Chapter 108: Past Grievances
The Kingdom of Chartres was founded more than 1,300 years ago in the city-state of Chartres, and under the leadership of the thirteenth generation successor of the city-state of Chartres, Leighton Chartres, the Kingdom of Chartres fought in the north and south, destroying countless countries, and finally established the Kingdom of Chartres, one of the four kingdoms of the present.
At that time, the Kingdom of Chartres could be regarded as the overlord of the Mullan continent, and wherever the army of the Kingdom of Chartres went, it could be said that the battle must be overcome, the attack must be taken, and it is invincible!
However, the kingdom of Chartres on the continent has begun to decline now, and the king of the Kingdom of Chartres this time, Durán Chartres, is even more ambitious and talented, in order to save the decline of the kingdom, he tried to emulate his ancestors and use force to shock his neighbors, but he does not have the eloquence of his ancestors.
First, he sent troops to invade the Kingdom of Orleans from the mountain town of Tulsa in the middle of the Cross Mountains, but was ambushed by the Orleans army in a canyon in the Cross Mountains, and less than 3,000 people of 100,000 troops successfully broke through.
After the Orleans Kingdom hit a wall, King Durán turned to invade the Duchy of Brocknaro located in the Kingdom of Chartres, the Kingdom of Zams, and the Cross Mountains, who knew that with an army three times the enemy's army, he ended up defeated, and even let the army of the Duchy of Brocknaro enter the interior of the Kingdom of Chartres and occupy the city of Durango in the southeast of the Kingdom of Chartres bordering the Cross Mountains.
The two wars launched by King Duran not only did not open up territory for the kingdom, but instead lost territory, but also made the neighbors see the weak nature of the Kingdom of Chartres, and the armies of the countries around the Kingdom of Chartres were a little ready to move, trying to get a piece of the lost old kingdom.
After all, it is an ancient country that has been inherited for thousands of years, but its own heritage is quite profound, and in the face of the hungry wolves looking around, the army of the Kingdom of Chartres went all out to finally resist their provocation.
After his defeat in foreign wars, the ambitious King Durán did not want to recuperate, but instead set out to deal with the elders of the kingdom who held real power but were not very obedient, especially those who had opposed him.
Just today, two earth-shattering events took place in the capital of the Kingdom of Chartres, the first was that King Durand announced that the patriarch of the three dynasties of the Kingdom of Chartres, the Grand Duke of Finland, and the sword saint Marshal Bont Field, was suspected of treason and defected to the enemy and was temporarily detained by the Soldiers and Horses, and the second was that Marshal Bonth Field led the Third Guards Division to besiege the royal palace.
In fact, before starting to arrest Bont Field, in order to prevent Bonth's counterattack, King Durand had already dismissed the commander of the Bont Guards Corps on the pretext of excuses, and at the same time, the first and second divisions under the four divisions of the Guards Corps, two divisions that were more heavily influenced by Bonth, were transferred out of Chartres, and the officers of the other two divisions and regiments above the commander of the thousand commanders were either transferred or directly dismissed, and they were all rotated.
As a veteran of the Three Dynasties, the influence of the Archduke Bonter Fields in the army has penetrated into the hearts of the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, and the 3rd Guards Division stationed in the city has all been rebelled by Bonter Field, except for the division commander and a few officers above the commander of a thousand commanders.
Fortunately, Count Webb Cruise, the commander of the 4th Guards Division stationed outside the national capital, was also a battle-hardened general, and when he took over the 4th Guards Division, he installed a large number of cronies in it, which finally caused the failure of the 4th Guards Division of Bonitzer, and then reorganized the army and personally led the army to attack the rebellious 3rd Guards Division.
At the same time, Baron Layton Sterling, the commander of the Forbidden Army, led the Forbidden Army guarding the palace to join forces with Count Weber Cruise, and soon crushed Bont Field's rebellion and forced the remnants of Bont Field into Chartres Cathedral.
This magnificent Chartres Cathedral was built in the early days of the Holy See of Light, has a history of four or five thousand years, the Holy See ruled that this church was the political center of the region, so the Holy See built this church into a fortress, and engraved on the wall a lot of complicated magic arrays to increase the church's defensive function.
