Rise of Rurik - Chapter 1399

[Chapter 1498: A Frankish Empire noble army in action]

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Ships covered the river, as densely as the tide, and the Rhine ushered in the largest fleet navigation in its history.

They were massive and overwhelming, nearly ten thousand warriors and non-combatants moving against the current, flying Ross’s oar flags and raven flags, but not the cross.

Most of the soldiers were uniformly dressed, but some were dressed in a very sloppy way.

The former is the Rus army and the Ghotalan army of servants, and the latter is the Danish army.

Ragnar fulfilled his promise and actually organized a thousand warriors to fight alongside Rurik.

His throne came from Rurik’s strong support, and his two sons were obviously more commanding than their barbaric predecessors and peers after receiving a Ross-style education.

It was really possible to have a large-scale battle with the so-called regular army of the Roman Emperor!

Ragnar was timid. He led his brothers in frequent sneak attacks along the river and could always win quickly. If he was targeted by the Franks’ superior cavalry, he would be trampled to death by the hoofs of horses if he ran too slowly.

He decided to hand over the command of the army to Rurik, so that in the new war, he would fight as a general under the command of King Rus.

Even so, the temporary Ross who comes to lead the brothers to fight must be rewarded accordingly, and everything is conditional.

“After the battle broke out, we fought together. You Russians are responsible for an area, and we Danes are responsible for an area. We all kill and loot according to our abilities. No matter how much gold and silver we plunder, it will be mine.” Ragnar thought well. In this way, the power of the Russian army was used to ensure that oneself plundered enough gold, silver and prisoners, which was much less risky than plundering alone.

The rain has stopped, the Rhine River in late autumn

Due to the rising water during the long rainy season, it is not as violent as the summer floods. Now the ships holding large oars are like countless water striders on the wide water surface, and they are as powerful as a swarm of attacking centipedes.

The Frankish army had never fought like this before, and their so-called navy and river fleet had always been better than nothing.

Frank, who emphasized land power and desperately strengthened the construction of cavalry, has lost a large number of elites to all parties since the civil war. The once glorious cavalry regiment has also been decimated in the crazy internal strife. The newly recruited troops no longer have the glory of the former regiment, and they have been scrapped in large numbers. The peasant soldiers armed with crude weapons were all confused as to why they wanted to participate in the internal fighting among the nobles.

However, in some areas, the ravages of Norman pirates intruding into the inland rivers created serious panic and at the same time, the hatred of the locals became stronger.

Hatred turned into power, especially in the area centered on Aachen. The glory of the empire was destroyed, Charlemagne’s tomb was desecrated, the Aachen Palace turned into a toilet for barbarians, the bodies of the innocent victims rotted silently, and the open palace square became The Taotie Banquet Hall filled with crows.

Counts Jülichgau and Ramengau were to blame for their failure to defend Aachen.

What’s more, Count Ramengao, who lives in Namur City, is also the emperor’s son-in-law.

Throughout the warm period of 843, wars broke out in Orleans and Paris in the south, in Metz in the center, and in the Rhine Valley (Alsace), which was the absolute main battlefield of the civil war.

The Roman Emperor Lothair had been trapped in Strasbourg in the Rhine Valley, and the narrow flat area of the valley became the most critical decisive battle site.

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Rather than dealing with the younger brother “Bald” who stayed in Tours and Aquitaine,

“Charlie, the third oldest “German” Ludwig in front of him, his army is like a dagger at his throat. If he does not defeat the great Duke of Bavaria and his various northern traitors, not only will he not be able to get out of trouble, but he will also lose the title of Roman Emperor. Save.

The war has deteriorated beyond negotiation.

Standing on Lothair’s side, he asked Adahat, the old minister of the palace during his father’s reign, to serve as his special envoy to the Kingdom of Colmar in the southern part of the Rhine Valley.

There was an old man called Adahart. As a former minister of Louis the Loyal and Pious, Ludwig knew this old man and respected him, so no matter what the old man said, he would not use force on him.

The old man was ordered to go there not to persuade him to surrender, nor to suggest that both parties should have a peaceful discussion based on the brotherhood of brothers.

He came with a letter of challenge!

Although the old man did not want to take a tough stance, as the emperor’s envoy he had to express that the war was no longer conciliatory and non-negotiable.

Lothair’s handwriting written on parchment was handed over to Ludwig from the hands of the veteran Adahart. What the latter saw was only rebuke and war provocation.

