While the Nyapennine Peninsula, the Balkan Peninsula, and Southeastern Europe were inextricably linked, in Central Europe, the Norman Iron Cavalry conquered the city at the hands of Artoria, and connected Hamburg, Lübeck, Bremen, and three important German towns, which greatly increased the territory of the Norman Kingdom.

When Feng IV heard the news, he had to send troops back, but the troops sent were like a drop in the bucket, the bloody queen Artoria had outstanding ability, and tens of thousands of Norman iron horsemen were not paper-based, and after several successive defeats of the Saxon army, the banner of the British Celtic queen also made a name for herself in Central Europe.

However, if too many reinforcements were sent, then Frederick, who was fighting at the front line, was not easy to mess with, in fact, it was too many reinforcements sent during this time, so there were not enough troops and he was at a disadvantage in the war against Bavaria.

Feng IV was also a man of arrogance, and did not heed the advice of his main general, Frederick of the Hohenzollern family of Count Brandenburg, to temporarily relent, and also responded to the call of the Holy See to send a crusade to make the other side lose the reason to attack. He did not heed the advice of Luchvid, Count of Hesse, and contracted the battle line, ceding a certain amount of land to reach a peace treaty with the Normans. Instead, choose to keep fighting!

All right! Saxony! Fight to the last drop of blood!

Meanwhile, Gothenburg!

Carter, who was almost engulfed by the Atlantic storm, finally returned to Gothburg, and returned with only eight brigs that looked like they had been ravaged many times, and the legendary archipelago hundreds of kilometers away from Iberia was indeed found, and Carter also left behind the crew of three ships, some supplies, and all kinds of tools and seeds needed by the immigrants, and initially established a village there.

"Good work, General Carter!" Aurora said politely.

"It is right to serve the monarch." Carter replied.

Aurora nodded, revealing a wicked smile: "There is one more thing to congratulate you, General. ”

"What's the good thing?"

"Congratulations on your promotion! In view of your contribution to the Norman Kingdom, His Majesty Randy has decided to promote you to the title of Earl and promote your position, congratulations, you are now the First Admiral, Marshal and Commander-in-Chief of the Norman Kingdom. ”

"That's it!"

Although it is said that it is the navy that has changed back and forth, and in fact it is all about changing the soup and not the medicine, this series of titles sounds very good, and it is ...... The titles of nobility canonized by the Norman kingdom are all fictitious titles, only titles and Yulu, and there is no actual fief, but it is also good to have a lot of money, who would think that they have more money?

Aurora smiled unabatedly: "Seeing that you are very satisfied, then there should be no doubt about the decision to split the Norman Navy into four parts: the Baltic Fleet, the North Sea Fleet, the Atlantic Fleet, and the Open Sea Fleet, right?" ”

Aurora's words made Carter, who had just landed and was physically and mentally exhausted, lose half his life.

"I once fought for the king's country! I have fought for the king's country......"

At this moment, General Carter's mind was full of these words, but there was no way at all, in front of Aurora, the poor old general did not even have the right to say a word.

"Don't put on such a sad face, King Randy is quite polite, the offshore fleet you actually manage is still the strongest fleet in the Norman Kingdom." Aurora saw Carter's snot and tears, and felt that she should comfort him.

Indeed, almost all of the Baltic coast was already the territory of the Norman Kingdom, which would allow Randy to take advantage of the chaos in Europe to include Pomerania and Jutland without mercy, so that unless the other side went on an expedition, there would hardly be any enemies in the Baltic Sea, so the Baltic Fleet was the smallest and least valued.

And the North Sea Fleet is only slightly better than the Baltic Fleet.

Because the opponents that the North Sea Fleet needs to face are France and Burgundy, which do not attach importance to naval development, the scale will not be too much, and it is even inferior to the Baltic Fleet in terms of status, after all, the Baltic trade circle is perfect, the merchant ships are vertical, and the taxes are very rich.

As for the Atlantic Fleet, it was a chore, not so much fighting the enemy as an expedition, with the main task of finding islands to live and colonize in the vast Atlantic, and trying to find the legendary New World Atlantis, as Randy spoke.

