"Sir, it seems that guy Jeffrey is completely crazy!" Odo raised his shield to resist the arrows shot from the sky outside the city.

Baron Jeffrey was indeed completely crazy. He never imagined that the garrison of Tarburg would take a detour in the dark night to sneak attack on his rear camp. He thought that since the shameless man came with his heraldic flag,

Those who surrender during the peace talks will at least retain a trace of the honor and faith of the knights. However, that shameless guy actually set up a conspiracy trap from the beginning.

The temporary camp was destroyed, all the siege equipment and food and baggage were burned, the craftsmen in the camp were slaughtered, and most of the dozen soldiers were killed or injured. The peasants, soldiers and hard laborers in the camp were either dead, injured or escaped. When Baron Jeffrey arrived,

When we arrived at the camp, there were only wails all over the ground and a sea of ​​​​fire that could not be extinguished.

Baron Jeffrey lost his mind again.

That night, he led more than 20 cavalry, more than 40 infantry, a dozen archers and all the surviving peasant soldiers and hard laborers to storm the gate of Talburg at all costs. In the absence of siege equipment and shield protection,

Under the circumstances, Jeffery's army withstood attacks from both directions of the Tower Fort and the flanking base. After leaving seven or eight corpses behind, Jeffery had to blow the trumpet to withdraw his troops and drag the wounded soldiers out.

However, Jeffrey did not give up the siege. He directed all his archers and cavalry (knights) who could shoot with bows to shoot towards the outer wall of Tal Fort without hesitation, regardless of the consumption of arrows.

After some diffusion, Jeffrey saw that there was no movement in Tal Fort, not even a light arrow was fired back, as if he turned a blind eye to Jeffrey's army below the city.

Jeffrey's stubborn temper rose again. He knew that he could no longer capture Tal Fort. Early the next morning, he began to organize soldiers to storm the tower on the flank of Tal Fort.

More than twenty dismounted cavalry (knights) and dozens of infantry archers took turns to attack the Houtai. The Houtai was stationed by a small team of peasants and soldiers. They failed to defend the lost trap (which had been gradually dismantled and filled up by the enemy) under the enemy's strong attack.

However, before retreating, they poured kerosene on the platform and set a fire on the wooden platform.

The station was burned to the ground.

At noon on the second day after the rear camp was attacked, Baron Jeffrey stood on the razed base of the marquee and fired a burst of arrows at Talburg.

Art raised his shield to block a few arrows shot from the hillside on the flank, then took a heavy diamond-headed arrow wrapped in a cloth strip handed over by Ron, raised the oxhorn bow and loaded it with the heavy arrow.

He took aim at Baron Jeffrey.

"Whoosh——"

A heavy arrow flew towards Baron Jeffrey in an arc. The captain of the guard beside Jeffrey quickly raised his wooden shield to block the baron.

"Duh~~" The heavy arrow with a trembling tail was nailed to the shield.

After a while, Baron Jeffery pushed aside the captain of the guard who was blocking him, broke the heavy arrow nailed into the shield and took off the letter paper on the arrow shaft——

"Raise 60,000 pfennigs within one month to redeem your only son - your despicable enemy."

Baron Jeffrey's blood-red eyes began to turn black, and then his mind became confused. He fell to the ground with a plop, and several personal guards quickly carried Jeffrey down the hillside.

In the evening, the Swabian army that had besieged Talburg for nearly a month carried the unconscious Baron Jeffrey and left Talburg dejectedly...

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In the city of Glaru County, thirty miles southwest of Talburg, Viscount Herreth held in his hand a letter sent from Talburg. The main content of the letter was to report that the Swabian army besieging Talburg had been deployed.

Defeated and retreated to Bültenberg.

The sharp sword hanging over Lord Glaru's head was finally lowered, and Viscount Herreth breathed a long sigh of relief.

During the nearly one month of siege of Tarburg, everyone in the entire county of Galalu was in danger. Viscount Herreth kept recruiting soldiers from the territory to stock up on food and supplies. The county of Galalu, which is located in the mountainous area, was not as prosperous as Bültenberg.

The resources are rich. Excluding the troops transferred to the northern front, the remaining standing army in the county is less than a hundred people (there are still some outposts that need soldiers to garrison), and there are only a few in the county town of Galalu.

