The bandit leader and his two most trusted men ran all the way towards the bandit's lair under the "cover" of the bandit soldiers; while Art, who had just finished fighting, led several sentry soldiers who took off their heavy iron armor and rushed directly to the bandit's lair from a convenient trail.
In the bandit's lair, the few bandit gangsters left behind are looking forward to it. If the leader and his men can successfully seize the fat convoy this time, they will eat bread and soup every day for a long time in the future. They risk losing their heads and escape into the mountains to become bandits, just to have enough to eat and drink.
A bandit had just taken advantage of most of the bandits to leave and quietly sneaked into the room on the edge of the bandit's den where the raped peasant women were kept to have a good time. As he was walking out with his pants lifted, he saw a few hurried shadows running towards this direction.
“Hey! Guys, why did you come back first? Have you already captured the caravan?” The bandit shouted at several black figures.
Follow me in a moment and fight in. There are not many bandits left in the bandits' lair, and the bandit leader probably hasn't come back yet. Let's kill all the bandits left behind and wait for the bandit leader to return to the nest~" After Art said, he stopped and rested for a while to recover the energy consumed by running all the way.
"Sergeant major, you lead two people to go around from behind the ruins, and I will lead two people to attack from the front. According to my previous observations, there are only four or five bandits left behind in this ruins. After killing them all, hide the bodies. We will gather in the open space in the middle of the ruins later."
As he spoke, Art drew out the sword from his waist and moved forward with Red and Lusignan.
Having killed two unsuspecting bandits along the way, Art and Angus successfully met in the open space in the middle of the ruins.
After a while, Ron ran into the ruins and reported that the bandit leader was leading two guys towards the front door of the ruins.
With no time to rest, everyone hurriedly hid in a few piles of weeds in front of the ruins.
As expected, within a few moments, the bandit leader, who abandoned his men on the battlefield and fled alone, dragged his heavy steps into the ruins.
"Bastards, where are the lame and the others? These bastards must have gone to entertain those women while we were gone, bastards!" The three leaders of the bandits cursed the few minions left behind to guard the bandits' lair, while helping the leader move forward into the ruins.
"Don't, don't worry about it, take the money, pack your things, and run away. If those guys know about this place, they will come after them." The bandit leader thought about quickly packing up the valuable belongings in the bandit's lair and fled with a few bandits.
Unexpectedly, before the leader finished speaking, a light arrow whizzed into the chest of the three leaders, and then several ghosts rushed out from both sides of the ruins, surrounding the leaders...
"Sir, I~I surrender~" The bandit leader's eyes showed despair, his feet gave way, and he knelt on the ground...
Ate and the others captured the bandit leader effortlessly.
The next step is to torture the leader and the remaining bandits, and ask them about the valuables in the bandits' lair. This is why Art took the trouble to lead people into the bandits' lair to capture the leader alive.
According to common sense, as a gang lair with dozens of minions, a lot of gold coins, silver coins and valuable goods should have been looted here. However, this time Art and the others were disappointed.
Yat faced a group of ambitious bandits. It turned out that after the bandit leader participated in an attack on a southbound grain transport convoy last year and escaped with his life, he returned to the bandits' lair and took over the property left by the bandits, with more than tens of thousands of money in his hands. Later, he led his seven or eight bandits to rob pedestrians and small villages in the surrounding areas, and also gained a lot. The money in his hand once exceeded 30,000 pfennigs. However, since the second leader of the bandits joined, the leader's money has become less and less. Because the newly joined second bandit leader is very ambitious, he hopes to become the largest group of bandits within dozens of miles of the southern hills of Sap. They even gave themselves the name of the Mountain Wolf Legion. In order to realize their ambitions, this group of bandits robbed everywhere to expand their ranks, while purchasing weapons and equipment from various places. As a result, there were more and more people, but less and less money. They had no choice but to march towards the wealthy Sapp, but their hands were pricked by iron nails again...
“MD, I encountered a group of pretentious bandits!!” Angus cursed and kicked the bandit leader hard.
Ron said from the side: "Sergeant, I'm an acquaintance~ He said that we escorted the grain convoy that attacked last year. This guy must be the bandits who escaped. I didn't expect to meet them again now~ It's really fate~" Ron also kicked the leader hard.
Att sat on a broken stool in the room, scooped out a bowl of wheat paste from the iron pot, picked up a wooden spoon and took a few bites. He originally thought he could seize a lot of property, but after interrogating the leader and ransacking the entire bandit lair, he only found five thousand pfennigs of silver coins and some worthless grain.
"Sir, what should we do? Should we kill all these bandits?" Angus came in and asked Art.
At threw the wooden bowl in his hand away and said: "Kill? It's easy for them! Tie them up and bring them back to the camp. I want them to remember it!"
At then, Art and the others, who returned almost empty-handed, released the peasant woman imprisoned in the bandit's lair, and then returned to the convoy camp with the bandit leader and a few minions who had their hands and feet bound.
They were all ready, and they were all taken back to Sapu together with the leader and chopped off. Their heads were dropped on the wall of Sapu's village to see if anyone dared to look down at Sapu. "
"Felix, where are the other bandits?"
