Chapter 742: Was attacked on the Danube
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The Blue Fox and his party finally left Bremen, and they continued upstream on the Weser River. The wind from the north ran through the river, and the three boats with their sails down finally did not have to row backwards.
Their voyage has an end point, the ferry town of Minden on the upper Weser River.
Viscount Mindeng is the local lord. The tiny city has only 300 inhabitants, but the surrounding villages have a large population.
This is already the inland area of the Franks. Long before the rise of the kingdom, Minden was the area controlled by the Franks. In an earlier period, it was the northern contact area between the Roman Empire and the Germanic tribes.
Although Minden is in a dense forest and is next to the three tributaries of the Weser River, farmers have developed agriculture here, making this small town and the nearby beloved countryside affluent.
At this point, the Earl of Hamburg, in his noble capacity, asked Viscount Minden to provide a certain amount of supplies, including horses and carriages.
Although the tributaries that continue along the north-south direction can use the wind from the north to quickly move south to Frankfurt, the upper reaches of the tributaries only have small villages and no larger cities.
It was in Minden that a terrible late autumn rain not only made the world cold and wet, but the haze almost pressed down to the ground. In a repressive and cold atmosphere, which bards and traveling merchants were willing to leave.
Viscount Minden is naturally not a vassal of the Earl of Hamburg. However, Bishop St. Eskil is very famous in the north, especially in Saxony. It is an honor to see the Bishop himself today.
They stayed here for five days and didn't restart the journey until the sun reappeared.
After experiencing Bremen, Blue Fox had to keep a low profile. He also silently wrote down what he saw and heard, paying attention to the "Franconian inland waterway" experienced in the past, and estimating whether the Ross merchants could trade here. Ross Whether the army can invade along the river, and what kind of property can be plundered if it goes smoothly.
Blue Fox paid special attention to the wooden bridge over the Weser River in Minden.
"It was built very skillfully, the arch is too small, the Ross ship must not pass, but the long ship can..."
The three boats are simply left here. They are the property of the Earl of Hamburg. The Earl uses this as collateral, and rents a carriage with the Viscount. Together with the accompanying horses and disassembled carriage parts, they are assembled, and a group of people pieced together to sit in four carriages. Go up, follow the dirt road that was forcibly stepped on by the passing people, and go south along the tributary of the Weser River, and the next stop is Frankfurt.
This is the first field trip to the Frankish Kingdom by the Duchy of Ross, and the glory belongs to the Blue Fox.
No Swedes or Russ were able to go deep into such a southern place before. Countless words used to describe Frank's southern warmth, but the blue fox felt cold with his skin.
It is indeed warmer than my hometown in the north, and it is only warmer.
The carriage hung the two flags of the Earl of Hamburg and Prince Ludwig. They did not need to conceal their identities, especially after entering the Duke of Alemanni, they had to clearly indicate their identities.
Because Frankfurt has only His Royal Highness the Marquis, until now the title of the Duke of Alemanni is still vacant. The entire area was controlled by Prince Ludwig, and the Earl of Hamburg played a banner to prove that he was the prince's loyal minister.
In the open world, even the Frankish kingdom with a population of 10 million, in Alemanni and Bavaria, dense forests here affect the development of villages and obscure people's vision. Almost all the strongholds were built on the riverside, and there was essentially no man’s land in the city and the city.
They finally found out the cavalry patrolling for the Marquis, and after confirming their identity, they were initially surprised and then sent the distinguished guests to Frankfurt with enthusiasm.
"This... is Frankfurt?" Lan Hu Ang sighed while looking at the stone gate of Gundam, and there was no lack of murmurs in his heart.
Emperor Charlemagne appointed Frankfurt as the Kingdom as a center of faith. During his reign, it was second only to the capital city of Aachen.
Because Frankfurt is the place of the Frankish tribe's dragon and prosperity, it is the place where the legendary greatest chief, the mercenary general of the northern border of the Roman Empire, Frankus garrisoned troops.
The city is so big, the stone wall is wide, strong and tall, and the blue fox prides itself on seeing it a lot. Facing the city, he appears small and like an ant.
And the more magnificent is the south, where there is a wall in the sky, and the clear air cannot block the magnificence of the huge mountain range.
"What is that? The towering mountains?" Blue Fox asked Eskil.
"Great mountain! Alps! Over this mountain is Italy, Rome! The Pope is in Rome."
Eskil was really emotional, and the blue fox really couldn't understand it. He just felt that this mountain was simply an insurmountable moat.
In this geographical location, the Danube almost flows to the southeast next to the mountains. Where the river will flow is unknown even to the Frankish nobles.
The status of St. Eskil is naturally lower than that of the Archbishop of Frankfurt. The northern saint did his job and reported on the affairs of the Danish region, which directly caused the priest's nervousness.
There will be nobles to deal with worldly matters, and priests will not be discouraged. If the scheduled next Eskil is responsible for desperately spreading the faith to the northern Norman barbarians, the mission of the Archbishop of Frankfurt is to spread the gospel to Bohemia and Poland.
