The remnants of the defeated soldiers who fled towards the siege camp in the open space completely lost the determination they had when they came to this land.
They were like annoying mangy dogs, driven away by the cavalry of Verde Village led by Gabriel.
They couldn't bear to fight anymore and completely lost their fighting spirit - the terrifying flames burned their pride and honor to ashes.
In their eyes, the invincible Baron Quinnier, who had led everyone to victory again and again, rarely said the word "retreat" in a frustrated tone, and was hit by an arrow in his shoulder. It's so frustrating.
Captain Jerram knew the faces of each of his brothers. When he came, there were forty brothers. Counting the "lucky ones" who had been tied up with ropes in the camp since that night and did not participate in the battle, now he only had Twenty-three people.
He had no idea that this battle, which seemed to be a sure win, would be completely reversed in such a short period of time. Most of his brothers were doused with hot asphalt under the crowded walls, then set on fire, and died in extreme despair and pain.
He is no longer a high-spirited captain in charge of a powerful mercenary team. Like Baron Quenir, his authority was frustrated by this defeat.
He could feel that the eyes of the brothers looking at him had changed significantly from before, as if he had just personally sent them to Satan's flaming hell.
The traitor Fox was horrified and frightened. He would have liked to leave Baron Quenier and escape, but the two armed cavalry who remained with him followed him closely, and there was no possibility of him getting away from them. He wanted to find an excuse to leave temporarily and flee north, but the cavalry was not a fool. Even if he went to the toilet, he would watch him proceed to the end.
"Look, what is that?"
The soldier who was fleeing at the front noticed movement in the woods immediately behind the siege camp, and it soon proved that all this was not his imagination.
Suddenly, dense arrows flew out of the woods like raindrops. A small part of them hit the few remaining soldiers in the camp, and most of them flew to the soldiers who were about to return to the siege camp.
Many deserters who were caught off guard fell to the ground with arrows.
Immediately afterwards, a heart-shaking war cry came, and the private soldiers of the Dorsten family led the freedmen soldiers and serf soldiers to rush out of the woods and went straight to the camp and the deserters.
The deserters had to find another way out. It was absolutely impossible for them to turn back and escape towards the village wall, because Miller and the militia were forming up to chase them.
They looked around, first excluding the west - the Rhine River next to them was simply an insurmountable chasm.
Now we can only escape to the forest to the east.
However, they saw with horror that the cavalry from Verde Village and the Dorsten family cavalry led by Lange had assembled in front of the edge of the forest to the east of the clearing.
With Lange's order, the sound of the horses' hooves changed from a faint drumbeat to a violent beating of war drums, completely shattering the last line of defense in the hearts of the deserters. Many people dropped their weapons, raised their hands in surrender, and begged for mercy.
"It's over now." Fox covered his face in pain like an eggplant beaten by frost. He had just indecisively missed the best opportunity to escape. Even if Baron Quinnier was captured, he could still pay the ransom and regain his freedom.
And he, the biggest traitor in the entire Baron of Dorsten, could only endure the torture and end his life in torture that was worse than death.
Now, he is a turtle in a urn and has nowhere to escape.
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"Simon, my brother," Lange wore the chain mail and scale armor he was awarded at the canonization ceremony, lightly holding the horse's belly and driving towards Simon, "How are you doing recently? I will bring you a message on behalf of Keothel and Liv. Hello."
"Very good, Lange, please bring my greetings to them." Simon smiled happily. Just now, he completely crushed his enemy. "There is no doubt that this is a great victory. ,Is not it?"
"Of course, maybe we should hold a grand banquet. But before that, I will personally escort Fox, the son of a bitch, back to Dorstenberg, so that he can get the punishment he deserves!" Lange said As he said that, an expression of hatred appeared on that eternally calm face.
It seemed that Lange hated this damn traitor so much that even though he gave Fox a slap on the head at the temporary camp in the woods a few days ago, it was far from enough to wash away his hatred of the traitor.
"Very good," Simon licked his lips and said with some anticipation, "I will accompany you to Dorstenberg."
"Of course that's great." Langer nodded.
"By the way, I thought that after you received my letter, my father would come with you to attack Baron Quinnier from both inside and outside!"
"Yes, he also wants to come, but now he is convinced that there is a spy inside Dorstenburg. In order to ensure the safety of the castle, he must stay in the castle with some armed soldiers. And I can completely lead the army to complete this task. Task."
The tone of Lange's explanation was a bit unpleasant, and Simon quickly responded: "I have no doubt about your tactics and commanding ability, Lange, and the facts have proved it. I was just curious and asked casually."
"I hope so," Lange's face was expressionless as usual, making it difficult to tell what he was thinking. "Now, we have to send people to clean the battlefield, detain prisoners, and take a look at our loyal old friends. Fox.”
After Langer finished speaking, he turned the horse's head and rode in the direction of Fox, who was tied up.
The open space was filled with prisoners of war tied with ropes by militia soldiers and private soldiers of the Dorsten family.
Some soldiers are responsible for collecting weapons, shields and arrows dropped on the battlefield, while some soldiers are responsible for stripping off the armor of the dead.
The village chief and Father James set up a small table at the entrance of the village to record the loot and captured materials. However, Simon did not see the figure of the pharmacist Arthur, who must have been busy in the herbal medicine shop.
During the Qingdao battlefield, a strange rider carrying a cowhide satchel came on the main road in the south. Simon estimated that he was the messenger of Earl Loon and came to see Baron Quinnier.
