Twice robbed within a year, Lane Manor was basically emptied.
Since it was close enough to the door of his home, Art didn't worry about the difficulty of transporting too many things, so he "ransacked" all the supplies in the fort of Lane Manor just like he had "looted" Biltenburg.
Gold, silver, treasures, weapons and armor, food supplies, horses and livestock, iron farm tools, and valuable goods, these do not need to be arranged by Art at all, and his people are already familiar with them.
Nowadays, there are more and more residents in the valley, from iron pots and cooking utensils to wooden buckets and horse spoons, from lame wooden tables to missing corners of clay pots, from candlestick wall nails to needles and threads... But all the scattered items that may be used in the valley but are not included in the army's collection and reporting are all rolled up and taken away by the soldiers.
These things can be taken back to the wooden castle in the valley and exchanged for equivalent copper coins or wine and bread from the grocery store. Although the soldiers who received high salaries are not short of those few copper coins, they are used to poverty and are always reluctant to let these things be thrown on the ground~
When they are afraid of poverty, everything is a treasure.
However, the soldiers still maintained military discipline, and the scope of the looting was limited to the inner castle of Lane Manor, and the oppressed serfs escaped again. Several serfs who were oppressed unbearably even took the initiative to join Patrolman Art's team...
"Sir, all the important supplies have been loaded into the carts, eight full carts, not counting the trophies captured by the soldiers themselves. Moreover, we have selected more than twenty young men from the imprisoned peasants, soldiers and serfs, five or six of whom volunteered to join us. He was usually bullied too much by the manor owner~"
"How to deal with the brothers who were killed or seriously injured in the battle?" Art asked.
"The seriously injured brothers were sent to Boulder Town in a carriage last night for treatment. The brothers who died in the battle will also be brought back to the valley for burial. Now they are all at home. I want my brothers' souls to have a resting place." Odo replied.
At nodded approvingly, "The order is given to set off, we are going home!"
When Art led the army, escorted prisoners of war, and dragged supplies to the garrison camp in Boulder Town, Tyniec County was boiling.
The news (rumors) that the lord Baron Bazel was killed has spread throughout Tyniec through the peasants and soldiers on the battlefield of Lene Manor.
While people were shocked that Art Wood Wells, the newly promoted frontier baron and patrol officer of the palace, had committed a heinous crime, they also celebrated the murder of the evil Baron Barzel.
While the county was in an uproar over this incident, the city of Tyniec County was somewhat calm.
· Viscount Pierre, the county chief, had long received the urgent letter sent by the patrol officer. He had already guessed the "crime" Art was going to commit next, so when someone reported that Lane Manor had been breached, Pierre's expression did not change.
"Sir, what should we do? The patrol officer led troops into the noble territory and killed a baron. This matter is beyond our ability to handle. Report it to the palace quickly and let the palace send someone to deal with the ignorant Baron Art!" The newly appointed Sheriff of Tyniec was frightened after hearing the news.
Pierre turned around and scolded the panicked Sheriff, "Why are you panicking! It's not the first time that Lane Manor has been breached! Besides, you saw with your own eyes that Basil's bastard's head was chopped off?"
"My lord, you, what do you mean?"
"I am waiting for the second letter from that domineering new baron!"
"The second letter?" The Sheriff did not understand what Pierre said.
Pierre did not explain the Sheriff's doubts. He paced in the official room and said to himself: "I thought he would attack Wincheston, but he actually targeted Lane Manor. That bastard Bazelle also hit the devil, and he deserves it!"
Two days later, Tynets County issued a request The palace of Besançon sent an urgent letter, accompanied by two documents submitted by the palace's southern patrol officer...
In the Wincheston Manor, Old Dean was restless in the house.
The housekeeper of the manor did not understand that his masters would be so anxious, so he expressed relief: "Sir, thank you for taking the initiative to show your kindness to the devil, otherwise it would be our Winchester Manor who would suffer."
Old Dean stopped walking, glanced at the butler, and said: "Showing favor? Will that guy let us go just because of my favor? What he is afraid of is the backer behind us! This bastard is too heretical, he simply ignores all "laws" , you can't touch his bottom line at all. It's too dangerous to fight with such a person~"
"Master, then we have to get rid of him while he is still in his infancy! Keeping him will cause endless troubles." The housekeeper suggested.
"Getting rid of him? It's not easy. I wanted to use the Chancellor of Finance to prevent him from being promoted to the nobility by accusing him of colluding with bandits, but we were counterattacked and it took more than 50,000 pfennigs to get rid of our charges~"
"Is that the group of people that Master Dean has supported with so much money?"
Send people north to find the young master immediately, tell him to start taking action as soon as possible Old Dean's face had a gloomy murderous intent... In the wasteland boulder town three days south of Wincheston, Art was inspecting the garrison camp.
Because the Jushi Town Garrison Camp is located in the wilderness, it is only half a day's walk from the nearest small stream that often runs out of water, and there are no other available resources except grass and boulders around it, so the internal construction has always been in a relatively backward state.
Until now, the camp can barely accommodate less than thirty people. The camp's peripheral defenses had been gradually improved as early as last summer and autumn, with arrow towers, crenels, picket barbs, trench traps, etc. all in place.
However, due to the severe shortage of wood, the patrol soldiers in the camp still live in tents, and the drinking water consumed by humans and animals every day must be sent to the small stream in the southeast to carry it back.
