Clouds made of rain floated from the sky, and white beads emerged from them. After falling to the ground, everyone who was still outside the house looked for shelter to hide.
The city of London can now only be renamed a slightly larger "town".
Not counting the kingdom soldiers Alfred recruited from the surrounding areas and the manpower borrowed from other Unsa County Sheriffs, the total population within the five miles surrounding London was less than 3,000.
Alfred prayed with the monks in his makeshift hall, asking the Lord for revelation every day.
The soldiers concentrated on polishing their weapons and thinking about how to deal with the battle.
When ordinary citizens saw that the rain was getting heavier and they had nowhere to go, they began to give birth to offspring...
"Assel", who had become the closest monk to the crown prince, had just dipped his quill pen into ink, but because the moisture was too heavy, the ink written on the rough leather paper melted away immediately.
He frowned, and after trying a few times, he took out the paper that the Oran camp had just sent to the crown prince.
This kind of paper is very precious. Now that the kingdom is poor, these products are given by Oran for free. The quantity seems to be quite a lot, but among all the monks and nobles, Asel only got more than fifty pieces.
His task was to record the affairs of the kingdom.
He ground the black ink finer and moved the pen more lightly, so that he could write more words in one line.
He re-wrote on paper the changes in the kingdom in the past few months,
“Last October, disaster came from the northern sky,
Before people had time to react, the devil came,
Wild winds and thunder and lightning swept across Wessex, leaving countless people homeless.
Then famine and plague occurred, and people were too weak to even cry.
Later, the cathedral was destroyed and the pagans massacred everything in sight..."
in duplicate,
One is written in the Kingdom Diary, and the other is in his "Biography of the Great Emperor".
Winter…winter…
The big bell in the town rang, which was the crown prince's order to summon everyone.
Axel rubbed his eyes, put down his pen, put on his straw raincoat, and headed to the hall.
The hall was filled with candles to illuminate the sight that was dimmed by the heavy rain.
After entering, when Axel shook the raindrops on his body, a maid immediately brought a bowl of hot soup.
This kind of soup is bland and tasteless, with some wild fruits and vegetables added to it. It's not worth much, and even ordinary people can afford it.
But this reflects the crown prince's methods. He is very approachable and shares the joys and sorrows with his subordinates. He himself drinks this kind of soup and never settles for enjoyment.
"We can still warm ourselves by the fire here, come here quickly." The crown prince's wife greeted everyone.
She looks ordinary, but her personality is as gentle and friendly as the crown prince.
The couple has been married for three years and they still look like newlyweds.
The crown prince really loved her, and he never touched any woman after having her.
When Axel arrived, Aku was already waiting inside.
Now the crown prince does not have many people. Anyone who is capable can be promoted verbally.
Aku has also become a knight named by the crown prince because of his military exploits. The fiefdom is in Winchester, one of the crown prince's own direct estates.
If he could fight back, then Aku would also be a noble lord.
But Aku didn't feel any happy, as if he had been a lord for a long time, and he didn't have any fear when facing knights who were more advanced than him.
People around the crown prince rarely call him "ugly face" in private, but instead call him "indifferent".
After everyone gathered around the round table, the crown prince's wife took the soup away with her servants.
Men defend the country and women take care of the house.
The rain was heavy, but she firmly believed that her husband could lead the kingdom out of the predicament.
"Originally, the food we borrowed from the north would be delivered in a few days. At that time, we could gather together six to seven hundred people and ten days of rations, but now there is an accident and the Maixi people will not provide it."
The crown prince said this seriously. Without food, he would starve to death. No one would help a down-and-out lord who didn't even have enough food.
"Why did they suddenly back out?"
The Crown Prince did not say clearly that it was because of "Pander", the former Sheriff of the Kingdom and now the Sheriff of Mercia.
The crown prince added, "There are also people from Oran who are willing to help us."
The emergence of Olan's name is a good thing for everyone.
"I don't like him. He has too many stains on him."
It was Windgun Rodway who said this.
He changed from an old subject of the Kingdom of Kent to a subject of the crown prince, and was loyal to the Holy See in Rome.