Such behavior will encounter resistance from the locals to some extent, and countless priests call for successors for their faith and honor. As for the use of force to force the barbarians to believe, this is not allowed, at least they are subjectively unwilling to use force.
So far, the Blue Fox and the Earl of Hamburg have had to accommodate the old man Eskil, and will resume marching only when their festive celebration mass is over.
They stayed in the huge and magnificent Frankish city for another ten days.
Blue Fox’s ten days were not going to eat boring brown bread every day in the monastery. He could visit the city with local priests, but all his actions were low-key. With previous lessons, he dared not step into key areas of the city.
There are no friends of Earl Robert here, and if something goes wrong, if Eskil doesn't help, he will suffer.
He deliberately went to two markets in the city to take a look, observe the commercial transactions here, and observe the expressions of people.
He saw the beggar, saw the patrol soldiers driving away the beggar. There are thieves who are stealing, and there are thieves who are caught by mistake.
He even saw the public hanging in the city square, where the three thieves hung up like salted fish and struggled with the boos of thousands of citizens.
Frankfurt is not as magnificent as her tall stone walls, and the world in the city is in indescribable chaos. The nobles here do not love his people, and the priests only appear on festivals.
The city's business atmosphere is more intense, and the materials traded here are obviously more prosperous than Viking trade points such as Roseburg, Birka, and Hezeby.
There is no slave trade here. Cloth and pottery are traded in a large amount. There are also many expensive wines in the north that are traded at a price that is too cheap.
The blue fox was greedy, but unfortunately because he had to pretend to be pious, he could only have black bread and water as his company every day when he could not see his head in the future.
There is no oily water in his stomach, so that he, the fat man who gnawed off the whole leg of lamb in a single meal, is now so thin that his cheekbones are clearly visible!
Blue Fox is passively losing weight, and the huge change in his body shape can be reflected in the reduction in the size of his clothes.
A first snowfall came to Frankfurt. Soldiers on patrol cleaned up several frozen dead bodies early in the morning. There were also priests who went to the mass graves to pray for the dead.
At least in the Duchy of Ross, this situation is to be avoided as much as possible. The prince is not inferior to his subjects and died violently in the outdoor ice and snow because of poverty.
The priest’s mouthful of kindness, but those believers died in pain, the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin did not give alms, only when people become frozen corpses will appear...
"Their beliefs are hypocritical, and their lord only takes care of his own interests and sits watching the people die. Those people cannot give the nobles their lives, and Rose has a chance."
The blue fox remembered the horrible things he had seen in his heart, and remained silent on the bright side.
The horse team arrived in Frankfurt and became a fleet before leaving.
It was the Normans in Denmark who had a commotion, and the crisis of war in the north of the kingdom forced the Earl of Hamburg to report the letter in person, and even the northern saint was in the team.
The Marquis decided that the matter was very difficult. In order to avoid accidents in the team, a fifty-man army was ordered to **** by boat to guard against the Earl of Hamburg and the Saints from encountering river bandits.
Compared to the new crisis in the north, the legally unowned Duke of Almanni has spawned a large number of bandits. The two princes are fighting for the ownership of this place. It seems that Prince Ludwig has seized power, but in fact Lotte Prince Seoul is also actively acting secretly.
Some soldiers seem to be soldiers and soldiers. When in a secluded place, they suddenly become gangsters.
Because they belonged to Prince Lothar, the prince could not compete with his younger brother, so he sent people to make trouble in Alemanni to create tension. As the saying goes, I can’t get it, little brother Charlie can't get it, and you Ludwig can't even get it.
The fleet formed a long snake formation and floated quietly on the Danube. It seemed that this could not be more peaceful.
Blue Fox relaxed his vigilance. The past two months have not been eating well. Now it is October. When he put on winter clothes, he realized that he was losing weight.
He wanted to gnaw some meat, but he still had no choice but to gnaw black bread.
He pulled up his robe and hat, and leaned against the mast of the ship to take a nap to resist the roar of his stomach.
Most of the soldiers were drowsy, the afternoon sun warmed the world a bit, and Robert Earl of Hamburg was already snoreing comfortably.
The team lost almost all their defenses, and suddenly, swish sound came from both sides of the drink.
A soldier who was napping was shot through the cheek by an arrow, even hitting an artery in his neck.
The wounded fell into the cold Danube, and the woolen clothes warmed from the cold instantly fell to the bottom of the river.
No longer sleepy, the earl picked up the wooden mandarin shield and drew out his steel sword to greet him: "Go! Go rowing!"
They were unable to fight back. The army of the Marquis who was ordered to guard did not carry a bow at all. The cramped river became a battlefield. No one could be sure of the attacker’s true face. In the end, all the ships landed. Although this was ridiculous and crazy, it turned out to be the case.
The so-called Saint Eskil is now scared and diapers. The blue fox has experienced war and is naturally not afraid of this. He picked up a scattered wooden board from the boat to act as a shield, and only heard a sound, a cluster of arrows with barbeds. The board has been punched.
"Ah! Sin! The bandits attacked the priests and their souls would go to hell." Eskil was already trembling as he spoke.
