Nadur argued with a stiff neck: "I'm not a coward!" ”

"Not a coward? Both hoping for revenge and fearing death, pushing others as shields, what is this not a coward? ”

I chased after him like a cannonball, and he still chose to give up for a long time.

"Lord Duke, please do well, that's enough!"

After all, Mayor Dellney grew up watching Nadur grow up, and he couldn't bear to be wronged by his younger generation:

"What you said is wonderful, we are ashamed to hear it, and the people of St. Gal are willing to bow down."

Two wrinkled, red-faced faces trembled with excitement: "Spare my poor child!" ”

"He doesn't forgive himself, and outsiders can't do anything."

With a deep snort, I turned my gaze to the sobbing Nadur.

"What if I said that there is still a chance for revenge?"

"Really?"

The haggard man's eyes widened, as if a drowning man was grasping at a life-saving straw.

"I'm willing to pay any price, even if it's my life, as long as I can not survive so much."

I held out two fingers and shook them in front of Nadur's eyes.

"Two ways!"

"First, in the name of the Duke of Nijmegen and his employer, I ask him, your enemy, the chief of the Black Forest Mercenary Regiment, de Wald, to rise to the challenge with one hand, but even if you win, everyone will still laugh at your inability to win, and besides, he may not fall behind with one hand."

"Second, come to my army, go to the battlefield to hone, sweat and blood like a real man, maybe one day be appreciated, become a knight with a fiefdom, and then come back to launch a duel with dignity."

"Wait a minute, sir."

The mercenary leader frowned and picked his ears: "In case I die first, or if he is unlucky and hangs up, won't this revenge be avenged?" ”

"That's providence, God's arrangement." I answered his question calmly, and for a moment everyone fell silent, and Nadur made a painful choice.

"Nonsense, it's child's play!"

Mayor Delney pulled the hesitant man behind him: "Nadur is a good boy, he has never blushed with anyone when he is so big, the tragedy that happened to him must be a test of God, the merciful Lord wants him to become stronger, not stupid to go to the battlefield to die!" ”

I was silent, staring intently at the man whose tears were dried, and the latter bowed his head, as if he had just confessed his humiliation.

"Uncle Dellney, thank you."

He smiled gratefully, took the mayor's arm, and said confidently to me, "Lord Duke, I am a free citizen who volunteered to join your army, please accept my allegiance. ”

Nadur said, kneeling down and raising his right hand above his head in obedience.

"Good, long overdue!"

I bowed my head approvingly, and pulled up the makeover Saint-Caltes, and rejoiced for him in my heart.

"Listen, my enemy de Wald, take care of your life, and when I cut off a hundred of my enemies' heads, I will surely be able to propose a duel to you."

Nadur crossed me, looked at the mercenary leader behind him, and made a clear declaration word by word: "Your life is temporarily stored." ”

"Ah, ah, I know, it's the same as a girl who thinks she's in love."

De Wald waved his hand impatiently: "Before you cut off a hundred heads, you have to make sure that your heads don't move. ”

Having successfully defused a terrible bloody conflict, I smugly put my hands behind my back and watched as the crowd dispersed, the town square returned to its nightly tranquility, the bonfire seemed to perceive the weakening of its popularity, and the flames became less hot, faintly hidden in the blackened charcoal, and occasionally spat out orange tongues.

"No! This is the promised salary, paid to you in advance. ”

I casually weighed the purse and threw it far into the hands of de Wald, who was like a pounced dog that accurately grasped the bones thrown by his master.

"Count Lechfeld's arrears plus three times the commission, check carefully, and not a single one of you will be missing."

The mercenary leader listened to the crisp sound of the gold coins colliding, his eyes narrowed into a thin slit with happiness, and his rough hands greedily rubbed the smooth texture of his pockets, and nodded with a smile:

"That's that, you golden mouth, you will never deceive, happy cooperation, Lord Duke!"

"Wait, it's not cooperation, it's hiring, I'll pay you to work hard, that's all." I drew a line with him with a cold face, and now that the money has been paid, there is no need to go along with the hair.

De Wald was gone, and I looked at his straightened back as he walked farther away, understanding the fragile trust behind this red luoluo money relationship.

The show was over, and the only people who accompanied me were a few attendants and Owen, who was drunk and vomiting, and the stench of Ya wafted again.

"Avoiding fighting, not to mention earning a good reputation in vain, it is estimated that tomorrow the garrison of the Nijmegen army will be crowded, you really don't make a loss-making deal!"

