"Hurry up and push their ladder down, prepare stones and oil, and stone them."

Seeing that the situation was critical, Lufus couldn't help shouting, the knight of the guard took out the horn and blew it, and at the same time, many heralds ran away quickly, those soldiers recruited by Enides naturally knew the meaning of the horn, but those temporarily conscripted militiamen did not have such ability, so they had to use heralds to convey orders.

After Lufus gave such an order, soon the same rapid trumpet sound came from the towers on the gate towers of other city walls, and then a large number of stones were carried up the city wall by the peasant soldiers, and smashed down with all their might, the Normandy city wall was eight meters high, equivalent to the height of several floors, such a height was enough to shatter a person's brain, even those professional soldiers with iron helmets, most of them would smash their cervical vertebrae with a click.

The Normans also had a slight difficulty in dealing with the opposing ladder.

Under the French siege ladder, there are many French soldiers supporting the ladder, and the slope of the ladder itself makes the ladder almost thousands of pounds of strength, and it is difficult for the Norman defenders to push.

The opposing soldiers were getting closer and closer, and before Lufus could give the order, the defenders on the city walls already had a new way.

Large stones are smashed down, although the opponent's head is covered by a shield, but it can't block the impact of the stone, and if you fall into a pile of people, it will be even worse, not to mention a bunch of comrades, and it is very likely to be pierced through the body by the tip of the spear erected by your comrades, and die in the hands of your own people in a daze.

Smash the French soldier at the top, and the French soldier below has already been prepared, sticking his hands and feet to the ladder and not moving, so that although he is taken by the person above, he can still continue to climb up after just swaying for a while.

Little by little, the French soldiers approached the city walls, until a large vat of boiling oil poured down.

"Ahhh!!!hhh

The boiling oil penetrated the armor of the French soldiers, blew their bodies, and scorched their skin, and the terrible pain was unbearable for anyone.

Liquids diffuse much more than solids, and the cauldron of oil covered much larger than the rocks, and only the French soldiers below could be heard screaming in unison.

"Set fire!"

Lufus's heart was like a stone, completely ignoring the screams of the opposing soldiers, and coldly gave orders.

As a series of torches were thrown down, the walls were covered in flames, and the French soldiers, drenched in boiling oil, howled and rolled in pain, their bodies twisted, shrunk, and unable to move.

The entire Normandy castle was shrouded in a wall of flames, and the French army was demoralized and fled in disarray, during which many Norman crossbowmen were killed.

The enemy's first siege ended in failure, and very few French soldiers could reach the city, and soon two or three thousand corpses were left behind.

The fate of the French soldiers killed in the siege was extremely miserable, under the crossbow arrows, stones, boiling oil, flames, and constant attacks, not even a single corpse could be found, especially those soldiers who died in the fire, their faces were completely disfigured, and the four hideous horrors can be imagined, and you can imagine what kind of pain they suffered before they died!

There was a boiling over the walls of Normandy......

The walls of Normandy were bleak......

Over the next few days, the French army attacked several more times, but all of them were broken by Loufus, and the Normandy castle remained strong, much to the dismay of Charles and Philip.

That night, the Duke of Burgundy and the King of France, after a long consultation, agreed that such a forced attack was not the way to go, and that tactics should be changed.

If the siege is adopted, it will be too protracted and too variable, and perhaps the enemy reinforcements will arrive just halfway through the siege.

So...... How about buying and wooing?

But the success rate of this method is not very high!

The other side is obviously able to hold on to its own multiple attacks, and it is not that there are no reinforcements, there is no such thing as running out of ammunition and food, and there is no such thing as being isolated and helpless.

Then if you want to win over the other party, you have to invest a lot of bargaining chips, such as directly canonizing Loufus as the Duke of Normandy, if you really do this, then the launch of this war will become meaningless.

Therefore, this is also a more likely way, but you should also try it, and try to lure it with a blank check first, maybe you can get better results.

