This group of Rus' nobles was detained by Randy in the small city of Gomery, and they were served with delicious food and drink every day, but they were not allowed to leave, and they had to wait for the Norman Empress Artoria to arrive and officially ascend the throne as the Rus's Tsar.

Speaking of which, this is also Randy's love for Artoria too much, and he feels that the last time he was crowned in Rome, Artoria was far away, so he couldn't participate, but he couldn't participate in the emperor's coronation ceremony, which was too aggrieved for Artoria, this time although Artoria was still in Krakow, but Krakow was not far from Gomery, I believe that Artoria took out the momentum of catching the traitor back then, and she could arrive in a few days, although Randy felt that the title of Tsar Ross was not as high as the Norman Emperor, But it was more or less a kind of compensation for Artoria.

In Randy's army, there are a large number of Rus nobles under house arrest, as well as an increasing army of Rus, some of whom are relatives recruited by Rus nobles, and some of whom are people who have really come to Randy.

On the way, Randy wrote a letter to Artoria, asking Artoria to leave the three garrison legions and two hussar legions in the area to maintain order in Poland, and she herself brought her army to Kiev to join her for the coronation.

Two days later, Randy led an army of 80,000 men all the way south, unimpeded, and the city of Kiev was taken without blood, and Randy asked the Rus' nobles in southern Ukraine and the Belarusian nobles in the north to gather in Kyiv to participate in his coronation.

The news that Randy is going to be crowned Czar of Ross should have spread. After a while, Grand Duchess Catherine II of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Basil II, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, should be able to get such news, but it is not known how they will respond.

Probably you chose to fight me, right?

Randy chuckled and thought......

But even if it were, so what?

Moscow's full defense against the Cumans is still insufficient, and the Eastern Roman Empire has been seriously weakened compared to the previous Crusader War and the Great War between Ottoman Turkey.

Randy will be very confident, believing that with his elite troops that have undergone military reform, plus the Celtic army and the 100,000 elite troops that integrate Eastern Europe, he will definitely be able to fight the Eastern Roman Empire, which has experienced two major wars in a row and suffered heavy losses, and if he is lucky enough to operate it properly, he may be able to get a Caesar title from the Eastern Roman Empire, and rightfully intervene in the internal affairs of the Eastern Roman Empire, or cede several islands in the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean. Or it would be nice to be able to get the right to free passage through the Dardanelles.

It's just that Randy is a little worried, and for some reason, his queen, Queen Artoria of Britain, still hasn't arrived after nearly ten days of the Flying Pigeon Story, and it stands to reason that Artoria is not such a grinding person.

Thinking of this, Randy was a little uneasy, and pulled out the reply letter that Artoria had written to him a few days ago......

It said that Artoria had disbanded most of the army according to Randy's orders, and that the Celtic army had lost a lot of losses in a major battle, so it did not move for the time being, and she herself came with more than 400 Celtic light cavalry with faster speed and javelin, and heavy cavalry with unarmored armor.

The letter shows that she has traveled nearly half the way, and now that the weather is fine and there are no special events, it is believed that she will be able to arrive in a day or two, and tells Randy to prepare a beautiful crown and clothes as gifts to make her look more beautiful at the coronation.

But now four or five days have passed, Artoria still hasn't arrived, and Randy is getting more and more restless, turning around and going to the study, looking at the map of Europe hanging on the wall, and then seems to have figured out something, oops, his eyes are black, and he almost faints.

"Your Majesty!"

A knight of the guard next to him had already noticed that something was wrong with Randy, and hurriedly ran over to help Randy, but was thrown away by Randy fiercely, and shouted loudly: "Pass the order, order the Royal Hussar Regiment and the First Hussar Regiment to be fully armed and ready to go to battle!" ”

Randy did figure out something, which is why Artoria didn't hear from her......

Artoria must have encountered an enemy, and it was not an ordinary gang or tribe, otherwise Artoria's strength would definitely be fine, which means that she would definitely encounter a large number of enemy attacks.

There are not many people with such conditions, and most likely it is the Eastern Roman Empire!

"Damn, it's ghostly!"

With Randy's order, two hussar regiments, about 7,600 hussars, gathered, and after checking the equipment, according to Randy's order, they brought two more pack horses for logistics, and one person and three horsemen hurried as fast as possible.

