Chapter 741: Hidden Contradictions
Although Gorm looked down on the woman named Goliath, and did not think that she would be able to achieve any decent results in the Ural Mountains and win from the armies of the Baltic Empire, the previous victories of Golia were just some accidents that could not be replicated in Gorm's opinion, and these victories could not have a great impact on the situation in the entire Northland, and could not become a problem for the Baltic Empire.
However, he still needs to maintain a certain connection with the woman, and in a way, Gorm, Attila, and Golia can all be "friends" who can communicate, because they have a common enemy to deal with, and until this common enemy is defeated, destroyed, and defeated, there will be no point in fighting each other, because even if they defeat each other, it will only make the victory of the enemy easier in the end.
As for who their common enemy is, it must be obvious, the Baltic Empire, the largest and most powerful nation in the Northlands, founded by Alice and led by Semiramis, with no history or culture
After the destruction of Drake's North Sea Kingdom, there were only three remaining powers in the entire Northland that did not belong to the Baltic Empire, but the situation of these three was very complicated, Golia was in the Ural Mountains, separated from the United Kingdom and the Attila Empire across the Baltic Sea, and Golia had not communicated with these two countries at all before.
Needless to say, the conflict between the United Kingdom and the Attila Empire and the Scandinavians has been in conflict for a long time, with the former wanting to conquer the land completely, while the latter wants to wipe out and drive away the invaders who occupy their land.
Gohm could never blatantly unite with the Attila Empire, and he did not dare to send an envoy to discuss anything with the Attila Empire.
Attila is an invader, an enemy of the Scandinavians, in the previous wars, almost every Scandinavian family has a loved one who died at the hands of the Attila army, many children have been instilled from an early age to fight off the Attila Empire, they work hard to train for this goal, join the army, go to the battlefield to fight.
To reconcile the Scandinavians with their enemies stained with the blood of their loved ones is a betrayal of those who died defending their homeland, a betrayal of the ideals they have set up since childhood, this is absolutely impossible, and if Gohm dares to make such a decision, then the next day a large number of people will leave Scandinavia and join the Baltic Empire.
The United Kingdom he had established was wide enough to fall apart, for in any case, the foundation of the kingdom he had established was the coalition that had been brought together to resist the invasion of the Attila Empire, and his ostensible king had very limited power to bind the various powers in the kingdom.
Not only that, but the other races such as dwarves, elves, giants, and dragons, even among the Scandinavians, Gohm has no way to say the same, and the Goths who joined the United States have always been haunted by his destruction of the Scandinavian Empire and the killing of Siegel, but there is no other choice (they cannot join the Kingdom of Baruseng, and they will definitely not join the Attila Empire)
In any case, the Baltic Empire is a country that worships the Asgardian gods and has a large Scandinavian culture, and in a sense, the Baltic Empire is also a Scandinavian country, which belongs to the category of its own people.
This is only the reason of the United Kingdom, and it is impossible for the Attila Empire to reconcile like this, those proud knights and Attila who wants to destroy all civilizations will not change their original intentions because of the strength of the enemy, let alone unite with their other enemies to fight against the powerful enemy.
The enemy should be destroyed, whether weak or strong, it is in the goal that must be destroyed, rather than uniting with Gohm, several knights are more inclined to complete the unification of the entire Scandinavia Peninsula as quickly as possible, and then go to fight with the Baltic Empire, taking advantage of the more complex environment of Scandinavia, the climate that has snowed all year round, to resist the invasion of the Baltic Empire.
After removing the possibility of alliance with the Attila Empire, Gohm had no choice but to choose the distant, weak, and loosely organized Golia of the Ural Mountains as the object of the alliance.
No matter how much Gorm looks down on Golia, he thinks that Goliath will usher in failure, but in the overall situation, he will not make the mistake of being dominated by emotions at will, in the current situation, every ally is very crucial, as a certain king once said, politics is essentially a game with more and more friends and fewer and fewer enemies.
However, now in this northern region, there are only two enemies of Gohm, and there are not many friends who can be Gohm's friends and can deal with such an enemy as the Baltic Empire together, after all, such a powerful and powerful country, not everyone has the courage to resist and take action.
The North Sea Kingdom established by Francis Drake is strong enough, but in the absence of the Baltic Empire, only those pirates who have received funding from the Baltic Empire are enough to disintegrate the North Sea Kingdom in just a few years, and when it is finally destroyed, only the Golden Deer is left.
In the face of such a cruel fact, most people will choose to bow their heads, after all, the Baltic Empire is not a cruel country, and joining it can also obtain a rich and happy life, be able to eat well, dress warmly, stay away from war, speak the same language, have the same culture, and it is not an unacceptable problem to join such a country.
He found that the current situation in the Northland had not changed for the better with the death of Siegel and the establishment of the United Kingdom, and it was only then that he truly understood why Siegel had implemented those seemingly stupid policies in the past, and would have done the kind of behavior that seemed to be completely self-destroying the walls and messing with himself.
