From forcing the last living monk to tell the story of the guards at the palace in Linlithgow to luring the chief guard to come to the church and further use waterboarding to extract confessions from the chief of the guard, it was all a plan arranged by Isabel Walton. Of course, the first mission of this expedition into the Scottish outback was to find Queen Mary's hiding place and capture her.

If it is certain that Queen Mary is hiding in Stirling Castle, it is unlikely that the current 31-man cavalry squad will be able to complete the capture mission. If it was in the era in which Isabel lived, it was possible. However, what is the current era, an era in which hot and cold weapons are alternating. The development of hot weapons in this era is still in its infancy, so most battles still need to be completed with cold weapons.

In the end, Isabel had no choice but to change her plan again and find out where Queen Mary was hiding first. After determining the Queen's hiding place, she quickly returned to the north and used the Duke of Richmond's command to gather troops and attack Scotland again to capture Queen Mary. Therefore, the court guard who was lured into arresting was definitely an important hostage, and she wanted to get a confession about Queen Mary on the premise of increasing the pain of the guard and reducing the death of the head of the guard.

With his hands behind his back, his upper body leaned forward slightly to look at the chief of the guard, who had already experienced the pain of waterboarding, "Captain, as long as you are willing to tell me where the queen is, I can pay you a lot of money and a noble life that you will never enjoy, how about it?" ”

As the pain of waterboarding diminished, Sir Andrew's consciousness and body were slowly recovering, and the feeling of drowning was getting farther and farther away from him. Reflecting on the torture he had just received, Sir felt that it was a very unbearable punishment, and he even felt that it was a punishment worse than the physical punishment.

Of course, one thing that no one was known to anyone, including him and Isabel, was that the Inquisition in Spain, far away on the continent, had begun to use waterboarding to punish accused infidels. Although the Inquisition in Spain is seen by the general public as an institution dominated by fanatical and cruel Catholic clergy (which is still believed by a large number of people to be founded to torture, maim and kill ordinary people who dare to challenge the authority of the Catholic Church), it is not as bad as one might think.

Torture and interrogation do exist, but they are rare. Most of the ordinary people accused of heresy by the Inquisition received suspended sentences or acquittals, and only about 1% of ordinary people were executed. At the very least, the Inquisition has saved countless innocent (not so innocent) people who might otherwise fall victim to secular kings or mob rule.

Sir Andrew certainly didn't want to suffer the pain of waterboarding anymore, but he was also a traditional Scottish knight in the service of the Scottish royal family. He easily betrayed his lord (Queen Mary), who felt that he would go to hell when he died, and that he would not be able to enter the paradise where God was.

Since the end of the war against the "invasion" of the English a few months ago, he has also heard untrue reports of some Scots living on the border defecting to England. He had despised the peasants and hired men of his country who were loyal to the English, and fantasized that one day he would ride on his horse, put on armor, and bravely rush into English territory with a knight's spear in hand. However, at this moment, he was captured by the English in the church outside the royal palace he guarded.

It was humiliation, a humiliation of eternal forgiveness for him and his family. Sir Andrew's mind was full of humiliating words, and he felt that he had no face to face his queen, his own family and his companions. Silent raised his head again and looked at Isabelle, "Woman, I am not a lowly farmer, nor am I a hired hand who can't even afford to buy fresh meat, I am a Scottish knight who has been officially awarded the title of knight!" ”

Isabel looked at the other's obsessive gaze, full of masculine power words and the unusually important knighthood, and her mind, which had been trained in a formal intelligence course, began to spun into action. With a faint smile, he tilted his head and glanced at the other party, "Sir, you said it well. Still, I don't think enough tests of your knightly honor will be tested. ”

After speaking, without waiting for Jazz to open his mouth to plead, he immediately turned around and walked away, allowing the two members of the waterboarding team just now to continue to torture Jazz. When Jazz felt the pain of suffocating and drowning again, Baldwin whispered to Isabel who was standing in the dark, "Your Excellency, what if Jazz dies?" ”

Isabel turned her head to look at the captain of the guard struggling back and forth, and just said, "Don't worry, Sir won't die." And he'll be sure to say what we want to know. ”

"However, the captain is a knight, and I am afraid that he will not betray his queen."

"Really? A captain of the guard and captain of the saloon who guarded the palace gambled money in the room. I don't think that's what a knight should do. ”

Seeing that Sir Andrew was about to enter the spasmodic struggle of the end of his life, the dying struggle (i.e., the general spasm, the hands and legs kicking around, very forcefully, accompanied by the act of farting), Isabel asked the two team members to stop again. Baldwin accompanied her to Jazz, who glanced at him as he was about to lose consciousness.

Thinking about it, he turned to Baldwin and ordered, "Get everyone ready to leave the church immediately and take Jazz with you." ”

Baldwin recalled what Isabel had said before departure, and smiled slightly, "Your Excellency, are we still going to loot the royal palace and the town of Stirling here?" ”

Isabel squinted at the captain of the guard who still had his last breath left, and shook his head, "The looting is just to make some money for the brothers, and being able to get the news of the queen from the mouth of this captain of the guard is the purpose of our visit to Scotland." ”

"Your Excellency, I only hope that my brothers will not complain about your thoughts."

"Baldwin, isn't the treasure from the looting of the church still satisfying the brothers?"

When the group returned to the prison castle with important Scottish captives and looted church belongings, some of the sneak attack team members whispered. After reprimanding a few of the dissenting members, Fast rode to Isabelle, who was walking in front of the group, "Your Excellency, uh, the brothers still wish to go and rob some more Scotsman treasures. ”

Isabel, who rode forward, shook her head, "Okay, let's go and raid a few religious towns along the coast when we get on board. ”