Chapter 12: The Dragons Rise from Northern Europe (11)

After slaughtering the Viscount's castle without leaving a chicken dog behind, the marching speed of Randy's army was significantly faster, and in Randy's opinion, the group of nobles were all cheap and hard-bitched, soft-eaten-hard-eating bastards.

When they heard that the resistance to the New Nijmegen army would be slaughtered, they were terrified and rushed to Randy's side to show their loyalty, more pugs than pugs.

Although Randy wants to create a country where there are no nobles, or the aristocratic power is extremely weak, it is obvious that his current strength is not enough, and if he really provokes the nobles across the country, it will be really difficult.

But these are not what Randy wants, for these nobles who took the initiative to take refuge, Randy received them very gently, and took out the food that the army would only use to celebrate the victory, held a small banquet, and repeatedly promised that if he could hold the supreme power in Norway, he would definitely ensure that the rights of all nobles in Norway would never waver.

Looking at Randy's sincere gaze, heroic tone, and skillful tongue, all the nobles present listened to Count Randy's words, and only felt that they were intoxicated and couldn't help themselves, and even some impulsive young nobles directly shouted out the words of Long live the Grand Duke.

Randy criticized those nobles on the surface, although the tone was not salty or light, but it made the lords and nobles present understand it thoroughly.

"It seems that this earl does have the idea of inheriting the position of grand duke."

After the banquet, the noble lords from all over the country mobilized again, and gathered nearly 10,000 soldiers to follow the new Nijmegen army, although these temporarily conscripted peasant soldiers were extremely poor in combat, but they were able to fill some numbers, so that the new Nijmegen army did not look so thin.

Is it really good just like that?

Now is the spring ploughing period, the previous battle of Bergen has been delayed for a long time, this will be mobilized and conscripted, spring ploughing will be completely delayed, and places like Northern Europe only have one chance to sow seeds a year, if delayed, it will be dead.

Randy asks his temporary courtiers, only to receive an unexpected answer.

"It's okay, what is a dead person, and when is Norway not dead? There are many displaced people in Europe, and if you die a batch, you just need to collect a batch. ”

The aristocracy did not think about the survival of their serfs at all, and in fact they wished that their serfs would be busy, so busy that they did not have time to think about other things, such as rebellion or something.

Spring! The snow began to melt into the mud, which made the road extremely bad, and it was supposed to take a week for Randy to follow Felix to this side a month ago, but now the New Nijmegen army has been on the march for nearly half a month and still hasn't reached its destination.

Seeing that Enides' war horse was almost exhausted and vomiting blood after a long day's drive, Randy jumped off the horse with a slight complaint, splashing a large pile of mud, making the shiny armor and the white fox fur cloak behind him look like a Dalmatian.

But that's not the worst, on this way to his tent, Randy fell into the mud four times in total, and each time it took several times as much effort to get out, fortunately Randy had exchanged for a high-level physique before, otherwise he really couldn't do it.

"Damn it!"

Seeing his boots sink into the mud again, Randy cursed, moved his feet little by little, and slowly pulled them out.

"This terrible road condition is really unacceptable."

Randy shook the mud off his boots and secretly swore that after he became the Grand Duke of Norway, the first thing he would do was to change the road conditions in the country, and it was naturally impossible to build a highway or anything, but he had to build a road comparable to the Roman road, which must not be difficult for Enides.

And in the past fifteen days, news has also come from Enides.

The light ballista battleship is complete!

Randy thought about it for a while, looking at the construction time of the ballista battleship, it would take a month to build one, but fortunately, three dry docks had been built before New Nijmegen, and each dry dock was fully operational, and two ballista warships could be built, and it would take at most half a year to unify the whole of Norway, which means that he could get more than thirty warships equipped with ballistas, which could carry thirty sailors and transport fifty soldiers at the same time.

In the Middle Ages, such a fleet could definitely dominate the entire North Sea, obtain the sea control of the entire North Sea, and then recruit some other civilian ships and traditional Viking dragon warships, and transport about 10,000 troops It is definitely not a problem.

There is also a group of dwarves, they should also be able to dispatch tens of thousands of troops, if the operation is done properly, it can definitely greatly reduce the casualties of their own army, but the only concern is the seasickness of the dwarves, and the dwarves will not be able to help for a certain period of time after landing.

