Book friends, you are doing your best! Today it is still 20 votes and 1 plus more! There are still 16 votes At this moment, the sun has set in the west. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon. Egil had already rotated the Norman front twice, and the Eastern Roman legions were defeated by the new force. Only a slight thing was not so good - after wasting more than 200,000 feathered arrows, the longbowmen ran out of energy and ammunition. The Norman army lost its long-range support forces. This also gave the Eastern Roman legions, who were already looking exhausted, a little buffer.

So, just hold on for another two hours, and another two hours will be dark. When the time comes, take advantage of the darkness to retreat. That's what Epirus, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Roman legions, thought—in fact, this guy doesn't have much focus on the battlefield anymore. According to Epirus' thoughts, it is inevitable that he will lose now anyway, and it will be impossible to recover it anyway. In that case, it is better to focus on other places.

For example, how to escape the reproach of the emperor from himself, and the imperial senate.

Well...... If he had led these 30,000 - no, now a little more than 20,000, a little more than 20,000 troops surrendered to the Normans. Then the other party has to give himself the title of duke, right? Although the barbarians are treated a little worse. But it's better than dying. After making this decision, you may need to convert to Catholicism yourself. But that's not a problem. The Catholic Orthodox Church doesn't have to care at all. In short, the fighter believes in God.

In this way, Epirus's heart flickered, but he had the idea of surrendering. But he didn't know. How much Egil cares about titles or something. Since he became a king, the highest title he has canonized is only an earl. This is mostly out of comfort and reward. That is, after splitting the kingdom's fleet into four parts, it was to compensate the original commander-in-chief of the fleet, Admiral Carter, no, now Marshal Carter. In addition, the commanders of the legions, Anderson, Aven, Hans, James, and John were all viscounts, and the three newly recruited admirals were also viscounts, and then there were their bodyguard leaders, the Black Knight Captain Alpha, the title of baron, and the newly recruited hussar general Qi Teng, who also had the title of baron.

In this way, after Egil became king, he only canonized one count, ten viscounts, and two barons. Such a big cat and a kitten thirteen nobles. The great nobles of the duke title did not have one. Egil didn't think about having it either. At most, after the kingdom is transformed into an empire, the princes and sons will be divided into a few more details, and each title will be divided into first, second, and third. That's it. Make the nobles who want to upgrade to addiction happy. That's it.

Does this mean that there are only a few nobles under Egil's command, and there is no one else? No, Northwest Britain is not counted for the time being, but Finland, which is actually more like a vassal state, is also excluded. In fact, there were quite a few nobles in the Norman kingdom. It's just that they are all outside the management of the kingdom, and they don't actually have much influence on the politics of the kingdom.

In Scandinavia, both the Norwegian nobles who initially subjugated Egil and the only Swedish nobles who generously forgave Egil. They were all transferred to the countryside in the remote inland areas specially prepared by Egil. The real charge was given to Egil. And most of these nobles were small nobles such as earls and viscounts. The fiefdoms are also not large. It is more appropriate to say that it is not so much an aristocracy as a small landowner.

In England, the English aristocracy was greatly weakened after being purged by Egil repeatedly, and almost all the big dukes and nobles were purged, leaving only two or three kittens, and the situation was even worse than that of the Scandinavian nobility.

In Normandy, the French aristocracy suffered the baptism of the Norman-French War. Some of them were beheaded by the then Legion Commander Loufus on charges of fornicating with the enemy. The other part was really fornicating with the enemy, and they were also beheaded. And many of those who did not fornicate with the enemy were beheaded by the enemy, that is, France. In this way, the nobles of Normandy also suffered heavy losses and collapsed.

In Eastern Europe, the situation was even worse, and most of the Teutonic knights, the great knights with fiefdoms, were cut down by the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom. The remaining knights were incorporated into the Royal Norman Order. Enjoy the treatment of the royal knight, as well as the royal knight's condominium knight's territory, and receive a monthly salary. So, there is basically no such thing as aristocrats. Thus, Livonia, as well as Prussia, were almost entirely managed by a professional bureaucracy of elected officials. And the land basically belongs to the state. Coupled with Egil's strong financial supply, it is the fastest growing territory in the entire Norman kingdom.

However, the gradual influx of nomadic tribes in recent times has changed this state of affairs a little. The chiefs and elders of the nomadic tribes had a great deal of autonomy. To a certain extent, it interfered with the management of the bureaucratic system of the Norman kingdom. But Egil still had to rely on them to supply his hussars. So for these guys' dominance, Egil also turned a blind eye.

