Now, Guthrum is in complete disbelief.
The army he was so proud of could not break through his opponent's defenses.
At first, he used the Catholic Army to help him eliminate clan groups among the Vikings that were inconsistent with him.
According to his estimation, even if the God camp succeeds, it will suffer heavy losses.
But the number of Ansha old people is increasing, so many that they can compete with the lice on dirty men's clothes.
If this continues, not to mention becoming the Lord of Denmark, even the territory previously controlled will not be retained!
In mid-April, Bjorn sent another group of troops to take over the territory northeast of Guthrum.
The number of people is small, and he cannot seize the command right yet, but after a while, he will definitely be kicked out of the core of the Summer Army.
Worry and fear caused him to lose judgment and think about renegotiating with Alfred.
On this day, when he was anxiously waiting for the messenger to come back,
But the envoy who was tired of the journey took off his robe and told him with a troubled face,
"The crown prince didn't even let us in, and drove us directly on the city wall. Also, the heavily armored Roman knights came. The Catholic towns dozens of miles away were now full of cheers, saying that the Romans brought powerful weapons.
It can emit a fire that can engulf hundreds of people in an instant. What is Greek fire called...?"
"You can't even handle such a small thing, get out."
This was the second interview request, and the crown prince still refused to discuss it.
Among Guthrum's relatives, a warrior wearing chainmail made a suggestion, "Sir, we can bypass the flying snake crown prince and find someone else.
His name is Yin Sipu, he is one of Gusrum's commanders and a think tank. The two are somewhat related by blood.
His robes were decorated with metal decorations, and his armbands were also made of gold.
He was extremely fond of any shining jewellery.
The eyes are small and not sharp, and the nose is flat. Compared with other Vikings, the facial features do not make people feel that they are rough and tough warriors. The thing that looks most like a Viking is probably the long hair.
Even longer than a woman's.
Yin Sipu said while brushing his loose and unkempt hair.
"Someone is more suitable."
"who?"
"Eagle Lord."
"Looking for him? He has killed so many Vikings, and I heard he can also 'blood eagle' our warriors."
"He is an evil person. He draws his sword in the church, blasphemes God, and kills his relatives. Evil people can always buy him off, as long as the benefits are sufficient."
"I have nothing now."
"Yes, you occupy a large area of Wessex land, and it is also connected to the passage into Cornwall. He also has a grudge against Theodore. It was his people who killed Hestein."
"This place will soon be Bjorn's. Damn it, Ragnar, the boar and his piglets, want everything!"
He was just a child of humble farmers. "
There were no outsiders, Guthrum cursed angrily.
Strictly speaking, he had a blood feud with the Lage clan. Halfdan took the throne of Denmark and killed all his close relatives.
The Vikings respected the strong, and he survived by surrendering.
Maybe he was grateful at the time, but now that he has become stronger, he wants to take revenge.
"Anger will only make people crazy. If we want to take Denmark back, we must do it quickly while we still have the strength.
There are rumors outside that Halfdan will reconcile with the Crusaders, withdraw his troops and return to Denmark.
If Oran really lets him go, there will never be such a good opportunity again. "
"What do you mean?"
"Change the target of the Eagle Lord's transaction to us and let him support us.
Among the warriors with claim rights from your family of the former Danish king, you have the highest priority.
You are the leader who can call out the many warriors against the Ragnar clan,
Their clan went on conquests and seized territory by force. The Saxon tribes east of Denmark were dissatisfied in large numbers.
We will not let Halfdan go back, leaving only Sigurd, dragging him to death in England,
In this way, Denmark belongs to us, and the surrounding tribes will be settled slowly by us.
Don’t be afraid of an old man, England will be his graveyard!”
"But Lord Eagle..."
Thinking of the news that Oran smashed Uba's hand, Gusrum still believed that there was a risk of being bitten when discussing business with a poisonous snake.
Yinspu continued, "Why doesn't the Crown Prince talk about it? Look, in just one year, he turned ordinary towns in the kingdom into military towns, and the villages that were originally allowed to be robbed by us were armed.
The stone ruins and old city left over from the Roman era were all demolished, and the remaining ruins were used in the war.
Have you seen the map left by the Romans?
It is marked with all the 'choke points' and 'strategic points' in the south of England...
The trenches were widened and there were wooden fences and towers everywhere in the city.
In the past, we relied on the highly maneuverable dragon boats to capture two towns, and the round trip only took three days.
It will take at least ten days now!
The towns have become military towns, connected by roads in the middle, and seven military towns have been born on the eastern border.
Even the waterways within the territory were used by him as tools of war.
I heard that if he can hold the bridge entrance, he will control the upper reaches. If he can't hold it, he will directly cut off and destroy it.
It is very difficult to raid inland rivers now.
Not only him, Mercia and Northumbria also used this method,
Except for the surprise attack at the beginning, it became more and more difficult for us to fight, and that was why.
