Fifty knights led by Champagne, riding horses, escorted the carriage with the aster flower logo on it and slowly left the royal city.
Heading south, heading towards Champagne.
As soon as the carriage came out of the city, it began to speed up, and the whole team also speeded up.
No way, there are only three days left before the New Year.
If we don’t hurry up, we may not be able to get back to the champagne bottle on New Year’s Eve.
Other lords, those close by, began to rush to their territories as early as the second day after King Louis ascended the throne.
Those who are far away are also preparing to stay in the capital for the New Year.
Only the Marquis d'Angelardi met King Louis alone the next day after the coronation ceremony.
The next day, he visited several southern lords, including the Grand Duke of Bourbon.
No one knows what she talked about with these lords except the parties involved.
But Angeladi's actions have always been watched by interested people.
Angela Di had just left on the front foot, and someone else followed on the back foot.
But what is strange is that Bishop Lane, who is in Reims with Marquis Angelardi,
Seems to have remained at Notre Dame, and since visiting the Norman Archduke.
Bishop Ryan is very low-key.
Even the nuns who were later recruited to manage Notre Dame did not come forward.
Instead, the follower named Leo Gareth was put in charge.
Except for the occasional appearance at dinner, I ate in the room at other times.
If not for the fact that Notre Dame still had fifty of the knights he brought.
The spies also discovered that the servants of Notre Dame delivered meals to Father Ryan's room every day.
Everyone probably thought that Father Ryan had secretly left Paris.
However, everyone only paid attention to Nok Lane, but ignored Leo beside him.
No one discovered that Leo had already left Angeladi the day before.
It has never been seen in Notre Dame.
A carriage with an aster flower on its logo was driving on a deserted official road.
Fifty knights on horses guarded the left and right sides.
The road is not easy to walk. It snowed heavily yesterday morning.
Although the road was not covered by heavy snow, it had accumulated a layer of snow.
Fortunately, there are people walking on the official road all year round. Even if it is covered with snow, you can clearly identify the official road.
However, the snow makes it difficult to travel on the road, even if the horses' feet are covered with cold-proof muffs,
But after running around in the snow all morning, I was too cold.
Taking advantage of a break on the roadside at noon, a group of people used broken branches to clear an area without snow.
Let the horse rest.
Then they set up a bonfire and started preparing lunch for the people and food for the horses.
Since there were dozens of people traveling, except for the carriage that Angeladi was riding,
There was also a carriage transporting supplies in the team.
There are not many things in the cart, including two hundred catties of grain, fifty catties of mutton, and one hundred catties of radishes.
The rest is hay.
For the team, it’s not a big deal if they eat less during the two or three days’ journey.
If it weren't for the Marquise Angela Di in the team, the knights would have just brought dry food.
It’s just that it’s hard for horses to find grass in winter.
"Wow, there's winter grass here!"
There was a knight digging snow and boiling snow water to feed his horse.
However, I discovered that there was a tender yellow-green grass under the snow.
This discovery made others very excited. After all, the mount was almost like a brother to them.
Even in many cases, brothers may not have reliable mounts on the battlefield.
Unfortunately, after clearing away the snow, the only winter grass found was only two or three square meters.
Not even a horse can be fed.
All we can do is cut it all off and add it to the hay so that every horse can have a taste of it.
It's okay if you don't feed it. If you taste fresh grass, who will eat dry food with you?
The horses lost their temper and refused to eat grass.
Fortunately, there were a lot of radishes in the car, and each horse was fed one, which finally calmed the restless horses.
The bonfire was lit, and Angeladi was invited from the carriage by the maid to sit by the fire and warm herself up.
She was placed near a fire in the middle of the crowd, surrounded by the other knights' fires.
Five people and one fire just surrounded Angeladi in the middle, blocking the outside view.
From the outside, only two women wearing black fur cloaks can be vaguely seen.
It's hard to see the specifics.
If the enemy wants to make a sneak attack, even if they fire hidden arrows, they will be blocked by the surrounding knights.
Soon, with the busy work of Angeladi's maid, a large pot of mutton soup was boiled out.
The maid gave each knight a bowl of mutton soup, and then brought a full bowl of mutton soup to Angeladi.
Then pour the wheat into the soup pot and cook some porridge.
There is no way, because it needs to be easy to carry, and dry food like bread is impossible to carry.
It takes up too much space.
However, there was also a bag of wheat cakes on the carriage.
But let those go.
After all, it is for dry work. If you really don’t have time to cook,
A mouthful of water and a mouthful of dry food were enough to cope.
Mainly because I just left the royal city today. When I left in the morning, the knights had already had a full meal.
Now let them eat solid food, but they are not happy.
It's better to have a sip of hot soup and a sip of gruel, and that's a meal.
Wait until evening to cook a good meal carefully.
The knights drank hot soup and felt very relaxed, talking and laughing around the campfire.
Occasionally, someone peeked at the lord's maid.
As for the lords, they didn't dare to peek.
Although many people joked privately that he could be favored by the lord and rise to prominence.
But after real contact, they were in awe of this woman who carried the entire champagne collar by herself.
Although the knights were talking and laughing, they occasionally raised their heads and glanced around,
Let it be known that they are not letting their guard down.
What's more, Commander Ronal warned them before setting off,
There may be danger on the way home this time.
No one takes this warning as a joke.
After all, if danger does occur, they themselves cannot stay out of it.
Moreover, as the bodyguards of the lord, they are in danger, and they may be the first to die.
Therefore, even when they relaxed during the break, they did not let down their guard.
Relaxation is life, vigilance is work.
"Okay, stop being busy and sit down and have something to eat."
