After sending the dwarven burdens away, the speed of the Viking fleet increased by at least a notch.

As a Viking admiral, Carter was loaded with 8,800 Viking Army, 3,400 Viking Navy, 50 light ballista warships, 50 dragon head warships, and 200 medium transport ships.

Light warships also have the benefits of light warships, just like the legendary ship of a certain dynasty, the hull of which cannot cross the Strait of Hormus, it does sound very powerful and domineering, but you also have to think about it for the parties, what a tragic thing it is, obviously the destination is close at hand, but you can't get by, the parties must be thinking, if the ship was built a little smaller at that time, the displacement was a little less, it would be good.

Just like now, the warships under Randy's command are basically dual-purpose models on the sea and rivers, and they can go up to the sea and down the ditch.

"Is this the legendary Hadrian's Wall built by the Romans? It's a lot worse than I thought! "Swimming up the river, sinking all the small fishing boats I saw, Yorktown was in sight.

"Chief, what should you do if you conquer this city? This is located in the interior of England, and the other party will inevitably send reinforcements to recover it when they get the news of the fall of the city, we ......" Carter asked with some concern as he looked at York City in the distance.

"Nope! Who said I was going to take this place? After conquering and looting the city, the city has no value. ”

Randy shrugged indifferently, and with the flag-bearer of the battleship, the 50 light ballista battleships turned their bows and fired at Yorktown, and then the city of York was in flames, and the screams of women and children rang out again and again.

Because of its inland location, Yorktown's defenses were extremely weak, and the residents' sense of defense was not high, so Randy's Viking fleet easily conquered Yorktown without encountering any resistance, and then it was a matter of burning and looting......

On August 4, 1100, the Viking fleet sailed up the River Derwent and attacked Yorktown, burning and looting before returning with a large amount of booty.

Only two light ballista ships ran aground in the battle and had to be burned by Randy's orders, and a few Viking warriors suffered some minor injuries in the battle, but they did not lose any troops.

With a total of 8,000 gold in the loot, plus 5,000 prisoners of war, Randy made a fortune, and war is indeed the most lucrative industry in the world, but only if you win.

Randy's Viking fleet sent off dozens of transports laden with prisoners of war and booty, and withdrew from the Derwent River to continue south.

Worth Bay!

A good port with a wide sea, at least in this era, it is an extremely high-quality port, but the neighborhood has not been well utilized.

After using a light vessel like the Dragonhead to shore to reconnoiter the terrain, Carter carefully led the fleet to find an area of tidal flats where the water was deep enough and would not cause the ship to run aground due to the tides of the dog's day.

Patrol cavalry, improved Viking tomahawk cavalry, and the National Knights scattered in all directions, and thousands of cavalry swept away more than a dozen surrounding villages with great effectiveness, snatching everything that could be robbed, including the captives, and burning those who could not.

There was resistance from the locals, and there was even a church where priests trembled with biblical crosses and questioned the Northlanders, who seemed to be Christians.

"Aren't you afraid of going to hell if you do this?" The priests asked in trembling, angry voices.

Then the Nordic Battlefield Order was rushed to open the scoop one by one......

"It is God who has given us the authority to rise above the weak as the strong!" The clergymen of the Battlefield Order said unashamedly.

On August 15, 1100 AD, the Viking fleet anchored in Worth Bay, and tens of thousands of troops scattered, slaughtering all the villages for hundreds of miles around.

The Viking fleet continued south......

On August 23, 1100 A.D., the Viking fleet approached London, and the city was shocked three times a day, hearing about the cruel style of the Vikings, a large number of nobles and commoners fled, and the morale of the army was low.

King Alfred rejoiced in his suffering, and comforted himself like this:

Well, at least I don't have to worry about the whereabouts of the 15,000 mobile troops, just let them stay in London and wait to fight the Norwegians!

