Water Margin people

"Your Majesty, someone is coming!"

A guard on sentry duty high up gave a warning.

"somebody is coming?"

William held the sword at his waist. The news of their leaving Venice should have just spread now, and the Qi army would not come so soon.

"It's the flag of the Qi general! Wu Yong!"

The guard on sentry shouted again.

"Wu Yong!"

William's face changed drastically. During his time in Venice, he felt that Wu Yong was the most difficult person to deal with.

In the Qi army, Yue Fei is decisive and ruthless, Hua Rong is calm and experienced, Xiao Jiasui is gentle and resourceful, and the others also have their own characteristics.

Only Wu Yong gave William a headache. This man had strategies and methods, many of which were small and not worthy of being shown on the surface. He was an extremely sinister villain.

"go!"

Baldwin IV's cough got better after taking the medicine, and he led his men towards the mountains.

"You still know how to run? Can you get away?"

Wu Yong sneered as he looked at Baldwin IV and his entourage who were fleeing.

One fleeing and the other chasing, the two groups of people galloped wildly across the plain.

Baldwin IV was about to enter the mountains, but a large army appeared at the entrance with their guns pointed at them.

When Baldwin IV and others saw the gun, they quickly reined in their horses.

"The Qi army!"

Seeing the spear, Baldwin IV and others also reacted.

"Impossible, how could there be a Qi army here? Didn't the Huns leave from this side?"

William was a little bit unconvinced. Not long ago, a thousand Huns marched straight in from here.

"Baldwin IV, surrender!"

Wu Yong shouted with a smile.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Baldwin IV started coughing violently again in excitement.

"Do you feel very uncomfortable? Do you feel like you are about to have a seizure?"

Wu Yong looked at Baldwin IV who was coughing and smiled.

"You tampered with the medicine!"

William glared at Wu Yong fiercely. He thought of a possibility. If Qi could send people to ambush here, it should have guessed that they would escape. In this case, they might have tampered with the medicine.

"Nothing was done, but the dosage was reduced a little! You can't do any bumpy or strenuous work with your illness. You've been traveling around to preach during this period, and you've even been riding a horse. It's normal for you to have a seizure."

Wu Yong looked at Baldwin IV and smiled.

"You already knew this?"

Baldwin IV looked at Wu Yong and asked.

"You don't think you're very smart, do you?"

Wu Yong laughed. These Westerners were stupid. They even had the nerve to show off some of those inferior little tricks. In the Central Plains, only children would play these little tricks.

Baldwin IV looked at the several guards who came with him, his eyes full of disbelief.

"guessed?"

Wu Yong laughed even louder.

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry!"

A guard bowed his head and said to Baldwin IV.

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry!"

The other two guards also bowed their heads and apologized.

"you!"

William looked at the guards in disbelief. He never expected that these guards would betray him.

"If there hadn't been a traitor, how could such a meticulous plan have gone unnoticed!"

Baldwin IV was not angry, but he became suspicious the moment Wu Yong chased him.

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry!"

The last two guards also apologized to Baldwin IV.

"You bunch of traitors!" William was furious. There were only five guards who came out together. They were carefully selected trustworthy people, but now these people have betrayed them.

"A wise bird chooses the right tree to roost in. You don't have to blame them. What good can they gain from following you?"

Wu Yong looked at Baldwin IV and said.

"I expected a traitor to appear, but I didn't expect that you were all traitors!"

Baldwin IV looked at the five guards and said that these five were the five people he trusted the most, but they all rebelled.

"Your Majesty, Qi has given too much!"

The guards shook their heads. They didn't want to betray Baldwin IV, but they couldn't refuse the conditions offered by Qi.

"What benefits did Qi give you? You actually chose to betray me!"

William asked, looking at the five men viciously.

"Qi promised us that we could live a noble life in Venice!"

The guards replied.

They had followed Baldwin IV from Jerusalem and had suffered enough from all the hardships they had suffered along the way. Now they just wanted to live a stable life, and only Qi could give them all that.

If they had followed Baldwin IV back to Frankish territory and established the Frankish Empire together, they might also have been granted noble status.

But they could not have a stable life. Even if they established the Frankish Empire, they still needed to continue fighting, and their enemy was still the State of Qi, and it was impossible for them to defeat Qi.

"They don't know much. When did you start to doubt me?"

Baldwin IV calmed down. Although these five people betrayed him, they found out very late. It was impossible for Wu Yong to prepare everything so early.

"Since you came into contact with those Franks."

Wu Yong said with a smile.

"That started two months ago!"

Baldwin IV laughed bitterly, it turned out that everything he did was under the watchful eyes of Qi.

"Lay down your weapons and surrender!"

Wu Yong looked at Baldwin IV and shouted, now there are only Baldwin IV and William, there is no possibility of resistance at all.

"Your Majesty, fight them!"

William drew the sword from his waist and shouted with determination.

"I'm afraid you don't have that chance anymore!"

As soon as Wu Yong raised his hand, several soldiers raised their spears. They would shoot if William made the slightest movement. They would not shoot at vital parts, but at his limbs to ensure that William would not die.

Baldwin IV loosened his grip on the hilt of the sword, knowing that he would not be able to escape today.

"Teacher, forget it!"

Baldwin IV looked at William and whispered that there was no need to resist in vain.

"Know what's best for you!"

Wu Yong smiled and waved his hand, and the soldiers immediately stepped forward to disarm everyone.

William still wanted to resist, but seeing that Baldwin IV did not respond, he could only grit his teeth and endure it, and the two were tied up.

"Come on, follow me back!"

Wu Yong smiled and waved his hand.

"How are your war preparations going on at the front line?"

Baldwin IV looked at Wu Yong and asked, since he was already a prisoner, he could ask many questions directly.

"What is there to prepare? Do those chickens and dogs really think they are something?"

Wu Yong said indifferently.

"That's high ground over there, they have the advantage!"

Baldwin IV said that he had guessed the Pope's purpose, and after knowing the power of guns and artillery, it was impossible not to make preparations.

"You are really stupid! You know nothing about power!"

Wu Yong said casually that it was no joke that the Qi army was invincible.

"Insanity!"

William said coldly that he felt Qi was too arrogant.

"Have you ever won since our first encounter?"

Wu Yong asked with a smile.

William's face twitched. They had always suffered disastrous defeats in dealing with Qi. (End of this chapter)