The juggler performed a trick, and the copper ring in his hand was thrown into the sky, but it never fell to the ground.

Their palms closed and opened, and flowers appeared in their hands. The children watched intently, trying to find the flaws.

The jousting arena has been set up, and on the first day there is a competition for archery and javelin throwing, but this is a piece of cake, just a warm-up.

After the second day, it's the main event.

On the second day, there were two kinds of competitions: melee fighting, horse fighting, and riding guns.

"Melee Fighting" is a three-on-three mode, holding a one-handed light sword (self-provided) that is shorter than the knight's sword, wearing leather armor (self-provided), and the team that competes against each other, and the only team with a surviving team wins

One of the characteristics of this style of play is that if one person does not agree to surrender, then the two who are defeated will be mercilessly stabbed into the vital point, and then the dominant side will besiege the remaining hard man.

Six people participated in the battle, and at the end of one game, experience showed that at least two were seriously injured.

Or even die.

Because the disability rate is too high, you don't need to prove whether you have a noble status, you can participate, before the start of each melee fight, open to guess, by the audience to bet freely, the winning team, and finally get half of the amount of the bet loser. If you play well, you can also get a reward from the nobles.

Defeat all the queues to win the championship.

Some commoners relied on this method to get rich overnight, and even got the blue eyes of the nobles, obtained the qualification of knights, and became knights in the future.

The "horse war cavalry spear" is to put on heavy armor, wear a helmet to protect the head, hold a three-meter-long wooden spear (mao), and hold a small square shield in the other hand.

The two sides are far apart, with short wooden rows in between, and after the start of the game, they will rush forward at high speed, and the two will pass by, and stab the horse gun in their hands.

The one who was knocked off the horse was defeated, and the one who broke the spear but did not fall off the horse, then took another riding spear, and if no one fell off the horse the second time, it was determined by who just hit the opponent's vital part, and the number of points obtained.

In the event of a tie (both of them fall), the battle can be stopped according to the wishes of both sides, or a new wooden gun can be taken to stab again.

If you choose to stop the battle and draw, both of them will lose and will not be able to participate in the next game.

The horse war and the gun game belonged to the patent of the aristocracy, and earlier it was necessary to trace the three generations of parents - all nobles could play.

However, due to the plague of decades ago, the population was greatly reduced, and later the regulations were relaxed, and the standards were different from place to place, and as a new city-state, Florence had many loose rules.

At present, if you have the status of a knight, you can participate in horse warfare and ride a gun, even if it is only the first generation of poor knights who have no land.

The spears were provided by the organizers, so they were set up outside the pastures, and carpenters cut down the forests from the nearby forest day and night to make them.

You can also bring your own, other equipment, participants must bring their own, if it is damaged, there are also repairs to armor, horseshoes and other guilds outside the competition field.

The knight dreams, and the blacksmith makes a fortune.

"A beautiful sword that can break through iron and stone, with a scabbard, only costs one gold ruble."

"Honorable guests?"

"Are you worthy?"

"How many do you have?"

……

Horses are frightened and broken, knights fall and are badly injured, or broken sawdust is stuck in the throat or eye. For poor aristocratic contestants, this can be seen as a kind of gambling on the family business, and it can also be disabled, and the huge medical expenses can bankrupt people.

At the end of each rifle battle, the winner can take the armor from the loser.

Dressed in red cloth and riding on a black horse, Albert rode alongside Bran. There are two tall riders leading the way (blocking cold arrows) in front, and several dogs on the ground are running back and forth, sniffing for anything suspicious.

The two teenagers were protected by fourteen people behind them.

As an archon, as soon as Albert appeared, the voices of the people who addressed him by title were constantly present.

They kept shouting about being in power, hoping that the teenager would continue to enact the kind of bill that would benefit the people.

"Hear me, it's noisy like a crow, my ears hurt." Albert complained to Bran, "Last week, my grandmother asked me to meet with a noble woman from nowhere, and the fifth, each more unbearable than the other, Liana is really an angel compared to them. ”

The marriage between close relatives among the nobles caused some women to have a genetic disease, and the young lady Albert had seen last week kept smirking at him, and his neck was always crooked, and finally Albert could not stand it anymore and ran away.

"I heard that one of the young ladies is the niece of His Royal Highness Byzantine Ashclay?"

"Yes, the third woman, so even if she is a fool, grandmother said that she is worth more than twice as much as Liana, if she is not stupid, I will not be able to take her turn, maybe her blood is really purple."

"Ashoclay!" Branmer pronounced the name, and the lords of Italy and North Africa called him the "Aegean Giant".

The giant does not mean that he is tall, and that Aschuclay is no different from a normal person, this nickname refers to the fact that the destruction when he is angry is comparable to that of a giant.

One man commands three duke titles.

Salt, fur, vegetables, paintings, grapes...... The commercial profits in the Aegean region made his power grow day by day.

Byzantium had the punishment of gouging out the eyes, castration, and amputation of the feet, and Ashklai loved to use these evil punishments, and those who betrayed him, once they were caught by him, without exception, would suffer this kind of suffering.

Not only was he the first important minister of Byzantium, but his mother was also the aunt of the Purple Emperor.

Therefore, he was also allowed to use the royal family name, and although he was not a pure royal family, he also wore a purple palace dress to participate in the discussion of state affairs.

