Time Air Conditioner

Chapter 4: Chaos (7)

"You eat first, take the kids with you." The veteran looked at Huber, took off his heavy old-fashioned helmet, and sighed heavily:

"If you want to say that, your kid is unlucky enough. This gentleman, I'm not good to say it. It's not safe to have armor when the war starts later, and the enemy will not show mercy to the children. , You take him back first and find a room to hide first? Wait for the enemy to retreat, and then come out for the village owner to review, this is not a violation of the order. I will help you stare and ensure that nothing will happen."

"This line." Hubert Lumeng smiled, and the plate in his hand shook suddenly."I think this is good. Little guy, don't you hurry up and thank you sir? This time, we really met good people!"

"Thank you sir." Little Albert said without looking back, climbing the stone battlement.

"Good intentions. But I must see what the enemy looks like. Father, don't come here. The work of the handyman team is fire fighting, and the wall is not needed for you now. By the way, that word is Trance, Father Pan said before."

"You kid!" The veteran stared in surprise, and adjusted his sitting posture. The lock armor immediately slammed:

"Why don't you know what's good or bad? We do it for your own good! Oh, it's great to be in a trance? It's not a war that has more words than anyone, let alone who can spit. Look at the ground, yes, the two flagpoles on the ground. Press. The village master’s command is that as long as you see the enemy’s main force, both sides of the battle flag must be raised. At that time, half of the bullets will be hit here, so you are not afraid of being bombarded?"

"The sir is not afraid, I am not afraid." Little Albert still didn't look back, and his tone was rather strong, and he choked the veteran:

"Also, it's almost time to erect the flagpole. The robber who burned our village will come soon."

He is stating the facts.An obvious fact.To the east, on the imperial avenue that stretches for thousands of miles, a large army is arrogantly stepping out of the bright white sunlight and marching toward this side.

The group of enemy soldiers held more than a dozen swallow-tail flags, each with a white base and a red pattern, flying proudly in the strong wind.In the middle of the marching column, a group of knights with shiny armor is surrounded by a gorgeously decorated and golden honor battle flag. On the rectangular flag surface, there is a red, gold and white three-color, extremely complicated pattern of shield-shaped quarters. Heraldry.

Because the two sides are too far apart, the heraldry pattern is still unclear.But the stink of the arrogant nobleman can be felt just by looking at it.

"Baron Robber..." Little Albert clasped the battlement firmly, and burst out words one by one from his teeth, as if he could smash a gap in the stone wall:

"I have been waiting for you for a long time. You and your men, don't want to go back alive today!"

The twelfth generation of Bayonne Baron Bertrand.This is the master of the quarter coat of arms.In this plain north of the Pyrenees, Bertrand de Bayonne is known to everyone, but anyone who can breathe can say a few things about him.

Emil Penn once said in his sermon that there is no love without a reason or hatred without a reason in the world.The reason why the baron’s reputation is so bad is that he and his family have worked tirelessly for generations.

I think back then, when the British-German-Lanmen had just launched an invasion, Bertrand's grandfather saw the enemy's strength and decisively changed his court, and surrendered to the pirate king on the opposite bank.During the war, he and his men replaced the British army with red skins, which did harm to the nearby people. They burned five villages alone by the Yi River alone.

Twenty years ago, when the Anglo-German-Lanmen were retreating steadily, Bertrand's uncle became a second-to-five boy again, swearing allegiance to the Frankish king without blushing.This time, although he did not burn, kill, and loot around the territory, he collected military rations, apportioned military expenditures, and strengthened the villagers in the name of "raising military supplies for the blessed legal ruler." .

However, despite the great efforts of Bertrand’s uncle, the tenth Baron of Bayonne, to flatter the Frankish king at the time, his family failed to escape after the English-German robbers returned to their hometown. punishment.King Louis’s new accounts and old accounts were calculated together, and the baronial territory was directly cut in half. The males in the family were also sent to prison. The exiles of the badlands were exiled, and the number was reduced by more than 70%.

The uncle of Bertrand was kicked into a black jail in Paris by the king himself. It is said that he went crazy that night and was killed by a rat two months later.The title of Baron Bayonne was also deliberately handed over to the father of Bertrand, the youngest son of the ninth lord.

Perhaps he was frightened by King Louis, Bertrand's father, who had lived his entire life, was extremely low-key and cautious with his neighbors.Throughout his life, he seldom stepped out of the castle, so he devoted himself to reading free books, and it is said that he personally wrote scripts.

The village of Nobleva gave this eleventh generation baron a very good evaluation.But Bertrand hated his father so much, and the father and son were strangers.In AD1495, Bertrand de Bayonne officially took the throne, and since then he refused to mention his father, as if he had grown out of the soil and his parents had never existed.

The cautious style of the eleventh generation lord was also thrown into the gutter by him.In 365 days a year, Bertrand spent 300 days outside his home fort, either with his knights on horseback and hunting, or patrolling the forests in the territory. Every time he went out, his sword would be stained with blood.

The livestock lost in the neighbour's house, as long as they encounter his hunting team, they will be immediately cracked, and after roasting, they will become a baron's extra meal.Those poachers who ventured into the forest just to beg for food would end up even worse. Once captured by Bertrand, the baron would invoke the ancient customary law and hang directly on the old oak tree with ropes. on.

This is not over yet.If a nearby villager ran into the Baron's territory due to getting lost and other reasons, he would have to be beaten and then paid a high fine, and the entire year's income would be emptied instantly.If they can't get the money, the baron will "invite" them into the dungeon, forcing the family members to take silver coins to redeem them, which is no different from the kidnapping of bandits.

Merchants traveling from north to south are basically treated with courtesy everywhere.But when they entered the baronial realm to do business, they couldn't bear it all back.The verbal insult is still second. The key is that Lord Lord seems to have never seen a coin, so he changed the law and asked for money.