Although with the collapse of the Bright Sect State, the forces of the Bright Sect can no longer control the secular power, there are still many believers in the Bright Church, and every year there are very right believers who come here to worship.
As a historic church, the Holy See of Light sends people from the Holy City every five years to maintain the church, while blessing the magic circle on the walls of the church, and most importantly, collecting donations from the faithful.
Although Bont Field was a Juggernaut, he felt his own strength was small when faced with thousands of soldiers, and personal force was no longer very important here.
Bont Field had already been wounded when he retreated into Chartres Cathedral, otherwise he would not have run into the church to have King Durán come and catch a turtle in an urn.
As a sword master, it is difficult to deal with even if he is injured, and in order to kill him, the king's army has already paid the lives of four ninth-level swordsmen and dozens of eighth-level swordsmen, one of which is the king's close guard, the ninth-level peak swordsman, Viscount Patter.
Given Bont Field's terrible record, the attacking side was a bit of a bogeyman, so they didn't dare to attack again.
The current king of Chartres, Durán Chartres, was furious when he could not attack it for a long time, and boasted that whoever could kill Bont Field would be crowned a fiefdom and a hereditary duke.
In fact, Duran Chartres regretted it after he finished speaking, the duke is not just a casual, but also a duke with a fiefdom and hereditary replacement, even if the hero who opened up the territory of the kingdom and expanded the territory is only a marquis or earl.
In the Kingdom of Chartres, for dukes, only the close branches of the royal family have this honor, and there are not feudal feuds.
There are only six dukes in the entire Chartres kingdom who have fiefdoms, all of whom have been heroes who followed Leighton Chartres to fight the world, and have been passed down for more than 1,000 years.
In fact, at the time of the founding of the country, there were originally nine hereditary archdukes guarding the borders of the country against foreign enemies, but three of the archdukes' successors were removed because they participated in the rebellion or were falsely accused of rebellion.
There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, and the attack that had been stopped was launched again under the temptation of the king's great reward, and there was a more violent momentum than just now, and it seemed that the potential of man was unlimited.
The desperate attack could not withstand the desperate defense, and the attack of the king's army was once again fought, but by this time there were not many rebels left in the church.
Bont Field knew that if he didn't break through again, he would not be able to resist another attack by the king's army with his current strength and the best people around him.
So when the king again organized an army to attack. Bont Field appeared at the door of the church with his last remaining followers, causing the army to attack for a moment.
It was at this moment that Bont Field flew quickly towards King Duran, trying to kidnap King Duran, who was not very good at kung fu, to achieve the goal of getting out of trouble.
At this moment, Webb Cruise, the commander of the 4th Guards Division, who was staying by King Duran's side, flew up, holding a giant sword in front of King Duran, and directly met Bonth's attack.
When Bont Field's golden-glowing greatsword came into contact with Webb Cruise's silver-white sword, there was no earth-shattering impact, only a slight clash of gold and iron.
Webb was instantly knocked a hundred meters away, and after overpowering a dozen soldiers, he lay on the ground, vomiting blood, and couldn't stand up for a while, it seemed that he was not lightly injured.
Bonth, on the other hand, returned to the gate of the church, with his sword on his chest, ready to attack at any moment.
Looking at Weber, who vomited blood, and then at Bonth, who was calm and sharp, even King Duran was stunned and forgot to give the order.
At this moment, a person fell from the eaves of the church and smashed directly on Bonth's head, and Bonth, who was still pretending to demonstrate to the crowd just now, was instantly smashed unconscious.
The first to wake up was the remnants of Bont Field, who quickly pounced on Bont after seeing Bont being crushed below, kicked the person who was pressed on Bont down, and helped Bont up only to find that Bont had gone to see the God of Light, of course, provided that Bont believed in the old birdman before his death.
In fact, Bont Field seemed to have nothing to do after fighting Webb Cruise, but in fact, there was not much golden fighting energy left in his body, coupled with the full force of Webb Cruise, a ninth-level peak powerhouse, it was even more powerful to beat the meridians of the whole body, and at this time, any soldier could kill him and get the duke title rewarded by Duran.
