Before the Storm in Section 90
The most palpitated thing in Chief Rostock's eyes was a small patch of sky above the forest, and his consciousness gradually blurred, and he lay on the grass and fell into the abyss.
A few days later, a group of Javelinmen found the Rostock chieftain in the border forest, and they saw an uncanny sight of the forest littered with the stumps and corpses of the battle, and the flag of the Rostock chief falling in the dirt.
"What's wrong?" The captain of the javelin-cavalry clenched the javelin in his hand, and he flicked his horse around his crotch, letting it walk among the corpses, examining the slain Rostock.
"It seems to have been caught off guard." The other javelinmen dismounted from their horses, carefully avoiding their internal organs and severed limbs, many of the Rostockians who were attacked had no weapons in their hands, and the slashing wounds were caused by close range, indicating that they were killed by the sudden drawing of their swords by the people around them.
"Is it infighting?" The captain of the javelinmen looked around, the fall of the Rostock was too strange, and at this moment another squad of javelinmen returned from the other side.
"Captain, you should come here and have a look." The group of javelins seemed to have discovered something, and the captain of the javelins followed him on horseback to a glade.
Swarms of flies flew in the sun, the chief of Rostock was naked, the blood under his body stained the dirt black and purple, the fatal blow was to the neck, the wound that opened was dead white, and the green-headed flies wriggled and flew. The eyes of the chief of Rostock were covered with a white mist, and his dead fish-like eyes seemed to be full of unwillingness. A few days ago, this was a Slavic nobleman commanding a thousand men, but now all that was left was a pile of stinking flesh and a foul smell.
"That's right, Chief Rostock." The captain of the javelins pulled out a piece of linen to cover his mouth and nose, and he crouched down to examine the corpse carefully, and he had seen the high-spirited chief during the attack on the Rostock, when he brandished the club in his hand, a symbol of authority, and commanded his soldiers.
"It's really strange that he wants to take off his armor for something, as if he has voluntarily given up resistance." The other javelinmen led their horses and stood behind the captain and watched.
"Who is it?" Suddenly, the captain of the Javelins stood up. He threw the javelin in his hand with a hard shot. The javelin hit a bush not far from them, and a human scream was heard at the same time.
"Brush." The javelinmen hurriedly threw away the reins of their horses, bent down and drew their sabers at their waists, and rushed into the bushes.
"Ahh Don't kill me. A ragged Slav was pushed at the captain's feet. He looked in horror at the leather armor. The javelinmen who held the snow sabers in their hands knelt on the ground and did not dare to stand up.
"Who are you? What is hiding here. The captain of the javelins glanced at his companions and asked the Slavs on the ground.
"I am the personal entourage of the chief of Rostock." The ragged Slavs swallowed. Kneeling on the ground, he glanced at the body of the chief of Rostock and said.
"The chieftain himself?" The captain of the javelin cavalry looked at the ragged man on the ground with some disbelief, as the personal entourage of the chieftain, he was close to the nobles in terms of equipment and style, but was the down-and-out man on the ground really the personal entourage of the chief of Rostock? But if this is the case, it may be possible to figure out who attacked the chief of Rostock.
Soon the captain of the Javelins learned what had happened from the men who claimed to be the chief's personal companions, who were stationed at the border under the chieftain's leadership to wait for reinforcements, and when the male pet of the Rostock chieftain arrived with the army and supplies, he rejoiced like the rest of the people, looking for food in the baggage wagons, and for days without proper food made them all weak, and because of this the chieftain's personal companions forgot their duty in the face of hunger.
"Then we received a surprise attack from reinforcements, and it was only then that I realized that the chief was gone, and we were in chaos without command, and it was a massacre." The ragged man stretched out his dirty sleeve and wiped his eyes, and he whimpered as the javelin cavalry captain said.
"Do you know who attacked you?" The Javelin Cavalry Captain asked unmoved.
"I was chased by several men, but when I stabbed one of them with a spear, my spear broke, so I had no choice but to flee into the forest, and it was here that I found the body of the chief, but at that time I did not bother to collect the body, and hid in a hole in the earth formed by the roots of a large tree, and then I heard my pursuers say that Lady Marty had asked them to gather, and they left, and I waited for a while and fled."
"Marty?" The javelin captain's brow furrowed, the name was very unfamiliar, as a civilian, he had never heard of it.
"It was the daughter of Momis, the eldest son of the Grand Chief of Mecklenburg, and the ruler of Willeshire." The Rostock chieftain's personal entourage explained to the captain that as a nobleman who followed the Rostock chief into and out of the court, he was well aware of the noble family lineage of the Great Emirate of Mecklenburg.
