Continental Warriors Yoo Ma

"Dad, it's not a tree, someone is coming."

Sure enough, as Antoinette said, the sound of horseshoes came from far to near, and after a while, two knights in full armor came in front of the father and daughter.

They first asked a few words in German, but seeing that the other party couldn't understand, they switched to jerky French: "We are German knights loyal to the saint. What happened in front of us? Why is there such an evil breath?"

"Saint? Which saint?" Let the Second not react for a while.

"Of course the savior of Orleans, the guardian of Cologne Cathedral, Countess of Duris, Jeanne Darke." The knight gave Jean II a contemptuous look, as if he was an ignorant bumpkin.

Jean II was still thinking about asking them to save their lives, but he didn't dare to show his dissatisfaction. He quickly said: "Gentlemen, I am Jean II de Menelles. Tonight, there is a phenomenon of celestial-sphere interaction at the bottom of the Rhone River. , a group of undead attacked my manor. Many nobles died..."

The two German knights looked at each other and ordered: "You two stay here and don't move around."

After speaking, he turned his horse's head and galloped away, and soon disappeared into the mist.

"Father, why did these Germans leave? Don't they have a bit of chivalry and want to die?"

"No, they are just scouts, and there is a large group of people behind." Let the second finally heave a sigh of relief.

Sure enough, as he expected, after a while, amidst the sound of hoofbeats, a cavalry team of hundreds of people gradually appeared in the thick fog.The leading female knight is the most conspicuous. She has the same beauty as Antoinette, but has a completely different heroic temperament. She holds a pure white battle flag in her hand, and her blond hair is flying in the thick fog, like a ray of light, lighting up the night. Bright.

The man next to her has black hair and black eyes, wearing a set of capable and exquisite mage robes. Although he looks like a spell caster, he has the unique temperament of a superior in his gestures, as if no difficulty can stop him from carrying out his mission. will.Slightly behind, the middle-aged man in a purple priest's robe looks like a wise and learned sage, but also like a dissolute artist.

Let the second see the two German knights foreseen before, following the blond female knight, immediately confirm the identity of the other party, and run over quickly: "Mr. People of Provence..."

After listening to Rang II crying, Joan of Arc did not immediately point forward the battle flag as Rang II thought, and led the elite knights to kill those damned undead.

"Teacher, could this be a trap set by the Salt Mist Pirates?" Jeanne looked at Ma Youfu beside her.

She has experienced several battles and has grown up. She is no longer the rookie on the battlefield who only acted on intuition and rushed forward when things went wrong.

Ma Youfu did not expect that he followed the Salt Spray Pirates all the way, and after arriving in Provence, he would encounter the Celestial Convergence Event.He looked at Donatello, hoping that the expert on the intersection of the celestial and the sphere could give advice.

Chapter 330

"Your Excellency the Marquis, I can feel the unique magic power floating in the environment. It is the remnant of the torn space barrier. Mr. Jean II did not lie. The monsters that attacked his manor have nothing to do with the Salt Fog Pirates." Natello said.

Wait...Marquis?

It surprised the second generation.In the whole of France, there are several dukes, but there is only one marquis of a lower rank.That Seresian Ma Youfu, who can be called No. 1 under the King of France in terms of real power, has come to Provence?

Seeing that Ma Youfu was about to leave, the Second King rolled his eyes and stopped in front of the horse: "Master Marquis, although I don't have the ability to pick up a sword and fight monsters, but being familiar with the surrounding terrain will definitely help you."

"In that case, let me give you a horse." Ma Youfu looked at Antoinette again, "but are you assured that your daughter will go to Arles alone?"

As expected of father and daughter, Antoinette immediately understood his father's thoughts, and said quickly: "Master Marquis, I will go with you too. Even if I can't fight the undead who killed my friends, I have to see it with my own eyes." Watch them be terminated by you."

"It's not easy for a young girl to have such guts, so do what you want."

"My lord, my name is Antoinette, you can call me Antonia." The girl boldly looked directly at the man on the horse.Antoinette knows how damaging her beauty can be, and she also knows how to use her beauty.

