Chapter 772: Lure the Snake out of its Hole
——. Lord Stanley, Lord Angus and the others are here! "
While Stanley was leaning against the corner of the backyard, playing with the short knife he carried, a special team member who was responsible for escorting the cavalry into the city outside the city wall ran in excitedly.
After hearing the good news, Stanley stood up suddenly and was extremely excited. He immediately walked out of the courtyard and ran towards the dark shadow that had appeared on the edge of the wheat field.
Angus, who was walking in front, also saw Stanley's familiar figure at this time. At this time, he had already arrived at the edge of the city wall.
"Stop!" Angus lowered his voice and raised his right hand, signaling the team to stop advancing. Lusignan, the captain of the cavalry company following him, quickly waved his hand to the cavalry behind him to stop.
Angus dismounted and reached out to wipe the water droplets from the mist on his face.
"Lord Angus~" Stanley, who had already arrived in front of Angus, could not hide his excitement.
"How is everything, is everything arranged?"
"Don't worry, everything is ready. Since receiving the secret message from the Lord, the guys in the task force have been working non-stop and are waiting for you."
Angus patted Stanley on the shoulder and said: Thank you for your hard work! ”
Stanley was not a person who was greedy for credit, so he hurriedly replied: “Lord Angus, you have rewarded me. This is what we should do.”
Angus nodded, "Okay, time is running out, let's go in!" Then he turned around and said to Lusignan: "Give the order, everyone stay where they are, and must not make any noise, so as not to alert the city guards." After the arrangements were made, Lusignan and Jafar followed and entered the backyard of the grain store.
In the room, Stanley lit a candle, brought several people to the tattered-looking table, and then took out a prepared city defense map from his waist and placed it on the table.
Stanley raised his head and glanced at Angus, and explained: "This is the defense map of the entire city of Tira. After our exploration in the past few days, there has been basically no change in the city's defenses. However," Stanley suddenly paused and pointed to a place marked with a circular pattern on the map, "this mansion where a large amount of wealth is stored has suddenly been extra manpower early this morning."
"Approximately how many people are there?" Angus took a closer look.
"There are about thirty people inside the mansion, most of them heavy armored infantry, plus four or five archers and a few servants. Plus the two squads patrolling the outside, the total number is about fifty."
Angus calculated in his mind that he would bring around a hundred people from the cavalry company this time. Coupled with the manpower of the task force, it was enough to deal with the Lombard soldiers guarding the property. But in order to be safe, he planned to transfer 20 people from the Palace Guards to be responsible for the peripheral defense in case the situation changed.
"How many troops are there in total in the city?" Angus asked again.
"The number of truly combat-effective soldiers is about one hundred and fifty, and the rest are peasant soldiers recruited temporarily to make up the numbers. The total number is about three hundred and fifty, which is not a cause for concern." As the captain of the task force directly under the Chinese Army and a veteran of the Wells Corps, Stanley's assessment of the combat effectiveness of the Tira City defenders was very objective.
After getting to know the city of Tira during this period, Stanley learned that except for a small number of lords' private soldiers who were forcibly kept by their side by lords from various places, all the young men in the city and the adult men of appropriate age in the territory had been recruited by the Lombard court, and the remaining ones were mostly old, weak, sick and disabled. Therefore, except for the lord's residence in the city, the place where goods are stored, and relatively important places such as armories and granaries, which are heavily guarded, there is almost no threat to other places in the city.
Angus rubbed the rough and hard stubble on his chin, thoughtfully.
The number of cavalry he brought this time was about 500. The cavalry of the Welsh Army will be mainly responsible for dealing with the heavy armored infantry guarding the goods. The lord's mansion, the armory and the granary in the city were too scattered, and among them, the lord's mansion had the largest number of soldiers. In this way, it is almost impossible to capture all the defenders in the city. In addition, there is no offensive ordnance. Facing the heavily defended lord's mansion, once the attack is dispersed, the offensive advantage of the cavalry will be greatly reduced. If the victory cannot be determined with one blow, it may be difficult to successfully complete this mission.
Angus frowned for a while before he spoke again, "We must fight this battle quickly and must not drag it out. Therefore, we must find a way to lure out all the defenders in the city!"
Stanley and others gathered around the table looked at each other. Seeing that it would be dawn in less than three hours, everyone seemed a little restless.
"Yes!" Angus clenched his fist and smashed it lightly on the table.
"What happened?" Stanley looked at Angus in surprise.
At this time, Angus's frown relaxed and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.
