Chapter 15: The Dragons Rise from Northern Europe (14)

The Danes' barracks were no different from the other Norse barbarians, the same peddlers, all kinds of wedges, all kinds of jugglers, all kinds of bards with harps, and they did not restrain themselves at all because their monarch was the queen.

When the diplomat saw this, he cursed a word of garbage in his heart, and walked into the queen's tent with a great deal of superiority.

Queen Margaret is in her forties this year, and she looks the same as a person in her forties, or even older, with an orange-peeled face, a lot of wrinkles, and only a look in her eyes.

Speaking of which, the queen was considered to have lived a long life in the Middle Ages, and of course, the leader will definitely live longer than the commoners under her rule, and this kind of thing has been the same since ancient times.

The diplomat wanted to mention Randy's list of titles, but Her Majesty just snorted and said that it was not necessary to bother, just explain the intentions, and then shut the diplomat's mouth.

"It seems that most of the missions will not succeed this time!"

Looking at Margaret I's faint eyes, the indispensable look, the diplomat sighed secretly in his heart, and said his intention, among which there are many rhetorical allusions, beautiful rhetoric, soft and rigid, that is, there is no lack of requests and implied threats, but let the generals around the queen see what it means to be eloquent.

"In other words, Count Randy, if you want to let us retreat without spending a penny, without killing a soldier, and letting you play tricks?" The queen was quiet for a few minutes after the diplomat stopped talking, and then went straight to the heart of the conversation.

The diplomat was suddenly embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

"Go back and tell Randy that if he wants what he wants, send someone over and fight me, and if he wins, I have nothing to say. If you lose, it's all empty talk. ”

Her Majesty stood up, and the momentum of the superior instantly enveloped the audience, and said imposingly.

The diplomat did not say another word, bowed slightly, and then quietly withdrew......

"It's a person who can read words and colors!" The queen complimented, causing the noble knights around her to laugh.

Five days later, Diplomat One reappears in front of Randy.

"Hehe, that's what that aunt said?" Randy said as he listened to the diplomat's debriefing.

"Not a word has changed!"

"You go down and rest first, and in a week you will go to Sweden for me to meet King Gustav and sign a trade contract and a non-aggression pact with him."

"My subordinates understand!"

The diplomat walked backwards and almost bumped into a man at the door, who was puzzled, because the other party was not any of the knights of the guard he knew, and the leather armor did not look like a civil servant.

"Probably someone who came here during my absence!" The diplomat nodded politely to him and left without too much misery.

There was another knock at the door, and Randy knew that this was his newly recruited admiral, and the first general he recruited was actually for naval warfare!

"Carter is on board!"

Dressed in light leather armor, armed with several weapons such as a scimitar dagger and dagger, and a light hand crossbow, his equipment was different from that of other Vikings, but his trademark beard and braided blonde hair still betrayed his Viking roots.

"Get up! How is the fleet ready? ”

"The state is very good, a total of 30 large dragon head warships, 50 small galleys, plus 30 light ballista warships of our army, the fleet has a total of 110 warships, and 2,700 sailors, all of which have been assembled and ready to go out at any time."

"Very well, what should I do next, I don't need to say more, right?"

"Understand, cut off the Öresund waterway, prevent the Danes from further increasing their forces and transporting logistical supplies, and if you can, hit the opposing ships as much as possible."

"Have a good trip, my general, I will go with the army in three days, do you want to compare, on land and at sea, which of us can defeat the enemy first?"

"The subordinates don't dare!"

"Then forget it, go down!"

Admiral attributes are as follows:

General Attributes: ★★★★

Vikings: The real Vikings are to be pirates.

Qualified Navy: Standing on the top of the wind and waves, encountering sea storms.

Bloodthirsty as madness: After seeing blood, the killing intent explodes.

Don't get close to the living: Mosquitoes don't dare to get close.

In terms of attributes, this is a very strong admiral, and the four-star attribute is compared to the vast majority of admirals in the Middle Ages, and he can kill everything in seconds.

Unlike the smooth sailing of the naval fleet, the army was originally scheduled to fight on the same day as the navy, but Randy had some trouble recruiting the nobles in the realm, and the nobles seemed to be tired of continuous battles, or because of Randy's performance in the last battle, which made the nobles chill.

