When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

#579 - Elad

While Horn and Melia were in secret talks with the two leaders of Thousand River Valley, on the King's Road of Feiliu Fortress, a hundred miles away, it was crowded with priests and soldiers fleeing in the night.

As the defeated soldiers of the Edict Legion entered the city and looted, the news of Prince Condé's defeat and execution quickly spread throughout Feiliu Fortress.

Although everyone felt it was absurd, as the news from the defeated soldiers became more detailed and real, they had to face reality.

That group of latrine cleaners and pig riders joined forces and defeated the noble Edict Knights miserably.

During this time, it wasn't that knights didn't regroup and try to counterattack.

However, several high-ranking cavalry officers of the Edict Legion were either missing or killed in battle, and the morale of the ordinary knights was extremely low. Whenever they gathered, they were immediately attacked by the North Munde Mountain Knights and defeated.

With the violent temper of these mountain people, they would never do what Horn did, accepting the surrender and capture of knights.

What prisoners? No one surrendered; they all died in battle.

Of the remaining four or five hundred knights, more than half were directly killed by the Mountain Knights after surrendering, and the remaining half, due to their high mobility or not stopping to loot, basically fled the vicinity of Feiliu Fortress by land overnight.

Of course, some of the Mountain Knights were waiting on the roadside in advance, checking these fleeing people one by one.

If they were small citizens or small merchants, these Mountain Knights would check them, extort some money, and let them go.

But if they found priests or noble knights, then sorry, turn the horse around, turn the carriage around, and honestly go back to Feiliu Fortress with them.

"Taking two pregnant women to walk at night, you are really brave." After stuffing a few dinars into his belt, a Mountain Knight patted his stomach. "You are afraid of the witch, but you are not afraid of causing your wife and sister-in-law to have a miscarriage?"

"That witch has a witch disease. If it spreads, my family will be wiped out." The farmer with a painted face and a straw hat looked distressed. "Besides, there are those soldiers. I'm going to live in the countryside. If everything is okay, I'll come back."

"Alright, alright, you go." The Mountain Knight waved impatiently, and the carriage smoothly passed the low bridge over the river.

After crossing the bridge and driving for a while, the farmer drove the carriage to the side of the road. Soon, a wet old man pushed aside the bushes and walked over.

"Did they suspect anything?" While combing his hair back, Lacunio took off his wet clothes and asked the farmer.

Although the farmer had darkened his face with potions and shaved his eyebrows and hair short, one could still vaguely see the facial contours of Ellard.

"No, but we have to hurry. If they find out I'm not dead, then we probably won't be able to leave." Ellard opened the car door, letting the two anxious mistresses get some air.

When they were wanted earlier, they discovered that the Salvation Army and the Mountain Knights thought Ellard was dead, which is why the two of them secretly fled Feiliu Fortress.

In the Battle of Cheese Bay, Ellard fell from his horse and first fought bravely, then feigned death.

When the Salvation Army infantry went to besiege Prince Condé, he exchanged clothes with a knight next to him, seized an unowned warhorse, and fled Cheese Bay.

After disguising himself, Ellard ran to the vicinity of Feiliu Fortress, preparing to secretly pick up Prince Condé's two pregnant mistresses who were placed in a farm outside the city.

These were the last two direct bloodlines of the Golden Oriole Dynasty, and their value definitely exceeded those few hundred pounds.

However, he had just run nearby when he encountered Lacunio, who was driving away with the two mistresses.

What he could think of, Lacunio could also think of.

After discovering that Prince Condé had fallen, Lacunio immediately judged that this battle could not be won, so he immediately fled the battlefield in advance and ran to the farm to pick up the two backups of the Golden Oriole Dynasty.

There was no way to fix the spoiled main account, but the bloodline of the Golden Oriole family had to continue.

Lacunio had repeatedly urged Prince Condé to have offspring for this day.

With his breathing technique, he still had twenty or thirty years to live, and raising two small accounts would not be a problem. It's just that these two children would not have the same resources as Prince Condé.

Their father had already gambled all the Golden Oriole family's wealth in the Battle of Cheese Bay, but with their noble family background, these two children could at least get a barony or knighthood.

The demise of the Golden Oriole Dynasty was fate, just like that farmer could rise up and sweep through Thousand River Valley in one dynasty. Since fate didn't have it, then don't force it. The consequence is the current Prince Condé.

In addition to the grief, Lacunio completely let go. He didn't ask for anything else, only to be able to continue the Golden Oriole family.

"What should we do next? Should we avenge the prince?"

"We're going to the Kingdom of Fran next. I guess the Franks will be very interested in the bloodline of the Golden Oriole family." Lacunio shook his head. "I'm old, and you're a defeated general. How can we take revenge? But it doesn't matter. Someone will help us take revenge."

Lacunio closed the car door, and he and Ellard continued on their way forward. The carriage under the moonlight walked on the silvery-white road, and occasionally defeated knights ran past on both sides.

"Who?" Ellard shook the reins and asked curiously.

"The Church."

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"The Church?"

Glancing at him, Lacunio patiently explained: "This land of Thousand River Valley was originally the invisible treasury that the Kingdom of Leia dedicated to the Church. Now the general trend of the north-south split of the Church cannot be avoided. Losing the financial resources of the Southern Church, in order to compete for the orthodox position, the Northern Church will definitely try to regain Thousand River Valley."

"But don't the Kingdom of Fran and the Kingdom of Norn secretly support Thousand River Valley?"

"Hmph, you think so, but you're very wrong. The Kingdom of Fran and the Kingdom of Norn are not supporting Thousand River Valley, but are trying to weaken the Kingdom of Leia.

You have to know that as long as Thousand River Valley does not bow to the Church and dares to treat nobles and knights like this, then the empire has no reason to accept Thousand River Valley. All flowery words are for the final ugly face.

After the Battle of Windmill Land, although the Kingdom of Leia still retained Windmill Land, its interior was already weak. Both Norn and Fran were thinking of annexing his territory.

If the Kingdom of Leia attacks Thousand River Valley, they will of course support Thousand River Valley, but they don't want Thousand River Valley to win, nor do they want the Kingdom of Leia to win.

It is best that Thousand River Valley becomes a meat grinder, bleeding the Kingdom of Leia to death, so that these hyenas can pounce on it and tear it apart.

When the Kingdom of Leia is torn apart, is there still a need for Thousand River Valley to exist?

In other words, when the Leia people attack Thousand River Valley, the other two kingdoms will only support everything except sending troops to Thousand River Valley. From the moment they dared to clean up the Thousand River Valley Church, destruction was already predestined."

"But all of this should be based on the premise that Leia can really win, right?"

"What are you kidding me?" Lacunio glared at Ellard. "The Pope launched a crusade, and with the knights of Leia, he can gather tens of thousands of knights. This cavalry is more than the Salvation Army infantry. What are they going to fight with?

To take a step back, if they really win, then that is a catastrophe. A heresy in Thousand River Valley can win against the entire Kingdom of Leia. Guess what the other two kingdoms will think?"

With a flickering light in his eyes, Lacunio looked back at the castle that was gradually disappearing from sight: "Look, at the latest in two years, the Crusaders will come. At the slowest in five years, this little wave in Thousand River Valley will be completely annihilated in history!"