The same system was used for ransoming or exchanging captives.

同一系统也被用来赎回或交换俘虏。

We have to recover from some poison, need saving, ransoming.

我们需要消毒，需要治疗，需要救赎。

The proximate rewards included booty from looting bodies, ransacking captured towns and castles, selling the armor and weapons of the dead, and ransoming high-ranking prisoners.

而让自己当场受惠的方式，就是从尸体身上掠夺回来的贵重品、洗掠被占领的城镇或城堡、贩售死者的装甲和武器、和向高级的战俘勒索赎金。