When the king cut off General Ayton's head, in the territory of Legrand, the port of Kossoia.
The Jenny of the Volvo Pirates was docked in the port, the tide washed the hull, and on the deck of the bow, three people stood silently, looking out to the north.
After many years, the old friends and acquaintances finally met again.
Captain Hawkins still wore his crooked black slanted hat, the scar on his face slanting across his cheek. He narrowed his eyes slightly, holding the jug in his hand. First Mate Charles was wearing a neat double-breasted black coat, and beside him was the dark-haired Queen Dowager Illinois.
"Is this the boat he was on?" Illinois looked at a waterfowl on a rope. "He told me it was... Jenny?"
These memories are actually very far away, but when Illinois spoke, it felt as if the time was still yesterday.
She just wore a gorgeous long dress, walked across the bright red carpet and married the young monarch with sky-blue eyes. On the second day of the wedding, he took her to the highest tower of the Rose Palace, where all his treasures were kept—many paintings.
Few people know that William III had superb painting skills.
He painted all the beautiful scenes in his memory one by one: riding a horse with the Duke of Buckingham when he was young, taking a long sword from his father and becoming a knight for the first time, going to sea and landing on a notorious pirate ship... William III Pointing to the pirate ship on the painting, he smiled and said to her:
"This is an innocent little girl."
Queen Eleanor's words just fell, and many rose flower bones grew one after another on the railing in front of her. They bloomed in a blink of an eye, and they were automatically woven into a corolla.
The vines spread, sending the flower crown to Illinois' head.
The black-haired queen dowager wore a bright red rose wreath, as beautiful as she was a young princess.
She raised her hand and gently supported the flower crown.
The king may not know one thing... The memory of the living alchemy ship is better than that of human beings. The moment the king stepped on the deck, this ghost ship had already recognized him as the son of William III, just as she recognized Iraq. Leno was the sweetheart of William III who was "as beautiful as a rose".
Time is too long for humans and too short for unnatural creatures.
So short that Jenny clearly remembers William III and the dark-haired woman described.
"She also liked William very much at the beginning, and now she likes you and Your Majesty very much." Charles patted the railing lightly, as if remembering something, and laughed, "I don't know why, I just don't deal with the Duke of Buckingham alone."
Captain Hawkins leaned lazily on the railing and curled his lips: "That bastard almost burned Jenny's sail on the first day he got on the boat. It's no wonder that Jenny doesn't hate him... Ha! That's the most embarrassing thing for him. when!"
Charles looked at Captain Hawkins with a smile and reminded him: "Don't forget, you were the one who made him think we were really going to kidnap William... You are also responsible for burning the sails."
As soon as Charles finished speaking, the railing against which Captain Hawkins was leaning "clicked" and suddenly separated from it.
"Hey!"
Captain Hawkins was unprepared, and he only had time to shout "Jenny" before he "popped" and fell into the sea.
"When the Duke of Buckingham was on the ship, it was almost the same treatment." Charles said to the Queen Mother of Illinois with a smile.
Eleanor raised her eyebrows, thinking that the Duke of Buckingham's always serious guy, like Captain Hawkins, was thrown into the sea by Jenny and couldn't help but feel amused.
The relaxed atmosphere dilutes the faint sadness of the reunion of old friends. The people who meet again after more than ten years seem to be back when they were young. Although everyone is also under heavy pressure, they are still laughing and cursing, full of high spirits.
Captain Hawkins climbed up from the water wet and wiped the water on his face. He was just about to complain when a carrier pigeon landed on the boat.
Charles took down the letter with a smile.
He opened the letter.
Almost as soon as the contents of the letter jumped into his eyes, the smile on his face froze.
"What's up?"
Hawkins seldom saw such a change in Charles' expression.
Charles took a deep breath, he slowly raised his head, and the days of the past were peeling off a little in his always gentle eyes.
"He... died."
The beauty of the past was shattered, time was once again in front of everyone, behind the three old friends the sea ebb and flow, and the sound of the sea remained unchanged.
…
early morning.
In the light blue mist, a group of cavalrymen crossed the white snow field, and there was a carriage among the cavalry. The twilight tinted their armor a cool metallic shade of pale blue, and the knight at the head was the king.
General Sheehan had arrived and was leading his army to retake Newcana Castle. When the battle to retake the castle was going on, the king was not on the battlefield. He led a group of cavalry around the castle and went straight to the place where the Duke of Buckingham blocked Prince Will's battle.
Retaking Newcana Castle is very easy for today's Legrand army.
As the king expected, the death of a hero goes far beyond the death of a prince with no noble blood.
After General Ayton's head hung high outside the city gate, the rebel army in the middle of the Northland began to disperse, and at least the Newcana Castle, which was closest to Banz City, had many defenders starting to flee secretly every day.
