Chapter 494 The Order: Wherever the Knight Goes
“Epameno! Ipameno!”
Anxious shouts came from behind, and Ipameno stopped in his stride. steps taken.
"What's wrong?"
A young man with a garlic nose in a linen burqa held his knees and gasped: "I'm falling behind, someone is falling behind."
"Who, who is left behind?"
"The Si Kaiwen family."
"Damn it." Pushing through the crowded fleeing crowd, Ipamino walked towards the end of the team. .
If the Lancers catch this, it will be the end.
In early October, the rain is no longer as frequent as before.
The rain in September has ended, taking away the heat completely.
The cold sun shone in the sky, but there was not much warmth. Instead, the cool wind blew through the thin linen clothes, making people shiver uncontrollably.
The muddy puddles reflect the cloudless sky. Only the raindrops on the green leaves can tell that a lot of rain has fallen some time ago.
On the dirt road full of puddles, it is not as desolate as it used to be.
In the past, the farmland on both sides must have been farmers wearing tight jackets, bending over and working in the fields.
But at this time, no one could be seen in the farmland. Instead, the roads were full of civilians migrating in fear and numbness.
They packed their luggage in sacks, put the full luggage and livestock on the donkey cart, and slowly moved forward along the dirt road.
Objectively speaking, they are just moving forward slowly, but subjectively speaking, these migrating civilians want to fly now.
There are occasional huts on both sides of the road, and there are not many people there. Everyone is heading towards the non-knight area.
The so-called knight area is the 210,000 hectares of land that Prince Condai requested to manage.
After Prince Condai's land-dividing meeting was held, various religious nobles and secular nobles confirmed the situation and met Prince Condai's request.
Every family cut meat and donated blood one after another, piece by piece here and there, and they really made up 200,000 hectares of land.
Since Prince Condai had no money and could not afford to support such an army, and he could not find anyone to borrow money, he had to let them raise the money themselves.
Although they have repeatedly warned not to rob or extort wantonly, these knights have no such explanation. Isn't this just tax farming?
It’s just that you cover your own taxes.
Moreover, Prince Kong Dai said it was a lease, so there was no need to cherish it, and it was not really their territory.
Making enough money before withdrawing is the first priority to ensure military pay for the next three to five months.
In this case, it is natural to imagine what methods the Imperial Company will use.
It was the turn of the various lances in the Order Company. They were smart. They first recruited a group of local knights to fill the dissatisfied Order Company, and then started taking action.
What the Lancers do is very simple, they patrol and ask for confessions.
They scattered along the road, found a village and asked for military pay.
If you don’t have military pay, use things to pay for it. There’s never too much porcelain, and there’s never too little ceramics.
If you don’t have money or anything, then sign a deed of betrayal and an IOU. The knights are very kind, so it doesn’t matter if you owe them first.
Don't think that these knights will live within their means. Calculate how much is needed first, and then collect how much.
The Lancers' behavior is to get as much money as possible and then find a place to spend it.
In less than a month, wherever the Lancers went, the people were phantoms.
Whenever the farmers who were classified as knights heard that the knights had arrived, they would drag their families and luggage to nearby places where the knights could not plunder.
After all, the so-called "Knight District" is an enclave, and it is not difficult to leave the territory.
For these fugitive slaves, although the Lancers have the "Fugitive Slave Law", they have no power to pursue them. Once they escape from the knight area, they can only stare blankly.
Because they only temporarily loaned the land but did not own it. The real ownership was in the hands of the original lord.
If the original lord doesn't care, they can't pursue him.
The original knights in the knight area pretended not to see this kind of escape.
Except for the slave farmers of their own family, the other leaders ran away. Anyway, the fields were still there, and the towns would not let them in. They would have to come back sooner or later.
His subjects will definitely suffer a lot during this period, but it is better to lose both ways than to win alone.
Only the 500,000 acres of land where the lord died can barely collect taxes, while other knight districts are in a state of chaos.
"Don't watch the excitement, keep walking, walk faster." As they walked, Ipamino kept telling them to walk faster.
Ipamino is one of the refugees and the leader of this group of refugees.
