Chapter 25: The West Dominates England (5)

The more the dwarf King Walder praised Randy, the more ugly William Wallace's face became on the other side, but fortunately, he was also a heroic figure, and he still had this bit of open-mindedness and endurance, but he drank the high-intensity vodka that Randy exchanged.

I spent so much time, cost, and was easily picked by someone, so I wouldn't be in a good mood for anyone, right?!

What's next? Asking the other side to give up Newcastle Castle? But how can such a thing be said?! Tougher on it? Will tough words cause the other party to resent them? What about making the situation unmanageable?

Or soften it a little? But if you say that, will the other side think that the Scots are weak and can be bullied? Damn it!

Wallace thought about it for a long time, and didn't think about how he should speak, but at this time, Randy offered his own conditions.

That's right! This guy was trying to bargain with me for something like this, and ended up swallowing Newcastle Castle, and in that split second, Wallace made the right judgment to imagine Randy as a sinister and cunning bastard.

"It was just an accident, and as for the loot, if you can get someone to point out all of those things, then I have nothing to say, and if not, then please give up this intention, Your Majesty Randy."

Although the words are nice, Wallace actually meant the same thing as a certain character who stole something.

Is this your carrot? If you ask him and he can say yes, then I'll give it back to you.

"300 longbows, 15,000 special cone-headed arrows, and 500 pairs of hard leather armor."

Randy didn't answer the question, but what he meant was obvious, didn't you ask me to quote the number? Then I'll report it to you.

Wallace almost didn't faint after hearing this, this was almost all the bows and arrows and leather armor he had obtained from Hadrian's Wall, he originally thought that his bandit logic was very powerful, but he didn't expect that the other party had stronger tricks to slander people.

"Those supplies...... I will send someone to your military camp as soon as possible! Wallace took a deep breath and said.

"Huh?!"

Randy didn't expect that the other party would be able to accept his blackmail so readily, and even the dwarf king Wald, who was watching the play on the sidelines, was stunned.

In this case, shouldn't the blackmailed party stand up and slap the table? Why did Wallace agree to his own terms?

Randy took a deep breath, but he couldn't grasp the situation and wanted to resolve the conversation directly.

"Lord Wallace, tomorrow you can take over Newcastle directly."

"What? It's true? ”

At this moment, Wallace was the one who was surprised, looking at Randy, who was also crying and laughing opposite, he seemed to understand something, it turned out that everything was too much for himself, in fact, things were simpler than he imagined, and the Norwegians had never thought of occupying Newcastle.

August 23, 1100 A.D.......

Hadrian's Wall, which has defended England for hundreds of years, has changed hands.

When the news reached London, Alfred the Great, who had mobilized the whole country and led an army of 50,000 to reinforce Hadrian, was so dark that he almost fainted, and the entire English army also wailed, and countless English soldiers wept bitterly.

This day is designated as England's National Shame Day!

Alfred the Great in proclaiming the significance of the event in order to motivate the army to fight hard.

In the eyes of a truly good politician, whether it is victory or defeat, it can be used as a topic to motivate the military.

The provisional army of England was divided into two routes, one was the main force of Alfred the Great's personal expedition, and went straight to Yorkshire to set up a second line of defense.

The second route, with nearly a thousand Hobila rangers, light cavalry consisting of mounted sergeants and mounted militiamen, and a mobile army of at least two thousand English longbowmen, advanced along the dense forests of the Western Front.

Raids, behind enemy lines, killing frenzies, plundering frenzies,

A small but absolutely superior army made its way through the reckless bush of Cumbria into the heart of Scotland.

Soon the interior of Scotland was alarmed, and the capital Edinburgh was alarmed three times a day, and many noble ministers took the opportunity to propose to Kenneth I to renew the treaty with the English, and they could accept it when they saw it.

Kenneth I was in a dilemma, not knowing how to decide, such a situation in the country, indirectly affected the Scottish army on the front line, a total of more than 20,000 Scottish troops, with their brave attitude and fierce combat momentum that is not afraid of death, let Randy and Wald look high.

