Urban Sims

It can be said that Count Lauzitz won the victory in this battle.

In terms of actual combat effectiveness, the southern knights are indeed weaker than the northern knights. Although there are thirty or forty fewer people, Earl William's knights will not necessarily be at a disadvantage. The worst case scenario is just a tie.

However, in this war, an unexpected variable appeared. This variable exhausted Earl William's dozen knights, and finally allowed Earl Lauzitz to take advantage. After being captured, Earl William could only With blood dripping from his heart, Neng ceded three barony fiefs near the Rhodes territory from his own territory, and secretly vowed to take back these three fiefs in the future!

Count Lauzitz laughed heartily. For many years, the Southern faction, which has never had an advantage in terms of force, defeated the Yankees so badly today. It was so happy, so happy!

Count Lauzitz, who had three more baronies at once, after taking over these three territories, he quickly gave his two second sons and a loyal subordinate, and after making them barons, they divided them into these three new territories. superior.

Of course, Count Lauzitz did not treat the twelve barons who followed him badly. He paid a lot of bounties to each of them and gave each baron 15 knights. Many knight barons can not only fully form their own knight teams after returning, but also expand a few more - as long as the territories of these barons can be divided into so many fiefs.

"Dear Earl, I don't want the reward of bounty, I want to become a noble knight!"

In the big tent, Zhou Ming knelt down on one knee and said to Earl Lauzitz who was looking forward to him with a look of longing.

Count Lauzitz was very impressed by this "farmer" who performed particularly well on the battlefield. After specially summoning him, Zhou Ming said this when he asked him what reward he wanted.

"Young man, your loyalty and courage surprise me very much, but to become a knight, having these is not enough. Can you pass the test to become a knight and get the knighthood medal?"

Becoming a knight is not as simple as a verbal sentence. Knights in any territory must pass the martial arts assessment at the Royal Capital Knight Academy in order to obtain knight certification.

These assessments include riding, swordsmanship, spearmanship, archery, etc. After passing the assessment of these martial arts projects, you can also become a trainee knight and serve the king for two years. After the service period, you can be awarded the Knight Medal and officially take office. knight.

Of course, there is an important prerequisite for this: anyone who wants to become a knight must be a noble.

With this premise, Zhou Ming, who is a "farmer's son", was dismissed.

"Dear Earl, I will pass these tests through diligent and hard work. Please give me such an opportunity!"

Zhou Ming knows that there is another way to change his destiny, and that is the "letter of recommendation" from the earl. There are very few "letters of recommendation" available for each earl. There are only ten for each earl per year. If earl Lauzitz is willing to send If a recommendation spot is given to him, even if he is the son of a farmer, the professor of the Royal Capital Knight Academy will give him a chance to enroll in Count Lausitz's face.

"My child, you have great potential, but you are too old and have missed the best period to become a knight. Take this bag of gold coins and go back. Go back, marry a wife, have children, and live a peaceful and prosperous life. This is You deserve it most."

Earl Lauzitz shook his head and threw a money bag in front of Zhou Ming. The coins made a crisp sound in the bag, but Zhou Ming's eyes were dull. After a while, he picked up the money bag and left the tent sadly.

Baron Connor, whose life was saved by Zhou Ming and was lying on the hospital bed with serious injuries, learned about this from the knights who were talking about it, and called Zhou Ming over to comfort him.

"Son, I have noticed your talent and hard work. If you are still willing to stay in Grandland in the future, I can hand over all the manor outside the castle to you. Let's go out to work together with him, then study hard with Bachelor Ellen, and maybe you can become a respected bachelor in the future."

Baron Connor gave Zhou Ming two choices, which were the two best choices he could give Zhou Ming. No matter how much, he couldn't give him more.

"Thank you, Lord Baron. If it is still possible, I will stick to my dream. If not, I will do something that I am good at."

Zhou Ming didn't give a clear answer, just like this war, even he didn't expect that his crazy actions would bring him a reward of 100 gold coins. What about bigger ones?

Wealth can be found in danger. In this war-torn world, perhaps there are many opportunities waiting for you in the wild, right?

Zhou Ming just had some thoughts that made him eager to try. The next provocative question disrupted his thoughts.

"Boy, you have a chicken physique, but you also want to be a noble knight? You haven't woken up from a dream at night, right?"

A scar-faced knight appeared in front of him at some point. He smelled of alcohol, his face was ugly and disgusting, and his mouth was even more noisy.

There was a hint of greed in the eyes of the scar-faced knight. He stared at the bag tied around Zhou Ming's waist and said, "Boy, I heard that the Earl gave you a lot of rewards for your meritorious service on the battlefield? Be wise and hurry up!" Give me that bag! Your meritorious service is an insult to us knights, and you still want to put the money you earned by insulting knights into your own pocket?"