With such a bad forward speed, there is basically no secrecy, and I don't know who gave that group of Bergen nobles the courage to directly push Olaf III's child, who was less than three years old, to the position of the grand duke, calling him Olaf IV, and rushed over with Bergen's last bit of family wealth.

"No stronghold defense? It seems to be underrated! ”

Randy lamented when he received a report from his patrol cavalry that the other side had gathered an army of about 8,000 men and attacked him.

Three days later, the two armies again faced the outskirts of Bergen......

The Bergen Noble League declared Randy to be a shameless usurper, and Randy claimed to have been appointed by Olaf III, who was the most powerful person to trust Bergen as Prime Minister and to exercise guardianship over Olaf IV.

Of course, these are all nonsense, and the final result still depends on the strength of both sides.

And Randy's strength is quite strong!

The Battle of Bergen, known as the Second Battle of Bergen, begins......

It's just that the warring sides are completely different!

The nominal supreme commander of the defending side was Olaf III, who was less than three years old, but in fact it was a super loose noble grand alliance composed of three counts, six viscounts, twenty barons, plus a hundred or dozens of knights.

And their enemy is the New Nijmegen Army led by Randy!

The Bergen aristocratic coalition marched as usual, and the light cavalry exchanged fire for a while.

Fighting began early in the morning, and the formation of the army began in the morning, and the actual battle was not until noon.

However, the new Nijmegen army on the other side is not the case at all.

Completely ignoring the noble conscription troops who came to him, Randy quickly ordered his direct troops to go into battle after breakfast, and the fully professional army was completely reorganized in only twenty minutes.

In front of the crossbowmen, Viking warriors and Viking soldiers formed a dozen loose arrays, Nordic archers and field orders interspersed, patrol cavalry and tomahawk cavalry covered the two wings, but it was a not very standard infantry and cavalry formation, and then rushed to kill while the opponent was completely unstable.

The opposing aristocratic coalition was still thinking after seeing the new Nijmegen army at first......

Didn't you say that the enemy had almost fifteen thousand? Why does it seem so much less than the legendary? Could it really be God bless my king?

Soon, the group of guys was tragic......

The aristocratic coalition was still in disarray, the poor ground conditions had slowed down their formation again, and there were many tragic conscription militiamen who contributed their shoes to the viscous mud.

It was in this situation that the New Nijmegen Army charged on all fronts,

Amid the melodious sound of the trumpet, the Battlefield Order shouted the name of God with all its might, the crossbowmen in the front row retreated after a round of fire, the Viking army wearing chain mail and holding a round shield of tomahawks swarmed up, and the Nordic archers hidden in it fired a round of rockets, and at the same time, the cavalry on both wings had overtaken the infantry cluster in the center, and turned around the rear flank of the enemy army.

"Forward!"

"Hold on!"

"Charge!"

"Stand back!"

Once again, the superiority of democracy was revealed, with hundreds of aristocrats shouting contradictory orders at their subordinates, making the already chaotic situation worse again.

At this point in the war, the end is already obvious, although it has only been less than half an hour since it began, and the vast majority of Bergen nobles have not even had time to react.

Arrows, crossbows, axes, and flying in the sky made the Bergen army even more chaotic.

The cavalry on both flanks forced their way into the flank, and the Bergen line collapsed in an instant, except for the fifteen most elite berserkers in the center, as well as hundreds of nobles and their guards and heavy shield spearmen, the rest of the omen peasants and spearmen had all begun to flee.

That's a lot of money!

Resurrecting Norway for months, Randy naturally knows how important the population is.

At the sound of an order, 500 cavalry continued to advance, bypassing one of the last high ground held by the enemy, and rushing towards the rout of the army fleeing in all directions.

The war continues......

Even after 100 years, the Europeans at this time said that there were those who were timid and did not like to fight, just like those serfs, but there were also many who died in battle, those who were brainwashed by chivalry, and those mercenaries with professional ethics, they were willing to die for glory, contracts, money.

It's like this......

On that high ground, nearly a thousand enemy soldiers were still holding their positions, and in the face of such adversity, these people were so fierce that they shouted like thunder.

They are well-armed and occupy an advantageous position.

The heavily armed shield spearmen formed a circle, large shields like Roman legions lined up, and spear tips glowing with cold light from behind, and knights and nobles wearing heavy chain mail and holding long swords and vulture shields also dismounted and joined the garrison.

