The infinite journey of knights

Chapter 181 Birch Village

"Follow me."

Looking at Aliya, who was silent and seemed to be in a wrong mood, Yatimu sighed, then turned and walked out.

Behind him, Little Cray hurriedly followed.

When the three of them walked outside, the scene suddenly became quite empty.

There are dilapidated traces everywhere.

Before that, those bandits raged in this village, leaving heavy traces.

Many villagers died at their hands.

Aliya looked at the familiar corpses and couldn't help covering her eyes.

"why is this"

She muttered to herself, with a strong sense of despair in her voice.

For the girl, she doesn't understand why things are the way they are.

Obviously in the past, the two sides were still neighbors who did not interfere with each other, why did they suddenly become like this?

From her mouth, Yatimu also learned what happened before.

Before that, the group of robbers on the mountain came down the mountain, and the leader was someone they knew well.

So they didn't take much precaution and let them in easily.

Unexpectedly, they took the opportunity to attack them and directly killed many people.

The men in the village wanted to resist, but they were trapped by the well-prepared robbers, and their weapons were taken away early.

Without weapons, they are even less likely to be opponents of this gang of robbers.

Judging from the overall results, this gang of robbers went down the mountain completely premeditated.

From the looks of it, it was aimed at looting the village from the very beginning.

"There should be infighting among the bandits."

Yadimu looked in front of him and made such a judgment.

He roughly guessed: "If it is really the leader of the bandit group who wants to rob you, then all the bandits should come down now, not just these dozens of people."

That's right, there are only a few dozen people raging in the entire village at this moment.

This is not like the large army of the bandit group, but rather a part of the team separated from it.

Therefore, Yadimu guessed that it was very likely that the group of robbers had internal strife, which is why the current result appeared.

Of course, it is also possible that they look down on this village and feel that sending out this few people is enough to deal with it.

This is also possible.

But no matter what, most of the village has been destroyed now, which is already a fact.

A large number of men died at the hands of the robbers, and many surrounding houses were burned down.

It's not known how many years it will take for the whole village to recover.

Yatim stepped forward.

As time passed, the four weeks of fighting slowly subsided.

Then a scene that surprised Aliya happened.

In the front, responsible for suppressing this group of robbers, the leading man strode forward and came directly in front of them, then knelt down on one knee: "Boss, everything has been resolved."

leader?

He is the leader?

Alicia froze for a moment.

She clearly remembered that at the beginning, Yatimu was just something she dug out of the corpse.

At that time, Yatimu was seriously injured, unable to move, and could only rely on her to take care of her.

At that time, she only felt that Yatimu was quite mysterious, and she was quite curious about it.

Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, the situation of both parties changed like this.

In a blink of an eye, Yadimu came to rescue her.

"Get up."

Yatimu's gentle voice sounded from the side.

He looked at Gretel, and casually said in calm and unquestionable words: "Take those people into custody and question them carefully."

"Ask them clearly about their origins and motivations."

"Yes."

Gretel nodded respectfully and went down quickly.

But only a moment later, he came again.

This time there are a few more people around.

These are the objects of Gretel's interrogation.

From their mouths, Yatimu also knew the origin of the matter.

As Yatimu had expected before, the bandits in front of him were not the main force of the Birch Bandit Group, but just one of the squads.

The Birch Bandit Group had internal strife before, and this team came out, planning to start over in another place after looting Huamu Village.

However, they didn't expect that they ran into Yatimu just at the beginning.

Then naturally there is no need to say more.

"Why the internal strife?"

After listening to the descriptions of several people, Yatimu instinctively felt that something was wrong, so he continued to ask.

Then, he got another unexpected news.

"Your leader is dead?"

He looked at the people in front of him with a look of astonishment.

From the descriptions of these people, what happened inside the bandit group was also revealed in their eyes.

Prior to this, there was an accident in the birch bandit group, the leader of the bandit group died directly, suddenly and suddenly.

Because of the sudden death of the leader, the birch bandit group was divided and split directly.

Several small leaders each had their own ideas, so they simply fought and separated.

This group of people is one of them.

They left the base area in the past, and originally wanted to loot the village, and then find another place to start over.

In the end, I ran into Yatimu without realizing it.

"The leader is dead."

Listening to their description, Yatimu couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

He felt that this matter seemed to be a bit of a coincidence.

He was just about to make a move, but the leader of the family over there died.

Is there such a coincidence in this world?

Yatim was instinctively skeptical.

"How many people are left on the mountain now?"

He thought for a moment, then continued to ask.

"About 200 people."

The leader of the group spoke.

Yatimu nodded and didn't say much.

He will not kill the group of people in front of him.

Yatimu isn't that murderous yet.

But expecting Yatimu to let them go, but there is no need to think about it.

He was going to take these people as slaves, and then work in the workshop until they died.

This is also considered to pay for the sins they have caused in the past.

After all, these are robbers, and there are not many good people among them.

It is definitely not too much to use them all as slaves.

After a while, the losses of the local villagers were also cleared up.

None of the people brought by Yatimu died in battle, but two of them were injured due to bad luck, and it was temporarily inconvenient to move.

Yatimu called Aliya over and asked him to organize the villagers to take care of the two before looking at the village.

The village is located in the middle of the intersection, and it is considered to be stuck on a necessary road.

Many of the merchants who went to Lima from the north passed through this area.

Of course, it is not impossible to bypass, but the energy and cost will be much greater in that case.

