Chapter 70: News from the Camp
Gervais originally thought that he would spend today in cultivation, but what he didn't expect was that news finally came from Audri's side, and there was movement in Viscount Lanny's territory.
Gervais was called out by Anna in the cultivation space, and was sitting in the hall on the first floor of the Inner Castle at the moment, and Nashen and Dries were also invited to the hall.
Oldrey remained there to monitor the camp, while the guard hurried back to report on the situation.
"I've seen my lord!"
The guards who had reported the news came to Gervais and saluted him.
"Is there something going on over there?"
Gervais nodded to the guards and asked directly, although it was still dawn at the moment, it was already close to dusk, and Gervais was worried that Viscount Lenny was preparing to transport the supplies away at night.
Although Gervais is also preparing to ambush and intercept, but what he wants is to intercept and kill during the day, and there is no flashlight in this world, and it is not easy to fight in the middle of the night, and it is especially easy to accidentally injure his own people.
"Back to my lord, in the afternoon, a group of people came to the buffer zone, numbering about forty people, and five carriages in the middle, all of them entered Viscount Lanny's camp, and after discovering the situation, Audri asked me to come back and report to you, and he continued to monitor there."
The guard bent down and reported to Gervais, and after saying that, he looked at Gervais and continued: "My lord, Audri asked me to tell you that there was actually a suspicious caravan that stayed in the buffer zone at noon. ”
"Oh? So tell me in detail, what's going on? ”
Gervais frowned slightly, if it wasn't really suspicious, Audri would definitely not have deliberately asked the soldier to mention it to himself. “
Now that he is about to do it, if there are uncontrollable factors, it is likely to bring great risks to his actions.
"Yes, my lord, in fact, at noon today, there has been a convoy to the buffer zone, that convoy has more than ten carriages, but there are not many people, you can only see the coachman who drives the carriage, there is no guard, the carriages of the convoy are all covered kinds, they stayed in the buffer zone for more than ten minutes, and after more than ten minutes, they turned around and returned the same way, towards the territory of Viscount Lanny, during which we have been paying attention, and no personnel have entered and exited from Viscount Lanny's camp, so I did not come back to report to you at that time."
"Stayed for more than ten minutes? And then go back the way you came? ”
Listening to the detailed story told by the guards, Gervais frowned, Gervais has been in the territory for more than ten days, and he has not seen a convoy pass through his territory from Viscount Lanny, this season, except for a few caravans, there are few convoys passing through his territory.
It is only in the autumn that passing convoys can be seen occasionally in the Stormwind Lord, and those convoys are mostly convoys that have purchased coal mines from Viscount Ranny.
However, at noon today, such a convoy came to the buffer zone and stayed for more than ten minutes, and finally returned the strange way, and then in the afternoon Viscount Lanny's men and horses arrived at the camp, which had to make Gervais feel a little strange, but he couldn't figure out the reason.
"Lord Nashen, what do you think about this?"
Gervais couldn't figure it out, so he looked up at Nashen, who was also thinking silently, to see if he had any ideas.
"Master Gervais, I think that convoy is a bit weird, but it shouldn't be Viscount Lanny's convoy."
Nashen heard Gervais's inquiry, and thought for a moment before slowly answering Gervais.
"Why?"
Gervais couldn't help but straighten up and asked with curiosity on his face.
"Because that would be very noticeable, what Viscount Lanny did was already dishonorable, and he attached so much importance to that camp that he must be worried about the leakage of today's delivery, so it is impossible to send two convoys to the buffer zone in one day, otherwise not only will there be no benefit, but there is also a great risk for people to target."
Nashen smiled at Gervais, who had been a Lord for so many years and had fought with Gandalf for many years, so he saw these things more clearly than Gervais, so he told Gervais the reason for his guess.
"Lord Nashen has a point, in that case, whatever the purpose of that convoy at noon, we need to act immediately and rush to the buffer zone to ambush, otherwise if Viscount Lanny's convoy takes away the contents of the camp overnight, we will fall short."
Gervais nodded to Nashen, and Nashen agreed with Nashen's explanation, since Lanny's manpower came in the afternoon at one time, there was no reason to do it at noon, and that did not really have any other benefits than attracting attention.
"Gervais, since you are about to start your move, then I am ready to return to the territory now, take care, my brother!"
Seeing that Gervais had made up his mind to start acting today, Dries also stood up and said to Gervais in a very sincere tone.
"I'm so sorry, Dries. In such a hurry, I want you to set off again, and when I have time next time, I will definitely treat you well! ”
Gervais also did not expect that the matter on Viscount Lanny's side came so suddenly, in order to prevent a handle from falling into Lanny's hands, Nashen and the 40 soldiers who acted together today would stay in the castle, while Dries returned to Gandalf's territory with the convoy and the rest of the personnel.
Although this plan to cover people's eyes is very clumsy, as long as there is no handle on the surface for Viscount Lanny to attack, once the ambush and interception of the convoy happens, even if Gervais does it seamlessly, he thinks that Lanny can guess that he did it.
"I've been surprised to be able to eat Warcraft meat, and I want to thank you for your hospitality, Gervais!"
Seeing that Dries was like this, Gervais didn't say anything else, and now that time was pressing, he walked out of the hall with a few people and began to arrange things.
Fortunately, the wagon had been unloaded and the dry rations needed for the return were loaded on the wagon, and Dries left the castle with the ordinary coachmen and ten guards.
After Dries took the convoy, more than forty people had gathered in the vestibule, each of them fully armed, with many leather armor and longbows.
Gandalf's support for Gervais was forty-one, including Nashen.
There were six people on Gervais's side plus himself, Ike was injured and couldn't go, Audri was already watching from the hill of the buffer zone, and the three guards needed to stay at the castle just in case.
So the total number of people who acted together today, including Audrey, was forty-eight, and if Lanny's convoy was also more than forty at night, Gervais felt that their success was still very high.
Twenty of Gandalf's men were skilled archers, and the road to the ambush site was so far away that a rain of arrows could take away at least a dozen people under a sneak attack, and then more than forty people who gave up their bows and arrows swarmed up, so it shouldn't be a big problem.