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At that time, when Emperor Norman's "handwritten letter" was sent to Basil II, the old emperor felt this way. Recently, the empire's situation has become increasingly difficult. Basil II originally wanted to change his strategy and focus the country on the East to gain victory over the pagans.

But who would have thought that something called Mongolia would appear in this world? The act of exchanging southern Italy for Syria has been questioned by many people recently. Not only was the empire unable to expand its territory in the East, but instead lost its territory under the attack of pagans. Even Syria could not be preserved.

This hit Basil II's prestige a great blow to the emperor's prestige and made the emperor's situation even more depressed. Especially when the emperor learned that his precious daughter was secretly connecting with nobles and officials who were dissatisfied with him. He also used the slogan of "reform", which seemed to be a coup and other plans.

Basil II felt that if he did not do anything, he would die in a palace coup like many Eastern Rome and Byzantine emperors in history.

So the most important thing is to support. Those generals of the Imperial Guards, those great nobles, merchants, landlords, etc. The easiest way to obtain their support is to make achievements and let them know that Basil is still capable. He is not as incompetent as they imagined.

The achievements and other things are now pacified by the continent. The Norman Empire mobilized a large army to explore Siberian territory (the rumors and other rumors became like this after the spread). It was a good opportunity to attack. But Basil II was very distressed. He had no appropriate reason to attack the Norman Empire. Moreover, with Egil's strong rise over the years, Basil II did not say anything. In his heart, he was a little afraid of this guy.

To the north and west, all of them were the territory of the Norman Empire or his allies. To the south, in the barren North Africa, Basil II looked down on it. So he could only continue to expand eastward. Although Ottoman Turkey lost consecutive battles, it was not very likely to swallow this country. So Basil decided to continue to send more troops to Syria to explore those territory that seemed to be easier to explore and attack those pagans who seemed to be easily defeated.

Recently, the aid, naval ships, materials and other assistance promised by Egil also injected a heart-warming agent into Basil II. In this regard, Basil II felt that Egil was focusing on the north, so he hoped to strengthen his relationship with himself and continue to focus on other places to reduce the possibility of his raid. Such thinking.

In fact, in a sense, Basil II cannot say that something is wrong with thinking like this. If he really retracts all his strength back to the Balkans at this time and then goes north to fight Eastern Europe, Egir will be really difficult to deal with. Of course, the final result of doing so is that no one can get any benefits. They are beaten up by Mongolia together, and everyone will finish it.

So, Basil II, who had figured it out, replied to Egil, and was behaved when he got the advantage. He said that he did not want to take advantage of Egil. But you were so loyal to the king's order. Then I was disrespectful. From beginning to end, all the letters were spoken to Egil in a high manner. After receiving the reply, Egil smiled directly. He had never seen such a person. How could he really treat himself as a vassal?

However, since the other party swallowed the bait, Egil had nothing to say. He hypnotized himself, and he fucked his daughter anyway. Then there seems to be nothing wrong with letting others take advantage of the title.

In this way, Egil felt that his strategy had been successful. He began to contact Aurora and discussed with her what kind of materials could be helped by Eastern Rome so that they could make them better, and they would work harder to shed more blood, and would not spend too much money or spend too much money...

"Well, it's good to help some paradise flame oil. This thing is really good to defend the city, and the materials are not too valuable. It can allow Eastern Rome to defend in Syria for a longer time, right?" Soon, Aurora gave an answer: "In addition, the most important thing is food. However, in terms of food, our country is not very rich. Third, it is those weapons and equipment. However, those weapons and equipment are very valuable. I'm afraid you don't want to give it to others for nothing. It's not a goal to guide you, so you can't increase your favorability."

"Well, it makes sense." Egil nodded: "Then, food, military equipment, and military supplies, will be provided to the Eastern Roman Empire on the terms of reducing the price by 30%. If you consume five thousand Norman King supplies, you will give you ten barrels of heaven flame oil. That's it."

On the other hand, when Egir formulated a assistance plan for Eastern Rome, the Mongol Empire did not stop its offensive.

