Chapter 71: Hunting Season
Madame Jazz's care for Isabel Walton can be said to be a mother's infinite love for her deceased daughter, and it can also be considered a continuation of her own life.
She hoped that Isabel would continue her mission in this world, that she would become a cultured and well-read young lady who wore the most expensive jewels and the most beautiful dresses to enter the aristocratic social circle.
Isabel only smiled faintly, because she didn't want to fall victim to the corsets of aristocratic women in the European Renaissance. Trapping his body under the weight of planks, whalebones, and metal bars, his bones were severely deformed and his internal organs were dislocated in the aristocracy's pursuit of women's morbid beauty. Even if you think about it, it will be a terrifying thing.
Therefore, she liked her current job as a knight's squire. Not only can you breathe freely and live freely in men's clothes, but you can also extend your military career as a U.S. Navy officer. Perhaps, a bad thing could turn into a good thing, a "good thing" that even she couldn't imagine the consequences would be.
The next day, Monday, the Duke of Richmond Hunting Season officially kicked off the annual hunt. After three o'clock in the afternoon, Nottingham Castle welcomed aristocrats from all over the world.
Led by knights or apprentice knights with spears and accompanied by servants on foot or on horseback, male nobles dressed in splendid costumes and riding sturdy horses with hounds behind are particularly notable.
Armed with a spear and dressed in quasi-lancer armor, Isabel rode heavily on the inside of the castle gates. Whenever a procession of nobles passed in front of her and Sir Augustine, Sir whispered, "This is the hunting party of Baron Haswell and his eldest son." ”
"This is Viscount Darlington's hunting party. Did you notice that young man next to Viscount Darlington? It was Joseph, the eldest son of Lord Viscount. ”
Isabel's eyes looked at the ranks of the nobles, and her mouth squirmed slightly, and she said, "Sir, this Joseph is Joseph, who once fell in love with Rosalind?" ”
Augustine nodded in response to her question. Then he said, "This is the team of Lord Earl Durham, the Governor of County Durham, northeast of Richmond County." ”
When the Earl of Durham's hunting party left, the castle was greeted by a noble party. Augustine looked at the young man on the horse and whispered to Isabel, "This is the Earl of Lancashire, the Governor of Lancashire. ”
Isabel also noticed the young Earl of Lancashire on his horse. However, she felt that the age of this pale, thin-faced, rather handsome young man did not seem to be quite in keeping with the status of the Earl who ran a county.
Still asking Augustine softly, "Sir, I think the Earl of Lancashire looks younger than the other nobles." Could it be that the Earl is a member of the royal family? ”
Sir explained, "No, he is the eldest son of the old Earl of Lansha. Because the old earl died in an accident during the hunt last year, the earl's title and domain were inherited by his eldest son. ”
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On the first day of the hunting season, Henry Fitzroy did not allow Isabel and her knight teacher to join in a "hunting game" full of danger, excitement and excitement.
While the two were at the stationary of the guards, Augustine had assumed that Isabel could not have learned much about the hunting, the pastime of the nobles during the winter, in one night. But after some conversation with her, he began to think that his knight student was not as simple as he had imagined.
Augustine asked Isabel to sit down and talk to him about the results of last night's learning. Isabel is still familiar with hunting operations. Not only is she familiar, but she has even seen many Hollywood thriller movies that use humans as hunting targets.
At this moment, such a picture has been formed in her mind: the horse under the crotch has been transformed into an open-top, civilian version of the Hummer multi-purpose off-road vehicle with the "American spirit". Sitting in the car, she was holding an M40A1 sniper rifle of the U.S. Marine Corps, known as the "green gun king" of the Cold War, and drove after a herd of strong, savage African rhinos.
The Falcon, hovering overhead for a long time, transforms into a high-tech drone equipped with optoelectronic / infrared reconnaissance equipment, GPS navigation equipment and synthetic aperture radar with all-weather reconnaissance capabilities. Through the small video receiving system in the hand, the photographic and video images transmitted by the drone are received in real time to detect the whereabouts of the prey.
When the drone tracks the whereabouts of the prey, it immediately drives to the location of the prey. Quietly got out of the car and quietly ambushed at a distance of 875 yards (about 800 meters) from the prey.
When sneaking up to the optimal range with a sniper rifle, aim the 10x sniper scope at the head of your prey. After that, the Mauser bolt manual bolt bolt is gently pulled away and a 7.62 mm caliber bullet is placed in the magazine. Immediately after, adjusting his breathing, his right index finger slowly pressed on the trigger, and pulled the trigger without hesitation: "Woo......!" ”
"Isabel, are you reminiscing about the hunting skills you learned last night?" Augustine, who was sitting on the sidelines, spoke.
"Oh, uh, yes." Isabel pulled her mind back to England in the middle of the 16th century and replied quickly.
"Now, then, you can tell me what you think of the hunt."
"Sir, I don't need to tell you about the history of the hunt, and I think you know it too. Now, I'm just talking about what I know about hunting. Sir, I am very grateful to Madame Sir for her careful teaching to me. ”
"Isabel, I can see that Antonia likes you very much."
Isabel put it bluntly: "Hunting is an activity outside of war that can both practice combat and increase the ability of knights and sergeants to fight together." In the process of hunting, knights need to use a lot of previous experience and knowledge, understand the living habits of animals, master the ability to quickly spot their tracks, know the different ways to track them, and be familiar with the means of hunting different animals. ”
Augustine praised, "A wise man can always see things that others can't." ”
Isabel added: "In the process of hunting, the relationship between the prospector and the hound and the falcon can also be cultivated, which is like the relationship between a knight and a sergeant and an archer." Hunters use the role of hunting dogs to find and discover the footprints, feces, hair, and various marks left on the branches and leaves of the body of the prey, teeth or horns. On this basis, the falcon is used to quickly track down the area where the prey will eventually stay, and the falcon's air power is used to cause a huge sense of panic to the prey. ”