The night was deep, and the gates of the capital of France were no longer brightly lit, and as the rebels approached, the guards inside had already run away, but under the shadow of the arrow tower, there was a faint firelight.

Two men in leather armor were hiding in the shadows, where a bonfire was lit. They didn't look like warm travelers, though, and at any given time, one of them would leave the range of the campfire and look out into the distance as if waiting for someone.

At this moment, the rhythmic sound of horses' hooves sounded in the distance.

"It's coming! it's coming!" the man in charge of the guard seemed to have noticed something, and reached out to his companion, and the two of them quickly kicked out the campfire, and trotted all the way from the shadows to the city gate, ready to meet the man's arrival.

The sound of clattering hooves came from far and near, and a female knight in a black suit left the cover of the jungle and appeared on the main road, and hundreds of light knights in half-armor were more than a hundred meters behind her.

The two people guarding the door hurriedly greeted him, and shouted from a distance: "The humble position is a scout under the command of Viscount Andy, and he has received an order to come to greet the third young lady." ”

Hearing this, the female knight, who was about to rush straight into the city, turned her horse's head, controlled the tall horse under her crotch, and rushed towards the two of them.

"Miss Jessica, we received an order at noon to ......"

"Smack!"

The long-legged female knight did not answer, but raised her hand and gave the man a heavy whip, causing him to fall to the ground screaming. Another man hurriedly stepped forward to check and found that the whip was so heavy that even the cotton clothes on his shoulders were torn, and the skin and flesh underneath were even more swollen.

"Miss Jessica, what are you doing, if we offend you in any way......

The female knight's cold face was as cold as ice, she first waved his hand to signal him to shut up, then raised her horsewhip, pointed at the unextinguished fire under the arrow tower, and asked coldly, "What is the precept of scouts in the wild?"

"You shall not hunt birds or beasts, nor shall you set up tents, nor shall you ...... No pyrotechnics...... But Miss Jessica, Fran's royal family is all gone, and we ......"

"Have we taken down all the kings of France?"

"Also...... Not ...... yet"

"What is the crime of lighting an open fire in an enemy-occupied area?"

"Twenty ...... Whips"

"More than that!" the long-legged female knight leaped off her horse on one leg at a time, some kind of breeches made of smooth animal skins clinging to her body, reflecting a faint glow in the moonlight.

"With your eyesight, can you still see a figure in the shadows when your eyes are flickered by the light of the fire? When the royal family and nobles flee, they must avoid people, and when they see the bright fire here, will they dare to take this road?"

Just as the two scouts were being reprimanded in frustration, there was a sudden commotion from inside the dark city gates, the creaking of wheels and the restless neighing of livestock.

"Are you in such a hurry to die? You idiots, you can buy you a hundred of the contents of this car! If you bump into the slightest bit, it will be a huge loss!"

A richly dressed man rode out of the city gate on a low pony, and was followed by a row of what appeared to be badly overloaded, each with three or four servants in front of and behind to take care of the belongings. Most of the things in the carriage were covered with blankets, but just looking at the little that was exposed, you knew it must be worth a lot.

The man raised his hand and whipped the servant beside him with a heavy whip. "Are you blind? Hurry up this way! Can't you see it when it's brighter? Pay attention to the potholes on the road, if you break my things, it's not a matter of getting a few lashes!!"

The carriage full of valuables drove slowly by, and two men and a woman on the side of the road looked at the man in a daze, their eyes extremely complicated.

As the convoy passed by them, a carriage shook and sank into a pit on the gravel road. Xu was so heavy that the horses pulling the cart were pumping and neighing, but they still couldn't drag the cart out.

The richly dressed man was so anxious that he was sweating, and he was just about to ask the other servants to carry the car out, when he happened to see three people dressed in black on the side of the road, and the man was immediately overjoyed.

"Ground pariahs, what are you two looking at over there, come and carry the cart for me, and reward me for a good job! And the woman who rode the horse, bring me the horse at once, I have requisitioned your horse!"

Jessica frowned, glanced at him and didn't reply, not at all trying to talk to him. This kind of person who can't escape for his life is not worth being angry at all, but since he is from the royal city, he should stay.

With a kick of her long breeches, Jessica remounted her horse, made a grabbing gesture to the two scouts, and rushed into the royal city.

Seeing that the untouchables had no intention of coming to work, the man's brows furrowed, and he actually raised his whip and scolded Jessica's back, blurting out a large number of swearing words, the richness of the vocabulary and the viciousness of the meaning, it was simply breathtaking.

However, Jessica's back still walked farther and farther away, as if she had not heard his invective. The tired man took a breath and said indignantly: "If it weren't for Avril's ** event, you pariahs would have been cleared out of the royal capital by me, this damn stinky ** actually threw me away and ran away......"

"What did you just say? Which Avril? Queen Avril?"

The woman's voice suddenly sounded beside him, and the man was so frightened that he tilted his body and fell directly from the horse, and just as he was about to hit his head on the gravel road, he was precisely grabbed by a slender arm in the back of the heart.

"Ahhh

"Stop screaming!" Jessica flung the man back to his horse, his leather boots kicking him in the mouth.

"Hmm!" the man who came to his senses covered his bloody mouth and looked at Jessica with a look of horror.

A cold inquiry sounded. "I ask you if the Avril you have in your mouth is the queen of Farran!"

Jessica's beautiful face was like a devil in the eyes of the man, and he screamed in horror, then put his arms around the horse's neck and desperately kicked the horse's belly with the spurs of his heel, trying to escape from the female devil's minions.

Jessica frowned slightly, and the whip in her hand swung a gray afterimage, and in a single moment the man was pulled off the horse, but one of his feet was still in the stirrup, and he was dragged away by the frightened horse for a long distance.

"Ahh

Jessica stretched out her hand and patted her horse, and the black horse took a step forward, and then actually stepped into the shadow of the ground with the horse, and the next second it appeared on the side of the frightened horse.

Reaching out to stop the galloping horse, Jessica lifted the man up with one arm and threw it back on the horse as it was.

"From now on, I ask, you answer. ”

The man covered his face, which had been scratched by the gravel road, and nodded like pounded garlic.

"Where's the Queen?"

"I ...... I do not know. ”

The gray whip whipped like lightning, drawing a trail of blood on the man's intact thigh.

"I really don't know where she is, but she's gone with the Knights of the Royal Capital, as if heading south!"

Jessica was thoughtful. Yes, after all, she had no way to escape but to go south.

"How many people are there in the Knights of the Royal Capital?"

"One...... A thousand people. ”

Jessica's eyebrows suddenly furrowed, a thousand? There are only five hundred cavalry on his side, and the number of knight professionals is only less than a hundred, even if he counts himself, a gray shadow knight who has just broken through the third order, the chance of winning five hundred against one thousand is not great.

"How many professionals are there among the people she has taken?"

"Three. ”

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