The so-called Arab League, which is now considered by the short-sighted Esby royal family in continental Europe, is the Caliphate Sultanate that occupies half of Asia Minor, plus Georgia, Chechnya and other regions, the Arabian Peninsula, and Upper and Lower Egypt.

Of course, Randy wouldn't be so vulgar.

Randy was more tasteful than them, and Randy also knew that there was a Khorezm, or Timurid Khanate, in the Arab League.

In the entire Arab League, these three giants are all the choice of the moment, the dragon and the phoenix among the people, and they have fought each other several times, all of them have their own winners and losers, but no one can help anyone.

They are also very familiar with each other, and their costumes and religious beliefs are exactly the same.

So Taoyuan three formed the Arab League.

The current direction of expansion of the Timurid Khanate is Central Asia, and Randy does not have to worry about him for the time being.

And the Ottomans and the Eastern Romans have been fighting for hundreds of years, and no one can help anyone.

Therefore, the nations of Europe were not enthusiastic about the great cause of the brothers of Christ against the pagan devils, and what really worried them was another thing, which was the navy mentioned earlier.

The reason why the entire Arab League is said to be a naval power is because in addition to these three powerful Muslim regimes, there are also a large number of small countries that believe in Islam along the entire coast of North Africa, most of the territory of these countries is covered by yellow sand, and the products are not rich.

However, piracy is not an easy business, the same is piracy, Viking pirates are free, roaming the North Sea, going wherever they want, and the reason is that there is no naval power in the north other than them.

But the South is different......

Both Venice and Genoa have extremely strong naval strength!

Venice, in particular, had a huge galley ship that could hold thousands of navies, a fortress-like sea giant, and two or three of them could kill the pirates like a harvest.

So, the pirates found a backstage for themselves, that is, Ottoman Turkey.

The Turkish Sultan Suleiman was also a hero, knowing that the Turks were skilled in archery and horses, and proficient in land warfare, but naval warfare was another art, so the imperial fleet was often beaten by the old enemy Eastern Rome and did not even know his mother, which made the Sultan extremely troubled.

This group of Barbary pirates, who were proficient in naval warfare, came to defect, which was exactly what the Sultan could not want, so Suleiman personally received the pirate leader Hizl Reis, gave him the name of Hayreddin, canonized him as the marshal of the imperial navy, spent a lot of money to build a new navy, and promised to give him the Aegean islands, including Herakrion, as a fief if he could make Turkey dominate the Mediterranean.

With the strong support of Ottoman Turkey, the Barbary pirates gradually regained their strength, and Haireddin also took the opportunity to obtain the kings of North Africa, Tunisia, Algiers, Tripoli, and drove out the kings of these three countries, and was canonized by Suleiman as the imperial governor of these three regions.

But none of the above is the point, the point is that this group of unscrupulous bastards even dared to rob Randy's merchant ships.

A Viking merchant is a merchant when he picks up an abacus, and a warrior when he picks up a tomahawk, and his temper is much greater than that of the Italian sissies, and when a Viking meets a Barbary pirate, it is like a genuine bandit meets an amateur hooligan, and they must be beaten so that they can't hold their heads up.

But having said that, behind the Barbary pirates stood a huge empire like Ottoman Turkey, which could sometimes bully the Vikings with a large number of people, and the losses of the Viking merchants in this regard were really not small.

Randy felt a little helpless about such a thing.

The scope of his activities is in Northern Europe, and it is impossible to bypass most of Europe to PK with another country, let alone buy money for others like other countries, Randy is even more unconvinced, so he has to ask the businessmen to gather in a line, and then transfer some naval escorts to forget it.

However, it cost a lot of money, and it also caused a lot of time to lose a lot of business opportunities for Viking merchants, but this was the best Randy could do.

"When you wait for you to unify the European continent, you will send millions of troops to kill them all."

For now, let's talk about what's in front of us!

After receiving Randy's reply, Philip II's anger is not mentioned for the time being, and the harsh situation in Poland has little to do with Randy, and Randy is really paying attention to these two countries at present......

Scotland and Sweden!!

