After this, Count Felix received more and more news about New Nijmegen, which made him more and more amazed by the small city.

New, vibrant, affluent, and well-armed cities.

This is not just a straw, but even equivalent to a 50G weight.

"Send a messenger to contact the fellow named Randy and ask him to support me, and when I become the Grand Duke of Norway, I will give him the land under Bergena's mongrel's control, and officially crown him the new Earl of Nijmegen."

Count Felix sent his most powerful subordinates to convey his price and terms to Randy.

And almost at the same time, the messenger of Olaf III also came to New Nijmegen.

After the two sides met on the village road outside New Nijmegen, they almost didn't fight, but they were discovered by a patrol of cavalry, so that there was no large-scale bloodshed.

"Hey! Really, I originally wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, but now it seems that this plan will not work. Hearing the patrol captain's report, Randy sighed.

"So...... Which side should I take refuge in? Truth be told, these two people are really good enough to pick the door, could they have reached a consensus before arriving in New Nijmegen? All of them promised to canonize me as the new Earl of Nijmegen, and then give themselves the territory controlled by the other party, which is completely an empty glove white wolf! ”

Randy first sent the envoys of the two families to the guest room in the center of the large town, and arranged for the two of them to live next door, so that the two of them would not look up and look down, disgusting and disgusting the bastards.

Randy then begins to analyze the current situation......

In the early days, Count Felix was more powerful, now Chinese New Year's Eve or seventeen years old, and he had experienced various battles large and small when he was young, and his command ability should not be weak.

And the slightly weaker Olaf III, now twenty-two years old, is rumored to be powerful and powerful, and he has been quite brave a few years ago, but this inevitably gives people a feeling of courage and strategy, but this guy has 850 chainmail cavalry under his command, although it is only the most basic heavy cavalry, its strength is not to be underestimated.

After the final judgment, Randy chose Olaf III, who was a little younger, a little stupider, and a little better to deal with.

After all, Randy's initial target was the Grand Duke of Norway, and it was a top priority to eliminate a stronger opponent like Count Felix as soon as possible, and as for Olaf III, who was now twenty-two years old and looked stupid and coarse, no different from an ordinary Viking, Randy felt that such an opponent had no need to worry at all.

"Enides, how many gold coins do I have now?"

"More than 10,000!"

"Ten thousand? Recruit me six teams of Viking soldiers, four teams of patrol cavalry, and a special team of the Nordic Battlefield Order."

"Each team of Viking soldiers costs 400 gold coins, each patrol cavalry team costs 300 gold coins, and the Nordic Field Order costs 800 gold coins, for a total of 4,400 gold coins, is it exchangeable?"

"Yes!"

"The exchange is successful, and the army will be recruited in 24 hours!"

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After a few days of flickering, Randy still hasn't made a final decision.

The reason is that the geographical location of New Nijmegen is too bad, no matter which side you join, it will become the front line of the war, although she wants to support Olaf III, but Randy does not say it explicitly, it is completely a look of oil and salt not entering soft and hard and not eating, the messengers on both sides have urged many times, and their lords have also reported many times, and the price has increased a lot, but Randy is still hovering in a vacillating situation.

Damn it! Two miserly bastards!

Randy cursed inwardly......

After a week of stalemate, Count Felix finally couldn't sit still.

For a person who has already grasped the big picture, the most hated thing is variables, like Randy.

Originally, Count Felix had made a perfect plan to attack Bergen before learning of the existence of New Nijmegen, but due to the existence of New Nijmegen, the attack time was delayed by a week, and if Randiken surrendered, then for the sake of the face of the two thousand armed soldiers, he might forgive him, but now it seems that the guy named Randy does not want to get his forgiveness.

So...... Just use force to suppress it.

Count Felix thought so and mobilized the army in his domain.

With the exception of a small garrison and a navy to defend Denmark to the south, he brought almost all of his troops with him.

A total of 27,000 troops, including 400 knights, 2,000 professional Viking warriors, 4,000 professional troops including shield spearmen, archers, light swordsmen, and light cavalry, all of which were temporarily conscripted troops, without even armor, could be driven into battle with a spear and a shield.

However, despite such a rudimentary army, it was still an army of nearly 300,000 men, nearly ten times more than Randy's army.

"Don't be angry, I declare my surrender by order of the Supreme Administrator of New Nijmegen."

So, when Felix's army was overwhelmed, Randy decisively chose to surrender.

After that, the city gate was opened for **** three days!

Felix was also very satisfied with Randy's knowledge of current affairs, and at the same time did not embarrass Randy too much, just a little warning, seeing that Randy has governed his territory well, and the army is also presentable, Felix is secretly speechless, but also slightly restrained some contempt, and is a little impressed by Randy, the lord who surrendered before the battle.

After all, it is still the Middle Ages, a feud and a building can represent the ruling structure of most countries, and most of the army under the command of Count Felix is provided by his vassals and the nobles who support him as the Grand Duke of Norway.

Coupled with the fact that New Nijmegen has a stone wall nearly five meters high and thousands of defenders, if you want to force it, you must be prepared to pay at least 10,000 lives, which must also send a large number of navies to blockade the opponent's port and completely lose the situation of foreign aid to the opponent.

Seeing that Randy took out a large amount of food ****, Felix decisively cut out the siege in his calculations, waiting for the defenders to starve to death.

"I'll be sorry for you from now on!"

At the grand banquet in New Nijmegen, Count Felix was overwhelmed by the salted delicacy, laughed after drinking the multi-malt wine, and patted Randy on the shoulder.

In the evening, after arranging most of the army in the attached villages, Randy gave up his lord's mansion to Count Felix and went to the barracks of his own accord.

"Host, why don't you fight with one? If you stick to the city, the other party is helpless. Enides' voice suddenly took the initiative.

