"Don't you believe me?"

Randy sighed when he received a message from the Norman spy, and then he didn't care about Frederick's life or death, Frederick originally wanted Randy to transfer the 100,000 Norman conscripts who entered Northern Italy at the same time for his use, but how could Randy agree to this kind of thing?

Randy also wrote a vague letter and sent a secret letter to his subordinates, ordering them to stay in the Genoa area of northern Italy, and never allow them to participate in the war between the two Romes, otherwise they would be severely punished.

Frederick also tried to win over the Norman conscripts, but the legal system of the Norman kingdom itself was completely different from other European countries in the Middle Ages, and the 100,000 conscripts were all directly under Randy's orders, not any warlord or nobleman, Frederick didn't even know who he was trying to woo, so he had to give up in the end, and at the same time had a greater opinion of Randy, and even vented this dissatisfaction in many public places without scruples, claiming that Randy was just a lucky miscellaneous man with no real talent, and Randy was also furious after learning these news, Favorability toward Frederick dropped to negative numbers in an instant.

In this way, cracks began to emerge within the so-called Catholic Union......

Now that Frederick is on the battlefield on the northern front, Randy doesn't have to worry anymore.

There are still more than 70,000 people in the coalition army, plus the 100,000 levies mobilized by themselves, there are nearly 200,000, and the Eastern Roman army on the northern front is also this number.

That's it......

Bologna, Naples, Venice, three consecutive victories in the Great War, defeating Eastern Rome, coupled with the tragic foil of Frederick, he went to Rome to let the Pope crown himself as emperor, it is ironclad.

That's what Randy thinks, and that's what he does.

Although the other commanders of the coalition also expressed their unease about the battle between the two Romes in the Venice area, Randy was quiet and relaxed, and replied with only one sentence:

"What's the panic? Everything has His Majesty Emperor Frederick! ”

The other kings had vaguely heard about the conflict between the two, so they didn't say more, and Randy calmed down again, and commanded the company to storm Naples, dividing the 70,000-strong army into three teams of more than 20,000 men each, and each siege lasted eight hours.

In this way, the attack continued day and night for three days, the Eastern Roman army was unknown for unknown reasons, so that the soldiers were exhausted to death, until the evening of the fourth day, Randy ordered to stop the siege, looking at the retreating coalition soldiers, many soldiers in the Eastern Rome finally couldn't hold on, and suddenly fell to the ground and fell asleep, and Narciss, who had been commanding the battle for three days in a row, could not support it either, and ordered the adjutant to arrange a garrison post for him, and then also lay in a corner and fell asleep.

But the adjutant who stayed behind thought that his own soldiers defending the city were so tired, and the other party had been attacking the city for more than three days in a row, so he should naturally be more tired than our army, so he didn't care, and found a place to sleep after arranging some sentry posts indiscriminately.

The officers of the Eastern Romans thought so, and the other Eastern Roman soldiers were even more so, and those who had been selected as sentinels only supported for a moment before staggering and dozing off.

Two o'clock in the morning in the second half of the night......

At the deadliest moment when normal people should sleep, Randy gathered more than 40,000 soldiers who were full of energy after resting, and brought all the oil clay pots collected in the past few days, and the Norman engineers quickly constructed the catapults, and packed them with flammable items such as fire oil and sulfur into the clay pots, and the mouth of the clay pots was plugged with a large piece of burning cloth to make a simple * and throw it out.

The outer walls of Naples were mostly made of wood, which could be used as a medium of incendiary fire, so it became a sea of fire in just a moment under the attack of fire bombs.

It happened so suddenly, that most of the Eastern Roman soldiers were still asleep at the time of the first volley of Norman catapults, and they didn't have time to react, and when they opened their eyes, they were already in a sea of fire.

"Am I already in hell? Oh, God! I have done nothing wrong, please forgive me for my crimes. ”

The Eastern Roman soldiers panicked, and some even thought that they were dead, and that God had placed them in a burning hell, and they could not help but cry and wail loudly.

"Don't go! Fire suppression! Watering! All up, it was the Normans who attacked the city. ”

There were also some sober-minded people in the Eastern Roman army, shouting and running to the well that had been built with the outer city wall to get water to extinguish the fire, while some nervously grabbed their weapons and formed a line at the gap.

