Chapter 138: The Fall of Eastern Rome (38)
Then Basil II asked many questions, but they were all about the customs of the Norman Kingdom, the political system, the economic development status, etc., which made Viscount Alpha a little surprised, and he didn't know what kind of calculation the Greek emperor had.
It's just that Alpha is the first knight in the army, but not the first encyclopedia in the army, and he only knows a little about the questions asked by Basil II, and even some don't know at all, but looking at Basil II's nodding again and again, Viscount Alpha thinks that his answer should satisfy him.
"Then the last question, the raid last night, please explain it carefully."
Alpha said secretly: "The show is finally here!" ”
Cheer up and reply, repeating Randy's pre-war calculations: "The Greeks would never have thought of it. ”
When these words were uttered, the faces of the Imperial Guards around Basil II were not very good-looking.
"Then Your Majesty shouted, let the cavalry who can continue the battle come out of the ranks, and select the horses that are still strong, including Your Majesty, a total of three hundred and twenty-four people."
"You wait!"
Basil II frowned and stopped Viscount Alpha's words: "You said along with Randy? That is, the Norman king was also in the midst of this night attack? ”
"Of course! Otherwise, how could the fighters be so desperate? Alpha snorted, gently passing Randy's Desperate Moment stunt.
Basil II nodded, if the king was on the front line, the other party might have used some kind of stunt.
As a world-famous emperor and military commander, Basil II naturally also has special skills, but he didn't use it in yesterday's battle, and the battle has already gained an advantage, so this hole card is continued to be hidden by Basil II, but this is not the most important thing now.
"And is His Majesty Randy among the prisoners of war?" Basil II stood up sharply, his eyes flashing with astonishment, and asked impatiently.
Alpha was stunned for a second, but laughed, and the faces of the Greeks around him became more and more ugly, and finally he didn't know what Alpha was doing, and shouted at him: "Don't laugh!" ”
Alpha was still laughing, and he didn't stop until he finally laughed in his chest.
"If Your Majesty is really captured, Your Majesty will definitely let me kill him, he is the Norman king, the pride of the sky, how can he bear this humiliation?"
Basil II nodded, and once again raised the importance of Alpha to a higher level, because Christian doctrine does not allow suicide, so some arrogant kings will order their most trusted knights to kill themselves when they are defeated and about to be captured, so as to avoid humiliation, according to Alpha now, this is probably the case.
"Go and collect all the corpses, so that the other prisoners of war can go over and identify them, and if they are not captured, they may also be killed in battle." Elius nodded and walked out.
"You don't seem to be too panicked, or don't you feel sad that your lord is dead?" After Basil II had finished speaking, he turned to look at Alpha and asked.
"His Majesty will never die until he fulfills his destiny, His Majesty is chosen, unique and unique, how could he die in such a place?"
"Arrogance!" The Greek general next to him was a little dumbfounded, but Fa snorted lightly, looking extremely disdainful.
After some time, Elius returned to the camp and shook his head at Basil II.
"Didn't you?"
Basil II was slightly disappointed, if Randy died, it would indeed save a lot of trouble, and he didn't even need to negotiate with the other party, but he didn't die, thinking of this, and then thinking of what Alpha said, Basil II felt a little irritated inexplicably.
"Alright, Viscount, you can go down." Basil II had little interest at the moment, and ordered the guards to press down the alpha and scan the Greek generals present.
"Everyone, I have made the situation clear, I am ready to negotiate with the Normans, what is your opinion?"
The Greek generals thought for a moment, and one of them said: "Negotiation is indeed possible, Your Majesty, at this moment we are enemies on all sides, and we should indeed stabilize the situation first, but I don't know what your negotiation plan is, Your Majesty?" ”
Basil II nodded: "In view of the fact that those barbarian coalition forces still have very strong combat effectiveness, so I feel that it is not impossible to accommodate them temporarily, before this the other party has put forward conditions, I have thought that the indemnity can be reduced a little, and then agreed, after all, our Rome is the richest in the world, and it is definitely not so bad for so much gold." ”
"The ...... of the Land Problem"
"I can restore Hungary, but the territory must be strictly controlled, and all the lands previously plundered from Poland must be transferred to the Eastern Roman Empire."
