Chapter 13: Neighbors Who See Death
Chapter 13: The Neighbors Who Saw Death
“All hands, form up!” Just as everyone froze, it was Battalion Commander Bryce who was the first to react, “You, go and pull all the companies in the camp over.”
The training for the majority of the month worked, the soldiers quickly formed up according to their usual formation and tightly gripped the weapons in their hands.
Bryce then arranged two men and ordered, “Escort Lord Earl back to the castle.”
This order in turn brought the frozen Paul to his senses.
He loudly refused: “No, I’m staying here.”
Bryce couldn’t care less about persuasion, and all his attention was focused on the suspected pirate’s boat on the lake.
The boat on the lake gradually slowed down, and eventually stopped at a distance quite far from the shore, presumably the other party saw that the island was defended, and knew that it was not good to start.
In this way the two sides began to stalemate, a let a person can not breathe the tension slowly spread in the team.
As if a century like a long time passed, suddenly Bryce raised his shield in front of Paul, and then heard a “whoosh–” sound, through the moonlight to see, not far in front of the appearance of an arrow stuck in the ground, tied with a piece of white cloth.
Then the boats on the water slowly retreated into the distance.
When the suspicious boats had all dispersed, Bryce ordered loudly, “Go get that arrow.”
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“Deceitful!!!” The crowd only saw the Earl ruthlessly slapping the rag with fly writing on it on the table.
It was now certain that the suspicious ship from before was indeed a pirate’s, presumably thinking of raiding the town, and after seeing that there were people defending themselves on the shore, they shot over a letter with their bows and arrows.
The content of the letter: the surname Gleiman’s son you better be a little bit more interesting, brothers recently a little bit tight, the poor people on the beach and not much money, so to you here to ask for a little bit of money for wine, read you just hung up the old man, the rule of the territory is a bird not shit place, we are embarrassed to ask for more, but how to come to the silver coins and other things about 10,000 right, can not really come out of the give a few thousand can also be made up, the pigs, cows, sheep and other things have to see Your heart, but let the brothers are not satisfied, then you do not want to live in peace, give you a week’s time, a week later we will come to take. The above opening price is already very conscientious, not long ago we tied up the Horn Bay Alliance ……
The latter should be because of the lack of space did not finish writing, the inscription is “incomparably great, incomparably wise, incomparably brave, incomparably handsome, and all kinds of overflowing words are not enough to describe the Lord of the sea – Quake I”.
After all the people circulated the letter, they looked at each other for a while, the commander of the first battalion, Bryce, once again stood out to ask for war: “Our army is almost trained, and formed up in a decent manner, well oiled and strong, better than the last time we crushed the pirates, it’s time to let them see the blood.” The other officers present nodded in agreement.
Chief Ford countered, “I think it’s better to be a little more cautious, why don’t we negotiate with them first, if we can lower the conditions, it wouldn’t be wrong to send them away for a while first.”
Paul listened to the boss is not happy, on the one hand negotiation is too stifling, on the other hand the recent practice to engage in the hand has no money.
“Have you responded to all the letters of request for help that were sent out some time ago?” He suddenly remembered so.
When Chief Ford heard this, a look of embarrassment appeared on his face, and ordered his men to fetch a large stack of thick parchment and put it in front of Paul, “You’d better look at it yourself.” He picked up a letter, “Paul virtuous nephew, long neglected greetings, surprised to learn that his father has died, but at the time of the rebel rebellion, the duty to defend the land, how dare I trespass on the fiefdom, I hate to not be able to personally go to condolences ……” Smell can be smelled in the last century of the smell of sour rot, the whole text is full of some of the old school aristocrat Grammar and rhetoric of the set of words, said half a day is not a positive response in the end to help or not to help, he swept two eyes on the side.
Then pick up a letter, “to the young heir of the Gleeman family, as long as you promise to become my vassal, swear allegiance to me, the district pirates are not in a word ……” This is to take advantage of the fire, throw away.
Then pick up a letter, “Paul little friend, is not a pirate it, why need to care so much, they fish from the civilian body enough money naturally gone, he strong by his strong, he cross by his cross, you are in the castle to guard the good lake town on the good,……,” rely on, this buddy is not also Crossed over, throw away.
Then pick up a letter, “Gleeman ah, you do this is inappropriate, as a nonviolent person, I advise you to open the gate, tell the pirates ‘with your means of destruction to come, we take half of the people for you to kill, there are still half of the people left, we will not give in ‘ ……”, how is it that there is no shortage of such nuclear levelers in any world, throw it away.
Then pick up a letter, “my good brother Paul ah, not brother I do not want to help you ah, recently I came here a bastard royal representative, to me even cajoled with fear, the territory of the point of the soldiers all let him pull the strong man ……” derisively looked at Hansel, who was listed on the sidelines. Throw away.
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“These assholes, one of them even saw death.” After browsing through the pile of scrap paper, he then realized why Chief Ford advocated negotiating with the pirates.
After thinking forward and backward, he finally agreed to the officers’ request to go to war with the pirates.
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“Lord Earl, gentlemen, we first need to grasp the dynamics of the pirates, so we need to have the cavalry company spread out around to scout, focusing on both sides of the Wise River ……”
“The pirates have just arrived here, they certainly haven’t traveled far in one night’s time ……”
“Bring back the two companies from the boot camp ……”
“The town of Lakewood needs to keep some of its people ……”
The crowd gathered around a medieval style, extremely out of proportion map of the territory, pointing and discussing the battle plan together.
The final decision was for the internal guards and one infantry company to stay behind in Lakeheart Town, while the remaining three companies gathered together and pushed all the way along the Wise River towards the coast, looking for the pirates to settle the score.
After discussing the plan and arranging for manpower to strengthen the guard and patrol, everyone went back to rest.
Tossed half a night, the pirate’s “divine help” is a solid Alda collar is not convenient to send troops, which is blocked Hansel’s mouth, after all, he is to stay here for a long time, do not solve these bold enough to attack the lord’s residence of the pirates, he also do not want to live peacefully.
As soon as he woke up, he got a report that he found the pirates’ traces, and they really didn’t go far, and it was estimated that they wanted to pick a nearby undefended village to plunder.
(End of chapter)