Randy had calculated that the hussars' patrol range was centered on Kyiv and all the places around it within two days, which meant that Artoria must have been out of the way two days away, so she had to travel there day and night.

"Don't get into trouble!"

Randy muttered to himself, his face was unusually solemn and he checked the flintlock pistol in his hand, put it away after confirming that it was correct, and took out the saber and played a knife flower, in recent times, Randy has had hard training in order to ensure that his physique does not decline, and then exchanged the best saber forged by modern metallurgical technology from Enides, as well as the intermediate Mo knife knife method, the middle pole Miao knife knife method, and the intermediate Western saber knife method.

These are not expensive, but they are very practical battlefield knife techniques, which make Randy's melee combat power rise by more than a notch, and according to Sonya, it should be about the same as an ordinary high-level killer.

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Four days ago, the Eastern European steppes ......

On another trail that had been trodden out because of the high number of pedestrians, Artoria and her Celtic hussars and Norman hussars were ambushed.

Almost exactly as Randy thought, the attackers were the Eastern Roman army, and the mastermind was Princess Lilianu, who was not willing to be defeated.

After the Battle of Klakov, Lilianu made up her mind to go to the areas of Ukraine that the Norman Empire had not yet reached, and recruited stragglers along the way, and many soldiers who were scattered from the Eastern European Alliance were collected by Lilianu, but in this way, the speed of the march would become very slow, and when it was still some way from Ukraine, Randy's coercive operation in Gomeri had been successful, and the fact that Randy was about to be crowned as the Czar of Rus was also obtained by Lilianu.

Lilianu's sudden defeat made her more arrogant and wiser, so when she heard Randy's decision, she couldn't help but admire: "What a masterpiece!" ”

Claiming that the Russian tsar will bring some trouble in a short period of time, such as the jealousy or hostility of other Rus' dukes with a certain strength, and may even trigger a new round of war, but in fact, if you look closely, the only thing that can be qualified to go against Randy in the whole of Eastern Europe is the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and according to Lilianu's intelligence, the Grand Duchy of Moscow is now fighting against the Cumans, and it is too busy to take care of itself, and at most it can only make a verbal protest.

Therefore, in fact, Randy's claim to be the Rus' Tsar is almost equal to zero resistance, and the benefits are even more obvious, as long as it takes more than ten years of long-term effective rule, Randy's title of Rus' Tsar can be stabilized, sweep away Eastern Europe, and establish a barbarian state ten times stronger than the previous Kievan Rus', Bulgaria, and even the Frankish kingdom.

"Looks like the way to deal with that Norman needs to be changed." Lilianu thought so, and all her thoughts were based on her own interests, not the interests of the Eastern Roman Empire, if the Eastern Roman Empire ended the war with the Ottoman Turks, went north, and did her best to fight with the Normans, whether she won or lost, it would not be of any benefit to her, on the contrary, if she got enough chips to be able to make some deals with the Normans, maybe the effect would be better.

Lilianu wandered around the border between Ukraine and Poland for a few days, and then got the news that the Norman Empress Artoria led a small group of light cavalry to travel to Kiev to participate in Randy's coronation.

It is said that the emperor of the Norman Empire was very fond of his empress?!

"Hehe, hehehehe......"

Lilianu in the giggle seems to have an idea, although she swore to cut off Artoria's head, but the living Artoria is worth more than the dead, and there is no hurry to cut off the head or anything, even if you can't cut off the head after 10,000 steps back, it's not a big deal, and it's nothing if the hero swears to be a cabbage, right?

Artoria rushed to Kiev with his army in a hurry, but she didn't expect to encounter an ambush by the Eastern Roman Crown Prince who had received the news in advance and gathered 4,000 troops today, when Lilianu's Cossack hussars rushed over with a roar, Her Royal Highness suddenly found that she seemed to have made a mistake, in order to march faster, she put her cursed armor in the box and let a Celtic light cavalry carry it, that is to say, Her Royal Highness at this time, the defense against arrows is equal to zero.

"Damn it!"

Artoria scolded angrily, drew her long sword and blocked all the oncoming stray arrows at a speed that ordinary people couldn't imagine, but the Celtic light cavalry beside her didn't have such good luck, and a large number of bows and arrows fell immediately after this round of bow and arrows, leaving Artoria standing alone in the front row.

