Speaking of this battle, Frederick suffered a loss because of his intelligence work. It’s not that this guy said before that he didn’t pay attention to intelligence work that he could get to his level, and these emperors and kings, who seemed fair and solemn, attached great importance to these things behind their backs. So, as enemies.

Frederick indeed attached great importance to the intelligence work about Egil and Norman. Among the Norman army and the Norman capital, there were considerable spy personnel arranged.

However, it is still very inconvenient. I am talking about the transmission aspect of the message.

In Gothborg, the capital of Norman, let’s not mention it here, just to follow the Norman army, disguised as merchants, or refugees, gangsters, and bards. When Egil’s army started, he sent people to send out his men and whip to Innsbruck and Salzburg. This time, it took more than a dozen days. After they finished sending the information, the guards of the two fortresses began to prepare for defense in full swing. At this time, the spies discovered that their preconceived understanding was wrong. The Normans were not rushing to these two fortresses at all. Instead, they headed west, as if they were going to take the path of Renaya and Marseille.

This made the spies of the Holy Roman Empire very afraid that in the final analysis, their job and areas they are good at are intelligence collection, not intelligence analysis. They did not understand why Egil did not directly attack the Holy Roman Empire. Instead, they turned west.

Do you want to go back to Normandy along the journey of the Eastern Expedition last year?

Do you want to attack France?

Do you want to attack the Holy Roman Empire somewhere along the border between France and the Holy Roman Empire?

So where is it? Where are you going to attack?

Naturally, the spies of the Holy Roman Empire could not guess it. They were not the ones who made the final decision. Therefore, they could only pass on intelligence. This time, they could not send messages to a border town in the Holy Roman Empire alone. They did not have so many people. Moreover, this way, transmitting intelligence to a place with a little psychological preparation in the inland area will cause panic. If the other party finally calls, it would be fine. But if they did not call, then this responsibility will not be able to bear it.

So, after several days of totaling, the spies finally sent people to detour Lunsbruck again, and then directly delivered a letter to the probably, perhaps, Emperor Frederick in North Saxony.

As a result, the messenger went away forever. I don’t know if he ran away, was robbed, or had a wolf, and suffered a loss to the spy leader. After a few days, he still felt that it was inappropriate and finally sent out two more batches of messengers.

At this time, the Norman army had just walked out of Marseille and its destination was still unknown. Therefore, the information did not change at all. It was just a change in the date of delivery and the location of the Norman army.

In the end, after more than a month, these two messengers finally found Frederick, who failed to persuade Hamburg to surrender and was currently starting to attack the city, and passed the information on it.

So, like the previous spy leader, Frederick began to murmur, wondering where the Norman army would send troops from.

Such hesitation and distraction also led to the fact that although he had dozens of times the opponent's strength in the battle against Hamburg, the attack was not smooth due to wrong command. This kind of thing happened. Frederick also understood that he should not hesitate at this time. No matter what kind of decision, whether it is good or bad, he should make up his mind as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, in recent times, Emperor Frederick has not been in good condition. He has insomnia, headaches, joint pain all over his body, lack of strength, nausea, and unable to eat. All negative reactions related to his health can be found out from him. Or this guy is really old, or the years of battles have made this old man in his 80s unable to bear it. In the end, three days later, Frederick barely took a decent attention.

He wrote the letter and pressed the proof with a heraldic ring. He ordered the general John and Tseclatan Yung, who were now stationed in the capital Swabian, to send an order, requiring the veteran of the mercenary to quickly concentrate all the troops that Bavaria could concentrate, reorganize an army, and provide reinforcements when the other side, the Normans attack any military important place.

General Tilly was a veteran who had been with Frederick for a long time. Although he was not Bavaria or even the Holy Roman Empire, after being hired decades ago, General Tilly showed extreme loyalty from beginning to end. He strictly and without any hesitation. Therefore, he was deeply trusted by Frederick. Although in recent times, the veteran also showed some physical inconvenience, he was still entrusted by Tilly to defend Bavaria with an important task.

