The assassination of the Count of Bernard, the assassination of several high-ranking commanders of the Western Frontier Army, plunged the province of Thorne into panic and anger for a day.

This sudden series of terrorist attacks all pointed at the lord of the eastern province of Jonah, the vice-minister of the court, and the military vice-minister Earl Balwin.

However, strange things happened, and it was not until the third Sunday of June, the fifth day after the assassination of the Count of Bernard, that the expected earth-shattering change did not happen, and the city of Besançon, which had been noisy for two days, suddenly fell into a deathly silence.

It was as if nothing had happened, and no one in the court had ever asked about these things.

The Western Frontier Army was boiling for a day, but the air that was about to burst on the evening of the second day suddenly condensed into ice, and all the blood of revenge froze......

Sitting in Wincheston Manor waiting for the storm, Arte was a little panicked, three days had passed since the first fast horse urgent letter from Besançon three days ago, and there was a secret letter from Besançon every morning and evening for these three days, but these secret letters that cost him a lot of money brought him more and more strange news, and made him less and less aware of what was happening.

He even wondered if the task force had never been to Besançon and the western frontier at all, but Stanley, who had already made a detour and returned from the assassination, and the soldiers who had been killed or wounded in the assassination testified to the reality of an assassination that had stirred up a huge wave, and the large number of Besançon's troops that had been reported back three days earlier.

"Tell Otto to lead all the Wells Legions into Boulder Town, and all the legions are in combat mode, beware of any possible danger." Art had a hunch that this was the most terrible tranquility before the storm, perhaps his plot had failed, and perhaps Balwyn had learned that his plot had reached a consensus with Bernard, and was mobilizing troops from both the east and west to crush the Earl of Longxia and his own army......

Art was really thinking too much, and no one noticed at the moment that a small army of hundreds of people was about to move in the south, and even the assassinations a few days ago could not touch the sensitive nerves of the upper echelons.

Because early the morning of the second day of Bernard's assassination, a truly earth-shattering event occurred in the Count of Burgundy - the Marquis of Ivrea, the ruler of the Count of Burgundy, suddenly fell ill.

On the day of Ivrea's death, the chief of the inner court blocked all the news, and the eyes of the Earl of Balwyn that had been so painstakingly planted in the inner court were all extinguished in less than half a day.

Two days after the Marquis's death, the Count of Bernard, who had just been wounded by a poisoned arrow, entered the inner court through a secret passage under careful escort......

As the maker of a dòng luàn, Arte is still confused, and Earl Balwin, the court vice-chancellor, who is even more unknown than Yat, is even more disrespectful.

When the news of Bernard's assassination reached Balwyn's ears, his first reaction was that everything was Bernard's treacherous scheme, he thought it was a conspiracy played by Bernard, and he really praised Bernard's conspiracy, for which Balwyn had already written a letter of defense to the Marquis in the mansion.

However, two days after Bernard's assassination, several high-ranking commanders of the Western Frontier Army were assassinated overnight, and this news was confirmed by the eyeliner he planted in the Western Army.

This time, Balwin was confused, and he would not use his high-ranking commanders as traps and bait.

What made Balwyn even more incomprehensible was that Bernard and the palace suddenly cooled down on this matter, and a group of people who had been sharpening knives near Earl Balwin's mansion a few days ago also suddenly evacuated.

Balwyn had a premonition that something big was coming, and he was ready to go to the inner court to defend himself with the Marquis of Ivrea, lest Bernard, who had been holding back his bad water at the time, deal a fatal blow to him.

However, Balwin was unable to meet the Marquis of Ivrea, and he was not even able to enter the palace gate of the Inner Court, this was not the first time that Balwyn was turned away from the Inner Court, but this time Balwin's inner uneasiness spread more and more, and he suspected that the Marquis had known about the conspiracy between him and the Count of Longxia.

After returning to the mansion from the inner court gate, he transferred the elite of the palace guard who were loyal to him, and stationed in the streets and alleys around the earl's mansion and the mansion, and the part of the janissary army under his absolute control also quietly carried out martial law preparations......

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To the east of Besançon, in the sprawling palace where the court and the inner court were located.

"Bernard ~ Earl ~ Earl, Lord Marquis~ can't take off the right ring, we don't dare to push too hard, for fear of being found out that the right ring has left the marquis~" An old man who looked like a clerk trembled slightly and found Bernard who was waiting coldly in the palace of the Marquis of the Inner Court.

Bernard's face turned pale, he turned his head and glared fiercely at the timid and fearful court clerk, and snorted, "Useless things, you can't do such a thing well." ”

"Follow me with the fire paint!"

Surrounded by a large number of guards, the Count of Bernard went to the sanctuary where the remains of the Marquis of Ivrea were housed in the inner court.

