Chapter 2

The cavalry leader saw a little silver flash on the carriage. He realized it was bad, but it was too late.

Zhu Chi is just a lunatic. He is carrying the pressure of cavalry approaching alone. He just holds his bow until the distance between the two sides is reduced to within the range.

"Be careful -"

the leader yelled.

Zhu Chi buckled the tiller with a mole glove. The sharp beak at the front of the crossbow breaks away from the clasp of the chord pillow. The chord pillow rolls and the bow string releases. [1] A little cold light shot out of the carriage like a meteor, and in a twinkling of an eye it came to the unsuspecting knights. The sharp arrow breaks through the air and penetrates the lock armour at the next moment.

A cloud of blood splashed, and the leader released the reins and fell from the horse. The war horse in the back stepped over his body.

"Cross bow!"

The rest of the knights were surprised and angry.

As we all know, the crossbow is called "the curse of things.".

With simple training, ordinary farmers can shoot knights with it. Even the most delicate lock beetle can't resist it. Therefore, as early as 300 years ago, it was absolutely forbidden to use in the war of saints.

The anger of the knights had no effect on Zhu Chi in the carriage.

His pale blue eyes seemed to be frozen.

JINGTIE sharp arrow "whew", "whew", "whew" to break out of the air.

The rest of the pursuing cavalry fell down one after another. They mistakenly listened to the master's words and took the king as a prey to be captured by hand, and pursued him lightly. At this time, the lonely carriage is no longer an easy reward, but a terrible devil.

The cavalry got scared and began to want to retreat.

At this time, the carriage's body vibrated violently. I wish Chi was not so lucky this time. His shoulder was firm and hit the wall of the carriage. The lip is a bit chipped by the tooth. He put out his tongue and licked it. It was the familiar smell of rust.

In the moonlight, the last cavalry saw the bow man's face clearly.

The king, who is regarded as "nothing but cruelty", has a delicate pale face, thin lips with a trace of scarlet, and a cursed weapon in his hand, as if from hell.

The cavalry shivered, lost the courage to fight alone, turned around and rushed into the night.

At this time, the crazy horse has already pulled the carriage to rush to the entrance of the canyon in front of the wooden fence.

The soldiers behind the wooden fence were scared out of their wits by the runaway carriage and crawled to both sides. The horses with white breath in their mouths looked like the devil's mount at this time. They took the carriage to break through the fence.

Thanks to the king's carriage made of hard oak and metal, it barely fell apart.

The canyon was not long or short, and it soon came to an end.

"Your majesty! The pontoon has been cut off

As soon as he rushed out of the canyon, the inner court manager turned pale. He crazily pulled the reins back, trying to stop the horses. His voice changed a little because of panic.

Out of the canyon is the winding DOMA River, which is in the middle of winter. The bank and the river are frozen together. Moonlight sprinkles on the blue and white glacier. It can be seen clearly that half of the floating bridge originally erected on the river has been chiseled off, leaving only a few holes in the original place that have just formed a thin layer of ice.

"Pass by!"

I wish I didn't have time to see the situation of the river with my own eyes. I yelled.

As soon as the voice fell, it was a whirl.

"Your Majesty, your majesty!"

At the last moment, the steward of inner court reluctantly changed the direction of the horse's gallop. The carriage rubbed against the ice hole and rushed out more than half the distance of the river, leaving a long white mark on the smooth ice. Close to the river bank, the connection between the car and the front axle completely cracked.

The car was thrown out and overturned on the ice.

The general manager of the inner court followed William III to fight in the battlefield. He reacted quickly and jumped on the ice at the last moment without any damage.

Too late to celebrate his good fortune, the inner court manager rushed to the overturned carriage in horror.

"Your majesty

His voice was sharp and urgent.

"Shut up."

Zhu Chi climbed out of the carriage, pressing the ice with one hand and covering his head with the other. He gasped, and the white mist came out of his mouth. The brain hasn't recovered from vertigo.

