Chapter 14: The Dragons Rise from Northern Europe (13)

"In terms of distance, it would take at least 30,000 gold coins and three months to build a paved road from New Nijmegen to Bergen."

Randy didn't have much gold left in his hand, so he had no choice but to exchange them for 30,000 gold coins and start building the road.

"Rest assured, there will be a commercial bonus to the construction of roads between cities, and if you collect commercial taxes, you will be able to pay for yourself in a few years."

"A few years? It's been a long time......"

"Host, theoretically, your current life is unlimited, as long as you have enough points, you can extend your life indefinitely."

"That being said, it's ......"

Randy felt a little helpless, maybe he would indeed have a big family in the future, and he could consider exchanging the dot roll into life, but now that he is in the period of career creation, Randy only feels that his life span is constantly shortening, and this is still a super loan shark with a loss of ten, coupled with the inflation that has not yet been encountered in the legend, the future is worrying!

It takes so much effort to unify a small Nordic country, but how long does it take to unify the whole of Northern Europe? And how long will it take to unify the whole of Europe? Randy felt that he might not be able to wait for that day.

"Forget it, don't think about such a long thing, Timur was still lame in his seventies and eighties, and he wanted to continue the crusade, so it would be better to learn a little from the spirit of that lame."

Randy comforted himself with this, and at the same time planned to send his army to the south tomorrow to join the fire of Oslo, whose current lord, Felix II, was much older than Olaf IV, who had disappeared in the battle and died in the war, and was exactly fourteen years old this year.

Because the situation in Oslo is a little better than that of Bergen, the morale of the army and the people can always make up about 10,000 troops. And his nobles have fought repeatedly, now is the time to recuperate, cannon fodder or anything can't be used, just with Randy's more than 6,000 men, if you fight hard, you can win.

At the same time as the siege of Bergen and the expansion of the territory again, the regular army under Randy's command has also expanded again, and the number of people who can officially fight has reached more than 6,000.

A team of 500 Viking warriors Γ—2=1000 people, wearing heavy chain mail, horned helmets, holding a tomahawk round shield, and carrying three axes, are the first main force under Randy's command to charge into battle and cut people.

A team of 500 Viking infantry Γ— 6=3000 people, except for the chain mail that is not as thick as the Viking warriors, the rest of the equipment is similar, and the discipline, morale and training are also inferior to the Viking warriors, which is the backbone of Randy's army.

A crossbow militia of 200 people Γ— 3=600 people, and the attack power of the medium-sized crossbow in his hand is very good, but the winding time is a little longer, and the melee ability is almost scum, and the actual combat effectiveness is relatively low, which is Randy's choice in desperation.

Norse archer, upgrade light chain mail, equipped with a round shield hand axe.

At first glance, it looks similar to a Viking warrior, but the horned helmet that marks the surname is replaced by a pot helmet, and the morale is slightly inferior, speaking of which, this thing is not called an archer, but rather an infantry with a bow and arrow, and if you want to recruit stronger ranged troops, you have to wait until the compound bow is researched.

Having said that, there are also such words as archers in the Nordic archers, and it is still possible to stand on the walls and shoot down, and there are also two teams of 400 Nordic archers in the city defense force of New Nijmegen.

Among Randy's main forces, the number of Norse archers is even larger, with Γ—4=800 people,

Next came the cavalry units......

After seeing the grand occasion of the heavy cavalry charging with guns, Randy decisively improved his Tomahawk cavalry, and now the Tomahawk cavalry has added a cavalry gun in addition to the original equipment, and the horses are also covered with a heavy linen blanket that can resist stray arrows to a certain extent and reduce damage. The armor has also been further enhanced, with heavy chain mail and a dark blue robe, which looks quite handsome, and the actual combat effectiveness should also exceed that of ordinary knights.

Improved Tomahawk CavalryΓ—2=200 people!!)

The patrol cavalry is still the same, originally Randy wanted the patrol cavalry to add high-end equipment such as the upper horn bow and sabre, but this group of guys is really rotten wood, and it may also have something to do with the Viking race, and it seems that if you want to recruit stronger light cavalry, you will have to find another opportunity.

Patrol cavalryΓ— 5 = 500 people!

Battlefield OrderΓ— 4=200 people!

The entire army of New Nijmegen, Bergen, and the self-proclaimed Northern Norwegian Army combined for a total of 4,000 infantry, 1,400 projectile infantry, 700 cavalry, 200 special arms, and 50 generals to lead the guards, a total of 6,350 men.

