Chapter 1097： The Rus Army Lands in the Deutsches Horn

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The men of Nassau Village are gathering, and they care more about a fight for a fortune than their faith in their faith.

Of course, the reasons for entering the war could not be so savage, and all armies would take Coblenz in the name of justice under the banner of the Baron of Nassau.

The baron's expansion, Blue Fox claimed that this was authorized by King Ludwig the Great of the Eastern Kingdom. Regardless of whether there are documents or witnesses to prove this high-sounding reason, the gathering of Nassau troops to fight is part of the kingdom's civil war.

Who is justice? The Nassau side will claim that Ludwig of the Eastern Kingdom is justice.

For the first time, ordinary villagers like grass by the river were taken seriously. In name, everyone was fighting for King Ludwig.

In fact, everyone understands the simple meaning of battle. Even if you just follow the back of the real Norman army and shout, you can get benefits afterwards.

There were doubters among the villagers, and as the priest Conrad publicly announced that the monastery also supported the actions of the baronies, all the doubts quickly dissipated like the rising smoke.

The assembled Rus army can be described as a mixed bag. Everyone communicates with each other in the Norse language, and tries to be uniform in clothing.

The brothers sharpened their swords and unloaded, and the six torsion slingshots on the armed freighter were unloaded from their fixed positions.

In principle, the task assigned to the villagers is to wave the flag and shout. Considering the actual needs, all the bow-holding hunters in the village are assembled, even those who bring their own short wooden bows and know how to shoot arrows are counted.

Coupled with its own archers, Blue Fox abruptly assembled a hundred archers and crossbowmen, that is, everyone's weapons are uneven.

In melee combat, the sword and shield hand builds a shield wall, and the back row is assisted by the halberd hand with a spear and axe. There are six torsion slingshots mounted on two-wheeled farm carts, as well as a hundred bowmen.

A low-profile version of the traditional Rus army is held in the hands of the blue fox.

This is not the first time that the blue fox has commanded a battle, but the first time as an independent commander, commanding an army of nearly 800 people to act independently!

The pressure is only known to him, but seeing his younger brother Heihu, this kid has no idea of ​​the mental challenges that the second brother is facing, and his mind is full of illusions about his achievements. Yes, this black fox just wants to see blood flow into rivers.

If King Russ faced a big war, what would he do?

It must be after the preparation of the pre-war supplies, the army will give a speech in an open field. If the number of sergeants is extremely large, the lower commanders will gather for pre-war mobilization, and then entrust these elites to convey the king's will to every soldier.

In the past, no chiefs did this, and Blue Fox himself was not quite sure whether it was necessary to preach. Start a speech.

He was wearing chainmail, and a visibly compact iron helmet was over his face, squeezing his cheeks a little. The viewers noticed that the blue fox boss was not wearing his own helmet, the big iron helmet was on the head of the little fat man beside him.

After all, it was a war. My younger brother had never experienced a real **** battle, so he delusionally thought that he would be able to stay on his own when he was on the battlefield. This is stupid! Out of love for his younger brother, the blue fox's favorite stomach is put on the fat older brother.

Blue Fox's own image is somewhat comical, just so unexpectedly striking.

He reiterated in the Norse language that he should pay attention to the situation in battle, injecting no indiscriminate killing, first trying to capture prisoners, not persecuting the women of Koblenz, and first taking the fortress.

He is also not sure that he has absolute control to ensure that the army is absolutely obedient. All he can believe is that the "old family" in the army is absolutely obedient.

In this case, Father Conrad stood up with a high profile.

"Remember! Be merciful, and do not go against the will of the Lord. Those ordinary people are like you, and you must not harm them! Your enemies are only the garrison of Koblenz, and if they surrender, you lay down the sword of killing. , you are not adding to your sins."

Conrad spoke in Latin, and Blue Fox translated it again, which drew boos from the entire Rus army. He also preached these words in the local dialect of Nassau, and it was very suitable for the armed villagers.

Twenty longboats and one armed cargo ship are now assembled at the pier in Nassau Village.

