King's Landing in France

After that, she held An Ning's hand: "To win, I'm waiting to go to the Brienne Military Academy with you."

After speaking, Christina let go of her hand, turned and walked towards the noble ladies.

There are already several groups of noble ladies gathered nearby, and the servants opened up the big parasols, and spread out the picnic mats on the ground.

The picnic box was also opened, revealing the exquisite refreshments brought by the servants of each family.

Edward Alice looked at Christina who was going away, and suddenly said: "The ladies are here for an outing, but we are going to perform a bloody fight with a pistol. You should really choose a sword, so I can solve it cleanly." You won't even shed much blood."

An Ning immediately retorted: "It won't be too bloody with a pistol, because it will end soon."

"Maybe." Edward shrugged. "Shall we begin then?"

Talleyrand: "The weapons have been inspected. Please keep a distance of 15 fathoms between the two of you!"

The hom here is one of the units of distance in France in this era. The iron ruler specifying the length of a hom was embedded on the wall of Chatelet Court in Paris.

At this time, French weights and measures were very confusing, such as length. There were several length standards popular in France including imperial feet: feet, fathoms (non-fathoms), steps, and so on.

Because of the confusion of weights and measures, the Paris National Convention later decided to establish a new, unified, decimal system of weights and measures.

This is the origin of the later metric system of rice.

Anning and Edward distanced themselves, and Talleyrand instructed the two attendants to hold a 15-hundred rope and carefully measure the distance between them.

After confirming that the distance between the two complied with the regulations, Talleyrand raised one hand: "Two, you start to reload, but you can't raise your gun, let alone fire it."

An Ning immediately pulled out the pistol and began to load it.

To load the current flintlock gun, you need to take out the prefabricated paper-wrapped bullets, tear a hole, pour the gunpowder and the projectiles into the barrel, and then stuff the paper packets into the muzzle with The cleaning rod is pressed tightly.

After completing such loading steps, it is necessary to take out the horn gourd that holds the gunpowder, and pour a little gunpowder into the medicine pool that ignites outside the gun.

In this way, when the trigger is pulled, the sparks struck by the flint fall into the medicine pool, which will ignite the gunpowder in the medicine pool, and then ignite the gunpowder in the gun through the hole between the medicine pool and the barrel.

An Ning tore open the pre-drug package and found that the bullet the Duke gave him was not a whole, but a large bullet with several small ones.

In this way, even if the large projectile misses, the small projectile may still hit, which can greatly increase the hit rate.

It is said that in this era, the armies of some countries rigidly stipulated that such "shotguns" of large and small sizes should be loaded when reloading, so as to improve the killing efficiency.

The British lobster soldiers on the other side of the sea are determined not to engage in such "crazy ways", and only load one projectile, because the British believe that such small projectiles are not powerful at all at the normal combat distance of line infantry. It doesn't hurt to hit people.

But An Ning is now only fifteen fathoms away from Edward, and this distance is also enough for a small bullet.

And during the reloading process, An Ning got another piece of information: he reloaded faster than the opponent.

Thinking about it carefully, this is normal. After all, he has a system, and this loading is probably under the control of the system.The evidence is that An Ning didn't pay much attention to the loading at all, and the body completed the loading as if it had completed a muscle memory action.

An Ning was a military musician in the army, and had no training in handling a gun at all, so it was impossible for him to form this kind of muscle memory.

Talleyrand saw that both of them were loaded, so he said: "I, Charles Maurice Talleyrand, the abbot of St. Remy Abbey, announce the marriage of Edward Alice and Andy Frost. The duel has officially begun! Both of you, please raise your guns!"

An Ning and Edward raised their guns together.

As An Ning raised his gun, the front sight appeared. At this distance, An Ning found that the front sight was a circle larger than Edward's entire body—looking at the spread of the front sight, it was impossible to have a two-thirds hit rate!Almost one third!

Talleyrand took a step back and motioned for the two witnesses to do the same.

After everyone retreated a sufficient distance, Talleyrand ordered loudly: "Fire!"

Edward grabbed the trigger directly, and the flint shot out sparks to ignite the medicine pool, and the pistol spewed out a large cloud of white smoke, accompanied by a crisp gunshot.

An Ning felt her shoulders tremble, she must have been shot.

But because of the massive secretion of adrenaline, he didn't feel any pain.

An Ning didn't fire, but raised her gun and walked forward!