Artoria secretly said that it was not good, and manipulated the war horse to retreat, but the war horse under the crotch was foaming at the mouth because of the previous fast gallop, and was intimidated by the enemy's flying arrows, and was a little disobedient, so he couldn't do the difficult action of retreating.

There was not a single soldier standing on Artoria's side, and the light cavalry behind her, although they tried their best to catch up, could not arrive in time because of the distance, and the speed of the horses could not catch up with the arrows in any way, and the hundreds of Cossack archers were all aimed at Artoria alone.

"Don't kill her, catch her alive." Seeing a large number of arrows flying past, Lilianu was a little anxious, the living were more valuable than the dead, and her original plan was to capture Artoria and use it to threaten Randy.

But it's still a step too slow, how can Lixuan's arrow be controlled?

The soldiers on both sides thought that the Norman queen was about to be shot into a hedgehog at this moment, but Artoria was Artoria after all, her pupils shrank, and with a wave of the long sword in her hand, she heard the crackling arrow shafts around her and continued to break, and the sword of the victory contract was like an impermeable barrier, allowing the Cossack cavalry to bow and arrows fiercely, but she was completely unmoved, but when Artoria held her breath and swung her sword to protect her body, she heard a wail from the war horse under her crotch, her body had been hit by dozens of arrows, and her front hooves fell to the ground softly.

"Damn it!"

The horse lost its balance, and her body fell forward with the horse, Artoria gritted her teeth, lifted her legs out of the stirrup, and stepped on the horse's back to do a backflip, and the Cossacks saw the opportunity, and a small number of horse archers forgot Lilianu's order, and opened their bows and arrows to shoot over.

"Don't let the arrows go, catch them alive!"

Lilianu was really angry, drew her saber and shouted, "Whoever kills that woman, Hongu will kill him." ”

But this round of bows and arrows was not useless, Artoria, who had no time to block in mid-air, was hit by an arrow in her back, left leg, calf, and each arrow, which made her legs tremble when she landed, and she almost didn't stand firmly.

Artoria gritted her teeth, grabbed the dead horse on the ground with one hand, protected her body like a shield, and dragged her injured body back.

"Protect Her Highness!"

"Protect the Queen!"

The Norman hussars and Celtic hussars rode forward with shields in their shields, ready to aid Artoria, while the Cossack cavalry on the other side also rushed forward, and the first few rushed not with scimitars, but with lassoes made of twine, which were specially used to lasso horses to capture humans.

"Catch her! Get her! ”

Seeing Artoria retreating towards her camp little by little, Lilianu seemed to watch the crown of the Eastern Roman Empire farther and farther away from her.

"Whoever can catch that woman, this palace promises him to become the Grand Duke of the Eastern Roman Empire."

Under such a heavy reward, the eyes of the Cossack cavalry suddenly lit up, more than three hundred Cossack light cavalry, no longer caring about the Norman Celtic light cavalry in front, all rushed towards Artoria in the middle, and even a few Cossack cavalry closer to Artoria fought with each other, one Cossack cavalry saw that his position was not good, I was afraid that he would not be able to take the lead, and he pulled out his scimitar and stabbed the stomach of another Cossack cavalryman next to him, and then aimed at Artoria and threw a lasso.

Artoria gritted her teeth and threw the horse corpse out of her hand, and now she has understood that the other party does not seem to want to kill her, and the bow and arrow will never be used, so this horse shield is not needed.

"God! Is this woman really human? ”

Seeing that the corpse of the war horse hit the lasso and became bigger and bigger in his pupils, the Cossack cavalryman was surprised for a moment and could not even escape, and then he was dropped from the sky, and the horse weighing hundreds of kilograms was smashed squarely, the war horse screamed, and could not withstand such a great force, the whole spine snapped into two, and the Cossack cavalryman was even more miserable, half of his head was broken, and his vertebrae were broken into several pieces, and he choked on the spot.

Seeing that Her Majesty the Empress was so brave and could do such an inhuman thing when she was seriously wounded, the morale of the Norman Celtic cavalry was greatly boosted, but the Cossack cavalry was frightened, and then they were slashed by the oncoming hussars, and then they ate a round of Javelins of the Celtic light cavalry, lost a lot of manpower, and retreated.

"What a shit!" Lilian angrily smashed the war horse in her crotch.

"Infantry advance, archers cover!"

(End of chapter)