Chapter 4: Fireworks
Suddenly, an extremely discordant voice appeared in the midst of the chanting of long live, which was indeed a voice that Gaisyat, a veteran who was standing in the audience to maintain order for the conference, had not seen and thought of appearing in the venue. Gaisat didn't say anything, just exchanged glances with a few of his older brothers, and then walked towards the edge of the town.
A soldier on guard at the city gate ran to the venue in a panic, but was stopped by a large hand.
"Who is it?" asked Gaisat.
"Yes, it's His Majesty Prus of the Rhine, he, he's here with a large group of knights. The soldier said hesitantly, apparently panicked.
It can be said that with his knowledge of the major kingdoms, Prus is a person who likes to come uninvited, and no matter which king does not arrive, it is impossible for him to be absent.
Thinking so, the knights of Pruss had already entered the city. The Rhine Kingdom occupies the broadest part of the deep forest of the Great Prus, and the tall and explosive Great Pruss horses are abundant in this land, so no matter at any time, the knights of the Rhine Kingdom are the most numerous and the best in the entire country.
There is always a sense of excitement in leading the cavalry, which is exactly what Pruss is all about, and it only takes less than a day to get from the royal court of the Rhine to the town of Abbasquia on three horses.
The thought that the young boy who had just ascended to the throne might be scared to pee his pants by an army like his own, Prussia's mood became cheerful. At first, Pruss didn't plan to enter the town on such a rampage, but when he saw Abbasquia's virtual gates, Pruss gave the order to enter the city directly.
This is not the negligence of the city defense officer, but after too many displaced people gather, it would be good to be able to accommodate these people, and it is impossible to achieve the same tight defense as usual. There's no way around it again.
The knights were still a little hesitant, it was not a matter of courage or not, after all, Abbasquia was a city of allies with the faith, and today it was to attend the ceremony of a majesty who could be canonized, and everyone still didn't really want to tear their faces apart, but they saw Prus running in along the city gate first, so they had to grit their teeth and rush in.
It is better to offend the dead than to provoke the living. This is a proverb of the Great Prus nation.
Just when Pruss was completely dazed, a wall stood in front of him and poured cold water on him.
Former First Warrior of Grand Pruus, Gaisyat.
I saw that the man stretched out his only remaining hand, as if to laugh at him, and hooked his finger at Prus, although he was wearing a heavy iron helmet, Pruss could still see the face of the man under the iron helmet laughing at him. But even so, Pruth still didn't have the courage to continue rushing over, but if he got off the horse like this, I'm afraid he would become the joke of all Pruus.
"Gasyat, is this your hospitality? Tell you, I was invited to Felipe's funeral! Are you saying that our Rhine Kingdom is not worthy of the funeral?" Pruss pulled the reins of the horse with his hand, and pointed behind him again, and said, "Do you know what it will be like to be disrespectful to the Rhine Kingdom. β
Gaisat was still standing quietly on the side of the street, and more and more soldiers had arrived when they heard the news. The young king suddenly had a feeling of remorse in his mind, he was already the most noble king, why should he be like a little knight, and now he has even delayed his business, thinking of this, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
"If you're willing to dismount, then we're all still friends, Your Majesty Pruss. I've never seen a guest riding a horse in someone else's house. Seeing Prus's unbearable look, Gaisat's heart was completely relaxed.
If you only look at the combat power on paper, with only one charge, these heavy cavalry can easily tear through this thin line of defense organized by veterans. If Prussia did this, it might have made his bad reputation a little worse, but it was certain that the Great Prussian First Empire would be doomed to cease to exist.
After dismounting from this rebellious majesty, when the Gayat led him to the center of the hall, in addition to Prus himself, several kings present understood in their hearts that the crown of the empire really fell on Abbasquia.
The chieftains, who had been wavering, saw that the last king had also arrived at the venue, so they were not reserved, and shouted the slogan of long live the empire with the congregation.
Pruss originally thought that his late arrival was an attitude towards the new Abbasquia king, but he never imagined that this would become his automatic relinquishment of his right to control the situation. The cheers from the stands and the crowd like mountains and seas made his head feel a strong dizziness, and from this moment he finally understood that from the moment he was late, or from something earlier, the whole political center of Grand Pruss had irretrievably moved from the old Rhine castle to this coastal town.
Tian Sen saw the dazed Prus, and couldn't help but curse in his heart, this thing that has suffered a thousand knives will not come sooner or later, it has to come at this time, if it weren't for the father who knew this goods, and learned his evaluation of his son, he wondered if this was Prus, whether it was a trust invited by King Abbasquia. Thinking of this, Tian Sen couldn't help but think about it, it seems that the first king of the Rhine is indeed capable of knowing people.
If Prus came early, with his unruly appearance, he could have denied it before the matter of being called emperor was decided, which would greatly increase the difficulty of this little devil to be the emperor, if he Prus didn't come, it would be even simpler, none of the four kingdoms were present, how could it be proved that your empire was an empire, and it wouldn't take long to be relied on.
Now, the situation has clearly reached the point where it is not up or down.
Suddenly, a puff of smoke rose and a heat wave suddenly rose in the pit dug at the entrance to the town, and the crown prince, who was standing on the high platform, pointed to the place where the heat wave was lit and said: "My father was a warrior who fought for peace, and at his funeral, I wanted his soul to be truly laid to rest. The Amaks have been destroying our production and plundering our people for far too long, and countless innocent lives have ascended to Heaven in preparation for this holy war. Let us throw all the weapons of war into the fire pit of history, and what we have to do now is for the peace of our generation!"
