Chapter 55 Habsburgs and Pirates
In the spring of the following year, Deport's castle was finally built. From a distance, there were piles of black lumps on the top of the mountain, which was quite spectacular.
A little small. In Yang Yi's eyes, he is just a watchtower, neither beautiful nor majestic, but just a fortress built according to local conditions and mountainous conditions. Not to mention that it cannot be compared with the castles in the Central Plains, even the earthen buildings of the Miao people are similar. Very far away.
But it is enough for the Earl of Deport today. It is very important to live in seven or eight people, raise seven or eight horses, and be able to store food and money. After guarding two hundred people, it cannot capture the place. This is very important.
A large area of newly reclaimed farmland under the hillside has been cultivated, and many farmers and craftsmen gathered nearby to form villages. As soon as the horn sounds on the castle, they will immediately gather to form a guard against the castle.
A standard lord mode has been formed.
Sheep and Deport climbed the corner tower, which was the highest point of the entire castle. The two looked down at the valley on the back of the castle, and several goshawks circled back and forth in the valley.
The majestic eagle strikes the sky, and it feels very suitable for the newly towering castle here.
"Duke, how do you think of naming the castle Eagle Castle?"
"Good."
"Duke, thank you."
"You're welcome."
"I am Count Deport, 21 years old. In the future, I will marry a princess." Deport said: "My descendants will take this castle as their surname, the Eagle Castle. ”
In the Al Alpine and northern central Europa languages, the Eagle's Castle is pronounced as Habsburg.
"I, Count Deppet, are the ancestors of Habsburg and the ancestors of Habsburg."
"My friend is the Duke of Sheep from the East."
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Yang Yi lived in Eagle Fort, just like living in Zhongnan Mountain, eating, sleeping and practicing martial arts every day, then rode out for a walk from time to time, and returned here a few months later.
Seven years have passed.
In the past seven years, in addition to continuing to find clues to go home, Yang Yi did two things.
He helped Count Deport to form and train an eleven army. Including Deport himself, there were 12 in total.
From the beginning, Sheep Yi opposed Deport's military route by taking the lord's popularization, that is, farmers in armed territory, farming when they were busy, bandits when they were free, and army when they were war.
The military force formed like this can only be scattered. Because the Alpine Mountains belong to the Holy Roman Empire, although they are only on the edge of the empire, once the lords here make a fuss, the empire's behemoth can trample here at any time Flat ground.
If Deport wants to rise rapidly, the only way is to train his own elite army and then participate in the empire's conquest as a noble, so that he can quickly get close to the empire's power center.
Earl Deport must have a standing army that is loyal to him and can fight at any time. It does not need to be large in size, and it cannot be supported even if it is large. Twelve people are enough.
Twelve full-armored knights, even the horses were covered with leather armor, and one person and two horses. Each of them had long axes, broad swords, short bows, and round shields.
All formation tactics, weapons, three, three, two, and all kinds of cooperation were taught to them by Yang Yi. It was not because he was proficient, but because these things were big products in the Central Plains, and they all knew about the sound horses who went up the mountain and fell into the grass.
Whether in the Tang Dynasty or the Song Dynasty, those who are proficient in combating twelve-man teams are at best just a talent.
The introductory knowledge of war in the Central Plains is still quite high-end in Europe today.
Just practice without fighting against counterfeits. Anyway, the robbery here belongs to the normal pace of life. On average, Count Deport's squad basically fights outside for five months a year.
At first, Yang Yi fought with them, but later he stood aside and watched. Later, he lay in Eagle Castle waiting for them to come back and helped Deport to guard the house.
At most, a team of twelve people defeated the other side's peasant army of 300 people. Yang Yi felt that this was obviously not enough. According to the setting, it would be necessary to start at least a thousand times.
So they practiced hard for seven years.
In the past seven years, Yang Yi also built a harpsichord.