Soldiers from northern Europe boarded the long ships one after another. They have already put on the necessary equipment. This equipment allows the soldiers to drown once they fall into the water. In order to quickly complete the landing, the brothers also sacrificed themselves.

The people who landed first sat in the long boat beside the trestle, and as the people took their places one after another, the people who were placed on the shore began to untie the cables tied to the wooden stakes.

Armed cargo ships were full of Nassau village militiamen, who sat on the deck packed with spears and flagpoles. The person holding the horn stood at the high point of the stern deck. After seeing the signal from the blue fox, the low and melodious sound of the horn seemed to indicate that the northern beast appeared in the forest and gathered in the village of Nassau on the Lan River. The Ross Army is out!

In the past, Henry Nassau could only use fifty well-trained cavalrymen. If the Earl of Ingol was in a hurry in the old days, he could at most provide two hundred peasant troops.

Of course, compared to the kingdom's standing army, the peasants' armed forces are simply overkill! However, the 150,000 regular army at the peak of the entire kingdom during Charlemagne's time has faded away, and the strong warriors have long since aged. Due to the fact that the royal family has been fighting infighting for nearly half a century, the power of the princes around the world has become more and more powerful. They have eaten the old conscription system, and finally ended up with the army becoming more and more aristocratic.

Lothair of the Middle Kingdom inherited the title of King of the Franks according to the old rules. The old rules were a three-point kingdom. He was assigned to the area with the largest proportion of Franks and also received the most standing soldiers. He realized the consequences of the division of the kingdom, and then armed the vassal, and the civil war broke out in an all-round way.

The civil war consumed the standing army of the three top princes. Their vassals expanded their private armies through the war, and invaded the soldiers who were supposed to be directly loyal to the king. The vassals, big and small, of course have reasons. The so-called if you ask me to send troops to fight, you must give me more power, so that I can bring more troops to fight for you.

Where the three princes have so much wealth to support the huge army, they can only delegate power.

Then in the Middle Kingdom, it was directly reflected in the rapid expansion of the military strength of Adalbert, Count of Metz. The current situation determined that King Lothair had to rely on Count Metz to guard the central area of ​​his narrow domain. Without the insistence of this great vassal, Lothair would not have the ability to drop his main force to the vicinity of Strasbourg. Area and most against their third brother Ludwig desperately.

The situation in the Eastern Kingdom is more complicated. After the great defeat in 840, Ludwig was only able to firmly control his hometown of Bavaria. Thanks to the brand new Duchy of Saxony, the Duchy of Thuringia, the huge Diocese of Cologne, Worms, and the nominal allegiance of some minor vassals, the Eastern Kingdom still maintains its framework.

The Baron of Nassau has no direct allegiance to Ludwig legally, at least within the framework of the Eastern Kingdom.

Eight hundred troops! Unbeknownst to Ludwig, he burrowed out of the cave where it was hiding like a brown bear with great fanfare under his name.

A fleet clearly dressed in Nordic attire rushed out of the Lan River and appeared in a high-profile manner in the main channel of the Laine River.

All the masts are hung with a "black cross" with a black line on a white background, followed by a real Charlemagne battle flag with three lions with slightly abstract lines, which was originally a trophy of the Rus army half a year ago The flag, now in the hands of the blue fox, is for the convenience of follow-up actions. The so-called act under the banner of Ludwig is obviously raising the Three Lions flag.

The flag is here, and even if the action is primarily for making a fortune, it has a great reason.

The long ships guarded the big ships, and the long ships took their long oars, and the fleet drifted freely on the wide river.

The Lai Yin River is not wide, but for the Franks, whose shipbuilding ability is regrettable, they do not have the ability to cross the river on a large scale in a short time. Small sampans cannot transport several people at a time, although they can use a lot of pine wood that is easy to float to assemble rafts or even make pontoons, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

The Lai Yin River has thus become a de facto moat in the lower and middle reaches, and now only the Nordic style longboats can ignore it.

The defenders of the Middle Kingdom in Koblenz are neither deaf nor blind, and they have witnessed many strange ships drifting in the air in these days. The large ships were pulled upstream by the Nordic long ships with pointed ends? To actually use the banner of Ludwig in a high-profile manner?

