Chapter 25: The Fall of Bergen

At the dinner that day, listening to the flattery of the nobles, Egil felt extremely good about himself—even "Conquer Bergen in one day." Such big words have been said. Immediately afterwards, it naturally caused a wave of sycophants from those nobles.

But then again, it's not unfounded for Egil to say such big things.

Bergen, having lost a large number of troops in the field, no longer had enough strength to defend the city. It was Egil who had great confidence in the capture of the city.

If the enemy had devoted all his army of 8,000 men to defence, Egil would have to use the cannon fodder of the nobles who had come with him - I mean the peasant soldiers. However, after this battle, Egil again received nearly six thousand prisoners. Plus those who were killed or wounded on the battlefield. The 8,000 men were almost completely wiped out. What's more, almost all the nobles near Bergen were also wiped out.

Even if the enemy army had recruited some citizens or something, plus a little remnant of the defeated army, their number would never have exceeded five hundred.

Maybe you don't have to fight yourself, and the other party can directly open the city and surrender. Egil even had such an idea.

So, Egil decisively sent the guy who had volunteered two days ago to negotiate with the noble alliance, completely ignoring his frightened pale countenance, and threw him directly to the gate of the city, and then he was shot into a hedgehog by a bow or arrow from above.

"Eh, why didn't they surrender?" asked the other nobles around him, very strangely. The other nobles were speechless.

"Probably because you killed people too much, so you offended these guys so badly. At this time, the voice of the system elf came: "The people who are guarding this city now must be related to the group you killed two days ago." So, you get the idea. ”

"Oh...... Do you want revenge?"

"That's right, revenge. ”

"However, the garrison of the opposite city should be insufficient. What is he going to take revenge?"

"Who knows, Sa. ”

In short, after the failed negotiations, the siege of Bergen began. Unlike the panicked defenders at the top of the city, who looked more like citizens than soldiers, the Biard Vikings beneath the walls looked relaxed, and the engineers gracefully removed the parts of the crossbow machines loaded on the wagons and assembled them where the bows and arrows on the walls could not reach. After that, change to a siege bolt and shoot.

The walls of Bergen were much better than those built by the nobles with mud and planks. But it's still dirt in nature. Even after a little firing, the strength has increased a little. But don't put too much faith in the legendary medieval craftsmanship. You see the shot of this thing passes.

The large bricks burned from the earth were shot into it by an iron arrow in an instant, and then a large piece of dirt was pulled down with a forceful pull. The accuracy of genuine ballistas with aiming equipment is still relatively high. In just a few moments, a large part of the city wall was crumbled into potholes. Under Egil's orders, most of the crossbow arrows were fired at the lower part of the wall, so that the foundation of the wall was dug up little by little.

In the end, in the midst of the exclamations of the soldiers on both sides, the section of the city wall that had been hit by a major blow was finally overwhelmed and collapsed with a bang.

Seeing this, the morale of Egil's army was high. When Egir gave the order, he rushed towards the gap in that place.

"Hold on! Block it!" Seeing this, the Bergen commander above the city, a boy in his twenties, suddenly panicked - the original desire to avenge his father and brother suddenly did not know where to go. I just regret why I didn't choose to surrender before.

"Damn, withstood this attack, and then surrendered. The enemy commander gritted his teeth, and knew that if he wanted to surrender at this time, he still had to show his real skills, and he had to let the other party know that he was not easy to mess with, so that he could sell it for a good price.

"When the enemy enters the city, he will surely plunder. If you care about your own surname, then you don't care about the surnames of your wives and children?!" He shouted hoarsely, and at least he also mobilized some of the citizens who had been temporarily conscripted and armed with rudimentary weapons to block the gap.

"Will it work?" said Egilzer, asking his engineers.

The engineer who was questioned shook his head: "If you shoot again at this time, it will be easy to cause accidental injury." ”

"yes, forget it. Egil slightly regretted that he had given the order for a general attack a little too early. Of course, on the surface, he was still full of confidence - the big words he had said before about falling into the city within a day could not be recovered. The casualties are bigger, so be bigger.

