It should be easier to get Novgorod to surrender, after all, the Norman kingdom can deliver a devastating blow to Novgorod, whether attacking from land or sea.

If it weren't for the fact that Randy was still concerned about the war situation in France, it would not be a big deal to destroy the country directly, and Rurik, Prince of Novgorod, naturally understood this truth, anyway, the coastal territory was ceded not once or twice, just like the late King Gustav of Sweden said......

What would you do when a country stronger than Sweden came to your doorstep?

Novgorod is easy to handle, but the Grand Duchy of Moscow is not.

First and foremost!

The Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Norman Kingdom do not border, and there is a large Novgorod in front of it as a shield, and the disadvantage in distance, as well as the inconvenience of the transportation of logistical supplies, also increase the difficulty of the expedition to Moscow, which somewhat makes the Grand Duke Catherine II more confident.

Second, the military strength of the other party is also quite strong, although it is not comparable with the old European powers such as France and the Holy Roman Empire, but at least it can be five or five with the city-states of northern Italy, whether it is the Duke's Guard, or the elite heavy cavalry such as the Boye cavalry, or the light cavalry such as the hired Cossacks, they are all strong opponents of the Norman cavalry.

Third, it is the external environment that Randy is facing, the public enemy of the European continent!

The whole of the European continent, in addition to Italy and Spain in the far south, and Hungary, the Kingdom of France, the Holy Roman Empire, independent Lithuania, the three Baltic states, Novgorod, the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

These countries have either fought against Randy, or are fighting with Randy, or are preparing to fight with Randy, and Randy wonders, what did he do to anger people? Why do these countries deal with themselves as if they have been beaten with blood?

"Forget it, people are not jealous of mediocrity." Having said that, Randy is now trying his best to hope that he can have fewer enemies, before the diplomat sent Randy had instructed, don't force the Grand Duchy of Moscow too much, if the other party is really unwilling to pay, he will reluctantly let him take out two or three thousand meanings, if it really can't work, then directly destroy the other party.

Next up is Finland......

Finland, in the position of Scandinavia and Novgorod at the junction of the Gulf of Bothnia between the world and Sweden, most of the land connection is in the Arctic Circle, the transportation is not very convenient, the Finns can not be counted as Vikings in the strict sense, it is not too easy to set them up with Great Scandinavianism, if you do not take advantage of the polar day to subdue Finland, once in the second half of the year, the Arctic Circle will be dark, and it will be very difficult to carry out a war.

In addition, Finland's products can be regarded as the least of the three Scandinavian countries, and the political system is also in the primitive tribal system, and there is not much reclamation value, after the exchange of interests, Randy decided to treat Finland's attitude, basically the same as the treatment of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, mainly mercenaries, according to the previous system of treating other steppe tribes, the implementation of a system of one-fifth of the tribesmen taking turns to join the army.

After Randy led 3,000 horsemen to Finland, through the description of the Finnish light cavalry who had previously participated in the Norman War in Sweden, the Finns were horrified to find that their former suzerain, Sweden, had been destroyed. A united Norman kingdom had already occupied all of Scandinavia, while also arriving in Finland with an army.

When the tribal leaders and elders of Finland were panicked, Randy's messenger arrived in time and presented Randy's handwritten letter, releasing his goodwill in time and expressing:

The Norman kingdom would manage and help Finland develop in a better and more Finnish way.

As soon as such remarks came out, the Finns immediately felt a lot more relieved, although there were many doubts in their hearts, but at least it was enough to know that the other party did not mean to kill them all.

Over the next month, Randy received dozens of Finnish tribal leaders, happily accepting their tribute of animal skins and horses, politely rejecting beauties, and giving back beautifully carved gold and silver jewelry, precious stones, and porcelain and silk from ancient Eastern civilizations.

At the same time as this large amount of money was squandered, the elite heavy cavalry from the Normans, as well as the hussars from the steppe tribes, also showed the Finns what it means to be a professional elite army, whether it is the excellent armor of the heavy cavalry, the powerful charge, or the speed and cavalry skills of the hussars, all of which amazed the Finns and had a clear understanding of the strength of the Norman kingdom.

And at the same time that Randy Enwi and Shi are courting the Finns, in the westernmost part of the European continent, a large-scale horror battle is about to begin!

