The night in May was not cold, and the carriage walked through the empty streets of the Normandy capital,

"This is probably the most luxurious prisoner car ever!"

Angelio sat in a luxurious carriage decorated with the coat of arms of the Duke's Palace, enjoying the highest level of glory that a Duchy minister could enjoy, and smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth, this was once the most prosperous street in Osend,

The flow of people is like weaving, the traffic is busy,

Even at night, it was a must-stop for the city's nobles to go to banquets, but now, there was not a single light to be seen on either side of the place, only the lonely sound of the carriage touching the stones, and the air was oppressively cold, and several knights of the guard wore the red cloak of the Praetorian Guards and walked slowly beside the car, and the horses' hooves trampled on the empty black street, which seemed to be protection in the name but was actually more like an escort

"Why does Lord Angelio think this, the Duke sent his own exclusive carriage to pick up the Lord, which proves his trust in the Lord!" said the Duke Squire, who was sitting opposite him, with a calm face

"Trust, joke, you know better than I how thin the Duke's trust in me is"

Angelio withdrew his gaze from the cold street next to him with complicated eyes, pretended to be loyal, and said slowly, "I have already seen it anyway, the person who rules this country is not the duke, but the woman from Kyoto! no matter how the duke treats me, I will have no complaints."

The duke's attendant, who was sitting opposite, was startled by this sentence, and looked at the guard knight outside in a panic, and found that he had not heard the conversation between the two, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Lord Angelio, be careful when you speak!" Although I am not comfortable to explain, but this time, the Duke does trust your lord very much!"

"yes, that's an accident!" Angelio looked stunned. After falling silent, the carriage walked through the long dark street ahead, facing the majestic Duke's Palace, and the footsteps of the patrol passed by the carriage, which stopped in front of the gate of the Duke's Palace

"Please, the Duke is still waiting for Your Excellency!" The attendant pulled out the carriage, Angelio stepped out of the carriage with some surprise, it turned out to be really the Duke's Palace, shouldn't he be directly imprisoned, and then brutally punished?"Could it be that I have too much heart?" Angelio walked up the steps of the Duke's Palace with confusion. Along the way were the Praetorian Guards, heavily defended, and the light of the torches reflected on the Mia marble columns, staining the whole column with a scarlet color. Approaching this majestic building, between the magnificent columns, the sound of footsteps echoing in the wide corridors,

The wind blew across the steps, and Angelio seemed to smell a smell of killing and blood, and his steps couldn't help but slow down. When the Praetorian Guards raided the Duke's Palace, it was here that the Duke's Guards and the Praetorian Guards fought together, this white marble staircase. It was the main point of contention between the two armies, at the beginning, the Praetorian Guard was heavily damaged by the elite guards of the Duke's Palace, and hundreds of dead and wounded could not break through the steps. Then, in the same place, a huge number of Janissaries counterattacked. Kill the entire Duke's palace guard, and then put to death none of them,

It was the woman who was as glamorous as a peach and a femme fatale who ordered all the families of the guards to be imprisoned in the cellar and starved to death, or all of them were thrown into the fire, and the former duke's most trusted families were all purged, and every time he went to the duke's palace, Angelio always felt very uncomfortable, there were too many people who died here, and many of them were familiar friends, they fought bloodily, did not flinch, and proved their loyalty with their lives, and they still survived,

At the top of the steps, two rows of Praetorian Guard soldiers stood solemnly with torches, and an old man in a ceremonial robe, a little hunchbacked, was waiting by the door, and the light of the torch shaking shone on the old man's somewhat haggard face, shining on his expressionless face. The two lines of Praetorian Guard soldiers next to him were holding spears in one hand and torches in the other, their faces were grim, and when they saw Angelio's arrival, the old man waved his hand to the attendant who came with Angelio, and said expressionlessly

"Lord Duke is inside, Lord Angelio, please come in."

Angelio's face became more and more heavy, this old man's name is Tang De, he is an old servant brought by the new duke from Kyoto, he is very loyal, under normal circumstances, Tang De rarely appears in a place like the council hall. Time did not allow Angelio to think about it, and the door slowly opened in front of Angelio, revealing the bright hall of the Duke's Palace lit by candles inside,

Angelio straightened his collar, stopped his head full of thoughts, and walked into the council hall along the gorgeous red carpet, he noticed that there were many fewer guards in the Duke's Palace today than usual, in the past, the entire hall would be guarded by Praetorian Guard soldiers with sharp weapons, and then there was a gloomy Duke, but at this moment, the entire hall was empty, cold, gloomy, and silent, only his heavy footsteps were echoing,

The door behind him slammed shut, "Angelio, I thought you didn't dare to come! Didn't your master of the northwest coast send someone to pick you up?"

