Chapter 9: Surprise and brutality I
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POV of Lothar Von Ruppin
'I did not like my king's idea of serving these rebels at all, in their civil war, the fact that we are supporting a rebellion against a legitimate monarch makes my blood boil, these Targaryen may be incestuous, tyrannical and heathen, but by supporting the rebels we go against all the teachings with which the Prussian nobility is educated, honor, discipline and above all loyalty.'
'We are saying that a nobleman can overthrow his monarch if he has committed tyrannical acts or deeds unacceptable to his nobility, but the king rules by divine mandate, he does not answer to any power but god, by supporting this war we are forgetting one of the fundamental pillars of Prussia, the absolute loyalty to our monarch'.
'As much as I disagree with the decisions of my king, I will not go against his wishes, if he considers that serving the pagans is the best we can do, I will do everything within my power to carry out his orders, although I will not miss the opportunity to make him see with different eyes what coexistence with pagans would imply, since the only thing we should do with them is to purify them with fire'.
'My army has the mission to secure the territories in the north and subdue under our boots the locals to deliver us their supplies and valuables, a mission that has been extremely easy, the soldiers along the way are barely patrols to have at a respectable level of security, since most of their army is concentrated elsewhere, a big tactical error, but what can you expect from these pagans'
'the Finn's men have started to spread out over the territory a couple of days ago and every day I get fresh information on where the enemy patrols are ready to ambush them and capture their soldiers to hand them over to our torturers to get whatever information they have out of them, even if the information is not important, it's always good to know what they are planning even if it has no tactical value'
Along the way, we have secured several minor castles, which were just a keep with palisades and several small villages where we made sure to get the loot to keep the war effort of our troops alive, as our food reserves were extremely low, but for the moment with the looting of the villages we are getting enough food to continue the war.
'Resistance has been minimal, the locals have no desire to resist, a divine sign of our campaign, besides the few military forces in the area are patrols of ten to twenty men who are ambushed every day by our forces, we do not expect a large resistance and yet, these savages managed to disappoint me with their pathetic performance during our campaign, I expected more from our enemy.'
'The campaign has been so easy that it is becoming boring because of the dearth of worthy challenges, castles fall extremely easily and villages surrender the moment they see a group of men with swords and maces, but today should be somewhat different because we are targeting a major city in the area, Tumbleton, a walled trading town, we expect quite a bit of resistance in the city, although in my last report from the spies they have confirmed that they managed to infiltrate the guards at the city gate, if that is true, we won't even have to play with deception, we could simply enter the walls and slaughter whoever the idiot is that tries to resist the paladins of god'
The march was quick, as most of the infantry had been sent to secure minor towns and get supplies, we were only marching the cavalry and a few thousand-foot soldiers, after a long hour of marching we could see the walls of this city, Tumbleton the first important objective in our campaign of conquest where we will get a strong point to establish our presence and store our loot.
I headed to the gate with a small contingent of two thousand knights to perform the tactic of the king, which so far has worked perfectly, who is in charge of the castles to see that we work for the most important figure in the kingdom after his king open their doors immediately seeking not to insult it.
We arrived at the door, but the guards did not even bother to close the door.
I was preparing to give my message, when I was approached by a guard.
''We were waiting for you, Count von Ruppin, the city is yours, it is good that you arrived ahead of schedule'' said the guard in perfect German.
'So you made it, the Finns proved to be very efficient at infiltration, now I feel a bit of an idiot for not having used them in this way against the Catholics, it would have been much more effective and lethal against the heretics'.
''good to know soldier, what have you done with the real guards'' I said as I rode through the gate.
The soldier waved his hand and another guard opened the door to the city guards barracks and I saw a small mountain of naked bodies pile up
''I see, very good job, was it very difficult?'', I asked with interest.
''not at all, using the clothes we stole from some locals from a nearby village, we infiltrated as peasants and when we managed to be enough inside the city we started to generate small robberies to draw the attention of the guards when they came to enforce the law we ambushed them, killed them and stole their clothes, and we were replacing them quickly during the last two days'' said the soldier
''Are all the entrances secured?'', I asked as I continued riding towards the castle.
