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Chapter 26: Starting a War (4)

"What? Dead? What does it mean? How did you die?" The Duke of Aquitaine was still unable to figure out the situation. "Did you mean that an enemy attacked?"

"No, no, it's... Anyway..."

The soldier stammered and couldn't explain it clearly after hesitating for a long time.

"If it's not an enemy attack, how could it die!" Duke Aquitaine roared, "You don't fight in the military camp, you're really knives--no, even if you're really knives, you can't die!"

"Duke, I can't figure it out!" The soldier was about to cry, "Come with me and have a look!"

Before the Duke of Aquitaine arrived, many officers had arrived first. The bodies of the three dead men were moved out of their respective tents and put together. They also included a knight of a nobleman.

"Who did this?"

The Duke of Aquitaine stared at the knight's entourage and asked questions. The knights all had separate tents and rest areas, and it was impossible to fight with ordinary soldiers, let alone be killed by ordinary soldiers.

The entourage stood aside at a loss and said, "I don't know either. I went to feed the master's horse. When I came back, I wanted to see the master's situation, but the master lay there motionless... and died."

"It's midnight, why did you go to see his situation?" The Duke of Aquitaine pointed out the suspicion. "The one who acted sneakily was that you killed your master, right?"

The sergeant was startled and hurriedly defended: "I...how could I want to harm the master? It's just that the master has been complaining about bone pain these days and needs someone to take care of him, so I went in..."

"Bone ache?" The Duke of Aquitaine glanced at the corpse.

An officer interrupted, "Duke, there is no wound on these people's bodies. It's certain that they were not killed. However, their physical condition is very strange, and their bodies are soft, as if...no bones."

"No bones??? What the hell is going on!"

"It started the day before yesterday...that was when the master fell into a trap and was killed once." The entourage wiped the sweat on his forehead. "Since that night, the master kept calling for bone pain, especially late at night, and rolled all over. It would get better after a while, and it continued to hurt again and again. As a result, today... the bones were gone."

"The same is true here." A soldier raised his hand on the side, "My companion has also been complaining about bone pain since that day."

"It sounds like some kind of poison, and it's a very strong poison." The Duke of Aquitaine gasped, "Is it possible that the spear in the trap was poisoned?"

He turned to ask the knight's entourage: "After your master climbed out of the trap, have you drunk another bottle of potion?"

The entourage replied confidently: "Yes! I watched the master drink!"

"A bottle?"

"One bottle! There is another bottle left, right in my package..."

"Can't it be that the poison applied on it is always working?" An officer thought to himself, "He was about to die soon, but because of the effect of the alchemy potion, his body has been recovering. Today, the effect of the alchemy potion has been exhausted, but the effect of the poison is still there, so the three of them die together?"

The Duke of Aquitaine opened his eyes widened: "What poison can remain in the body for three days and not be excreted, and can completely melt human bones?"

No one speaks.

Everyone was shaking their heads.

Everyone's eyes are filled with fear.

The scorching sun rose to mid-air.

On this hot noon, Ella's army was advancing quickly towards the hinterland of the Duke of Normandy.

The rebels led by Giber, including three hundred peasants who received weapons and two hundred peasants who still held pitchforks and hammers. Caroling, Alfred, the King of Bohemia, the candidates of Mainz, and those prisoners of war from the Almani Federation were all not listed here.

"Enemy situation!Enemy situation!"

A sound of horse hooves came, and an Aztlan warrior rode his horse and quickly passed through the moving team and came to Ella's side.

"A light cavalry was discovered, with a population of about a thousand people, and was rushing towards this side quickly!"

"Where is the distance?"

"I'm here, then they should be coming soon, too." said the Aztlan warrior. "I saw them from afar and came to report the news. When they were stationed, I rushed to the night, and it was only a little short of time!"

"You haven't revealed your whereabouts?"

"No!"

"Then there is no problem," said Ella. "The villagers along the way are all those who were sent back after I cured the Black Death. I have already told them the words that they will be pointed in the opposite direction! As long as you enter the Duke of Normandy, the Duke of Normandy's fortress will block this cavalry for us, and they will not be able to catch up with us!"

The speed of the march accelerated. In order to seize the time, Gibel even let the group of soldiers march in the dark for half a night. It was not until after being exhausted that the soldiers held their weapons, leaned against the stones, and took a nap in the open world for a while.

The next morning, they continued to march, and not long after they set out, another Aztlan came over on horseback:

"It's the news from the villagers near Monfore! The Duke of Aquitaine was divided into two groups, one team was stationed in Monfore, with a number of about three thousand people, and the other team chased us, with a number of seven thousand people! One of them had a number of light cavalry up and down, rushing to the front!"

"I already knew about the cavalry yesterday," said Ella. "But the enemy mobilized troops like this, which means that they had not discovered the positions of the two men, Afu and Caroling, yet. This is a good sign. Where is the Duke of Aquitaine? Where is he?"

“In the ranks of chasing us!”

"Okay!" Ella waved her hand, "Start up, you must enter the Duke of Normandy tonight!"

At noon, the third messenger came over on a horse.

"Report! Lord White Knight has sent the news that the Duke of Aquitaine's army has returned, and the only cavalry that is pursuing us is left with about a thousand people!"

"What's going on?" Amy on the side couldn't understand, "He has already started chasing, why have he returned?"

"From the previous march, we can see that the Duke of Aquitaine is very cautious." Ella said, "Since he has brought his troops back, it only means that he is starting to be afraid again."

"Scared? Why? We didn't ambush them, right? There are only the few traps in the initial military camp..."
Chapter completed!
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