Chapter 38: The West Dominates England (18)

Randy is, in a way, a treacherous, cunning, and capable guy.

But to a certain extent, he is also a very persistent and stubborn person.

The dividing line that divides these two personalities is called a plan!

Before making a plan, Randy can do anything, it doesn't matter if he is despicable and shameless, miserable and angry, in the process of implementing the plan, even if it is really the end of the world, Randy will persevere and will not change his behavior.

"Are you really going to leave so soon? I wanted you to attend my coronation! When Randy got the news, he took Artoria to York to meet with the dwarven king Wald.

"The little ones want to go home, and to be honest, I don't want to stay here any longer, besides, aren't you already the king of Norway? What more encouragement? Do you want to be emperor? Wald looked at Randy incredulously, as if he were looking at a psychopath.

"What's the matter, don't I look like an emperor?" Randy asked, a little upset.

"Not really!" Dwarves are a very real race, with one saying and two saying two.

"Alright! Actually, I was not crowned emperor, but ...... Norman King! ”

"What's that? How come you've never heard of this title? "The Dwarven King feels strange.

"The territory I now rule, including Norway, England, Ireland, Wales, and in fact the British Isles, has exceeded my territory on the Navia Peninsula, so I don't think the title of King of Norway says anything, so I want to encourage it."

"I still don't understand what you mean, why Norman? And not Vikings? ”

"Norman and Viking mean almost the same thing, it's just an abbreviation, the full name is blessed by God...... All the Vikings, kings of England, Ireland, Wales, the Grand Duke of Norway, the Duke of Normandy, the Earl of New Nijmegen. ”

"You humans are really troublesome!" Wald was a little speechless.

"Can you stay for the ceremony, then?"

"Sorry, no!"

"Why?"

"On the surface, you want me to stay and participate in the coronation ceremony, but in fact, you want the dwarven legion to stay and work for you, right?" After spending a long time with Randy, Wald's IQ has obviously improved a lot, and he tells the truth very unceremoniously.

"What are you talking about? I can't understand a word......"

"Anyway, no." Wald insisted.

The stubbornness of the dwarves, Randy has learned a lot before, and he knows that in this situation, the other party will not listen to anything.

"Wine!"

Since coercion can't work, you can only induce.

All dwarves, young and old, are extremely enthusiastic about such things as wine, and can even risk their lives for a good sip of wine, and Randy, with the support of Enides, can naturally come up with countless fine wines, so to speak......

"What did you say?"

Wald's attitude was obviously a little relaxed, he had been mixing with Randy for so long, and naturally knew that Randy had a rich collection of wine, many of which she couldn't name, and she had never seen good wine, and the taste was amazing.

"A total of 500 barrels of wine, and a bottle of this ......" Randy pulled out a small bottle carved with purple crystal from his underwear pocket.

"Smell it! Friends! Randy smiled like a profiteer peddling doping to athletes, and carefully opened the amethyst bottle in his hand, followed by an extremely strong aroma of wine quickly wafting away.

"So ......"

Before Randy could continue, Walder on the opposite side had already rushed over, directly snatched the small bottle in Randy's hand, and poured it directly into it with a gulp, and after that, the dwarven king, who had read countless wines, only felt that the world was spinning, and his stomach was hot, and he fell to the ground with a thud.

"I'm !!"

Randy looked at this dwarf who was dead and lacking virtue, such a shameless behavior, he couldn't wait to kick him to death, but then looked at the composite armor that Wald was wearing, and after calculating, he felt that the treatment of his foot injury was greater, and if he kicked his face, he would leave traces, and he was also the king of the clan, and Randy really couldn't do such a faceless thing.

But it can't just be left there......

With a snap of his fingers and the two Guard Knights carrying the shameless dwarf away, Randy began to wonder how he could be worthy of himself if he didn't extort millions of dollars when Walder woke up.

But Walder wasn't really stupid, and after he woke up the next day, he saw Randy coming over with a menacing attitude, and he relented without saying a word:

"While I can promise you to let all the dwarven armies stay, I have nothing to say if some of your people accept your offer and promise to work for you."