When Randy was determined to reorganize his army and quietly prepare to wait for two months before conscripting the entire Northern Norwegian aristocratic army as cannon fodder and destroying Oslo in one fell swoop, he got such news.

Located in Denmark in the south, Queen Margaret finally sent troops for the reason that she couldn't bear the loneliness in her heart and helped her northern neighbor calm the war.

Nearly 300 warships and 10,000 soldiers suddenly landed in Norway, and the follow-up troops were still coming, looking like they were ready to crash Oslo.

Although Oslo's defense facilities are very powerful, it is a real castle with big stones, but Margaret is the queen of a country, and the trebuchet technology is still there, although it is a little simpler, there is no standardization, and there is no aiming system, but such shoddy construction has another advantage, that is, it can be easily mass-produced.

From the day Randy received the news, dozens of trebuchets had gathered outside Oslo, bombarding the walls of Oslo day and night, and because of the suddenness of the incident, Felix II had not had time to gather the nobles of his vassals, and even the peasant soldiers in his own territory had not recruited too much, and the total number of defenders in the castle was only more than a thousand people, not counting those slaves who were barely fighting.

Besides, the various nobles and knights in Oslo did not ignore it after knowing that the lord was in trouble, but they were alone, and they had no backbone for a while, and they were completely scattered, and they were surrounded by Queen Margaret and destroyed a lot, and the remaining noble troops were combined together, and then checked, but there were only less than 5,000 remnants of the defeated generals, and they were neither advancing nor retreating, so they had to camp on the other side of Oslo, and they didn't know what to do.

"Damn! Damn it! Damn it! ”

When Randy got the news, it was five days later.

This is what a group of businessmen who want to go to Oslo to do business told him that the Danish army is transporting troops to Norway every day, and the longer it drags on, the stronger the other party will be, and Randy naturally understands.

"Is there anything I can do in the future to get my message out more quickly?" Randy asked Enides.

"If you are transmitting information in your own territory, you can build a post station, if you are transmitting information in someone else's territory, you need to recruit spies to monitor enemy cities, spies can be upgraded to secret agents, not only can monitor the enemy, but also can kill people, but if you build a country in the future, it is best to establish a complete intelligence network."

"Recruiting spies, spies...... You can recruit them in a tavern, right? ”

"That's right! However, you can't recruit too strong guys in the tavern, so you can exchange bonds for a tougher Spy. ”

"Bergen, New Nijmegen, each summon one, and exchange it for a more powerful spy, just eight stars." Randy thought for a moment and said.

"Understood!"

Immediately after, Randy hears a knock on the door.

"Come in!"

A guy dressed in ordinary linen clothes, who looked so ordinary that he couldn't be found in the crowd, walked in.

"Your secret dagger is loyal to you, my master." When the other party saw Randy, he knelt on one knee, lowered his head, and said.

Randy nodded, didn't speak, opened the system interface, and found this guy's information in the affairs officer option.

Name: None

Gender: Male

Age: Unknown

Place of Birth: Unknown

What the hell, is there any difference between this profile and no one?

"Who's that...... What's your name? Randy didn't know what to say for a while, and said vaguely.

"The name under the name varies with the season and the weather." The man said very seriously.

"Are you a plant attribute?"

"I use noble names before nobles, commoners I use commoner names before commoners, Christian names before Christians, and pagan names before pagans."

He deserves to be a senior spy, but his attributes are really strong!

The current character attributes are as follows......

Super Mass Face: People who do secret work should look like this. Skill +2

Sophisticated and skilled: Practice makes perfect, skill +3.

Accustomed to blood: suffocation, poisoning, hacking, stabbing, or even dying of pain, skill +2.

Base Attribute: β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…

Special bonuses: [Human Skin Mask, Stealth +2], [Cloak of Night, Stealth +1], [Poison Research, Assassination +3], [Sharp Dagger, Assassination +1], [Parkour Master, Stealth +2], [Carry Pigeon, Communication Range +1000km].

Lord's Follower: [Assassination Master Spy]: This person is the number one right-hand man on the monarch's side, with brutality +3, personal security +5, and a spy assassin spout cost of -20%.

"Go, my dagger, and in three days at the latest, I will get all the information about Oslo."

"Understood, my lord!"

This guy does have the fan of a parkour master, and he jumped from the window to the roof, and Randy listened carefully, and he couldn't even hear the sound of this guy stepping on the tiles, but the news from Enides really proved that this guy had gone far.