The code name Si Youyu appeared, and said sarcastically: "The soldiers and food are ready, and the next march to Constance should be a pleasant rowing outing." ”

"Have you ever seen a winter boating outing?"

I rolled my eyes widely: "Don't just talk about the pain, what is the movement of the nearby enemies?" ”

Codename Four showed a look of grandma to protect your safety, and Huang Shiren didn't have such a cruel expression of contempt for you.

Enides was the only one left, and his range of motion was greatly reduced.

She drew a circle around her: "See?" So big. ”

"No way, let's send more scouts."

I actually understood the current situation, and I was just amusing her: "Those enemy assassins who are waiting for the opportunity to move...... No problem? ”

"Unless I'm dead, and this time they're all wiped out, and they don't even have a single mouth left, so we have to analyze our situation, not so fast."

I shrugged indifferently, my rusty joints aching: "Okay, believe you, go back to sleep, tired from climbing the mountain for a day." ”

Nothing to say all night......

Early the next morning, the prophecy of code name four unfortunately came true, and there was a commotion outside the door, which shattered the sweet dream of my wife's ring, and I got up to suppress the nameless fire that rose in my heart, and tried not to anger the trembling innocent attendant:

"It's noisy, what's going on?"

The latter cautiously stood with his hands tied, and stumbled to explain: "Many of the townspeople of St. Galle have blocked the square early, shouting to join the army, and the guards can't stop them. ”

"No one to deal with it?"

I asked casually while putting on my shirt, and only then did I remember that the knights were all drunk last night, especially Owen, who vomited all over his body, and he would definitely not have opened his eyes until he slept until the third pole of the day.

"Call a few people to follow, and I'll take a look."

Drilling out of the low lintel of the mayor's house, the noise outside suddenly increased tenfold, and there were at least fifty or sixty people.

"Lord Duke! Lord Duke! The crowd cheered.

"Hehe, it's a big battle......"

I squinted at the warm glow of the rising sun.

"Everyone be quiet, let one person come out to speak, otherwise I can't hear clearly at all, and I will waste time." After clearing their throats and waiting for a while, the bustling crowd gradually shut up.

"May God bless you, honorable duke, I am a freeman of St. Garre, and everyone calls me Mertesacker, who holds the boat, lives in a longhouse by the lake, and has been fishing for a living for generations, and when I am a few years older, I simply become a leader and speak for my brothers."

The middle-aged man who claimed to be a fisherman bowed respectfully, and the scar on the top of his head was shocking, crooked like an ugly centipede.

"Good day, Mertesacker, who is holding the boat, may God bless you too."

I walked up to them and nodded and smiled approachably, "I heard that you are clamoring to join the army in Nijmegen, is that so?" ”

The fisherman hurriedly agreed: "Yes, yes, yesterday's words were really wonderful and impressive, we, we got together to discuss half a night, and decided to leave our family and business with you!" ”

"Leaving home and business? No, I don't need guys who can't even take care of their loved ones. ”

Deliberately raising my voice so that everyone present could hear it, I looked around and said slowly: "The ideal of getting ahead is important, but the family is the whole focus of life, remember, St. Caltes, we are created by God like bricks to build a house, and the family is a solid foundation, and a house without a foundation is destined to withstand the ravages of the wind, so if you abandon your parents and relatives, Nijmegen does not welcome such cold-blooded people." ”

Many people's hot eyes were clearly dim, and I had to hook the corners of my mouth and turn the words around.

"But we're always open to friends who have families running to us......"

"What the Duke said is true, I am a living example!"

When the people were talking about it, a familiar voice sounded from behind them, causing everyone to look back, and I was desperately tiptoeing to see what the face of the person who spoke was.

The person who came was well-proportioned, especially the muscles of the shoulders and arms were extremely strong, which was perfectly proportioned, and a pair of carved bows on his back were quite conspicuous, and he had a smile on the corner of his mouth, nodding at me from afar, chic as if he was a young man who came to the wind, who else would this guy be if he wasn't Kohler!

"I was worse than you back then, and I almost fell into the company of robbers, but thanks to God's blessing, I happened to meet the Duke who was passing by, and I was saved from falling into a dirty business."

