Chapter 40: Orderly Robbery
After three hours of fierce fighting, the gladiator slaves and 300 imperial guards who were temporarily pieced together in Eastern Rome. Such an army won a great victory. The Viking pirates left thousands of corpses and then fled in a panic. Looking at the messy battlefield, Princess Liliannu waved the short sword in her hand and cheered loudly. Such emotions quickly infected the gladiators and imperial guards. A moment later, the cheers were connected at the walls on the north side of Constantinople.
"Siege for another two days. Then leave." After hearing the reports of the pirates who fled back, Marshal Carter sighed softly, knowing that it was unlikely to make another difference on land. If you want to continue to siege Constantinople, you must use the advantage of the navy.
"Okay, let's talk about everything until the evening."
After comforting the pirates, Marshal Carter made such a decision.
Night attack.
At least, it is necessary to say that all the docks and ports in Golden Horn Bay are burned down, so that they can be considered a great contribution to the deterrent effect that Eddhadai Egil said.
Of course, when Marshal Carter could think of these, His Highness Princess could do so. After cheering with a soldier, His Highness Princess took his subordinates to clean up the battlefield and took the large amount of spoils that the pirates had not had time to take away when they escaped. After turning them twice like this, His Highness Princess naturally regarded these things as ownerless stolen goods. I guess there wouldn't be that eye-opener guy back to ask her for it.
Afterwards, His Highness the Princess did not return to the city, but found a remote place at the messy Golden Horn Bay Wharf that could not be hit by a crossbow. Then, a serious battle meeting was held. Of course, although it was a battle meeting, in fact, only His Highness the Princess said that everyone else was the audience and could not help at all.
"I just looked at it from a distance. The opponent has hundreds of warships, and the number of troops is more than imagined. Therefore, the opponent will definitely not be willing to fail like this. He will definitely plan a new attack - the crossbows equipped on the opponent's warships are indeed very sharp. But it is a delusion to use this to break through the walls of Constantinople. Therefore, the opponent's target is likely to be still placed on the Golden Horn Wharf. Given that the opponent is a shameless barbarian pirate, they will never put the rules. In other words, the enemy's attack is likely to be placed at night."
After listening to His Royal Highness the Princess' analysis, everyone was stunned and had no intention of agreeing to her. They knew that they were in vain and rolled their eyes.
"Anyway, after my orders, I will cheer up tonight and stay up for a night-and, you can share the previous spoils. I don't want a single son."
After giving such an order, a burst of cheers broke out in the crowd. Then the spoils piled up like hills and there was nothing left in an instant.
That night, the Viking Pirates carried sulfur, tincture oil and flints off the ship and quietly arrived at the Golden Horn Bay Wharf. But when they were about to set fire, they were dumplings by the gladiators and imperial guards who had been ambushed. After a war, all the fire-burning objects that were originally prepared were finally used on themselves, and the fire was changed to be burned...
So, another defeat was defeated. Marshal Carter was helpless. Please remember that he was a naval general, a very good naval general, with rich experience and scheming - but he could not fight land wars. A slightly pitiful plan, except for night attacks, sneak attacks, etc. The Viking pirates were not regular infantry troops. They were not even regular troops. What they were best at was the turbulent sea, on bumpy decks, in the ground, or bullying the weak and unexpected enemy garrisons on the coastal land.
Instead of fighting head-on for land battles with the enemy.
"...Forget it. Let's go. If you stay here, you may suffer a loss." Marshal Carter's concern is not unreasonable. In fact, after Marshal Carter used the Dardanelles for the front foot, Princess Liliannu had already prepared the iron chains and prepared to have a scene of locking the river in the iron chain. Fortunately, the Marshal ran fast, otherwise he would have been blocked in the Marmara Sea and killed like a turtle.
In this way, regardless of the time being, His Highness the Princess watched the Norman Navy leave, and was lost because the Viking had not done its best. On that side, in Northern Italy, the Norman reinforcements, which the Pope's Holy See had been called out for, finally arrived slowly...
——After looting Venice again.