In the council chamber, Duke Locke was drunk, his eyes were full of madness and vicious blood, sitting on the duke's bench inlaid with a hundred jewels, holding a red wine glass in his hand, it seemed that he had drunk a lot, and he was the only one in the whole hall,

The firelight flickered, the shadows were building, this feeling made people shudder, although nearly three hundred large candles illuminated the entire hall, but the coldness came from the heart of the person, "Then how can it be, Lord Duke summoned, but my supreme honor!" Angelio saw this scene, but immediately relieved his heart, when luck was not there, but aroused the courage in his heart,

He looked at the side doors on both sides of the hall, and knew that behind the door, it should be the murderous Praetorian Guards, who would rush in and slash themselves into flesh with a cough or hint from Duke Locke.

His hand grasped the hilt of the sword on his waist without hesitation, "Aren't you afraid of death, as long as you beg for mercy, I may let you continue to serve as the Minister of the Interior, so that you will be rich and prosperous for a lifetime!" Duke Locke, who was sitting in his seat, looked at his hand holding the hilt of the sword with interest, and his eyes flashed with a hint of surprise, "Minister of the Interior? Joke, do you really think I will care about this dirty position?" Angelio's hand let go of the hilt of the sword, and said with a calm smile, looking at Duke Locke on the throne, and said slowly" You're already a puppet, do you think that someone would be a puppet of a puppet?" "You!" Duke Locke's eyes were blood-red and almost bulging out. The wine glass in his hand shattered, and red wine mixed with blood flowed down from between his clenched fingers

"If you want to kill me, do it" Angelio held his head high and looked at Duke Locke's fire-breathing gaze without fear "Are you really not afraid of death?" This time, Duke Locke stopped the wine glass in his hand, and his surprised eyes began to become solemn, and it seemed that he was even a little thicker,

He still remembered that when Angelio brought his brother's head to see him, he was so flattering and shameless that he almost hated not to add his own shoes. If someone had sued him at that time, this guy would have been an unyielding warrior on the verge of death, and his big teeth would have been able to laugh off.

How could such a dog have the bones of a warrior!

It is precisely because of this that I am sure that this guy is indeed bringing back his brother's head, but now it seems that he was wrong, and he was very wrong.

This guy's acting skills are absolutely top-notch, throwing away his self-esteem, but retaining the most terrible things, not only deceiving himself. Even that woman was deceived, if it weren't for the fact that she privately felt that the incident of sending troops to the northwest coast was very suspicious and sent someone to investigate secretly, I don't know how long it would be concealed by this guy "Do you know how you were discovered?" Duke Locke calmed down the anger in his heart. looked coldly at Angelio, who was already determined to die, "It should be Sidney, I know you took him this morning!" Angelio took a deep breath and said with a somewhat ugly face, "I know your methods." As long as you want, even if it's a stone, you have a way to speak!In this matter, I am the mastermind! Sidney doesn't know a lot of things" "It's indeed Sidney!" Duke Locke picked up a new wine glass, and said slowly with a cold face, "But it's a pity that he didn't speak, he was stronger than I expected, and even until I ordered him to peel off his face, he didn't swallow until an hour ago, "Sidney!" Angelio clenched his fists and closed his eyes in pain, his mind flashing Sidney's youthful and energetic face, such a young man who should have become a pillar of the principality, but now withered in the dark torture chamber,

"He's buying time for you to escape, he's a warrior, but because of this, it proves that there must be a problem between you and him" Duke Locke took a sip of the wine in his hand, his face turned bloody, and said slowly, "He is a person with a high heart and a sense of justice, if it weren't for his special admiration for someone, he would never have endured the most cruel punishment, and he would have favored a villain who was scolded as a traitor from the outside, so I specially summoned you alone, just to know if he was wrong or I was wrong!" Probably because he knows that death is too insignificant compared to a lonely life that renounces one's faith!" Angelio suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze swept over the pillars around him like electricity, and his voice stopped, and he suddenly said in a condensed voice

"Faith?" said Duke Locke's tone with some disdain

"For the sake of the principality, prepare to sacrifice a qiē faith!" Angelio said, "Do you remember the Duke's palace guards who fought to the last man?" "They, of course I do!" Duke Locke was stunned for a moment, and said coldly, "If you don't talk about your position, they are all the best young people in my Oxend! Unfortunately, they are too ignorant of current affairs" "Yes, they are the best in Rushend, and many of them are excellent officers in Rushend, as well as my friends! They fought to the death because they were fulfilling their oath to the Principality, and when the Principality needed them, they sacrificed their lives, honor, and in the end, there were less than 100 people, but they stayed here for two days." Angelio's eyes flashed with the glint of memory, and he said slowly, "This is indeed the place where they fought for the last time, but how do you know?" A trace of surprise flashed on Duke Locke's face, and the wine glass that was shaking between his fingers stopped, and said, "If I remember correctly, for the original attack on the Duke's Palace, the Praetorian Guard had already issued an order to seal the mouth!" "It's easy, because I was there at the time" Angelio smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth. I am the Duke's attendant, how could I not be there, because of their desperate delays, I had the opportunity to escape from the secret passage with the Duke's young son, who was hiding here, and I told myself that if I had the chance, I would come back and accompany them to the place where they had finally died! That time I was a deserter, but this time, I would not. Let them in, and I'll fight here until the blood flows into the bricks beneath my feet! Let my soul turn into a wind whistling through it!"

