Basil II's wishful thinking was a coincidence, but at the same time her daughter Lilianu was also very excited, feeling that her father did not know what medicine he had taken wrong, and actually gave herself a great deal of credit for nothing.

"Randy von Hoffmann, this man is sinister and cunning, despicable and shameless, the Norman army under his command can fight well, and the national strength is also above many barbarians, vaguely claiming to be the leader of the European alliance, if he can defeat him, his prestige will definitely rise, and peeping into the throne is no longer a dream, hahaha......"

Lilianu also has her own calculations, she wants to use Randy as her stepping stone to pave her way to the throne, this newly debuted princess, Her Royal Highness, has always been smooth, unlike Randy, who has debuted for a long time, has many concerns, so she is naturally full of confidence, and feels that she is the protagonist in the world, and others are just his foils.

"Randy von Hoffman, you're going to regret it."

Lying in the marble bath, Lilianu stretched her delicate body under the mist, and muttered to herself with water teasing her white skin.

Because of the incident half a year ago, before the Second Battle of Budapest, the two heroes would have a problem with his dead ghost father, and he actually wanted to marry himself to the Norman barbarian leader, and what was even more odious was that the Norman actually rejected her dead ghost father's resolution, which was a great shame for her, and for the arrogant Lilianu Highness, the creature of men was nothing more than a dispensable embellishment and ornament, plus a tool for giving birth to offspring, it was a ridiculous thing that did not need to be taken to heart, but the final result was her, The crown prince of the Eastern Roman Empire, the proud daughter of heaven, was actually insulted by this filthy beast.

Lilianu doesn't have a big heart, and although she has a lot of spirit, women have some small problems in common.

For example, careful eyes, love to hold grudges, Lilianu also has such a common problem, even bigger than ordinary women, speaking of this battle in Eastern Europe, Lilianu also has two reasons.

Yu Gong can gain greater prestige and pave the way to the throne.

For selfishness, you can repay the man who humiliated her!

Her Royal Highness the Eastern Roman Princess was very fast, and it only took a dozen days to arrange everything for the expedition, and sent envoys to various countries in Eastern Europe to persuade them to join this alliance against the Norman Empire, but the final result made Her Royal Highness the Princess very dissatisfied.

The call of the Eastern Roman Empire in the entire Eastern European region has not reached the level of mass response, especially the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which is highly anticipated by Her Royal Highness the Princess, the strongest country in Eastern Europe, because it has to divide a lot of strength to deal with the Cumans, although the hundreds of thousands of Cuman archers are said to fight positional battles, they are not as strong as the Moscow Army's reforms, but when it comes to rapid mobility, plunder, and run away, it is a proper old fritter, and the strength of several roads is very strong, and the Cuman Khan, who has tens of thousands of troops, is really not weak in fightingSemenovsky took tens of thousands of troops of the Grand Duchy with him, like a firefighter, he went wherever the situation was critical, but in the end he couldn't save anywhere, everywhere he was defeated, and he was exhausted.

In this case, the Grand Duchy of Moscow itself could not be protected, where would it dare to offend the Norman Empire, which was in full swing? It's too late to follow it!

Catherine II's letter to Randy was humble in her words, and she did her best to be a sycophant, even at the expense of pretending to be a minister, offering generous gifts and paying tribute, hoping that Randy would not raise an army to attack, where would she dare to take the initiative to attack Randy?

The Grand Duchy of Moscow did not stand up to greet her, and Her Royal Highness the Princess's wishful thinking failed, and then Lithuania was defeated rapidly, giving Her Royal Highness the Princess's blow.

"Randy von Hoffmann, as expected, lives up to his name."

Lithuania, which is also a small powerhouse in Eastern Europe, has an army of 30,000, but it was cleaned up by Randy without even letting out a fart, and Lilianu faced this opponent squarely, and began to feel that this battle did not seem to be as simple as she imagined.

In the end, the Zaporozhye Khanate did not bow down directly, as Her Royal Highness the princess imagined, kneeling under her pomegranate skirt, and the undisciplined Cossacks played a slippery head, although they did join this so-called alliance, but they joined as mercenaries, not as a country.

That is to say, these guys are all volunteers, and they can only represent their personal positions, not the country.

This made Her Royal Highness the princess very dissatisfied, but for the sake of the other party's face of dispatching about 20,000 elite cavalry to assist him in battle, this was okay.