Although in the past few years, he was defeated by Venice's "Reece Owen" due to a light enemy, but after several years of development, his strength has recovered.

Ashclay loved elegance, collected a large number of oriental art, and funded many artists to build gardens and squares in their own territories, so his reputation was heard by even the nobles of the British region in the north, and some nobles collected his paintings.

And he was very brave, and at the age of seventeen he participated in the Second Crusade and practiced a masterful archery.

Earlier he was called the first bow of the East China Sea (Eastern Mediterranean), and only then was he replaced with the Aegean Giant.

"This is purple blood! My friend, can I understand that you are showing off?"

Bran's sarcasm elicited a longer sigh from Albert.

"I'm probably going to marry Liana or this niece, depending on what His Highness Aschuclair talks to my grandmother this time...... You will be the godfather of my son, and you cannot refuse. ”

"When the time comes, you will receive my heartfelt blessings."

Bran suddenly stopped Ma Ting, asked the people around him to stay away, and said, "After the competition, really go north?"

"It is confirmed, there are eight feudal lords in Northern Italy, we support the Count of Barcelona and the Principality of Cannae, and we have also won the neutralization of the four forces to recognize us, and there are only two rival counts left, and the Count of Barcelona will personally lead the troops to subdue.

Appropriations have been allocated to prepare for arming, and if all goes well, according to the terms, after the war Florence will add about one-twentieth of the land, and two payments of two percent per annum, worth a thousand gold rubles, and the two allies will pay off the debt within ten years. ”

Bran and his grandfather had only learned about it in the morning, and it was kept extremely secret.

"Are you going to end up? Albert. ”

Bran digressed the subject.

"No, as a reminder from a friend, I suggest that you also let the mercenary group go."

Bran chuckled in response, and other nobles rode into the arena one after another, and the family members sat in the back carriage, square, round shield, hexagonal, octagonal, inverted triangle, irregular, petal-shaped, and all kinds of heraldic peaks poured in.

The musicians of the Quake family welcome guests with leather drums.

Wealthy aristocrats, with their armor gilded and shining, brought their own riding spears, sprayed red, black, green and other colors, and covered their horses with gorgeous robes, all of which appeared together, colorful and dazzling.

Some knights, who were expecting to come out on top in this tournament and had some strength but old equipment, secretly laughed at the foals who came to participate in the beauty pageant.

As the number of people grew, tents were erected one by one, with coats of arms on them, and the nobles who participated filled the open areas of the meadows, and when there were no games, they hid in them to be served by servants or rest.

Bran also returned to the master's seat with Albert.

Bran's eyes were fixed on the periphery, and Iron Mountain was rubbing his hands, and with the help of his guards, Iron Mountain carefully polished the parts of his body and put them on his head, face, chest and arms.

When Iron Mountain was dressed, he bowed his head to Bran in the direction of the master's seat, thanking the lord for giving him the opportunity to be in the limelight.

A rich aristocrat is able to do whatever he wants.

The list of melee fights will be obtained first by the owner.

Because Mrs. Meghan sponsored seventy and a half percent of the cost of the competition, Howard sponsored one percent.

Bran spread out the list to Iron Mountain yesterday and figured out the "win-loss route" with the best chance of winning the championship.

Bran doesn't need to buy everyone, he only needs to play a few strong players, and then put all the dangerous teams in the same region to maximize the advantage.

Tieshan participated in the melee fight, mainly because he was not very good at riding spear competitions.

In addition, his knightly qualifications were issued by Howard, and before the actual fiefdom, he was not recognized by the mainstream, and there was nothing wrong with participating in this kind of competition, and he himself had no objection.

And since Iron Mountain is the head of the regiment, he can't lose, otherwise he will lose face with the Teutonic Black Eagle Banner.

The shady weather makes the contestants who are all over the body heavy not so hot.

Half of the participants in the melee are members of the four major mercenary groups in Florence, and they take advantage of this opportunity to practice their martial arts.

The public eagerly speculated that the team would get the "golden flower crown".

This object is made of gold flowers, and it is not valuable in itself, but after the end of the game, it will be presented by the victor to the organizer or his family.

The organizer will then reward the corresponding price of gold coins. There is an extra hand order, which makes the matter of giving money more elegant.

The first team in the opening scene is the Teutonic mercenaries, Iron Mountain takes the two squad leaders, and the new groom Hilde the Shorty, who is cheering in the crowd, sincerely hopes that these three will lose, and the best teeth will be broken.

When Hilde was helping Bran take care of the horses these days, when he occasionally met these two squad leaders, he showed contemptuous eyes and sneers to himself, which made it difficult for Hilde, who was young and vigorous, to let go.

But things were contrary to his expectations, the opponent who looked obviously more "fat" was strong on the outside and dry in the middle, and was completely wiped out by Iron Mountain in an instant.

Tie Shan first swept over with a large sword, knocking down the leftmost short-haired player, and then raised his sword high and slashed viciously into the middle, his opponent failed to block, and the yellow cloth armor on his chest was scraped with a bloody mark.

The two lost their combat effectiveness, and the remaining one was surrounded by the three of Tieshan, who only held on for a few more seconds and decisively threw his sword to admit defeat.