Chapter 308: Alice's melancholy
On the avenue led by Jones, there was an unusual scene today, a team of more than 200 knights was galloping on the avenue, stirring up countless smoke and dust.
If you have a little knowledge, you can immediately recognize that these horsemen have rose badges on their chests, and they are none other than the Rose Knights of the Jones family.
"Nadine, how long will it be before the Stormwind Collar is here!"
The man who spoke was a pretty young woman, none other than Lord Alice, the Earl of Jones.
At this moment, Alice is wearing a beautiful set of silver armor, which is like a work of art, and the silver armor fluctuates with the curves of Alice Miaoman's figure, and the red cloak behind her makes Alice, who is already stunning, even more heroic.
However, there was a hint of melancholy on Alice's beautiful face at the moment.
"My lord, we'll be able to reach the Storm Collar in about half a day's journey!"
The newly appointed Grand Commander Nadine did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly answered loudly when he heard Alice's question.
"Half a day?"
Hearing this, Alice's brows furrowed, obviously dissatisfied with this long time, so Alice immediately ordered Nadine.
"Keep everyone up to speed! No need to keep horsepower! ”
When Nadine heard Alice's words, he didn't do it immediately, but reminded with some hesitation: "My lord, we have been on the road non-stop for a day and a night, although the horses' foot strength can still hold on, but if the horses are allowed to run at full strength now, it is likely that these horses will be abolished after reaching the Storm Territory!" ”
Originally, he, the newly appointed Grand Commander, should have expressed his obedience to the Earl at the most of this song, but this was the consequence of more than two hundred war horses, and Nadine could not hesitate.
You must know that the horses of the Rose Knights are all excellent war horses, one is also worth more than ten gold coins, in addition to money, high-grade war horses are one of the most valuable belongings under every nobleman.
A war horse like this, unless it is really fighting on the battlefield, will release the horse's foot strength without any scruples, and even if it is training in peacetime, it does not dare to let the horse be too tired, so as not to be injured.
"I know, you can do what I tell you to do!"
Alice's face was cold, and she didn't hesitate at Nadine's reminder.
"Yes, sir!"
Nadine didn't dare to say more, Lord Earl had already given the order again, and it would be different if he spoke again, Nadine answered Alice, turned around and shouted to the team behind: "Lord Earl has an order, hurry with all your might!" ”
As Nadine shouted, all the knights raised their whips and whipped them on the buttocks of the horses, and the horses felt the whipping of the leather whips, and immediately began to speed up, and in an instant, the speed of this cavalry team of more than two hundred people increased by three points.
This time, not only the Rose Knights went to the Stormwind Territory with Alice, but also four or five vassals were also summoned by Alice on the way, and Gandalf was one of them.
Hearing the conversation between Alice and Nadine, Gandalf was really moved, this is more than 200 high-quality war horses, but Alice didn't care about it for her little Gervais.
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"I hope it's too late to get over now, Gervais, you must stay in the castle!"
As the horse's speed increased, the red cloak behind Alice's back was blown by the strong wind.
Alice is a woman, but as a Silver Knight, riding a horse is not a hard task for her, and her only concern now is the safety of Gervais and Stormlord.
When the pirates appeared a few days ago, they didn't attract much attention from Alice at first, because the information reported by several vassals showed that the group of pirates numbered only two or three hundred people, and only dared to raid coastal villages.
Although this kind of thing doesn't happen much, but the principality occasionally encounters it every year during the harvest season, and these weak pirates will basically go ashore and plunder a few times and then they will stop and flee, even if they don't stop and flee, then when the ships are mobilized, as long as they find the traces of pirates, it will be easy to wipe them out.
So Alice handed over the matter of piracy to Lina, and asked her to arrange the mobilization of ships to fight the pirates.
Alice had thought that the matter of this pirate would be settled soon, and her whole mind was focused on this southern expedition and her own cultivation.
Unexpectedly, just two days ago, Rose Castle received information from a spy, and after receiving this information, Alice was so surprised that she couldn't sit still anymore.
The content of the spies' report can be said to be earth-shattering.
The pirates who attacked Jones were not a small group of weak pirates, but a large group of pirates with a relationship with the Larkin family, who were extremely powerful, and the real target of these pirates was her cheap husband, Viscount Gervais.
The group of pirates sent by Count Avery numbered in the thousands, as well as ten knights, including four silver knights, who were specially there to intercept Gervais, and secondly, for the vines of the Stormwind.
Alice did not question the authenticity of the content of this news, because this spy has been lurking in the Larkin family's castle for more than 10 years, and usually does not move easily, and only does the most urgent things to do.
Similarly, if this news is delivered, it means that the identity of the spy is not far from being exposed, because the number of people who can know this kind of news is very small, and it only takes a little investigation to find out who did it.
The spy was already on his way back to Jones's territory, and the news was that he had sent someone to bring it back with a caravan.
If it was before the birthday party, if Alice knew that someone was going to kill Gervais, although she would have made a move, she would not have been so anxious and went there in person.
But since getting along with Gervais some time ago, and Gervais saved her from Rohr despite the danger, Alice has regarded Gervais as someone close to her.
Moreover, Gervais himself and his golden wine are destined to bring endless benefits to Jones Collar, so Alice does not want Gervais to have an accident anyway.
At the moment of reading the letter, Alice personally ordered to gather two teams of rose knights and immediately set off towards the storm leader.
Worried that the number of silver knights on her side was too small, Alice sent someone to gather her vassals on the road.
Although the spies transmitted the information, because of the long distance and the fact that it was brought back by a caravan, the caravan could not be said to be slow, but it was definitely not as fast as a sea ship.
Following the route of the pirates' attack on Jones's territory two days ago, Alice speculated that the pirates would start attacking Gervais's territory today and tomorrow.
Alice only hoped that Gervais would be lucky enough to hide in the castle and not fight, these pirates knew how to show weakness to the enemy, and deliberately sent two or three hundred men to raid other territories, giving them the impression that the pirates were not strong, probably to lure Gervais out of the castle.
Because as long as Gervais hides in the castle and does not move, with the help of a strong castle and a large number of soldiers and men, even if thousands of pirates want to capture Rose Castle, it is not something that can be done in a short time.
As for in the wild, will Gervais be able to defeat pirates?
Alice felt that there was not even a chance at all, knowing that in Gervais's territory, the only knight with the title was himself, and although the soldiers under his command were elite, the odds of victory were still slim in the face of the pirate's numerical advantage and many knights.
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However, the more people are afraid of something, the more things tend to go in that direction.
Just as Alice was in a hurry, Gervais did not know that danger was coming, and a huge conspiracy was slowly approaching him, which made him quite excited.
Because Laurie, who was on duty at the seaside, had already sent someone to report quickly, five large ships appeared in the sea, and it was likely that they were pirates who had plundered Jones's territory during this time.