Seeing that he was safe and sound, the general manager of the inner court knelt down on the ice and put his hand on his chest: "God bless, God bless."

He cried with joy.

"Get out of here."

Zhu Chi was almost laughed by him.

God bless, no one can bless him who sells his soul to the devil.

"Oh, oh."

The head of the inner court woke up and rushed to help Zhu chi up.

Fortunately, it's close to the river bank, and the ice is solid. With the help of the general manager of the inner court, Zhu Chi climbed the river bank.

The carriage was damaged. One of the four horses broke his neck and the other broke his leg. The remaining two, with minor injuries, stood on the Bank of the river, shaking their horses' hooves uneasily.Zhu Chi orders the steward of the inner court to burn the carriage. He holds his wrist and looks across the river.

I saw the other side of the canyon began to appear in the fire, those people finally reacted. They stopped by the river and didn't dare to rush through the ice like Zhu Chi. The water level of DOMA is very deep, and the river is often turbulent under the ice. No one knows where they will step down and break the ice hole.

As he burned the carriage, the steward of Inner Court saw the crossbow on the ice.

His face changed and he didn't dare to say anything.

There's a fire here and a torch there.

Zhu Chi looked at it for a while, sneered, and said to the inner court manager, "let's go."

………………

Maune castle.

This is the intersection of the DORMA River and the Naxi River, and merne castle is a solid fortress by the river.

Under normal circumstances, even if the noble is imprisoned, the prison life will not be too bad, and even can be called decent luxury. Over the past month, however, the old Duke of Buckingham, the king's only uncle, has been held in the infamous prison of the central tower of merne.

Mernta is full of torture, extortion, cold and dirty environment.

The old Duke of Buckingham is William III's half brother. He has been fighting with William III for 30 years. He used to be a militant with a radical style, but in the years when he was in power for his nephew, the old Baron gradually settled down and became more cautious.

A month ago, his son was defeated in an expedition against the kingdom of Blaise, losing not only three important towns, but also being captured by the palace of Blaise.

The ransom offered by the kingdom of Blaise is a staggering sum of 20000 pounds.

The defeat made the people very angry, and a rumor spread:

- the old Duke of Buckingham accepted the bribe of the enemy and deliberately let his son lose the war, because he knew that the king would not give up his cousin.

The king in the palace was offended.

As a result, the Duke of Buckingham was held in tight custody in the mernta.

However, these are only superficial reasons.

"Have you shown him the king's death order?"

The old Duke of Buckingham was guarded by the master of merne castle, count Walter.

"Yes."

Answered the count's steward.

"Did he promise to choose us?"

"No

The old Duke of Buckingham just looked at the order, threw it on the ground, closed his eyes and said nothing.

Count Walter snorted and swore, "then let him go to hell."

"I don't know why, my Lord."

The housekeeper hesitated and spoke cautiously.

"I feel a little uneasy, like something bad is about to happen."

"The guillotine and the executioner are ready."

Count Walter scorned the tunnel.

The count even made a cold joke in his spare time.

"He can't escape it - unless the king comes."

The author has something to say: - - the following is a note, which can be omitted -

[1] the crossbow structure refers to Zhong Shaoyi's monograph "Jinge Tieji"

[2] the setting of Legrand's economic system refers to England around the 13th Century: in pounds, shillings and pence. 1 shilling = 12 pence, 1 pound = 20 shillings. The only coin in circulation was silver pence. 240 silver pence is worth a pound. The average income of an aristocrat was about 200 pounds a year. At that time, even a person with an annual income of 20 pounds was relatively rich. Therefore, the ransom of 20000 pounds offered by Blaise kingdom will be regarded as a sky high price.

[after the introduction of the economic and monetary system, we will introduce it again in time. If we can't understand it, we can ignore the notes]

in this paper, we will introduce it in time