Judging by the direction of the war, we have the upper hand. Yes. That's right, the upper hand. There was no better news for Egil, who wiped out about five hundred or so Rangers, and a hundred times more civilians than that. But there was nothing that could be done about the Greeks who were cowering in the city of Budapest. The other day Egil did the math. If you continue to attack forward. Then his back road will become even more precarious. The other side only needs to send a group of light cavalry to constantly raid the grain transportation roads. can drag down the entire coalition army.

However, if the offensive is not continued, Budapest is close at hand. You only need to take two more steps to feel it. How could Egil be willing?

Suddenly, Egil felt a little pitiful for Frederick. His situation at that time should be similar to his own. However, the will of both sides is completely different. Frederick was intoxicated by his streak of victories and felt that he could continue to win with this momentum. Egil, however, sensed the potential danger. And fell into a dilemma.

Is it true that if people are stupid, they will be less distressed? And the thought that Frederick was pitiful also led to this: this guy may be good at scheming, and he is proficient in battle. But the necessary political means and strategic vision are lacking. The absence of the former led him to make the wrong policy towards northern Italy and Hungary. It was as if he had lost two potential allies in exchange for two enemies. And the absence of the latter allowed him to win one or two victories, but he could not solve the entire war.

That's how it has developed historically. Because of such shortcomings, Frederick invaded Italy from Germany. Then the German princes would rebel. And if he returns to Germany from Italy, then the Italian city-states will become independent again. This guy is just going around between Italy and Germany...... In the end, all his strength and time were consumed. And for nowhere.

What a model of negative teaching materials. Egil said to himself: In the future, no one can learn from this guy.

Eventually, after weighing the pros and cons, Egil sent all of his professional hussars, as well as the Finnish light cavalry, out. After carefully inspecting every grass and every grain of soil within a hundred kilometers of the surrounding area, he moved forward one by one and pounced on it.

It's a hundred kilometers from Budapest. Egil receives a message from a Norman spy. The main forces of the opposing side had evacuated Budapest two days earlier. Now the garrison of Budapest is only one Greek provisional conscription. It's just 10,000 light infantry.

That is to say...... I ran away. Egil frowned. Calculated a little. The enemy drops an empty garrison city as bait. I want to attract Ziyi...... If you add up the time when the enemy leaves, the time you need to get to Budapest, and the time when you discover the enemy's plot......

Almost a month-old baby

In other words, without the spy network, Egil would have lost a month to attack a city that was no longer of much use. However, the other side can calmly deploy troops and attack Egil's two flanks with absolute superiority.

The armies of Northern Italy or France. After that, it will be defeated. As a result, the coalition forces suffered heavy losses and their morale also dropped.

That's it. If all goes well.

But nothing went smoothly.

After that, Egil calculated a little, sent heralds, and delivered the news to the other two armies, and at the same time gave an order for them to think about themselves and at the same time move in the direction of Budapest. Later, Egil also took the time to write a love letter to Hani, who was in contact with Lithuania and organized a defense on the steppes of Eastern Europe, preparing to resist the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and asked her to see if she could contact the former king of Hungary, Attila.

And then there was a long wait.

Egil doesn't like to wait.

Neither waiting for the enemy, nor waiting for one's own people do not like it. Especially in the process of waiting, I have to endure the daily buzzing of Joan of Arc, like the harassment of the bees. Why can't you treat the Hungarians like this, they are also Catholics, talk to them, there will be a solution......,

Something like that.

Sometimes, when he got tired of hearing this, he quarreled directly with Joan of Arc: "If you want to preach so much, go to the Hungarians! ”

"That. Joan of Arc looked at Egil a little sadly: "Sure enough, you're starting to think I'm annoying and want to kick me away?"

"I didn't mean that. Egil looked at Joan of Arc a little speechlessly: "It's just that I'm busy enough now, don't mess with me, okay?" "What are you busy doing? Slaughter and kill?" Joan of Arc was about to cry, so that Egil almost forgot that this guy is also a warrior with a thousand terrifying forces. And treat her as a simple, weak girl.

