"Host, you can think of it this way, when your technology level is enough, won't you be able to save a lot of construction costs and construction time?"

"Nope! I think that when my technology gets to that point, a little bit of construction cost doesn't matter at all, and as for the construction time...... I think it took longer to ship troops to the continent. Randy sighed.

"So, what if you ship the army to North America?" Enides said.

"What do you mean......"

"The range of Vikings in history, host, think about it, what are the other places you haven't been?"

"The five Nordic countries are now in my hands, the British Isles are also occupied by me, the Duchy of Normandy in France is now mine, the Baltic Sea is my next target, and the rest is ...... The New World of America? ”

After Enides' reminder, Randy realized that the outpost in Iceland was still of such a use.

"But across the sea from Greenland and Iceland is neither the vast North America nor the Caribbean Sea, which has a pleasant climate, but Canada, which has a climate very similar to that of Northern Europe."

"Host, can't you just order the fleet to go a little further?"

"For at least a year and a half, should I be asked to emulate the system of governors plus the administration of overseas colonies? This thing has a very strong tendency to be independent, so don't make a bamboo basket when the time comes. ”

Prior to this, Randy had asked Enides about the fact that the region's independence tendencies and popular satisfaction were directly related to the distance of the country's capital, simply put, the farther away the distance, the greater the independence tendency, and if you add the pit father's predatory overseas colony management method and the governor system, it would be good to say that once he died, these overseas territories would immediately fall apart.

This conversation with Enides ended like many times before, and Randy finally didn't decide to continue expanding in the direction of the New World, where people are not familiar with the land, and if they don't know, they will be caught and gnawed by cannibals.

It's more reliable to continue to fight Sweden!

September......

After sending the reluctant nobles away, Randy gathered his forces here, and the main force plus the newly recruited Nordic native guard troops, nearly 30,000 troops bypassed the Norwegian Black Forest and Scandinavia, and marched from the coastal areas at the southern tip of the peninsula, both by sea and land, gradually approaching Stockholm, which had been blockaded by the navy for a long time.

Sweden, like other Nordic countries, has an underdeveloped agriculture and relies on fishing to obtain food, but the long coastal blockade has made Swedish fishermen afraid to go out to sea to fish, and Sweden can organize some people to go to the forest to get meat before the arrival of Randy's land army, but this will also block the road, and now Gustav has begun to think about the food rationing system.

In addition, Randy has also made some progress in diplomacy, after the battle on the outskirts of Oslo, coupled with the blockade of Norway and Finland in the past two months, various countries along the Baltic Sea coast have also seen that Sweden is going to be unlucky this time, coupled with the attraction of Norwegian diplomats, on September 4, Novgorod and the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania finally officially announced an alliance with Norway and declared war on Sweden.

Novgorod's 40,000-strong army marched straight to Finland in the hope of occupying all of Finland in the hope of occupying the entire territory of Finland, while the other advanced to the Pskov region in preparation for the recovery of the country.

The United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania was not ambiguous, and its 35,000 troops, including 10,000 lightly armed cavalry, attacked the two cities of Vilnius and Riga, preparing to unify the three Baltic states.

Speaking of which, there is another sad country here, the Teutonic Knights.

Since the defeat at the Battle of Lake Chud to Novgorod and the Battle of Tannenberg to the United Kingdom, large territories have been annexed, and a large number of soldiers and knights have been killed.

At this moment, the Teutonic Knights have long lost their hegemony on the Baltic coast, and his godfather, the Holy Roman Empire, is in the midst of a civil war, so he has no time to deal with it, and the Teutonic Knights have long been reduced to a third-rate country.

Although he also wanted to take this opportunity to join the Triple Alliance and beat the water dogs, he was not allowed to play at all, so the Teutonic Knights thought twice and still did not dare to declare war with the Swedes.

Stripped of an indifferent knightly state, Sweden is still embattled.

The Three Kingdoms Alliance Army and the Four Routes Army combined, a total of more than 100,000 horses, but the Swedish king could only be trapped in Stockholm, and it was too dangerous to go on like this.

