The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

When the two dragoons brought the news of the Swedes back to the mayor's house, the king's temporary walk suddenly fell into a panic. No one would have thought that the Swedes would see through the king's strategy of "building the plank road in the dark and keeping the warehouse in the dark" so quickly.

Among them, the one who regrets the most is Master Janusz Kishka. He came up with the strategy of escorting His Majesty the King to Lviv because of the large army attracting the Swedes and the small army escorting His Majesty to Lviv. Now the tactics did not work, and instead plunged the king and queen into a dangerous situation, Janush really felt that he could not redeem him.

"Your Majesty, go quickly, the old minister stays here to block the Swedes. The Swedes want to come over unless they step on my corpse." To the King Kazimierz and Queen Ludwig who came out of the room, Janush said sadly.

"Wish to fight to the death for your Majesty!"

Dozens of dragoons and winged cavalry who joined in also shouted loudly.

King Kazimierz blushed, he did not expect to run away on the first day of his return home.

Compared with the king, Queen Ludwig seemed calmer. The queen looked around and saw that Natalie was not there, so she asked Janush: "Old man, where is your daughter?"

Just now because of the urgency, Janush did not take his daughter into consideration. Now listening to Queen Ludvika mentioning it, he realized that not only Natalie, but also Mickiewicz was not there.

"Where are Natalie and Mickiewicz?" Janush asked the two Dragoons who had returned to report.

The answer he got was that Natalie and Mickiewicz went on to grab the "tongue."

"These two daring guys!" Janush smashed the floor twice with the scabbard of the saber.

"Your Majesty, I think we should go back to Silesia before making any plans."

At this time, the cardinal sent by the Holy See also persuaded Kazimierz.

Kazimierz has always believed in the cardinal and followed his advice. But this time, the king was surprisingly stubborn.

"No, I won't go!" King Kazimierz said firmly: "I have abandoned my subjects once. If I go, then I will abandon my subjects again. How can this make me? Be their kind father? How can I bear to let those who are loyal to me bleed for me while I run away in a hurry? No, I won't go. I will die on my own land even if I die."

King Kazimierz's heartfelt words caused all the knights present to cry. They knelt to the ground, saying that they must fight for the king and queen until the last person.

The scene seemed so sad for a while, it seemed that there was nothing but death.

Queen Ludwig looked at her husband with relief. Kazimierz is now facing a real man.

But the cardinal was so anxious that he wanted to jump his feet. If King Kazimierz did not leave, he certainly could not leave either. Thinking that he was going to die here, the cardinal regretted that he had taken this job a long time ago.

At this moment, Natalie and Mickiewicz returned. Mickiewicz immediately **** a person.

"Your Majesty, we are back." Natalie jumped off the horse, and she walked into the house first, Mickiewicz unloaded the horseman, and followed closely behind.

"Natalie, you are too wayward!"

Seeing his daughter came back unscathed, Janusz was happy for a while, and then the old man became angry because of her daughter's waywardness. He angrily rebuked Natalie.

Natalie curled her lips, she was dissatisfied with her father's anger.

"Your Majesty, Queen. I came back with a ‘tongue’." Natalie knelt on one knee and said to King Kazimierz and Queen Ludvika.

"Natalie, how did you do it?" Queen Ludwig asked in surprise. He could not imagine that Natalie and Mickiewicz got away unscathed and returned with a captive. You know, they are not bandits, but the Swedish regular army.

"There is nothing difficult, Your Majesty. When Mickiewicz and I arrived in Marksburg, these German mercenaries were robbing. You know, people are the least vigilant when looting. And they are still divided. It's very open, just taking care of ourselves. Mickiewicz and I touched in and stunned a guy who was looking for wine in the cellar." Natalie said proudly.

"Natalie, you said they were German mercenaries, not Swedes?" Janush noticed the most important point.

"Yes, they are German mercenaries hired by the Swedes to be exact. But the prisoner himself will speak for the specific problem." Natalie said.

Mickiewicz pushed the captive and pushed it in front of everyone. Then Mickiewicz hit the back knee of the prisoner with the blade of the saber, and the prisoner fell to his knees on the ground.

"What's your name?" Janusz asked in dignity instead of King Kazimierz.

The captive looked up anxiously around.

"To put it bluntly, we might be able to spare you," the cardinal said from the side.

"As long as you tell the truth, I can forgive your life." King Kazimierz also said.

When the prisoner heard that there was still a way to survive, he kowtowed like garlic in a hurry. He recruited everything.

This captive is called Max Bean~www.readwn.com~. Unlike people like Piedro and Chechen who voluntarily become mercenaries, Max Bean was originally a farmer, and he was given to him by the lord of the land where he lived. "Sell" over here.

At that time, it was always a profitable business to do cannon fodder for the peasants in the German aristocracy's transport territories. Sweden and Poland have always been the biggest customers.

According to an unnamed Swedish commander, the recruitment of German cannon fodder has the following advantages: “A German who joins our army is equivalent to three soldiers. First of all, he saves us a Swedish place. At the same time, he is equivalent to winning a man from the enemy's army, and in the end he is a real soldier of ours."

In this case, both the buyer and the buyer have benefited, but farmers like Max Bien have suffered. They have no wages because all the money has been paid to the lord who betrayed them. Therefore, in order to make a living and accumulate wealth, they can only rob residents of the occupied areas.

The peasants who had been honest with each other were forced to become robbers. This is the evil result of the war.

After these victims became the perpetrators, they dealt with the people in the occupied territories more vigorously, and Marksburg suffered in this way.

Hearing Max Bien said that they did not come for the king, the hanging heart of King Kazizimi and everyone finally dropped. It seems that the Swedes did not discover the whereabouts of the king. The German mercenaries who appeared here were just an accident.

"How many of you are there?" King Kazimierz asked.

"Seven or eighty people."

"Where are you going after grabbing Marksburg?"

Max Bean hesitated about the question, but when Mickiewicz glared at him, poor Max Bean called.

"It's here." Max Bean said.