"I ...... I'm so sorry. Egil sighed softly, then hugged Joan of Arc: "I'm very sorry. ”

"That's all you can say?" Jeanne d'Arc asked after a few moments of struggle, then gave up and looked up at Egil.

"Huh?" Egil was stunned for two seconds, then stunned for two seconds when he saw Joan of Arc close her eyes. It soon became clear what Joan of Arc meant. I was a little surprised and a little relieved at the same time, it seems that my mediation of Joan of Arc in the past six months has finally paid off.

So, very naturally, the two sides kissed. This is a very memorable thing. Because it was usually Egil who took the initiative and Joan of Arc was passive. But this time it was Joan of Arc who took the initiative. So afterwards, Egil also spent 1,000 bonds to buy a diary. This incident was solemnly recorded.

Today is July 14, 1003.

It's a day worth remembering.

I fell in love with Chastity Day.

Of course, it's still a little bit away from going to bed.

Also, the powerful psychedelic that the system can exchange costs 5,000 bonds, and the powerful aphrodisiac costs 7,500 bonds, which I think is quite cheap. I exchanged two bottles and carried them with me.

A bottle, well, about fifty milliliters.

This is it

Maybe it's because she feels a little embarrassed that Joan of Arc has been keeping her head down when she sees Egil lately, and she doesn't have anything to say. He no longer advises Egil to kill people or anything. Egil, on the other hand, was anxious after hearing that Joan of Arc was trying to learn Hungarian. There was a slight change in strategy in Hungary.

The main purpose of pulling a group is to win over the chiefs of the nomadic tribes who still live a nomadic life. These guys have the strongest sense of identity with the Hungarian people. He was also the most loyal to his ancestor Attila. Egil spoke a little, and he sent men to find Attila. And after being willing to help Attila restore the kingdom, and giving these tribes enough financial benefits, the tribes were willing to follow Egil. There were even a small number of simple-minded people who sent troops to follow Egil.

And the group that Egil suppressed was the Hungarian ones, who had already taken refuge in, or secretly took refuge in the castle owners of the Eastern Roman Empire. Of course, there are some small nobles in their territory, and it is too much to say that it is a castle to exalt them. It's not much better than the walled city of earth and wood that Egil saw when he debuted.

Although because of time, it can't be pushed over one by one and crushed. But there are still necessary examples to kill chickens and monkeys. Along the way to Budapest, Egil selected two of the most prosperous castle owners, a count and a baron, and then attacked the city and exterminated the family. The execution method on the spear of the human head, which had not been used for a long time, was also used again. Directly that area became a forest of human heads. Seeing thousands of human heads with hideous and terrifying facial expressions, they were hung by a series of spears, stuck in the ground and could not be seen at a glance. Even the strongest Hungarian warrior would feel a chill in his heart.

Of course, if this were all there was to it, the Hungarians would not have stopped resisting. What really made the Hungarians stop resisting was that Egil divided the territory of the two nobles into small pieces and gave them to the Hungarian peasants or herders for free. He also promised that, after defeating the Eastern Roman heretics, he would give all the lands of all those who had taken refuge in the Eastern Roman heretics to "loyal and good Hungarian ......."

The "loyal and kind Hungarian ......" was skeptical of Egil's claims. It wasn't until Egil had really divided all those lands, instead of taking them for himself as Frederick had done, and even appointing officials and nobles on a large scale. The Hungarian people believed: there is such a good thing in this world, and there are wolves that don't eat meat, and crows that are not black?

Of course, for such a thing as the extermination of the Hungarian nobles, Egil still can't do it, and it's not his turn to do it. Privately, Egil also spread the rumor that as long as he can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, then a comrade is still a good comrade. The life of a lawless serf owner can go on. In this way, those who are skeptical, have already submitted to the Eastern Roman Empire, and even some of the nobles who have converted to Orthodox Christianity, have also made contact with Egil in private, of course, before Egil completely defeats the Eastern Romans, these people are only potential underground parties, and they will never disclose their identities.

In this way, Egil adjusted his strategy and delayed for several days, finally reaching the city of Budapest on July 20. In the other two armies, the French responded that they should meet within three or four days, while the Italian army had no news......

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