On July 26, 865 A.D., the last days of summer, an unusual atmosphere permeated the skies over the entire county of Jeree

Four days ago, relying on Sally's intelligence, Oran sent Nanding on an expedition to sweep a road from the northwest of County Jeree to Edinburgh.

He also eliminated a Viking settlement that was attached to the Golden Tooth, bringing back more than 20 corpses.

This time, the operation almost left the gold tooth behind.

On this day, Oran took advantage of the cover of night to get Kunsang a number of large chests, most of which were filled with gravel and scrap metal, but the top layer was covered with copper and iron coins, as well as broken silver.

The British Isles are not rich in metals, and these ancient coins, some of which were issued by local kings and some of which were survived from Roman times, entered the island through trade in the English Channel.

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It's old, but it's not inferior.

It was used as a currency between British and North Sea merchants.

Orlan ransacked half of the county, and found many of these iron coins.

When the boxes were ready, he called for Gazi and Kunsan.

Let the two each lead their private soldiers to "Edinburgh" and negotiate with the Earl of Edinburgh about a plan to attack the Vikings together.

"Your Excellency, let the two of us go?" Gazi felt strange in his heart

For one, he and Kunsang had never worked together alone.

Second, I have never heard anything of Orland's dealings with the Lord of Edinburgh, and he rashly sent so many goods over?

Kunsang didn't react, and Orlan said nothing.

"You don't have to worry, I've already arranged it, according to my intelligence, after the battle of the Black Forest and the last battle, the Vikings were already afraid of us, and because of these two defeats, there was a private conflict,

Taking advantage of the opportunity to open up in the northwest, you will go north, each with twenty escorts, travel lightly, and carry these gifts to Edinburgh by horse, and this letter from me. ”

Orlan took out an empty letter, and then opened the first large iron box in front of Ghazi and Kunsang, as well as the two private soldiers of the manor.

It was covered with iron coins and broken silver, and it smelled of rotten metal, and Orlan shoved the letter in.

And he said, "Safely delivered to the Earl of Edinburgh, and this is a list of gifts." ”

Orlan took out another piece of vellum, put it in at the same time, locked it, and took out a copy, which was divided in half, and the key that could be combined, and threw it to Kunsang and Ghazi.

The inventory is thrown in, the keys are separated, and they are held jointly.

This is a means of preventing a subordinate from enriching himself.

Then Oran used his share of the key to open the chests containing Bible manuscripts, woollen clothing, ornaments, and other items.

With so much money, everyone present opened their eyes wide and thought about how good it would be if they had it?

After the instructions were in place, Orlan said, "Let you take the road, if there is really danger, safety is of paramount importance, and the goods can be dispensed with." ”

After giving the order, Oran left Gazi and Kunsang behind, and said to Gazi first, "According to the vassal law, the vassalal obligations you should provide this year have been fulfilled, and I have brought you from the territory again to give you the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and when this war is over, you will get another third of the land of Yewei County." ”

Ghazi was at a loss for what he said by this, raised his eyes to look at Oran, and could only reply, "Thank you, Your Excellency." ”

Oran added, "Your wife is about to give birth, isn't she?" When the child is born, I will make him a knight, and I will give him a fiefdom, and the land of Jerey will be of your choice, and I will take him as a godson, and I will give him a name, and I will baptize him by the Archbishop of the Kingdom. ”

These conditions were a very pleasant thing, showing the favor of the lordship of Oran.

But Ghazi remembered that after Orlan invaded the territory, he summoned his wife into the room, and later his wife had a dream in which he unintentionally called Oran's name, and he immediately became angry.

If his wife had been alone with Orlan for a few months earlier, Ghazi would have wondered who the child was?

After Ghazi retreated, Oran spoke, "There is no alliance plan for the Earl of Edinburgh at all, I negotiated with Sally, and last time, she used the information given to her by Harman to betray the Golden Tooth and inform us of the Golden Fang's operation path."

This time, it needs to be returned to them, so that Haman can show off, and then swallow the Golden Fang and the others.

The boxes that haven't been opened just now are all empty, and the boxes that have been opened have only things on the top floor. As soon as you get close to Edinburgh territory, there will be Vikings.

Then you can only lead the horse back, and I will leave someone behind to meet you.

If the angry Vikings don't tear him apart, or if he escapes, then find another chance to get rid of him. ”

"Yes, Your Excellency." Kunsang nodded, baring his yellow teeth, and retired.

A day later, the convoy, led by the border soldiers, made their way through the forest and was about to enter Edinburghshire, when two black crows emerged from the forest on the side, and they made annoying "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

"Be careful!" Ghazi drew his sword.

They were secretive, they walked fast, they didn't encounter anything unusual along the way, they didn't expect to be not far from the border, and even when they saw the other side of the mountain, the hill fort in Edinburgh, danger befell them.

In Viking mythology, the god Odin has two crows on his shoulders, "thoughts" and "memories".

At dawn, the two crows flew separately and returned before night to tell the god Odin what they had seen and heard in the world.

The picture of Odin whispering with the crow is spread among the Viking tribes.

For this reason, Odin is also known as the "Raven God".