Before Artoria's reinforcements arrived, the siege of Normandy had already begun, and although they didn't like each other, they would not pull each other back in this kind of thing, everyone was smart, and they could do as little as they could to harm others and themselves.

Therefore, King Philip II of France never talked about the separatist tendencies of the Duke of Burgundy, everything he had done inside and outside the territory, and the insults he had previously made to himself, and Charles, the Duke of Burgundy, seemed to have forgotten that he had sworn to establish an independent Burgundian kingdom, and behaved more loyal than a loyal courtier, swearing allegiance to France.

But even though that being said, the King of France and the Duke of Burgundy, the two most powerful men in France, still kept the two armies apart.

The French army surrounded the southeast side of the Normandy castle, while the Burgundian army was responsible for the northwest flank, and the division of labor was clear and distinct, ensuring that they would not interfere with each other, let alone fight each other.

As for who ends up in Normandy, it couldn't be simpler.

Whoever breaks through the city first will belong to him, and the entire Normandy is divided according to the actual occupied area now, and if anyone on both sides is not satisfied, they will really fight a battle, and the winner and the loser will have everything, including land, property, and life.

Although the king and the duke have different intelligence channels, the overall spy network is nothing compared to the Norman kingdom, which has long received the news that these two countries are about to attack Normandy, and has made timely adjustments.

As the Normandy defender, Lufus is now in his 40s, burly, blonde and blue-eyed, and is a very strategic general.

He knew that the Normandy region he was stationed in was not only a bridgehead for the kingdom to go south to the European continent, but also a roadblock for the other party to get rid of quickly, once the two sides really fought, then the first place to bear the brunt would definitely be himself, so whether it was material or spiritual, Lufus was well prepared.

After Randy gave Luforth the right to recruit peasant soldiers in Normandy on his own, Lufus immediately made a decision, cleared the wall, and concentrated most of the Normandians, leaving them strong and armed as auxiliary troops to help defend the city, while the remaining 187,000 Normans, a small amount of money, fled to England by boat, and hundreds of thousands of people who had little money temporarily fled to the mountains.

Of course, there are also many old, weak, sick and disabled people who can't walk, so they have to stay where they are and wait for death.

There was nothing Lufus could do about it, the Normandy castle was just a castle, and the reserve grain depot only had enough food for a year, plus those improvised peasant soldiers, under the strict rationing system, only enough to eat for half a year.

In fact, after Lufus received Randy's authorization, he began to implement a strict rationing system, except for the soldiers who were sent to strengthen the city defense, they could eat the full rations, and the rest of the soldiers' rations could only be maintained at 2/3 of the peacetime, in order to allow the soldiers to maintain sufficient combat effectiveness, Lufus has stopped some of the daily training with greater physical exertion, such as weight-bearing long-distance running, weightlifting, etc., and the entire Normandy Duchess has entered a state of combat readiness and can only wait for the start of the war.

After that, as Luforth thought, the war began.

Burgundy, France, and the two countries declared war successively, and 100,000 troops attacked Normandy.

The situation became stormy in an instant, and the regular army in the entire Normandy castle was only 5,000 people, and the people were only 10,000, only seven or eight of the enemy army.

But Lufus was confident! It is naturally impossible to repel or even defeat the 100,000-strong army by himself, but it is not difficult for him to defend the city for a year and a half, he has a castle that is thick enough to pile up large stones, a moat deep enough without spiked stakes, enough oil and stones, and if necessary, he can also demolish the buildings in the castle and use them as throwing props.

If the other side does not have professional siege equipment, it is difficult to pose an adequate threat to the castle, but do the two countries of France and Burgundy have enough professional siege equipment?

The answer, of course, is no!

It's only been a few months since the dwarves changed their way of life and moved into the human world.

The Norman kingdom is very fresh, not to mention other countries, so the dwarven standard parts and components production technology, siege equipment manufacturing technology has not been widely spread, only the Norman kingdom relies on the innate advantage, coupled with the efforts of a large number of scientific research institutes, to digest the seven-seven-eighty-eight, other countries still use primitive, without any sighting equipment, only rely on the operator's intuition and experience to operate the barbaric catapult, and even a little more easterly army, there is not even this kind of decent catapult, Battering rams are even being used.

