Chapter 31: Killing the Knight
The victory of this battle, Count Lauzitz can be said to have won in confusion. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
If according to the actual combat effectiveness, the southern knights are indeed weaker than the northern knights, although the number is less than thirty or forty, the knights of Count William will not necessarily be at a disadvantage, and the worst case is just a tie.
However, in this war, there was an unexpected variable, this variable, the dozen knights of Count William were exhausted, and finally let Count Lausitz pick up a bargain, after being captured, Count William could only drip blood in his heart, from his own territory, ceded the three baron fiefs close to the Rhodes Domain, and secretly vowed to take back these three fiefs in the future!
Count Lauzitz laughed heartily, for many years, the southern faction, which has never had an advantage in terms of force, has beaten those northern Yankees so badly at once today, it is really happy!
Count Lauzitz, who had three more baronies, soon after receiving these three domains, added his two second sons and one loyal subordinate to the barons, and divided them into these three new territories.
Of course, for the twelve barons who followed him to battle, Count Lauzitz did not treat them badly, and each of them gave a lot of bounties, and gave each baron 15 knightly places, so that the barons who had lost a lot of knights in this war could not only fully organize their own knight team when they returned, but also expand a few more - as long as these barons' territories could be divided into so many fiefs.
"Dear Earl, I don't want a bounty reward, I want to be a noble knight!"
In the big tent, Zhou Ming knelt down on one knee and said to Count Lauzitz with a longing expression.
Count Lauzitz was very impressed by this "farmer" who performed particularly well on the battlefield, and when he specially summoned him and asked him what reward he wanted, Zhou Ming said.
"Young man, I am very surprised by your loyalty and courage, but being a knight, it is not enough to have these things, can you pass the examination to become a knight and get the knight's medal?"
Becoming a knight is not as simple as a verbal sentence, a knight in any territory must pass the martial arts assessment of the Royal Knight Academy in order to obtain knight certification.
These assessments include horsemanship, swordsmanship, spearmanship, archery, etc., and after passing the assessment of these martial arts items, you can also be apprenticed as a knight, serving the king for two years, and at the end of the service period, you can be awarded the knight's medal and become a formal knight.
Of course, there is an important premise for this: anyone who wants to become a knight must be a nobleman.
On this premise, Zhou Ming, who is the identity of the "farmer's son", was brushed down.
"Honorable Earl, I will pass these assessments through diligent and hard work, please give me such a chance!"
Zhou Ming knew that there was another way to change his fate, that is, Lord Earl's "letter of recommendation", the number of such "letters of recommendation" was very small, only ten per earl per year, if Count Lausitz was willing to give a recommendation to himself, even if he was the son of a farmer, the professor of the Royal Capital Knight Academy, he would also look at Count Lauzitz's face and give him a chance to enroll.
"Son, you have great potential, but you are too old to be a knight, you have missed the best time to become a knight, take this bag of gold coins and go back, go back to marry a wife and have children, and live this life in peace and prosperity, this is what you deserve most. ”
Count Lauzitz shook his head and threw a money bag in front of Zhou Ming, the coins made a crisp sound in the bag, but Zhou Ming's eyes were glazed, and it took a while to pick up the money bag and leave the tent gloomily.
Baron Connor, who was saved by Zhou Ming and was lying on the hospital bed with serious injuries, learned about this from the mouth of the talkative knight, called Zhou Ming over and comforted him.
"Child, I see your talent and hard work, if you are willing to stay in the Grand Collar in the future, I can leave all the manor outside the castle to you to take care of, if you want to assist Donnie and go out with him, then study well with Maester Ellen, and maybe in the future, you can also become a respected maester." ”
Baron Connor gave Zhou Ming two choices, and they were also the two best choices he could give Zhou Ming, no matter how much, he couldn't give it.
"Thank you, Lord Baron, if I still can, I will stick to my dream, if not, I will do something that I am good at. ”
Zhou Ming didn't give a clear answer, just like this war, even he didn't expect that his crazy actions would bring him a reward of 100 gold coins, what if in a certain war, he played a greater role?
In this war-torn world, there may be many opportunities waiting for you in the wild, right?
Zhou Ming had just moved some thoughts that made him eager to try, and the next provocative question disrupted his thoughts.
"Boy, with your chicken physique, you also want to be a noble knight? You can't dream at night and still haven't woken up, right?"
A scar-faced knight appeared in front of him at some point, with a smell of alcohol all over his body, his face was ugly and hateful, and his mouth was even more noisy.
The scar-faced knight showed a hint of greed in his eyes, staring at the bag that Zhou Ming tied to his waist and said, "Boy, I heard that you have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, and the Earl has given you a lot of rewards?
