Chapter 98 Who in the world doesn’t have short hair?
On the burned-out wooden bridge, there are still a few dark red firelights left.
The ground was dark, with broken walls and ruins. The corpses of the night guards were neatly arranged, exuding a strong corpse stench.
A butterfly dances in the early morning sunshine, bypassing this small and cute mountain of corpses.
Cleonte and Berard stood in front of the ruins.
There was neither sadness nor joy on their faces, revealing a calmness and indifference after a great enlightenment.
It is the numbness after despair, the awakening after numbness, and the despair when facing reality after awakening.
Berard led 800 troops, Cleonte led 500 troops, and nearly 1,200 armed peasant militiamen were mobilized, a total of 2,500 soldiers, and thirteen checkpoints were set up.
The farmer who just didn’t stop Horne from carrying 1,200 large and small bags.
"Have you traced where they went?" Facing Cleonte, Berard's tone was so calm and friendly for the first time.
Cleonte looked up at the blue sky: "Their footsteps were mixed with the refugees. They may have run away with the refugees, or they may have gone up the mountain again."
"That's it."
"Yeah."
The two fell into a long silence again.
"Captain Cleonte, Captain Berard, Shorthair also left some writing on the wall by the roadside, we can't understand it..." A follower walked over slowly, hesitating. said.
"Go and have a look?" Cleonte asked.
“Wodekanesi.” Berard spread his hands, and seeing that Cleonte didn’t understand, he explained, “What else can I say in El’s language?”
"Take us to see it, there is nothing to lose." Cleonte said to the entourage.
Follow the follower to the wall, where rhyming knightly poems are written squarely on the wall.
However, compared with the poems in "The Legend of the Rose of Rum", it is still too vulgar, but it is just right for Cleonte, a rough man, and Berard, a cultural man, to appreciate both refined and popular tastes.
"There are false knights in front, wandering as if they are aimless.
There are stupid mercenaries behind, as timid as mice.
What a good Argon, a hundred miles away from me."
< br>After a long silence, Berard's face gradually turned red, then turned from red to green, from green to black, from black to white, and finally turned to red again.
“Ah——” he drew his sword and stepped forward, frantically slashing at the words on the wall. Berard roared helplessly and furiously.
Cleonte was thick-skinned and a little calmer, but his slightly trembling hands still revealed his true inner thoughts.
“I can’t breathe, I, I cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough” Berard said this, suddenly raised his hands and fell straight down.
He struggled to get up, but was stepped on his sleeve by a horse's hoof, and finally lost his breath and fainted.
"Lord Berard? Call the doctor, quickly."
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High Castle, High Castle Cathedral.
In the splendid hall, the gentle midday sunlight falls on the long carved walnut table. On the table legs, you can also see the sculpture of a baby angel with fluttering wings.
“According to our investigation, the shorthairs most likely went to the Black Bone Swamp, and they also recruited seventy or eighty young men from the refugees.”
Argon Sitting at the corner of the table, the white-haired man spoke inarticulately.
"It is true that I made a small mistake in this matter." Prince Kong Dai crossed his arms on his chest and admitted his mistake readily, "I really didn't expect that there were short-haired people in the Bai Feng mercenary group. We should send a few more different mercenary groups to serve as undercover agents.”
In addition to an infantry mercenary group that had been contracted for ten years, Prince Condai also temporarily recruited elite infantrymen such as Guidoda's Death Regiment and Griffin's Eagle Regiment nearby.
It's not that he doesn't want to maintain standing infantry, but he has no money.
Maintaining the Nine Imperial Order Companies is enough to make it difficult for them to survive, and sometimes they even have to sell their own estates to maintain cash flow.
Prince Condai also owed tens of thousands of gold pounds to the old king, the Pope, the Free Bank of Al, and several Norn lords.
Therefore, apart from reputation, what attracted these mercenary groups to Prince Condai was only his excellent spoils distribution policy.
While Horn and the others were climbing over the mountains in the Gaotai Mountains, a big event happened in Xiaochi City.
The local citizens threw the bishops into the cellar and locked the cellar door. This incident was known as the "throwing into the cellar" incident.
After the incident in the cellar, the citizens took over the city.
Because Xiaochi City was relatively wealthy, local and nearby nobles and priests paid high prices to invite mercenaries to take back the city.
As a result, the imperial company and mercenaries under Prince Kong Dai all went to besiege Xiaochi City.
The citizens of Xiaochi City immediately received support from Juanno and other local monks.
They raised money to hire several mercenary groups, and sent people to Norn to invite foreign forces to participate in the grand event. Among them, the matchmaker was Meliati, the Duchess of Hemastone, but Meliati had a special status. She was from the three royal bloodlines of Fran, Leia, and the former King-Select of Norn.
Moreover, my grandfather voluntarily gave up the throne of France and gave the title and throne to the father of the current king of France, which resolved the civil war that almost occurred in the Kingdom of France.