Just as the two kings had made up their minds, they saw a guy next to him who had been ignored by them, wearing black armor and looking a little old, snorted coldly:

"It seems that the ability of the two of them is only so high, it's really disappointing!"

As soon as these words came out, they immediately angered the kings of France and Burgundy.

Philip II is nicknamed the fox, and he still has basic cultivation, but the bold Charlie can't stand this guy's words, so he directly slapped the table, pointed at the guy and yelled: "Then what good idea do you have?" Defeated by the Vikings! ”

That's right! This man is Edward IV, Duke of Aquitaine, who owed Randy a large amount of money and was so crushed that he almost hanged himself, speaking of which, in this coalition, he also has a share of 20,000 people, but Philip and Charlie, who are more huge than their shares, are not worth mentioning at all, plus Edward has suffered a big loss at Randy's hands, so the two kings don't like to deal with him at all.

Edward IV did not take Charles's angry scolding seriously at all, and quietly said his thoughts: "Retreat, send an envoy to apologize, it is better to pay another indemnity, the amount is not too large, but not less." ”

The camp was silent for a few seconds, and then the two kings erupted in sarcastic remarks, and Charles described Edward's cowardice with all the foul language he could imagine.

"Dan little ghost, if you want to lick that Viking's ass, just go ahead, I really can't figure it out, how can there be such a waste like you in the world?"

After Charlie said this, he walked out, and Philip snorted softly, intending to leave as well.

"Do you think I'm a coward and a fool too?" Before Philip left, Edward asked.

"No, no, no, you're brave, at least you used to be."

Philip II's territory was adjacent to Edward IV, whether it was Normandy or Aquitaine, Philip II had dealt with Edward before he became king of France, so Philip knew more about Edward than Charles.

"If we really do what you say, we will definitely be despised by all European royal families!"

"But that's at least better than destroying the country and destroying the species!"

"That's absolutely impossible."

"Where do you get your confidence?"

Edward IV questioned, but Philip II had already walked out of the tent and never looked back.

For 25 days, the castle of Normandy was as solid as a rock, standing extremely strong in the northwest of France, and there was no sign of imminent fall.

On the contrary, the French army lost tens of thousands, and although Charles and Philip tried their best to save and boost morale, the effect was not obvious.

The war has entered a turning period, the French coalition army has not had expectations, can be able to capture Normandy in a short time, but changed to besiege, 90,000 troops will besiege Normandy, and at the same time send a small force to harass the posture of imminent siege, day and night to harass the Normandy defenders, so that the Normandy defenders are highly nervous, and they can't rest well, so as to achieve the effect of fatigue.

July is a fleeting month, and even August is a little more than halfway over.

After Randy settled the people in Finland and recruited 2,000 Finnish light cavalry, he returned to southern Scandinavia, and at the same time, Norman's 50,000-strong army had been renovated and could go out at any time, but Randy was concerned about diplomacy with Novgorod and Moscow, so he did not immediately send troops to Normandy, but kept writing to Artoria to inquire about the development of the war.

Naturally, the development of the war is very good!

When the Norman and Celtic coalition destroyed Breton with lightning speed, the French coalition was still kept in the dark, and it was not until Artoria's 50,000-strong army went east with a overwhelming force and directly broke the French first-line camp that the other side reacted.

This can't be that Philip II, the king of France, is a fool, just a habitual mistake, like Aaron II of Brittany, Philip II also felt that the other side's reinforcements would land from Normandy from north to south, so the first to bear the brunt of the Burgundian occupying the northwest side, so when arranging the area for which the two sides were responsible, Philip II played a trick, and the vast majority of the ranger outposts of the French coalition army were also deployed in the north, and the number of ranger outposts in other areas was far inferior, Security is also extremely lax.

Artoria temporarily changed the line of attack, made a detour and then pit the opponent hard, and the effect was surprisingly good.

The Norman queen pulled down her face, and the degree of shamelessness was not low, and she did not mean to submit a battle letter at all to agree on the time to fight, but directly used light cavalry as the main force, supplemented by heavy cavalry, and a large number of light infantry forcibly attacked such tactics and charged the enemy.