"Forget it! Eskil, your life is important now."
"Oh! No, Joseph, I want to stand up. I want to raise the cross and persuade the gangsters to stop attacking."
"Did I get it wrong? You dare to stand up, stupid! Vardy, hold on to this old guy so that you can't hurt him."
"What about you?" Vardy asked without fear.
"You can only defend yourself! Damn, these Frankish soldiers didn't run for their lives, so they dared to land?!" The blue fox hurriedly drew from the rolled up leather blanket the one that was supposed to be a "tribute" to Prince Ludwig. The treasure sword, this is the blue fox's own saber. Its sword slayed an enemy and drank blood. He who held the steel sword suddenly gained confidence.
Under normal logic, the drifting fleet should speed up to flee when attacked. The Frankish fighters all went the other way, and even the Earl of Hamburg yelled ashore.
Arrows are still flying randomly on the river, and the archer is very unreasonable, even if he sees the priest in the black robe, he can still aim and shoot.
The blue fox hung the sword around his waist, holding the wooden planks in both hands and trying his best to cover it. Eskil never forgets the luggage he put on, and Vardy is not used to it, grabbing the old man's clothes and pulling it ashore.
The forest gave cover to the soldiers who abandoned the ship, and then chaos broke out in the forest again.
A group of green forest heroes in coarse cloths came here clearly, and when they sprang out of the hiding place aggressively, the Hamburg Earl, who had experienced many battles, knew that something was wrong.
The earl is the most noble noble here, and also the military commander in the north, so naturally he has some skills in commanding wars.
"You fools who lost their heads in order to fight, the enemy came prepared, you jumped to the trap by yourself. Now follow my command, gather together and hold the sword, everyone is not allowed to run around."
Most people were willing to listen to the earl. The fifty escorts sent by the Marquis of Frankfurt had already died at the moment of the attack, and several people were killed in the melee on the shore.
The earl organized about fifty fighters, including his own cronies, and he also noticed that the blue fox, who had become thinner, had also taken off his robes and held a sword in his hand.
"It's you! Joseph Blue Fox, are you a soldier?" The count was taken aback.
"I have no choice."
"Where are the saints?"
"Eskil is fine~www.novelhall.com~ just to be frightened. Your people have surrounded him and protected him."
A converted priest became a soldier? Maybe this blue fox was also a Norman warrior before. The earl didn't think much about it. Now the situation is special, one more soldier and one more attendant.
The army of the Frankish Kingdom also pursued a barbarian style of play, first forming a shield wall to attack, and breaking down the enemy is a single-handed fight. The reason why the Franks were so strong for a while was their cavalry. Compared with the cavalry, the role of the infantry was becoming a superfluous.
Earl Robert formed a circle in the woods near the shore, and the sword-bearers in coarse cloth rushed up. The two sides began to fight in chaos. Although it was not about each other's grudges or the identity of each other, Earl Robert felt that he had encountered a crisis in his life, and one of his negligence was to die away.
After fighting, the count realized that those guys who seemed to be armed farmers had leather armor inlaid with iron sheets under the coarse cloth.
Was it a sneak attack by the Marquis of Frankfurt? I can't! Most of the guards here are soldiers of the Marquis.
Perhaps the only explanation is that these bandits are not bandits, they have a very pure purpose-to kill everyone in the fleet.
Maybe they are those people...
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The Blue Fox and his party finally left Bremen, and they continued upstream on the Weser River. The wind from the north ran through the river, and the three boats with their sails down finally did not have to row backwards.
Their voyage has an end point, the ferry town of Minden on the upper Weser River.
Viscount Mindeng is the local lord. The tiny city has only 300 inhabitants, but the surrounding villages have a large population.
This is already the inland area of the Franks. Long before the rise of the kingdom, Minden was the area controlled by the Franks. In an earlier period, it was the northern contact area between the Roman Empire and the Germanic tribes.
Although Minden is in a dense forest and is next to the three tributaries of the Weser River, farmers have developed agriculture here, making this small town and the nearby beloved countryside affluent.
At this point, the Earl of Hamburg, in his noble capacity, asked Viscount Minden to provide a certain amount of supplies, including horses and carriages.
Although the tributaries that continue along the north-south direction can use the wind from the north to quickly move south to Frankfurt, the upper reaches of the tributaries only have small villages and no larger cities.
It was in Minden that a terrible late autumn rain not only made the world cold and wet, but the haze almost pressed down to the ground. In a repressive and cold atmosphere, which bards and traveling merchants were willing to leave.
Viscount Minden is naturally not a vassal of the Earl of Hamburg. However, Bishop St. Eskil is very famous in the north, especially in Saxony. It is an honor to see the Bishop himself today.
They stayed here for five days and didn't restart the journey until the sun reappeared.
After experiencing Bremen, Blue Fox had to keep a low profile. He also silently wrote down what he saw and heard, paying attention to the "Franconian inland waterway" experienced in the past, and estimating whether the Ross merchants could trade here. Ross Whether the army can invade along the river, and what kind of property can be plundered if it goes smoothly.
