In any era, there are pillars that support the country, and there are also thieves who destroy the pillars.
Oran was in Mercia in March and proposed five major aspects.
Use existing raw materials to build short-term fortresses,
Establish and maintain a certain amount of standing strength,
Train soldiers in short-range guerrilla capabilities, seize Viking supplies,
Make alliances with foreign countries to free up your hands against the Vikings,
Jitong stayed on the defensive and negotiated with the Vikings to seek peace.
These five articles were informed by the internal "Sheriff Slim" and later spread to the ears of the Vikings in eastern Lincolnshire.
Originally, the local Vikings were waiting for opportunities to rob and supplement the logistics problems.
But knowing that Mercia had no desire to start a war in the short term, if he took the initiative to attack, it might trigger a counterattack from his opponent, so he endured it.
They decided to wait for King Ragnar to return.
At that time, England was on fire.
And this is what makes Oran suspicious, there is no wolf that does not eat meat.
To keep so many people in retreat is either because they don't have enough strength or they have a bigger plot.
Or both!
Mi Qiao, Gemeng (horsetail), and Glock (youngster) were all bribed by him.
He also doubted whether the Vikings would bribe the Catholic nobles.
During May Day, Olan patrolled the country's borders so diligently because he was afraid that many small-scale harassment wars would break out.
Nothing happened, which only made Oran more worried.
He looked down on the old Vikings, but in his heart he regarded them as evil dragons.
By June, he had regained a lot of energy, so he challenged the Vikings.
When the Vikings are in Lincoln, they take the initiative to help Burgred, which can bring them closer to each other, increase the interests of Mercia, and weaken the Viking power. Everyone is happy.
But there’s another layer of thought lurking in the shadows.
As long as Mercia takes over the banner of resistance and causes Viking casualties, according to the Vikings' character of revenge, they will become the main target...
This time, in order to be more sure whether there was a detailed conspiracy, Oran and Burgred kept the whole process secret, and Mercia sent troops to encircle and suppress only the personal soldiers of the king himself and Sheriff Berry.
If the Vikings are not fooled, then push the Mercian troops forward, and Oran's own team can also narrow the scope of the Viking activities, surround them, and at the same time ensure the details of the operation to a greater extent.
If you are fooled and take action, you will be surrounded and killed faster!
The main force in the Oran belt this time is the Hospitallers.
There is also a Welsh mercenary archer in the queue.
He got it on loan from Sals.
The Vikings hid in the villages and towns around the coast, and forests and beaches can be seen everywhere.
If you can't fight, retreat. Fighting on land is the highest priority.
Oran personnel are mainly infantry and longbowmen.
There are also a small number of light riders, more than half of whom wear heavy armor.
Including the Welsh mercenaries, there were nearly three hundred people.
Drawing on Welsh archer training, these strong men were selected from among the soldiers with battlefield experience of the Knights Hospitallers.
Receive a lot of physical training, develop arm strength, and constantly aim and shoot to improve your accuracy and shooting speed.
The current main establishment of the Knights Hospitaller is about 350 people.
The leader is still Olan, who combines the seven virtues into one body.
Joan of Arc is the doctrinal leader.
Archbishop Ulf serves as assistant to the leader.
Adisha is the director of the hospital and has the right to participate in all recruitment, training, dispatching, and appointments.
The order of the Seven Good Knights has also been changed, and changed to what Oran considers to be the new "Seven Good Subjects".
Nanding ranked first and received the "loyalty" knight,
Kunsang ranked second and received the "valiant" knight.
Ladd ranked third and received the "Social" knight,
Delim ranked fourth and received the "Humility" knight.
Tuman ranked fifth and received the "Tolerance" knight,
Titans are ranked sixth and receive the "Justice" knight.
Henry ranked seventh and received the "Kangda" knight.
The captains of these seven cavalry teams, also known as high knights, each led fifty men.
Among the fifty people, there are two to three "army priests" and six to eight "non-commissioned officers (riders)" per rider.
Non-commissioned officers are divided into combat non-commissioned officers and logistics non-commissioned officers, who control the remaining soldiers.
He asked Titan and other priests to compose new laws.
In the future, as the territory expands, the Seven Cavalry Teams will each control an area, and then go out independently to become the regional knight commander.
Children of nobles who did not inherit status, sons of wealthy merchants, or people who could pay a certain amount of taxes could receive medical and military training and serve as trainee non-commissioned officers.
