"Your Highness Christina, Your Excellency Ketler said that he had discovered the scouts of the Taiping Army, and hoped that you would gather your men and horses to join him and leave the town of Mitava." One of Christina's guardian knights reported to him hastily.

"Okay, I'll bring someone over right away, and you can go and gather the people." Christina did not doubt him, and ordered the guardian knight.

A few hours later, dozens of elite guards and even more servants and maids around Christina arrived in front of the heavily armed Ketler's troops.

Previously, Ketler was accompanied by hundreds of knights of the Holy Sword Knights and dozens of foot soldiers, but Christina had no doubts about Ketler's dispatch of troops with great fanfare.

After all, there is no conflict of interest between the two sides, Christina said that the former Queen of Sweden is actually a young rich woman with a bit of floating wealth, and Christina has no rights except for the love of the current sister King Carl X of Sweden, and the moment she voluntarily resigned as King of Sweden, she lost the qualification to be loyal to the nobles of all classes of the Kingdom of Sweden.

No one would take the initiative to pledge allegiance to an 'ex' who is not interested in power in the slightest, and perhaps many Swedish nobles have a good impression of Christina, but allegiance and personal favor are completely different things, especially for noble lords, the boundaries are clear!

In the tradition of continental Europe, the interests of countries cannot be measured by personal safety, and the accurate and strict noble heir bill allows the king and even the aristocratic group to quickly select the next successor after losing the head of the family, and there will be no such state of 'the country cannot be without a king for a day'.

In addition, the monarchical rights of the European countries are far less than those of the centralized empires in the East, and the biggest advantage of the feudal system is that with or without a king, the daily operation of the lord's fief under his command will not be affected, because the king cannot control the lord's fief and the knights under his command......

Therefore, whether Christina had an accident or not really had little impact on the Kingdom of Sweden, at most it was just to make his sister Karl X angry and break a few precious Oriental porcelain......

The parliament of the Kingdom of Sweden will not allow the King of Sweden to wage war over the life and death of a sister and coercion!

This is one of the reasons why Ketler dared to agree to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's condition of accepting arms funding.

"Your Excellency Ketler, your preparation this time is really sufficient, I have seen the courage of your knights, I believe that with so many people with us, we will definitely arrive at our destination safely."

Christina smiled as she walked over to her warhorse, and a heavily armed Ketler spoke.

Ketler quietly watched Christina break away from her guardian knight defenselessly, and walked over with trust, and replied with a meaningful arc on the corner of his mouth: "Of course, Your Highness Christina, our journey will be very, very safe, and there will be no accidents!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Ketler finally glanced at his subordinates who were already 'in place', quickly took out the flintlock handcuff hanging from his waist, and shouted: "Do it! ”

With a bang, the guardian knight closest to Christina looked down at the bloody hole in the chest of his knight's armor with a terrifying face, and fell to the ground weakly, not expecting that the Guardian Knights of Christina, who had escorted them with their lives all the way, would suddenly attack, didn't even ride a horse!

At the moment when Ketler's gunfire rang out, the knights of the Holy Sword Knights in an encircled posture took out their flintlock handcuffs with a brush, aimed at Christina's elite guards and guardian knights in the middle with a confused face, pulled the trigger, and then put back the flintlock handcuffs, pulled out the knight's holy sword and launched a close-range charge!

The infantry on the periphery of Ketler set up a protective ring with arquebuses to prevent Christina's guards from escaping, and of course, more to prevent Christina herself from leaving.

"Why?! Ketler, why are you doing this?! What's in it for you to kill me?! Christina's poignant questioning rang out as the Guardian Knight fell to the ground, waving her 'claws' like a fried kitten and angrily pounced on Ketler on his horse.

The scheming Ketler could naturally see that Christina was looking for death, and under the surprise attack of the Knights of the Holy Sword, who had no psychological preparation, Christina's personal guard was just the target of slaughter, and there was no suspense!

In terms of combat skills, the members of the Knights of the Holy Sword are much more powerful than Christina's guardian knights, a true master knight, who would want to escort a former queen who voluntarily resigned on a tour of Europa?

Christina's guardian knight is nothing more than a wandering knight hired at a high price.

Although Ketler was a little older, his experienced knightly skills were more than enough to deal with a girl in her 20s who didn't know any martial arts, and Christina, who pounced on her, didn't even touch Ketler's armor before she was hit on the back of the head by the hilt of her sword and fainted......

Then, after Ketler took away the unconscious Christina, the members of the Knights of the Holy Sword let go of their hands and feet and went on a killing spree in the clearing, and after less than half an hour, dozens of Christina's guards were all reduced to a corpse, and the servants and maids who had no combat power were curled up on the ground tremblingly, and their eyes glanced at the knight's holy sword hanging above their heads from time to time.

"Chief, what are you going to do with these people?" A bloodied member of the Knights of the Holy Sword approached Ketler and asked.

"We're going to keep Christina's business as much as we can for a while, so we can't leave a single one alive!" Ketler commanded in a cold tone.

Not long after the members of the Knights of the Holy Sword who asked turned to leave, there were a lot of wailing and wailing voices not far away, and the land was destined to be a river of blood tonight.

After disposing of everyone around Christina, the Knights of the Holy Sword took advantage of the night to bury all the corpses, and the blood stains on the ground were also covered with floating earth, as long as it was not specially observed by trained and attentive people, it was difficult to find that this place had experienced a bloody massacre.

Kettler's operation brought with him his henchmen and the core members of the future re-established Knights of the Holy Sword, and the possibility of leaking secrets is extremely low, after all, not many people know Christina's whereabouts in the first place.

A week later, Ketler got his wish and got enough cold weapons and backward arquebuses to arm thousands of people, all of which were captured by the Taiping army, these things were chicken rib garbage in the eyes of the Taiping army, but in the eyes of Ketler, they were the first pot of gold to rise again!

Thanks to the lone defender for the 100 starting coins