At that time, after the battle on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Egil was very concerned about something. That was, who said that day, "I saw St. John in the military formation" to lay a chance to win? That was a wonderful man. He had some talent and urgent wisdom. He could use it - Egil did not believe that gods and other things could be so terrible. He saw it when he saw it - of course, it would be better if this matter was true. Jesus Christ and other things... Hahahaha.

After some thought, Egil made this judgment again: the other party should not be an unknown person. He should have a certain degree of qualifications and prestige. Only in this way can the words be convinced quickly without doubt. After such investigation and the visit of Norman spies, on February 13, the third day after the war, Nemulis sent the news to Egil's desk.

Sonia is still one step late - even if there are Egil's tips, either explicit or implicit. Of course, if we take into account the factors that Sonia's serious injury had just recovered a little bit, this time Nemulis is a little unfair...

"Does this mean that my cute little cat finally surpassed the old spy leader in intelligence collection?" At that time, Egil knocked on the table and thought - of course this is not an important thing, just ignore it. Although Egil has always favored the latter in the competition between the Norman spy system and the Council Information Department, Egil has not forgotten that his original intention of supporting the second intelligence system - for checks and balances, not for replacement. The reasons for helping and supporting the Intelligence Department certainly contain his love and favor for Sonia. However, this only occupies a very small, almost insignificant part. More importantly, with the former, the power and head of the Intelligence Department are at a disadvantage. They cannot play the role that Egil wants.

So, after understanding this matter, Egil thought: "Perhaps, the support for the intelligence department should be gradually reduced in the future."

...

"That is to say, you said that on that day, the one who spreads such lovely rumors... was our respected, highly prestigious, Archbishop and Priest of the Battlefield Order, my friend Peter?" At that time, after reading Nemulis' report, Egil showed a very strange, smiling expression on his face.

"Indeed, that's it. My Lord." Nemulis replied.

"...You go down first. Don't tell anyone about this." Egil frowned, waved his hand, and ordered.

"I understand, lord." Nemulis nodded, turned around and left without asking anything. He was as outstanding as ever.

"—Master—I got the news——" Almost the next moment, it was less than ten minutes away. Sonya, who was still hanging around her neck with a bandage on her left arm, ran in like this with a piece of paper with her other intact arm, and looked very excited on her face. She looked like she was young and looked like she was about to die. As a result, she lay in the bed for two days, drank two extra sips of duck blood, and then ate two pieces of blood tofu and continued to jump out of the bed. Her good physical fitness made Egil a little jealous.

However, when Sonia looked at Nemulis with a smile on her lips, glanced at her with a victory look, and then passed by, Sonia's joyful expression disappeared suddenly. Her whole face suddenly collapsed.

"Oh, that, it's really worthy of praise." Egil chuckled and reached out to greet Sonia. He comforted the girl in a bad mood for a moment. Then he continued to think.

"I really didn't expect it - no, although there was no problem at the beginning. But in fact, I had thought about it. Archbishop Peter... It's really a name I haven't heard of in a long time."

Although during the creation of Norman, even the Norman Kingdom had not been established, when Egil was only a count of Biard, the battlefield sect joined his power. He advocated combat and firm beliefs. The secular priest Peter, who was not very high, had become Egil's confidant and a person he trusted. Then he went to Rome to earn a Norwegian crown for Egil, and then followed Egil to fight south and north. His prestige grew.

At that time, the Archbishop steadily suppressed Robin Hood, Alpha, Carter, Anderson, and other important officials of the empire, and even had a higher prestige than the eldest princess Aurora. At that time, if he was not considered Queen Artoria, then the Archbishop would definitely be the second-person figure in the empire. At that time, Egil always called the Archbishop "my friend." He even had a thought to support the Archbishop as the Pope - at the worst, the Pope.

"When did you start to neglect him... Oh... I remembered..." Egil continued to recall that it was when Kiev was crowned Tsar Ross. At that time, in order to demonstrate his rights and strength, he did not follow the rituals he deserved, and waited for the Archbishop to keep the crown on his head. Instead, he took the crown from his hand and put it on himself... It was then. Although Peter did not say anything after this, Egil did not want to see him again because of guilt and fear.

Next, Egil completely got into the Roman Catholic Church, and the two sides were almost fighting each other, in order to get rid of diplomatic difficulties, Egil brought up the Eastern Roman Empire, and the two sides became quasi-ally-ally. At the same time, in order to stabilize the Ross and Slavs in the newly conquered areas of Eastern Europe, Egil allowed them to continue to maintain the Orthodox faith and even conducted doctrinal exchanges with the Eastern Roman Empire. It vaguely revealed the intention of converting to Orthodox religion or establishing a new Holy See. This made Peter, who believed in Catholicism, feel discouraged. The Archbishop realized a fact, that is,:

Egil, Egil... Scadragrimsson has never been a devout believer. His attitude towards religion is still pragmatic. He will use it when it is useful to himself. If it is useless, ignore it. If the issue of faith threatens him or causes any disadvantage to him, he will deal with it without hesitation.

After this, the friendship between Egil and Peter became much weaker. Egil threw his mind to support the Archbishop as the pope to the orbit of Neptune. Peter also stayed in simplicity and no longer engaged in any public activities. Until that day, during the battle that day, the Archbishop still led a group of war priests, wielding warhammers, fighting on the front line, boosting morale and killing heretics. At this time, only in this time, Peter could forget all the bullshits in politics. When he shouted the holy name of the Lord and waved the scepter in his hand to smash the pagans into pieces, he felt that his life was really meaningful. The battle to regain the holy land in this way was also very consistent with his character and values.

However, after a long battle, when the Archbishop saw his soldiers exhausted and the battle had no chance of turning around, he began to be anxious - although Egil, as the direct commander, was not anxious for a moment. But as a devout priest, a warrior of God, Peter felt that he could not wait for a moment. So he came up with such a way, lying that he had seen miracles to inspire morale...

"I really didn't expect that he had such a high prestige in the army... could inspire the army so much..."

However, this incident also deepened Egil's fear of him a lot.

"Or, you should find an opportunity to squeeze him out of the military system. He only needs to exist as a symbol or a symbolic sense...or it can be done after conquering the holy land." Egil thought so and made a decision.

"Then let this matter be put aside for the time being." Egil sorted out his thoughts. Then he walked out of the tent - what caught his eye was a busy and busy look. The engineers and baggage soldiers were working hard, and the other soldiers also acted as temporary workers, transporting the wood collected from all over the place - even some of the wood removed from the sea boats. Then he handed it over to Norman's engineers and baggage soldiers.

The blacksmiths of the baggage soldiers who were operating with the battalion were also busy, providing a large number of iron nails and rivets. After that, the wood, these nails and rivets were quickly assembled by the engineers, forming one after another of siege rushers, building cars, ladder cars, baffle cars, etc., etc., and further away, you can see with a telescope. A larger number of people, horses and camels pushed and pulled, and tried their best to transport the unknown number of artillery to the front line. A few of them were driven by the blacksmiths of the military baggage soldiers. Of course, more were removed from the artillery warships of the Norman fleet, and even from the Royal Navy Victory ships of the ship of Egil.

The Empire, Crusaders, Christians were sitting in preparation for the siege. A total of nearly 400,000 Crusaders had already completed preparations. They set up camp tents and surrounded the entire holy city of Jerusalem, which was blocked. After the siege machinery and artillery were in place, they could launch an attack and liberate the city where Christ was suffering. (To be continued.
Chapter completed!