"Ding-dong! Congratulations to the host for receiving the Dwarven King's Promise, opening a special benefit Easter egg, and now you can hire Dwarven mercenaries. ”

"That's a fair amount of gain and loss!" After hearing Enides' promotion, Randy weighed it, although he instantly lost the support of tens of thousands of dwarf armies, but he also gained the possibility of recruiting dwarven mercenaries, those dwarven warriors who were stronger than Viking warriors, they could be said to be the strongest hoplites Randy had ever seen, and they had always been very greedy for this Randy.

"Anyway, thank you for your help."

Randy knew in his heart that although Wald said that he couldn't control it, as the dwarven king and led the dwarves to such a victory, if Wald didn't speak, no dwarves would join Randy's army.

Randy opened the recruitment mercenary interface of Enides, perhaps because there are thousands of dwarven regular armies gathered here, so the number of dwarven troops that can be recruited is really a lot, at the beginning, Randy was still afraid that dwarf mercenaries would cost a lot of money, but now it seems that these dwarves are very real, and the gold coins that recruit them are lower than the recruitment cost of regular Viking warriors under Randy's command, but there is a special condition here, that is, these dwarves need to use wine to pay for mercenaries in addition to gold coins, Every hundred dwarven warriors, regardless of class, need ten barrels of beer a month, or twenty poke beers to sustain themselves.

"Why is it that more expensive, better-tasting wines require more than beer?" Randy complained loudly, because the area controlled by Randy was relatively high, wine could not be cultivated, and could only be exchanged through Enides, or purchased in other countries on the continent, which was quite cost-effective.

"Because the beer has a higher degree of alcohol!" Enides' answer made Randy feel a little powerless, these bastard dwarves have the power to give me industrial alcohol.

However, in any case, these dwarven warriors are still very good value for money, and they are much better than the disposables that ordinary mercenaries discard after using them once, and they can be hired once and then re-employed.

It's not these dwarven warriors that Randy cares more about, but another group of people.

Dwarven craftsmen, dwarven blacksmiths, dwarven technicians, these special people.

Although the combat effectiveness is not very high, but it has a strong technical ability that makes Randy cry, making all kinds of weapons, siege equipment, and even various living utensils can be made by them, although an ordinary dwarf blacksmith needs two hundred gold coins to hire, which is a little more expensive, but Randy still gritted his teeth and exchanged for hundreds of dwarf craftsmen and blacksmith technicians, so that the siege machinery that attacked Newcastle would be settled.

Fifteen days later......

Mid-January......

Under the repeated begging of the dwarf king Wald, Randy had no choice but to transfer back the naval fleet that made a mess off the coast of Scotland, and returned with more than 8,000 dwarven warriors such as Wald, and a total of 2,000 dwarven warriors were included in the Enides system, and continued to stay and fight in the form of mercenaries.

"The next time we meet, I hope I won't turn into an enemy." Randy muttered as he watched the last bit of mast disappear, and with a flick of his hand, the silver-gray cloak fluttered.

"Go, Newcastle! Let's teach those damned Scots a lesson! ”

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Although there are tangled creatures like dwarves in this world, the main theme of this world is ...... It's still war,

That's what Artoria said, and seeing her excitement after being able to go out with the army, Randy couldn't help but sigh, isn't it fun to kill people?

After leaving a standing army of 5,000 in England to prevent the nobility from rebelling, Randy headed north with nearly 10,000 Viking warriors and more than 2,000 dwarven mercenaries to attack Newcastle.

In Newcastle, Robert II has long since decided to retire.

Sitting in the lonely city for months, he got nothing but a lot of money and food.

Robert II was surprised that the expected enemy attack did not happen at all, and as a result, there were frequent alarms in Scotland, and all ports, coastal towns and villages were attacked by the Viking navy, burning and looting, causing countless losses and refugees, and the Norwegian navy even took advantage of the situation to hit the city of Edinburgh, almost ending the capital of Scotland.

Robert II was originally in the wrong position, and the domestic dark tide was turbulent, and it was for this reason that he waved his army south, hoping to divert domestic attention with a war of foreign aggression, but unfortunately, he chose the wrong opponent from the beginning.

Now Scotland is in chaos, the Scottish army is disheartened, and they are all worried about the dilapidated houses at home, the ugly wife who is dying and the son who is almost as stupid as himself, and has no desire to continue fighting.

