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I suspect that the ruses of 'pretended traitors' and 'seeming weaknesses' had done much to dishearten the mercenaries. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 44, Sentence #54)

"Men will kill for gold, but few will die for it". "Recall the meeting before the tents," I said. "Exactly," said Thurnock. I suspect that the ruses of 'pretended traitors' and 'seeming weaknesses' had done much to dishearten the mercenaries. Doubtless an account of such episodes had reached even to the command tents of the enemy, and even to the command cabins of the corsair fleet. As most mercenaries fight for loot and pay, their allegiance is likely to be less to the cause of their lord than to his purse. Similarly, they prefer to enter a town or city, whenever possible, by means of a surreptitiously opened gate or a deliberately abandoned parapet than by a storming of stoutly defended walls and a fighting of their way across ditches filled with their fallen fellows. - (Avengers of Gor)