The killing was over in less than half an hour.
The mansion was littered with corpses. Seven assassins of Assassin, whose mouths were gagged with rags and whose hands and feet were bound with hemp ropes, lay like dead pigs in the corridor on the first floor of the main mansion. Among them were the two core members of Assassin who had been shot by crossbows in the previous battle and fell to the ground.
· Candles were used on the walls on both sides of the corridor instead of torches. Under the dim light of the fire, five or six men in black were guarding the prisoners with crossbows and swords.
Angus, who was all wet, walked with Art in the mansion holding a bloody dagger. He raised his sword and pointed at the corpses on the ground and said: "My lord, we have already counted them, and none of the targets have escaped. Except for these seven people, the rest All of them were killed. To be on the safe side, I asked the soldiers to wipe the necks and stab the hearts of all the ordinary killers who were stunned by the arrows. We ourselves also killed three people and seriously wounded four people. One of them had his throat cut. He couldn't make it until dawn.
Matt turned to the corridor of the main house, took a small piece of a faintly glowing candle from a man in black, and approached several Assassin masters who were poisoned and fainted due to being stabbed by crossbow arrows. Next to the important member, I turned over the ear of a person on the ground and saw a pointed devil's smiling face pattern tattooed on the back of the ear. This pattern is Assassin's totem. Being able to have a totem tattooed on his body means that he is already the backbone of Assassin.
Matt stood up, returned the candle to the man in black An, and said to Angus who was beside him: "Send the order and ask the guys to look through it carefully. All corpses with this pattern behind the ears will have their heads chopped off and taken away. These heads are evidence of crime."
The battle just now was actually not too fierce. The Assassin members hiding in the mansion were just killers. They were good at using shady means to kill others in dark corners. However, when they suddenly encountered brave characters who were more desperate, the two waves of people immediately differed in their combat prowess.
Except for a few Assassin's core members who caused casualties to the task force soldiers who attacked at night, most of the remaining Assassin members were killed as soon as they woke up from their sleep.
At tonight's battle, Art did not personally participate. Although Art was ready to go in and fight the killers in close combat, Angus and Enro retorted resolutely. They really did not dare to let Art take such a risk. No one knew how powerful the enemies in the mansion were.
亚特思虑一番后也没有拒绝安格斯几人的提议，突袭组在府邸中厮杀的时候他正带着几个特遣队士兵在府邸外围警戒，府邸旁酒馆中有两个听见异常动静打算向城墙守军告警的人便是被亚特带人给放倒的......
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There was a rush of steps behind the stairs of the main house. Ron and two soldiers in black were carrying a heavy small box and walked from the underground secret room under the secret door behind the stairs. He said excitedly: "Master, what do you think this is?" Ron said and opened the small box, which was filled with large and small silver coins, gold and silver products, and luxury goods.
"We broke open the iron boxes in the underground secret room and found these. It seems that the traitor did not lie to us. The Dean family gave these guys a lot of money."
Matt stepped forward and took out a brand-new silver coin from the wooden box. He glanced at the faint light from the candles in the corridor and smiled, "Just right! The expenses we spent this time are covered." The silver coin fell into the wooden box with a clang.
Ron handed the wooden box to the men around him, pointed at the seven main members of Assassin who were lying on the ground, and said: "Master, do we have to take these people out of the city? I'm afraid it won't be so easy to evacuate with so many people, right?"
Art did not rush to answer Ron's question, but took a look at Ron's arm, which was stabbed by the machete of the Assassin leader who jumped off the window sill in an attempt to escape. The blood soaked in the sleeve arm. The water had begun to condense. "Why didn't you bandage the injury?"
Ron looked down at the small wound torn by the scimitar, gathered the rag on his arm, and replied nonchalantly: "Just scratched the skin, it's fine."
Matt patted Ron on the shoulder to encourage and comfort him, "How did you dispose of that guy's body?"
"Take off the evidence that proves his identity as a heretic killer, together with his head, and pile it up at the door for the response team to transport away." Ron was as easy as talking about how he handled a chicken or duck that was about to be put into the stew pot.
亚特点了点头，「这几个家伙肯定也没办法全都带出城，不过我在杀了他们之前需要得到他们认罪的供词状书，等退到安全屋后由你亲自审讯，接下来我们有的是时间让他们承认罪状。」
「是！老爷。」
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"My lord, everything has been packed up. The prisoners, heads, valuables, and our brothers who were killed and seriously injured in the battle are all ready. Do you want to retreat?" Angus wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Art.
"There is no delay. Send a signal to the response team and ask them to bring the carriage over immediately."
Angus took the order, walked to the door of the mansion, opened the door, lit a torch that had been prepared with flint, and waved it several times towards the dark East Street.
Not long after, two carriages with wheels wrapped in cotton, axles dripping with butter, and horses wrapped with iron shoes ran over from the darkness and stopped at the door of the mansion.
