In the evening, the north gate of Sanssouci Palace suddenly opened, and more than 30 horsemen galloped out, and as soon as the four knights left the palace gate, they ran to the magic communication tower set up in Berlin at the east, south, west, and north gates, and the remaining 30 horsemen galloped towards the aristocratic quarters. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The thirty-four knights, all riding on white horses, wore Guard-style uniforms on a white background, with black and brown patterns irregularly distributed on their clothes.

If Yu Wusheng was here, he would definitely say: "This TM is snow camouflage, what other camouflage advice do I give to the national leaders, aren't they already using it? My brain must be in water!"

These knights all have a common characteristic, that is, both men and women, they have a pair of pointed and long ears, and this group of people looks very thin and handsome, and they look like elves.

These knights had two small crossbows on each side of their saddles, an elven longbow about 1 meter long on their left shoulder, and an elven crossbow with an arm span of about 1 meter on their backs.

There is a quiver with 20 arrow feathers exposed on the left thigh, in fact, this quiver is a space magic bag, which contains a total of 60 arrows, but only 20 are exposed.

This quiver is not equipped by all elves, this primary quiver is only equipped with rangers in the elven guard, and sharpshooters in ordinary armies are also partially equipped.

And the squadron leader of the Ranger squadron, as well as the sharpshooters in the Guards, are equipped with intermediate quivers, which can carry 90 arrows, and as for the high-level quivers, only the senior officers in the Guards can be equipped, and the Guards snipers can be equipped, which can carry 120 arrows.

There was also a small quiver on the right arm of these knights, and the quiver showed only the tails of three crossbow arrows, and because of this, it was thought that this quiver contained fewer arrows, and this quiver could hold more than the large quiver, and this rudimentary quiver could hold 120 arrows.

The intermediate and advanced ones can hold 240 and 360 crossbow arrows respectively, but this is not the most terrifying, the real horror is that this quiver and the elven hard crossbow on the knight's back can be combined into a magic weapon with a terrifying rate of fire.

This kind of hard crossbow can fire three crossbow arrows at a time, as long as the knight still has magic power, it can be rewound and reloaded within three seconds after firing, and it is automatic, a knight can complete a quiver's crossbow arrow in 120 seconds, what a delivery amount.

If Yu Wuming saw this kind of weapon, his saliva must come out, in his concept, this is the amount of firepower he wants for the light cavalry.

However, this kind of hard crossbow is not the main weapon of the elves, no way, the ammunition is consumed too fast, and the logistics of his flash can't keep up, the longbow is their main weapon, and there are two 60 cm blades at both ends of this longbow, and when necessary, the bowstring can be withdrawn, which becomes a double-headed short spear, so don't think that the elves are not good at melee combat.

After introducing the equipment of these more than 30 horsemen, the Berliners already know who these people are, these are the direct guards of the old queen mother Catherine, the soldiers of the eighth brigade of the Royal Forest Army of the Elven Kingdom.

In addition to being fully armed, they carried only one order, which was as follows: "Catherine the Great, the Empress of the United Empire of Franks and Ice Elves, announces her abdication, and the throne is succeeded by the Crown Prince of the United Empire, Marie Catherine Hanksen, title: Catherine II."

Because the empress has reached the age of 18, all the unmarried sons of families with titles of earl and above in the imperial capital and unmarried nobles who enjoy the title of earl and above are invited by the emperor to enter the palace to participate in the selection of horses after the court meeting tomorrow. (Viscounts who enjoy the treatment of earls are also invited)

The unmarried sons of foreign earls and above families and unmarried nobles who enjoy the title of earl or above shall send their personal information to the imperial capital within five days for royal selection. Dictation of Catherine I"

Such an order quickly spread throughout the imperial capital in such a night, and all the big families with unmarried children in the family took action, and some families even called back the families of the fiefdom 200 miles away overnight.

In the Sanssouci Palace, in the evening, two of Catherine the Great's personal maids came to the office of the emperor and the princess respectively, and handed over two royal invitations to the two of them.

The old emperor took the invitation, glanced at the waitress puzzled, and said to himself while dismantling it: "The old ancestor is really interesting, what should be so grand." ”

When he saw the first sentence, his face immediately sank, because it read "Dictation of Catherine, Empress of the United Empire of Franks and Ice Elves", a term that had not been used in the Frankish Empire for more than 900 years.

When Louis the Great, the founding emperor of the Frankish Empire, forced the Ice Elf Kingdom to submit through war and negotiation, the name of the country appeared once, and one of the conditions for the surrender of the Ice Elf Kingdom at that time was to establish the "United Empire of Franks and Ice Elves", which was composed of the Frankish Empire and the Ice Elf Kingdom, and there were two emperors of the country, representing the joint government.

