"Sergeant Major, Doctor Thomas has already seen him. He is fine. He just fainted from exhaustion."

Odo, wearing a long cotton robe, walked into the commander's barracks with a charcoal fire in Beiguan Army Castle, breathing white, and said to Angus, who was writing an urgent letter with a quill under the candle.

"How long do you think they have been running continuously? Two of the four horses have already burst their lungs from running, and the other two are also driven too much and it will take a month or two to barely recover."

After Ron and Aaron obtained the horses with the help of the Ennan goods store in Luces, they headed south day and night. They basically didn't sleep in the past two days, except for eating bread to satisfy their hunger and drinking water to feed the horses.

Almost all of them were used for horseback riding or walking. After finally arriving at Jushi Town and seeing the patrol team, the two finally couldn't hold on and fell off the horse and fainted. The patrol team was worried about an accident, so they sent someone to send them back overnight.

Arrived at Beiguan Army Fort.

"But it's good that they're all right. They were already fainting when they were sent back. I don't know if something happened to them when they rushed back so desperately~" It was a little hot in the room, so Odo took off his cotton robe and put it on the bed.

On the chair.

Art has been away from the valley for more than a month. After completing the mission in Thorne City, he took people to the capital of the Kingdom of France, thousands of miles away. Now Art's personal guard, Ron, suddenly returned, and the two of them were really unsure.

But Ron didn't carry anything like a secret message with him, so Odo and Angus didn't even have an accurate message.

"Your Excellency is always cautious in doing things. We have no rivals in Paris, so they should be in no danger. I guess Ron and the others must have come back victorious. Your Excellency once said that once the Dean family's heretical crime is determined, we must take action immediately.

"Angus participated in the entire operation to eliminate Assassin, so he must be clearer about Art's deployment.

"I hope~" Odo drew the Holy Cross on his chest.

"Sergeant Major, what are you writing?" Odo asked in confusion when he saw that Angus' writing had already filled a piece of parchment.

"A warning letter of banditry to Tyniec and the Minister of Palace Security. Recently, a large number of bandits have appeared in the southern border of Tyniec, looting everywhere. The people of the county have asked the patrol team for help. Some people claim that these bandits are private soldiers of the Dean family in disguise.

of......"

Otto glanced at the text written by Angus, "But my lord has not yet~"

"Brother Odo, Ron has returned. He must have brought your military orders with you."

Otto thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, "After you write it, I will immediately send someone back to the wooden castle to find the old butler to stamp the lord's coat of arms. Once Ron wakes up and confirms it, we will send it out immediately. I just don't know where Redoan is.

Are you ready?"

Angus picked up the rough straw paper and gently dried the writing ink, "Don't worry, Redoan has been preparing for more than a month..."

Odo and Angus were still discussing in a low voice in the barracks. The sentry on duty knocked on the door and said, "Two adults, Chief Ron is awake. He is anxious to see the two adults, but he can't walk."

After hearing this, Odo and Angus immediately put on thick clothes and ran out of the room towards the medical team's barracks.

Walking into the medical team barracks, Aaron was still in a coma, but Ron was holding a large bowl of warm soup and wheat paste and pouring it into his mouth.

Seeing Odo and Angus come in, Ron quickly put the wooden bowl in his hand on the small table aside and said to several guards in the barracks: "You guys go down first, we're fine."

After the medical soldiers left, Ron tried to get out of bed, but his legs were sore and painful that he could no longer get up.

Odo and Angus stepped forward to stop Ron.

"Ron, does your lord have any secret orders?" Angus went straight to the point.

Ron nodded and said seriously: "Master's military order!"

Odo and Angus instinctively stood up straight.

"Order, the two adjutants of the Legion, Odo and Angus, will immediately take over the Welsh Legion and all its armed forces, and the barony will prepare for war. Time is life, and Odo and Angus quickly started all actions as planned.

"Ron conveyed Art's military orders word for word and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yes! Obey your lord's military orders." Odo and Angus said in unison.

"Brother Ron, how are they doing?" Otto walked to the wooden bed and handed the bowl of clear soup and wheat paste to Ron.

Ron took the wooden bowl, poured the remaining wheat paste in the bowl into his mouth, and replied: "Brother Otto, Sergeant Major, don't worry, everything is going well with the master. He asked me to rush home first.

Here, we are asked to kill the Dean family before the Inquisition arrives at Besançon, and Count Baldwin has agreed to your plan."

"When passing through Tyniec in the south, Eagle Eye collected the recent actions of the Dean family. Obviously they have been prepared. Old Dean is hurriedly selling off the family business that has been in business for many years, and they sent a large amount of money to Besançon.

, I think he must have used his life’s wealth to exchange for the lives of Dean and his son.”

Angus nodded, "Redoan also sent back a secret message saying that a group of powerful bandits recently ran to neighboring counties and robbed everywhere. There are rumors that it was the Dean family's private army in disguise. They also wanted money."

Only if you think you are crazy would you go to neighboring counties to plunder with such fanfare."

"Sergeant Major, we will take action immediately. I will send someone to take your two warning letters back to the castle overnight to have them stamped. I will send someone to the county and Besancon early tomorrow morning. You also immediately send an order to Redoan to start.

action."

Angus clenched his fist and waved it hard several times, and said excitedly: "Finally, I'm going to cut off this piece of rotten flesh!"

"Brother Otto, I will go to Redoan early tomorrow morning to personally direct their actions. You should also seize the time to prepare the Wells Army for war."

"good!"

............

In the dead of winter, the weather is cold.

The snowflakes that had lasted for several days finally stopped. The snow all over the mountains and plains began to melt little by little under the cold and scorching sun of winter. The roads that were originally hidden in the vast white plains also reappeared little by little.

