Riding and Slashing

Chapter 111 The person who knows the current affairs is Junjie
The lord is not trying to make waves. Hearing Fawcett say that Godric and Amy are heretics, he is already mentally prepared to face the catastrophe.

Although I don't know how Amy offended Fawcett, since this guy blocked Changhe Town and surrounded him with troops to coerce him into perjury, he obviously has no scruples.

In this situation, we can only ensure our own safety before making plans in the future.

You must know that Fawcett led more than 200 cavalry, and there were only more than 20 people around him. If he insisted on breaking through, he might be gone after a wave of charges...

Fawcett still squinted his eyes and stared at the lord with a frown, but he gave a knight salute seriously.

Although the etiquette is perfunctory and the attitude is arrogant, in any case, this makes the lord quite uncomfortable-enemies who can bend, stretch, and tolerate a moment of anger are not easy to deal with.

"Your Excellency Li Ang, I salute you... Let me ask you again, are you going to cover up the two heretics, Godric and Amy, or are you going to testify against them?"

It seems that this guy has a lot of brains, but why didn't he attack directly?
What is he worried about?
Li Ang glanced at Fawcett, and rode a few steps forward, still with a smile on his face.

"Knight Fawcett, you should be able to see that I'm just crossing the road... What happened? Since you want me to choose, then I must know the situation, right?"

The distance between him and Fawcett was getting closer.

Fawcett looked at Li Ang who was smiling, and seemed to hesitate for a moment: "Your Excellency Li Ang, I know you are an excellent businessman, and I think businessmen should know the pros and cons... I also listen to your Maixiang company. As I said, I made a lot of money..."

It seems that this guy wants to take the opportunity to blackmail?

But what is he hesitating about?

In order to understand Fawcett's intentions, Li Ang began to play dumb: "Of course the purpose of doing business is to make money, but what does this have to do with heresy?"

Fawcett smiled sinisterly again: "I think your Maixiang Company should be very useful to me...but if you don't plan to testify against those two heretics, then I will think you are heretics too!"

Looks like this guy wants it all...

He probably found himself outside Changhe Town last night. Facing his camp with only more than 20 people, he would launch a surprise attack in the early morning, probably to ensure that he could trap himself.

Is this Alma's instigation, or his own behavior?
Moreover, is it appropriate to talk about these things in front of so many cavalrymen?

Li Ang asked straightforwardly: "It's a great honor for the Duke to take a fancy to my small business... Actually, I don't refuse to cooperate with a grand duke, but the problem is that your father, Duke Alma, knows What's going on here?"

The lord pointed to the surrounding cavalry.

These cavalrymen all have the coat of arms of four swords on their bodies, obviously they are Fawcett's own troops.

Fawcett frowned deeply: "I'm in charge of Changhe Town now! I'm impatient, you'd better give the answer quickly!"

It seems that Alma doesn't know... This is just Fawcett's personal behavior, so as long as the person who caused the problem is solved, the problem will be solved.

The lord confirmed the target, and then continued to approach with an innocent face: "I must know what benefits I can get from cooperating with you, right? Convicting Baron Godric of heresy? Then? What can I get?"

Fawcett sneered: "You can survive... Isn't that enough?"

Li Ang no longer smiled, and looked at Fawcett seriously: "Your Excellency Fawcett, I am just a small lord, and I cannot afford Baron Godric's revenge—in fact, offending Baron Godric or Alma Duke, it makes no difference to me...you understand?"

Li Ang looked at the cavalry around again: "And... things like heresy are so involved, how do I know if I will be silenced in the future? Spending money to buy my life can be discussed, but I have to make sure that I can buy my life." talk!"

This attitude is very sincere and straightforward.

Fawcett frowned, probably because he felt that what Li Ang said was right—an ordinary little lord would die if he offended anyone, and if he didn't give him a bargaining chip that could guarantee his safety, there was really nothing to talk about.

