The Scottish two hundred plate-armed knights lost a lot. In the past, when facing light cavalry, the plate-armed knights armed to their teeth easily defeated the opponent. No matter how bad they are, they will scare the opponent away.

However, unexpectedly, this time, they kicked the iron plate - the clockwork ignition carbine, which is specially used to attack the plate armor knights...

The scout cavalry riding Arabian horses first rode their horses and retreated for a long distance under the pursuit of the Scottish plate-armored knights. Then, the Scottish knight's horses were out of strength...

Originally, the Scottish Knights were fully armed and fled to escape on their horses, which consumed a lot of physical strength. Now, they turned around and chased after them for a while, and they couldn't run. If they didn't rest for 10 or 20 minutes, they wouldn't be able to run again.

Taking this opportunity, Markenson commanded 500 scout cavalry to slowly lean up, and raised the clockwork carbine to aim at the Scottish Knights...

With a chaotic gunfire, the Scottish Knights were knocked off their horses. Although few of them were killed directly, most of them were injured and could not get up for a while...

Markenson was worried and asked his subordinates to load the clockwork fire guns, then held up the gun and leaned forward carefully...

There were indeed rebels, some of the Scottish Knights who were not injured, wielding their big swords, wanting to see the scout cavalrymen, but they were directly knocked to the ground by the volleyball guns, and countless bones were broken...

Then, the 200 Scottish Knights with great martial arts were captured so frustratedly. Except for a few who were killed, most of the Scottish Knights were injured and captured...

Then, Markonson thought of the "suspected big fish" that ran away, and quickly led most of the people to chase north, leaving some people to escort the injured Scottish Knights back to the camp.

However, halfway through, Markensson was surprised to find that Marich was coming south with a group of thieves, escorting more than a dozen men in plate armor tied up in large numbers. Those people seemed to be the "big fish" that escaped under the cover of the Scottish knights.

What made Markkenson extremely jealous was that this "big fish" was actually the king of Scotland!

You know, even though Marin, who is the Lord, had the greatest achievement of ambushing and defeating Charles VIII's Knights, he still made Charles VIII run away. Like Marichi, capturing a king alive is simply a rare achievement.

"You bastard, this time he has developed. Capturing the King of Scotland alive can at least change a baron!" Markenson said with red eyes. For a moment, Markenson even wanted to destroy the people of Maric and swallowed the credit by himself. In the end, he suppressed this greed. Anyway, he defeated 200 Scottish Knights, and his credit was enough to be promoted to hereditary knights. Before, Markenson was just a title of ordinary knights. He was Shaul's confidant. After Shaul was promoted, he became a minister, so he naturally didn't have to lead the team to reconnaissance himself. So, Markenson, who had a strong ability, took over the job of commanding the reconnaissance cavalry regiment.

When the Markensons took a group of Scottish Knights back to the Scottish Camp, the battle in the Scottish Camp was not over. Because the Scots were prepared for a long time, some people were wearing clothes and weapons before going to bed at night. They formed small formations and resisted for a long time, causing more than a thousand casualties to Marin's army. This was a record-breaking record in Marin's night attack.

But fortunately, Marin's armor rate is very high. Even ordinary soldiers wear wooden pieces with iron pieces, which have good protection. Therefore, even if there are more than a thousand casualties, most of them are injured. Under the treatment of alcohol, golden sore medicine and gauze, most people can still be rescued. The real deaths will not exceed 100 people.

Looking at the 200 Scottish Knights who were carried back, Marin suddenly realized. So he waved his hand and called the military doctor. These military doctors were disciples of Morigen and Battel, familiar with Mongolian medical skills, and were best at bone cutting and bruising and injury. Therefore, it is absolutely right to hand these Scottish Knights with broken bones to them. After all, these knights are all people with a certain wealth, and the ransom can reach hundreds of gold coins... As an expensive "meat ticket", Marin has an obligation to ensure that they do not die...

When Marichi came back with King James IV of Scotland, Marin grew up in surprise - Damn, this time he caught a king, and it was so big...

...

Although the Scottish soldiers were prepared and resisted tenaciously, they faced twice as strong enemies and were divided and surrounded early, no matter how brave they were, they could not avoid the fate of failure.

Shortly after James IV was taken back, the entire Scottish camp fell...

Marin and Edward, with James IV, who was tied up in many ways, entered the central army tent that originally belonged to James IV...

At this time, James IV also knew the identities of Edward and Marlin. So, after entering the tent, he roared:

"Edward, what do you mean? If you let your enemy Henry VII go to attack, why come to attack me? We are from the same camp! If you attack your allies like this, you will be despised by all the nobles!" James IV decided to take the lead and refute Edward from the general point of view, it would be better for the other party to let him go.

Edward was prepared, and he replied calmly:

"His Majesty James, I remember that you and your army did not invite you and your army into England, right? Your march this time is an invasion of England. As the King of England, I have an obligation to stop your invasion!"

"I'm here to help you, how can you deal with me?" In order to get out, James IV began to argue.

"Help me? Haha, haven't you seen the white rose flag at the top of Newcastle? It's the symbol of my York family. The white rose battle flag is hung on the top of Newcastle, indicating that this is my territory. Are you still insisting on attacking? Is it the way for allies?" Edward responded with a sneer.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Suddenly, James IV was exhausted. Yes, Newcastle's guard chief Sivager showed his identity from the beginning - we are His Majesty Edward's people. As a result, the Scottish army ignored it and continued attacking was indeed not what allies should do.

After staying James IV and settled down, Edward began to discuss with Marin about how to deal with James IV. Edward also felt very difficult now. If James IV died in the battlefield, it would be better to say. Now that the other party was captured alive, he would not do anything to him. The method of murdering shipwrecks before was planned was, as Marin said, "it's okay." At most, everyone criticized the nephews who murdered his council. Murdering the king of a country would be isolated and hostile to Europe. Even if he wanted to kill, he had to start a clean approach and he had to be clear about himself.

