Chapter 769: The End

In order to ensure the cohesion of the army, in order to make it easier to command and control this army, when Siegmund formed this army, he deliberately selected people who had lost their relatives in the war as soldiers.

These people are full of hatred for the Baltic Empire, and they attribute the death of their loved ones to the Baltic Empire, believing that it is precisely because of this war of aggression launched by the Baltic Empire that they have been displaced and lost their loved ones...... It can even be said that for these people, living in the world is a kind of torture.

In particular, those mid-level officers were people with a very strong sense of honor and humiliation, and it was difficult for them to accept the fact that they were defeated by the Baltic Empire, and it was difficult for them to accept the fact that they could not defeat the Yeats who were like lost dogs and became victors.

In the minds of these people, the Baltic Empire is just a coward who relies on equipment, logistics and strange tactics, and has no sense of honor at all, and cannot be called a real warrior, so it cannot be called convincing.

These people formed the backbone of this army, so they were so embarrassed to plunder and destroy when they regained lost territory, saw that their former citizens were living so comfortably, and could still smile under the rule of the Baltic Empire...... In the eyes of Scandinavians, the domination of the strong over the weak is not a shameful thing.

These people had the blood of the people they were supposed to protect on their hands, and they had treasures in their pockets, and those people could not imagine that they did not die at the hands of the invaders, the Baltic Empire, but at the hands of their own people, and even at the moment of death could not be understood.

However, this is only temporary, these soldiers, after experiencing victory after victory, slaughtering their own people again and again, they will fall into nightmares every time they sleep, dreaming of the angry questioning of those dead people, and even the faces of those people are the faces of their relatives who died at the hands of the Baltic Empire.

In the dead of night, screams and heavy breathing could often be heard coming from the tent, and even the other soldiers who had not fallen into a nightmare could not sleep peacefully, like a plague, and this atmosphere was spreading rapidly.

Morale was getting lower and lower, they were no longer willing to carry out the orders from Siegmund, they were unwilling to fight against their former comrades, and in the back, not only did they resist Siegmund's orders, but some of them began to choose to leave the army.

Even the hateful soldiers could not continue, let alone the others, and the entire army was completely out of Siegmund's control.

Siegmund had to stop the army, and even the search for the Baltic Empire troops was forced to stop, and there was no news of the troops sent out as scouts.

In fact, the scouts did not carry out the task given by Siegmund at all, and after leaving the camp, they found the right direction and left directly, even the treasure they had harvested before, and they could not even sleep peacefully with those treasures.

Seeing that this army was not long away from collapsing, Zygmund who stayed in the Chinese army had no way to find a solution, because even the guards who could be trusted looked at him with a different color.

Even Siegmund suspected that if it weren't for his legendary prowess and the sword, he would have had his head cut off by these guards one night while he was asleep, and went to confess to the gods and ask for forgiveness.

While Siegmund was still struggling to deal with the negative effects of his tactics, three kilometers from his camp, an army was slowly advancing towards the place where Siegmund's army was stationed.

It was a purely Scandinavian army, but it had been given weapons and equipment from the Baltic Empire, and judging by the steps of the soldiers and the expressions on their faces, this army was made up of well-trained veterans, and in terms of individual combat effectiveness, it was no worse than that of Sigmund's soldiers.

Because Siegmund's army has lost its scouts, they are essentially in a state of ignorance of their surroundings, and they have no heart to pay attention to their surroundings.

No one in this area dared to attack the army brought by Sigmund for a very simple reason, because the great hero Siegmund was the commander of this army.

Neither the soldiers below nor Zygmund thought they would be attacked, as the Baltic Empire's armies were engaged in a fierce battle with the Attila Empire and could not be distracted to deal with their small problems coming down from the Norwegian mountains.

When the army appeared outside the camp, easily broke through the camp's defenses, began to set fire to the camp, and organized the encirclement of the scattered soldiers, Siegmund could not believe what was happening before him.

His army had been attacked in Scandinavia, something that would normally make people laugh when they said it, but now it was happening, and the army that shouldn't have appeared appeared in front of them and attacked them.

"It's the army of the Baltic Empire, it's the army of the Baltic Empire! they're coming, they're coming. ”

Someone recognized the armor on the enemy's body, the weapon in his hand, and they were shouting loudly, with a mixture of panic and disbelief on their faces.

Don't look at how these people hate the Baltic Empire, they can't hide the fact that they were once easily defeated by the other side on the battlefield, deep down in the hearts of these soldiers, there is actually a fear of the Baltic Empire.

"It's a Scandinavian, it's a Scandinavian!"

Someone saw the face in the helmet, they shouted in fear, even dropped their weapons, turned and fled outside the camp, they could no longer be warriors, because there was never a warrior who lost even courage.

"They're revenge! they're revenge!"

There are also people who have just woken up from a nightmare, holding their heads in their hands, squatting on the ground and shivering, these people's spirits have collapsed, and even if they live, their spirits will become very abnormal.

The camp was in disarray, and Zygmund tried to organize a resistance, but no one heeded his orders, not even his guards who guarded him, abandoned him and fled.

