The Rise of the European Emperor

Seeing the knights competing at the scene of a car accident again and again, Marin was terrified. You must know that those who participated in the competition were all noble children. In exchange for the sons of the powerful and powerful in the future, shouldn't it be to spend the day and drink? Why bother to participate in such a life-threatening game of knights?

In later generations, even ordinary people will not easily do anything too dangerous. And those who do those particularly dangerous jobs are often very much in need of money to have to die. No one will take their lives easily until they reach the point of despair.

But now, there are more than 1,000 noble children on the field, fighting to the death for dozens of places. Marin shook his head and made a decision in his heart - he will never allow his son Caesar to play knights with others in the future. As long as you have this idea, break your leg first...Breaking a leg is better than dying...

Moreover, the Knights are about to retire from the stage of history. With the popularity of muskets, the class of knights will become extremely embarrassing. The French are too obsessed with the tradition of knighthood, and they were later abused into dogs by the German knights in black shirts with muskets. The painful lessons of decades of failed hegemony have made the French slowly abandon the tradition of chivalry. But now, France is still a country dominated by knights. Whoever wants to depose a knight in France will be beaten to death immediately.

Not to mention France, even Germany is now a kingdom of knights. In this country, officers who serve as officers are basically knights or children of knights.

Only in such a wonderful country as Beihai Kingdom can civilians serve as officers. As a result, the Beihai Army has been ostracized and slandered by various countries. Because the knight officers of various countries believe that the use of civilians as officers in the North Sea Army is a violation of tradition. And an army led by civilians does not deserve to be called an army. So, after the early mishaps, Marin had to promote a large group of civilian officers to knighthood. Otherwise, the Beihai army would be even more eye-catching.

As for this knight competition, Marin actually regretted it. Seeing the knights fall off their horses and get injured, Marin was actually rather embarrassed. After all, it was because he had nothing to do with this knight competition that he injured them.

In fact, Marin has done well enough. In the early years, the knight competition was cruel. The knights in the early years did not use hollow spears, and the heads of the spears were also metal. Often after a knight's tournament, dozens of knights were killed. As for falling off a horse and getting hurt, that's a common occurrence.

Later, the Holy See saw that the casualties of knights were too high, and they banned knights from fighting. However, this cannot be stopped. why? Because the desire of the knights to fight is very strong.

In the absence of war, the Tournament is the only chance for the knights to show their bravery, or to pretend to be. You don't let the knights compete, don't you stop people from pretending to compete? Therefore, even the ban of the Holy See, can not stop the dream of the knights pretending to be...

Moreover, knight competition is an important means for knights to pick up girls. Whenever a knight wins a battle,

There will always be ignorant little girls crazy about it. Even some poor knights who have won the knight's competition will win the favor of the lady, and they will get both money and manpower.

Of course, in addition to pretending to be and getting love, knights who win the competition have a great chance to gain the appreciation of the great nobles, get good military positions, and even get titles and fiefs.

Therefore, despite the great dangers of knightly competition, for those knights who have no way out, participating in the knightly competition and winning the competition is the only way for them to change their lives. If anyone stops them from hanging silk counterattack, it will definitely be their deadly vengeance...

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Looking at the enthusiastic knights who fought with high spirits even if they were injured, Marin shook his head and continued to watch the show.

Unlike Marin, all the nobles around him, whether they were the nobles from various countries who were invited to watch the ceremony, or the nobles of their own country, watched the competition with great interest. Especially old Hoffman, who cheered loudly while watching.

Although he has old arms and legs, he can no longer wear it himself. However, it did not prevent him from watching the young knights fight, while missing his green years. Back then, Old Hoffman was also a well-known knight in the Counties of Mark. He also participated in three competitions and achieved good results.

I saw Old Hoffman sitting in his seat, eating fried peanuts with relish, while happily watching the wandering knights beating to death off the court. And Adler, along with old Hoffman, threw peanuts into his mouth, and followed his father loudly to cheer the knights off the field.

Seeing this, Marin shook his head in disappointment - Adler, is he really up to the responsibilities of an earl? This performance is clearly like that of a powerful and mindless forward general, where is the demeanor of strategizing in the rear?

However, it is precisely because Adler doesn't like to use his brain very much that Marin is very reassured about him. If Adler was as scheming as Albert, Marin probably wouldn't be able to sleep well.

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A few days later, when the knockout round was over, Marin found that more than 300 people were injured. In other words, in a normal competition, aside from those who were eliminated in the first round, a quarter of the more than 1,200 people who participated in the official competition were injured, and the casualty rate was as high as 25%... fortunately , no one died...