And in southern Poland and southern Ukraine, there are many nobles and nomadic tribes who have responded in groups, but they are all better than nothing, these organizations are not rigorous, soldiers with low combat effectiveness, and their actual combat capabilities are not as good as the peasant soldiers temporarily recruited by the Eastern Roman Empire, at least these peasant soldiers will participate in military training in their spare time, and some have even listened to the recruitment of the Eastern Roman Empire and killed the enemy, but these nobles are armed ......

At the same time, the Polish self-government, which is surrounded by many contingencies and is about to face contingencies, should also join, but it should only be, because Krakow has been surrounded by water, and the news inside and outside cannot be transmitted, which will be so anxious that it is about to hang himself, and naturally there is no way to respond to Her Royal Highness the Princess.

But in any case, in two months Randy wiped out Lithuania, and Artoria also besieged Krakow.

Lilianu was also unambiguous, which pulled the anti-Norman coalition in Eastern Europe together.

In the Eastern Roman Empire, there was a regular legion, a garrison legion, a temporary conscripted legion, and 7,000 private troops, which was a total of 32,000 men.

In the Zaporozhye Khanate, the Cossacks dispatched 22,000 people, these people were all men of the steppe, good at riding and archery, and their real combat effectiveness was not much different from the 30,000 people of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The exiles from Ukraine, Poland, and other regions, as well as the nobility that organized spontaneously, added up to sixteen thousand.

There are not many inside and outside here, and there are sixty or seventy thousand people in total, and you can see here that there are inexplicable benefits, and it is not a joke that all the people are soldiers, and the fierce character of the nomads makes them much stronger than the malnourished serfs of the farming people, and they can be called fighters in the irregular armed forces.

So, Lilianu had tens of thousands of troops in her hands, and her confidence became a lot, and the bold words of capturing Randy were also shouted, and the Eastern Roman army set sail from Constantinople on the Black Sea Fleet, and went north to the Crimean Peninsula to join forces with the Cossacks, and did not go north to Ukraine and Belarus to attack Randy, but went all the way to the west, receiving reinforcements from various forces along the way, and headed straight to Krakow.

Attack Artoria first, the Celtic woman had fewer troops and was less effective than the main Norman army.

The news was obtained by the Norman spies and reported to Randy and Artoria.

"Sure enough, you can't help but do it?" Hearing such news, Randy snorted to himself, he had thought that the Eastern Roman Empire would not let himself get the whole of Eastern Europe, and sure enough, the opponent came.

It's just that the one who will lead the troops is not any of the famous Eastern Roman generals he knows, but an Eastern Roman princess named Lilianu, although Princess Lilianu's performance on the battlefield of Asia Minor has been remarkable recently, but in Randy's opinion, this still seems a little immature, as a strong general, it is not bad, but as a commander of a party, it still needs to be honed for a while.

"Is there no one in the Eastern Roman Empire? Belisarius, Elius, and Narsis really can't do it, how can a woman come out? Randy weighed it in his heart for a long time, and he really couldn't understand why the other party would come out of such a stupid game, but it didn't matter, don't think about it if he didn't understand, as long as he knew that the other party was a stupid person who was not as good as himself.

"Let Artoria pay a little attention and not worry too much."

Randy finally made such a judgment, his 60,000 main army and 10,000 Lithuanian servant army continued to move south unhurriedly, all the way upstream to play with women, and after the occupation of Minsk, he began to rectify the internal affairs of Belarus, rectify the security and dispatch officials, during this period of time the situation in Lithuania was basically stabilized, and Randy took out part of the hussars deployed here to Belarus, plus the Belarusian Rus' and Slavs who were temporarily recruited, A full army of about 10,000 people was formed to maintain local law and order, and then continued to attack Ukraine in the south.

Just as Randy was unhurriedly cleaning up, the two women in Krakow, who had endured for a long time, finally broke out.

Lilianu took Artoria as a soft persimmon, and the 70,000 allied troops rushed directly to Krakow, intending to relieve the siege of the southern Polish self-government, and then go north to counterattack Poland, at least to the city of Warsaw.

At this moment, Her Royal Highness no longer expects to be able to take down the whole of Eastern Europe, and the slogan of capturing Randy alive is quite interesting, but is it really useful to arrest him?