Although Scotland was taught a hard lesson by Randy, and is currently recuperating for more than a year, the national strength has not recovered at all, and the new king Robert II is also mediocre, not enough to expand the territory, not enough to settle the country, I heard that the English Noble Alliance rebelled, and I can comfort myself, but the instant collapse of the English Noble Alliance, and Randy was strangled in the cradle before the incident, so that Robert was almost scared.

Immediately after that, Randy was attacked by Sweden and Denmark, and Robert II breathed a sigh of relief, King Gustav of Sweden is so famous, how majestic the Nordic lion is, Randy is going to kneel this time, right?

As a result, Randy drew with Denmark, and the Kingdom of Denmark fell apart.

In the second victory over Sweden, Gustav fled in a hurry.

So Robert II knelt down sincerely......

Randy then took advantage of the victory to pursue, and his troops were directed east to the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.

Robert II thought to himself, the other party is a boss-level powerhouse, and it can be ranked in the European continent, and this time Randy will die himself.

But what he didn't expect was that Randy actually succeeded in defeating Poland and Lithuania again, directly blowing up this behemoth across the two seas.

Randy then proceeded to reform the domestic political system, establishing a central government, unifying weights and measures, introducing written law, and writing a Germanic lingua franca.

This pile of piles made Robert II tremble, and he wanted to learn one or two from him, but he was threatened by the big nobles in the country.

Robert II immediately knew that the Norman kingdom was like a hungry wolf squatting at his doorstep, which could break into at any time, but he was so skinny that he couldn't even swing a battle axe, what else could he do?

Wait for death!

Today's Robert II, apart from praying to God, can only comfort himself.

Can't see me...... Can't see me...... Can't see me......

Randy thinks it's a simple thing to beat Scotland, but the question is what to do with England.

The Scottish Highlanders are fierce, and unlike the Baltic coast, where ethnic relations are intricate and war-torn and easy to control.

The Scottish Highlands have been a mono-ethnic state since Roman times, and although they have been ruled by the Vikings and England during this period, they have been constantly resisting, and Randy doesn't want to end up with a ruined, war-torn Scotland, which needs a lot of garrisons to maintain order, but ultimately doesn't get any taxes.

How to annex it and occupy it peacefully for a long time is a headache for Randy right now.

The problem in Sweden is even more serious than that!

After bullying Novgorod again, forcing the other side to cede land and pay reparations, and ceding all the territory of the entire Baltic Sea coast, King Gustav of Sweden seems to have regained his self-confidence.

According to the intelligence, the three most common words of the Nordic lord are:

"One mountain can't tolerate two tigers!"

"Where you lie on the couch, you can't let others sleep soundly!"

"Randy, I'll kill you."

Of course, Gustav is actually quite calm.

These words were not said in front of others, they were just muttered in secret.

Sometimes it can be said in a dream, like the last sentence, which is usually accompanied by a slashing motion, and a sudden awakening shouting of an assassin or something.

Does this make Randy feel very strange? I don't remember sending a hitman to assassinate Gustav, right?

"He must be eliminated as soon as possible! Whatever the reason. ”

Randy's preliminary budget, the current development of the Swedish territory under his own governance is not bad, Greater Scandinavian is quite marketable, Randy is good at dancing with long sleeves, and it is another special charm compared to Gustav, which makes the Swedish military and civilians under his rule praise, so Randy also takes it for granted that after occupying Sweden and even Finland, it is very easy to integrate these people who are both Nordic and even Vikings.

"Then you're next."

Randy said as he pulled out his dagger and stuck it in Sweden on the map of Europe.

In May, Randy wants to officially go into the army!

Get the news before conquering Sweden:

The dwarven king Wald, who has not been seen for a long time, has made a big move in recent times.

Perhaps it was the dictatorial enlightenment that Randy had given him before, or perhaps it was seeing the prosperity of the entire Norman kingdom that Wald finally made up his mind to take the reform.

So he tragedy......

After a fierce quarrel, the entire Dwarven Tribal Alliance split into two camps.

The kings who were in favor of the reform, and the elders who were not in favor of the reform.

The king faction scolded the elders for eating the ancients and not dissolving feudal superstitions, and the elders faction scolded the king for forgetting their ancestors and losing their nerves.

The result is like a mouth cannon, and it will be upgraded to a brick and a brick.

