"And then?"

"Then they failed, the Nizhny Novgorod region was slaughtered, and although Semenovsky led his army to break through, most of the 50,000 troops were lost, and the rest of the soldiers were demoralized and fought again."

"What the hell is going on here?"

"My subordinates said that they didn't know anything about military matters."

“………………”

Helpless, Randy can only continue to wait, waiting for military professionals to report to him what happened?

And this so-called military professional is the Norman spy he deployed in the Grand Duchy of Moscow, in order to let Sonya regain a little confidence as soon as possible, Randy also talked a few more times beside Sonia as if he was cheating.

"What kind of methods did the Cumans use to break through the Nizhny Novgorod region?"

Randy reminded Sonia like this, but seeing that this guy seemed to understand or not, and finally thought about it for a long time before he suddenly realized, Randy still felt speechless.

The end result was still Sonya's defeat, and although her intelligence department had done its best to gather clues and intelligence, by the time Sonia went to Randy's study with a large pile of parchment scrolls, Randy had already begun to read the better report provided by Nemulis.

When Sonia looked up at Nemulis, who was at least thirty centimeters taller than her, it was obvious that the other party meant ridicule, and she almost couldn't help but draw her dagger, but according to Nemulis's skills, it was still unknown who would destroy whom in the end.

Randy looked at Sonya's trembling hands, leaving the dagger on his waist little by little, and took a deep breath to comfort himself, "Anyway, Sonia is still improving. ”

"Your Majesty, do you see something?"

Nemulis...... Your information is really interesting!! ”

"This ......"

Following Randy for so long, Nemulis naturally understood that Randy was a prelude to anger, and secretly regretted in his heart, no matter what the situation was, he had to read it in advance, and if he noticed something wrong, he would make temporary modifications, and then send it to Randy, but this time, in order to compete with Sonya, he did not modify this information, so he sent it directly to Randy.

"It's over, something must have gone wrong!"

Nemulis was sweating on the spot, and Randy snorted lightly, then put down his piece of information and took Sonya's information and looked at it.

Because Sonya's information was a little sloppy and the content was upside down, Randy didn't read it very quickly, and it took almost twice as long as Nemulis's information to read it, and finally shook his head.

"It's pretty much the same!"

After Randy finished speaking, Nemulis and Sonia both felt very strange, not knowing what His Majesty the Emperor meant, and Randy didn't say anything in the end, just shook his head and let Nemulis keep his mind busy, leaving Sonia to massage his shoulder.

Randy, who was recuperating with his eyes closed, contacted Aurora, who was presiding over the relocation of the Royal Consulate, and asked, "It should be that, right?" ”

"What that?"

"Nemulis and Sonya's intelligence is much the same, both say that the Cumans continued to attack the city day and night, and suffered heavy losses, but Nizhny Novgorod was still as stable as Mount Tai, and after that, the Cumans used some siege methods, such as ladders, rushing cars, tunnels, and the like, but they were all defeated very badly, and then the Cumans began to make unremitting efforts, always using the way of digging tunnels to attack, so far both pieces of information are the same, but the information after that is interesting!"

"According to Nemulis's information, on the night of October 12, the sky changed and thunder shook the southeastern corner of the Novgorod city wall, and the defenders of the city were terrified, and the Cumans took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, so they won."

"And Sonya's intelligence shows that on October 12, the Cumans used special fire oil bombs to attack the city wall, and the fire was full of fire, and it collapsed the southeast corner of Novgorod, which is thunder and fire, and then think of the small actions of the enemy before, what is this, others can't guess without seeing it, don't you know?"

"It's already obvious! Why hasn't Enides opened the gunpowder system yet? A few days ago, digging the corners of the wall in the dark of night, placing gunpowder, and waiting for the amount of gunpowder to ignite and collapse the city wall, this tactic is the basic tactic of the primary black powder stage, and you can't fool me. ”

"So what? I'm sure you've seen that the use of gunpowder is basically like this, it's very cumbersome and cumbersome, it's almost useless except for siege, and the materials are scarce and expensive, so you don't want to use weapons like artillery muskets, right? Frankly to tell you, with the current level of science and technology in the Norman Empire, even if you don't study anything else and double the size of the scientific research institute, you won't be able to develop a modern rifle in 200 years, a breech-loading rifled gun in 100 years, and a flintlock pistol in 50 years. ”

"But...... But...... After all, it is a new weapon with a lot of prospects, right? And it's very useful for storming cities. Randy argued.

