A Very Difficult Mission 2

Two days passed after the interrogation started and Jack was called in because Captain Max had obtained the information that the captured thieves had, Jack thought it would take more time for them to obtain information.

He heard from some soldiers that because of the importance of this mission, the captured thieves had been tortured and so they began to betray their companions in a short time, Jack already expected these thieves to be tortured because they would die hanged in a few days anyway.

"Jack, I called you here to tell you some of the information we got from the leader of the thieves in this group who attacked you, but I will warn you that this information is secret because it is very important, you cannot tell anyone."

"I understand, captain."

"Okay, the name of the leader of the group of thieves you captured is Robin, Robin said that the number of thieves at his base is more than 200 thieves and before he had almost 300, but with his group being eliminated the number of thieves has decreased."

"Most thieves on the mountain are just normal thieves and they don't have many skills using the sword or using bows, but there are many thieves who are just as skilled as he is and like the thief you faced."

"Robin also said that after his group left to attack you, another group will take a few weeks to leave again, this is the care they take to avoid being trapped."

After that Captain Max told Jack some information about the thieves' base and what could be the weaknesses of that base for Jack to use when attacking, Jack thought that this difficult mission was a little easier with this information.

"Another important thing that Robin said was something I didn't expect, it seems that one of the noble families in our kingdom has some kind of agreement with the mountain thieves, that noble family buys the goods they steal and passes on information from the capital to them."

This was something that not even Jack hoped could happen, he gave false information because he thought the thieves might have an informant in the capital, but Jack could never think that it would be a noble family that would pass on that information.

"Because of that, I said it was a secret, Jack if this noble family knows that some thieves have been captured they can tell mountain thieves that the army intends to attack the thieves."

"Furthermore, this noble family can interfere with your mission and can even use their influence to interrupt that mission."

"Okay, captain, I won't tell anyone about any of this, but this noble family must already know that the thieves have been captured."

"I already took care of it, all the soldiers participating in this mission have been inside the defense tower these past few days, you didn't realize it because you already live here, so few people should know that the thieves have been captured."

"We don't know what noble family is involved in this, so they probably also don't know that we already know about them."

Jake was more relieved to know that, a characteristic of several noble families was to have more freedom to commit crimes, as was the case with the young nobleman that Jack saw raping a woman and he cannot do anything against himself even as a soldier.

"Jack, this mission is actually much more difficult than I thought it was, not even me as a captain expected me and the capital to let the thieves create such a large and dangerous group."

"Now I found out that there are even nobles involved in this, some thieves may have the skill of a knight using the sword depending on the type of agreement this noble family has made with the thieves, after all, we don't know what family this is."

"If you want, we can cancel this mission, I can ask the king to authorize me to gather hundreds of soldiers and attack the thieves' base on the mountain."

"I think this could be the best, Captain Max, but we cannot wait that long, as the thieves are involved with a noble family the king may take longer to approve you to lead the soldiers."

"Besides, we are in a time when a war can happen at any time, I don't think the king will want his army to take chances like that."

"Even with these 100 soldiers, I think we can get rid of these thieves if we can catch them all without them expecting an attack, I just ask you to make sure that this noble family doesn't interfere in this mission."

Jack was sincere talking to Captain Max, this mission was really very difficult to do even before Jack knew he had a noble family involved, a powerful family could hinder him and the soldiers before they started fighting.

Each soldier in his group would have to fight two thieves, so if there were many people with the skill of the thief Jack faced they had no chance, if there was someone with the skill of a knight using the sword, they would need three skilled soldiers to face someone like that.

"Okay, Jack, I'm going to talk to the king in person and tell him what's going on, as soon as you leave, we're going to close the city gates and nobody will be able to pass information out of the capital."

"I appreciate your courage in continuing this mission even though you know how difficult it is, just like you said, this may be our only chance to attack thieves before they know what happened."

"If the thieves know we are going to attack they can leave the base on the mountain they have and go to the forest or even flee to another kingdom for a few years."

"Jack, if you realize that many soldiers can die on this mission because something went wrong, you can go back to the capital, just try to kill as many enemy soldiers as possible, and be careful."

So it was decided that Jack and the other soldiers would go out to attack the thieves on the mountain the next day, after talking to Jack, Captain Max went to talk to the king and ask that the capital be closed for a few weeks after the group Jack to leave the capital.

The soldiers who had been wounded on the last mission had already healed their wounds and could fight again if it had been in another situation Captain Max would have replaced these soldiers, but it was now important to keep this matter a secret.