The winter in Beihai was a complete disaster for the health of the soldiers, and a large number of soldiers were not adapted, and even the first Beidi soldier who had just fallen had hallucinations before he died, which were related to frostbite on his body.

Ulysses, as a monk who volunteered to join the Northern Expedition, naturally saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.

Of course, he was only worried about the change in the situation of the war, and more focused on the strong desire to solve the existing problems.

Before this battle, there was no record of "frostbite" in any medical materials of the Empire, so in the face of large-scale frostbite among soldiers, these intellectuals who spread the faith and worked as doctors part-time had almost no way to deal with frostbite.

It is not difficult to prevent frostbite, but it is difficult to treat frostbite after it is detected.

Most of the soldiers did not think so in the early days of freezing, marching and fighting, freezing one ear, losing a few fingers and toes, there was not much novelty in this era, and they could only die if they froze.

But the complications caused by frostbite really cost the lives of these "unimpressed" soldiers. The infection caused by frostbite will gradually destroy the body structure of the soldiers, they will first cause swelling to varying degrees, then fever, and some soldiers will hallucinate in the white wasteland of the North Sea when they are camping, just like the soldiers who have just been killed in a duel.

In addition to the "ecclesiastical faction" headed by the Gothic friars, the "court faction" headed by the late Hopman Hughes, and the "salvation faction" with a wide range of village and town missionaries as the backbone, there was also such a group among the priests.

Ulysses was a well-known "eccentric" in the monastic circles, and although he did have a certain position in the Church and he was a master of theology, he was not known for it.

He was a stalwart of the "Divine Thieves," and this was exactly what he wanted to do in the church.

From the very first time of their baptism, the monks of the Divine Thieves did not worship the gods, but to steal knowledge from the gods. In this age when the aristocracy and the Church had all the wisdom in their possession, even if they wanted to do some other research, they had to put on the cloak of theology, and the great friars of the Church really needed this part of the people who were "not so strong in their faith" to serve the Church.

The Church had to have the most knowledge, and the components of that knowledge were not limited to what they already had, but on the contrary, the monks often came up with something ingenious and new to show off to the common people.

"Behold, God has given us a renewed plough, which is better than your original. ”

It's not theological, but it's effective.

And what he is doing now is more out of helplessness, or a special emotion.

Although the current religion of the Great Prus has an advantage in terms of culture, it does not have the ability to monopolize everything, and if he does not dissect the human body a few times now, I am afraid that he will never find such a good opportunity again, not to mention that this time there are two "sinners".

As for dissecting the corpses of barbarians, he didn't think about it, but ......

How can the body structure of the barbarians be the same as that of the God-blessed Great Prus? Regardless of the doctrinal distance of the Sardinian Church, Ulysses did not feel that the corpses of these barbarians were worthy of a qualified experiment in terms of such a splendid culture of the Great Prus.

In any case, the dissection of the monk's corpse was only an episode in the barracks, and when the work of the monks of their generation was found out, and its value was discovered, it would be at least a hundred years later.

Now the most important thing is that the emperor fainted.

Although Ulysses only came to one conclusion after repeated diagnoses: the emperor was only overtired, and the previous wind and cold had not been great, so the current situation was in place, but before the emperor woke up, the army was still facing a leaderless situation.

To withdraw or not to withdraw is a question.

Sword was surprised to find that since his design hastened the death of the first emperor, his originally smooth sailing life had had many twists and turns, and he had just frankly explained the problems of the Beihai Kingdom, but the emperor fell ill again.

If this rejuvenating Northern Expedition ended like this, it would inevitably damage the emperor's face, and the emperor might have to use him to vent his anger at that time, and the Maltese family, who could have participated in the decision-making of the empire, was likely to have all his previous efforts in vain because of his withdrawal of troops.

But if he continues to crusade...... The emperor unfortunately died of illness on the road?

What are the consequences?

The extinction of the royal family, the collapse of the empire, the declaration of independence by a large number of ambitious princes?

That doesn't seem to be any harm to the Maltese family, right?

In short, the loss is greater than the former, the Maltese family has a large number of farms, castles, and even private soldiers, knights, and when it comes to the rebellion of the princes, he may still be able to raise the banner of "maintaining the empire".

At this thought, Sword only felt as if a poisonous snake had been released in his heart.

General Nonnuo secretly glanced at Ward's face twice, and his eyes suddenly increased a little.

He immediately drove the soldiers who were watching back to his tent, arranged for the men to patrol the camp, and instructed:

"Anyone who violates the order to leave the camp will be killed. ”

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After a never-ending feast and half a night of fear, the soldiers finally hurried to the castle of the Sea before the second twilight.

According to the battle plan formulated by Generals Nonnor and Sword, the army should attack the city as quickly as possible after approaching the Sea Castle, so as to achieve the fastest results, so as to reduce the number of reinforcements that the North Sea Court received from the several dukedoms under his actual control, and increase the risk of siege war.

But the poor morale in the army forced them to change their plans.

At least more than half of the army is involved in the battles that are not close to each other, and even if they are whipped hard, it is impossible to make these soldiers who have lost their spirits take a step forward.

If they are dragged forward to attack the city, then what awaits them is a mutiny, and now Emperor Perris is unconscious, and there is no mascot in the army to stabilize the morale of the army, which makes them completely useless to fight a tough battle.