Unless more than five thousand Viking warriors enter,
Otherwise, it will take a long time to decide who is better. "
Alfred can now be described as a "town-repairing maniac" to explain how far he has regained his land.
The first thing to do was to put up the wooden castle.
There must be a wooden tower and sentry tower built before he would lie down and sleep.
Otherwise, I would wake up in the middle of the night.
After the king fled westward and his whereabouts were unknown, the people of Wessex united instead.
There used to be two suns, and the county chiefs each had their own supporters.
There is no fight now. The crown prince is the only successor. Although he has not been crowned yet,
But even the Roman clergy came to join him, and there was no longer any dispute.
Once the internal hidden dangers are eliminated, Wessex, as the strongest of the Seven Kingdoms, will have its war potential unleashed.
Thousands of Vikings plus the leading party were dissatisfied with 10,000 in southern England, and they had to fight against hundreds of thousands of Chinese people.
One less person dies.
The new military service system was also the reason why Guthrum was in a stalemate.
In the past, the Unsa nobles came to England and regarded themselves as conquerors of the Seven Kingdoms.
There was a lack of attention. When the Vikings came to fight, they conscripted troops temporarily.
Poor training and lack of motivation.
The crown prince issued a decree to reform the law, allowing land holders to send troops according to the size of the land.
And the territory occupied by the Vikings was rewarded and verbally sealed off.
To put it simply, as long as you can win,
There is a lot of land,
Women have a lot of
You can have everything!
Some people become famous by their swords, and some people become famous by their words.
The latter is often lost in history.
If the struggle for the monarch they support fails, it will be difficult to even keep their name.
Charlemagne has been dead for many years, but his spirit still lingers.
Vikings who are willing to fight hard, such as Hestein, will conquer Frank! In order to avenge the past.
Vikings who are willing to learn, such as Yinspu, will learn about Roman culture and create a stronger Viking world.
Gusrum was finally moved.
"Your plan is great, what are we going to do?"
"Change the land."
"Change?"
"Another defeat, let Bjorn command and wear him to death,
Then withdrew from the summer army and divided Kent,
and around Kent, and part of Wessex,
If Halfdan dies in England, you lead his men back to Denmark and be directly crowned. "
"Isn't this safe?"
"We hand over the land to the Eagle Lord. He will definitely have a conflict with the crown prince and they can't tell the difference. Besides, we can just change our faith."
"What did you say!"
"Even if we are both Odin believers, Finland and Sweden have different rituals.
If there really is a God, which sect should we believe in?
Rollo believed in God and was still the Grand Duke of the Franks, living a better life than any Viking leader.
If you want to believe, believe in the strongest God, but who is the strongest now?
There is no way to tell.
So, take a step back and believe in the most beneficial God, the Cross. "
Guthrum was silent.
Yin Sipu tied up his waist-length hair and then took off his armor.
"The weather is so hot, several times hotter than in the north. Why am I always dressed tightly with my hair covering my back?"
Yin Sipu muttered to himself, and then went shirtless. His back was covered with burn marks, and there was not a single piece of intact skin!
"Back then, Snake Eyes broke into the late king's residence. I was a soldier protecting the late king. Your cousin was beheaded by his sword.
He chanted the name of the god Odin before he died.
The late king's daughter was dragged out... crying and dying in disheveled clothes.
Finally, the 'skull' of the late king was turned into a spitting wine cup by a bastard who had been punished by the previous king!
This man was a brother of Halfdan's lover bitch.
It's a pity that he died early.
Now, it's time for revenge. "
...
A few days later, Guthrum's messenger entered the Eagle Lord's camp.
The discussion was very pleasant.
After returning, he said, "The Eagle Master asked me to bring back my wish to discuss it later, and it was successful, sir!"
Guthrum breathed a sigh of relief.
When they met for the second time, Olan took Tuman and others there.
Meet in a valley where only hunters appear.
Guthrum was also present.
The cronies behind him behaved rudely. When they saw Tuman who was imprisoned in his early years and whose body was as ugly as a mouse, they taunted Tuman in a dialect, saying that his mother must have been frightened to death after giving birth to him.
Guthrum stopped his men and they replied,
"Sir, it's impossible for these Angsa elders to understand."
Guthrum thought about it, he was an uneducated Unsa barbarian.
This dialect was the local language learned when the Kingdom of Denmark changed hands and a group of Danes went to the east to escape the limelight of the Saxon tribe.
Oran is proficient in many languages.
The two sides talked a lot in Viking language and agreed on a "secret language" after the war started.
When Yin Sipu proposed a string of secret words, Olan objected with a smile, "Use the sentence just now."
"Which sentence?"
"Your mom died."
After Oran finished speaking, he opened his arms.
In the end, the two villains laughed and wanted to kill each other, but their bodies hugged each other honestly.