Blue Fox paid special attention to the wooden bridge over the Weser River in Minden.
"It was built very skillfully, the arch is too small, the Ross ship must not pass, but the long ship can..."
The three boats are simply left here. They are the property of the Earl of Hamburg. The Earl uses this as collateral, and rents a carriage with the Viscount. Together with the accompanying horses and disassembled carriage parts, they are assembled, and a group of people pieced together to sit in four carriages. Go up, follow the dirt road that was forcibly stepped on by the passing people, and go south along the tributary of the Weser River, and the next stop is Frankfurt.
This is the first field trip to the Frankish Kingdom by the Duchy of Ross, and the glory belongs to the Blue Fox.
No Swedes or Russ were able to go deep into such a southern place before. Countless words used to describe Frank's southern warmth, but the blue fox felt cold with his skin.
It is indeed warmer than my hometown in the north, and it is only warmer.
The carriage hung the two flags of the Earl of Hamburg and Prince Ludwig. They did not need to conceal their identities, especially after entering the Duke of Alemanni, they had to clearly indicate their identities.
Because Frankfurt has only His Royal Highness the Marquis, until now the title of the Duke of Alemanni is still vacant. The entire area was controlled by Prince Ludwig, and the Earl of Hamburg played a banner to prove that he was the prince's loyal minister.
In the open world, even the Frankish kingdom with a population of 10 million, in Alemanni and Bavaria, dense forests here affect the development of villages and obscure people's vision. Almost all the strongholds were built on the riverside, and there was essentially no man’s land in the city and the city.
They finally found out the cavalry patrolling for the Marquis, and after confirming their identity, they were initially surprised and then sent the distinguished guests to Frankfurt with enthusiasm.
"This... is Frankfurt?" Lan Hu Ang sighed while looking at the stone gate of Gundam, and there was no lack of murmurs in his heart.
Emperor Charlemagne appointed Frankfurt as the Kingdom as a center of faith. During his reign, it was second only to the capital city of Aachen.
Because Frankfurt is the place of the Frankish tribe's dragon and prosperity, it is the place where the legendary greatest chief, the mercenary general of the northern border of the Roman Empire, Frankus garrisoned troops.
The city is so big, the stone wall is wide, strong and tall, and the blue fox prides itself on seeing it a lot. Facing the city, he appears small and like an ant.
And the more magnificent is the south, where there is a wall in the sky, and the clear air cannot block the magnificence of the huge mountain range.
"What is that? The towering mountains?" Blue Fox asked Eskil.
"Great mountain! Alps! Over this mountain is Italy, Rome! The Pope is in Rome."
Eskil was really emotional, and the blue fox really couldn't understand it. He just felt that this mountain was simply an insurmountable moat.
In this geographical location, the Danube almost flows to the southeast next to the mountains. Where the river will flow is unknown even to the Frankish nobles.
The status of St. Eskil is naturally lower than that of the Archbishop of Frankfurt. The northern saint did his job and reported on the affairs of the Danish region, which directly caused the priest's nervousness.
There will be nobles to deal with worldly matters, and priests will not be discouraged. If the scheduled next Eskil is responsible for desperately spreading the faith to the northern Norman barbarians, the mission of the Archbishop of Frankfurt is to spread the gospel to Bohemia and Poland.
Such behavior will encounter resistance from the locals to some extent, and countless priests call for successors for their faith and honor. As for the use of force to force the barbarians to believe, this is not allowed, at least they are subjectively unwilling to use force.
So far, the Blue Fox and the Earl of Hamburg have had to accommodate the old man Eskil, and will resume marching only when their festive celebration mass is over.
They stayed in the huge and magnificent Frankish city for another ten days.
Blue Fox’s ten days were not going to eat boring brown bread every day in the monastery. He could visit the city with local priests, but all his actions were low-key. With previous lessons, he dared not step into key areas of the city.
There are no friends of Earl Robert here, and if something goes wrong, if Eskil doesn't help, he will suffer.
He deliberately went to two markets in the city to take a look, observe the commercial transactions here, and observe the expressions of people.
He saw the beggar, saw the patrol soldiers driving away the beggar. There are thieves who are stealing, and there are thieves who are caught by mistake.
He even saw the public hanging in the city square, where the three thieves hung up like salted fish and struggled with the boos of thousands of citizens.
Frankfurt is not as magnificent as her tall stone walls, and the world in the city is in indescribable chaos. The nobles here do not love his people, and the priests only appear on festivals.
The city's business atmosphere is more intense, and the materials traded here are obviously more prosperous than Viking trade points such as Roseburg, Birka, and Hezeby.
There is no slave trade here. Cloth and pottery are traded in a large amount. There are also many expensive wines in the north that are traded at a price that is too cheap.
The blue fox was greedy, but unfortunately because he had to pretend to be pious, he could only have black bread and water as his company every day when he could not see his head in the future.
There is no oily water in his stomach, so that he, the fat man who gnawed off the whole leg of lamb in a single meal, is now so thin that his cheekbones are clearly visible!
Blue Fox is passively losing weight, and the huge change in his body shape can be reflected in the reduction in the size of his clothes.
