For this reason, although the city-states in Northern Italy were nominally part of the Holy Roman Empire, psychologically, these northern Italians only regarded the Germans as invaders. This concept was not very recognized for the Holy Roman Empire. In other words, it was not as good as the Lombardy Kingdom, which had just appeared and had a short time.

Unless the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire came out, he was an Italian.

Of course, this is basically impossible - the strange democratic politics of the city-state citizens, and the feudal aristocratic politics commonly used in the mainland are incompatible. Therefore, Northern Italy, which believes in business, gold power, and the so-called parliamentary system, and Germany, which believes in feudal, aristocratic bloodline, and feudal system, are incompatible.

That's it. Egil easily convinced the city-states of Northern Italy to obtain a large amount of military supplies from their hands at a relatively cheap price. This is also a good deal for Northern Italy, which started with industry and commerce. Although it made less money, it can enable the industry and commerce, which were severely damaged by the war, to recover faster. It can retaliate and attack its old enemy, Germany. Why not do it?

In this way, the two sides hit it off. Egil even planned to further sign alliance treaties with various city-states in Northern Italy. However, on this issue, the mayors and governors of various city-states were unwilling to get involved.

After thinking a little, Egil figured out the truth: fighting with Eastern Rome to fight to death was a critical moment of critical survival. However, the battle with Germany was not that important. Now it should be the time to concentrate manpower and material resources to resume production and compete for maritime hegemony. How could it be that much effort could be spent on the German barbarians in the north?

"Businessmen, after all, are all businessmen, and the common people have such short-sighted vision. They are just fools, and they are really useless.1,

So Egil made such comments to the so-called civic leaders of various city-states in northern Italy without mercy. Of course, these wastes are still useful now. So Egil was still polite to them on the surface.

After a few days, almost half of the bounty Egil received from the Pope became all kinds of heavyweights. The carriages of the heavy trucks of the logistics rice were once again filled with hard black bread, smoked fish, and bacon, which were not easily deteriorated. If nothing unexpected happens, the 80,000 troops of the Norman Empire opened the food to eat, which is enough for them to eat for three months.

What's more, there are many businessmen who are not afraid of death and want to make a fortune, and they also drive their own carriages and follow the army.

Most of these merchants want to collect the plunder from the soldiers, and they don’t have to think about the half of the plunder belonging to Egil. Because the price given by the system is much higher than what they give. However, soldiers cannot enjoy such benefits. Some more bulky plunders are very troublesome and easy to be stolen. Then the benefits of the military merchants can be reflected at this time. Sometimes some soldiers will also obtain some messy things that seem not valuable but are actually very valuable. This is the time to test the merchants’ eyesight if merchants can make such a deal and get such a leak. They may not be rich overnight...

It was almost like that. Twenty days later, Egil's army was rested, the military supplies were reserved, and he was forced to help him get a document from the Holy See, and he got his wish to remove Frederick's church. However, in Egil's view, such a delisting of church should not be as useful as last year when he dealt with Otto I, and might even cause the common hatred of the German princes. However, after the delisting of church, it would be a shock to the residents of the North Saxony Territory. They would be a little hesitant before they defected to their new masters.

At the same time, the letter from Fei Geocalypse with Artoria was finally sent back. After the Norman spies deciphered, Egil was amused and crying after reading the decoded letter. Artoria did not seem to have regarded the declaration of war in the Holy Roman Empire as a mountain dagger. Instead, she was very interested in Egil's remarks of emperorship.

Of course, this does not mean that Artoria would violate Egir's order. In fact, Artoria still promised to temporarily suspend the war with Moscow and sent envoys to determine the boundaries. Artoria claimed that at least the old Bolan area and the Ukrainian area would be swallowed up. In return for Lithuania's participation in the war, it would be possible to barely hand over Belarus to them. The compensation should not be less than 300,000 yuan.

In addition to that, Artoria claimed that she loved Egil's redesign of the empire's flag.