With such a circular formation, it will take a long time to force it through.

Naturally, Randy wouldn't do that, because he had a better way!

A more dishonorable, more shameless, but more effective way!

The name of this method is: Ballista Sugar Gourd......

Those nobles who had taken refuge in Randy and moved slowly had already reacted, and watched the new Nijmegen army beat the opposing aristocratic coalition army to the ground, and turned their faces over one by one.

However, there are still people who think they are smart, and when they see that Randy does not continue to attack, they know that Randy is a soldier who feels sorry for him and is unwilling to attack.

"Earl, if you don't mind, please let your subordinates negotiate with them as an envoy, and your subordinates will definitely be able to talk about the conditions to the minimum." A nobleman volunteered.

"Negotiations?"

"Yes, Count!"

"Negotiation should be something that only appears when the two sides are evenly matched and no one can help anyone?"

"This ......"

The nobleman was speechless for a while, and slandered in his heart: Idiot, is it possible that you want to forcibly eat this pile of soldiers for the sake of face? That's 1,000 soldiers who look at death as if they were home, and even if they are forcibly defeated, the losses will be unacceptable.

The nobleman's eyes rolled and he began to think about changing the court......

Of course, such an idea was only for a moment, because when he saw the engineers quickly equip the ten ballistas, the childish thought disappeared without a trace.

"Verification completed!"

"Ready to launch!"

This time, because it was not a siege, the crossbow arrows used by the engineers were also changed, the metal of the crossbow arrows was made into a triangular pyramid, and there was no rope tied at the end, which was specially used to attack the enemy's dense formation in the field and against the cavalry.

Watching the new Nimegen army assemble ten crossbow machines as if by magic, and these crossbow machines are not the kind of shoddy barbarian craftsmanship, but more like the legendary Roman Empire's sophisticated, standard siege crossbow machines, and the engineers used are also very professional, and they can measure the distance and adjust the angle of the crossbow machine according to the stars on the crossbow machine.

"Where did he get this from? Now the Bergen people are finished, this kind of crossbow machine that can't even withstand the city walls! ”

Some of them who have read a little book, or have heard a lot of knowledge from their elders, naturally know the siege ability of this crossbow machine, which is impossible to hold even the walls of Bergen.

The nobles who took refuge in Randy were secretly amazed, and by the way, they admired it.

And the Bergen nobles on the opposite side did change their faces in an instant, and naturally there were people among them who understood, and they also knew what the meaning of these crossbow machines was, and their biggest reliance, the Bergen city wall was now completely unreliable.

At this moment, a huge crossbow arrow flew in the roar......

Shoot directly through the shield in the hands of the reloaded spearman on the opposite side, and at the same time shoot the sad guy, along with the shield of the sad guy behind him, and the one behind him......

Together, directly pierced!

The entire two-meter-long giant crossbow arrow was skewered into meat skewers by the multiple heavily armed shield spearmen, and the screams suddenly resounded in the sky.

The screams from the other side were the equivalent of incomparably beautiful musical movements for Randy, and under his orders, the engineer continued to pull the lever with a blank face, wind it, and correct the aim.

"Damn it, go over and destroy those crossbows!"

The nobles on the opposite side finally couldn't stand it, they could only be beaten and couldn't fight back, if the other party shot a few more rounds, their morale would have bottomed out, rather than being defeated by the other party at this time, it was better to take advantage of the charge now, so that they could kill a few backs, and if they could destroy a few crossbows, the situation would be better.

As a rule, it is not possible to kill nobles on the battlefield, and after paying a ransom, everything can be done from the beginning.

The second round of crossbow bolts is fired......

In the blink of an eye, the heavily armed shield spearmen on the opposite side fell again, and the circle dispersed little by little, and some impatient warriors had begun to charge.

So, the legendary crossbow-wielding militia reappeared, and the crossbow arrows in their hands had already been wound in their hands, and a burst of crossbow arrows caused the enemy who rushed to the front to fall in pieces.

However, the charge continued, and although most people understood that the battle, and indeed the outcome of the entire war, was sealed, they were still charged, screaming, and dying......

At a distance of ten meters, it had already entered the range of the flying axe, and the Viking warrior quickly threw the flying axe in his hand, and after that, the contradictory hands on the opposite side no longer cared about what formation it was.

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