Urban Sims

Chapter 31 Killing the Knight

With the victory of this battle, Count Lausitz can be said to have won at a loss.

According to the actual combat effectiveness, the southern knights are indeed weaker than the northern knights. Although the number is [-] to [-] fewer, the knights of Earl William may not be at a disadvantage. The worst case is just a tie.

However, in this war, an unexpected variable appeared. This variable exhausted a dozen of Earl William's knights, and finally let Earl Lausitz take advantage of it. After being captured, Earl William, only With blood dripping from his heart, Neng ceded three baronial fiefdoms close to Ross's territory from his own territory, and secretly vowed to take back these three fiefdoms in the future!
Earl Lausitz laughed heartily. For many years, the southern faction, which has never had an advantage in terms of force, beat those Yankees so badly at once today. It's a joy, a joy!

Earl Lausitz, who had three more baronies, soon entrusted his two second sons and a loyal subordinate to these three new territories after being named barons superior.

Of course, Earl Lausitz did not treat the twelve barons who followed him in battle, and each of them distributed a lot of bounties, and gave each baron 15 knight places, so that those who lost in this war Many barons of knights can not only fill up their own cavalry team after returning home, but also expand a few more - as long as the territories of these barons can be divided into so many fiefs.

"Dear Lord Earl, I don't want bounty rewards, I want to be a noble knight!"

Inside the big tent, Zhou Ming knelt on one knee, and said eagerly to Earl Lausitz, who was standing above him.

Earl Lausitz was very impressed with this "farmer" who performed particularly well on the battlefield. Zhou Ming said this when he specially summoned him and asked him what reward he wanted.

"Young man, I am very surprised by your loyalty and courage, but to become a knight, having these is not enough. Can you pass the assessment to become a knight and get the knight medal?"

Becoming a knight is not as simple as a word of mouth. A knight in any territory must pass the martial arts examination of the King's Knight Academy in order to be certified as a knight.

These assessments include riding, swordsmanship, spearmanship, archery, etc. After passing the assessment of these martial arts items, you will be able to serve the king for two years as an apprentice knight. knight.

Of course, there is an important prerequisite for this: anyone who wants to become a knight must be a nobleman.

With this premise, Zhou Ming, who was a "farmer's son", was dismissed.

"My lord Earl, I will work hard to pass these assessments, please give me such a chance!"

Zhou Ming knew that there was another way to change his destiny, and that was the Earl's "recommendation letter". The number of such "recommendation letters" was very small, and each earl only had ten per year. If Earl Lausitz was willing to send If a recommended spot is given to me, even if I am the son of a farmer and a professor at the Royal Knights Academy, I will give him a chance to enroll in the face of Earl Lausitz.

"My child, you have great potential, but you are too old, and you have already missed the best time to become a knight. Take this bag of gold coins and go back. Go back, marry a wife and have children, and spend your life peacefully and richly. You deserve it most."

Earl Lausitz shook his head and threw a money bag in front of Zhou Ming. The coins rattled and rattled in the bag, but Zhou Ming's eyes were dull. It took him a while to pick up the money bag and left the tent sadly.

Baron Connor, who was saved by Zhou Ming and was lying on the hospital bed with serious injuries, learned about this from the chattering knights, and called Zhou Ming over to comfort him.

"Son, I have noticed your talent and hard work. If you are still willing to stay in Grandland in the future, I can hand over all the manor outside the castle to you. Let him go outside together, so learn from Bachelor Ellen, maybe in the future, you can also become a respected bachelor."

Baron Connor gave Zhou Ming two choices, which were the two best choices he could give Zhou Ming, no matter how many, he couldn't give them.

"Thank you Lord Baron. If possible, I will stick to my dream. If not, I will do something that I am good at."

Zhou Ming didn't give a clear answer, just like this war, even he didn't expect that his crazy actions would bring him a reward of 100 gold coins. What about bigger?

In this war-prone world, there may be many opportunities waiting for you in the wild, right?
Zhou Ming just moved some thoughts that made him eager to try, and the next provocative question disrupted his thoughts.

"Boy, with your chick physique, you also want to be a noble knight? You haven't woken up from dreaming at night, have you?"

A knight with a scarred face appeared in front of him at some point, reeking of alcohol, his face was ugly and hideous, and his mouth was even more noisy.

There was a hint of greed in the eyes of the scar-faced knight. He stared at the bag tied around Zhou Ming's waist and said, "Boy, I heard that the Earl gave you a lot of rewards for your meritorious service on the battlefield? Be wise and hurry up!" Give me that bag! Your meritorious service is an insult to us knights, and you still want to put the money you earned by insulting knights into your own pocket?"

Scarface's words attracted unanimous approval from several knights around, and they all asked Zhou Ming to hand over the money.

