Asha was startled, drew the dagger from her waist and jumped up. But before she could react, the sound of arrows piercing the air came from all directions. Arrows pierced the bandits’ heads or bodies accurately, knocking them to the ground one by one.

Even if they were wearing helmets or chain mail, arrows could still accurately pierce their faces when they turned their heads.

In just a few minutes, more than thirty bandits turned into more than thirty corpses lying on the ground.

Standing in the center of the square were only Asha and the villagers, whose bodies were splattered with blood and whose faces were pale with fear.

After a brief silence, Asha Wilder threw the dagger to the ground, then knelt on her knees among the corpses and raised her hands.

“I surrender!”

she shouted to the deserted village.

A moment later, behind the wooden doors that should have been empty, with the windows lowered and on the roofs, elven rangers holding bows and arrows appeared there.

Thordrin looked at the woman kneeling on the ground and said to the two tribesmen beside him:

“Tie up this woman and give her to the Baron as a trophy!”

……

The area around Kurosawa Village was flat and there were almost no strategic points to defend. The only defense of the village itself was a low fence to keep out wild beasts.

The only building that could be considered solid in the village was a small church at the entrance of the village. The only priest died of illness half a month ago, so the church had been empty.

Allen stationed his troops near the church, and caravans loaded with supplies were also parked here.

Allen sat in the priest’s office and watched an elf mercenary lead a man into the room.

“According to your instructions, my lord, I have brought the people here.” The elf pointed behind him and said, “This is Robert, the head of Blackpool Village. Robert, this is the newly appointed Baron Angate of the North, and also your lord.”

Looking at the timid old man, Allen couldn’t help but frowned.

After giving the village chief half a gold coin, the numb and bewildered old man finally spoke. From the village chief, Allen learned that since the Angate Castle was occupied by the bandits, they have been looting everywhere, and the villages at the foot of the mountain have suffered greatly.

Take Hei Ze Village as an example. All the food in the village was robbed by bandits. The villagers could only pick wild vegetables and tree bark to fill their stomachs. They had not eaten for many days. Not only food, but also ironware, clothes, and all valuable things were robbed clean. Every household could be described as “penniless”.

After robbing everything, the bandits came to rob people. They took the men as slaves and the women as maids, leaving only about 200 people in the village.

Maria and Anna, the mother and daughter who were chosen this time, had their father and brother kidnapped by bandits, and their fate was unknown. The mother and daughter only survived by smearing soot on their faces.

But this trick can fool men, but not women like Asha, so she was caught red-handed.

“Do you know how many bandits there are in the mountains?”

“I don’t know. There are a lot of them, probably several hundred.” The village chief shook his head with a numb look in his eyes. “I only know that there are a lot of them…”

Hundreds of people? How could a group of bandits have so many people?

“Master… are you going to attack the castle?” Perhaps noticing that Allen looked unhappy, the village chief asked cautiously.

“Of course, Angate is my territory. It is only natural for me to take it back.”

As soon as Allen finished speaking, he saw the old man in front of him kneel on the ground with a thud:

“Sir, I beg you, please spare our village!”

“The group of bandits who occupied the castle were very vicious. They robbed anyone who resisted from the nearby villages. Only three of the four villages in Angate were left. The Rock Village had already been massacred by them, and not a single one was left…

“Not long ago, a knight came with many soldiers to attack the castle, but not a single one came back… I beg you, sir, please let our village go. You can pick any pretty girl in the village, just don’t mess with the bandits in the castle…”

As he spoke, the old man knelt on the ground and banged his head.

Looking at the old man in front of him, Allen was silent.

The harm caused by the bandits was greater than he had imagined. So the plan to use the young and strong men in the village might have to be changed…

Just as he was about to say something, he heard a loud commotion outside the house.

A moment later, several elven mercenaries escorted a young man with black hair and black eyes into the room.

“Sir, we caught a thief who was trying to steal our armor and weapons!”

“I’m not a thief!” The young man struggled desperately, “I want to follow you to fight the bandits! Give me a weapon and I’ll go to war with you!”

“Oflai!” Village Chief Robert’s face changed instantly. He was about to stand up, but knelt down again under the fierce eyes of the elves. “You bad guy, you usually steal vegetables from the lord’s field every day, and now you even dare to steal weapons! I think sooner or later your thieving hand will be chopped off!”

“I said I didn’t steal! I want to join the lord’s army! I want to avenge my father and mother! Avenge Mrs. Maria!” The young man named Oflai raised his head like a crazy hound.

“Join the army? You’ll lose your life! Have you forgotten that old Tasso followed the Knight to attack the castle and hasn’t come back yet? You’ll die!”

