The one who massacred the scouts was naturally the first-class scout and longbow soldiers under Egir, Sherwood Sharpshooter. A total of 200 Sherwood Sharpshooter made a round trip in the Norwegian Black Forest and strangled nearly twice his own Finnish light cavalry, greatly delaying the speed of the Swedish army's advance and to a certain extent depleting the morale of the Swedish army. Hundreds of well-trained Finnish light cavalry were considered a good force. In the end, they didn't even make any noise and just lay in the Norwegian Black Forest. This also cast a shadow on Gustav's heart.

"It seems that the other party is not easy to deal with." Gustav's command of 27,000 troops, and the Finnish light cavalry was only 1,500. Nearly one-third of them were lost. Anyone would feel pain if they had just looted the entire city of Biyad, and the entire army made a fortune from top to bottom. The short-sighted soldiers are now fantasizing that after returning to their hometown, they will use this large amount of money to buy a house and a wife, and then live a wonderful life as a rich man. If they die at this time, it would be unprofitable.

The army's mind changes.

The army is like a falcon. If you want to make the falcon obey, you have to make it not enough to eat or be hungry. If you don’t eat enough, you will work hard (kill people), and if you don’t starve, you will have the strength to work (kill people). But this time, this eagle called the Swedish army is almost overwhelmed... a total of more than 400,000 gold coins. Even according to the principle of 50,500 gold coins, there are still 200,000 gold coins left. The officers and nobles have 100,000 gold coins left. Then, each of the more than 20,000 soldiers was given at least five gold coins. The five gold coins I have tied up, five gold coins—a copper plate and a black bread, a silver coin and a chicken, and a gold coin and a mu of land. Five gold coins are five acres of land…

Well, it doesn't seem to be much.

——Anyway, Swedish people who are full don’t want to move anymore. They want to go home. They especially don’t want to die.

When I was a poor man before, I died. Anyway, I had nothing but life. It would be better to fight for it. I could not say that I could fight for it. The so-called arrogant people are afraid of being stunned, the stupid people are afraid of being desperate, and the barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes... This is the reason why the Northern Barbarians can beat the wealthy families in the south.

So, the Swedes are richer now - the richer they are, the more afraid they are to die, and the more they are to wear bright clothes, the more afraid they are to splash blood. This principle has always been true since ancient times.

The same thing, the army's minds change.

At this moment, King Gustav was quite regretful. If the Norwegians had weak combat power, then the Swedish Iron Legion trained by himself and the command ability of his bunker could still be a great victory... However, the Norwegians had already demonstrated their terrifying combat power. At least Gustav thought to himself that there was no such terrifying archer unit in his army, which could be discovered in the dense forest and consumed nearly 500 elite light cavalry.

However, at this moment, Gustav was already in a difficult situation. Like other kings, he also had his own ambitions. He unified the entire Nordic, dominated the Baltic Sea, and even dominated the continent, and completed the feat of Alexander. Which man would refuse the achievements of these people?

So, just like Egil treating him as the biggest stumbling block at present, he also treats Egil as the biggest obstacle - a monarch who is very good at making money, gathering people's hearts and rule, and using military skills - it is better for such a person to die soon.

Therefore, Gustav gritted his teeth and completely ignored all obstacles, ignored the gradually disintegrating morale of the army, ignored the land that was constantly attacked by Norwegian pirates, and ignored the surging Baltic coastal areas. He insisted on continuing to advance towards Egil's army.

Finally, after thinking for a while, Egil retreated fifty kilometers, giving up a large area before the Norwegian Black Forest, including the Avenue from Biard to Oslo, as a military camp stationed by the Swedes. He also wrote a letter of war and asked the Swedes to fight with them three days later.

That is, the Battle of the Black Forest in Norway.

Egil's army had a total of more than 24,000 (although more than 1,000 people were placed in the newly acquired Danish territory, the number was still similar to that of the Oslo defenders). Except for the light cavalry, the rest of the troops won all the way. Sweden's total of more than 27,000 troops were exactly the opposite of the Norwegians. Except for the light cavalry, the rest of the troops failed all the way - however, Egil took a quick look and found that the more than 20,000 troops were all professional troops, the most time was also a shield spear equipped with leather armor. On the plane, Gustav's terrible command ability of up to twelve points, the virtue of seven points, and the special skill of a Nordic lion... There are probably some fighting in this battle.

