Chapter 58 Red Dragon and Black Dragon (Part 1)
"Of course, so we are still gathering people. Sir Simon has calculated that it will take 12 to 16 days for the caravan to travel from the fishing village to and from the White Wall City. It has only been ten days since the caravan left the fishing village. The remaining Martha can still recruit people for us during the time.
Moreover, if the other party still has not finished transporting the treasure in this trip, we will have the next 12 to 16 days to prepare. "
"Sir Simon of Darry? You didn't mention him before."
"Oh, that's because he is not on standby under my command now. He has returned to Darui City. He asked me to inform him before taking action. He can still mobilize about 30 people to join the battle.
Although his people are mainly infantry, they are all elites of the standing army, which is crucial for our infantry line to form a combat effectiveness. However, accordingly, for Blackfire's treasure, he asked for 30% of the price. "After Wilder said this, he decided to take this opportunity to explain the entire profit distribution to 'Sir Lucien'.
"As for the remaining part, I promised 10% to the three mercenary knights and let them distribute it themselves."
"So you left 60% for yourself before I arrived?" Ian looked at Sir Wilder with interest.
"No, in the original plan, Willy and I will each get 20%, and the remaining 20% will be shared equally by other people in the Knight Alliance."
"Those people don't participate in the operation but get a share of the money?"
"They participated in most of the early operations. But the last time I didn't inform them, it was not their fault. At least it was not the fault of anyone else except the mole." Sir Wilder took the responsibility on himself On the body.
"What a just leader," Ian sighed, "and then you gave me 20% of theirs?"
"No, my plan is to remove the share for you and distribute the rest according to the original proportion. After all, according to the distribution plan when we cooperated with the Black Falcon mercenaries, we only had You can get 50%.”
"Is this the reason why you insist on waiting for the ghosts of White Wall City to gather all the treasures before taking action? After all, if you raid the abandoned fishing village directly, the things you can get at this ratio are really a bit sorry for you in this little half year. I've paid a lot of attention." Just after Ian finished his evaluation, he was suddenly stunned.
"What did you think of?"
"That's something that's wrong. I felt something was wrong several times!" Ian's expression changed several times in an instant.
"What is it?"
"Gather the treasure together," Ian whispered, then raised his head suddenly and looked at Wilder, "If it's you, if you find the Black Fire treasure, make sure you want to move the treasure to the abandoned fishing village and have a ship to pick it up. What would you do in this situation?"
Sir Wilder looked at Ian blankly.
"I said something is wrong," Ian took a deep breath and gave up his plan to guide Sir Wilder. "If I find the treasure, I will definitely transport the treasure to the fishing village as quickly as possible.
Of course, the amount of this treasure is too large. If we build a caravan with thirty or forty two carts at a time, it will be too conspicuous, but we can obviously divide it into several more caravans for transportation. After all, this kind of thing takes a long time. The shorter it is, the less likely it is to be exposed.
In other words, when you monitor the fishing village, you should constantly see caravans coming in and out. "
"No, except for the caravan at the beginning, no one else entered the fishing village." Sir Wilder shook his head.
"What does this mean?"
Sir Wilder looked confused.
"This means this is all their manpower!" Ian raised his voice.
"Isn't this just right for closing? There are more than 20 people in that caravan, and there are 7 people in the abandoned fishing village. If the other party puts more than ten people to guard the location of the treasure, wouldn't it happen to be the camp we discovered originally? The scale is close to 50 people?" Wilder still didn't understand what Ian wanted to say.
"Then how do they deal with the materials they have looted in the past few months? A bandit cavalry without a fixed camp, a bandit cavalry that you can't even find the other party's shadow, how do they deal with the materials they looted? supplies?”
"Well, I haven't thought about this problem." Sir Wilder was a little embarrassed. He looked back at his good brother Sir Willy, and found that the other person also had a confused look on his face, and his mood inexplicably improved a lot.
"But, what does this have to do with the Blackfire Treasure?" Wilder turned back to look at Ian, hoping to get an explanation from him.
"If the ghosts of White Wall City successfully dispose of the goods they grabbed every time, then there is only one possibility, and that is that they still have several companions pretending to be caravans. Whenever they make a move, they will The goods were supplied to the fake caravans to transport the goods away and sell them.
And in the presence of such caravans, when they find the Blackfire treasure and prepare to transfer the treasure, will they not be used? Impossible, they will put all their manpower into moving the treasure.
In other words, after they have deployed corresponding defenses in the fishing village and the original treasure hiding place, they can at least form several caravans of the size you see. "
"But there was no second caravan in the abandoned fishing village." Sir Wilder sneered.
"That means these caravans don't exist at all! The only ghosts in White Wall City are the cavalry who are fighting against you! They have no other helpers, and those people are all their manpower!"
"Then how did they deal with the goods they grabbed?" Sir Wilder felt his mind was in a mess.
"It takes them such a long time to transport even such a small amount of treasure. How can they handle the goods that are much larger than the treasure?" Ian asked, "And if they can't handle the goods they grabbed, then they will Goods can only be hoarded.”
"Impossible! There are no deep mountains and old forests near White Wall City. There are just a few sparse woods in that area, and the surrounding area is a flat plain. There is absolutely no way they have a camp that we can't find!" Sir Wilder said firmly.
Ian glanced at Sir Wilder: "If you hadn't described the details of the abandoned fishing village so clearly, I would almost suspect that the whole thing was a farce directed and performed by you!"
"Direct and act on your own?" Wilder was stunned for a moment, and then asked loudly, "Do you suspect that the ghosts in White Wall City are mine?" Where has he ever experienced such humiliation in his life? At this moment, he even wondered why he was so restrained and did not directly propose a duel to Ian.
"No," Ian shook his head, "I said almost, meaning... I believe in your innocence and honor, Sir Wilder." Ian said, changing to a more flattering way of saying it.
Wilder's Sir's expression improved slightly.
"And," Ian showed his signature smile, "after eliminating your suspicion, I think the truth has emerged."