Chapter 123: Speculation
In the castle, thanks to the command and care of the butler Sean, the up and down still maintains a calm similar to the past. The maids of the pen, the fun, and the pavilion www.biquge.info busily cleaning the inside and outside of the castle, the male servants doing some heavy work, and the warriors patrolling and guarding the safety of the castle.
Ever since Archduke Wilhelm entered the castle, he always had some indescribable feelings, and he didn't know what the problem was. Maybe it's the dodgy glances of the maids, maybe it's the mechanical stiffness of the boys, or the aristocratic smile of the butler Sean, who is a standard template, but he just thinks something is not quite right.
In the evening, the adjutant led the cavalry army back in vain, and was temporarily stationed in the town of Kitahara under Sean's arrangement.
"Your Excellency, these are a few things that his subordinates have found outside the castle, please take a look!" The adjutant took advantage of the lack of attention from the people in the castle and quietly came to Archduke William's room and took out the things from the backpack he was carrying.
A bizarre compound shortbow, a scimitar made of fine iron, and several fragments of armor. Archduke William first picked up the short bow and pulled it gently, but it didn't pull it. Archduke Wilhelm was at a strange point, and only after adding some strength to his hand did he pull the bow apart, and as soon as he let go, the bowstring rebounded violently and made a crisp sound of humming.
"What a strong pull!" Archduke William never expected that such a short bow would have a pull comparable to that of a strong crossbow in the army, and with a convenient and easy-to-carry volume, it was simply the best bow for cavalry.
Archduke Wilhelm put down the compound shortbow in amazement, and picked up the scimitar again. The workmanship of this scimitar is extremely exquisite, the wooden curved handle is carved with some animal patterns, and the snow-bright blade only has the outer edge and the tip of the blade, showing layers of dark lines under the lamplight, obviously made by Seiko tempering, but this scimitar is probably worth a lot of money.
The adjutant saw Archduke William looking at the scimitar over and over again, and whispered: "Your Excellency, look at these fragments of clothing again." ”
Archduke William put down his scimitar and casually took the fragments of clothes handed over by the adjutant. As soon as I started it, I sighed lightly, and the feel was so delicate and smooth that it was like a silk fabric. Archduke William hurriedly looked at these fragments, which looked like a set of pieces of equipment cut from the body of a soldier from the inside out, with rough leather armor on the outside, a layer of cotton clothing on the inside, and underwear woven from raw silk on the inside.
Riding bows, scimitars, leather armor, underwear, this is completely a complete set of human cavalry equipment, Archduke William couldn't help but gasp when he thought of this, and stared at the adjutant with surprise.
Seeing that Archduke William was so surprised, the adjutant obviously thought of something, so he said to Archduke William: "This is the equipment that his subordinates picked up in the open space outside the castle, and it is estimated that the equipment scattered after the death of the cavalry under Baron Leo was killed in battle. ”
"Do you know how much such a suit is worth?" asked Archduke Wilhelm faintly.
"This ......," the adjutant hesitated.
"It is said that the southern provinces are rich in armor empires, and since my father's generation, they have gathered the financial resources of the southern provinces to build our cavalry corps. But you see, our cavalry equipment is not as good as the cavalry under a small northern baron. Archduke William shouted in a low voice.
"Grand Duke, just by virtue of this set of equipment fragments, this does not show how elite their cavalry is, maybe...... Maybe these are Baron Leo's own things!?" the adjutant blurted out in a hurry.
"How can such a delicate piece of equipment take a lot of craftsmen's time to build alone, how can it be popularized to ordinary soldiers? Besides, wasn't Baron Leo captured by the wolf clan and his life and death are uncertain? Perhaps, Baron Leo has already been killed, and these are the relics of Baron Leo?" the adjutant continued to make bold guesses when he saw that Archduke William did not refute it.
After listening to the adjutant's words, Archduke William raised his head and said softly: "You know, since I entered the castle, I have always felt that something is wrong, and when I saw this equipment, I finally remembered. ”
After a pause, Archduke William continued: "Corpses! We have not seen a single corpse of a Baron Leo soldier except the corpse of the wolf cavalry! And they cleaned it up, and that's not right, it's very wrong. Why are they trying so hard to cover it up?"
Fingers tapped vigorously on the equipment, and Archduke William said firmly: "It must be because their numbers are far beyond the average noble private soldiers, and their equipment is far beyond everyone, and only in this way can they hold on to thousands of wolf cavalry, and only in this way will they be secretive and afraid of being discovered." ”
"Hehe~" Archduke William chuckled: "Large-scale private investment of soldiers, private manufacturing of weapons and equipment, it seems that this Baron Leo is far from being as loyal to the empire as rumored!
"If Baron Leo can't come back this time, then it's all good to say. But if Baron Leo escapes safely, maybe there will be one more spoiler in this chaotic situation in the Empire!"
If Leo knew that Archduke William had such an opinion of him, he would have said to him: You think too much!
Perhaps because Archduke William had been thinking about how to recruit troops, how to build weapons, and how to overthrow the empire, in his eyes, all these anomalies meant that Leo also had a rebellious heart.
However, this misunderstanding made Archduke William's hostility towards Leo less, after all, the other party was also doing the same thing as himself, at least before the overthrow of the empire, Leo was also a person who could be used. Regarding the matter of Archduke Wagner, William is not in a hurry at this time, anyway, after overthrowing the empire and controlling the overall situation, Leo will naturally not escape from William's palm.
Compared to Archduke William's amazement, Leo, who was far above the Goblin Fortress, was even more shocked. Although he knew that the wolf cavalry was overshadowed by Cararest, Leo did not expect that it would be such a scene, this is simply cramping and peeling skin, and not even a single trace is wasted! The wolf cavalry of two or three thousand horses fell into the small gutter of the goblin like this, I am afraid that General Horton will be a depressed ghost if he does a ghost.
Leo's eyes changed and changed when he looked at Caraxiu, he didn't expect this goblin to do such a thing, and looking at the huge construction site on the periphery, this was planning to build a city in Haruna Village, once it was detected by the Empire, I am afraid it would set off another storm. (To be continued.) )