Chapter 194 Special Operation 2

The Viscount of Sisse has been established for more than 30 years, and there are now 120,000 people in the territory.

Among them, more than 90,000 are serfs, more than 10,000 self-cultivating farmers, and 10,000 are citizens living near the castle. The remaining more than 10,000 are territorial bureaucrats, garrisons and their families.

Elena Castle is the main castle in the Viscount of Sisse. The castle covers a large area, slightly smaller than Fort William, including the garrison families. This castle is inhabited by 20,000 people all year round.

A castle with a population of 20,000 is already a big city in the northern border area.

The population of Gascoigne Province is even smaller than that of Gedda Province, with a population of only 1.2 million. There are only two or three county towns directly controlled by the royal family that are more prosperous than Elena Castle.

Richard followed the caravan to Elena Castle. Because of the Starlight Bottle, they did not carry any contraband on the surface and easily mixed into the castle.

After booking a hotel, Richard took out the enchanted armor, weapons, and alchemical bombs from the Starlight Bottle, ready to take action at night.

Intelligence support was needed before the operation, and Hayden, who was in charge of intelligence, also participated in the operation.

Richard has always attached great importance to intelligence work and established an intelligence department very early.

Hayden has placed people in important cities in the northern border area.

There are also intelligence personnel from the Harland Territory lurking in the dark in Elena Castle.

There are two groups of lurking personnel in Elena Castle, with a total of more than a dozen people.

One group is public and mainly sells goods from the Harland Territory.

Because the liquor process was leaked, the open intelligence group is no longer trusted by the Harland Territory.

The other group is lurking in the dark, with a single line of contact and directly obeying the intelligence director of Gascoigne Province.

This group consists of three main intelligence officers, one of whom even lurked in the home of Viscount Sisse and became the chef of the Viscount's mansion.

Hayden has already figured out the situation of Elena Castle through the intelligence officers lurking in the dark.

After receiving the intelligence, Hayden immediately reported to Richard: "Through intelligence personnel, we found out that the person in charge of the liquor business is Roning, the fourth son of Viscount Sisse. Roning is also the person in charge of the Sisse family's business. According to the intelligence we have, Roning should have bribed the liquor salesperson in January and obtained the liquor manufacturing process."

"How did the liquor salesperson master the brewing process?"

"The liquor brewing process is very simple. The salesperson should have roughly figured it out when he entered the winery to pick up the goods."

"Can you confirm who leaked the process?"

"It's not certain yet?"

"After the operation, find a way to transfer the salesperson back, and use torture to interrogate if necessary."

"Should we take action against Roning?" Hayden made a gesture of wiping his neck and asked Richard in a low voice.

"If we attack Roning, Viscount Xisai will immediately suspect us. We will not attack Roning for the time being. Do you have other targets that can both strike Viscount Xisai and not arouse suspicion?"

"We can attack the casino run by Viscount Xisai's family, rob the casino's funds, and damage the casino's reputation. The casino in Elena Castle can earn 8,000 gold coins every year, which is very important to the Xisai family. If we defeat this casino, the Xisai family will be deeply hurt."

Richard nodded and continued to ask: "Can we find the Xisai family's vault? If we rob the vault, it will be a blow to Viscount Xisai. It must be very serious."

"The treasury of Viscount Xisai must be in the Viscount's mansion. Attacking the Viscount's mansion will make too much noise, and it may alarm the capital. Once the capital investigation team comes, it will be very troublesome."

"You have thought well. We will attack Viscount Xisai's casino tonight. He wants to steal my liquor business, so I will close his casino. The action is controlled within a certain range. Even if the capital investigation team comes, we have a reason to retaliate."

When it was night, the action team put on armor, carried weapons, put on a layer of black night clothes, and left the hotel with masks, appearing in the night.

The night walkers appeared on the street, which immediately alarmed the castle patrol.

The patrol was shot by a crossbow just as he was about to blow the whistle to warn, and he lost his life on the spot.

Someone on the street saw this scene and hurriedly ran back home, tightly closed the doors and windows, and dared not make any noise.

Before the large number of garrisons could react, the action team had killed the casino guards and controlled the casino's main door and secret door.

Lost and Jennings led the action team into the casino, killing the gamblers and casino security personnel who dared to resist, and killed thirty or forty people in an instant.

Among these thirty or forty people, there were five or six officers and veterans of the Mad Lion Legion.

These officers and veterans were not weak in combat effectiveness, but they had no armor on their bodies and no weapons in their hands, and they could not compete with the attackers who were armed to the teeth.

Seeing that the murderer was so fierce, the remaining gamblers and casino managers were like frightened quails, and they dared not move.

The action team was very fast, asking the gamblers to hand over all the cash in their hands, sweeping away the casino's funds, and evacuating the casino cleanly.

When they left, they even used an alchemical bomb to blow down the casino door.

After leaving the casino, the action team went straight to the nearest Dosi Gate, killed all the West Gate guards directly, and left Elena Castle.

This action was very clean and successful, and it hit the reputation of Viscount Sisse's casino.

A casino that cannot protect gamblers is not capable of continuing to operate.

After this blow, the Elena Casino was basically closed.

It swept through the casino, emptied the casino's reserve funds, and wiped out the coins of more than 200 gamblers. After the war, Richard counted his funds and found that he had robbed 5,200 gold coins from the casino. More than half of this was the money staked by more than 200 gamblers.

After the operation, Richard, Sophia and the operation team members traveled overnight and walked for a day and a half to return to Harland.

After the attack, Viscount Cisse was very angry. He immediately sealed the city gate, arrested the outsiders, interrogated them strictly, and investigated the cause of the attack.

Vitas, who is in charge of intelligence work in the Viscount of Cisse, is a very capable person. Although Richard made a lot of cover-ups, clues soon fell into Vitas' eyes.

"Has the matter been cleared up?"

"Basically, we have found out everything, but the enemy is very capable and has not left any clues."

"Who is the attacker?"

"It should be Viscount Richard."

"Are you sure?"

"It's basically certain. Although there is no direct evidence, the caravan we captured revealed information that the mercenaries they hired disappeared. These mercenaries were hired through Soros. Soros is the uncle of Viscount Richard. , is now an important officer in Haaland Territory.”

"When did we offend the military strongman of this Gedda province?"

"It should be that Luo Ning bribed the Harland family's liquor sales staff, obtained the liquor brewing technology, and started selling liquor to compete with Viscount Richard."

"Just because of this, he openly broke up with us?"

Vitas nodded and said: "Liquor sales are very profitable and are an important trade income for the Haaland family. The Haaland family has three thousand regular soldiers, and the financial pressure is very high. When we sell liquor, we will inevitably compete with Haaland Conflict breaks out in the family.

Today is just an attack on the casino. If the trouble cannot be resolved, the conflict may become more and more serious, attacking caravans, looting commercial sales points, killing commercial sales personnel, attacking members of the nobility, assassinating the heirs of lords, and pretending to be bandits to rob the people. The conflict between the two families may last for a long time until the winner is decided and the loser throws up his hands and admits defeat. "