(The first time I updated today!!!)

This time, the battle of Bologna to attack aid was successfully over.

In the last two hours, the light cavalry under Egil chased and died north, and cut down seven or eight heads, including the commanders of the other two legions. Of course, these were not the key points. The key point was that the commander of the 23rd Legion of the Eastern Roman was captured alive and was very unsatisfied. After the lock cover was put on him, he did not make a quick decision like the other two legions commanders, and directly pulled out his sword to commit suicide. For the honor of Rome, they did not hesitate to kill themselves.

Compared with his colleagues, the commander of the Legion performed very poorly. He knelt down on the ground with a "thump", then raised his hands in panic and shouted, "Don't kill me!!"

Although Norman Light Cavalry could not understand Greek, they could understand the meaning. In fact, they did not think about killing him. A high-ranking nobleman could exchange for several thousand gold coins!

Become a prisoner of the Norman Barbarians.

Of course, in his mind, this was not too embarrassing. After that, just wait for his family to take money to redeem him. Although the Normans were barbarians, they probably wouldn't be so savage that they would make things difficult for a nobleman. Especially a high-ranking nobleman who could exchange for thousands of gold coins.

If you commit suicide, it will violate Christian teachings and you will not be able to go to heaven after death! So let's live, even if you live in humiliation.

That's it. The senior commander of Eastern Rome, four legion commanders and one commander, died two of them in battle, two of them committed suicide, and one was captured. One of them was not run away.

Four Eastern Roman legions were eventually killed more than 17,000 and captured more than 7,000. More than 6,000 were killed during the escape process. In this way, more than 70,000 troops were lost. Less than 10,000 were left without subordinates and had chaotic remnants fled back to the city of Venice in a panic.

What was waiting there were more than 6,000 Venetians who escaped back one step earlier than them. Speaking of which, they were timid and had the benefits of being timid. The Venetians were beaten by Swiss mercenaries, but only a small one

After a while, they lost their armor and fled in a panic. The Swiss mercenaries were all super spears and two-handed Swiss halberds and infantry, so they were not suitable for pursuit. The prisoners only caught less than a thousand people.

However, I got a lot of equipment and other things. A total of two thousand small chain composite armors and one thousand small chain armors. The Swiss mercenaries cried and laughed. I guess they made a lot of money. I hope they would not be happy and sad.

On the third day after the Battle of Bologna, Bologna surrendered, accepted the extremely harsh conditions offered by Egil, left Venice, became a free city-state, converted to Catholicism again, and joined the Catholic coalition. To be honest, Bologna was also one of the northern Italian city-states. It was more of an alliance with Venice, just like the relationship between ancient Greece, Athens or Sparta, and other small city-states. It was almost the same as the alliance members and the leader, and this relationship. Bologna itself also had its own city guards, its own merchant fleet and its own self-made institutions. However, it was not as large as Venice in terms of scale and quantity.

Speaking of which, Venice has a unique geographical location. The city of Venice has a variety of deep water harbors, as well as the city-state closest to the pagan territory in Northern Italy, as a second-hand dealer reselling various treasures sold from Bos, and further away from East Asia and India, which made Venice make a fortune. However, as a franchise city, Bologna can only get a little bit of soup.

Therefore, for the relatively civilized Egil army, there was no massacre, nor too much robbery. At most, it was unfair trade that was forced to buy and sell. The Bologna showed great enthusiasm. Especially in this area, the powerful Visconti family in this area, after Egil and Charlie entered the city, they took the initiative to give up the mayor's residence and the villa of their family for the two monarchs to live in. Egil and Charlie discussed it and decided to meet this guy and see what benefits could be obtained from him.

"Actually, we have been tolerating those Venetians for a long time." Bologna Mayor Mafe Ovesconti smiled flatteringly, while saying such loyal words in front of his new master: "We are also Catholics, and Catholics do not fight Catholics..."

Because the other party was using Italian, Egil had not systematically learned this language. It seems that the other party could not learn Nordic languages ​​or the new Norman common language.

Therefore, Egil met with him and specially brought Weisther, a diplomat with a very talented language, as a translation.

