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Chapter 17: The Battle of the Bastille (5)

Just as Luka and Alfred fought, the recovered defenders had already pushed all the rebels off the city wall. The soldiers who had no expression on their faces and only knew how to execute orders had surrounded Luka who was still left on the city wall. The ladders on the city wall had been pushed down, and the only way out was to jump off the city wall.

Mary walked through the crowd with Juvaus.

"Is this the enemy's commander?" She looked at Luka, who was kneeling listlessly on the ground, "Catch her up!"

At this moment, Giles' shout came from under the city wall: "Hurry, Luka, jump down!"

This shout was like a blow, waking Luka suddenly. The city wall was more than 30 meters high, and the only ending of leaping down was to pieces. But she didn't doubt Giles' words, and she jumped down from the city wall without even hesitation!

At the same time, a hook claw with a rope was thrown to the city wall. Giles put his hand holding the rope and let it approach Luka in the air. Luka did not miss this opportunity, and grabbed the rope that was coming towards him and slid down the rope!

Mary ran to the edge of the city wall with a shocked look on her face. She saw Luka falling to the ground, rolling over the ground several times, and fell into a coma. Several soldiers holding shields hurriedly surrounded her and formed a shield wall to block behind her.

"Why don't you catch her!" Mary yelled at Alfred, "This is the commander of the enemy. If you catch her, we will win!"

"Because you haven't promised to form an alliance with us yet, I won't work in vain." Alfred smiled, "I said before coming here, this time I'm just here to get to know the enemy."

——Luka forgot when he had such a great hatred for the nobles.

Her father was a little baron on the border. She was the three daughters in the family and had two older brothers. When she was six years old, her father's lord had a land dispute with another lord on the border. Her father and her two older brothers were conscripted as knights and never came back.

All they came back in place was news - Luka, who became the new baron of the territory.

She was ignorantly put on a gorgeous robe and accepted the kneeling of the leaders who were forty or fifty years older than her.

Then, he was told ignorantly that the war broke out and her lord was preparing to take back her territory.

When she was young, she really couldn't remember many things. She only remembered that a knight who was left by her father hugged her and broke out of the siege, and the knight's child also rode behind and ran out together. And that child was Giles.

Along the way, she saw many terrifying corpses of villagers.

Later, she heard the knight say that the war started with a patrol by her lord. Her lord came to her castle and saw the beautiful large windows, ready to collect additional window tax based on the number of windows, and her regency, her biological mother, refused the request.

The knight used his savings to buy a land in the countryside and adopted Luka. He hid his armor and sword, carried a hoe, and took Luka and Giles, and plowed the soil in the fields every day, sowed, watered, and fertilized them.

At first, Luka could not do anything, and she couldn't even tell the difference between wheat seedlings and weeds. She had blisters on her hands several times. Every time, Giles would apply saliva on her hands as a ointment, but the saliva covered with soil had no effect at all.

However, gradually, Luka became accustomed to this.

At night, the knights teach Luka to practice swordsmanship. He was already exhausted to death when working in the field during the day, and Luka was not willing to learn any swordsmanship.

Every time this time, the knight will look very angry.

"You have to learn well," he said with his eyes staring. "Even women, as long as they make enough merit on the battlefield, they have the opportunity to become a knight. This is your only chance to revive your family."

Luka didn't understand the words of the Knight. All she cared about was the wheat seedlings she planted. She felt happy from the bottom of her heart as they grew up little by little. She could already tell more than fifty similar weeds, and could catch some loud birds with empty hands, put them in a cage, and listen to their calls. Sometimes, she would use the birds she caught and fight with the birds she caught, and every time her bird won.

Giles was a few years older than her and became an adult first. The Knight taught him all his skills.

That morning, when Luka got up, he did not see the Knight, and his armor and sword disappeared. Although she and Giles felt a little strange, they went to the fields to do farm work as usual. In the evening, they returned home, cooked their meals, and waited for the Knight to come home.

They were waiting hungry, but the last one was not the knights, but a team of fully armed soldiers with a fierce look.

Giles ran away desperately, but Luka was caught. It was not until she was locked in a cell that Luka learned that her former lord was assassinated by the news when she came here to patrol today.

He used this to repay Luka's father.

Giles did not just run away. He knew that Luka was a nobleman and was not a civilian who could be beheaded at will, so he found other lords who were hostile to the lord, and received his support, and caused this matter to the consul of the Almany Federation.

That was the first time Luca met the Earl of Ile de France.

And this is the final judgment he made:

"It is the duty of the vassal to pay taxes in full. For those who refuse to pay taxes, the lord is qualified to detain them. Luka refuses to obey and raises up to fight against the lord, which is already a rebellion. After being defeated, the lord takes back the territory, which is reasonable. The knight assassination was not a reasonable act of revenge, but intentional murder. Considering that the knight was dead, and the rebellion decision was made at the beginning of Luka's regent rather than Luka himself, it was not pursued and only confiscated all the knight's property to compensate the lord's family for the mental losses."

That day, the whole sky was dark.

The well-grown wheat was trampled by the soldiers. Luka was crying, but no one paid attention to him.

In this way, Luka lost her home again.

She had to hide her identity with Giles and find another living.

They tried to hunt in the woodland for a living, but they were beaten and their hunting equipment was confiscated because the woodland belonged to the lord's private property.

She and Giles built a small house in the deep mountains and opened up a barren farmland in the barren mountain, but were expelled again. Because the mountains were also the lord's private property, the farmland they opened should belong to the lord.

In the end, they were desperate and had to rely on another nearby lord and became serfs.
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