The camp of the French was chaotic, jugglers, hawkers, warblers, all could move around the barracks, and the whole barracks were like the noisy farmer's market, where the soldiers were lazily basking in the sun, grabbing the lice on their bodies and sending them to their mouths, or pulling cheap girls who negotiated good prices into their tents, and the nobles were watching juggling, and some were gathering together to eat and drink, and talk about the current situation.

Under such circumstances, Artoria's cavalry arrived, and the vanguard was a group of lightly armed cavalry and a cavalry militia recruited by England, a total of about 800 men, these cavalry were not very strong in combat, Artoria did not expect much from them, and the order given was only to raid and harass the enemy as much as possible.

I have to say that this is a very good task, after the sudden enemy attack, except for a small number of veterans who reacted at the first time, the vast majority of the conscripted peasants, including most of the nobles, did not know what was happening, until a terrible scream!

"Enemy Attack !!!!"

After that, the whole barracks were in chaos.

It was still daytime, and if things continued like this, France, with an army of forty or fifty thousand, would definitely be able to expel or even kill all these light cavalry in a very short time.

But then, the opposing heavy cavalry arrived!

The noble knights of England and Brittany, forming a feudal knightly force, joined forces with the Celtic knights of Artoria, and the hoplites of nearly 700 men followed closely behind and launched a charge, crushing the thousands of French who had managed to gather.

Artoria took the lead, slashing horizontally with her sword, and no one was her match.

The generals under her command were twice as many as Randy, and they were still a peerless general, and this round of charging was much stronger than Randy's situation in the Władysław barracks, rushing all the way to the center of the barracks.

"What's going on?"

Unlike Władysław, Philip II's tent was located right in the middle of the barracks, and the young king of France, who had just ascended the throne, turned pale and clutched the chest of one of his attendants and shouted.

"Hurry up and run away! Your Majesty, the Normans are going to kill you. The squire was not very bold, and persuaded Philip to flee.

"Damn! Where the hell did they come from? What about the Burgundians? Were the Burgundians defeated? ”

To this day, Philip II still thinks that the other party has landed from the north, and he really can't understand that the Burgundians together have thirty or forty thousand, and they are all gone, so how many enemy troops are there? Lakh? Two hundred thousand? Or is it more?

"What do you want to do now? Hurry up, Your Majesty! The squire shouted eagerly, and when he heard the shouts of killing getting nearer and nearer, Philip II gritted his teeth, stepped on his horse, and said:

"Retreat, let's go back to Paris!"

With the french fleeing from the King of France, the entire French army was left without a single person qualified to command the French army to put up effective resistance.

No! Perhaps another, that is, Edward IV, Duke of Aquitaine.

However, Edward was much more clever than Philip, and he was prepared for the first step, not only successfully escaping himself, but also sparing tens of thousands of Aquitaineans.

At the same time, when the Normandy defenders heard the enemy attack on the southwest flank, Lufus immediately opened the city gates and sent 2,000 professional Viking warriors to attack.

The war was out of control, and when tens of thousands of light infantry from the Norman and Celtic coalition attacked violently, almost the entire French military camp was leveled.

The battle has been decided!

The Norman-Celtic coalition led by Artoria defeated the French coalition and successfully relieved the siege of Normandy Castle.

The Burgundians watched the whole process coldly, and had no intention of helping.

Charles, Duke of Burgundy, watched his allies fall, but did not send a single soldier, only garrisoned his camp to the death, and quietly withdrew that night.

At this point, the entire Battle of Normandy ended.

France became the biggest loser in this battle......

Aquitaine does not lose much and is within the acceptable range......

During the siege of Burgundy, it lost thousands of soldiers and horses......

However, the Norman kingdom, under the leadership of Artoria, achieved an unprecedented victory, Artoria's prestige soared, and after appeasing the Norman people and nobles, he made it his mission to conquer all of France.

(End of chapter)