In fact, if the king hadn't arrived just in time and won a miraculous battle, Legrand would be facing this situation today.
Did the fall of the Duke of Buckingham make the empire lose her hero
Legrand had a new monarch to take over the banner of the imperial lion, but the North was not so lucky. When General Sheehan led the follow-up troops to arrive, the king gave an order, and the army marched towards Newcana Castle, and the war against the rebellion was finally on the right track.
When General Sheehan arrived, good news finally came from the other two armies.
There are three countries participating in the rebellion, Newcana, Balbo, and Chavos.
Among them, the state of Newcana is the most powerful, and the state of Balbo is located on the left side of the state of Newcana, and its strength is weaker. The left army led by Earl Henry successfully reached the border of Balbo State, successfully recovered a castle and some autonomous towns, and established a foothold for the left army.
The commander of the army on the right, General Roger, arrived in Newcana according to the previous order of the king, and went all the way north from the border to cut off the connection between Newcana's seaport and the interior, thereby preventing the rebels from receiving aid from overseas. .
After General Sheen led the follow-up army of the central army to arrive, the king's rose cavalry and the army joined together and left Banz City.
They will first retake the royal castle of Newcana, and then they will attack Beaumari, the stronghold of the rebel rebellion.
According to the plan, when the king led the central army to attack Beaumari, Earl Henry and General Roger would also complete the advance of the left and right fronts. The three armies will reunite after the pacification of Newcana and Balbo, and finally go north to pacify Chavos, thus completely completing the pacification of the entire northern rebellion.
Da da da.
The horse crossed the glacier, and the slope appeared in the king's field of vision.
The king reined in his horse.
There is still a burnt smell and blood in the air after the fire, and the sparse forest on the slope was burned into black coke at this time, either slanting or falling.
Behind that is the battlefield of that day.
The king quietly looked at the forest that had been burned by the fire, and after a while he slowly urged his horse to come forward. The cavalry behind him silently tried to follow, but was stopped.
"Wait here."
said the king.
With a crown, how many people can approach him? And how many of those people will gradually disappear and disappear due to various reasons
The king climbed the slope alone.
At the moment when the warhorse swung its tail on the top of the slope, the scene under the slope suddenly appeared in front of the king's eyes, and the red color instantly scorched the king's pupils like fire.
He closed his eyes, and after a while, he opened it again and stared at the battlefield below.
In the vast white snow, there is a circular red field.
Layers of blood dyed the open space vermilion brown, and that was where the heroic soul was buried. His uncle, the Duke of Buckingham, and all the royal family's personal soldiers were buried here. The snow fluttered in the sky, and dared not fall on the land. The air seemed to still have the generosity of the blood that went to the death that day.
The soul of the hero is buried here, and there is no spring and autumn here.
The king rolled off his horse and walked slowly down.
He took the last step on the bloody field.
The battlefield was clean, nothing was left, the king saw neither the bones nor the armored soldiers... The fire of the war angels consumed everything.
Only the ashes of blood and fire remained, mixed with the whole land.
The king looked around the prototype clearing, unable to tell where his uncle was last standing. So he walked to the darkest piece of terracotta and sat down there.
He left the knights behind the slope, because the king should not show his sorrow in front of his soldiers, and he was not only the king of Legrand, but also the nephew of the Duke of Buckingham.
The nephew came to see off the uncle on a private occasion, and there should be no outsiders.
The king lowered his eyes. He looked at the blood on the ground and suddenly felt very tired.
"I haven't had any more headaches recently, and I won't anymore."
The king opened his mouth, speaking slowly, in a low voice.
He remembered that at the Rose Palace, the Duke of Buckingham handed him a letter from the Pope for the coronation of Ferry III himself. At the time they briefly touched on an issue that both sides had deliberately avoided.
The Duke of Buckingham had asked him if his headaches had gotten better lately.
At that moment, the eyes of both sides had a brief interlace. He clearly saw the guilt in the Duke of Buckingham's eyes... what was there to feel guilty about? So he looked away and replied briefly "much better".
Why did both sides avoid that topic then? Why not be more calm
Why did he anxiously rush to rescue the Duke of Buckingham from the moment he woke up? Why did he subconsciously say "I'm sorry" after the Duke of Buckingham gave him a hug in the Tower of Mern? Why was he not at all unfamiliar with everything about Legrand? Why was the moment he drew his sword when he was fighting against the Gulundian heavy cavalry outside the city of Tru, as familiar as he had swung a long sword thousands of times
He knew the answer, and so did the Duke of Buckingham.
because…
There has never been any rebirth, and no transmigration!
Zhu Chi is him, and Pullan is also him!