At the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was a feudal town, but in Western Europe

"This news is related to your life and honor." The Jew pulled up his sleeves, only for Hadrad to see him stretch out a few fingers: "This number."

"Are you crazy? You bloody and greedy Jews!" Hadrad immediately stepped forward and kicked the outstretched Jew to the ground, "Drive them out!"

"Wait a minute." Father Balda appeared outside the door, with a smile on his kind face, "What is the news you are talking about?"

"If I tell you directly, we will definitely be hacked to death by you, and we will not get any payment."

Hadrad strode up to several people: "Ha! I have seen through your tricks a long time ago, Jews, what if I paid you, but your news is worthless? Isn't it..."

Before he could finish speaking, Father Balda stopped him with his hand: "Wait, wait."

As he spoke, he asked the soldier to let go of the arm that locked the Jew: "Three, do you trust me? You can tell me the information, and I will tell His Excellency the Duke whether the news is worth it or not.

Your Excellency, you don't think I'm cheating with them, do you? "

Hadlard shook his head quickly. He could gather so many Thuringian nobles to revolt. His own prestige alone was not enough. He needed the help of Father Balda.

"I can swear to my heavenly father that I will never disclose this news. Can you tell me?" Father Balda smiled at the two of them.

The old Jew hesitated for a few seconds before he quietly leaned into Balda's ear and said a few words. Balda's original kind and peaceful face changed instantly, and he took a deep breath. Only then said to Hadlard: "I strongly recommend that you pay, this news is very important."

Hadrad was silent for two seconds: "What do you want? The price just now is absolutely impossible. Say something useful."

The old Jew came forward again as a representative: "First, you owe us two full years for the construction of the castle. Second, I hope you can grant us a charter so that we can build the castle in Thuringia. You don’t have to pay huge taxes when you’re doing business.”

"You greedy devils!" Hadrad stood up, first cursed at them, and then sat on the throne, his chest heaving, and after a long time he said: "Damn it, I agree with your request, you dirty profiteers, all the Jews in the world are the same. Sendley, give them what they want, now, tell me your damn top secret news."

"Of order, Your Excellency." Looking at the charter in his hand and the project funds delivered outside, the Jew narrowed his eyes with a smile, "I want to tell you that your insider side with the king has been exposed, he has been instigated, and all the news he has delivered to you is false."

"Where did this news come from? Is it credible?"

"Our Jewish compatriots near Hamburg told us, you know, that Antony, Duke of Saxony, has always been very close to merchants. Our people overheard their conversations at banquets. It turns out that they already knew about your behavior. .”

"How do you prove it's true?"

"Didn't you have an envoy to accompany Charlie?" The Jew took out a stack of papers, "You can send him to investigate, and we are willing to stay in your house as hostages during the confirmation period. Our lives are pledged.

Now that Hamburg has been raining heavily for two days, it will take at least three days for Charlie to reach your Magdeburg, and another three to four days to reach your castle. This period of time is enough for you to investigate, isn't it? "

Hadlard's face was so gloomy that water dripped out. He even ignored the fact that the Jews were still at the scene, so he paced back and forth in the small courtyard, the anxiety and confusion on his face couldn't be covered.

"Your Excellency." Father Balda stood up and stopped Hadrad's dizzy pacing, "I will send my priests to investigate secretly, but if it is confirmed to be true, then our plan But earth-shaking, even catastrophic changes are about to occur, and we have to plan early."

Hadrad sat back on the pony saddle again, pulled out the long sword from the soil, wiped off the soil on the sword with a handkerchief, and then inserted the sword into the scabbard with a "clang" sound: "Sendley, go and inform me that I'm going to hold a rally, and it's still in the old place!"

Chapter 314 Killing the Queen, the Qing Emperor's Side!

In the hall of Fort Olamingde, several servants held candlesticks, carefully protected the candlelight with their hands, and placed them on the shelves on both sides. The heavy windows had been closed one by one, and the curtains had been drawn.

After serving wine to the nobles present, the servants exited the hall in an orderly manner under the command of the steward. It was not until this time that Hadraer arrived late.

With vigorous strides, Hadrad, who was nearly half a century old, walked out from the side door of the hall. The servant behind him took his cloak, nodded respectfully, and stepped back out of the gate.

