Chapter 61: The Relationship between Lübeck and Harald

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"Send Elise to Burger first? And then take the royal army there directly over Holstein? Carolan continued to ponder the intention of Herman's strategy, which was related to the future development of the Klose family, and Caroline couldn't help but be imprudent.

The war process of this era is mainly based on battles and siege warfare, and I want to know that once the Slavic tribes of Browniebel found out that the East Frankish army invaded on a large scale, they would naturally gather in the Browniebel area to clear the wilderness, hoping that the East Francian army would not be able to supply food and then counterattack, and the Browniebel tribes had defeated countless invaders in this way for hundreds of years.

After a hundred years of expansion, the Blanibel Fortress has become an almost impossible castle to be breached from the outside, at least in terms of engineering technology of the era, and it is impossible for East Francia to accept the outcome of the Blanibel Fortress, and it is not clear what Hermann is going to do with the helpless tortoise shell.

"I always feel that I have to cross paths with the pirates of Northern Europe this time。。。。。 But speaking of which, Rudolph was in such a hurry just now, shouldn't he go to accompany Elise, seize the last chance~~~" Carolan thought for a while, her thoughts went astray again, and she pondered the gossip between her brother and Elise obscenely.

"Anyway, if Harald comes this time, it's fine, see you and see if there is any way to kill him... Carolan has always felt that the existence of the pirate leader Harald is too strong, and if Harald becomes the ruler of Denmark, it will definitely not be good news for the Klose family.

"Hey, it's not interesting to be foolish, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge." Carolan touched her head and decided to go out for a walk, after all, she was going to leave here soon, although Carolan was quite open-minded, but there was still some sentimentality.

Carolan knew very well that if she left Memleben this time, Hermann and Rudolph might be able to return soon after the war was over. But Carolan, the second son of the Klose family, may not have a chance to return before the death of Henry the Bird Catcher, and the complicated situation in the Brownie Bell region and Henry's imperial mind will never allow Carolan to return to the Klose family as the real nobleman of Browniebel.

Before he knew it, Caroline walked near the Klose family's jousting arena, perhaps the hustle and bustle of the jousting arena attracted him. Pulled over and asked, only then did I know that it was Rudolph and Elise who didn't know why they were on the bar in the martial arts arena again, and they didn't have to think about it to know that Rudolph would definitely be educated by Elise again, Rudolph was slightly inferior to Elise in swordsmanship and was reluctant to be ruthless to Elise, so he knew that Elise had won. But maybe Rudolph was also willing to be educated by Elise like this, after all, if it can't be broken, the relationship between the two of them can only touch the thing called love in the bottom of their hearts through such a competition.

But then again, everyone's love behaves differently, maybe this is the love between Rudolph and Elise?

Rudolph and Elise's love is shown in this way, and Herman's love for Canossa is different. After the banquet that day, Herman did not go to the palace for the first time the next day, but accompanied Lady Canossa at home, and perhaps he would not leave Lady Canossa until the day of the expeditionary force.

Thinking of these heart-warming things, Caroline unconsciously walked back to her courtyard, shook her head and cleared her head, Caroline casually pulled a guard over and asked Vincent's location before letting go of him, and then Caroline walked slowly to the marksman's residence.

"Hmm, Harald... Vincent Munso was surprised that Carolan suddenly asked about the biggest Viking Chief, knowing that the Klose family did not have any fleet at sea and no rich territory near the sea, so they were basically insulated from these pirates in Northern Europe.

"Harald is one of the most powerful tribal leaders in Scandinaya, but compared to the other adults, Harald's character is average." Looking at Vincent's disdainful expression, Caroline silently lowered Harald's Pindra a notch in her heart. "He's a power-hungry and unscrupulous guy, and in order to get in touch with His Majesty Gohm, he made up a noble family history, and this behavior is disgusting to me." Well, as a descendant of the Menceau family, one of the noblest bloodlines in the legend, Vincent has enough confidence in evaluating this aspect.

"In order to gain sufficient prestige, he continued to plunder and smuggle all kinds of things at sea to increase his power, and in the great gatherings of the tribes, he called on all the Norsemen to stop farming, but to take up arms and invade to obtain enough food... Although the remarks are simply stupid, they are indeed sought after by many young people. ”

"Cunning, mean, brutal, a guy who thinks poison and daggers are better than tomahawks." Vincent finally gave Harald a vicious assessment.

“。。” In fact, after listening to Vincent's description of Harald, the image of the Harald Great Demon King in Caroline's heart is even fuller, you must know that such an enemy is the most terrifying. "What about Lübeck, do you know anything?" However, Carolan does not blindly believe Vincent's opinion of Harald, not that he does not believe Vincent, but a traditional Nordic warrior like Vincent will obviously resist someone like Harald, so Vincent's opinion is mixed with too many personal opinions, and Carolan feels that he cannot listen to and believe partially.

"I don't know, Lübeck, but I've heard that people there like to smuggle dangerous things, and Lübeck is one of the biggest black markets on the Baltic coast." Vincent said helplessly, his people have always traveled the Hamburg line between their hometown and East Francia, so they don't know what happened to Lübeck.

