Chapter 409: Bloodstained Demeanor

Soon, six fast horses with six people arrived at the city of Turin, Karst lay on the city wall and looked down a few times, saw that they stopped, and did not do anything else, and then the man named Muller took out a piece of blue cotton cloth from his pocket, this move surprised Karst, the blue flag on the battlefield is the meaning of negotiation, he also raised the blue flag yesterday to enter the army formation of Yir, so for this color, Karst is no stranger. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

It's just yesterday that the negotiation was just done, and the results obtained were also in a bad direction, and it was only a day later, and what was the reason for Il's sending people to negotiate with him? And he was so cautious, there were only so few people, but among these people, he sent his own right-hand man, Karst didn't understand Il's intentions, and the non-commissioned officer next to him naturally noticed the movement at the city gate, looked at Karst and asked:

"What should we do, Lord Earl?"

Karst pondered for a while, he didn't understand this step of Yir, even if Karst is confident enough in himself in the current situation, but if he really talks about how much he can still hold for a few days, Karst himself estimates, it will definitely not exceed ten days, this is still before yesterday, Karst's judgment, after yesterday's brutal offensive and defensive battle, this day may be shortened by about five days, with such a big advantage, Yir can be said to have won, and what needs to be paid is only the soldier's business, and what he can get is the whole of Piedmont。

Karst thought that if it were his own, he would never come to negotiate peace, how many soldiers wanted, and the land was very limited, if he could seize the land, he would be able to exchange for much more peasants, citizens, bureaucrats and soldiers than the soldiers, this can be said to be a profiteering business, which made Karst how could he refuse, so he took his own life, and Karst was very puzzled by Yier's actions.

In fact, Karst's analysis is not wrong, but because of the shrinking of the territory and the compression of the sphere of influence, Karst knows very little about the intelligence of the outside world, and he doesn't know how many dukes and governors are on the border of Monferrato and Saruzo, and they are gearing up, wanting to tear off a piece of fat girl's meat from Susa's fat sheep in order to fill his stomach, so he naturally doesn't know that what Il really cares about is not soldiers at all, but something very precious like time.

However, although Karst does not know, but since Ilr is willing to negotiate, Karst will naturally not object, although Karst still does not know what Jung and Muller want to talk about, but see that Ilr can send these two people to talk to him, he must be quite sincere, maybe he can talk about something, after all, although Karst has the will to die, but people will always have a glimmer of hope for the future until the last moment, if they can survive, Karst is naturally willing, and even if the final negotiation is not completed, then Karst does not have any loss, at most it is just a waste of saliva and rest time, regardless of whether the negotiation is successful or not, at least during this time, their own soldiers can take a rest first, and only need to leave a small number of people to guard, whether they succeed or lose, at least karst will earn this.

Regardless of success or failure, what else does Karst dare not do, waving his hand to the soldiers beside him, Karst walked down the city, he wanted to see for himself, what are these two people going to do when they come to their own city?

Jung and Müller watched the gate in front of them slowly being lowered, and finally landed on the other side of the moat, that is, on the dirt road where Jung and Müller were standing, and the two looked at each other, knowing that Karst had agreed to let them in, so they showed a look of mutual encouragement, and rode together towards the gate of the city of Turin.

At this time, outside the city of Turin, it was less than three hours after the end of the battle, and there was no time to clean up the body, and the large stone slab, which was used as both a gate and a bridge, fell on the road on the opposite bank, but it was directly pressed on the corpse, which made the road that should have been smooth a step away, which naturally could not be regarded as a matter for Jung and Muller, and after controlling their war horse collapsed, they walked on the moat.

Looking at the corpses all over the ground, the corpses of the Ils army are obviously a lot more than the corpses of the Karst army, many of them are already unrecognizable, and some are doused with boiling oil, and the whole body is decomposed to the point that it is not human-shaped, and in the entire moat, except for a small number of sandbags, most of the rest are the corpses of the soldiers, some are Il, some are karst, floating on it, occupying the surface of the entire river, mixed with the smell of the river water after a period of fermentation, very disgusting.

In addition to the smell of the whole river, Jung and Müller and others also had a deafening sound of mosquitoes in their ears, they parasitized on the corpses, constantly eating the flesh of the dead, often gathered together, like thousands of sardines in the deep sea gathered together, forming a black entity, from one corpse to another, constantly multipliing, eating, and expanding their ranks.

Most of those corpses had white eggs, floating on the surface of the water and on the corpses, some were eaten by parasites or maggots, and some were hatched and enriched into the ranks of mosquitoes and flies, the sound was so loud, the smell was so strong, the scene was terrifying, it was simply sensational, not to mention that Muller and Jung saw it with their own eyes, even if the two of them had been on the battlefield for a long time and were used to seeing life and death, some of them couldn't stand this terrible scene, and as for the four attendants who followed behind them, their faces were all white, like dying patients, swaying, as if they were about to fall to the ground at any time。

These four people are not knights, not even soldiers, they are completely the servants brought out by Muller and Jung from their own homes, the reason why they don't bring knights is that they are afraid that they will make Karst feel hostile, and secondly, they are afraid that after an accident, not only will they die but they will have to pay four knights, and this is more, for their families, every knight is very precious, if one dies, he can feel distressed for a long time, let alone two.

