The small procession that suddenly appeared slowly stopped on the hillside in the distance, and in front of the procession, a knight in a short black robe held a banner with a city gate pattern guarded by two black and white war horses, under the banner, the man's face wrapped in a thick beard, a pair of round eyes stared at the few people below.

"It's the Duke's banner, I can recognize it," Bellery whispered, his hand gripped the hilt of the knife beside him, his eyes surveying the man's face, "they have taken possession of the farmstead. ”

Alexander whispered a few orders not to move, he looked at Elliot next to him, and saw that the young master always had a casual smile on his face, and he couldn't help but have a little more thought in his heart.

"On the orders of His Royal Highness the Duke of Frederick, tell me where you came from and what you mean."

The knight shouted loudly, and he led his horse to stop after a few steps of slow walking, and then he tilted the flag in his hand forward slightly, and vaguely pointed it at the bottom of the hillside, "This place is under the protection of His Royal Highness the Duke." ”

"This is the territory of the Cosenza family!" The knight's words clearly irritated Bellery, and he angrily urged his horse to rush to the front, shouting to the man, "If you are real knights, don't lie. ”

"Who are you?" The knight raised his hand, and with this movement, there was a sound of weapons grinding, and the cavalry behind him drew their weapons one after another.

"Belleri, Count Cosenza is my master!" Bellery shouted loudly, his arms outstretched to reveal his stout body, and with an unafraid gaze he met Frederick's soldiers, who might rush down at any moment, "I declare in the name of my master that this is the domain of the Count of Cosenza, and the Cosenza family has all the irrefutable rights to it!" ”

The knight's heavy eyebrows touched slightly, and the spear-like banner in his hand tilted more as the cavalry behind him began to move slowly.

"I advise you not to move," Elliot finally spoke, and he came to a halt side by side with Bellery, and looked up at the horsemen, "I am Elliot, son of the Count of Taranto, and if any of you were frequent in and out of the palace of Lord Frederick, you might have seen me. ”

The knight looked at Elliot with some surprise, he was indeed a knight, but it would be a bit of a luxury to say that he frequented the duke's palace.

In fact, as a young knight, his greatest achievement was to work for the famous knights and the duke's subordinate nobles, and this time to be able to follow the duke's tax collector to Agri was already a rather important task for him.

"I'm sorry for my presumptuousness, but I don't know who you are," said the knight, blushing, "I'm only ordered to guard this farm, and no one is to come near it without the Duke's orders." ”

"Can't I either?" Elliott asked, in a tone of astonishment, "Don't you know that even the Duke will not refuse my request?" ”

"Is that so?" The knight's face showed hesitation, he didn't seem to know whether to listen to this man for a moment, and he even looked back at the men behind him as if he was asking for advice.

"Of course," Elliot said in a natural tone, to the knight, who seemed to be somewhat obsessed by him, "don't you know that loyalty to the Duke means loyalty to his friends and to those nobles who are higher than you?" ”

"Of course I know, but you ......"

"We are friends with the Duke, so we are nobles more noble than you, and I am even an earl's heir, so you should obey my orders unconditionally."

"This man is a fool," Ulliu, who had been watching from behind, suddenly whispered in Alexander's ear, "it seems that the young master can trick him into letting us go with just a few more words." ”

Alexander nodded in surprise, he didn't expect that the man who would occupy the farm would be such a man who didn't seem to have a very good brain.

Elliott was already smiling and pulling the reins to move forward.

"No way!"

Suddenly, the man turned and shouted, and with his surprisingly loud shout, his mount immediately leaped forward, and the huge horse's head even went straight to Elliott's chest.

"The Duke's order is that no one without permission can enter the farmstead, and although you are friends with the Duke, you have not been ordered by the Duke, so I can't let you in!"

The knight looked at Elliot triumphantly as if he had finally figured out a big problem, his eyes full of nervousness and excitement, like a child waiting for a compliment.

Elliott looked at the knight in amazement, he never thought that this guy who seemed to have something wrong with his brain would admit such a reason.

To make matters worse, though he had only now figured out the simple truth, the man had already ordered the cavalry to surround them.

Elliot was taken aback and immediately turned his horse's head, apparently not expecting to confront the apparently clumsy knight head-on, let alone the cavalry behind him who were ready to charge.

"Come on!" Bellery shouted, his hands clenching his heavy sword, his eyes fixed on the approaching cavalry.

"Damn," Alexander cursed secretly, he didn't expect this guy who didn't seem to have a good brain to be so difficult, seeing that those cavalry had surrounded Beleri in the middle, he could only urge his horse forward and shout the same loudly: "Stop! ”

The knight who had already poked the flag at Beleri like a spear was stunned, and he looked at Yao Li Shanda with some annoyance: "Who are you, why do you want to stop me?" ”

"Who am I?" Stressful looked at the man and smiled inexplicably, he looked back at Elliott and deliberately said in a joking tone, "He actually asked me who I was." ”

After speaking, Alexander suddenly turned his head and showed a serious look on his face: "Don't you know who I am, haven't you ever heard the prince talk about me?" ”

"Prince?" The knight was taken aback, "Which prince, Prince Alfred?" ”

"Of course yes, do you think there will be anyone else in Naples who will be called a prince?"

Alexander's words made the knight's face look puzzled, and he said to himself suspiciously: "King Ferdinand should not be considered a prince, because he is already a king, and he has no son, of course, there is no prince, so there is really only Prince Alfred." ”

Listening to his conclusion, which seemed to have been carefully deduced, Boleri looked at the knight inexplicably, he was now completely sure that the person opposite was really not very smart, but it was such a person who prevented them from entering the farmstead.