Some of the venerable Vikings kept crows, clever birds, in the hope of receiving the blessings of the god Odin.

The two crows circled past and flew back to their hosts.

This was a Viking chief active in the Edinburgh area.

At this time, this man was surrounded by Golden Fang, Glock, and Harman.

The chief's eyes were very small, his facial features were tight, but his face was wide, like a large platter, with five dishes (facial features) on it.

If the five dishes are evenly separated, it can be considered as both fragrant and handsome.

But this person is all together, and in this way, the appearance is strange and even terrifying.

He wears a black chain mail and has a tall frame.

His entire body was covered in runes of the Rune alphabet.

This rune was regarded as an evil sigil by the Catholic priests and lords of Edinburgh, and because of the existence of these two crows, he was called "Abu the Rotter".

Abu lowered his head, listened to the crows, and then took the worms out of his waist bag and fed them.

"God Odin has given me a revelation that this battle will be won!"

Abu licked his tongue, then pulled out the raw worm from his bag, bit it and spit it out.

These raw insects were raised by himself, and he drank the purest dew and ate the cleanest mulberry leaves.

His ancestors were priests who passed down this strange ritual from generation to generation, learning to devour insects like a crow, matching them with runes and special spells.

When his mouth was mixed with the flesh and blood of the worm, he rinsed his mouth with water and spit it out, then picked up the poison mill and bit it and swallowed it.

"Odin's divine mind has come upon us!"

Seeing this, the Viking soldiers clashed their shields with their axes, and the sound of metal clashes drove out the birds and rabbits hiding in the forest.

The hundreds of people in ambush roared and emerged from another place.

"Let's go." Ghazi rushed forward with his men, intending to cross the border.

But Kunsang was the opposite of him, and with a wave of his hand, he dropped the goods, and the people who led him quickly retreated.

Orlan used his most trusted subordinate to go out with Gazi, so as not to be guessed afterwards, and deliberately sent Gazi out to die.

The group of Vikings came out armed with old round shields, moldy axes, and fairly sharp iron swords.

The difference in numbers was huge, and before Ghazi could escape, he was stopped by a long axe thrown by the Vikings led by the crow leader.

Gazi slashed left and right with his sword, but he couldn't do anything about the Vikings' round shield array.

If Kunsang did not leave, forty men formed a defensive formation, and it would not have been defeated to this point.

"Leave him to me!" The Golden Tooth walked over with his sword, wanting to be ashamed.

But the dying man, with great fear and courage, Gazi resisted desperately.

The Golden Tooth swung three swords in succession, and the Viking soldiers on the side stopped their movements for fear of hurting the Golden Tooth in the melee.

And one-on-one, on the contrary, he was attacked by Orlan a few days ago, and the gold tooth with residual injuries on his foot, was slow, and he was almost stabbed by Gazi, and lost his face.

Three Viking freedmen with iron swords rushed over, using round shields and iron swords, cooperating left and right, restricting Gazi's movement path, Gazi could not escape, slashed left and right, and was seized by one of them to slash out a powerful heavy blow.

With a snap, Ghazi's arm snapped and was almost chopped off.

Ghazi tried to retract the arm, and at the same time, a terrifying black shadow emerged.

"I'm coming!"

As soon as the voice fell, Abu slashed again, slicing off the muscle of his arm that had not been broken.

An arm fell straight down, dusting the ground.

Yes--

The heart-rending screams were drowned out in the Viking roar.

And the private soldiers he brought out of the collar knew that the Vikings would not spare any living creatures.

Kneeling and begging for forgiveness will only usher in humiliation, so it is better to resist desperately.

So, except for Gazi, who looked different in his identity and clothing, was cut off by the Vikings, knocked off his weapon, and did not go up to attack.

When the other Catholic soldiers were knocked out of their weapons, they were subjected to terrible encounters.

There were several Vikings who took revenge for the battle in the Black Forest, and the head of the cart was returned.

Grab the heavy axe by hand, and aim it at the head of the soldiers who have lost their resistance, like chopping wood, and go down with an axe.

The recipient's eyes were forced, and they burst far away, and the whole face instantly sunken, and the brain juice splashed with blood.

"Blood Eagle!"

More and more Vikings shouted.

Others armed with spears and javelins continued to exert their anger at the corpses of God's soldiers whose upper bodies had been shattered.

With a spear below the heart, countless bowls of blood were stabbed.

Ghazi was stupefied, and when he lost an arm, his blood kept flowing.

He didn't want to die, and he tried his best to tell the Vikings, "I...... Baron Ghazi...... I'm the White Eagle Collar...... Noble, I ...... Pay the ransom...... Ahh

The pain in his arm made him almost faint.

"There are two warriors in front of me, one warrior is a corpse and the other is also a corpse."

Haman approached the carriage in a poetic manner, then opened a few mouthfuls of the box at the front, and told the people, "We have taken our revenge, you see, this is the weapon that the White Eagle Lord has given to the outsiders to use against us." ”

The cheers in support of Haman were high, and the Golden Fang's face was extremely ugly.

How did Harman know about White Hawk's gift-giving operation?

The White Eagle led the scout with his riders, and was so careful that he couldn't be more careful in the border with the Vikings in the Danfa district.