Not worth it for business people.

It is also because of this that the Birch Bandit Group chose to use this place as their lair, robbing passing vendors along the road.

It's kind of funny to say.

In the past, the people of this village regarded the bandits as their own, and made a living by picking up the wreckage of the robbers.

But in Yatimu's view, if there is no group of robbers, with the appropriateness of the location of this place, sooner or later it will benefit from the business road along the road and develop.

In other words, their lives would have been better without the group of bandits.

It's just that they didn't see this at all, and thought that the bandits were the ones they relied on for their lives.

I don't know what to say
But now it was Yatimu's turn, but he immediately fell in love with this position.

"Who does this place legally belong to?"

He called Sai Luo and asked simply.

"this."

Sai Luo looked around, took out the map to look at it, and then said with certainty: "This place is unowned."

A place without an owner may sound funny, but it is very common in this area.

The territory of the Principality of Kern is roughly divided into three types.

One is the royal territory directly under the royal family, and the other is the noble territory in the hands of the noble lords.

As for the third type, it is a barren area that has not yet been developed.

Relatively speaking, Lima City is regarded as the territory of the royal family, but the area in front of it is undoubtedly a barren area.

For this kind of region, generally no one authenticates, even if someone authenticates, it is invalid.

"Go back and communicate with Mr. Clay."

Yatimu said with great interest: "This place is not bad, it can just be divided into my territory."

"Yes."

Sailo nodded.

For this matter, no one cared about it.

Because it is just a small thing in itself.

In other places, it may be difficult to directly authenticate a territory, but at this border, as long as you have the ability to occupy this area, then you can become the lord of this area.

Of course, it's not that easy in practice.

But that's just for the average person.

Things that are difficult for ordinary people are naturally quite easy when it comes to Yatimu.

"As for the villagers in this place."

Yatimu turned and looked aside, looking at the villagers in front of him.

He thought for a moment, and then said, "Let them go for now."

These are precious human resources, and it would be a pity to waste them like this.

But for the time being, Yatimu really didn't think of any suitable place to arrange these people.

So for the time being, it can only be like this.

Fortunately, the organizational structure of the village has disintegrated after the previous wave of robbery.

It will be much easier to integrate later.

This is good news.

Yatimu turned and looked to the side.

Aliya is standing there at the moment, looking forward with complicated eyes.

There, a big man was kneeling there, tied up with a rope like the others, and put aside.

Because of his relatively strong body, he was specially arranged and put aside with the others to facilitate management.

He squatted there a little dejected, not knowing what he was thinking.

As if aware of Yatimu's gaze, Gretel explained: "This person should be a villager in this place, but he is not very honest."

"The men from other families were fighting with the robbers with weapons, but he hid behind and robbed the property of the fellow villagers."

There was undisguised disdain on his face.

As a soldier, they usually look down on this kind of person the most.

He is obviously a strong man, but when the danger comes, not only does he not protect other people, but he takes advantage of the absence of other men.

People who sting teammates like this are not welcome anywhere.

Even to a certain extent, the stronger the body, the greater the harm.

"It's in line with his previous style."

Yatimu spoke with great interest, and then pointed to Aliya who was beside him: "Give this person to her."

"How to deal with him is up to you."

He said with a casual smile.

If he remembered correctly, the reason why Aliya got what she was before was because her brother left her behind.

In times of danger, the older brother not only failed to protect his younger sister, but also took the initiative to leave his younger sister behind in order to escape for his own life.

This kind of behavior can be regarded as scum.

Yadimus simply fulfilled him, and handed over the man to Aliya to deal with it herself.

The strong man was quickly untied.

Then he saw Alia in front of him.

After understanding the situation, he immediately changed his face.

"Sister, save me!"

"Sorry, I shouldn't have abandoned you, please forgive me this time!"

"I swear I will never do this again, please help me!"

He spoke loudly, and his voice continued to resound in place, which sounded extraordinarily loud.

A big man kept kowtowing on the spot like this, without any self-esteem at all.

People around looked at this scene with disdain on their faces.

An angry look also appeared on Aliya's face: "You"

She looked at her brother, speechless for a long time.

She really didn't know what to say about this kind of weirdness.

But if she wanted to kill her elder brother herself, she couldn't do it either.

After hesitating for a long time, she finally sighed, and looked at Yatimu beside him: "Sir, please let him go."

"Anyway, he's my brother."

"Even if he did so many excessive things?"

Yatim asked back.

Alicia hesitated, but finally nodded slowly.

"Since that's what you mean, so be it."

Yatimu smiled, and finally nodded: "Drag him out."

The people on the side immediately stepped forward and dragged him out.

Yatimu looked aside and flirted with Gretel.

Gretel immediately understood and walked aside with a smile.

A long knife was slowly pulled out.

Arya's brother would not live.

According to Yatimu's experience, if this kind of person is not killed, he may cause some trouble later.

He may not be able to help you, but he can definitely disgust you.

So in order to avoid trouble, Yadi Mu simply helped Aliya.

Of course, Aliya herself would not know this.

She could only assume that her brother had disappeared after this, possibly fleeing the area for something else.

This is just a small episode.

After finishing the work, Yatimu found several local old men.

Although Birch Village has been pacified, the Birch Bandit Group has not yet.

There are still 200 people on the mountain.

According to several captives, even the birch bandit group after the split, their strength is still not weak.

(End of this chapter)