War, war, war, war, war, war...... Crazy, brave, desperate on the chaotic battlefield - the siege of Normandy reached a fever pitch amid the roars of soldiers on both sides.

After mercilessly killing a group of deserters, the morale of the French coalition mixed with the blood of their own soldiers rose to the highest. Later, after using shields and the corpses of their own dead as shields - a large number of French soldiers braved the rain of arrows from the city to use them next to the moat, squeezed a few unfortunate ghosts down, and were pierced by a large number of spiked stakes in the screams, and turned into a pulp, the French soldiers emptied the sacks filled with rubble that had already been prepared, and threw them down with a large number of corpses......

Several times this was repeated, and the entire moat was filled with corpses, dirt, and other messes. In this process alone, thousands of French cannon fodder were killed.

However, there are thousands of people, only one percent of the 100,000 army. It doesn't hurt at all. On the contrary, because the first obstacle to the siege was filled, the morale of the coalition forces was high.

King Philip II of France wasted no time in unleashing his special skill French Fox Hunt, which increased the attack frequency and movement speed of all French soldiers, and increased morale by one level. At the same time, either the heart is sharp, or the king has the same grasp of the battle situation, Charles, Duke of Burgundy, also performed the special skill of decisive assault, and the attack frequency and attack power of the Burgundian army have increased significantly.

It goes without saying that the monarchs of both countries have powerful stunts. However, Lufus was just a poor general, an excellent general, command talent, and three castes from a military academy gave him four basic commands. plus two qualified defensive generals and two qualified defending generals, it is only six points. And virtue is only loyalty, knightly origin, and it adds up to two points. He was still able to barely hold on before the two monarchs didn't perform their stunts, but after the two kings used their stunts, the French coalition became more and more aggressive. Facing the rain of bows and arrows intertwined with the city's defense crossbows and crossbowmen, he rushed over. After that, he took the ladder to the battlement, and then climbed up with his shield.

"Hurry up and push their ladder down!!, prepare stones and oil, and stone them!" Loufus shouted at the sight. So the knights of the guards beside him (wearing composite armor with the same equipment as the royal knights, belonging to the early general guard sequence) took out the horn and blew it. At the same time, there were quite a few heralds who ran away as fast as they could—the soldiers recruited by the system would naturally know the meaning of the horn. But those improvised peasant soldiers could not have such skills. Therefore, it is necessary to use a herald to convey orders.

Soon after Lufus gave such an order, the same rapid trumpets sounded from the towers of the other city walls. Immediately afterwards, a large number of stones were carried up the city wall by the auxiliary peasant soldiers. After that, he smashed it down. The walls of Normandy castles are eight meters high, equivalent to several floors, and such a height is enough to make a person's brain shattered by a smashed stone - even those professional soldiers with iron helmets will most likely smash their cervical vertebrae with a "click", or because the helmet is deformed, the iron piece will pierce directly into the head...... In short, it's dead.

However, when it came to dealing with the opponent's ladder, the Normans had a slight difficulty. There are a lot of French soldiers supporting under the siege ladder in France, and there are several people who can hold the ladder below, plus the slope of the physique. and the weight of the soldiers themselves who are climbing the ladder one by one, almost a thousand pounds of strength. It's hard to push.

I watched as the other soldier climbed over, getting closer and closer, and the ladder couldn't be pushed at all. Before Lufus could give the order, the defenders on the walls had a new approach.

A large stone fell down, and although the opponent's head was covered by a shield, it could not block the impact of the stone. was smashed straight down. At a height of eight meters, even if you don't die, you will have to fall. And if you fall into the pile, it's even worse. Not to mention smashing a bunch of comrades, it is very likely that the tip of the spear erected by the comrades will penetrate the body, and die in the hands of his own people in a daze......

And after smashing the French soldier at the top, the French soldier below was already ready, and his hands and feet stuck to the ladder without moving, so that although he was taken by the people above, he only swayed for a while, and could still continue to climb up. In this way, little by little, the French soldiers approached the city wall - until a large vat of boiling oil was poured on their heads......

"Ahhh!!!hhh

The boiling oil penetrated the armor of the French soldiers, frying their bodies and scorching their skin. No one can endure such a terrible pain. Liquids were much more diffusion than solids, and the boiling oil of the cauldron was much larger than the area covered by stones—and then the other French soldiers below the soldier were heard howling in the same way.

