That's where the legend begins......

Crawl out of hell and use her evil magic to seduce the Norman king to take control of the entire Norman kingdom and use Normandy as a bridgehead to attack France.

For the enemy country, even if the city is slaughtered, there should be no complaints!

Because they brought it all upon themselves.

When the raid began, Artoria called back a group of Vikings and ordered them to guard the four gates and forbid anyone to enter.

Although Artoria promised to give them an extra reward after this, and someone would rotate soon, the group of Viking warriors was still a little unhappy, but Artoria didn't care, as long as they could complete the task well.

The massacre continues......

Because of the blockade of the city gate in advance, only a small number of people who reacted first managed to escape, and the remaining more than 8,000 citizens, rich or poor, only death awaited them.

Three days later, the Vikings did not dare to try to provoke Artoria, and they all cheered up, and walked out of the city with a stuffed gold and silver jewelry, precious porcelain, fine fabrics, and the survivors of the threat of less than 5,000 people, if anyone complained or walked slowly, or if the Vikings were not happy...... will be cut off without hesitation!

Although after three days and three nights of revelry, the Vikings were still in good spirits, or some of them were a little sickly, or they did it too many times, so they were weak, but this feeling of gunsmoke and gore did not make people feel annoying.

And so the massacre began......

Artoria ordered the Vikings to divide the crowd into several groups and then slaughter them in batches.

Killing his wife in front of her husband......

Kill your husband in front of your wife......

Kill a child in front of his parents......

Kill your parents in front of your child......

Five thousand citizens screamed and wept bitterly, and some even fainted, but no one resisted.

Because of the horror of the Celtic queen, no one wanted to resist at all, like a lamb wailing before the angels, and could not even escape.

In the end, a total of 4,794 citizens of Groningen were slaughtered, and the corpses were scattered around the city of Groningen, after which Artoria also ordered the city to be set on fire, using all the oil looted from the city, and nearly 500 Viking pirates worked for half a day, turning the whole of Groningen into a huge burning torch, and then returned with blood and a large amount of loot.

In the following period, Artoria's journey to England, the entire coastal town of Burgundy was first disturbed.

Ever since the burning of Groningen, Artoria has been fond of this interesting form of entertainment, and every once in a while she will order the fleet to stop and lead the pirates ashore to burn and loot.

In the shortest possible time, Artoria won the unanimous praise of the Vikings for her strong personal force, as well as her bold style and indulgent attitude, and her reputation among the Norman navy even surpassed that of the Supreme Commander Carter,

With the utmost brutality and bloodshed, Artoria succeeded in intimidating the Burgundians, making them finally realize what fear was, and what was more terrible than death, and the Burgundian army was even demoralized by it.

Soon the news of the massacre of Groningen spread to all corners of Burgundy as quickly as possible, and Charles, Duke of Burgundy, who was on the front line commanding the siege of Normandy Castle, was secretly frightened and quickly made a judgment.

This is a small but extremely elite and cunning Viking team that will cause a lot of trouble for their plans and should be taken seriously.

Charles selected a group of light rangers and light infantry from the tens of thousands of troops under siege, plus archers and other lightly armed troops from the country, to form a small army of 5,000 men with good mobility, and patrolled along the Burgundian coastline according to his orders.

But since then, the Burgundian territory has not been attacked by pirates, which makes Charlie feel a little relieved and a little inexplicable.

"Did those guys get some kind of information from some kind of source?"

Charlie, naturally, would not have known that the fleet was actually going to England.

Intrusion along the coastline is nothing more than a pastime for Artoria when she is bored.

After inflicting a great loss on the Burgundians, and regaining a little of the feeling of war, Artoria arrived in England and gathered 3,000 Norman regular troops, 14,000 Celtic troops, and 25,000 native English troops, which was much more than the 30,000 troops estimated in the original budget.

