Warhammer Throne

As Richard’s nephew, Duke Taubert inherited Richard’s steadiness and conservativeness from the old king, but he also inherited Richard’s indecision. When he called his court ministers, his first reaction was to move towards Everyone said: "He is here, and your Majesty has appeared. How can he appear in my principality without my consent? Is this reasonable?"

The words of Duke Taubert made the court ministers wonder what to say. The Minister of War, Earl Robert, could only step up and say: "[Jiujiu novel www.99xsw.info] My Duke, he is the King of Knights, he It is qualified to appear anywhere in Brittania. This is the power of the king, and we are not qualified to stop it."

"But how can he come with the army?" Duke Taubert was taken aback for a while to realize that he was indeed overreacting. He did not have the right to oppose where King Love appeared.

"Your Majesty, if according to the intelligence, our Knight King only brought a small group of old guards, less than a hundred people." Earl Robert said embarrassingly: "This... can't be counted as an army, the king should. Have a guard."

Just like Sulia’s intelligence, Duke Taubert himself was a humble, kind-hearted and well-informed veteran nobleman. Hearing this, the Duke of War Secretary Robert Earl said so, the Duke opened his mouth and didn’t know what to say. .

So he set his sights on his Secretary of the Interior, Baron Edward: "Edward, I ask you a question as the heir of the first Holy Grail knight Cordouin and the heir of the Duke of Le-Angoulent. Please tell me To be honest, okay?"

"Please speak bluntly, the Duke." Baron Edward said that when he saw what he said, he could only nod his head.

"In our interior, how many people support my voice this time?" Duke Taubot frowned. He poked his body out from behind his desk and asked with a very serious expression: "How many people support our cause? "

"Almost 90% of the direct nobles support you, my Duke." Eduardo's words gave Duke Taubert a reassurance: "According to the opinions returned by the attendants and messengers, at least 75% of the knight nobles in the entire duchy We all support you. They also disagree with the decision of the Knight King to abolish the privileges of the nobility, and they even oppose the appointment of a governor."

"That's good, that's good, it's good if everyone supports me." Duke Taubert actually has doubts about his influence, because Ryan's achievements over the years are too brilliant, but obviously, When it comes to their own interests, these veteran nobles still stand on their side. This is okay. The Duke breathed a sigh of relief, and he immediately took the map: "Where is our Majesty the Knight?"

"He is close to Lesaffre. Baron Otero of Lesaffre is a neutral faction. We can hardly guarantee that he will come out to face the king." Earl Robert pointed to the map: "But there is good news, that The old Count of Clement, west of Lesaffre, is our staunch supporter."

"The key question is, my Duke, what are you going to do?" Baron Edward said, "How are we going to treat the Knight King and his queen? Should... consider the use of force?"

Duke Taubot hesitated.

As an old traditional conservative nobleman, the Duke of Taubert certainly hates many of Lane’s practices, including vigorously promoting free people, including depriving and restricting the privileges of nobles, including recovering the judicial power to form a circuit court, including actually forming an old man from mud legs. The Guards also include the appointment of a governor.

But as a Bretonian, the Duke of Taubert also admired Ryan’s glorious deeds. He led the knights from victory to victory, from glory to glory. The changes in the knight kingdom over the years are empathetic, and Ryan does not. First of all, the Duke of Taubert was unwilling to use force.

After hesitating again and again, the Duke Taubot shook his head, and the Duke muttered: "Order, as a last resort, do not use force, the Bretons will not beat the Bretons! Let the old Count of Clement send someone to go. To expel our Knight King from the Principality, we have nothing to bargain with. He either accepts or refuses!"

"Yes!"

…………I am a Breton, don’t hit the dividing line of Breton...

"Long live the king! Long live the king!"

Lesaffre's Baron Otero stared blankly at what was happening in front of him.

Baron Otero was once in ecstasy when he heard that Knight King Ryan and his queen Suria were bringing the old guards of less than a hundred men and hundreds of serf militias towards his fief.

He immediately ordered the concentration of his guards and knight attendants to concentrate immediately and get ready.

However, when Baron Otero gathered his guards and knight attendants of more than a hundred people, the gate of the town over there was already opened!

"Long live the king! Long live the king!" The town guards and civilians rushed to the street, gathered, chanting long live the king, and the citizens scrambled to squeeze on both sides of the road.