After solving this problem, Randy thought about it again, although his strength is slightly worse, but in terms of combat effectiveness, it is definitely comparable to the Danes, if it is used properly, maybe it can also use the nobles of Oslo, plus the Danes fight in other countries, and the logistics supply is all dependent on sea, and the fleet of light ballista warships under his command has also begun to see the scale, and currently has twenty-four warships, plus fifty dragon head warships recruited, and its combat effectiveness may not lose to the hundreds of warships that the opponent has patchwork, Even if things fail a little unexpectedly, as long as it is not a frontal battle, the fleet will instead attack the enemy's supply lines, and this will be fine.

But there is still a question here, what to do after defeating the Danish invading army? Do you want to continue to fight them? But Denmark borders the Holy Roman Empire......

Although the current Holy Roman Empire is in a mess, it can produce many people, and the various electors are not fuel-efficient lamps, and they are attacked by their own troops, I am afraid that there are not even all the corpses left, and the British Isles are easy to bully, where the people are relatively weak, and it is the traditional activity area of the Vikings, which is easy to bully.

Keep Denmark for the time being, and wait until Denmark is defeated to see if you can get a war reparation.

After deciding on the battle policy, Randy decided to salute before the soldiers, and talk to Her Majesty.

Of course, it is basically impossible to negotiate, but it doesn't affect anything, Randy just wants to leave a room for peace talks after the victory in advance.

In this way, Randy felt that no matter how neat his mouth was, it would not be as good as the barrel of a gun, so he didn't ask and directly recruited a diplomat in the center of the city.

Diplomat No. 1

Properties: β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…

Skills: Diplomatic Talent, Excellent Diplomat, Diplomatic Translator,

Danish and Norwegian are similar, but if you want to go to another country, you won't have to know the language.

With this question in mind, Randy ordered Diplomat One:

As the lord of all Norwegians, the Earl of New Nijmegen, and the trustee of Bergen, he sent an envoy to Denmark to demand that the other side stop attacking Norwegian territory, reach a peace agreement, and try to see if a trade treaty could be signed.

Naturally, none of the above was likely to succeed, it was just an idle move, and Randy began to mobilize his nobles.

Throughout the Middle Ages, the navy was really not very important, and some of the more powerful countries, such as the Tang Dynasty and the Eastern Romans, had independent naval systems, fleet commanders or something.

But in the barbarian states of Europe, until the modern Renaissance, the entire European naval system was scum, except for the damn bastard garbage city-states in northern Italy, the other England, France, and the Holy Roman Empire did not pay attention to the development of the navy.

These legendary powers all feel that the navy is not important, and in the eyes of those barbarians, it is even less important.

At least Queen Margaret has never seen a navy in the true sense of the word!

Perhaps in her impression, she had never even heard the word navy, and all ships at sea were basically civilian merchant ships or civilian fishing ships that were temporarily recruited, and the role of this patchwork navy was only to transport its own army to the other side.

Cutting off people's food routes and cutting off the enemy's rear routes, these methods are not something that European barbarians can understand.

But until then, the two sides still have peace and harmony as the main theme.

Diplomat No. 1 took the diplomatic interpreters who could not be sent to the road at all, and directly sat in the carriage and came to the outside of Oslo, where a few rogue knights ran opposite, trying to tease the flower girl in the carriage, but there was no flower girl in the carriage, only a little white face, which made several knights feel a lot of pressure.

"Whatever! It's missing a hole...... though," said one of the knights.

"On behalf of all the Norwegian lords, the Earl of New Nijmegen, the Guardian of Bergen, Lord Randy Hoffman, I request to see Her Majesty Queen Margaret."

Seeing that his chrysanthemums were not guaranteed, the little white-faced diplomat immediately reported to his home to explain his intentions, and he was also a four-star diplomat, and he still had his own demeanor, several rogue knights looked at each other, and one of them seemed to be the leader and said: "Wait here, Wells, you go and report it." ”

Immediately afterwards, one of the knights turned his horse's head and ran in the direction of his tent, while the remaining few remained in place to keep an eye on it, during which the leading knight tried to say a few words, but was sent back by the diplomat.

Just a little bit to reveal that his boss, Randy, is unhappy with Denmark's aggression.

"He's just a count, and he really thinks he can be the Grand Duke of Norway?" Several knights looked at each other in pairs and couldn't help but laugh.

Seeing that the other party did not take his monarch seriously, the diplomat's face was slightly unhappy, and he smiled freely and thought to himself: "What are you doing with these guys, just at this time, the knight who went to report the news came back." ”

"Let's go! Her Majesty wants to see you. ”

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