The two emperors of the United Empire were Louis the Great of the Frankish Empire and Catherine the Great, the eldest princess of the Ice Elf Kingdom, and the capital shared the same capital with the Frankish Empire.

When Louis the Great died, he handed over the choice of the throne to his empress, that is, the old Empress Catherine, and at first there were still people worried that Catherine the Great would use the two emperors to centralize power, which would be unfavorable to the Frankish Empire, but Catherine dispelled these people's concerns with her own actions, she has not participated in political affairs for more than 900 years, so that the current Franks do not know that there is a joint empire of Franks and ice elves, and they have always thought that the kingdom of ice and snow elves is a vassal state of the empire.

The people don't know, but the top of the empire won't know, and the old emperor knows it very well, judging from this, the old ancestor wants to seize his power?

The old emperor continued to read, and when he read the content of the entire invitation, he sighed softly, and said to himself: "The old ancestor is also old, and he still plays with this heartbeat." ”

The content of the invitation was nothing else, that is: "The Emperor and Princess of the Frankish Empire are invited to the court for a family banquet in the evening." The emperor smiled and said to the maid, "The old ancestor's playfulness is becoming more and more like a child, please return to the old ancestor, I know." ”

The maid didn't move, she just bent down and saluted, and made a gesture of please with her hand, and the old emperor frowned and said, "I know, you can go down first." ”

The maid still did not move, but still made a gesture of please, and at the same time said: "The empress dictates, once the emperor agrees, please leave immediately." ”

The old emperor sighed and said, "Okay, lead the way." "This old emperor is also brought up by the old ancestor, and it has been decades, and he still does not dare to disobey the orders of the old ancestor.

The same scene was also played out in the princess's office, the princess also didn't want to go over, the shadow of more than ten years has been hanging over her head, since the age of three, she has been learning all kinds of court etiquette by the side of her ancestors, and it has not been interrupted for twelve years, only three years of study in Berlin, after the age of six she was brought to the kingdom of ice and snow elves by her ancestors, and the remaining nine years she learned the elegance of elves and the decisiveness of a hunter in the kingdom of ice and snow elves.

When she was twelve years old, her archery skills and her military strategy made her enough to be a captain of the Elven Kingdom's guards, and for the remaining three years, she learned various ruling decisions in the Elven Kingdom, and at the age of fifteen, she even won the title of the eldest princess of the Elven Kingdom.

But this is also a painful twelve years, but there is finally a father who loves him, and it is that kind of unprincipled love, so the ancestor will take her to the elf kingdom to study after the age of six.

After returning to China at the age of fifteen, her ancestors basically ignored her, and she began to help her father govern the country, although it was only some trivial things, but she was already familiar with the actions of state affairs.

And it was this that made the prime minister uneasy, so he came up with the idea of marrying the royal family, which naturally got the approval of the old emperor, but met with strong opposition from the princess.

Today I touched my father's ashes again, this stubborn old man was determined to marry himself to the prime minister's third son, although he went to the ancestor in the afternoon, and gave the ancestor two copies of the reform plan written by Yu Wuming (Vivien knew that with her father's temperament, those two reform plans would definitely appear in the trash, so she made two preparations. But who knows who the ancestors will end up facing.

When the invitation in the evening arrived in her hand, especially when she saw such a formal beginning, she knew that her goal was at least half achieved, and now it was up to her ancestors to favor.

Although the princess did not want to go, she did not ask the maid to invite her three times, as the old emperor did, she simply turned into a palace, got into a carriage with the maid, and drove to the palace in the deepest part of Sanssouci Palace, hidden in a large wood.

When she arrived at the harem, it happened that the old emperor had also arrived. That's right, this palace is called the harem, the sleeping palace of Empress Catherine, and at this time the empress's maid is standing at the palace gate to welcome the arrival of the two little masters.

She saw the two little masters get off the horse separately, she made a gesture of please at the palace gate, the old emperor and the princess did not dare to slack off, this waitress looked only in her 40s, and her actual age was already more than 600.

The two of them hurriedly stepped forward and greeted the waitress first, "Aunt Martha, are you doing well?" This is the old emperor.

"Grandma Martha, you're getting younger. "This is a princess, and only a little princess can be called Grandma Martha, and others will be sent flying.

Martha smiled and said, "Thanks to the two little masters, I am in good health, and the empress is already waiting for the two of you in the banquet hall." ”

"Hiss~" The old emperor's back molars were cold, the old ancestor attached great importance to the concept of time, and at this time, let her old man wait, this is the rhythm of looking for death.