Tang Qi Tan

And in the province of Lower Pyrenees, in the city/fortress of Tarbes near the border junction; also ushered in the armed warriors belonging to the Knights of the Tomahawk, the monk Delan of the head of the Mediterranean Sea.I saw him call to open the city gate, and impatiently made a request to see the person in charge of the local knight order immediately.

Because, the city nobleman who secretly colluded with the Tomahawk Knights and framed the commander-in-chief of the Free Army to gain inhuman power through blasphemy rituals was also captured; Objects of the Mass and the remains of the victims.

So things became completely clear, the Toulouse Knights were obviously deceived and used by the Toulouse cultists who were shouted by the thief to catch the thief.Therefore, he took the initiative to request to follow the Freedom Army as an envoy to see if he could have a chance to persuade and negotiate as compensation in a certain sense.

However, when he appeared in front of Ruiz, the deputy head of the Tomahawk Knights, and a dozen or so great knights, and stated his knowledge and opinions, it was as if a single stone stirred up a thousand waves, attracting these knights. The higher-ups immediately interrupted him, and they reprimanded loudly:

"Brother Teresa!, do you know what you are talking about? Are you beautifying and justifying the enemy?"

"Secretary Delan, have you been frightened by the enemy and betrayed the original oath of sacrifice and piety?"

"Delan Emanuel! Are you planning to spread the failure among our soldiers and spread the emotion of fleeing?"

"Have you been taken over by the devil? Even if our collaborators are not honorable and moral, they can't change their hostile positions!"

"The bloodline inheritance of the kingdom's knights has been declining for many years; how do you ask us to believe that his subordinates can gather and follow several companies of bloodline knights?"

"Even if the leader of the rebel party may be the inheritance of the ancient blood, so what? Can he be ignored, cruelly persecuting the nobles who are the cornerstone of the kingdom, and despising and rejecting the crime of church authority?"

"De Lan of Valencia, have you forgotten the oath you made to the Lord before the altar to safeguard the sacred bloodline and the cornerstone of the kingdom, so that the noble and the poor will have their duty? Your performance is too disappointing gone."

"Delan, what a disappointment!" In the end, Ruiz, the deputy leader who had been silent all this time, also slowly said: "The purpose of the Knights is not only to crusade and eliminate heresy, but also to make all disrupted order And honor and inferiority, get back on track. Even if you are the candidate recommended by the great teacher of the Andorra Order, you can't change this fact without authorization. Come, send Friar Teresa to the confessional for meditation until the next war Finish."

"This is not a good sign." Then, after Brother Teresa, who was closely guarded by several sergeants, left; the last knight in full armor and gray hair, but could not hide his sharp eyes, said: "Li Xiu We have failed, shall we continue?"

"Of course, we must continue to actively prepare for the battle and wait for the opportunity to march," another vicissitudes-looking knight judge said slowly: "As long as we control the Fortress of Tarbes, no matter how the situation changes, the provinces in the Greater Toulouse area (plain) , always open to the Holy Kingdom."

"Exactly, let me tell you some good news." The deputy head Ruiz also nodded and said: "According to the messenger who arrived in the country, the head of the regiment from Bordeaux, the provincial capital, has already led the army on the way to this place. In addition, there are Knights of Santiago, Calatrava..."

"So, has the grand master made up his mind?" the most senior white-headed knight couldn't help being surprised: Hearing this sentence, all the great knights present couldn't help being in an uproar, and then showed joy, approval and encouragement one after another. Even an expression of relief or relief.

After all, compared to the "Her Majesty" of the Kingdom of Sealand, the three major groups and promotion routes established are the nobles in robes (civilian officials), the nobles with swords (military merit), and the nobility with ribbons (religion); the Holy Kingdom/Holy Thorn Knight The many knight orders under the jurisdiction of the group are also divided into two categories:

Secular knights named after enfeoffed territories or founders/patrons; armed orders/military monks/religious knights named after saints/relics.The Tomahawk Knights belong to the former secular knights, and are also a sub-order of the Eleanor Knights located in the capital of Aquitaine.

Of course, although the Holy Kingdom is famous for its long history and numerous knights armed; but most of the time, the main energy is not on the Kingdom of Sealand.Because on the Iberian Peninsula, it also has a very strong enemy, that is, the Cordoba Dynasty in the south.

As the remnants of the Umayyad dynasty that was destroyed and replaced by the Abbasids who rose up in the Khorasan region in the east.The descendants of Rahman, who are known as the eagles of the Quray clan, are also constantly vigilant and spying on the territory of the holy kingdom of northern Christianity.

Although the ignorance and mediocrity of recent generations of caliphs have caused the domestic princes/warlords to become more and more stubborn, it also ruined the original Rahman III and his successor Hakam II, and created a territory that spanned the two continents of the Mediterranean. ZTE weather; but still repeatedly launched jihad.