Especially for a thousand-year-old family like Jung, if the genealogy of each knight is extended upwards, most of them have a history of hundreds of years, which can be said to be longer than many aristocratic families, and the knights cultivated by these families can be said to have followed the Luger family for hundreds of years, and each family has a very deep relationship with the Luger family, and these knights are also the pillars of every family, if they destroy one, this is an immeasurable crime for the entire Luger family, and even for the culture and history of Saruzo, so Jung would never have let them carry out such a dangerous mission.

Besides, even if it is six knights, if Karst really wants to kill them, according to the power he felt on the hillside yesterday, Jung does not think that six knights can do karst, although knights and medal knights are both knights, but the difference between the two is not only the difference between quantity and quantity, but the difference between quantity and quality, although it has not yet reached the point of difference between cloud and mud, but this gap is indeed not small, unless hundreds of knights attack together, otherwise it is very unrealistic to rely on the strength of the people to eliminate Karst, so Jung and Müller only need to have two insignificant servants enough。

Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Jung and Müller's hearts became heavier and heavier, and as they got closer and closer to the walls of Turin, they also saw a more exciting scene, the whole wall, all stained with human blood, smashed on the gray stone wall, dyed black, there were also many mosquitoes and flies on it, they were happily sucking their drinks, they kept crawling on the wall, like glass in a kaleidoscope that changes at any time, but the former made people feel disgusting, and the latter made people feel magical。

Walking through this heavy stone gate, Jung and Müller saw the karst that appeared on the hillside yesterday, at this time Karst was still wearing the yellow-green armor, looking very tall and solemn, Jung and Müller did not look around at this time, but rode in the direction of Karst, and finally stopped in front of Karst.

"Greetings to the Count of Karst, Viscount Müller in Lower Saluzzo. Müller took off the hat on his head, this time Jung and Müller in order to create an image of peace, not only did they not carry any weapons, but they were also wearing hunting clothes, a kind of light cavalry, and did not wear those heavy armor, so now they are wearing a hat to block the wind, not a steel helmet.

Taking off his hat, firstly, to show respect, and secondly, to show that there was no hostility, Karst saw Muller behaving like this, although he did not know why, he also took off his steel helmet and said to Muller and Jung: "Welcome to my city, Monsieur Müller, Monsieur Jung." “

Karst's words seemed very polite, Jung glanced at Karst, and didn't say much, this time the envoy to negotiate, Mill is the chief official, he is just an adjutant to raise Muller's value, all negotiation matters are based on Mill's decision as the final decision, so Jung does not need to speak, just when Karst expresses friendship, just show a cordial appearance appropriately, as for dealing with Karst, it is naturally handed over to Muller, a diplomat.

So when I met and said hello to Karst, Jung's two eyes looked around, but after looking around, I didn't find anything, almost all the places around had soldier handles, and there were many places that were covered with sackcloth, and what was put in it was not particularly clear, it can be said that Karst did not underestimate the enemy in terms of secrecy, which made Jung firmly remember, and looked at Müller and Karst, and focused on the conversation.

At this time, Müller and Karst were still greeting, Jung glanced at Müller, and felt a little strange in his heart, this time he did not come to greet me, but to discuss the issue of peace, why did these two people still talk about it? Jung had doubts in his heart, but because he had agreed to hand over the negotiation power to Müller in advance, although Jung was anxious, he could only watch from the sidelines, waiting for Müller to find out the result.

At this time, Muller was actually very anxious, although as an old aristocrat, he had no less bad problems, including extremely cumbersome, but there was no use for greetings, but Muller was not a fool, he naturally knew that this time should be a quick solution, but he wanted to put things on the right track several times, but he was always avoided by Karst, and discussed today's weather or the handling of casualties, so that Muller always couldn't say it.

As an experienced diplomat, Muller knows very well that whoever shows his hole cards first, who will suffer more losses, although it is also a political marriage, but as a member of Saruzo, Muller naturally does not want to see Il pay too much, so he always wants to pull out a tail and talk slowly, but Karst is not hit, for him, this negotiation itself is meaningless, so his only meaning is to buy time to give his army more rest, this is the only meaning that Muller and Jung brought to the negotiation, to him。

So he naturally had to keep talking, interrupting Müller's speech, so as to gain more time, time for him now, even if it is five minutes, every second counts, until he saw that Müller was about to be in a hurry, Karst stopped talking nonsense, and got to the point, Karst looked at Müller, and he asked in a rather interested tone:

"Monsieur Müller, I wonder what the Count of Il has sent you and Monsieur Jung to my city for this time, if you want me to surrender, then you can go back now, I will never surrender, if you want to return Piedmont to me, please let him come to me in person, I don't want to trust a man who doesn't even want to see me in person." “

Mueller saw that Karst had finally ended the topic of greetings and talked about the topic, he was relieved, glanced at Jung next to him, and found that Jung was also relieved, calmed down his turbulent mood a little, warned himself not to make a big mistake, and said to Karst: "Count Karst, I have come this time for peace. “

"Peace?hahaha, didn't Count Il already reject my peace yesterday?" Karst sneered, Karst's laughter was very loud, and the soldiers around him heard it and laughed one after another, many of the people lying on the ground, watching this side also laughed when they heard the laughter, and in an instant the entire Turin City was laughing, although Muller and Jung did not show a half annoyed expression on their faces, but the servants behind them were very angry, if it weren't for the fact that this was in the enemy's territory, and the master had said in advance that they were absolutely not allowed to act rashly, the four of them would have rushed out and scolded Karst no matter what they said.