''no, we only secured two of the four city gates, we only acted today, and we were only able to secure the ones we have now under our control,'' said the Finnish soldier
''well, first we will secure the castle and its lord, in the meantime, head to the camp and inform the others to approach the city, we will need the rest of the army if we want to secure the city in no time'' I said while still concentrating on our objective
''yes, count lothar, I can request one of your horses to deliver the message faster'' said the soldier.
I nodded and signaled one of my knights to deliver his horse to the soldier.
Quickly, the man mounted and galloped off towards the camp.
For my part, we continued to move along the roads of the city to the surprise of the pagans who had no idea what was happening in their own home.
'These disgusting heathens have no idea what is going to happen, many people are watching us with faces of intrigue and happiness to see knights, apparently this battle is also going to be very simple.
After a few minutes, we arrived at the city keep where the lord of the city or the civil administration should be, if he left a regent in charge while he followed his lord in the war.
Arriving at the gate of the keep, I could see the surprised faces of the guards, who had no idea what was going on.
''who are you identify yourselves'' said one of the guards.
''I am Arthur, one of the knights of the hand of king Jon Connington, we informed three days ago that we would pass through this city to bring the prisoners of the lords of the storm lands that we captured in the battle against the rebels, were you not informed?'', I said with a serious tone in the language of the heathens.
''no, ser, we had no idea you were coming, no one told us'' said the guard scared.
''this is unbelievable, the guards at the gate knew we were coming, but you didn't?, I need to talk immediately with your Maester and lord about this, I'm sure this information will not please the king at all'' I said with an annoyed tone.
''excuse me ser, it had to be some kind of mistake, nobody informed us, I'm going to warn the castellan of the castle'' said the guard in panic
''and you are going to leave me here waiting, I am an envoy of the king's hand and I demand respect for my title'' I said, very annoyed.
The guard had a desperate look on his face, as this information must be driving him crazy.
''Open the door, I'm going to warn the castellan'' said the guard as he came down from the wall.
The guards obeyed and began to open the gates, they don't know what awaits these pagans, they have just sentenced themselves to death, I will enjoy killing this pagan scum.
The gates opened, and I went through them with a group of my knights.
Being already on the other side of the walls, many of the guards approached us to help us with the horses, as we got off our battle steeds, I gave the order
''no mercy against the heathens, let none of them be left alive'' I said while I took out my mace and rushed against the guards.
It wasn't difficult that by the time I said these words I had already smashed the skull of one of the guards with a powerful blow and I concentrated on the other guard who was still assimilating what was happening.
Following the impulse of my previous blow, I took my mace with both hands to give a blow to the guard, my blow was accurate and his death immediate, seeing how the remains of their skulls were scattered on the floor, I continued giving orders to my knights
''secure the gate, call the others to join our just and divine cause against the heathens'' I shouted as I moved towards the keep, searching for the Maester to prevent them from sending those birds.
While I was moving towards the keep I could see how my knights were massacring the guards that didn't expect a fight, this battle was won, since most of the guards were dying too fast, between the surprise and the martial skill of my men this battle was already over it's only a matter of time and the blood of the heathens will run all over the city.
Entering the keep, we were greeted by the shouts of the servants and the few remaining guards and knights inside the final fortifications of the city.
''Kill them, I'm going to find the master of the birds to prevent them from reporting our actions'' I said to my knights who followed me
''three of my Teutonic bodyguards split off to fight the heathens while I followed with the rest of my men to the stairs leading to the upper floors''
As we climbed the steps of this staircase, I met a servant who was descending the stairs in desperation, I did not give him much importance and took him by the neck and smashed his head against the wall so that he would let us pass quietly to our destination.
Arriving to the upper floors, we started to open all the doors to find the castle's castellan, after checking more than 5 rooms with no luck, we found what we were looking for.
In the room there were 3 men and a woman and I could not distinguish who was paler in our presence, in the air we could feel the fragrance of urine, someone had urinated on himself in our presence
but we found the master, since he was the person who was wearing a metal link necklace, who is the most important person in the operation that had to be captured or eliminated as soon as possible.
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