Scarface's words attracted the unanimous approval of several knights around him, and they all asked Zhou Ming to hand over the money.

"Fernandi, teach this despicable boy a lesson. How can our knight's dignity be allowed to be desecrated by such despicable things?"

"Boy, be honest and hand over the money. When the uncle is happy after drinking, maybe he won't trouble you."

"Ryan, you'd better take out the 200 gold coins in your pocket and buy these knights a drink, and they will let you go!" At some point, Fatty Baum stood behind the group of knights, He said in a provocative tone.

"Good guy, for 200 gold coins, you can consider killing this little guy..." Someone's eyes lit up and he said in his heart.

Seeing these knights getting closer and closer to him, Zhou Ming's heart skipped a beat. It was money that was causing trouble again. It seemed like there was no way around this matter today.

However, he still said without any expression on his face: "So, you want to rob, noble knight?"

Hearing the word robbery, Fernandi was furious, breathed out a mouthful of alcohol, grabbed Zhou Ming by the collar and said, "Boy! Don't talk about it, be honest! Quickly take the money on your body." Take them all out!”

"What if I don't take it?" Zhou Ming asked.

"hehe!"

Fernandi laughed back angrily. He really wanted to draw the knife and kill the kid in front of him immediately, but there were so many people present... he still smiled slightly and said, "Boy, I'll give you a chance not to take it! Let's have a one-on-one game." One-on-one competition, if you win, the money is yours, if I win..."

"The money belongs to you?" Zhou Ming answered.

"Correct answer, boy."

"But you are a knight and I am just a farmer. Is this fair?"

"Hey! I want to compete with this kid. Is it fair?" Fernandi asked loudly.

"Fair! Very fair!" Everyone around responded in unison, especially Fatty Baum's voice was the loudest.

"Okay! I'll compete with you."

Zhou Ming took off his coat, and threw the money bag at his waist on the bullock cart. When the mouth of the money bag was loosened, a golden light came out, and the onlookers around exclaimed, "There are so many gold coins!" Then I was furious, this damn boy had so much money hidden on him, but he didn't buy them a drink!

After a while, Zhou Ming took over his spear that had killed seventeen farmers and wiped the dried blood on it with linen cloth.

The knight Fernandi, however, was fully armored and rode his own horse.

"Fernandi, to deal with such a kid, as for riding a horse over here, you are too chivalrous, aren't you?" an acquaintance of Cavalier Fernandi exclaimed in the crowd.

Fernandi, who was riding on the horse, showed a cruel smile, and said with a grin: "Let's all watch from the sidelines! Look at how I trampled this kid into meat and chopped it into pieces! Today, I'm going to use this kid His death proves how powerful our knights really are!"

"Well said!" "Well done Fernandi!" "Fernandi, for the glory of the knight, crush this boy!"

Everyone cheered and looked forward to it, wanting to see how this disgusting peasant boy was crushed by Fernandi.

A flat open area.

Separated by a distance of about twenty meters, a man and a horse stood facing each other.

"Boy, die for me!"

As soon as the competition started, Fernandi, who couldn't wait to crush the farmer boy on the other side into minced meat, rode his horse, swung his long sword, and rushed towards Zhou Ming.

Seeing the high-speed war horses getting closer and closer, and the impact from the pavement, Zhou Ming did not choose to resist, but put the spear in his hand aside, lowered his head and rolled on the ground, dodging this would definitely bring Come the fatal blow of death.

A charge.

Two charges.

Charge multiple times.

After charging back and forth for more than ten times in a row, Zhou Ming, who was cautious and cautious, dodged them with great difficulty.

"Damn boy, if you have the guts, don't run away, let me slash you with the sword!" A furious Fernandi shouted with his sword.

Zhou Ming, who was unhurried and unhurried, dodged the blow nimbly, and sneered in his heart: Do you think I'm a fool when I stand and let you chop me down?

More than 30 horses charged forward, but Fernandi still failed to hit Zhou Ming once. Instead, the horse was panting from exhaustion, and he was sweating profusely, feeling that the armor on his body was getting heavier and heavier.

"It's almost ready..."

Looking at the horses charging slowly towards him, and the knights who were unresponsive due to alcohol... Zhou Ming picked up the spear that had just been placed on the ground, adjusted his breathing rate, and stared fixedly at Fernandi's face That eye area without the protective mask.

"Boy, you finally stop hiding this time, go to hell!"

Seeing Zhou Ming standing motionless with his waist hunched over, Fernandi was overjoyed. He excitedly raised the long sword in his hand and slashed downwards with all his strength again!

However, before seeing the kid below turned into two halves, a black shadow drilled into his eye socket like a poisonous snake, followed by a sharp pain, and then fell into deep darkness.

"Boom~!"

Following the loud noise of Fernandi's body falling to the ground, the knights present and all the onlookers watching the excitement were speechless and stunned.