Perhaps Richard was once a great fighter as well. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoWhen Henri the Bird Catcher was still Duke of Saxony, he was faced with a complicated situation in the Kingdom of East Francia at that time. At that time, the Saxon aristocracy rallied closely around Henry, gritting their teeth to resist the invasion of the Vikings at sea, and facing the hostility of the then East Francian king Conrad I, and even the desperate soldiers of the Magyars, Richard Orton rallied around Henry like many of his enemies now, and finally won the victory by relying on the strength of the entire Saxon nobility, helping Henry forge the reputation of the Handleless Sword.

However, I don't know when it began, Richard gradually parted ways with Henry the Bird Catcher, maybe because of Henry's aggressive royal supremacy policy, maybe because of the continuous emergence of talents around Henry, maybe because Henry they violated their interests as a magnate, Richard became a member of the clan duke's camp. After discovering that they were no longer able to resist the royal army led by Herman on the frontal battlefield, he began to follow the example of the Greeks and began to manipulate various plots to achieve his goals.

In the end, the former comradeship was completely eroded by the increasingly fierce conflict of interests, and Richard was desperate to attack Carolan of the Klose family. Didn't you Herman support primogeniture? Didn't you, Herman, ask the nobles to send their second son to the royal standing army? Didn't you Herman ask for an increase in the inheritance tax? Good! You ruin the future of my children, and I will kill yours! Before he knew it, Richard's face was distorted like the demon sealed in the pillar of the legendary King Solomon in a column, and he had completely fallen into the power scheme.

Finally, the time of reckoning came, and Herman's sword easily pierced Richard's chest. Maybe Richard's swordsmanship could compete with Herman back then, but now Richard, who has been eroded by the wind and snow, is not Herman's enemy at all, and the final dueling request may just be the final struggle of the last bit of surviving warrior pride in Richard's heart.

It was over, and Carolan let out a long breath as she saw Herman draw his sword and turn around towards the Klose family's army. Today's battlefield is really thrilling to be honest, and the Klose family, which was supposed to win, was caught off guard by the heavy rain, and was almost capsized by the madness that erupted at the critical moment of the brave mercenary group. But fortunately, in the end, I don't know why the brave mercenary group collapsed on its own, otherwise in the end, who loses and who wins is really not necessarily, in the chaotic war stage, anything can happen, and Lady Luck is more likely to smile at the Orton family, which has the advantage in numbers.

Although the Klose family won in the end, Heinrich was not happy, as I said before, the soldiers of the Klose family who went to the battlefield today are basically the children of the Klose family, and they are the heritage of Klose. This time the loss is indeed very large, it is estimated that the Klose family has to remove most of the accumulation over the years, but fortunately, this time a large amount of wealth can be recovered from the Orton family, otherwise the Klose family will also be greatly damaged this time.

Carolan didn't know what to say when she saw Herman walking back into the Klose family's military formation, and the entire military formation was boiling, and everyone was chanting Herman's name. Some of the cheerful warriors even danced around Herman.

I have to say that the traditional dances of the Germanic peoples are really ugly, at least Carolan can't see any beauty. The group of warriors also danced happily, and while jumping, they took turns shouting the names of Herman, Rudolph and Carolan, which made many nobles who had already approached to congratulate Rudolph and Lady Canossa keep looking at Caroline who was standing on the side and pretending to be cold.

"What? Why not go with Rudolph to receive congratulations from those people? You see, some of them are already eager to stuff their daughters into that big boar. As the princess of Denmark, Elise was obviously uncomfortable in this celebration full of Germanic ethnic customs, so she also went to the edge and teased Caroline.

"Nothing? Just think there should be someone to accompany those soldiers who died in battle? As for Rudolph? Isn't it natural to be looked upon as the heir to the Klose family? Caroline rolled her eyes, this Elise's tone was very wrong.

"It's just that Elise, as Rudolph's senior sister, shouldn't you take care of Rudolph at this time? Don't let that guy who hasn't been in a relationship get scammed by a courtesan. Carolan said meaningfully.

However, it is obvious that Carolan overestimated the degree of emotional comprehension of people in this era, and Elise didn't hear Carolan ridiculing him at all, but agreed with Carolan seriously, and then reflexively walked back to Rudolph's side, it seems that she really wants to fulfill her responsibilities as a senior sister.

Seeing the battle between Elise and the nobles who came to sell her daughter, Caroline thought of Harald, who was far away on the island of Zealand, and suddenly felt that her head hurt.

"Forget it, there's nothing to worry about. Let's wait until their adultery is exposed. Carolan thought about it and found that the Klose family actually didn't have anything to do with that Harald, and it was difficult to find a pirate on the vast sea in this era, and it was even more difficult when the pirate was still a Viking pirate, and it was said that later archaeological discoveries had actually discovered the Americas in this era of Vikings. Carolan rolled her eyes at the thought of the vast Atlantic.

The nobles who surrounded Canossa and Rudolph in this era suddenly boiled, because Herman returned here, and seeing Herman as if he was about to send dog food to Canossa again, Carolan suddenly remembered that Herman seemed to have a habit of offering Canossa the spoils of each battle, that is, he would present them to Canossa in public at the triumphal ceremony.

"Sure enough--" Carolan looked at Canossa and Herman who were affectionately embracing, wailing and covering her face, when Carolan was ready to eat dog food, he put down his hand and saw that he didn't know when Herman Canossa began to snuggle together Rudolph and Elise, Carolan felt that her head hurt even more, and it was better to continue to cover her face.

