Tang Qi Tan

Chapter 524
And at the northern foot of the Pyrenees Mountains, in an unknown mountain road, a small group of fully clothed sergeants was chasing after them on horseback.Guided by them on the barren mountain road, there were scattered and torn clothes, and blood stains on the branches and grass leaves.

Most of these sergeants wore chain shirts, blue and yellow slanted smocks, and bowl-shaped iron helmets on their heads; , holding high a shield and a vertical banner of a standing red lion.

This also represents the emblem of the Merignate Hounds, an elite unit from the Aquitaine region of the Holy Kingdom, the local corps of the Gurent province.As one of the few mountain cavalry in the provincial corps of the branches of the Holy Kingdom, they are best at hunting in the mountains.

And this time, it was dispatched from the coastal area in the east of Aquitaine, across the provinces of Lande and Lot, to the Pyrenees in the south of Aquitaine; A long-running traitor and his henchmen.

And the few people who are the guides of the team are also experienced local forest troops, from the border guards of the Fortress of Beau.Therefore, they quickly caught several clues of the traitors and their followers who were wandering around the Pyrenees.

In the sound of blowing horns and whistles one after another, they were exhausted in chasing their opponents like prey; and found more and more discarded items such as kettles, leather armor, boots and leggings, scattered dried meat, etc. , and even a carriage turned upside down on the mountain road.

However, the half-armored knights who rode their horses in the lead suddenly shrank their pupils when they saw this, and in an instant someone raised a conch horn and blew it vigorously; The snail, and the cluster of arrows embedded in the neck fell down.

At the same time, the nearby mountains and forests also continued to howl, as if they had come to life in a blink of an eye, and with short and intense arrows, those who carried hunting bows on their backs or hung hands on their saddles in the team of hundreds of people were blown away. The sergeant of the crossbow gave priority to shooting over and knocking him down in the mountain road.

However, the few knights who were deliberately ignored roared loudly as if they had been insulted, raised their guns and raised their knives, rode their horses and whips, and slammed into the sneak attack in the forest at a short speed; Someone lifted the cover and swung a big sword like lightning.

In an instant, the war horses wailed and screamed; the mounts of these sprinting knights were cut off bloody by the big sword ambushed in the grass, and they couldn't help but rolled to the ground.The knight who was the first to get up with difficulty was swung with a big sword in the blink of an eye.

Although he pursued him all the way, as his followers all killed him, he responded passively with some insensitivity and mechanical instinct.In fact, after those young knights escaped from Barcelona with the help of those young knights, Rogrigao did not think about going into exile.

As if fate had tricked someone, in a monastery where he was temporarily hiding, Rodrigo also accidentally saw the woman who had been entangled with his fate, the present Countess Simone of the Court of O'Donoghue... what happened next , it can only be said that it was a coincidence.

Instead, he was hiding and conducting secret investigations, hoping to obtain more evidence; while trying to use his own unique method to appeal and protest through the old channels of the Holy Kingdom.But the reality that came one after another dealt him a heavy blow.

Just when Rogrigor went to Valencia to meet the court envoy from Brittania, he was again ambushed by armed forces and arrested on the spot; Was able to escape alone, when he soon got more bad news.

Therefore, a few hours later, in the unfavorable terrain that could not be deployed, most of the sergeants of the Merignyat Hounds who had lost their leading knight command and rushed to the battle were enraged in this mountain ambush; Several frontier guards managed to escape.

Willing to offer a city as his place to stay.Therefore, when he acquired an armed force that changed the local situation by expropriating/robbing monasteries, churches, and wealthy landowners in the southern border areas; the attitude of the Holy Kingdom seemed to soften.

Apparently, his escape incident has become a pawn and trigger for a new round of political unrest and court struggles within the Holy Kingdom;Even so, he still didn't want to flee abroad as he wished.

And the lower-middle-level knights who participated in the rescue of him, and the related young and radical association-the Brotherhood of Steel, were also declared as rebellious and conspiracy gangs; they were wanted, confiscated, and hunted down; Li Gao had already fully understood.

On the eve of the final ruling, he was an important member of the Knights of Glory/Knights who "fleeed in fear of crime"; he was not only excommunicated by the Archbishop of Galicia; he also announced the confiscation of all his family property, territories and titles , and removed from the lineage.

