A low-intensity wilderness encounter has ended.
Hence Ron patrolled the area, and after confirming that there was no danger, he returned to the battlefield and picked up the sword in his hand, ready to strike a blow at the injured enemy who fell on the ground.
Matt waved his hand to stop Ron's movements, and ordered: "Ron, there is no need to mend your swords, leaving them is still useful. You go and tell Bass that he only needs to occupy the small stone castle and guard the main access to the manor, and the others don't need to worry about it. A small manor is fucking useless. It took a long time but the wounded soldiers were still waiting to be treated. Bass and Kazak were ordered to take seven or eight soldiers to occupy the Winston Manor. Many security guards and serfs escaped from the manor, so it was difficult for Bass and the others to clean up.
After a while, Bass ran over and told Art that Winston Manor had been occupied and cleaned up, so Art ordered Odo to transport all the wounded soldiers to Winston Manor.
"Take all these enemy wounded soldiers and prisoners into the manor and lock them up, and keep an eye on the fat pig with missing ears. Send people to guard the surroundings. I want to rush back to Tyniec." Art ordered Bas.
"Ron, go get the horse and follow me back to Tyniec to find Mr. Pierre." After that, he got on the horse and drove away...
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In the city of Tyniec, Viscount Pierre was yelling at the captain of the city guard in the office: "What's the use of you just coming to report now? Why don't you know how to stop that fat pig? What do you think we should do now!!!"
"Sir, who knew that Bob actually led those people to besiege the patrol~~"
"Okay, okay, hurry up and rush to Winston Manor with thirty escort sergeants, and pray that those guys from the patrol haven't had time to chop off Bob's pig head!!"
"How do you know that the one who was killed must be Bob?" the captain muttered.
"What do you know, go quickly!"
The captain of the city guard was just about to go out to gather the soldiers, and the guard outside the door reported to the patrol officer Art to ask for an audience.
What should come has come, and Pierre quickly thought about how to resolve this unmanageable farce.
Matt entered the office room and stood silently in front of Pierre's square table.
After a while, Viscount Pierre said: "I know everything. Bob is still alive, right?"
Matt took half an ear out of his arms and put it on Pierre's wooden table.
Pierre glanced at half an ear and his heart relaxed, and said: "Well, I have to teach him a lesson, otherwise he will think that the whole world belongs to him. However, I hope you can think about it calmly. After all, You and I cannot afford to offend the people behind him. If you kill him, you will not be able to live well in Burgundy. "
"My lord, if I wanted to kill him, I would not stay here until now." Art replied coldly.
"However, my soldiers suffered heavy casualties. You have to give me an explanation! Otherwise, the Minister of Public Security and Bishop Olof will not let you pass like this~"
Seeing that Art showed no awe to Viscount Pierre, the chief of the guard who was standing aside shouted loudly: "Art, who are you? The person sitting in front of you is a noble noble. Also, don't always blame the palace and the bishop. Who doesn't know that you used to be..."
"Jerry, shut up." Pierre scolded the chief of the guard.
Pierre stood up from the chair, glanced at Art and Ron behind him, sighed, and said, "Okay, let's talk about how to clean up this stupid farce~"
sia He put forward conditions one by one: first, doctors and priests from the city of Tynets were immediately dispatched to Winston Manor to treat the wounded soldiers; second, Tynets paid for the redemption of Bob and the soldiers of the security team; third, the owner of Winston Manor, Elliot, was left to the patrol team to deal with it themselves.
"Art, I promise you the first condition. I will send a doctor to Winston Manor immediately; the second condition can be considered. But I cannot agree to the third condition, because Winston Manor is the land granted to Elliot's father by Count Bernard Capet, the deputy minister of the palace. Now the old Lord Elliot The scholar has passed away, so the manor has theoretically become the direct fiefdom of the Deputy Prime Minister. If you want to take advantage of Winston Manor, you have to think about how to face the wrath of the Deputy Prime Minister. However, there are some personal properties of Iote in Winston Manor, and you can discuss this with him..."
This time Pierre basically had no conditions to reject Art, for three reasons. First, Art is an officer directly under the Minister of Public Security, and Tyniec County has no power to deal with him directly. If Art really reports the origin of this farce to the Minister of Public Security, Pierre will definitely be questioned by the palace. Secondly, Bob and the security team soldiers were all detained at Winston Manor. Pierre could ignore the lives of those bastards from the security team, but he could not let Bob die in his own jurisdiction. He did not dare to offend the Deputy Prime Minister. Thirdly, Pierre is a very talented person, and he appreciates this guy in front of him who has unknown origins and is ruthless.
At last received a ransom of 2,500 pfennigs and 5,000 pounds of grain and wheat from Viscount Pierre as compensation for the patrol's battle losses. As a condition, Art must ensure that Bob and the remaining soldiers of the security team along with their weapons are safely returned to the city of Tyniec. At the same time, Art must evacuate Winston Manor before noon tomorrow and ensure that the manor is not destroyed or plundered...
When Art, along with Jerry, the captain of the guard, returned to Winston with several doctors and priests, When they were at Winston Manor, Odo told him another bad news - not long after they left Winston Manor, Iote, who had escaped with his life in the field encounter, saw that the manor was captured. In desperation, he led several manor guards and serfs to try to take back the manor. After attacking and killing a patrol soldier who was standing guard at the entrance of the manor, he was caught by Odo who arrived in time and cut off one of his arms.
