The First World War Venice!

WWII Zagreb!

Three battles on Lake Balaton!

Frederick won three battles and three victories!

The vanguard won frequent victories, and with the impact of elite knights, they crushed the Eastern Roman light cavalry, and the situation greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.

Frederick was ambitious, believing that with 6,000 knights, 13,000 knights, and close to the terrifying destructive power of 20,000 heavy cavalry, he would achieve an even more brilliant victory.

At this time, Emperor Frederick received some bad situations.

In fact, this is also very normal, to put it bluntly, it is four words: supply difficulties.

Emperor Frederick felt that he was here to save his life, and it was not illegal to eat and get something, so the 150,000 troops were assembled on their own territory and were paid by the Holy Roman Empire before crossing the Alps.

This was difficult for the city-states of Northern Italy to accept.

His Majesty Randy's coalition army was only 100,000 in its heyday, and the food and salary were heavy, and the coalition army itself also had to bear it, although Northern Italy also needed to bear a certain share, but it was not too heavy, everyone could grit their teeth and get through, but what happened to Frederick? Come here to be an uncle? How much does it cost for an army of 150,000 people to eat horses and chew a day, and the gold and silver seas can't bear the toss.

At this time, the governors and mayors of Genoa, Bologna, Venice, and the three city-states were all in the south with Randy, and after hearing the news, they all gave instructions overnight that they could bear part of the food needs, but it was too heavy to bear the entire share, and sent messengers to discuss with Frederick.

Emperor Frederick was short-tempered, and as a noble class, he looked down on this group of small merchants in Northern Italy, and in his opinion he respected himself as the Holy Roman Emperor, and personally came to Northern Italy to relieve these people, and these people should be grateful, and ran to kneel down as fast as possible, bear all the military expenses, and give themselves other souvenirs, such as florin coins and beautiful women.

"I don't know how to lift!"

The enraged Emperor uttered these words, and hanged all the lowly merchant messengers, and made the following decisions:

"Since you don't give it, don't blame this emperor for being ruthless, just grab it yourself."

The situation in the whole of Northern Italy, which was finally stabilized, was once again stirred up by Frederick, Frederick gained a lot, and even other noble soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire also made a lot of money, and the Frederick Emperor, who got the benefits, intensified, and even regarded himself as the king of Northern Italy, taking the captured northern Italian towns as his own territory, canonizing his cronies as nobles and collecting heavy taxes, and those cronies suddenly gained such a high status, and also relied on Frederick's power to run rampant, All this caused a strong resentment among the people of northern Italy, and there were numerous revolts, large and small, but Frederick did not feel at all wrong, and did not reflect on his mistakes, but thought that it was because he was too generous.

"Since those damned Northern Italian merchants think that they can shake me up with a little resistance, then I should make them understand what happens if they disobey me."

Under Frederick's orders, the German army burned and looted everywhere, enveloping the whole of northern Italy in an atmosphere of terror, and the leaders of the three city-states of northern Italy heard about this, and hurriedly ran to ask Randy to advise Frederick as the commander of the coalition forces.

But Randy chuckled and pointed at the guys and asked, "Are you really stupid or pretending to be stupid?" Haven't you heard of the relationship between Yu and Frederick? I am afraid that persuasion will only add fuel to the fire. ”

Andrew, Werther, Maffeo, and the three of them glanced at each other, and finally the Count of Bologna spoke in a small voice: "But Your Majesty, if we continue like this, our whole Northern Italy will be finished!" When the time comes, only the relatives will be painful, and the enemies will be fast, and Emperor Frederick has gone too far, which is also a provocation to Your Majesty, isn't it? ”

Randy couldn't help but laugh and said, "For a long time, you guys actually want to encourage me to fight Frederick, right?" ”

"This ......"

Maffeo squeaked and couldn't speak, and Andrew and Werther, who were behind him, thought he was useless and pulled him directly behind him.

"Your Majesty, we do have this meaning, Frederick is cruel and unkind, not the image of the Lord, if you want to choose, we are more willing to serve Your Majesty as the Lord." Andrew gritted his teeth and knelt down on one knee in front of Randy.

"Your Majesty is so graceful, his merits are comparable to Alexander's, and Wenzhi is better than Solomon, and we are willing to serve Your Majesty as Your Majesty's vassals for life." Witt gritted his teeth and knelt in front of Randy.