Even if it helped the countries of Eastern Europe to unite, what good would it do to the Eastern Roman Empire? How much harm did Kievan Rus' cause to the Eastern Roman Empire, which unified Eastern Europe? Looking at the faces of those Cossacks in the Zaporozhye Khanate now, and at the virtues of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Lilianu feels sick to her stomach just thinking about it.

"As long as you hold Ukraine, southern Poland and the Crimean Peninsula, and set up a defensive line in this circle of the Black Sea, it is enough to prevent the Normans from going south, although the merit and prestige obtained in this way are not as good as the complete defeat of Randy, but it is also a help, plus the army and territory that have taken this opportunity to gather, maybe you can take 100,000 troops south to Constantinople in a few years and force the old immortal to abdicate!

This is the idea of Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu, to run the Baltic Sea Circle in the south of Eastern Europe, carry the Normans in the north, and go to the Sergeant Tannople in the south to achieve hegemony.

It's a good idea, but I don't know if it's going to happen.

But Her Royal Highness the Princess is confident, Her Royal Highness the Princess is confident.

A hundred miles away from the outskirts of Crakov, Her Royal Highness the Princess quickly sent Artoria a letter of war, with extremely arrogant words, which meant:

This palace beat you to give you face, why don't you hurry up and stretch your face over?

The angry Artoria directly chopped up the messenger who delivered the letter, and shouted loudly: "I'm going to slaughter that bastard who doesn't know the height of the sky." ”

But in any case, Artoria agreed to the invitation of Her Royal Highness the princess to fight, and the war between the Celten-Norman army and the combined forces of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Zaporozhye Khanate, Ukraine, and Poland was on the verge of breaking out.

September......

Thirty miles east of Krakow, on the corner of the Vistula River.

The vanguard rangers of the two coalition armies encountered, and a fierce battle ensued.

"For Randy von Hoffmann!"

The Norman hussars were trained rigorously and battle-hardened, and reacted quickly the next moment when they spotted the enemy, and one hundred-man group of light archers and another hundred-man melee hussars immediately formed four columns of twenty-five men, with the melee hussars in front and the light archers behind, and rushed forward in strict accordance with the provisions of the regulations of the military reform.

There were almost more than 300 Cossack cavalry, as well as nomadic cavalry from Poland and Ukraine, these people were not ambiguous, and immediately rushed towards the Norman light cavalry in a skirmish formation, and then like a knife cutting tofu, after the two-wheeled cavalry fired, the Norman cavalry rushed into the coalition cavalry formation, directly tore apart the opponent's skirmish formation with a dense array, and turned around and charged again.

After going back and forth several times like this, the coalition cavalry was scattered and killed countless times.

The fallen nomadic cavalry immediately retreated when they saw that the situation was not good, and the Norman cavalry did not come forward to pursue, and after a short rest, they returned to their camp to report the situation, and at the same time, Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu in the coalition camp also sighed a little.

"The Norman cavalry is really strong!"

Her Royal Highness the Princess had heard before that the light cavalry tactics and heavy cavalry tactics studied by the Normans were very powerful, but Her Royal Highness the Princess did not know that after the experiment, in the case of 2:1 troops, the Norman light cavalry against the Cossack traditional nomadic cavalry, the battle loss ratio could be maintained at about 8:1.

"If the opponent's cavalry is so powerful, then this battle will be in suspense."

Her Royal Highness the Princess had already retreated at this time, and secretly regretted that she should not have agreed to her dead father's order so quickly, but the arrow had to be sent, it had already reached this point, did she have to retreat just because of the defeat of a vanguard battle? If that were the case, not to mention the throne of the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, she would probably become the laughing stock of the whole world, which this arrogant princess could not bear no matter what, so she could only comfort herself now.

According to intelligence, the theme of the opposing army's army is Celts, not Normans, and the number of Norman hussars is not large.

But the fact is that although the combat effectiveness of the Celts is indeed inferior to that of the Normans, after the marriage with the Norman Empire, the military and political system of the Celts and even the entire Northwest Kingdom of Britain will inevitably be affected.

Although it imitated the Norman Empire in many places, the army of the Kingdom of Britain itself also had its own characteristics, compared with the Norman Empire's heavy armament, excellent armor, heavy weapons, and the preference for heavy infantry, heavy cavalry, strong bows and crossbows for high firepower output, this slightly rigid Norman army, the Celts may be a little inferior in equipment, but more flexible in tactics.

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