And he was summoning tailors and textile workers near the army to ask them to change her army's flag with a brand new Phoenix flag. This might take a little time.

However, her army also experienced a series of battles and needed a certain amount of rest. It was just right to take this opportunity to take a good rest.

Afterwards, Artoria praised General Qi Teng, the commander of the Second Cavalry Legion, and claimed that although he was a short man who looked ugly, he was still useful in fighting. Especially in commanding the cavalry group charges and scattered around to loot and obtain military supplies. These cavalry forces are even more effective than ordinary regular troops.

Finally, Artoria also wrote a whole article: "I really want to see you." And unilaterally agreed with Egil: "Frankfurt is the end point. It depends on whoever can take the lead in breaking there will be win."

"It's true." Egil shook his head and looked at the letters full of optimism in Artoria, and felt amused and laughed: since you want to compare speed and meet quickly, don't spend too much time on the flag. Also, although Frankfurt is the end, this distance seems to be Egil's dominance, but in fact, if Egil wants to conquer southern Italy, he needs to cross the Alps. The two fortresses at the Alps pass, Salzburg, and Innsbruck are all dangerous places that are easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is extremely difficult to break through.

On the contrary, attacking from the north is very simple. One-third of the entire northern Germany is under the control of the Norman Kingdom, and one-third of the areas have just changed hands, and the situation is chaotic. What the Holy Roman Empire can barely grasp is only about one-third of the territory that is the south.

In addition, the entire Germany is in the Central European plain, with a flat terrain and easy to run for cavalry and Mercedes-Artoria wants to march, but it is much simpler than Egil.

"Forget it, don't mention this..." Egil kept the letter with twisted handwriting close to her, intending to use it as an important prop to make fun of Artoria when quarreling with her in the future. Then he began to analyze matters about other countries. The Norman spies and spies around him also followed the instructions of their lords and brought in consultations related to other countries for Egil's reference.

First of all, France is also the country that Egil is most concerned about. Philip II seems to be a little ready in recent times. After receiving the Duke of Aquitaine, Philip II's own strength has recovered. However, it has not been much restored. In the Second Battle of Budapest, the losses of the 50,000 French army were not recovered casually.

In this regard, Philip II is quite inferior to Charles.

Although Charles ended up being nearly wiped out, in fact, the most he lost were the Swiss mercenaries who asked for the high salary. But Burgundy's own army lost only five or six thousand. Although the loss of five or six thousand troops was considered a traumatic injury. However, it was much better than the prodigal son who lost 20,000 troops at that moment.

So, although Philip II also wanted to learn from Frederick, he said: There can only be one king in the whole of France, that is, Philip II, who sent troops to Burgundy later. But he really didn't dare. On the contrary, Charles was likely to make some noise...

In recent times, Charles, who won the title of king, seems to be a little dissatisfied. Perhaps for him, the crown of the Burgundy king is a little worse than that of France...............

Regardless of the grudges and hatreds between France and Burgundy, who will eventually lose, Egil understands that the whole of Western Europe is just like that. Before these two countries decide the winner, Norman is unlikely to be attacked by Western Europe, and of course he is unlikely to receive assistance from Western Europe.

As for other aspects, in Eastern Europe, Hungarian envoys came to the Pope again and almost cried to death in the Pope Hall. Although this country was barely restored, there was nothing to do. The most corpses except refugees were dead bodies. King Attila felt that he, the Hungarian king, seemed to be assured as the leader of a nomadic tribe on the grassland as before, and had to come to the Pope to cry to Qin Ting again.

So, this country can basically ignore it.

It's Lithuania, well, Lithuanian Grand Duke Vitas. This guy has been doing well recently. If the contract with the Grand Duchy of Moscow goes well, then this guy can still get a rich land like Ukraine. His strength will increase again. Although Vitas chose the strategy of alliance with Norman in the previous war against Moscow. However, as someone who experienced the collapse of the United Kingdom of Lithuania, he will never forget the hatred with the Norman Empire. So...
Chapter completed!