To fight guerrilla warfare well, it is most important to understand the terrain.

The members of the Blood Scorpion Thieves knew the location of the base camp and sentry posts.

Ivo brought a detailed map of the neighborhood from Madi, and by the way, he found out the hotel where Leon and the others were staying, and after studying the map all day, it was night again.

Ivo, Davy, and Hades went out in the dark of night and came to the hotel where Leon and the others lived in the town of Liema.

In the alleys outside the hotel, several thieves are hidden in the shadows, and Ivo is targeting them.

The three Ivo sneak into an alley and find a thief hiding in the corner, he gestures to Hades, who nods, starts the night overture, sneaks up on the thief, and knocks him out from behind with the hilt of a knife.

Ivo picked up the unconscious thief and quickly shifted his position away from the monitored area.

Back in the lord's longhouse, he tied the thief to a stool, tied his hands behind the back of the chair, and his feet were firmly fastened to the legs of the stool with cowhide bands. After a while, the thief woke up slowly, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he was about to cry out for help, Ivo drew an iron dagger and put it on his eyelids, looked directly into the thief's frightened gaze, and said coldly: "If you scream, I will pluck one of your eyeballs." ”

The thieves obediently quieted down, and Ivo took out a detailed map and said, "Tell me the location of your base camp and each sentry." ”

The thief clenched his teeth and seemed determined not to say anything.

David punched the thief in the face and threatened, "If you don't say it, we'll kill you and let you rot in the ground." ”

But the thief still didn't speak.

Ivo suddenly struck, covering the thief's mouth with one hand, and the dagger cut off three of the thief's fingers, and the thief struggled violently in pain, and the mouth held down by Ivo made a muffled sound, and shook the stool frantically like convulsions. Three blood-drenched severed fingers fell to the ground, and there was a clanging sound of metal falling, and Ivo picked out a small medallion from the pool of blood, "Your little tricks make me very unhappy. ”

David was startled, and a light blue magic light flashed on the medallion, this is a magic communication item, originally hidden in the thief's sleeve, just now the thief wanted to quietly excite, but Ivo saw through and stopped it for the first time, and David didn't find out, he was a little annoyed, drew his sword and put it on the thief's heart, and shouted: "Say!"

The thief had a hideous face, glaring at Ivo angrily, and was unwilling to divulge information even if he was hit hard, Sir David was quite strange, how could an ordinary thief be so stubborn?

Ivo had expected that if he could have an alchemy cannon, it would definitely not be a simple group of thieves.

"Ivo, are we going to torture him?"

"I have a better way. ”

Ivo took out two thick handkerchiefs, took out the jug and poured them to moisten them completely, and then stacked the wet handkerchiefs on the thief's face, covering his eyes, nose and mouth, a method of interrogation that was more effective than torture, as has been confirmed by many examples.

The thief's chest rose and fell slowly, and before anything unusual, David wondered, "What's the use of this?"

"You'll find out in a moment. ”

After a while, the thief's chest suddenly rose and fell in frequent, and his body writhed uneasily.

Suddenly, he began to struggle violently, the stool creaked and writhed, and he was like a fish that had come ashore and jumped wildly, unable to breathe any air.

The struggle lasted for fifteen seconds before Ivo removed the handkerchief, and the thief breathed as if he had been reborn, and with a look of palpitation, Ivo took out the map, sneered and asked, "I don't want to feel the punishment just now, so tell us everything you know." ”

The thief looked at Ivo with a calm face, and in his eyes Ivo was the devil incarnate, and he trembled his lips and gave the location of the base camp, as well as several sentry posts, which Ivo marked with circles on the map.

David was amazed, "How did you do that?"

Ivo didn't answer, and suddenly shouted angrily: "You dare to fool me, your lies make me very angry!"

Ivo once again put the wet handkerchief over the thief's face, repeating the situation before, but this time Ivo removed the handkerchief and said nothing, only giving the thief five seconds to breathe, and then continued to cover his face with the handkerchief, repeating it three times.

The thief's eyes were hollow, and he was tortured to the point of collapse, and Ivo took out the map again, and said in a cold tone: "If you lie again, I can play with you like this for a day." ”

The thief shuddered and spoke again, and said a few sentries and traps that he had deliberately concealed.

David was shocked by Ivo's performance again, "How do you know he's lying?"

"I don't know, I'm just lying to him. Ivo suddenly drew his dagger and stabbed it into the thief's heart, and in his incredulous gaze, Ivo said lightly: "I didn't say that you would leave alive, I will mourn for you." ”

According to the intelligence, the base camp of the Blood Scorpion Thieves is located in the blade woods not far from Liema Town, and is called the "Blood Scorpion Nest" by the members of the Thieves Group.

Ivo handed the marked map to Hades and said, "You go and scout the marked places, don't trust the map completely, write down all the suspicious places you see, and in three days you will meet at this location at the edge of the Blade Woods." ”

Hades gave Ivo a deep look and left with his map.

David lamented, "You're such a cautious person. ”

Ivo shrugged, and though he looked heartless, he had been careful in his actions.

......

Every royal cadet was sulking, they were supposed to live in the luxurious lord's longhouse, but now they had to use the hotel's hard beds and dirty bedding, and Misha, who had a slight habit of cleanliness, smashed the bed boards in anger many times.

After two days of recuperation in the town of Liema, they finally couldn't bear the harsh conditions, and under the leadership of Leon, they prepared to go to the nearest other town to seek shelter and help from other lords.

Leaving Liema Town, Misha turned around and said in a resentful tone: "Lord Madi of Burning Horse Town, I remember!"

After advancing ten miles, the royal cadets encountered an attack by the thieves, and finally escaped, almost everyone was wounded, and Lei was stabbed three times, and the wound rolled up.

After running for a few more miles, they encountered another group of thieves, and fought fiercely again, this time the royal cadets were killed and wounded, a weaker cadet was hacked to death with a knife, and Leon was poked a hole in his thigh.

The third attack took place thirty minutes later, and only Leon, Misha, and Cicero escaped, and Leon's right arm and left leg were broken, and several ribs were broken, and it was then that he realized that something was wrong, and he couldn't understand why the thieves could catch up with them so quickly and couldn't get rid of them at all.

Misha realized it and said, "It must have been discovered by the thieves in Liema Town!"

Leon was remorseful, regretting that he had been too unvigilant.

......

When the royal cadets left Burning Horse Town and attracted the attention of the thieves, a part of the security team and the lord's guards in Burning Horse Town left Burning Horse Town under the leadership of Ivo and were not detected by the surveillance thieves.

On a hillside outside the town, Ivo inspected the men that Madi had lent him, a total of sixty men, most of them members of the vigilantes, of which forty-three were elite warriors, ten were tier 1 warriors, six were tier 2 warriors, and there was a third-class glorious knight loyal to Madi, Deken.

Mary stayed in the lord's longhouse to recuperate from her injuries, and Bliss took care of her in the longhouse, with only Barlow, Hades, Ender, and David participating in Ivo's operation.

Led by Ivo, the team quietly marched to the edge of the Blade Woods to meet Hades, who was scouting the terrain.