Move her, beware of the surprise of the French friends.
As long as she doesn't come here without knowing it, Prince Kong Dai really has no other way to deal with her except to waste her under Xiaochi City.
In addition to Xiaochi City, Prince Kong Dai had to move part of the imperial company to the south to guard against the secret parties in Black Snake Bay who tried to enter the Qianhe River Valley gang site.
If Prince Kong Dai does not take charge, Qianhe River Valley will most likely turn into a mess.
Horn and his group have enough reputation, but they don’t have enough oil and water, and their appeal is relatively low. The prince still forces the Bai Feng Mercenary Group, a top mercenary group, to suppress them.
The White Maple Mercenary Group sent out almost half of its people, but due to Berard's arbitrary actions and Cleonte's hindrance, they were unable to fight Horn and others throughout the whole process.
In the only battle, Horn had nearly five times the number of troops and almost let them run away.
It can only be said that bad luck.
"I was also wrong. I thought the two commanders could cooperate sincerely, so I let them jointly command. I didn't expect it. I didn't expect it." Argon shook his head.
"Oh, I am old and confused. It doesn't matter if I am shameless and ashamed. These two commanders are very angry and they still want to continue the pursuit."
After listening to Argan's words, Barneyfors quickly expressed his position: "If I had known better, I shouldn't have let Cleonte go. This old scoundrel has been defeated and fought repeatedly. Apart from being loyal, he has never done anything wrong. Mao undercover, I really don’t know what he is used for?”
Hearing Barneyforth's words, Argon twitched as if in his sleep, raised his head, and stared at Barneyforth's face.
"I got some news here." Argan, who was still dozing, suddenly became energetic. "Bishop Barnifus, do you have a priest named Bonade under your command?"
“Yes.” Barneyforth lamented as he answered, “That is an absolutely good young man, he is my student, my companion, my brother, a brother as close as father and son.
No one in the entire High Castle knows about his relationship with me. He was too upright under my influence and was brutally killed by Shorthair because he was unwilling to yield."
"Oh, first. Wait.”
With a smile on his face, Argan crossed his hands and said to Prince Condai, "When Shorthair tried to drown a monk, the rope was not tied tightly, so the monk survived by chance.
He told me an important piece of news. The reason why Shorthair was able to cheat the levels one after another was because someone helped them forge church documents.
Our monks saw his appearance and remembered it. His appearance.
According to the comparison of the people present, we have sufficient evidence to prove that... that person is the priest Bonade."
"Pfft...cough cough cough cough. ." Barneyforth, who was still drinking water slowly, instantly sprayed the water all over the table.
The waiter next to him immediately came up and tried to wipe the table, but was pushed aside by Barneyforth before he wiped it twice.
"What do you mean? Do you mean that I also have short hair?" Barneyforth's eyes flashed with malice.
Argon did not speak, but pushed the two-finger-thick document from the wooden table to him.
Picking up the file, Barneyforth opened it suspiciously and began to look through the evidence.
But soon, he turned the page faster and faster, and in the end, he closed the document with force.
Clearing his throat, Barneyfors gave a forced smile: "Let me make it clear that I have nothing to do with this Bernard."
"Didn't you just say, 伱Are we brothers as close as father and son?"
"We are brothers as close as father and son. Myrcella tells us that we must love our neighbors as we love ourselves, and we are all brothers and sisters." Barneyforth argued, squeezing his neck.
“Isn’t he under your influence?”
“Don’t slander me, he is slandering me, Your Highness, he is slandering!”
"Okay, okay." Prince Condai stopped the dispute between the two, "Let's each take a step back and make our own mistakes."
Under Barneyforth's malicious gaze, Al God Gang sat down on the ground and dozed off again within two seconds.
He has been teaching it for so many years, and has become so skilled at the two special skills of mud and water.
Want to push the envelope? You Barneyforth, a post-00s generation (born in 1401), are still too young and naive to want to play this trick with me.
"If this is the case, how should we announce it to the public? You know, there are rumors everywhere, and it is not so easy for everyone." After being silent for a while, Barneyforth asked again.
Argon coughed: "Since Shorthair has so many undercover agents, it's not that we are too incompetent, but Shorthair has been cultivating the land of Qianhe River Valley for many years. He has penetrated the minds of the people in Qianhe River Valley, laid out a new cult matrix, and realized the secret... The party broke the circle.
Just say that we have found more than 100,000 short-haired people, and there are undercovers and sympathizers in all walks of life everywhere. It is with their help that short-haired people can succeed. Escape."
"The short hair...don't care?"
After thinking for a moment, Prince Kong Dai took out a piece of paper and wrote the order.
"I will send an order company from Xiaochi City to continue the pursuit. Of course, if they are looking for death in the Wild Spider Forest, that will be a different matter."
(End of this chapter)