After three consecutive failed sieges, the opponent changed the attack method and no regular troops were sent. Each attack only sent about 10,000 slave soldiers.

These slave soldiers were influenced by the Mongolian military gods for a shorter time, only four hours. So if the battle starts in the morning, the afternoon will end. If it starts in the afternoon, the evening will end. However, no matter what time it is, the final result will end in failure. Originally, even the elite Mongolian troops could not break through, so how could they take some miscellaneous parts?

So Genghis Khan then used many other methods of siege, night attacks, internal forces, tunnels, gunpowder, earthen mountains... but in the end, Egil saw through them one by one and cracked them. Then, Genghis Khan played another trick. He seemed to have completely forgotten that he was preparing to attack from the south side. Instead, he often asked the generals to discuss the possibility of detouring from the north side and the Arctic region. He also spread the news in the army intentionally or unintentionally. It seemed that he wanted Egil to make a wrong judgment, thinking that he really wanted to send troops to take the Arctic route and bypass the Moscow absolute defense circle.

"Is it really cunning?" Through the tips lurking in the Mongolian army, Egil could grasp Genghis Khan's every move. It seemed that Genghis Khan was not an ordinary person. He seemed to have known about the Norman spy in his army. So he deliberately made such a move.

To be fair, if the other party made such a decision earlier and quickly dispatched elite troops to detour from the north when the extreme day began, Egil would not really be careful. But it was September now. Winter was about to begin. At that time, the extreme night in the Arctic Circle would come, and even if the Mongols had thousands of troops, they would have to die there.

However, beyond Egil's expectations, the intelligence from the Norman spies kept coming, showed that the other party seemed to have really planned to send elite troops to advance from the Arctic Circle. This surprised Egil. Could it be that Temujin didn't know how powerful the polar regions were, or because this guy wanted to make a fake show?

Anyway, the final result was surprising. A total of three elite troops of 5,000 people were organized. They were all the core troops of Mongolia. Temujin prepared a large number of pack horses, blankets, fur clothes and cotton coats for them, as well as a large amount of food, and then asked them to set off one after another.

These people said it was a commando or a suicide squad. They were all doing a life-and-death life. The first army was led by Kubilai, one of the four Mongolian dogs.

A total of 15,000 troops, a large amount of supplies, a Mongolian general who had followed Temujin for decades. Egir took a breath after receiving the news. Genghis Khan's great work. If it weren't for the information gradually coming back from other parts of the south, it showed that Mongolia was recruiting heavy troops in Persia and the Middle East to implement Egir's predictions, I'm afraid Egir would have believed that the other party's abacus was attacking from the Arctic.

But even so. Even if Egil is very confident in the polar climate, he cannot take it lightly. What if the other side has one-tenth of the army successfully crossed the Moscow absolute defense circle and entered the hinterland of Eastern Europe, it would be a big disaster. The Mongols, like hungry wolf, will inevitably cause great damage to the rear to cause turmoil.

So Egil quickly made adjustments and ordered the New Scandinavian Legion to return to its garrison. He ordered the Second Hussar Legion to stop moving towards Moscow. He turned to St. Petersburg and stopped there.

In addition, Egil also issued instructions to Finland, the Finnish tribes who were vassal of him, warning them that there might be an enemy that would appear in the Finnish region between today and next year. They should prepare as soon as possible, defend, and patrol the Finnish region.

In this way, a standard garrison army (a few hundred men were lost slightly but it was fine), a Hussar army, and a group of Finnish light cavalry. It was obviously enough to deal with a group of Mongolian troops who had just crossed the extreme climate and were at a loss.

"But, it's really Genghis Khan," Egil sighed after making all the preparations: "It's just a risk I don't know if I can succeed, so I dare to make such a large capital. 15,000 elite light cavalry... This is the number of hussars directly under my command. Nomadic peoples are indeed very terrible." Egil shook his head and sighed as he thought so. Then he heard another horn sound from outside. He knew that it was the usual attack of the Mongolian army and was about to start again.
Chapter completed!