Kohler walked slowly into the crowd and encouraged every citizen of St. Gart who looked at him: "Two years ago I was like you, and in two years you can be like me, with a family, a job, a hope, and a man of integrity." ”

As he spoke, he patted the quiver box full of his waist: "Well, now I am a respectable archer, a soldier supported by the government, a hero pursued by women and worshiped by children, think about it, greatness and ordinariness are often separated by a thought." ”

Because of Kohler's instigation, the crowd boiled again, and some of those who had originally taken a wait-and-see attitude changed their tunes and enthusiastically joined the discussion.

"My lord, I'm back."

The iron-masked man Kohler was rarely moved, the corners of his reddish eyes seemed to be filled with tears, and after experiencing life and death, we cherished each other's feelings more and more.

"Good boy!"

I nodded with satisfaction and gave him a big bear hug directly, and the two old men were so excited that they couldn't be more excited.

"Your ...... wounded" suddenly remembered that Kohler had accompanied Duke Richard to Milan in place of me and was ambushed, and immediately groped up and down.

"That little injury? Out of the way, you see, I'm not alive! ”

In order to dispel my doubts, he deliberately made a lot of drastic movements: "This bow is enough to have the strength of a horse, and it is effortless to pull. ”

Kohler took out a delicate angular bow, the lacquer color was bright and shiny.

"The fine Castilian ash, with the Moorish technique of the reverse angle, far surpassing the Welsh longbow, was a gift from the Duke of Richard before his departure, and it turned out that the Venetian thing was compared to it, tsk...... It is as if he took rusty iron and went to red gold. ”

Empathy is quite fast, except for the fact that he likes to fiddle with the size of the bow and arrow, the caution of holding it in his hand for fear of falling and holding it in his mouth for fear of melting, he has never been to his wife.

"Tell me about what happened in Milan." Now that Kohler is intact, my focus naturally shifts to something else.

"Before that, my lord, do you have to deal with the current ...... first" He didn't finish his words, but only made a look, and I understood.

"Yes, yes, come on, tell me to prepare a good meal, and take the baron to rest."

As I instructed my attendants, I observed the Saint-Galles, who had finished their humming, and their eyes burned with envy when they heard that Kohler was addressed to the Baron.

After some tossing, the people of St. Galle who finally decided to leave their homes and leave Nijmegen are about forty, for a town with a total population of only a hundred, this is almost the number of all middle-aged men, the mayor of the town Dellney heard the news, and hurried to stop it, but unfortunately to no avail, in addition to the few people who were persuaded to stay, there were still more than thirty good guys who did not change their original intentions, and immediately packed up their belongings and entered the barracks.

"Go boil some water, wash it, cut your hair, mix it into various teams, and temporarily help the veterans."

I watched the sergeant carefully inspect the physical condition of the new soldier like a cattle in the market, and tirelessly said:

"Since you have taken it, you have to cultivate it carefully, and there is no one in Nijmegen."

After chattering a lot, I reluctantly left the small square, and it was time for breakfast to see that the sun was still in the morning, and Owen, who had been hangover all night, somehow smelled the smell of rice, turned on the power and got up, and lazily leaned against the door to greet me, and the smell of wine was still not gone.

"Good morning, my lord, you woke up so early!" He rubbed his sleepy eyes, as if no one was picking at his disgusting eye droppings, looking like he was enjoying himself.

"If the girls who like you in Nijmegen see this scene, how many glass hearts will they have to break!" I sarcastically said.

"Glass hearts? What is it? He asked, confused.

Hunched over and into the mayor's house again, Kohler was scraping the shredded meat on the leg of lamb with a knife, this guy eats very finely, not sparing any corners and corners, in his own words, he used to live a hard life before, he ate the last meal without the next meal, and finally caught the food and ate it carefully.

"Is that you?"

"It's you!"

Owen and Kohler exclaimed in unison, usually in Nijmegen, they have an average relationship, Kohler looks down on Owen's cynicism, and Owen also looks down on Kohler's humble and rigid background, so they don't get along with each other.

"Surprised by the way you look?"

I sat down with a smile and drank happily from the glass on the table, Saint-Garre is located in the middle of the trade road, and the quality of the wine is still good, barley wine from the north, mead from Thuringia, wine from Burgundy.

"Why are you stunned, do you want to perform pantomime? Come on, sit down and eat, today's affairs are complicated, and you don't have the strength to work if you don't eat enough. ”

Khloe reacted first, shrugged, grimaced indifferently, and busily deboned, while Owen instantly sobered up and sat down to eat with an unnatural expression.

(End of chapter)