When the eighty soldiers were stationed, the total number of peasant soldiers and manor guards in each village, fort, and manor in the county was only one or two hundred. There was neither rugged and steep terrain to block nor an abundant supply of food and grass supplies, and even the number of soldiers stationed there was insufficient.

For a while, facing the Swabian Principality's army that could invade the territory at any time, Viscount Herreth was really breaking out in a cold sweat, and he cursed the bastards in Talburg countless times for stabbing the lion's butt.

Curses are curses. During the siege of Talburg, Viscount Herreth still squeezed out a small army of twenty people from the garrison of Galalu City, led by a direct knight, to support Talburg. However, this army had just

Ten miles west of Tarburg, they were intercepted by eight cavalrymen sent by Jeffrey; in addition, he also tried to transport a batch of arrow weapons to Tarburg through mountain and forest trails, but this batch of arrow weapons eventually turned into

Assisted the Swabian army to attack Talburg.

Although he knew that Tarburg was a strong line of defense in Glalu County, Herreth never dared to bring all the few defenders to support Tarburg, so he could only pray silently for the troops stationed at Tarburg.

If this guy can hold on for a little longer, it would be best if the palace can find the energy to send troops to support Galalu County...

Such days of worry continued until the arrival of the letter of good news.

Viscount Herreth felt ashamed of the despicable methods of the guy in Talburg, but in any case, Talburg was defended, and the crisis in Glaru County was basically resolved. As for the enemy troops coming from the southern trade road in Glaru County, he was not so concerned.

I was worried. After all, there was a county town and two castles in the south to resist the enemy. The enemy could not easily reach Gallu County.

Viscount Herace picked up the silver wine glass on the table and took a long sip. After putting down the wine glass, he said kindly to Ron who was delivering the letter: "Young man, go back and tell Sir Art that I congratulate him on his achievements.

I will state his outstanding military exploits in the letter of victory sent to the palace. In addition, I will prepare some labor supplies and city defense weapons for you to take back with you."

Ron saluted Viscount Herreth, and then said: "Thank you, Lord Viscount, I will definitely bring your generosity to my master. In addition, there is a lack of medicine in Tarburg, and another one appeared during the enemy siege.

A batch of wounded soldiers need to be sent to Glalu County for treatment, please show them mercy."

"Of course, they are all the bravest warriors and deserve the most generous treatment." Viscount Herreth readily agreed.

After handing over the letter and arranging for the wounded, Ron led Jason and Red, the remaining members of the Sentinels, back to the tower with a four-wheeled carriage loaded with arrows, spears and other weapons, as well as fruit wine, bacon and other food.

Fort...

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Two days later, at the palace of Besançon, ninety miles northwest of the county town of Glaru, an urgent letter with a seal from the southeastern border county of Glaru was delivered to the Deputy Palace Minister Bauer through layers of palace guards and clerks.

On Earl Win's desk, Baldwin picked up the seal on the table and opened it. The letter briefly wrote about the main achievements of the defenders of Talburg, and then reported the Swabian army's defeat and retreat and the safe and sound condition of Talburg.

.Of course Viscount Herreth

He did not forget to add his prominent role in the defense of Tarburg in the letter. According to the words in the letter, it seemed that the defense of Tarburg depended on his strategizing. Although he knew that the letter would be false, at this time, Bauer

Count Winn would not care too much. Anyway, Talburg was defended, the Swabian army was repulsed, the crisis in Gralu County was resolved, and Count Baldwin did not need to deploy troops from the fiercely fought northern battlefield to rush to the aid of Gralu.

It’s Lu County.

Earl Baldwin called his bodyguard, handed the letter of victory to the bodyguard, and said: "Give this letter to the clerk and ask him to record the military exploits of everyone in Tarburg. In addition, you go and tell Di

An, that batch of farmers, soldiers and weapons and supplies does not need to be sent to Glalu County, but directly to Wald City in the east, where they will soon face a large-scale attack by the Swabian Northern Army, and they need support even more."

"As for the Glalu County side, you ask the messenger to bring the message back and ask them to continue to support Talburg. Tell Herrith and Art that they must strictly guard Talburg and not let the northern line be threatened by the enemy's condescension.