It's a life-and-death mission! Compared to the Atlantic, the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, all are small ponds, just this mission, General Carter went out with sixteen boats, and when he came back, there were only eight ships left, and nearly half of the crew became a meal of fish and shrimp, and I don't know how many people would die if they wanted to reach the New World.

So the open sea fleet is indeed the most important!

The so-called open sea refers to the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Aegean Sea, and Adriatic Sea, which are densely populated, rich in land, numerous in nature, and full of strong enemies, and at the same time are the focus of the Norman Kingdom's next strategy, and more importantly, whether Byzantium, Venice, Ottoman, Barbary, these countries or organizations have a number of but quite effective navies.

Therefore, the commander-in-chief of the Offshore Fleet must be the most important of all fleet commanders, the one who has the most control over the fleet and navy, and is the most valued, that is, the oldest General Carter.

"If that's the case...... Not bad! ”

General Carter weighed left and right, his title and official position were raised, but his management power was slightly reduced, which was not unacceptable, and he was indeed too fuss before.

"I'm very sorry, Your Highness Princess, the last general has just lost his temper."

"It's good to know, you are also an old minister of the Norman Kingdom, what to do, what not to do, I don't need me to teach you, this is a personal letter from Your Majesty, your task is here."

"Yes! Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”

Carter took the letter with both hands, and didn't dare to open it here, but put it in his arms and slowly withdrew, saying hello to a few colleagues outside, and then found a place where no one was, opened the envelope and read.

The new Norman lingua franca had not yet been officially popularized, and Randy adhered to the idea that education should start from the baby, spending several months of taxes to establish a crude teaching system in a dozen regions that the Norman kingdom could control, including Pomerania and Jutland, which was gradually settling down, including junior colleges, intermediate colleges, senior colleges, and universities.

Of course! Nowadays, these educational institutions are fee-free, and the fees are not low, and the citizens with average incomes are ruthless enough to support their two children after they go to junior colleges, and then there is no more......

On top of that, there are educational institutions, all of which are located in the cities, not even in the rural towns on the outskirts of the cities, let alone the poor mountains and rivers like the Welsh jungle and the Scandinavian mountains.

Very specialized......

Very aristocratic......

Education in these years is not something that ordinary people can afford, they can read and write, understand contracts, and not be sold, which is enough.

Because the Norman lingua franca education has just begun, and the next generation who receive this education is still a runny little kid, so Randy's letter is also in duplicate.

One New Norman Lingua Franca, one Old Norwegian.

In addition to the formal function, it can also be used as a reading and writing textbook, which is very cost-effective.

Don't ask Randy why does he know New Norman?

Just kidding, spending tens of thousands of points for a new Norman mastery is not a big deal.

Reading and writing textbooks can be done when there is nothing to do, and General Carter's most important task now is to carefully complete the orders given by His Majesty Randy, and then carry out the mission.

In fact, it is very simple, the content of the task is to let General Carter quickly bring all the newly reorganized offshore fleets, go south from the Baltic Sea into the Black Sea, and storm Constantinople.

Halfway through the letter, General Carter was almost scared to death!

Storming Constantinople? Isn't it self-defeating to rely on the words of the open sea fleet alone?

However, Randy will never let his fleet die in vain, the reason why Randy asked General Carter to do this is to let those damn Greeks know that this world is not what they Greeks want, and it is also beneficial for Randy's next plan to publicize the reputation of the Normans.

After doing this, General Carter could leave Constantinople and cross the Dardanelles into the Mediterranean, of course, for the burning and looting of the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire along the way.

The fleet then bypassed the two Sicilies and anchored in Genoa, where the Norman kingdom now had no ports in the entire Mediterranean, and only Genoa, a temporary ally, could provide limited help, but Randy did not say anything dead, but said:

"If conditions permit, one of the islands of Cyprus, Rhodes, Heraklion, the Aegean Islands, Malta and other islands can be seized and converted into a naval base."

Randy's order made General Carter confused for a while, Cyprus was far away, and it was still the territory of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, so it was really difficult to start.

