On April 15, after a long period of depression, Easter Sunday finally exploded in euphoria, and people who had been starving for 40 days began to prepare to feast with green eyes.

On Easter Communion, Christians who believe that their sins have been forgiven by fasting go to the church to receive communion and receive the priest's false cross on their foreheads to chant the scriptures, so that all people may understand their final end and the greatness of the Father's love, while the bell rings solemnly for three days without telling the time, joyfully celebrating the rebirth of people.

Easter begins with a whole year of work, with hooded farmers busy pruning trees, loosening grapes with shovels, and turning winter manure deep into the moist soil to encourage young seedlings to thrive.

In places where rotation is practiced, farmers need to sow spring wheat and plough the winter wheat that has deteriorated due to the cold and freezing rain, so that they can keep busy to ensure their harvest, pay the offerings and tithes of the lord and the church priest, and have some food left for their families to spend the winter.

At this time, people were backward in means of keeping out the cold due to the limitations of their living standards, so whenever spring came, everyone was particularly happy, and the bard, who had not died for a winter in the castle of the lords, tightened the strings and swaggered back on the road, expressing his emotions along the way, and writing many beautiful and fresh poems in praise of the spring time:

"The spring breeze arrives in April, the drought disappears in March, and the wind is the sweetest, blowing the branches ......"

Young men dance and sing hand in hand on the grass, peasant maidens wear garlands made of flowers, and are gloriously chased by the young men for pleasure, and then they develop the same kind of love for each other as Spring, and for the self-proclaimed pious priest hiding behind the stone wall of the church, these are the original sin of the devil guiding people astray, but his earnest teachings are ignored.

The nobles also loved to go out hunting and enjoy idyllic fun in the spring, because as the weather became warmer, it also marked the imminent arrival of knights in armor and the call of the lord to enter the battlefield.

Of course, there is inevitably a ******** that can't help it, after all, witnessing the grass and the warbler flying and all things recovering, who doesn't like to touch the ears and temples of their dear lover and talk about love?

It's a pity that the warriors of Nijmegen are still marching on the journey, and they don't have the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of spring, although it is already the season of cultivation, but because of the war.

The villages we walked through were all desolate, and the peasants, fearful of being looted and forcibly pulled, fled with their families, leaving behind vast expanses of desolate land and crumbling houses, and the few that remained, most of them skinny and bleak, were unbearable to look at.

The castles and monasteries of the lords are even more frightened like frightened birds, and when we appear in the distance, they ring the alarm bell and close the gates, and the soldiers standing on the city walls are very unfriendly with bows and arrows, and their masters and leaders do not know life and death outside, so they should not take lightly the unidentified army that breaks into their homeland, whether they are friends or foes, how many bloody examples tell us, what kind of intrigue and sinister intentions lurk behind the knife in the smile, this is an era of lack of credibility.

Because of the heavy rain, Count Henry of Augsburg also arrived a day later than the agreed time, and had just arrived at Ravitzen, which was half a day's journey ahead of us, and Count Carinthia, who was the temporary commander of the Carinthian army, was really an old and serious fellow, and he was skeptical of the documents with the duke's seal, so he did not attack according to the original plan, he wanted to wait to see if the Duke would appear, after all, it was necessary to bear a lot of responsibility for the first war, and he did not have the courage to challenge the authority of His Majesty the Pope.

"The Pope's envoy arrived, a priest he didn't know, from Rome, and the mother and son of the little duke also arrived at the same time." The bull came to my resting place to report, and seeing that the war was about to break out, the army stopped here for a final rest, and also gave the performers in the middle of the stage time to warm up first.

"So everything is ready to go, just waiting for the opening gong?"

I set my eyes on Lavitzen in the distance, and the false duke and the Count Henry, who were in charge of the gong, did not know how they were prepared.

"Command, let everyone hurry up and eat, the war will end today, and you can rush home for the harvest prayer festival!"

After a light meal, with the help of Rollo, I changed into a new dry shirt, and after finally getting rid of my wet underwear, I stretched comfortably, and the soldiers below were basically packed up, waiting for the Duke to give the order to attack.

I stared at the warriors who were about to follow me to death, the knights and their squires made up a third of them, most of them from the lowlands of Friesland, who preferred to fight with spears, while the duke's cavalry, as my immediate guards, armed with maces and pickaxes, to pierce the exposed heads of the enemy in a condescending manner, looked at me with burning eyes and adoration, superstitious anticipation of another perfect victory.

I slowly walked up to the high place where everyone could see me with my helmet, and many impassioned pre-war speeches rolled in my mind, but I didn't spit out a word, just unhurriedly pulled up the hood of the one-piece chain mail, and then put on the helmet and fastened the belt, and said casually:

"There's nothing to be afraid of, it's just a real battle of swords and guns, and the great husband should be like this in the world, you are all excellent warriors, and you believe in God and serve the Lord bravely, so the final victory will definitely belong to Nijmegen!"

"Hooray! Banzai! ”

The bull was the first to raise his arms and shout, and the crowd roared from the bottom of their hearts, and the morale was instantly pushed to the top, and I watched these confident warriors, and jumped on their horses with satisfaction, and the knights turned over their horses one after another, following the Flying Dragon Battle Banner and dressing up.

