why is it always a sneak attack followed by give us what we want and we will let you live .... who would believe that crap obviously you wont let him live which is why you sneak attacked him.....
also for those events to occur the knights would have needed to be already in the area when he hadnt even found the woman.... which is kind of contradictory as it would mean it was a trap ment for the mc instead of a witch capture mission