So, in the gap less than three meters wide, mixed with a large number of broken bricks and clods, the two armies launched a fierce offensive and defensive battle, the commander of the other side tried to arrange his troops into a tight defensive formation, but these stupid people who had no professional training at all, and could not even distinguish between left and right, did not understand what a formation was - coupled with the flying axes of the Viking warriors on the opposite side, the lethality was extremely high at close range, so the commander on the opposite side gave up this effort. There was a chaotic straggler, and the Viking warriors fought.

War is not a romantic thing after all, and seeing the people around you - and maybe even make the guys you know have their heads cut off by the fierce Viking tomahawks on the opposite side - and the tattered spears in your hands can't pierce the opponent's chain mail at all, or even if they do, they can't do much damage to the other party. Under such circumstances, the little bit of blood that this rabble was inspired by the enemy commander lasted only a short time before disappearing without a trace. The soldiers began to flee in droves, and the Viking warriors poured in large numbers along the gap, directly trampling the bricks and clods into a hard hill.

It's a victory.

Seeing that his army successfully broke through the city, Egil suddenly felt a sense of relief, and after chuckling a few times, he rode forward, and then raised the command knife in his hand: "Everyone, this war is over, and the annihilation of the betrayal of the ancestor is about to be destroyed! Tonight, we can carnival in Bergen City!"

Immediately after that, the system beep sounds: Congratulations, you have captured the first city, which originally belonged to the rebels of northern Norway. Now please select your status for the city.

First: Occupy safely, and there is no offense in the autumn, in order to show your demeanor as a righteous teacher and a royal teacher.

Second: Plundering the troops and plundering the property in the city, of course, in the process there will inevitably be some guys who want money and don't want to die...... Then just reward him with a knife.

Third: Slaughter the city, slaughter the city lalalala~ Pull out most of the residents in the city and bleed them one by one. By the way, set a fire so that everyone can participate in a bonfire party that is expensive. Of course, if you do this, a lot of possessions will be burned with the ancestors......

Fourth: enslavement, the expansion of the number of serfs, the turning of these freemen into slaves, and the confiscation of all their property by the way.

Fifth, customization, you don't like these options of your sister?

"Hmm...... I choose to customize. Egil thought about it for a moment, and felt that these options were not very reliable—after all, the city of Bergen was located in the interior of Norway, and could be regarded as his own rear in the future, and it would not be good to slaughter and rob it—but if it was safe to occupy, it would inevitably be underestimated. I can't say that the group of citizens will kick their noses in the face, and when they lead the army to leave, they will make some brains and riot or something.

"Plunder all those who have more than moderate assets, publicly execute and kill all those who have any contact with the rebels, and enslave the rest of the family. Egil groaned slightly, and then gave the order to the knights of the guard beside him. So the knights of the guard rode forward and passed through the gates to give Egil's orders.

Of course, although Egil gave such an order, it would probably be discounted a few times when it was actually implemented. Although the Viking warriors produced by the system absolutely obeyed orders. But the omen of those nobles are not so certain. And such a broad concept as the middle class and above is also considered differently in everyone's hearts. In addition, if your sister bites "some contact with the rebels", then almost the entire city can drink the rebels to have some connection. This also provides a lot of opportunities for extortion......

However, these are trivial things, and there is no need to care about them at all, even if the citizens of the city work a little harder? If Egil had been defeated, then it was Biard who was now plundered by the arsonists.

In this way, the merchant who owned the largest house in the city was directly labeled as "connected with the rebels", until the other party promised to give his three-story house to Egil free of charge, and then put two thousand gold coins upside down. Egil himself got off to a bad start. By the way, I demonstrated to my subordinates what extortion is.

The bosses of their own families have done this, so the younger brothers below naturally understand something, and the captains of the various detachments of the Viking warriors, as well as the knights of the guards, have left with a sense of understanding.

As a result, the cries in Bergen suddenly became louder......

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