Especially the rebuke: It seems that you are not the Duke of Bavaria, but the chief of the Norman pirates.

The surprise attack on Aachen was not Ludwig’s idea, but he was fully aware of the matter and tacitly allowed his own Nassau County to do so.

The Russians and Danes in Nassau can do whatever they want, and as long as they succeed, he will admit their possession of land and wealth afterwards.

Anyway, those territories are never their own fiefdoms, and the Russians can be extremely generous in granting them fiefdoms.

But Lothar is not a blind fool. Following Count Metz

In addition to the death of his eldest son in battle, the large-scale attack on the city of Metz, and the horrific sacking of Aachen and nearby areas, Ludwig cannot escape the blame.

Lothair did not have the ability to withdraw his troops to the west to deal with the pirate scourge, so he simply had a decisive battle between the two kings in the Alsace region.

Both sides intended to solve all problems with a decisive battle. However, both sides suffered heavy losses in this battle. Ludwig’s army pursued victory after the field battle and was stopped under the strong wall of Strasbourg.

Even though the losses were heavy, Lothair still refused to admit defeat.

Because his losses mainly came from warriors recruited from the Alsace region and a group of his own elite veterans.

He still has a large number of nobles who are loyal to him, the noble imperial military noble group. They will not recognize the bastard little prince Charles the Bald, nor are they willing to recognize Ludwig who became the so-called Slavic King on the eastern border. As long as the empire Send the nobles to unite and enter the Rhine Valley to serve the king, and everything will be fine.

Therefore, after the summer war, while Lothair was licking his wounds in the city, he continued to recruit peasants as soldiers by force, and for the first time, he ordered his subordinates to go to the northern diocese of Worms to arrest people and send them to the army. This certainly aroused the anger of the local priests. Disgusted, the criticism from the priests ended with the threat of swords and spears.

Lothair was the Roman Emperor, even though the legitimacy of this title is now in doubt. He issued a mandatory order to require the diocese of Worms, which was still loyal to him, to use its stocks of grain, gold and silver to replenish the army. The latter could only Do as you are told.

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On the other hand, the remaining cavalry were reduced, and a group of good horses in the city were fed a large amount of food, and then the best horses were selected.

Strong and skilled riders traveled through the Vosges Mountains through the gaps in the mountains, traveling all the way west to inform the emperor of his orders.

The Royal Palace of Aachen was very important to Charlemagne. The emperor had passed away, so Lothair either wanted this city or it must be defended.

The looting of Aachen left him humiliated. Has the disaster already happened? The only thing left is to figure out how to take revenge.

The messenger rushed to the ravaged city of Metz, passed the fortress of Luxembourg, which was already empty, and then followed the old Roman road through the Ardennes to arrive at the important crossroads town of Bastonica (Bastogne). .

Bastonica, where the Reims-Colon Avenue and the Bave-Trier Avenue meet.

The residents of the forest town live in poverty in the center of the monastery. They have built walls to protect themselves from wolves and leopards. The lumberjacks have stored a large amount of firewood for the town for the winter. The food reserves this winter are also relatively small. The locals Be prepared for winter.

This is true for the large and small forest settlements in the Ardennes region. The struggle for power among the nobles seems to have nothing to do with these mountain people. They are just waiting quietly for the arrival of 844.

The lonely cavalry team galloped past, and the woodcutter looked at their passing figures without reacting at all. The people talked incessantly, hoping that the priests could give answers.

“Maybe, that was the messenger of the noble army. Who knows? Only God knows. Maybe the legends outside the mountain are true…” The Bishop of Bastonica Monastery is too remote because of its remote location. Letters from the diocese spread all over the place, so much so that there was news of a massive Russian invasion.

Archbishop Hinkmar is already very aware that key information has been handed over to many imperial nobles.

So much so that Gerald, Count of Paris “Roussillon”, even knew that attacking him with the Count of Tours was a young man named Reglaf, the son of King Rus and King of Mercia, as well as Saxony, who had successfully revolted and restored his country. The Duke’s eldest son Bruno is also causing trouble.

It was because the northern saint Eskil who stayed in the Bishop’s Cathedral of Hamburg was dishonest. He provided a lot of information about Rurik and the north to the outside world. He felt that his actions were fulfilling his mission, and objectively he became An open spy that no one can touch.

Rurik knew it, but he didn’t care. The expedition launched with powerful force was a conspiracy, and there was no need to hide it now.