This idea came from more than fifty years ago, when he listened to Zhou Yingluo playing the piano, zither, pipa every day in the Changchun Valley of the age of 1980s. Of course, there were sheng, flute and drums. Although Yang Yi had different rhythms, he used silk string drums to make them come out. The musical instruments are fascinated by nature and become familiar with each other.
This feels very similar to the Yulin Guard in Cheng Zhijie, Chang'an City, four hundred years ago when he merged polo and Cuju into football.
I don’t understand polo and cuju at all, but I invented football.
I don’t know the zither, zither, pipa at all, but I always feel that the way of playing silk strings can be better.
Hold the character with one hand and the rhythm with the other hand. What if both hands are used to turn the rhythm with the rhythm? Will it be more abundant?
If the box that resonates is larger, will the tone be fuller?
Moreover, the craftsmen here also gave the sheep a bit of inspiration.
The blacksmiths in the Central Plains can forge steel and smelve alloys with various attributes. These techniques are much more powerful than the blacksmiths in Europa. But the ruler is shorter and more powerful. Some craftsmen here can pull them out of the iron. Very thin metal wire, Yang Yi has never seen this in the Central Plains.
It is said that this craft comes from the jewelry making of nobles, which is quite magical.
The most important thing is that these wires can make a pleasant sound.
Making this took a lot of gold coins from Sheep Yi, and it took two full years to complete it with the help of church musicians and a bunch of craftsmen.
A wooden box larger than the dining table in Eagle Castle. When the lid is opened, it looks like a raised wing, presses down the keys, and then drives the feather tube behind it to pluck the strings.
The sheep commanded the production and did not play at all, but the church musician felt like he had a treasure.
The harpsichord is an exquisite and fragile product. It can't be moved if it is made on site in Eagle Castle. The obsessed musician lived in Eagle Castle for a full half year. He was so angry that the bishop sent a knight almost chopped his head.
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Seven years have passed, and the fully qualified Earl of Deport, at the suggestion of Sheep, brought his elite knight team with him to fight with the king, and to make a comeback for his glory and the surname of his descendants of Habsburg. world.
Yang Yi will also embark on the long journey of searching again. The duke and the earl bid farewell on the banks of the Limat River. The city-state here is called Zurich.
"Duke, I wish you a quick search for what you are looking for, and Deport will always remember your help."
"DePort, I hope that one day your Habsburg descendants will lie under this Europa sky."
Earl Deport and his knights galloped to the battlefield in the north, and as soon as the sheep went south, they began another world tour.
In the years that followed, there was no news about Europa, and only one legend about the Duke of the East slowly disappeared into the long river of history. "Zorro" became a symbol of chivalrousness, and generation after generation, endlessly for centuries Warning those who are unkind for being rich.
This is an era of chaos, an era of heroes, and an era of pirates.
In the northern waters of Europa, the Viking pirates were at its peak. A variety of fleets of ships composed of countless pirates licking blood in the waves robbed trade ships between England and the mainland.
Among these pirates, there are men and women. The pirate nicknamed "Black Anne" is the most famous and vicious female pirate leader of this era. She is a legend in the ocean.
Thirty years after the sheep left Europa, the large island of ice and fire in the north ocean of Europe, in a secret cave, the old woman crawled in front of the gradually weak candlestick light and dying.
Around her are countless gold coins, silver coins and gold and silver vessels, and jewelry piled up like hills. The wealth here can be called wealthy or a great power.
The old woman was already in confusion and she reached the last moment of her life.
"Duke, my husband. I miss you so much..., this is the money I snatched for you. I don't want to spend a single gold coin, so I keep it for you."
"My husband, I have snatched you for forty years at sea... I really can't. Do you think these are enough... should be enough?"
"You must not spend money randomly... You must cherish money and protect money..."
"Duke, I miss you so much. I have been thinking about you every day, Duke...where are you...you..."
"My fleet... has found the continent to the west you mentioned...waiting for you...I will take you there...I miss you..."
Chapter completed!