The black-clad task force soldiers filed out, placing the heads and the fainting and limp prisoners on one carriage, and then placed the dead and seriously injured task force soldiers and the searched and suppressed valuables on another carriage.
Matt and Ron led eight well-armed elite soldiers in black and escorted the carriage carrying the prisoners and heads towards the safe house in the east of the city; while the remaining task force soldiers and the carriage carrying the dead, wounded soldiers and valuables headed towards the water gate in the southwest of the city.
The evacuation plan for this operation will be launched soon.
The entire task force will be divided into three parts after completing the raid mission.
The first part is the dead and wounded soldiers and the weapons and armor of the action. It is impossible for these people and objects to leave the city gate in a big way, so there are two response groups of soldiers near the southwest water gate and a wooden boat transporting fresh fish out of the city is anchored on a hidden uninhabited river bank. The bottom of the wooden boat is partitioned to hide the dead and wounded soldiers, weapons and armor. They will leave the city as soon as the southwest water gate opens;
The second part is most of the task force soldiers led by Angus. They will be divided into five groups and put on ordinary clothes. When the morning bell rings, they will be mixed with the team leaving the city to evacuate Thorne;
These two parts are the first batch of people to evacuate out of the city. The first group of evacuees will eventually gather in an abandoned monastery outside the city, and then play a game of "cat chasing mouse" under the leadership of Angus.
In the third part, Art and Ron led the most elite soldiers to hide in the safe house with the captured Assassin members and severed heads. They would not try to get out of the city with the most important personal and material evidence until the storm stopped.
There are five or six wooden boats parked under the water gate in the southwest of Thorne City, preparing to leave the city. These wooden boats are usually used to carry bulk goods such as grain and fish and shrimps.
Among the five or six wooden boats, there was an inconspicuous small boat. The cabin was filled with dead fish and shrimps. These dead fish and shrimps were selected by the city people and were usually transported to small towns and villages on both sides of the river for sale to workshops that made smoked fish and poor farmers.
There were two men who looked like small traders standing among the fish and shrimps on the deck of the small wooden boat. It was obvious that they were the owners of the dead fish and shrimps.
A younger man stared at the iron gate of the southwest water gate and asked quietly to another person beside him: "Chief Nicola, do you think we will seal the city gate today because we made such a big noise in the north of the city?"
The older man glared and said, "Shut your stinky mouth!" Then he closed his eyes and listened, waiting for the morning bell of the church in the city to ring.
The bells of several churches in the city rang one after another. The faces of the two men on the boat relaxed and they let out a long breath.
As the morning bell rang, the iron gate of the Southwest Water Gate was slowly lifted up by the hinges at the top of the city. Several water gate guards carried short spears and lazily came to the pier with a narrow exit, waiting for the ships leaving the city to check.
The broken boat carrying dung out of the city was the first to row its oars and sailed to the pier. The guard looked at the broken boat with disgust and cursed at the boatman driving the boat at the stern: "You bastard, you carry dung out of the city every time when I am on duty. Are you trying to disgust me?"
After saying this, he urged the smelly dung boat to leave quickly without even looking at it.
The boatman laughed in apology and hurriedly paddled out of the city.
"If we had known earlier, we would have used a dung boat to leave the city. The guards wouldn't even look at it. It would be the safest." The young man on the wooden boat whispered a few more words.
The older man stopped paying attention and tried his best to stay calm.
The dung boat was released, followed by two cargo ships transporting grain. The guards just jumped on board the cargo ship and gave them a symbolic look before letting them go.
Finally it was the turn of the small wooden boat carrying dead fish and rotten shrimps. The Watergate guard picked up a short spear and led a soldier to jump onto the wooden boat. The wooden boat shook for a while, almost knocking down the two men standing among the piles of plywood fish.
The boatman of the wooden boat quickly walked a few steps from the stern to the guard and said in a low voice: "Master, thank you for your hard work. Today I will help these two masters transport fish and shrimp out of the city."
The guard casually kicked the pile of fish and shrimps with his foot, looked at the boatman and asked: "Why are they all dead fish and rotten shrimps? Master, I haven't eaten fresh fish in a few days, and I am very greedy."
The boatman heard this and immediately expressed his position, "When I come back with the delivery, I will definitely give it to you, sir." Catch some of the freshest river fish, and you will be sure to enjoy your meal."
The guard smiled slightly after hearing this, and looked up at the two men on the plywood who were smiling at him. Seeing that they were dressed normally and looked normal, he let them go.
The wooden boat passed through the iron gate, passed through the door hole, and sailed out of the city limits of Thorne City, "Paddle faster, paddle faster."
After saying this, the older man took up an oar on the side of the boat and started rowing clumsily...
The small wooden boat quickly disappeared from the sight of Thorne City...
It wasn't until the small wooden boat disappeared from sight for a long time that the jingling alarm bell rang in Thorne City...
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