“If I die, I die! My father died, my mother died too, why am I the only one alive? Why? Why can’t we take up arms to resist them? We can only watch them desecrate Madam Maria? If the lord hadn’t come, would Anna have fallen into their hands? Uncle, tell me, why, why?”

The young man roared, lowered his head and sobbed:

“I miss my parents… I just… want to avenge them…”

The hut fell into silence for a moment. The elven mercenaries looked at each other. Old Robert lowered his head in shame, not daring to look at his nephew, let alone Allen.

After a moment, the young man stood up and signaled the elven mercenary to release his hands that were clamped on Oflai. He lowered his head and looked at the young man: “What’s your name?”

“Oflai, Oflai Cecil,” sobbed the young man.

“Let me ask you, how many carpenters and blacksmiths are there in the village?”

Oflai looked up in bewilderment. “There are ten carpenters and four blacksmiths.”

“That’s enough. Can you run, kid? Can you run fast?”

“Of course, sir!” Oflai’s voice instantly rose several degrees, “I am the fastest runner in the whole village!”

“Very good. Now help me run to the village and tell everyone that Baron Allen Hynes of Angate is going to take back his fiefdom. Anyone who has made contributions to the Baron can get a piece of land of their own and become a self-employed farmer.”

land!

Oflai’s eyes lit up!

Becoming a self-employed farmer with his own land is a lifelong wish of many villagers but is difficult to achieve. Now there is such an opportunity right in front of you!

“Then, call all the carpenters and blacksmiths in the village here. Tell them that I will hire them at a price of ten gold coins a day to build siege engines for me. Other villagers can come if they want to do odd jobs. I will pay them four gold coins a day, and they will have enough black bread.”

He stood up and looked at Old Robert who was kneeling beside him: “I understand your difficulties, but you have to know that you can’t kneel at their feet forever – if they can massacre one village, they can massacre the second and third.”

“As long as the bandits are still alive, your lives will always hang on the edge of a knife. I don’t expect you to take the initiative to capture the castle for me, but please explain this matter clearly to the villagers.”

Seeing the old village chief with a look of confusion and horror, Allen looked away:

“I heard that Thorderling took a prisoner?”

Chapter 232: Torture, Stubbornness, and the Secret of the Female Bandit

In Kurosawa Village, in an empty room.

Asha’s wrists were tied tightly with hemp ropes hanging from the ceiling, and her two long legs wrapped in tight breeches were tied to a spear respectively.

She was forcibly separated and fixed in an X shape. She wanted to speak, but her mouth was stuffed tightly with rags, so she couldn’t utter a single syllable.

The two elven mercenaries guarding the door had no expression on their faces and didn’t even look back at her.

In fact, Asha could probably guess why he was alive – either because he was attracted by her beauty, or because he wanted to torture something out of her.

From what the elf had said before, she could guess the origins of this group of mercenaries. It seemed that Montina was still upset about the failure here last time, so he sent a new army.

However, this time, the fighting power of this group of elves was obviously much stronger than that of the female knight and her men…

She bit the rag in her mouth unwillingly. It was not easy for her to escape from that man, and after such a long time of wandering, she finally managed to gain a foothold in this place. Was she going to let everything go to waste now?

If that’s the case, when will she be able to take revenge on that man…

As soon as he thought about it, the wooden door of the house was pushed open. A young man in military uniform waved his hand to signal the guards to stay outside and walked in alone.

The door was closed. Allen folded his arms and admired the female bandit’s slender waist, amazing waist-to-leg ratio, and long legs in high boots for a moment. Then he stepped forward and tore the rag out of her mouth.

“To make a long story short, I’ll just ask directly.” Allen twisted his shoulders, “How many bandits are there who occupy Fort Angate? How much equipment do they have?”

“Why, you didn’t even introduce yourself to me when the young master asked me questions?” Asha spat on the ground beside her with a provocative expression on her face, “Or do you think I would casually reveal the information about my brothers to you?”

Allen raised his eyebrows: “So, you do know the approximate strength and weapons and equipment of the bandits, right? You probably hold a high position in the bandit group?”

“Leader? Not likely. It’s hard for the bandits to completely obey the authority of a woman.”

“Mistress? Small boss? Or something else?”

Seeing Asha’s suddenly ugly expression, Allen curled the corners of his mouth.

“I have nothing to say.” Asha turned her head away stiffly, “I won’t tell you a single word.”

She knew that what the other party said was almost entirely right.

At the beginning, she did think about recruiting a group of bandits for her own use as her first “team”.

But… but!

Just because she was missing a piece of fucking meat between her legs, those bandits were either thinking about owning her or looking for the right opportunity to start a rebellion and turn her into their public slave.