As he gradually approached the enemy, the front sight gradually coincided with the outline of the enemy!

Because of the cover of the smoke from the shooting, Edward didn't notice that he was approaching quickly, and he was busy loading the musket with his head down.

Marquis Li Xiaer, who was watching, shouted: "Foul! This is a foul! How can we get closer?"

Talleyrand: "The rule in Paris is that at the beginning, the two sides have to keep a distance of fifteen fathoms. There is no rule that they cannot approach the enemy. In fact, some people rushed to the front and tried to shoot in the face during a pistol duel!"

An Ning was already close to Shi Xun at this time!

It feels like the outline of the enemy should have filled the entire front sight!In other words, firing at this time will definitely hit the enemy!

But at this time, the white smoke generated when the enemy opened fire had completely spread out, and An Ning couldn't even see the enemy's feet.

An Ning decided to wait.

The enemy will definitely move his position and bypass the white smoke between the two of them. This is the moment An Ning has been waiting for!

Finally, Edward's figure appeared from the white smoke!

The moment he saw An Ning, he immediately raised his gun to aim, but An Ning was faster.

After all, there are ready-made front sights.

An Ning put the sight on Edward's upper body and fired directly.

A large bullet and a few small bullets loaded in the gun chamber immediately stuck to Edward's upper body.

It's a pity that An Ning was blocked by the white smoke from the firing, so he couldn't observe the effect of the shooting at all.

He did one thing: he took a step aside.

There was the sound of enemy fire.

An Ning didn't feel like he was shot. In fact, he even forgot that he was shot in the shoulder just now under the action of a large amount of adrenaline.

He loaded the pistol deftly, and at the same time continued to move his position, avoiding the white mist produced by the shooting.

He saw Edward, who was also reloading!

Not only that, but he also saw that the opponent's loading became obviously unsuitable because of his injuries.

The shot just now was obviously effective!

An Ning pulled the cleaning rod out of the barrel, and then threw away the cleaning rod, so that he would not be able to reload the next round, but this greatly shortened the reloading time this time!

He is going to decide the outcome with this shot!

He raised his gun, aiming at the enemy.

Because the distance was shortened again, this time the scope of the front sight only included the enemy's chest.

There is no possibility of flying!

Anning fired.

The field of view was once again blocked by white smoke.

But in the next second, An Ning heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, and then the crisp sound of the enemy's cleaning rod colliding on the ground.

The gun being loaded in the enemy's hand has fallen!

Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of something more bulky hitting the ground.

Then, Talleyrand's voice came: "The winner is already divided! Andy Frost is still standing!"

Christina screamed.

An Ning breathed a sigh of relief, only then did he feel a little pain in his shoulder, and when he lowered his head, he found that his entire left shoulder was already bright red.

At this time, Marquis Li Xiale roared: "No! Are you blind! He broke the rules! That damn cobbler's son broke the rules!"

Marquis Lischer rushed up, grabbed the collar of Talleyrand's priest's uniform, and roared hysterically: "You have definitely been bribed by the Duke!"

Talleyrand: "How is that possible? I only found out last night that I was going to be a witness!"

"I don't believe it! I understand, these are all plots of the Duke, but we country nobles will not give up so easily!"

As he said that, Marquis Li Xiaer pulled out the colonel's gun beside him, took the gunpowder barrel and poured gunpowder into the medicine pool——

As a result, at this time, the bullets loaded in the gun rolled out of the muzzle.

Colonel: "Your Excellency the Marquis, you can't raise the gun so hard, you will throw the bullet out. The action of raising the gun should be gentle..."

The Marquis didn't seem to have heard the colonel at all, nor had he noticed that the bullet had been thrown.

He aimed at An Ning and pulled the trigger.

After the gunshot, An Ning was fine—after all, the bullet had slipped off.

An Ning: "Everyone, you saw it! I want to sue Marquis Li Xiaer, he tried to murder me!"

An Ning had used so much energy to win over an awesome lawyer before, wouldn't it be a pity not to use it?

chapter 033

Marquis Li Xiaer gritted his teeth and stared at An Ning: "A commoner like you, if you are killed in my territory, you will be killed! At most, I need to apologize to the lord of Caen, because I killed his serf! "

An Ning: "First of all, my family is a cobbler in the city and is no longer a serf. Secondly, the times have changed now. Even if you are a serf, you can't just beat him to death."

