Simon and his party came to the only connection between Rotenberg and the outside roads - the wooden bridge on the moat in front of the main gate.

At this time, Simon could look up at the Earl's castle at close range.

The exterior wall of Rottenberg is built with solid logs. The tower at the main entrance is as round as the tower on both sides, and looks particularly square and straight.

There are neat battlements on the fort wall next to the tower. Of course, it is not as wealthy as Wiesbaden Town so that it equips each section of the city wall with crossbowmen. At the battlement of the Rottenberg Fort wall, there are only a few archers wearing thin armed clothes standing in groups of three or three.

From the front of the castle, you can see three towers, one of the two main gates in the middle. Each tower has a square flag with bright Earl's family heraldic emblems hanging on the side of the marching tower - a half-red and half-yellow base evenly divided from the middle, with a white cross on the red base and a dense blue diamond square on the yellow base.

Simon knew that this cut-shaped heraldry was a new heraldry designed by the method of combining the two families after the intermarriage of this Earl family and another family, using a dichotomy method. Some families will use the four-part method.

It can be foreseen that as time goes by, the heraldry will only become more and more complicated, and in the end, only a specialized heraldry officer can understand it.

"Get in quickly, you two little bastards who are idle all day long." The soldier standing guard at the door just raised his eyes and looked at the two young men in front of Simon who were pulling a carriage of hay and let them in.

The soldier standing guard at the door was obviously the most elite private soldier under the Earl. The soldier wore a sectional eaves helmet with soft armor, a sturdy chain armor shirt, a leather-filled shoulder pad, a finger mail glove, and a sharp axe and gun. He held his head with his head held high and looked at every little noble and farmer who wanted to enter the fort.

"Oh hey, this respectful lord, forgive me for being ignorant and never saw your armor. Are you here to find our new Count, Mr. Rutbert, to be loyal?" The elite soldier holding the axe and gun opened his eyes wide, and his dense beards shook twice, but he did not recognize Simon's armor.

"This is Sir Simon from Dorsten. In addition to congratulating the new Count on his succession, he also has to find the Bishop of Frankfurt's fief." The fat man got off the horse and walked to the elite soldier standing guard at the door, quietly stuffed a few copper coins into his hands.

In an instant, the elite soldier who was originally tired and lacking in interest appeared on his face. He opened the waist bag next to his belt and stuffed the copper coins in. Then he shouted to the castle paging officer in the fort yard with a loud voice. After giving in, he gave a flattering look and made a "please" gesture to the fort gate.

"Let's go in." Simon wiped his greasy face, sniffed, and said to Fatty and others.

Since the new Count had just succeeded in the past few days, Rottenberg was very lively. Before Simon entered the door, he could see the bustling handicraftsmen and farmers in his own duties.

Simon took Fatty and others into the fort, and the familiar and strong smell and smell rushed to bombard his increasingly powerful nasal cavity.

Simon saw a simple thatched shed on the right side of the main gate tower, with bags of bulging grain piled up inside, neatly placed wooden barrels filled with various wines, and rolls of thick fur tied tightly.

Next to the shed, two farmers wearing thin rolled-sleeved linen clothes were moving baskets of apples and onions from a carriage next to it into the shed. A soldier in a leather-filled short coat leaned lazily against the mossy pillar with his spear, but his eyes were scattered, guarding against bad-minded thieves stealing things from the shed while others were not paying attention.

On the left hand side of the main entrance tower, there is a small wooden house. On the mottled large oak table in front of the wooden house, tools such as wooden hammers, nails, hand axes, flat axes, hand cones, chisels, hand crank drills, and a rusty saw next to a large flat tree stump next to the table.

A ox cart was parked next to the wooden house, pulling a whole truck of logs. A guy wearing a white turban and a dark blue robe looked like a carpenter was carrying and unloading thick logs together with a bare and strong upper body, which was placed next to the fort wall.

Behind the carpenter's wooden house was a not-so-large pigpen. An old servant wearing a brown robe and a leather belt opened the low door of the pigpen and carried a wooden barrel to pour feed into the pig's trough.

On the side of the fort wall near the pigpen, a pitiful pig with mud was tied firmly to a low wooden ladder. Below the wooden ladder was placed a large wooden basin for picking up pig blood. A slightly fat kitchen guy wearing an apron stood aside and took a meat-cutting dagger and slashed where to cut it.

Next to the pigpen, Simon saw a woman in a brown dress kneeling on the ground and leaning on her body to find something from a short mini shed. After a while, the woman leaned back from the small shed, holding an egg stuck to chicken manure in her hand, and then put it into the small basket on her right hand. It turned out that the mini shed was a chicken nest.