Bernard lifted the guard who was supporting him, walked towards Ivrea's body with a slight jolt of legs, and in his left hand held a piece of parchment that had just been drafted with gold wire, and raised the stiff palm of the Marquis of Ivrea; Beside Bernard, the elderly clerk poured a spoonful of fire paint on the end of the parchment where Ivrea's name was written on it, and Bernard lifted Ivrea's middle finger and twisted his stiff palm to press the heraldic ring on the parchment, which symbolized the ruler of the Count of Burgundy.

Bernard raised the trimmed parchment in his hand and said to the clerk beside him: "Send this will of succession to the Marquise in the hands of the Marquise." ”

The clerk took the trimmed parchment in both hands and hurried towards the Marquise, who was waiting in the inner court.

After the clerk left, Bernard said to the guards and officers who were gathered around him: "Order that the door of the inner court be opened, and that a meeting of the important ministers of the court be convened to declare the marquis immortal." ”

"Lord Bernard, what about those servants and slaves?" The person who questioned him was none other than the core of Bernard's faction, the head of the court.

Bernard turned his head to look at the inner hall of the temple where the servants and servants of the marquis were concentrated, and said lightly to the head of the inner court: "All of them will be destroyed, and no one will be left." ”

"Lord Bernard, this~"

"There's nothing wrong with this, leaving these people behind is the aftermath, kill!"

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“...... I think I should kill them all, so as not to leave a legacy behind. These guys are all elite commanders of the Western Frontier Army, and they will definitely return to the army, and they will undoubtedly add strong enemies to ourselves when the time comes. "When it comes to the disposition of the commanders of the Western Army, Obote, who was born as a commoner, does not have the slightest concern for the reputation of the nobility.

In Wincheston Manor, Art, Angus, and Obote discuss the issue of the captured Western Army commanders in the manor mansion.

These Western troops had been "guests" in Wincheston Manor for a long time, and after the ransom letters were sent to the West, some relatives also sent ransom money one after another, but the garrison of Wincheston Manor refused the request for the release of the captive officers on the grounds that the commander was not decided, and of course the ransom must have been collected in full.

This group of guys is really difficult to deal with, ordinary soldiers don't care, the main thing is that those commanders of the Western Army are very tricky, they are all leading soldiers and there are a lot of nobles, with Arte's current strength, he doesn't dare to easily send all the nobles who belong to the same nobility to heaven, these people are not bastards like Bazel who are useless except for flying and domineering.

However, it was not possible to let them go back like this, the Western army sent to attack Wincheston Manor was all elite, and this group of officers was a carefully selected surveyor, and they knew the Wells Legion better than the ordinary Western Army, so they could not be easily let go anyway, at least not for now.

Arte had asked for a ransom but had not thought of actually freeing the captives, since his reputation in the aristocratic circles of the Count of Burgundy had been completely ruined, and he did not mind wearing another hat of dishonesty and shamelessness.

"Sergeant Major, you lead the cavalry team to invite those "adults" back to Beiguan Military Fort as guests, and let Bass take strict care. These "adults" are all nobles, so they don't have to participate in those heavy labor, the food supply is sufficient, just don't let them escape from the cell, there are many wild beasts in the valley, and it is easy to be left with no bones when they run out. "Art doesn't plan to let them go, nor does he plan to kill them, and then consider the issue of release when the time is right, anyway, the ransom sent by their relatives is enough for these people to eat for a year and a half.

"My lord, those guys won't want to be held by us for long." Every day after Obote was stationed at Wincheston Manor, he heard the shouting and abuse of the officers who were locked up in the manor's cells.

"Tell them to be either my guest or God's guest, and they can only choose one."

"I'm afraid they'd rather die than go to jail." Obote muttered.

Angus snorted, "Obote, you overestimate those guys, they are all nobles, their lives are extremely valuable, if they really want to die in the battle of the north of the county, they will have died." Those who can lay down their arms and surrender are those who spare their lives. ”

Obote thought about it and agreed with Angus.

After deciding on the placement of the captives, Angus glanced north through the window of the house again, "My lord, the Northland~"

"Ron has already infiltrated Lucesin Province with someone, if there is any change in the Northlands, we will get news soon, so wait with peace of mind."

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In the southwest of Wincheston Manor, the 1,300 standing elite soldiers of the Longxia Legion all gathered in Longxia City, and the county soldiers from all over the country gathered in various county towns to stand by, and the first batch of 500 conscripted peasant soldiers were also recruited in place and distributed weapons.

In the barracks south of Longxia City, Flender, Earl of Longxia, stood in the barracks training ground in fine plate armor and personally commanded the actual combat training of foot cavalry and bows, and a palace guard rode a fast horse into the barracks, and came to Flender to stand behind Flender and jumped off his horse with a rein, and presented a thin piece of parchment to Flender, "My lord, Besançon's eagle-eyed flying pigeon secret letter." ”

Flender took the note and looked at it, his face suddenly startled.

"My lord, what happened?"

Flender handed the note to the Earl's advisor beside him.

"Ivreia is dead!"