A first snowfall came to Frankfurt. Soldiers on patrol cleaned up several frozen dead bodies early in the morning. There were also priests who went to the mass graves to pray for the dead.
At least in the Duchy of Ross, this situation is to be avoided as much as possible. The prince is not inferior to his subjects and died violently in the outdoor ice and snow because of poverty.
The priest’s mouthful of kindness, but those believers died in pain, the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin did not give alms, only when people become frozen corpses will appear...
"Their beliefs are hypocritical, and their lord only takes care of his own interests and sits watching the people die. Those people cannot give the nobles their lives, and Rose has a chance."
The blue fox remembered the horrible things he had seen in his heart, and remained silent on the bright side.
The horse team arrived in Frankfurt and became a fleet before leaving.
It was the Normans in Denmark who had a commotion, and the crisis of war in the north of the kingdom forced the Earl of Hamburg to report the letter in person, and even the northern saint was in the team.
The Marquis decided that the matter was very difficult. In order to avoid accidents in the team, a fifty-man army was ordered to **** by boat to guard against the Earl of Hamburg and the Saints from encountering river bandits.
Compared to the new crisis in the north, the legally unowned Duke of Almanni has spawned a large number of bandits. The two princes are fighting for the ownership of this place. It seems that Prince Ludwig has seized power, but in fact Lotte Prince Seoul is also actively acting secretly.
Some soldiers seem to be soldiers and soldiers. When in a secluded place, they suddenly become gangsters.
Because they belonged to Prince Lothar, the prince could not compete with his younger brother, so he sent people to make trouble in Alemanni to create tension. As the saying goes, I can’t get it, little brother Charlie can't get it, and you Ludwig can't even get it.
The fleet formed a long snake formation and floated quietly on the Danube. It seemed that this could not be more peaceful.
Blue Fox relaxed his vigilance. The past two months have not been eating well. Now it is October. When he put on winter clothes, he realized that he was losing weight.
He wanted to gnaw some meat, but he still had no choice but to gnaw black bread.
He pulled up his robe and hat, and leaned against the mast of the ship to take a nap to resist the roar of his stomach.
Most of the soldiers were drowsy, the afternoon sun warmed the world a bit, and Robert Earl of Hamburg was already snoreing comfortably.
The team lost almost all their defenses, and suddenly, swish sound came from both sides of the drink.
A soldier who was napping was shot through the cheek by an arrow, even hitting an artery in his neck.
The wounded fell into the cold Danube, and the woolen clothes warmed from the cold instantly fell to the bottom of the river.
No longer sleepy, the earl picked up the wooden mandarin shield and drew out his steel sword to greet him: "Go! Go rowing!"
They were unable to fight back. The army of the Marquis who was ordered to guard did not carry a bow at all. The cramped river became a battlefield. No one could be sure of the attacker’s true face. In the end, all the ships landed. Although this was ridiculous and crazy, it turned out to be the case.
The so-called Saint Eskil is now scared and diapers. The blue fox has experienced war and is naturally not afraid of this. He picked up a scattered wooden board from the boat to act as a shield, and only heard a sound, a cluster of arrows with barbeds. The board has been punched.
"Ah! Sin! The bandits attacked the priests and their souls would go to hell." Eskil was already trembling as he spoke.
"Forget it! Eskil, your life is important now."
"Oh! No, Joseph, I want to stand up. I want to raise the cross and persuade the gangsters to stop attacking."
"Did I get it wrong? You dare to stand up, stupid! Vardy, hold on to this old guy so that you can't hurt him."
"What about you?" Vardy asked without fear.
"You can only defend yourself! Damn, these Frankish soldiers didn't run for their lives, so they dared to land?!" The blue fox hurriedly drew from the rolled up leather blanket the one that was supposed to be a "tribute" to Prince Ludwig. The treasure sword, this is the blue fox's own saber. Its sword slayed an enemy and drank blood. He who held the steel sword suddenly gained confidence.
Under normal logic, the drifting fleet should speed up to flee when attacked. The Frankish fighters all went the other way, and even the Earl of Hamburg yelled ashore.
Arrows are still flying randomly on the river, and the archer is very unreasonable, even if he sees the priest in the black robe, he can still aim and shoot.
The blue fox hung the sword around his waist, holding the wooden planks in both hands and trying his best to cover it. Eskil never forgets the luggage he put on, and Vardy is not used to it, grabbing the old man's clothes and pulling it ashore.
The forest gave cover to the soldiers who abandoned the ship, and then chaos broke out in the forest again.
A group of green forest heroes in coarse cloths came here clearly, and when they sprang out of the hiding place aggressively, the Hamburg Earl, who had experienced many battles, knew that something was wrong.
The earl is the most noble noble here, and also the military commander in the north, so naturally he has some skills in commanding wars.
"You fools who lost their heads in order to fight, the enemy came prepared, you jumped to the trap by yourself. Now follow my command, gather together and hold the sword, everyone is not allowed to run around."
Most people were willing to listen to the earl. The fifty escorts sent by the Marquis of Frankfurt had already died at the moment of the attack, and several people were killed in the melee on the shore.
