There was still some chaos in Wincheston Manor. The sudden influx of six to seven hundred people into a small knight's manor was too much to bear.
Odo and Angus roughly divided the Welsh Legion into five parts - two infantry standard teams and heavy armored infantry teams that mainly attacked during the day and raised bonfires to rest and have meals in the garrison camp outside the manor; the first and second companies of the legion, two second standard teams, the cavalry team, and the crossbow team were responsible for the security and defense of Wincheston Manor and the periphery of the manor (possible enemy forces in the North); the two legion teams The third flag detachment and the baggage detachment were responsible for eliminating the remaining enemies, collecting trophies, screening prisoners of war, and appeasing civilians. After capturing Wincheston, the soldiers of the task force were dispersed in groups of three to the farther areas around Tynets County and Wincheston to observe whether there were any abnormal reactions in the surrounding area. In addition to supervising the execution of military law, the military law guard was also responsible for interrogating the housekeepers, personal guards, servants, etc. of the Dean family who had been captured alive.
Wincheston Manor is still being cleared of remaining enemies, so the legion command camp and the baggage camp are still outside the manor.
Spencer, the captain of the legion's baggage team, walked into the command camp with excitement on his face, and said to Odo, who was repeating the order to the two messengers of the fourth flag regiment of the first company: "Lord Odo, the gains at Wincheston Manor have been basically counted."
Odo glanced at Spencer and raised his hand to signal a moment. Then he told the messenger: "Bring an order to Bangda and Pats. They must control the southwest farm. Those serfs who are courageous and willing to be loyal to us will be restored to their free status to form a guard. Let the prestigious people in the village temporarily take charge of the farm and straighten out the farm affairs. The food supplies can be slowly transported to Wincheston Manor. Other matters will be decided after the Lord comes back."
The messenger took note of Odo's words, bowed and left the camp, jumped on his horse and lit a torch and drove back to the southwest farm overnight.
After the messenger left, Odo turned his gaze to Spencer and said: "Briefly tell me about the capture."
Spencer picked up a piece of birch bark with the numbers jotted down and replied: "Lord Odo, there are many types of seizures this time, so I'll just pick the main ones."
Odo nodded, asked a soldier next to him to pour a glass of wine, and sat on a simple armchair to take a sip.
“After our search, we found a total of 170,000 pfennigs in gold and silver coins from the Wincheston Manor vault. This money is definitely not the property of Dean and his son. I suspect that Dean and his son have hidden money outside the manor or other places. However, Dean and his son are already dead. I have raised questions with Mr. Ron. Mr. Ron The manor's butler and several personal security leaders were being tortured. "
The seizure of the money did not meet everyone's expectations. According to Hawkeye's information, the Dean family had sold off their property crazily some time ago. Although most of the money was sent to Besancon to buy their own lives, the Deans would not leave a way out for themselves.
Dean and his son are dead, now we can only hope that Ron can come up with something useful through torture.
The money seized was not satisfactory, but other aspects were still fruitful.
“Wincheston Manor has gathered the elite guards of the Dean family and the Western Border Army. The temporarily formed Dean private army also has some eye-catching weapons and armor. In this battle, we captured more than 50 bows and crossbows, more than 5,000 arrows, broadswords, spears, daggers, battle axes, hammers, flails, daggers, etc. There are two hundred and thirty weapons; three sets of full-body plate armor, eight sets of half-body plate armor, five sets of plate and chain armor, four sets of iron scale armor, one hundred and twenty sets of leather armor and cotton armor, fifty various shields, and more than one hundred and ninety sets of various types of robes, winter coats, leather boots, etc. Dean may feel that the cost of cavalry is too high, and there are only three horses in the manor."
These weapons and armor can equip an additional hundred legion soldiers in addition to the existing soldiers of the Wells Legion. This is why Spencer is excited. The Dean family is rich, and their caravans and manor guards have always been well-armed. Even the newly built private army has spent a lot of money to purchase weapons.
But this is not what excites Spencer the most, "Sir, besides the weapons, the biggest gain is the Dean family's caravan!!!"
Spencer gulped, "There are forty-five four-wheeled iron carriages, eight riding horses, fifty-five cart horses, seventeen pack horses, and seven or eight mules and donkeys. This is basically half of the Dean family's caravan."
Due to the sudden incident, Dean and his sons only had time to sell most of the shops in the Northland and a minimal caravan, so the southwest farm and most of the caravan were still in the hands of Dean and his sons. This time, Dean and his son felt that it was difficult to protect themselves, so they recalled all the caravans that could return quickly to Wincheston Manor. The caravan guards became corpses on the ground and prisoners in cells, while more than forty iron-clad carriages and sixty or seventy packhorses became the trophies of the victors.
The seizure of carriages and horses alone far exceeded 200,000 pfennigs, which is indeed worthy of excitement.
“In addition to money, weapons, carriages and horses, a large amount of raw silk, cotton cloth, salt, jewelry and other southern goods were also found in the manor. Only those in the caravan can estimate this. I reckon it must be worth fifty or sixty thousand pfennigs. By the way, there are also a lot of food and farming tools in the manor, and the Wincheston Manor soil The land is fertile, and it seems that Dean and his son are planning to run this place well. "
Otto was worried about being unable to transport the mountains of supplies from the Southwest Farm and Wincheston Manor back to the valley. This time it was solved, and the size of Art's caravan could continue to expand.
"Your baggage team must quickly take over these gains, sort them into volumes, seal them up and prepare to transport them back to the valley."
"Yes!"
Spencer did not have to fight on the battlefield, but the baggage team was busy before and after the war. As the chief officer of the baggage team, Spencer was even more hardworking. At this moment, his eyes were bloodshot and he kept yawning.