Fawcett thought for a while with a sullen face, but he did give a condition: "If you let Godric go to the stake and hand over your Maixiang Company to me, I can let you get White Hart Castle. This condition Enough!"

Fawcett is actually willing to talk, instead of directly attacking his small team?

Li Ang smiled.

The lord is not talking nonsense, he is just using this method to test the current specific situation - it seems that Fawcett neither caught Amy nor controlled Godric!
He probably didn't dare to do anything to Godric's family...

Fawcett was just blackmailing himself, a little lord with no background, with a large number of troops.

Otherwise, there is no need to negotiate a deal with him at all-if everything is under Fawcett's control, then he can just kill his team directly and force himself to do things with his own life, without giving any conditions at all!

Being able to give the condition of 'allowing you to get White Hart Castle' means that White Hart Castle is now safe and sound in Godric's hands.

The lord understood that Fawcett probably planted Amy. In order to prevent Godric from taking revenge with his troops, he closed Changhe Town and blocked the news. Then, he must have been looking for suitable "witnesses".

After discovering his team last night, he planned to trap himself and scare himself into perjury.

In front of so many cavalrymen, even if he wanted to be vague and pretend to agree, that would give him enough "evidence".

Probably only when his witness is intimidated and compromised, can he use his 'witness' to mobilize the Changhe Town garrison to arrest Amy and Godric—otherwise, he will accuse Godric of heresy without evidence , which will lead to civil war in the kingdom!

Indeed, I am the most suitable witness - my fief is the closest to White Hart Castle, and the lords of the entire kingdom know about my business partnership with Godric.

He is Godric's partner and has a feud with the Duke of Alma. If he came forward to accuse Godric of heresy, everyone would believe it.

Moreover, he has no background and is just a pioneering lord, so he doesn't have to worry about any entangled family forces making trouble for him.

But before he came forward to testify, Fawcett dared not do anything to the Godric family, and it is estimated that he has not done anything now—in case his rumors and slanders are not successful, he can still be said to have misunderstood.

He can only bully himself, the little lord, first and get the handle of forgery.

I have to say that this approach is appropriate... Probably in the eyes of Fawcett, he is a small lord who is easy to handle.

But, am I, Li Ang, so easy to bully?
What the hell do you want to control Maixiang Company by the way?
Think about it too, if Fawcett can get the financial source of Maixiang Company, then he probably can really have no scruples——Duke Alma put him in charge of Changhe Town, with land, population and money, he can probably be in Changhe Town pulled up another large force.

In other words, for Fawcett, the key to the matter probably lies in whether he can handle himself as a little lord...

If he gets it right, he can do whatever he wants.

Not to mention accusing Godric of heresy, even if their family directly rebelled, I am afraid there is great hope.

But Fawcett probably won't be able to really command the garrison in Changhe Town until he pinches himself, or before he says something wrong.

Perhaps the troops he can really command are only his more than 200 trusted cavalry?
So he didn't directly attack him, it seems that he wanted to try not to make himself a mortal enemy, lest he would rather die than cooperate with him...

But this guy seems to be a standard aristocratic mentality, and he definitely doesn't have much experience in doing such a mess-if this is replaced by a gangster like Forscher, he probably has already swarmed him to convince him...

No wonder Alma preferred the bastard Forscher...

Li Ang let out a long breath with a smile, and looked at the cavalry beside Fawcett: "You are just talking about this kind of deal with me in front of so many of you, so you don't worry about someone betraying you?"

Fawcett's complexion was already quite bad: "Your Excellency Li Ang, I gave you a choice, don't force me to kill you!"

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and formed a circle around the cavalry, enclosing Li Ang's small army in the middle.

The lord nodded, sighed, bent down, and said softly, "In that case, then I can only..."

It seems that Li Ang is about to compromise?

But then, Li Ang just bent down and gently took the reins, and Alice suddenly burst into an astonishing speed!This smart little mare is quite considerate, and Li Ang has been the only one riding it all this time, and it has become accustomed to Li Ang's driving style—as long as the lord leans down on the horse, lowers his center of gravity and twitches the rein lightly, Ai Li Silk will burst out the strength of the whole body to charge!

