Chapter 2 leapfrog tactics or something
After two more days, the dwarf king Wald was unable to convince their elders - of course, this ending had actually been predicted by Egil. The reason for this was that he wanted this guy to further understand the tragedy of democracy - that is, the tragedy reached its extreme efficiency and the sorrow of the politics of the fools. In the end, Egil stepped forward, talked freely, and fought against the scholars, and finally barely allowed the dwarf elders to accept his strategic deployment.
After that, the army set sail from Auckland Island and headed straight to the northern Scotland city of Inverness. After a day and night of sailing, Egil left the group of dwarves with vomiting and diarrhea there, and agreed that the dwarves would cooperate with the Scottish people to attack Northumberland in England from the Scottish Lowlands. He then agreed that the two sides would meet in Newcastle, a major northern town in England. After that, they did not even leave basic rations for them, but only asked for the care of Scottish allies. Then, the Norwegian pirate army set sail, not knowing where to go.
After that, the dwarves ate Scottish-style smoked fish, cured meat and rye cakes, and their impression of Egil was sadly increased by a level. After all, it was great to be able to walk down to earth without having to take a boat.
But, there is a little bit of a question here. After asking their new Scottish allies, the dwarves felt that they were being cheated. Because of the years of war with Scotland, England spent a lot of money to build a continuous defense system called Hadrian's Wall in the Northumberland area. And further north of Hadrian's Wall, there is a large forest. In short, if the dwarves want to fight Newcastle, they must first pass through the vast forest, and then they must burst into blood in front of Hadrian's Wall. After the Hadrian's Wall collapsed, they could barely touch the edge of Newcastle.
I was fooled by tears?! At this moment, even the purest dwarfs had this idea in their hearts - the Scots were quite happy. Their navy was basically useless and less than or equal to the ones. Naturally, they could not play with the leap-frog tactics like the Norwegians. However, they attacked from the land for many years and were blocked by the English on the front line of Hadrian's walls. They suffered countless losses on this. This time, Da Kaizi actually came and said that he would accompany them to hit the wall. The Scots were naturally very happy.
In this way, almost 20,000 dwarves and the last point that Scotland put together, a total of 7,000 troops, still known as 30,000 troops. Starting from Inverness, we will be able to reinforce the front line...
At this moment, Egil was sitting in the captain's room of his flagship, gnawing on white bread while looking at the legendary map published by the system, thinking in his mind: These stupid x...the army headed straight to York, the important town of England...
At this moment, the entire England was full of smoke. The northern line, the British army, which was originally fighting well, could stabilize the Scotland, was defeated by the Highlanders led by William Wallace, a civilian commander of the Scottish army. The main force was almost wiped out. He had no choice but to retreat to Hadrian's walls and defend the city with the strong city.
On the Western Front, the English attack was not smooth. Relying on various complex terrain of mountains, hilly forests, the Welsh and their elves allies broke into pieces, ambushing and surprise attacking the English troops everywhere in the forest, slowing the English's advance to the extreme. Especially in Kanafeng, the largest city in Wales, where nearly 10,000 Irish-Welsh coalition forces were gathered. The garrison was extremely strong. England's several attacks were defeated.
At this moment, the war had been delayed for two months. England did not directly destroy and unify the British Isles as they imagined before the war. Instead, they were frustrated step by step, and the battle situation showed a burning situation. This situation surprised King Alfred, but had no choice but to do anything. Although there were still as many as 15,000 mobile troops in England. However, such numbers could only make up for one of the battlefields at most. This made the king feel embarrassed.
If this army was put on the Western Front and attacked Wales, it would be like a bottomless pit, and it seemed that no amount of troops was invested. The resilience of the Celtic natives was beyond Alfred's imagination. If they wanted to surrender, they would have surrendered long ago. If they did not want to surrender, then it would have been useless to pull these 5,000 troops over.
So, what about to reinforce Hadrian's walls in the north?
Now Hadrian's walls still have nearly 10,000 troops to defend. The Scottish army reported that it had almost 20,000 troops. It seemed that it could fight back. However, Alfred still had one thing to worry about: Scottish commander Wallace is a good general. He counted all the generals of England, and no one was his opponent. Alfred paid for himself that even if he faced Wallace, the winner would be 55. So if he wanted to defeat the opponent, he had to command the 5,000 troops and join the front-line troops to fight to the death. This was possible... However, in that case, even if it was a battle of great victory, everything would be fine. But if he failed, then his death was small, and England would be destroyed by the war...