Odo saw the deep tiredness in Spencer's eyes, stood up and handed the wine glass in his hand to Spencer, and asked: "How are the arrangements for the dead and wounded soldiers?"
Spencer took the wine glass handed over by Odo and drank it down in one gulp, licking his lips and replied: "This battle is over. After killing the deserters, our army only had 11 killed and 7 seriously wounded, but there were 68 minor injuries, mostly new soldiers from each flag team. Doctor Thomas and Father Robert were treating the soldiers in the camp with the medical team, but there was not enough manpower. I borrowed all the medical soldiers from the Weitz and Andrew flag teams. "
"You cannot be careless when treating soldiers. These soldiers who have been bleeding and injured are the most precious."
"Yes, we will do our best to treat them."
Odo remembered something and asked: "Did anyone violate military discipline when you were collecting and cleaning up the trophies?"
Military discipline and law are enforced by the Guard Military Law Corps, but since the officer asked, Spencer also answered, "Yes! The Guard Military Law Corps caught three new soldiers who broke into civilian houses to rob, and five soldiers who were hiding large amounts of loot were caught. Sir Ron was still interrogating in the manor and had no time to pay attention. These guys were temporarily detained in the camp."
Otto nodded. Now there are hundreds of soldiers in the army. No matter how strict the discipline is, at critical moments like this, there will always be some soldiers who can't stand the temptation and try their own methods. Seven or eight of them were caught by the military guards, and there must be some who have not been discovered.
"Where is your baggage train?"
"Lord Otto, I keep a close eye on the baggage train. We will fight for what we can get, and we will not take a second look at anything that cannot be moved." Spencer likes money, and in fact he also made a lot of money through war, but Spencer is a smart man, and he would rather accumulate more with less than try his own way.
"That's good, the legion's baggage team handles countless amounts of money and food every day, you have to take care of yourself and your subordinates, and wipe your hands clean."
"We must remember this!"
"Go, take a rest after counting the loot, there is still work to do next." After sending Spencer off, Odo walked to a copper basin filled with clean water in the camp and washed his face with cold water. His fatigue disappeared instantly. He took the rag towel handed over by the soldier and wiped it. He straightened his clothes and armor and walked towards Wincheston Manor with the soldier.
On the way into the manor, there were legion patrol soldiers walking back and forth in armor. Soldiers with white cloth tied to their left arms were also enforcing military discipline everywhere. There were also soldiers standing guard at various intersections and fort gates.
· There were still bursts of screams and shouts in the manor. It was the soldiers who were purging the remnants of the enemy who were going from house to house searching for enemy troops who might be hiding, and on the way, they were systematically collecting the hidden valuables.
Soldiers along the way saw Otto, the adjutant of the legion, passing by, and they all stood up and saluted. Odo occasionally stopped to encourage a few words or told the soldiers to be on guard to ensure that no danger would arise.
Walking and stopping, we arrived at the first floor of the lord's mansion in the manor. As soon as we entered the door, we were greeted by the smell of blood, feces and urine. Angus and Ron, together with three soldiers from the Military Law Corps, were torturing the manor housekeeper. There were still several bloody people lying in the corner of the house, and they didn't know whether they were dead or alive.
Odo raised his hand and waved it slightly in front of his nose, and walked to Angus. Angus was wiping the blood on his hands with a rag. When he saw Odo come in, he turned around and said hello.
"Sergeant major, is there any result?"
Angus spat in the corner and replied: "Two have been killed, but the results are not ideal. They provided the Dean family with three batches of money hidden in addition to the two farms and manor. The money was the last life-saving money of Dean and his son, and the total amount exceeded half a million pfennigs."
But Dean and his son were hiding very secretly. They only knew that one of the hiding places was in the county, but they didn't know the specific hiding places. "
Angus had been tortured to death. Maybe those guys really didn't know where the Dean family's money was hidden.
Odo glanced at the manor housekeeper who was beaten black and blue by Ron, "Did the housekeeper find anything in his mouth?"
"This bastard must know one or two hiding places, because the guards and servants confessed that at least two hundred thousand pfennigs were handled by this bastard." After hearing this, Odo walked to the butler who was tied to the pillar. This guy had served the Dean family for more than ten years and was deeply trusted by the Deans and his son. He was skinny, with thick black hair, covered in blood, feces and urine, and had been tortured to the point where he was no longer human.
"He survived two waterboardings, and he had no place to attack, but he still gritted his teeth and said nothing." The tortures in the past two years were basically done by Angus or Ron. This was the first time they had seen such a tough civilian.
"Ron, stop fighting now. This guy is no longer afraid of life and death. Even beating him to death is useless." Odo stopped Ron's beating. If the butler was beaten to death, the hidden money might not be found.
Otto thought for a while and asked: "Does he have a wife, children, or any other relatives?"
hip "You mean?" Let me arrest his wife and daughter. Let me see if he can see his wife and children die before his eyes!" After a while, the housekeeper's wife and ten-year-old daughter, who were imprisoned together with the unidentified civilian farmers, were sent to the execution room.
shall need to be waterboarded in front of the housekeeper...
After a while, Ron walked out of the house, forced his blood-red eyes open and said to Angus and Odo who were waiting outside the house: "My lords, that guy confessed! The Dean family's money was hidden under a shabby tavern shed in the corner of the Free Soldiers in Tyniec County, and another was hidden in an abandoned well five miles northwest of the southwest farm. The largest remaining sum was a huge sum of three hundred thousand pfennigs. Dean and his son are hiding themselves, but the housekeeper really doesn’t know where they are, but Dean’s mother should know everything..."
Otto looked calm and ordered the soldiers behind him: "Order the task force to send people to these two places to seize the money quickly!"
The soldiers ran towards the direction of the task force outside the manor...