Therefore, Brittania, one of the three cores of the Holy Kingdom, is responsible for monitoring and blocking the remnants of the Franks who fled to the British Isles to recast the throne on the other side of the strait; the other core area, Catalonia, is responsible for defense. He Zhengtuo, the combat readiness support of the southern Saracens Dynasty.

Only the Aquitaine region/core territory located in the north of the Pyrenees Mountains is used to correspond to and maintain the strategic advantages of the Kingdom of Zealand, and to guard against possible crusades launched by the Western Empire.But this time the Holy Kingdom dispatched an intervention army composed of provincial legions.

Therefore, on the attitude of whether to intervene in the civil strife in the Kingdom of Zealand, and take the opportunity to occupy and control the southwestern provinces of the kingdom; as the superior Eleanor Knights, there are also many differences and opinions at the joint meeting of the knights; the main reason is that they are worried about being violent. Resist, and get stuck in it for a long time.

Therefore, those radical knights (company captains) of the main combat faction in the headquarters also temporarily reached an agreement at the moment, and decided to take action on their own; The Knights became the object of testing the waters.

However, compared to the optimistic atmosphere present; the deputy captain glanced helplessly, the military judge who hesitated to speak; he stopped his words with his eyes; at least, it is not yet time .

Of course, the reason why these knights are so enthusiastic; there is another important reason.It is derived from an ancient decree that can be traced back to the time when the Holy Kingdom was not established and the Holy Thorn Knights were founded.It means that they belong to the knight order and have the right to protect the restored land.

This right of protection includes a series of powers over judicial judgment, fiscal and taxation and military management on the recovered land.It is also an important evidence that the early Holy Kingdom and Knights were able to grow rapidly, and expanded a large area of ​​territory during the Restoration Movement of the Iberian Peninsula.

Because the nobles and civilians who came from all over the Western Continent, armed with their own weapons and mounts, kept swearing allegiance to the Holy Kingdom and formed various knight sub-groups and sub-groups. The Córdoba dynasty was losing ground.

The army of chivalry they formed even once reached the banks of the Guadalquivir River near the capital of the Cordoba Dynasty. Almost all of them can be seen from the source, the green spire of the famous Cordoba Mosque.Then, it was lost to the North African reinforcements because of logistical chaos.

But at that time, the Cordoba Dynasty was also in the doldrums. The caliphate was young and the eldest sister, Princess Griffin, was regent. Separated from the local area, under various internal and external troubles, it seems that life is not long.

At that time, there were even rumors that the young caliph was a lover of women's clothing who rebelled against the Islamic law.However, Griffin, the princess regent, unexpectedly introduced a foreigner of unknown origin, Brando Cardilloso, as the teacher of the Caliph;

Therefore, some kind of rumors arose again; it was said that the palace minister was not only the princess' lover, but also the caliph's confinement.However, under the planning of this favored palace minister, the young caliph first used a palace feast to cleanse and relieve the unstable guards.

Then, with the new army composed of urban poor and small nobles, they successfully defeated the rebellious members of the royal family in the capital; Conspiracy; successfully surrendered Berber reinforcements.

Therefore, under the leadership of this foreigner who is called the palace minister and is actually the grand vizier.The center of the dynasty, which is showing a ZTE atmosphere, relies on the unity and promotion of the Moors (converted local Christians) and the Berber army in North Africa, and has also successfully suppressed and pacified the changes of other provincial governors.

In the end, the reorganized army of the Cordoba dynasty gradually retreated a large area of ​​territory, and at the same time, it also separated and defeated the chivalry army, which was scrambling to attack and fighting each other, one by one.Then in the battle in Madrid, they rushed to seize the food and grass gathering place of the Knights Road.

After this battle, the vigorous army of chivalry was announced, and it fell apart and became a solitary army scattered in the south... Although the loss of the Holy Kingdom was relatively limited, the conquest of chivalry suffered a serious setback; , the Holy Kingdom has never been cheap.

Therefore, for the knights in these holy kingdoms, which have been suppressed by the royal power for a long time, the civil strife in the Kingdom of Sealand is undoubtedly a godsend opportunity to expand the protection of the knights, together with other incidental rights.It is absolutely impossible to stop easily for a certain reason.

But now it was originally a military operation led by the Knights of Eleanor; after the two knights, Santiago and Calatrava, who have the same strength or are slightly better, joined; then the direction of the next development is It is no longer their subgroups that can master it.

At the same time, Friar Teresa, who was escorted here in the confessional room that served as a temporary prison, looked at another of his kind with some surprise: "Rodrigo, how could it be you?"