Chapter 246: Albert and Mephistopheles
"Catch him, quick!" William, who led his troops in pursuit at the forefront, discovered Simon, the leader of the Cleanist heresy. Morality. The figure of Belibast, the heretical leader whom William hated, was so conspicuous that he was surrounded by a group of cavalry and priests, so William recognized him at a glance.
"Kill!" Hearing William's order, his knights rode their horses without hesitation, raising their long swords high and killing their targets.
"Varette, bring someone to stop these knights." Simon, who was surrounded by the crowd and fled, said anxiously to the cavalry captain beside him.
"No, Simon, the Norman knights are fierce and numerous, and we simply can't match them. I've got a way to get out safely, we can try. "The leader of the Varett cavalry is a strong, bearded man with an elder, who looks like a reckless and impulsive man, but he is not stupid enough to fight the mighty Norman knights.
What's more, the status of the leader of Valette in the cleansing faction is only a little lower than that of Patriarch Simon, and the two are not subordinate to each other, but a cooperative relationship, so when he was urged by Simon in a commanding tone, he was very unhappy in his heart, and immediately rejected Simon's request.
"What can you do, tell me about it." Simon asked anxiously as if he had grasped a life-saving straw now, without thinking much about it.
"We divide our troops into two ways, so that the enemy can't figure out their heads, so that we can have a chance to live, otherwise everyone will die." The leader of the Varet cavalry looked at Simon with a solemn expression.
"What? Simon was also confused by Varette for a while, but he was also a decisive man, and knew that only in this way could he have a chance of life, so he immediately nodded and replied: "Okay, we will flee in two ways now, and then meet in Provence." ”
After the two agreed, they immediately divided into two roads, each leading his retinue and cavalry to escape, the most numerous of the two roads was the captain of the Varette cavalry, and the other was Simon and others.
The Norman knights who were chasing saw that the target was fleeing in two ways, and immediately divided into two ways to pursue, and they naturally thought that Simon was the more numerous way, so more knights chose to chase this way, in order to catch Simon, the heretical leader, before everyone else.
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"Damn, they fucked me." The leader of the Varete cavalry caught a lot of heretics and cavalry in the chase, but they didn't find any trace of Simon, and even the leader of the cavalry, Varett, didn't find him, and he had already fled with a few of his cronies and only son on the way.
After receiving the report from Faller, William only felt very sorry that Simon's duck was almost cooked, and it was a pity to let it fly away.
After Simon, the leader of the Cleanist faction escaped, he would definitely hide in the Duchy of Flanders and carry out his activities in the shadows, which is a destabilizing factor, and no one knows how many people will be lured by him to start a riot.
"Master William, this is all my fault, please punish me." Faller reproached himself.
"It's not your fault, it's just that the enemy is too cunning, and I'll forgive you this time. I hope that next time you can work hard to make up for today's mistakes. William was relieved.
Just as William was about to give up the pursuit and prepare to lead his troops back to the camp, news came from the front, a great piece of good news.
"What? Simon, the head of the Cleanist faction, was caught? Show me who caught him, and I will reward him well. William heard the news from the knight in front of him and said excitedly to Faller.
"That's wonderful, Master William. I'll bring him to you. Faller was also very excited, swept away his previous low mood, and responded.
In a hurry, two mighty knights with helmets and armor were caught by Faller in front of William and said, "These two are the Albert and Mephistopheles brothers who came to the Sauron family in the Duchy of Brandenburg in Germany to capture Simon today. ”
The two brothers are very similar in appearance, both are handsome and well-looking, with shoulder-length hair that is slightly curly in white gold, and two small mustaches above their lips, which are the most obvious characteristics that distinguish them from the others.
The older one is Albert. Sauron, who respectfully saluted William, recounted his capture of Simon without nervousness, and spoke very attractively.
It's a little younger Mephistopheles. Sauron, the younger knight, had a more lively personality than his steadied brother.
Listening to the two of them recount their experiences and performances, William nodded with satisfaction and praised: "You two have captured the heretic Simon and performed well, I will canonize you as a knight and send you to my Guards Cavalry Regiment as a company commander."
When you make more achievements, I will not be stingy with rewards. ”
These two German knights Wilhelm still have some impressions of them, over the years, in the face of the shortage of his own knights, Wilhelm has successively recruited more than 200 German knights and down-and-out nobles to the vast German region.
These German knights who came to Normandy were experienced in warfare, and their personal martial arts and horse combat skills were outstanding, which effectively supplemented the dilemma of Wilhelm's cavalry troops.
They soon had a place in William's army with their outstanding ability and their own efforts, and were successively canonized as knights by William, and received the manor estate granted by William, and the most outstanding of them were the two Albert and Mephistopheles brothers in front of them, he was already a squadron leader in the cavalry before, each commanding more than thirty knights, and now they have gone one step further and become the company captain of the Guards Cavalry Regiment directly under William, which is not as simple as a simple promotion, which means that William wants to reuse them, Entrust them with a heavy responsibility.
For several years, William had regarded his Guards Brigade as a medieval version of the Whampoa Military Academy, in which officers who excelled were usually promoted by William to serve as officers in various regiments, hoping to strengthen his control over the army.
The brothers Albert and Mephistopheles were very excited when they heard William's words, they knew what it meant to serve as officers in the Guards Brigade, as long as they could do a good job in the position of company commander of the Guards Cavalry Regiment, and come out to be the commander of a cavalry battalion or an infantry regiment, the honorable baron would definitely not be able to run, and many senior officers had risen from this path in the previous years.