A village half a day's walk east of Tyniec County was filled with smoke. In the main hall of a house in the center of the village, the old squire Mr. Juan, wrapped in a fur coat and lying on a lounge chair with an exquisite silver wine glass, was sipping expensive wine in small sips.

A small sip of Bordeaux wine made the old country squire's rat-tailed beard tremble, it was very pleasant.

This village is one of the few villages under the direct jurisdiction of Tyniec County. The acting lord is the county governor, Viscount Pierre. If there is no lord in the village, the elder is the king. This old squire with a rat tail beard is the elder of the village.

The father of the old squire was one of the earliest participants in the "New Reclamation Movement" in Tyniec County. Two generations of father and son worked hard for decades in exchange for nearly a hundred acres of fertile land. Even with the most extensive and lazy farming methods, the old squire's father

It can also support more than a dozen civilian families.

There is a middle-aged maid and two serfs in the house. There are eight farm workers in the village who rent his land. Moreover, the old squire also has a windmill in the village, and his eldest son also runs it in the county town of Tyniec.

A bakery, this wealthy squire family can earn 8,000 pfennigs a year after excluding the taxes paid to the court lord and the church. This income is enough for ten urban households, and if it is placed in the countryside, it will be enough for twenty or thirty.

The annual expenses of a farmer's household.

With this substantial family background, the old country squire can live comfortably and comfortably every year in the cold winter.

But the old squire is destined to be sad this winter.

The old squire had finished the remaining wine at the bottom of his glass and was picking up the bottle to refill it. Suddenly there was an explosion in the front yard, and the door of the yard was knocked open. There were about a dozen men holding knives, axes, spears and swords and wearing various clothes with ferocious faces.

A rough man broke into the courtyard.

The man with unkempt hair and rotten teeth kicked over the serf who was blocking the courtyard, put the ax on the serf's head, and said viciously: "Be honest, don't force me to chop off your head."

!”

The serf lay on the ground shivering and did not dare to move at all. The servants and family members in the house also hid in their rooms and did not dare to open the door.

A bandit who was the first to rush into the courtyard ran out of the main hall and said to the leader: "Chief Rigg, Master Juan is here."

The ferocious leader raised his ax and stepped over the serfs, walked into the main hall and shouted at the motionless old squire who was slumped on the couch: "Master Juan, on behalf of the Dean family, I come to you to borrow some money...

..”

Half a day later, a group of bandits walked out of the house holding a money box and leading two two-wheeled ox carts. Some of the bandits who were driving pigs and sheep also had a few old hens with flapping wings tied to their waists.

The harvest from this trip was not small. The "Dean family" "borrowed" seventeen thousand pfennigs from the house of old squire Juan, as well as two carts full of grain, cloth, coarse salt, silverware and other supplies.

The leader of the team, Rigg, was riding at the front on a green mule "borrowed" from the old squire's house. The green mule couldn't run without a saddle and reins, so Rigg was just doing it for fun, and he let himself go.

He got off the green mule and walked forward slowly, tearing and chewing the poorly cooked old hen in his hand, and the fat dripped all over his mouth.

Suddenly a rider rushed into the village, ran up to him, took the reins, and urgently reported: "Chief Ruige, our brothers encountered resistance in Bura Village. The big leader ordered you to take the guys to quickly rush to Bura Village to assemble.

Attack the fortress!" After the rider gave the order, he turned his horse's head and left. He had to go to the next village to give the order to assemble.

"Tmd, there really are some people who are not afraid of death. Leave three guys to escort the goods, and the rest will follow me to support the big leader." Rigg threw the old hen to the ground, jumped off the back of the mule, and pulled out the

With broad axe, he led five or six bandits in a hurry in the direction of Bulla Village...

.............

In the official room of the Lord's Hall in the county town of Tyniec, Jerry, the captain of the inner knight guard, rushed into the room with two warning letters of banditry, "Sir, two more villages have been robbed by bandits, and they are still using Di.

The banner of the An family..."

The Sheriff, Viscount Pierre, has a large number of such warning letters on his desk, and all of them mentioned the Dean family.

This period is supposed to be the quietest time of the year. After all, large groups of bandits also need to avoid the cold and survive the winter, and small groups of scattered bandits cannot cause major bandit troubles.

But this winter is really like a demon. The banditry that had subsided for a long time suddenly broke out. In two days, seven villages and four manors in Tyniec County were robbed by bandits, and these bandits seemed to have agreed in advance.

As good as it is, the lords and wealthy households in the village manors were specifically selected to attack. As soon as they entered the village, they shouted, "Only the rich households, do not disturb the poor." As a result, when the bandits entered the village, no one except the lords and wealthy households resisted.

Those wealthy lords with a slightly better attitude were lucky. The bandits robbed their valuable belongings and left in a big way. The few who dared to take up arms to resist were unlucky. The bandits who originally entered the village were generally

Seven or eight people, if there is resistance, dozens of people will gather in a short time, tear down walls, break down doors, kill people, and set fires, plunder the houses of rich lords, not to mention everything, and force civilians in the village to enter the houses of rich families and loot them before leaving.

All items...

Pierre took the letter from Jerry and threw it on the table without even looking at it. He raised his head and asked, "Do you believe it was done by someone from the Dean family?"

Jerry shook his head, "The Dean family would not be so stupid. Moreover, our informants said that the "savages" in the Dean family have been in neighboring counties recently, and they do not always poop in front of their house."

"But our disbelief does not mean that the wealthy lords in the county do not believe it. The reputation of the Dean family has not been very good over the years. In addition, the private army they recently supported often sneaks around the county and oppresses the civilians. The people of the county are already very disgusted.

The Dean family."
To be continued...