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Before Artoria's aid was in sight, the siege of Normandy had already begun. Although they look at each other quite unpleasantly. But in this kind of thing, they don't pull each other back. Everyone is a smart person, and we can do as little as possible to do things that harm others and ourselves.

As a result, King Philip II of France said nothing about the separatist tendencies of the Duke of Burgundy, what he had done in and out of his domain, and the insults he had previously made to himself as a king. Charles, Duke of Burgundy, also seems to have forgotten such things as the Burgundy Kingdom that he swore to build the Reading, and behaved more loyal than a loyal courtier. Swore allegiance to France.

However, it is said that it is so. But the King of France, and the Duke of Burgundy, the two most powerful men in France, still separated the two armies, with the French army defending the southeast side of the Normandy castle and Burgundy to the northwest. The division of labor is clear, and the division of labor is clear to ensure that they will not interfere with each other, let alone fight each other.

As for who Normandy ended up getting. That one is even simpler.

Whoever breaches the city first will be his. The whole of Normandy is divided according to the current de facto occupation zone. If anyone is not satisfied, they will be killed. The winner takes everything from the loser, including land, possessions, and lives. The winner is not allowed to be cheap, and the loser is not allowed to have emotions.

That's it.

However, although both the king and the duke had different sources of information. But the overall spy network is a scum compared to Norman. The Norman kingdom had long been informed of the imminent attack of the two nations and had made adjustments.

Lufus, who was the Norman defender, was in his forties, burly, blonde and strategic

He knew very well that the Normandy region he was stationed in was the bridgehead for the kingdom to go south to the European continent, and it was also a roadblock for the other party to get out quickly. Once the two sides are really at war. Then the turf that bears the brunt of it will make itself anyway. Therefore, both materially and spiritually, there are full preparations.

After Egil gave him the right to recruit peasant soldiers in Normandy on his own, Lufus immediately made a decision, cleared the wall, and gathered most of the Normandians, leaving the strong and armed as auxiliary troops to help defend the city, while the remaining 187,000 Normandians, a small number of people with a little money, fled to England by boat, and hundreds of thousands of people who had no money fled to the mountains temporarily. Of course, there are also many old, weak, sick and disabled people who can't walk, so they have to stay where they are and wait for death. There was nothing Lufus could do about it. The castle of Normandy was just a castle, and the reserve was only enough to eat for a year, and with the temporary conscription of peasant soldiers, it could only last half a year - under a strict rationing system.

In fact, after receiving authorization from Egil, Lufus began to implement a strict rationing system - except for the soldiers who were sent to fortify the city, they were only able to maintain about two-thirds of their usual rations. In order to keep the soldiers fighting hard, Lufus has stopped some of the usual physical exertion training, such as weight-bearing long-distance running, weightlifting, and the like. The entire Normandy dukedom was already in combat readiness, just waiting for the start of the war.

After this, as Lufus imagined, the war began. Burgundy and France declared war successively, with a total of 100,000 troops attacking the Duchy of Normandy. The form became stormy in an instant. In the entire Normandy castle, there were no more than 5,000 regular troops and no more than 10,000 strong people, which was one-sixth or seventh of the enemy's army.

However, Lufus's confidence is high. It is naturally impossible for him to repel or even defeat this 100,000-strong army. But it was not a difficult task for him to rely on the fortified city to defend for a year and a half. He had castles that were heavy enough to be stacked of large stones, moats deep enough to bury spiked stakes, a large number of professional crossbowmen, and powerful city defense crossbows and trebuchets. Enough oil and stones, and if necessary, the castle buildings can be demolished and used as throwing props.

In this way, if the other party does not have professional siege machinery, it is difficult to pose a sufficient threat to this castle. And France, as well as Burgundy, do the two countries have enough professional construction machinery?

No.

At this moment, it is only a few months before the dwarves change their way of life and go to the human world in full. It was very new within the Norman kingdom, not to mention other countries. Therefore, the dwarves' standard parts production technology, siege machinery manufacturing technology did not spread widely. Only the Norman kingdom relied on its innate advantages, coupled with the efforts of a large number of scientific research institutes, to digest it. Other countries still use the old and primitive ones, without any sighting equipment, and simply rely on the intuition and experience of the author, commonly known as the barbarian catapult engineering device. Even, a little further east, there are not even such catapults, and they mainly use battering rams. It's like the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom.