Ah calculated, he has 15,000 regular troops, plus the militia temporarily conscripted, London, as the capital, has a stone wall, and there are tens of thousands of residents, forcibly recruiting citizens and peasants outside the city, you can get tens of thousands of troops, and you don't have to be afraid of the Vikings at all.

It's just that......

There's a slight problem here.

Thames......

This river, which runs through the whole of London, although it brings great convenience to London's water supply, it also brings great safety risks.

It is no secret how the city of York was breached, and it is not impossible to force an attack from the river with a fleet, and since the enemy can do it once, it is possible to do it a second time.

Like other medieval cities, London was largely walled in the area facing the river, which meant that even if all the defenses were strengthened to the point of impeccable, the Vikings would have been able to drive straight down the River Thames into London.

After thinking about it, Alfred had no choice but to collect a large number of civilian boats, put them into the Thames, and scuttled the silted channel, so as to defend against the expected Norwegian attack along the Thames.

Seriously, he doesn't like this trick of hurting himself before hurting the enemy, but what else can he do?

With all of this done, Alfred stabilized his mind, boosted morale, strengthened the city's defenses, and sent out rangers to patrol day and night to defend against Viking attacks.

Against the Irish, the Welsh or the Scottish, Alfred had a slight headache, but he was at ease against the Vikings.

In the early years, this guy basically spent time at war with the Vikings.

There were wins and losses, and in the end the Vikings were driven out of the sea, and it can be said that Alfred probably knew themselves better than the Vikings themselves, if you use the attributes of Enides, it is:

Viking Mastery: +3 against Viking Dominion

It's probably impossible for you to lose!

Alfred comforted himself while continuing to boost morale and fortify the city's defenses as he waited for Randy to lead the Viking army to attack.

However......

The Vikings just don't come......

"Could it be that these pirates, punished by God, encountered a storm, and all sank into the sea?"

It is understandable that the English have such thoughts, after all, above the sea, human power has been weakened to the weakest, even a hundred years later, the legendary Spanish Armada was shattered by a storm, not to mention the current Middle Ages.

"Just kidding, you treat me as an expeditionary division with a waiting division, and I still obediently run to fight you? Are you fooling me? Randy led the Viking fleet to turn around again, sailing along the North Sea towards the north of England.

Alfred's Viking fleet, which he had been waiting for for a long time, was not destined to come to London.

A week later, the Viking fleet managed to get to Newcastle, and after a little repair, the fleet was carefully preparing to land.

Newcastle is also an important town in the north of England, on the front line, the defensive position is extremely important, although there is a Hadrian wall in front of the dead carry, but everyone has paranoia about being killed in these years, therefore, Newcastle's city wall is built quite well. Two-story city walls, the rank of a large castle.

Randy visually measured that even if he shot with the ballista he brought, it would take two to three months.

But by that time, eighty percent of the enemy had already reacted, and Alfred would definitely take all his forces and fight to the death with him.

In this way, this battle can only be outwitted, not forced!

"All charge!"

At the same time, less than 100 miles from Randy's army, the battle on Hadrian's Wall was in full swing, and after obtaining the strength of the dwarven army, William Wallace was like a treasure, and he treated the dwarven king Wald extremely courteously.

It turns out that although the dwarves have small arms and legs, they don't seem to be good at siege, but in fact they are not, it is precisely because of this natural disadvantage that the dwarven craftsmen with exquisite craftsmanship are very focused on the manufacture of siege equipment, and a large number of dwarve-exclusive exquisite and practical siege equipment are the nightmare of all defenders.

While Randy took the Viking fleet to frog and prepare to feint on London, the dwarves and the Scots were not idle, these dwarves were warriors when they put on armor, and they were craftsmen when they picked up hammers, and although Scotland was small and poor, it also had the power of a country, and the two sides hit it off, and the dwarves turned the front-line barracks into a big blacksmith shop, all kinds of iron tools, wood was combined into a piece of killing weapons in the hands of the dwarves, and the eyes of the Scots were straight.

