Chapter 412 Whereabouts Discovered

Within the next day, Gervis captured three baronial castles on Charles' family route in succession, which made Gervis very excited.

This was not a war at all, it was simply collecting protection money. Whenever Gervis came to the bottom of these castles, and brought Babette and a few others as examples, all the noble heirs who stayed behind in the castles surrendered without any hesitation.

Now Gervis has eight baron's sons as captives, which is equivalent to 6,400 gold coins.

Moreover, Gervis only actually launched the siege when he captured Kalundborg and Bain. The subsequent baron heirs did not need to do anything, they just talked and came.

"No wonder everyone likes the Southern Expedition. It turns out that the Southern Expedition is so profitable!"

It would have been better if he hadn't calculated it. After a calculation, he came up with 6,400 gold coins. Gervis smacked his lips and thought that this was a good business and that he made money very quickly.

There was a time when he was worrying about dozens or hundreds of gold coins, and he even had to be tight-fisted with money for the soldiers' equipment.

Of course, the money does come quickly from the Southern Expedition, but among all the nobles in the Principality of Zeon, perhaps only Gervis could reap such a huge harvest so easily. Not everyone has fifty catapults.

While Gervis was extremely excited and thrilled about his wealth, the vassals of Charles' family were feeling overwhelmed and at a loss.

The vassals of the Charles family captured the first Viscount's castle this morning, suffering more than a hundred casualties.

After conquering the Viscount's castle, the vassals of the Charles family left several hundred people in the Viscount's territory to hunt down the serfs hiding in the woods, while the main force rushed to the next Baron's castle at full speed.

But when they arrived at the Baron's castle, they were dumbfounded.

The castle gate was open but there was no one inside. When they entered the castle, they found that everything inside had been taken away, not even a grain of food.

This left the vassals of Charles' family both puzzled and disappointed.

You must know that every time a lord's castle is captured, the most valuable thing is not the worthless spoils inside, but the descendants and families of those minor nobles.

As long as a noble's offspring is captured, it means hundreds of gold coins will be earned.

"Send someone to search for me! See if anyone in this castle has fled to the woods to hide!"

As the temporary commander of the vassals of Charles' family, Daniel was not in a good mood. They had not gained much since they set out. The only thing they gained was the Viscount's Castle which they had captured that morning.

Although all the valuable things in the castle had been moved away, the viscount's heir was worth more than 500 gold coins, which was a good start.

However, after all, there are too many people and too little porridge. There are only six castles in total on the attack route they are assigned to. Now a noble son has escaped. How can he not be angry?

The vassals of the House of Charles did not know that it was actually Gervis who had reaped the fruits of their victory.

Although it is rare for noble heirs to abandon the castle and run away, it does happen.

Next, the vassals of the Charles family led their men to start a massive search in the barony, trying to find the "escaped" noble heir.

Of course, this was in vain. Although they captured many serfs who were hiding, there was no news about the people in the castle.

The captured serfs even confessed that before they escaped, the baron's eldest son had been guarding the castle with soldiers.

"Sir, we found two spies in the west of this barony, and they said they were sent by you!"

Just as Daniel and others continued to wait for the results of the search, a team leader in charge of the search came to report.

"The spies I sent out?"

Daniel looked a little confused. He did send out two spies, and for the sake of secrecy, only he and a dozen or so petty nobles knew about it.

But shouldn't these two be secretly following the Jones family's route, Gervis and his group? Why did they run back to our side?

"Bring them in!"

After just a moment of confusion, Daniel guessed that something must have happened, so he immediately ordered the team leader to let his two spies in.

After seeing the two spies, Daniel confirmed that they were indeed the two people he sent to monitor Gervis.

There is only one day left before the operation against Gervis is launched. Why are these two people here?

With such doubts, Daniel cleared out the irrelevant people and started asking questions.

"What's going on? Didn't I tell you to keep an eye on Gervis's team? Why are you running back?"

"My Lord! We lost them! Gervis's team suddenly sped up without stopping. We lost track of them after dark."

The two men answered timidly, they knew Daniel's temper very well, he was very harsh towards his men, any slight misbehavior would be punished with a whipping.

So after losing track of Gervis and others, the two did not come back to report immediately, but followed the trail of Gervis' team and continued to move forward in search.

Because they were not familiar with the Duchy of Alban, the two of them did not know that Gervis and others had rushed all the way and had already crossed the route of Charles' family.

"Waste, idiot! You two idiots!"

Daniel cursed loudly, he actually lost his two spies in such a large group of people.

If he delayed the work entrusted by Count Nemio, he would also be punished.

Daniel really wanted to draw his sword and kill his two useless subordinates right now, but thinking that finding Gervis's whereabouts was more important, he could only suppress his anger and continue to ask.

"Then why are you two pieces of trash appearing in this woods?"

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"Sir, after we realized we had lost Gervis and his group, we followed their trail all the way here and finally met the team leader. Only then did we realize we were back on the route of our Charles family."

"What? You said Gervis was coming our way?"

Daniel was shocked. This was something he could never have expected.

"Yes... yes, sir!"

Bang!

Daniel slammed the table and thought of a bad possibility.

Is this strange situation in the Baron's Castle caused by Gervis?

"Commander Dude, it looks like Gervis may have arrived ahead of us! We must catch up with him now!"

Regardless of whether the Baron's castle was deserted because of Gervis, they must catch up with Gervis.

Because killing Gervis and taking back the spoils were equally important to them.

"OK!"

Commander Dude didn't say anything. Anyway, it wasn't his fault for what happened. Naturally, it would be the vassal states like Daniel who would bear the responsibility.

"Hurry up and gather the men. Let's go after Gervis now! We must not let him get away!"

Seeing that Dude had no objection, Daniel quickly gave orders to the dozen or so little nobles.

Count Nemio had already made arrangements to deal with Gervis's men. Each of the more than ten vassal families would provide ten people, which would add up to more than a hundred people.

It's not that Nemio didn't want to send more people, but there were limited war horses, and they needed to go back quickly and leave no trace, so they could only let these one hundred people deal with Gervis's two hundred people.

However, among their more than one hundred people, there are ten titled knights, and all of them are silver knights, and there is also Dude, a peak silver knight. In Nemio's view, this is already like a lion fighting a rabbit, using all their strength.

Gervis is doomed!

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