"I have fought a duel with the prince," said Alexander, and seeing the immediate hostility on the knight's face, he hastened to continue, "but these are trifles, and the duel for the beautiful lady should be noble and elegant, and this does not affect my friendship with the prince in the slightest." ”

"Is that so?" The knight looked at Alexander with suspicion, "I think that only a duel with an enemy is truly brave and noble, this is what my father, Giovanni of Fucha, told me, and I am his son Giovanni the Younger." ”

"Your father is," said Alexander, pausing at this point, and then asked in a tone of some surprise, "Giovanni of Fucha, could it not be that Giovanni?" ”

"Of course, how would you know?" The knight named Little Giovanni asked in a bit of a daze.

"Of course I know," said Alexander, urging his horse forward to the knight who looked to be about a head taller than him, "I have heard your father's name mentioned, but don't ask who it is, you'd better not know." ”

"Who is it?" Little Giovanni shouted, "Listen to your tone, it should be my father's enemy, then he must be an insult to my father, I want to know who he is, and then fight him in a duel!" ”

Alexander shook his head and said in a very firm tone: "I will not tell you, even if you want to duel with me, because it will be tantamount to harming you, although you will not allow us to enter the farm, but I will not cost you my life because of this." ”

"What are you talking about?" The knight shouted angrily, "Do you want me to know that someone is insulting my father, but I can't defend his honor, I'm not a coward, tell me who he is, I will kill that person, even if he is the Pope!" ”

As soon as the knight's words came out, there was silence all around, and the cavalrymen who were impatient when they saw him entangled with these uninvited guests looked at him in astonishment, and this knight, who looked stunned, seemed to understand what he was talking about, and his face showed an extremely frightened look.

Especially when he saw Alexander in front of him shaking his head wordlessly, his face, which was already dripping with sweat because of the hot weather, was about to flow into a small river.

Elliot looked at Alexander curiously, although he hadn't known him for a long time, he had thought that Alexander should be a very serious person, or a little too dull.

Even in his opinion, even the henchman named Massimo was much more interesting than Alexander.

But he didn't expect this person to be such an interesting person, looking at the knight with a blue face and trembling lips, Elliot even felt a little pity for him.

"What are you talking about," Alexander shook his head as if helpless, and when he saw that the knight was about to speak, he interrupted him and continued, "I don't tell you who this man is, because this man is too powerful and too terrible for you, and it is surprising that you would say such a thing." You know, as far as I know, the Pope's daughter seems to be married to the royal family of Naples. ”

"Please don't say any more," the knight's nervous voice trembled a little, he resisted the urge to look back at the men behind him, and looked at Alexander with pleading eyes, "I just want to know who is speaking ill of my father, if you will tell me, I will thank you, you are now within the boundaries of this farm, if I should have taken you all according to the Duke's orders, now I will not arrest you, I only hope that you will tell me who that man is." ”

Pressure Mountain looked at this knight with some surprise, he didn't expect this person to have such a little wit that could blackmail him, but this little aura obviously didn't make up for his stupidity that was too funny.

"Well, for your reverence for your father's dignity I can tell you," Alexander looked back at several people behind him.

Four people, Alexander sighed secretly in his heart.

He turned his head again and looked at the cavalry opposite.

Including this one named Giovanni Jr., there were seven people.

Alexander exhaled a little helplessly, letting the tension relax slightly.

Don't be in a hurry, don't miss, Alexander kept telling himself.

Seeing Alexander leaning forward, little Giovanni instinctively leaned over to Alexander.

"That man......" Alexander whispered almost in his ear, "it's me." ”

Little Giovanni's leaning forward body froze instantly, although he heard it clearly but didn't understand it for a while, but when he finally figured out what was going on, as a light flashed from the corner of his eye, a sharp stinging pain suddenly came from his neck!

Alexander's sharp short knife hidden in the wide fluffy sleeve cage pierced little Giovanni's neck fiercely, his strength was so great, he even felt the blade of the knife pierce into the neck and continued to drill forward, and then stabbed the shock from the neck bone!

Little Giovanni fell headlong from his horse, his head twisted like dough with his neck bone broken!

The sudden change of events prevented the cavalry behind Giovanni Jr. from even having time to shout, and Elliott had been prepared for it when Alexander approached Giovanni Jr.!

The deafening sound of muskets and the rising smoke had not yet echoed on the hillside, and Beleri was already shouting and wielding his saber, which was obviously much heavier than a normal scimitar!

At the panicked and frightened cry of a cavalryman, the saber slashed directly through the man's chest, and in an instant, the cut breastplate flipped up like an open hungry mouth!

With a cry of pain, the cavalryman, who had not yet fallen off his horse, was immediately smashed in the face with his fierce left fist from Beleri, and rolled off his horse.

At this moment, the other soldier who had been hit by Uliu's musket had just fallen to the ground, holding his hands on his bleeding head and screaming loudly.

And when Elliot drew his sword at one of the nearest horsemen, the soldier was so frightened that he turned back and fled.

Four people against seven people!

"Rush in!" Alexander didn't even have time to see if little Giovanni was dead when he squeezed his legs, and the sharp spurs stabbed into his mount's soft abdomen, causing it to hiss and rush madly towards the farmstead on the hillside!

In the distance, you can see the open wooden gate of the farmstead, and two soldiers who don't know what to do because they are panicked are standing in front of it!

Alexander kicked the stirrup and rushed into the farm in a daze-dazed stupor.

Pulling the reins hard, Alexander shouted to the people around him: "In the name of the king of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, I command you to obey my orders!" ”