172.Strange Tales of the Westward Journey (6)
For the first time, with the help of someone, Witt put on such a heavy black iron armor, he was secretly glad that it was winter at the moment, otherwise it would have been extremely hot, and along the way, Witt saw ten times more dead corpses than he had been born for more than ten years.
But Witt didn't need help, he was Randall's personal physician, unlike the medical team in the back-office, who was bloodied all day long, serving only the lord alone, riding a chestnut warhorse, always waiting one to two meters behind Randall.
Randall was accompanied by eight sturdy riders and servants, all of whom were good-looking and performed their duties, including scouts, banners, dead soldiers, heralds, and even a "loyal cook" from the Moonlight Palace who knew Randall's personal tastes and could ride horses, so as to reduce the chance of food poisoning.
Their mounts were all chestnut or golden-haired horses, which were close to gold or yellow, and had recently been restructured, and could only be ridden by protecting the army of the Grand Duke and his son, and by those who were allowed to do so.
The idea came from Tuda, a favored retainer, who said that the noble family should be different, so the merchants or nobles who owned the horse handed over the horse and incorporated it into the four knights as war horses or pack horses.
Why fight? Isn't peace good?, while White was still thinking about these things, the soldiers of Dom Province, led by Wray, had long been out of sight, and were attacking the fortress, the soldiers raised their shields, and continued to go deeper, breaking into the winding walls of the city like snakes, cursing and braking from time to time, and the cold arrows fired by the arrow tower only slowed down their speed, regardless of casualties, and in less than two hours, Wray had already led people to attack the main gate of the fortress.
Because Laussey saw the strength of the firearms of his southern troops, and sent most of Magellan's soldiers to support, there were less than 100 defenders left in the fortress at the moment, and Magellan who had just repelled Randall, did not expect that thousands of people would attack, and when the number of defenders dropped to sixty, he put away the "armor-breaking sword" that made Randall suffer last time, and decided to retreat.
......
......
Randall's whole body is golden, wearing a special composite plate armor, which can be said to be a work of art that craftsmen have tempered thousands of times, craftsmen at the beginning of the pursuit of flexibility, but the defense is unsatisfactory, if the pursuit of strong, it is too heavy to wear, Randall can only stay on the horse at present, fight a good "mouth fight", no hands-on activities, so long-term wear is extremely uncomfortable.
After the failure of the fourteenth set, the fifteenth set of finished products can finally satisfy the lord. In the middle of the streamlined armor, embroidered with the golden lion family pattern, the armor is also made of the unique southern "Mizuse" and "sable" soft leather mixed seams, so that people will not feel prickly after wearing it.
Even Randall's crotched golden horse, which has been specially selected, is the tallest and gentlest of these yellow horses of similar color.
"Water. ”
Waiting for the results of the battle, when Randall asked his men for water for the third time, the majestic horn was finally raised, at this time, the riders around Werther cheered, and began to pat Randall's fart, these people do not have to kill the enemy, but the credit of the share will definitely not be less, including his own military exploits for protecting the lord, when the reward is afterwards, you can get some precious supplies and charming coins.
"Win!" The surprise at the beginning.
"Win?" Follow for a while.
"Won. "Werther is in a state of mind right now. With Randall, he didn't have to exert any effort.
"After the sweep is completed, His Highness can enter the fortress with confidence. "The scout went and returned.
"Let's go. ”
Randall was blind and could not ride alone, so he needed a rider to lead the rope in front of him to help adjust the direction, and the speed of the march was not fast, and when Witt followed his heels, he saw many Adolf soldiers who had fallen halfway, and their looks and screams were extremely miserable.
He wanted to dismount and help, but was shouted by the noble knight who followed Randall, "Remember your duties and duties, Your Highness will take the lives of all our sergeants, or even heavier, and you are not allowed to leave the team without permission." ”
"Yes. White sighed in his heart.
Randall was about to enter the main gate of the fortress in a majestic manner, and the flag-bearer behind him raised the golden lion flag and shouted his name, which made him proud and laughed.
With the help of his men, Randall took off his armor and drenched his face with water to replenish his water, and then went to the fortress hall, where he sat on the fur-covered lord's seat and sent someone to check all the supplies and wealth in the fortress.
About two hours later, Huai Lei, who was in command of the battle, took off his armor, wore light clothes, and entered the hall with a tired face.
There was a massage behind Randall to relieve fatigue, and his soldiers were taking the fruits stored in the fortress, and after trying it harmlessly, let Randall eat it, and there were two noble knights on the long table, all clean, and at the same table, Huai Lei saw this scene, and his heart was unhappy.
He brought 2,000 men, just this battle, a simple count, half of the soldiers lost the ability to fight wounded, he was distressed, and this highness, just out of mouth and high, just now also ordered to prohibit his troops from moving the weapons and materials captured by the fortress.
"It's hard, it's a pity that Magellan ran away. Randall said at the sound of Wairay's voice, but he didn't bother to get up in respect, and leaned back even more.
Wray didn't reply, followed by three of his knights, pulled out four chairs and sat down, ready to pick up the wine on the table and drink it.
"Sir, this is the ...... brought by His Highness. "One of Randall's knights, Tuda, who is also a favorite courtier, spoke up.
"It's all right, let him drink it, this wine is a treasure that has just been developed, and Sir Wray must not have tasted it. Randall's casual remark made Wray even more dissatisfied.
