Chapter 69

Rose Palace.

The Duke of Buckingham slowly wiped his sword.

On the shelf beside him, his suit of armor was neatly hung.

When William III was crown prince, he went out with his brother in this suit of armor; when William III was crowned king, he met the challenge of the thirty-six nations in this suit of armor; after the fall of William III, he guarded the territory of the young king in this suit of armor; in the civil strife of the change of the rose, he guarded the throne for the king in this suit of armor.

Now, he will put on the armor again and fight for the king.

This is the defender of the king.

General John trotted in: "ready."

The Duke of Buckingham pushed his sword into its sheath, stood up and reached for the armor on the shelf.

General John could not help saying, "father, let me go."

When the Duke of Buckingham received the war report from the north, as the king expected, the first thing he did was to prepare for the next war. He not only made a series of preparations before conscription, but also mobilized the royal family's own soldiers and the old subordinates of William III.

The soldiers transferred to the southeast by the king were the "iron rose" cavalry which was expanded after October. And the original royal soldiers are still stationed in the king's territory, waiting to fight for the king at any time.

Before going to the southeast coast, the king not only handed over the Rose Palace to the Duke of Buckingham, but also temporarily handed over the royal soldiers to the Duke of Buckingham.

"Newcastle matters."

Said the Duke of Buckingham lightly.

Although the conscription order has been issued, it will still take some time for the troops to gather from all over the country. Newcastle in the north is under siege by the enemy. Newcastle is the Royal anchor fixed by Legrand in the north, which can not be broken by any means.

Newcastle is under the control of Legrand. Whether it is advancing or defending, it has to rely on.

Once the castle is occupied, the royal family will lose its vital barrier and throat.

The rebels in the North knew that, and they were trying to capture Newcastle. Legrand can't afford to wait for the time of the conscription, and can't afford to bet Newcastle whether it can hold on to the support of the army.

Therefore, the Duke of Buckingham decided to personally lead the royal family and those trusted old men to break the siege of Newcastle.

Today is the day of departure.

"Where are you standing now?" The Duke of Buckingham took off his helmet and turned to look at his son.

"The Rose Palace."

General John wondered why his father suddenly asked, but he answered.

"This is the Rose Palace. This is the heart of the kingdom." The Duke of Buckingham snapped, "when brother Wang entrusted it to me, now your majesty entrusted it to me, and now I entrust it to you on behalf of your majesty. You should always remember where you stand, and you should always remember that even if you give everything, you want it to be safe. "

"Yes, father."

General John suddenly became serious. He stood up straight.

"Guard the palace to the death."

"When the army is assembled, the order of conscription issued by the monarch can only be led by his majesty himself. When his majesty and I are not in the Rose Palace, you have to do what you do today." Then the Duke of Buckingham opened his hand and hugged his son.

General John stood still.

Never in his memory had his father acted so gently. He grew up listening to his father's glory and witnessing his father's fighting again and again. The glory of his father's bloody return, armor, sword and fire of war constitute all his memories of his father.

"Your Majesty told me."

The Duke of Buckingham let him go and patted him on the shoulder.

"The battle of Bowen is not your fault."

The old knight who followed his father for many years was the Duke of Buckingham.

The armor that had been stained with countless blood was worn on the Duke of Buckingham, and the steel and murderous spirit revived on the Duke of Buckingham. He became the majestic imperial lion that frightened the enemy. He is the "defender" of the king, and all those who challenge the royal power will be trampled to mud by his iron horse.

The lion is not old!

The Duke of Buckingham stepped out of the Rose Palace.

In front of the gate of the palace, the soldiers of the rose royal family stood quietly in the sky, and dozens of scarlet banners spread out in the wind, just like a wave of blood. At the front of these people are some knights with white hair on their temples, but they are more frightening than those young knights.

"Let's go!"

The Duke of Buckingham turned over.

The armor reflected the dazzling light, the king's flag rolled, the iron flow turned from static, the Knights galloped out with their horses following the Duke of Buckingham, and the horses' hooves picked up the flying snow and mud.

