Chapter 19 Chao Qin and Twilight
Diplomat 14 walked out of Stockholm without any danger, and then reported the matter to Egil. Egil nodded, knowing that Gustav had not given up hope at this time, thinking that he still had the ability to defy the sky. As long as you can stick to Stockholm for half a year. The Norwegian soldiers are tired, and they will win a great victory. Immediately after that, he marched south and north, and both the United Kingdom and Novgorod were defeated by his men. It is not impossible for one person to defeat three families - who let these three families form an alliance, but because of their geographical location and their own strategy, they have not formed an alliance, and it is easy to defeat each of them.
But Egil clearly didn't want to give him that chance. Half a year? The daylilies are cold in half a year. Novgorod succeeded in reconcovering lost territory, and Poland and Lithuania were able to stabilize the situation in the Baltic, and it would be difficult to fight again - especially since these two countries were dependent on maritime trade because of their proximity to the Baltic Sea. So there is still quite a bit of a navy on hand. Trying to block them is not as simple as blocking Sweden.
Then, since words cannot convince people, they have no choice but to use force.
"Catapults. Strive to collapse the walls of Stockholm for me within half a month. ”
So, Egil gave such an order.
As a result, a total of 500 dwarven craftsmen and human engineers began to work day and night, cutting down a large number of trees. It is then made into a large counterweight catapult that can be disassembled. After that, the army surrounded Sanque Yi (in fact, because there were not enough troops, and they were afraid that they would be beaten up if they were too scattered). Hundreds of catapults were projected with a round of stone projectiles, and thousands of pounds of large stones fell from the sky, shaking the whole of Stockholm. The Swedish soldiers and civilians watched a large number of stones fall from the sky and exclaimed the end of the world. Wandering around like a headless fly.
After three rounds of stone bullets, there was a discussion of flame bullets. Egil spent a lot of money this time to make Gustav fully realize the difference in strength, fire oil, bastard - you can't find such convenient things as oil in Scandinavia these days, all of them are animal oil or vegetable oil collected by Egil, very expensive bastard. It was sealed in a clay pot, then wrapped in a layer of broken linen or something, and then lit it. Then he threw it out, and the crockpot broke, and the oil inside got into the flames and burned all at once.
After that, the whole of Stockholm became a sea of fire.
It's not just the military and civilian aristocracy in Stockholm who are screaming. And Egil, who said the following:
"My money!!! who made you throw it all at once?!!!!!"
However, the effect is also quite good, and the whole of Stockholm now looks like a huge torch that is burning. Seeing the smoke soaring into the sky, I don't know how much inhalable particulate matter and sulphur dioxide pollution has brought to the earth...... As soon as the oil was burned, it was almost impossible to extinguish it with water -- but how did people know so much at that time?! Many Swedish soldiers who reacted quickly charged towards the burning spot with buckets of water in thick smoke, and the oil floated on the water, and the fire became even more ferocious. In addition, at this time, most of the buildings were made of wood, and the dry firewood was naturally out of control when it met the flames, and even Gustav's royal palace was hit several times, and the burning was not over at this moment.
At this moment, Gustav stood on the balcony of his room, looking at the horrific hellish flames below. couldn't help blurting out: "It's over......" I regretted that I hadn't agreed to the other party's request for peace before. Who knew retribution would come so quickly......
In mid-September 1001, the Stockholm fires ceased, and in early October, the fires stopped. More than half of the entire Stockholm military and civilian Z suffered casualties, until finally, perhaps because of God's mercy, a heavy snowfall in Scandinavia finally solved Stockholm's predicament. The fire of purgatory in front of Tianwei was finally extinguished. After this catastrophe, the vast majority of the surviving Swedish soldiers and civilians did not want to fight again......
Under such conditions, Diplomat XIV again entered Stockholm.
He was greeted by eyes full of anger, mixed with fear, but helpless. Along the way, there are also many guys whose relatives died in the fire, as if they were crazy, and they wanted to rush up and kill him. But without exception, they were stopped by the Swedish soldiers who came to greet them. This makes Diplomat Fourteen feel a little ridiculous: he is actually protected by his own enemies. It's really sad.
I mean the Swedish soldiers.