"Duke Marin, what do you think I should deal with this James IV?"

"Switch money! King, it's worth a lot of ransom!" Marin's eyes were suddenly filled with gold coins.

"Exchange money?" Edward was suddenly full of black lines - I wanted Scotland's territory, not money! So he suppressed his anger and said:

"What I want is Scotland, not money!"

Marin shook his head and said:

"Improve it, Your Majesty, it is not advisable to annex the Kingdom of Scotland before England stabilizes. Otherwise, you will have a more headache!"

Edward nodded. He also knew that it was not advisable to annex Scotland before stabilizing England, otherwise it would be easy to persevere. However, he was unwilling to accept it:

"But if we miss this opportunity, it will be difficult for us to seize James IV next time..."

Indeed, it is easy to catch a wild king in the wild. If you want to break through the capital and catch someone’s king, that seems to be too difficult...

In fact, before this, Emperor Shenluo was able to capture the King of England, which was why Richard I was eager to return to the country to suppress the rebellion, disguised as a merchant and passed by Vienna. There were not many troops around him, so he was easily captured.

Marin suddenly turned his head and smiled:

"Why did you let him go?"

Edward was stunned and said:

"You mean to imprison him like this?"

Marin shook his head and said:

"It's so wasteful. We can imprison him while asking Scotland for a huge ransom. You know, a king must be worth 1 million gold coins anyway..."

"1 million gold coins..." Edward was a little dizzy. He hadn't seen so much money before. According to the current exchange rate, one pound is equal to 4 gold coins, which is equivalent to 250,000 pounds.

Of course, this pound is impure. Because of the reduction in the purity of the currency, one pound is now only equivalent to 170 grams of sterling silver, equivalent to 4 gold coins, which is not as valuable as in the early years.

"Of course, did Richard I be captured by Emperor Henry VI, and he also asked for 150,000 marks (equivalent to 100,000 pounds) of sterling silver?"

At that time, silver was not adulterated, and its purity was guaranteed. Of course, a pound of silver did not refer to 453.59 grams of silver, but adopted the gold pound system, with only 373.242 grams (equivalent to 12 ounces). Because silver coins were not sterling silver (sterling silver was too soft and could not be minted, silver dollars were mixed with copper to ensure hardness), so one pound at that time was equivalent to 350 grams of sterling silver (much better than the current 170 grams of sterling silver).

Marin proposed to ask for 1 million gold coins, equivalent to 250,000 pounds, which is more than 20% more expensive than Richard I's ransom. However, considering the rising prices over the past few hundred years, it is not more expensive than Richard I's ransom.

"But can Scotland afford the ransom of 1 million gold coins? What's more, there are thousands of prisoners of war in the future..." Although there are still many prisoners of war, Edward can expect that he can also exchange the ransom of hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

Scotland had a population of only 500,000, because of the rugged terrain in the country and the undeveloped agriculture. In order to repay the ransom of 150,000 marks, England fell to the point where he led his army to rob and died. Therefore, Edward seriously doubted whether the Kingdom of Scotland could afford 1 million gold coins... plus those prisoners of war, Scotland would definitely not be able to pay the ransom...

"It's just that they can't afford it, so that you can seize James IV for a long time. If you don't pay the ransom, you won't let him go back. I guess it will take many years. And after these years, you will definitely have a firm control over England. At that time, it would be better to send troops to annex Scotland on the grounds that Scotland is unwilling to pay the ransom?"

"What a wonderful and wonderful idea!" Edward's eyes suddenly shone.

Indeed, he could not kill James IV casually. However, he could ask for a huge ransom that a Scotland could not afford, so that Scotland could not afford. In this way, Edward had reason to seize James IV for a long time. In this way, the Scotland would have been leaderless for a long time. James IV originally had two younger brothers, but both died and no descendants were left behind. In this way, Scotland would have been leaderless for a long time. Even James IV had no descendants. In this way, as long as the time was ripe, England could indeed easily annex Scotland...

"But I can't kill James IV. His life is still a threat to my annexation of Scotland..."

"Then let's tear the votes... Let's first use James IV as a hostage, constantly extort the Kingdom of Scotland, and drain the finances of the Kingdom of Scotland, so that they have no money to support the army to fight against England. Finally, they will swallow Scotland in the name of the other party not wanting to pay all the ransoms. As for how to solve James IV... Your Majesty, you can send a killer to lurk in Scotland. After you put James IV back to the country, you can send a killer to intercept it in the middle. In this way, what is not happening in England can be shirked away, and the blame is to put the blame on James IV's opposition..."

"Assassination of James IV in Scotland? A good idea!" Edward's eyes lit up. James IV had no descendants, no brothers or nephews. As long as he died, Scotland would have no legal heirs. At that time, England would send troops to annex Scotland, which would be even easier...

But Edward thought for a while and said:

"No, I remember that King James II of Scotland had a young son named Alexander, the Duke of Albany of the Kingdom of Scotland. He had an heir named John, the current Duke of Albany. If we killed James IV, wouldn't it just give John the Duke of Albany the chance to inherit the throne? If this guy is there, my annexation of Scotland will still have an impact."

After thinking about it, Marin said:

"This is simple. You sent the killer to assassinate James IV and deliberately left the logo of the Duke of Albany on the scene. In this way, when you march into Scotland, based on this clue, you insisted that it was Duke of Albany John who sent someone to assassinate James IV and usurp the throne. You came to help James IV take revenge and execute John of Albany. By the way... took over the entire Kingdom of Scotland..."

"High, it's really high!" Edward stretched out his thumb with admiration...
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