The war was concluded from the very beginning. The city guard, which numbered only 1,500 men, could not have been an opponent of the 80,000 Norman army after losing the cover of the city walls. Although General Tilly can be called a good general. But in front of a famous general like Egil, who fights to the death day and night, and piles up with human heads, it is still a little inadequate.

However, General Tilly was quite good at decisiveness. Seeing that things were not good, he did not hesitate any longer, and directly took the more than 300 mercenary troops that he could still control, and ran out directly from the eastern gate of the city that had not yet fallen. Just happened to meet the Norman cavalry forward who was about to intercept, and the old general saw the opposing cavalry rushing over, and directly ordered the troops to disperse and retreat.

Seeing that it was divided into a small force of more than a dozen and dozens of people, the hussars in the vanguard were stunned, and finally chose two ways and launched a pursuit, which seemed to be slightly more numerous. And the old general Tilly survived. After more than ten days of living like a refugee, we finally arrived in Munich, another important city in Bavaria. Began to recruit mercenaries, recruit peasant soldiers, and form an army to fight the Normans all over again.

Of course, that's all for later. It won't happen for a while. The Norman professional cavalry didn't know either, they were missing out on an old general who was worth a lot and how strong his fighting power was. The report to the superiors was: "A small group of enemy troops abandoned the city and were partially annihilated." Partially collapsed. "That's it.

Although I don't understand where the other party has gone. But since it can't be found in the city, and there's no indication that this guy is still in Swabia. Then that's all it can be. Egil heard: "The city is basically under control. No enemy commander or anything like that was found. Please instruct. After saying this, he snorted lightly: "Cut, it's fast." Then he flicked his horsewhip: "Enter the city!" and entered the city with his own knights of the guard.

Swabia, Swabia though as the capital of an empire. But in Egil's eyes, the city can only be evaluated as second-rate at best. Rancid sewage mixed with all kinds of garbage, dirty and bumpy streets. All kinds of strange smells, but absolutely harmful to the body. Low-slung and unregulated houses...... All this made Egil miss his capital city very much, the Gothburg, which was exceptionally clean and tidy at all times.

Especially after the city was broken, although because Egil did not give the order to slaughter the city. The soldiers were therefore more restrained. It's just robbing and beeping. But under such violence, it is impossible to avoid a single loss of life. Because of the heartache for money and things, he was slaughtered as a result of asking for money and not dying. When he was beeped, he resisted too much, so he was covered with a pillow and his head was suffocated without suspense.

On the whole, however, peace can be maintained.

"You bastard aggressor, a butcher!!"

However, just as Egil was so self-satisfied, a voice that didn't quite fit the matter sounded. It made his mood very bad for a moment.

"Or, Viscount, you think I'm too brutal. Or is it not brutal enough?" looked at the man who had been knocked to the ground by two knights of the guard, and then his head had been cut off with a sword, and he had been yelling at him like this. He asked Viscount Alpha, who was next to him.

"This is the kind of thing you should ask the bishop about. Viscount Alpha was very cunning and pushed this problem to others: "After all, his subordinates are just a martial artist. I can't answer the questions I wrote. ”

Jill didn't force Alpha to say the answer, but turned to look at Peter.

"Doesn't the lord already have an answer in his heart?" replied Peter.

"Heh" Egil raised his whip and sped up. And the knights of the guards around him, the retinue of Viscount Alpha, and the two Archbishop Peter also accelerated and followed.

"How so?" asked Ezhel, seeing Peter after him.

"Because in the past few years, I have been getting along with the lord and discovering a habit of the lord. That is, whenever there are some things that cannot be solved, and after thinking about it, he will smile, and then deliberately ask the people around him......"