"Didn't I spread a lot of grass on the ground, so I'm not allowed to prick the head and horses? Why are there so many injuries?" Marin was a little puzzled.

But Marin didn't even think about it. This time, he released the quota of 50 fief knights!

Wandering knights and fief knights, although they are both called knights, the difference is heaven and earth. A fief knight has a fief, which is equivalent to a landowner and belongs to a property owner. Moreover, they belonged to the nobles, even the lowest-ranking nobles.

And what about the wandering knight? Although he was also born in a knight family, he had no title and could only be regarded as a commoner. Without land, they can only wander around like high-level beggars.

Therefore, being able to become a fief knight is definitely a step to the sky, from a beggar to a landlord. Moreover, there are still landowners with noble titles.

Such a big excitement, and there are 50 places, can it not make people crazy? Therefore, even though Marin imposed many restrictions, these knights still exerted all their strength to suckle, just to fight for their future. If you can change your destiny, what's the point of being injured?

Not to mention those knights who lost the competition, even if the knights won the competition, there were still many injuries.

For example, when the first place and the second place are competing for the championship, the second place falls off the horse and gets injured. Moreover, the injury is not light, it is a broken leg.

If it were elsewhere, this second place would be miserable. Because the broken leg may make him disabled, if he can't recover, he may lose his chance, and the latter one will make up and eliminate him. After all, disabled people cannot fight for Feng Jun on the battlefield.

But he was lucky, because there were orthopaedic masters like Mo Zhigen and Battelle in Beihai. Moreover, Marin also "invented" the plaster bandage commonly used in later generations. After the treatment, the leg of the knight who placed second in the competition was still able to recover.

Except for the unlucky second place, the other 300 injured people, this time the problem is not too big. Serious injuries such as broken legs and broken arms may be considered abolished by other European doctors in this era. But Beihai State-owned professional Mongolian orthopaedic doctor, plus the plaster bandage made by Marin, is very sure of recovery.

Marin broke his left arm while riding a motorcycle when he was in high school. Then, cast a plaster bandage, familiar with the process. So, in this life, he made a simple plaster bandage. With the addition of two professional orthopaedic experts, Mo Zhigen and Battelle, as long as they are not comminuted fractures, they can basically recover. In this competition, because the players wore solid plate armor, most of the injuries were caused by collisions and falls. There were basically no comminuted bone injuries, and the chances of the wounded recovering were quite high.

After the competition, Marin announced that all injured people can recuperate in Emden until they recover. During the period of recuperation, all medical expenses and food and drink will be borne by Beihai Kingdom.

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When Marin made the announcement, many people present were stunned. In particular, the injured wandering knights were already mentally prepared to return to their hometowns in despair. Because, in previous martial arts conferences, the practice was like this - the winner received cheers and rewards, and the loser left in disarray...

Even some losers become disabled because of lifelong disabilities. Regardless of whether there is a future or not, it is a question of whether or not to survive.

Therefore, the more than 300 injured wandering knights were grateful to Marin. After all, no one has ever managed the life of the loser. They stayed in Emden to recover from their injuries and continued to eat delicious lunches. Even, in order to speed up their recovery, Marin ordered more fish soup, pig blood soup and bone soup to speed up the recovery of their injuries.

Later, after the more than 300 injured wandering knights recovered, they basically requested to stay and serve in the North Sea National Army, even if they became infantry captains. Men died for their confidants, and Marin came to their aid when they were desperate. Therefore, these people were willing to stay as ordinary infantry captains, hoping to repay Marin's kindness to them. And Marin also admired the loyalty of these people very much, kept them all, and formed the Sixth Army with these more than 300 wandering knights as the team. Of course, that's all for later...

As for Adler, he took the 60 wandering knights who had won the competition and happily rushed to County Wicklow, Ireland to take over the site.

Why 60 people? According to Marin, the extra 10 people are all substitutes. If someone in the top 50 was killed in a fight with the Irish natives, or behaved badly (like running away or something), those people could be benched to replace the dead or the poor performers.

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In addition, Marin also hired 25 people from the last 40 people in the top 100 of the competition to go to Rome to serve as the commander of Marin's 7,000 troops in Rome, mainly some phalanx and company captains. job title. And the officers who were replaced by them, Marin intends to be transferred back to the mainland, as an important team used to form a new legion...

As for the others, Marin threw a grand banquet after the hit, and then all dispersed. After all, the martial arts conference has come to an end, and it's time for the song to end...