There is also a team of fifty longbowmen, directly under the jurisdiction of Oran, with Sars, Southampton as his deputy.
In addition, a sub-order was established, the "Order of the Apprentice of the Garter".
The coat of arms is surrounded by a garter, with the motto of the Order written in gold letters on either side,
Zuo Shu, "Those who harbor evil thoughts will be disgraced."
The right letter reads, "It is a shame to betray one's master."
This sub-group is a new group for those young people who have no land, come from aristocrats, are young and energetic, and want to establish a career, to satisfy their vanity.
Catana's eldest son, Shrike, was also there.
During the May Festival, Oran consecrated a group of new knights in King's Landing, filled all the vacancies, and also consecrated more than a dozen young masters from noble families.
Although it is an empty promise, at least it is stamped with the royal seal, and you can use the identity of a separate coat of arms in the future.
Among them is the shrike.
At the age of twelve or thirteen, he has grown into an adult, but is still very immature mentally.
Women and liquor, glory and revenge.
Four words made him dizzy. He ignored the servant's advice and stayed with Oran to fight against the Vikings.
Oran also privately rewarded him with the "silver spurs" and "county uncle's crown" from the county uncle's three-piece set.
Identifying him as the "Chief of the Knights of the Garter".
In adolescence, my son and I have a relationship that mostly dislikes each other.
Oran thought, if Katana is so difficult to chew, then he won’t chew it.
He will still have to change his heir in the future. As long as Shrike obeys, won't all this be solved?
They entered the grounds east of Lincoln very carefully, led by Berry's men, and Orlan ordered them to stop as they approached the boundary where Vikings might be present.
"Call all the manor owners, stewards, persons in charge, or important people from all the villages around here, and give me a suitable reason. They will arrive within two days."
"Sir, what are you doing?"
"No need to ask, just wait."
Berry's people summoned the people Oran mentioned on the pretext of paying taxes.
It took two and a half days and eleven people came.
When Oran saw these people, he found a big room and immediately ordered, "Detain them in different rooms."
Then he approached the nearest one and said to the man who was tied to the chair, "Let me ask you, tell me, who brought the message to the Vikings?"
"I don't know, my lord!"
Then, crazy cries came from other rooms.
"If you don't tell the truth, you'll start chopping off your fingers and toes. It's already started in other rooms."
After Oran finished speaking, he continued to threaten.
He himself was not sure whether he was careful or not. Anyway, he would cheat first and then talk about it.
When the servant came in with a knife and wanted to kill him like a butcher, the man was so nervous that his pants had something strange...
Before the question was asked, Olan continued, "Have you seen the surrounding Vikings? Where are they active?"
After a long time, Olan walked out of the room.
The coerced confessions from other rooms also came out.
In fact, they are also pretending to beat, but the arrested person cannot see it. Just hearing the sound will cause them to lose judgment and create fear.
Sesaku didn't ask, but someone could not bear the pressure and admitted that he did encounter a small group of Vikings where he was, but they did not attack and used the looted treasures to exchange for some food for the village.
Those who die are already dead, and those who live are hard to live.
Use the Viking treasures to buy more food, keep some for yourself and give some to the Vikings. This is the best of both worlds.
So they were willing to help the Vikings and themselves.
Oran entered the admitting room and asked, "Why didn't you inform the local lord?"
Olan asked him not to slap him in the face, so as not to let the news out of him when he put it back.
So the manor owner, who had just admitted that his body was beaten and bruised, said painfully, "The lord is afraid of them. A similar thing happened more than ten years ago. My father reported it, but the lord ran away and my father was hanged." .
Later, when the lord came back, he took over all the land where the male members of our family had lost their sons..."
Olan was not affected by these words, and just asked repeatedly, when did the transaction start, how many times did the transaction occur, and how much food did he buy each time?
At the end of the question, Olan began to make calculations.
He also asked his subordinates, "How many people can one sheep eat? How long can a bag of wheat mixed with other barks last?"
Add to that the number of ships the man had seen entering the nearest Viking settlement.
At the end of the day, Olan estimated the number of people at seven hundred!
Fuck, so many?
It's okay to bully the few with more,
It’s okay to bully the many with the help of others.
But using the few to bully the many is not what people should do.
"Your Excellency, what should we do?"
When the shrike heard about seven hundred, he was not afraid. Instead, he felt that it was an opportunity to become famous.
Olan smiled, with a relaxed appearance but a solemn heart. After careful consideration, he re-entered the room and said to this man...
