The early morning sun shone through the foliage and shone on the glade, and the thin morning mist condensed drops of crystal dew on the leaves and grass. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

A grey rabbit is agile to emerge from its burrow under the pine tree, this is the hunting season, in the autumn all the animals are trying to grow fat in order to survive the cold winter, the grey rabbit must travel carefully to avoid being targeted by bears or wolves.

Soon, the gray rabbit found a fertile meadow, and its three-petaled mouth bit a piece of tender grass with one mouth, and ate it with relish.

Suddenly, it ceased to move, as still as a sculpture, except for a twitching black nose and high, spinning ears on top of its head, indicating that it was a living thing.

It heard the vibration of the ground, and the rabbit with keen hearing would tap the ground with its feet to send signals to each other, and it was said that it could transmit sounds for more than 100 yards when the conditions were right, but this time it was not its own kind of signal, but a large creature coming in its direction...... A big creature that walks on four legs!

The gray rabbit scurried back to its burrow at lightning speed.

After a while, the creature that caused the earth to tremble finally approached, it was a knight!

The knight was not fully armed, he was only dressed in light leather armor, and his weapons were only bows and arrows and swords - it was clear that he was not there to fight, to be clear, he wore so lightly that he could escape smoothly in the event of an enemy.

Escape, and then go back to report to Count Don Jr.

This is a mechanism that was formed after the discussion in the hall that day, because Count Tang's emotions were out of control, and the court discussion that day did not come to a result, but there was finally a consensus in one place, that is, there should be scouts to patrol.

Regardless of whether the final result is war or peace, a decisive blow or a simple surrender, you must at least have a preparation in advance and have a message, otherwise people will directly raise troops to your door and don't know it, how embarrassing is this?

"We're no match for them! I'm not trying to make a big deal out of it, but I think you all know that Archduke Murchid has two counties in his hands, and we only have one! ”

This is the third day of controversy, and this has been going on for three days in a row, and the peace faction is arguing endlessly, and now it is a knight of the peace faction who is speaking.

You've said that a few times! Who of us does not know the gap in strength? But the Grand Duke's greed is even more unknown to everyone, have you forgotten that we just gave him taxes in the spring, and in the autumn he planned to come and rob him directly! And last year, the year before last, have you forgotten these things! We hand him in so many things every year, how much more can we have left? ”

"But the fact that you can't beat it is the truth! Even if we try our best to resist, will we be able to win in the end? If we don't win, then we will not only lose our money, but also our lives! ”

That's it, the peace faction values life more and the war faction values glory more...... Or rather, money, however, even if they performed so happily on stage, they were only performing before the real master, the Earl of Little Tang, had not yet made a statement.

And Count Don, he is actually very confused.

The battle, as the Knight of the Peace Pai said, whether it can be fought or not, no one knows. If you win, everything is easy to say, but if you lose, it is not only a matter of compensation, but also a matter of life.

But Count Tang Jr. has to pay a lot of heavy taxes, of course, it has nothing to do with Count Tang, as long as he can let go of his dreams, he can still live the life of a lord that many modern people dream of - as long as he can endure bread mixed with green leaf worms, castles full of dung, and dirty people.

In history, there was also a monarch who was in a very similar situation to Count Xiao Tang, and he was Sun Quan.

Cao Wei's army of 800,000 (actually 180,000) went south, and his generals were like clouds and good generals, with thousands of ships, and the soldiers were as countless as the stars in the sky, and Liu Cong was so frightened that he surrendered directly. And what about Soochow? The nation's efforts were only 300,000 horses (50,000 in fact), and this was a war in which there was no chance of victory on paper or in reality.

It is no wonder that Zhang Zhao and others strongly recommended surrender.

But what did Lu Su say to Sun Quan?