The two little knights stood up from their seats and came to the two doors to prevent accidents. In the entire hall, there were only a dozen or so nobles who cooperated with Hadrad's uprising and a few of his confidantes.

Although there were only a dozen or so nobles present, Turin was not big at all. These nobles were the best of the best, and each of them was a big noble in their own region.

It can be said that with this nobleman, two-thirds of Saxony's power has been supported, especially the guarantee of Borda, which has provided Hadrad with great assistance.

It's a pity that although Balda is also dissatisfied with Charlie's policy, he can't oppose it openly. Therefore, the only support he can give Hadrad is all support other than sending troops.

But for Hadrad, this was enough, after all, Borda didn't have many soldiers, not even as good as some small manor owners.

"Everyone, good afternoon." Every time a meeting is held, when Hadlard looks at the faces that are looming in the candlelight, a sense of complacency surges into his heart.

In fact, when Hadlard was the duke, he couldn't even control half of these nobles. However, in the previous Saxony war, due to Feng Sen's participation, a large number of nobles died and were punished, and the queen's operation of promoting hatred allowed these nobles to gather into his own hands.

In this respect, Hadrad would even like to thank Feng Sen and Fastelada.

"Your Excellency Hadrad, why did you call us from the territory in a hurry?" Among the many nobles, a bald head suddenly appeared, and he got up to question with some dissatisfaction.

"That's right, isn't Charlie still receiving local chiefs and nobles near Magdeburg? It will take at least three or five days before he arrives, and we still have to gather and train soldiers. Why are you calling us here in a hurry? "

Hadlard kept his composure and sat down on the main seat: "Of course there is something important, otherwise I wouldn't have asked everyone to come, Sendley, tell me."

Standing up, Sendley stroked Hadrard's chest first, and then began to explain: "Everyone, His Excellency Hadrard summoned you today because he heard a piece of shocking news—Charlie already knew about our rebellion. plan of."

"what?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"When did this happen?"

"What do you mean?"

The moment Sendley told the news to the people present, everyone asked loudly as if they had exploded, and the whole hall exploded in an instant.

"Quiet!" Hadlard slammed his fist heavily on the table, "Quiet me!"

The sound of quarreling stopped, and then, everyone slowly stopped quarreling and asking, and turned to look at Hadrad and Balda.

"Two days ago, I sent someone to investigate the authenticity. Judging from the current news, Charlie has almost learned about it." Hadrad's deep voice echoed in the empty hall, "However, what is certain is that he should not know that we already know that he knows that we are going to revolt."

"Do you know what this means?" Balda said slowly, "A traitor has been discovered among us! No matter what we do next, in order not to be exposed, the first thing we have to do The thing is to find the traitor."

"So, before the official uprising, I would like to ask everyone here to stay in my castle. No servants or relatives are allowed to leave the city. Don't worry, this day is not long, and we will send troops in three days at most."

Hadrad's sharp eyes swept over the priests and nobles present, even if they were not traitors, they all broke out a few drops of guilty conscience.

Following Hadrad, Sendley added a little more: "Also, everyone, please issue an order to mobilize soldiers to the vicinity of Fort Oraminder to prepare for the possible next battle."

"Do you agree?"

The nobles looked at each other, nodded and said, "I agree."

At this time, it was still the bald nobleman from before. He was the Earl of Naumburg, and he was also a powerful local nobleman: "I remember that the attitude of the Falkers seems to be a bit ambiguous on this matter. If we raise troops..."

"Don't worry." When Hadrad spoke, the candles around him were shaking, "I have sent someone to invite them to the Olaminder Fort to attend the dinner and prepare for the ceremony.

The Forkel family is Charlie's most staunch supporters. They will definitely come. At that time, we will ambush the archers on the second floor. When the dinner is halfway through, I will kill them all...Everyone present, You shouldn't be watching, right? "

Although I didn't know the term "voting a certificate of honor", all the old nobles present here naturally knew the meaning of doing so, so they all agreed loudly.

Under Hadrad's signal, Sendley stood up again: "Everyone, the situation has changed now. Compared with before, I think this situation is better. Although we lost the plan to perfectly capture Charlie, but But he took the lead... Earl of Merseburg, please sit down first, and I will explain what is called a move later.

