Chapter 122 The Situation of Feiliu Castle
October 26, 1444 in the Imperial Calendar, Feiliu Castle.
Situated at the mouth of the Ibe River and the Nauan River, Feiliubao is the water and land transportation hub and political center of the entire Thousand River Valley.
The metropolitan cathedral of the church in the entire Thousand Valley Diocese is in Feiliu Castle.
Varo Port outside Feiliu Castle is the most prosperous port in the Thousand River Valley.
Among the many commercial ports, warehouses, and shops, a commercial building as big as a castle rose from the ground, overlooking the small houses.
On the first floor of the business building, which is as wide as the lord's hall, sit businessmen from all over the continent.
There are gilded gold traders from Norn, dwarf traders from the northern furnace heights, Sealand traders wearing vests in the cold weather, and even blood slave traders with pale skin and red clothes.
Most of them come to sell various handicrafts, and what they want is dyes and wine.
The businessmen traveling around on the first floor were covered in dust, shouting and chatting loudly.
"I heard that a bandit named Thomas appeared over the Gaotai Mountains, claiming to be the adopted son of the Saint and the great-grandson of the Saint."
"Don't talk about them, Nanmande also A man appeared, whose name was unknown, claiming to be the sworn brother of Saint Sun. "
"When the Holy Knight arrives, these people will definitely turn into powder."
Catherine heard this. These businessmen couldn't help but sigh as they discussed.
During this period, in order to cover up its failure, the church claimed that there were more than 100,000 short-haired people.
Under the intentional or unintentional actions of the church and the empire, mobs sprung up everywhere.
Most of these mobs were public farmers fleeing from floods and famines, as well as a large number of refugees, and even many bankrupt robber knights.
Since they are short-haired accomplices, the church’s doctrine of sending troops to encircle and suppress them is certainly justified.
After all these people are killed, the land will be freed up, and it will be time to immigrate from Laia and Fran.
Thousand River Valley is not like the coast. The manors will be bankrupted by cheap smuggled grain, but the local owners are still profitable.
This is what the feudal nobles of the empire have always advocated.
Between extermination instead of relief and work instead of relief, they chose extermination instead of relief.
Katherine took a sip of wine silently, but her thoughts flowed from the cedar pillar in front of her to the discussion in the past.
Since the end of the Hundred Years War, the abundant martial virtue cannot be exported and can only be digested internally, resulting in annexation wars at the earl level being very common.
Due to the conflict between the Church and the Empire, the Imperial Heavenly Soldiers often ended up in person, causing the local nobles of Qianhe River Valley to either go bankrupt or die.
The ethnic distribution of the upper-class nobles in the Thousand River Valley has changed from the original 90% of Cushites to 20% of French, 40% of Laians, and 10% of Norns.
Nowadays, among the upper-class nobles here, except for Duke Dane of Kush, who is a serious Qianhehe people, the rest are basically French, Laiya and Norn people.
In their eyes, there are no interests in Qianhehe River Valley.
"It's stable, it's completely stable! New news! Koike Castle has been breached!"
"The interim city council was dissolved, eight members were hanged, and the interim speaker and three members absconded. ! ”
"Is it true?"
"The official document of the church seems to be true at first glance."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this Xiaochi City is suffering from old sins."
"Not necessarily." The pot-bellied dye merchant crossed his legs, "The Duchess of Hema Stone is standing behind Xiaochi City. There are also many properties belonging to the Norn Lords in the territory. They can mess around, but they can't rob too much. , I can only grab a little bit.”
“Why?”
"Wouldn't that give the Norn Lords an excuse to intervene in the Thousand River Valley? The Duchess of Hermastone stood still, so they didn't dare to come in rashly."
"I guess the negotiations have been concluded, Kong Dai I know that the prince will not ignore the overall situation."
These businessmen rolled up their sleeves and slammed the wine glasses on the table. The wine flowed all over the table, looking astronomical and geographical, scolding Fang Qiu. look.
But Catherine knew that if these few fart in front of Prince Condai, they are not tight.
She asked someone to copy several briefing papers and compared them and studied them.
Sure enough, the "thrown into the cellar" incident in Xiaochi City has ended. Prince Kong Dai cut the knot quickly and reached a negotiation agreement with some businessmen and small landowners in the city.
The two sides cooperated internally and externally, and disarmed the city militia. Prince Condai personally rushed into the battle, entered the church, and rescued the old bishop who had been eating radishes in the cellar for a month.
