In the side hall of the Cathedral of Paris, the Cardinal of France sits on a high-backed chair made of wood gilded, wrapped in red velvet with gold thread and inlaid with agate gemstones on the raised columns.

The cardinal wears a priesthood garment—a white gown, a red silk shoulder blouse and a red velvet hat. The white gown, the long white gown and the knee-length white gown of the cut-out length all show the wearer's luxury. The shoulder tunic is a short elbow shawl that covers the shoulders and has buttons on the chest. The red color represents the wearer's rank as a cardinal, and the red velvet hat is reserved for cardinals, with white velvet mink trimming the red goose-down hat. The falcon gold ring on the ring finger of his right hand, which is the cardinal's letter of power, the ring is cast with the pattern of the falcon spreading its wings, and the cardinal's chest is hung with a pure gold cross with an agate chain, with a trace of unshakable majesty under his benevolent face.

Bishop Olof of Lucesen, Count of Burgundy, knelt on the woolen silk carpet in front of the cardinal, listening to the cardinal's teachings," ...... The way to salvation is in his Jeonoloff, perhaps this is God's experience of Burgundy, and after purgatory, eternal life can be obtained. ”

Orloff slowly raised his head and looked at the cardinal with a sincere expression, "Cardinal, God's servants should not be involved in worldly affairs, but the Count of Burgundy has fallen into a rift of skulls, and the church can no longer serve God with peace of mind. Moreover, the Archbishop of the Count of Burgundy has deviated from God's guidance and has fallen to the side of Bernard and willingly submitted to the rule of secular power, and the four diocesan bishops have been forced by him to choose sides, which is really an insult to the dignity of God, and the diocese of Lucesin has always adhered to the position of righteousness, but the archbishop has threatened to remove the clergy of our diocese......"

Olof struck out, and was the first bishop of the Count of Burgundy to lean over to the court of Jonah before the situation of the succession war was clear.

From the bloody funeral of the Marquis, Olof has been busy, from the archbishops and patriarchs of the Duchy of Burgundy to the archbishop of Paris and many high-ranking clergy of France, and he has been personally received by the cardinal, the supreme leader of the French Church.

Nowadays, the power of the Holy See is not as strong as it used to be in the whole Kingdom of France, but for a single country, the support of the Holy See is decisive, and the court of Jonah sent Bishop Orlof to secretly mediate in order to obtain the support of the Church (or at least the neutrality of the Church).

However, the attitude of the French cardinal was not clear, he did not want to influence his saints for the sake of a marquis county, because he was very likely to be the next pope to succeed to the throne, and this trivial fact was not worth the risk.

However, the bishop of the provincial diocese, who knelt in front of him, was not weak, he visited almost all the high-ranking bishops, and many spoke for him, so the cardinal still gave Orlov some answers.

"If you are able to shepherd the Promised Land for God, I may consider you as Archbishop of the Count of Burgundy, who have not only defaulted on the tithes of the Holy See in recent years, but also sensational heresy and the assassination of the Church of the Marquis' funeral. However, the current situation in the Count of Burgundy is unstable, and I cannot propose a change of archbishop. As for your Count of Longsummer, Flanders, I have seen that fellow, who was as devout a believer as his grandfather. ”

Some words can be clicked, and there is no need to get too much.

Ollov's heart was relieved, at least the cardinal would not be biased in favor of the court of Besançon in the battle for the successor of the Count of Burgundy.

After a few moments, Olof withdrew from the cardinal's sacramental church, and the assistant bishop, dressed in bishop's regular robe, walked over from the side, "Ollov, how is it, has the cardinal given an answer?" ”

"Thank you for your help, the cardinal gave me the answer I wanted." A smile crossed Orlov's face

Glancing left and right, Olof leaned sideways into the ear of the assistant bishop and whispered, "Don't worry, the owner of the mine in the diocese of Lucesen will come to your office to confess to your face......

............

Thousands of miles away, beyond the fierce battlefield of Besançon, his eyes turned to a military fort on the eastern border of the Count of Burgundy.

Wallonburg, an important town in the eastern part of the province of Jonne, has grown from less than 100 to 200 since it was recaptured from the Swabians by the returning army two years ago, and the garrison here has increased from less than 100 to 200 men, and is garrisoned by a company of soldiers from the Frontier Legion.

It is precisely because of the garrison of the border army that it can face six or seven hundred Swabian enemy troops to support it until now.

The Swabians were still besieging the city, and the Swabian army had stretched the front too long because of the rapid advance and their attack on Wallonburg was already weak.

More than 20 siege ladders and several siege towers advanced towards Valonia with more than 300 soldiers, and further afield there were many trebuchets throwing stones and clay pots filled with fire oil at the castle, and the Burgundian defenders in Wallonia also used crossbows and trebuchets to fight back against the enemy who were getting closer and closer......

In the towering spruce treetops of a dense forest northeast of Walloon, two men in tight burqas hold the trunk of a tree with one hand to prevent it from falling, and the other frown on their brow to observe the fierce battle and billowing smoke of Wallonia.

"The defenders on the fort wall are estimated to be about a hundred, there are still about fifty people in the castle, and about sixty handymen and fort farmers, seeing that they are very fast and do not panic, they should be able to hold out for ten and a half months."

"Damn the ghost, it's going to change again." Stanley rubbed his wounded leg and cursed, then turned his head to look at the Swabian camp on the east side, where a procession of wagons had entered the camp from the east.

"Schwabian began to increase his troops again, and he wrote that the number of troops increased by more than fifty, with five cavalrymen and ten carriages, and the carriages had felt cloth and could not tell what was pulling."

A man beside Stanley, who had tied his body to the trunk of a tree with a rope, simply wrote down a few numbers on the birch bark with a charcoal stick, and suddenly he stopped writing, "Captain, how do you write about the carriage?" I forgot. ”

“c—a—r—i—o—t！” Stanley blurted out.

The man with the charcoal stick in his hand wrote a few strokes and stopped, "Captain, this doesn't look like it, does it?" ”

Stanley glanced back, and it didn't seem to look like it, "These are all learned in the academy, why don't you remember them?" You start by drawing four wheels. After that, he stared at the Swabian Rao camp Zheng

"Remember, there are a lot of craftsmen in the Swabian camp, and it looks like they need to make large siege engines."

The two hung on the treetops for a while, and there was a shrill birdsong in the dense forest below the trees, and Stanley took a wooden whistle from his chest, put it in his mouth, and squeaked it three times.

"The Swabian patrol is coming, let's leave."

The two of them put away the birch bark and charcoal rods, untied the ropes, and slid down the trunk of the tree, and the three black-robed straitjacket soldiers with bows and crossbows and short swords on their backs touched back from several directions, and followed Stanley to the west under the cover of the dense forest bushes......