Joan frowned slightly, always feeling that the girl's behavior was a bit unsophisticated.However, the battle situation is urgent, and she has no time to be jealous, and urged: "Teacher, if you don't hurry up, the civilians who are being besieged may not survive."

"I know, Jeanna." Ma Youfu gave Joan a look, then turned his head and said, "Jean II, take good care of your daughter."

After finishing speaking, the team started again and headed towards the attacked manor.

In Ma Youfu's team, there were fifty German knights brought by Zhen Youde, fifty marquis guards responsible for protecting his safety, and thirty members of the church's purification court.After the marquis guards are equipped with new muskets, the fighting power of this elite team is very trustworthy, and it can easily solve a small celestial sphere collision event.

So Ma Youfu boldly marched to the Meneles Manor, and immediately began to fight.

At this time, the humans who failed to escape had already hid in the mansion. It seemed that someone was standing firm at the door, so the undead could not enter for the time being.

But after those huge hermit crabs corrupted by necromantic energy arrived, Ma Youfu estimated that even the stone walls of the buildings could not stop the attack of the huge pincers.

According to the information provided by Jean II, Ma Youfu ordered his troops to line up on a slope on the west side of the manor.It is about 100 meters away from the manor, just within the best range of the musket, and can condescend to carry out long-range strikes on the zombie group in the manor.

After about a month of preparation, the newly formed Ministry of Military Industry produced fifty new matchlock guns according to Ma Youfu's request.Although in Ma Youfu's view, these firearms are quite bulky and inconvenient to use.However, it is also a weapon that is ahead of the times. In history, the large phalanx of ducks that ran across Europe decades later used this kind of heavy-duty matchlock gun with brackets.

These fifty muskets were urgently produced by the Ministry of Military Industry with concentrated manpower. The cost is not cheap. It will take time and great efforts to improve the manufacturing process and technology until the cost is reduced to the level where mass production can be achieved.

Now that Ma Youfu equips his guards with matchlock guns, in addition to hoping that they can further improve their combat effectiveness, he also hopes that these selected fighters can find out a set of matching matchlock gun usage methods that meet actual combat standards as soon as possible.

Who told him that he didn't have a search engine in his head, and he couldn't directly copy the mature experience of later generations.And the luck is not good recently, I refreshed it several times in the system store, but I didn't buy the musket drill.

After the Musketeers completed their formation, they began to prepare for shooting.Ma Youfu was watching the actions of the musketeers, to see which steps could be streamlined and optimized from loading gunpowder to pulling the trigger, and which places needed special attention.Joan of Arc led the German knights to dismount, divided into two teams, and slowly outflanked the manor from the left and right directions.

On the other hand, Donatello directed the priests to start performing divine spells, improving the shooting accuracy of the muskets, and adding radiant magic power that had special effects on the undead to the lead bullets.

"Fire!"

Ma Youfu gave an order, and the Musketeers in the first row pulled the triggers one after another.After finishing shooting in the smoke, they immediately retreated to the end of the phalanx, letting the musketeers in the second row stand on top.

Ma Youfu still knows the simple knowledge of three-stage strike.

A lead bullet with divine magic and shining magic power can kill a zombie as long as it hits, and it is even a bit powerful.So as long as the firepower is maintained, the enemy can be efficiently eliminated.

The musketeers who entered actual combat for the first time have a firing rate of about one shot per minute.Considering that these Musketeers are carefully selected Marquis guards with excellent psychological and physical qualities, the large-scale Musketeers formed after optimizing the shooting process in the future, if they can reach this level, will basically meet the combat requirements.

After a total of 6 rounds of salvo in [-] minutes, most of the zombies were wiped out.

These undead had certain intelligence. After being hit by long-range firepower, they knew how to find the target and fight back. However, their rotting bodies were too slow to move, and most of them were wiped out before they approached Ma Youfu's musket phalanx.

Although these undead also have a variety of firearms in their hands, the hit rate is too low, and even if the bullet hits the target occasionally, it will be bounced off by the new breastplate equipped by the Musketeers.

