Chapter 143: The Hunt

"This is where it happened." Rodria stood in the snow.

It's early in the morning. They arrived here after a long night of running without rest. In a very open plain, there is only a flat horizon around oneself as far as the eye can see.

This is the least likely place to set up an ambush.

But it was here that the attacked supply convoys were wiped out.

"We finally found the body of the only Valkyrie in the snow more than seventy kilometers from here. But she had nothing on her, she threw away everything that affected her actions, but ... She left us with the greatest information. ”

"She had two long arrows that pierced her body, most of her internal organs were shattered, the wounds on her body were jagged, and there were a lot of fragments."

"Such long arrows are only equipped with British longbow archers, because only their bows and arrows can shoot such long arrows. The jagged wound is the Viking saw blade. Their knives have vicious barbs on them, and when they slash a person, they can pull down the flesh on the person's body, causing even more pain. The fragments left on the body were the fragmentation bombs of the Spanish naval guns, which were originally large-scale bombs aimed at the deck, and those who were hit by such bombs would be directly covered with tiny pieces of iron and lose their combat effectiveness..."Rodria said to the dozen or so little knights behind him.

The Tenth Knights were divided into several different teams by Rodria and acted separately, and the reserve knights followed the instructors into many squads, and there were more squads, only the instructors, or the official knights of the Tenth Knights.

Now, there are only two prefects here, Rodria and Lilum, and a dozen reserve knights such as Xiu, Anthony, Carlos, and Luna.

"Sir Rodriard, as far as I know, these things are not cheap," Andrew said with a frown, "I do trade at home, and I know the price of these things. But for now, it seems that what they use may be more expensive than what they robbed. ”

Rodria nodded appreciatively, "You're right, it seems that ordinary supplies are really not worth their big hands." But... This time, the supply was not simply food and clothing. That's a full twenty boxes of Florentine gold coins. ”

"Florent!" Andrew's eyes widened in disbelief, "That's too precious, that's too precious... But how did they know we'd be shipping it, and did we need so much gold? That's Florent! Not the franc, not the pound, not the dinar! That's Florent! ”

"That's not what you should ask, knight." Rodria kept smiling.

"But instructor, this is not a suitable place for ambushes, and the shells you mentioned require cannons to fire. The commanders of the convoy must not even be blind to the artillery. Xiu raised his own questions.

"They didn't use artillery. They buried the shells in the ground and ignited them with a large amount of gunpowder. ”

Xiu thought about it, and his expression gradually became more and more shocked, and his face was full of disbelief.

RΓ³dria swept away a patch of snow, revealing charred dirt.

"We've looked at it. At that time, there was a large area of snow here, and bombs were planted. Rodriard's smile narrowed a little.

"From the very beginning, they knew the route of the supply team and the cargo in the supply team."

Xiu couldn't imagine what this meant.

"Let's go, it's time for us to go. I stopped by here to tell you about the situation, and now that we have said it, we should act. It's time to go and some people to settle their accounts. He rolled over his horse, and his eyes flashed with a cold sharpness.

A chill flashed through the hearts of the ready knights.

Looking at the smiling Rodria, such a Rodria makes people feel strange and frightened.

The knights mounted in silence and followed Rodria.

The snow outside is not as violent as in the forest, on the contrary, it is soft like floating feathers.

"Chief RΓ³dria." Xiu still couldn't help but ask, "...... Do you want to kill someone? ”

"Are you scared?" Rodria didn't look back.

"No, I didn't." Xiu shook his head.

However, he was a little lost in his heart.

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, there is a dilapidated wooden house.

It is said that the wooden house is lifted, but in fact it is a place where people can sleep without collapsing with wooden planks.

A bonfire was lit inside, and the light of the fire barely illuminated a few figures.

They looked down, but they sat up straight. Their clothes look very old, but they are very clean. Although they look down-and-out, their spirit is not comparable to that of ordinary down-and-out.

"Salamo, you haven't slept in a long time." Someone said so.

"Can't sleep." The man replied.

"If you don't sleep and rest for a while, you'll die of exhaustion."

"I can't sleep anymore." The man clenched a cross pendant tightly in his hand: "I have lost my faith. ”

This sentence was exchanged for silence throughout the room.

"Cheer up, Salamo. We will have a future. A man was comforted.

The man didn't say anything more, and took this sentence as a comfort in his heart.

He let out a long sigh and touched the money bag around his waist.

It was filled with the world's most valuable gold coin: the Florentine. He didn't count how many there were, and he had no intention of counting them.

He used to think that having these equals having everything, but ......

Now photographing these things, he realizes that this bag of gold coins does not give him a sense of security.

He had paid too much for such a bag of metal.

He clutched the cross on his chest again, closed his eyes, and silently muttered something in his mouth.

"Pray no more, He can't hear. Moreover...... Do you still want them to hear our prayers? The companion patted him on the shoulder, "Don't worry, we'll go to hell when we die." Either you come first, or I come first. But no matter who it is, you have to wait for others in hell before you become a demon, you know? ”

"Cologne, did you say we were all going to turn into demons?"

"Or a slave to the devil." Cologne shrugged, "Because we killed the angel's messenger......"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Yes, as powerful as they were, they were also slain by us sinners. ”

"But, your daughter is saved, isn't she?" Another companion stared at the campfire and said, "Don't regret it." Because regret is useless. Anyway, I won't regret it. With this money, I can flee to Constantinople, to Baghdad and even to Jerusalem. The power of the church cannot reach it, and I can live comfortably there with this money for the rest of my life. ”

"Didn't you say you were going to be your wife?" Cologne's eyes changed as he watched, "Base, are you deceiving us?" ”

After a long time, he said faintly, "She's dead." She couldn't stand the pain of the Black Death, and she didn't want to drag us down any longer, so she hit the corner of the table. I saw the note she left...... I taught her how to write...... Really, in the end...... The words are still so ugly......" He spoke in a smaller and smaller voice, and by the end he was choked up and almost unable to cry.

"Suicide...... Cologne was speechless, "that...... But it's a great sin, it's going to hell......"

In the end, none of the so-called angels came to save her...... No, not even one......"

"Won't I go to hell to find her?" Besid raised his head and calmly looked at the dancing bonfire, "I wait for the flame of judgment to shine on me, but I will not regret it." I will jump with the flames into the purgatory that will never go low, just to find my wife. ”

Salamo listened to his companion's story in silence, and suddenly thought in his heart that if he didn't do this, he might end up in the same situation in the future.

"When are we leaving. People from the church will come to you at any time. ”

"We're just little shrimp. Where will the church notice us. Have you ever seen two countries at war, and people will remember the names of their soldiers, and the famous ones are always only the generals who take the lead. ”

"No, it's not." Someone said it around them.

This voice made them feel very unfamiliar, these people raised their heads, you look at me, I look at you, one is the other person talking. But they quickly came to a conclusion......

"Don't look at it." A man in a black cloak stood silently in the doorway, "None of you can escape, sinners of destiny." ”