After a month in the half-destroyed Swedish royal palace, Diplomat 14 met King Gustav Adolf again. For some reason, half of His Majesty's originally beautiful beard was burned off, and the crown did not know where it went. The royal robe on his body also has traces of smoke and fire. The whole person, in addition to being in good spirits and with undiminished sharpness in his eyes, also has a lot of wrinkles on his face, which looks like he has a lot of worries.
"I have decided to accede to your request. There was a long silence between Gustav and Diplomat Fourteen. In the end, Gustav was a little impatient, and extremely reluctant to say such a thing.
"I'm very sorry, Your Majesty, but the Lord doesn't need you to provide such conditions now. Diplomat Fourteen bent down without humility or arrogance, then quickly straightened up and said this.
Gustav raised an eyebrow, almost wanting to give the order to kill. But in the end, I endured. He knew that Sweden no longer had the confidence to compete with the Norwegians for hegemony. No matter how harsh the conditions of the other side are, as long as Sweden can continue to exist, it will be enough.
"Tell us your terms. Gustav said as he clenched his fists.
Diplomat Fourteen nodded implicitly: "The sovereign's condition is this: in order to show your sincerity for peace, you should take the initiative to give up a part of the land. Specifically, it is bounded by the northernmost point of the Klar River-Lake Wiener-Lake Catern, and the territory at its southern end belongs to our country. Of course, in order to compensate for your losses, the sovereign will pay 20,000 gold worth of grain, furs, tents, and other supplies that your country urgently needs. In addition to this, you still have to cede to our country the lands of the Baltic coast, such as Vilnius and Riga. After the signing of the peace treaty, you and I will be able to forge an alliance forever and go hand in hand......"
"It seems that your lord is not a peaceful person. After Diplomat 14 mentioned the Baltic coastal lands twice, Gustav snorted lightly, and eighty percent understood what Egil wanted to do next. Although it is said that it is convenient to cede all the subarctic and milder climates in southern Sweden. But with the much-needed supplies of Sweden worth 20,000 gold coins, such compensation is not bad. This is what Sweden desperately needs today......
After hearing Gustav's answer, the corners of Diplomat Fourteen's mouth turned up, and he smiled confidently.
On October 5, Sweden and Norway reached peace, and unlike the previous actions of Egil, the Norwegians returned with a great victory in the city, but only part of the southern Swedish territory and the two Baltic cities of Riga and Vilnius were ceded off. I also pasted a lot of supplies back...... It is even rumored that Egil has secretly aided Sweden with a large amount of weaponry, ranging from plate chain composite armor to longbow warhorses. The entire Swedish army was quickly rejuvenated.
On 6 October, Norway sent a unilateral note to the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom, presenting a partial peace treaty between Norway and Sweden, demanding the return of the city of Vilnius, which should belong to Norway. At the same time, he sent a garrison of three thousand Livonia to prepare to take over the territory.
"That guy, that damn scoundrel, that scoundrel, shameless!"
After receiving Egil's handwritten letter and the annex to the peace treaty between Norway and Sweden, the current king of the United Kingdom, Władysław II (Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, a powerful Eastern European figure, who has won three victories in the history of the Teutonic Knights), turned the table upside down. and scolded Egil for his perfidy.
While Egil was storming Stockholm, the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom did not sit idle, attacking the city of Vilnius overnight with an army of 35,000 and, having suffered some casualties, captured it. And just as the United Kingdom army was preparing to make further efforts to attack Riga, it was informed of such news.
Władysław II received the letter in mid-October, and the British army was still in Vilnius - during this time the Livonian garrison, numbering three thousand, had already been replaced by the Swedish garrison, and the whole of Riga, including most of Livonia, had been returned to the Norwegians. At the same time, Egil also shamelessly demanded that he hand over Vilnius to him.
"Lao Tzu will fight for you!"
As a result, the United Kingdom quickly turned its guns, and 30,000 troops rushed directly towards the city of Riga. Egil, who received the news of the carrier pigeon, immediately announced the United Kingdom's treachery and severed its alliance with it, and then more than 30,000 Norwegian troops and more than 5,000 Norwegian navies were ready to go straight to Lithuania in Eastern Europe......
At the same time, Sweden officially declared an alliance with Norway and declared war on Novgorod, and a total of 15,000 Swedish troops took the land route and pressed towards the Rus', who were burning and looting on Finnish territory.
At this point, the Baltic Sea coast changed again, the Baltic League collapsed, and the Nordic Union was established. Eastern Europe, Northern Europe is cloudy, and another new game and war is about to begin......
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