With a "swish" sound, an arrow flew out, and a big hare that had spent a summer with plenty of food and gained fat was nailed to the ground. The person who shot the arrow received unanimous praise from his fellow travelers.
The person who shot the hare was none other than Balian, the Lord of Norlandenburg. He and two hundred militiamen had been hunting in the woods these two days.
After the autumn harvest, it will take some time before wheat can be sown. Now is the off-season for farming. For the purpose of training soldiers and hunting wild wolves and wild boars, which threaten the personal safety of the people in the territory and destroy the cultivated land,
Balian asked Barrett and Doc to take two hundred militiamen who had been trained for more than three months, each armed with a longbow and a fighting ax, into the forest for a five-day hunting activity.
Today is already the third day. Balian and everyone swept from the east of the Forest Lake to the west of the Forest Lake. This place is no longer within the territory of Fort Nolandenburg. However, Balian has the status of an inspector and leads the soldiers.
If you come hunting in this ownerless forest, no one will say anything.
This morning, Bellion shot two big hares and a red fox, and others also harvested a lot. Most of these prey, except for the ones that everyone used to eat, were transported back by carriages driven by specialized people.
Go to Norlandenburg.
The meat will be dried into dried meat or smoked into bacon, and the leftovers will be made into sausages. The animal fur will be processed by cobblers. After all, in any era, animal fur is relatively valuable.
When the team arrives, you can sell it to them, which will be a fairly considerable income.
Barrett led the militiamen to hunt two wild boars this morning. One of the large wild boars weighed more than 600 pounds, and the other was a smaller one weighing more than 400 pounds. Balian patted the strong big wild boar.
Wild boar, I happily let this wild boar be roasted and ate it for lunch today. I also opened a few barrels of beer for everyone to have a good rest and enjoy.
This decision cheered the militiamen of Fort Nolandenburg who had been sleeping rough for several days. After all, hunting was a hard job, and now it was quite pleasant to be able to leisurely eat some barbecue and drink some beer.
While Balian and the others were eating barbecue and drinking, Balin came over in a hurry. Balin is now the captain of the reconnaissance team of Fort Noland. He also has twenty-five soldiers under his command. He is mainly responsible for detecting the enemy's situation, assassination and other tasks.
This time, the militia came out to hunt, and Bahrain also came out with his men. After all, Bahrain was born as a hunter. It is also a good way to learn some investigation and assassination skills through hunting.
After Doc saw Balin coming, he asked with a smile: "What's wrong? Brother Balin, did you encounter a bear? You are so panicked."
Balin shook his head and smiled: "It would be better if I really encountered a bear. I would hunt it and make a cloak for you to protect yourself from the cold in winter. But no, I met a group of bandits robbing and killing the caravan, so I hurried over to report to you.
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Balian, who was eating roasted pig's trotters, heard this and quickly put down the pig's trotters in his hands. Regardless of whether they were clean or not, he wiped his oily hands on his clothes and asked quickly: "Bahrain, what is the specific situation? Please tell me in detail.
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"Sir, there are more than 60 bandits on the Knights Avenue not far from us. They are attacking a caravan. The caravan has only more than 30 people and only about 20 armed guards. I'm coming over.
When they arrived, the bandits had just surrounded them, and they might have started fighting by now." Bahrain briefly explained to everyone the situation he discovered.
Balian frowned and stood up, "Leave twenty people to guard the prey and the camp. The rest will gather immediately. Let's go rescue this group of merchants."
Having said this, Balian looked at them with a somewhat shocked look. Thinking that they thought it didn't matter if they didn't care about this matter, Balian explained the reason to them, "This group of robbers with a large number of people dare to attack them now."
Robbery the caravan near Fort Norandenburg, and they may attack Fort Norandenburg in the future.
The damage they can cause is much greater than the wild wolves and wild boars we hunt, and we must not sit idly by!
Moreover, except for some small traders, there are basically no large caravans coming to Nolandenburg now. The caravan currently trapped can afford more than twenty caravan guards to protect the caravan.
It's not from a small businessman's house.
Not only did we save them and make good friends with them, we also led a large caravan to do business in our Norlandenburg, bringing the items we needed and purchasing furs, rattan weaving, wood products, etc. in our territory. In this way,
Nolandenburg can better develop
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Grow bigger."
