>>6159106Nobody should doubt about the victory of brave christian knights against cowardly archers. But limiting the losses, since we do not have many knights and men at arms, would be wise.
>>6159115>>6159259Well said good sir, you always speak with faith and common sense. Unfortunately the other bannermen have not listened to you ! Woe and treachery ! Perhaps lombards have bought them off !
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ou were a generous man and if in these strange lands there were women warriors you could always tolerate them, so you told.
-Rejoice for you are now a soldier in service of Lady Rose, obey her well and serve faithfully.
The Guelph smiled and she answered.
-I am glad to serve, my lord.
And it was done. You happily let her go, thinking about finding a last warrior, perhaps a knight, Rose had some family members and she would need a "guard's captain" even when having only four poor guardsmen. But whatever, you would find it and her knights and soldiers will become yours soon. Still, you thought an instant about captain Relic, you had not known the man a lot but he seemed to be an honest man, and a loyal warrior, protecting the daughter of his lord even when he saw his lands confiscated and when she was kept under the guardianship of baron crook. He even helped her throw her evil tutors to the dogs. His death was a shame, you hoped that you could at least give him a proper burial but apparently all the corpses of the people executed by the baron were given to his nightmare horses that ate human flesh. You decided to pray for his soul, and for the soul of the old lord Takable. You will have to marry his daughter, give him a grandson, he has been wrongly accused and perhaps his soul found satisfaction in vengeance now that the baron had been beheaded. You should pray for lord Random too, if he wasn't dead you would not be here, and you would still be a simple knight without any chance of inheritance and not the master of a castle, of a household army and husband of a beautiful wife. Yes, perhaps, even if the India's were pagan and dangerous, and you were sometimes homesick they were an opportunity too. It was when you thought about an old man that another one found you because Godefroi told you.
-You look lost in your thoughts monseigneur, is everything well ?
-Y... Yes Godefroi. I was thinking about the Guelph, with her bow... If some armies have many bowmen like these, Guelphs... They must be really dangerous.
-Mmmh, indeed yes.
-Look, the baron has a bit more than 300 royal guardsmen, probably 100 or more will stay after winter... Two thirds of them are not frail lasses but quite solid men, even if all Guelphs look underfed. If they can put an arrow through an apple they could easily kill levies... Even men in chainmail, imagine 70 men firing at a knight and his mount with bodkin arrows, some will touch his helmet and do nothing, or his shield, but some will get his horse, or his chest or his arm...