The only enemy that caused Ma Youfu some trouble was a few corrupted magic crabs mixed in the crowd of zombies.

These terrifying animals are twice the size of a bull, and the thick carapace on their bodies is far more protective than a hundred livres of advanced plate armor. The musketeers need to shoot at least three rounds before they can kill a corrupted demon crab .

So despite having the upper hand, two magic crabs rushed to the front line in the end.

Joan drew out the sword of St. Catherine and met a magic crab.And Ma Youfu also took action himself, first using the spider web technique to restrict the target's movement, and then came a classic combination of greasy technique and fireball technique, grilling the huge crustacean until it sizzled.If you add some garlic... Forget it, this kind of demonized creature full of undead power must not be very tasty.

After the musketeers wiped out most of the enemies, the German dog-licking knights who had followed Joan for almost a year charged on foot from the two wings and wiped out the remaining undead one by one.

When the battle came to an end, there were bursts of low and gloomy horns in the distance.

The remaining zombies that were still fighting to the death with humans suddenly turned around and evacuated regardless.

"Your Excellency, the situation is not right," Donatello said.

"Yes. It seems that the scale of the celestial-sphere convergence phenomenon is much larger than what we thought before." Ma Youfu nodded.

He blessed himself with the four spells of flight, eagle eye, dark vision, and arcane vision, then ascended to the sky and looked towards the Mediterranean Sea.

Vaguely, Ma Youfu seemed to see, on the line connecting the sea and the sky, there was a black shadow with a rough outline, which was moving slowly.

Calculated according to the distance, the size of that black shadow is probably quite huge, like a small floating island.

Through arcane vision, Ma Youfu could clearly see that the dark blue cloudy magical aura was shrouded in the black shadow, which was exactly the same as the glimmering light in the eyes of those undead, full of the breath of death.

After Ma Youfu landed, he told Joan of Arc and Donatello the information he had observed.

"It seems that these undead from other worlds still have a base at sea. We must do a good job of defense along the coast, and then find a way to destroy it. Otherwise, the entire coastline will not be peaceful." Joan of Arc made a judgment immediately.

"It's not just France and Provence. If these undead from the sea move towards the Ligurian Sea in the east, the Italian region will be seriously threatened." Donatello also said with a serious expression.

"Spread the news as much as possible first, and then slowly consider countermeasures."

Ma Youfu couldn't think of a solution for a while.The matter of the Salt Mist Pirates has not been resolved yet, and the phenomenon of the convergence of the celestial spheres has brought new enemies.

Although the safety of the southern French coastline has nothing to do with him, the Marquis of La Manche, but as the main initiator of the Crusades, he has the responsibility to ensure the safety of shipping in the Mediterranean.He didn't want to receive bad news that the supply fleet was robbed by pirates when the battle was in full swing.

Whether it is the problem of the Salt Spray Pirates or those aquatic undead, it must be resolved.

Seeing that the zombies were finally wiped out, people hiding in the room came out one after another.Seeing the well-equipped marquis army, the nobles who experienced a nightmarish night finally breathed a sigh of relief.Some cried bitterly, some knelt down and chanted the names of the seven saints, and used various methods to vent their emotions for the rest of their lives after the catastrophe.

Let the second trot to Ma Youfu's side, and said respectfully: "Master Marquis, if you don't mind, how about you resting in the bad house for a night? Although the garden is a mess, the interior is not damaged. After a long march and another fierce battle, you and Miss Saintess should have a good night's rest. My house has a large walnut bed with a velvet quilt, which will surely allow you to recover from accumulated fatigue."

"Well, thank you for your invitation." Ma Youfu was not pretentious, and readily agreed to the other party's invitation.But he was clearly interested in something else than the luxurious bedroom in the Menelles' home.

"Sir, I want to know who was guarding the mansion just now. If it weren't for the hard work of these warriors, the casualties tonight would have doubled several times."

"Of course, I'll go and ask for you right away." Let the second agree, but there is a kind of grievance that has been wronged and sincerely felt in his heart.