Okay, okay, okay, let me explain now, the first move means that we can attack Charlie earlier and catch him off guard.

Because now he probably thinks that we are waiting for him honestly in Fort Olaminder, so we have investigated, and he has called up troops in advance, saying that he wants to punish the Villetti people, but he put the soldiers in Wertz Near the fort, the look is to lure us.

Therefore, we simply sent out troops as soon as possible to repel Charlie first. Before he merged with Würzburg's army, we quickly attacked Würzburg again, so that Charlie couldn't spare for a while and needed to call up the army again.

... No, no, no, we can't fight Saxony. Saxony is a hard bone, but there is not much meat to chew on. We have to go south and capture Hornburg and Regensburg.

In fact, our envoys have already gone to Bavaria in advance. By then, everyone will know the grievances between the Principality of Bavaria and Charles, and the joint efforts of the two can withstand the counterattack of Charlie's army.

In addition to Bavaria, Lombardy, Avar and even Brittany can all send our envoys to form an anti-Charlie alliance to fight together. Although this is not worth the original plan, it is the best route today. "

A little knight raised his hand: "But what is the reason for our uprising? It can't be against Charlie, many Franks will not accept..."

Sendley laughed: "At this point, our Jewish friends give us a good reason..."

"What reason?"

Hadrad stood up, and slowly said in a hoarse voice: "Kill the queen, Qingjun side!"

Chapter 315 The Battle of the Army

The sunshine in early June was indistinct, and a light rain in the morning made the gray green leaves appear delicate and charming.

Halfway from Brunswick to Blankenburg, a camp was rising in the forest. Frankish soldiers swung their axes and slammed into the tree trunks, and sawdust flew out from the edge of the axes and fell to the ground.

At this time, Charlie had already taken off his heavy cloak, and was only wearing a white-gray robe, with a purple belt embroidered with yellow wheat ears around his waist.

His face was gloomy, and he stared blankly at the news that Feng Sen brought from the businessman, that Hadrad had already raised his troops!

Moreover, most of the Thuringian nobles participated, and only a small number of fief knights and manor owners closed the gates of the manor castles and were still struggling.

If the news is correct, based on the number of nobles who supported Hadlard, Hadlard can summon at most nearly four hundred fief cavalry, more than five hundred fief cavalry attendants (also cavalry), two More than a thousand infantrymen, not including the heavy axemen and archers recruited by Hadlard.

Based on this number, Hadlard can recruit about [-] soldiers.

This number is about the same as the number that Hadrad actually recruited, but due to stability maintenance and defense issues, the number of cavalry in Hadrad has dropped slightly, there are almost [-] cavalry, and there are more infantry, with a hundred more archers and dozens of heavy axemen.

There are a total of seven or eight earldoms in Hadlard, and nearly [-] armored cavalry and [-] light cavalry were conscripted, which is equivalent to [-] fiefs for an earldom.

In the early Middle Ages, the feudal system of the Frankish Kingdom had not yet collapsed, and the recruiting ability was even slightly better than in the middle period. As for the quality of soldiers, it is a matter of opinion.

Wearing a shirt and a beanie over Feng Sen, he lowered his head slightly at this moment, without saying a word, as if he had become a puppet who couldn't speak.

Indeed, he could not believe his eyes when the slogan "Kill the queen, kill the witch who bewitched the king" and the news of Hadrad's outrageous uprising came.

For the first time, he couldn't believe that Hadlard actually dared to revolt instead of playing tricks and trying to imprison him.

The second thing he couldn't believe was that something went wrong that Hadrad had discovered the purpose of Charlie's trip.

You know, Charlie's plan is simple and rude. He will immediately mobilize soldiers to capture Hadrad on the spot when he greets him on the first day, and in order to deal with the subsequent rebellion of the Hadrad family, he set up the Würzburg Legion , a total of 4000 people.

In order to make Hadlard let go of his guard, Charlie only brought [-] cavalry and [-] infantry, and then [-] or so servants.