But he has a special identity. He is a follower of the Juannos. He had confronted the lords and manor stewards several times, and he had a high prestige among the people.
Especially this year, with the existence of Sheng Sun Yijun, he can even summon Sheng Sun Yijun to carry out assassinations and attacks during the confrontation between the two sides.
Although it doesn't work for knights, it is very effective for the servants of the knight's castle.
Looking at the strength of the Saint Sun Rebel Army and the Salvation Army, the lord finally took a step back and waived this year's tribute.
Before Ipamino could celebrate, there was another piece of bad news - the Lancers were coming.
Non-stop, Ipamino once again led the people in the manor to escape. The target was not far away, just over ten miles away in Stonewall Town.
“Where have you gone?”
"Did you go to the roadside to take a dump and didn't follow you?"
"Let's go look for it, you keep walking."
Wiping the sweat on his forehead, Ipamino took a few The young man left the team and searched along the road.
The cool breeze blew on the surface of his body. It was cool and cold, but it could not suppress the anxiety and anger in his heart at all.
"Where did this go?" After searching for nearly twenty minutes, they found nothing but curses.
Suddenly there was a sound in the distance. Ipamino looked over subconsciously, but only saw a group of wild birds flying from the forest.
The young men following Ipamino stopped and looked in that direction. He immediately ignored the dirt on the ground and put his head on the ground.
The sound of horse hooves? Ipamino listened for a while in disbelief and confirmed that it was the sound of horse hooves.
“Let’s go back!” Ipamino turned his head, rolled and crawled, and ran towards the refugee team without even having time to clean the dirt on his clothes.
A group of wild birds flew up from the forest, and Ipamino and others, armed with wooden sticks, ran in panic on the dirt road.
His pants were torn by thistles, his straw sandals were shattered, and the mud and water invaded them, turning them into a mass of disorderly weeds.
But Ipamino did not stop for a moment. He felt that his heart was beating and his lungs were about to be squeezed out of his throat.
The sound of horse hooves in the distance gradually became clearer, and the group of refugees in front of us also gradually became clearer.
"The Lancers are coming, run." Ipamino shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Lancers, run!" The other young men beside him shouted together.
Before he finished speaking, he felt a chill on his back, and a warm feeling flowed from his chest to his navel.
Looking down, the tip of a spear was protruding from his chest, and bright red blood was flowing out one after another.
He ran a few more steps using the inertia, then completely lost his strength and fell to the ground uncontrollably.
“Ah——”
“Fugitive slave! Die!”
"You have betrayed the prince's trust!"
Liya with a strong Windmill accent sounded, and a dozen horse hooves stepped past his face, crushing Ipamino's spine and arms. .
The black-armored knights of the Imperial Company, holding their knight swords high, charged into the chaotic crowd.
The sword passed by, and all the former village friends stiffened and fell down.
Horse hooves crushed the heads of children and even knocked a pregnant woman flying into the air. Blood like mist fell on the flowers on the roadside like rain.
"Don't worry about the luggage, don't worry about it, run into the woods, run into the mountains, don't run on the road." With his eyes widened, Ipamino shouted desperately at the backs of the refugees.
But the ears of the refugees were filled with fear and screams, and they could not hear a sound.
They subconsciously ran wildly on the road until their bodies were pierced by long swords.
“No—no—” Ipamino watched helplessly as corpses fell into a pool of blood.
A few knights even threw the girl's head around for fun.
It didn't take long for these hundreds of refugees to be strangled by a lancer team of less than ten people.
The following knights looked at the civilians who had saluted him respectfully on the territory and could not say a word.
He did look down on civilians and even hated Ipaminos, but he never thought of massacring them like this.
"Hey, there's another one here." A knight of the order found Ipamino who was trampled with only one breath left, "Can you still speak?"
"You're so stupid Damn it! Damn it!" Ipamino roared like crazy. He was already half-crazy. "Sooner or later, you will suffer retribution. The Holy Father will appear and the Holy Son will come to this world. The sins of the world are burned away, you..."
Lifting the horse's hoof from Ipamino's neck, the horse raised its head gracefully and left towards the way it came with the full load of loot.
(End of this chapter)