The earl organized about fifty fighters, including his own cronies, and he also noticed that the blue fox, who had become thinner, had also taken off his robes and held a sword in his hand.
"It's you! Joseph Blue Fox, are you a soldier?" The count was taken aback.
"I have no choice."
"Where are the saints?"
"Eskil is fine~www.novelhall.com~ just to be frightened. Your people have surrounded him and protected him."
A converted priest became a soldier? Maybe this blue fox was also a Norman warrior before. The earl didn't think much about it. Now the situation is special, one more soldier and one more attendant.
The army of the Frankish Kingdom also pursued a barbarian style of play, first forming a shield wall to attack, and breaking down the enemy is a single-handed fight. The reason why the Franks were so strong for a while was their cavalry. Compared with the cavalry, the role of the infantry was becoming a superfluous.
Earl Robert formed a circle in the woods near the shore, and the sword-bearers in coarse cloth rushed up. The two sides began to fight in chaos. Although it was not about each other's grudges or the identity of each other, Earl Robert felt that he had encountered a crisis in his life, and one of his negligence was to die away.
After fighting, the count realized that those guys who seemed to be armed farmers had leather armor inlaid with iron sheets under the coarse cloth.
Was it a sneak attack by the Marquis of Frankfurt? I can't! Most of the guards here are soldiers of the Marquis.
Perhaps the only explanation is that these bandits are not bandits, they have a very pure purpose-to kill everyone in the fleet.
Maybe they are those people...
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You can search for the latest chapters by searching for "The Rise of Rurik" in Baidu!The Blue Fox and his party finally left Bremen, and they continued upstream on the Weser River. The wind from the north ran through the river, and the three boats with their sails down finally did not have to row backwards.Their voyage has an end point, the ferry town of Minden on the upper Weser River.Viscount Mindeng is the local lord. The tiny city has only 300 inhabitants, but the surrounding villages have a large population.This is already the inland area of the Franks. Long before the rise of the kingdom, Minden was the area controlled by the Franks. In an earlier period, it was the northern contact area between the Roman Empire and the Germanic tribes.Although Minden is in a dense forest and is next to the three tributaries of the Weser River, farmers have developed agriculture here, making this small town and the nearby beloved countryside affluent.At this point, the Earl of Hamburg, in his noble capacity, asked Viscount Minden to provide a certain amount of supplies, including horses and carriages.Although the tributaries that continue along the north-south direction can use the wind from the north to quickly move south to Frankfurt, the upper reaches of the tributaries only have small villages and no larger cities.It was in Minden that a terrible late autumn rain not only made the world cold and wet, but the haze almost pressed down to the ground. In a repressive and cold atmosphere, which bards and traveling merchants were willing to leave.Viscount Minden is naturally not a vassal of the Earl of Hamburg. However, Bishop St. Eskil is very famous in the north, especially in Saxony. It is an honor to see the Bishop himself today.They stayed here for five days and didn't restart the journey until the sun reappeared.After experiencing Bremen, Blue Fox had to keep a low profile. He also silently wrote down what he saw and heard, paying attention to the "Franconian inland waterway" experienced in the past, and estimating whether the Ross merchants could trade here. Ross Whether the army can invade along the river, and what kind of property can be plundered if it goes smoothly.Blue Fox paid special attention to the wooden bridge over the Weser River in Minden."It was built very skillfully, the arch is too small, the Ross ship must not pass, but the long ship can..."The three boats are simply left here. They are the property of the Earl of Hamburg. The Earl uses this as collateral, and rents a carriage with the Viscount. Together with the accompanying horses and disassembled carriage parts, they are assembled, and a group of people pieced together to sit in four carriages. Go up, follow the dirt road that was forcibly stepped on by the passing people, and go south along the tributary of the Weser River, and the next stop is Frankfurt.This is the first field trip to the Frankish Kingdom by the Duchy of Ross, and the glory belongs to the Blue Fox.No Swedes or Russ were able to go deep into such a southern place before. Countless words used to describe Frank's southern warmth, but the blue fox felt cold with his skin.It is indeed warmer than my hometown in the north, and it is only warmer.The carriage hung the two flags of the Earl of Hamburg and Prince Ludwig. They did not need to conceal their identities, especially after entering the Duke of Alemanni, they had to clearly indicate their identities.Because Frankfurt has only His Royal Highness the Marquis, until now the title of the Duke of Alemanni is still vacant. The entire area was controlled by Prince Ludwig, and the Earl of Hamburg played a banner to prove that he was the prince's loyal minister.In the open world, even the Frankish kingdom with a population of 10 million, in Alemanni and Bavaria, dense forests here affect the development of villages and obscure people's vision. Almost all the strongholds were built on the riverside, and there was essentially no man's land in the city and the city.They finally found out the cavalry patrolling for the Marquis, and after confirming their identity, they were initially surprised and then sent the distinguished guests to Frankfurt with enthusiasm."This... is Frankfurt?" Lan Hu Ang sighed while looking at the stone gate of Gundam, and there was no lack of murmurs in his