He is very disdainful of Oran's evil deeds.
What if crime could be bought with money?
The moneylender businessman will go to heaven forever, and the poor person will go to hell forever.
The Vikings only killed living Catholics, and their souls were not insulted.
Oran, on the other hand, has polluted the human soul world.
He is Satan!
"But..." the Crown Prince waited for a few seconds before speaking again, "He is willing to support us with two hundred infantry, plus this food, but he needs us to attack the Vikings."
"This is not a request. We will call back sooner or later. What are you worried about?"
Some knights don't hate Olan. It doesn't matter whether he sells indulgences or not, they are all believers in God anyway.
"Olan wants to ally with us and exchange hostages."
"Who should I replace?"
"My wife, and my newborn daughter."
"Your Highness, you need to consider this matter carefully." Aku, who was always silent, reminded him.
"He will also send his concubines and children, and give me Uba."
"Really?" Some nobles exclaimed, they knew Uba's value.
The crown prince was reluctant to part with his wife and daughter, but he also knew that this was a good opportunity, and he was willing to be used even if it meant taking advantage of him.
But he can't do this directly. He has to step down so that he can explain to his subjects who are dissatisfied with Oran and his wife and daughter who love each other.
After the kingdom fell, he had nightmares every day, and he wanted to regain Wessex.
For every day of delay, dozens of people die.
Winchester's bones have covered the ground and streams.
Now he felt heartbroken when he thought of the Battle of Oakley against the Vikings.
The only reason we might have won the battle at that time was because my brother looked on coldly and ruined his main force!
The elder brother is ready to flee to Frankland, where he is no longer king.
As long as he can take back Winchester's surroundings, he will be orthodox!
The subjects did not have a unified opinion, and Luo Wei clearly expressed his opposition.
Alfred could only ask everyone to discuss it tomorrow.
If you can't convince your subordinates to agree on the same idea, then start with the person next to you.
It rained intermittently in the middle of the night,
Alfred waited for his wife to finish coaxing his daughter, and then held her in his arms when she went to bed.
Then...
After the passion of men and women, they fell asleep separately.
At night, Alfred screamed from a nightmare and woke his wife up.
After the crown prince woke up, he blamed himself deeply and said that he was incompetent and could not protect England.
His wife hugged him distressedly and asked, "I heard that Oran is willing to support you?"
The discussion this afternoon came to her ears later from the servant who prepared the food.
She had been a little worried, but now seeing her husband like this, she was willing to become a hostage.
When she spoke, the crown prince said uncharacteristically, "How could I let you risk it? Even if my brother fled all the way and gave up the country, he did not give up his wife and children, let alone me!"
"No, you should have a bigger goal. I can't be a burden to you."
Men and women who love each other deeply, as long as one of them does not love each other that deeply, or he (she) needs to use this relationship to achieve some goal for a short period of time, the other party will be eaten to death if there is no change.
The crown prince succeeded in getting his wife to agree, but it was also humiliating.
When he was in power, he was so high-spirited that even the noble bishops of Rome would correspond with him.
But now I borrow some food from the Mercians, and not only do I get nothing, but I also get ridiculed.
Anger can change the bottom line of human nature. He compromised. He wanted to regain power, even if he made a deal with the devil, he had to do it.
His alliance with Oran lasted forever until the kingdom was restored.
...
When the fourth edict from Heavenly Brother came,
Oran didn't even look at it, just let the flames melt away,
And wrote a letter to tell Brother Tian.
"There are two Vikings before me, one is a king and the other is also a king,
But when Alfred’s men came, I lost a king..."
The letter also declined Joan of Arc's idea of moving the cathedral, with a very low attitude.
The Lionheart King was extremely dissatisfied, but there was nothing he could do because the Vikings had wiped out 80% of Wessex.
Beginning to approach Mercia, the Viking army led by Ragnar, Bjorn, Guthrum... and others,
More than 4,500 people gathered to invade the border.
This year's history of Unsa, the diaries and works of all scholars, no matter how long or short,
Turned left and right, or combined together, it can be briefly introduced in two words: war.