This is the cavalry of the rose family!

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When the Duke of Buckingham led his own troops to the north, tall catapults were set up in the southeast coastal cities of Legrand.This is the king's order.

At the beginning of the new year, the first plague ships to cross the abyss channel were the Royal Fleet. After receiving a secret letter from Ferri III, the king ordered that the blockade at sea be strengthened, and the Royal ships of emergency expansion patrol the coast more closely than before.

Before the plague ships got close to the land, the Royal Fleet took the lead in throwing boulders and sinking them.

But the Royal Fleet's patrol is limited compared to the entire coastline. Some plague ships approached the land and successfully threw some bodies into the city.

However, fortunately, there are already examples of kosiya pestilence. In the front, various cities have imitated the typical response to pestilence.

Once a corpse is thrown into the city, the suspension bridges of each city gate will be lowered immediately, and the city will be blockaded immediately. After kesiya plague, other cities also strengthened the cleaning treatment of the city, imitated kesiya for sewage laying, which more or less played a certain role in curbing the epidemic.

But it's the king who keeps people calm.

Not long ago, the king succeeded in saving kosiya from the plague. Now, the king is in the southeast. This makes people have a valuable calmness and rationality in the face of the outbreak of the black death, which has not evolved into panic.

At the beginning of January, the plague ships did bring great trouble to the southeast of Legrand.

During that time, cities in the southeast were infected with plague one after another.

During that time, the king's carriage was on the road almost every day. In a day, the King spent nearly one-third of his time rushing from one city to the next. Thanks to the king, the Royal Fleet and the response measures of various cities, the black death was gradually controlled in the southeast coast of Legrand.

The carriage rolled the snow on the road.

The housekeeper just handed the letter from the Rose Palace to the king.

The king pressed his forehead with one hand and picked up the letter with the other.

The letter was written by his cousin General John.

In the letter, General John told the king that the Duke of Buckingham led his own soldiers to the battle and temporarily delivered the Rose Palace to him. At the end of the letter, General John made a request to the king.

He asked to be the "defender" of the king.

At the end of the letter, the king looked at General John's nervous words, and with a smile, he put the letter paper on the low table laid in the carriage and agreed to General John's request.

"Lowland countries..."

After writing the reply to General John, the king leaned against the wall of the carriage a little tired. During this period of time, he frequently opened the door of hell, which was also a great burden to the king.

The specific battle report of Beidi was also sent to the king.

Seeing that Newcastle's rebels were well equipped, the king understood what was going on.

The lowland countries are across the sea from the north of Legrand. Of course, the lowland countries famous for "sailing on the sea" have the ability to secretly deliver weapons and equipment supporting the rebels to the north of Legrand under the cover of merchant ships. It's not something that can be done overnight.

The rebellion in Beidi has been planned for a long time.

It seems that the Vatican has been preparing for the founding of the Vatican for a long time in order to make Legrand fall into war.

The carriage stopped.

This is the end of this "plague" tour, the last port city to be infected on a large scale.

When he rushed to every infected City, the king had given an order:

he asked all coastal cities to carry out self-defense activities in the face of the plague. Every day in every city, people have to observe the approaching pestilence ship from the observation tower. And every city has to set up a catapult, once there is a non Royal warship approaching, do not do any communication, directly sink them.

If such an order is issued before the plague strikes Legrand, it will certainly encounter heavy criticism and resistance from "humanity".

Nowadays, however, these coastal cities have been exposed to the black death more closely than ever before. Even if there are "compassionate people" who want to speak, they will be drowned by other voices that are more concerned about their own safety.

The city reduces the risk of infection, and the king solves the problem of the infected city In this response, the predicted "dead fish" did not really approach the coast of Legrand, and the plague was brought under control.

After the preparation of food and grass and the gathering of knights who were subject to military service, the king would leave the stable southeast and go north to join the war.

In the cold wind, the king got out of the carriage.

He looked up at the flag of the rose flying in the motorcade.

