Randy didn't know about the Ottoman Empire's actions, but it wasn't a big deal, they were just some pagans, and when they finished cleaning up the Eastern Roman Empire, it would be their turn next, and the so-called tiger breeding was just a matter of unfounded worry.

The coalition army is sitting on a hundred thousand troops, and there are 250,000 troops rushing at this time, no matter who, when so many friendly troops stand together, will feel extremely strong and invincible, and the same is true for Randy, speaking of which is the first time he has commanded a battle of more than 100,000 people, that feeling is simply incomparable.

The first goal is the Two Sicilies!

The southern part of the Italian peninsula to be exact!

And Sicily, because there was still a fleet of Eastern Roman naval forces stationed, and the Norman fleet itself had not yet arrived, so it could not attack.

Randy had received news that Narsis, the Governor Plenipotentiary of Sicily, had settled in Naples, the largest city in southern Italy, two hundred kilometers away from Rome.

The same army of nearly 100,000 people had already bulldozed the outskirts of Naples, using large blocks of wood and stone to build a two-meter-high outer wall, and at the same time hoarding grain and grass, and strictly ordering blacksmiths to build weapons, bows and arrows, armor, and put on a defensive posture day and night.

Seeing that the other party was in such a posture, Randy didn't want to hit this wall.

But he took the map and looked left and right, and confirmed that he could not find a place worth attacking, and the entire southern part of the Italian peninsula, except for this Naples, which has a high strategic value, has a large population around it, and has opened up a large amount of arable land, the rest are all mountains, hills, wastelands, and villages, even if they are all robbed, they will not cause any blow to the other side.

So I can only bite the bullet!

Before the enemy emperor Basil II led the 200,000 troops of the Eastern Romans to arrive, break through Naples and kill all the Greeks, otherwise the other party will be ruthless to himself in the back when he and Basil II are in a decisive battle.

An army of 100,000 marched south, forming a long queue of tens of kilometers and marching on roads that were originally built during the Roman Empire to destroy the Roman Empire's army.

As for the current enemy general, Narciss, Randy studied it carefully for a while.

First and foremost, this man was a eunuch.

There is no doubt that the inhumane product of eunuchs is not only possessed by the Celestial Empire, but the specialty of the entire human race, in fact, no matter what kind of civilization, Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, and South America all use eunuchs as creatures, so they invariably invent eunuchs.

And the second point, and the most important point, is that this person has a wife and a son and a daughter.

This is very subtle, it is not uncommon for eunuchs to marry wives, in order to make up for inhumane regrets, eunuchs instead want to show that they have no ability at all, even if it is a psychological comfort, powerful eunuchs will always marry a wife, and it is a young and beautiful wife, what a waste of resources.

Of course, these young and beautiful women, either because they are greedy for wealth or because they are afraid of power, in short, no matter what, become the wives of eunuchs, but they have needs, what should they do?

Therefore, many eunuchs have developed a pair of dexterous hands, but with dexterous hands, there is no way to give birth to children.

Randy said that it was strange that the two children did not seem to be raised by them, and even Narcisse solemnly disclosed to the public that these two children were his flesh and blood.

This makes Randy feel very strange, maybe this guy's child before he became a eunuch.

In short, Randy would never let go of such an interesting thing, so Narciss's information was turned over by Norman agents, and finally came to a conclusion:

Narcis is green!

His child was not his own, but his former boss, the famous Eastern Roman general Bailey, who was now fighting against Ottoman Turkey in Asia Minor, the reason why Narcisse became a eunuch was also the medicine that Bailey secretly gave him, Bailey thought he was doing very hidden, but there is really no information in this world that Norman spies can't get.

"Hahaha......"

After reading the whole information, Randy gloated and laughed to death, this incident is a good selling point, after Narsis knows the truth, he doesn't know if he will directly leave the army and go to Asia Minor and Bailey to stay desperately.

Soon, among the Eastern Roman nobility of Naples, such rumors began to circulate.