"That's right! His Majesty thought the same way. Maffeo watched as the governors of Venice, Genoa, and the two city-states knelt in front of Randy one after another, and said with a limp.

"Trouble! Does Lao Tzu seem to be the kind of idiot who fights all his belongings and people for the sake of a false name for two cents? ”

Randy secretly scolded, he actually wanted to wait for Frederick and Basil Sandpiper to fight, and then pick up the bargain himself, it was completely impossible for him to come out now, but it hurt the hearts of these scumbags like this, in case these bastards couldn't think of it, it was not impossible to run to Frederick to kneel and lick!

But so what? And how much can these three guys help Frederick?

Randy snorted lightly, surrendering his identity, he couldn't do such a challenging job as the king of northern Italy, of course, he didn't say anything to death, comforted the three bastards a little, and vaguely revealed that you should be patient for the time being, the dark future before dawn is bright, and the road is tortuous, as long as Frederick and Basil fight to defeat both, that's fine.

These governors of Northern Italy looked at each other, and they all knew that Randy was a lord who did not remove the eagle without seeing the rabbit, and it was basically impossible for people to help him get rid of the fire, and the blueprint drawn by Randy called the two Romes were both defeated or something, and they couldn't wait for a while, so the three guys discussed for a night, and the next day they came to Randy to ask for their resignation and return to Northern Italy to kneel and lick Frederick.

In this way, Frederick quickly pacified northern Italy, obtained the large amount of food and local products he wanted, and went to the front line and Eastern Rome to die contentedly, and at the same time, he also used northern Italy as a very convenient ATM, thinking that when there was no money to spend, he would go to northern Italy for a circle.

While in Hungary, Frederick's plan of occupation was almost a copy of that of northern Italy, in which the Hungarians paid for food and troops, and the German army passed through like locusts crossing the border, gnawing at all parts of Hungary.

But the Hungarians are different from the soft egg merchants in northern Italy, their ancestors are also fierce nomads, and even now there are many Hungarians who maintain nomadic customs, at first they saw Germany under the banner of the Crusaders, and thought that they were here to liberate them, but after a welcome, they found that these Germans in the skin of the Crusaders were actually a group of locusts, and after eating them up, they had to divide their land and treat them as slaves, this group of people was not as good as the Greeks in Eastern Rome!

As a result, the grumpy Hungarians quickly gathered, mounted fast horses, carried scimitars, and held horned bows, and began to fight against these German invaders, and at the same time, Basil II was also very happy to see that there were originally some vacillating Hungarians, and began to lean more and more towards themselves, and even many Huns and Magyars tribes took the initiative to come to him, and Basil II reorganized them into a new mercenary corps, known as Vadaritai.

Although Frederick's back was unstable and rebellions broke out in the newly occupied territory, why did he still defeat the Eastern Roman army again and again?

The reason is that the Eastern Roman army did not send the main force, and Basil II deliberately put them in, so that the opponent's supply line was longer and longer, and the morale of the opponent was reduced little by little, and finally won the battle.

On June 4th!

Emperor Frederick, as always, defeated a dozen Hungarian cavalry, a few small Greeks, and then triumphantly pursued a cavalry that looked like it was protecting some big man, and the exceptionally well-equipped cavalry ran to a valley terrain.

But the cavalry unit seemed to know the terrain very well for some reason, and disappeared after seven or eight turns, and Frederick searched twice but could not find it, so he decided to go back first.

However, Basil II did not want them to leave, and a large number of Eastern Roman troops armed with compound bows and Greek crossbows suddenly appeared on the valley.

At the same time, the main forces of the Holy Roman Empire were also raided.

Because of the emperor's absence, the four princes and the Bavarian army lost their unified command, and could only fight separately, and were finally divided and surrounded by the Eastern Roman army, during which a small number of knights broke through, but were caught up by the faster Eastern Roman Scythian archers and Vadaritai archers, and the archers destroyed the opponent's formation like a rain of arrows, and then drew their knives and rushed in to slash and kill.

At the same time, the Western feudal knights in front of the Eastern Roman ironclad paladier, did not survive a few rounds, the ironclad palazadier that is against the sky like the three-layer armor protection, even heavy weapons are difficult to kill, the common weapon of the feudal knights is the long sword, unless it is swordsmanship, that is, superb, can aim at the opponent's vital point on horseback for stabbing, but the number of knights with this ability is very small, on the contrary, the heavy iron mace used by the ironclad palsadier can cause great damage to the opposing knight.