Because the situation in the north is very simple, in the face of a behemoth like the Baltic Empire, there is no choice at all, the Attila Empire is very powerful, his previous victories, it is better to say that it is because of the existence of the Baltic Empire, the Attila Empire has fallen into a state of defeat, if he does it again, he does not have any confidence to defeat such an enemy on the battlefield.
In this way, it is understandable that Siegel was friendly with the Baltic Empire at the beginning, if he did not make friends with the Baltic Empire and did not cling to the thigh next to him, then in the erosion of the Attila Empire, the Scandinavian Empire would have perished, and the entire Scandinavia Peninsula would be conquered by the Attila Empire.
However, the aftermath of friendship with the Baltic Empire also appeared, that is, the decline of the entire Scandinavia, and it was difficult to fight against the Baltic Empire after the emergence of a unified force.
Gohm even had reason to believe that if the time went by ten or twenty years, without the Baltic Empire starting a war, those forces close to the empire would naturally give this country, this land, to the Baltic Empire in exchange for a stable and peaceful life, in exchange for the end of the war between several Scandinavian powers.
Gohm was standing on top of the castle at this time, and since he killed Siegel and outlawed the Scandinavian Empire, he had placed the capital of the United Kingdom in the former city of Siegel, which had now changed its name to Fort Norway.
After killing Siegel and gaining the city, things still turned out a little bit differently than he expected, and the Goths didn't just give in, not that reality didn't give them a choice, and they wouldn't choose.
The character of the Scandinavians is like this, if there is no road ahead, then open a way, and they prefer to use their weapons to do brute force rather than outwit something, such as attacking Gohm.
Dried blood can still be seen in some parts of the castle, and after killing Siegel that night, the Goths, led by some nobles, staged several uprisings to take the city back from Gohm's hands.
Obviously, the efforts of these people failed, and without the help of the spellcasters, these revolts could only be called mobs, and they were not able to kill even a single warrior in Gohm's army.
The unrest was not limited to the city, but also outside the city of other cities in the Norwegian mountains, which had declared independence due to the collapse of the Scandinavian Empire, and tried to organize armies to attack the city.
Because the city is deep in the Norwegian mountains, if the city can be captured, then Gohm's forces will be driven out of the Norwegian mountains, and those who have obtained the city can use the prestige of defeating Gohm to avenge Siegel on the grounds that they have integrated the remaining cities and tribes and re-established a country in the Norwegian mountains.
It may be called the Second Scandinavian Empire, or it may be called the Kingdom of Norway.
In their opinion, this is not too difficult to do, they have an absolute advantage in numbers, and there are still a large number of citizens in the city who are willing to help them.
On the other hand, Gohm's army, they have traveled a long way to come here, and there must be few numbers, and there are also serious problems in terms of supply, so they must not be able to support it for too long.
The idea is beautiful, the theory is cute, but the reality is a blow to these people, they didn't think that Gorm would take the city so easily, and they didn't think that as the former queen, Sigourney would choose to help Gorm.
The walls they had built, the siege machines placed on the walls, the magic towers that increased the power of the casters, the equipment and ammunition stored in the warehouses, and the enough food to feed an army of 3,000 men for a year had been acquired by Gorm.
These were all preparations for the invasion of the Attila Empire, and now they were being used by the enemy, which was undoubtedly a very ironic thing, and made the Goths boil with anger.
Then, they hit their heads outside the city, and the riots they started together were also suppressed, and they were all killed before the gates were opened.
These Goths did not have a unified organization, and in the face of the defenses built to deal with the siege of the Attila Empire, their attacks were undoubtedly like pebbles.
After crushing the previous attacks, the follow-up troops from the United Kingdom began to attack the city from the outside, and the British offensive went very smoothly, because there was no unified command, because of the death of Siegel and the occupation of the capital, because of the defeat of the previous wars, a large number of elite soldiers died under the walls of Norwegian Fort.
Many of these cities were broken without being able to organize a decent resistance, and were easily destroyed by the United Kingdom, but the United Kingdom did not kill those who fought against them, they only killed the most stubborn part, and the rest chose persuasion, and those who did not want to surrender were imprisoned.
In this operation, Gohm behaved very smartly, claiming that it was to correct Siegel's mistakes, claiming that all this was done for the unity and rise of the Scandinavians.
In such an increasingly chaotic and grim situation, the Scandinavians do not need someone like Siegel who always makes the Scandinavians attack each other and fall into civil strife, but needs a king like Gohm, who has proven to be able to unite the Scandinavians, to lead the Scandinavians against the Attila Empire, and to be able to achieve victory.
Under such hardness, Gohm began to control the original Scandinavian Empire, and dyed the Norwegian mountains with the color of the United Kingdom, but the internal contradictions in the United Kingdom were not completely resolved.
One of the most prominent contradictions was the conflict between the Scandinavians and the other races in the coalition army, because of the land, because of the resources, because of the status, etc., there were more than one fighting between the two sides, and there were also casualties.
If some feasible and effective measures are not taken to alleviate these contradictions, there will be a civil war within the United Kingdom before the advent of the Attila Empire and the Baltic Empire, and whoever wins the civil war may directly perish.