Human gossip psychology is not divided into races, especially for this kind of gossip of big people, everyone likes to listen to it, Narsis soon found strangely that no matter where he goes, there will be people pointing at him, at first Narsis didn't care too much, after all, he is the governor of Sicily, and it is normal for a high position to be pointed out.

But soon he found that the generals, officers, and even his own guards, whom he had often seen, were pointing fingers behind his back, and Narsis began to mutter, what had happened?

Naturally, it is impossible for others to tell him directly that your son is not actually your own, so he will not speak.

The more this happened, the more uneasy Narsis felt, but how could he be distracted by the fact that the Catholic 100,000 coalition army was heading south, and that the army and the nobles and civilians were messing around, waiting for him, the governor, to decide?

In this way, Narciss's mind was unconsciously touched a lot, and he kept secretly paying attention to it, until one day when he was checking the post in the middle of the night, he found two deserted soldiers hiding behind a big tree and chatting......

"Hahaha...... I knew how that dead eunuch could have given birth to a child. ”

"Yes! It's a shame that he is still a great governor, let people bring a green hat, not to mention, and let people scrap that thing, and throw it to Africa, the children raised for so many years are not his own, and he doesn't know at all! ”

Narsis felt a loud buzz in his head, and then he lost consciousness and fainted to the ground.

These things were all seen by the Norman spies who were hiding on the sidelines, and the next day Randy, who received the news from the flying pigeon, announced the matter to the public, and opened a gambling game by himself, saying that Narsis was angry to death and paid ten for one, insisted on fighting one for four, went back to find the adulterer and desperately lost one for two, and welcomed the monarchs to bet.

As soon as the news was passed on by the spies, it was transmitted back to the ears of Narciss, who was not in good health and had an endocrine disorder for a long time, and when he heard about it, he had been informed by the Catholic coalition forces, and he almost fainted again.

The Catholic coalition is equivalent to the entire European world, which means that his scandal has been known to people all over the world, and he Narsis is the object of ridicule by people all over the world.

Thinking of this, Narcisse felt the urge to commit suicide, but he couldn't die yet, he wanted to live and take revenge! Kill all the shame, his original boss Bailey, the betrayal of his wife, and the two bastards, those who laughed at him, one by one.

The next day, a narciss, who was in a state of mental lethargy and hypermental excitement, appeared in a state of madness and obsession.

Narcissus gave all his savings as a reward for his victory, and announced that he would give his land and land to the soldiers who had made this meritorious service, and demanded that the soldiers train with ten times the effort, and that the slaves and civilians build fortifications a hundred times faster.

He's going to win! Win Bleaching Beautiful! He's going to bathe in the blood of his enemies!

He will continue to fight hard, conquer all the places he sees, and make immortal achievements to become the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Randy's action not only did not bring down Narciss, but instead put him in a state of frenzy, if Narcis's enthusiasm was eighty percent before, now it is one hundred percent.

Randy was speechless for a while after receiving such information, he couldn't imagine that his actions had actually irritated Narciss, but it seemed that a broken dead eunuch was stronger than a normal dead eunuch.

The next day, Randy announced that the gamble had failed, and that he had returned the bet as the banker, and that he had to pay as much as he could, which made the other monarchs happy and surprised, and the miserly Norman king was so generous that he thought he would repay the debt!

There's a reason why Randy did this, he needs to push himself up a notch to fight against the already insane Narciss.

After two days of marching, the forward scouts of the two sides met in a narrow way.

After the two teams of Sherwood marksmen had crossed a hill, they saw the Greeks in cockscomb helmets, and the Greeks saw them, and both sides were stunned for a second, and then they sprang into action.

Sherwood marksman with a bow and arrow!

The Eastern Roman light infantry pulled out slings and javelins!

The result of the duel is naturally a lose-lose situation for both sides!

The armor-piercing ability of the slings is very good, but it takes a lot of time to convert it into kinetic energy through centrifugal force, which is a beat slower than that of Sherwood's sharpshooter.