Herman and Canossa raised their heads to scan the surroundings after showing their affection, his gaze paused on Rudolph and Elise and said nothing, and then fell on Carolan who was playing with treasure, "Carolan? If you've had enough trouble, come over and pack your clothes, it's time to go to see His Majesty Henry. ”

"Huh? Oh! Ok ok.. Ignoring the plan she was designing in her mind on how to make a batch of gunpowder to blow up Harald with future knowledge, Caroline walked to Herman's side, preparing to follow Herman to meet Henry.

Herman took his family to tidy up their clothes, and with Elise, they walked to the area where the top nobles had been stationed, who had long been accompanied by Otto.

As the top figures of the kingdom's power pyramid, it is absolutely impossible for the tribal dukes to take the initiative to go over and congratulate Herman, perhaps in their hearts, the Klose family is defeated today, and Herman's death on the spot is the perfect scene. But no matter what they thought, today's result was already doomed, and under the pressure of Henry's sharp eyes, they were reluctant, and now they couldn't escape having to say a few words to Herman. After all, it is one thing for the interests of the two sides to conflict, but it is another thing to disobey the king's opinion in person, unless you want to be restless in your own territory, you still have to give Herman a little face at this time.

"Congratulations to Herman, the Klose family is not the first martial nobles in East Francia." Caroline glanced at the old man who spoke, oh, it's the Duke of Franconia, a treacherous old man who wants to kill the Klose family.

"Humph! The warriors of your clan are strong. "Gao Leng and arrogant look is naturally Duke Arnulf of Bavaria, one of the two poles of the kingdom, but the young man behind this guy who gritted his teeth knows that it is the Bavarian heir Eberhard That's right, who is the other sissy who smiles so happily and looks like a fox? Caroline certainly wouldn't admit that she was jealous of that guy's handsomeness.

Of course, it was Redding who was smiling, he had already learned from the inside that Calvin had successfully escaped and had led someone to raid the resident vault of the Brave Mercenary Regiment, and his plan was perfectly realized, of course, he was extremely happy.

"Your Excellency Lion is indeed worthy of his name, congratulations! However, Richard Orton, the head of the Orton family, is dead, and I wonder what His Excellency Herman is going to do with the remaining Orton family, who are old, weak, sick and disabled? "This person with a provocative face knows that it is the Duke of Lorraine, who is famous for his wall-to-wall style, but his words are indeed very immoral, the left one is dead, the right one is old, weak, sick and disabled, all of them are satirizing the Klose family.

"I will not do anything to them, as a winner, I will acquire the Orton family's property in Memleben at the right price. As long as they leave Memleben, the head mother of their family also has her own territory in the West Frankish kingdom, which is enough for them to live. I don't know what Herman thought of, in the face of Giselle Porter's provocation, he didn't fight back, but said his arrangement with a complicated expression.

"Perfect arrangement~" Giselle Potter deliberately dragged out his own tail like a clown. "Really notoriously nouveau riche." Carolan overlapped the rumored image with the guy in front of her with a hole in his brain.

"I really admire His Excellency Herman for being so generous and kind! If Your Excellency Hermann does not dislike it, the rest of the Orton family can return to the Kingdom of West Francia with me, after all, the way to West Francia will pass through Lorraine, where security is not good. At this time, a person interjected a sentence, and Giselleport, the Duke of Lorraine, turned pale, and glared angrily to see if it was that guy who dared to tease him like this, but when he saw the person who spoke clearly, he withdrew most of his anger. Without him, the person who spoke was Hugo Capet, the biggest nobleman in West Francia, the sworn enemy of the Duke of Lorraine, in fact, there was not much hatred, that is, before Lorraine was incorporated into the Kingdom of East Francia, Giselleport's family and Capet's family had been fighting for almost a hundred years.

In the face of such a feud, Giselle Potter is actually very helpless. Because he knows very well that there is nothing he can do with this guy now. Even because of his words just now, he had to help protect Hugo when he passed by Lorraine, after all, the relationship between the two countries is not bad now. If West Francia and East Francia go to war because of the chaos in their own territory, the birdfishers will be able to skin him alive.

"Your Excellency Herman! The first time we met, your bravery was exactly what Grandmother Lily told me when I was a child! Hugo finished sarcastically at Giselleport, turned his head and bowed to Herman. In fact, to some extent, the Capet family and the Klose family are relatives, because Lily, the grandmother of Wiener, the heir of the Salian family, was born in the Capet family, and the Salian family and the Capet family have a history of intermarriage.

"You're as good as the Salian family told me." Looking at this junior, Herman also showed a sincere smile, after all, who doesn't like an outstanding family descendant.

Looking at Hugo with a kind smile, Carolan rolled her eyes, knowing that a hundred years later, after the Salian family ascended to the top of the HRE, they were at war with France ruled by the Capetian family, and at that time the two of them did not remember any marriage.

At this time, Henry the Bird Catcher had already announced the result of the divine judgment, but he did not leave after saying the scene, but cleared his throat and motioned for everyone to look at him, he had something to announce.

"Today, I would like to take advantage of this sacred moment to announce two important things." Henry gasped, he was old, and he was indeed a little tired after tossing around here for so long.

"First things first: the Crusade!"

Like a big bomb, all the nobles present were stunned.

Volume I, end