"This is the Norman mercenary under Ludwig."

Ludwig inherited the policies of his grandfather Charlemagne towards the Norman world, and it was always an open secret that he had Danish mercenaries under his command and was directly involved in the civil war. On the battlefield, there were several conflicts between the Middle Kingdom army and the Norman mercenaries who collectively held round shields.

In the beginning, the Nordic longboats drifting along the main channel of the Inner River made the Koblenz defenders nervous, as if they were about to land and loot.

This has happened many times over the past year, and even a large fleet passed by, and there was no sign of attacking Koblenz, but it just drifted by quietly.

The captain of the flag guard was named Fred Edmund, and he had no fief, only the title of a knight. He was an officer of the standing army, with two centenarians under his command, the entire army directly loyal to King Lothair himself.

In this transitional period between the old and the new, the situation is not good for Fred and his men. The army was stationed in Koblenz, and the captain of the banner exercised all the powers of a feudal lord, who could act of his own will, but could not make his descendants hereditary.

Ordinary warriors will receive a pension when they are old, and Fred will go to a small village in the distance to become a knight lord when he is old. That's how Lotaire promised his standing army, and it's true, but is it really fair?

South of the city of Koblenz is a hill, macroscopically part of the Black Forest Mountains. After this mountain is in principle the territory of the huge Count of Metz. If Count of Metz wants to "guard" Koblenz himself and get the approval of the king, the brothers have to make room for it.

Koblenz has changed hands many times, and knowing the history of the place, the flag guards don't consider it their home, and therefore shouldn't be a place of burial.

The fleet thought to be Danish mercenaries from the Eastern Kingdom jumped across the main river repeatedly. Even if the flag captain claimed "the wolf is coming" at the beginning, each alarm ended without incident. This time, those people were even bigger. , it seems that it is just drifting southward safely.

The villagers nearby have been indifferent, although they and the people on the other side are basically unable to communicate with the people on the other side of the Yin River, and they don't think that these fleets of transiting ships can bring them to them.

Just when the military and civilians were very relaxed, the landing began quietly.

The blue fox and the black fox were sitting on the same long boat. His old entourage, Mrs. Oberli Ditesla, Mrs. Vardy, led a wave of brothers, and promoted a man named Eric, nicknamed "The Big Door", among the Gotalandites in the army. "The man leads a wave of brothers. Father Conrad logically commanded the peasant arm of Nassau Village.

The huge army has been subdivided, so there are rules and regulations for landing on the beach.

"This mountain seems to divide Koblenz, and the fortress is on the mound." The black fox sighed as he looked at the low hill.

"It's okay." The blue fox pointed to the village settlement under the hill: "There's not even a wall there! We'll land from the village and capture all the locals."

"I'm afraid they will run away."

"So cut off their escape route!"

The blue fox directed the entire fleet to attack, and the longship deliberately launched a flood at the junction of the hill fort and the village.

Based on Father Conrad's intelligence, Blue Fox knew the situation on the other side of the river. There is also some silt in the riverside area there. Forcibly flushing the beach will not hurt the keel, so the soldiers can get off the boat and act immediately.

Perhaps, as in the past few times, those large ships drifted away in disdain for Koblenz. The residents who lived boring life took watching the big border crossing as a fun. The wheat harvest season was almost approaching. These villagers closest to the Koblenz fortress were waiting for the harvest, and they were also busy picking grass and firewood to prepare for the coming winter.

As a result, they watched as an astonishing number of Buckler-wielders jumped off the half-grounded ship...

The iron helmets reflected violently in the sun, and the Russ army, who was dressed in white, started to walk quickly after landing.

Aware of the danger, the villagers who saw it first started running wild with agricultural implements.

The blue fox noticed this keenly. He glanced at the stone fortress on the southern hill again, and when he saw that some of his own people were rushing towards the southern fortress, he roared sharply: "Fools, don't attack the fortress! We have surrounded the village. Take them all captive!"

This roar had an effect, and those who rushed south the fastest found that their companions were heading north collectively, and had no choice but to keep up with the large army.