Marquis Lichar sneered: "You're dreaming! The guy who was bewitched by Rousseau's fallacies! Our France will always be His Majesty's France, a bunch of mud legs, do you still want to be the master of the country?"

An Ning turned her head to look at Duke Tollestern.

The Duke was also a supporter of Rousseau and Voltaire. At this time, he frowned and said to the Marquis: "The times have changed. Now even if His Majesty the King wants to send someone to the gallows, he has to go through the Supreme Court in Paris. You just Shooting Frost was attempted murder and he has the right to sue you."

Marquis Li Xiaer was stunned, he stared at the Duke: "Your Excellency, are you actually on the side of this commoner? He is just a cobbler!"

The Duke shrugged: "I am on the side of the law. What I saw was that you pulled out a gun and tried to murder him. If I need to testify in court, I will."

Marquis Li Xiaer was silenced by the Duke's action. He probably didn't expect the Duke to really stand on the side of the common people.

At this time, the third-party witness Talleyrand also spoke: "This is Paris, and many things are different from your own territory. I suggest that you apologize to Mr. Frost in exchange for his understanding. Anyway, you just shot me." The bullet didn't actually go out either."

An Ning: "I don't understand, don't you understand? He may send someone to kill me at any time now. I need legal protection."

Talleyrand curled his lips: "Then what do you hope, send him to the Bastille? This is unrealistic."

An Ning thought for a while, and suddenly felt that it made sense. Now it was just an attempted murder, and it was unlikely that the Marquis would be sent to prison. At most, he would lose some money.

Then the most reliable way is - a duel, kill the Marquis, and directly eliminate the troubles.

An Ning looked down at his hands, now that he was not wearing gloves, he couldn't throw them away immediately...

Unexpectedly, at this time, the Marquis took off his gloves and threw them directly in An Ning's face: "The law is really unreliable! Now that the witnesses from the three parties are here, I want a duel! Choose a weapon!"

An Ning smiled, that's right!

"I choose a pistol as my weapon." An Ning said loudly. In fact, he was planning to choose a long sword at the beginning, so that he could bully the Marquis. He was already old, but then he thought that although the Marquis was old, he might have received sword training, so a pistol would be better. Well, when the Marquis just took the gun, his hand was shaking all the time, so he might not be able to hit it.

Talleyrand glanced at the witnesses on both sides, and tentatively said: "Then... shall we continue now? It happens that the witnesses are all there."

Duke Tollestern glanced at An Ning: "Your shoulder is injured, you should suggest to recover from your injury before coming back."

It was only then that An Ning remembered that he had been shot in the shoulder. He was used to the pain, but he forgot about it.

As soon as the Duke reminded her, An Ning's shoulders ached sharply.

Marquis Li Xiaer shouted: "He has already agreed to a duel, he cannot repent!"

Talleyrand: "Mr. Frost, are you all right? Can you fire?"

Marquis Lischer interrupted Talleyrand: "Of course he can fire, he was shot after the first shot, and then he completed the entire duel process! And according to the rules of the duel, after choosing the weapon, I should choose the duel time! I choose now, immediately!"

An Ning moved her arm, and felt that although her arm hurt, it didn't seem to affect her operation of the gun.

Maybe this is An Ning's FPS system at work: Seriously injured soldiers in the game can still reload and shoot without affecting their accuracy.

So An Ning decided to solve this problem once and for all today, so he said to Talleyrand: "Do as he said, and the duel continues."

Talleyrand raised his voice and said to the onlookers: "Now, things have made new progress. The Marquis Lichar refused to accept the result of the duel and decided to go into battle himself! Mr. Andy Frost has accepted the duel. He chose His weapon is still a pistol!"

After the words fell, An Ning heard Christina's voice from the audience: "No! He's already injured, it's not fair! I mean Andy is already injured!"

Talleyrand glanced at An Ning's shoulder and said, "Can you bandage it, is there a doctor on site?"

An Ning waved her hand: "Don't bother the doctor, is there any wine on site? Just give me some wine."

Doctors in this era are not trustworthy. They don't have the concept of disinfection at all, and they even think that wound suppuration is getting better.

Talleyrand shouted to the crowd: "Whoever has wine, bring a bottle!"

Immediately a young gentleman came running up with a bottle of whiskey: "I've got some wine, you can drink as much as you want, brother!"

This person thought that An Ning asked for wine to drink himself.

An Ning took off her coat directly, exposed her upper body, then took the wine bottle and poured water on her shoulders.