People in this chapter: (Edward Hallongoth), (Rutgers Hallongoth).

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Chapter 036: (Ambush in the Woods)

At this moment, it is noon.

The knights of the Third Banner Battalion of the Knights of Sanction and the five hundred soldiers under the command of Rutgers marched on the way to Estinina.

Young Edward rode at the front of the line alongside his older half-brother Rutgers, who kept his eyes on the front and Rutgers looked at his brother with disdain.

"Dear Edward," Rutgers said in a strange tone. "Passing through the woods ahead, it's Estini, does that remind you of your illustrious mother?"

Edward tried his best to hide his anger, and said in a calm tone, "I will never forget it!"

Twenty-five years earlier, Edward's mother had been captured by his father in Estinina. Due to the flat and open terrain of the northern plains, it was often harassed and plundered by Swadia knights. At that time, Estinella was just a small fishing village.

Sir Robert Harongoth brought the captured maiden back to Harlangosburg, but was severely reprimanded by his brother, Duke Eddard. Duke Ed sent a knight to send the girl back to Rhodok, but she was kidnapped by his brother halfway through the road and brought back to Costo.

Sir Robert didn't like the Rhodoc girl, but used her as a tool for venting. Even when the girl was pregnant with his child, he still treated her as a lowly servant. Shortly after the girl gave birth to a boy, she died of overwork and abuse.

"Oh!" Rutgers said, feigning surprise. "Then you should remember how she died!"

He was abused to death by your mother. Edward's face turned pale, and his hateful gaze was fixed on the other. "Rutgers," he asked coldly. "What exactly do you want to say?"

"What a great Rhodoch she is! The corners of Rutgers' mouth curled in a mocking arc. "Here, there's a whole bunch of Rhodoc dogs, just like you, with short necks. ”

"Rutgers, please show some respect to my mother!" Edward glared at the other with his eyes tightened. "There is a limit to my patience!"

Rutgers gave the other party a contemptuous look and sneered expressionlessly, "To be honest, I often wonder if your mother created you with some Rhodok mountain guy before she met my father. ”

Edward's mind went blank, and although Rutgers was usually indifferent to him, it was the first time he had heard these words today. His anger snapped up, and he couldn't help but ask Rutgers what had happened. "What did my mother do wrong to let you humiliate her like this?"

Rutgers said foully, "This low/cheap is wrong for giving birth to you, a Rhodok bastard." ”

"She's dead, and I have nothing to do with you!" Edward warned, holding his right hand on the hilt of his sword. "But if you insult her, I swear that even if you are charged with murder, I will kill you with my own hands!"

"Yes, we don't have anything to do with each other, because you're not part of our family at all," Rutgers' expression was a little more disdainful. "You don't deserve to be a descendant of the Harungus family, Rhodok mongrel!"

Just as Edward was about to draw his sword and face him, the Rhodok spearmen and sniper crossbowmen, who had been lying in ambush in the woods, suddenly launched a sneak attack on them.

A whistling wind blew, and I saw a dense raindrop of arrows shuttling out of the woods. Before the soldiers and knights could react, they were shot down.

Dozens of knights were shot off their horses by the galloping crossbow arrows, the steel crossbow arrows pierced the thick armor of the knights, seven of the knights who fell off their horses were killed on the spot, and the rest were injured in varying degrees of severity, some were shot in the thigh, some in the arm......

I saw rows of Rhodok pikemen on both sides of the woods slowly advancing forward, dismounting the cavalry outside the gun array one after another or continuing to string directly on the tips of the spears. Many of the Rhodok archers hid behind the pikemen, firing arrows incessantly.

Hundreds of archers fired their bows and arrows, the knights' shields and distance weakened the power of the bows, only a few arrows wounded the soldiers, and three or four infantry fell with arrows. As the Rhodok pikemen approached step by step, more and more Swadia soldiers were hit by arrows.