France and Burgundy did possess a patchwork of varying quality, but it is not known how much of a role these casters could have.

On 21 June, the Battle of Normandy officially began.

Seeing that the Normandy castle was heavily guarded, the monarchs of both countries had to forcibly attack the bottom of their hearts, and sent knights to the city every day to shout and curse, hoping to lure the other party out of the city and engage in a battle, so as to defeat the other party with the advantage of numbers, and then take advantage of the situation to capture the Normandy castle.

France in the southeast, and Burgundy in the northwest, sent a small squad of knights, standing in a place where they thought they were safe, and neither a longbow nor a crossbow could shoot, and began to shout, hoping to arouse the anger of the city defense troops, and to flee after engaging them, and to lead the enemy into their encirclement.

But the defender Lufus was not a fool, except for ordering the city defense crossbow to shoot the approaching enemy knights into skewers, there was no other action, the French coalition army did not achieve the task of luring the enemy at all, but was frightened by the Norman powerful city defense crossbow, and even men and horses, plus a layer of chain mail on the ground nailed to the ground.

The morale of the French army was greatly reduced, and the remaining knights and guards fled in disarray.

According to their words, when fighting the opponent head-on, they are openly defeated by the opponent.

In the northwest, the state of the Burgundian army was the same, especially after a few days, after hearing the news of the fall of Groningen, the morale of the Burgundian army fell much faster than that of France.

In this way, both armies know that their opponents are not the kind of waste wood they imagined, and they can conquer such a territory in such a short time, and the Norman kingdom really deserves its reputation, and this battle may be fought.

Then came the assault......

The combined forces of the two countries totaled 100,000 troops, relying on their own large numbers of generals, besieging Normandy to the ground, and also relying on numerical superiority to attack the city, a large number of cannon fodder under the supervision of the overseers composed of nobles and knights, carrying ladders and rushing forward as if crazy.

These ragged cannon fodder, many people who don't even have a shield, are the best targets for powerful crossbowmen, and these cannon fodder gather together without any formation, and they don't even need to aim too much, just shoot directly at crowded places.

Four walls, fifteen hundred crossbowmen,

Because there are too many places to defend, the three-stage shooting is definitely not needed, the crossbowmen desperately pull the bowstring to shoot under the city, knowing that the fingers of these guys are red by the bowstring, and even bleeding, Lufus then remembered that he really wanted to pull the bowstring, and he could do it with more than 10,000 recruits.

War, war, war, war......

In this extremely chaotic battlefield, they are crazy, brave, and desperately fighting.

The siege of Normandy was carried out to a fever pitch amid the roars of soldiers on both sides.

After killing a group of deserters without mercy, the morale of the French coalition mixed with the blood of their own soldiers rose to the highest, using shields and the corpses of their own fallen soldiers as shields, a large number of French soldiers braved the rain of arrows on the city's head, poured to the side of the moat, squeezed a few unlucky ghosts down, and were pierced by a large number of spiked wooden stakes in the screams, and the French soldiers emptied the muck and gravel sacks that had been prepared for a long time, and threw them down with a large number of corpses.

Several times in this process, the entire moat was filled with corpses and dirt and other messes, but in the process alone, thousands of French cannon fodder were killed.

However, thousands of people, only 1% of the 100,000 troops, were not painful at all, on the contrary, because the first obstacle to the siege was filled, the morale of the coalition army was high.

King Philip II of France wasted no time in launching his special skill, Fox Hunt, which increased the attack frequency and movement speed of all French soldiers, and increased morale by one level.

At the same time, either the heart is sharp, or the king has the same grasp of the battle situation, Charles, the Duke of Burgundy, also performed a decisive assault stunt, and the attack frequency and attack power of the Burgundian army have increased significantly.

Both monarchs have their own powerful stunts, which goes without saying.

And Lufus is just a poor general, an excellent general, command talent, and three attributes of military academy background, give him four basic commands, plus two qualified defensive generals and qualified defending generals, it is only six points, and virtue is only loyalty, knightly background, adding up to two points.

Before the two monarchs did not use the stunt, he was still able to barely support, but after the two kings used the stunt, the French coalition army attacked more and more urgently, facing the rain of bows and arrows intertwined with the crossbows and crossbowmen of the city defense, and as soon as the ladder was put up at the battlement, he climbed up with his shield.

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