"Praise (Jehovah) and bow down at your feet, you alone can save the world..."
When Delim left the chapel, the early morning light had already fallen on the earth.
Delim was drunk, aggressive, and gluttonous. Although he had many shortcomings as a human being, the snake-like scars on his body also told everyone that he was a qualified, even outstanding, Anglo-Catholic warrior.
When the morning sun could already see the surroundings clearly, the Vikings also gathered.
This Viking rebellion was led by Jin Ya and One Ear.
There are also some fortification weapons in the two men's territory. These are weapons obtained from the Angles after living on the island.
However, they don't like to use this thing, and their men mostly charge and fight with shield formation.
Five days ago, Delim was unable to defend himself and used this method to repel more than sixty Vikings.
The blood of that time still lingers in the air now.
The damaged wooden walls that had not yet been repaired reminded people of the intensity of the fighting at that time.
In the past few days, Earl's reinforcements arrived, but the Vikings from the north did not approach, which gave Delim a lot of time to build a wooden fence, expand the defensive area, and ambush the archers.
If the Vikings dare to attack this time, what awaits them is the "Wrath of Delim".
Waited all night.
It was nearly seven o'clock in the morning, and the Vikings finally made a move. Relying on the light, Delim counted the number of people, which was about sixty.
There are fewer people than myself, and even fewer than last time.
But almost all of this group of Vikings had weapons, half of which were equipment stolen after looting Anglian villages.
Ten minutes later, the battle started. The Vikings raised their bucklers, the warriors crowded together, and some of them held Anglian spears and began to advance.
But the brutal attack and killing did not happen.
When the archers hidden in the wooden fence launched the first wave of offensive, the Vikings found that the casualties were too high, so they suddenly stopped fighting and took cover left and right to allow the team to retreat safely.
He only stopped when he retreated to a distance that was difficult to see with the naked eye, but not too far away.
Delim walked up to the height of the wooden tower and assessed the walking distance, which was about ten minutes.
This group of Vikings is still waiting outside the castle.
Because of the presence of this group of people, the residents around the wooden castle may be killed by them if they want to go out.
I waited all night and still didn't leave.
The nearest water points and fields are controlled by this group of Vikings.
Unless Delim takes people out to drive them away, I wonder how long the enemy will stay?
He prayed again, but God didn't tell him what Viking always wanted to do.
Another day later, at noon, the scene changed when an apprentice knight from a nearby manor arrived on horseback despite being injured.
Originally, this man could not rush into the wooden castle. Although Delim saw it from a high place and immediately sent people out to respond, the Vikings who blocked the way were faster.
But when the Vikings saw an obvious "man-made mark" on the horse, they pretended to let the trainee knight pass.
The battle ax that flew out of his hand was weak and fell into the mud.
They also "deliberately" cursed a few times and watched with cold eyes as this man successfully broke through.
When the trainee knight ran into the wooden castle, all his strength was exhausted.
He had never felt so exhausted before, and said with tears in his eyes, "Devils, these devils are attacking to the north, and all the villages have been destroyed!"
“With so many wooden forts along the road, there’s no way Golden Teeth could have so many people!”
"It's 'Glock'. He brought those Vikings further north, near 'Edinburgh'. There will be no less than three hundred! Now there are many Vikings coming to join them.
If we don't help, our companions will all die. Did you know that the one named 'Inge' is holding a huge door panel sword... He even directly performed human sacrifices. In my manor, he sacrificed thirty people at one time! "
After handing the water to the trainee knight and waiting for him to calm down, Delim asked, "How did you escape?"
"They invaded very quickly. God blessed me... I fought many times before I snatched the horse away. However, there were many roads that showed the shadow of Vikings, so I could only take a detour here."
Only then did Delim know what the Vikings wanted to do!
From this wooden castle to the east and even to the north, all the way to the coast, it belongs to Earl's territory, but it has been fully invaded at this moment, and the group of Vikings in front of them originally only stayed in this important road to restrain their actions.
With these fortifications in place, and the manpower dispatched by Earl from Haizhen to help him, he has no worries for the time being, but what happens next?
And if he went out to attack at this time, the casualties would be huge, and Delim was in a dilemma.
At this time, the trainee knight said again, "Sir, I also inquired about their plan. They said that they would send ships from the coastline to send people to Kent to respond to the Southern War."
"With Bjorn and Hestein?"
"It should be." The trainee knight felt a little guilty and lowered his head.
In fact, he did not fight bravely to break through, but "pretended to be dead" to avoid the Vikings' sword of death.
When the Vikings left and continued their invasion eastward, he was "lucky" to find a horse that had not been taken away by the Vikings and fled all the way.
Delim's men breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. These Vikings went to cause trouble in the south.
But he himself didn’t think so,
Yesterday, he heard the Queen of Left Face compose and adapt a fourteen-line ballad.
There are countless illiterates in the Seven Kingdoms, so the queen asked her court musicians to turn this message of crusade against the Vikings into a song, and it was spread orally by everyone who heard it.
The speed is so fast that it has never been seen before.
When he was young, Delim also visited Canterbury Cathedral, listened to the archbishop's Bible exposition, and gave himself Holy Communion.
Unexpectedly, such a kind and kind old man would be tortured by the blood eagle!
"Those are the sons of bitches!" Delim grew angrier as he thought about it, and drew his sword.
The subordinates thought that this was just a show-off because the Lord Knight heard that the Vikings were going to Kent.
After all, the ballad of the Queen of Left Cheeks contains this paragraph, "If the northerners go again, they will secretly curse and insult..."
So they cursed a few words and echoed Delim, "Fortunately they walked fast, otherwise I would have cut off their skulls and used them as bowls!"
Hearing the cruel words, Delim's eyes flashed and he asked cautiously, "There are not many people outside, about dozens of people, fewer than us, maybe we can swallow it!"
"Rebirth of the Great Era of Fighting Waves"
"Sir, these are vicious Vikings!" One of his men trembled.
Delim took a look and cursed, "Aren't Vikings humans too? Don't they bleed when cut with a sword?"
The successor archbishop Augustus sacrificed his life into the fire, and the earl who was pierced by a sword and wanted to stand up straight and fight to death. Delim felt that under the premise of "bullying the few with more", he could follow suit. Imitate that heroic spirit!
"Sir, we are staying in the wooden castle. With the fortifications we have built in the past few days, it will be difficult for no more than two hundred Vikings to succeed. We..."
Some people are afraid, and naturally some people want to fight.
After a few more people agreed to play, Delim's confidence greatly increased.
"Count the numbers, pick strong soldiers, and come out with me."
Delim also looked at the three supporting knights sent by Lord Earl before, and strengthened his confidence and said, "Our combined number of troops is more than three times that of the Vikings outside. This is a good opportunity to make a name for ourselves!"
In fact, this decision was not too foolish. Nearly one hundred and fifty Catholic soldiers suddenly gathered in this wooden fort. Within a few days, there would be big problems with food and drinking water.
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