"As for the crime of the barbarians destroying Naples, I can ignore it, but in the two Sicilies, I will never give up, and Lagusa, the Venetians are not capable of defending that city-state, which also belongs to the Balkans, and I will not give up either."
"It's Iberia...... Those barren mountains, if they really want them, I can give them some. ”
Basil II's words made the Eastern Roman generals nod their heads again and again.
Paying gold to the barbarians to stop their plundering and hostility to the Eastern Roman Empire is also the tradition of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the mountains of Iberia, these nobles from Constantinople are indeed not worried, there are so many mountains in Iberia, a little more and a little less, it doesn't matter at all, now Hungary has suffered a disaster of war, basically a ruin, and it can't have any effect when it is in its hands, it is better to use it as a favor, and Naples, the two Sicilies, this is an important place to control the Mediterranean, Naturally, nothing can be ceded.
Basil II is worthy of being a wise king, this will have worked out such a thorough negotiation plan, and the concessions have insisted, presumably those barbarians will not be ignorant, after this war the barbarians are also greatly injured, plus this contract, the Eastern Roman Empire's western front battlefield is stable, you can focus on the eastern front and the Turks to fight.
There was no objection, and Basil II sent an envoy to the Norman camp.
It's just that the messenger hasn't seen Randy yet, so he was directly detained by the Normans, and it wasn't until four days later that Randy recovered from his illness, and the messenger had the opportunity to meet with the boss of the score, the Norman king, of course, Randy was not in the mood to talk to him at this time, and said directly:
"Let Basil II talk to Yu personally!" He sent him away, and then ran impatiently to Joan of Arc's camp.
Joan of Arc in her sleep looks like an angel no matter how you look at it.
As long as it's not eternal sleep, gently holding Joan of Arc's slightly cold hand, Randy thought as he said thank you to Enides!
"You're welcome, host, since you were in a coma at the time and couldn't complete any orders, I took it upon myself to exchange two nice doctors and nurses."
The doctors and nurses that Enides was talking about were the two standing next to Randy.
I don't know if he crossed over from ancient Greece, or has the same name and surname, or is simply just a code name, in fact, he is very proficient in internal medicine and surgery, Chinese medicine and Western medicine, and he looks like a doctor in his forties, his name is Pocrates, and he is wearing a white coat and a medieval crow's beak mask.
Looks more like a terrorist doctor, after talking to other people who have been treated by him, Randy feels that this guy can be trusted, after all, it cost him a full five thousand points, and there is also a theory that Randy's severe cold and fever can be cured so quickly is also thanks to this guy's treatment.
The other is a female nurse in charge of nursing, like the above, I don't know if she crossed over from colonial Britain in the colonial era, or has the same name and surname, or is simply just a code name, in fact, very patient, very loving, very tolerant, if Joan of Arc is an angel who is sleeping, then she is an angel who is busy.
A nurse who looked to be about twenty years old, her name was Nightingale.
Dressed in a big white dress like a maid in the Middle Ages, Randy didn't need to talk to anyone to make a judgment immediately, she was absolutely trustworthy, and she didn't spend much, only four thousand.
After Randy watched Joan of Arc finish her feelings, she let go of her hand and covered Joan of Arc with the quilt, turned to the doctor and nurse and nodded, "Thank you very much for saving her, she has a very important place in my life, so thank you very much." ”
"No need to do this, Your Majesty, this is what we should do." Hippocrates replied with sincere trepidation.