"That's true, but if we do, the farmland and villages outside the city will be destroyed, and my serfs, yeoman farmers, and rich landowners in the countryside will all be looted, and I know this very well."

After a three-day rest in New Nijmegen, Felix's army was strengthened again, and Randy sent 2,700 men, exactly one-tenth of Felix's army, to attack Olev III.

Unlike Randy's targeting, this army, which is mostly conscripted peasants, looks like a pig's nest, no, it would be more accurate to say it's a garbage heap.

The godless and timid peasant soldiers, the arrogant feudal knights, the irascible Viking warriors, it is simply not normal for the barracks not to die a few people every day.

And the low-ranking women who were in the leather and meat business, as well as the peddlers who sold some messy things, and the merchants who pushed caravans to buy and sell bread and smoked sausages, also haunted the army from time to time, making the barracks a miasma.

"Damn! It suddenly occurred to me that it was a mistake to join this army. ”

Looking at the mess around him, Randy complained, and at the same time kept his military camp as far away from other people as possible, and the other Norwegian nobles had little interest in cowards like Randy, so the tents on Randy's side were like completely forgotten corners, no matter how noisy the military camp was, it remained silent, cold silence.

After another day of marching, Felix's army had advanced completely into the territory of Orev III, and the light cavalry of the army, scattered like locusts, rushed to the enemy villages, burned and looted, and then took the food, supplies, and people back to their camps as trophies.

Randy is very positive about this kind of thing, anyway, he has the support of Enides, and the looted materials that cannot be used for the time being can be directly sold to Enides in exchange for gold coins, as for the population, it is a troublesome matter, so Randy is very kind, and sells the population plundered by his patrol cavalry to other Norwegian nobles at an extremely low price, delaying the opponent's army at the same time, but also slightly retracting his evaluation among the Norwegian nobles, and the Norwegian nobles who have taken the benefits of others, Forgetting Randy's timid behavior, he praised him for his generosity.

Of course, it is not known whether there are people who are called fools behind their backs.

Also, on the night of sleeping, Randy was about to sleep after arranging the guard posts in the barracks, because now the whole force was just one of his generals, so he was a little overwhelmed, and he needed to solve everything personally.

During the day, because of a few sheep, their own patrol cavalry and several other knights fought, and the two sides first sneered, then rose from mouth cannons to fists, and finally almost did not rise to the point of using knives.

"Damn it!"

Randy naturally knew that those sheep were indeed snatched by his own extremely efficient patrol cavalry, and the other party was just jealous of his rich harvest, and it was rumored that he was very timid, so he came up to fight.

The final result was naturally that Randy swallowed his anger and gave the sheep, plus the two mules used to apologize, two sheep, and two war horses, and returned to the barracks, and appeased the patrol cavalry.

Speaking of which, the reason why their own patrol cavalry can have such a good record is naturally due to the effect of the all-terrain completely error-free map produced by Enides, plus the patrol cavalry produced by Enides, the quality is a little better than the light cavalry of other nobles, and the patrol cavalry of a team of fifty people is just the right number, which can rob a small village.

After chatting with Enides, Randy prepares for bed.

However, as soon as he lay down, the appearance of the group of knight villains in the daytime appeared in his mind.

"Damn, one day, no, you can't wait that long."

According to the report of the patrol cavalry, Olaf III decisively mobilized all the troops in his territory at this critical juncture of life and death, a total of 25,000 troops.

In particular, the eight hundred chainmail cavalry, although they are slightly inferior to the regular knights, are superior in number, so the actual combat effectiveness is stronger than the knights on Felix's side.

Judging by the speed of movement of the armies of both sides, it will take about two or three days to encounter.

With a combined army of more than 50,000 men, almost the entire population and strength of Norway were mobilized, and it was arguably the largest battle in the region in recent times, and the largest battle that determined the direction of a country.

On that day, Randy decides to make some small moves to completely change the course of this war.

1100 A.D., March.

Scandinavia is still covered with snow, and at this moment, two armies are beginning to assemble between large farmlands on the outskirts of the northern Norwegian city of Bergen.

The armies of both sides were roughly equal in number and about the same in combat effectiveness, so the morale of both sides was about the same, and both believed that they could achieve the final victory.

After a brief exchange of scouts and light cavalry between the two sides, the main forces of both sides were assembled, and the conscription of peasants was not put aside for the time being, but the array of regular troops looked good.

The total number of troops directly under Count Felix was no more than five thousand, and the remaining twenty-two thousand soldiers belonged to his allies, his vassals, his allies' vassals, his vassals, his vassals' vassals, his vassals' vassals, his vassals' vassals' vassals......

The final basic combat unit is generally like this......

A knight in chain mail, two or three knights, plus a conscription militia.

All right! After tossing for a long time, Count Felix roughly divided the army into several parts, and appointed a relatively powerful earl as a commander, intending to use the troops, and Randy, as a powerful earl accounting for one-tenth of the total strength, was also assigned the title of a commander, of course, Randy's command did not increase a single soldier except for his own people.

The battle began early in the morning......

Assemble at breakfast......

The war officially began at lunch......

In the first round, Olaf III was young and vigorous, and he actually sent all the 800 chainmail cavalry under his command, and directly lined up in a long snake formation, attacking with overwhelming momentum.

"This tactic is ...... A wave of cavalry? ”

On the opposite side, with heavy cavalry as the vanguard, elite Viking soldiers and heavily armed spearmen wearing chain mail as the backbone, and peasant soldiers as the two wings, a large area of Wuyang rushed over.

There are no reserves at all!

Completely undisciplined about formation!

Not strategic at all!

Oh, my God! This guy's command value is absolutely zero!!!

(End of chapter)