I thought they could last a few more months.
Although Catherine still had no expression, it seemed that she could see her disappointment. Mitigny said softly: "It's great that they can persist for so long under the attack of Prince Condé."
With a helpless smile, Catherine knew that Mitternich's words were right. No mortal has the ability to fight against the extraordinary, which is why she contacted the two land nobles.
They don't have much extraordinary power in their hands, but it's better than nothing. The strength between extraordinary and extraordinary is about the same. If you can't beat them, you can have a stalemate.
But between mortals and extraordinary beings, if you can't beat them, you lose.
Over the years, Catherine has traveled far and wide and seen a lot. She even went to the battlefield in person to inspect the combat effectiveness of the Knights of the Order.
The result is that it is impossible for mortals to fight against the extraordinary, no matter how high the level of organization is.
Putting aside the combat effectiveness of the Order Knight itself, the war horses under him are not comparable to normal horses.
Most of the war horses they sit on are curl-eared highland horses from the Centaur Grass.
This kind of war horse has been fed with medicine since childhood. Each horse has a shoulder height of no less than 1.7 meters and an adult weight of more than 2,000 pounds, which is almost a ton.
The only disadvantage may be that long-distance maneuvering is inefficient and slow, but their peak speed for short-distance charges can reach 50 kilometers per hour.
This is when the man and horse are wearing armor.
The Knights of the Order who ride on them each wear outrageous steel armor weighing over 100 pounds.
Normally speaking, the weight of a piece of armor should not be more than one-third of the wearer's weight.
With the blessing of the knight's breathing method, the knight can wear armor weighing two-thirds of his body weight.
A 180-pound knight of the Order can wear 120-pound plate armor, sing, dance, and recite poetry, and run a half-marathon to exhaust his energy.
This is without potions and blessings from monks.
Even if hundreds of old peasants attack such a knight, they may not be able to break his armor.
Not to mention that they were riding fast-moving war horses. The old farmers could not keep up with the speed and could only be killed repeatedly.
The highland horse weighs 2,000 pounds, the horse armor is 200 pounds, and the knight in full armor weighs 300 pounds. Plus weapons and other sundries, the total weight reaches 1.3 tons.
When the ten knights of the order charged, it was almost equivalent to a Universiade heavy truck with a row of bayonets on the anti-collision beam, hitting them at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour.
Of course, the knights of the Imperial Order rarely ride directly into the battle, because it is not cost-effective. It is not a human problem, but mainly a horse problem.
A good highland war horse was too expensive. Sometimes, in order to prevent damage to the horse, the knights were ordered to dismount and fight on foot.
The normal combat mode of the Order Company is that the cannon fodder infantry resists the line, the squire knights harass, the square flag knights cut corners, and the order knights command and supervise the battle with the final word.
If both sides have extraordinary powers, it will be a different set of tactics.
But no matter what, to deal with mortals, extraordinary knights such as the Squire Knight and the Banner Knight are enough.
“Speaking of which, we haven’t heard from Sissi for a long time. Didn’t he go to Gao Bao to contact the Ruoan Party?”
"Don't talk about this kind of thing here." Pressing Karl's hand, Mitnich whispered.
Yes, Gaobao is Prince Condai’s first stop. Who knows what happened to Sissi?
Full of worries, Catherine drank her last sip of wine and then received the news from the boss of the guild's main building.
Standing up, Catherine did not return to the hotel, but came to a reception room, where a middle-aged monk with a Paul-style haircut was waiting anxiously.
"Oh, my dear Lady Catherine, my love, my..."
"Okay, okay, let's talk about the flattery later." Although the meaning was not good, Catherine's gentle voice was full of intellectual joking and a bit of girlish naughtiness.
"Madam, I have found what you want..."
"Does he know the purpose of my trip?"
"He said he You can guess..." Seeing Catherine frowning, the middle-aged monk quickly added, "But he is willing to take this risk. If you can write off his debt in one go and not sell it to the debt collector, you will be his reborn parent."
“Okay, I get it.”
"Is it credible?" Mitnich asked in a low voice, "Are we still going?"
Catherine thought for a long time, but made up her mind: "Make more preparations, no matter what, we have to go.
Now that the teacher has fallen into Constance's hands, he doesn't know what he will do. "
ps finally caught up.
By the way, Centaur Grass is not wrong.
The centaurs think that the grassland is not a grassland, but a clump of grass. They call the dwarves' highland the flying grass
(End of this chapter)
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