"Ahh, look at that naughty child!" As Pedi quipped, Simon looked to the right. Next to the thatched shed where supplies were piled up, two children in bright red robes were playing on the high haystacks. Next to it, the two young men who had been scolded by the gatekeepers as a bastard who had nothing to do all day with pitchforks stood by the carriage pulling hay, watching the two naughty children not know what to do.

Next to the haystack is a pile of manure piles piled high. A manure picker holding a manure fork is shoveling fresh horse manure on the ground into the manure pile.

Simon was really worried that one of the two children would fall from the haystack into the dung pile if they didn't pay attention. That would be a bit beautiful.

"This respected Lord Simon, my master, the great Count Ruthbert invites you to enter his lord tower and to have dinner with his vassals later. Please follow me!" The young castle paging officer in a red wool robe and a blue sleeveless linen coat walked to Simon's horse, saluted, and then took Simon and his party to the second fort gate in the inner castle field.

It turned out that Simon and others are now in the castle's outer castle field, which is equivalent to a urn.

If during the war, if the enemy broke through the first outer castle wall, they would be surprised to find that they had just broken through a small castle field, and there was another high castle wall waiting for them to capture with their blood and life.

However, compared with the magnificent main entrance tower of the outer castle field when I first came in, the door leading to the inner castle field seemed a bit low and simple, except that a bucket building was built on the uneven walls.

There are several narrow shooting ports on the front of the Dou Tower, and the top of the Dou Tower is covered with a layer of wet animal skin that is airtightly.

Simon learned from Gabriel that such a skin roof was actually to prevent the roof from being burned by fire arrows during the war.

After entering the inner castle field, Simon suddenly felt that his vision was much wider than the outer castle field that seemed a little crowded and cramped just now. This inner castle field has a special granary, a large storage platform, several large wooden houses for soldiers to live in, as well as a ping-pong blacksmith workshop and a stinking leather maker workshop.

In addition, Simon also saw a special weapon craftsman forging shop and an armor craftsman forging shop. Next to the two forging shops, there was also a bow and arrow workshop.

There are not only old craftsmen who make crossbows in the bow and arrow workshop, but also young apprentices who connect arrowheads, arrow shafts, and arrow feathers.

"Let's park the horse in the stable." Simon and his party parked the horse in the large stable beside the fort wall under the guidance of a young pony boy wearing a green hood.

At this time, seven or eight war horses and travel horses were tied to the stables. Two of them were wearing bright heraldic horse suits, and it seemed that their owners were of high power.

There are three wooden vest stands next to the stable, two of which are stacked with saddles and stirrups. In addition, a long iron nail is nailed to the side of the vest stand, and six horseshoes of different new and old hanging on it.

And beside the wooden vest stacked with leather vests and chain vests, a young attendant was carefully wiping a dirty whip.

"Pedi, take off all the saddles on our horses and put them on the vest stand." Simon ordered to Peedi. At the same time, the fat man and the young castle pager walked side by side at the front.

There is a well in the center of this huge inner castle field. On the other side of the castle wall not far from the well, there is an armory locked with iron locks, and a lord's kitchen where servants carrying ingredients and dishes are constantly entering and leaving.

Perhaps there were not enough rooms for guests to live in the Earl's tower. On the open space in the inner castle field, there were two tents temporarily set up with brightly dyed striped tent cloth, and there were soldiers wearing different heraldic burqas at the entrances of the two tents standing guard.

"Sir Simon, I'm sorry that your servant can only eat and live in the side room on the left." The young castle paging officer took Simon through a thick castle wall and castle gate, and the tower of Count Ruthbert truly appeared in front of Simon.

This cylindrical tower is three stories high, and it looks much larger than the Lord Tower in Dorstenburg.

On both sides of the entrance of Count Rutbert's tower, two elite soldiers wearing similar equipment to the elite soldiers at the gate of the outer castle gate just now.

At this time, Fatty and Miller had already pushed open the wooden door of the side room next to the Lord's Tower with their bags. Simon used the torch light in the house to see that there were already a hay bed and linen blankets inside.

There is a large long wine table in the middle of the side house. Some private soldiers of other lords were drinking beer and fruit wine on the long wine table and playing dice games.

"This is Simon from Dorsten, the legal lord of Foldburg, known as the crusher of Norman Pirates!" The young castle pager shouted loudly in a long and rhythmic tone, while opening the heavy door of the lord's tower.
Chapter completed!