I'm not a lord

Chapter 112 Surround

Hearing the sound of rapidly approaching horse hooves and seeing the sharp cold light flashing from the gun tip, Henrik stopped in despair.

Too fast, everything happened too fast.

While they were still asleep, the enemy had already broken through the outer sentries and rushed into the manor without them receiving any warning.

As soon as he put on his armor, the enemy cavalry rushed to his front.

How is this fight going?
But Henrik felt that he would not die.

How could he, the guardian of the Baron of Shoal, the chief knight of the fiefdom and the lover of the regent, die here?

He is the strongest man in Shoal Territory!

When faced with a powerful charge from the enemy, there is only one thing he has to do!
"I surrender!"

Henryk not only heard the sound of cavalry hooves, but also the sound of orderly footsteps outside the manor.

He knew it was too late to break out on horseback, so he used a wooden barrel to jump onto the roof of the stable, quickly dropped his sword, and gave a classic French military salute.

"I am Henrik, the guardian of the Baron of Shoalland, a landed knight. You can capture me for ransom! I have money, lots of it!"

We are all knights and nobles with status in the territory. As long as we surrender, we won’t be killed, right?

Even if Miss Yagna really seizes the territory, won't she still have to rely on enfeoffment of knights to obtain military support?
It is true that I, Henrik, had an affair with the female regent, but I was forced!

How could a knight like me possibly rebel against the powerful female regent?

"Henrik?" The third brother reined in his horse and stopped in front of the stable, pointing his lance at Henrik.

"Yes, it's me!"

Henrik nodded quickly, a flattering smile on his face.

A voice colder than iron emanated from under the third brother's iron mask: "Take off your armor, get down, and I'll spare your life."

But Henryk was overjoyed when he heard this. He took off his chain mail as quickly as possible and actually rolled down from the roof of the stable.

"I swear in the name of my grandfather and father that I, Henry, will surrender voluntarily and will never run away!"

Although his face was covered with a mixture of horse manure and mud, he still forced a smile, knelt on one knee and spread his hands to indicate that he had no hidden weapons.

The third brother dismounted, threw his lance to the cavalry behind him, and then took the rope from the horse's back.

The smile on Henrik's face froze instantly: "Isn't that necessary? I've already surrendered."

According to the unspoken rules of the North, if a knight surrenders voluntarily and swears not to escape, he should be given a minimum level of dignity, at least not be tied up with ropes.

The rope has strong symbolic meaning.

Only the lowest serfs were deprived of their freedom by ropes.

Even if a nobleman was sentenced to death, he could not be hanged but beheaded.

Even if you die, you must die with dignity.

But the third brother doesn't care about you.

He and his elder brother had robbed countless nobles and never had the habit of leaving anyone alive.

In the past, he would have shot this noisy waste to death.

Your estate has been occupied. If we kill you, can't we get the ransom?
But before the battle, Lynn told the third brother that if there was a chance to capture Henryk alive, he should try to spare his life.

"Cut the nonsense!"

The third brother quickly tied Henrik's hands behind his back, then pulled out the dagger from his waist and cut his tendons while he was not paying attention.

"what!"

Henrik was caught off guard by the severe pain. As soon as he turned his head, his hamstring hurt again.

Then the third brother kicked him down and used the remaining rope to block his roaring mouth.

This Henryk is at least a regular knight, and there is a chance that he has crossed the threshold of [Warrior]. As long as he bandages his tendons in time after cutting them, he will not die so easily.

During this period, young Thorward had led his men to search the entire manor and captured alive more than ten people including Henryk's wife, son, and knight's squire.

The master had surrendered, so naturally these little Karamis had no choice but to surrender. This was the advantage of feudal manors: the leadership, barracks, granaries, and arsenals were all in one place. If you could just take the manor, you could wipe out the whole place.

At the same time, the manor is also the ruling core and main defense fortification of the village. With the manor in hand, there is no need to worry about the village head causing trouble.

In fact, since Lin En's army did not engage in any looting, these village heads had no intention of causing trouble at all.

The lords come and go, but the village heads remain the same. There is no need for them to go against the possible new rulers.

The third brother left little Thorward and twenty soldiers to guard the manor and guard the prisoners, while he led more than a hundred soldiers to continue marching eastward and capture a village called White Oak two kilometers away.

The village was well-prepared. A group of conscripted serfs armed with spears, pitchforks and flails were guarding the western exit of the village under the command of the steward and the village head.

But when the third brother arrived with elite axe and halberd soldiers, the mob scattered in an instant.

He ordered his soldiers to appease the serfs in the same way, and learned that the knight from White Oak Village had already headed towards the castle with several servants.

The third brother looked up towards the southeast where the castle was.

Just as dawn was breaking, a straight, thick column of black smoke was particularly eye-catching.

Going back a little in time, when the third brother just walked out of the forest to launch the attack, the paddle boat that Lin En was riding cut through the mist on the river and went downstream.

In the north, autumn is also known as the 'fog season'. From early October to early December, it is a time of high fog incidence, and fog occurs almost every morning.

Under the cover of mist, the three oared sailboats docked silently at the pier in the shallows.

The dock was empty and unmanned.

It was not until Lynn and his army arrived at the castle gate that the guards on the gate tower discovered these uninvited guests.

If he took advantage of the situation and launched a siege, Lin En would most likely be able to capture this small brick castle directly.

According to the intelligence he had, the castle garrison would not exceed twenty people, with the main force consisting of two knights and a dozen knight squires.

Lin En had one hundred spearmen, twenty wild archers, himself, the second brother, the fifth brother, and five knights, a total of eight armored cavalrymen.

The total number of troops is more than six times that of the people in the city. As long as Lin En is willing to take the lead in climbing the city wall with his brothers, it will not be difficult to capture the castle.

But he had no intention of storming the castle at all.

With the financial resources of the Shallows Lords, they would definitely equip the soldiers defending the city with mail armor and iron helmets, and most likely heavy crossbows and bows and arrows.

A strong attack will definitely cause damage to your own side.

There are only more than 300 soldiers in the White Bear Territory, all of whom were trained with great effort by Lin En.

Even if they died in battle, their deaths should have been meaningful, rather than dying under this old and dilapidated castle in Qiantan County.

Lin En currently has nine ways to open this city gate.

A strong attack would only waste precious manpower.

Moreover, he also needs to rely on this castle to besiege and attack reinforcements.

To this end, as soon as Lin En arrived at the city, he began to command his soldiers to build a camp.

The Shallows Territory Castle has only one gate, so it is indeed easy to defend, and it is even easier to surround it.

Lin En gathered most of his troops on both sides of the city gate, maintaining a relatively safe distance of 200 meters from the city wall.

He then placed chevaux de frise and thick wooden boards 150 meters outside the city gate. The former was to prevent cavalry charges, and the latter to defend against bows and crossbows.

At the back of the camp, he also set up a row of chevaux de frise to prevent possible knight charges.

These barricades were built in advance in the White Bear Territory and shipped over by boat, so they were deployed extremely quickly.

Therefore, when the female regent Flora rushed to the city gate tower wearing a woolen coat, what she saw were dozens of white military tents, as well as dense chevaux de frise and arrow shields.

Especially the white military tent, which is extremely conspicuous under the night sky.

Flora fainted.

No? Where did this army come from?

(End of this chapter)