Seeing the attitude of this "blind man", Huai Lei suddenly felt that he was wrong, outrageously wrong, he let the elite of the territory be sent to death, and all the bones became Randall's trampling up the steps.
"Gollum. Dissatisfied with his dissatisfaction, Wray gulped down the sweet wine.
"Since His Highness set out on the expedition, he has been invincible, and I respect Your Highness. Tuda spoke again. The unfavorable situation before Wray's arrival was classified by him as a tactical retreat, and the defeat in the province of Prije was even more directly ignored.
"Respectfully, Your Highness. ”
"The Magic Mountain will set off tomorrow to support the province of Pulie, and we will rest for two days, meet the lord of this place, and wait for the battle situation in the province of Annong by the way, I heard that the command of the south is good. ”
As Randall was giving the order, the personnel who had inventoried the fortress brought a young man up, "Your Highness, we found this man hiding in the floor, and we found the pagan white turban, heretical items, and a few white books on him. ”
"How did this happen here?"
"Kill him. ”
"Perhaps it was a fine work sent to Gaul by the people of Ceuta. ”
When his subordinates expressed their opinions, the man hurriedly said, "Your Highness, I am not a spy, I am an orthodox Frenchman!" The young man hurriedly explained.
At this time, more and more knights and nobles entered the hall, and someone recognized this person and said with a smile, "The father escaped, but the son did not leave, Your Highness, this is Colombia." ”
Seeing that his identity was revealed, Colombia looked at Randall with some nervousness.
Randall said, "Find any books?" ”
A knight with professional literary literacy (theology, historiography), when he saw the book with a white cover, he was disgusted, and after flipping through it, he quickly glanced at it and said, "Your Highness, it is the flow of travelogues. ”
In the most holy era of theology, the church mastered the circulation of knowledge and strictly controlled the publication of books, and some families, in order to avoid detection, would dye the cover of the written text white before circulating it privately.
"What's the name?" Randall took a copy and touched the book cover, he came from the era of information explosion, and when he was a boring child after being reborn in Gaul, he could be called reading more than a thousand books, and he had more than ten years of experience in Xiaobaiwen.
He also once wrote a fantasy on the bookstand of the Moonlight Palace, relying on the memory of later generations, carrying a quill pen, but after publishing it at his own expense, he "suffered the loss of the times".
The knight replied.
"Marco Polomi's "Strange Tales of the West"
"Mayan Wars" by "Author Carvin"
"Aztec winds" that are "a bit of a nonsense"
"The "Inca overlord" who "watered a little" "
"Old Iron Forgiveness" "New map copy." ””
.
Rand has read all of these books, strictly speaking, all of them are derived from the first strange book, "Strange Tales of the West".
This book is the legendary account of the Roman author Marco Polomi, who was recruited by the Roman emperor as a young man to go to the southwest of the Erie Peninsula to build a new capital, and in addition to various skilled craftsmen, a group of scholars and nobles who knew the law and astronomy were on board.
But the whole ship unfortunately encountered a storm, was photographed by the waves to the western ocean, went more and more away, and finally reached the "foreign continent", the immortal on the ship took root in the local area, Marco Polomi thought of his hometown, in middle age with gold, with a few people to take a boat back to Xili, but he was the only one who was favored by the goddess of luck, after successfully returning to his hometown, the gold had already sunk to the bottom of the sea, he was penniless, will experience the publication of a book, write the story of the country of gold, and make a fortune.
Although he brought back feathers, masks, and other local artifacts, he was still under suspicion.
Many navigators were sponsored by the aristocracy to explore the west with ambitions, but in vain, the book gradually became a laughing stock, known as the "whimsical" madman's work.
"I've heard your name, you're from a noble family, but you're bent on finding the land of gold. "Give him a chair and tell him what the forbidden thing is about." ”
Colombia took a sip and explained slowly. In the past few years, he has been to foreign countries to recommend himself, but he cannot seek funding, so he returned to Gaul, but was forced by his father to participate in this war, when he retreated, he was hiding under a floor connected to the outside to rest, so he did not keep up with the brigade, and the biography of the westward journey on his body was his favorite thing, and he carried it with him, and the other heretical items were used by him to pretend to be self-defense, because he had traveled to the pagan country many times for the purpose of drawing sea charts......
As Columbia spoke, he suddenly pulled away from the topic, he had also heard Randall's plan to develop the navy, and he must have a strong interest in ocean exploration.
"Have you ever been to the kingdom of Ceuta, where the largest port - Cape Roca is the westernmost part of the Euro continent, a huge rocky coast, there is the end of the continent, the beginning of the sea, from there, follow the sea breeze, you will definitely find the country of gold, Marco Polomi's ship was blown by the wind there, but unfortunately this place does not belong to the light world now, otherwise it will ....... ”
"Give him wine and jerky," continued. Randall became interested, but for the sake of his safety, he had visited far fewer places than in Colombia.
"Your Highness, the ship sent by the King of Heaven, Su Dong, has already broken through the four seas and reached the end of the sea, and the literature says that there is nothing. "Some people think that what Colombia says is too outrageous and raise objections.
"No, it's true, it's true! After sailing three hundred and fifty nautical miles from the Erie Peninsula, there will be islands and new creatures depicted in the book, and I once braved the great waves to reach one of the islands, and saw a bird with a very large beak, which ...... as described in the book. ”