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And Feng Sen just turned his body slightly, staring at Arvo with a half-smile.

Arvo's right foot was heavy, and the whole person rushed out. She lifted the round shield in her left hand obliquely, and smashed it heavily towards Feng Sen's head.

A shield hit, Feng Sen dodged backwards nimbly, but Arvo did not turn around to defend. With the inertia of the shield attacking forward, Arvo's body suddenly accelerated and rotated to the right, and the hem of his clothes bloomed like a flower.

During the rotation, the shield protected her side, Arvo's right hand went around her head, and the wooden stick hung upside down behind her head. For a moment, she even turned her back to Feng Sen.

Driven by his body, Arvo held the wooden stick upside down in his forehand, and the wooden stick rotated around Arvo's body, drawing an arc and hitting Feng Sen's head.

Feng Sen's body tilted in an instant, and he easily dodged Arvo's roundabout blow, but this time he failed, and Arvo still had a way to go.

The swinging wooden stick drew a figure 8 in mid-air, and while Arvo's body was straightened, he slashed at Feng Sen's head from another direction.

Feng Sen lowered his body, and at the moment when the wooden stick arrived, he pouted the long stick in his hand, blocked Arvo with the strong sword body with the long stick close to his hand, and at the same time stepped forward suddenly, taking advantage of the strong moment of the strong sword body, Push forward and stab Arvo in the throat while parrying.

But Arvo's speed was too fast, her vigorous figure moved like a phantom, took two steps back, and took this opportunity to knock Feng Sen's long stick away with the shield, and diverted the strength to the side.

Feng Sen flipped his wrist, and passed the long stick to Arvo's moving hole as if he had eyes.

In order to avoid the thorn, Arvo's body almost fell to the ground, but following the inertia of the rapid movement backwards and the shift of the center of gravity, she miraculously stabilized her body again.

Feng Sen would not let this opportunity go, he swung his long stick and smashed it at Arvo's head. Arvo backed up again, but not completely.

While retreating, the moment the long stick brushed her forehead and fell, her body bent into a V shape inhumanly. For a moment, her lower body was moving backwards, while her upper body was leaning forward.

The round shield stood up, Arvo's expression was ferocious, and the iron-clad round shield slammed fiercely on Feng Sen's head, which was wide open. If it was an ordinary person, the blow would probably be red and white, but unfortunately, Sometimes it will be ten times at a time——Feng Sen kicked the round shield away with a forceful kick.

Arvo didn't react at all, and her body was thrown off balance by the huge force on the shield in her left hand. She wanted to raise the stick in her right hand to block it, but it was too late.

"boom."

The stick hit Arvo's forehead hard, and Arvo fell to the ground stiffly, and passed out. The last words she heard before she lost consciousness were Feng Sen's slightly relaxed laughter.

"From now on, you two are my slaves."

As soon as the words fell, Belvshka fell straight on the grass.

"Damn it, Belvshka! Invite Mrs. Kang here!"

Chapter 30 This is Chapter 30

Armed with a round shield, Arvo rode a horse to guard Feng Sen's side, watching these terrifying soldiers burn, kill and loot in the village with cold eyes.

Putting his gaze closer, Arvo turned his head to look at Feng Sen. Feng Sen was also looking at her with a half-smile, and Arvo turned his head away in anger.

At this time, Arvo cut off his hair according to the customs of Dan slaves, leaving only a little bit behind his ears, and also wore a black leather collar around his neck.

Arvo didn't understand why, why the Serisian was willing to appoint her slave as a shield girl even though she lost, and she also didn't understand why her sister and Uncle Halfdan were so happy.

In fact, at the beginning, Uncle Halfdan was strongly against it, Arvo could tell, until last night that Feng brought Uncle Halfdan and sister Fenner into the tent and chatted for half the night, then he changed his attitude.

Not only did they give advice to the giant-like man, but they also racked their brains to help him trick the gate of the village.

Arvo didn't know what kind of contract they had reached, but she didn't want to think about it again. Although she became a slave, she became a shield girl, good job!

Standing on a high slope, Feng Sen scanned the chaotic village below.

Even though this was a Saxon village, the Saxon auxiliary soldiers showed no mercy at all. They burned or killed them the same way, and they were even more vicious than the generals of the Tang army—they would also share their share of the spoils.

Those tall and strong men or those who dared to resist were all beheaded, while those who were slightly thinner and shorter had their right thumbs cut off and taken back as slaves.

Although the killers under his command clamored to kill all the embryos every day, Feng Sen still stuck to his heart. He thought he was a kind and kind person who respected life, how could he kill casually?

Feng Sen has always been the persona of an envoy of justice. There are seven or eight Beijing temples in forty villages. This justice is almost done, not to mention that the construction of Beijing temples is very tiring, which affects his visits.

Besides, Feng Sen is indeed enforcing justice, all he suppressed were bandits, why do you ordinary villagers put weapons and armor in your home?You said you weren't a bandit! ?

Why are you so strong, an ordinary villager?Said it was not a bandit! ?

Although your family has no weapons and is not strong, why are there so many valuables in your house?Said it was not a bandit!

However, even if they are bandits, the benevolent Feng Sen is willing to give them a chance to reform themselves, cut off their thumbs, and go to my territory to atone for their sins.

"Jie Shuai, we caught that Yot, boy, he hid it in horse manure, we almost didn't find it." Zhang Shicheng rode over excitedly, with a rope tied behind his horse's buttocks, and pulled a A strong Saxon warrior half-walked and half-dragged.

"Your name is Yot?" Feng Sen turned his horse's head and asked with great interest, "Why do you help the Dan people rob their own tribe?"