"

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One hundred and ninety miles south of Besançon, on the edge of the dense forest north of the wooden castle in the valley.

The old butler Cooper has returned here with six empty iron-lined four-wheeled double carriages. In addition to the two caravan members, the old butler also came back with four coachmen from Andermatt Castle.

It turned out that half a month ago, the caravan with the army completed the trade of goods brought out from Tarburg and returned to various places in the south to purchase southern goods. Cooper left Salt and Lawrence in charge of the affairs of the caravan with the army. He himself

Then he took a caravan guard and a small trader who was familiar with the roads to Andermatt Castle and asked Baron Antayas to send someone to help him get the six carriages hidden in Swabia back to the wooden castle in the valley.

Baron Antayas read Art's handwritten letter and happily accepted Art's gift of a fine steel sword and a set of leather armor. Then he readily agreed to Cooper's request and found two people who had been communicating with him all year round.

A small business trader in the southern border of Swabia accompanied Cooper and his party with a few mules and horses in disguise and entered Swabia to retrieve the carriage. For safety reasons, Baron Antayas also sent five of his elite city guards to secretly protect Cooper and his party.

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On the way back, Cooper and his party also encountered several groups of bandits who were blocking the road. Thanks to the five soldiers sent by Baron Antayas who rushed out in time and killed the bandits, Cooper and his party were able to return to Andermatt Castle safely.

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Baron Antayas was quite generous. In order to ensure that Cooper could return safely with the carriage, he not only lent Cooper a few animals to pull the empty carriage, but also sent several strong coachmen with weapons to accompany him~

"Scott, you don't need to ask. The master is fine and Ron is safe. We'll talk about the rest when we get back. You first have someone hide the carriage. These are treasures. They are the baggage carriages of the Swabian army.

Each vehicle can pull two thousand pounds of cargo."

"By the way, please quickly send someone back to the wooden castle to prepare some meat and wine. These coachman brothers are sent by Baron Antayas to escort the vehicle. Let them eat, drink and rest. Tomorrow they have to return with their mules, horses and livestock.

Andermatt Castle.”

While patting the dust off his body, Cooper gave instructions to Scott and Lynn, who had received the news in advance and came to greet Cooper.

Scott arranged for people to unload the carriage and hide it in the dense forest, and then took Cooper and his party back to the wooden castle in the valley.

Ever since Art left the wooden fort with his army, Scott had arranged for several fort-protecting teams of farmers and soldiers to be stationed here.

Now all the wheat in the farmland in the valley has been harvested, and the grain produced in more than one hundred acres of fertile land has filled the warehouses of the wooden castle in the valley. Only part of this grain is the spring plowing grain returned by the farmers to the wooden castle.

The rest is the farmers’ own food

.These grains belong to the farmers, but considering that it is unsafe to store a large amount of grains in simple shacks in the valley, after leaving sufficient rations, the rest of the grains are temporarily stored in the warehouse of the wooden castle, but these

Food farmers can take it away at any time.

"Old housekeeper, where are they now? How are they doing?" After returning to the wooden castle in the valley to settle everyone's food and accommodation, Scott couldn't help but ask Cooper a few questions.

Cooper drank a big mouthful of fragrant broth and wheat paste, wiped the soup from his beard, and patiently said to Scott: "The master led an army to an abandoned military fort on the southeastern border.

, they also raided the Swabian border and obtained a lot of loot. When they left with the army caravan, the master and the others were stationed in the military fortress."

Cooper paused for a moment and continued: "Ron is also safe and sound. He has achieved a lot of military exploits in the battle. The master appreciates him very much now. You and Emma can rest assured."

When Scott learned that Master Art and his son were both safe and sound, he felt relieved. Before he could ask more questions, Cooper changed the subject and asked about the castle in the valley, and Scott answered them one by one.

"Now that the wheat has been harvested, people in the valleys have to continue to reclaim wasteland and build villages in the valleys. Now that farmers have some food in their hands, they can build some more thatched houses in their spare time. Once they have wives and children

Female farmers can live alone. Secondly, after the master comes back, he will definitely continue to recruit refugees to farm in the valley. We also need to provide food and accommodation for the new refugees coming later."

Scott nodded yes.
To be continued...