XXVII. The Battle of the Sword Fence (II)

After submitting to King Arthur, King Plath finally received a consolation prize - the city of Gloucester, where almost all its inhabitants had been removed, and the farmsteads around the city were assigned to his name - but unfortunately, without even the most basic population, this abandoned land was a barren ruin, bringing no benefit to his kingdom of Demete.

However, after dormant for a while, King Plath was pleased to find that he seemed to have a chance to turn the tables around.

Although he is only a native of this time and space, and has no insight into the next thousand years, he can also see clearly, this King Arthur's shili looks like the sky, and there is no one to compare with the entire island of Great Britain, but in fact, he is powerless, and the decadent image has been born!

-- Although the "Kingdom of Camelot," an "airborne regime" based on the former Antarctic research station, seems to be advanced and strong, its greatest weakness lies in its lack of foundation -- it has only been four or five years since this kingdom took root, and it has not had time to cultivate a group of loyal subordinates who have assisted them from generation to generation, nor has it had time to make its subjects feel happy and convinced.

On the contrary, the Celts and Roman remnants who poured into the Kingdom of Carmellot in the past few years and ate under the rule of the Travelers have their own origins and origins. Especially those high-status warriors and knights, there are many noble families from neighboring countries, and even served other kings, even if they now defect to King Arthur's account, it is impossible to quickly break off contact with their hometowns in other countries.

Of course. It's not that this problem can't be solved. The barbarians who invaded the Roman Empire faced a similar situation when they first established themselves in the Western Roman Empire. The solution was nothing more than marriages, feudals, granting privileges, entrapment of local shili, and so on - any invader who could successfully establish a state in a new territory. He is very skilled in this set of power tricks.

Sadly, Camelot's English travelers never seemed to think about how to solve this problem—neither by marriage, by intermarriage, nor by the use of the new state, as was customary for the conquerors of Europe in the Middle Ages, to divide the land and grant titles to the powerful among the nations...... Instead, he saw his own people as a bunch of temporary workers, and he didn't think about establishing a deeper bond with them.

-- The most fundamental problem is. Although the future Britons had good starts, they always saw Carmellot as a refuge, and they did not have any idea of running and building the country well. Not to mention the ambition to conquer the island of Great Britain and usher in a new era.

In fact, these unenterprising Brits think of themselves as Robinson on a desert island. And the inhabitants of the island of Great Britain in this time and space. It is the indigenous people on this "desert island". For their own safety while waiting for rescue, they may be able to maintain good relations with the natives who are friendly to them, while using force against other natives who have bad intentions towards them to ensure their own safety...... But that's all, as long as they succeed in creating a comfortable nest, they will be satisfied, and they will never have the absurd idea of conquering this desert island again.

In short, since they were not really medieval Europeans. Therefore, there is little interest in the lifelong struggle of the European lords of the Middle Ages for land, population, throne and supremacy - even though they clearly have the strongest force in the whole of Great Britain - which were taken care of by the nobles of medieval Europe. It is regarded as the most precious and cared about thing, but it is regarded as a disdain by these traversers!

But on the other hand, these things that the travelers regarded as disdainful were looked at by many medieval British magnates, who spent their days thinking about how to take them for themselves - even if there was a huge gap in the level of understanding between the ancients and modern people, the attitude of one side was careless and indifferent, and the attitude of the other side was racking their brains and planning in every possible way, how could they prevent the infinite calculations of others?

In this way, there will always be a sense of alienation between the British travelers and the people at the bottom who depend on them—how can it be possible to build a strong group that is united and hard to work together, since there is an idea of gathering and dispersing from the beginning?

In the face of such a big flaw, King Plath, who has ruled the Demetee Kingdom for nearly a hundred years, has the opportunity to infiltrate Camelot's interior.

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Although after the wormhole was opened across time and space, under the repeated requests of Wang Qiu and others, the modern British time-travelers who had been otaku and otaku for several years finally got out of their own dwellings and started a series of construction and development projects one after another to collect wood, furs and minerals. However, for these tasks imposed on them, the pampered and human rights British travelers still have a careless attitude in their work, and even strongly protested with Wang Qiu because of the cancellation of their alternate leave...... Later, it took a long time to be suppressed.

In fact, even King Arthur himself didn't care much about his throne, and didn't even think about whether to settle down in this plane for a long time, so he was always a little half-hearted when he used his ruling strategy. Many secret things that would seriously threaten the ruling order were not kept secret - out of serious contempt for the natives of the plane, and the chaos of management caused by the excessive number of time-travelers, many things that should not be said at all were revealed by some people who did not speak through their brains......