Artoria's command ability is not weak, although it does not have Randy's various positive attribute bonuses, but natural generals, professional commanders, fear-mongers, and Celtic queens, this series of attributes also increases Artoria's command attributes to six points, plus excellent cavalry generals, and the command ability is as high as eight points! This attribute value has surpassed the vast majority of European generals, and it is the second most capable character in the entire Norman kingdom.

At that moment, Artoria immediately began to review the army......

3,000 Norman infantry, 2,500 professional Viking warriors, 500 crossbowmen,

Although the English had 25,000 men in number, the militia conscripted temporarily accounted for only 4/5 of them, that is, 20,000 people, and the remaining 5,000 men included 500 knights and servants.

So the most reliable of this army was the Celtic army of 14,000.

Since the marriage of Celtic and Norman, the Celtic state has been thriving, and the Celtic territories that adopt the Norman system, Caernarvon and Dublin can reach 20,000 to 30,000 per month, this amount Randy never dares to touch, it is all handed over to his wife to manage, Artoria is not interested in domestic and foreign affairs or anything, and the entire Celtic region has nothing except for commercial buildings and agricultural buildings that can increase money and grain.

Artoria poured all her money into the construction of the army, modeled after the Norman army, and built an elite professional army of 8,000 men.

The composition of this force is as follows......

The Celtic Guard, by the standards of the Norman royal knights, was one hundred and fifty horsemen.

The Celtic heavy cavalry, by the standards of the Norman heavy cavalry, was five hundred horsemen.

The Celtic tomahawks, wearing light chain mail, armed with tomahawks and round shields, were the backbone of the Celtic United Kingdom, with a total of 4,500 men.

Celtic heavily armed spearmen, wearing chain mail and holding spears and shields, were the main defense of the Celtic army, a total of 1,000 men.

Lightning warriors, wearing heavy chain mail, some officers wearing plate chain composite armor, holding two-handed flame swords, are the Celtic army assault infantry, strong impact, so named after lightning, a total of 1,000 people.

The Welsh longbowmen, elite longbowmen from the Welsh region, dressed in leather armor, armed with a longbow, and armed with daggers for hand-to-hand combat, a thousand men in all.

This is the elite Celtic army that Artoria spent more than a year to compile, a full 8,000 people, although it is much less than the Norman 50,000 army in terms of quantity, and it is also much weaker than Randy's cavalry army equipped with heavy chain armor and a large number of plate chain composite armor, including the degree of training and discipline, but as Artoria's brainchild, the combat effectiveness of such a Celtic army is really not bad, and it has already surpassed the British army in the Battle of the Thames that year.

Together with the 6,000 Celtic tribesmen who were temporarily mobilized, the Celtic army sent 14,000.

Such a lineup gave Artoria great confidence, but also gave birth to Her Majesty's ambitions, in all fairness Her Majesty is an idealistic, aspiring king, when Britain was competing for hegemony, Her Majesty even ignored the domestic rebellion has just been eliminated, the army is tired and other unfavorable factors, forced troops to England can be seen.

"A slight change to his plan, it should be fine, right? And by doing so, it would take the pressure off Normandy, and besides, he should have conquered Sweden, so I would have to do something about it. ”

After giving herself a lot of reasons, Artoria finally made up her mind to put behind her not a lot of guilt, and found a very good goal for herself.

Duchy of Brittany!!

Although it was nominally a vassal of the Kingdom of France, it was actually a branch of the Celts that year when they went south to attack the continent, which can be slightly seen from the name.

Back then, it was customary to call the British Isles Great Britain and Brittany Little Britain.

The unique Celtic cultural atmosphere created a strong tendency for independence in this principality, and the relationship with the King of France and other vassals of France was not very good.

Under pressure, Aaron II of Bretagne finally declared war on the Normans as well, which also gave Artoria a reason to attack him, and the local Celtic cultural atmosphere also gave Artoria enough excuse to divide the city under her own rule, so that all the Celtic queens deserved such a title.

In Artoria's plan, the battle should have been extremely simple.

The strength of the Duchy of Brittany is not strong, and the total mobilization is only about 10,000 troops, and now that the French army is gathering to besiege Normandy, Alang II must also have the idea of fighting for a period of time before sending troops himself.