Farmers, homesteaders, merchants, artisans, small shop owners, freedmen’s handicraftsmen, as well as those sergeants and serfs who went to the city to buy.

"It's him! It's him! It's our Knight King and Queen!"

"He's here! Long live Your Majesty Ryan! Long live Queen Suria!"

"Long live the king! Long live the king!"

Ryan and Suria smiled and waved to the residents and soldiers of the town, each of their movements can arouse people's crying and cheering.

Without any precautions, and no worries, the defenders opened the gates the moment they saw Ryan appeared, and tears filled their eyes. Many freedmen and veterans who had participated in the Great Expedition shed tears. Tears.

This is our king! Is our king of glory! The king who has created countless miracles and victories in Lyonnais, in the Blackstone Stronghold, in the Eight Peaks, in the Empire and Kislov!

"Long live the king!" Thousands of civilians raised their arms and shouted, and the fiery noises were higher than the waves, and the deafening and hoarse noises came down the streets and directed at the Baron's Castle in the center of the town with gusts of wind and raging waves.

There is no resistance, no hesitation, and even no neutrals.

Baron Otero was stunned. He couldn't think of how his own people, his army, and his town had fallen directly in front of Ryan.

Now, his baron’s castle has been surrounded by thousands of his own people. Now, Baron Otero finds himself alone and helpless, and what’s worse, even the many old guards and the young knights in the castle, look. The look at the baron became strange.

Then there is only one answer! Baron Otero resolutely pulled down his cloak, threw the three-cornered hat with colorful kite feathers on the ground, rushed to Ryan, knelt down on his knees, and slid down on the grass at the entrance of the Baron’s castle. The meters are long.

I will offer my loyalty to the king!

"Long live the king!" The baron's roar detonated the entire baron's castle. Seeing the baron's actions, his guards and the young knights no longer hesitated and knelt down and cheered collectively.

"Long live the king! Long live the king!"

There was no fighting, no negotiation, and even Ryan didn't say a word to persuade him to surrender.

The army turned back, the civilians supported it, the nobles surrendered, and the tricolor flag and the flag of the sword and iris badge in the book were replaced on the castle.

The king's army grew like a snowball.

"This is... your majesty's prestige? Miss." Silvia looked at the scene before her. She saw the veterans put on their own military uniforms, took out weapons from home, and voluntarily formed an organization. Freedmen Generously took out food and gold coins from their homes, the shopkeepers opened their warehouses to supply military supplies, and the homesteaders mobilized the whole family, carrying things on their backs, just to follow their Majesty the Knight King.

Silvia felt very incredible, and the maid could only turn to Sulia for help.

"These people are not veterans who have retired after the Great Expedition, or free men who have the chance to escape their serf status through Len's reforms." Su Liya nodded slightly, and the female knight's face was full of pride and pride. Don't seem to be overwhelmed: "They all know who really cares about them and loves them. Everything they have now comes from Ryan."

This is the strategy that Su Liya gave to Ryan to fundamentally disintegrate the ruling power of the veteran knights and nobles.

What kind of knight is a knight without a horse? What kind of aristocracy without the support of serfs?

However, many nobles did not realize this at all. They always felt that they were born noble and were born to be masters.

And this is exactly the advice given by Su Liya, how to completely crack the key to the conservative nobles headed by Duke Taubert!

Have you ever heard the voice of the people?

"Ping Ping Ping~"

"Urgent message! Urgent message, my prince, that... that dictatorial tyrant has passed through Lesafre!"

On the west side of the town of Lesaffre, the Count of Clements and the Castle of the Count of Clements.

The messenger hurriedly handed the news into the hands of the old Count Clement.

"Trash!" The old Count of Clements was still planning how to add bricks and tiles to his castle. By the way, he imported some elven carpets. A merchant from Marienburg had already come to provide guarantees, but the news came out!

What does the king want to do?

Did he intend to violate the covenant when the nation was founded?

Doesn't he know that the vassal of my vassal is not my vassal?

The old Count Clement's hand trembled frantically. The old Count knew himself. He circled the room twice, finally sat down, and then handed the letter to the attendant: "Go, get Baldwin over."

"Sir Baldwin? Your son?" The attendant was very surprised. "But, haven't you already ordered him to come to the castle?"

"That's normal!" the old Count Clements roared: "Now that dictator tyrant is coming to my territory, and the lady knows what he will do to me and my family! Call Baldwin here! ,immediately!"