"One more thing I don't understand, why did you come back when you ran away." The Javelin Cavalry Captain asked curiously.
"I, I can't bear to let the corpse of the chief of Rostock burst into the wilderness." The face of the chief of Rostock, whose entourage turned red, replied uneasily.
"Take this guy back to Mecklenburg Castle and give it to Lord Count Arrod." The captain of the Javelins shuddered at the thought of the Rostock chieftain's hobbies, waved his hand to his men, and tied the body of the infatuated retinue and the Rostock chief to his horse.
Arold was only slightly stunned to learn of the death of the Rostock chieftain, who was now discussing with the Elvet monks about the rebuilding of the territory, when the Javelinmen's report and the body of the Rostock chief changed his mind when he had planned to concentrate on the rebuilding of the territory.
"If the chief of Rostock dies, then who will inherit his domain?" Arold walked up the stone steps of the tower and asked Brother Elvet.
"Sorry my count, I don't know much about Slavs." Brother Elvet apologized that intelligence was not his specialty.
"That's right, where is Harvey? Tell her to come to me. Arold then realized that he had asked the wrong person, he was too excited to make such a low-level mistake, and when the chief of Rostock was dead, Rostock would be leaderless, and this would not be the best time to seize his land.
When Harvey appeared in front of Arold with a lazy sleepy look, she was stunned by Arold's barrage of questions, but she quickly reacted to Arold's intentions, and the intelligence network had reported to her what was happening in Rostock, but she hadn't had time to report it yet.
"Arroderostock is a mess now, do you think it's necessary to mix it in?" Harvey wrapped his fingers around his hair, and the courtiers around him felt that the female star was becoming more and more feminine, and of course everyone knew very well what was going on, and sometimes Harvey's screams from Arold's room in the middle of the night could almost burst the eardrums of the people in the tower.
"What's wrong? What message do you get? Arjold's heart skipped as he heard Harvey's words, could it be that someone else had already infiltrated Rostock.
"Not only is Willer's wolf wolf eyeing Rostock, but even Billis, the now titular heir of the Grand Chief of Mecklenburg, has sent troops, and they are all vying for the inheritance left by the Chief of Rostock." Harvey shared what he knew to Arrod and the other courtiers, and thanks to the information passed on by the Brotherhood of Blooddrops, the news was able to be kept so timely.
"I want Willer's Marty to send out an army, but why is it that Billis is also sending troops so quickly, does he have the ability to predict the future?" Arold asked, a little surprised.
"Of course not, that Bilisk is not ordinary insidious, and when he asked the Chief of Rostock to attack us, he probably had already prepared his plan to annex Rostock, so I said that if the Chief of Rostock left his castle, then what awaited him would be death or loss of territory."
"The infidels really have no credibility at all, and they even attack their own people behind their backs." Sir Ban held the sword at his waist and said angrily, but Arold sat in the lord's chair and did not say a word, the nobles' deceit has nothing to do with faith at all, and the royal family and the local dukes of the Holy Roman Empire are not also intrigued?
"Honorable Earl, perhaps we should concentrate on the construction of our territory, after all, we have suffered a lot of losses in the war with the Chief of Rostock this time." Brother Elvet came out and suggested to Arold that the damaged village settlements should be restored, and although Arold did not need to worry about repairing the villages, the peasants themselves would rebuild their homes, but in the meantime the peasants needed support from Mecklenburg Castle.
"I decided." Arold stroked his chin with his hand and thought for a moment, and suddenly he stood up and said to the courtiers in a loud voice, "Julian and Sir Ban have brought cavalry to Rostock, planted my banner on the coastal land villages, and declared my authority to the Slavs wherever they are, but remember that if you come across Marty and Bilis's soldiers, if they are small groups, they will be resolutely annihilated, but if the large group of men and horses is withdrawn immediately, you must give full play to the advantages of the war horses, so I allow you and your soldiers to carry more than two horses each." ”
"Yes, Lord Count." Although Julian and the knight class did not understand why Arold would choose the coastal land instead of the fertile hinterland of the land, they looked at Arold standing in front of the lord's throne with his head held high, and quickly bowed his head to accept Arold's order.
"Before the storm? Arold, what do you want to do? Harvey whispered as she watched Arrod's orders to her men.
"Lord Earl, the messenger of the royal family has appeared outside the castle." At that moment, a Germanic soldier hurried into the hall, and he saw Arold hurriedly step forward to report to him.
"Emissary of the royal family?" Arold looked at the soldier who reported to him in some surprise, and wondered why the royal envoy suddenly came to his castle. (To be continued......)
PS: I'm sorry to worry about everyone thinking that the two taels are going to be unfinished eunuchs.,There's no need to worry about this at all.,There's still a long way to go in this book.