Therefore, when the conscription order was issued for nearly a week, there were still only three or three nobles who came to report, and the army was only nearly two thousand, of course Randy could not be satisfied with such a number, but he was helpless, and then he realized what a fucked thing the Norwegian nobles were.

In the end, Randy reluctantly sent an envoy to assure the nobles of their rights and compensate them for the losses suffered in continuous battles, and the nobles were finally mobilized, which is why Randy could only go out a few days later.

However, some things are not so easy to obtain, Margrethe I drove Randy away extremely unceremoniously, this is because the communication technology of this era is not developed, Margrethe I has never heard of Randy's name, and her judgment of the situation in Norway is still stuck in the level of Olaf III and Count Felix competing for hegemony.

Now that both stubbles have hung up, the whole of Norway should be like a ripe fig, just waiting for her to taste it.

And a string of victories in Oslo also seems to prove this.

Seeing Oslo's crumbling walls, Margrethe I could already imagine what it would be like for the whole of southern Norway to fall after she breached Oslo.

After that, it was a matter of consolidating local forces and attacking northern Norway.

At that time, his army in Denmark should have all landed, and the total number of troops should be more than 50,000 people, and under the absolute difference in numbers, the other side may be able to look down on the wind, and it should be easy to integrate the forces of Norway and Denmark to subdue Sweden.

And she will become the famous Nordic empress!!

In Margaret I's plan, there is no shadow of Randy at all, in other words, Randy, who feels good about himself, is ignored.

After driving out Randy's messenger, Margaret I didn't take this matter to heart, in her eyes Randy was just a stupid nobleman with arrogance, there was no tiger and monkey in the mountains as the king, and he even tried to get his hands on the authority of Norway, such a guy should be taught a good lesson.

When Randy's army of 24,000 marched south and made an alliance with the nobles on the outskirts of Oslo, the combined forces of 30,000 troops were encamped twenty miles from the Danish army, Margrethe I did not react.

"Randy von Hoffmann? Who's that? Completely unheard of! ”

Eventually, a few nobles with better memories reminded him that Margaret I remembered that a week earlier, a fellow claiming to be the Earl of New Nijmegen had come to him and wanted to withdraw himself, but he had completely ignored him.

Her Royal Highness immediately remembered that she had indeed spoken harshly a week ago.

So according to what the queen said, Randy came over, and according to the agreement, led an army of nearly 30,000 people.

Originally, the queen did have such a plan!

Besiege Oslo, attract the enemy to come, and break them one by one with superior forces.

But Randy's army is too large, and if he doesn't go all out, he'll die a terrible death.

Margrethe I made a quick decision, leaving a thousand men to guard the castle of Oslo, and the catapults continued to bombard, so that the enemy could not see the reality.

After that, Margrethe I organized the main Danish army. But after all, she is just a woman, it's okay to play with intrigue and tricks, and if she goes to the battlefield, she has to rely on those noble generals who are killed in the real battlefield, she is at most just a symbol, plus a mascot-like existence.

The Danish army, the total number has been nearly 30,000, Margaret I is a little uneasy, although the opposite army is divided into two and is not subordinate to each other, the Danish army is united, but the opposite Randy can rise in such a short period of time, the evaluation of a man in a person can not run away, and now the number of armies on both sides is equal, she is a little worried.

"Wait, wait until all the Danish army is transported, and then there will be a few thousand more soldiers to fight, and then there will be a decisive battle," Margrethe I made up her mind, and chose not to fight for the time being.

In the same way, Randy has no intention of sending troops into battle quickly, he is waiting.

First class Oslo fell, Felix II died, and he rightly annexed southern Norway.

Second, waiting for the naval achievements led by General Carter, there is no need to annihilate all the enemy navy, as long as he can attack the enemy's convoy transporting troops and supplies several times, and the news will reach the Danish army, so that the morale of the Danish army will drop.

Both armies are waiting, waiting for something that floats on the sea.

Fleet!!!!!

After a five-day voyage to the Norwegian Navy, Randy's Norwegian Navy finally arrived at the entrance to the Öresund Waterway.

This waterway connects the Baltic Sea in the North Sea, with the northernmost tip of the Danish Jutland Peninsula to the south and the southernmost part of the Norwegian Scandinavian Peninsula to the north.

