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Chapter 12 Putting down Swabian

The child's mother was just a young man, and she was forced by the Nuoyan army to see that she was hanged. Before, she saw so many people being hanged and her long tongue was almost scared. She looked at the Norman soldiers... and even the Norman Emperor came towards him, and she was even more afraid and fell to the ground. She held her child tightly with her hands.

At the same time, his mouth was trembling and he kept praying to God.

The people next to them quickly dispersed and left a clearing space. Although they looked a little angry, they did not mean to help the fu person. Or, these people were already scared by this public execution and did not dare to do anything hostile to make themselves and their families suffer.

However, the development of things did not happen as people imagined: the furious Norman Emperor drew his sword and directly killed the mother and son.

But it was very unexpected. Emperor Egil jumped off the execution platform, then bent down, and slowly took the baby from the mother with an irresistible look.

"Please, Your Majesty, My Child," in extreme panic, the fu guy couldn't even make any effective resistance. Of course, if she really did something "injuring His Majesty the Emperor's safety", the Norman soldiers around would definitely rush over and chop her into meat sauce.

So it is really sad, the nation after the defeat.

While thinking this, Egil teased the baby in his arms, shook it a few times, then scratched his itchy flesh and made a few grimaces. Then he made a funny laugh at the child who knew nothing.

Afterwards, Egil returned the child to Hua's mother.

"I'll give it back to you, madam, he's such a cute child, you said he's not a big deal."

"Thank you very much for your kind Emperor." Seeing your beloved son recovered, the man burst into tears. He couldn't help but thank Egil, although Egil did nothing sincerely.

"Good Emperor! His Majesty Egierskadragrimson is the most merciful emperor in the world!" A Norman spy shouted in the crowd, although it was impossible to see from his perspective what Egier did, however, it was enough.

"Long live Your Majesty Egil!" The soldiers, civilians, and even other nobles, whether forced or sincerely, at this moment, there was only one voice left around the execution ground. "Long live Your Majesty Egil!" It was very simple and clear. Basically, even a fool could understand the meaning of this sentence.

So, another show ended very successfully. Although ordinary citizens cannot summarize it systematically, there are simple thoughts, that is, if you are hostile to this Majesty, you will suffer extremely tragic revenge. If you obey that Majesty, that Majesty will be extremely gentle.

As for the various damage caused by the rampage of the Norman army, His Majesty of the Emperor also has his own unique statement: Everything is Frederick's fault! If he did not declare war, we would not attack and would not have such sad things happen. So all these should be blamed for Frederick's scum!

This kind of reason that sounds reasonable, but in fact, it is a very unscrupulous reason among the Germans in the occupied areas. The anger of the people always needs a channel to vent. The fierce people holding weapons in their hands will appear anytime and anywhere, and the Normans who will kill them and will not be sentenced will definitely not be a good target. Frederick, who is thousands of miles away, naturally became the best candidate to take the blame as the original regime.

So, basically when something goes wrong in diplomacy, sometimes the people of our country will criticize their own governments, even more serious than other countries that cause these injuries.

Maybe there is some reason...

"It's really interesting to show your kindness by killing people." Hundreds of kilometers away, Munich, in the famous city of Lions, in the Governor's Mansion, General Henry expressed his own feelings.

"Well, it's such an interesting emperor. He acts differently, but often achieves very good results. He also has a very good attitude towards his subordinates. He seems to be a lord who deserves loyalty to him than Frederick."

"Do you need me to remind you? Earl, the object of your loyalty is Emperor Frederick of the Holy Roman Empire, not the false emperor Egil of Norman." Beside him, the old general Tilly whispered in anger.

"Oh. That's right." The middle-aged man with a yellow beard and a slightly cynical stilted foot-eyed snorted: "It was the excellent, correct, and fair and unscrupulous emperor who usurped me the Duke of Bavaria who was the best, right, and fair, and unscrupulous emperor. My memory always goes wrong in this critical place. There's nothing we can do...

hehe"

"At least you have a Munich city! This is the most prosperous city in South Germany! In addition, there are more than 100,000 people, serfs and citizens, and an earl's title! His Majesty the Emperor is already good to you!" General Tilly stood up suddenly and shouted.

"This is why I have not betrayed him yet!" Henry, the man with the title of lion, responded in a tit-for-tat way: "The Norman Emperor led his 80,000 troops to capture Swabian and was ready to ravage the entire South Germany! Perhaps countless cowards were ready to kneel down and tidy up his horse boots,

And I, I am still preparing for war! This can already illustrate the problem!" The atmosphere between the two sides became tense.

Until the end, the old general Tilly gave in and knew that he wanted to defend the city of Munich, the most prosperous, largest and most sturdy city in Southern Germany. The man in front of him was essential.

This is not just because he is the Earl of Munich, but because this man has a very strong appeal in the entire Bavaria. Although the title of Duke of Bavaria was usurped, the nobles of Bavaria still regarded him as the leader, not Frederick. As long as he ascended the high ground, he could gather more than 20,000 noble armed forces. This is also the reason why Kitere did not dare to kill him after defeating him. If he wanted to gain the support and allegiance of the Bavarian nobles, this man was indispensable.

"…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………” In the end, while Egil divided his troops into small groups, attacked everywhere, swept the entire Duke of Swabian, mercenaries from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland continued to ting towards Bavaria. At the same time, a large number of Bavarian nobles received Henry's letters and responded. Further east of Bavaria, the Duke of Austria, Albrecht of Austria finally made a decision to make Frederick's letters public and mobilized a total of 20,000 troops from Bosimia and Austria into Bavaria.

In this way, when Egil swept the entire Duke of Swabian territory and considered whether to rename it the Rhineland Alliance and directly split the Holy Roman Empire from a legal perspective, no less than 50,000 troops had gathered in Bavaria. Although most of them were peasant soldiers with low combat effectiveness, feudal knights with low organization, and mercenaries with low discipline. There was no unified command, no unified banner, and no unified language... The shortcomings that could be found in a medieval feudal army can basically be found in him.

But the number is amazing.

Well, there are fifty thousand people, and it is still increasing. The main ones are those noble armed forces who are short-sighted in life and death, and those mercenaries who are worthy of money and life. Due to the different distances of these people, the arrival time is also different. Especially some mercenaries from Burgundy, France, and Switzerland will be intercepted by the Norman army when crossing Swabian. Of course, Egil will not force the mercenaries to join the Holy Roman Empire army. But he can hire some mercenaries first.

Although these mercenaries had low discipline and were expensive, they made a fortune in the Pope. They also made various cities and robbed them, but they were just a drop in the bucket. Egil obtained a combat power, but the discipline was very sad, with a total of tens of thousands of mercenaries. These included spearmen and halberd soldiers from the Swiss Highlands and the Netherlands Lowlands, swords and shield soldiers from Spain, mercenary knights and mercenary soldiers from France, etc.

Egil reorganized them into a legion and a standard cannon fodder army. In addition, some noble armed forces from the Swabian region were willing to join Egil's army. The number of these people was not very large, but it cannot be said that they were small. Until now, the Norman army can claim to be an army of 100,000.
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