At this time, the change of the celestial sphere after hundreds of years also came to this world again.With the frequent occurrence of strange and abnormal phenomena, it brought a series of changes to the Holy Kingdom and the Saracen princes; it also somewhat verified some of Rogrigor's original claims;
Therefore, a member of the contemporary Lyon royal family who was acquainted with him in the past sent him a personal letter, promising to conduct a pious review again.And the collegial court was re-formed by the Knights of Brittany and the Archbishop, who had nothing to do with this matter and had a relatively neutral position;
This result undoubtedly greatly encouraged and inspired the young knights who followed Rogrigao in exile; but both Rogrigao and the young knights underestimated the dangers of people's hearts, or some big figures in the Holy Kingdom, for The malice he harbored.

"No, Simone? That was just an accident." Rogrigor shook his head and said, "I just can't tolerate and accept that if you continue to stay with a potential alien, and eventually become a court, there may be those who One of the monsters."

Here, he reconvened the old tribe and attracted many admired followers; even the Saracens, who had been opponents and heretics, had people who came to defect and serve.Even the emir of Zaragoza, his former employer, extended an olive branch.

But when the merchant ship fleeing across the sea passed through the outer port of Barcelona, ​​because someone on board recognized his rewarding portrait, Gao Mi came to arrest him again.Although relying on vigilance and prudence, Rodrigo was able to escape again, but he also lost the opportunity to continue fleeing to sea.

"Enough!" Simone in the tent whimpered again: "Maybe I shouldn't be soft-hearted to you for a long time, and I shouldn't hesitate to let you succeed; but now I want to make up such terrible reasons to slander and destroy Am I married in a holy witness?"

Because, he was soon accused of killing the palace envoy.Then, when he returned to the territory of Zaragoza, he was surprised to hear that his former employer, Emir Muamin; after he left, he suddenly surrounded the city where his subordinates were stationed and disarmed them.

They were so familiar with the road and cooperated tacitly that they were temporarily blocked by the cavalry sergeants in the rear; they didn't even have time to respond and rescue, and they just watched the leading knights die on the spot.Then he roared and flew forward as if waking up from a dream.

However, as the planner of this thrilling and precise ambush, the former honorary knight of the Holy Kingdom, the chief knight of the Holy Golden Fleece Knights, and now the re-offender Rogrigor; More and more filled with sorrow and pity;
Not only because in this battle, he lost five more followers, and more than a dozen people were injured to varying degrees; but also because the pursuers who were killed here were undoubtedly out-and-out human beings, It is also one of the elite troops of the Holy Kingdom that has been passed down for many years.

And several of the same ambushers jumped out of the grass one after another, wielding pickaxes, octagonal hammers, and hook-headed iron staffs; the remaining few knights who were about to be crushed under the horses in an instant gave a boost of courage. Knocking on the head and chiseling the chest; or piercing through the gap in the armor with an awl-headed sword.

Rogrigor, who finally had a temporary foothold, was forced to embark on the road of exile again; before he was overwhelmed by the swarms of assassins and mercenaries attracted by bounties, he got another A favored little Saracen lord helps.

However, several trees popped up from a high place, and they also rolled down among them; while knocking down seven or eight people who could not dodge, they also temporarily blocked and cut off the remaining mountain cavalry on the mountain road; Those who were shot by the sparse random arrows dismounted one after another to avoid it.

Therefore, after the Holy Kingdom promulgated and posted rewarding portraits about him at every intersection and town; The border area of ​​the battlefield that once left legends.

"Could it be that I should still thank you!" However, inside the tent suddenly appeared a pale and pretty face full of tears and red eyes, staring at him and said hoarsely: "A chaste wife, from the husband of her holy marriage?"

In the midst of such silent thoughts, Rogrigor returned to his temporary camp in the mountains with his armor, mount and other trophies; , whispered: "I found you a
A fine horse for transportation, in this way, you and your maid..."

"Simone." However, Rogrigor was not angry, and instead sighed heavily: "The anomalies and monsters you saw along the way are enough to prove my original remarks and, from the very beginning There is no falsehood,"

"Shut up, this is not your reason to frame and slander my husband for no reason." Simona was faintly agitated: "He is the blood of an ancient family in the kingdom, and a royal servant who has served the court for generations. Ritual monster."

"This is just an excuse and reason you made up to betray the country and kill those priests and knights...".Rodrigo also sighed again, obviously he didn't believe what the other party said.But compared to the performance of looking for life and death at the beginning, at least she is willing to communicate.

However, Roderick, who continued to move forward, found the corpses of people and beasts scattered on the road ahead the next day. Immediately afterwards, there was no one in the border checkpoint at the end of the original mountain road; only the ground was full. Drag marks and spatters of blackened blood.

(End of this chapter)