Vol 4 Chapter 55: Habsburg and the pirates

In the spring of the following year, De Porte's castle was finally built. From a distance, it was spectacular to see a pile of black lumps on the top of the mountain.
A little small, in the eyes of Yang Yi, he is a watchtower, neither beautiful nor majestic, but a fortress built according to local conditions and mountain conditions. Not to mention that it cannot be compared with the castles of the Central Plains, even if it is far from the Tulou of the Miao people.
But for the current Earl of De Porte, it is enough. There are seven or eight people living there, seven or eight horses, and can hide food and money. It is very important that two hundred people have been defended and can't attack here.
A large area of ​​newly reclaimed farmland under the hillside has been cultivated, and many farmers and craftsmen have gathered nearby to form villages. As soon as the horn sounds on the castle, they will gather immediately to form an arch guard against the castle.
A standard lord model has been formed.
Sheep and De Porte boarded the turret, which is the highest point of the entire castle. The two overlooked the valley on the back of the castle, and several goshawks circled back and forth in the valley.
The majesty of the eagle strikes the sky, and it feels very suitable for the newly erected castle here.
"Duke, what do you think of naming the castle Eagle Fort?"
"very good."
"Duke, thank you."
"You're welcome."
"I am Earl De Porte, 21 years old this year. From now on I will marry a wife, and I will marry a princess as his wife." De Porte said: "My descendants will use this castle as their surname, Eagle's Castle. "
In the languages ​​of Alpine and North Central Europe, the ‘Eagle’s Castle’ is pronounced as ‘Habsburg’.
"I, Earl De Pitt, is the ancestor of Habsburg, the ancestor of Habsburg."
"My friend is the Duke of Sheep from the East."
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Yang Yi lived in Yingbao, just like living in Zhongnan Mountain. He eats and sleeps every day to practice martial arts, then rides out from time to time, and returns here a few months later.
Seven years have passed since such days.
In the seven years, in addition to continuing to search for clues to go home, Yang Yi did two things.
Helped Count De Porte to form and train an eleven-man army, including De Porte himself, a total of 12.
From the very beginning, Yangyi opposed De Porte's popular military route for the lord, that is, the peasants in the armed territories, engaged in farming when busy, bandits in free time, and army in wartime.
The military force formed like that can only be squat. Because the Alpine Land belongs to the Holy Roman Empire, although it is only on the edge of the empire, once the lord here makes a mess, the behemoth of the empire can step on the ground at any time.
For De Porte to rise quickly, the only way is to train his own elite armed forces, and then participate in the conquest of the empire as a nobleman, so as to quickly approach the power center of the empire.
Count De Porte must have a standing army that is loyal to him and can go to war at any time. It does not need to be large in size, and it cannot be supported even if it is too large. Twelve men are enough.
Twelve full-armor knights, even the horses are leather armor, and one person and two horses, each of the weapons is equipped with a long axe, broad sword and short bow, plus a round shield.
All the formation tactics, weapons, threes, twos and twos, all kinds of cooperation, are taught by the sheep. It's not because he is proficient, but these things belong to the general market in the Central Plains, and the ringing horses of the mountains and grasses understand.
Regardless of the Great Tang or the Great Song, those who are proficient in twelve-man squads are extremely good at best.
The introductory knowledge of war in the Central Plains is still quite high-end in Europa today.
Just practice without cracking down on fakes, anyway, the robbery here belongs to the normal rhythm of life. On average, Earl de Porte’s team spends basically five months outside fighting a year.
At first, Yangyi was playing with them, but then he just stood and watched. Later, he lay in the Eagle Castle and waited for them to come back, by the way, helping De Porter to look after the house.
At most once, the twelve-man squad defeated the opponent's 300-man peasant army. Yang Yi felt that this was obviously not enough. According to the setting, it was right to start at least 1,000.
So they practiced hard for seven years.
In the past seven years, Yangyi has also made a harpsichord.