After hearing what Balian said, Barrett, Balin, and Doc all nodded, indicating that they agreed with Balian's idea. Then, after the entire team was completed, one hundred and eighty soldiers from the Fort Norland militia and twenty-five
Soldiers from the reconnaissance team, led by Barrett, rushed to the scene of the incident.
Gamghi, the vice president of the Amundin Chamber of Commerce, was in an extremely bad mood today. This time he went to Yangwei Shuo to trade autumn grain and made a lot of money. He used the money to buy a lot of olives shipped by sea.
Oil, wine, black truffles and many other precious goods are ready to be sold at a good price after returning to Amondine.
Because these lords in the direct counties and the north have just sold their autumn grains and are now rich. They who like to enjoy themselves will definitely pay high prices to buy these high-quality goods when they see them. Gamji can take advantage of this opportunity.
Earn a lot of money. Although the trip back and forth is hard, it is really worth it.
Originally, after the blood wolf bandit gang in the Stag Forest was wiped out, there were very few robberies on the trade route from Yang Weixuo to Amondin. In addition, he had more than 20 elite caravan guards, and Ganmoji
They thought nothing would happen, but as expected, something unexpected happened. They were eating, drinking, singing, and were robbed by gangsters.
The robbers, who looked like wolves and tigers, first shot down three or four people on their side with a round of bows and arrows, and then rushed over with a roar.
Fortunately, the commander of the caravan guard, Grima, was more experienced. He asked the grooms to form a circle with carriages on the spot. The people and horses hid in the circle, relied on the carriages for cover, and shot the bandits with crossbows.
Most of these bandits didn't even have a decent armor or a handy weapon. They were wrapped in dirty and torn fur clothes and rushed up with wood axes and rusty iron spears. Soon they
Seven or eight corpses were dumped in front of the carriage formation.
Seeing this situation, the leader of this group of bandits ordered the attack to be stopped, and asked his men to retreat beyond the range of the crossbows of the caravan guards. He shouted loudly and asked Ganmuji to leave the goods and money, and he would let Ganmuji and his men go.
Leave, otherwise, they will use rockets to burn all these Ganji and the others as well as the belongings on the carriage.
Gamji and Grima knew that this was a trick of the bandits. Once they handed over their belongings, they would be caught up and either killed, captured for ransom, or sold into slavery as soon as they ran out.
As for what the robbers said about setting fire to them, this is even more of a joke. The purpose of the robbers' robbery was for these valuables. Now, after paying seven or eight lives, they can set fire to these valuable items? It is simply a joke.
Gamji and Grima made up their minds to stick here and wait for the county patrol or other caravans to come and save them from the crisis.
At this time, the bandit leader who besieged the caravan was anxiously waiting for the caravan's reaction. He finally won the opportunity to lead the caravan. If the robbery failed, although the commander might not punish him heavily, he would be in the gang in the future.
His status has plummeted, and the other leaders must not take advantage of him.
Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and said to his men: "We can't delay it like this. The longer it is delayed, the worse it will be for us. Let's send a few rockets over first to scare them."
He gave the order, and there were more than a dozen archers. Each of them took out a special rocket, lit it in the burning brazier, and then threw it together. The hunting bows in their hands were a little limp, only half
The rocket hit the carriage.
However, one of the rockets ignited the tarpaulin covering the carriage, which happened to be half filled with olive oil. It exploded instantly and burned a caravan guard to death on the spot. This sudden change
Gamgee was shocked.
And Grima didn't know how to solve it. Do they all have to explain it here today? Gamgee was so panicked that he was about to cry. He was only in his early thirties, and he didn't want to lose his life like this.
The child is still young, and the wife's family is powerful. If she dies, the family business that she has worked so hard for over the years will be completely at the expense of her father-in-law's family.
Also, he recently found a widowed young woman as his mistress in the city of Amundine. This charming woman received a gift of more than 500 dinars from him before sleeping with him once. If he was like this
It would be such a shame to die.
When the bandit leader saw the mess of the caravan guards, he couldn't help but feel proud. He knew that it wouldn't be long before these people's will to fight would collapse, and when the time came, he would just charge forward with a force several times larger than theirs.