With the wasteland and lack of water and wood, many pedestrians and business travelers have come here since the establishment of Boulder Town more than a year ago, but they all shook their heads and finally left this uninhabitable place...
"Sir, as you can see, this place is not as suitable for settlement as the border. Not to mention the lack of firewood, the main reason is that it is too far away from the only nearby water source. We have to use packhorses to pull two-wheeled wooden carts to fetch water from the stream in the southeast every day. And in the driest winter, even that stream will dry up. If it snows, fortunately we can still melt the snow. If we really catch up with the days when we can't even see snowflakes, we have to run back to the dense forest of Beiguan to fetch water~"
"Before, we tried to recruit a group of refugees to stay near Boulder Town, but the refugees turned around and left after seeing the situation here. Now several refugees in the camp reluctantly agreed to stay and work for us because we promised to provide food and drinking water." At the battle position on the outer wall of the camp, Obote followed behind Art and kept complaining.
After hearing this, Art scratched his head and said, "As for the firewood, we can also ask people from the valley and caravans to regularly transport it and store it for use in the camp. But the problem of drinking water is really difficult to solve. I can't send people to bring you water from the valley, right? Even if it is delivered, there is nothing you can do about it. Hoarding like firewood. "
"Yes, sir, drinking water is the biggest difficulty. We have tried to dig wells in and around the camp before, but no water came out~"
"How deep did you dig your well?" Art asked.
Obot replied: "It must be at least twenty feet deep, which is also the limit. If you continue to dig deeper, it will be easier to build a well~"
Matt tapped his hand a few times on the crenellations of the outer wall and said, "Dig a deep well! This is a wasteland, not a mountain, and the water level won't be too deep. Find time to lie down in the valley, and ask the old housekeeper to think of a way to see if you can continue digging. I'll ask the craftsmen in the valley to come here to do this."
"As long as the drinking water problem is solved, your biggest difficulty here will disappear. Moreover, the main body of the Beiguan Army Fort has been built, and I will ask the construction manager to send craftsmen to bring materials to build the giant stone camp in front of us."
"Thank you, sir!" Obote replied.
After Yat talked about the problem of drinking water difficulties and camp construction, he reincarnated and told Obote: "Obot, you are the commander of the patrol. After I return to the valley to settle down this time, I will expand the patrol. It is initially expected that the size of the patrol will be expanded to more than thirty people."
"More than thirty people? Are they all crowded into Boulder Town?" Obote didn't think the decision to increase the number of garrison troops in Boulder Town was very wise.
"No, no, the capacity of Boulder Town is limited and it cannot bear it for a while. My initial plan is to set up sentry posts on the north-south commercial road from the southern border outpost to the line of Lane Manor in the north. I will choose a suitable location to build a sentry post every other distance and station it. Two or three patrol soldiers are responsible for inspection, security, security, and early warning during their respective journeys. As a hub, Boulder Town manages the entire trade route~" After hearing this, Obote nodded, "This is of course better, but the investment in money and materials required will increase tremendously."
"I know that the money will naturally be earned from the passing caravans. This is just my preliminary idea. You should think about it carefully and come up with a detailed plan when I convene a military meeting."
h的陷阱坑洞～」亚特走下了外墙战位，带着奥博特朝营寨外走去......
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傍晚，从蒂涅茨郡东北，巴泽尔大庄园赶回来的雷多安独子赶到巨石镇拜见亚特。
This second leader of the bandits who once rose to power by being honest and honest is now the most powerful bandit leader in Tyniec County. Although the fifty bandits under his command are not the largest number, they are all equipped with swords, spears and axes. A few leaders also have standard leather armor, and even have riders who can fight on horseback.
Of course, the reason behind all this is Art's manipulation.
Since secretly surrendering to Yate, Redoan's "bandit army" has rarely been defeated in the battles between bandits in the county, because every time it encounters a tough opponent, a black-robed army will suddenly appear and beat the opponent to half a pulp. , and then Redoan led his "well-armed and armored" troops to beat up the drowned dogs...
After a year and a half, all the bandits in the county knew that Redoan could not be provoked because he had someone behind him.
At secretly supports Redoan. Redoan is also a "sensible" person. Every time he captures valuable materials, weapons and armor, he will choose the best one and send it quietly to the Boulder Town camp.
And he is very obedient to orders. As long as Art raises his hand, Redoan will immediately lead people to pounce on him and bite him...
An official and a gangster maintain an inexplicable relationship.
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In a large military tent in the Boulder Town camp, Art will personally pour a glass of wine into the hands of the bandit leader Redoan, "Ledoan, you have worked hard in the past six months. The sergeant major and Obote have already told me about your affairs. I am very satisfied with you!"
Redoan stood up quickly and took the wine glass with both hands, "It's all thanks to the Baron. If it weren't for you, I would have been a pile of bones."
"Sir, this attack on Bazel's manor is not because we are unwilling to fight hard, but because their reinforcements are too fast~"
Matt waved his hand, "This is not your problem. Originally, your role was to attract enemy reinforcements. Your mission has been completed, and you have also gained a share of the battle."
"Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir."
"The first reason I called you here today is to hear your thoughts and needs. I can't treat you badly if you work hard for me. The second reason is to explain to you the tasks for the next period of time."
"You should first tell me your thoughts and requirements~"
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