For twenty-five days, the castle of Normandy was as solid as a rock, and it stood extremely strong in the northwest of France, and there was no sign of imminent fall. On the contrary, the French coalition army lost tens of thousands of troops, dozens of nobles above the baron level. Although Charlie and Philip tried their best to save and boost morale. But the effect is not obvious.

The war was at a turning point. The French coalition army had no hope of capturing Normandy in a short period of time, but turned into a siege, and the 90,000-strong army besieged Normandy. At the same time, a small force of harassment troops was sent to make a gesture of imminent siege, and they kept harassing the Normandy defenders day and night. Let the defenders be highly stressed and unable to rest well, so as to achieve the effect of exhausting the soldiers.

In this way, July passed in a flash, and even a little more than half of August passed. Eggil settled the people on the Finnish side, recruited another 2,000 Finnish light cavalry, and returned to the southern tip of Scandinavia. At the same time, the Norman army of 50,000 has also been repaired. You can go out at any time. It's just that Egil is still worried about diplomacy with Novgorod and Moscow. Therefore, the army was not immediately sent to Normandy. Instead, he wrote a letter to his wife, asking about the development of the war.

It's good to develop naturally.

When the Norman-Celtic coalition destroyed Brittany with lightning speed, the French coalition was kept in the dark. It wasn't until Artoria's 50,000-strong army directly broke down the first-tier camp in France from west to east with a overwhelming force that the other party reacted.

But this does not mean that Philip II, King of France, was a fool. It's just a mistake in my habitual surname. Like Alang II of Brittany, Philip felt that reinforcements would land from north to south, from Normandy. The first to bear the brunt of this was the Burgundians, who occupied the northwest side. Therefore, before this, when arranging the areas for which the two sides were responsible, Philip II played this trick. The vast majority of the French coalition's ranger outposts were also deployed in the north. It's not that there aren't any other directions. But there is a big gap in numbers and capabilities. At the same time, most of the soldiers deployed in these areas also know that it is impossible for the enemy to pass in the direction for which they are responsible. So it's very slack.

Therefore, Artoria made such a turn, but she cheated people fiercely, and the effect was surprisingly good.

The Norman queen pulled down her face, and the shamelessness was not low. There is no intention of submitting the war letter at all, and the appointment time is to fight. Instead, the light cavalry was directly the lead, followed by the heavy cavalry, and a large number of light infantry forcibly attacked. Such tactics. Charge directly at the enemy.

In Europe at this moment, there is no such thing as a horse trap and a trip. The purpose of camping is only to stop and rest. The entire camp of the French was scattered, and jugglers, hawkers and warblers could walk around the barracks. The whole barracks were like some kind of noisy farmer's market, or temple fair. The soldiers lazily basked in the sun, grabbed the lice on their bodies and put them in their mouths. Or go into your tent with a cheap girl who is negotiating a good price. Others are watching juggling. And the aristocrats gathered together to eat and drink. Or talk about the current situation. Let's talk about it: it's not fucking like talk. What if I commanded it? It was as if he was the reincarnation of Alexander.

It was under these circumstances that Artoria's cavalry arrived—the vanguard was a group of lightly armed cavalry. Including the cavalry militia recruited from England, and the knightly servants who stripped their armor under Artoria's strict orders, a total of about eight hundred. The combat effectiveness of these cavalry was not very high. Artoria didn't expect much from them. The order was given only to raid and disrupt the enemy as much as possible.

I have to say, it's a good task. After a sudden enemy attack, except for a few veteran soldiers who reacted immediately, the vast majority of the conscripted peasants, including most of the nobles, still did not know what was going on - until a terrible ghost-like voice shouted in a French dialect in an unknown ravine: "The enemy is attacking !!!"

After that, the whole barracks were in chaos.

It's still daytime. If things had continued like this, France, with its army of forty or fifty thousand, would have mustered in a very short time enough forces to drive out the light cavalry, or even kill them all—but then the hoplites arrived. In England, the feudal knightly corps of the nobles and knights of Brittany, and the Celtic knights and Celtic heavy cavalry formed by Artoria, a charge of nearly seven hundred hoplites in all, crushed the thousands of French who had been gathered with great difficulty.

