Angus stood anxiously on the dilapidated tower of the monastery at the abandoned monastery in the woods two miles south of Thorne City. There was also a task force of soldiers who had evacuated from the west city gate and failed to arrive here in time to assemble. I wonder if there was an accident.
Several soldiers in the cemetery in the backyard of the monastery were digging out several shallow pits with swords. Several corpses of the task force soldiers transported from the Southwest Gate waterway had been transported back by the out-of-city response team led by Father Robert with carriages on a river bank downstream. What followed was an arduous escape. It was impossible for them to escape with their bodies, and those soldiers who were seriously injured in the night attack could only be taken to a remote village in the southeast to settle down first.
After a while, Angus saw several figures returning from the distance. He climbed down the dilapidated tower in a few steps and arrived at the backyard cemetery. Father Robert was giving a farewell ceremony to several corpses covered with white cloth.
Angus interrupted the ceremony and said: "Father Robert, our people are all here. We can't waste any time. We must evacuate immediately. You must also sneak into the city to report the news to the Lord."
Come on, after you enter the city, go to the church in the east of the city first. Dawson will pick you up outside the church, and then take you to the safe house in the city. Angus said and handed a wooden-handled short knife to Robert for self-defense.
Robert rejected Angus's kindness, "I am a priest, and the holy garment on my body is the best self-defense weapon."
Angus smiled, "You see, I treat you as an ordinary soldier, so you must be careful."
Robert nodded, muttered a few words in a hurry and made the sign of the cross on his chest, indicating that the soldiers who died in the battle should be buried... A moment later, the abandoned monastery, which had been bustling for more than ten days, returned to its former quiet and dilapidated scene.
A caravan consisting of two cavalrymen, five carriages and ten escorts riding carriages suddenly appeared on the road leading to the south outside the monastery and headed south quickly...
A caravan-like team not only did not carry any goods, but instead let the guards leave in a hurry. This strange thing will soon spread to the city of Thorne, and people with a little bit of brains will think that there must be something abnormal in this team...
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As the caravan was speeding away on the southern road, half a mile away from the south gate of Thorne City, a man who looked like a priest wearing a dark gray round-neck sacrificial robe and driving an ox cart was slowly walking on the road to the south gate. There were also several priest robes and some bread, potatoes, apples, beer and other items on the ox cart. Apparently, the priests along the way accepted many "offerings" from the civilians along the way.
The plowing cattle moved very slowly, and it took a long time to complete the short half-mile journey.
When we arrived at the city gate, all the previous rules had changed. On normal days, the soldiers guarding the city would only carefully check the people entering the city, especially the traders entering the city. However, people entering the city today will basically not be blocked and interrogated. As long as they consciously pay the business tax, they can enter the city smoothly.
On the contrary, people coming out of the city will be repeatedly interrogated. Several carriages have been parked in the open space inside the south gate, and several soldiers are repeatedly looking at the carriages, as if there is gold hidden in the wheels of the wooden carriages.
The priest got out of the car and led the cattle past the unmanned sentry post. The tax collector who collected the commercial tax stood up, took off his hat and bowed in salute. The priest nodded slightly in return.
After entering the city gate, the priest casually grabbed a soldier who looked like a small officer guarding the city and asked: "Children, what are you doing? Why do you ignore the people entering the city and check the people leaving the city?"
The young officer guarding the city was initially a little emotional because he could no longer exploit the merchants entering the city, but when he turned around and saw a priest on parade, his attitude immediately softened and he respectfully replied: "Dear priest, there was a wealthy merchant's house in the north of the city last night. The mansion was in trouble, and the robbers sneaked into the mansion and killed all the wealthy merchant's escorts and servants. They also kidnapped the wealthy merchant's relatives. The governor of the city (similar to the mayor) ordered all the gates to be on guard to prevent the robbers from leaving the city."
< br/> "Priest, you have to be careful in the past two days. The city is not peaceful. According to the brothers in Beicheng, those people are ruthless. Many of the servants and guards of the wealthy merchants have been beheaded, and they also disguised their mansions. If it weren't for Someone was killed in the tavern next to the mansion, and the security team rushed to see it. Maybe they couldn't find such a terrible disaster."
