As for Jutland, the situation here is more complicated.

On this small peninsula, there are a total of three dukes, a dozen counts, and more than fifty barons and viscounts, which can be said to be a mess, and there are many contradictions between the families because of the previous melee.

However, Randy didn't care, as he said before, the reason why he wanted to control the peninsula was to attack North Germany in the south, and Jutland was just a springboard.

Randy had never thought about what this place would bring him in vain, and he didn't want to run it.

Very simple!

A typical feudal system of the male aristocracy of the prince, Randy only occupies the largest and richest capital city here, Stettin, and other other territories, as large as a county town and as small as a latrine, have nothing to do with Randy, and the first time he experienced the powerlessness of the feudal system, Randy felt a lot of pressure in his heart, and the same was true for the other newly occupied North German regions.

This is the case with the Norman kingdom today, although there are still a large number of nobles within the kingdom, but in fact, the Norman kingdom has one of the highest direct territories in the entire European continent.

A series of edicts implemented by Randy such as professional bureaucrats managing local civil affairs, weakening the garrison corps, and strengthening the forces of the directly subordinate legions have all proved to be effective and good ways to strengthen the country.

In that case, isn't it a joke to give up the title of Duke of a demote with ill intentions? He can think of it.

Want to be a duke, don't you?

Thrace, Nicaea, Greece are all good, pick your own, as long as you can grab it from the Eastern Roman Empire.

In fact, Epirus's plan had failed before it could be implemented.

"Including thinking about it carefully, it is indeed too embarrassing to surrender to a barbarian, and the family will definitely be humiliated because of it, and I am also a famous family, so I need to find another reason......

In this way, Epirus missed a golden opportunity to become a duke, and continued to think hard, turning a deaf ear to the eager cries of the knights of the guard beside him, and seeing the line of the Eastern Roman legions being torn apart little by little, and the army being divided and surrounded.

"What kind of reason should I find?"

Epirus then thought, and the war went further.

On the right flank, the shameless and cowardly Venetians were finally beaten to pieces by the power of the Swiss pike, and the little Dandolo did not care so much, and fled on horseback, and the Venetian army collapsed.

"There's a reason! This is the Venetian. ”

Epirus felt that he was too powerful, and put the reason for the defeat on the Venetians, it was these half-hearted guys who collapsed, allowing their flanks to be directly attacked by the other side, and the stalemate of the battle line also collapsed, although he tried to save it, but after all, he was powerless.

Thinking of this, Epirus couldn't help but laugh!

This made the knights of the guards beside him feel very strange, why did his commander still laugh when his own army was about to be defeated?

At this moment, Epirus, who was laughing, suddenly had four more arrow shafts in his chest!

After joy comes sorrow! Can't laugh, can you?

"Mission accomplished, retreat!"

The battlefield assassins returned from the original way, once again through the increasingly chaotic Eastern Roman infantry line, this planned assassination, directly led to the annihilation of two battlefield assassin regiments, one battlefield assassin regiment lost most of the half, and the team that the spy chief Nemulis managed to pull up was almost wiped out.

But it's worth it!

The death of Epirus directly became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Seeing that their own army was losing and retreating, another enemy army appeared on the flank, and the commander was shot several arrows, fell to the ground, and his life and death were unknown, the fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Eastern Roman Empire finally disappeared, and began to disperse one by one.

The Norman light cavalry, who had been waiting for this for a long time, shouted wildly, laughed, and once again passed through the Norman infantry array, and began to slash and slash the fleeing Eastern Roman Empire soldiers.

When you encounter a guy with a flower on his shoulder, or a feather on his head, he will change it to a lock sleeve, put the other party down, and then dismount and tie up the big fish, and the cavalry can return after catching such a big fish, because the ransom of a noble officer is enough to satisfy their greed.

The Bologna siege and reinforcement campaign ended successfully.

In the last two hours, Randy's light cavalry chased the dead and drove north, cutting off countless heads, including the commanders of the other two legions, and this is not the point, the point is that the commander of the 23rd legion of Eastern Rome did not make a decision like the other two legion commanders after being captured, and for the glory of Rome, he drew his sword and committed suicide.

Compared with his colleagues, the regimental commander behaved quite unbearably, and fell to his knees with a thud, raised his hands in horror and shouted: "Don't kill me!" ”

Although the Norman light riders could not understand Greek, they could understand the movements of the other party to some extent, and in fact, they did not want to kill him, and a high-ranking nobleman could exchange thousands of gold coins.

The regimental commander was thus taken prisoner of the Normans!

But this is not too embarrassing, the commander of the army thought in his heart, as long as he waited for his family to redeem him, although the Normans were barbarians, they would not be so barbaric as to embarrass a nobleman, especially a high-ranking nobleman who could be exchanged for thousands of gold coins.

As for suicide, it is against the teachings of Christianity, and after death, you cannot go to heaven, so it is better to live, even if it is humiliated.

In this way, the senior commanders of the Eastern Roman Empire, four corps commanders and one commander-in-chief, two were killed in battle, two committed suicide, one was captured, and none of them ran away.

The four Eastern Roman legions eventually lost more than 17,000 people, captured more than 7,000 people, and more than 6,000 were killed in the process of fleeing, losing more than 70% of the overall strength, and there were less than 10,000 remnants of the defeated army left in disarray, and fled back to Venice in embarrassment.

Waiting for them there were six thousand Venetians who fled back one step earlier than them, and it was also good to be timid, the Venetians were pressed and beaten by the Swiss mercenaries, but they lost their armor and fled in embarrassment after a short while, and the Swiss mercenaries were not suitable for pursuit because they were all super long guns and two-handed Swiss halberds, and only captured less than a thousand enemies, but they got a lot of equipment or something, two thousand plate chain composite armor, and one thousand chain mail.

