When the knight returned, all the people looked at him and prayed silently, and the knight followed him.

The only sound on the battlefield was the groans of dying soldiers, and beside the stake fence, some farmers with spears and pitchforks were cursing and stabbing through the throats of dying soldiers. For some soldiers, such a death was a relief. @!

Two knights, accompanied by us, arrived in front of our position. Apparently, the knight was surprised by the corpses left in front of our position, and he rode his horse to examine the corpses of these soldiers from left to right, shaking his head constantly, and then looking up at the peasant soldiers behind our pointed stakes with an incredulous expression. He didn't seem to believe that such casualties were of our making, and he couldn't figure out why a group of farmers and exhausted Varan soldiers could kill and wound more than a thousand able-bodied council soldiers.

The knight sighed for a moment, then returned to the side of the knight, and the two knights talked, and then the knight began to speak to us.

"Soldiers of the Church!" The knight let out a hoarse shout. "And the rebels of Valan who are protected by the Church!"

"I am Anatoly Grand Boyar of Ivangelodes, from the Andofel family. I assure you in my name and in my family's name that every word I say today represents the will of the Parliament. Brave soldiers, I have seen your amazing bravery and legendary results, and now, enough blood has been shed, I have come to propose peace. ”

"In the council's camp, every soldier is talking about the miracle of the sword in the stone." Anatoly Bolkyar said, "Tell the truth. I don't believe it. In Eastern Wikia, if there are not a dozen false prophets and hundreds of paranormal people in a year. Even if it's a little weird in the past few years. But here I have seen the results of your battle, and if this is the work of man, then all the council soldiers should go home and farm. Such victory does not belong to you, but to the angels who protect you. The princes of the council have paid the price for their arrogance, and when we decide to attack the army of the Church, we are doomed to taste the bitter consequences of this defeat. ”

"The Church's demands for an end to the civil war are justified, and the Parliament's demands for the pacification of Valankov are equally legitimate." Knight Anatoly said, "That's why. The angel made the council recover Valankov, and let the council suffer losses as it continued to fight, these are the will of God, and mortals can only obey it. Actually, I am not here to propose peace, because this peace was won by your courage, and I am here to recognize it on behalf of the Parliament. Let the victory of the council be the council, and the victory of the church be the church. Our conditions are as follows: the parliament will keep Varankov; The parliament will expel the bandit leader Giovanni; The council will recognize the victory of the Church; The council will convene bishops to discuss miracles; The council will dissuade the nobility from imputing the church army. ”

While we were still at a loss, the Anatoly knights summed up, "Warriors, the civil war is over. ”

Some of the Valan soldiers sat down on the ground tired. Some soldiers took off their helmets and knelt down to pray, while others burst into laughter, which began to grow louder. It ended up in cheers. Some pilgrim soldiers raised a cross, where they shouted Long live the sword of the angels. The soldiers raised their helmets and weapons from behind the wooden stakes. Or throw your quivers, gloves, boots, and so on into the air.

Lothar summoned more than two hundred soldiers and asked them to assemble on the high ground. Closely follow the movements of the parliamentary troops. As long as the council soldiers do not evacuate the plain in front of them, they will remain on guard until the danger is lifted.

Over the next few hours, soldiers from various legions sent men in wagons to collect the bodies in front of our position. They piled up the dead soldiers in different places according to the differences between the various princely titles. From time to time, a council soldier recognized a friend or fellow countryman and cried, and crows swirled in the sky. The dead soldiers had become terrible, their faces grim and pale, and their bloody wounds made them look like demonic warriors. The carts were moving back and forth on the flat ground in front of us, and some of our peasant archers stepped out of the fence to see what was going on. When one or two peasants began to strip the Burke mercenaries of their equipment, many of them could not resist the temptation and left their positions to plunder the corpses. The officers could not stop the peasants even if they beat and scolded. The standing soldiers of the monastery were more disciplined, and the Varan soldiers did not even look at the large number of corpses piled up in front of the position. The value of these armors is expensive, and once plundered, it is very cost-effective to use it yourself or let the other party come to redeem it.

While looting the armor, many of the farmers clashed with the council soldiers and their minkers, who claimed that the contract had been concluded and that the armor should belong to them and could not be used for looting. But our farmer claims that these people died at the hands of the Angel's Sword, and that it is natural that the Church army should have taken the spoils of war. Skirmishes and brawls ensued, but with the help of the Tywi Knight and several Knight of the Council, the brawls did not end in disaster.

