That night the Poles withdrew from the outside of the city, as silently as they had come, and if it had not been for the pit in which they buried the dead and the smoke of burning corpses, you would not have known that such a treacherous battle had taken place here. 【Fengyun Reading Network. 】

The cultivated land outside the city was completely destroyed, and it would take some time to clean up the battlefield, when the time came, only oats and rye with relatively short growth periods could be replanted, and the males of the Lyutich tribe were almost killed and wounded, leaving behind a large number of orphaned women, Yaroslav's eyebrows were twisted like hard ice that could not be dissolved, and he was worried about the future life of his people, and his guards still retained a certain strength, and more than fifty warriors who came out of the smoke became the last hope for the revival of the tribe.

To put it irresponsibly, this also saved me a lot of trouble, and I no longer had to go to great lengths to bridge the relationship between the tribal chiefs and their tribesmen, most of whom were killed in battle, and their tribes were also endangered, and the remaining old and weak could only live on Nijmegen.

I once again expressed to Yaroslav his intention to relocate the tribe inward, reiterating that Nijmegen was relatively well equipped and that the lives of orphans and widows would be guaranteed, and that it would only get worse and worse to survive here, after all, it would take time to rebuild, and finally he agreed with me and decided to move the tribe inward, but in the hope that the Lyutich would be able to set up a separate village and not mix with other people.

He also wants to tenaciously preserve the traditions and bloodlines of the Lyutich tribe, the land of faith in Christ, in his opinion, is a world of deceitful flowers, and the pure children of the forest will be contaminated and defiled, and there is no way to keep a clean soul to return to the heavenly kingdom of Sventovitte, the god of war.

"The God of Christians governs the souls of Christians, and the God of Lyutich governs the souls of the Lyutichs, and even if I convert to God, my soul will return to the land where my ancestors dwell, which is not the land of your Christ God." Yaroslav stubbornly argued with me, even though the cross on his chest was often picked up and prayed for, but the difference between inside and outside was still very clear.

On May 25, Pentecost, the belated arrival of the combined forces of Hanover and Nijmegen was almost cleaned up outside Neustadt.

I should be the happiest person to have Kohler here, because I finally have someone to entrust with a lot of trivial matters, and I don't have to do everything myself.

The bull was very happy, he found a person who could accompany him to fight and joke, Yaroslav was okay to learn martial arts, but unfortunately his mouth was not good, the Germanic language was stumbling, and Jensen was an elm brain, so he was about to go crazy when he was lonely during this time, and the good brother was naturally excited.

As soon as Nijmegen received an urgent call for help, he immediately arranged for the men to set out, considering that it would take time to issue a conscription order, coupled with the long journey, it would definitely be too late to make a round trip, but fortunately Kohler had a thousand archers on hand, so he was temporarily driven into battle, without baggage and infantry, and galloped to the aid of Neustadt.

The Duke of Hanover also reacted immediately, sending his eldest son to lead the direct guards to set off in advance, and then launched a general mobilization of the whole territory, personally commanded the battle, and joined Kohler, who arrived, and the two jointly sent troops, with a total number of more than 5,000.

When they marched to the city of Neustadt, they found that the enemy had already broken the siege and withdrawn, and the Nijmegen battle flag was still flying over the castle, but the ruins and barren pastures showed that there had been unimaginable fierce battles here.

Due to the poor conditions of the castle, it was impossible to entertain the duke's father and son and the noble knights of Hanover, so they could only organize an outing hunt because of the humble situation, and use the fruits of the harvest to have a barbecue feast, bring out the remaining low-quality liquor, and everyone happily planted a fir tree, and then danced around the bonfire to celebrate Pentecost.

There are no girls, no clowns, no bards, just shriveled barbarian old women and a lot of muscular hunks, can you imagine how dreary the banquet is?

I spent the first Pentecost of the new millennium with a black face, drunk with wine, and staring numbly at the drunks in the middle of the hall wrestling and wrestling their wrists and burping.

But the next day I regretted my stupid idea, and I thought that I would almost entertain them, and then hurriedly send the grandfathers of Hanover home, not thinking that they had been too happy last night, and the next day they were still snoring and sleeping soundly with a wine barrel in their arms, and even a few of them suffered from severe alcohol poisoning, and almost vomited blood to death, which can definitely be regarded as a death in the line of duty.

While helplessly instructing the attendants to prepare hangover soup for these uncles, I walked through the big men who were hugged together with red stripes with black lines, and sighed at the grand occasion of the chrysanthemums being wounded last night.

The Duke of Hanover was extremely sorry to me, and promised not to delay until their weakened kidneys had diluted the alcohol in their blood, and swore that he would not delay.