The messenger did not see the family crest flag that Baron Kunir had set up in the siege camp as usual. In fact, in the current siege camp, there are many private soldiers carrying shields with the coat of arms of the Dorsten family on their backs, collecting supplies and relieving the enemies who have fallen on the ground but are not completely dead.
When he paused for a moment to watch what was going on in the clearing, he thought he understood what was going on. Before Dorsten's cavalry could mount their horses to give chase, he turned his horse's head and rode away in the direction he came from.
"Earl Loon will know all this sooner or later, but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly. I have to send people out to collect information and figure out what to do next!" Simon felt that the stone he had just put down in his heart was weighed down again. Come back.
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On the muddy forest road, the soldiers escorted Baron Quinnier and Fox forward in high spirits.
"My dear Fox, you can go home soon." Lange looked mockingly at the fat face tied up on the carriage trailer.
When he thought of the time this traitor had spent with him as a child, Lange thought not of the sadness of things changing, but of nausea rising in his throat.
The Dorsten family misjudged the wrong person and trusted Fox, who had served the family for many years, and delegated power to him. Unexpectedly, it completely activated Fox's dirty and evil nature.
Keoser was kind-hearted, and after the incident, he forgave him for the sake of many years of friendship, and gave him a small official title with no power.
Even if he didn't have the abundant wealth and freedom he had in Verde Village before, Fox's life could be said to be as comfortable as that of a rich farmer. However, the devil swallowed his mind, and he believed that the Dorsten family had put him on hold and was always monitoring him. This status quo was like house arrest to him, even though the fact was that no one restricted his freedom at the time.
The official position of the tax collector of the village of Verde completely inspired his pursuit of power and luxury, but Simon and Keother ruined it all. He decided to choose another powerful person to defect to, the kind of powerful person who had the opportunity to help him take revenge.
"What do you want to say?" Lange sarcastically mocked Fox along the way, but the latter just lowered his head in frustration and despair without saying a word.
This reminded Simon of the scene when he had just become the lord of Verde Village and captured Fox - even if he was imprisoned for a night, Fox was still like an energetic rooster that would never admit defeat, clamoring and threatening him.
"We're here." Lange's voice made the traitor Fox raise his head, and Fort Ford on the hills in the distance and the villages under the fort appeared in front of him. He knew that he was one step closer to death.
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Baron Quinnir was a nobleman of the same rank as Keother, and Keother could not tie him tightly and throw him into the dungeon.
Keother learned from the spy chief that Baron Kunir was a nobleman who kept his promise. After Kunir swore that he would not escape until the ransom was paid, Keother arranged a guest room for him in the castle.
Normally, Baron Quinnir could walk around the castle and dine at the same table with Keother.
Keother also found priests and monks from the church to heal Baron Quinir's wounds. Queenir was extremely grateful. Every time he saw Keother, he respectfully called him "a nobleman worthy of admiration and with true chivalry." . But every time he finished bleeding, he felt a little weaker.
Simon was finally able to reunite with his family. He shared with Keother the construction of the village over the past year, his experiences on the journey to Dresden, and the two village defense battles, which made Keother and his mother Liv happy from time to time. laugh it out.
Lange was leading the executioner to interrogate Fox in the dungeon, because Keother suspected that Fox might know who the spy beside him was who had not yet been found out.
He ordered the castle guards and all the private soldiers standing guard in the village not to let go of any of the citizens except for the traders passing through the territory until the results of the interrogation came out. His main suspects were the servants and guards in the castle, and even his courtiers.
As a result, on the second night, the cunning fox showed his weakness.
"Ah, you despicable bitch, come here!"
A cry of pain at the gate of the fort attracted the guards patrolling the fort wall. In the chaos, everyone caught the financial controller Jonas and his family holding a dagger and carrying a thin satchel containing gold and silver.
It turned out that Jonas was worried that his best friend Fox could not resist torture and betray him, so he packed the money he needed to escape in advance, and sneaked out of the room where they lived late at night with his wife and children.
He knew what kind of torture awaited him if he didn't escape.
Jonas, who originally wanted to live closer to the baron so that he could get closer to Keothe and learn more first-hand news about the palace, now felt regretful - the inner gate of the castle was closed, and there was a tall man. Strong armed guards stood guard.
He had to let his wife and children hide in the stable to saddle the horses, while waiting for him to quietly kill the guards and open the castle gate.
Unexpectedly, when Jonas, who had no killing experience, crept up to the half-asleep armed guard with a dagger, he couldn't put his hand on his neck, so he decided to stab his heart with the dagger.
A dramatic scene happened - Jonas, the idiot, was nervous and stabbed the "heart" on the right side of the guard's chest, completely backwards.
So there was a scene where the guards woke up and screamed in pain, and the guards who heard the sound arrested the Jonas family on the spot.
Old Keother was furious, and Jonas in the dungeon was tortured overnight, and he soon revealed his trusted documents and the traitorous veteran Dieter.
Lange immediately led people to arrest the two criminals who had tipped off Fox Jonas and set fire to the granary.
After all, the clerk was young and was arrested at home belatedly. Dieter, the other man who killed the old tax collector, was missing. Lange was so angry that he cursed his soldiers so much that they couldn't even raise their heads.
At least, most of the spy cancers in the territory have been uprooted, especially Jonas, the big fish in charge of the finances.
"Tomorrow is destined to be a bloody day," Simon faintly heard the wailing and shouting of injustice in the dungeon, and couldn't help but laugh. "In other words, it is a good day for traitors to pass away."