The noise of the scuffle could be heard from a long distance, and the fake duke and Count Henry of Augsburg were the first to appear on the battlefield, which immediately alerted the Bavarian troops stationed there, but fortunately they camped on a wide riverside plain, and there was enough time to react, and the Count Carinthia on the other side of the river was still cautious and did not dare to act rashly, and he had not yet confirmed the identity of the comer.

It was just a trumpet to prepare the whole army to cross the river, and the real hand-to-hand engagement had not yet begun, but the tense air over the battlefield was already breathless.

I hid in the hidden forest at the back of the battlefield, the bull was pointing the scouts to find out where the enemy had built a pontoon bridge, where the river had made a big bend to make the rushing river much smoother, and it was also in the blind spot of the Bavarian camp, which was indeed suitable for smuggling troops.

"This Earl Carinthia is a bit interesting, and he is a good hand at war."

I stroked my supple mane, which Rollo had just carefully combed before the war, and there was not a single stray hair on the spurt.

"Let's go around to the side of the pontoon bridge and wait for the enemy to cross the river."

The bull observed the terrain on the other side of the pontoon bridge and spread his hands at a loss:

"No, my lord, you see, the woods that can be hidden are too far away from the river, and the lush reeds can't hide the knight's tall horse, I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve the effect of a surprise attack."

"Let the knights hide in the woods, leaving a distance for the sprint, and the archers can stick out a little and hide in the reeds to shoot at close range."

I gestured to the bull and said, "Your infantry also moves with the archers, wait for my signal, remember, be patient." ”

While he was talking, Count Henry, who had arranged the offensive formation, ordered to beat the drums of the attack, and the knights of Augsburg played the battle flag of the double lion on a yellow background representing the Duke of Carinthia, shouting and urging the war horses, trotting and accumulating strength, and the coalition camp also quickly moved, many archers carried bows and arrows and ran to the front of the formation, nervously adjusting the bowstring, and the spearmen who dragged their weapons upside down raised their spears under the constraints of the knights to form the first line of defense, but unfortunately the number was still insufficient, and it looked sparse like a piece of hard bread that had dried up the slag.

"Look!"

Rollo's shouts turned my attention in the other direction, and the Count Carinthia finally decided that it was the Duke on the other side, and immediately ordered the whole army to cross the river, leaving only some peasants and archers across the river to shoot arrows and throw stones at the enemy.

"Be patient, the time has not yet come."

I patted Rollo on the shoulder, let this nervous young man calm down, continue to calmly take charge of the overall situation, don't look at me on the surface pretending to be calm, in fact, the heart of the deer is beating wildly, worried that the enemy army pretended to be by the Augsburg soldiers will enter the attack range, the coalition side does not know their undercover identity, a fight will inevitably not be killed, isn't it a big water to wash the Dragon King Temple?

The coalition forces have formed a dense spear formation, and the archers are also bowing to the sky, you can imagine what kind of heavy blow the Augsburg knights will face when they sprint, it is estimated that the Count Henry, who is mixed in the team, must be itching at the root of his teeth at this moment, and greet all my female relatives, but the situation is difficult to reverse, I closed my eyes while praying, and the order to prepare for the coalition positional shooting came in my ears.

Earl Henry is not a fool, naturally does not want the noble knight to die in vain, the knight who rushed to the forefront of the flag suddenly grabbed the reins, with incredible strength to control the galloping war horse, forced it to converge and raise its hooves to make a 180-degree turn, the knights behind also showed superb horse skills, as the leaders turned one after another, the arrows hurriedly shot by the archers of the opposite coalition army were randomly tied to the ground not far from them, like a fence erected out of thin air, clearly drawing the line between the two sides.

Not only the allied soldiers who looked at each other, but also the Earl Carinthia, who had just crossed halfway, was also stunned, and he felt that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly ran away from the crowd and ran to the opposite bank under the protection of the knights, this behavior was tantamount to going backwards on a crowded high road, and if he wanted to pass, he could only use his sword to fight his way out.

The soldiers who stood in the way were hacked to death before they could shout, and many fell into the turbulent waves in a panic, struggling to disappear, and the rickety pontoon bridge became a bloody killing field, and it was none other than the Count of Carinten himself who slaughtered his compatriots!

"Trumpet, trumpet!"

I was excited to get on my horse, but several times in a row, the Carinthian army collapsed without a fight, and the victory was in the bag.

"Let the knights of Augsburg go, and then let's rush over and take Regens Castle in one go!"

"Woo! Woo! ”

The muffled sound of the horn sounded far away on the battlefield, and the bull, who had long been unable to hold back, went out first, grabbed a Carinthian soldier who was kneeling on the ground and begged for mercy, and greeted him with a tomahawk, so that the other enemies were paralyzed and unable to move an inch, and obediently became a prisoner.

Duke Henry led the knights to whizz past them, and the yellow-bottomed double lion battle flag at the head was particularly ironic hunting, as if to summon the spirits of the mourning Carinthians, just like their self-righteous and proud dukes.

(End of chapter)

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