The news was conveyed in letters to some local bishops and then to the local noble lords.

As for the small and remote churches, they know very little about these breaking news from the outside world.

The messenger arrived directly at Liege via Bastonica.

After getting some supplies in Liège, he handed the King Qin’s order to Archbishop Hatega of Liège, a die-hard supporter of Lothair.

The senior monks of the Benedictine order wanted to avoid killing, but the Satan-like Normans were doing a lot of evil on both sides of the Meuse River. The current situation no longer allowed the priests to eat black bread and chant scriptures in peace.

The Archbishop of Liège transformed into a military aristocrat. He was an old man who would never go to the battlefield in person. Relying on his own appeal and the anger of the people who had suffered the attacks of Norman pirates, he organized a militia.

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This army of several hundred men had an unforgettable hatred for the Normans.

The archbishop endorsed their participation in the war.

“Those Normans are Satan’s devils. They are monsters that emerge from the mud. They appear just to kill. You must kill these devils, and you will wash away your original sins.”

The implication is that the Archbishop of Liege endorsed the legality of the militiamen’s possible future battles. The act of revenge is not only correct, but also has a strong sanctity – we are killing the devil, which is justice.

The Archbishop of Liege did his best to organize more than 500 infantry. They were mainly spearmen and wore old chainmail. The entire army gave people a sense of decay, but the soldiers could always show their hatred. , the morale of the army is not bad.

The messenger’s order was aimed at all the nobles who supported Lothair. The Archbishop of Liege already had a close relationship with Lothair, and after being summoned by the emperor, he no longer had to think about how to protect himself.

On the contrary, militias organized by the angry people of the dioceses of Liège and Maastricht will march under their own leadership.

Since the messengers had to go to Jülichgau and Ramengau, Archbishop Hatgar decided to wait here, because he knew that the armies of the two counts would first assemble in Liège, and then march straight along the Roman road. Rush to the Luxembourg Fortress and reinforce the garrison in Metz.

Based on Lothair’s strategic vision, the important Metz cannot be attacked again. At the same time, King Qin’s nobles must gather in Metz and firmly control the city before rushing to the Vosges Mountains, raiding the mountain pass and filing in in order to The tidal offensive overwhelmed Ludwig’s Bavarian army, which was also severely weakened.

And this almost became Lotay

Your all-or-nothing option.

The messengers successfully arrived at the cities of Jilihi and Namur, and the two counts announced without any hesitation that they would immediately organize an army to serve the king.

For Count Gilbert of Ramongao, who lived in the city of Namur, he had to divide his troops and watch the group of Flemish people at the Brussels Fortress on the northern border.

The Count of Flanders was a vassal absorbed by Charlemagne’s armed forces. They were always free from the borders of the empire. Although there were border frictions, Count Baudouin II probably would not make a desperate attempt to invade deeply.

When Gilbert kidnapped the princess, he was motivated by s*x. Fortunately, His Majesty the King forgave his crime and recognized the legality of the marriage.

For this reason, Gilbert must do his best to help the troubled king.

Even, he wants to avenge his pillow person and the third princess.

Because the Royal Palace in Aachen was sacked by the Normans, the truth has now been revealed. The perpetrators were the Rus among the Normans, and the evildoers were entrenched at the mouth of the Rhine.

The greatest evil committed by the Normans was to kill the little princess Gisla!

Although the body of the little princess was not found, the corpses of the palace maids and palace stewards were everywhere. Her Royal Highness must have been killed as well.

The third princess could not accept the fact that her little sister was killed by pirates. Her crying instantly aroused the extremely bloody anger of Gilbert.

Chasing the Normans everywhere for revenge is a way to show off to his wife, because it was disgraceful for him to kidnap her back then. Now he should take revenge like a real man with blood to prove to his wife that he is a righteous warrior.

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He was only in his early twenties, young and energetic, and held great power. He quickly mobilized the elites in the earldom and recruited a group of peasants to form the infantry.

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An army of 2,000 men was assembled in the city of Namur, including 300 cavalry and nearly 1,800 infantry. There were also accompanying priests to encourage the expedition.

Because the busy farming season was over, the newly produced oats, rye, buckwheat and barley were quickly shelled, and the army started taking action with the grain that had not yet been dried.

Almost at the same time, Count Eberhard of Ulichgau also received the order.

Failing to protect Aachen was a grave sin. To atone for his sin, Eberhard decided to send out all his troops!