Rhodes, Heraklion, the Aegean Sea, and although they were the territories of the Eastern Roman Empire, they were all heavily guarded, and it was not easy to seize them.

Malta, which is more than 300 square kilometers and consists of a total of five small islands, is quite suitable, just located in the middle of the Mediterranean, with a very good geographical location, many natural harbors, and no strong defenders, which is the best naval base.

So General Carter made up his mind, rested in his house for a long time, and in the afternoon immediately rushed to the Royal Consulate, applied to Her Royal Highness the Princess Regent for military orders, and hurried to Oslo to collect his fleet.

Two days later, the port of Oslo ......

In the past few months, eight new and old shipyards in the port of Oslo have been working day and night to build warships in three consecutive shifts, while using new technology to build and upgrade, so that the offshore fleet has the latest armed warships for the first time.

In the bow, the side of the ship, equipped with five heavy scorpion crossbows, the heavy ballista tower ship, three masts, three sails and two decks, displacement of 800 tons, fully loaded crew 120, 140 sailors, material reserves enough for continuous sailing for half a year, is a professional, powerful, in the medieval cold weapon era, can be called invincible heavy warship.

It's just a pity that there are only five such heavy warships combined!

Three of them have already been taken as flagships by the Baltic Fleet, the North Sea Fleet, and the Atlantic Fleet, and only two have been left for the Open Sea Fleet.

In addition, the largest number is the most versatile, after many improvements, the most perfect, and the shortest manufacturing process, the open sea fleet is equipped with a total of eighty-two improved ballista warships.

In addition to such main battle ships, the fleet is armed with forty trough transport ships.

The cabins of these transports were very wide below the waterline, capable of accommodating more supplies and troops, and in fact that was their mission, and each trough transport carried large quantities of grain, fresh water, pickled vegetables and meats, as well as two hundred heavily armed Vikings.

The entire fleet consisted of 123 ships, sailors, sailors, slaves, and more than 10,000 people.

Fully armed and extremely combat-ready, the canvases of all the battleships were written in black dye with huge new Norman script:

"Owning the Ocean"

And this fleet is destined to cause a storm of death in the Mediterranean!

For more than four months, General Carter died on his way.

When crossing the Dnieper River and crossing the border of the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, General Carter kept an eye on it and sent many scouts ashore to reconnoitre.

Some people took advantage of the darkness of the night to attack the open sea fleet in small boats, but they did not know that General Carter had already received the news, and planned to set up an ambush for the future invaders, and finally completely annihilated the enemy army and captured many prisoners.

As the fleet continued to advance, General Carter began to torture the prisoners.

At the beginning, the guys who were captured alive and lacked arms and legs were quite hard-mouthed, saying that they were Polish remnants, and in order to restore the country, they spontaneously organized revenge, and then they were thrown into the sea by Carter and fed to the sharks.

After that, I caught another one, and I said the same......

General Carter added an extra procedure this time, blocking the other party into meat sauce and throwing it into the sea to feed the sharks.

Ask the third one......

"I say! Don't kill me! ”

Although the other party had begged for mercy, it was still in Polish, so Carter didn't say a word, and went up with a few knives......

Slashed three people in a row, killed the red-eyed General Carter, and shifted his gaze to the other captives!

"We are the people of the Grand Duchy of Moscow! I say...... I'll say everything! ”

The fourth guy didn't wait for Carter to ask, and just said it.

This time in Russian!

"What about the evidence?"

Carter was silent for a few seconds, looking at the guy who looked like he was scared to pee his pants.

"Evidence? Yes! That guy is an officer of the Semenov Guards Regiment, and he has their family coat of arms on him, you can find out by searching for it. ”

The guy who peed his pants pointed his finger at the other guy who was silent.

"Valenko! You coward! Traitor! Shameless beasts. ”

Suddenly betrayed by his own people, the guy who was supposed to be a noble officer instantly went berserk, struggled violently, and rushed towards the guy known as Valenko.

But before he could take two steps, he was caught by two tall Vikings, knocked him to the ground, punched and kicked, and ripped off his clothes and pants.

(End of chapter)