"Set fire!" Lufus was as hard as a stone, completely ignoring the screams of the opposing soldiers, and gave the order in a cold voice.

So, as a series of torches were thrown down, and the walls were covered in flames, the French soldiers, who had been drenched in boiling oil, howled and rolled in pain, twisting and shrinking until they could not move.

In this way, the entire Normandy castle was enveloped by a wall of flames. The French army was demoralized and fled in disarray, and many Norman crossbowmen were killed in the process.

In this way, the enemy's first siege ended in failure, and even very few French soldiers could take the city, so they left two or three thousand corpses behind and retreated. The French soldiers killed in the siege were miserable, unable to find even a word of corpse under the constant onslaught of crossbows, stones, and boiling flames. In particular, the soldiers who died in the fire had their faces disfigured and their deaths were horrific. You can imagine what kind of pain he suffered before he died.

There was a boiling in Normandy.

The city of Normandy was bleak.

Over the next few days, the French coalition attacked several more times, but all of them were defeated by Loufus, and the casualties gradually rose to more than 6,000. Morale is declining slowly but steadily. And the castles of Normandy are still strong. This left Charles and Philip tormented.

That night, the Duke of Burgundy and the King of France held a series of consultations. It was unanimously felt that such a forced attack was not the way to go. Tactics should be changed.

And the siege is protracted, and there are too many variables. Perhaps halfway through the siege, enemy reinforcements will arrive. Therefore it is not desirable.

So, how about a little bit of trying to buy and woo over? But the chances of success are not very high: the other side is now clearly able to hold on. And it's not without reinforcements. There is no such thing as running out of ammunition and food, and there is no need to be isolated. Then, if you want to win over the other party, you have to invest a lot of chips, for example, directly canonize Lufus as the Duke of Normandy. But in this case, they have been busy for so long a day, spending countless amounts of money and food, delaying precious farming time, and losing soldiers and generals.

Therefore, it is unlikely that this will be implemented. But you can give it a try. Let's lure you with a blank check first, and you might get a miracle effect.

Just as the two lords had finalized such a strategy that seemed a bit child's play, they heard the guy next to him, who had been ignored by them, wearing black armor and looking a little old, snort coldly.

"But in this way, it seems that the ability of the two of them is only so high, which is really disappointing. ”

Such rude words angered the monarchs of both France and Burgundy. Philip II was nicknamed the fox, and there are still some self-cultivation. But the bold Charlie couldn't stand this guy's words like this. He slapped the table and then pointed at the guy and shouted, "Then what good idea do you have?!"

That's right, this man is Edward IV, Duke of Aquitaine, who owed Egil a large amount of money and was about to hang himself. Speaking of which, he also has a total of 21,000 men in this coalition, but because of this number of Philip, there is also Charlie who is a little behind. Moreover, these two lords also looked down on the Black Duke, who had suffered a big loss at the hands of Egil. Therefore, they don't like to deal with him very much.

Edward IV did not take Charles's angry scolding seriously at all. Calmly said his thoughts: "Retreat, send a messenger to apologize, it is better to pay another reparation." The amount should not be too large, but it should not be too small. That's it. ”

Immediately afterward, the entire tent was silent for a few seconds, and then the other two lords erupted in a very sarcastic manner. Charles used all the foul language he could imagine to describe Edward IV's timidity. And Philip II's gaze was full of contempt.

"Coward, if you want to lick that Viking's ass, go ahead. I really don't understand, how can there be such a waste like you in this world. Charlie said this and walked out. Philip snorted twice, said nothing, and stood up.

"You think I'm a fool and a coward?" asked Edward IV before Philip was about to walk out.

"No, no, no, you're brave, at least you used to be. "Philip II controlled a territory adjacent to Edward IV, whether it was Normandy or Aquitaine. He had dealings with Edward IV before he became king of France. So I know a lot more about him than Charlie: "But, not so much. Not really. If we did that, we would be despised by all the royal families in Europe. ”

"That's at least better than destroying the country and exterminating the species. Edward IV responded.

"That's absolutely impossible. The corners of Philip II's mouth turned up, revealing a confident smile.

"Where did you get that confidence?"

Although Edward IV still wanted to ask such a question. But Philip II had gone out and never looked ......back;