Compared with Hadlard's 50 troops, Charlie's number of soldiers of less than [-] is really unimaginable, and Feng Sen's side only brought a team of [-] dental guards according to the previous agreement.

At present, according to the news brought by Qingqi reconnaissance, Hadrad's troops are only a day and a half away from Charlie and Feng Sen.

This day and a half is not the distance that Charlie stands still and Hadrad advances, but that after Charlie and Hadlard act at the same time, as long as they walk for a day and a half, they will be caught up, or even faster.

Because what Charlie didn't know was that Hadlard went into battle this time, and asked the soldiers to carry three days of rations, and then set off directly. The logistics troops were left far behind.

It belongs to the whole family.

"damn it!"

"boom!"

Charlie slammed the letter paper in his hand on the small table in front of him, and the sawdust flew out in an instant. With a tooth-sickening sound, the wooden table broke in two from the middle.

Beside him, Queen Fastelada was already pale, and even trembling all over. She could feel the dangerous eyes of those accompanying nobles.

"Your Highness, our current situation is not good. Before the rebel army arrives, we must delay time." A Frankish nobleman stood up and suggested loudly, "Since this matter is caused by the queen, of course, I am not talking about what to do with the queen. The current situation must require the queen to stand up temporarily to delay time."

"You, you despicable villain!" Fastelada stood up, pointed at the nobleman and screamed, "You are from Austrasia, why did you do this?"

"There is no difference between the Austrasian people. We are all the people of the heavenly father. Queen, what are you talking about?" the nobleman said unhurriedly.

Fasterada was momentarily at a loss for words, she turned her eyes to Charlie for help, her once high voice gradually became as soft as a lamb: "Your Highness, Your Highness, this has nothing to do with me."

There was no response, Charlie stared at the map in his hand tightly, neither responded to the nobleman's words nor Fastelada's words, just sat on the throne and thought intently.

Fasterrada still wanted to continue talking, but she was afraid of offending Charlie, so she really used her as a shield. At this moment, the queen seemed to be stripped naked, standing in front of everyone trembling.

The deadly silence lasted for almost 2 minutes. Finally, Charlie said slowly, "Anthony, what do you think?"

"Your Highness, I have two things to say: First, this time is both a danger and an opportunity. As long as we can defeat these 3000 people, the nobles in Thuringia will be wiped out. Thuringia has fertile land and a large population. , and they are all Franks who speak the same language, then this place can be used as a blank virgin land, and a large number of nobles can be moved here."

As soon as these words came out, the nobles at the scene immediately glared at Feng Sen. If it weren't for their lack of language, they would definitely yell at this moment to let go of your grandma's gangsters.

"That's right." Charlie smiled. "Anthony can understand my thoughts very well. I plan to move the town according to the tax payment standard. Earls who can't meet the expected level will move the town to Thuringia!"

"The second sentence, whoever proposes to use the queen as a shield, should be punished!"

"Why?" The smile on Charlie's face grew stronger.

"It's very simple. The Queen and His Highness are close relatives. If His Highness kills the Queen, what will the royal family and the Austrasia family think of His Highness? Secondly, if His Highness kills the Queen, wouldn't that prove that His Highness Subdued? Doesn’t it prove that His Highness was really tempted by witches and devils? In this way, His Highness’s throne is still secure?”

Although the queen did not speak, the gratitude in her eyes was beyond words.

"That's right!" Charlie laughed loudly. Although there was a smile on his mouth, his eyes were cold. The person who had just clamored to use the queen as a shield suddenly became weak and shrank behind the crowd.

"Now that these two points have been confirmed, Hadrad is coming aggressively, everyone, do you have any suggestions?"

"Should retreat to Brunswick!"

"It's too late, what should I do if I am ambushed halfway?"

"Go to Dessau!"

"Dessau doesn't even have a castle, and there are forests blocking it. Can you walk there in a day and a half?"

The nobles and earls immediately chattered, and the whole camp turned into a vegetable market on the spot, but we should not be too harsh, after all, the etiquette has not yet been perfected, and in the later generations of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers were late and early every day, and there were fights in court.

However, these discussions eventually converged into one opinion, the most important opinion:

"We should fall back to Brunswick, hold the city, and wait for reinforcements."

"Your Highness, what do you think?"