Chapter Twenty-Nine: This Aid Is a Little Bigger...... How to fight?
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Margrethe I drove away Egil's messenger with extreme unceremonious conduct. This is because the communication industry in this era is not well developed. Margrethe I had never heard much of the name Egil. Her judgment of the situation in Norway is still at the level of "Olaf III and Count Felix are vying for hegemony".
Well, now that the two stubbles have hung up, the whole of Norway should be like a ripe fig, just waiting for her to taste it. And in Oslo this string of victories. It also seems to prove this. Seeing Oslo's crumbling walls, Margrethe I could already imagine what it would be like for the whole of southern Norway to fall after she breached Oslo.
This was followed by the consolidation of local forces and the subsequent offensive to northern Norway. By that time, the army he had organized in Denmark should have all landed. The total number of troops should be more than 50,000. Under the absolute difference in numbers, the other party may be willing to fall into the wind. When the time comes, having integrated the forces of Norway and Denmark, it should be easy to subdue Sweden...... Then, the whole of Northern Europe can be integrated.
In Margaret I's plan, there was no shadow of Egil at all, in other words, Egil, who felt good about himself, was completely ignored.
This one is very sad, bastard.
After driving out Egil's messenger, Margrethe I did not take the matter to heart at all. In her eyes, Egil was nothing more than a foolish nobleman with arrogance, and there was no tiger and monkey in the mountains to be the king or anything. He even tried to get his hands on Norwegian authority. Such a guy should be taught a good lesson. By the way, he hanged things.
In this way, when the 24,000-strong army organized by Egir went south and reached an alliance with the nobles on the outskirts of Oslo, and the combined army of 30,000 troops was encamped twenty miles from the Danish army, Margrethe I did not react.
"Egil Skadergrímsson? Who is that? I haven't heard of it at all. ”
Emotionally people don't remember Egil at all.
Eventually, reminded by a few men who had a better surname, or a lower IQ (who dared to remember their own surname, and were tired of it?), Margaret I remembered that nearly a week earlier, a fellow claiming to be the messenger of the Count of Biard had come to her and asked her to withdraw from the army. But she completely ignored it.
Her Majesty then remembered what she had said a week earlier: let him bring his troops over and rob him if he wanted. After that, I want to slap myself. Did the messenger I go to say something when he finally left, don't be unprepared, bastard?!
So, the queen said to let Egil come, and Egil came. As agreed, he also brought an army of nearly 30,000 men.
Originally, the queen did have such a plan: to besiege Oslo, attract the enemy, and then break through each with superior forces, and the same is true for the encirclement and reinforcements.
It's just that Egil's "aid" is a little bigger. If you don't do your best, you'll probably die a miserable death.
So, Margrethe I made a quick decision, leaving an army of 1,800 to guard the castle of Oslo, and the catapults and other things continued to bombard. Make it impossible for the enemy to see the real thing - but don't really blow it down. Otherwise, the enemy saw that the city wall was collapsing and no one would attack, and the momentum would be bluff......
After that, Margrethe I organized the main Danish army - of course, she was a woman, and she could play intrigue and diplomacy. But if you really want to go to the battlefield, you have to rely on those noble generals who really fight the country. She just serves as a symbol. Plus a mascot-like existence. That's all.
The Danish army, the total number is also nearly 30,000. Margaret I calculated, but was a little uneasy, although the opposing army was divided into two armies, not subordinate to each other. The Danish army is united in their hearts...... But Egil on the other side was able to rise rapidly in such a short period of time, and the evaluation of a person could not run away. The two armies were equal in number, but she was a little uneasy.
"Let's wait and see. Wait a little longer, and when all the Danish troops are transported, there will be a few thousand more soldiers to fight. At that time, the decisive battle will be fought. So, Margrethe I made up her mind not to fight for the time being.
In the same way, Egil had no intention of sending troops into battle quickly - he was also waiting, and when Oslo fell, Felix II died. He rightly annexed southern Norway. Second, it is to wait for the navy led by General Carter to be able to make a contribution -- there is no need to completely annihilate the enemy's navy, or even to inflict heavy damage. As long as he can attack the enemy convoy of troops and supplies several times. The news reached the Danish army, causing the Danish army to lose morale. That's it.
Both armies were waiting—waiting for something floating on the sea. That is, the fleet.