"We were all tied to the carriage. A few bandits broke free of the ropes and resisted while you were leaving, slashing three of our guards, and then I led my men to kill them."
Ater was furious: "What the hell did you do? You were actually captured. The prisoner bit him back! ! Idiot!"
In the previous battle, five or six guards were killed by the gangsters, and after the battle, three of them were killed. How could Art not be angry with his hard-working elite guards?
Felix was indeed dazzled by the victory and was paralyzed for a moment. After being scolded by Art, he lost all the courage in his chest, but he was still unconvinced, "No one is immortal in a war~"
Art did not want to say more to this always arrogant dude, "These are the elites of your father's men. Think about how you will explain them when you go back!"
Felix knew that there was a danger of disaster, so he did not dare to argue with Art. He asked in a low voice: "Master Art, what should I do with the remaining prisoners?"
"What? Master Art, I must have heard wrong, right?" Felix couldn't believe his ears.
· Art handed the bandit leader to Ron and bundled him into the camp. He turned to look at Felix and said, "Felix, you heard me right, I plan to release all these bandits."
· "Why? Do you want them to continue to be entrenched in the mountains and cause trouble?" Felix questioned.
"Felix, listen to what I have to say."
“I let them all go because I know that I can’t wipe out all the bandits entrenched in the southern hills and the dense forests in the valleys around Sap. Even if we kill all these bastards today, it won’t be long before there will still be bandits attacking your caravan, and even the rich Sap. The castle looked down at them. If we can leave the deepest memory for these bandits and let them go, maybe through their mouths, all the bandits in the surrounding area will know that Sapp cannot be provoked. "
"Think about it~ Can we kill all the bandits?"
Before Felix could think about it, Art ordered Angus and Ron: "Send the order and ask Sapp's guards and soldiers to ask one by one to find the bandit leader. The remaining minions will all cut off their big toes and right thumbs, and then tell them that in the future, if the bandits in the mountains dare to touch anything that belongs to the Galvin family of Sapp Castle, this will be the end."
Angus and Ron went down to organize Sapp's guards and soldiers to execute the fifteen or sixteen bandits in custody. For a while, the whole convoy camp was wailing, and the situation was terrible...
As an old acquaintance of Art, the bandit leader was not executed. He enjoyed special treatment. Two toes and two fingers were chopped off, a piece of his ear was cut off, and one of his eyes was gouged out. After receiving these punishments, Art had someone wrap the leader in a thick coat. They covered him with a layer of rags to stop his bleeding, and then handed him over to the bandits who had severed hands and ears. In front of all the bandits who survived, Yat ordered the seven or eight bandits to behead their heads, and ordered the remaining bandits to roll out of the camp with these bloody heads and run for their lives.
“Remember this! The one who punishes you today is the black-robed patroller—Palace Guard Knight, Southern Border Patrol Officer Art Wood Wells!”
This was the last word that Art shouted at the departing bandits.
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"Master Art, you are using this trick to scare the bandits in the mountains!" Felix somewhat understood Art's intention.
"Felix, I said we can't kill all the bandits. Many words passed down by the bandits themselves are much more real than our own bragging." Art said, looking at the leaving figure.
"Yes, in this way, all the bandits should know your reputation~" Felix's voice was low but full of respect.
Matt saw that Felix was not in a high mood, and knew that what he had just reprimanded him was a little too harsh, so he encouraged him: "Felix, don't be careless on the battlefield in the future. Any mistake may put the lives of brothers who accompany you day and night into danger. However, your performance in the battle this time is not bad. When you return to Sap, I will truthfully report your military exploits to your father."
"Okay, let's go back to Sap. We still have dead and wounded soldiers who need to be treated and buried." After saying that, he turned back into the camp and ordered to close the camp and return to Sap...
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The battle against bandits in the southern hills quickly spread around. The stone that had been hanging high in the sky for many days finally fell down. The people hiding in the fortress of Sarpu also began to return to their farmhouses and rebuild their homes one after another.
The cruel reputation of the "black-robed patrollers" gradually spread among the bandits. While they vowed to kill these demons, they reminded themselves in their hearts not to provoke these bloodthirsty guys in the future.
As a figure passed down by word of mouth, Art and his soldiers stayed in Fort Sapp for six days after returning from the bandit suppression. They trained more than twenty territory guard soldiers for Baron Galvin, and then took Baron Galvin's only son Felix to join the army for training. Art also discussed with Baron Galvin to send several elite corps backbones to Fort Sapp at the right time to continue training soldiers for Baron Galvin.
Baron Galvin also showed his generosity. He not only gave Art a war horse, a set of iron-plated armor and three pairs of composite cotton armor (armed clothes), but also promised to temporarily allocate a trade route he ran to Art's caravan until Art opened up his own trade route.
Art has been out for more than ten days, with a fairly good harvest. After completing the engagement ceremony with Miss Lottie and resolving the crisis in Sapp, he left Sapp with Angus Rowan and Jason Reid, who had recovered from minor injuries, and drove his horse back to the Valley Knight Territory...