Chapter 17: interrogation of captives

The news that the robbers were repelled spread in Huxin Town, and the residents took to the streets and gathered in the central square of the town to celebrate.

The next day, Lord Earl ordered a victory parade. The troops formed a phalanx with companies as units, walked into the square along the street in unison, and set up a temporary review stand in the north of the square. Paul, Schroeder, and Bryce Senior officers inspected troops from above. The troops under review walked towards the reviewing platform from west to east. When they passed the reviewing platform, the phalanx immediately changed into walking forward according to the orders of their respective officers. Without losing seriousness.

The onlookers who were eating melons exclaimed, followed by waves of applause and cheers, and the old knights on the reviewing platform nodded secretly. This peculiar way of marching really gave people an indomitable momentum. The discipline and quality of the troops are evident, and even the troops he served before could not achieve this level without long-term training.

After the reviewing troops left, the pirates captured in this battle followed. Unlike the flowers and applause just now, they were welcomed with rotten eggs and rotten leaves, because they, the residents of Huxin Town Not to mention how aggrieved the life is, not only the people who go out of the town to farm and work are worried, but even the fishermen dare not go too far from the shore when they go fishing in the lake.

In view of the great significance of this victory, on the afternoon of the defeat of the pirates, Paul and a group of senior military officers rushed to formulate a temporary reward and pension system, and announced it during the military parade: For the performance in this battle, those who died in the battle were awarded first-class merit, those who were seriously injured were awarded second-class merit, and nearly a hundred people who performed outstandingly were awarded third-class merit. material and monetary rewards. For those who died in battle or were seriously injured and disabled, their families can go to the Lord's Mansion to receive a sum of 5 Aldo gold coins or other equivalent currencies. For civilian families in the Northwest Bay area, this is quite a big deal. a sum of money.

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"You sons of **** nobles..." The bound bearded man had his hands behind his back, struggling hard while cursing and being led into the hall, where two soldiers pushed him to the ground together.

"So, you are the 'great' King Quaker I?" Paul looked at the dissatisfied pirate leader with interest. In the previous battle, the bearded man was stunned by the retreating subordinates. I got dizzy from stepping on it... When I think of this, I feel a sense of revenge.

"It's your grandpa..."

"Let him speak cleanly."

The sound of slapping slaps sounded in the hall, and a soldier slapped his bow left and right, and after a while, Quake's two cheeks swelled up.

"You...you..." The pirate chief's cursing voice gradually dropped.

"Tell me all the information you know. How many of you? How much did you take? Where are the other pirates?"

"Kill it... hiss... I won't reveal it... hiss... a little bit." Quick's nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he couldn't even speak clearly.

"The bones are very hard. Can you guys pry his mouth open?"

All the people participating in the interrogation brainstormed and proposed methods to punish people one after another, so good shows were staged in the hall one after another.

First the whip, the pincers, then the tiger stool, pepper water, and waterboarding, all of which gave Quick a good meal. What? Still not speaking? Since the hard ones are not good enough, the soft ones are used, scratching the creaking holes, scratching the soles of the feet, one after another bad moves were used on Quick.

"Uh! Ah! Uh...haha...haha...ah...oh! Hahaha!"

The soft ones and the hard ones took turns, and the bearded Quick was thrown into heaven for a while and **** for a while.

"I recruit...I recruit..." After being tossed for a long time, Quick finally let go.

"It's really a toast, don't eat fine wine, wouldn't it be fine if you speak up earlier." The little earl laughed sinisterly like a villain in a movie.

"Soldier, continue to interrogate other prisoners in the prison. Have you memorized the torture method just now? See if their boss is stubborn, or this group of gangsters are stubborn."

"Yes! Your Excellency Earl." The two soldiers saluted the newly introduced salute, gearing up, and went out excitedly.

Paul smiled strangely for a while, and then slowly said to Quick: "Then, the great Lord Quick I, tell us everything you know, and if there is any conflict with what your subordinates said, we will Xinzhen has always been warm and hospitable, and you will receive even more wonderful 'hospitality'."

The bearded pirate lying on the ground trembled after hearing this.

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After synthesizing the confessions of all the pirates, Huxin Town finally found out the enemy's situation.

There are three groups of pirates who invaded this time. One group is the Quaker Gang who have just stumbled in Huxin Town. The second group is the Shark Gang. Stock pirates. The third group is the "Loach" Garden Gang who just came ashore. They are the suspicious people who have been soy sauced in this battle. Loach" nickname.

The Shark Gang went ashore first, and after robbing the coast, they were so lucky that they defeated the old Paul who came to conquer. When they learned that there was only one kid left in the Gleiman family, they became more and more arrogant. It directly occupied Fulan, a small harbor town, and forced the local residents to build fortifications, intending to occupy it for a long time.

The shore after the Quaker Gang went to the shore, and the shark gang had almost robbed the coastal area, so they headed inland. After looting some villages and towns, they decided to do something big, and went straight to Huxin Town, and then went to Overturned.

As for the third wave of "Loach" Gardeners who came ashore, Quick had only just joined them, so he didn't know much about it.

But what worries everyone in Huxin Town is that although these three bands of pirates are only small gangs, they belong to another powerful faction—the giant sea bandit that traverses the North Sea: Walker Edward.

Twenty years ago, Walker Edward rose suddenly and gradually annexed all the big and small pirate gangs in the North Sea. The pirates who were twisted together caused headaches for the lords of the Northwest Bay. Edward, but the process is not going well. The pirates came and went on the water, adopted guerrilla tactics, and were erratic. As soon as the noble coalition forces retreated, they went ashore to attack, and as soon as the main force of the coalition forces arrived, they retreated back to the sea. The nobles tried to build ships and go out to sea to destroy them, but the newly formed fleet was really no match for these veterans at sea, and they failed again and again. In the end, the aristocrats couldn’t bear it anymore, and the two parties negotiated. The lords paid a large sum of money, which was regarded as a protection fee, and set aside a piece of land along the coast (including part of the territory of the Paul family), so that the pirates After a few months of "replenishment", Edward must restrain his pirate gangs, not to go too deep into the interior, and not to enter the capitals of various territories and their surrounding areas.

In this way, the lords lived in peace with the pirates for twenty years, while the "supply land" along the coast endured the double exploitation of the nobles and pirates.

When Quick explained this, the earl threw down the water glass he had just picked up angrily, "These sons of **** nobles!" A **** that was exactly the same as Quick just now burst out. Not only Quick, who was kneeling in the hall, was taken aback by hearing this, but other people participating in the interrogation also looked at each other in blank dismay.

The butler whispered in Paul's ear and reminded: "Cough... Lord Earl, please be careful. Your grandfather was also involved in the negotiations at that time. At that time, most of the lords in Northwest Bay agreed. Although the family is dissatisfied, it does not play any role at all, so they can only agree."

"Oh, so, if the pirates hadn't crossed the border this time, wouldn't you have continued to be out of sight and out of mind?" Paul asked coldly.

Everyone in the hall bowed their heads and remained silent for a while, only to hear the sigh of the old knight Schroeder...