This idea came from more than fifty years ago, when he listened to Zhou Yingluo playing piano, flute and pipa every day in the Changchun Valley. Although Yang Yi has a different temperament, he is fascinated by the musical instruments that make music with stringed drums, and he is familiar with it spontaneously.
This feels very much like when Yu Linwei, who was in Chengzhi Festival of Chang'an City 400 years ago, merged polo and Cuju into football.
I don't understand polo and Cuju at all, but I invented football.
I don't know anything about Qin Se and Pipa, but I always feel that the way of playing silk strings can be better.
One hand controls the character and the other hand dials the rhythm. What if both hands are used to dial the rhythm? Will it be richer?
If the resonance box is bigger, will the sound be fuller?
And the craftsmen here also gave the sheep an inspiration.
The blacksmiths of Central Plains can forge hundreds of steels and alloys with various properties. These techniques are much stronger than those of Europa. But the ruler is short and the inch is long. There are some craftsmen here who can pull very thin metal wires from the molten iron. Yang Yi seems to have never seen this in Central Plains.
It is said that this craft comes from noble jewelry making, which is quite magical.
The most important thing is that these wires can make a pleasant sound.
It took a lot of gold coins snatched from the sheep to make this, and it took two full years to finish it with the help of church musicians and a bunch of craftsmen.
A wooden box larger than the dining table in the Eagle Castle. When the lid is opened, it looks like a raised wing. When the key is pressed, it drives the feather pipe behind it to pluck the strings.
Yang Yi directs the production, but does not know how to play, but the church musicians are like a treasure.
The harpsichord is an exquisite and fragile object. Once built in the Eagle Fort, it cannot be moved. The obsessed musician lived in the Eagle Fort for half a year, and the bishop sent a knight to almost chop his head.
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Seven years later, the fully qualified Earl of De Porte, at the suggestion of Yang Yi, took his elite knight team and was going to fight with the king, to fight for his glory and the surname of the descendants of Habsburg. world.
Yang Yi will once again embark on the long road of searching. The duke and earl bid farewell to the Limmat River, where the city-state is called Zurich.
"Duke, I wish you an early search for what you are looking for. De Porter will always remember your help."
"De Porter, I hope that one day, your descendants of Habsburg can crisscross the sky of Europa."
Count De Porte and his knights rushed to the battlefield north, and as soon as the sheep headed south, they began another journey around the world.
In the years that followed, the news that Europa had no more sheep, only a legend about the Duke of the East slowly disappeared in the long history. And ‘Zorro’ has become a symbol of chivalry, unceasing generation after generation, warning those who are not benevolent for centuries.
This is an era of chaos, an era of heroes, and an era of pirates.
In the northern waters of Europa, Viking pirates were in their heyday. Countless fleets of pirates licking blood in the waves looted merchant ships between England and the mainland.
Among these pirates, there are men and women. The pirate nicknamed "Black Anne" is the most famous and murderous female pirate leader of this era. She is a legend in the ocean.
Thirty years after the sheep left Europa, in the big island of ice and fire in the northern ocean of Europa, in a hidden cave, the dying old woman was dying before the faint light of the candlestick.
Around her, there are countless gold coins, silver coins, and gold and silver utensils. There are also jewels piled up like hills on UU Reading www.uukanshu.com. The wealth here can be called a rich and enemy country, or an enemy big country.
The old woman has fallen into confusion, and she has reached the last moment of her life.
"Duke, my husband. I miss you so much..., this is all the money I snatched for you, and I am not willing to spend a gold coin. I keep it for you."
"My husband, I have robbed you at sea for forty years... I can't do it anymore. You think this is enough...should it be enough?"
"You don't want to spend arbitrarily... you must cherish your money, you must protect your money..."
"Duke, I miss you so much. For forty years, I have been thinking about you every day, Duke... Where are you... You..."
"My fleet... found the continent you said to the west... Waiting for you... I will take you... I miss you..."
The candlelight extinguished the last flame, and the cave fell into an endless eternal night. The airtight opening was submerged little by little by the icy water and disappeared under the sea forever.