Chapter 24: The West Dominates England (4)
The battle inside Newcastle City has begun......
The Norwegian knights, tomahawk cavalry, and patrol cavalry, although they all lost their mobility advantages, their equipment was much stronger than that of the spear sergeants who were only equipped with leather armor, wooden shields, and spears.
At present, Newcastle City has only a few small armed forces, and the total number of them is only 1,200 people.
The sudden surprise attack, followed by the complete collapse of the city defenses, caused a lot of morale damage to the English, but they still held on, and still did not collapse, and in the streets of the castle, there were some spontaneously organized English armed forces fighting hard to retake the city gate and reorganize the defenses.
However, the Norwegian cavalry had already occupied the city gates, and it was even more difficult to recapture them.
On one side are elite heavy professional units wearing heavy chain mail, composite armor, and heavy battle axes.
On the other side, there were light infantry with uneven personnel, few men wearing armor, and weapons with spears and wooden shields, although they had the advantage in numbers, they could not exert their numerical advantage at all in the narrow terrain of the staircase, and were suppressed by the Norwegians.
After several failed charges, the stairs up and down the city walls were completely stained red with the blood of the defenders, and the internal organs lubricated the stairs and crunched when stepped on, and the defenders were demoralized and could no longer organize an effective attack.
Then the main forces of the Norwegian army swarmed in, and the English defenders could no longer hold on, completely crumbling,
With the deafening cheers at the gates and the approaching footsteps of the army, the English defenders, who were barely organizing their defenses in the streets to resist the cavalry attack, were in shock, and many of the quicker ones had begun to find a way out for themselves.
"Kill them all? No, no, no! Let's take as many prisoners of war as possible! ”
Randy's order was a slight disappointment to many Viking warriors who were ready to plunder.
"Host, did you choose to take the city?" Enides' voice rang out at that moment.
"No, this is my reliable ally in the covenant, and the Scots should have it, so how could I possibly take it for myself?" Randy shook his head, and staggered towards Newcastle Castle under the cover of the Guards Knights.
"The meaning of the host...... Is it to win the trust of people? ”
"Almost! The Scots still have value in use, to put it mildly, I only have 10,000 Norwegian troops, and without the help of Scotland, it is absolutely impossible to eat the whole of England. ”
As Randy spoke, he unknowingly came to the Inner Fort, which was the only territory in England after the two layers of Newcastle walls were all lost, and the Inner Fort, which could only accommodate a few hundred defenders, became the only territory controlled by England.
"It's a rare opportunity, let's see if we can recruit these guys!" With a wave of Randy's hand, the Norse archer pulled his bow and replaced it with a rocket.
"Give you a chance to surrender, if not, the rockets will wait!" Randy shouted to the people inside the castle in a lazy, extremely annoying tone.
But can this really be successful?
In the face of Randy's persuasion, the Inner Fort did not respond at all......
Nothing responded, and something wasn't quite right, but just as Randy was about to ride his horse closer, a long arrow sliced through the sky and shot at his head.
At the same time that Randy was stunned, the guard knights around him had already moved, and the two guard knights on the left and right merged the vulture shield together and blocked it in front of Randy, and the long arrow was nailed to the vulture shield with a bang, and the tail of the arrow was still shaking and trembling.
"Ding-dong! Host follower +1, [Shield Guard] personal safety +2, "
The other party's actions completely infuriated Randy, who had been waiting for the impatient Norse archers to start firing arrows under Randy's orders......
Suddenly, a round of fire rain fell from the sky!!!
And then there was no then......
screams, and the strange smell of meat wafted in,
"Huh...... Hahaha...... The front army rested here for three days before marching on Hadrian's Wall. ”
That night, the so-called cultivation was actually similar to a carnival.
Because the inner fort, which is the most well-equipped, was burned to ashes by Randy's order, Randy still lives in the barracks and sleeps on hard beds with other Viking warriors.
Although it was the middle of the night, the Viking warriors' revelry had not stopped, and Randy went back to the barracks early to rest under the pretext that he was too drunk.
Lying on the bed, Randy begins to calculate......
This expedition to England began in July and is now close to September.
Although he slaughtered several cities, burned dozens of villages, and eliminated thousands of enemy troops, the progress was still not enough, and England was still strong, and it was not broken at all.
