Chapter 252: Going Home to Farm? It doesn’t exist.

Chapter 252 – Going Home to Farm? Nonexistent

The day after the battle, the lords of the allied forces deliberated on how to bring down Bidor Castle, but before they could finish their deliberations, a few people came out from the castle, led by a knight holding a white flag, claiming to have come to negotiate on behalf of his lord, Sir Brett Shawn.

Yesterday, when the two armies met, the people in the castle were also anxiously waiting for the result, as long as Kent’s army beat the allied army, they could be relieved of the siege.

However, the sky was not to their liking, only to hear the rumbling sound coming from the east, and then saw the allied army returned to the station majestically and cheerfully partying all night.

The coalition army also deliberately put the already tattered and torn flags of the Kent family and other vassal families in front of Fort Biddle to demonstrate to the people inside.

Even if you think about it with your ass, you know that Kent’s army had lost the battle and the people in Fort Biddle had become a turtle in a jar.

Including the garrison and nearby villagers, the fort was stuffed with more than 1,000 people eating, drinking, and being besieged for such a long time, it looked as if the food stocks were about to bottom out. In a few days’ time, without an attack by the allied forces, the people inside would starve to death themselves.

Sir Brett Shawn had to make the decision to surrender. However, as a nobleman, he still needed a “decent” result, so he sent his vassal to negotiate.

After some bargaining, both sides reached an agreement:
The Alliance recognizes and supports the Sean family as the undisputed rulers of the Bildungsburg and its vassal territories;
2, the Sean family separated from the Kent family and joined the anti-Kent alliance;

3, The Sean family will have to take out 6,000 Aldo gold coins or equivalent items as compensation, 2,000 can be taken out first, and the remaining 4,000 will be paid off in the following 4 years;

4, The defense of Fort Biddle is to be taken over by the allied forces until the defeat of House Kent;
5, No obstruction to the migration of their collars to other territories (this one was proposed by Bryce, who represented Arda).

Though reluctant, Viscount Sean signed, and not being stripped of his title and ceded territory was a decent enough outcome.

At 2:00 pm, the gates of Bido Castle slowly opened, and under the watchful eyes of the large force of allied troops, Derek Heller led 1,000 men into the castle, collected the weapons of the garrison inside the castle, and demobilized the soldiers and ordinary people, leaving Viscount Sean with only 20 personal guards and 15 family knights.

At 3:00 pm, other lords and generals in the coalition army entered the castle with a part of their troops, controlling every corner of the castle and completing the occupation of Bido Castle.

In the next few days, the lords had to quarrel every day over how to distribute the spoils of war, in addition to defending against the counterattack of the Kent family.

Bryce and Joyce did not participate in the competition for the booty, because the Alda army showed great strength in the battle, many people secretly show their favor to them, trying their best to pull them in, Price Parker and Derek Heller privately swore to promise that they would never treat them poorly.

After a few days of reconnaissance, the allied forces found that the Kent family, in addition to strengthening the vigilance of the territory’s border towns, there is no gathering of troops.

At a meeting, someone suggested, “It looks like the Kent Family won’t make any moves for the time being, it’s time to withdraw our troops!”

Bryce was perplexed, “Since that’s the case, it’s all the more reason for us to ride the victory and fight our way through!”

The other person shook his head, “The soldiers are anxious to go home and work, if we continue to fight, there will be a mutiny.”

The others chimed in, “Yeah, the fight definitely needs to continue, but we have to deal with the immediate spring plowing first, and I’m sure that’s the case on the Kent family’s side as well.” It was then that Bryce responded that unlike the current Arda army, these lords’ troops – both knights and soldiers – were all recruited on an ad hoc basis.

Although it was the obligation of the knights and lords to serve their lords without pay, there was a time limit, and after a certain period of time, the lords would have to pay the officers and soldiers under their command, which would obviously be a pain in the neck for the not-so-wealthy northwestern lords.

And in the fortress of Biduo stationed these days, in addition to the Alda army, the coalition army up and down from their own “supply land” mooching, coupled with the victory of the Lord’s bounty, everyone has a small fortune, the soldiers are even more eager to return to the heart of the arrow.

Then something happened that made the people finally make up their minds to withdraw – the Kent family sent an envoy to negotiate the ransom of the prisoners.

Earl Parker had already made it clear that he would wait until the end of the battle to talk about the redemption of the prisoners, so everyone agreed that the Kent family’s reintroduction of this matter was a test – whether to continue to fight, or a temporary truce.

It just so happens that the allied forces side also have the intention of a truce, so it was unspoken and the messenger to talk about the redemption of prisoners, but both sides did not mention the signing of any formal contract, that is to say: wait for the busy after this bout, to continue to meet each other in arms.

So Biddulph’s Castle was garrisoned by the Malcolm family and the Johnston family, and the troops from the other territories were disbanded and returned home, and it was agreed that they would gather their troops again in May and launch an attack on the Kent family’s territories.

Bryce and Joyce also led the troops to return to Alda, and together with them, there were also a lot of former Biddleburgers who had dragged their families on the road.

In the past few days, everyone in the neighborhood knows that there is such a “gentleman army” that doesn’t rob the people and pays for the things they buy, and if the army is like this, I think the lord of Alda won’t be too bad either. Moreover, the matter that the lord of Bitoburg had to compensate a large sum of money to the allied army was known to everyone for some reason, and the amount of money was more and more exaggerated, from 6000 gold coins all the way up to tens of thousands of gold coins. This scared the citizens of Bitou Castle, and the money that the lord wanted to compensate them had to be scavenged from their bodies.

So fleeing this place became a natural thing to do, as for the destination, is there a better choice than Alda?
Sir Sean, who is still under house arrest, can do nothing about it. In addition to the constraints of the agreement he just signed, he has no troops to stop this kind of thing, and he can only lose his temper with the servants in the house every day.

Alda’s army basically achieved the intended goal of this trip – to ensure the security of the area between Biddle Castle and the coastline, and to establish a defensive belt for the commercial road to the south.

What was to be done next? Do as the other lords did and lay low for a month?

Of course not, the soldiers of Arda’s army didn’t need to work in the fields, they trained every day to kill the enemy more efficiently.

Bryce rode his horse leisurely while listening to Joyce read the letter from the staff.

A large part of the letter praised their performance in the battle, greatly increasing the prestige of the two territories of Arda and Bairdin and strengthening their voice in the alliance.

However, the last paragraph was the highlight, and it also raised Bryce’s spirits:
The 1st Battalion of Infantry, the 2nd Battalion of Infantry, and the Artillery Company were stationed at the border upon arrival in Arda, ready to march on Emden at any time.

The two battalion commanders looked at each other and smiled: it was time to truly wash away last year’s humiliation ……

(End of chapter)