On the outskirts of St. Petersburg, the army of Gustav, the Norse lion, is besieging St. Petersburg, and he is still enduring relatively inefficient trebuchets to bombard the walls of St. Petersburg.

"If there is bronze artillery, St. Petersburg has already been captured by me."

Gustav looked up at the towering walls of St. Petersburg, a fortified fortress that was really difficult to overcome with cold weapons.

Olaf led the Yums warband, with the help of trebuchets, to storm St. Petersburg.

The Viking berserkers of the Jumus Warband ascended the walls and went straight into the rage, causing heavy losses to the defenders of St. Petersburg!

The defenders of St. Petersburg could only rely on their numerical superiority to hold off the Vikings' Jums, and the two sides fought on the walls.

"It costs an average of thirty soldiers to kill one berserker of the Yumus Band."

The commander in charge of the defense of St. Petersburg was the Grand Duke Novgorod, who counted the casualties inflicted on the defenders by the Viking berserkers of the Yums.

After the berserkers of the Yums Warband enter the berserker, the defenders of St. Petersburg must destroy them at all costs, otherwise St. Petersburg may be breached.

At least 300 Viking berserkers of the Jumus Warband were killed during the siege, and tens of thousands of defenders of St. Petersburg fell directly to the Viking berserkers' tomahawks.

In order to repel the Viking hero Olaf, hundreds of defenders of St. Petersburg were killed by Olaf alone.

The defenders of St. Petersburg were able to hold on to it by virtue of their numerical superiority.

A war eagle fell, leaving the Iron Eagle scouts in St. Petersburg in advance, and immediately informed Novgorod of the Great Bulletin.

"The Golden Horde has already perished His Royal Highness the great Grand Duke of Moscow, and it is only a matter of time before Gustav, the lion of the north, is defeated!"

"Reinforcements are coming, let's hold out for a while longer, and we will be victorious!"

The Grand Duke of Novgorod summoned the defenders of St. Petersburg and announced to them that Catherina's main army, having bulldozed the Golden Horde, had used teleportation arrays to teleport part of its forces to a large city closest to St. Petersburg, and then marched to St. Petersburg.

When the defenders of St. Petersburg heard that the mighty enemy of the Golden Horde had finally been defeated, their morale was greatly boosted, and Catherine's prestige rose significantly.

Because the morale of the defenders of St. Petersburg rose, Gustav's attack on St. Petersburg did not go well.

"It seems that the defenders of St. Petersburg have learned of the fall of the Golden Horde and that their reinforcements are coming, and we have missed this opportunity. We lack bronze artillery ......"

Gustav was keenly aware of the rising morale of the defenders of St. Petersburg, and St. Petersburg must have realized something.

By this time, the envoys of the Hun leader Attila had arrived.

Once again, Breda acted as an envoy to represent Attila, liaising with various allies or the Grand Dukes of the subject states.

"Gustavus, Vytautas, Temujin has been defeated, and is consulting with our Majesty to march westward together. Our Majesty needs the ability of both of you to defeat Alexander. ”

Breda met King Gustav of Sweden and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania, who were attacking St. Petersburg, and Attila needed their abilities.

Even Alexander, Caesar, and the firearms corps were far inferior to Gustav.

"Temujin failed too quickly."

Gustav was dissatisfied with the fall of the Golden Horde.

It was clear that St. Petersburg was in front of him, but Gustav did not have time to continue the attack on St. Petersburg.

"There is a proverb in the East, one win and one defeat, the military is always in power, and the defeat of the Golden Horde does not mean that we Huns will lose. Just help our Majesty to defeat Alexander, Constantine, Hohenzollern and other Western lords, and our Majesty will give you the reward you want after the victory, land, population, gold and silver, and freedom. ”

"Is Attila's promise really credible?"

Grand Duke Vytautas's personal freedom was controlled by Attila, who was moved when he heard that Attila was willing to give him back his freedom.

Vytautas's every move was now being watched by the Hun generals.

"Your Majesty," said Braida, "will never break our promise to plunder the spoils of the Macedonian Kingdom and the Holy Roman Empire, and we can even agree on a divide. ”

"I need a second military budget to maintain the cost of sending troops."

Gustav asked the Hun Empire, represented by Bleda, for a second batch of military spending.

Blada found that Gustav, like the mercenaries, relied heavily on the gold and silver provided by the Huns: "We will pay you a price that satisfies you." Just defeat them and you can get millions of gold. ”

"Withdraw troops."

After receiving a steady stream of military funds from the Hunnic Empire to maintain the Nordic army, Gustav left a small group of soldiers and horses to continue the siege according to Attila's deployment, bluffing, disabling the teleportation array in St. Petersburg, and then the army left St. Petersburg and retreated to Tallinn, using the fleet docked in the vicinity of Tallinn to transport the troops back to the royal city of the Kingdom of Sweden.

"One day, I will capture St. Petersburg......"

Gustav took one last look at St. Petersburg's towering castle towers before leaving St. Petersburg.