William Wallace was born in the wild, and he is also a guy who doesn't know what honor is, with his acquiescence, the craftsmen in the Scottish army also took a hand next to him, whether he helped or not, or whether he was a helper, at least looking at the smiling appearance of the Scottish craftsmen, it was absolutely advantageous to take advantage.

Almost when Randy circled around the mouth of the Thames and was about to go north, the dwarven army's siege preparations were completed, a total of forty heavy siege scale trucks, as well as more than one hundred and twenty building cars, hundreds of ladder trucks, such dense construction machinery, were lined up one by one under Hadrian's walls, making the garrison England gasp.

Immediately after that, the slewing arm of the front section of the siege scale truck, which was originally forcibly pushed up by manpower and filled with lead, quickly fell, and the other end was lifted by the huge counterweight at one end of the slewing arm, and the stones weighing hundreds of catties were thrown out.

Although the dwarves were actually able to make more sophisticated torsional catapults with adjustable range, the lack of materials made it almost impossible to make resilient tendons in the harsh Scottish weather, so the dwarves had to settle for the next best thing, using the slightly more rudimentary counterweight catapults, commonly known as siege scales.

But these machines, whether they are counterweight catapults or torsion catapults, are weapons that can only appear in hell beyond imagination for the English people who understand that siege warfare is still stuck in the ant-attached attack.

Just like the frightened turtle nobles who were stupid after seeing the ballistas used by the New Nijmegen army, in the face of hundreds of pounds of stones whistling in, the thinking ability of the English people, whether they were generals or soldiers, disappeared in an instant, and their mouths grew up and were dumbfounded like fools.

Immediately after that, I don't know who it was, and the English woke up like a dream, and in an instant they scurried around like headless flies, and there were not a few who slipped and fell from the city wall.

It was just a salvo of three siege trucks, and Hadrian's city, which was originally considered a barrier by the English people, was scarred.

At the same time, under the cover of the stone-covered attack, the dwarves and the equally stupid Scots attacked, pushing sturdy, well-designed, and not very heavy siege carts and ladder carts.

Some of the English discovered their intentions, and in the battles against the elves and the Welsh, the English also mastered the use of the longbow, and the English also relied on their great national strength to train English longbowmen who were not inferior to the Welsh longbowmen, but with better training and discipline.

At this moment, because their own troops were already too far ahead, the siege trucks had stopped firing, and the English also reflected under the shouts of their own generals.

After killing dozens of routs in a row, the English stabilized their position, and the heavily armored spearmen quickly lined up in the gap in the wall to form a shield wall, while the longbowmen drew their longbows and shot arrows downwards under the cover of intact battlements, and the rest of the spearmen and conscripted peasants, under the shouts of the knights, prepared the boiling oil stones that had been prepared to meet the enemy.

The dwarven warriors were not in a hurry, and the dwarven elite warriors in heavy armor quickly raised a huge arc-shaped shield almost a person high, and even formed a tortoiseshell formation in a decent manner, and the dwarven crossbowmen holding all-steel crossbows were not in a hurry, ignoring the comrades around them who were shot in the face of the door and fell to the ground, pulled the crossbow string, and fired a fierce shot at the heavily armed spearmen at the gap in the city.

The power of the all-steel crossbow is beyond imagination, at least it is much bigger than the famous one, but in fact, even the longbow that is difficult for heavy chain mail to shoot through, despite the erection of the shield wall, despite wearing heavy chain mail, many of the heavily armed spearmen in the front row of the shield wall still snorted and fell from the wall more than ten meters high, becoming a pile of fragments.

However, the English longbow is not useless, the systematically trained longbowman shoots at an astonishing speed, can shoot twelve arrows in one minute, and if you don't need to aim, you can even shoot as many as fifteen, plus the English longbowman is condescending, thousands of longbowmen desperately throw arrows, the French literati in later generations once described it:

The downpour is like an arrow from Yingyi......

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