The good news brought by Kohler quickly diluted all my grievances and sorrows, and for a diao silk man who was confused in the first half of his life, nothing could compare to the explosive significance and impact of this news on his life.

Serena was finally confirmed to be pregnant, and now it has been about six months, and the due date is about Christmas, this happy woman has been strictly examined by a full-time physician invited by Leonardo from Italy, and it is believed that she must be a boy, and the Duke of Nijmegen is about to give birth to an heir!

The vassals and the common people happily celebrated that they had a new master, especially Hans and Wangcai, who had been with me for the longest time, and the two of them hugged their heads and cried, in Kohler's words, they felt that they had no regrets in this life.

The Chamber of Commerce announced a three-day boycott for the first time, and the merchants raised funds to present a well-made small crown to pray for the safety and health of the little master, and the Bishop of Utrecht also sent a special trip to Nijmegen to offer the gift and promise that the bishop would personally baptize the baby and take the name.

On the day the news broke, Nijmegen was bustling with people like a festival, taverns and bazaars were crowded, and everywhere you could see the people wishing their heartfelt wishes, and even a man as cold and arrogant as Kohler grinned silly when he narrated it, and swore solemnly:

"You didn't see the scene at that time, it was even more lively than Christmas, and everyone was crazy with happiness!"

I'm about to become a father, even after receiving the blessings and hugs of those present, I am still stunned there, I haven't been able to digest this reality, I think people who are fathers for the first time will feel this way.

A new life, in a wonderful way, is about to come into this world, with the same blood as yourself, and you will watch him grow little by little, with all the good hopes, and you will find that the responsibility on your shoulders has become heavier without the slightest complaint, just because this child has henceforth called you father, and loved you from the bottom of your heart.

Thinking about it, my eyes were filled with hazy tears, and I thought that I had long forgotten the nostalgia for my parents' home and country in my previous life, and I struck again with an unstoppable momentum:

Should I thank God? Or should we be grateful for the unspeakable fate in the dark? It uses the most magical way of crossing, so that I can get what I can't get in my previous life, and also let me feel the love that I had before, but I don't cherish it, and then I can only turn back in vain to kneel in the east at night, and murmur in my heart to my parents who may not be able to hear it at all:

"Parents and parents, the son is not filial, can not serve the knees, only to cherish life, grasp the present, protect the family, fight for ideals, and turn the unrealizable ambitions in the previous life into reality, I think your two elders will be happy for their son if they have a spirit!"

Kohler also sent a message on behalf of the mistress: "Madame hopes that you will return to Nijmegen as soon as possible, and stay with her for the birth of the child." ”

I shrugged my shoulders and grimaced playfully, knowing that I was in a good mood during the time I was about to become a father, and I always played cute and cheap from time to time:

"Not necessarily, there are still many things to be done here, and I am not at ease to leave now, seeing that summer is about to begin, and according to the custom that has been formed for many years, the Danish pirates who come by the monsoon may visit Verlatzen in the next few months, and must be prepared to meet the enemy."

Khloe didn't answer right away, he listened to the door before he continued:

"There is no pigeon call, as I know, you have not received new information for too long, and it just so happens that I have brought my own carrier pigeon, and I will work to re-establish the information network of Neustadt."

I tilted my head and thought for a long time, and finally remembered what happened to the last few pigeons......

When the siege was tense, they were all killed to satisfy their hunger, just gnawed clean bones, and threw them in the pot for two days to boil the soup, until there was no taste before throwing it away.

"That's true, tell me about the news."

Kohler pulled a chair and sat down, and began to speak: "On the day of the Annunciation, King Sven of Denmark led his army through the land of Norway, where the snow and ice had not yet melted, and attacked the wintering camp of King Olaf Trigvison of Norway. ”

"Sven pursued the victory, broke up the sporadic resistance along the way, forced three of the seven tribes to turn to himself, canonized the counts loyal to Denmark, captured half of Norway, and saw that the situation was irreversible, and the Swedes, who had been waiting to see what happened, suddenly entered the war."

"Olaf's father-in-law, Count Engelsberg, led the Swedish coalition to occupy the Danish supply base in Udwala, and then defeated the Danish fleet that came to the rescue in a naval battle, completely cutting off Sven's retreat, and the Danish king, who had run out of ammunition and food, finally had to sit down and negotiate with the enemy, give up the Norwegian territory he had captured, and the three parties jointly declared an indefinite truce, and the war of the northerners came to an end temporarily."

"The Swedes have chosen the right time to get the most out of the smallest sacrifice and to make the Norwegians grateful for their saving grace, and they have formed an unbreakable alliance of attack and defense, and they have found the enemy's supply base accurately......"

I leaned back in my chair, squinted at Kohloe and asked, "If you don't have Leonardo's support behind this, I don't believe it." ”

(End of chapter)