Judging from the direction of war, we have already gained the upper hand. Yes. That's right. The upper hand.

For Egil, there was no better news than this. He destroyed about five hundred Rangers and a hundred times more people than this number. But there was nothing to do with the Greeks huddled in the city of Budapest. A few days ago, Egil calculated that if he continued to attack, his retreat would become more unstable. As long as the opponent sent a group of light cavalry to continuously raid the food transport road, it would be able to drag down the entire coalition.

However, if you don’t continue to attack, Budapest is near. You can reach it with just a few more steps. How can Egil be willing?

Egil suddenly felt a little pitiful. His situation at that time should be similar to his own. However, the will of both sides were completely different. Frederick was immersed in his victory in the battle and felt that he could continue to win with this momentum. However, Egil noticed the potential danger and was in a dilemma.

Sure enough, if a person is stupid, he will be less distressed? Egil couldn't help thinking this way. And Frederick's pitiful thoughts also concluded that this guy may be good at power and versatile battles. However, he lacks the necessary political means and strategic vision. The lack of the former made him make mistakes in treating Northern Italy and Hungary's policies. He seemed to have lost two potential allies in exchange for two enemies. The lack of the latter allowed him to win one or two victories, but could not resolve the entire war.

This is how it developed in history. Because of this disadvantage, Frederick invaded Italy from Germany and Italy. After that, the German princes would rebel. And he returned to Germany from Italy,

Then the Italian city-state will be independent again. This guy wanders around between Italy and Germany and finally consumes all his strength and time. And he accomplishes nothing.

It's really a model of negative teaching materials. Egil said to himself: No one can learn from this guy if you have tens of millions in the future.

Finally, after weighing the pros and cons, all the professional cavalry under Egilcao and the Finnish light cavalry were sent out. After carefully checking every grass and every grain of soil within a hundred kilometers around, he then rushed forward and rushed out.

There are still 100 kilometers away from Budapest. Egil received a message from the Norman spy. The opponent's main force evacuated Budapest two days ago. Now only one Greek temporary recruitment legion is left to guard Budapest. There are only 10,000 light infantrymen.

"That means you escaped." Egil frowned and calculated.

The enemy left a city with empty guards as bait. If you want to attract yourself, if you convert the time when the enemy leaves, the time you need to arrive in Budapest, and the time to discover the enemy's plan...

It's almost a month?

In other words, if there is no spy network, Egil will lose a month to attack a city that has no great value. However, the opponent can calmly dispatch troops and attack Egil's wings with absolute superior forces. The army of Northern Italy or France will then defeat it.

While causing heavy losses to the coalition forces, morale also declined.

That's it. If everything goes well.

But nothing went so smoothly.

After that, Egil made a little calculation and sent a messenger to convey the message to the other two armies. At the same time, he issued an order to think about him and move closer to Budapest. After that, Egil took time to contact Lithuania on the Eastern European prairie, organized defenses, and prepared to resist the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. He asked her to check out whether she could contact the former king Attila of Hungary.

Then there will be a long wait.

Egil doesn't like waiting.

Whether you are waiting for the enemy or waiting for your own people, you don’t like it. Especially in the process of waiting, you have to endure the buzzing of Joan of Arc every day, as if Cang Yi was talking about the sāo disturbance like Mi Bee. Why can’t you treat the Hungarians like this? They are also Tianlou scholars. There will be a solution when you talk to them...

Something like that.

Sometimes Egil quarreled at Joan of Arc when he was annoyed: "If you want to preach so much, go to the Hungarians! See if they will talk to you and discuss a solution."

"… That." Joan of Arc looked at Egil with a little sadness: "Sure enough, I've begun to feel that I hate it. Do you want to kick me away?" "I don't mean that." Egil looked at Joan of Arc with a little speechlessness: "It's just that I'm busy enough now, don't cause trouble for me, okay?"