Artoria took the lead. The long sword in her hand slashed horizontally and vertically, and there was no one who could match the general guards under her command was already twice as large as Egil, and she was also a peerless general with a thousand horses, but this round of charging was much stronger than Egil's fight in Władysław's military camp back then. also rushed all the way to the middle of the barracks, also with the idea of capturing the thief and capturing the king first.

"What the hell is going on?!" Unlike Władysław, Philip II's tent was in the center of the entire barracks. I heard shouts of murder outside—the young king of France, who had just ascended to the throne, was pale, and he clutched one of his attendants on the chest and shouted.

"Hurry up, Your Majesty, the Normans are coming!! "The squire is not a daring fellow either. persuaded his master to flee quickly.

"Damn it, where did they come from?!What about the Burgundians?!Were the Burgundians defeated?!! Philip II still thinks they have landed from the north. He couldn't believe it: the Burgundians had thirty or forty thousand in all of them -- all of them were gone all at once?! How many enemies must there be? 100,000 or 200,000 or more?!

"What do you want to do now?!Hurry up, Your Majesty!!," the attendants shouted anxiously. Immediately afterward, hearing the shouts of slaughter getting nearer and nearer, Philip II gritted his teeth, walked out of the tent quickly, mounted his horse, and shouted, "Go back!

With the french of the King of France fleeing, there was no one in the entire French army camp who was qualified to put the French army in order to put up an effective resistance—nay, maybe another, Duke Edward of Aquitaine. But that guy was a little smarter than Philip. Be prepared one step ahead. Not only did he succeed in escaping, but he also saved tens of thousands of Aquitaines from the disaster.

At the same time, when the Normandy defenders heard the uproar of the enemy camp on the southwest side, Lufus immediately opened the two gates and sent two thousand professional Viking warriors to attack.

The war was out of control. When tens of thousands of light infantry of the Norman-Celtic coalition swooped down and almost leveled the entire French barracks, the battle was completely settled. The Norman-Celtic coalition, led by Artoria, defeated the French coalition. Successfully freed the siege of Normandy Castle.

During the whole process, the Burgundians watched coldly, and had no intention of going up to help. Charles, Duke of Burgundy, sat idly by and watched his allies fall in this way. But not a single soldier was mobilized to rescue. He simply defended his camp to the death - and quietly withdrew his troops that night.

At this point, the entire Battle of Normandy ended. France became the final, the biggest loser. Aquitaine has little to lose and is acceptable. Burgundy, however, only lost thousands of soldiers and horses during the siege, but did not break their bones. The Norman kingdom, on the other hand, won an unprecedented victory under the leadership of Queen Artoria. Artoria's prestige soared. At the same time, he was full of ambition, and after pacifying the Norman people and nobles, he set out to conquer all of France.

By the time the news arrived, Egil's army was ready to go, with 50,000 Norman troops reorganized, plus 2,000 new Finnish light cavalry. As well as 1,000 Finnish light cavalry and 600 professional hussars recruited through the system, the light cavalry force under Egil's command reached 6,000, and the overall number of cavalry was close to 10,000, and the strength of the Norman army became stronger and stronger.

At the same time, news came from the diplomat that the diplomat Foster's mission to Novgorod had gone very well, and Rurik seemed to have been frightened by the fighting power of the Norman army. When Foster said Egil's terms, he agreed without a word. It was as if he was afraid that Egil would not agree.

And what makes Egil a little strange is that where in the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the diplomatic work of the diplomat Sekender is going very smoothly. Grand Duke Catherine II praised Egil's great achievements and agreed to Egil's conditions against public opinion. The "slightest unpleasantness" before the declaration could not stop the friendship between the two peoples for generations.

At the dinner for Sekkende, Catherine II frequently toasted the diplomat. He praised Egil many times, as well as the ability of the Norman kingdom, and compared Egil to Alexander, Charlemagne, a great emperor. He even claimed to be an admirer of Egil. The entire Grand Duchy of Moscow was ready to become a solid ally of the Norman kingdom.

If it weren't for the series of "cooperation" that Catherine II vaguely proposed: the two countries should jointly punish Novgorod, and even exterminate Lithuania and partition Poland, this series of "cooperation", Sekender would have almost been fooled and believed the sweet words of the young archduchess.

"Extremely dangerous, but not without value. It's up to the lord to choose. ”

After receiving a message from a flying pigeon like Sykende, Egil fell into deep thought......;