The cavalry of the Ryazan Fort, having recovered the bodies of more than sixty civilians who had died under the rain of arrows, turned around and left in the direction of Vlakov. Then came a group of council soldiers of the Great Eastern Lake City, who hastily buried the corpses of the people on a gentle slope, where the soldiers of the Great Eastern Lake City also retreated in the direction of Varykov after a prayer. They were followed by the Boyar Legion of the Parliament, and the Ivangelod Council recruited the people from all over the country, and they sometimes did not recognize all the soldiers who died for them, so they could only drag away the corpses in pieces according to the armor and decoration, and after they discovered the practices of the soldiers of Dadong Lake City, they felt that it was worth emulating, and buried these people on another piece of land. All the equipment of the dead soldiers was removed, and the armor and swords of the blood and mud were piled up on the wagons and wagons, rutted so deep that the earth was like a heavy plough and ditched.

The next afternoon, the soldiers of the Valan Regiment came to collect the corpses of the Valans. Before this, the corpses of the Valan soldiers had been taken away by Joey and his soldiers. When the soldiers of the Valan Regiment arrived, all the soldiers of the Valan Regiment had been lined up by the Valan soldiers. The armor of these Valan regimental soldiers was all taken by Giovanni. But instead of being stripped naked like a parliamentary soldier, he wore a single garment. The soldiers of the Valan regiment formed a long line. The soldiers of Kalinin's Valan regiment weptly identified the soldiers and carefully put them into the carriage. Each of the Valan soldiers looked at Giovanni's Duchy flag with a look of disgust, and they might have had sympathy and support for the Duchy of Valan, but by this time, this mildness was gone. The Valans of Kalinin hated Giovanni and his ambitious principality, and they thought that if it were not for Giovanni's ambitions, the Valans would not have shed so much blood. For thousands of years, the Varans have been integrated with the Wikirians. If it weren't for Giovanni, eventually the Valans would have disappeared into the Wiki like salt in the water, and merged with the Wikibians to form a new people. As the soldiers of the Valan Regiment left, they spat far away at the ranks of Valan soldiers. Giovanni's Duchy of Valan has lost some of its supporters forever. Of course, for those Valans who have not been on the battlefield, the Duchy of Valan will always be the destination and source of their illusions when they are down, but. This is a headache for Kalinin.

The soldiers of the city of Little East Lake lit a bonfire on the night of the second day, and what ceremony was being held in the distance, not knowing what Kalinin was talking to them. Kalinin didn't send anyone to summon me, and I didn't dare to run into the legions of Little East Lake City at this time. It is likely that Kalinin had all linked the siege of Little East Lake, the sending of Innocent's Church troops, my visit to his barracks, and the burning of his territory by Denia. It seems to me Kalinin. It is probably part of a conspiracy.

Emissaries were sent by the princes and boyars of Ryazan and other places, who were talking with the Tavi knights and Lothar in a makeshift shack. Maybe the Tywi Knight didn't tell me the whole truth, before Innocent set out. He presumably had made a secret agreement with the various princes. If there was no participation of the Church, then after the recovery of Varankov. De jure, it should belong to Kalinin; If the church is involved. Now the question of Varankov's ownership will be negotiated between the Church and the Council of East Wikia. Of course, this so-called church is nothing more than a puppet under the control of the council, but for Innocent, being manipulated by the council means that he is a puppet bishop, and being manipulated by Kalinin means that he is just a puppet abbot. How to choose, Innocent should not make a stupid decision.

The Eastern Wiki Council is a delicious and battered piece of cheese, and Kalinin is not the only one who sees the opportunity, Innocent has long been prepared for it. It would be interesting if the council moved the seat of the church from the river to Varynkov and turned it into an archdiocese and handed it over to Innocent. But in this case, Kalinin will certainly not sit still. The strength of the city of Xiaodonghu City is enough to be equal to two ordinary princes, plus his puppets and allies, Garin would rather not be comparable to the prince of Denia. If the prince of Denia is angry, he will only burn the village, and if Kalinin is angry, he may not be like the previous prince of Xiaodonghu City, and turn to the Burkes.