The reason for saying it again is that before the Norman-Burgundian coalition ransacked Venice, Venice had already looted the Roman defeated soldiers and the Venetian mob.
Of course, from the final result of the matter, this is actually no big deal. Because neither the Roman defeated soldiers nor the Venetian mobs could run away in the end. After entering the chaotic Venice, the first thing Egil did was to order the city to massacre for three days, to serve as a warning, nor to learn from the Angels of Light to maintain order. Instead, he controlled the north side of Venice and the two gates on the west side, and ran all the docks in Venice, destroying all the big ships that could leave Venice.
In this way, all seas and land were blocked, and the Venetians called the sky and the earth and the earth were not effective, and they could only let Egil slaughter.
Therefore, whether it was the mob or the Roman defeated soldiers, the treasures and spoils they had collected were finally cheaper in the end.
Afterwards, after the subsequent infantry arrived. After Egil had enough manpower to control Venice, everything he had imagined could be realized. All the families in Venice were divided into different levels, and even the slightly richer merchants were the same. Egil required them to hand over three quarters, two thirds and one half of the property respectively according to their wealth. This was the price of washing away sins. When the hypocritical Venetian merchants cried and said that they did not have that much money at all. When Egil was about to kill people, Egil would carefully use the merchant's belongings, merchant ships, real estate and land in other places. Even the si-house money he had secretly saved from his wife... one by one, making the merchant's heart beat faster, his heart arrhythmia, and his myocardial infarction. Then he handed over the money obediently.
Egil was able to accomplish such a thing, thanks to his new secretary, the heir of the Dandoro family, the son of the former Governor of Venice, who was also the candidate for the next Governor of Venice and the Duke of Venice.
A few days ago, after successfully escaping from Venice, my brain, catalyzed by revenge, quickly came up with the fastest and most effective way to revive the family business. After finding a port in Northern Italy and disembarked, Vette Dandoro changed into a horse and ran to the Norman army, used all the money to bribe, and finally met His Majesty King Egil. Then he made a quick decision to hand over the information from other families in Venice.
Egil was stunned for a long time. He felt that he was going to sleep and gave him a pillow. Today he was considered a lucky star. After repeatedly confirming the accuracy of this information, Egil laughed and quickly recognized the appointment of Witt as his secretary. Of course, this was just a transitional title. Egil personally promised that after occupying Venice, he would support Witt as the new governor of Venice.
And this time, Vette Dandoro, who had betrayed all the Venetian nobles, wanted to continue to hold the position of governor, so he could only rely on Egil. This relationship that was bound together by interests was more reliable than ordinary alliances such as religion, blood, or oaths. Egil firmly believed that if he was a Venetian, Vette would never disappoint him.
In this way, Venice was robbed for the second time. It was extremely orderly and civilized. With such a secret document, it saved a lot of effort. The Norman army did not have to go door to door and search for the other party's treasures to search for the other party's cellar. There was no need to pay too much attention to ordinary citizens. Because the assets of Venice citizens were all added up, they were less than half of the poorest among the big merchants.
Egil was able to restore the order of the city of Venice in such a robbery! It was a miracle!!
In half a month, Egil was robbing while restoring order in Venice - no, extortion should be used to be more vivid. In fact, those Venetian aristocratic families did not think about sitting there waiting to die. They publicly led their troops to rebel, secretly bribed the assassination of the assassination of the assassination of the assassination of the assassination of the assassination of the attacks, and secretly disagreed with the uncooperation of the attackers...
In the end, they were all killed by Egil.
Looking at the hundreds of bloody heads, Egil's command knife still dripping with blood, and his smiling face, the Venetian suddenly woke up, and the murderous demon-level figure in front of him was also a murderous demon.
"I can make Venice into heaven, or into hell. The choice is with me and not with you. Try to please me and don't make me angry."
The faint murderous aura in Egil's words, the proof of hundreds of heads with them, the guard knight in full armor, and the decisive warrior holding axes with both hands, all of which prove that the Norman tyrant was not joking. He could say it, and he could do it.
The Venetians are silent...
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