After a while, the cavalry outside the city wall entered the courtyard one after another through the gap, passed through the grain store, and under the cover of night, went to the luxurious mansion where the property was hidden four blocks away from the lord's mansion in the southwest corner of the city.
At this time, the empty streets were still filled with thick fog. The sudden barking of dogs from the backyard of the lord's mansion reached his ears through the bedroom window of Earl Dylan of Tira City. Although the sound was not loud, it still woke up Dylan, who was already sleeping soundly.
Dylan opened his tired eyes and couldn't see his fingers. The violent heartbeat made him feel short of breath. After tugging at the warm and soft mink fur that was supposed to cover his body, he discovered that his fingers had become a little stiff due to the low temperature.
At this time, the firewood in the fireplace had long been extinguished, and there was still a faint smell of coke in the air.
Dylan put his hands into the bed and stared at the roof with wide eyes.
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��� At this time, several dog barks were heard from the backyard again.
Dylan turned his head and glanced at the window on the right, not intending to get up to check.
But after thinking about it, Dylan felt a little strange. The hound locked in the backyard was determined not to bark at this time on weekdays, but today it was a little strange.
The hound was given to him at his birthday party last summer by a merchant from an island farther south.
Not long before that, the shepherd dog that had been with him for many years passed away peacefully one night because he was too old. Maybe he himself wouldn't believe that as the earl of Tira City, he actually hid in a corner and shed tears silently because of the death of that beast.
Since having this little thing, Dylan has had a lot more fun in his life. In order to take this hound to hunt in the mountains in the future, Dylan personally trained it how to search for traces of prey and taught it various commands. He almost treated the hound like his own child.
As a master, he is also very patient with this little guy, and can even be said to be doting on him. Not only did he arrange for staff to take care of his pet dog, he also built a "palace" of his own for it.
Dylan's efforts in hunting hounds soon paid off. When he was out hunting, it rained heavily and the surrounding area was thick with fog. After a burst of lightning and thunder, the horse under Dylan was suddenly frightened and threw him away. He rolled down the cliff and passed out.
Finally, after a difficult search, the hound finally found him under a dead tree, and he escaped death.
Hits~Woof woof woof~
· The sound of dogs barking came through the window again.
·The hound's uncharacteristic behavior made Dylan decide to get up and go downstairs to have a look.
He reached out and touched the fire holder on the side, lit the candle on the bedside table, put on the deerskin coat, tied his belt, and walked quickly downstairs·
At this time, the servants in the mansion had already rested. Dylan walked down the steps and followed the corridor of the inner castle to the first floor. Pass through the Lord's Hall, open a wooden door, and walk straight towards the kennel next to the backyard fence.
“Little one, what’s wrong with you for not sleeping at night?” Seeing the hound in the kennel shaking its head and tail at him, Dylan walked up quickly.
Opening the small door of the kennel, Dylan took the hound out, squatted on the ground and kept stroking its soft and smooth hair. After seeing its owner, the hound was extremely excited and showed no signs of anything unusual.
But soon, it broke away from its owner and ran back and forth in the yard, sniffing here and there with its nose, and scratching there with its paws.
Looking at the sudden strange behavior of the hound, Dylan asked softly: "Little one, what did you find?"
At this moment, the hound suddenly raised its head and kept sniffing the air for something strange. Then he ran to the wall and put his front paws on the wall, as if he had discovered something.
Looking at the abnormal behavior of the hound, Dylan glanced outside the yard. But he saw nothing but the endless night.
It was already late at night, and the temperature began to drop sharply. Dylan wrapped his deerskin coat tightly, sent the hound into the kennel, plugged in the latch, glanced outside the courtyard wall, then turned around and walked towards the bedroom on the third floor. The hound was left alone in the kennel. However, the dog kept walking back and forth inside, chewing on the wooden fence from time to time, making a series of grunting sounds~
At the door of a workshop facing the street outside the backyard, two beggars in clothes were staring at the window of the bedroom of the lord's mansion.
“Hey, it’s bright, it’s bright.” At this time, seeing the light in the bedroom turn on again, one of the beggars whispered. Unexpectedly, the hound in the backyard started barking again.
Wang~~
"Shh!" Another person reminded hurriedly.
At this time, the window of the bedroom on the third floor was suddenly opened, and the two of them hurriedly stepped back and hid their love under the eaves.
It wasn't until the bedroom window was closed again and Dylan retracted his head that was sticking out of the window that the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"We must keep an eye on this guy, and we must not let him run away, otherwise we won't be able to explain to the captain——"
"Don't worry, he can't run away!"