"What are you busy doing? Are you slaughtering?" Joan De's crying look almost forgot that this guy was also a warrior with a cavalry as a terrifying force. He regarded her as a simple, weak girl.

"I'm sorry." Egil sighed softly, and then hugged Joan of Arc: "I'm very sorry."

"Do you only say this?" Joan of Arc tried to struggle for a few moments, then gave up, looked up at Egil and asked.

"Hmm?" Egil was stunned for two seconds, and then saw Joan of Arc closing his eyes, and was stunned for two seconds. He quickly understood what Joan of Arc meant. He was a little surprised and relieved. It seemed that he had finally paid off for Joan of Arc's training over the past six months.

So, very naturally, both sides took over. This was a very memorable thing. Because Egil took the initiative and Joan of Arc was passive. But this time it was Joan of Arc. So afterwards, Egil bought a diary with a thousand points coupon and recorded the matter solemnly.

Today is July 14, 1003 AD.

A very memorable day.

Joan of Arc and I fell in love.

Of course, it is still a little far away.

Also, the powerful mi sausage redeemed by the system requires 5,000 coupons, and the powerful aphrodisiac requires 7,500 coupons. I think the ting is cheap. So I exchanged two bottles for carry with me and spare.

A bottle, well, about fifty milliliters.

That's it.

Maybe I felt a little shy afterwards. Joan of Arc looked down at Egil recently and looked like he had nothing to say. He no longer advised Egil to kill people or something.

In contrast, Egil was also a little anxious after hearing that Joan of Arc was trying to learn Hungarian.

A little change in Hungary's strategy.

The fight and pulling the masters is to win over the chiefs of the nomadic tribes who still live a nomadic life. These guys have the strongest sense of national identity in Hungary and are also the most loyal to the first lord Attila. Egil said a little, and he sent people to find Attila. He was willing to help Attila restore the country and gave these tribes enough money to benefit the tribes, these tribes were willing to follow Egil. There were even a few simple-minded ones who even sent troops to follow Egil.

The group that Egil suppressed was Hungarian, who had already surrendered to the castle lords of the Eastern Roman Empire. Of course, there were some small nobles who were too proud of the castles. It was not much better than the hamlets piled up with wood that Egil had seen when he debuted.

Although it cannot be pushed over and crushed one by one due to time reasons, there are still some necessary killing chickens to warn monkeys. Along the way to march into Budapest, Egil selected the two most enjoyable castle owners, one count and one baron, and then attacked the city and the village to conquer the house and exterminate the clan. The execution method of inserting the head of a man who had not been used for a long time was also used again. The area was directly turned into a forest of human heads. Seeing thousands of facial expressions with terrifying expressions, they died with their eyes closed, and were hung by a series of spears, stuck on the ground and could not see at all. Even the strongest Hungarian warriors would feel a chill in their hearts.

Of course, if this is the case, the Hungarians would not stop resisting. The real reason why the Hungarians stopped resisting was that Egil divided the territory of the two nobles into small pieces and gave it to the Hungarian peasants or herders for free. He also promised that after defeating the heresy of the Eastern Romans in the future, all the lands of all those who surrendered to the heresy of the Eastern Romans were distributed to the "loyal and kind Hungarians."

Half-doubted about Egil's statement "the loyal and kind Hungarians". It was not until Egil really divided all the lands, instead of taking them as himself like Frederick, or even appointing officials and nobles in a large manner. Hungarians believed that there was such a good thing in this world? There were also wolves who did not eat meat and crows who were not black? The Creator was simply amazing!

Of course, Egil still couldn't do anything like killing all the Hungarian nobles. Egil also spread the rumor that as long as he could abandon the darkness and turn to the light, then comrades would still be good comrades. The life of the lawless serf-owner can still be lived. In this way, those who were half-believing and half-doubted, who had surrendered to the Eastern Roman Empire, and even some of the Orthodox nobles had contacted Egil. Of course, before Egil completely defeated Eastern Rome, these people were just potential underground parties and would never disclose their identities.
Chapter completed!