Of course, Peter would not have said such a thing. Although the saying that a companion is like a tiger is not very popular in the West. In fact, it seems that the position of a bishop of a country is even comparable to that of a monarch to some extent. They are either like-minded friends or, more often than not, they are political enemies. There is an endless struggle between the clerical and royal power of a country. However, in the Norman kingdom, this was a different way. ,

As the archbishop of the Norman Empire, Peter enjoyed a high status though. But when it comes to politics, he doesn't even have the power to speak as much as a royal councilor. One of the main tasks was to be a court priest to Egil, who had been slightly useful before. But since Joan of Arc came, Egil went to his house less and less often to pray. The other role is to serve as the chief priest of the field order in the army. This is a more important task. And Peter also seems to prefer this more bloody and violent task.

Finding theological arguments for Egil's actions was also part of his work. Although the cunning emperor usually disguises himself as a messenger of justice, the number of times this work is not very much......

So, in general, Peter is the kind to have him certainly very good. But there are no and it doesn't matter who there is. And the half-old clergyman, who was over fifty years old, was well aware of his position. The attitude towards Egil is more like that of a subordinate to a superior. and not on an equal footing. And Egil was very pleased with this acquaintance of the bishop. As a place where the Christian faith flourished in the Middle Ages, Egil also needed such a bishop to embellish his empire. Therefore, the two sides get along very happily many times.

"Just looking at the lord's smile and confidence, it looks like xiōng has a bamboo in it. So it's a wild guess. Peter said.

"Hahahaha...... Bishop, you guessed it. Egil seems to have liked Peter's answer. He laughed, snapped his fingers, and beckoned to the knight of the guard.

"Herald, in three days, I will gather all the people in the city, and I will announce something. Also, arrest all the Hohenstaufen family members in the city, even if it is a baby or a dying old man, both men and women. ”

The knights of the guard sprang into action, and they ordered the whole city to arrest all the members of the Hohenstaufen family, even if they were only distant relatives, even those who had only the surname of Hohenstauffen, but who had nothing to do with Emperor Frederick. There are a total of thirty-two male members and fifty-eight female members. Among them were one of Frederick's minor sons, who had no time to escape, as well as two widowed princesses and one princess to be married, underage princesses.

Three days later, in the heart of the city of Swabia, Egir announced his so-called plan: "I want to eradicate the Hohenstaufen family from the European rulers once and for all." Wipe out everything about this fellow, his family, his palace, his books, all the proof of his existence, and that would be the end of the fight against me! Look at the Germans! Look at these people! They were once one of the most honorable members of the family in all of Europe! But now, because of Frederick, the bewildered fellow's recklessness, it's all gone, and they deserve to die and they must die!"

After saying all this, Egil directly ordered the execution, and the executioners pulled the slings and hung the noble men and women of the Hohenstaufen family who had been tortured without human form.

Amid the shouts of surprise, hundreds of nobles made "c......lucking" sounds, struggling, trying to reach out and tear the rope around their necks. However, their hands were already tied behind their backs, so they couldn't do this at all, so they could only keep kicking and shaking, and then the range of their movements became smaller and smaller, and their eyes became more and more bloodshot and bulging outward...... It was as if it was about to stare out, and the tongue kept outward, sticking out for a long time, and then with the size of the elder

The condition of incontinence, the whole execution ground suddenly smelled of it......

"It's incredible...... Is he going to kill all the people of a family...... It is true that this form of punishment has never been heard of in the midst of nation-to-nation warfare. But it is true that there is more reasonable than a senseless, unjustified massacre of civilians," one of the onlookers whispered to his companion.

"So, is this the idea that His Majesty came up with? It's also a massacre, but such a small-scale, more powerful massacre, the deterrent effect should be very good. And the number of massacres required is much smaller. It can even give people the illusion of fairness and justice, I mean the feeling............... Indeed, a good idea......"

In this way, seeing these nearly a hundred nobles die in front of them like dogs, the citizens of Swabia felt a little unacceptable for a while. I don't know what to say about the actions of this invader, conqueror, or avenger. At noon, the cold wind of the end of winter made people feel cold, and the infant baby of the mother in the front row suddenly cried, and the voice suddenly spread far and wide in the dull execution ground. At the same time, it attracted the attention of Egil, as well as several Norman warriors around the execution ground!