After Angeladi finished drinking the mutton soup, she saw that her maid was still busy with the knights.
He asked the maid to rest.
The maid whispered "hmm" and sat next to Angeladi, sipping the wheat porridge in small sips.
After a short rest of two hours, the group packed up their things and started on the road again.
The group moved forward quickly and soon disappeared over the horizon.
After a while, a team came to the place where the champagne leader team stayed for noon.
"beep--"
A man in the team took out a horn and blew it, and there was sudden movement in the woods beside the road.
Two men in white cloaks ran out of the woods.
"How is it going?"
The person leading the team didn't talk nonsense and asked directly about the key points.
The two people running out of the woods replied: "The target is determined. Apart from the target,
There are fifty knights in the team, led by Ronal, who has appeared in the royal city and is at the silver level.
There were also two coachmen and a maid in the team. The target and the maid were sitting in the carriage marked by the Aster Flower Clan,
A carriage behind was transporting supplies.
The progress is not very fast, and we are expected to spend the night in the wilderness. "
Extraordinary night attack.
However, the spy did not say this last sentence. .
They reported the information they observed. As for what the team leader planned to do, it was beyond their control.
"How long have they been gone?"
"About ten minutes."
"Two people will follow, and we'll start again in half an hour."
"You don't need to follow them too closely. Just confirm where they are staying at night and then go back and meet us."
"yes!"
Two people came out of the team and rode horses to chase the champagne leader's team.
"Everyone rest where you are, have a drink and eat some solid food."
The captain gave the team the order to rest.
The champagne-led convoy traveled for another whole afternoon and finally found a sheltered forest before sunset.
In fact, for those who spend the night in the wild.
It's best to spend the night near the woods or on a hillside.
Even if you can't find it, you should spend the night in an open flat area.
But the Champagne people were different. They drove their horses and carriages into the woods.
Then start cutting down trees on the outside of the forest, and use the felled trees to build the simplest fence.
Enclose the area where you will rest at night.
It can effectively avoid being attacked by wild beasts.
Cutting down trees is naturally not a problem for a group of knights.
They even used competitions to chop down trees to show off their favorite moves.
Wait until the spies following them get close to them,
From a distance, people from Champagne collars could be seen building fences outside the woods.
There are also those who use cross chops to chop firewood.
One throws wood and the other uses Cross Slash.
The spies were stunned and couldn't believe that the people in the champagne collar were so unwary.
The two spies found out where the champagne leader and his party were staying, and hurried back.
Prepare to meet up with your companions behind.
In order to achieve the goal this time, their master sent out twice as many people as the Champagne Leader.
In order to be foolproof.
The spies left in a hurry, but they didn't know that above where they were lurking just now,
There was always a pair of eyes watching them.
After they left, the owner of the eyes spread his wings and flew to the woods where the champagne collar settled.
"Gu——"
With a cry, a large bird with a wingspan of more than 1.5 meters flew toward the crowd.
Everyone looked up, some were surprised, others were envious.
But no one wanted to draw a sword to deal with the big bird that pounced down.
Angeladi, who just got off the carriage, sat on the wooden pillar cut by Ronal with his sword.
I have been quietly watching the busy knights around me, and I only heard this bird call,
Only then did he react a little, lift the hood of his cloak, and look up at the big bird that flew down.
Maid Angeladi, who was busy making a fire, stood up quickly when she heard the chirping of birds.
Lift your left arm.
The big bird flapped twice and stayed in the air for a few seconds.
Then he landed on the maid's arm in a steady manner.
The maid nodded and gave a half-bow to Angeladi and Ronald, and then got on the carriage holding the big bird.
"How does that go?"
"Gu Gu."
"Did you find the target?"
"Goo!"
"I understand. You need to rest for a while and then lead us when it gets dark."
The maid opened the window of the carriage and placed the big bird on the window of the carriage.
Then he got off the car and walked towards the carriage transporting supplies.
I saw her whispering something to the coachman. The coachman took out a piece of cake from the carriage.
About a pound of mutton was handed to the maid.
The maid returned to the carriage with the mutton and handed the mutton to Big Bird.
The big bird was overjoyed when he saw this. He took the meat in his mouth, pressed it under his talons, lowered his head and pecked it one by one.
After the maid finished all this, she returned to Angeladi, said nothing, and continued busy with the matter at hand.
No one seemed to notice that the driver of the supplies truck was missing.
When Angeladi saw the maid's appearance, Angeladi immediately said to Ronal.
"Ronald, ask your people to cut down some branches that can be used as fake people, and before dark,
Make more dummies and put on your armor after dark.
Everything went according to the previous plan. There is also the layout of the camp, which must be arranged according to the planned structure.
If something goes wrong, you won’t have to go back to get the champagne! "
"Don't worry! Lord. My brothers and I have been prepared for a long time and can't wait."
Ronal obviously didn't take Angeladi's warning to heart.
As a lord, Angeladi knows how to organize troops.
Of course, he just thought about this in his heart and did not say it out loud.
He can disapprove of the leader's actions in his heart.
But they have to do things according to the leader's instructions.
Otherwise, he himself will be the unlucky one.
What's more, the leader expected that enemies would rob and kill them along the way.
Then all they have to do is prepare for an ambush and counterattack.
Even if the leader's arrangement was in vain, it would be better than being ambushed!
When he thought of this, Ronal stopped talking.
What's more, they have secret spies!
Ronal glanced specifically at the big bird standing at the carriage window eating meat.
If he, Ronal, had such an informant, he would have become the general of the kingdom long ago.
Why bother being a minor commander in the Champagne realm.