Drifting at sea, the Norwegian navy, to which Egil belonged, finally turned to the entrance of the Öresund waterway after a five-day voyage. This waterway connects the Baltic Sea in the North Sea, and to the south is the northernmost point of the Danish peninsula called Tereland. To the north is the southernmost tip of the Norwegian peninsula of Scandinavia. The location is dangerous. And because of the closest. The Danish supply and convoy fleets generally chose a straight line across the Öresund waterway.
So, basically, as long as you cut off here, you can basically cut off Denmark's support. Unfortunately, Egil still wanted to sign a contract with the Danish army after defeating it. I don't want to beat him too hard. Otherwise......
It's useless to talk about that now. Hundreds of warships of the Norwegian fleet lined up in a prismatic formation. And God is also very face-saving to hang the northwest wind. In just a short time, Carter found his prey with the help of the legendary monoculars (500 bonds each).
A total of more than 20 galleys lined up with a deep hull draft. It looks like it's loaded with a lot of cargo. At this moment, the northwest wind was blowing, and the other party had put away the sails, and the crew and slaves rowed hard with their oars. So it's moving very slowly.
"Don't sink them all, leave two behind. Plug them up to the north. Remembering the instructions of his boss, Carter instructed him to deliberately let a few boats pass. Promote the prestige of the country, and by the way, scare and scare people or something.
Thus, a naval battle with completely unequal forces began. The long, narrow and extremely fast battleship of the dragon's head quickly rushed towards the rear of the enemy army and cut off the way back to Denmark. At the same time, light ballista battleships lined up treaded the waves. The rapid winding of the scorpion crossbow Caracalla in the bow of the ship - a two-metre-high bracket with a bearing connection between the crossbow machine and the bracket that is pulled down to reload. If you want to launch, push it up. Condescending shooting.
The front part of the crossbow bolt it fired was wrapped in a tattered cloth coated with fire oil. In order to be able to further burn the enemy warship while destroying the hull.
Like the ballista, this lighter scorpion crossbow has a crosshair for aiming and a ruler for measuring distance. And the hull of the ballista battleship was also a lot taller than that of the galleys. Condescendingly, if you hit the right place directly, you can shoot the enemy's galleys out of a hole.
"Damn it...... Why are the enemy's ships so high?!" The enemy warship rushed into his fleet with great momentum, and then condescended, and then the crossbow arrow as thick as "beep" shot down directly. Galleys are all flat-bed boats, and there is no such thing as a cabin at all—and I have never even heard of such a high-tech as a watertight compartment. After shooting through it directly, the salty sea water poured into it...... Even if this ship is not sinkable, the black bread loaded in it is stained with water and damp. After a few days, it will grow hair and cannot be eaten......
Moreover, the opponent's ships were too tall, and their attempts to engage in broadside battles were completely unsuccessful. In the blink of an eye, nearly half of the ships of the Danish transport fleet were smashed out of the hole by the scorpion crossbow. The speed and morale are all declining little by little.
"Damn it. "Neither numbers, tactics nor morale are at all opponents. It's also unlikely that you want to jump into the gang and take the ship. The opposing commander thought for a while, then gave up resistance and led the fleet to rush in the direction of Denmark in the south. At the same time, the sails were opened, and the slave sailors rowed at full speed and prepared to retreat.
"Tsk, the direction is wrong. "Seeing the enemy as vulnerable as a lamb to the slaughter. Carter pursed his lips and then said.
At the same time, the Viking Dragonhead battleship, which had blocked the enemy's escape route in the south before the start of the battle, began to exchange fire with the enemy, and the sea suddenly shouted and killed. The two sides exchanged fire with bow rockets. When they got closer, they scrambled to attack the enemy ship and struck the head of the enemy on the opposite side......
It was during this period of time that some of the enemy's galleys finally became unbearable. There was too much water leaking in, and then some of it "clicked", and the arrow in the middle of the hull broke into two from the middle and sank with a gurgling sound. And whoever is shot from the front or behind sinks from the front or behind. The hull of the ship was warped and warped - and then it could not bear any longer, and it broke into two in the air. And the whirlpool created after the galley sank also swallowed up many lives.
Even if that weren't, the Viking warriors in heavy chain mail didn't have much chance of surviving. And those slaves who didn't wear anything on them probably didn't survive with the last name - no, not at all. They were strapped to their ankles with heavy iron shackles. didn't even have a possible surname to flutter, so he was pulled directly into the sea.
For a time, there was a terrible howl on the sea. The Danish navy was almost completely wiped out, and only two tattered boats remained, but they managed not to sink and fled like crazy to the north......
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