flstandardbreds Chapter 121 Your opponent is me
Chapter 121 Your opponent is me
Winter 1446
Under the bright winter sun, Beigang is particularly lively. At the dock, workers unload fish from the boats, sort them into different boxes according to their types, and transport them to various slaughterhouses and restaurants with carts.
Although the winter sea winds block some small fishing boats, there are still some brave captains who drive larger kirks to cast nets on the sea to catch fish.
Thanks to the slave trade, some Issu merchants settled here. These merchants came here not only to buy slaves, but also to dump the goods they brought.
As the Is people are natural merchants, pirates and smugglers, if you give them a ship and a few dozen sailors, they can transport goods during the day, work as pirates at night, and occasionally deliver some contraband.
Therefore, some goods that were considered contraband in their countries of origin, such as cannon molds from Midland and knight armor from Yoda, were transported here by these people at the risk of being beheaded, and then the valuable parts of them were purchased by Simon's Chamber of Commerce.
No matter what they have done, in short, their arrival has made the local area gradually prosperous. The construction of various types of buildings has expanded the port inward. John has also been very tolerant of these merchants. As long as they do not go to other places in the forest and do not violate the law, they have the same rights as local residents. For example, they can buy houses and live here, send their children to local sailor schools or naval schools, open their own shops, establish their own chambers of commerce, and so on. This has led to a large number of Ys merchants leaving the cold Ys with their families in winter and heading south to the North Port where the temperature is suitable for living.
"Ha~"
Perhaps because the temperature was too cold, John developed the habit of hibernation. Unless the sun shone on him, he would not get up even if he was awake.
The house where John lives is a small replica of the Château de Franche-Comté. The difference is that except for the outer wall which is used for defense, there are basically no rooms for military purposes inside the house. Instead, each room is equipped with a small floor heating system like the one in the Château de Franche-Comté.
Of course, this also has its disadvantages. When John comes back from outside or rests in the room, the boiler room in the yard must always keep hot water flowing into the water pipes. After circulating in the crisscrossing water pipes in the room, the hot water will become cold water and return to the boiler room for heating.
After John got up, changed into suitable clothes, and walked into the living room wearing a plush coat to enjoy his breakfast. The sunlight outside shone through the glass windows onto the pure white marble pillars. At John's request, the main color of the living room was white. As for where so much white marble came from, it depended on the hard work of the Isul people.
Since John allowed them to establish a chamber of commerce here, these merchants would come to Simon, the manager at that time, to give some gifts every now and then. Simon accepted them without hesitation and wrote down the names of the merchants and gifts in detail and gave them to John, who was working in Franche-Comté at that time. Under John's instruction, Simon bought five ships of marble at a price far lower than the Midland market, and the price he paid was just to give a merchant from Issu priority in the slave trade.
Today's breakfast is simple, just an omelet with shredded radish and diced chicken, a smoked sausage, a salad and a small glass of orange juice. After finishing his meal, John walked into the office to start his work today. He will work here until noon.
Just as John sat down, dipped his pen in ink and prepared to work, he suddenly heard a hurried knock on the door.
"Come in." John looked outside the door and saw a soldier standing at the door holding a letter and saying:
"Mr. Count, urgent news from Franche-Comté!"
"what!"
Hearing this, John thought that the Yoda people were launching a sneak attack in the middle of winter, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to put the letter on the table, and he opened the letter with uneasiness.
"Misfortunes never come alone."
After reading the letter, John couldn't help but sigh that bad things really happened at the same time. He then opened the system strategic map. The map showed that a thousand-man team of the White Wolf Knights had left the territory and was heading south, and the other thousand-man teams were heading east. However, what worried him most was that a Yoda army appeared in his field of vision. John opened it and saw that familiar big face.
"Why is it him again?" John said as he looked at Adam's face on the badge. However, although he said it easily, he was still worried about the situation of the new recruits.
Even though the leader of the Blue Whale Heavy Armored Knights is a lunatic, they are also the knights that have existed since the founding of Yoda. With the financial and political support of the noble Adam, these new recruits who have been trained for a few months are no match for them.
"It seems that I need to send some people to pick them up." John saw this and clicked on the hiring system.
Due to John's continuous and intensive physical criticism of the local cultists over the past year, he successfully changed the local culture back to Western European culture, and now the recruited troops have become normal.
However, John discovered that the culture here was added with a bracket (approved by the French King's Office), and the following types of troops were also a little different.
After reading it carefully, John discovered that this was just the Crusades from Medieval 2: Total War.
Now that's good. John originally said that he would recruit the knights after buying the land, but now it will be done for him all at once. Thinking of this, he began to look at the cavalry units inside.