What's worse is that as new wormholes are discovered one after another, and future traversers who are the core ruling group continue to leave, King Arthur's reliable manpower soon becomes more and more overstretched. Originally, the scientific research station building inhabited only by time-travelers, with the marriage of Princess Gnavele, the figures of the indigenous servants and maids of the plane gradually appeared, and as time passed, the number of people became more and more - guards, horses, coachmen, gardeners, cleaners, cooks, embroiderers, butlers, secretaries, private priests, dancers, musicians, ......

Thereupon. As the closest Celtic king to Carmellot and coveted this land, King Plath of Demetha planted many spies in Carmellot Castle and Bath City early on. And I heard a lot of "important information" that was mixed with truth and falsehood.

- First of all, the future people of Camelot's castle, who seem to have been blessed by Satan, are returning one after another, and now there are only four people left, so small that even if they are equipped with weapons called "guns", they do not have to be afraid to deal with.

Secondly. That terrible army of the future has returned to its own shijie, which has not been seen again for a long time, and will most likely never be seen again.

Third. The key to connecting the passage between the two eras lies with Arthur himself, and only as soon as Arthur dies, the passage will be closed. In the future, the people of Shijie will no longer be able to collect wood, hides, and gold and silver treasures from the island of Great Britain. You can't come with an army to show off your might.

Fourth. King Arthur's own army was not strong, and among his improvised knights were filled with the men of many other kings, and the rest were wandering warriors who fought purely for their pay, and could not be expected to protect the monarch in the event of a critical situation.

Zuihou, Camelot and Bath under King Arthur are now very wealthy, even more so than the city of Gloucester, which was painstakingly run by the Western Roman Emperor Romulus. Not to mention the abundance of metalwork, brightly colored fabrics, glass and ceramics that the people of the future brought with them. There is also white sugar and refined salt that are as clear as snow. The annual yields of the fields planted with potatoes alone are coveted – something that King Plath did not know. Seeds must be changed every year to detoxify potatoes, otherwise as long as they are planted for six generations in a row, the yield of potatoes will drop to an unsightly extent...... Of course, even such potatoes were already highly productive compared to wheat and oats, which were harvested on average four times as much as sown in medieval Europe.

After the intention of usurpation, taking advantage of the return of modern British time-travelers one after another, and the serious shortage of management personnel in the Kingdom of Carmellot, King Plath secretly instructed some family relatives to defect to Carmellot and seek a certain position. At the same time, he used various tricks to buy some people from within the Kingdom of Carmellot - because King Arthur occasionally made a statement about whether he wanted to return to the modern Shijie, and as a result, his subordinates were greatly distressed: Queen Gnevelle has not yet given birth to a son! Will a kingdom that could become extinct at any time have a bright future?

However, due to the overwhelming force of modern Shijie and the prestige of the former battlefield of Barton Mountain, no one in the country dared to rebel as long as King Arthur and his supporters remained. King Plath's dark line spies in Camelot's ambush can only pass on some information at best.

So, King Plath secretly thought to himself, as long as he thought of a way to kill Arthur, cut off the contact channel between the future shijie and this shijie, and then rely on the secret line of his own ambush to meet the outside, the remaining three future people are naturally not opponents...... In this way, after merging the two territories of Carmellot and Demete, he can become the number one overlord in all of Britain.

But the problem is that it is impossible to attack and destroy the Kingdom of Camelot with the Liliang of the Demetei Kingdom alone. It's also dangerous to contact other Celtic kingdoms to do it together, and people will be able to make all sorts of flattery and promises to you. But then he turned around and went back to King Arthur to make a small report, trying to carve up his Demetei territory...... Even though the tandem work was very successful, and he finally successfully organized a large Celtic coalition, it was also no match for the terrible force of the future.

Therefore, when Arthur, with only a small army, rashly pursued the Irish into the kingdom of Demete, King Plath was overjoyed, thinking that he had seen an opportunity to kill himself for his money—the sniper target had run to his home turf!

However, just in case...... He didn't know how much force King Arthur and his guards were, and the Demetei kingdom had only a limited number of troops that could be mustered on the fly, so King Plath needed to find an ally strong enough.

In this way, he soon hooked up with Queen Granny of the Kingdom of Ulster, the leader of the Irish who had invaded Britain—King Plath wanted Arthur's territory, while Queen Grannie, across the sea, was more interested in the treasures of Castle Carmellot and Bath City—and then. On the way to the battlefield of the Sword Fence, King Plath, as a landlord and guide, found various excuses to arrange for the troops of other allies to support King Arthur to be stationed in a distant place. Nominally to block the Irish's escape path, it was actually to weaken King Arthur's defenses.