This is a solo raid!
No one expected that Li Ang would launch an attack when he was surrounded by two hundred cavalry!
And there was only 20 meters between Li Ang and Fawcett—just enough for Alice to accelerate.

Alice just jumped forward after a sudden acceleration, and she was already in front of Fawcett.

"...Then I can only catch you!"

The second half of Li Ang's words were almost spoken in front of Fawcett.

He had drawn the griffin sword.

Fawcett reacted quite quickly. He blocked it with the spear in his hand, but before the spear could reach the direction of Li Ang, Li Ang swung his sword and cut it off.

But the shot still had an effect. Li Ang tightened the reins with one hand, Alice's body turned to the side, and then braked suddenly, and the horse's hooves made four deep marks on the ground.

The elite cavalry beside Fawcett also reacted quite quickly. Several long spears stabbed at Li Ang's body at an angle. This was to stop them, and their horses had no time to react.

However, at the moment Alice braked, Li Ang flew out, and with the inertia of stopping suddenly after sprinting, he jumped on Fawcett from the horseback.

He flew over from the spears that blocked him.

Fawcett had just dropped the severed lance, and before he had time to draw out his sword, seeing Li Ang rushing towards him, he subconsciously turned the shield in his left hand to block it.

But then he regretted it, a shield can block a sword and a gun, but blocking people...

As a result, Fawcett was grabbed by Li Ang and jumped off the horse.

"Boom..."

"what!"

Fawcett, who was wearing heavy lion knight armor, was thrown to the ground, making a dull sound and a shrill scream—he was kicked by Li Ang and used as a backing underneath.

"Don't move!"

The lord yelled as he rode on Fawcett, and the sword in his hand was drawn on Fawcett's face.

Several elite cavalry who had just collected their guns and were about to besiege Li Ang also raised their guns and gestured at the Lord Lord's back.

But Li Ang got up without hesitation, dragged Fawcett up, and put the long sword across the neck of the freshly baked hostage.

The spear points of the cavalry kept moving with Li Ang's movements, but then they were separated by Mai Xiang's leading cavalry who rushed over.

"Back off! Back off! Don't point the gun at me, my hands will shake when I'm afraid..."

The lord bared his teeth and shouted at the cavalry beside him, the sword on Fawcett's neck was indeed trembling slightly.

It was pain—the elbow had been scraped when Fawcett was thrown to the ground.

Fawcett fell from his horse wearing heavy armor and fell to the ground. He was not lightly shaken, and he stumbled a bit when he walked, but his spirit was still clear.

"Leon! You will regret it!"

"Your Excellency Fawcett, if I were you, I wouldn't talk casually... Look, the sword is so close to your neck, didn't you realize that your neck guard has been cut off?"

The camp was only one mile away from the city of Changhe Town. Li Ang put away the sword, and replaced it with a small knife in his hand, and stuck it on Fawcett's neck concealedly.

Then he hugged Fawcett's shoulders, and walked towards the gate of Changhe Town like two buddies.

"Put away your weapons! Your Excellency Fawcett, ask your men to put away their weapons... If I guessed correctly, the garrison in Changhe Town doesn't know what happened, right? I don't want the garrison in Changhe Town to have any What a misunderstanding!"

"Li Ang, I don't believe you dare to do anything to me, you will regret it!"

Fawcett gritted his teeth, completely ignoring the lord's request, and was very sure that Li Ang would not dare to kill him.

Li Ang really didn't dare to kill him now, but he didn't need to kill him if he wanted someone to cooperate.

The lord just stomped him viciously to solve the problem.

Wearing steel boots and stomping on the feet is quite comfortable...