Scarface's words attracted the unanimous approval of several knights around him, and they all asked Zhou Ming to hand over the money.
"Fernandi, teach this lowly boy a good lesson, how can the dignity of our knights be allowed to be desecrated by such a lowly thing?"
"Boy, be honest and hand over the money, when the uncle is happy to drink, maybe he won't trouble you. ”
"Ryan, you better take out the 200 gold coins in your pocket, invite these knights to a drink, and they will let you go!"
"Good guy, 200 gold coins, you can consider slaughtering this little guy......" someone's eyes lit up and said in his heart.
Looking at these knights who were getting closer and closer to him, Zhou Ming sighed in his heart, it was the scourge caused by money again, it seemed that this matter could not be good today.
However, he still had no expression on his face and said, "So, you want to rob, noble knight?"
Hearing the word robbery, Fernandi's heart was furious, he let out a breath of wine, grabbed Zhou Ming's collar and said, "Boy, don't give me a lot of effort, be honest! Take out all the money on your body!"
"What if I don't take it?" Zhou Ming asked.
"Huh!"
Fernandi laughed angrily, and wanted to draw his knife and hack the kid in front of him to death immediately, but there were so many people present...... Still slightly retracted his anger and said: "Boy, I'll give you a chance not to take it! Let's have a one-on-one competition, if you win, the money will be yours, if I win......"
"The money belongs to you?" Zhou Ming answered.
"That's right! ”
"But you're a knight, and I'm just a farmer, is that fair?"
"Hey, I'm going to have a game with this kid, is it fair for everyone to say the public?" asked Fernandi loudly.
"Fair! very fair!" replied in unison from the crowd, especially Fat Baum.
"Okay! I'll play with you. ”
Zhou Ming took off his coat and threw the money bag around his waist on the ox cart, as soon as the mouth of the money bag was loosened, a piece of golden light spilled out, and the onlookers around exclaimed, what a lot of gold coins!
After a while, Zhou Ming took his spear, which had killed seventeen peasants, and wiped the dried blood on it with a linen cloth.
The knight Fernandi, however, was heavily armoured and rode his own warhorse.
"Fernandi, as for riding a horse over such a kid, you don't have the grace of a knight, do you?" exclaimed an acquaintance of the knight Fernandi in the crowd of onlookers.
Fernandi, who was on the war horse, smiled cruelly and said with a grin: "Let's all watch from the side! Look how I trampled this kid into a pulp and chopped it into pieces! Today, I want to use this kid's death to prove how powerful our knights are!"
"Well said!" "Good Fernandy!" "Fernandy, for the glory of the knight, crush this boy!"
Everyone applauded, looking forward to it, and they all wanted to see how this annoying farmer boy was crushed by Fernandi.
A flat, open area.
At a distance of about 20 meters, one person and one rode opposite each other.
"Boy, give me death!"
As soon as the competition began, Fernandi, who couldn't wait to grind the farmer boy on the opposite side into minced meat, instigated his war horse, waved his long sword, and rushed towards Zhou Ming.
Looking at the high-speed war horses that were getting closer and closer, and the impact from the pavement, Zhou Ming did not choose to resist hard, but put the spear in his hand aside, lowered his head and rolled on the ground, dodging this fatal blow that would definitely bring death.
A charge.
Two charges.
Multiple charges.
More than ten consecutive back-and-forth charges were narrowly avoided by the cautious Zhou Ming.
"Damn boy, there's a kind of don't run, let the master cut you with a sword!" the angry Fernandi roared with his sword.
Zhou Ming, who was not in a hurry, flexibly dodged the blow again, and sneered in his heart: Stand and let you cut, when I am a fool?
More than thirty war horses charged back and forth, but Fernandi still failed to hit Zhou Ming once, but instead made the war horse tired and panting, and he was also sweating, only to feel that the armor on his body was getting heavier and heavier.
"It's almost there......"
Looking at the war horse that was slowly rushing towards him, the knight who was slow to react because of the alcohol...... Zhou Ming picked up the spear that had just been placed on the ground, adjusted his breathing rate, and stared at the unprotected part of Fernandi's face without a protective mask.
"Boy, this time you finally don't hide, let me die!"
Seeing Zhou Ming standing motionless with his waist hunched, Fernandi was overjoyed, excitedly raised the long sword in his hand, and slashed down again!
However, before he could see the boy below turn in half, a black shadow burrowed into his eye socket like a poisonous snake, followed by a sharp pain, and then, he fell into deep darkness.
"Boom~!"
With the loud sound of Fernandi's body falling to the ground, the knights present and all the onlookers who watched the excitement were speechless and dumbfounded.