Chapter 224: The Rose Knights
Half an hour later, Lina came to Alice's side, and after whispering a few words to Alice, Alice nodded and said to Lina, "Then let's start!" ”
"Yes, sir!"
Lina received Alice's orders, saluted Alice, and then walked quickly to the side.
In a few moments, more than a dozen guards came out of the underground passage of the Colosseum, and although they wore the tunics marked by the Jones family, they had no weapons in their hands, and each of them held a huge horn in his hand.
Honk! Honk! Honk!
The guards with horns came to the high platform at the edge of the arena and lined up, and everyone raised their horns and blew them.
When the horn sounded, everyone in the gladiatorial arena knew that this meant that today's military parade had officially begun, so both nobles and commoners suppressed their voices, and then stood up from their seats, and after everyone got up, Alice slowly stood up at the end.
After Alice stood up, she looked up at the entire gladiatorial arena and said slowly, "Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Jones family and my personal thanks, I would like to thank you all for coming to Rose Castle for my birthday. ”
"I declare the official start of today's parade!"
Alice, who was standing next to Gervais, was full of aura at the moment, like a superior who really controlled all the killings and seizures of life, which made Gervais secretly frightened, this was the first time he had seen Alice have such momentum.
When Alice's words fell, all the spectators in the arena cheered, except for the central stand, most of the gladiatorial arena were small nobles or commoners led by Jones, and no one dared to snub their monarch.
In the midst of this cheer, the sound of horns came from the high platform in the middle of the field again, this time three long and one short.
After the sound of the horn, the entire gladiatorial arena resounded like thunderous horses' hooves, and in the eight underground passages of the gladiatorial arena, dozens of cavalrymen in silver armor rushed out of each entrance, and these cavalrymen were none other than the elite of the Jones family, the Rose Knights.
There were always 210 cavalrymen in the arena today, and although it sounded like a small number, none of the representatives of the seven counts in the central stand dared to look down on them, because these 210 people were all knights.
Among them, the lowest cultivation is also a bronze low-level knight, and the highest cultivation has reached the silver peak knight.
When the earl's representatives saw the realm cultivation of the 210 people in the field, most of them had a solemn look on their faces. Because these 210 knights in the field alone are comparable to the elite legions of the seven families.
Although other families also have such elite legions, the number of knights with titles is completely inferior to that of the Jones family.
Even a family with a rich mine like the Kowan family has only more than 150 knights, and other earl families with lower strength may not even be able to reach 100 knights.
The title knights in the Rose Knights are different from Gandalf's vassals, although these knights will also have an honorary title, but they have no fiefdom and no other source of income, they live on military salaries on weekdays, in order to ensure the loyalty of these people, it can be said that the Jones family gives a very high salary.
The lowest-ranking knight in the Rose Knights starts with a military salary of 6 gold coins a year, and with the higher the position and realm, the more military salaries are paid, and 210 people need at least 1500 gold coins a year, which is equivalent to the tax of the baron lord for at least five years.
And in addition to the basic military salary, like such an elite army, the nobles have to give them living subsidies from time to time, as well as arrange good jobs for their families, and even housing has to be solved for them.
If you want these knights to be more elite, you need to practice more rigorously, and the weapons and equipment lost during this period are completely incomparable to ordinary guards, after all, the strength of the knights has been greatly improved, which also accelerates the speed of weapon breakage.
The 210 members of the Rose Knights alone spend more than 2,000 gold coins a year, and if they don't have enough foundation, there are really few families who can afford to cultivate such a legion.
In addition to these 210 knights, the Rose Knights also have 1,000 trainee knights, and these trainee knights are all reserve troops of the title knights, although the treatment enjoyed is not as good as the title knights of 210 people, but it will not be bad.
Originally, there were old earls and the Rose Knights, and the Jones family can be said to be the first of the eight earls, and the scenery is unique for a while.
However, because of the disappearance of the old earl, the Jones family is like a lame lion, and the hungry wolves around are eyeing each other.
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After entering the Colosseum, the 210 knights of the Rose Order galloped around the Colosseum twice before all gathered in the center of the arena.
210 knights rode horses in a neat row, and standing at the front was a middle-aged man in the realm of a silver peak knight, this middle-aged man was burly, and it was the commander of the Rose Knights - Rohr, and there were 9 silver knights standing after Rohr.
Seeing that all his subordinates were lined up neatly, Rohr took a few steps forward, then turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and greeted Alice: "Lord Earl, the commander of the Rose Knights, Rohr Bridger, is waiting for your order!" ”
"Commander Rohr, today is my birthday, and in order to welcome you from afar, it is time to show your bravery!"
Facing her subordinates, Alice certainly didn't need to get up, so she sat on the main seat and commanded Rohr below.
"As you wish, my lord!"
Rohr saluted Alice again, then turned over and urged him to return to his original position, and then shouted to all the knights in the field: "Your Excellency has an order!" The first squad and the second squad are out! The others retreated to the sidelines to stand on guard! ”
"Yes!"
Suddenly, the horses in the field neighed, the smoke and dust rolled again, and all the knights moved, heading towards the edge of the dueling arena, and there was only a squad of twenty knights left in the field!
At this time, an underground passage two hundred meters in front of the twenty-person team was also slowly opened, and a huge carriage covered with a black cloth slowly appeared at the edge of the square.
When the carriage came to the field, several soldiers who followed behind the carriage quickly stepped forward and quickly lifted the black cloth from the huge carriage.
Airplanes! Airplanes! Airplanes!
The moment the black cloth was lifted, the entire audience in the arena saw what was underneath the black cloth.
I saw that the carriage was equipped with a huge iron cage, and each steel bar of the iron cage was the thickness of an adult's arm, and what shocked the audience the most was that there was a huge demonic beast locked in the iron cage.
"Oh my God, is that the Frost White Tiger? Mid-tier Warcraft? ”
"It's the Frost White Tiger, a mid-level magical beast that can release three spells! What does Alice want to do? Let those twenty Bronze Knights slay the mid-level Demonic Beasts? How is this possible, this mid-level Demonic Beast has to be cautious even if it is five Silver Knights! ”
"Where did they transport the mid-level demonic beasts from, aren't they worried about the frost white tiger running out of the cage?"
"That cage should be forged by Mithril, otherwise it will definitely not be able to trap a mid-level demonic beast!"
"Hiss~ The Jones family is so rich!"
In an instant, everyone in the field was whispering, including several earl representatives, after all, they were born into a big family, even if the demonic beasts were rare, they also confirmed the breed of the demonic beasts in the iron cage below for the first time.
It's just that in their opinion, Alice asked these 20 knights to deal with the mid-level demonic beasts, which was completely to send her subordinates to death.
"Raise your guns and prepare for battle!"
The moment the monster appeared, Luo Er gave an order, and the 20 knights of the first and second teams immediately raised the spears in their hands, these spears are four meters long, and the whole body is made of fine iron, of course, the weight is not light, only the title knight can use it, such a spear can easily pierce the enemy's armor with the help of the impact force of horses on the battlefield, and even a string of more than one also occurs from time to time.