Alphonse stood in the gateway of the keep faced wih terrified peasants pleading "help us lord! Bandits have driven away cattle and killed the boys watching them!"
Alphonse summoned his brothers in arms to saddle up and follow him into the hunt. The squires rushed with swords and shields to arm their masters saddled up and waiting. Once under arms Alphonse led his brethren out into the open fields to find tracks and then to hunt the criminals down. The tracks themselves were easy enough to find and follow, by what the tracks indicated there was a dozen or more bandits and there was only six of them including Alphonse himself. The upper hand that was given was because all of them had expert training and battlefield experience.
It took them a little over an hour to catch up to the bandits and the first charge was made against them, the rabble that they were the bandits lost six men in the charge but circled and surrounded the knights. Steel clashed on steel and shields as brutal combat ensued, it lasted for about ten minutes before all of the criminals were cut down with polished steel.
Once the criminals were dead the task at hand was to round up the scattering cattle and dead men's horses. That task alone took them a better part of two hours, after that funerals were organised for the slain, even the bandits were buried with respect to the fact that they too were men even if criminals and murderers they were.
Thats the kind of mood im going for