Harvesting the castles on other families' routes does not conflict with Gervais' plan to assassinate the eldest prince, so Gervais immediately made up his mind and prepared to try his own idea.

So Gervais took out his simple map and studied it.

I don’t know if the eldest prince’s arrangement of the route has special significance. The Jones family’s attack route is on the leftmost side of all the families, which is the baronies on the edge of the Earl of Kingmai.

If you go further to the left, you will have left the scope of the Earldom of Jinmai and you will find yourself in a vast forest without people.

Adjacent to them on the right side of the Jones family route is the Charles family, and adjacent to the Charles family is the eldest prince's own team.

From this point of view, the teams of the Charles family and the eldest prince directly formed an invisible wall. If the Jones family wanted to move towards Maiye City, they must pass through the route of the Charles family and the eldest prince.

"Since you are so close to me, you can only consider yourself unlucky."

Although Gervais vaguely noticed something was wrong, he was not too worried now because he had the confidence of the black kiwi fruit.

On the contrary, he felt that it was what he wanted. If he could snatch some gold coins from the Charles family, he would be very happy.

…

Next, Gervais's route was re-planned, heading directly towards Charles' house on the right

Gervais calculated that if he circled the Charles family's attack route, he would be able to run to the front of the eldest prince's team, hide his subordinates, and then assassinate the eldest prince.

Thinking of this, Gervais gave the order and started marching quickly with his men. Even if it was time to eat, Gervais ordered everyone to do it on the carriage.

The soldiers riding war horses were also divided into two groups, and they could take turns to rest on the carriage.

And Gervais himself was already sitting in the carriage to cope with the day and night journey.

After more than ten hours of day and night travel, more than two hundred people from Gervais finally crossed the route of the Larkin family.

There are a total of six noble territories on the Larkin family's offensive route, the first of which is the Viscount Castle, and the others are baron castles.

When Gervais arrived at the second baron's castle, the baron's castle was still intact, and the defenders were nervously guarding the castle.

The Charles family was traveling at the same speed as Gervais had guessed, and at this time they were still attacking the first Viscount Castle.

The Charles family has a large number of vassals, but they are not as wealthy as Gervais, who owns fifty trebuchets, so every war is a real primitive siege war. It still takes a day or two to capture a Viscount Castle.

Time.

…

While the vassals of the Charles family were still working hard to attack their first target, Gervais had already gone around to their front and started to snatch the "fruit" that belonged to them.

"Listen to the people on the city wall, we are the team of the Charles family of the Principality of Jean. Now we give you ten minutes to consider whether to surrender! If you are willing to surrender, you only need to hand over the heir of your castle baron, and then you can spend another eight hundred

Redeem a gold coin!”

"If you are unwilling to surrender, then I can only let you have a taste of the trebuchet!"

Standing under the baron's castle, Gervais did not use the name of the Jones family. He needed to prevent the Charles family from finding a reason to sue the king.

Now in the name of the Charles family, even if the vassals of the Charles family make speculations, there is nothing they can do about it. After a few days, he will get the ransom, who will Charles find as a witness?

Many times the rules and regulations of nobles are like this. As long as they don't put it out in the open and seek death in a high-profile manner, everyone will turn a blind eye.

"The Charles family? Doesn't it mean that only the Jones family has this rule?"

Standing on the city wall was a young man wearing full armor, who was the eldest son of the baron who stayed in the castle. When he heard Gervais's persuasion to surrender, his face was full of doubts.

When Gabi and others passed by their castle, they did talk about Gervais, but they clearly said that Gervase belonged to the Jones family.

And because stewards from other castles came one after another to persuade them to surrender, they had to pay attention and start thinking about the pros and cons.

In particular, Gabi and the other three people said that Gervais owned fifty trebuchets, and if he was unwilling to surrender, he would just use the trebuchets to smash them regardless.

No one is afraid of such a saucy operation, so the heirs of the nobles who stayed in the castle are thinking about whether it would be more cost-effective to simply surrender if they really encounter the legendary Gervais.

Otherwise, when the city wall collapses and you are captured again, you will suffer huge losses, and this is a lesson learned from the past.

"Yes! It's the Charles family! Of course, this is just a temporary guest appearance!"

"Okay! Don't talk nonsense. I said I am from the Charles family, so I am from the Charles family. Babette, Finnis, and Urick are all here. Do you want to ask them?"

Facing the doubts of the people above the castle, Gervais generously gave an explanation. At the same time, in order to prove the credibility of his words, he pointed at the three Babettes and said to the castle.

"Temporary guest appearance? What do you mean?"

After hearing Gervais's explanation, everyone in the castle was even more confused. Can the family affiliation be changed at will?

This is a prince, not a wife, so you can change it if you want!

However, when they heard Gervais's next words, everyone turned to look at the three people with their upper bodies tied up beside Gervais. The Baron's heir immediately recognized several of them.

They are all about the same age, and even though they don't have much social contact on weekdays, as heirs of the family, they still look familiar after attending banquets together.

"Viscount Gervais, I am willing to be your hostage. I hope you can keep your promise!"

"Of course!"

After confirming that Gervais was the inhumane guy mentioned by Gabi and others, the eldest son of the baron surrendered directly in exchange for the safety of the castle without much struggle.

Although he didn't know why Gervais used the family name of Charles, the three heirs of barons were real, and the tarpaulin on the carriage behind was deliberately lifted, and the parts of the trebuchet exposed could not be fake.

Soon, the heir of the baron ran down from the castle. After the heir of the baron was tied up and told his castle steward to go to Maiye City to report the news, Gervais suddenly remembered something.

So he said to the eldest son of the baron: "I promise not to attack your castle, but I can't guarantee the other nobles of the Principality of Jean. Therefore, I have a suggestion here. You'd better let your attributes

Please all exit the castle. There is nothing valuable in the castle anyway. Even if other teams from the Principality of Zeon come by then, they will not attack your castle."

Gervais is a principled person, and since the Baron's heir is so cooperative, Gervais doesn't mind giving more advice.

If the guards and servants in the castle do not withdraw, they will definitely attack the city when the Charles family team arrives.

If these people ran away and the castle gate was opened, the Charles family would not need to attack the city again.

"This... is good..."

The heir to the Baron didn't seem to be joking when he saw Gervais. Although he felt that Gervais had compromised his promise a little, now that things have reached this point, he has nothing to worry about.

So the heir to the Baron quickly gave a few words to the castle steward.
Chapter completed!