Why did the rose family finally choose "scarlet" as their symbol?

Because the flag of a country is always stained with blood.

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What is war?

Blood, fire, glory.

These are the things that those in power, those who fight, have.

But for the ordinary people involved in the war, there are others - the groaning wounded, the lying corpses, the hatred of hard to distinguish right from wrong.The war started at the end of 1432 spread in the north, like a huge monster, devouring life little by little. Legrand's market town in Newcastle was involved in the rebellion.

The outer walls of the town fortress were overthrown, and the victorious rebels rode into the town of Legrand, the merchants of the bazaar, the civilians Men, women, young and old were slaughtered and their wealth plundered. Then the fire broke out in the howling borough.

Brier is such a town built by Legrand in the north.

Three days ago, the northern rebels captured it, so the disaster was staged in this ordinary town.

"Dean."

Two young priests in black, carrying stretchers, hurried into the monastery of Brill.

This modest monastery was the only one that survived the war. The rebels didn't step into it. When the city broke down, many people in the neighborhood took refuge in the monastery, and Abbot Anil sheltered them.

At this time, the monastery is full of the groans of the wounded, stretchers have been placed in the yard, priests these days shuttle through the ruins, for the dead convergence body, found alive back to the monastery.

Saving the sick and the wounded, as well as helping the poor, is a principle written into the rules of St. Benny.

God loves the world, so he asks his followers to love the world as well.

Father Anil, the abbot of the monastery of Brill, came out quickly. Together with the priest, he cleaned the wound of the wounded and read a short holy book.

After the new wounded were placed, Dean Anil returned to the cross.

These days, his face is always covered with sadness.

"Dean."

Young father lemy followed him, and he spoke anxiously.

"What you are worried about has happened."

Dean Anil raised his hand, crossed his chest and said bitterly, "this is sin."

The accents of Dean Anil and father lemy are the east side of the abyss.

More than 20 years ago, Dean Anil was the youngest theological genius of the Holy See. He was considered to be the youngest cardinal in the history of the Holy See. However, father Anil, who originally had a bright future, made a voice against the Pope and the sanctuary in the Holy See.

He called for "the Holy See to return to cleanliness.".

Father Anil believes that over the years, some of the actions of the Holy See have violated the purpose of the Holy See.

He advocated that the clergy should abide by poverty, meditate, oppose the clergy trade, and oppose the clergy to participate in the power struggle. At the Holy See Holy Spirit Bay Castle conference in 1411, father annick protested against the interpretation of confessions by the conference headed by the Pope.

Soon, the Pope ordered him to be tried at venorson castle.

In the court, father annick successfully refuted the Episcopal Church's accusation of heresy. His quotation of holy books and many holy scriptures is unique. Even that outstanding argument won some supporters.

The sanctuary could not find any reason to put him on the rack of fire, but eventually transferred him from the power center of the holy court to the north of Legrand as a humble abbot. Some of his followers went with him through the stormy Straits of the abyss, and they lived like ascetics in the desolate north of Legrand.

These people, led by father annick, successively established dozens of monasteries in the north. They formed a faction that "should not oppress the poor without reason by virtue of power; the trial should be impartial, the orphans and widows should be supported, and the poor should be given financial help." As their own purpose.

Twenty years are like a day.

Now, what Dean Anil was worried about has really happened.

These days, he watched painfully as the battle spread from the other side of the abyss channel and swept across the earth.

Those who hold the power, they push the tide of history, but they want to build the kingdom of God, but where are the compassionate, compassionate and devout people?

For example, these devout young people in the monastery, their contribution and dedication, and their love will be drowned by the fire of war and hatred.

What are they going to do? What will happen to them? How many people will be involved and crushed into dust?

"Lord! It's our sin. "

The Dean with white hair knelt down and put his forehead on the cold ground.

The young priest watched him kneel silently in the cross. At that moment, he felt that he saw a holy statue.

The power of the gods lies not in the frame of fire and the sword, but in love.