Chapter 7: Imagination of Eastern Europe
To be honest, although the couple worked together to cut off gold or something, Egil didn't have much confidence in the fight against Gustav. He was a man who dominated the war in the era of alternating hot and cold weapons. No matter what kind of honor he received, he was slight. Gustav was invincible in the past. He raised Sweden, a small continental third-rate country, to a super-class level. He could be called a man who was against the will of heaven.
When Egil had just debuted and was still a small shrimp in the world, he just heard Gustav's name a little, and then almost urinated. Then he decisively cut off his plan to expand his territory to the east. Fortunately, a dwarf sucker came to him at this time to ruin it. The 30,000 coalition forces directly logged into Britain and instigated the Scots. Egil then created this family business.
However, Egil was worried. What should we do next? Britain has basically been opened up. Scotland let him die for himself. If he dares to cross the Great Wall of Hadrian to make a living, he will beat him up. Then, the continental body of southern Europe is too far away and decisively pass it. Only three pieces of land left in East, Central and Western Europe.
In Western Europe, France has many powerful people, which seems to be an opportunity - but it cannot resist a monarch who is at least nominal. Philip II has also left glorious achievements in history. The nickname of the fox symbolizes insidiousness and cunning. Egil also serves as the Duke of Normandy in the title. He is also a vassal of the King of France. He pretends to be stupid and ignores his duty as a vassal (see Long Live My King, and Tribute, etc.) That's fine. The following is a taboo. He will be attacked by a group of people. I believe that no French nobleman will give up such a good opportunity to increase his territory.
Although Egil has not managed the Normandy territory very much, its production is not abundant. However, it is still a springboard for entering the continent. Its strategic position is extremely important, and Egil is not yet generous enough to take risks with such a large territory.
Then, let’s look at Shenluo. The so-called emperor takes turns to do it, and this year he will come to my house. This is the perfect saying of Shenluo. Become a member of the Holy Roman Empire - Become a electorate of the Holy Roman Empire - the members choose you as a loli - I mean the number of emperors is the largest. Then congratulations, you can add a powerful hat of the Holy Roman Empire emperor to your title.
However, after analyzing the situation in Shinra, Egil decisively gave up this tempting idea. Because it was so terrifying. The entire Holy Roman Empire, including Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Northern Italy in another time and space. Such terrifying territorial numbers, as well as the inexplicable population of 17 million in another world, can easily mobilize hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops.
Moreover, the Shenluo nobles were very united. No matter how the internal battle was messy, the human head became a dog head. Once external forces joined in and wanted to get a share of the pie, they would temporarily put aside their rift, unite, and then peel off the poor guy.
That year, before Egil traveled, this happened. Attila, the Hungarian king who unified the Hungarian Kingdom, ran rampant in the Balkans. He commanded 100,000 string-controlling men, and even forced the Eastern Roman Empire to pay tribute to him. Attila was proud and swept Kievan Rus continuously, destroying the oldest Orthodox country of the Ross, and then continued to march, defeating the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, drinking the Baltic Sea. Then he marched into the Holy Roman Empire.
According to Attila's plan, this split and civil war-torn country could never resist his Huns and Magyar coalition forces. After controlling the Holy Roman Empire, he could be crowned as the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and to use this foundation to compete with the Eastern Roman Empire. He even made a great foundation that Alexander the Great did not make at that time.
However, the Hungarian king miscalculated.
During the civil war, the Holy Roman Empire princes, who had become dog-headed, seemed to have become a different person at the moment of the invasion of foreign enemies. They directly elected the Red Bearded Barbarossa, Duke of Swabian, as the leader (not the emperor). Then they formed a coalition force including 7,500 knights and tens of thousands of heavy cavalry, and beat the Hungarians up.
At the same time, fierce rebellion broke out on the newly occupied land of Hungary. The Ross took the opportunity to be independent and established two political entities, Novgorod and the Grand Duchy of Moscow. The United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania took the opportunity to regain lost territory. The Eastern Romans were not willing to be outdone and seized the sovereignty of Serbia and Transylvania. Bulgaria decisively betrayed the covenant and sent troops to plunder Hungarian land...