"Fernandi, teach this despicable boy a lesson. How can the dignity of our knights be desecrated by such a despicable thing?"

"Boy, be honest and hand over the money. When the uncle is happy with drinking, maybe he won't bother you."

"Ryan, you'd better take out the 200 gold coins in your pocket and buy these knights a drink, and they will let you go!" At some point, Fatty Baum stood behind the group of knights, Said in a provocative tone.

"Good guy, 200 gold coins, you can consider killing this little guy..." Someone's eyes lit up, and he said in his heart.

Seeing these knights getting closer and closer to him, Zhou Ming felt a thump in his heart. It was another disaster caused by money. It seemed that this matter could not be resolved today.

However, he still had no expression on his face and said: "So, you want to rob, honorable Lord Knight?"

Hearing the word robbery, Fernandi was furious, breathed out a mouthful of alcohol, grabbed Zhou Ming by the collar and said, "Boy! Don't talk about it, be honest! Quickly take the money on your body." Take them all out!"

"What if I don't take it?" Zhou Ming asked.

"Ha ha!"

Fernandi laughed back angrily. He really wanted to draw the knife and kill the kid in front of him immediately, but there were so many people present... he still smiled slightly and said, "Boy, I'll give you a chance not to take it! Let's have a one-on-one game." One-to-one competition, if you win, the money is yours, if I win..."

"The money belongs to you?" Zhou Ming answered.

"Correct answer, boy."

"But you're a knight and I'm just a farmer. Is that fair?"

"Hey! I want to compete with this kid. Do you think it's fair?" Fernandi asked all around loudly.

"Fair! Very fair!" Everyone around answered in unison, especially Fatty Baum's voice was the loudest.

"Okay! I'll compete with you."

Zhou Ming took off his coat, and threw the money bag at his waist on the bullock cart. When the mouth of the money bag was loosened, a golden light came out, and the onlookers around exclaimed, "There are so many gold coins!"Then he was furious, this damn boy, with so much money hidden in his body, didn't invite them to drink!
After a while, Zhou Ming took his spear that had killed seventeen farmers and wiped the dried blood on it with a sackcloth.

The knight, Fernandi, was in heavy armor and rode his own horse.

"Fernandi, to deal with such a kid, as for riding a horse over here, you are too chivalrous, aren't you?" an acquaintance of Cavalier Fernandi exclaimed in the crowd.

Fernandi, who was riding on the horse, showed a cruel smile, and said with a grin: "Let's all watch from the sidelines! Look at how I trampled this kid into meat and chopped it into pieces! Today, I'm going to use this kid His death proves how powerful our knights are!"

"Well said!" "Good job Fernandi!" "Fernandi, for the glory of the knight, crush this kid!"

Everyone applauded and looked forward to it, wanting to see how this annoying farm boy was crushed by Fernandi.

A flat open area.

With a distance of about 20 meters, one person and one rider stand opposite each other.

"Boy, die for me!"

As soon as the competition started, Fernandi, who couldn't wait to crush the farmer boy on the other side into minced meat, rode his horse, swung his long sword, and rushed towards Zhou Ming.

Seeing the high-speed war horses getting closer and closer, and the impact from the pavement, Zhou Ming did not choose to resist, but put the spear in his hand aside, lowered his head and rolled on the ground, dodging this would definitely bring Come the fatal blow of death.

A charge.

Charge twice.

Charged many times.

Zhou Ming, who charged back and forth more than ten times in a row, was narrowly dodged by the cautious Zhou Ming.

"Damn boy, don't run away if you have the guts, let the uncle cut you down with a sword!" Fernandi shouted furiously, swinging his sword.

Zhou Ming, who was not in a hurry, dodged the blow nimbly, and sneered in his heart: Standing and let you chop me, think I'm a fool?
More than 30 war horses charged forward, but Fernandi still failed to hit Zhou Ming once. Instead, the horse was panting and sweating profusely, and he felt that the armor on his body was getting heavier and heavier.

"Almost all right..."

Looking at the horses charging slowly towards him, and the knights who were unresponsive due to alcohol... Zhou Ming picked up the spear that had just been placed on the ground, adjusted his breathing rate, and stared fixedly at Fernandi's face That eye area without the protective mask.

"Boy, you finally won't hide this time, go to hell with me!"

Seeing Zhou Ming standing still with his waist bowed, Fernandi was overjoyed, excitedly raised the long sword in his hand, and slashed down hard again!
However, before seeing the kid below turned into two halves, a black shadow drilled into his eye socket like a poisonous snake, followed by a sharp pain, and then fell into deep darkness.

"Boom~!"

Accompanied by the loud sound of Fernandi's body falling to the ground, the knights present and all the onlookers were speechless and stunned.

(End of this chapter)