"What good cannon fodder! It's a shame to leave it alone. ”

Randy and Wald tried to persuade the Scottish commander William Wallace to write a letter to Afce I.

However, because of the language barrier between the two sides, a special translator was needed to translate for Kenneth I, and the matter was a little troublesome, and the pros and cons were stated, and repeated examples proved that England was indeed a bad neighbor of Scotland, although Scotland had achieved a temporary victory, but England's power was still there, and if it was not eradicated in time, when England's strength was restored, Scotland would never be at peace.

The tendency of hatred of England in Scotland was equally obvious, and the number of the main war faction was no less than that of the main faction, and they were very arrogant, opening up nationalism and patriotic spirit, and dressing themselves up as if they were people with lofty ideals, which was quite deceptive, and at the same time, the anonymous subordinates of the spies also made it clear the situation of the enemy army that had secretly infiltrated Scotland.

"This man's name is Edward, and he holds six titles, the Earl of Chester, the Duke of Normandy, the Duke of Cornwall, the Duke of Aquitaine, the Prince of Wales, and Edward IV, and is now Chinese New Year's Eve six years old, and is rumored to be the strongest longbowman commander in England at present."

After listening to the spy's intelligence, Randy basically understood that this guy was the legendary British general who was the most powerful and cruel British general in the Hundred Years War between Britain and France, and the black prince who led the longbowmen to repeatedly inflict heavy losses on the French heavy cavalry, Edward!

However, because of the butterfly effect caused by Randy's crossing, Edward IV did not have much to do with England, although his mother was English, and according to his relatives, he still called Alfred an uncle, but his fief ......

The Duchy of Normandy and the Duchy of Aquitaine were both fiefdoms within the Kingdom of France.

"Is there any agreement between him and Alfred? Why did he help the English? Randy asked.

"It is said that Fred made a promise that after defeating us, he would recognize Edward IV's inheritance to the throne of England, and give him all of Wales and Cornwall, and on the above three conditions, Alfred received 5,000 professional troops with extremely strong combat effectiveness in Normandy, as well as Edward's ally."

"Wow! With such conditions, Alfred is bleeding, right? ”

"Alfred had no choice at all, he had no heirs of his own, and Edward was the strongest, most capable of fighting, and the closest to him by blood."

"I know, I will work hard for you to send someone to deliver this information to Scotland."

Nameless nodded, turned and disappeared into the night sky......

Two days later, Kenneth I finally decided to give the order:

Let Wallace choose more than 5,000 troops to return to his home garrison, and defeat, or at least drive out the bandit army led by a certain prince.

And Wallace himself, as well as the main Scottish forces, did not need to return, and could continue to form an alliance with the allies and continue the offensive against England.

Kenneth I's decision made Randy breathe a sigh of relief, and the candidate for cannon fodder was finally decided.

However, only 5,000 Scottish troops, whether they can defeat or expel Edward IV, Randy has great doubts about this, after all, the other party is the famous Black Prince, a famous British historical general, if it is William Wallace himself, maybe there is hope.

On August 28, the fifth day after the capture of Hadrian's Wall......

The Triple Alliance marched towards Yorkshire, an important city in central England.

The Triple Alliance included 8,000 Norwegian Army, 100 engineers, and 10 ballistas, all of which were well-equipped and well-trained regular professional troops, as well as a navy of 3,700 men, hundreds of warships, and 42 light ballistae warships equipped with scorpion crossbows.

The Dwarven army of 21,000 men, all armed with heavy armor, makes it impossible to tell whether it is a regular army or a makeshift conscription of dwarven infantry, including according to Randy's spies, the Dwarves are configured as follows:

Elite Dwarven Warriors, Dwarven Phalanx Infantry, is the strongest force of the Dwarves, numbering about 1,500 people, all equipped with plate chain composite armor, heavy spears, throwing axes, battle axes and large shields, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of Randy's professional Viking warriors.

The Dwarven Tomahawk Commando, an elite dwarven assault warrior armed with a long-handled tomahawk, is mainly selected based on legs, and the length of the legs is given priority, because they can run faster.

