Chapter Twenty-Three: A Huge Welcoming Team
At that time, the sun was already setting. But what kind of man was the Norman Emperor? He appeared outside Constantinople with his 100,000 tigers. Especially when the emperor was very scratchy to bring out his eight-meter-high and four-meter-wide flags. The phoenix flag, the army half-phoenix flag, and the emperor's will wolf banner are waving in the wind. For fear that others would not know that he was coming.
So, when Egil made a trumpet shape with his hands and leaned forward to shout in the direction of Constantinople, tens of thousands of troops had already gathered on the opposite wall. The few remaining heavy infantry brigades in Eastern Rome, the Imperial Guards and a small number of heavy cavalry units, were all lost. Not to mention Lilianu, the Eastern Roman Emperor.
And in addition to that, after hearing about the arrival of the Norman Emperor, it is likely that the city will be sieged. The citizens of Constantinople also sprang into action. Egir, along with the western wall where the Norman army was located, came running.
In this way, on the opposite side, the total number of Eastern Roman soldiers and civilians listening to Egil's shouting was probably more than 100,000. Reaching two hundred thousand is also not something unthinkable.
Sometimes, timid people will be timid after seeing the black oppression of people below. However, there are some people who are more excited the more people there are. Egil didn't know which type he belonged to. But since he became king, and then he was crowned emperor. Then it can be properly said that he belongs to the latter type.
At that time, there were more than 200,000 enemies in front of him. There are also 100,000 troops around him. In total, more than 300,000 people are listening to his speech. Egil's excitement. He shouted at the top of his voice, and in order to make sure that everyone could hear him, the learned emperor shouted it again in Norman and Greek to make sure that everyone present could understand:
"I will conquer this ancient empire. The time of Rome has passed. Europa now belongs to the Norman Empire!" Egil shouted, setting the tone with one sentence at first. After that, Sonya, who was standing behind him, was afraid that he would break her voice by shouting like this. He handed over an iron horn very reasonably.
However, when people thought that the emperor was going to give a speech. In order to defeat the morale of the Eastern Roman Empire, and to boost the morale of your own side. Egil's speech changed all at once.
"Thank you. Egir turned, nodded in thanks to Sonya, took the simple horn, and continued to shout to the other side:
"Do you hear that?!Lilianu?!" The Emperor shouted from the carriage, "I have come to fulfill the promise I made when I broke up with you last time! I have come to marry you with a party of 120,000 people! I will reluctantly accept this gift!"
At that time, after listening to Egil's words, the two armies of Norman and Eastern Rome were speechless one after another. The Norman soldiers beside Egil almost couldn't stand: "Together with this emperor, he led an army of more than 100,000 to fight in the north and south. Not to expand the territory, but to marry the Eastern Roman Empress?! And something is wrong. The Empress of the Empire is not dead. Catholicism practices strict monogamy. He's marrying a hairy?!"
Standing beside Egil in particular, several of the emperor's lovers - Printhia as a cavalry commander, the centaur lord who fought a series of soy sauce battles in a series of battles, and General Basumi, who has recently been promoted to become the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Praetorian Guard. Not to mention Nasonia, who had just handed a horn to Egil...... The girls looked at Egil and looked at him at the same time at the same time. It was as if the Norman emperor was going to be ripped off.
And thousands of miles away in the Royal Council of Krakow, the eldest princess Aurora also scolded: "What idiot are you playing?!"
Presumably, the only ones who can be calm and indifferent after hearing this are the emperor's pet, the cat lady Aien, who doesn't know much about human language......
On the other side, a group of Eastern Roman soldiers were equally confused: "Coming together with this emperor and making a mess of the empire, just for a woman?! What is the reason for this?! A thousand years later, when people talk about great Rome, do they want to compare us with Troy? They all have the strongest cities in the world, and they are all because of women...... If you give this empress to that barbarian, will he just quit like this?"
In this way, the eyes of the Eastern Roman soldiers looked at Lilianu, and it became very dangerous. And Lilianu, who was also short-circuited by Egil's words, failed to detect these dangers.
So, in this way, this speech of the emperor was very successful in a sense. His success lowered the morale of both the Normans and the Greeks.