The next morning, when we got up, we found that the soldiers of Xiaodonghu City had already evacuated. Inside their makeshift camp, a vast field of ash was left behind, with corpses, ointment, broken arrows, broken spears, and branches left behind by the burning of ashes. For the disposal of corpses, the Valans mostly prefer to use a flat-bottomed boat as a coffin, in which stone spears and shields are placed, and the tomb owner has two pieces of stone from his homeland placed on the eyes. But this is the most extravagant funeral, and they can accept the burning of the bodies of soldiers who died in battle.

Varankov was still smoking.

The soldiers of the monastery, after burying the dead farmer and soldiers, hoped to leave for the return to the monastery. Their task of ending the civil war has been accomplished, and they do not want to wait here any longer, and the question of Varankov's negotiations after that is a matter between the envoys. The clamor was loud, and it had been many days since they left the monastery, and the Oak Knights had suffered heavy casualties, fearing that if they continued to stay outside, they would be implicated in other disputes. Fortunately, in the mood of victory, there were no deserters, but the lack of discipline on the march intensified.

The Valan soldiers rearmed. They had received a lot of armor and weapons from the Varan Regiment and the other corpses, but they had not yet returned to their former level of equipment. Because of the lack of medicines. In these two days, there were a large number of wounded deaths. Some of the frail soldiers had a fever and cough, which could not be cured even if the priest came to read the scriptures, presumably because of the curse of the undead soldiers, or because the plague was budding. Our scouts went down the tributaries of the Ryazan River to see if a fleet was coming; Others went to the Ryazan River valley; There were also some scouts who set off directly and headed to the shores of East Lake. The scouts who came back one after another reported that they had not found any fleet.

The food supply was already stretched thin, and after repeated urging by the Tavi knights, Prince Giovanni finally agreed to leave the position. Prince Giovanni wanted the knights of Taivi to lead the army. Return along the Ryazan River valley. The Knights of Tyvi refused, and now that the civil war was over and Giovanni was no longer the Grand Boyard in the Parliament, in fact, Giovanni was now in the same situation as an ordinary mercenary. If it weren't for Philip's uncertain support, the Tavi Knight would have been withdrawn to the monastery by Innocent long ago. I'm only now discovering my naivety, I always thought Innocent would value Philip's gratitude to him, and now I know whether Philip supports him or not. It was not crucial for Innocent, for whom collusion with the princes of Parliament was a solid ladder to the bishopric position. Philip's support is a better thing for him. It doesn't matter if it's gone.

Innocent never asks for gratitude when he gets what he needs. It's about trying to show your worth.

Kalinin may have been the loser of this parliamentary conspiracy: he owed the merchants a large amount of money, and the last moment of the siege was plucked by the Church. And it was forced to cease fighting, and Xiaodonghu City was besieged again. Now, his allies and puppets in Fort Ryazan and Dadonghu City are probably also thinking about it. If he can quickly deal with the grievances with the prince of Denia, he may be able to survive the current difficulties. If the siege of Xiaodonghu City continues for a long time, he may even feel difficult to keep Xiaodonghu City. The most important thing is that he didn't get Giovanni's head, which made him majestic, and because of the sudden emergence of the church, the nobles who originally hated Giovanni actually vaguely had the intention of colluding with Giovanni, which must have made Kalinin like a man. Kalinin, of course, wanted to end the siege, but it was supposed to end under his leadership, after many years of defeat and inability to recover from the defeat of the Principality of Valan.

The biggest variable here may be Innocent's army.

Although Innocent's soldiers were small in number and weak, he was unusually well timed, and intervened in the war at the most opportune time with the least amount of force. The princes of the parliament had been reluctant to shed their own blood to add glory to Kalinin, but they were afraid of the orders of the parliament and had to help in the war. In the name of the Church, Innocent gave the princes a chance to escape at this time, and put Kalinin into extreme passivity, and these princes would inevitably support Innocent's proposal for peace talks. Of course, they also tested Innocent's strength, and their attack was real and fast. If Innocent's ecclesiastical army could not resist such an attack, then the princes of the parliament would not dare to have a showdown with Kalinin. In the attack on us, Kalinin undoubtedly contributed the most, and the slackness of the parliamentary legions was undoubted.