Because the northeastern territory of the Count of Jülichgau had reached the Rhine River, he knew very well that the Cologne diocese on the other side of the river fully supported Ludwig. A country within a country.

“Assemble all the war horses, and the men who can ride will take their weapons and go to war! Men from each village, according to the old system, each family will produce a strong man!”

The county of Jülichgau was richer and had no losses at all in the past Norman raids.

It was not difficult to recruit soldiers. He accepted many war refugees and suffered the pain of their relatives being killed. These Franks were very interested in joining the army for revenge.

Since it was an order from the emperor, the earl was ordered to do things, so the villagers in each village had to contribute one from each family according to the old system, and then prepare their own weapons and food to participate in the war.

Eberhart recruited almost all Frankish warriors. They upheld the glory of their ancestors and could not bear to see their glory trampled by Norman pirates.

As for being ordered to Luxembourg and Metz, this is not just as simple as King Qin.

What kind of freak is the County of Nassau-Coblenz?

Established in the territory of the Rheingau County, only

Ludwig on the other side of the war recognized its legitimacy, based on letters from the Northern Archbishop, stating that Nassau-Koblenz was completely stolen by the Norman pirates and served as an important base, so it had a strong Aggressive and extremely shameful, he even took the initiative to target civilian villages.

Because of an important feature called the “St. Andrew’s Cross”, the Norman pirates who attacked Aachen flew a flag with a similar pattern, and the guys entrenched in Nassau also had the same flag.

“It turns out that the pirates who attacked Aachen came from Nassau, the city of Koblenz was occupied by pirates, and the Luxembourg garrison went to crusade and was murdered by them. Everything became clear…”

Count Jülichgau estimated that the emperor’s plan was to quickly solve the rebellious Ludwig problem after the imperial coalition forces were assembled. The next step was to take advantage of the victory and clear out all the Normans who were entrenched like leeches in the lower reaches of the Rhine.

The count quickly recruited 3,000 troops, including 500 cavalry, whose equipment was far better than that of Ramon Gaubert’s army.

The two counts’ armies gathered in Liege in mighty force, especially the Count Ramengau’s army. They passed the rebuilt Meuse River Bridge in Liege and saw the war-torn city of Liege and the military barracks castle reduced to ashes. Now Earl Gilbert finally understood why a huge number of refugees poured into his territory to seek refuge and still haven’t returned home.

Their homes had been reduced to charcoal, and they were worried about another Norman attack while staying by the river.

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Fortunately, everything is clear. The Norman pirates had two major strongholds on the Rhine: the Rhine mouth area and Nassau-Koblenz.

In the city of Liege, an archbishop and two counts, they pieced together six

An army of more than a thousand men, including 800 cavalry.

Many soldiers had strong anger. They listened to the nobles and said that the so-called Norman pirates were actually Ludwig’s thugs. They attacked Aachen and destroyed wildly along the Maas River. UU Reading www.SonicMTL.

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The nobles first believed in this. Ludwig had been raising Danes to fight for him, and there were also larger Eastern Slavic barbarian warriors. None of them were Franks, and it became logical for them to run wild in the core of Franks.

The three nobles didn’t know whether or how the imperial nobles in the south had sent troops. The mere gathering of 6,000 troops here gave them strong confidence.

In this autumn, accompanied by pack horses and baggage carriages, the army headed straight for the town of Bastonica.

The mighty Frankish army passed through small towns. The people had already forgotten the priests’ prophecies, but now they were shocked to watch this mighty army marching in the autumn rain.

The nobles forcibly spent money to buy the town’s surplus grain, cheese and other supplies, euphemistically calling it the forest town and paying a war tax for the great cause of the empire.

No one was killed in Bastonica in the forest, but the town’s wealth was looted. The passing army left only the supplies that the locals could survive through the winter, and continued to endure the misty autumn rain.

Until more than 6,000 troops arrived at the Luxembourg Fortress and joined forces with the few local defenders.

Cross flags began to fly on the hills, and a special Three Lions flag declared their noble status.

Because Count Gilbert of Ramongo was the emperor’s son-in-law, Lothair inherited Charlemagne’s Three Lions.

The battle flag, Gilbert, as the Prince Consort, was authorized to use this flag.

It was like an angel descended on the ravaged Metz region, and the people living in fear saw Charlemagne’s battle flag!

Although the friendly forces arrived belatedly, they did appear.

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