Randy felt that a person like Hippocrates with ability and no temper was indeed rare, so he turned to one of his guards knights and said, "Send ten thousand florin gold coins to the doctor's room." ”
Randy used the price of two hundred points to re-exchange more than eighty guard knights for himself, expanding the number of his guard knights to one hundred, but a powerful talent like Alpha, Randy did not exchange it again, because his name was not in the death list prompted by the system.
Randy guesses that this guy is probably captured!
In these years, the West does not do the East like the East, the captured generals will either kill or surrender, but most of them will offer ransom or exchange of prisoners, since the Greeks are ready to negotiate, then most of their prisoners of war will also be used as bargaining chips to exchange, and then find a way to fish out the alpha.
The Knight of the Guard nodded and left, and Randy's reward made Hippocrates even more terrified.
"How's that going to work? Your Majesty, this ......"
"Okay doctor, you deserve it, and Yu will rely on the doctor even more in the future."
After Randy thought about it for a while, he spent another 20,000 points to directly exchange for a hundred field doctors and the corresponding full set of equipment, and directly evolved the barbaric medieval surgery to the modern level.
"That'...... It is better for subordinates to be respectful than to obey orders. Hippocrates, laughing a few words.
Randy nodded and asked, "Then the doctor will explain to me in detail the status of Lady Joan of Arc's injuries." ”
"Yes, Your Majesty, Lady Joan of Arc has two of the most serious injuries. One of them was a severe impact, which seemed to be caused by the heavy cavalry charge, which caused her arms and body bones to be damaged to varying degrees, but this did not seem to be too serious, because Lady Joan of Arc's physique was the best I had ever seen, although this level of injury seemed to be serious, but because it was scattered all over the body, even if it was not treated, it could heal after a while, and the really serious thing was the arrow wound on Lady Joan of Arc's back. ”
"Wait, what do you say? Arrow wounds? In the back? ”
Randy raised an eyebrow and asked, "What kind of arrows are you, do you still have them?" Bring. ”
"It's still there!" Hippocrates nodded and asked Nurse Nightingale to bring a tray with broken shafts and arrowheads.
"It's a Norman crossbow...... Was it which bastard was not careful? Randy picked up the arrowhead casually, and suddenly remembered the words of Charles, Duke of Burgundy.
Just before Randy came to Joan of Arc's camp, he first got the news that King Charles of France was leaving without saying goodbye, Randy was a little surprised, but at this time, he patronized the situation of Joan of Arc, and he didn't think much about it, but he didn't expect Charles, Duke of Burgundy, to run over to say goodbye, and then Randy knew the news of the death of Duke Edward of Aquitaine, and thought that Philip II was in such a hurry to go back in order to usurp his fiefdom, but now think about the words of Charles, Duke of Burgundy......
"Edward said to me before he died, let me stay alive and don't let the villain be proud, I think he probably knows something we don't know, but it's a pity that this guy was beheaded by a monster." Charlie shook his head as he spoke, and peeked at Randy's reaction, but at that time, Randy was full of Joan of Arc and didn't listen to it at all.
Charlie was a little embarrassed at first, then a little annoyed, and finally happy.
"Then I'm going back too, anyway, the troops have been exhausted, and it's useless to stay here." With that, Duke Charles left.
"Villain...... Arrow wounds...... The king of France, who left in a hurry, and the Duke of Burgundy, Philip II, who was flickering in words...... Is it you? ”
Randy is not stupid, so many clues are strung together, although there is not enough evidence, but as the object of suspicion, Philip II can't run away anyway, and think about it, Philip II does have enough reasons to kill Joan of Arc, in fact, he has tried once before this.
"Edward was born as an archery general, and he had excellent eyesight, and he must have seen what Philip II did, so he said such things, and Charlie must have thought of this, so he said this to me."
Thinking that his lover was seriously injured and the battle was defeated, Randy wanted to tear Philip II's heart alive, and even wanted to directly send light cavalry to intercept Philip II and capture him back.
Hippocrates and Nightingale watched Randy's growing momentum with great trepidation, and his angry and corrupt appearance could simply scare people to death.
(End of chapter)