All the five thousand ironclad paladiers of the Eastern Rome were dispatched, and the five wings rushed to Bavaria, Bohemia, Austria, Brandenburg, Hesse, the four electors plus an emperor, plus the remaining eight regular legions, four thousand Eastern Roman lancers, one Germanic, one Latin, two mercenary regiments, and the Guards cavalry corps that Basil II had recently dispatched, the number of heavy cavalry under Basil II exceeded 15,000, and the light cavalry also exceeded 10,000. Terrifying equipment、Let the princes of the Holy Roman Empire understand the posture of a genuine Rome。

At the critical moment, these princes also fought for their lives, seeing that they were surrounded by enemies, and they and their allies were divided and surrounded, if they didn't fight hard, they might have no life to fight, so everyone also took out the army at the bottom of the box.

Under the command of Albrecht, the Elector of Brandenburg, with the remnants of the Teutonic Knights as the backbone, following the example of the Black Dragon Knights created by the Norman Royal Knights, the commanders were actually all wearing pure black robes, black cloaks and black war horses, which looked as black as a dark cloud from a distance, and at the same time used heavy weapons such as maces and tomahawks, as well as heavy cavalry guns, and their combat effectiveness was extremely amazing.

The Hessian legion adheres to the configuration of Saxon's first-class legions, armed with spears and zither-shaped shields, wearing domed helmets, heavy chain mail heavy Doxen spearmen and Saxe guards armed with two-handed battle axes and heavy chain armor to find a high ground, layer upon layer to form a shield wall, imitating the giant shield crossbowmen of northern Italy to form an iron hedgehog-like circle, the Eastern Roman army charged several times, but was defeated by the layers of shield walls and the shooting of giant shield crossbowmen.

The Bohemian mountain infantry, dressed in heavy chain mail, armed with battle axes, scimitars at their waists, and armor with round shields, walked through the mountains as if they were walking on flat ground, and with a few charges, they broke through several gaps in the Eastern Roman encirclement, and the Bohemian army moved to the mountains, as they began to hold out like the Hessian troops.

Austria followed the example of the Swiss ultra-long spearmen to form an array of ultra-long spears, the soldiers were all wearing light chain mail, hanging long swords around their waists, and at the same time a large number of two-handed swordsmen holding two-handed swords, wearing heavy chain mail, and even plate chain composite armor were interspersed with them, and the mountain of spears approached layer by layer, suppressing the Eastern Roman army little by little.

And Bavaria due to the absence of Emperor Frederick, the crown prince Henry gritted his teeth, and also took out the Bavarian ace troops, all equipped with plate chain composite armor, as well as super-heavy cavalry with chain mail and overcoats for horses, the Imperial Will Guard, a total of five hundred super-heavy cavalry, all equipped with maces, heavy cavalry spears, and wearing a robe embroidered with the black eagle banner of the Holy Roman Empire, and their combat effectiveness was definitely not inferior to the opponent's ironclad holy cavalry.

The five princes of the Holy Roman Empire played their cards, and in the absence of unified command, they were able to draw with the Eastern Roman army, barely maintaining an invincible situation, and when it was dark, the Bavarian army was too young to control the situation for a long time because the emperor did not return for a long time, causing a panic, and the Eastern Roman army took advantage of the situation to attack, and the Bavarian army was almost wiped out!

The defeat of the Bavarian army spread to the Bohemian army on the side, and the Eastern Roman army also took advantage of the situation to attack the Bohemian army.

At the same time, the Hessian army and the Brandenburg army joined forces in the daytime melee, and Albrecht and Lucived, both of whom were quick to see the wind, took advantage of the situation to break through when they heard that the other two friendly forces had chosen to attack the other two allies, and were finally spared.

Also lucky was Duke Albrecht II of Austria, a cunning duke who also took advantage of the situation to break through and survive.

Wait until the next day, the three princes of the Holy Roman Empire will gather together, everyone will discuss the inspection of the army, their own side was raided, fierce battles for a day and a night, and finally scattered a lot during the breakout, and now there are less than 50,000 people left, and the three dukes look at each other and don't know what to do.

At this time, there was a loud cry not far away, the newly defeated army of the army was unstable, and several dukes were startled, and hurriedly ran over to take a look, and found that the Bohemian was holding an arrow in the cheek, and the duke whose body had stiffened was crying bitterly.

(End of chapter)