"It's just like a devil~" the little officer guarding the city said and made a cross on his chest.
The priest listened with horror to what the young officer told him, and said angrily: "God will definitely punish these devils."
"Priest, please wait!" The speaker was not interested but the listener was interested. The young officer immediately stopped the priest who was about to leave.
"Child, do you have anything else to do?" The priest turned his head and asked kindly.
The young officer stepped forward and asked: "Did you just say that you met a caravan leaving the city in a hurry?"
"Well, yes, it should be a caravan, but their escorts were all on horseback and in carriages, as if they were in a hurry to leave. The carriages were also empty. They probably planned to come to the city to purchase goods~"
"Did you see clearly? How many people and horses did they have? Which way did they go?" The young officer's eyes widened.
"Two horses and five chariots, there must be about twenty of them, heading south."
The young officer immediately grabbed a soldier guarding the city and ordered: "Hurry up to the lord's hall and report to the governor that a team has escaped towards the south. , they are most likely those bandits. I will lead the men to catch up first.”
The soldier was still a little confused, and the young officer kicked him, “Go there fast!”
“Yes!” The soldier reacted and ran towards the city.
The young officer ignored the priest and walked straight to a carriage waiting for inspection. He opened the door and the driver said, "Your carriage has been requisitioned by us. Come to the city gate to pick it up in the evening."
With that said, he called two of his soldiers to jump on the carriage and drove out of the city gate, running towards the south...
The priest looked at the carriage that was going away, made a sign of the cross, and whispered softly: "God forgive me for my righteous lies."
After saying that, he pulled the ox cart and walked towards the east of the city...
At ten minutes at noon, the martial law in Thorne City has not yet been lifted.
On the second floor of a granary in a lane that had been abandoned for many years in the east of the city, Father Robert took off the tattered clothes covering his body one by one and put on a clean squire's uniform.
Robert took a sip of the glass of wine that Art handed over, calmed down and said, "God, I can't believe I was actually doing something almost crazy with a madman."
Art took the empty wine glass from Robert's hand and said with a smile: "Compared to spending the whole day meditating and chanting in church, I guess you like this kind of adventure."
Robert stared at Art quietly, and a knowing smile appeared on his face.
“Master Art, you are safe in this place~”
“Safe house!”
“Yes, you did a good job finding this safe house. Not to mention that most people would not think that “robbers” would hide in a busy city. Even if they did, it would be difficult to find this place. ” Father Robert was once again impressed by Art’s whimsical idea.
After entering the city, Robert went straight to the east of the city. After asking a few passers-by, he found the small church. As expected, Dawson from the task force was waiting at the door of the church pretending to be a beggar.
Father Robert had no direct chance of Dawson. He led the ox cart into the side door of the church. Robert was a clergyman, and wherever there was a church there was a place for him. Robert visited the priest (church director) of the church, left the ox cart in the church, and then left the church in the name of visiting a friend. Dawson also followed quietly and found an uninhabited place, changed Robert's clothes and took him to a safe house.
"Father Robert, how are things outside the city?" Art let Robert rest for a while and then started asking about business.
Robert also sat upright and replied: "According to your arrangement, after burying the soldiers who died in the battle, Sir Angus had already led the soldiers disguised as a caravan and rode south in a car. The defenders in the city already knew their movements and should be pursuing them at this time..."
According to the pre-made evacuation plan, after the mission is completed, Angus will take most of the soldiers of the task force disguised as a caravan and flee south by horseback. Robert will inform the defenders of the whereabouts of the caravan, making the army in the city mistakenly believe that the captured Assassin members were taken away by that caravan. In this way, the opponent will definitely send a large number of troops to pursue the caravan.
Once Angus and the others achieve their goal of convincing their opponents that the Assassin captives were taken out of the city by a caravan, they will immediately turn eastward and pretend that they are taking the Assassin members towards Besançon in the east...