If he could get his hands on the blueprints for the bronze cannon and greatly increase his siege ability, then it would be possible to capture the fortress that Catherine had painstakingly managed.

Bronze artillery, no lord has ever obtained this kind of siege and field weapon that is more convenient than a counterweight trebuchet.

In Gustav's time, bronze cannons should have been very popular, but in "Lords", bronze cannons must have special firearms to use this sharp weapon, and at the same time, bronze cannons produced by special manufacturing drawings must be recognized by the system.

"The Nordic Legion seems to be starting to retreat......"

The Grand Duke of Novgorod, who defended St. Petersburg, was chosen as the commander of one side and also had certain abilities.

Although Gustav left a small force to bluff, the Grand Duke of Novgorod noticed that Gustav was beginning to retreat.

"Go out of the city and defeat them, open the teleportation array, and let the reinforcements come over and pursue!"

The Grand Duke of Novgorod had the fierceness of a fighting nation, and understood that Gustav left part of his troops in order to force the teleportation array to fail, so that Catherine could not transmit the main cavalry to pursue, so he immediately opened the city gate and personally commanded a team of Novgorod heavy infantry to attack the Nordic corps left behind in the city!

The gates of St. Petersburg opened, and thousands of Novgorod hoplites armed with spears and tomahawks rushed out of St. Petersburg to attack the camp of the Kingdom of Sweden!

However, what Gustav left behind was not an ordinary legion, but a murderous Jumus warband!

When Grand Duke Novgorod saw Viking berserkers wearing Nordic helmets and wielding tomahawks coming out of the camp, he couldn't help but regret going out of the city to attack the broken Norse army.

Olaf personally led the troops to assault, threw a flying axe at his waist, and slashed the enemy general!

When the Grand Duke of Novgorod saw his men being beheaded by Olaf with an axe, he couldn't help but shudder, and his voice trembled: "Back to the city!" ”

Several thousand Novgorod hoplites were defeated by the Berserkers of the Eumus Regiment, led by Olaf, who led several hundred men, and pursued them all the way to the bottom of the walls of St. Petersburg, where the defenders used ballistas to shoot a dozen Viking berserkers of the Eumus Regiment, and Olaf left with his warband.

Even Viking berserkers could not withstand ballistas or trebuchets head-on. This is also the key to the fact that St. Petersburg can be held.

Olaf was a little unwilling, St. Petersburg was an insurmountable wall for his Yums.

"The war dead, nine hundred."

The Grand Duke of Novgorod fled back to St. Petersburg, counted the number of losses, and the Novgorod hoplites, equipped with excellent armor, were killed and wounded by the Eumus regiment.

The Grand Duke of Novgorod, who had been taught a lesson, did not dare to venture out of the city, and continued to hold on to St. Petersburg, patiently waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

After ensuring that Gustav and Vytautas and his soldiers left, Olaf retreated to the beach with the Eumus warband, pushed the Vikings' dragon ship into the sea, and rowed back to Northern Europe without any panic.

Catherine and Chutian's cavalry arrived in St. Petersburg about two days later to relieve the siege of St. Petersburg.

When reinforcements arrived, the Norse army had completely left, leaving behind a mess of villages on the outskirts of St. Petersburg.

"The siege of St. Petersburg resulted in 20,000 casualties, 30,000 militiamen, and less than 10,000 ...... killed."

The Grand Duke of Novgorod was ashamed to report to Catherine about the results of the defense of St. Petersburg, and the ratio of casualties on both sides was completely unbalanced.

"Although Gustav's legion is very small, as the lion of the north, it only brings tens of thousands of people with each expedition, and at most it is only more than 100,000, but they are all elite."

Catherine knew that Gustav cherished the small population of the Kingdom of Sweden, and basically took the route of elite soldiers, and it was impossible to have hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, like the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Gustav's legions were all professional soldiers, mainly high-ranking soldiers, and military spending was also very high, so he repeatedly asked Attila for military expenses.

"The ...... of the Eumes Warband"

Chutian cleaned up the battlefield outside St. Petersburg and found that many Novgorod heavy infantry had died from axe wounds, somewhat similar to the injuries inflicted by the Varangian guards in Harald.

He had not yet fought with Gustav, who met with Attila's envoys and left St. Petersburg in time.

According to Grand Duke Novgorod, Olaf's Yums, with at least a thousand Viking berserkers, seems to be inferior in average rank to the Varangian Guard. However, the defenders of St. Petersburg also killed 400 Viking berserkers.

It is not known how many Viking berserkers there were, but it is said that the Viking Cnut the Great, who attacked England, seems to have more Eumus warriors.

"The two Highnesses, Alexander the King of Macedon, sent envoys to invite the two Highnesses to lead a large army to attack the Hun Empire and capture Temujin and Attila alive."

Shortly after Chutian and Catherine relieved the siege of St. Petersburg, Alexander's envoys took the initiative to ask for a joint effort to eliminate Attila and win points for the national war.