Looking at the dead master, the eyes of the remnants of Bont Field were already red, and they didn't care about the attackers outside, and the people who crushed Bont to death would be torn to pieces.
At this time, the army outside also reflected, since the threatening big boss has died, everyone has attacked to fight the monsters to steal experience, show loyalty, and of course, at the same time rescue the remnants of Bont Field.
Now that the rebellion has been put down, it is time to reward the experience for meritorious deeds.
The greatest credit goes to the man who stoned Bont Field to death, and according to King Duran's promise, this man should be the new hereditary Grand Duke of the future.
When everyone took a closer look at this lucky person who had taken the **** luck, they found that this person turned out to be just a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, and everyone knew this little boy, he was Maren Buffett, the grandson of Viscount Derack Buffett, the Minister of State of Etiquette of the Kingdom.
The rise of the Warren Buffett family in the Kingdom of Chartres can be considered a legend.
The earlier Buffett family was just a small businessman dealing in grain, benefiting from the war between the Kingdom of Chartres and the Kingdom of Zams more than 200 years ago, but the Buffett family was able to enter the political arena from the reform of military logistics at that time.
The cause of the Shaza War that year was just that when the prince of the Zams Kingdom went to the Kingdom of Chartres and the third son of the then king of the Kingdom of Chartres fought in the Qinglou to grab the same girl, because the third prince of the Kingdom of Charms beat the prince of the Kingdom of Zams by virtue of the home advantage.
The crown prince of the kingdom of Zams felt that he had been insulted by the kingdom of Chartres, and in anger, he returned to the kingdom of Zams with the envoys who accompanied him on the same day.
King Zams was furious when he saw his son come back in disarray, and listened to his son's complaint of his grievances in the Kingdom of Chartres, and rejected the minister's proposal for a peaceful settlement, and immediately ordered the border guards stationed on the border with the Kingdom of Chartres to attack the Kingdom of Chartres.
The whole kingdom of the Chartres treated this matter as an awkward matter between the two children, thinking that it was too small for the prince of the Zams kingdom to run back to his country because of this trivial matter, but the king still symbolically sent an envoy to apologize to the king of Zams, and threatened to punish his third son heavily.
Who knew that the envoy of the Kingdom of Chartres had not yet entered the Kingdom of Zarms, and received that the troops of the Kingdom of Zam stationed near the Kingdom of Chartres had begun to attack the Kingdom of Charms.
In this way, the war grew bigger and bigger, and finally developed from a local war to a national war between the kingdom of Chartres and the kingdom of Zams.
Due to the swamps in the southern part of the Kingdom of Chartres, it has brought great changes to the transportation of military rations and baggage, and at the same time, it has also caused an increase in the cost of transporting grain, and the most powerful one has reached the same cost as the grain used on the road.
At this time, Mirva Buffett, the first viscount of the Buffett family, made a proposal to the then King of Chartres, promising that as long as the kingdom paid him one-third of the current transportation cost, he could faint the military rations on time to the front line.
Mirva's risky decision put the Buffett family on the road to prosperity, and although the war ended in the defeat of the Chartres, Mirwa was made a viscount because of the merit of transporting food, which made the soldiers energetic despite the defeat and provided the Chartres kingdom with an advantage in negotiations.
The subsequent generations of the Buffett family have emerged as elite figures, leading the Buffett family to make progress in their careers again and again, so that Drake Buffett can ascend to the throne of the Minister of Etiquette as a second-rate aristocrat.
In the Kingdom of Chartres, the Minister of Rites is known as the Five Ministers of the Kingdom together with the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Law, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and the Minister of Military Affairs, and is the most powerful minister under the Prime Minister.
The reason why Maren Buffett can resound throughout the country is not because of his handsome and dashing appearance, nor because he is extremely intelligent, on the contrary, because he is a fool.
This phenomenon has been around since ancient times, and the more prosperous the local gossip news is, the more prevalent it is, and the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Kingdom of Chartres cannot get rid of this strange circle. (To be continued.) )