In today's era, the "German Horn" does not exist. Of course, Koblenz is a very old Germanic settlement. In the midsummer of 841, it is a military stronghold built on the site of the Roman military camp.

There are villages in the area that was originally the "German Horn". The villagers planted herds and fished from the shore. The eleven taxes they paid continued to supply the monastery and the barracks on the hills.

The villagers live in a peninsula-type area, and the Lai Yin and Moselle rivers form this cramped area, and it is logical to divide it by the landing Rus army.

At this moment, the fortress on the hill has been blaring loudly, the captain of the flag panicked, and the sergeants did not know what to do.

Perhaps the only thing that can be done at the moment is to close the gates of the fort.

Fred, the captain of the flag, stood on a high place and looked up, leaning out his upper body and almost falling from the building. He shouted to his subordinates: "The archers go to the city wall! Immediately close all gates! Kick all the sleepers to wake up! Try to pull anyone who is closest to you. Into the fort!"

He has been unable to accept the people of the nearest village. Since those guys must be mercenaries from the Eastern Kingdom (he is very sure), he has no sympathy for these guys and is worried that these ruthless people will wantonly kill the villagers and even destroy the monastery. It's like hearing the Norman rumors.

It was a major sin for Ludwig to keep such mercenaries, and Lothair preached to his own soldiers that it was a crime of blasphemy, and asked his subordinates to stay alive once the mercenary group went to war.

Could it be that the two hundred defenders were expected to walk out of the fortress and fight the Normans desperately? The other party is obviously very large! The Koblenz Fortress is no longer safe on its own!

For the blue fox and the black fox, their troops rushed to the Moselle River, another landing point, in a short time.

After all, this area is cramped as a whole, and the landing site is only two kilometers away. Every soldier in the flat land can see the so-called Moselle River not far from the landing site of the Lai Yin River.

Of course, the villagers knew that the fortresses fleeing to the south could be sheltered by the defenders, and even take advantage of the mountains to escape further. However, the escape route has been cut off, and there are still a large number of villagers who stay at home and do not even have time to flee. Those who stayed outside the village returned to the village one after another. Many people poured into the monastery in panic, perhaps only praying to the Lord to protect them in times of crisis.

At this critical moment, a middle-aged man stepped forward.

The cross raised in the right hand of the priest of Koblenz Abbey Bachbert appealed to everyone to calm down, and he also suppressed the panic in his heart. Seeing that the priest was so calm, the terrified villagers also knelt down and kept crossing their chests.

Although some people took the risk to evacuate in small boats, most of the villagers had no chance to escape at all.

Maybe a miracle happened! Those armed men had already arrived at the outskirts of the village, and they were stationed collectively outside the village, as if there was a divine force preventing them from moving forward.

The increasingly strange priest Bahbert may be holding a cross flag, and even a huge black cross is drawn on the shield.

"Maybe they don't want to kill? They have other intentions? At least you can talk to them." So the priest brought the lower priests, deliberately carrying a large wooden cross that was temporarily bound with wood, and confronted the densely packed army outside the village. See.

It doesn't matter, the priest saw more flags, which were all cross flags, and the warriors who were all over the place obviously stood up when they saw themselves This is the intention of the blue fox After all, there is no escape from the surrounded villages anyway. In line with the businessman's thinking, the first thing he thought was not to loot carelessly, but to give the other party time to stabilize his spirit, and then listen to the advice of the priest Conrad who accompanied the army and completed the landing. He really waited for his friend, probably the one A middle-aged priest with a hunched back? A priest named Bahbert.

No, Conrad showed up with his priest, also carrying a cross.

"My friend! It's me! Conrad!" He appeared openly with open arms.

I actually met a friend, even though the friend had only a small amount of correspondence with each other, and only talked a lot during the Mass at Worms Cathedral. Although Bachbert couldn't figure out the situation, at least Father Conrad was present, indicating that the situation was not in crisis.

Father Bahebert's inner fear was weakened a lot. He knew that a large number of villagers were poking their heads to pay attention to the changes in the situation, so he took the initiative to walk to the army, intending to find out what was going on.

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