After saying that, he walked off the high platform by himself, and walked to the fire pit step by step under the gaze of everyone, and then took off the sword at his waist and threw it towards the fire pit. And some nobles in the royal court also took off a sword from their body, or threw away some personal weapons.
There were many pilgrims who came to Abbasquia to see this scene and were moved to tears, since ancient times, the kings of the great tribes have been hoarding armor and fighting wars for hegemony, only this young crown prince did the opposite, took the initiative to destroy weapons, which is really touching.
Many believers also took off their weapons for self-defense during their journey, walked to the fire pit, and threw them down with all their might. Soon more and more people gathered in front of the fire pit, and many chiefs also threw their weapons into the fire pit with their own personal retinues, and only the three kings did not move.
Looking at the eyes of people's questioning, it was King Tian Sen who acted first, Tian Sen thought that he was also lightly armed anyway, and he didn't have much to bring, and no one would say anything if he threw one or two weapons casually, but he could win a lot of praise. Thinking of this, Tian Sen took action, and originally wanted to turn his head and call a few chiefs led by him, but he didn't expect that Orlov, who usually looked the most face-saving, had already walked to the fire pit by himself, untied the iron sword he was carrying, and then threw it down hard, winning the praise of a group, while the rest of the chiefs followed Orlov over, and some looked at themselves with embarrassment.
Seeing this scene, Tian Sen's face also became gloomy, and he couldn't care about the painful look on his face, and the remaining chiefs also disarmed themselves.
Seeing the aching Hess politician, the gray-clothed monk silently walked up to the front, whispered a few words into the ear of the Hess Zhenghao, and Hess Zhenghao suddenly smiled, and took the attendants around him to disarm themselves one after another, and threw them into the fire pit with a smile.
Because of the large number of people throwing weapons, soon the huge fire pit was about to be filled.
But at this time, there is another heavyweight who did not say anything. Pruus's face became extremely exciting at this time, and this sacrifice was the most people and weapons and equipment he had brought with him. This is still learned from Felipe which bastard. Pruss couldn't help but be angry at the fact that Felipe was indeed the first to use these wealthy chieftains and small landowners in droves and train them to be used in a knightly order on the battlefield.
In previous wars, when the war started, the capital kingdoms of each country began to mobilize, and then the kings of each country sent messengers to inform the chiefs, and then the chiefs led their tribes to meet the king at the designated location. The obvious advantage of this is that there is a lot of strength in numbers, and each chief can bring a dozen or twenty people, so the strength of dozens or hundreds of chiefs is quite considerable. In order to command the complex forces of these sources, the chiefs were scattered within the ranks to command their own tribal people.
In Felipe's first campaign, he changed his previous combat habits and ordered that each chieftain should not bring more than three men with him, except for a few large chiefs, but he must prepare horses. When this was first changed, it appeared that Felipe's army was relatively small, and the commander of the Amax was still stuck in the era of calculating the combat effectiveness of the army of Grand Prus, and the result was a direct miscalculation, which also made Felipe famous in the first battle. Since then, the strength of the Great Prussian army has been estimated by using cavalry as units, rather than by total numbers.
But in today's situation, the equipment worn by each knight is expensive, even if everyone throws out one or two pieces, it is also a solid hemorrhage for the strength of the Rhine Kingdom. Looking at the staring eyes of the more and more believers around him, Pruss gritted his teeth, walked to the edge of the fire pit, and pulled out his sword.
The knights beside Purus also bowed their heads when they saw their master's appearance. Just as Pruss was about to throw down his sword, a knight in black armor suddenly walked up to Prus, stopped Prus's behavior, and then said: "Your Majesty, our knights of the Rhine Kingdom are all honored, not to mention being treated, just with your noble blood, you can't just throw your sword down!"
The knight in black armor turned to Prince Nordin and asked, "Your Royal Highness, you are really an ambitious person, I am afraid that the plan for collecting these weapons will not be small." Although I certainly don't worry about any injustice I will encounter on your land, but. At this point, the knight in black armor looked embarrassed and turned his head to look at the veterans who were standing around the fire pit but did not throw their swords.
The words of the Black Helmet Knight aroused the alarm of some people, and many believers who were still touching the weapon began to slow down the movement of their hands.
In the face of the black-helmeted knight's exploits, Crown Prince Nordin didn't seem to be in a hurry, but said slowly: "I want to collect these weapons and build an iron statue for the first emperor, I think you should have no opinion on this, right?"
The Black-Helmeted Knight was really speechless, because he knew that the believers present would be satisfied with this explanation, and he did not expect that the crown prince of Abbasquia would really be so willing to melt such a large fortune into a symbolic statue.
Tian Sen suddenly laughed out loud at this time: "If you put away your naΓ―ve thoughts now, I don't mind being loyal to you, Your Majesty." Tian Sen suddenly turned his head and said to Nordin with a playful tone: "You are just making a show, otherwise, why are there so many soldiers who have not been disarmed? I also served under your father." If you think that all the men who have fought are dead, then you are very wrong!"
"War is not fought against weapons, but on people, and this is what I learned in the barracks of His Majesty Felipe. Admit it, young man, you haven't learned how to behave Your Majesty, so don't mess with your hat. After saying this, Tian Sen walked up to Nordin from the fire pit and said, "Give me a way to trust you." Otherwise, you won't have to do it, and you'll be killed by these unscrupulous people, and it will be too ugly. β
The grayfriar walked up behind Nordin from the side and said, "Of course, Your Highness has a way, and you can see it next, but you have to remember that if Your Highness is convinced by what you do next, you will owe the empire a palace minister." β