In any case, it was almost impossible to take the sea castle that day, and the only way to do this was to order the Southern Legions and knights who were still fighting to attack first, and prepare for the next siege before they could kill and wound the defenders as much as possible, or clear the obstacles to the attack.

Although the two generals had never been to Sea Castle, they had heard rumors of Sea Castle, a fortified city that had never fallen since it was built.

However, when they actually led the army to the city, they were surprised not by the height of the walls, but by the emptiness of the walls.

The defense of the sea castle is not like the city of Abbasquia or the city of the Rhine, which divides the defensive walls into two layers, nor does it want to be like the southern kingdom of Cyprus, and all the buildings of the castle and the city are essentially a complete whole.

It only had a tall wall to keep it safe, and once it entered the city, it was a flat river.

Looking into the city from outside the city, it seems that you can faintly hear the voices of people in the city, which shows that this is not an empty city. But whether it is General Nonnor or Sword, they have absolute confidence in the personal soldiers they lead.

"No matter what happens in the city,"

"None of them will come out better than now. ”

After a brief discussion, the two quickly reached a consensus. Looking at the gate that had been opened for unknown reasons, the Sward Knight led hundreds of knights who had just put on their armor with the help of their squires to rush in, and then General Nonno led the Imperial infantry to rush to the rescue.

After passing through the virtual gates, the knights did not fall into a state of panicked residents, lax defenders, or carefully arranged ambushes by the Northlanders.

After they entered, they realized with some hesitation that the flames of war had burned all over the city long before they entered the city, and the remaining citizens were a little surprised at first after seeing a large number of cavalry entering the city, but soon, the expressions on their faces quickly became numb again, and they just stood behind their own fences, staring blankly at those knights.

But more people are willing to look at another part of the city, which is the area where the battlefield that swept across Heidelberg is located.

It was a wide street in the city, and a young man with a rough iron crown calmly commanded a group of armed citizens, farmers, hunters, and courtiers...... In short, it was a bunch of laymen.

Because of this, the current battle situation is not on the side of the young people, and another group of elite soldiers with heavy armor have blocked them in a wide alleyway of the city

The young man with the crown intermittently organized his men to charge, only to be stopped again and again by the guards.

Sword didn't look closely at the battlefield, and his instincts told him that he only needed to defeat those soldiers who were in the upper hand now and he would be able to take Sea Castle.

However, just as he was about to adjust his horse's speed, a series of calls forcibly stopped him.

"There is an ambush?!"

"Guardian of the North Sea Kingdom!"

This made Sword gasp, it turned out that it was not only the residents who watched the battle in the city, but also a real army occasionally.

Among the first wave of knights who followed him into the walls, several warriors spotted the Beihai soldiers standing under the walls. Although there are not many of them, they are all as good as the knights, and although they have not fought with the knights at the moment, they can see the elite spirit that is left over from a hundred battles in every move.

This is a group of soldiers who have drunk human blood on the tip of their swords.

But what surprised the knights who found them was that although most of the knights were almost defenseless against them, they had no intention of taking the initiative, and when they saw that some knights spotted them, they only nodded very casually, as if they were greeting someone they knew.

It was a very ordinary greeting, but it seemed strange to the knights.

In front of these old guards, the knight who first observed them made up a picture in his mind. A group of burglars originally planned to take advantage of the owner's absence to come in and hang out, but they were unexpectedly caught by the owner, but the owner of this room stood by and watched their behavior, and even told them that they could take whatever they liked in the house, and not be polite to him.

There was no reason for Sword to make enemies for himself, and judging from the outfit and form of these soldiers, he had already judged what kind of warriors he was in front of.

The palace guard of the Northland of the Kingdom of the North Sea.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Sward even suspected that they had been gone since Prime Minister Tian Sen resigned from the throne, and now it seemed that the reality was far more complicated than he remembered.

The Northland Guards have guarded the Ice Lands for hundreds of years, and their reputation in the Northlands is more indestructible than that of their brothers in the South, so he cannot attack them on his own initiative.

But if these people are left alone......

No one in their right mind would turn it into reality, and leaving an elite soldier of unknown origin behind his deployment is as unreliable as sticking a knife in his own bed next to the bed he sleeps in.

If these soldiers suddenly changed their minds, the Knights would be at risk of encountering enemies before and after.

Among the guards, a graying veteran suddenly stepped out of the crowd.

"What a bunch of majestic knights, and you're here to 'help' our country against the Wiegand people?"

Although on the surface, this Rao's youth has flowed away from his body, and he is no longer in his prime. But his voice was still as clear and transparent as a bell, and what was even more rare was that when he said these words, he called a knight from the south, with his nostrils facing away, and could not hear the slightest dialect accent.

The vocabulary he used was the "aristocratic language" that the empire revered.

Needless to say, this was a warrior of noble status, but this warrior was standing on the opposite side of the knights at the moment, casually reaching out and giving a big slap to each of the knights present.

Although Sword could hear the deep meaning of the old guard's mouth, he still chose to ignore the embarrassing element of it first, and cheekily stepped forward to explain:

"My lord, I think there must have been some misunderstanding between us. My boys and I are only coming to the North Sea Kingdom for the first time, and we don't know what is going on. But I think that since we are all members of the Empire, we should have a common enemy. We have no reason to attack you, in fact, my soldiers and I have always sought to find a place to live in Sea Castle. ”

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