Such a force of 1,000 men in total, also equipped with composite armor with a plate and chain, as well as a two-handed battle axe, according to the description of the spy who saw the first Hadrian siege, such a two-handed axe warrior was much stronger than the Viking Death Strike Warrior carefully cultivated by Randy.

Dwarven heavy crossbowmen, elite warriors armed with all-steel crossbows, armed with battle axes and round shields, and heavy chain mail, can be used in long-range melee combat, totaling 2,500 men. Visually, it's a cut above Randy's current strongest ranged crossbowman.

“………………”

When Randy heard that all the dwarven classes were stronger than him, he couldn't control the urge in his heart anymore, and jumped up and punched the eyeless spy down, causing the two guard knights to drag him out and beat him.

The Spy Leader swallowed his saliva namelessly, cautiously walked over to Randy's side, and reported the situation.

"Next is the largest number of 5,000 dwarven professional soldiers, and the total number of dwarven conscription militia of more than 10,000 people, but their equipment is the same, chain mail, helmets, small round shields and battle axes, and the combat effectiveness should be similar to that of Viking soldiers!"

As soon as Randy heard Nameless say this, he nodded with satisfaction, and began to calculate in his heart, the dwarf army is sufficient, well-equipped, very professional, and the ability to siege the city is very outstanding, no wonder the dwarf king Wald patted his chest and boasted to himself, saying that he didn't need the help of the Norwegians, and he could destroy all the countries of the British Isles with his own army.

Compared with the elite professional army of the dwarves, the Scottish army, which is also in its early 20,000s, belongs to the miscellaneous army, except for a small number of noble warriors and a small number of regular troops in the Scottish Highlands, the rest of the nearly 20,000 troops are not equipped with armor, and even the weapons are very rudimentary, Randy even saw some stinking highland warriors, holding a wooden stick picked up from nowhere, and roared into the battlefield.

However, although the equipment of the Scottish army is simple, in the era of cold weapons in the Middle Ages, morale, which is invisible and tangible, but real, is the key factor affecting victory or defeat, and these fierce and fierce highland peoples seem to be much stronger in combat than conscripted peasants.

This is the main reason why Randy sees them as good cannon fodder!

Of course, after removing these tragic highland militias with big sticks, Scotland still has some excellent troops.

The high and low swordsman, armed with the legendary Scottish two-handed sword, according to no name, he once saw the training of several highland swordsmen, the thick log with the mouth of the bowl becomes two halves when the sword goes down, presumably it will be very smooth to cut off people's heads on the battlefield.

Highland axes, who are more brutal and brutal than highland swordsmen, do not require stronger skills, as long as they are tiger-backed and slash forward, although due to the weight of the axe itself, the attack speed of highland axes is slightly worse.

Highland pikemen, the reason why William Wallace became famous back then was that they relied on the super-long spear phalanx formed by the mountain people who did not even wear a piece of leather armor on the body of these pillboxes and went to the battlefield with a long pole, and directly shook the feat of the English iron cavalry.

Highland archers, the people who are not strong enough really can't get crossbows, and the highlanders don't seem to have much to do with longbows, so the equipment in the hands of highland archers is similar to that of Norse archers, but they don't have defensive armor such as helmet chain mail, and melee weapons such as sophisticated hand axes.

In this circle, although the Scots' troops are a little worse, their combat effectiveness is still considerable, but the remaining number is really ......

After the battle of Hadrian's Wall, plus a group of Scottish regular troops transported to the country, the rest of the people are all William Wallace's heart, and it must not be so easy to deceive.

The total number of troops of the Triple Alliance is more than 50,000, of which more than 60% are regular troops, and the dwarven infantry, coupled with the Viking warriors with a large base of Randy, are much stronger than the regular army of ordinary countries, so that the actual combat ability of these 50,000 people is much higher than that of 50,000 in the general sense.

According to the preliminary statistics of the spies, more than 80% of the 50,000 troops in England were temporarily conscripted strong men, as well as the rabble supported by local nobles, and the real regular army was definitely no more than 10,000.

According to the analysis of the data, the three-nation alliance has an absolute advantage.

But the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and who knows the final outcome?

(End of chapter)