The faces of nervousness were reflected in the firelight, but the number of people was too small, and the little water source from the well could not extinguish the flames at all, and the oil was lighter than water, and the buckets of water poured on it made the fire more vigorous.

"Extinguish the fire with dirt, you idiots, stop watering."

At this moment, Narciss, who also looked extremely embarrassed, roared angrily, stopping the idiotic behavior of the Eastern Roman soldiers in fighting fires, and ordered.

But Randy didn't want to give him that opportunity.

"Death squad, charge!"

Seeing that the Eastern Roman army was in a violent chaos in an instant, Randy gave an order to rush the coalition death squads that had been pre-selected and draped in water-soaked felt blankets towards the gap that had been smashed before.

Eastern Rome was suddenly burned to the ground, and then it was attacked by enemies who were suspected of being demons, and then they were attacked by strangely dressed strangely, howling strangely, armed with long axes, and suspected to be demons, and their morale instantly dropped to the extreme, and some people even cried out: The gates of hell are open, and Satan has come to attack us with his army, and then scattered aimlessly.

"Good! The city of Naples is broken. Randy muttered to himself, the darkness of the night lit up like day by the great fire of Naples.

Immediately after Randy immediately ordered the rest of the army to shovel the soil to extinguish the fire, wait until the fire is a little smaller, vacate a few passages before most of the coalition army rushed into the city, the battle situation is here, there is no suspense, the Eastern Roman soldiers scattered and fled, Narsis originally wanted to lead the defenders to retreat into the inner city, continue to resist, but in such a chaotic situation, I am afraid that after the defeat of the Battle of Naples a few days ago, the sad scene of the retreating soldiers blocking the city gate will be staged, and this time there will be no more Varangians to help him.

"God! How cruel are you to me? Let me be defeated twice by the same opponent in such a short period of time! ”

Narsis lamented, threw down his sword and shield to give up resistance, and after a while, two Norman soldiers ran to his side, seeing Narsis motionless, and thought that this guy was scared silly, and then saw that he was dressed as a nobleman, and immediately became excited, and the two of them worked together to knock Narsis to the ground, and escaped from the rope to tie Narcis, and Narsis did not resist from beginning to end.

The Eastern Roman soldiers lost their commander, and there was no one to order them, to remind them, to inspire them.

The Eastern Roman army could no longer organize a decent resistance, and had no intention of organizing a decent resistance, and the vast majority of the Eastern Roman soldiers were also as motionless as Narciss, and a small number of desperate resistance were easily eliminated because of the small number, and Naples was lost!

Randy entered Naples at dawn, and despite warnings from Intelligence Director Nemulis that Naples was in chaos and there was sporadic resistance, it was very dangerous, but Randy didn't care.

"Since you say so, you are responsible for Yu's safety, and if something goes wrong, it's your responsibility." Randy's half-joking words made Nemulis break out in a cold sweat and didn't dare to speak again.

But soon Randy regretted it, because the current situation of Naples City is indeed not suitable for people to travel here, safety is one aspect, and more importantly, the state here is really disgusting.

Corpses, charred corpses.

The upper body remains intact, but the lower body is charred corpse.

The lower half of the body remains intact, but the upper half of the body is charred corpse.

Corpses chopped into pâté, corpses chopped into meat segments, corpses chopped off heads......

There was a strong, unpleasant mixture of blood and burnt in the air, as well as the smell of sweat, urine, and other messy smells, and Randy nearly threw up.

At the same time, the Norman soldiers had already begun to slaughter the city, which may be the real reason for the sporadic resistance in Nemulis's mouth.

In desperation, the Greeks, as well as some North Africans, North Italians, and Rus, picked up everything that could be used as a weapon, and Randy even saw through a charred ruin, a desperate Greek woman crying and rushing at the heavily armed professional Viking warriors with a wooden club, only to be pushed to the ground by the laughing Normans, tearing their clothes and preparing to do their best*.

Randy frowned and slapped the horse's back hard, and the horse screamed in pain.

The Viking warrior suddenly turned around, saw that it was King Randy, and hurriedly lifted his pants and saluted, embarrassed to death.

"I'm sorry to disturb you, I'll leave right away, casually, casually," Randy said with a gentle wave of his hand, urging the horses to leave, and the Viking warrior turned to see that the woman had no idea where to run.

"Bad luck!"

The Viking warrior cursed under his breath, and then went off to another place to have fun.