"Yes!" The attendant rushed out of the room, found a horse from the stable, and left.

Three hours later, with the knight’s cross helmet in his hand, Sir Baldwin strode into the room fully armed. With a serious expression on Baldwin’s face, he respectfully walked to his father under the guidance of his attendants. Bowed respectfully: "Father, are you looking for me?"

"I'm going to call me the Lord Earl here!" The old Earl Clement waved his hand in annoyance, and handed the letter to Baldwin: "Look for yourself!"

Baldwin received the letter, and the Knights of the Kingdom were quickly shocked by the above content: "What? Your Majesty is less than 30 kilometers away from here?"

"He's coming for us, Baldwin." The old Earl Clements sat in a chair, his hand covered with gemstone rings gently rubbing his precious amber-inlaid walking stick: "Do you know what I mean? Baldwin, He came for us!"

"I don't understand, maybe your majesty just visited everywhere." Baldwin took the letter and confirmed it again. The Kingdom Knight is still trying to explain to his father: "He often visits..."

"He's a tyrant! Baldwin! Tyrant!" The old count interrupted Baldwin roughly, his face was angry: "What else would he do besides making things worse? Look, look, he is now Let the mud-legs surround him, call them what old guards, he gave those sordid mud-legs the title of knight, he let the wild dogs climb up to the owner’s restaurant, and he made those disgusting all day long. The itinerant judge of the country haunts my territory! I know what he is going to do. He is going to dig the foundation of our knight aristocracy. He has abandoned the knight covenant when the nation was founded!"

Baldwin said nothing, the expression on the kingdom knight's face was very tangled.

Seeing his son seemed to hesitate, the old count continued: "My son, you must be very clear about what the price will be if we don’t oppose him. Our Clement family has a glorious history of thousands of years. You are willing to watch. Replace this chair with a mud leg? Would you like to watch your relatives being driven out of the castle one day?"

"It's ours, it's all ours, isn't there the noble holy grail blood in our blood? Isn't our family accumulation for thousands of years still inferior to those mud-legged men's years of battle?" Father Educating the son: "This is what we deserve. Now that tyrant wants to take everything away. I know you love him, but you have to understand, who are you?! You are a nobleman, a knight nobleman!"

"I'm your son, a member of the Clement family, father." Baldwin hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded heavily: "I will...for the family."

He looked very painful, a difficult decision.

"Very good, very good." The old earl finally showed a smile on his face. He nodded happily, and reached out and patted Baldwin's shoulder: "Then leave it to you. I will hand over the command of the army. You, you take them, and tell the king of knights, here, the Count of Clement does not welcome him and his queen, let them go back! If they don't go, drive them away!"

"Yes!" Baldwin finally nodded, holding his helmet and striding out of the room.

The entire castle entered a state of war in an instant. All the troops were assembled urgently. Soldiers, knights, and many guards were gathered. Even the veterans who had served were all temporarily called by Baldwin. In one day, most of the standing army and all the knights and knights who could come were gathered.

In this way, on the second day after Ryan entered the Count of Clements, among the warm autumn sun and a golden wheat field, the King of Knights and Queen of Knights held hands, it was like an outing.

The king and queen were followed by a group of old guards, followed by a large group of freedmen, as well as Baron Otero and his bodyguards. Compared to Ryan's strolling in the courtyard, these people were obviously very nervous.

It's too quiet.

"It's a bit different from the earl's style." Ryan took Suria's little hand and said with a smile: "I thought they would come out and intercept me with great fanfare."

"Yes, I know them." Su Liya looked at the distant scenery, and the female knight's face was a little cautious: "They will never sit back and watch."

Sure enough, as soon as Su Liya's voice fell, a large army appeared on the hillside in the distance. Teams of sword and shield soldiers, spear soldiers, and archers were in front of the knights. The sergeants wore breastplates and leather armor, and they lined up in a few rows with helmets. Then there were several teams of knight masters holding up the Clement family's heraldic flag, slowly flying in the autumn wind, and more knights were observing Opened the road and entered the wilderness.

It is temporarily impossible to judge how many people there are, but judging from the number alone, there are at least two to three thousand people.

It is the army of the Count Clement family, and Su Liya has recognized the identity of the opponent from the family coat of arms.

The comer is not good!