The end result was that in the Scandinavian mountains, the war was unusually crazy and bloody, and the war that lasted for half a year began......

The war ended just half a month ago, and the final result was that the Dwarven Tribal Alliance lost nearly half of its 680,000 population, and finally collapsed.

None of this has anything to do with Randy, or rather it is beneficial to Randy.

When Randy learns the news, he writes a letter with a touching wording.

Plus enough food for hundreds of thousands of dwarves for five to ten days, and offered to be of greater help if Wald wanted to.

Eventually, a treaty of full cooperation was signed between the Dwarven Kingdom and the Norman Kingdom. The two sides opened their borders to free access and freedom of passage for their subjects, and each enjoyed full citizenship, abolished all customs duties, and engaged in free trade.

At the same time, the Norman kingdom ensured the independence of the dwarven kingdom, helped the dwarven kingdom reform the political system, and fully implemented the Norman culture, writing, weights and measures, and even customs.

As a result, a large number of dwarves, tired of the boring life in the mountains, or dissatisfied with Wald, came out of the Scandinavian mountains and plunged headlong into the flowery world of the Norman kingdom.

The Norman central government, as well as local governments, welcomed these excellent blacksmiths, engineers, and inventors, and these dwarves also used their hard work, bold personalities, and slightly silly brain circuits to make the humans in their territory quickly accept their round new neighbors.

Randy is very aware that the result of this will be that the dwarven kingdom will be absorbed by the Norman kingdom little by little, and gradually become a dominion, or a satellite state, and the dwarves will become an acceptable special minority in the Norman kingdom.

In a sense, this was a good start, and the Normans did not use swords and guns, but used peaceful means to expand their power, and they gained a lot.

And the poor dwarf King Wald, who seemed to have been sold and was still helping to count the money, even wrote a reply to Randy thanking him for everything he had done, which made Randy sigh at what kind of situation his old friend's brain was so simple.

Harvest season......

Randy quietly established several scientific research institutes in Wald's territory, specializing in employing dwarven master craftsmen to study metallurgical improvements, plate armor development, and new weapon development.

Especially the crossbow, Randy feels that the current crossbow is no longer satisfying himself, and the longbow seems to have room for further improvement, such as some bits and pieces, such as a wrench or something.

It was a few days of delay......

On June 1, after pouring all of this month's tax revenue into Livonia and Prussia and starting to build a network of roads between cities, Randy officially declared war on Sweden.

The reasons for the declaration of belli were as follows:

Under the Scandinavian sky, the Normans did not need two kings.

To put it bluntly, such a reason is the same as farting, which is not much better than the side of Song Taizu's couch that allowed others to snore, which fully shows the ugly face of Randy's great power chauvinism and imperialism, but this era is a good era, humanist ideas such as national freedom and equality have not appeared at all, and Greece has long since become the indisputable territory of Eastern Rome.

So Randy is not afraid of being provoked by others, and he is not afraid of others saying that he is a tyrant.

He didn't think about asking for a clerk, in order to make it more difficult for future generations to study this period of history, only with a sense of mystery can it be attractive, and if it is attractive, Randy thinks that even if it is a thousand years later, he will definitely live in the hearts of everyone with charm.

The 50,000-strong army marched from Gothenburg to Stockholm like a tsunami, vowing to wipe Sweden off the face of the earth.

And the Swedish king Gustav also lifted his spirits and issued a final mobilization order, concentrating the manpower of the whole of Sweden, gathering 30,000 troops, and vowing to stop the invasion of the Norman tyrant.

Randy feels very strange about this, whether it is in terms of quantity, quality, or even logistics and supplies, Randy has the advantage, after the last encounter, Gustav should also understand that Randy's command ability is definitely above him, so why is Gustav still so confident?

Are there any reinforcements?

He only invaded Novgorod not long ago, and it would be good if the other party didn't explode his chrysanthemum.

And other countries in Eastern Europe are also busy embezzling Polish heritage, Denmark's only remaining Jutland Peninsula is withering, wars are frequent, and Scotland itself is difficult to protect, who can the other side find as reinforcements?

Brittany? Burgundy? France?

This reinforcement should be France, yes!