heart.Emperor Charlemagne appointed Frankfurt as the Kingdom as a center of faith. During his reign, it was second only to the capital city of Aachen.Because Frankfurt is the place of the Frankish tribe's dragon and prosperity, it is the place where the legendary greatest chief, the mercenary general of the northern border of the Roman Empire, Frankus garrisoned troops.The city is so big, the stone wall is wide, strong and tall, and the blue fox prides itself on seeing it a lot. Facing the city, he appears small and like an ant.And the more magnificent is the south, where there is a wall in the sky, and the clear air cannot block the magnificence of the huge mountain range."What is that? The towering mountains?" Blue Fox asked Eskil."Great mountain! Alps! Over this mountain is Italy, Rome! The Pope is in Rome."Eskil was really emotional, and the blue fox really couldn't understand it. He just felt that this mountain was simply an insurmountable moat.In this geographical location, the Danube almost flows to the southeast next to the mountains. Where the river will flow is unknown even to the Frankish nobles.The status of St. Eskil is naturally lower than that of the Archbishop of Frankfurt. The northern saint did his job and reported on the affairs of the Danish region, which directly caused the priest's nervousness.There will be nobles to deal with worldly matters, and priests will not be discouraged. If the scheduled next Eskil is responsible for desperately spreading the faith to the northern Norman barbarians, the mission of the Archbishop of Frankfurt is to spread the gospel to Bohemia and Poland.Such behavior will encounter resistance from the locals to some extent, and countless priests call for successors for their faith and honor. As for the use of force to force the barbarians to believe, this is not allowed, at least they are subjectively unwilling to use force.So far, the Blue Fox and the Earl of Hamburg have had to accommodate the old man Eskil, and will resume marching only when their festive celebration mass is over.They stayed in the huge and magnificent Frankish city for another ten days.Blue Fox's ten days were not going to eat boring brown bread every day in the monastery. He could visit the city with local priests, but all his actions were low-key. With previous lessons, he dared not step into key areas of the city.There are no friends of Earl Robert here, and if something goes wrong, if Eskil doesn't help, he will suffer.He deliberately went to two markets in the city to take a look, observe the commercial transactions here, and observe the expressions of people.He saw the beggar, saw the patrol soldiers driving away the beggar. There are thieves who are stealing, and there are thieves who are caught by mistake.He even saw the public hanging in the city square, where the three thieves hung up like salted fish and struggled with the boos of thousands of citizens.Frankfurt is not as magnificent as her tall stone walls, and the world in the city is in indescribable chaos. The nobles here do not love his people, and the priests only appear on festivals.The city's business atmosphere is more intense, and the materials traded here are obviously more prosperous than Viking trade points such as Roseburg, Birka, and Hezeby.There is no slave trade here. Cloth and pottery are traded in a large amount. There are also many expensive wines in the north that are traded at a price that is too cheap.The blue fox was greedy, but unfortunately because he had to pretend to be pious, he could only have black bread and water as his company every day when he could not see his head in the future.There is no oily water in his stomach, so that he, the fat man who gnawed off the whole leg of lamb in a single meal, is now so thin that his cheekbones are clearly visible!Blue Fox is passively losing weight, and the huge change in his body shape can be reflected in the reduction in the size of his clothes.A first snowfall came to Frankfurt. Soldiers on patrol cleaned up several frozen dead bodies early in the morning. There were also priests who went to the mass graves to pray for the dead.At least in the Duchy of Ross, this situation is to be avoided as much as possible. The prince is not inferior to his subjects and died violently in the outdoor ice and snow because of poverty.The priest's mouthful of kindness, but those believers died in pain, the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin did not give alms, only when people become frozen corpses will appear..."Their beliefs are hypocritical, and their lord only takes care of his own interests and sits watching the people die. Those people cannot give the nobles their lives, and Rose has a chance."The blue fox remembered the horrible things he had seen in his heart, and remained silent on the bright side.The horse team arrived in Frankfurt and became a fleet before leaving.It was the Normans in Denmark who had a commotion, and the crisis of war in the north of the kingdom forced the Earl of Hamburg to report the letter in person, and even the northern saint was in the team.The Marquis decided that the matter was very difficult. In order to avoid accidents in the team, a fifty-man army was ordered to **** by boat to guard against the Earl of Hamburg and the Saints from encountering river bandits.Compared to the new crisis in the north, the legally unowned Duke of Almanni has spawned a large number of bandits. The two princes are fighting for the ownership of this place. It seems that Prince Ludwig has seized power, but in fact Lotte Prince Seoul is also actively acting secretly.Some soldiers seem to be soldiers and soldiers. When in a secluded place, they suddenly become gangsters.Because they belonged to Prince Lothar, the prince could not compete with his younger brother, so he sent people to make trouble in Alemanni to create tension. As the saying goes, I can't get it, little brother Charlie can't get it, and you Ludwig can't even get it.The fleet formed a long snake formation and floated quietly on