Day 3 after the Battle of Bologna......

Bologna's side surrendered and accepted Randy's harsh terms.

Broke away from Venice and became a free city-state, reconverted to Catholicism, and joined the Catholic coalition.

To tell the truth, Bologna, as one of the city-states of northern Italy, is more of an alliance with Venice, just like ancient Greece and Sparta in Athens, almost the relationship between the members of the alliance and the alliance leader, Bologna itself also has its own city guard, has its own merchant fleet and self-governing institutions, but it is not as large as Venice in size and number.

Venice was blessed with a unique geographical location, a variety of deep-water harbors, and as the closest pagan city-state to northern Italy, the second-tier dealers resold all kinds of treasures from Persia or further East Asia and India, making Venice a lot of money, while Bologna, as a member city, only received a little bit of soup and water.

Therefore, Randy is still relatively civilized, he did not choose to slaughter the city, nor did he choose to rob, at most he just bought and sold some unfair trade, Randy's behavior made the Bolognese people show a very good enthusiasm, especially in the Visconti family, which is quite powerful in this area, after Randy and Charlie entered the city, they took the initiative to give up the mayor's mansion and their family's villa for these two monarchs to live in, Randy and Charlie discussed, and decided to meet this guy to see what benefits they could extort from him.

"Actually, we've put up with those Venetians for a long time!" The mayor of Bologna, Maffeo Viscanti, smiled flatteringly as he said these words of loyalty in front of his new master.

"We are also Catholics, Catholics, and do not fight Catholics."

Because the other party speaks Italian, Randy has not learned the language systematically, and the other party does not look like he knows Norse, or the new Norman lingua franca, so when Randy meets with him, he specially brings the diplomat Weist, who has a talent for languages, as a translation.

After Foster translated all of the guy's words, Randy snorted lightly, not saying a word to the slippery guy, and at the same time inscrupulously picked up the steaming teacup in front of him and took a sip gently.

"Bologna is willing to provide two thousand heavily armed soldiers, five hundred thousand florins, and enough food and grass for half a month's worth of an army of fifty thousand."

Randy remained silent, and a wandering Maffeo glanced over to Randy's gaze, only to see the king looking at the sword of the knight in full armed guard next to him.

Maffeo swallowed: "Two thousand five hundred heavily armed soldiers. ”

Randy directly interrupted him: "Your Excellency, I didn't take time out of my busy schedule to meet you, I didn't want to bargain with you like a stingy little businessman, but you still have one last answer that satisfies me, otherwise I will choose another person who satisfies me to be the mayor of Bologna." ”

Maffeo understands that what Randy is saying about choosing one is definitely not a popular suffrage in a civil democracy, but a threat with a bayonet, and it is not even a big deal to even bloody Bologna.

Thinking of this, large beads of sweat rolled down Maffeo's forehead, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Five thousand heavily armed soldiers, one and a half million gold coins, and enough food and grass for a month's use of fifty thousand troops, in addition to twenty warships that can accommodate a hundred people, but it will take a little time to recall those warships." ”

Randy was silent for a while, his fingers tapping on the table little by little, constantly putting psychological pressure on Maffeo, and Duke Charlie, who was next to him, didn't say a word, watching the show with great interest.

Maffeo finally couldn't withstand Randy's pressure and collapsed all at once.

"Your Majesty, it can't be any more, our Bologna is just a small city, and this is already the maximum Bologna can do." Maffeo fell to his knees, crying out like this.

"In that case, Your Excellency the Mayor, you can stay in office, and I will give you five days to prepare those things you have said, and now it is four days, twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes, forty-two seconds."

After Randy said these words, after Foster's translation, Maffeo, who was still kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly, stood up and ran away.

A few families are happy and a few are sad!

While Randy happily blackmailed the Bolognese profiteers, the city of Venice was in a gloomy fog, partly because of the miserable loss of this one, and on the other hand, because of the grandfather of the Eastern Roman army.

In order to strictly enforce military discipline and maintain the relationship of trust between allies, the 40,000 troops of the Eastern Roman Army were all stationed dozens of kilometers outside Venice.

But now, it's all different......

The Eastern Roman army fled in embarrassment and fled into the city of Venice, and with the loss of defeat, in addition to the morale and morale of the army, there was also the so-called glory and discipline of the soldiers, coupled with the instigation of people with intentions, it was because the Venetians collapsed first, so it led to the flank of the Eastern Roman army being attacked by the enemy, and there was now a squad leader, and so many Eastern Roman brothers died, all of which were the fault of the Venetians.

The Eastern Roman army was outraged! I felt that I was originally for the safety of Venice, so I went out to fight those unruly Normans, and the result? Is this how you Venetians repay your savior?

The loss of discipline, coupled with hatred, and the anger that followed the defeat, burned directly on the heads of the Venetians.

In the streets and alleys of Venice, the Eastern Roman soldiers who sat in small boats and brandished Roman short swords smashed and looted, wanting the Venetians to vent their dissatisfaction and make the entire city of Venice into a miasma.

At first, these Venetian soldiers were able to maintain a little restraint and only dissuade the Roman soldiers, but they escalated with cannon fighting.

After a drunken Eastern Roman soldier relied on his strength to break the neck of a Venetian soldier with a sword, the situation became more and more uncontrollable, and the local skirmishes gradually evolved into a great chaos between all Venetians and Eastern Roman soldiers, accompanied by bloody and violent incidents of torture, arson, forcible jian, and incidents, screams and roars covered the whole of Venice, making this pearl of northern Italy instantly fall into hell on earth!

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