Chapter 42: Birthday 2

Intense white light danced in the air, refracting onto the knight's armor, and the light was so radiant that it was difficult to open your eyes and look at it directly.

Sandifo squinted his eyes, adjusting for a moment, and was the first to see the banner being held by the knight beside the prince.

The flagpole is more than two and a half meters, and the flag is held in the air and flutters in the wind, and a peregrine falcon with wings can be seen tattooed on the bright red flag, and the peregrine falcon has a golden crown on its head.

Seeing this flag, Sandifu knew that this plan might not even have a chance to turn the tables, this is the emblem flag that only members of the royal family can use, there is no doubt that there are members of the royal family in this team of people out of the city, and it seems that the status is not low.

Prince Philip rode his horse to the front, and Gehr was slightly half a position behind, followed by the Prince's Bodyguard Knights and the three Brotherhood of Steel Knights who were still by Gehr's side.

Under the leadership of Prince Philip, the speed of the team was just right, and when the three squadrons that came to support reached the edge of Fort Twilight, Prince Philip's horse landed on the other side of the moat.

Egbert also felt wrong at this time and rushed up with people, so that the two teams of Sandifo and Prince Philip were facing each other dozens of meters apart, and the armies on both sides were in their respective positions behind them.

"I'm Philip Nicklaus von Friedrich, and this is the direct territory of the royal family of Konatas, and you have entered the direct territory of the royal family without permission, do you want to rebel, or does your father want to be king?"

Today, the prince specially wore a formal dress from outside the royal family, with the badge representing the royal family and the emblem flag around him, which suddenly looked majestic, coupled with the angry shouting and scolding, completely ignoring that he was an old man who was close to his twilight years.

"Prince Philip?!"

The prince's scolding made Sandifu's eyes flicker. He had no idea that a prince would appear here at this time, especially a member of the royal family with a lot of weight like Prince Philip, which was much more serious than the situation of a random member of the royal family.

There was a faint commotion from the army behind them, and Sandy Fu knew that it was the seventh squadron that had seen Prince Philip's emblem, and that they were not the private soldiers of the Garro family, as soldiers of the Northern Legion, they all had a considerable fear of the royal family.

"Good day, Your Excellency, I think this is a misunderstanding. I have come here to represent my father to safeguard the lives of the nobles of his subordinates, and to impartially supervise the rites of the succession of Baron Colborne. With all due respect, as far as I know, this has always been the domain of the Colbenson family, and when did it become a direct territory of the Crown?"

Sandifo's brain was constantly running at high speed, trying to find a solution to the dilemma in front of him, and at the same time testing Prince Philip.

Philip ignored Sandifo's temptation, turned his gaze directly to Egbert, who came up from behind, and asked sternly, "Who are you, where are you in the Northern Army, and why are you here?"

"Your Highness, I am Captain Egbert of the Seventh Squadron. During the marching training, he received a call for help from several nobles, so he rushed to support, and the specific situation ......" Egbert looked at Sandifu on the side, and after a slight hesitation, he gritted his teeth and made a decision, the most important thing now is to take himself out of the gang first, and he can't dig into his backer Baron Landsdowne along his own line. “...... I still don't know the specific situation, so I ask Your Highness to tell me what to do next. ”

Prince Philip stared at Egbert for a while, and cold sweat broke out on the back of the strong man he saw, and then he nodded, and his voice softened a little: "You take your people away." ”

"Yes, sir!"

Seeing that Egbert, who was in amnesty, hurried to the other side of the procession, Prince Philip once again turned his attention to Sandifo: "On May 30, 1732, on behalf of the Royal Family, I officially witnessed the succession of Griezmann Wolfgang Colbenson to Baron Colborne, and I confirmed that all procedures were reasonable and valid, and endorsed on behalf of the Crown, and on behalf of the Crown, I agreed to Baron Colbornson's request to present Colbenson Collar to the Crown, and the original Colbenson Territory officially returned to the Crown Crown from May 31......"

"Gift to ...... Royal Family !!"

Prince Philip's words struck Sandifo like a bolt of lightning.

The royal family's participation in the certification of the title inheritance is what he can expect, and this is not without a solution, it is just a slow fight between the royal power and the local aristocratic power, you admit yours, and I still don't recognize it. But once Colbenson becomes a direct crown lord, it's not the same thing.

Although Earl Carter's side can also refuse to recognize the ownership of Colburnson as belonging to the royal family on the grounds of not recognizing Gehr's inheritance rights, the royal family can still rely on the territorial gift signed by Gehr to justify sending troops to station.

