Chapter 33: Occasionally I want to be a fool
At this time, Egil naturally did not know the extremely naïve thoughts of the Grand Duke of Lithuania. And if he knew, he wouldn't have been worried. If you ask this era, which emperor has the most killers around him, and which emperor has the most killers around him. Then it must be Egil Skadergrímsson. There are at least three more super killers like Nemulis, and there are hundreds of elite killers at the battlefield assassin level. And ordinary killer part-time spies are all over the continent, in the thousands. Vytautas fantasized about assassinating Egil with a killer? The results can be imagined.
Of course, at this time, Vytautas was also forced by Egil. The Norman army was mighty. And the army around him is dwindling day by day. Iron battalions and flowing soldiers. This is a fitting term to describe Vytautas's army. The original army of 30,000 suffered heavy losses in the previous war with the Norman hussars, and thousands of the most elite Lithuanian cavalry were killed, which greatly damaged the strength of Vytautas, and after that, the hussars fought piecemeal, and the Lithuanians fled in droves, and now the strength of Vytautas is only a little more than half of its heyday, and the actual combat effectiveness is not even half of the original.
At this time, it is not unacceptable to ignore the approximate truth and common sense of "the strength of the other party in the dark world is even greater than the surface, and it is basically impossible to assassinate him". As long as there is hope, even if it is 1 in 100,000, it can be regarded as a lifesaver for a drowning person like Vytautas, and he must try all his strength to grasp it.
Having made up his mind, Vytautas quickly brought papyrus, laid it out, began to write with a pen, and finally put on a heraldic ring with his family coat of arms. Even if it's done. Immediately afterward, Vytautas summoned one of his cronies, handed him the letter, and gave him a secret place name.
"Go there, and there is an old blind man in the village who gave him this letter, and this bag of gold coins. No need to say anything, after which you can leave. Vytautas commanded.
Although the cronies were very curious, they felt that there must be something wrong with such a headless order. But ask what should be asked, never ask what shouldn't be asked, and he still understands the wise words of his subordinates in doing so. Otherwise, he would not have become a close confidant of Vytautas.
"Understood, great king. The cronie bent down, stroked his chest, and said. Although Vytautas was officially titled Grand Duke of Lithuania, his cronies knew that their master preferred to be addressed as king, the king of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom. to satisfy his vanity.
And at this very moment, when Vytautas was very imaginative, he actually wanted to assassinate Egil. Egil is writing a letter. Of course, it's still a love letter. It was even more difficult than when I played against Eastern Rome before. Because the distance between Warsaw and Vilnius is much closer than that of Budapest to Moscow. So the correspondence with Artoria rose from once every twenty days to once every three days. Greatly increased the burden on Egil. In addition to this, Joan of Arc of Gothenburg also maintained a level of once every five to six days.
Although, this kind of behavior of using state resources to complete private problems feels a little bit unpleasant. But Egil had no sense of it. His headache is just how to change the tricks, saying "I love you" and writing it a million times. And it must be interspersed with sergeant messages without any sense of disobedience. Ask Artoria about the status of her advance. He also told Artoria about the current situation on his side.
Unlike Egil's side, which went to great lengths to kill people and win people's hearts, and to do all kinds of things, Artoria's side went very well. In fact, just shout at the gate of a village: "Queen Artoria is here!"
In an instant, the entire village would surrender without any resistance.
It can produce such a great deterrent effect because before this, Artoria has swept through Eastern Europe with her army, and most of the places she passed through have been slaughtered. And even if it is not a place to pass, the legend of the bloody queen of Northwest Britain has also spread to the past. The more it spreads, the more outrageous it becomes, eating human flesh, eating children's hearts, livers, and human blood. This is the most basic. There are others, even if Egil listens to them, they will be amazed and praised for their imagination. ,
It was because of Artoria's reputation in Eastern Europe that she advanced much faster than Egil with an army of 60,000. Now it has occupied the city of Warsaw. The rangers ran around, depending on the Middle Polish Rumors. The southern bandits fled in a hurry and returned to Krakow to set up defenses. I didn't even have the courage to fight with it.