However, Sherwood's marksman opened his bow and arrows, but it was a beat slower than throwing a javelin, this hill was no more than ten meters high, and both sides were in the maximum killing radius, and neither Sherwood marksman nor Greek light infantry were equipped with armor.

The next moment only a few screams were heard, and several people fell on both sides at the same time.

Whether it is a javelin or a longbow, all of them are one-hit kills, the soldiers on both sides calculate the distance, drop the long-range projection weapons, draw out the long sword and the short knife to kill into a ball, during which the Normans put in two more battlefield assassins, and the Greeks who killed with a sword and a dagger turned on their backs and finally defeated each other.

The remaining cowardly Greeks tried to escape, but they were also shot by Sherwood's marksman, and as soon as they were all together, they stopped their advance, and chose two legged and sharp runners to run back to report the news.

On May 3rd......

Randy calculated that it was less than 60 kilometers away from Naples, and there was a lot of news from the forward scouts, and they began to exchange fire with the opposing reinforcements.

The light infantry of the Eastern Roman Empire using slings and javelins, although in formal large-scale operations, belongs to the kind of auxiliary troops that are better than nothing, but they are quite useful in this kind of small-scale operations.

The next day, Randy ordered the armies of other countries not to send scouts, and the Normans were all responsible for the reconnaissance.

In this way, in the next day's battle, the Catholic coalition army won a complete victory, and all the monarchs except Randy were very happy, but this time nearly two hundred elite troops died, which made Randy very painful.

"The javelin is really convenient, you don't need to pull the bow and wind it, you just have to lean back and throw it forward."

So the next day, the scouts were all replaced by professional Viking warriors common to the Norman kingdom, these guys with light axes in their hands, and in the ensuing skirmish, they beat the Eastern Roman light infantry to the point that they didn't even know their mother.

Javelins are indeed effective at close range, but for a professional Viking warrior wearing heavy chain mail, it is impossible to kill a person if he is not hit, and the axe can cause fatal damage no matter where it hits, because the opponent is not equipped with armor.

At the end of the first round, Randy wins!

Of course, this is just the beginning......

The second round was a regular battle, in which 200,000 troops from both sides gathered on the outskirts of Naples in a radius of tens of kilometers and submitted war letters to each other for the next day.

Because the number of people on both sides is too large to be decided in a single battle, both sides are prepared for a long-term battle.

The Eastern Roman side is not mentioned for the time being, but the Catholic coalition is sending a steady stream of food and grass from France, the Holy Roman Empire, and Northern Italy to the front, which can be said to be the strength of the whole of Europe to support this army, so there is no need to worry about supplies at all.

On May 8, 1103 A.D., the weather was clear and the wind was strong from the west.

This would cause serious errors in projectile weapons, which was not good news for the Catholic coalition with a large number of longbowmen and crossbowmen, especially for the Normans who had become accustomed to charging under the cover of longbows and projectiles in recent times.

Of course, even more sad than the Normans were the armies of Northern Italy, and this wind direction meant that the vast majority of crossbowmen would be incapacitated, even though the guys were armed with the best scale armor and heavy chain mail.

But the Italians are afraid of death!

Invisibly, the battle was in favor of the Greeks from the beginning, but there was nothing that could be done about it.

So let's talk with strength!

Originally, Randy wanted to shout in front of the two armies: "Cuckold dead eunuch." ”

This was used to demoralize the other side, but this proposal was rejected during the military discussion.

The reason is simple, we are crusaders upholding justice, how can we make such a shameless move?

Randy put the top-secret plan on hold for the time being, while Randy still stands on a makeshift tower to command.

Standing here in addition to Randy are his favorite nun Joan of Arc, Norman Archbishop Peter, Death Knight Captain Alpha, in addition to Hildebrand, the representative of the Papal States who participated in the battle, and the mayor of Bologna, Maffeo.

Although these two guys each represent the interests of their own forces in the coalition army, they are two wastes when it comes to commanding the war, and it is completely impossible to go to the battlefield or anything, so they came to the safest place in the entire battlefield with Randy.

(End of chapter)