Su said: "If you wait for the subordination, you should return to the township party with the suppression, and the tired officials will not lose the state and county." The general descended to exercise, and what do you want to do? The position is not more than a marquis, the car is only a ride, the ride is not a horse, and there are never more than a few people, how can the south be called lonely? The will of the people, each for himself, is not to be heard. It is advisable for the general to make a big plan as early as possible. ”

This passage translates to say, if I surrender to Cao ****, then I can still be a mayor with the power of my family. But if you surrender, where are you going? When Cao Cao suppresses you, you have no soldiers and no horses in your hands, you can do whatever he wants, and if he wants to get on your wife, you can still resist?

This passage is also applicable to Count Tang.

And up. Death, Count Xiao Tang will definitely not die, regardless of the kinship between Count Xiao Tang and the Grand Duke of Mulchid, just in this era, the nobles will not be allowed to kill the nobles, otherwise the nobles will all die by then, and we will not let those mud legs climb on our heads?

But And, the best result is that the little Earl Tang continues to be his poorest earl in the whole of Ireland, and a year's hard work comes to naught, and the worst result is that the archduke simply puts the little Earl Tang under house arrest, so that he will not show his face and not hold power for the rest of his life, and wait until he is old and then push a child out and say that this is the seed of the little Earl Tang - it has been decades since then, who cares about this?

So when it comes to peace, Count Don Jr. really doesn't want to make peace.

But the war, just by looking at the number of peacemaker knights and warstyle knights in this hall, you can see that there are 12 knights plus Philip priests, a total of 13 people, and the peacemaker has 8 people, while the warstyle has only 5 people.

Fortunately, the knights on the side of the war faction are relatively powerful - that is to say, their fiefdoms are relatively large.

And when the fiefdom is big, these knights will naturally be worried, once the grand duke comes, will he deprive me of the fiefdom? Will it make me pay more taxes?

Therefore, all problems are still butt problems in the end, and some people are not without IQ, but they have to think about which side of the butt they sit.

So, Count Don Jr. came to his senses.

He pulled out the long sword at his waist and slashed at the table in front of him: "The Grand Duke is too deceitful!" I have made up my mind, and today I should swear to stand with the Great Public! There are those who dare to speak out, there is such a case! ”

Well, this trick was learned from Sun Quan again.

But it doesn't matter where you learned it, it doesn't matter if it's plagiarism or not, the important thing is the effect, don't look at the process to see the curative effect, Count Xiao Tang this time, not to mention the domineering leakage, it can be regarded as full of momentum, and temporarily suppressed these knights.

"But Lord Earl ......"

One of the knights of the Pai had a slight movement of his lips and wanted to speak, but the little Count Tang immediately turned his head and stared at him fiercely, and the knight hesitated for a long time, but finally did not speak.

- This is because Count Don Jr. already has a certain prestige in the hearts of knights. During this year, Count Tang Jr. built roads, did sacraments, planted grass, and made paper, each of which brought a lot of benefits to Desmond and the knights, and also made the knights accustomed to listening to the words of Count Tang—if he dared to do this when Count Don had just crossed, the knights would have tied him up and sent him over.

"Since the Earl has said so, let's discuss how to fight."

On the other side, the old and serious knight of Alcoba and the mud road, this loyal knight is a representative of the war faction, and his words have enough weight, and Count Don must also give him a face.

"We should gather all our troops now and take the enemy by surprise."

One of the knights said at once, someone spoke, and the rest was easy.

"We should gather our cavalry and use the mobility of the cavalry to harass the enemy."

"In addition, we can also recruit a large number of mercenaries, and it just so happens that the merchants who have come to do business have not left yet, so we can discuss with them and get some support from them."

The knights of the war faction spoke enthusiastically, and the knights of the war faction looked at each other, and finally exchanged glances helplessly, and someone said:

"In addition to fighting, we can also use diplomatic means, the county of Ormond is also one of the fiefdoms of the duke's dukedom, and now that the Archduke has come to attack us, doesn't the Earl of Ormond feel a little uneasy? Now that the Grand Duke has pointed the finger at us, then we have been defeated, won't the Grand Duke attack them again? ”

Count Xiao Tang's eyes suddenly lit up, the triangle formation, Lian Liu Kangcao, these are the most familiar stories of the Chinese, how could he forget this matter!

PS: The third watch is over, and I have to rest for two days to continue the third watch.