As for the loss of property
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If it was destroyed, he could explain to his commander that as long as the loss was not too big, there was no problem in reporting the battle damage. In a war, breaking some bottles and cans was normal.
Just when Gamji was panicking and at a loss, and the bandit leader was feeling triumphant, suddenly, nearly two hundred powerful feather arrows were shot out from the forest on both sides of the road. The bandits who besieged the caravan were not guarding themselves at all.
In the back, most of the people were shot down in an instant.
When the bandit leader saw this situation, he knew something was wrong and quickly took the lead and ran away. However, at this time, two hundred soldiers from Fort Nolanden had surrounded them and asked them to surrender immediately. The bandit leader originally wanted to resist for a while.
But after Barrett and several of his men with superb archery skills shot down five or six bandits with longbows, he recognized the situation and decisively threw away his weapons, knelt on the ground and waited to be bound. The leader surrendered, and the following
The ordinary bandits obediently threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground. Bahrain led his men to tie them up and then strung them together with ropes to make it easier to take them back.
While Balin was dealing with the prisoners, Balian had already sent Bran under his own banner to inform the trapped merchants and tell them that the lord of Norlandenburg and the inspector of the direct county had rescued them.
Then Gamgee and Grima walked out of the carriage formation and came to Balian with fear. After saluting, they expressed their gratitude to Balian.
"Dear Sir Balian, Gamgee will always remember your kindness. If it weren't for your rescue, I'm afraid I would have become a corpse under the knife of a robber." Gamgee thanked Balian sincerely.
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Balian smiled and said: "You're welcome, I am the deputy sheriff of the county directly under me, and I am responsible for patrolling the Stag Forest on the south bank of the Carr River. It is my duty to rescue you." Balian said politely, and then looked at it carefully.
Hit this businessman.
Although Gamji is on the chubby side, it can be seen that he is in good physical condition. He is not the kind of wealthy businessman who is drained by wine and sex. Moreover, it is obvious at first glance that he is a shrewd businessman.
Although he is still a little embarrassed after panicking, he has regained his composure. He did not show the kind of surprise in front of Balian, but instead showed a lot of alertness, presumably because he was afraid of Balian.
Leon immediately grabbed their belongings and killed them.
After all, there are now nearly two hundred soldiers from Fort Nolanden surrounding them. It is easy to kill them. In the end, it is just a matter of passing the responsibility to the robbers. Others will have no way to investigate such a matter.
Mudgee had heard and seen many of them, so it was no wonder he was so wary of Balian.
After seeing this, Balian couldn't help but smile and said to Gamji: "Gamji, your goods have been damaged and your personnel have been injured or killed. Today, you will go to Nolandenburg to stay and have a good rest."
When Gamgee heard this, his brows immediately tightened, and he quickly said: "Lord Balian, we can just continue on our way today. We don't dare to trouble you anymore, Sir."
Balian sneered, "Don't worry, I don't like your money and goods, just because I don't know if there are any robbers ahead, and I don't want to let you go and take risks."
Seeing that Balian understood his worries and pointed them out, Ganmuji's face turned red, "Sir, actually I don't think so. Please listen to my explanation."
"Okay, Gamji, we still have to clean up the battlefield. I don't know if the bandits will come here soon. I will ask the soldiers to escort you to Nolandenburg. If I have time in the next two days, I will have a good chat with you.
." Balian didn't give Gamgee a chance to explain.
Balian directly asked Barrett and Doc to lead a hundred militiamen to forcefully bring Gamgee, his caravan, caravan guards, and men back to Fort Norland.
Balian understood that this was not the time to explain things to people, because strictly speaking, people could not be persuaded. They could only awaken what they thought was right in their minds.
Gamji is now very wary of Balian. No matter how good Balian's explanation is, it is useless. It is better to let him stay in Nolandenburg for two days and then let them go. In this way, in Gamji
After Ji Zhen discovered that Balian was an upright knight, many things became easier to explain.
Although this is a bit forced and impolite, it is very consistent with the principle that Balian has always adhered to in his past and present lives, that is, he must not be vague when he should be an asshole, and he must not be careless when he should behave.