"Smuggling!" Hearing this, Caroline's eyes narrowed. Then he nodded and left Vincent's lodgings and returned to his room.

“。。。。 Sure enough, it looks like you're going to fight Harald this time? Didn't my father know? Why do you still shoot me and my brother going to Lübeck, no matter how much you win, the Kingdom of East Francia will not be able to face two enemies at the same time: Viking and Blannie Bell. Carolan's head exploded after hearing Vincent's description of Lübeck, combined with the location of Jutland and the island of Zealand and Lübeck, the location of Iseland was almost stuck in Lübeck's throat, and there was Harald's base camp! According to Vincent's description of Harald's character, Lübeck can still develop into one of the largest black markets on the Baltic Sea coast even though he is stuck by Harald's territory, and he knows that it is definitely impossible to do it without Harald's support, and Carolan and Rudolph's combat mission is to block Lübeck and force him to surrender, Harald will never sit idly by!

You must know that the strength of the Viking in this era is very terrifying, they can easily mobilize tens of thousands of skilled soldiers to fight, and through the developed navigation technology, they can appear in almost any place connected with the sea, which is a horror that no country can accept in this era.

Caroline slowly fell asleep in bed with all the confusion in his mind, he was a little frightened, Caroline, who knew better than anyone else the potential of Viking warfare, had an unprecedented tension in his heart after learning about the relationship between Harald and Lübeck; But perhaps Caroline herself didn't realize that at the moment he fell asleep, the sneer on the corner of his mouth exposed the trace of excitement in his heart.

When Carolan woke up, it was already dinner time, and after taking the towel handed by Lisa and wiping her face, Carolan rushed to the restaurant with a roar, he now had a big question in his heart to ask Herman for clarification.

But Carolan was clearly disappointed tonight, and Prince Otto was having dinner at Klose's house today, and it seemed as if he had come to discuss something with Herman.

Since Otto was present, it was not appropriate to ask Herman directly about his arrangement, so Caroline could only forcibly suppress the irritability in her heart and eat her lunch, but Caroline seemed a little restless when she had something on her mind. The few people sitting here were not stupid, and Carolan's unusual behavior naturally attracted their attention, but when Carolan and Herman, the owner of the Klose family, did not speak, the others naturally did not take the initiative to ask Caroline what happened.

Finally, after dinner, Otto gave Carolan a condolent look and then left, he always came and went in a hurry, not to mention that he could also see that Caroline had something bad to say to Herman in front of him, so Otto quickly settled his dinner and casually praised the hospitality of the Klose family and the dress of Lady Canossa and left the Klose manor.

"Father!!" As soon as Otto left, Caroline couldn't suppress the irritability in her heart.

"Finish your meal first! You don't have as much control as a three-year-old. Herman stopped Caroline from coming to her mouth.

"Oh Herman, you're too demanding of Carolan ~ he's less than fifteen years old." Canossa gave Caroline a gentle look and said a word of help.

"That's fifteen years old when you're about to lead an army." Herman didn't lift his eyelids, and continued to eat unhurriedly.

"Okay~" Lady Canossa gave her a helpless look, then took a glass of wine and drank it slowly.

"Father, Naharald and Lübeck." Finally, Carolan waited until she and Herman had finished dinner, and then she couldn't wait to speak.

Hearing the word Harald, Rudolph and Elise, who had been sitting there and had no time to care about Carolan, both changed their faces.

"Hmph." Herman was clearly aware of the love-hate relationship between his eldest son and his apprentice and Harald, so he snorted coldly when he heard Carolan mention the name, and then pushed his chair away to leave the dining room.

"Father!" Carolan was anxious, believing that Herman did not know about Harald's relationship with Lübeck.

"Don't worry, I already knew what Vincent told you, and I already made arrangements." Coldly abandoning this sentence, Herman turned and walked out of the dining room, obviously extremely resistant to the name Harald, and then Lady Canossa hurriedly chased after her husband to comfort her.

"Whew..." Carolan breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, Mardan, I didn't think Herman was so arrogant before, and he was scared to death.

"It's okay, it's good that Daddy has an arrangement." Caroline grimaced at Rudolph and Elise's faces, and then sat back in her place and continued to eat dinner.

For the next period of time, Caroline stayed at home to accompany Lady Canossa except for a few dates with Diana under the family's arrangement. I have to say that the engagement ceremony in this era is simply simple, and the Klose family only gave a set of clothes and an olive wreath to get the Tobias family's approval of the engagement ceremony, and from that day on, Caroline was also a famous person.

However, Carolan privately subsidized Diana's one thing, and he secretly revealed the method of fried noodles to the Tobias family, a big food producer, and asked their family to make this kind of marching food, although it is impossible to rely on fried noodles to solve the army's logistics problems in this era, but something is better than nothing. And Michael was also very aware and interested in handing over all the benefits of fried noodles to Diana, and when Diana married Caroline, he directly compensated the Klose family as a dowry, and Carolan was very satisfied with Michael Mohair's knowledge of the times.

Soon, the day of Elise's departure will come.