Although the veteran general had few troops, only one brigade of 1,500 people, if necessary, he could quickly gather a huge army with his connections among the mercenaries. The veteran general's brilliant achievements and generous behavior towards his subordinates also made the mercenaries willing to fight under his command.

However, it still takes time to summon mercenaries and reorganize mercenaries. And Frederick felt that it was inappropriate to fight with mercenaries alone. In terms of number, mercenaries were definitely not as good as Norman's 80,000 army.

Therefore, after writing this letter, Frederick wrote to Albrecht, who also served as the Grand Duke of Bo Simea, Austria, and the first prince of the Holy Roman Empire. He was also the only prince of the entire Holy Roman Empire who refused to fight against the Normans and had not sent any troops. He hoped that he could abandon his past grudges, quickly mobilize the Czechs and Austrians, form an army, and assist the Holy Roman Empire. As a reward, Frederick promised to elect him as the next emperor of the empire.

Frederick believed that the price was enough to make the young and impatient Austrian duke fight for it.

In this way, the two letters were sealed again, and then sent by spies again, but at this moment, Norman's army had crossed the Swiss mountains, crossed the forest, and launched an attack on the unprepared Swabian.

Before this, Egil had already found out that Swabian's guard General Tilly had a rigorous style and his army was also highly combative. Moreover, although no news was received recently, General Tilly still strictly enforced a curfew and strictly restricted the entry and exit of Swabian's personnel. The soldiers guarding the city gate were also very nervous. The city gate would be closed when there was any movement.

In this way, Egil prepared in advance and the cavalry charged to seize the city, and such a plan was basically impossible to achieve.

Of course, if you use a regular combat method to directly siege the city, then assemble the counterweight catapult, fire several rounds of volleys, and then use heavy infantry to attack the city. This will not take much effort. Because there are not many defenders in the city. But in this way, there will be no deterrent power that Egil wants.

So in the end, Egil chose a slightly cunning and inconsistent with the morality of a knight. He paid for the money and bought some carriages of the military merchants. Then he asked the remaining eighty battlefield assassins in the army to disguise themselves as merchants and took the opportunity to seize the city gate. After he succeeded, he used the whistlebrating as a signal. After receiving the signal, he used the professional cavalry, Finnish light cavalry and Hungarian rangers to move as quickly as possible, break into the city, and attacked strategic locations such as palaces, barracks, and cathedrals.

That's it. In the early morning, when the gates of Swabian opened, the guards guarding the west and south sides discovered a caravan.

Nothing like ordinary caravans, the wretched merchants with Italian accents were dressed in rags, but they looked serious and serious, apprentices who looked like gauze garbage, and partner soldiers who seemed to have not gone far away just checked it and asked what goods it was. After learning it was olive oil and wine, they blackmailed half a barrel of inferior old wine and dozens of copper tolls. Then they were about to let them go.

"Go away quickly. The market may not have opened yet. You have to wait a little longer. Also, the market tax collector in the east is quite conscientious and can pay less taxes when he goes there. 1. The guards cheered up like this and reminded the merchants like this. He thought to himself: This is almost worth the price of half a barrel of wine. Even if he died immediately before God, he asked me a sum I had!!!

Immediately afterwards, the soldier felt a severe neck pain and wanted to try hard to turn his head to take a look. He persisted for about two seconds, but he still failed...

"Kill them! 1. The remaining guest leader whispered and ruthlessly.

"The enemy is not 1. Before the few guards who knew came over were wiping their necks. The guards who stood on the tower and were about to ring the bell to warn were also killed by the assassin's flying knife and Sherwood's bow and arrow.

In this way, the assassins on the battlefield were quick to kill the defenders who were nearly twice as few as theirs. Then Sherwood's archer took out a special, hollow whistle, then set off a bow and arrow, and shot it into the sky.
Chapter completed!