It's really not worth it for me to show my courtesy wholeheartedly, only to get back a flat-feeling thank you...

However, Rang II, who had already made up his mind to embrace this new thigh, immediately ran to help Ma Youfu to find out the news.

Chapter 330 Antoinette is Jealous

"Master Marquis, please come with me." Antoinette made a gesture of invitation, "Although my family has encountered misfortune tonight, but fortunately the kitchen and wine cellar are well preserved, and you can enjoy fresh wine in an hour at most. delicious food."

"Miss Antoinette, I am looking forward to the Provence-style cuisine. But before that, there are still some things to deal with."

As the highest-ranking person in Menelles Manor, Ma Youfu naturally assumes the responsibility of giving orders.He first ordered the wounded to gather and be taken care of by the priest.Then organize manpower to properly dispose of the corpse.The human remains were collected carefully, and those zombies that were finally freed from the magic power after being killed were piled up for incineration.

Finally, after the night watchman was deployed, Ma Youfu nodded in satisfaction and said, "I'm sorry, Miss Antoinette, for keeping you waiting."

"No, I didn't wait long at all." Antoinette shook her head repeatedly, her beautiful eyes with light purple luster like lavender stared closely at Ma Youfu, shining brilliantly.

Influenced by her parents, she has longed for the high and powerful nobles since she was a child.However, limited by his age and knowledge, Antoinette, who has never even met the Duke, has no intuitive impression of the real superior—at least, Antoinette, who has been intriguing with tenant farmers all day long, only has the title of knight Her father, and the semi-literate baron in Arles who couldn't even write a love poem, were not the ideal image of a great nobleman in her mind.

But now, after seeing Ma Youfu, the vague image in her mind gradually became clear.

When they were attacked before, the nobles, including his father, all acted flustered and embarrassed, almost useless.On the other hand, this Lord Marquis, from leading the army to exterminate all the zombies to now arranging the aftermath, the calmness and composure shown in the whole process, and the majesty that made everyone order and prohibit, is the ideal demeanor of a superior in her mind.

Safe

Tovanette couldn't help imagining how wonderful it would be if he could have such power in the future and be able to make people die with just a word!

A marquis has such majesty.So how powerful should Charles VII, known as the "King of Victory" be?

She became more determined to make a breakthrough in the king's court.

Of course, if His Highness the King wants to be friendly, the Marquis must also be friendly.If I can make these two most powerful men in France fall in love with me in the future, wouldn't it prove that I am more attractive than my cousin Agnès?

Thinking of this, Antoinette decided to use her most powerful weapon to deal with the Marquis.

What is the most powerful weapon for a young and beautiful girl against a man?Of course it was her body.

"Master Marquis, let me lead the way for you." Antoinette smiled, and naturally took Ma Youfu's arm.

Ma Youfu did not refuse, enjoying the soft and warm touch from his arms with peace of mind.

This is the first time Antoinette used various "cheats" taught by her mother to seduce men.After winning the first battle, she became more and more excited, her footsteps were a little fluttering, and she secretly said proudly: "Men are nothing but that."

Just when the two entered the restaurant, the Second Emperor suddenly came and interrupted his daughter's "good deed".

"Master Marquis, let me introduce to you, the hero who fought against the zombie army tonight and saved hundreds of lives, Knight Pierre Trier de Bayard."

Standing beside him was a young man covered in blood. He saluted Ma Youfu excitedly and said, "Dear Marquis de Lamanche, it is my greatest honor to meet you."

Ma Youfu was a little surprised to see Bayar's appearance as a little fan.

Antoinette looked like he was going to stick to himself, and he was not surprised.This kind of girl who wants Limei to get close to him, Ma Youfu can meet a few at every noble banquet.Antoinette was no different from them.At most, this girl's appearance is better, um, maybe three or five times better.

"Good job, Mr. Pierre. I heard that you killed a banshee with a single sword. It is rare to have such strength at the age of eighteen or nineteen. How many levels are you now, and what profession?"