And once the royal family gains a solid foothold in Joberna County and garrisons troops, then the royal family's control over the Northern Army will be greatly increased, and the corresponding local nobles led by Earl Carter will greatly reduce the influence of the Northern Army, which in turn will affect Earl Carter's control over Joberna County, and the more important chain reaction is that the royal family can use Colburnson as a springboard to expand its influence in the north, where the royal family's control is the weakest, which is a great disaster for all the northern nobles who are actually in a semi-independent state。

After entering the industrial revolution, the improvement of the overall national strength has greatly increased the royal family's ability to control the country, and it is no longer the embarrassment that the royal family is equal to the largest nobleman in the country and can only control the territory directly under it, but the improvement of the royal family's control means that it is necessary to strengthen the control over the locality, which touches the most important cake of the traditional fiefdom aristocracy, which is the biggest contradiction between the royal family and the nobles.

The north has always been one of the basic plates of the traditional aristocracy against the royal family, as if surrounded by thick eggshells, the royal family has always been bitter about how to deal with it. But now, Colburnson is the hammer that smashes the eggshell.

As a member of the traditional aristocracy, Sandifu listened to his father Earl Carter discuss with others every day how to fight against the royal family, and knew very well the relationship between the northern aristocracy and the royal family, so the next son deduced the consequences, thinking of this, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, this is completely a blow to subvert the lifeblood of the nobility like them, and Earl Carter is undoubtedly the first to bear the brunt.

And that's just a matter of politics, and that terrible gold mine, once controlled by the royal family, will add another heavy weight to the game between the two sides.

But the problem is that Sandifu can't believe that Gell will give away the territory to the royal family. You must know that for a fiefdom nobleman, land is the foundation of the lifeline of their family, without land, there is no family, there is no right, then this nobleman is nothing, otherwise, with the kind of life-and-death friendship between Baron André and Prince Philip, how could it be that he has never opened this opening after the most Lu?

Of course, he would not understand that Gehr's soul did not belong to this world, and his view of this was completely different, Gehr believed that as long as he existed in the Colbenson family, the two were one, and as for the land, it was only a value, and when the cost of holding it far exceeded its bearing, he would not hesitate to abandon it.

"Gehr, it seems that this knight still doesn't believe it, show him the proof. ”

While Sandifo was still in his mind, Prince Philip spoke again. Then he saw the man who he saw as the culprit of all this, now Baron Colbenson, rode away from the group, and slowly came towards him with the reins in his right hand and some papers in his left hand.

This can only be regarded as a young man's new baron Sandifu knows a lot about him, knowing that his bow skills are particularly good, and he has also shot a knight-level master, and looking at the events in Winterdusk Castle, he knows that he must have a hand in playing with power.

Seeing that Gelzema came to the middle of the two teams and stopped advancing, as if waiting for him to pass, Sandifu did not hesitate, signaling the knights around him not to follow, and he rode his horse alone to meet him, he had absolute confidence in his skills.

Coming to Gehr, Sandifu could see the young man's face very clearly. His expression was a little indifferent, and in some narrow eye sockets were a pair of calm, almost cold eyes, and as soon as he saw his purple eyes, Sandifu thought of those wild wolves wandering in the wasteland, cruel and without the slightest mercy.

Taking the paperwork, Sandifo looked at it, and it was no different from what the prince said, it was indeed a treaty about the gift of the territory and a document proving the validity of Geer's succession to the title. All the plans came to naught, and a wave of anger suddenly rose, and Sandifo wanted to destroy these documents, but he did not do so, the two parties who signed the treaty were in front of him, and even if they were destroyed, they could make another copy at any time, which was just useless and made others laugh.

How about killing him altogether?

Thinking of this, Sandifoe turned his gaze to Gehr's neck again, but looked at Prince Philip not far away, he knew that this was not a good time, so he could only viciously use words to vent his anger at Gehr: "Don't be complacent, this matter is not over yet!"

"yes? I think it's over. ”

The corners of Geer's mouth hooked an arc, his right hand moved, a crisp wind groan sounded, the straight knife on his waist was already out of the sheath, and an arc of light was as cold as a crescent moon, crossing the distance between the two, and it was fleeting.

Sandifu knew that something was wrong when he felt the sudden burst of murderous aura, but Gehr's movements were too fast, and it was completely beyond his reflexes, and when he subconsciously pulled out the sword in half, his neck was already cold, and his strength disappeared in an instant, and he could no longer hold the hilt of the sword, and everything was over.

First there was a shallow thin mark, then a drop of blood oozed out, and in the next moment, the fine mark expanded into a crack, and blood gushed out.

"Thank you, it's a nice birthday present. Gehr reached out and grabbed Sandifu's hair and kicked the horse in the belly, and the horse obediently took a few steps back, leaving the headless corpse.

There was silence in the room, except for Prince Philip, who knew about it, everyone else was stunned by this incident.

Gehr pulled the reins of the horse hard, and the forelimbs of the war horse soared into the air, and Gehr, who held Sandifo's head high, to a height that everyone could see......

"The Garro family sent troops to the royal territory without authorization, intending to rebel, and the crime should not be forgiven. Now the first evil has been removed, and the servant surrenders and is exempted!"