"You don't have to worry about this. You just need to send someone to Maiye City to inform your Master Bob and ask him to prepare the gold coins. Then I will help your young master take it to the gate of Maiye City."

"After preparing the gold coins, ask Baron Bob to send someone to guard the main gate of the city wall. When he sees the person with the rose flag, ask them to send someone out to trade with us."

Ever since he learned that minor nobles such as the Earl of Jinmai had moved their valuables to Maiye City, Gervais knew that any hope of making money by capturing these castles and looting property was dashed.

However, Gabi's idea of ​​exchanging people for ransom to save the castle from destruction made him think of another idea to make a fortune.

That was specifically to kidnap the children of these noble lords who stayed in the castle for ransom, and Gervais also specially thought of a way to capture these noble children with the least cost.

That is to ask Gabi, the castle steward, to help him lobby in nearby castles, and then let the noble heirs come out obediently and accept his prisoners.

After all, with Gervais's thousands of troops and fifty trebuchets, neither the Baron's Castle nor the Viscount's Castle could withstand his attack.

"Sir, are you sure?"

Gabi was a little unbelievable. He still didn't know the major trends in the Principality of Zeon this year, and he felt that it was impossible for Gervais and others to go to Maiye City to trade prisoners with such arrogance.

And even if Gervais and others do go to Maiye City, there is still a question whether they can leave safely after collecting the ransom.

"Of course it's true. You just need to do what I say, and I will be sure to arrive in Maiye City to make a deal with you."

Gervais was even prepared to arrive at Maiye City before the army of Alice, the King and others to make deals with these nobles. Otherwise, when the army of the Principality of Jean arrives at the gate of Maiye City, it will defeat Maiye City.

, then your ransom will probably be wasted.

If even Babette's father was captured, who else could they turn to to pay the ransom for them, but King Hayden?

"Okay, sir, I will send someone to Maiye City right away!"

Seeing that Gervais didn't seem to be joking, Gabi responded respectfully.

"There's no need to send anyone else, Butler Gabby, go there yourself. I still have something to ask you to help me with."

At that moment, Gervais told what he needed Gabby to do.

Every time he passed a castle along the way, he told the nobles that they could hand over the heirs in the castle as the price for Gervais and others not attacking the city.

At the same time, Gervais also promised not to harm them, as long as their parents pay enough ransom when the time comes.

Of course, Gabby also wanted to tell those people what happened to Kalundborg, especially how Gervais had fifty trebuchets and how he breached Kalundborg.

After listening to Gervais's explanation, Gabby couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. The Baron really dared to think that those noble heirs were not fools. Even if he really said it, no one would be able to arrest him.

But what Gabi could think of, of course Gervais also wanted to get it. He just asked Gabi to inoculate the little nobles in the castle first. When they were desperate, they would naturally choose this path.

…

After all that needed to be said, Gabi left the castle with two followers, escorted by Ike and others, and headed towards Maiye City.

By this time, it was already getting dark, and the eldest prince also sent a herald to look for Gervais and others.

Gervais arranged for the vassals of the Jones family to be stationed in the castle to prevent other earl families from coming to attack the autumn wind. Then he took Bertram and Pat to the camp of the eldest prince and others.

…

Early this morning, all the vassals of the allied forces of the Principality of Jean knew that the Baron Castle ahead had been captured by Gervais, and everyone had a depressed look on their face.

It has been nearly ten days since the southern expedition started from the City of Glory, but their group has not caught even a single cent.

On the contrary, the Jones family suffered few casualties and made great progress, but the benefits were abundant.

Inside the meeting tent in the Grand Prince’s camp.

"I believe everyone knows that Viscount Gervais and the vassals of the Jones family have captured the Baron Castle ahead."

"Here I would like to commend Viscount Gervais. He has made a good start for our journey. I believe that our journey to the south will be smoother and smoother."

"The Jones family's achievements this time have been recorded and will be submitted to His Majesty after we join His Majesty's team."

The eldest prince still sat on the main seat and began to talk loudly, with a smile on his face.

Except for several vassal representatives of the Charles family, no one knew how ugly the eldest prince looked when he received the news that the Jones family had breached the castle.

"Now that we have this good start, we need to act separately as a family unit and try to plunge the entire Earl of Jinmai into chaos so that the small nobles in Maiye City cannot stay safely in the city."

"I have arranged an attack route for everyone according to His Majesty's wishes. I believe that with our strength, it will be no problem to deal with these baron and viscount castles."

As the eldest prince said, a soldier in the tent came to the representatives of the eight families holding a few simple maps and gave them the simple maps.

Several attack routes are marked on this map. On these attack routes, each family can encounter the territories of three or four small nobles. The final meeting place for everyone is fifty miles away from Maiye City.

There, when the time comes, their team will rejoin the king and others, and then press towards Maiye City together.

"Is there anything you don't understand about this offensive line? If so, you can raise it now!"

When everyone was looking at the simple map, the eldest prince asked.

Of course, the people below had no doubts, because this attack route was planned by the king's advisers, and the eldest prince just randomly assigned the attack routes of these families.

At this moment, these nine routes have been marked with the names of each family. When the time comes, they only need to attack in the direction of this route.

"It seems that no one has any objections! Then in two hours, we will start attacking along this route!"

"Then, I have another thing to arrange."

The eldest prince saw that everyone had no objections and immediately began to discuss another matter.

"This territory called the Barony of Karen has a total of three towns, five villages and two manors."

"Although most of the serfs in the territory escaped early, we still captured more than a thousand people."

"In addition, a lot of loot was also found in these small towns and manors. There were more than 20 cartloads of wheat grain alone."

"In order to prevent these trophies from slowing down our offensive progress, I need one of your families to be responsible for transporting these trophies back first."
Chapter completed!