However, there is a problem here, the alliance of the three countries only states that they will work together against Sweden, and does not explain the distribution of territory after the victory over Sweden, but in the eyes of the leaders of the other two countries, this is a tacit matter.

Norway gets Sweden proper!

The United Kingdom acquires the territories of the three Baltic states!

Novgorod gets the cessed territories!

But what about Finland?

And the task given by Enides, and what Randy has to do, is to unify the entire Baltic coast, so in fact, the other two countries are also Randy's targets.

So, inside Stockholm, a conspiracy began......

After revealing and confirming his identity, the diplomat No. 17 talked eloquently in front of Gustav, looking back on the past, feeling the present, looking forward to the future, and listening to the Swedish nobles around Gustav stunned.

But Gustav was not fooled!

"To sum up, my monarch has always paid attention to the common prosperity and common development of Northern Europe, and there is indeed a little unpleasantness between Norway and Sweden, but this is just a tributary, and now the mainstream form of Northern Europe is ......" The diplomat said on the 14th, and his words were interrupted by the other party.

"War!"

Gustav's countenance, flickering under the flickering torches, was so gloomy that the others had no idea what he was thinking.

"That's right! It's war! Your Majesty, I've said a lot of it, but what do you mean? ”

"No vassals, no land, no tribute,"

"If this is what Your Majesty means, then there is no need to talk about it, to be honest, the conditions of my lord are not big, he just wants Riga, Vilnius, and two territories that do not belong to Sweden, and there is no indemnity, let alone a vassal, and the two sides are about fraternal allies, regardless of size, and they are united with the outside world."

Seriously, Randy's offer this time was indeed very low, which surprised even Gustav, and even felt that if this was the case, it would not be a big deal to promise him.

But the more this happened, the more Gustav felt that something was wrong.

A smart person thinks more than ordinary people, and Gustav is a smart person, so he thinks more.

Is there any conspiracy on the other side to put forward such conditions when victory is in sight?

Or is the opposing army running out of food to eat?

Or is the territory of the other side rebellious?

Gustav decided to think again, as a king, he naturally had his own channels of information, and the guy who did some shady things for himself, and he decided to wait a little longer, until everything was clear.

Diplomat No. 14 came out of Stockholm without danger, and truthfully reported the matter to Randy, Randy nodded as he should have done after hearing it, knowing that Gustav had not given up hope, thinking that he still had the ability to defy the sky, as long as he could hold Stockholm for half a year, the Norwegian soldiers were tired, and he would definitely be able to win a big victory, and then go south and north, the United Kingdom and Novgorod were his defeated men, and it was not impossible for him to defeat the three countries alone.

But Randy clearly didn't want to give him that opportunity.

In half a year, the cucumbers and vegetables are cold, and when Novgorod successfully recovers the lost territory, and Poland and Lithuania settle the situation in the Baltic Sea, the situation will become even more difficult, especially since these two countries are close to the Baltic Sea, rely on maritime trade to eat, and both countries have navies, and it is not as simple as blockading Sweden to blockade them.

Since words cannot convince people, then they can only use force.

"Pass the order and let the catapult try to smash the walls of Stockholm within half a month."

Five hundred dwarven craftsmen and human engineers began to work day and night, cutting down a large number of trees and making large counterweight catapults that could be disassembled, and then the army surrounded three and one, hundreds of catapults were projected with a round of stone projectiles, and thousands of catties of large stones fell from the sky, smashing the entire Stockholm to the ground, and the Swedish soldiers and civilians watched a large number of stones falling from the sky, and they all exclaimed the end of the world, like headless flies to turn around.

After three rounds of stone bullets, there was a round of flame bullets!

Randy made a lot of money to make Gustav fully understand the difference in strength between the two sides.

Fire oil, you can't find oil in Scandinavia these days, all of it is animal oil and vegetable oil collected by Randy, the amount of money is very expensive, it is sealed in a crockpot, wrapped in a layer of broken linen and ignited, and when it is thrown out, the crockpot bursts, and the oil inside will burn instantly when it touches the flames.

The whole of Stockholm became a sea of fire, which looked like a huge burning fire cabinet at a glance, and the smoke reached into the sky, and I don't know how much sulphur dioxide pollution it brought to the earth.