"Real rubbish. Egil cursed quietly. Although it is a good thing that my wife's side is advancing quickly. But if it's pushed too fast. Even faster than yourself. Then I will be very shameless to say. Therefore, for the decisive battle of the Lithuanian army, it should be well arranged.
With this made up his mind, Egil sent an emissary to the Lithuanian camp and delivered a letter of war. It was agreed that the two sides would go to war on the first day of September, and they would see life and death. In fact, it can basically only be Lithuania's death. But who knows the final result.
What Egil didn't expect was that Vytautas accepted such a condition without hesitation. And it did not embarrass the messenger - although it was a medieval consensus that the two armies were at war, and not to behead them. But Egil thinks that the other party will use the messenger as a punching bag in such an empty and miserable situation, and then slowly torture him to death, or cut off his nose and gouge out his eyes. Therefore, the envoy sent by Egil this time was not a Norman, but a Lithuanian who had surrendered.
After that, the results surprised Egil. Seeing the messenger who had run back safely, without missing arms or legs, Egil circled around him very strangely. Makes the guy feel furious.
"Forget it, you go down first. After that, Egil waved his hand and let the guy go.
“...... There's a conspiracy, but what is it?" he sat back in his chair, and then folded his legs on top of his desk, his hands behind his head, and the chair cocked, Egil thought, but couldn't think of it anyway.
"Well, forget it, Maria, come here. The first half is quieter and self-talking, while the second half is louder, calling out to Maria, who is lying on the bed and reading a book in boredom.
Speaking of which, although this guy has an outrageously low EQ, he is basically on the same level as a little fool. But IQ really works. Egir had nothing to do to find her textbooks from the Norman Elementary and Secondary Colleges, and asked her to study on her own. Originally, I wanted to wait for her to learn it, and then I had fun playing the punishment game. But I didn't expect Mary to finish learning so quickly.
Immediately after that, Egil didn't give up, and used the system to exchange all the books from elementary school to high school in the later generations, but he didn't expect this little guy to be really powerful, and he finished the course from elementary school to high school by playing the same. And the university ...... Forget about college, Egil himself has never gone to college in his life. If he gave Maria a textbook, Egil was afraid of hurting his self-esteem. So recently, it's just a matter of letting Maria casually read books about the development of the empire's science and technology. According to the judgment given by the system, it can be regarded as a supernumerary person of a scientific research institute. The attribute is an idiot genius.
So Egil's retinue had one more of them.
Idiot Genius: Should I call her smart or stupid? Is that really a metaphysical question...... , Fertility +2, Brutality +1, Management +1, Imperial Research Progress +5%. PS, the offspring born to this woman is extremely unorthodox.
In other words, why the most increase is fertility, and the legitimacy is extremely poor. It's really an illegitimate child, right......
"What's the matter, master?" Hearing Egil call her like this, the little nun did not know how to learn the lesson, but still ran to Egil's side very happily, and then let Egil pull her white and tender little face and play a good role. Then he ran away crying again.
But that's okay. Basically, after a little while, usually at mealtime, the guy would have completely forgotten about Egil's tricks on her. After that, there will be happiness. Sometimes Egil would even say, "Ah, it might be nice to live like this idiot." "Of course, it's only for a while. Everyone has been in this situation, and I think it's good to be a fool and carefree. Of course, you don't really want to be stupid.
"Forget it, don't care, let's have lunch first. ”
After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't think of it, and Egil made this decision.
"Lunch!"
So it got an enthusiastic response from the little nun.
And at this moment, while Egil was tormented by the fact that he did not know what the other party was up to, Vytautas's cronies finally came to the place his master had said after a long journey.
"Che, is there really a powerful person in this kind of country place?" Seeing a hermit-like hut hidden in the valley, the cronie complained, "I don't know where the king got this kind of news...... But according to what he said, it should be right here......" [text provided]. If you like this work, you are welcome to ◤◢ to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation.