“Sergeant Major, I heard that Redoan proposed to formally lead his troops to surrender, right?” On the way back to the valley from the Boulder Town camp, Odo quietly approached Angus and asked.
Angus gently moved the horse's head, let his horse get close to Odo, and replied: "Redoan offered to lead his troops to join us, and he is willing to become a patrol soldier under a patrol team."
Odo looked at the people on the left and right, and said: "Sergeant Major, you are in charge of this line of Redoan, you have to work with us Your Excellency, Redoan cannot clear his identity for the time being. I see clearly that our external situation is too dangerous and delicate now, and many things must be done for us by a third force. "
"Brother Otto, don't worry, your Excellency has already considered this."
"That's good."
As soon as the two of them finished talking, Art and his guards galloped back from the wilderness. There was a Steppenwolf hanging upside down from the back saddle of Art's horse. At this moment, the Steppenwolf had its mouth hanging out and foaming at the mouth.
"Sir, you said you were going to get some game, but unexpectedly you came back from hunting a wolf." Odo and Angus went up to meet him.
Matt jumped off the horse and asked Ron and others to unload the wolf carcass from the horse.
"You may not believe it, but this wolf knows me." Art unstrung his riding bow and put it into the bow pouch, and said with a smile.
The two were puzzled and asked: "Why did you meet a Steppenwolf?"
Matt pointed to a large bone on the steppenwolf's hind leg on the ground, "That was three years ago. At that time, I was still a hunter in the mountains. In the early winter of that year, I took the hunting goods to Tyniec to sell... The wooden handle of my hunting knife hit its hind leg, and it escaped after suffering pain."
"Today we went to the wilderness to hunt rabbits and otters. I saw this limping horse walking far away. When we met our old rivals, of course I couldn't let it go, so I "invited" it back. ”
Everyone listened to Art’s story about fighting the wolf and praised him repeatedly.
"It's getting late, so the team will set up camp in front. Let the baggage team handle the wolf for me. The wolf meat will be boiled for everyone to drink. The wolf skin will be left to me. I will use it to make a wolf skin felt hat." Art ordered Odo.
Odo shouted towards the team behind him: "Spencer! Spencer!"
He shouted for a long time but did not see Spencer coming.
A baggage soldier rushed to the head of the team and reported: "My lords, someone stole food and was trying to escape, but was caught by the baggage officer."
At the end of the team, Spencer and the baggage soldiers tied up the hands and feet of three homeless-looking guys and pinned them to the ground.
"Not to mention running away, how dare you to steal food! What do you think you bastards have in your heads? You're going to continue to be a refugee even though you're about to have a good life? How dare you f*ck hit me?"
"Let you f*ck hit me! Let you f*ck me!" Spencer was so angry that he raised his foot and kicked a few guys on the ground hard.
At the end of the team, Art and others pushed aside the crowd of onlookers and saw Spencer punching and kicking people on the ground.
"Spencer! What's going on?" Odo stopped Spencer's movement.
Spencer turned around and saw that it was Art and the others. He quickly stopped, wiped the blood from his nose, and replied: "Sir, these bastards stole the food on the carriage and planned to escape at night! I caught them and they actually dared to resist!"
Art walked to the ground for a few seconds. Next to the man, he pushed back the several escorts who were holding him down, squatted down and asked, "Why are you running away? Is it because the food I provided you is not enough? Or am I putting you in danger?"
“Answer my question!” Art said coldly.
"Sir, we don't want to go to that valley, we want to go home," another refugee cried.
Art turned his head and asked Spencer: "Where did you recruit them from? Did you trick them here?"
"No, no, sir. These people came with us voluntarily. These bastards didn't say anything the whole way. They usually eat and drink as much as others. They were almost there, but they did such a trick." Spencer was also speechless.
"Where are you guys from?" Art asked again.
The three people remained silent.
"The three of them are refugees from the north of Provence~" came an answer from the crowd.
After a moment of silence, Spencer suddenly realized, "Damn it, you bastards want to follow us all the way back to Provence for food and drink? I wonder why you guys are so active in heading south every day!"
"What do you think we are? Do you damn think we are mules?" Spencer became angrier as he spoke, and stepped forward to beat us again.
Art looked around at the people watching behind him, drank Spencer, and asked loudly to the people on the ground: "When you accepted the recruitment, did you do it voluntarily? Do you promise to become subjects under my rule?"
The people on the ground silently acquiesced.
"As we travel south, can I put you in danger of freezing or starving?"
The others remained silent.
"Okay! Since you have acquiesced, then tell us about your crimes."
h "As a subject, you deserted your lord and fled without permission, committing the crime of defection." He committed the crime of theft by stealing food for personal gain."
"Not only did he not stop when others stopped him, he also dared to maliciously hurt others, and he was also an army officer. This is the most serious crime of riot."
亚特宣布了几人的罪行，然后停顿片刻，对身边的侍卫长罗恩令道:「将他们全都拖下去，斩首！」
不再理会地上几人撕心裂肺地哀求，亚特毅然转身离开......
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北关军堡，山谷男爵领的门户。
The main body of the solid military fort has been basically completed. Each of the four walls is only over 150 feet wide and 25 feet high. The base of the wall is five feet thick and the top is four feet thick. The wall is made of clay with rattan straw as a mesh, mixed with a small amount of stones. There is a wooden stake embedded every two feet in the wall;
The entire military fortress is less than a quarter of the size of Tyniec County, so there is only one gate facing the dense forest road. The castle gate is a floor-to-ceiling gate controlled by hinges. The main body of the gate is a thick solid oak door, inlaid with iron bars dismantled from the Bültenberg Gate.
A single-story stone house thirty feet wide, twenty feet long, and fifteen feet high has been built on the inner side of the military fort near the hillside. This is the only building in the entire military fort that is made entirely of stone barriers and filled with clay. It will serve as the residence of the owner of the military fort and the internal defense fortress of the entire military fort.
With the stone house as the center, there are five or six large wooden houses on the left and right, as well as warehouses, kitchens, stables, livestock sheds, firewood sheds, water wells and other buildings. Although many things are still being built and improved, the main body has been basically completed.
Outside the military fort is an open space that has been leveled. This will be the place where the garrison of the military fort trains on weekdays.
"Sir, according to preliminary estimates, the Beiguan Army Fort can have about a hundred soldiers stationed on weekdays, and the two hundred soldiers stationed in the wartime can barely squeeze in."
"The space in the fort is limited, so the soldiers must go to the open space outside the military fort during daily training."
"The craftsmen are currently improving the buildings and warehouses in the military fort, and it is expected to be completed by the end of the summer at the latest. But now it is completely possible to station soldiers." Cooper, the valley civil affairs officer and Art's housekeeper, is accompanying Art on a tour of the Beiguan Military Fort.
Since Lawrence was urgently transferred to the northern caravan, old Cooper, who had been a builder and craftsman, took on the heavy responsibility of building the Beiguan Army Fort, constantly shuttling back and forth between the Beiguan Army Fort and the Valley Wooden Fort.
Att and his entourage came out of the stone house of the military fort, walked to the fort gate, and climbed up the fort wall from the wooden ladder on the side.
Standing behind the crenellations of the fort wall and looking out, one side is a dense forest canyon, and the other side is a vast wilderness. A road paved by bicycles connects the two completely different worlds...