France, Burgundy did possess a collection of catapults of varying quality, patchwork together. But it is not known how much of a role these catapults can play.

Thus, on June 21, the Battle of Normandy officially began. Seeing the castle city of Normandy, the high pool is deep and heavily guarded. The monarchs of both countries were not sure about a forcible attack, so they sent knights to the city to shout and curse, hoping to lure the other down and engage in a battle, so that they could defeat the other side by virtue of their numerical superiority. Then take advantage of the situation to capture the castle of Normandy.

In this way, in France in the southeast and Burgundy in the northwest, a small team of knights was sent to stand in a place where they thought it was safe, and neither a longbow nor a strong crossbow could hit, and began to curse, hoping to arouse the anger of the city defense troops. After that, fight again, flee, and then lure the enemy into your encirclement.

But Lufus, who defended the city, was neither a fool nor a natural fool. There was no other action than to order the city defense crossbow and shoot the enemy knights who were too close into a skewer. The French coalition did not achieve the task of luring the enemy at all, but was startled by the powerful crossbow of the Norman city defense - the knight, who had been shot through the stomach by a three-centimeter-thick steel-tipped crossbow arrow, was nailed to the ground with men and horses and a layer of chain mail on his body, and wept and wailed that he was not dead. A few of the servants tried to help him get the bolt out of his stomach. But it was found that the crossbow arrow went directly into the ground, and several people couldn't pull it out at all.

At this time, the Normans' city defense crossbows were once again powerful, and the five towers on the southern wall, a total of fifteen city defense crossbow machines, opened fire at the same time, directly nailing several servants who were about to rescue the knight, plus several friends of the knight, together with the knight who had cursed at the beginning - because the power of the crossbow arrows was too great. The crossbow arrows that passed through their chests were like brackets that supported their bodies from falling. Thus these fellows were able to preserve even the posture of their lives, the sky blue, the ground stained with blood, and the throats of the French, who were held up by crossbow arrows like spears and almost dead, made a "c......lucking," crunching, crunching, like a rusty scrap metal clock. The whole scene has an eerie, unusually appropriate feeling. It's like a bird can fly and a fish can swim.

This is art.

Of course, this kind of postmodernist expression of art is not something that medieval turtles can appreciate. In their eyes, only steel, death, blood, terror and other strange sights can only be seen in hell. There are also strange weapons that have not been seen, but they are real, and they are so powerful that they can easily take people's lives.

The morale of the French army plummeted. The remaining knights and servants fled in confusion. According to their words, when fighting the opponent head-on, they are openly defeated by the opponent and then killed. This kind of thing is glorious, and after death, you will go to heaven. However, he was killed by the evil weapons of the Normans, from a place where he could not see it at all. That kind of inexplicable death, no matter who it is, I'm afraid I can't accept it.

On the north-west side, the state of the Burgundian army was the same. Especially after a few more days, hearing about the fall of Groningen, the morale of the Burgundian army fell even more than that of France.

In this way, both armies know that their opponents are not the kind of waste wood they imagined. Being able to conquer such a territory in such a short period of time is worthy of the name of the Norman kingdom. I'm afraid this battle will be fought.

Next, it's time to attack. The two countries had a total of 100,000 troops, relying on their own large numbers of generals, and the siege of Normandy was impassable, and they also relied on numerical superiority to attack the city. A large number of cannon fodder, under the strict orders of the overseers composed of nobles and knights, carried the ladder and charged forward as if they were crazy. These ragged cannon fodder levies, many of whom don't even have a round shield, are the best targets for the lethal crossbowmen. Moreover, these cannon fodder have no formation, and when they get together, they don't even need to aim too much, just shoot directly at the place where there are many people......

In this way, four walls, fifteen hundred crossbowmen - because there were so many places to be guarded, there was no need for three-stage shooting. The crossbowmen pulled the strings as hard as they could, and then fired at the city. Until these guys' fingers were strangled red by the bowstring, and even bleeding. It was then that Lufus remembered that he could do something like pulling strings, and his 10,000 or so levies could do it......

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