So Robert II looked at the noble generals under his command, looked at him with a blank eye, knew that this battle could not be fought, sighed secretly and burned Newcastle with a large army, preparing to retreat north of Hadrian's Wall.

However, Randy didn't want to let him go, especially when he saw Newcastle City burning, Randy suddenly felt that it seemed good to directly destroy Scotland with a large army.

Eventually, of course, Randy resisted the urge and made his decision after the Spy sent a message and learned that the Scots had no intention of continuing the fight.

Knights, improved Tomahawk cavalry, and field orders, these hoplites all gave up their armor and went into battle only in light liner armor to pursue the enemy as fast as possible, and it was important to catch up with the enemy before they entered Hadrian's Wall, crush them, and buy time for the main infantry force in the rear.

At this moment, it is already dusk, and if you don't hurry up, then the sun will completely set later, but it will be difficult to chase.

Once the Scots retreat to Hadrian's Wall, whether they set a fire to burn Hadrian's Wall to the ground, or hold the city and end up being smashed into meat sauce by a dwarven catapult, neither of these outcomes is what Randy wants.

Since there are no plans to send troops to Scotland for the time being, the best thing to do is to use this historic wall as a line of defense against possible attacks from the north, and now that Newcastle Castle has been destroyed, it is imperative to ensure the integrity of Hadrian's Wall.

"Isn't that a little too risky? Moreover, the knights and hoplites gave up their armor, which caused a great loss of combat effectiveness. Artoria disagreed.

"Are you worried about me?" Randy chuckled, and instead of answering Artoria's question, he asked rhetorically.

".................." Artoria was a little shy, but looked at Randy very seriously, waiting for his answer.

But Randy didn't mean to argue with Artoria at all, just reached out and stroked Artoria's face, leaving a sentence: "Everything is up to you." ”

After that, he handed over the command of the main infantry unit to Artoria, and chased the knights and heavy cavalry who were also complaining to the north.

Seriously, if Artoria's strength returns to normal, this kind of work of leading the elite cavalry to charge, Artoria is more suitable to do, after all, in the battle on the banks of the Thames that day, Artoria's thirteen horsemen can directly break through the enemy formation, such an ability to defy the sky Randy can't do it, but Randy lives on his own, although the possibility of Artoria's rebellion is now small to equal to zero, but no one can say for sure about domestic violence or something, if Artoria's strength is not well controlled, then won't he be a tragedy?

Therefore, Randy has no intention of returning Artoria's strength to normal and biting himself back, so this kind of dangerous person with cavalry charging can only be borne by Randy himself.

After removing all the armor, the original heavy cavalry instantly transformed into light lancers, although the combat effectiveness decreased significantly, but the mobility increased significantly, and soon caught up with the Scottish army, which was mostly infantry and very slow.

Without saying a word, the cavalry was quickly lined up in a line array and pushed it directly, although it lost a body of armor, so the kinetic energy was much less, but the relative speed was much faster, and the impact was quite good, plus the Scottish army was panicked, if the color also dimmed today, the power of the two thousand light cavalry back charge was still quite good, and in an instant, the Scottish army with a total of more than 17,000 almost collapsed.

Of course, just a little bit!

The resilience of the Scottish Highlanders was beyond Randy's imagination, and although the Scottish army had been severely shaken by the terrifying atmosphere that Randy had deliberately created, the remaining Scots still gritted their teeth and insisted on resisting desperately.

Seeing that the attack did not crush the enemy, and that his own light cavalry would be extremely disadvantageous in such a melee, Randy quickly ordered the cavalry to retreat and launched a second charge before the Scots' signature gun formation was formed.

At the same time, Randy's special skill, Hades Scream, was launched, and a huge sense of fear instantly enveloped every Scotsman, and the entire Scottish army collapsed before the cavalry mountain roared like a tsunami-like charge.

It's just a pity that it was completely dark at this time, although Artoria arrived with a large number of infantry at this time, but at such a time, it was still quite difficult to expand the victory, and finally after slashing a few enemies and barely capturing one or two thousand prisoners, Randy was forced to withdraw his troops, and the army slowly passed through a large area of wilderness, arriving at Hadrian's Wall at dawn.

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