After Foster turned all the guy's words out, Egil snorted and ignored the slippery guy. At the same time, he picked up the hot tea cup in front of him in a mysterious way and took a sip.

"…Bologna is willing to provide two thousand fully armed soldiers, 500,000 Florinian gold coins, and enough food for 50,000 troops to use for half a month." Egil was still silent. His eyes were vague. Mafeo glanced at Egil's eyes. But he saw the king looking at the sword of the fully armed guard knight next to him...

Mafeo swallowed. Sigh: "Two thousand five hundred fully armed soldiers"

Egil interrupted him directly: "Mayor, I took time to see you from my busy schedule. I didn't want to bargain with you like a stingy little businessman. There is only three things, and you have the last answer that satisfies me now. Otherwise, I will choose another guy that satisfies me and be the mayor of Bologna."

Mafeo understood that what Egir said, "Choose another umbrella is definitely not chosen by citizens and democratic universal suffrage system. Instead, threatening with a bayonet. Even if you are a little unattended, it is not a big deal to slaughter Bologna.

Thinking of this, big beads of sweat rolled down on Mafeio's forehead. Then he gritted his teeth: "Five thousand fully armed soldiers, one million and a half million gold coins, and enough food and grass for 50,000 troops to use for a month. In addition, there are twenty warships that can accommodate hundreds of people. But it will take some time to recall those warships..."

After hearing this, Egil was silent for a while, and his fingers were pounding on the table, constantly putting psychological pressure on Mafeo. Next to him, Duke Charles did not say a word, and watched the show with interest.

In the end, Mafeo finally couldn't withstand Egil's pressure and collapsed suddenly.

"Your Majesty, please be merciless. We Bologna is just a small city. This is the greatest strength that Bologna can do..." Mafeo fell to the ground and cried like this.

Finally, Egil nodded indefinitely, and then exchanged glances with Charlie.

"Since that's the case, Your Excellency Mayor, you can continue to stay. I will give you five days to prepare what you said... Well, now it's four days, twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes and forty-two seconds." After Egil said these words, after Foster's translation, Mafeo, who was kneeling on the ground and crying, stood up "scared", and then rolled and crawled away.

"Hahahahahaha..." Finally, a series of low voices broke out in the original mayor's office.

Several were happy and sad. When Egil happily extorted Bologna merchants, the city of Venice was filled with miserable mist. On the one hand, it was because of the loss of this battle.

On the other hand, it was because of those old men from the Eastern Roman army.

Previously, in order to strictly enforce military discipline and maintain the trust relationship between allies, the 40,000 Eastern Rome troops were stationed several dozen kilometers outside the city of Venice. For the Venetians, the so-called Eastern Rome allies were a kind of vague and ethereal, and there were even many Venetians with romantic feelings, and they had expectations for the Eastern Rome army that inherited the Roman tradition in the legend.

But now, all this is different.

The Eastern Roman army fled in a panic and fled into the city of Venice. What was lost with the defeat was not only the morale of the army, but also the so-called glory and discipline of the soldiers. In addition to the incitement of those who were interested (the Norman spies did a lot of effort), it was because the Venetians collapsed first. This led to the enemy's flanks. Then there was such a defeat. Therefore, so many brothers died, it was the fault of the Venetians!

So the Eastern Roman army became angry and felt that they were originally for the safety of Venice, to maintain the stability of the universe and the peace of the world. So they attacked and fought against those unruly Norman barbarians? Is this how you Venetians repaying their saviors?!

The army that had lost its military discipline, coupled with hatred and anger after the defeat, burned directly on the heads of the Venetians.

In the streets and alleys of Venice, the Eastern Roman soldiers who were wielding Roman daggers were smashed, looting and burning, venting their dissatisfaction to the Venetians, making the entire Venetian city a mess. In this case, the Venetian soldiers who had no favors to Eastern Rome and the Orthodox Church naturally couldn't sit still. At the beginning, these Venetian soldiers could still maintain some restraint, but just dissuading the Roman soldiers. Of course, the verbal cannon will be upgraded as they fight.
Chapter completed!