, especially those who were near the door, were stabbed to death with daggers.

But there were no signs of the gate being broken, and in fact, they did not find any traces of the siege at all. Count Faisal's castle was not a solid stone fortress, but it had sharpened wooden fences and moats, which seemed to be of little use at all. It is true that some of the wooden fences were charred, but it is easy to see that they were destroyed by the fire that burned down the castle, and was destroyed by later scavengers rather than by siegers.

The situation in the castle also shows that there was no fierce attack and defense, they found no traces of firing arrows, and there was even leftover food on the table.

It can be seen that these people were attacked unguarded.

"It seems that the people inside the castle invited them in......" Jason muttered as he looked at the traces, "Could it be that the Count invited them?" ”

He did not make such a guess, the nobles of faith in Neustria would not only take advantage of the invasion of the northerners to rob their neighbors, but they would also collude with the northerners, and even temporarily defect on the battlefield of the decisive battle. The Leoud had a relationship with the Duke of Ulrich and others who invaded Neustria, and they gave the duke hostages and food and grass, and also guarded the camp for the duke, so that the duke could go deep into the interior to plunder, and John of Jesco once angrily pointed out to the Great Demon King that without these half-hearted wall grass, Neustria would have successfully counterattacked.

But he then denied his judgment that it was possible that Count Faisal was in collusion with the northerners, especially his stepwife, the vacillating Ryud, who might act as a liaison between the northerners and the Count Faisal, but even if the northerners were really so unfaithful, the count should not have opened the gates of the city and not been armed.

Because there is a traitorous treaty, there is no armed welcome, and Jason thinks that even the Great Demon King will not be so uncommon-sense...... Not so unsuspecting...... She's usually heavily armed and slumped in armies......

"I guess what kind of strategy the northerners used." Luo Yi said that in her hometown, deceit is considered a must-have for soldiers, "It is possible that they pretended to be merchants to deceive the city gates." ”

"That's possible, but a few merchants can't control the gate immediately, not even northerners."

"The Striker Scout has captured a captive who escaped from the Northerners!" Jeanne walked in and put an end to their speculation, "He was a probationary monk at St. Cran's Abbey, and he said that a northerner chief had said that he was going to die, and had asked the abbey to give him an orthodox funeral, so that he would not die of error, and had promised to donate to my lord the proceeds of his plunder, and the abbots and monks believed in them and opened the door...... That's it. ”

"It seems that the old earl is also fooled like this......"

"He also met ...... in the ranks of the captives," Jeanne reported the names of several nobles and monasteries in one breath, "and they all fell for the cunning tricks of the northerners, and opened their doors credulously. ”

"Uh."

"It is considered a great honor to convert a pagan leader." "Everybody wanted to emulate the Great King, who converted Duke Ulrich to Orthodoxy and sanctified his name. ”

The Great Demon King from another worldly country can't understand this, as long as the other party abides by the law, she doesn't care whether the other party believes in a cross or an onion.

"Not only can you become holy, but you can also get the property of the dying northerner nobles, and the good thing of fame and fortune is too good......" Jason was muttering when he suddenly shuddered, "They robbed so many homes?" That's a lot to gain! Those monasteries are rich! ”

Jenny looked at her brother in amazement, for this was what she was going to report next, "The trainee monk also said that many of the precious relics treasured by the monastery have been taken by this cunning group of infidels, and that we hope we can save them from the hateful heretics......"

"That's for sure!" Jason yelled, then turned around and shouted at Luo Yi, "What are we waiting for!" Let's get out and beat these damned infidels! ”

"What?" Even the Great Demon King was very uncomfortable with this man who was full of bad water and turned into a fanatical crusader in the next second, "Recruit them? ”

"Yes! Defeat them! Crush them! Snatch back all the holy relics they have taken! Jason's eyes lit up, "Let's get out of here, they're all on horseback, order the light cavalry to set out immediately to harass them and slow them down, so that they can intercept it!" ”

"What? What? Jenny was also visibly confused, she

"It's too late!" Jason stomped his feet and said, "Alas, alas, why don't you understand, not to mention those holy relics, the boxes used to hold the holy relics must be gold!" ”

"Understood." Luo Yi said clearly, "Those precious holy relics, as well as the gold-inlaid boxes of the holy relics, should not be placed in the filthy hands of the northern pagans, they should be solemnly enshrined in the Cathedral of Turnest, right?" ”

"That's right!" Seeing his hostess so open-minded, Jason couldn't help but grin and give her a thumbs up.

Familiar with the words and deeds of you people of faith three hundred times, I won't say that I will memorize it, the Great Demon King snorted in his heart, isn't it just to find an excuse to whitewash, who wouldn't...... Although she would love to travel back in time and hammer herself to death three hundred times for believing in these whitewashes.

"The light cavalry will set out first, harass the march of the northerners, and slow down their march, and we will at once set out in pursuit," Jason hastily drew up a freshly baked plan, "Madame, please give a mobilization speech to the whole army, and boost their morale, for they did not expect to make a further expedition, and to convince them...... You will, right? ”

"Uh." (To be continued......)