Looks like I still need to work hard!
In such an era, the idea of a modern state has not yet been formed, and there are almost no patriots, but it seems that it is not easy to swallow up a territory that does not belong to you at all.
"At the end of the day, you still have to use violence!"
Forget it, it's getting late now, let's go to bed first, it's not a big deal anyway, I'll think about it when I have time in the future, I really can't think of it, I'll leave it to future generations to think about, at least Randy firmly believes that while he is alive, the country he founded will only continue to grow stronger, at least until he dies.
However, maybe after his death, the empire he created will fall apart! Just like the great Alexander.
Thinking about it like this, Randy gradually fell asleep,
The next day the English were surprised to find themselves surrounded.
"When did the enemy come around behind us?"
After the Englishman jumped for a while, he saw that Randy deliberately placed it in front of his eyes, and let him see the Newcastle trophies, as well as those blood-stained flags and overcoats, all of which were embroidered with the coat of arms of the Earl of Newcastle, this kind of thing must not be forged in a short time, and people will not be idle to forge this kind of thing.
That is, Newcastle has fallen? Our back road is cut off!
"A bunch of idiots! Let them be a little quieter. Randy said as he looked at the Englishmen jumping on Hadrian's Wall.
1,800 crossbowmen quickly stepped forward, and a volley of arrows sent Hadrian's Wall even more chaotic......
Normally, the English longbowmen should have already reacted, although they are slightly smaller in number than Randy's ranged troops, but in terms of quality, they are much stronger than Randy's ranged projection troops, and Randy will definitely not bargain for each other.
"Quiet! Don't mess around! Don't mess around! ”
The English commander shouted, but because the nobles and knights who served as junior officers had been lost in the previous charge, the English people were now seriously underorganized, although the remaining knights and noble commanders shouted hoarsely and tried their best to control the chaotic situation, but with little success.
All of these efforts were eventually crushed by the combined forces of the Dwarves and Scots on the other side.
After two rounds of stone projectiles, the combined forces of the Dwarves and Scots scrambled to rush forward at a frantic speed like reincarnation.
Last night, Randy made the parkour master anonymous and took a detour to the Coalition barracks.
After hearing that the Norwegians easily took Newcastle, the dwarves were fine, after all, they were only here to take revenge, not to grab territory, but the Scots were a little unable to sit still.
Originally, according to the covenant between Randy and Kenneth, Northumberland and Cumbria, two territories adjacent to Socrates, were to be assigned to Scotland.
The Norwegians went all the way south, and the Scots thought they were fighting the territory assigned to them in the treaty, but who knew that the final result was that Randy instantly killed a horse pistol, and easily took Newcastle City, the most important city in the Northumberland region, when the Scots and dwarves fought to the death in front of Hadrian.
How can this be embarrassing?
According to the character of the Scottish, whoever fights will be the one who will be killed, so should Newcastle City be handed over to the Norwegians? I fought life and death in front of me, in order to make wedding dresses for others?
This is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that after the Norwegians captured Newcastle and cut off the back road of Hadrian's Wall, it is not a dream for the Norwegians to capture Hadrian's City, after all, one side is against the enemy, and the other side is against their own people, and the design is definitely different, attacking from south to north and attacking from north to south, that is completely two different concepts, the former is called cutting butter, and the latter is called hitting the wall.
If the Norwegians control Hadrian's Wall again, the consequences will be unimaginable!
When Wallace thought of this, he was extremely afraid.
To put it mildly, although the Scots and the dwarves have gotten along well in the past two days, if there is any conflict between the Scots and the Norwegians, the dwarves will certainly not be on their side.
So now you have to rely on yourself?
Wallace let out a long sigh and agreed to Nameless's request for a coordinated attack, but his heart was ruthless.
MD! Even if I had to bite with my mouth, I would take Hadrian's Wall before the Norwegians.
Seeing that the Scottish allies were so brave and so fearless of death, the dwarven warriors were a little stunned, when they attacked Hadrian's Wall before, they had never seen the Scots so fierce? Could it be that I have knocked the medicine?
But in any case, seeing that their allies were so fierce, the dwarves also showed a desire to compare, and rushed forward one by one.