As soon as they encounter someone who is less than their side, they will fight.

When they encountered more than them, they retreated, and in several border clashes, they could not please them, and they could not understand the movements of Oran.

I don't know what happened last time, but these people suddenly appeared behind them and succeeded in the assault......

Golden Tooth felt that he had underestimated this "poet".

"Baldo, I'll leave it to you here, and bring back a lot of things safely."

After speaking, Haman led the men to continue the pursuit of Kunsang.

Golden Fang looked at the belongings and sensed something was wrong.

But he carefully brought his belongings back to the nearest Viking town.

When it got dark, Haman returned triumphantly.

He slew several of Kunsang's privateers, stripped them of their equipment and brought them back, causing cheers when he returned.

Now that all the chiefs are here, it's time to distribute the spoils.

The Vikings on this expedition were very happy.

Because Oran's gift to Edinburgh is too valuable!

If the boxes were full, it would be enough for thousands of people to live a beautiful and prosperous winter.

The spoils are distributed by the first leader, who can divide half of the spoils first, and divide the remaining half among their men.

The leaders contributed about the same, but the information was provided by Haman, so he could get an extra share.

After everyone had no objections.

"Open, take a bite to open, cheer, celebrate, under the protection of God Odin, under my leadership, this is what we deserve, and there will be more." After Harman finished speaking, he asked people to open all the wine stored in the town.

The Vikings poured sour fruit wine from horn cups, accompanied by hallucinatory poison mills.

The singing was everywhere, shaking the head, and the atmosphere was high to a high point.

But...... After the first bite was opened, the broken silver was abnormal, and if you looked closely, it was just that the stones were poured with melted silver water, and the coins were the slag and waste left by the iron, making them into a ring.

The Vikings who went up to check were stunned.

He turned to look at Haman and stammered, "No...... Nope!"

Everyone stopped cheering, and a second Viking went up to check and found it still empty.

The third and fourth Vikings inspected, opened more boxes, and found that only one cart of Bible manuscripts was still there, and the others were stuffed with rubble.

"Remember, bring back a lot of things."

Golden Tooth finally reacted to this sentence!

Just now, Haman took all the lord's men who were loyal to him or cooperated with him, and let himself send the treasure back.

Now, most of the soldiers on his side were drunk and confused, while Haman's men did not move at all, clenching the iron sword at their waists.

Haman stepped forward, rummaged through the first box, and then found Oran's cloth paper gift list, and the greeting letter.

Glock understood the words, and he stepped forward to take the list and read out all the goods, but there was nothing but the manuscript of the Bible.

"As a believer in the god Odin, this kind of manuscript can only be used to wipe, and you don't move, which is very reasonable, but what about other things? Baldo. ”

"Grote, you!"

When he saw Grote and Haman standing together, and Abu spilled the wine, his mind was spinning.

Haman promised Glock a new "chieftain" in the future, and Abu, the Viking leader active in Edinburgh, was also recruited by Glock this time.

The two naturally stood together.

On the scene, Golden Fang and a group of his men were surrounded, and Alger, Inge, and a few small leaders who belonged to his side were not there at the moment, but in the eastern harbor, and had just sent out a ship, waiting to establish a pipeline to establish contact with the Vikings in the Kent region......

Gazi, who had been stopped from bleeding but was almost out of breath, was roughly dragged out.

Harman asked him, "Is the car full?"

"Yes...... It's ......"

Ghazi was then impaled with a sword.

The gold tooth almost crushed the misaligned gold fang, shouting "It's a conspiracy!"

"After the things were sent back, they were put in the house, and I didn't move." Gold Tooth went on to explain.

The Vikings, who could expect to distribute the treasure, were dissatisfied, and from the battle of the Black Forest to the present, they had suffered three losses, and the leader was responsible.

Before Alger arrived, these lords also had friction from time to time.

When there are few people, they trade, and when there are more people than each other, they rob.

The Golden Fang has also robbed Haman's territory, and these hatreds are only suppressed and will not be forgotten.

When the Vikings encountered a dispute, there were several ways to prove their innocence.

Fighting is also part of it.

Touch!

Several drunken and hallucinogenic Goldtooth men fell to the ground and reached out to hug the non-existent Valkyrie with stupid expressions.

Brush!

Haman drew his sword at the Golden Tooth and approached, "I've put up with you for a long time, Baldo. ”

The woman Sari's is her own, and so will the Viking King of Northumbria.

The sword light slashed down, and one of Baldo's ears was cut off by Haman.

Now, there are two one-eared Viking chieftains.

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Oran's face grieved as he looked at Kunsang, who had returned to the territory, and at his wounded privates.

And he called all the knights and above, and swore before them all,

"Baron Ghazi fell into the hands of the Vikings in order to protect our belongings, and it is estimated that something will happen at this time, I will take care of the families of all the dead, and I will also avenge him!"

A few broken boxes, dozens of lives, in exchange for all the fiefdoms of Gazi.

So far, it is still in line with Sally's plan, Hamandeli, she will benefit, and she will also benefit.

But if you go any further, there will only be one person who can continue to laugh.