In this way, a country that was originally considered a top-notch European power was beaten overnight. According to insiders, Hungarian King Attila, who was originally under forty, grew rapidly aging during this period. His appearance was definitely over 60 years old.
Egil shuddered.
Egil naturally knew what a character was Attilana, the Great Emperor of the Huns. The ranking of "second only to Alexander" back then added some glory to the nomadic leader who exuded a terrifying aura. Egil didn't think that the territory he controlled could be stable and his army could fight more than others. The lessons of the past are bastards. Egil didn't want the Norman Kingdom that he had finally established to fall apart.
Then, there is only Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe, the Baltic Circle, once gave birth to the earliest commercial and customs alliance, namely the famous Hansar Alliance. The plains of Eastern Europe were densely covered, which was more suitable for cavalry to gallop. The Polish winged cavalry was the most powerful country in Europe. At the same time, Poland and Ukraine were even known as the fertile land of European granaries. The so-called place to use it is called this place - in fact, before the Industrial Revolution, the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania was the unrivalled power in the continent.
Although in the end, the United Kingdom perished because of its bad political system. But that was the mistake of people, not the mistake of land. Eastern Europe has always been a treasure land that gave birth to a strong country.
What were the wars in the Middle Ages? Money, grain. And when it occupied the Baltic Circle in Eastern Europe, the money and grain problem was solved at once. More importantly, the various countries that had entered the game along the Baltic Sea coast, the Teutonic Knights, Poland, Lithuania United Kingdom, Sweden, Novgorod... The contradictions between these countries were extremely sharp. Egil could use the force to fight. He would not be beaten up by others like he would intervene in Central Europe.
In this way, Egil chose Eastern Europe as his future development direction. He firmly believed that if Eastern Europe was managed well, it would definitely not be inferior to France and the Holy Roman Empire, the two behemoths of Western Europe and Central Europe. No way, Constantinople is also close to him...
However, now I think these are all empty. What is close to me is not Constantinople's endless wealth, but the aggressive Swedes. Egil's previous vision was whether it was a king's dominance or a daydream, and I watched this time.
War, war, and war. What else can there be more than war in the medieval theme? In the Norwegian Black Forest, the vanguards of both sides, the Finnish light cavalry and the newly recruited patrol cavalry of Egir encountered. Then the spear and the sabre attacked each other. A fight began quickly. The Finnish cavalry, wearing light-clad leather-clad soft armor and ship-shaped iron helmets, were all elites who followed Gustav to fight the Baltic coast. Their quality, arming and morale were completely incomparable to the newly recruited patrol cavalry of Egir. Just one encounter, the patrol cavalry killed the patrol cavalry.
The final result was very disheartening, with fifty cavalry scouts vs fifty cavalry scouts. In the end, five Finnish light cavalry were killed and one injured. Forty-six patrol cavalry were killed and four escaped...
However, just as the Finnish light cavalry dismounted with ease and laughing, and then chose the spoils left by the dead, especially the horses, suddenly several sounds of breaking through the air came from the diagonally behind. The well-trained Finnish light cavalry naturally heard the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air. Before they could react, they heard a few muffled groans. Then, "Grizz...", the sound of "Grizz..." was the sound of the throats of several unlucky ghosts being shot through.
Looking at the pain of the former companion holding the arrow shaft inserted into the throat, the pain of the pain. Several light cavalry could no longer help, and pulled out the knife to end their pain - then several sounds of arrow feathers breaking through the air. This time, the light cavalry was ready, quickly squatted down, raised their shield to protect their heads, and then heard three "ding ding ding" sounds. Then several people fell down in pain, but the arrow feathers shot through the cavalry's round shield. This time, it was still the throat.
"Damn... get on the horse and spread out! Cut all the bastards who attacked and fired cold arrows!!" The leader of the light cavalry waved his sabre and roared like this, and was then knocked down by an arrow. The Finnish light cavalry was in an uproar, cursing loudly and scattered into a dozen groups...
After that, they all disappeared.
There were only three light cavalrymen who escaped from the last group. They swore with confidence that they encountered invisible enemies in the forest. They could not find their traces. They could only hear the sound of pulling bows and the screams of their companions not far away. In the end, this elite light cavalry unit died in great affliction in the black forest...
"The other party must have been blessed by God - no, it was Satan's blessing."
Chapter completed!