When Edward saw this, he immediately sent an order: "Dismount, Liedn!"

The knights dismounted, held their shields to their chests, and stabbed their spears with great care, which ensured their absolute safety, although they suffered little damage.

Edward, who turned over and dismounted, was about to draw his sword and kill the Rhodok soldiers on the opposite side, but heard Rutgers's cold voice. "Rodok bitch, this time my target isn't anyone else, it's you!" Edward looked up and saw Rutgers' warhammer coming towards him.

In the midst of the chaotic battle, almost no one noticed that the Edward knight was knocked out with a warhammer by his older brother, Baron Rutgers. Maybe all the knights didn't believe that Baron Rutgers would be cruel enough to commit a crime of killing relatives!

The Rhodok pikemen pressed in order, and the Rhodok archers hidden in the woods kept firing arrows. The knights could only hold their shields against their chests and were forced to defend. The leather-clad infantry countered with bows and arrows, but with little effect!

With the battle unfavorable to his side, Rutgers ordered his soldiers and all the knights of the Sanctioned Order to withdraw from the woods. The purpose of his trip has been achieved, and there is no need to fight to the death with the Rhodoks. What's more, these Rhodok mountain guys have helped him a lot.

The knights did not follow the orders of Baron Rutgers, but waited for the orders of their commander, the Knight Edward. But when Rutgers announced that Edward had been shot by Roddock's bow and arrows, the knights finally made the right choice!

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By this time, it was already dark.

When Edward awoke, he found himself lying in a pile of dead people, half of his body buried in the dark yellow dirt, and the bodies of two Swadian soldiers pressed against him. It took Edward a while to crawl out of the pit of the dead.

The sharp pain in his chest reminded Edward of the last scene before he fell unconscious, between him and his half-brother, Rutgers. From an early age, Edward knew that he was not part of the Harongoth family.

Edward also always remembered how his father and half-brother looked at him. But he didn't expect that Rutgers would hate him so much, despise him, and end up killing him. Edward didn't die, but he did taste heartbreak.

In a trance, Edward saw more than a dozen people coming in front of him. In the darkness of the night, these men had torches in their hands.

The men approached, dressed in the pilgrims' garments that the Rhodoch monks often wore and sewn from burlap, each wearing a pilgrim's hood, and Edward could not see their faces clearly.

A monk at the front broke the silence. "Brothers," he asked. "Who did we find?"

"A Svadia knight. The monks replied.

"What are we supposed to do?" the questioner continued.

"Take him to Estine for judgment. Then the leading monk turned back to the Svadian knight in front of him.

At this moment, Edward was a little physically exhausted, and the sharp pain in his chest made him unable to resist. "Please!" said the monk, and punched him hard in the head. Edward fell back into a coma.

When he opened his eyes again, Edward saw himself lying on the ground, in a dimly lit monastery. The moonlight was bleak and shining through the window. Edward barely lifted his neck and saw a dozen monks standing quietly on the pulpit.

"Then he is awake, and the judgment begins!" said the monk in a calm and cold voice. "What crime did he commit?"

"He was guilty of stealing. He stole the right of a country not to be invaded, the right of peasants to own property, the right of peasant wives to their husbands, and the right of children to have parents. He's a thief, he's a butcher. ”

"What should he be sentenced for?"

"The death penalty. ”

The Monk approached Edward and announced, "Swadia Knight, you should not come to Rhodok to burn and loot, and you should not join the bandits of Haringos. And you can't restrain yourself, you break into the brown bear's den, then you will be torn to pieces by the brown bear. ”

Edward's eyes saw death, and he saw the monk raise the dagger in his right hand and tear the clothes off his chest with his left hand.

Edward closed his eyes. He felt that everything was finished, that everything had been abandoned far away, and that there was only a sad question mark drawn in his stiff mind.

Before he died, he remembered the relatives he really cared about, and the girl he liked, the noble and beautiful Lucy.

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