When John saw the price as high as 1500 gold coins, he reluctantly spent 6000 gold coins to recruit four teams of 4 crusader knights. He then deployed them to the southern part of Franche-Comté and asked them to meet him in the north.
"The Yodas are catching up!"
On the vast plain, Xavier and his party rushed south as if they were fleeing. This was the third day that they were being chased by the Yoda people. These Yoda people seemed to have eyes. Just when they wanted to take a rest, the Yoda people gathered around them, causing them to be on the run all the time.
Behind them, Adam was chasing after them with his Blue Whale Heavy Knights. All of these knights, including their horses, were heavily armored and armed with lances. The leader, Adam, was wearing a brand new shark helmet. While riding his horse, he shouted wildly:
"Die, you bastards of Midland. This is a tailgating tactic that I, Adam, improved based on the wisdom of our ancestors!"
At this time, Adam was holding a crossbow and aiming at a recruit who was lagging behind. As he pulled the trigger, a crossbow arrow directly hit the butt of the horse under the recruit. The attacked horse staggered and fell to the ground unconsciously.
"Savier, someone's been hit!"
At this time, a centurion discovered the situation, so he rode his horse forward to tell Savile.
When Savile heard this, he ordered the centurion without thinking: "You guys continue to go south first, I will go to rescue him."
"Can you do it alone?"
"Don't worry about it. Anderson asked me to be the deputy leader, so I have to be responsible for you." After saying that, he quickly ran to the back.
After the fallen recruit got up from the ground, he saw Knight Yoda getting closer and closer from behind, so he quickly ran towards the team in front until he saw Xavier riding over on horseback.
"Give me your hand!" Savile leaned over and stretched out his hand and shouted to the recruit.
"Swoosh!" An arrow hit the head of the horse under Savile. The horse twitched and then fell straight down, causing Savile to fall headfirst.
"Haha! This is the horse archery skill passed down from my family!" Seeing that he didn't hit anyone again, Adam could only brag nonsense, then stopped his horse in front of Savile.
"Sir, kill these two men." said a knight.
"No, no, no! Don't worry about it, let me do it!"
After Adam finished speaking, he dismounted and brandished his weapon. His weapon was a spear, and there was a tip pointing upward at each end of the spear.
"Prepare to die! Watch my family's ancestral spear skills!" Adam said and immediately stabbed at Xavier.
Seeing the sudden spear, Xavier blocked it according to the skills he learned in previous training, but the new recruit who had only trained for a few months was no match for Adam. Although Adam did not have great wisdom, he was strong and had a lot of clever tricks. So under Adam's fast and continuous attacks, Xavier could only follow his rhythm to block and consume more physical strength.
Adam also felt that Xavier's resistance was gradually weakening, so he gradually increased the speed of his attack.
"Qiang!"
During a confrontation, Xavier's sword got stuck on Adam's spear. Adam swung the sword hard, and the sword slipped out of Xavier's hand, spun in the air for a few weeks, and then stabbed into the ground nearby.
"You are about to die! Being killed by me is the most fortunate thing in your life!" Adam said arrogantly, then picked up the spear and swung it towards Xavier's head.
However, at this moment, an arrow flew over from the side and directly hit the ground between Xavier and Adam.
Adam was frightened by the arrow and shouted loudly:
"Who are you, you bastard? This is a one-on-one duel, and you come over to ruin the atmosphere!"
Then he saw a group of cavalry coming from the place where the arrow was shot. They were wearing knight armor, riding war horses with metal horse armor, holding shields in their left hands and guns in their right hands. The most conspicuous thing was the red cross on the white robes in front of their armor and the iron barrel helmets they all wore.
The leading knight was wearing a white cloak, and had no spear or shield in his hand, only a long and broad sword.
The knights protected Savile and the new recruit. The leading knight rode in front of Adam and said in a dull voice:
"As a fellow believer of the Lord, please let this child go. As a knight, you are using a crossbow to attack others, which is against the ethics of chivalry."
Hearing the words of the knight, Adam was a little confused, because looking at this outfit, the only person who could say such a thing was the Knights of the Hall of the King of Law. Although Yoda had a bad relationship with the Hall of the King of Law, he had not reached the point of fighting. But as an old noble, Adam had his own professional ethics. He coughed a few times and said slowly:
"Ahem, knight, this is a matter between Yoda and the Mitlan people. If you don't leave, according to Yoda's law, I have the power to execute you!"
"Really?" the knight said slowly, then he picked up his great sword with one hand and pointed it at Adam opposite him, saying loudly:
"Since you cannot be lenient to the Lord's followers, then as a true knight, fight me in a fair duel!"