In the next three days, both sides accumulated strength at the same time. Egil was working hard to think about tactics, while Gustav seized time to stabilize the morale of the army. After that, three days passed in a flash. On June 8, 1001 AD, the Swedish and Norwegian armies fought in the Oslo region.

On that day, the sky was clear and cloudless. The weather was good, the wind was northwest and southeast, and the wind was at level 0. To put it bluntly, there was basically no wind. Therefore, the bow arrow was extremely affected. The hit rate increased significantly, which was undoubtedly good news for Egil, who had a gorgeous long-range lineup such as 1,500 Longbowmen, 2,000 Crossbowmen and 200 Sherwood Slasher.

Therefore, in the first round of attacks, the Norwegians first took the lead - the crossbowmen on the front line half-squatted down, followed by the crossbowmen on the second line standing in a loose formation, while the crossbowmen on the third line stood in the middle of the crossbowmen on the second line. In this way, the crossbowmen on the first three rows were guaranteed to shoot flat at the same time - although the pulley crossbows and Yuanrong crossbows have not been invented yet, nor are the "high-tech" equipment such as standard gears and bronze triggers. However, the technology of pedaling strings (snap crossbows) has been mature. This greatly improved the attack power and range of the crossbowmen under Egil's command. The armor-breaking ability has been greatly increased, and the combat power has been greatly enhanced.

Seeing the three rows of crossbow soldiers arranged by the opponent, Gustav, who was also a battle-prone person on the other side, naturally could see the benefits of this array. The three rows of crossbow soldiers took turns to shoot, and could weave a more detailed crossbow arrow network, making it difficult for the troops charging in the opposite direction to move forward. However, such a formation has high requirements for the soldiers' training quality. Looking at the neat formation cut out by the opponent's tofu blocks, whether it is cavalry, melee infantry or projected infantry, Gustav couldn't help but "shock". Before this, except for the phalanx infantry and legion infantry of ancient Rome and ancient Greece, he had never heard of any country's army with such a terrifying level of training.

"But...so what if that's the case? Wasn't Rome finally destroyed by us barbarians? What's the use of walking just to look good?"

Despite this self-comfort - however, it is an indisputable fact that the other party is a very strong and well-trained army. Gustav was very careful. He quickly adjusted his formation, and transferred the shield spearmen holding large shields and heavy shield spearmen, and replaced the Nordic guards who were originally holding two-handed axes on the front line. At the same time, the Finnish light cavalry ran out from the two wings of the Swedish army like beans, protecting the flanks of the Swedish army. King Gustav no longer had the intention of forcibly attacking, but wanted Egil to attack first. Force him to change his formation and make plans.

However, Gustav's little tricks were finally not realized - all the first row of half-squat crossbowmen under Egil stood up. Then the entire army took a pace and walked forward fifteen steps, just outside the crossbowmen's farthest range.

"Even if this is the case, there is a chance... and within such a range, the attack power of the opponent's crossbow arrow is not very large..." Gustav calculated, then came to such a conclusion, and decided to continue to hold on.

The battle continued. At this moment, the main array under Egil's command had stopped moving forward. Then the longbowman moved forward and divided into dozens of rectangular arrays under the command of the captain of the longbowman Robin Hood, aiming at the Swedish army secrets on the opposite side (the range of the longbow is larger than that of the crossbow). At the same time, the three rows of crossbowmen continued to advance.

"Damn it."

Seeing that the plan to destroy the opponent's formation was no longer possible to be implemented, Gustav gritted his teeth and ordered the first formation to advance. At the same time, the Finnish light cavalry on both wings of the Swedish army set out 100 light cavalry each and charged from the two wings to the middle against the crossbows under Egil. Egil faced tit-for-tat, three thousand elite mercenaries on both wings and guards of the dwarf secret room formed a long spear formation and quickly stepped forward, ready to block the opponent's cavalry.

At this moment, the crossbowmen array had entered its best range. The three arrays of arrays aimed at the swarming Swedish shield spearmen and fired violently. Together with the longbowmen in the second row of this array, the rain of arrows covering the sky and the sun fell again beside the Norwegian Black Forest.

So, the barbarians were barbarians after all. With such crossbows, the Swedish army quickly fell down a large number of people. However, because Gustav's strong command ability and high virtues supported, he did not collapse. However, this situation soon disappeared. The Swedish shield spearmen arranged the monkey version of the tortoise shell array in the exclusive way of the barbarians - that is, the tortoise shell array of three shields. This progressed slowly bit by bit. In this way, although some people were still shot by the stray arrow, the casualties were no longer serious.
Chapter completed!