After saying such words, he thought that he had already shown off his strength. The purpose has been achieved by the Norman emperors. After a moment of contented self-absorption: "Sure enough, I am a genius." After that, I realized that something was wrong. looked at the group of male generals looking at themselves with blank eyes. And his lovers looked at him with the eyes of "can eat him". It was then that Egil felt that he had said something wrong.
At the same time, a prompt appears: you have received a new special surname: Blasphemy.
Blasphemy: No matter what reason you are in. But what you say is heresy. And it has had a very bad impact. This makes people express great doubts about your piety. Table piety-5, inside piety-5.
But it doesn't matter. Leave aside the pious or anything. But the emperor's piety did explode a long time ago - negative. So the emperor didn't care about this at all. His prestige is high enough anyway. And in this world, there is no so-called Holy See, which manages him like a mother-in-law.
So, in the midst of all the attention, the emperor smiled, and then said something like this:
The emperor was a famous man – in every sense of the word, he was a man who would go down in history and go down in history. As you can imagine. Hundreds of years after the emperor's death, the famous sayings he uttered will also be quoted by countless people. Academics, writers and historians, politicians and defense lawyers, and schoolchildren who love to use analogies.
- But if there is one of the most well-known and commonly used of the famous sayings of this emperor, I am afraid that it is this sentence spoken by this emperor at this time.
The corners of his mouth turned up, and the beard at the corner of the mouth of the emperor, who was already thirty years old, but still graceful and handsome, also curled up.
"God created women out of men's ribs...... And as we all know, humans have twenty-four ribs. ”
When Emperor Egil said this, the crowd cheered. The Emperor felt that in an instant, his army had become more loyal to him than ever. And the girls who were good with him also breathed a sigh of relief and felt a lot more relaxed. At the same time, there was a vague expectation.
That's it. This day will be forever remembered in history, May 8, 1014. Under the gaze of 300,000 soldiers and civilians on both sides, under the city of Constantinople in Yanjing, the emperor of the Norman Empire, Egil. Skadragrímsson against Empress Nero of the Eastern Romans. Claudius Drusus and Germanicus proposed. As the sun sets, the Norman army cheers. It's as if they've conquered the entire universe.
On this day, before the sun's rays were about to disappear, the emperor told the public about his romance against the backdrop of a large number of armoured soldiers, such as Lin Iron Spear and Longbow and Heavy Crossbow. Cruel, bloody, battlefield romance. The romance that belonged to such a crazy and unscrupulous man as the Norman Emperor.
Disgraceful, angry, unacceptable, and ...... Shock.
It is different from the Norman Empire's cheering and carnival-like atmosphere. On the other side, in the city of Constantinople, there was a dead silence. Lilianu opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything. Just sighed softly. One last glance at the Norman Emperor, who was about five hundred meters away. explained: "Be well guarded." Something will come back to me. Then he turned and departed. There were faint tears glittering in the corners of his eyes. It's just that because the light is dim and people are in a state of shock, they don't hear it at all.
By the time the empress had returned to the palace, her complexion had regained her calm. Had dinner, meals. There was even another pause for the opera. After being asked, the Normans had already left. After all the peace. That's when I went to bed.
When the maids had made their mattresses and withdrew, the whole room was clear. Only when the moonlight shines in through the window. Lilianu couldn't bear it anymore and muttered in a low voice:
"That madman, it's really annoying......"
After that, he put on the futon and hugged his head and cried......
And so the day passed. A few more days passed. The Emperor's siege machines and monster cannons are not yet ready. And there was no coup d'état in Constantinople or anything like that. That's not to say nothing hasn't happened these days, though. In fact, it is true that a major event has happened in the past few days, to be more precise, on May 12th.
After learning what had happened outside of Constantinople, his wife, Artoria, had already been killed—Egil was riding with Printhia in the suburbs. I was about to find a small bush with no one to get into. Then I heard an extremely penetrating voice coming—
"Egil !!!!!!"
Then a large black sword slashed at Egil's head, a gesture that almost cut the Norman Emperor in half......
(To be continued)