Fawcett also wore plate armor boots, but in this case the plate armor boots could not protect him, and would cause continuous damage—the steel plates of his plate armor boots were stamped and deformed!
Fawcett's handsome face was almost distorted into a twisted shape, and he couldn't even cry out in pain for a while, Li Ang just stomped his toe!
"Fawcett, since I dared to catch you, I would definitely dare to torture you—you will take revenge on me anyway, won't you? If you don't want to lose arms and legs, you'd better cooperate with me and see if I can solve the problem... ...Of course I don't want to kill you, but if you leave me with no choice, then you must die before me!"

After stomping his feet, Li Ang whispered into his ear, with a flat tone and gentle attitude, as if he was chatting with a friend.

But Fawcett's hairs were standing on end, and he could hear that the lord was not trying to scare him—this is a desperado, he did it!
"Put away your weapons!"

After trembling all over his body for a while, Fawcett, who had regained his strength, subdued.

A person who knows current affairs is a hero. Fawcett had few chances to be a hero in the past and had no experience, but now he has learned it without a teacher.

"That's right... where is Amy?"

"Inner Castle, Lady Bella's."

"What order did you give in Changhe Town?"

Fawcett hesitated for a while, and sighed: "I just told the garrison to guard against heresy in the inner fort, and I didn't mention anything else."

That's right, Fawcett still has brains, and used the issue to seize Mai Xiangling's property. Only his own trusted cavalry knew about it, and it was to intimidate himself.

But if he made the matter known to everyone, then once the matter failed, he himself would not be able to end it.

Li Ang nodded and led Fawcett to Changhe Town. More than 20 cavalry surrounded them nervously, while Fawcett's more than 200 cavalry surrounded them outside.

It looked like Li Ang helped Fawcett, who had injured his foot, back to Changhe Town.

The garrison of Changhe Town still surrounds the inner fort, only the watchtowers and watchtowers near the city gate have a hundred or so soldiers.

These garrisons did not seem to know exactly what happened. The guards at the city gate looked at Fawcett who had returned, and retreated to the side only after saluting.

Li Ang looked around, and instead of going to the inner castle, he directly took Fawcett to the administrative hall.

It seems that there are quite a lot of garrisons around the inner castle, and Li Ang doesn't want them to find out that he has kidnapped Fawcett, so as not to cause complications.

If someone is caught, the temporary safety should be guaranteed, but how will it end?
Regardless of the reason for hijacking the Duke's heir, Alma would definitely not let it go. He gave him such a good handle, and Li Ang didn't believe that Alma would let him go.

"Your Excellency Fawcett, ordered all the garrison in Changhe Town to return to the camp, saying that the heresy has been found out, it was a misunderstanding, and bring Amy here first!"

The lord stood next to the head of the consul in the administrative hall, and ordered Fawcett to do things like he ordered his subordinates: "Let your two hundred cavalry camp outside the city alone, and don't let them stay with the garrison!"

Fawcett sat on the consul's armchair, gritted his teeth, and obeyed, order after order was passed on.

Fawcett is still very calm. The hostage's mood has been relatively stable, but he just seems a little unwilling.

The garrison doesn't know the inside story, they only know that a heresy has been discovered, and anything can happen when the heresy is being investigated, so it won't be a problem to let them withdraw their troops now.

The real trouble was Fawcett's two hundred cavalry. They knew that Leon had kidnapped Fawcett, and they also knew that Fawcett planned to kill Godric in the name of heresy.

"Fawcett, why do you want to negotiate a deal with me in front of so many cavalry, can you ensure that your cavalry will not talk nonsense?"

Thinking of this, Li Ang asked Fawcett a question.

"Their wives and children are all in my hands... No one will talk nonsense."

That's how it is...Using hostages to coerce the troops, no wonder Fawcett was not angry at being taken hostage. It turned out that he was also good at kidnapping.

However, judging by his style, he probably used coercion and lure more often, otherwise he should have put the knife on Li Ang's neck from the beginning.

Since he likes to coerce and lure, it seems that the way to solve the problem should be to deal with him in the same way?

(End of this chapter)