But strictly speaking, the Scots don't have to work so hard.
Even if it were easier to attack Hadrian's Wall from the south, at least one condition would be required, and that would be if Randy was actually ready to attack and had the ability to take it.
The Scots in the north have the help of the dwarves, and they are born with a mechanical level of 10, and all the people in the entire race are craftsmen + miners, but Randy does not have such good conditions.
With only 10 ballistas and 100 engineers, Randy was fine for a dozen small cities, but it was absolutely impossible to attack a large fortification like Hadrian's Wall.
But the Scots don't know what Randy is all about!
Similarly, the English don't know Randy's details!
So they are tragic......
Although the dwarves are also charging forward very hard, they are wearing heavy armor, and their figures are very tragic three-headed bodies, and they can't outrun the normal seven-headed bodies anyway, and * the Scots who wear only skirts with their upper bodies.
At this time, the English finally reacted, or were thundered by the Scottish group of people with only one skirt on their bodies, and then they felt that the existence of this group of guys was polluting the world, so the arrow rain began again.
The Scots were directly tragic......
Randy's army stood outside the effective range of the longbow, fiddling with their ballistas.
Although it is impossible to be the protagonist, it is better to run around or something than to do nothing, otherwise when Hadrian's Wall is captured, the three alliances will have a party together, and the dwarves will definitely say:
We make a lot of engineering equipment, counterweight catapults, building cars, ladder trucks and other messy things.
And the Scottish people can say:
We ran naked in front of the enemy wearing only skirts, showing off our strong pectorals.
So what should the Norwegians say? Say we played soy sauce for half a day?
With the assembly of the engineers, ten ballistae were ready!
This was followed by a volley, which directly took more than a dozen lives on the city wall.
The English were once again aware that they were now under attack, and that the Vikings who had emerged from the rear had weapons that could easily kill them.
In just an instant, the English collapsed.
All the English soldiers scrambled and screamed, throwing off their armor and running down Hadrian's Wall, or jumping and jumping off were almost dead, but those who ran down were running in the direction of Randy.
"Arrest them all, especially the ones with fancy clothes and messy coats of arms."
As soon as Randy gave the order, the Viking army rushed forward.
But fortunately, the Vikings are not the kind of scum who say that they will shoot and not kill, and we treat our captives favorably while firing at the enemy, so the vast majority of the English survived, although some of the English resisted fiercely, and at most they were only punched twice.
However, the point is that while the Vikings captured the captives, they opened several gates of Hadrian's Wall by the way, and at the same time the dwarves also ran over with small short legs.
But who do the Scots think they are? Spider-Man? Able to climb Hadrian's Wall with bare hands?
But one way or another, Hadrian's Wall finally fell.
Although there were some skirmishes between the forces of the Triple Alliance when they were fighting for the spoils of war, they were generally able to maintain harmony.
It's weird!!!!!
Nowadays, the Scots look at the Norwegians as if they were eating people.
Although the Scots are savage, they are not cannibals, right?
Randy thought as he quietly wiped his sweat, and at the same time almost understood in his heart why the Scots were unfriendly.
It's just a Northumberland area, a small ruined city, as far as it goes?
It was customary that the victorious side had to celebrate the victory, and to celebrate the victory, there was a banquet, and to have a banquet, it was necessary to eat and drink.
Do the Scottish barbarians know what wine is?
Randy has the latest beer from a research institute!
The lads ate bacon flatbreads and drank beer, and the bigwigs ate crispy chicken, steaks, truffles and white bread, fruit salad and the like.
Of course, everything was provided by Randy, and some even had to be exchanged in Enides, but it was a rare victory, and a little generosity was nothing.
Unconsciously, the Scottish hatred for the Norwegians dissipated a lot.
"Lord Wallace, your soldiers seem to have robbed our spoils of war during the day, don't you want to give some explanation to defuse these unpleasant things?"
Seeing that the atmosphere at the banquet was not very good, of course, between Randy and Wallace, the dwarf king Walder was completely unhindered, munching on the steak while laughing and praising Randy's tactical ingenuity.
"I really don't know how you came up with it, seeing that London is already close at hand, but suddenly turning back, and taking Newcastle and Hadrian's Wall without saying a word, that guy Alfred should be mad, right!?"
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