"I see, I should have thought of it, it seems that the human head is also fake!"

The corners of Duke Locke's mouth suddenly grinned unexpectedly, revealing a little coldness, and said to himself, "To be honest, I have always hated myself for having the blood of the Northwest people flowing in my body, but at this moment, I feel it for the first time. In fact, as a Northwesterner, I am not so humble as I think!There is also a noble and humble thing that I will never forget, and it is just my own heart!" Duke Locke sighed with a complicated look, and when Angelio looked confused, he stretched out his hands and slapped them together,

The loud clash of palms echoed through the empty chamber, and the front door of the chamber was opened. There were no murderous Praetorian Guards, only the old duke's servant Tang De had some strongholds

"Angelio, pack up, we're leaving Rosend!" Duke Locke stood up from his seat.

"Get out of ......!" Angelio was completely there, what's the situation, don't kill herself? How is this possible?

"I just received a battle report that the Northwest Coalition of Vekia Falcon defeated 180,000 raiders in one fell swoop at the Sona River. I believe that this news will soon make the entire northwest boil, and those local county guards who are desperate for the wind will soon open their doors to the northwest coast unconditionally!" Duke Locke took a blue cloak from the old servant, "according to the order. All the Praetorian Guards will choose to evacuate tomorrow, and we will do the same, go to the southwest! Then go to Gallic Kyoto, I can take very few people, only give me two places, except for Old Tangde, I decide that it is you!"

"I, why, with me, a spy from the Northwest, aren't you afraid?" said Angelio, stunned, unaware of what Duke Locke was mad about

"I'm on the run, and I'm going to go to Kyoto on behalf of all the Northwest Lords as the Duke of Persecution in the Northwest to complain about the atrocities of the Vecchia Falcon on the Northwest Coast!" Duke Locke smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth, looked up at the luxurious and beautiful ceiling of the council hall above his head, tears flowed down unconsciously, and said, "It's ridiculous, isn't it?, I'm a puppet, whatever others say, I have to do it, but even if it's a puppet, it has its own thoughts and feelings!"

"Thoughts and feelings?" asked Angelio in a dull voice, confused

Duke Locke's gaze turned to him, flashing like a cold light, "This is my hometown, back to the time of the Northwest, I realized that compared to the illusory prosperity of Kyoto, I prefer the mountains and trees here, here, I am the duke, and in Kyoto, I am not even worthy of the identity of a watchdog! Kyoto needs only a slave named Duke Locke, they promised me to be the Governor of the Northwest, but turned around and gave it to someone else, I once wanted to go over and take revenge, but unfortunately I don't know what to do?" I'm a puppet in their hands, with no soldiers and no power, but I see you, a puppet and a spy, don't you think this revenge combination is very interesting?" "You're not afraid that I'll be tempted to kill you halfway?" Angelio looked at Duke Locke in disbelief, gritted his teeth and said coldly, "My friends and relatives all died because of you!" "Whatever you want!" Duke Locke stretched out his hand, patted him on the shoulder, and smiled coldly" When I stepped out of this country, I was already dead, I lived, just for revenge, I want to show the Gauls, I am northwest, not just a dog like me who is bent under their power, help me bring a word to the Vecchia Falcon, as long as I can defeat the Gauls, even if it is my life, I can give it up at any time, I know, you must have a way to bring this sentence!" After saying this, Duke Locke had already stepped out of the door of the council chamber, leaving Angelio standing in a daze.

"What's going on!" Five minutes later, Angelio came back to his senses, and shook his head with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth,

He couldn't tell the truth of Duke Locke, and when he returned, he sent his servants to mix with the fleeing exiles that night, and handed the general situation to the Falcon Army outside the city.

The next day, the sky became clear, and the five thousand Janissaries began to evacuate from the city with more than 20,000 Janissants, because they did not receive the fat man's order to intercept, the 30,000 Janissaries of the Falcon Army could only watch the Praetorian Guards mixed with the refugees move south, Hukochili sent 10,000 cavalry to follow, as long as the order was received, they launched a full-scale attack, but time passed slowly, and the order for the Falcon Majesty to attack was not given, and two days later, these Janissaries crossed the border line to the southwest,

Standing on the top of the slope of the border mountain, Angelio, who was on a horse, looked back at his hometown of Kusenda for a long time,

The order from the Falcon of Vecchia has been sent to him, whether Duke Locke is true or not, Angelio can accompany him to Kyoto in Gaul, this is a great opportunity to break into Kyoto in Gaul, and Falcon Vecchia has sent someone to Kyoto to assist him,

There, he will become an eye that enters the heart of the Gauls,

Of course, before that, he still had a small task, that is, to tell that woman about the Southwest Army's provision of inferior military rations!

After receiving the news of the Duke's escape, the various regions of the Northwest Coast soon chose to annex the Northwest Coast, and the thousands of miles of Roseend land were all planted with the Falcon Flag of the Northwest Coast in less than five days (to be continued......