Once they successfully mislead the enemy, Angus will disperse the "caravan" before being overtaken and intercepted, and place the wounded soldiers in the name of being injured in the battle with bandits. In a very remote village in the south, the remaining people were divided into groups of three or five, and after paying the travel expenses, they fled toward the southeast, and were scheduled to gather at Sapp Castle within ten days... "When the army of Thorne City just touched the shadow of the "fleeing caravan", the target suddenly disappeared out of thin air. I guess the dignitaries behind Assassin must have gone crazy. "
"Master Art, how many conspiracies and intrigues are you hiding in your belly?" Robert looked at Art with even more confusion.
"Father Robert, be as bright as spring to your friends, and as dark and biting as a winter night to your enemies."
Matt lowered his tone, "I have never been more than half a saint."
Robert After listening to the silence for a moment, he replied: "We are all half saints!"
After saying this, the two of them smiled knowingly, and Art once again handed the glass filled with wine to Father Robert...
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On the first floor of the granary, several core members of Assassin, whose mouths were stuffed with rags, were tied tightly to the pillars of the granary with oil-soaked hemp ropes. Their hand tendons and hamstrings had been severed with sharp blades, and they were unable to stand, so they could only hang on the pillars like a dead pig.
In front of them was a long table with firewood sticks connected to the lame legs. On the long table, a dying Assassin ordinary killer was spitting out water one mouthful at a time. His eyes were already bright, and he probably could no longer sustain the next waterboarding.
Ron put down the empty water bag in his hand, picked up a hand-printed confession of guilt on the wooden table, raised it and said to the other Assassin members: "I thought he could persist until the third waterboarding. It seems that I overestimated your perseverance."
“So, who’s next?” Ron said, walking up to the pillars and selecting the next person to be tortured.
Every time he walked in front of a person, Ron could see the fear of death in their wide eyes. After the demonstration of two Assassin members, the remaining people had developed a great fear of this "mild torture".
Ron walked back and forth twice, and finally stopped in front of a trembling guy. When he looked down, he saw a puddle of urine on the ground.
"Okay, it's up to you."
After saying that, the two task force soldiers came over and lifted the limp guy onto the wooden table...
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“Sir, those three ordinary gangsters have all confessed. They confessed all the crimes, and it was revealed that the mastermind behind them was the Dean family. However, they have never met Count Bernard himself, so the evidence of Bernard colluding with heretics has not yet been revealed. It’s impossible to get it. But the Dean family must not be able to escape. These core members have met Dean in person. Even if the Dean family has a huge net worth, they cannot escape this huge crime. "Ron has completed the first round of torture and obtained the evidence of the Dean family.
"Sir, what should we do with these guys who have already been confessed?"
At glanced at Father Robert who was staring at him, stepped aside slightly, and replied: "Leave the two heretics and the two leaders, and kill the rest. Leave the head and the palm with the fingerprints to pickle. These are the best physical evidence."
"Okay, I'll give the remaining guys some drugs first so they can have a good sleep." After Ron said that, he handed Art three copies of the fingerprinted charges, and then turned and went downstairs to deal with them.
As soon as Ron went down, Stanley, who was dressed as a beggar, touched up and found Art. "Sir, Dawson reported that after lunch in Thorne City, a group of cavalry gathered out of the city and ran south. Dawson guessed that they were chasing Lord Angus and the others."
· Matt nodded, "Very good, you send a message to Dawson, asking him to continue to pay attention to the movements of the army in the city, and also ask him to pay close attention to how the army is dealing with the mansion in the north of the city."
Stanley smiled lightly, "I'm afraid it's hard for the security team to catch a thief on a normal day. This morning they walked around several main streets and hotels in the city to show off. They extorted a lot of money and then stopped. At noon, they heard that the target had left the city and fled to the south. These guys simply stopped showing off. Now there is no one on the streets to hunt for them."
This was also within Art's expectation. He ordered: "After such a huge disaster, Bernard's confidants will definitely be extremely anxious, and this matter will not go away like this. You tell Dawson to be cautious in doing things."
"You must also be on alert around the perimeter, and you must report immediately if there is anything abnormal nearby."
"Yes!"
Stanley turned around and went downstairs. After greeting Ron and others who were cutting off their heads, he went out through the back door. After observing the narrow alley at the back door for a while, he quickly walked out of the alley after making sure that no one was paying attention. He moved to a homeless beggar by the alley and sat down.