Once the oil was burned, it was impossible to douse it with water, but where did people know so much at that time? There were quite a few Swedish soldiers who reacted quickly, carrying buckets of water in smoke, charging towards the fire site, but the fire became more ferocious when the oil floated on the water, and most of the buildings were wooden at this time, so the fire just now was naturally out of control, and even Gustav's royal palace was not spared.

Standing on the balcony of his room, Gustav looked at the terrifying flames of hell below, and sighed: "It's over! ”

At this time, he regretted very much in his heart, why didn't he agree to the other party's peace before, who knew that the retribution would come so quickly?

In mid-September 1101, the Great Fire of Stockholm.

In early October, the fire stopped, and more than half of the military and civilians in Stockholm were killed or wounded.

In the end, perhaps because of God's mercy, a heavy snowfall in Scandinavia finally resolved the plight of Stockholm, and the fire of purgatory in front of Tianwei was finally extinguished.

Under such conditions, the diplomat No. 14 entered Stockholm for the second time.

This time he was greeted by a pair of eyes full of anger, fear, and helplessness.

During this period, there were also many people whose relatives were buried in the fire, and they wanted to rush up and kill him like crazy, but they were all stopped by the Swedish soldiers who greeted him, which made Diplomat No. 14 feel a little ridiculous, and it was really sad that he was actually protected by his own enemies.

In the half-destroyed Swedish royal palace, after a month, the diplomat saw King Gustav Adolf again on the 14th.

I don't know for what reason, His Majesty's originally beautiful beard was burned off, the crown didn't know where it went, and the royal robe on his body also had traces of smoke and fire.

"I have decided to accede to your request!"

Gustav and Diplomat No. 14 were quiet for a while, and finally Gustav was a little impatient, but extremely helpless to say such things.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty! King Randy doesn't need your conditions anymore. ”

Gustav raised his eyebrows, and almost wanted to order the killing, but in the end he forcibly endured, he clearly understood that Sweden did not have the strength to compete with Norway for hegemony now, even if the other party's conditions were harsh, as long as Sweden could continue to exist, this would be enough.

"Say your terms!" Gustav said, clenching his fists.

Diplomat No. 14 nodded implicitly: "King Randy means that in order to show the sincerity of your country's peace, you should take the initiative to give up a part of the land, specifically to the northernmost point of the Clare River, Lake Wiener, and Lake Catern, and the territory at the southern end of it belongs to our country, of course, in order to compensate for your losses, King Randy will pay 20,000 gold coins worth of food, furs, tents and other materials urgently needed by your country, in addition, your country still has to cede the land along the Baltic Sea coast such as Vilnius and Riga to our country, After the signing of the peace treaty, the two countries will be able to forge a bond of friendship forever and go hand in hand. ”

"Looks like Randy isn't a good guy either!" The diplomat mentioned the Baltic coastal land twice on the 14th, and Gustav snorted lightly, already understanding what Randy was going to do next, although the other party wanted to cede all the milder areas in southern Sweden, but the materials that Sweden urgently needed worth 20,000 gold coins were not bad, and this was what Sweden urgently needed now.

On October 15, Sweden and Norway reached a rapprochement!

Unlike Randy's previous extermination, this time the Norwegians returned with a great victory in the city, but only took part of the territory of southern Sweden, as well as the two Baltic coastal cities of Riga and Vilnius, and also pasted back a lot of supplies, and there were even rumors that Randy also secretly assisted Sweden with a large number of weapons and equipment, from plate chain composite armor to longbow war horses, so that the entire Swedish army quickly recovered.

On 6 October, Norway unilaterally summoned the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, presented a partial contract between Norway and Sweden, demanded the return of the city of Vilnius, which was supposed to belong to Norway, and on the same day sent a garrison of three thousand Livonia to prepare to take over the territory.

"That guy, damn scoundrel, scoundrel, shameless!"

After receiving Randy's handwritten letter and the annex to the contract between Norway and Sweden, the current King of the United Kingdom, Władysław II, overturned the table and scolded Randy for his treachery.

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