the Danube. It seemed that this could not be more peaceful.Blue Fox relaxed his vigilance. The past two months have not been eating well. Now it is October. When he put on winter clothes, he realized that he was losing weight.He wanted to gnaw some meat, but he still had no choice but to gnaw black bread.He pulled up his robe and hat, and leaned against the mast of the ship to take a nap to resist the roar of his stomach.Most of the soldiers were drowsy, the afternoon sun warmed the world a bit, and Robert Earl of Hamburg was already snoreing comfortably.The team lost almost all their defenses, and suddenly, swish sound came from both sides of the drink.A soldier who was napping was shot through the cheek by an arrow, even hitting an artery in his neck.The wounded fell into the cold Danube, and the woolen clothes warmed from the cold instantly fell to the bottom of the river.No longer sleepy, the earl picked up the wooden mandarin shield and drew out his steel sword to greet him: "Go! Go rowing!"They were unable to fight back. The army of the Marquis who was ordered to guard did not carry a bow at all. The cramped river became a battlefield. No one could be sure of the attacker's true face. In the end, all the ships landed. Although this was ridiculous and crazy, it turned out to be the case.The so-called Saint Eskil is now scared and diapers. The blue fox has experienced war and is naturally not afraid of this. He picked up a scattered wooden board from the boat to act as a shield, and only heard a sound, a cluster of arrows with barbeds. The board has been punched."Ah! Sin! The bandits attacked the priests and their souls would go to hell." Eskil was already trembling as he spoke."Forget it! Eskil, your life is important now.""Oh! No, Joseph, I want to stand up. I want to raise the cross and persuade the gangsters to stop attacking.""Did I get it wrong? You dare to stand up, stupid! Vardy, hold on to this old guy so that you can't hurt him.""What about you?" Vardy asked without fear."You can only defend yourself! Damn, these Frankish soldiers didn't run for their lives, so they dared to land?!" The blue fox hurriedly drew from the rolled up leather blanket the one that was supposed to be a "tribute" to Prince Ludwig. The treasure sword, this is the blue fox's own saber. Its sword slayed an enemy and drank blood. He who held the steel sword suddenly gained confidence.Under normal logic, the drifting fleet should speed up to flee when attacked. The Frankish fighters all went the other way, and even the Earl of Hamburg yelled ashore.Arrows are still flying randomly on the river, and the archer is very unreasonable, even if he sees the priest in the black robe, he can still aim and shoot.The blue fox hung the sword around his waist, holding the wooden planks in both hands and trying his best to cover it. Eskil never forgets the luggage he put on, and Vardy is not used to it, grabbing the old man's clothes and pulling it ashore.The forest gave cover to the soldiers who abandoned the ship, and then chaos broke out in the forest again.A group of green forest heroes in coarse cloths came here clearly, and when they sprang out of the hiding place aggressively, the Hamburg Earl, who had experienced many battles, knew that something was wrong.The earl is the most noble noble here, and also the military commander in the north, so naturally he has some skills in commanding wars."You fools who lost their heads in order to fight, the enemy came prepared, you jumped to the trap by yourself. Now follow my command, gather together and hold the sword, everyone is not allowed to run around."Most people were willing to listen to the earl. The fifty escorts sent by the Marquis of Frankfurt had already died at the moment of the attack, and several people were killed in the melee on the shore.The earl organized about fifty fighters, including his own cronies, and he also noticed that the blue fox, who had become thinner, had also taken off his robes and held a sword in his hand."It's you! Joseph Blue Fox, are you a soldier?" The count was taken aback."I have no choice.""Where are the saints?""Eskil is fine~www.novelhall.com~ just to be frightened. Your people have surrounded him and protected him."A converted priest became a soldier? Maybe this blue fox was also a Norman warrior before. The earl didn't think much about it. Now the situation is special, one more soldier and one more attendant.The army of the Frankish Kingdom also pursued a barbarian style of play, first forming a shield wall to attack, and breaking down the enemy is a single-handed fight. The reason why the Franks were so strong for a while was their cavalry. Compared with the cavalry, the role of the infantry was becoming a superfluous.Earl Robert formed a circle in the woods near the shore, and the sword-bearers in coarse cloth rushed up. The two sides began to fight in chaos. Although it was not about each other's grudges or the identity of each other, Earl Robert felt that he had encountered a crisis in his life, and one of his negligence was to die away.After fighting, the count realized that those guys who seemed to be armed farmers had leather armor inlaid with iron sheets under the coarse cloth.Was it a sneak attack by the Marquis of Frankfurt? I can't! Most of the guards here are soldiers of the Marquis.Perhaps the only explanation is that these bandits are not bandits, they have a very pure purpose-to kill everyone in the fleet.Maybe they are those people...The address of the latest chapter of the Rise of Rurik: https://The full text of the Rise of Rurik read the address: https://Rise of Rurik txt download address: https://The Rise of Rurik Mobile Reading: https://In order to facilitate the next reading, you can click on the "Favorites" below to record the reading record of this time Chapter 741 was attacked on the Danube, and you can see it next time you open the bookshelf!If you like "The Rise of Rurik", please recommend this book to your friends QQ, blog, WeChat, etc., thank you for your support! !