He watched with his sword and watched as the situation slid into a terrible situation, as the flames engulfed the army he had built, and as the soldiers around him fled bewildered towards the outside of the camp, and then were nailed to the ground with javelins by the enemy on horseback.

The smell of burnt and bloody mixed together became a smell peculiar to the battlefield, a smell that you will never forget.

He saw some of the soldiers who had regained their fighting spirit gathered together under the orders of the officer, and the spears formed a formation with their spears, and then they were directly scattered by the enemy's round of throwing axes.

This is the most typical way of fighting in Scandinavians, Siegmund once used this way to defeat many enemies, but he did not expect that he would one day be defeated by others in this way.

None of the surrounding soldiers attacked him, and they confirmed his identity from the way Siegmund was dressed, knowing that attacking him was only fearlessly increasing casualties and increasing the uncertainty of the battle.

Siegmund did not attack these soldiers, and his mind was still very clear, and he clearly realized that the problem he was facing was not to use his strength and physical strength on these ordinary soldiers.

Siegmund believes that he can still turn the situation around, and he has found the key point to turn the situation around, which is that it is enough to defeat the commander of this army.

In Siegmund's view, it was definitely not an intractable problem, and he was very familiar with the strong people in the Baltic Empire, and knew that those people did not appear on this side of the land.

As long as he did not face a few strong men, Siegmund did not think that other legends could be his opponents, and it was estimated that it would be very difficult to escape from the hands of his great hero Siegmund, and it would be able to become the material for bards to write poetry.

Outwardly, this army looks like the regular army of the Baltic Empire, an army made up of the Yaats, powerful in battle, capable of madness, and very familiar with their surroundings.

Siegmund knew that his opponent was not the Jeat, because he had been in Beowulf's army for a short time, and knew the Yeat's habit of fighting, and they would never be so quiet when they were fighting, even if they were mad.

He saw that some of the people in his army who were surrounded had thrown down their weapons, and wanted to surrender and get forgiveness from the other side, which was a very normal thing before, and many Scandinavians chose to surrender when they couldn't fight and became prisoners of the Baltic Empire.

For cultural and religious reasons, captives do not end up as slaves, but as long as they show enough loyalty, or if the Baltics are willing to vouch for them, and are willing to pay a high fee for the guarantee, then these captives can become freedmen of the empire.

However, this is not the case, those soldiers who wear strong armor and have sharp weapons in their hands, and who have not gnawed from the beginning to the present, silently harvest the lives of the enemy with the weapons in their hands, whether the other party has knelt down and begged for mercy and surrendered, or has taken up arms to resist.

There has been too much speculation already, these people with typical Scandinavian appearances must be Goths, only when they are fighting, they will be so calm, using their consciousness to control the blood in their bodies.

Not just simple Goths, judging by the scarlet eyes and merciless attitude of these people, these people have a grudge against their own army, and to be able to have such a grudge, needless to say, Zigmund knew that these soldiers came from several towns that had been sacked by his army before.

It is not unreasonable that the Baltic Empire can become so strong, originally it was just a straggler, and the soldiers who had strength but could not form combat effectiveness alone had such abilities in just a few weeks.

Although the morale of his army was low, and although the opponent was carrying out a sneak attack when the army was unprepared, such a rapid collapse speed and such an efficient way of killing the enemy were not fake.

Like a praying mantis with its arms in the wheel of money, under the resolute courage, it is faced with despair without the slightest hope, and in the end the record left behind will only negotiate the evaluation of the immeasurable.

Walking on the blood-stained soil, Siegmund's brows gradually furrowed, he had found that the situation was not as optimistic as he had thought before, after assessing the combat effectiveness of this enemy, he was very helpless to find that even if he succeeded in defeating and killing the leader of the enemy, this army would not collapse, and the middle-level officers below were enough to maintain the operation of this army.

Not only that, but obstacles began to appear in front of him, and enemies began to attack him, all of them were ranged troops in light armor, using javelins and bows and arrows.

Traditional Scandinavians did not like or were accustomed to using bows and arrows, and even after the invasion of the Atila Empire, Siegel's reforms could not completely change this culture.

Traditional Scandinavians preferred the use of javelins and throwing axes to bows and arrows, especially throwing axes, which surpassed bows and arrows in terms of agility and destructive power at close range.

Zygmund had to start parrying with his weapons and then quicken his charge to finish off the archers who were shooting at him, but it was a waste of time.

The archers had no intention of engaging him, and after a round of fire, they turned and fled, using the speed of their mounts to quickly get out of range of Siegmund's attack.

But apparently they underestimated the legend, and even more so Zigmund when the white-haired young man picked up a few javelins from the ground and threw them with great force.

The fleeing soldiers were pinned to the ground by men and horses, and in Zygmund's hands, the armor made of fine iron was like paper, and even the wooden javelins could not resist it.

Seeing such a scene, the other soldiers who were preparing stopped their movements one after another, turned around and left Siegmund far away, the cruel reality made them understand that in front of a strong man like Sigmund, tactics and everything were waste paper.

Instead of pursuing, Zygmund continued to walk in the direction of the outside of the camp, and went straight to the place outside the camp, where the enemy's central army and the enemy's commander-in-chief were located.