Chapter 64, the girl's blessing
"Can we capture the castle?" Benson, the one-eyed wolf, stood in the open space. He looked up at the fourteen-meter-high wall. There were five spire defensive towers built at the corner of the wall. It was imagined that when they attacked, the arrows would shoot out like raindrops.
"We are many people." Anthony put his hand on Benson's shoulder. He seemed in a surprisingly good mood. He seized a large number of weapons and equipment, making this army, which was originally a storm, look pretty now.
"The Habsburg family's castle walls are wide and are said to be designed and built by master craftsmen from the Stonemasters Union. Can we conquer?" Benson, the one-eyed wolf, said in confusion. No one has ever captured the castle of the nobles.
"Don't worry, I've sent someone to make a ladder. We have enough staff now, so there's no problem at all." Anthony persuaded Benson.
In the woods of the castle, the men of the Flagless Brotherhood cut down the trees, and then the women and children followed them chopped the wood into suitable materials, and tied them up with thick linen ropes. These ladders were very simple, but as long as there were many, once the attack began and thousands of people climbed up together, it would make it difficult for the people guarding the castle to be guarded.
"In addition to this, I think we should send a small team to sweep the entire Schwarz County." Benson, the one-eyed wolf, advised Anthony.
"Oh, why?" Anthony asked curiously.
"The nobles' estates and fiefs are outside the castle. Burning and robbing their homes will shake their determination to stay in the castle." said Benson, the one-eyed wolf.
"But it will also arouse their anger." Anthony thought for a while, hesitated and said.
"The anger will make them make mistakes," Benson, the one-eyed wolf, insisted.
"Okay, the robbery can make the siege longer." Anthony nodded. The siege was a very energy-consuming and morale-intensive thing, and it was a competition between the patience of both sides and the consumption of food.
"I'll gather people now." After saying that, Benson, the one-eyed wolf, left Anthony to recruit volunteers. Anthony looked at the tall walls and pointed towers of the castle. Looking at the castle would make people feel a sense of insignificance and powerlessness that the castle could not overcome.
Rudolph's camp began to get busy. Tracy, in the town of Lorraine, got the news and hurried to come to Rudolph with his maid. She didn't seem to expect Rudolph to leave so quickly.
"Master Rudolph." Tracy saw Rudolph in front of a carriage, with many supplies placed on the carriage. Rudolph listed the list on a piece of parchment, and he checked the items in the list one by one.
"Tracy?" Rudolph did not expect the businessman's daughter to come. He quickly rolled up the parchment and handed it to Taylor beside him.
"I heard you're leaving?" Tracy grabbed a silver cross pendant on her neck, and she opened her mouth and said to Rudolf.
"Yes, my home, Schwarz County, is now in war and rebellion. I want to lead the army back to re-establish order." Rudolph looked at Tracy, who looked beautifully. There was no need to guess the love his daughter had for him, but he couldn't protect herself now, so she had no time to talk about love.
"I, I understand." Tracy took off the neck pendant from her neck, and she reached out and put her neck pendant on Rudolph's neck.
"Is this?" Rudolph looked at the neck pendant on his neck and looked at Tracy.
"This is what my mother left for me when she died. The silver here comes from Rome. It is said that she has been blessed by the Pope Nishi. Wearing it, you will definitely be protected from the attacks and injuries of the enemy." Tracy's face appeared with a faint rose red color. She covered Rudolph's neck cross with her hands and said to Rudolph.
"If you can give me a kiss, I think it must be more powerful than the cross pendant that the pope personally blessed." Rudolf's heart rippled in his heart. The friendship of such a beautiful girl towards him made him unable to help but speak out.
"Yeah, but I am not a nobleman of noble blood, you deserve their blessings." Tracy immediately thought of the knights who went to war in the mouths of the minstrels, and asked the pure and noble girls of noble blood to kiss their swords, integrate their blessings into their swords, and rush to the battlefield with this enthusiasm.
"No, your blessings are better than any girl of noble blood." Rudolph knelt in front of Tracy on one knee, pulling out his sword and holding it in front of Tracy with both hands.
Tracy looked at Rudolph in surprise, but she was still moved by his sincerity, so she bent down, her slender and fair neck as swan exposed in the air, and her red lips were gently printed on the cold sword.
"So beautiful." Rudolph stood up, feeling his heart beating like a small drum, and reached out to wrap his hand around Tracy's waist, and then a deep kiss was imprinted on her lips.
The roar of the wheels pressing across the road and the footsteps of the soldiers gradually faded away. Tracy stood in the empty space, and she looked at Rudolph and his army as they were leaving.
"Tracey, Tracy, why are you here?" At this moment, Nordmay ran over with his legs. He was relieved when he saw Tracy. When he heard the servants say that Tracy was heading to Rudolph's camp, he thought his daughter was going to elope with Rudolph.
"Father, why are you here?" Tracy looked over in wonder and asked Nord.
"Tracy, why don't you tell me and come here privately?" Nord said with some dissatisfaction.
"I knew Lord Rudolph was leaving, so I wanted to come and see him off." Tracy said embarrassedly.
"Tracey, I know you have feelings for Lord Rudolph, but don't forget that we are just merchants, and he is the eldest son of Count Schwartz, the future Count Schwartz. The Habsburg family will not marry a businessman's daughter." Nord shook his head. He had actually known his daughter's thoughts about Rudolph for a long time, but this was an impossible marriage. Even if there were examples of a businessman's daughter who married into aristocratic families, most of the endings were very tragic, not to mention that the Habsburg family members had always been the higher-class aristocratic families.
"I understand, so I can only meet him at this time and bury this feeling deep in my heart." Tracy said to her father with a wry smile. She knew that the gap between class made the two of them look like two parallel lines, and could not be intertwined at all, but she had a little expectation in her heart, hoping to achieve a miracle.
Chapter completed!