 Nigel is entrusted by Sir Robert Knolles with the task of capturing the Frenchman, a task he executes admirably.But when in the act of conducting him to the English camp, they find that the English army had been attacked and some of its longbowmen, among them Samkin Aylward, captured by the robber baron of La Brohinière, nicknamed "the butcher", for his practice of executing captives who refused to join his levées.The English troops try to storm the castle of La Brohinière, by a frontal assault, which fails dismally, with the death of the French captive who, being of noble birth, assists the English in destroying this common nemesis.