“Asshole! How did you arrange the sentry posts? Are you all blind?” Unexpectedly, not a single soldier died during the battle. After the battle, someone wiped his neck. Art was extremely angry.
"Drag that bastard up here!"
The ashen-faced owner of the Wincheston Manor, Eote, was dragged up like a dead dog by the Bass men. The furious Art cut off Eote's head with a sword, regardless of the captain of the guard's dissuasion.
Matt looked at the captain of the guard with blood-red eyes, and whispered: "Master Jerry, you can take Master Bob and his soldiers back to recover."
The captain of the guard was also frightened by Art's "cruelty", "Master Art, I don't mean to blame you, but I'm afraid it will be difficult for the deputy minister of the palace to explain that you killed Elliot."
"Thank you for the reminder."
"Odo, send Lord Jerry away. Then send two combat groups to patrol. If anyone comes in and out of the manor, they will be killed!!"
After the captain of the guard left the manor with Fat Bob and a group of soldiers, Art said to Ron next to him: "Ron, go find paper and pen. I will write a letter and you can ride to Lucese overnight and hand it over to Lord Olof." Master, tell him..."
Looking at the back of a man and two horses galloping towards the north, Art tightened his left hand on the hilt of his sword, turned around and ordered: "Odo, forcefully commandeer all the oxcarts and carriages in the manor, and take away all the money, grain and materials that can be taken away. All the grain and wheat that cannot be taken away from the barn will be distributed to the serfs in the manor. Tonight we will return south through the night~"
"Yes! My lord, what shall we do with Iot's wife and children?"
"Leave some rations and give them to the priests."
After hearing the news of Eott's murder, Viscount Pierre rushed to the owner of the Winston Manor early in the morning with more than thirty defenders. By the time the group arrived at the manor, the patrol team that "ransacked" the Winston Manor had already disappeared without a trace.
Seeing that the manor itself was intact and there were no more casualties, Pierre breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself: "At least this guy Art knows the bottom line."
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Six days later, in the palace of the Marquis of Besançon, the voice of Count Bernard Capet, the deputy minister of the palace, became louder and louder, almost roaring, "Your Majesty, Marquis, these are Lord Baldwin's men! They dared to openly besiege and occupy my manor, kill the son of one of my knights, and plunder the property in my manor. Lord Marquis, I beg you to give me justice and kill that bastard who flouted the royal law."
The Minister of Public Security, who had been silent on the wooden bench under Vice-Minister Bernard, stood up and spoke tit-for-tat, "Mr. Deputy Prime Minister, you have been saying that my patrol officers captured your manor without any reason, plundered your property and killed your vassals, but the news I got is different from what you said." As he spoke, the Minister of Public Security took out an opened lacquered letter from his sleeve and presented it to the Marquis of Ivrea with both hands.
"Your Majesty, the Marquis, this is a letter submitted by Bishop Olof Hannes of Lucesne yesterday. Bishop Olof Hannes is willing to vouch for the authenticity of the letter. Please read it." "I know."
The deputy glanced at the parchment in the Marquis's hand and replied: "It was sent quickly by the Sheriff of Tyniec City, Bob Skory. He was also seriously injured in the battle to rescue the captured manor~"
The Marquis turned to the elderly Prime Minister sitting at the head and asked: "Prime Minister, has Pierre reported this to you?"
“Your Majesty the Marquis, the palace can only receive a message from Tyniec every five days. According to the time, Pierre’s letter should have arrived at the palace by now. I will send someone to take a look.”
"Hurry up and bring it to me."
In less than a moment, a palace guard handed a well-painted post letter to the Marquis. He opened the post letter and compared the two letters for a while.
"Hmph, Mr. Deputy Prime Minister, take it and take a look~" the Marquis said and threw the two letters to the Deputy Prime Minister who was sweating on his forehead.
Before the Vice Minister finished reading the letter in his hand, the voice of the Minister of Public Security rang out again: "Your Majesty, the patrol officer named Art has annihilated two groups of bandits and killed four bandits since he took office last year. A habitual bandit who has been rampant in the Southern Territory for many years. He has also trained an elite team and is currently patrolling the Southern Territory to suppress bandits and theft. "
The Minister of Public Security paused and glanced at the deputy. The Prime Minister continued: "As far as I know, the Sheriff of Tynets named Bob in the Deputy Prime Minister's mouth not only did not arrest a single robber during his more than a year in office, but it is also rumored that he served as Sheriff of Tynets. It’s not about doing evil and bullying good people. Last autumn and winter, a large number of refugees flooded into the southern border, and the palace ordered various places to clear out the bandits. However, instead of catching half of the bandits, the police chief chopped off the heads of many civilians to claim military honors..."
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The secret fight that had been suppressed for many years between Count Bernard, the deputy minister of the palace, and Count Baldwin, the minister of security, was finally ignited by the incident at a small manor on the southern border of the count...
One day later, the results of the Winston Manor incident came out, Tignes Sheriff Bob Scory was relieved of all duties and recalled to Besançon to wait for his fate. Bob's hope that he would be successfully knighted after coming to the South to achieve military success was in vain; and the punishment for the Southern Border Patrol Officer Art was a bit soft - he ordered the Southern Border Patrol Officer Art to return all the supplies plundered from Winston Manor, and he was not allowed to step into the territory of Winston Manor again in the future.