Randy walked aimlessly on the streets of Naples as if nothing happened, and Alpha, the captain of the Death Knight beside him, hesitated for a moment and said, "Sovereign, you promised just now that you would slaughter the city for ten days. ”

"It's just a prank, it doesn't mean anything special." Randy looked ahead and replied disapprovingly.

"I see, it's my subordinates who are overly worried." Seeing that Randy didn't want to say more, Alpha didn't ask any further.

When Randy walked around the city of Naples a few times and never saw any more murder and robbery, he did not play any more so-called pranks, and he ignored all these things, as if nothing could attract his attention, and the Count of Bologna, Maffeo, rushed over and told Randinarcis that he had been caught.

Randy thought to himself, the entire coalition didn't want to catch this Eastern Roman commander, but he didn't expect to end up cheapening this guy, but seriously speaking, this is a good result.

"Let's go! Let's take a look. With that, Randy turned his horse's head and left the other street, guided by Maffeo and the Bolognese soldiers.

And Randy's departure this time misses an opportunity and knows one less thing.

That is, the fleet that set sail from Sicily to Naples, turned around at the port of Naples and sailed back, Harold who was standing at the bow sighed in his heart, he didn't expect that he would be a step late in the end, if the dead eunuch could hold on for half a day, he could escape to Sicily by boat, forget it, it will be his life.

Harold betrayed Narcisse once, saved Narciss, betrayed Narcisse again, and when he wanted to save Narcisse for the second time, he found that Narcisse could no longer be saved by him, which made him a little depressed.

And for the coalition forces to be able to break through the city of Naples in such a short time, the garrison system of Naples City is perfect, and the defenders of about 30,000 troops, the commander Narcisse is not a mediocre talent, and he didn't hold it even for a month, which ......

Harold was even more jealous of the Randy Majesty he remembered.

And began to seriously consider its own way out......

The Varangians are a branch of the Scandinavian migration to the Eastern European savannah, and although they are a little farther away from Scandinavia proper, the connection between the Varangians and the native Scandinavian Vikings has never been severed.

The leader of the Varangian mercenaries is also a very important Viking leader, and even some Varangian leaders have been elected as the Grand Duke of Norway, when the Varangian number is insufficient, they will also go to Scandinavia to recruit soldiers, in fact, Harold did this, and Scandinavia, although it is a bitter cold place, but there are also strong, poor and wealthy Viking warriors, eager to join their mercenary organization.

But all this became different a few years ago, to be precise, the emerging, powerful Norman kingdom unified the entire Scandinavian Peninsula and improved the lives of local residents, after which there were fewer and fewer people who were willing to come out and wander, even if they wanted to go out, they also had a lot of choices, the best choice was naturally to join Randy's army, or go to the fleet of the Norman kingdom to be a pirate, the navy has been expanded recently, and the shortage of personnel is very serious, It's really not possible, and the garrison corps in various places is also a good choice.

Randy's own means and prestige are much higher than Harold's.

One holds the titles of King of Norman, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, and five kingdoms, three archdukes of Nivonia, Prussia, and Novosibirsk, three dukes of Normandy, South Scandinavia, and Pomerania, as well as the title of Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, and four countdoms of Gothenburg, New Nijmegen, Bergen, and Oslo.

Such a terrifying series of titles made the so-called commander of the Varangian Guard, the leader of the Varangian tribe, this unacceptable title seem dull.

The reason why Harold dared to fight before was because he felt that it didn't matter how many mercenaries he died, because Scandinavia was like a super barracks, which could continuously send new mercenaries to him, but now Harold was very afraid, his soldiers died one less one, and two died less than one pair, if it weren't for the previous battle of Naples because Harrow knew that the enemy was Randy, he might have agreed with Narciss's idea and put his men at the front of the entire formation, Therefore, although Harold does not say it, he hates Randy very much in his heart, and he does not need to explain that he is against Randy.

But what next? Do you want to continue to fight Randy?

The Norman kingdom is in full swing, how can he be a small mercenary leader against it?

But what can you do without confrontation? Surrender? Surrender with the Varangians?

Damn it! Harold really couldn't do such a thing, he was also a Viking nobleman, and he also had the power to be elected king of Norway, and Harold didn't want to give up this right, and he was a vassal vassal of the Norman kingdom.

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