We killed and wounded more than a thousand people in two days, and let the princes of the council know the power of Innocent. After they accepted the peace, the monastery's positive response made them aware of Innocent's good intentions. Supporting such a guy is worth their consideration.

It took half a day to leave the position. After that, we carefully crossed the tributary of the Ryazan River and walked along the bank for two days. Fortunately, on this evening we received a report from the scouts that a large number of fleets had sailed into the East Lake and were heading up the Ryazan River.

The Tavi Knight has fulfilled his promise to make peace, and he bids farewell to Giovanni. The Knight of Tavi wanted me to go back to the monastery with him, but I had to wait until the Valan soldiers had boarded the fleet before I could do so, so I chose to leave with the Valan soldiers. Tavi stopped reluctantly forcing me, admonished me with something like 'Be careful,' and left with the monastery's troops.

The war of independence of the Duchy of Valan, which once shook Eastern Wikia, has now come to an end, and there are still less than 600 soldiers at Giovanni's side.

"It's not as good as your past two regiments." I rode next to Giovanni and said to him.

Giovanni was wounded in the leg, riding on a military horse--- with his legs on the same side of the saddle--- like a virgin worried about breaking his body.

"You know what, Victor." Giovanni said in a weak voice, "These six hundred soldiers are better at fighting than the average six thousand soldiers. ”

Every shepherd and farmer we met along the way, when they saw us, fled. The news of the end of the siege of Valankov had not yet spread, and the Wikibians thought that this was a ill-intentioned Valan's army, just like before, who had come out to plunder villages and towns and replenish military rations.

After two days of marching along the Ryazan River, we were blocked by a narrow bank and had to turn north in search of a passage.

According to the scouts, we are only two days away from the fleet.

"Where are you going after that?" Giovanni said.

"Little East Lake City. I want Kalinin to fulfill his promise and canonize me as a boyar. ”

"Haha," he said with a mockery at me, almost falling off the saddle, "Kalinin will cut off your head, put it in a trebuchet, and throw it to the Maharaja of Denia as a gift." ”

"I did everything I said." I said to Giovanni, "Kalinin hates Innocent the most right now, not me." As long as you make trouble for the Nords in Creel, take the city and trade with Little East Lake, Kalinin will still be able to profit from it, and he will not be guilty of killing me as a nobody. As for the Parliament's desire to take away his Valankov, this is impossible, they can only delay the return of Valankov, but they cannot take away Kalinin's de jure land, otherwise the other princes will be in danger: today they condone the parliament to seize the legitimate territory of the princes, and tomorrow the parliament may threaten them. ”

"The city of Vrankov was burned to the ground," Giovanni said, "and the population was no longer what it used to be." Even if this place is lost, Kalinin will not suffer much loss. After all, at the time of the Principality's uprising, he had lost all these places, and now he had only gained very little, but it could not be said that he had gained nothing. ”

"As long as there is land and cities, Kalinin will fight for it."

"Leave him alone. Where did you find a group of big boyars to canonize you? ”

"There are quite a few in Xiaodonghu City."

"I know a few big boyars and have good personal relationships, but I don't know if they will nominate you in Parliament." He thought for a moment, "I'll arrange this, you can go to these people." He reminisced as he uttered a few names. Finally he said to me, "If they refuse to canonize you, you can find my people in any tavern, and I think you know how to find a Valan, right?" These people will harass the estates of the Great Boyars for you. ”

"It seems ''dishonorable.''

"Then don't go to them." Giovanni said indifferently.

A sharp horn sounded from afar.

The Valan soldiers stopped and looked back.

A patrolling cavalryman galloped on a sweaty horse, which seemed to be drenched in water.

"The soldiers of Xiaodonghu City have changed direction and are approaching us!" The cavalryman was terrified, "Cavalry, cavalry!" At least a hundred cavalry! There are too many infantry to count! ”

Giovanni gritted his teeth and waved a few soldiers, "Enter the forest!" ”

"Into the forest!"

"Into the forest!"

A low horn sounded across the riverbank, and the Valan soldiers quickly received the order, and in frustration and helplessness, they burrowed into the forest.

The shouts of the pursuers seemed to be faintly audible.

Kalinin's icy smile came to my mind.

"As long as the time is right," Kalinin once said to me, "I will attack Giovanni, and you should not have any delusions." ”