Limerick, 'Barren Swamp'. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The city, located at the mouth of the Kanon River, had a thousand inhabitants, who did not work for anything, and needed a large number of peasants to feed them alone. But they were able to produce day and night for the Grand Duke many handmade goods, woolen clothes, and many more clay knick-knacks, which he sold to merchants, and reaped a lot of money from the transaction tax.

At the same time that the Grand Duke was rich, the inhabitants of Limerick were also rich, and if they wanted their horses to run, they had to eat grass, and the Grand Duke understood this, so for the first thirty years of his reign, Limerick was always a symbol of wealth.

Until last year.

The Earl of Don Jr. was victorious, but the Earl of Don Jr. was unable to continue the march, and the inhabitants of Limerick escaped; The eldest prince Murchelt rebelled, but he himself raised troops from Limerick, and Limerick escaped, but everything was no more than three, Duke Ed came, and Limerick finally couldn't hide.

What the armies of the Middle Ages were like, I don't think I need to describe it anymore, bandits are like combing soldiers, this sentence itself is the most original portrayal of many armies.

Duke Eddard with the power of the victor, burning, killing and looting that is all pediatrics, in front of the citizens to waste all their savings for many years, this is the favorite harmful move of this group of soldiers, not to mention that they can also wantonly rob, rape ~ dirty, see which family's daughter is beautiful, or which citizen's wife is good-looking, just loot at will, open the street to play, it can be said that even if the nightmare Vikings of the year have returned, it is impossible to surpass them in the degree of ferocity.

God willing, this murderous army is finally gone, and the citizens of the whole city are rejoicing, hoping that they will never return.

God forbid, Duke Eddard's army never returned, it was a different army, rewarded with a fast courier, they seemed more organized, more disciplined, more combative, and at the same time, the inhabitants of Limerick believed that they must have been more efficient in looting.

"We should send a man to negotiate with them, and if they agree not to enter the city, we are willing to give them a one-time tribute worth five hundred ducats, and we are willing to give them ten cows and thirty sheep for food every five days."

At the Limerick Residents' Meeting, all the citizens gathered together in a panic, expecting their mayor and their group of elders to come up with a good way to keep them from being violated.

"That's a lot! We have just been robbed by the army from the north, and now we are going to be robbed by the army from the south, if we give them so many things, how will we live the rest of our lives? ”

Immediately, an elder objected, and the elder's words were agreed by many people, indeed, after a great disaster last time, many people's lives are about to become problems, and now to pay tribute to so many things, isn't this forcing people to die!

"But what can we do!" When the other elder heard this, he immediately objected, giving a vivid example:

"If only one soldier comes to your house and asks for bread and meat, it can be considered unlucky, but if a hundred soldiers come to your house and ask for only bread and meat, it is God bless! And now the army of the South is a thousand men, and they have just defeated the army of the North that has robbed us! If I could keep them out of the city just by paying gold and livestock, I'd rather pay twice as much! ”

"We'd rather pay twice as much!"

More citizens agreed with the elder's statement, especially some of the citizens who had been opposed, and when they heard that the southern army had easily defeated the northern army 'like a blow', they turned against them more quickly.

The reason they did so was precisely because they had also rebelled against the army of the northerners, the Duke of Eddard, and of course, they were easily suppressed without incident, several leaders were executed, and the rest of the townspeople were each required to pay a large amount of atonement, so they remembered it vividly.

"Anyway, let's send someone to listen to their intentions first, and what kind of price it will have to pay to make them leave satisfied."

At the end of the meeting, the mayor could only speak helplessly, and the others agreed with him, so an elder, and a few of the strongest young men who accompanied him, were sent out. When the other citizens returned home, they began to count their own food stocks, thinking about how much more food they needed so that their whole family could survive the most difficult year......

The next day, the elders and the lads returned, and their faces were very strange.

"What kind of conditions did they put forward?"

In the strange look of the elder, everyone guessed some bad possibility, so in this anxious wait, one of them asked.

"Yes, you hurry up and say it, even if it's a large number, we are already mentally prepared, and we can prepare as soon as possible!"

He ...... They...... Didn't ask for anything. The elder said this, unable to tell whether he was happy or disappointed, and sometimes he even felt that he was still living in a dream, rather than in reality: "The esteemed lord, the earl of the southerners, said that they were just passing by, and would not disturb our lives, and of course he wished to be able to buy some goods, at market prices."

This answer was so unexpected that the townspeople would rather think it was a cunning ploy to wipe out the townspeople than believe it was true. How can this be true? God, they had never seen an army like this without asking for anything, something they had never seen in their decades of life.

"Well, I didn't believe it at first." The elder saw that the citizens did not believe him, and said, "Anyway, tomorrow the army will come, so go and see for yourselves when the time comes."

So the townspeople went home, and they locked their most precious things, including their wives and daughters, and their food, in cellars, and some even sent them out overnight, asking them to stay at their relatives in the country for a few days, and then all of them had no intention of sleeping, and they waited anxiously for the coming of tomorrow.

The next day, the army of the southerners came.

The first to arrive were the light cavalry, they did not carry any weapons except swords, they were also wearing the most ordinary leather armor, and there were traces of war on it, so that these leather armor was no longer dazzling, but the spirit on the faces of these light cavalry, and the smile full of hope, was something that the citizens of Limerick had never seen before.

As the elders had said, the hussars did not harass the citizens, they simply chose a place in the city that was wide enough to camp and then went back like a wind.

Then came the infantry, the sword and shield soldiers, the pikemen, and the crossbowmen, all of them marching in order, in the slightest disorder of array, and each of them had some spirit that the citizens had never seen before, and a smile full of hope that the citizens had never seen before.

They also did not disturb the life of the citizens, and camped on the open field, which was full of laughter and laughter, and some men went out to fetch water, others did not know what to dig in the fields, and at last a few men came to the city, accompanied by merchants, bought some vegetables, and left, as if they had never been to the place.

"What the hell are they doing there?"

"They don't need us to pay tribute to livestock, and they don't buy meat, are they all vegetarians?"

Two days had passed, and at the end, seeing that the troops from the south had no intention of robbing them, the citizens gathered together again and asked the merchants who were accompanying them.

"Uh...... I'm just a businessman who has done business with them a few times, and I don't know much about them. The merchant was surrounded by the townspeople, and could not get out, so he could only say:

"It is said that they practiced every day in the camp - I do not understand the word "drill" - but it is said that this is what their count meant, because there was no training on the march these days, so it was necessary to hurry. And they don't buy meat because they eat it until they vomit—"

"Eat meat until you vomit!"

The townspeople were amazed, looking at the merchant, waiting for his answer.

"That's true, Lord Count, the commander of this army, brought enough supplies before the expedition, but forgot to bring vegetables, so the soldiers all came by eating meat all the way, and it is said that because they have eaten too much meat these days, several soldiers are sick to their stomachs when they see meat......"

The townspeople were shy, and everything the merchant said seemed to them like a myth, even like a madman, and if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would have thought the merchant was a madman.

"In short, this army is indeed a magical army, and the place where they came, Desmond, is even more magical, and the Earl of Donchester, who rules that place, is like a saint in heaven. If there's anything you really want to know, go and see for yourselves, and I assure you that this army will not hurt you. ”