Next, according to King Plath's Jihua, this night should be the date of King Arthur's death......

In the middle of the night, the rain that had lasted all day finally came to an end. The soldiers of the Kingdom of Demete, who had been preparing for a long time, and the Irish warriors also made contact with each other, and soon surrounded King Arthur's tent on all sides according to King Plath's arrangement. And then little by little approached...... As if due to the over-tensioned relationship, King Plath felt his blood surging up,

Calm, calm! Those future warriors are very powerful, though. But they are definitely not omnipotent angels, they will all bleed, they will be defeated, they will die the same...... He licked his lips. So comforted himself and said. At the same time, he took a few steps towards the tent.

However, King Plath's footsteps did not stop there - the curtain of the tent was instantly pulled down from the inside with a "brush", and King Arthur sat in the center of the tent with the silver sword of victory excalibur, fully clothed, and looked at the besieging Irish and the panicked British rebels with the eyes of a dead man, as if he were watching a comical drama.

All around him. Surrounded by a group of future soldiers in colorful uniforms, the muzzle of the black hole makes people shudder at a glance.

“…… O King de Metei! Do you think we are so stupid and sluggish? Will you not be able to see your treachery? ”

With King Arthur's faint sigh and Plath's lost soul, Wang Qiu calmly raised his right hand and slashed down heavily......

Suddenly, the gunfire in the camp under the cover of night was loud, and a few flares that rose into the air reflected the entire battlefield. On the unobstructed wilderness, bullets rained down one after another, quickly tearing apart the fragile human body and splashing countless bright and eye-catching blood flowers...... Several RPG bazookas also fired together, blowing up the surging crowd of people to pieces and shattering their bones.

Immediately afterwards, the knights loyal to King Arthur also rushed out of the tent, roared and drew their swords, and strangled with the Irish and Demetei troops.

Despite the first shock, these fierce Irish knights bravely stepped on horseback and launched an all-out assault on King Arthur's tent in the face of an endless hail of bullets. But in the face of the clattering machine guns, no matter how strong the horse armor and armor are, they are as thin as pieces of paper.

And Wang Qiu, who was ferocious, once again took out his car from the wormhole -- a ten-wheeled truck without a license plate -- honked its horn to start the engine, and hit it with full horsepower. King Arthur also sat in the passenger seat, and from time to time fired several bursts from an automatic rifle.

-- Gunshots, explosions, shouts of killing, swords clinging, car crashes...... With the flames rising into the sky and the flares flickering from time to time, all kinds of noisy noises continued on this battlefield for a long time before gradually subsided.

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A bright silver moon rose into the sky, and the moonlight coldly shone on the battlefield that had just quieted down. The warriors, dressed in all kinds of armor and animal skins, were entangled one by one. The corpses of men and horses were pillow with each other, countless destroyed weapons were scattered everywhere, and herds of wild dogs searched for food in the carcass, and from time to time they quarreled with each other because of the uneven distribution of spoils, and the red-eyed "Wang" barked and tore each other apart.

The corpse-strewn battlefield covered the flat wilderness, and hundreds of warriors lay on crouch among the grass, the blood flowing almost blackened the ground. In the middle of this dull blackness, a red thread dripping with blood curled and swayed to the side of an overturned Roman chariot. The soldiers who lost their lives formed a circle around the chariot, and no less than twenty corpses were scattered around. And near the chariot that was the center of the circle, the dead King Plath was sitting with his back to the wheel. He was dressed in armor, his hair was scattered, he held a spear in his left hand, but the spearhead had been broken, and in his right hand he held a steel sword that was also broken, his body was stained with blood, his head was hanging weakly, his whole body was densely covered with bullet holes, I don't know how many shots he had been shot, and he had a long feathered arrow stuck in his buttocks.

Wang Qiu, who was bumped by people and horses repeatedly, and King Arthur, who was also dizzy, stumbled out of the ten-wheeled truck with a seriously dented front, and stood in front of the body of the ambitious king, all of them were silent for a while, and their hearts were full of emotion.

-- It's a shame that this guy didn't know the content of "The Legend of King Arthur", and accidentally said the unlucky place name of "Sword Railing", which made Wang Qiu and Arthur feel suspicious for a while, and strengthened their internal vigilance and vigilance...... Otherwise, if you really step into this trap ignorantly, and then he suddenly starts a storm, you traversers who have long regarded themselves very highly and negligently may really suffer a big loss!

Fortunately, this time the catastrophe finally passed safely. (To be continued......)