After suffering several losses in succession and almost falling into the hands of the enemy, she changed her strategy. She disguised herself as a man and joined an established bandit group as a small leader, lying in wait and waiting for the opportunity.

After offering a strategy to capture Angate Castle, she gained enough prestige in the bandit group and was in a position where she was not easily overthrown, but she also had a group of subordinates, and then revealed her identity as a woman.

Especially after she ambushed and annihilated the female knight’s team, her prestige reached a new level, and she now had more than thirty minions at her disposal.

She once felt proud that she had finally made some achievements and finally became a “personality”. Then… she met this man and his army.

Seeing the woman’s stubborn attitude, Allen felt a flash of anger in his heart. He suddenly reached out and grabbed Asha’s neck, lowered his head, and leaned close to her ear:

“Do you think you are very proud, huh? Do you think that leading dozens of men to burn, kill and loot innocent villagers and letting them desecrate a woman in front of your daughter can make you look very capable and competent?”

How could this man know what she was thinking? Asha was shocked.

Allen sneered, raised his right hand, and mercilessly slapped the woman in the face! The sound echoed throughout the room, and the force was so strong that Asha’s head tilted to one side, her ears buzzed, and her face was burning with pain.

He… He actually slapped me? Hitting a woman?

Asha’s head was dizzy, but she managed to squeeze out a few words from between her teeth:

“Heh… this one… it’s so soft, it’s just… ugh!”

The short stick in Allen’s hand accurately hit her tight belly. Asha’s eyes widened immediately, and she screamed. She felt her stomach churning, and the nausea and severe pain rushed to her brain, causing her to bend down and curl up into a ball.

Allen chose the position very accurately, hitting the spot where the organs and nerves were most densely packed. The severe pain made the woman’s forehead sweat instantly overflow, her lips trembled, and she wanted to say something but couldn’t open her mouth. The delicate body fixed by the rope could only tremble slightly.

“You know what? I can actually guess what’s going on in the mind of a person like you.” Allen shook the short stick in his hand and smiled gently at the trembling woman. “Bullying the weak, hurting the innocent, and taking this kind of thing as an achievement with pride, but it can’t cover up the fact that you are a coward – do you know why?”

You’re talking nonsense! Asha was about to retort, but the severe pain in her abdomen turned her words into a scream:

Allen swung his arm and swung the short stick at Asha’s stomach again. The pain she had just suffered was superimposed, and the pain and burning pain coexisted, almost making Asha faint.

“Yeah…”

“Because the weak will only swing their swords at the weaker ones, while the strong will charge at the stronger ones.” Allen turned behind Asha and stretched out his hand to clamp her round breasts from behind…

“You fucking… bastard… let go!” Asha screamed desperately, but she couldn’t break free from Allen’s restraints.

“There are a pair of beautiful mountains.” Allen smiled lightly. “Even though I beat them up, the mountains are more vibrant. Is it because they felt good being beaten? Is Miss Asha a masochist?”

“No, no… ah!”

“You are a bandit who slaughters farmers and desecrates women. Who do you really think you are?” Allen moved one hand to the woman’s legs and stroked her breeches.

“Hmm ah ah…” Asha immediately struggled and moaned softly.

Allen pulled down the breeches, revealing the woman’s fair thigh skin.

Asha gritted her teeth and endured the shame and anger in her heart. She had a strong sense of self-esteem and could not tolerate such humiliation.

“Still refusing to tell?” Allen asked with a raised eyebrow.

“I XXX!” Asha cursed fiercely, “You want me to submit to you noble lords? Don’t even think about it!”

Looking at the female bandit in front of him, Allen curled his lips, retracted his fingers, slightly adjusted the ropes that bound her hands, making her body tense upwards, and with a “crackling” sound, red marks immediately appeared on her buttocks!

“what!”

This action, which seemed like a lesson for a child, instantly trampled on Asha’s self-esteem. But before she could curse, Allen’s seal was already close to her holy weapon!

“Oh my god… Ugh! You… You dare…”

Asha’s eyes widened suddenly. This man… actually wanted to blaspheme her?

Although she had never told anyone about it, ever since her biological father, the high-ranking noble, had molested her sister, she had always had an indescribable fear of having deep communication with men.

That kind of communication would only evoke the most terrifying shadow in her heart. It was as if she had become that weak, manipulated little girl again, who could only watch her sister fall into the depths of darkness.

So in these years she never touched a man, and she only blasphemed women, and she only ate a little and didn’t dare to use any props…

But now, the secret she had kept for more than ten years was being ruthlessly torn apart by another man.