At the same time, in order to prevent French Burgundy from pursuing his ambitions, Aaron II mobilized all his main forces to the border area with France, so that the Norman army could directly attack the capital of the duchy by water, and then execute Aaron II and declare the annexation of Brittany to the United Kingdom of Ireland and Wales.

Even the strategic approach Artoria had already thought about, and continued to force the march through Bretagany, attacking the French coalition forces from the flank, and taking the army by surprise without declaring a war.

This method of rapid marching against the enemy is Artoria's best tactic, and if she is fast enough, she can definitely make a contribution in one fell swoop, and maybe she can take advantage of the situation to defeat Paris and swallow the whole of France!

Artoria imagined that under her wise leadership, the Norman and Celtic forces swept across France, and Randy's expression as if he had taken the wrong medicine couldn't help but laugh out loud, and the more he laughed, the louder he laughed, until in the end he even made passers-by dumbfounded, and Artoria gradually relented.

The war proceeded as Artoria had imagined, and after five or six days of tossing on the sea, an army of 40,000 landed at the northern tip of the Breton Peninsula, and under Artoria's orders, the army advanced non-stop in the direction of Rennes.

The garrison of Rennes was as small as Artoria had expected, and the main forces of Breton and Artoria were deployed in the eastern frontier, and it took only one day for Artoria to take the largest city in northwestern France.

After less than three days, Artoria was able to subdue the upper class of the Brittany nobility, and under the threat of the Norman and Celtic army of 40,000, the Brittany army of 10,000 surrendered, so that Artoria's army swelled to 50,000 men, and was fully capable of fighting independently.

After this, Artoria continued to give the order to march, and the advance of the troops was directed towards Normandy.

"Haqiu ......"

In August, the weather has gradually turned colder.

However, Randy had already redeemed the high-level physique and high-level cold resistance, plus the polar bear fur cape that was very windy, warm and comfortable, it stands to reason that it shouldn't be so cold, even in Finland, the country closest to the Arctic Circle......

"How can there be a sense of foreboding? Did Artoria have an accident? It's impossible, with her ability, she can't beat it and definitely outrun. ”

During the period when Artoria sent troops to conquer Brittany, Randy was not idle, although his army had not yet been reorganized, and the new recruits were still recruited, but Randy couldn't wait, anyway, Sweden had been annexed, and Novgorod and the Grand Duchy of Moscow had also been defeated, and the threat of the Norman kingdom in the east had been eliminated for the most part, so even this Norman army, which was not in its heyday, was enough to use.

Randy thought so and did the same.

A total of 40,000 Norman troops can still bluff people, but they are not needed at all, and the maintenance cost of the army is also a large amount, it is better to keep it in the city, at least there is a lot of food left.

Randy's final expedition to Finland consisted of 1,700 hussars, 1,000 Norman hops, 300 Norman royal knights, and 3,000 elite cavalry.

It was indeed difficult for this force to continue the expedition to Novgorod, but it was quite easy to subdue the Finns who were in the stage of tribal civilization.

Of course, this is not to say that Randy will let go of this eastern barbarian country, at this moment the diplomats Foster and Sekander, have sailed to Pskov on a Viking warship, participating in the diplomatic activities of Novgorod and Moscow, with the cancellation of punitive tariffs as bait, and Norman strong troops as the backing to carry out diplomatic negotiations, demanding that Novgorod cede Pskov and other Baltic coastal areas, and pay 5,000 gold in war reparations.

The Grand Duchy of Moscow did not share a territorial border with the Norman kingdom, so there was no mention of ceding land, but it was necessary to pay a war reparation of 30,000 gold coins.

In addition, Randy also prepared a series of unequal treaties, such as consular jurisdiction, Norman merchants enjoy preferential tariffs, etc., requiring the heads of state of the two countries to bow to Randy.

Of course, when Randy is happy, he will also reward the other party with a few rags.

(End of chapter)