"If it is used as a catapult to fire ammunition, then that little bit of gunpowder will not be able to pose much threat to the city wall, and its effect is not as good as that of stone bullets that do not cost money, and the lethality of personnel is not as good as that of fire oil bombs, if it is as mentioned in the intelligence just now, it is no problem for a small city to dig the city wall and bury explosives to blast it, but if you encounter a large city like Constantinople, you need thousands of catties of black powder, The current price of black powder by Enides is 500 gold coins a catty, and 10,000 catties of gunpowder is 5 million gold coins, and the effect is not necessarily very good. ”

"Pit Daddy......"

"That's right!!"

"In other words, the effect of this simple primordial gunpowder weapon is not even as good as the cold weapon I used before?"

"Yes, this kind of thing that produces a loud noise, emits smoke and fire, and the effect of scaring people is quite good, especially now that this kind of gunpowder weapons have not yet been popularized, and the professionalism of soldiers is not very strong, by the way, in my fiefdom firearms workshop, there is already a class of troops that use gunpowder weapons that can be recruited."

"Your fiefdom? Where is it? Randy asked curiously.

"Greenland, Iceland, have you forgotten that I am the Duchess of Iceland!"

"I'm sorry, but I don't have the mood to remember the tax that can be provided in cities with less than two thousand."

Randy replied very coldly, but still had the idea of giving it a try, and after logging in to the Enides system interface, he went to the city bar, and then chose Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland and the only city in Iceland.

The Advanced Musketeer Barracks sounds like a big name, but now there is only one class that can be recruited: the Classical Grenadier!

Name: Classical Grenadier

Ethnicity: Normans of Icelandic origin

Quantity: 50 people/team

Equipment: Light Chain Mail, Small Round Shield, Hand Axe, Early Iron Cannon/3 (can be upgraded to an Early Bomb)

Morale: Low

Training: Moderate

Discipline: High

Introduction: A mysterious weapon from the Far East, legend has it that it was invented by the alchemist of the East, an alchemist called gunpowder, put it in a sealed container, ignite the fuse and throw it, the timing is just right, it can just explode in the enemy group, legend has it that this way of use, at the beginning, it was invented by Orion Li Tie to catch foxes, whether it is because of this reason, it is unknown whether it is named iron artillery.

This kind of weapon loaded with black powder and fragmented iron filings and iron pieces from crockpots has a short effective range and a small explosion range, and its lethality is barely enough for lightly armed troops, but it is about zero for heavy enemy, but its deterrent effect, terrifying sounds and smoke, can frighten the opposing soldiers and their war horses, and is a weapon with greater deterrent power than actual destruction.

"I feel weak!" Randy sighed with emotion, feeling that the combat effectiveness of this kind of thing is really not strong, and it is even inferior to the new class of troops given by Enides after the invention of the Heavenly Fireworks.

"Forget it, mix it up after recruiting, mix it into the Norman infantry, and throw it with the tomahawk when you charge." Randy sighed, and finally came up with a solution, and then received a system prompt saying that he could exchange gunpowder or iron artillery from the Engineer for siege purposes.

Randy found that in this musket barracks, there are several types of troops that cannot be recruited for the time being, namely early hand artillery, heavy hand artillery, and large arquebusiers, but Aurora also said that he may not see a flintlock pistol in fifty years, in fact, it is impossible for Randy to devote all scientific research institutes to the research and development of gunpowder weapons, which means that if his lifespan is equal to that of a normal person, then he will not see the era of queuing up to be shot in his lifetime.

"It's really a tragedy......" Randy sighed, and instructed Enides to set up three more laboratories in Iceland dedicated to the research and development of gunpowder weapons, and hire metal forgers and alchemists to study gunpowder weapons, and strive to build muskets and artillery as soon as possible, so that Randy can live a modern army addiction.

"Since gunpowder weapons are so ineffective, then we can ignore them for the time being, but those Cumans, where did they get gunpowder, and learned the correct way to use black powder."

Randy is not a fool, and is actually smarter than most people, and at the slightest thought of it, he was startled into a cold sweat.