Because of this, Alfred really has no choice. He wants to "look again" and wait for the North Line to not be able to support it. Or after the Western Line makes progress, he will decide the direction of this army.
Of course, in the end, it was probably impossible to go to both places.
After sending away a group of dwarves, the Viking fleet was significantly faster. After Egil gestured to Carter, the navy general nodded in agreement. Afterwards, he was loaded with 8800 Viking Army, 3400 Viking Navy, a total of 12,100 people, fifty light crossbow warships, fifty dragon-headed warships, and two hundred medium-sized transport ships. Such a huge fleet set sail. The destination was York, the most important hub city in central England.
Light warships also have the benefits of light warships. Just like the legendary ships of a certain dynasty and a certain era cannot pass through the Hormus Strait. It sounds very majestic and domineering - but you should also think about it for the people at that time. What a tragic thing that was. The destination was clearly near, but it could not pass through. People at that time must have been thinking: If the ship was built smaller at that time and the displacement was smaller, that would be great.
Just like now. The warships under Egil are basically dual-purpose models on the sea and rivers. They can get on the sea and drill ditches, so...
"So, this... this seems to be much worse than Hadrian's walls." He went upstream along the river and sank all the small fishing boats he witnessed. After that, York City was near.
"It looks like a refugee camp." Egil looked at it with a telescope, and then sighed.
"On the top floor." The system elves said: "How about you want to take this city? This is the legendary British inland. Even if you fight, the other party will react quickly and then send a large number of reinforcements."
"Will you give up after you fight?" Egil said indifferently. Then, as the flag bearer at the bow of the ship whispered a flag. Fifty light crossbow warships turned the bow, and then aimed at an indiscriminate round of shooting in York City. Immediately afterwards, the flames in York City were seen soaring into the sky, and the women and children screamed in pain.
"Bored." Because they are in the inland, York City's defense is extremely weak and the residents' defense awareness is not high. The Vikings encountered almost no resistance and easily conquered York City. Then they burned, killed, looted...
On August 4, the Millennium, the Vikings marched upstream along the Derwinter River and attacked York.
Then, as Egil said, the Vikings burned and killed and looted, and then returned with a large amount of spoils. In this war, except for the tragic stranding of two light crossbow warships, they had to be burned, several low-IQs fell down during the robbery, and some were caught by the English women who wanted to "beep" hard, the Norwegian army did not suffer any other losses.
A total of 8,000 gold coins were discounted in the trophy, plus nearly 5,000 prisoners of war, Egil made another profit. Sure enough, war is the most profitable industry in the world - the premise is that you can win.
Next, the Viking Pirates sent away dozens of transport ships loaded with prisoners of war and trophy, evacuated from the Derwinter River and continued to march south.
Wash Bay, an excellent port with a wide sea - at least in this world today. It is only visually estimated that the vicinity has not been well utilized. After using light ships like the Dragon Head Battleship to dock to detect the terrain, Carter carefully led the fleet to find a tidal flat area where the water was deep enough and would not cause the ship to get stuck due to the dog days of tides.
Immediately afterwards, patrol cavalry, improved Viking Tomahawk cavalry, and the National Knights scattered out. With the bonus of Egil's "Excellent Cavalry General", ten thousand cavalry swept over more than a dozen villages around them efficiently, snatching all the robbers, including prisoners. Those who could not be robbed were burned with fire. During this period, they were slightly resisted by the locals. There was even a priest in a church holding a Bible cross and questioning these northerners who seemed to be Christians.
"Are you not afraid of going to hell when you do this?" the priests asked in a trembling, angry voice.
After that, the Nordic battlefield sect (equipped with war horses) was driven by the army and opened the scoop with one stick...
"It is God who gave us the authority to override the weak with the strong!" The priests of the battlefield sect said shamelessly.
On August 15, the Millennium, Viking pirates were moored in Wash Bay, and tens of thousands of troops scattered out, and all the villages around hundreds of miles were slaughtered.
Immediately afterwards, the Viking army continued to move south...
Chapter completed!