In fact, what bothered Egil the most was the large territory that Novgorod had previously ceded and was named Neo-Scandinavia. Except for a small number of these territories outside the Arctic Circle, which have development value, the rest of the places are bitter cold places. In addition, the nobles here are very small, and they are all well-behaved, or cowardly obeying Egil's decrees. So Egil didn't have much reason to deal with them. And with the gradual invasion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow to the north. Maybe these guys will do something. I don't know how many people will take the initiative to jump out and let Egil cut it at that time...... As for the Deland Peninsula, the situation is a little more complicated, and there are three dukes, a dozen counts, and fifty viscounts and barons crowded into this small peninsula. That's it. It's a mess, so to speak. The various families were conflicted by the previous scuffle, although they were shocked by Egil's strict order. The hot war is not visible for the time being. But all kinds of assassinations in the background, poisoning, and so on. But it's not uncommon. In short, with a little bit of fire, it can burn.

Egil didn't care, though. As he said before, the reason why he wanted to control the peninsula was because he wanted to go south and attack North Germany. The Teland Peninsula is just a springboard. Egil had never thought that such a place would bring him any profit, and he didn't want to run it.

Pomerania. The place is simple. A typical aristocratic feudal system of a prince and a man. Egil only occupied the largest and richest capital, Stettin. As the capital of the province. In addition, other sites are as large as a county town and as small as a latrine. Dut Meow has nothing to do with Egil. For the first time, he experienced the powerlessness of the feudal system, which made Egil feel so under great psychological pressure.

The same was true for the other newly occupied territories in North Germany.

This is the case in the Norman kingdom today. Although the kingdom is still composed of a large number of old nobles. But in fact, the proportion of the direct territories of the Norman monarch can be said to be the whole of Europe - no, it should be said that it is also one of the best in the whole world. Egil's series of decrees, such as the management of local civil affairs by professional bureaucrats, the weakening of the garrison corps, and the strengthening of the direct legions, have all proved to be effective and a good way to strengthen the strength of the state.

Isn't this a joke if he has the title of Duke of a Demote with ill intentions?!Isn't it a joke?!He can figure it out—well, quite a duke, isn't it?Thrace, Nicaea, Greece, these places are all good, pick one for yourself—if you can snatch it from the Eastern Roman Empire!

That's it. In fact, Epirus has hardly been implemented, and it can be declared a failure.

"But if you think about it, it's too embarrassing to surrender to a barbarian. My family will definitely be disgraced by this. I'm a famous family anyway...... So, to find another reason, well, for the sake of defeat, find another reason......"

In this way, Epirus missed a brilliant opportunity to become a duke. Continuing to think hard, he turned a deaf ear to the eager shouts of the knight of the guard next to him. Watching as the line of the Eastern Roman legions was torn apart little by little, and the army was divided and surrounded...... "So, what kind of reason should I find?" Epirus then thought...... And the war went on further - the right-wing, shameless and cowardly Venetians were finally beaten to pieces by the power of the Swiss pike, and the little Dandoro did not care much about it, and fled. The Venetian army collapsed.

"There's a reason!That's it!!Venetian !!"

Epirus felt that he was simply a fortress - yes, to put the reason for the defeat on the Venetians - that it was the collapse of these half-hearted men that subjected his flanks to direct attacks. And the stalemate in the front collapsed as a result. Although he tried to save himself, he was powerless in the end. Uh-huh, uh-huh. That's why.

Thinking of this, Epirus couldn't help but smile. The knights of the guards around him felt very strange - why did their commander laugh when he saw that his army was about to lose the battle.

Indeed, why can I still laugh - when suddenly there are four more arrows in my chest...... Joy and sadness, right?! Can't laugh, right?!

Assassinated, right?!

"Mission accomplished, retreat. ”

In this way, the battlefield assassins returned from the original way and once again passed through an increasingly chaotic Eastern Roman infantry array, this time the assassination of the surname Gang directly led to the annihilation of two battlefield assassin regiments, and the loss of most of the one battlefield assassin regiment. The team that Director of Spy Nemulis had managed to pull up with great difficulty was almost wiped out.

But it's worth it.

Epirus' death directly became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Seeing that his own army was retreating, another enemy army appeared on his flank. And his coach was shot several arrows at once, fell to the ground, and his life and death were unknown. The fighting spirit of the Eastern Roman soldiers finally disappeared. Start a whole team, ten, hundred, thousand...... Collapsed.

After this, the Norman hussars, who had been waiting for a long time, shouted wildly, laughed, and once again crossed the Norman infantry array, and began to slash and slaughter the fleeing Eastern Roman soldiers. Then dismount and tie up the big fish. The cavalry could return after catching such a big fish. Because the ransom of a noble officer was enough to satisfy their greed......

(To be continued)