The Legendary Crusade to the West...... Gunpowder weapons were introduced to Europe, and at that time, the Tartars in the form of beasts burned, killed and looted, did all kinds of evil, slaughtered cities and exterminated tribes.

Eastern Europe was the last place for this group of guys to drink their horses, and the cavalry, under the leadership and command of the second Great Khan Ogedai and the founding Khan of the Golden Horde, Batu, fought to Hungary in one go.

Randy wiped a cold sweat when he thought of this, his body suddenly lost his center of gravity, and the chair under his ass snapped and overturned, if it weren't for Sonya's quick hand to reach out and pull Randy, I'm afraid Randy would have made a fool of himself.

"Damn! Nemulis! Call Nemulis! Fast! ”

When the knight of the guard outside the study heard this, he immediately ran quickly to the Royal Intelligence Bureau to pass on Neymulis.

When Nemulis came running in a panic, Randy was back to normal, sitting upright in his swivel chair, his right hand supporting his head, his left hand tapping on the tabletop, while Sonia stood behind him, looking at Nemulis with a flat gaze.

"What's the matter?"

"In recent times, we have to pay special attention to the intelligence gathering work in the East." Randy wasn't just telling Nemulis, but also Sonia behind him.

"Understood, Your Majesty!" Nemulis nodded, thinking that Randy was going to attack the Cumans, and agreed without asking.

"Nope! Not really. Randy saw that Nemulis agreed without thinking, knowing that he probably wanted to do it, but then again, in all of Europe now, apart from himself and his cheap sister Aurora, who would have thought that there would be an incomparably powerful terrifying force in the East, capable of destroying the world and conquering the world?

"This ...... What does Your Majesty mean? ”

"I mean in the east, in the land east of the Cumans, and I want to know what that territory looks like? His politics, economy, culture, population, territory, political institutions, specialties, troops, cities, roads, transportation, all! I have three months for you to get everything I want to know. ”

After Nemulis stepped down, Randy began to struggle with gains and losses.

If things really go as bad as he imagined, then what should he do if he is faced with the legendary terrifying conqueror who is the most powerful conqueror in human history, and the beastly Mongol grandsons of the other side?

Although in the original history, the other side only swept the whole of Eastern Europe and did not continue to expand into the interior of the European continent, but who knows what will happen now? And even if the other party swept Eastern Europe in accordance with history, it wouldn't work, Randy spent so much effort to conquer Eastern Europe, spent so much money to conquer Eastern Europe, is it just to harvest this group of Mongolian beasts? It really doesn't make sense.

Fortunately, Randy still has a little comfort, before the Mongols attack the Norman Empire, they need to pass through the territory of the Cumans, and then pass through the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and even if the situation is extremely bad, Randy can calmly evacuate Eastern Europe, retreat to Scandinavia and wait for the day, even if the time is not up, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if the fleet goes to Greenland, or from Madeira to North America, after arriving in North America, regroup and bully the natives to establish the Holy Norman Empire, and then wait for future generations to counterattack the European continent.

For a while, Randy's mind returned to the stage of running if he couldn't beat it, this was because the Mongolian Iron Rider was too famous, and Temujin's grandson did have a lot of people who could fight, even though Randy had killed a lot of European Mingjun, but I felt that compared to that Mongolian beast, it was still too far behind, so I felt terrible.

"If that's the case, then it's a very good idea to come to Moscow's aid." Randy immediately came up with the idea of using the Grand Duchy of Moscow as a human shield against Mongol aggression.

"Spend a little money, aid some food, money, military supplies or something, let those Eastern Slavs and Mongol Tatars work hard, I will watch the excitement in the back, and by the way, accept some Moscow refugees to my territory to be serfs for me, I have to wait until the Grand Duchy of Moscow is beaten to the ground and the people's livelihood has suffered heavy losses, and there is no way to continue, I will take the lead to capture Moscow, and then the Mongols will definitely suffer heavy losses, whether the war is or not I have the final say!"

The initial fear had dissipated without a trace, and Randy began to daydream again, and his colleague couldn't help but laugh, making Sonia behind him feel a little strange.

Anyway, the whole thing was like this, Eastern Europe was currently in the calm before the storm, although the various regions were very uneventful, and the relocation of the Royal Consulate was almost busy, and Randy was ready to move to Krakow further west with his family and army.

(End of chapter)