Basically, as long as you cut off here, you can cut off the Danish backup, but it's a pity that Randy still wants to sign a treaty with the Danish army after defeating it, and he doesn't want to beat the other party too hard, otherwise......

Now it is useless to say this, hundreds of warships of the Norwegian army are lined up in a diamond-shaped formation, and the sky is also very face-saving Northwest wind, but in a short time, Carter found his prey with the telescope given by Randy.

More than twenty galleys were lined up, with a deep draft, and seemed to be loaded with a lot of cargo, when the northwest wind was blowing, and the other side had already put away the sails, and the crew and slaves alone were rowing, and the speed of progress was very slow.

"Don't sink them all, leave two of them, and block them to the north." According to Randy's instructions, Carter is going to deliberately send a few warships over to promote the country's prestige and scare the other party.

Thus, a naval battle began, in which the strength of the two sides was completely unequal.

The long and narrow dragon head battleship with a very fast body quickly launched a charge to the rear of the enemy, cutting off the way to escape back to Denmark, and at the same time, the light ballista battleships lined up tread the waves, and the scorpion crossbow loaded on the bow was quickly wound, this mechanical support was up to two meters high, and the bearing connection between the crossbow machine and the bracket installed on it was pulled down if you wanted to load, and pushed up if you wanted to launch, and the shooting angle was condescending.

The tip of the crossbow bolt is wrapped in a tattered cloth covered with fire oil to ensure that it can further burn the enemy ship while destroying the hull.

Like the ballista, the lighter Scorpion crossbow was equipped with a crosshair for aiming and a ruler for measuring distance, and the ballista battleship was a much taller hull than the galleys. Condescendingly, if you hit the target directly, you can hit the enemy galleys hard.

"Damn, how could the enemy's hull be so high?"

The new Nijmegen ships rushed into their fleet in high spirits, condescendingly shooting crossbows thick with wooden clubs at themselves, the galleys were all flat boats, there were no cabins at all, and the high-tech of watertight compartments had never been heard of, and the sea water would pour into the hull when it was shot through, and even if the hull was not sinkable, and the black bread contained in it was wet and damp, it could not be eaten.

And the most important point is that the opponent's ships are too high, and their attempts to pick up the rotation are completely useless, and in the blink of an eye, nearly half of the ships of the Danish transport fleet have been shot out of a hole by the scorpion crossbow, and the fleet's speed and morale have been greatly damaged in a short period of time.

Whether in terms of numbers, tactics, morale, the two sides are completely different from the same level, and it is even more impossible to launch a broadside battle, the enemy commander thought for a moment, immediately gave up resistance, and led the fleet to flee to the southern Danish seas.

Seeing that the enemy was as vulnerable as a lamb to the slaughter, Carter pouted.

At the same time, the Viking dragon ship, which had blocked the enemy's escape route in the south before the start of the battle, had already begun to engage the enemy army, and the shouts of killing were heard on the sea, and the two sides used bows and crossbow rockets to fire at each other, and after getting closer, they took turns attacking the enemy ship, and the enemy's head was like an axe.

After a period of fighting, the enemy's galleys finally couldn't bear it, too much water leaked in, the hull snapped into two with a click, and sinked to the bottom of the sea, those Viking warriors wearing heavy chain armor had no chance of surviving, and those slaves who were not wearing any clothes were not likely to survive, their ankles were tied with heavy iron masks, and they didn't even have the strength to pounce on the sea.

All of a sudden, the sea was full of howls, and the Danish navy was almost completely annihilated, leaving only two tattered boats, which fled like madness to the north.

32000VS28000!

In terms of the number of troops, Randy has a slight advantage, but for some reason Randy always feels that something is wrong.

Although Margaret I tried his best to cover it up, it was too difficult to cut off the rumors in this kind of scattered army, and there were no reinforcements for almost half a month, so no matter how low the IQ of the soldiers was, they should know.

At present, the entire Danish army, although it is still barely supported by the ruthlessness of the Nordics and the food looted nearby, has long been much worse in terms of morale.

As a result, Randy couldn't think of any possibility of losing.

Randy is also a five-star ruler, an eight-star brutal senior general, and it is impossible to lose when he is stronger than the other party in terms of morale.

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