"Bah!" Yoth, whose legs were bloodied, spit at Feng Sen, his eyes were red, "They are not our Saxons, they are Franks, and they are Frankish dogs!"

"No, they are not Franks. They live on the land of Hamburg. They are Han." Feng Sen got off his horse and shouted to the Saxon auxiliary soldiers beside him, "Go, call Feng Yi and Feng Er."

When Feng Yi and Feng Er tied Yot to a tree, screaming and stabbing and cutting flesh with a knife while crying bitterly, Feng Sen called Zhang Shicheng.

"Ah Cheng, how many villages have we looted so far?"

Zhang Shicheng scratched his head: "Excluding those small tribes that have reached a secret agreement with Belvshka, there are about [-] small tribes. If it is said that the winter rations are already enough, shall we continue?"

"Are there any traces of the pursuing enemy army nearby?"

"Found it, they're not far away."

"Take someone to check. If there are not many people, let's continue." Feng Sen stretched.

This group of Danes and Saxons didn't know why they had so much food, grass and livestock. Feng Sen was just planning to have an autumn breeze, and the Danes were also poor, so he couldn't go too deep.

If you don’t get much, and you may fight a battle with the regular army if you stay for a long time, it’s not worthwhile. It’s better to let them save up and come back later to carry out sustainable fishing.

Just looking at it now, good guy, luxury weapons and armor, cattle, sheep, livestock and horses, as long as there are one or two warriors in the village who can fight, there are a lot of these things in the house.

Then the nature of this trip has changed. The output of breaking a village is definitely higher than the input, so what are you waiting for?What a catch!

Feng Sen felt that with such an income, the planned [-]-household system could be arranged in advance, and the start-up resources were these food and grass.

The so-called one-hundred-household system is actually similar to the Mongols' thousand-household reform and the Ming Dynasty's land reform, or a way of thinking.

According to the local Saxon tradition, the inheritance of the chief of a tribe is not inherited by the eldest son, or even by the son after the death of the father. Of course, the opinion of the previous chief is also very important, but it is definitely not up to the level of the imperial order.

When a chief dies, the elders or small chiefs with high positions will start to elect. The tribal tradition from the ancient Germanic makes this behavior naturally legitimate, and the law of the ancestors is immutable.

The elders will hold an assembly and vote for the most worthy or powerful one among the chief's relatives and sons. In the famous game Crusader Kings, this inheritance method is embodied as the Saxon inheritance system.

And Feng Sen's Hundred Households Plan is, first of all, to cultivate a group of powerful leading parties. This group of leading parties may not be able to inherit his father's position as chief in the future, but through Feng Sen's reward and strong support of Feng Sen's force, they will definitely Will become a powerful figure in the tribe.

The seeds of the leading party are the one hundred members of the forced military investigation team. Feng Sen will grant them the title of a hundred households, and grant them technology, strengthen their strength, make them become heavyweights in the village, and help them Seize power by force or peacefully.

In the future, Feng Sen will gradually replace the position of chief with the virtual hundred households. The only difference is that the hundred households can be inherited by the eldest son, but the chief needs the elders to vote.

People are selfish. In comparison, a son is definitely closer than a relative who can't be reached. After working hard for most of his life, the family property was instantly given to others when he died. Who will bear it?

Of course, the biggest role of the hundred-household system is to break the barriers between tribes. People in this era have no concept of nationality. The so-called Saxons are just three big tribal alliances that speak similar dialects and are relatively close in blood.

The traditional Saxon tribes fought with villages as units and clan blood as the link. In other words, they were in the form of a confederacy. There were often situations where people did not obey orders when fighting and did not belong to each other.

The most important thing is that they often put the interests of their own small village first. It’s okay to fight with the wind, but when they fight against the wind, our army is often defeated and then they disperse. Warriors are about to be annexed by other clans.

Santel Mountain is an obvious example of battle—clans with close relationships form an army formation together, and clans with no relationship form their own formations, disobeying each other's orders, and fleeing immediately when the situation is not good, but they are defeated one by one.

The one-hundred-household system is to break the blood relationship, allocate all villagers according to the number of households and fields, suppress large tribes, strengthen small tribes, and even seal one hundred households in one village to another village, or seal two hundred households in one village. household.

Feng Sen had to break up these Saxons before he could firmly grasp it in his own hands.

Note that there are thousands of households above the hundred households. The thousand households are appointed by Feng Sen himself. They are basically selected from the hundreds of subordinate households. The thousand households have the right to adjudicate tribal conflicts and distribute spoils.

You see, as a hundred households, if you die too many tribes, other tribes cannot annex you. Even Qianhu will try to make up for you in order to strengthen its own strength. Even if you fight bravely, you can become a thousand households. Even entering the court as an official, it is clear at a glance who to listen to and who to please.

And the beginning of all this is to strengthen these leading parties. To put it bluntly, most of the time, feelings are not worth mentioning in front of interests.

So in order to win over these leading parties, the poor and scumbag Feng Sen needed a grant, an angel investment from Vidukind.

This investment, you can't come by yourself by sitting at home, you have to fight for it yourself, and you can't be timid.

Chapter 31 Leading the way is shameful but useful

The north wind howled overhead, rolling up countless yellow weeds. Feng Sen's 400-man army had gone through the looting and had already achieved one man and two horses.

This time, they did not attack the villages and towns near Lübeck. They were already prepared, and it was not easy to rob. Under the leadership of Belvshka, Fenner and some other prisoners of war, Feng Sen turned in for two days. Instead of attacking any village, they quickly maneuvered to a rich seaport town - Kiel.

In fact, there is a very uncommon sense thing, that is, Denmark is not cold, but has four distinct seasons, and the snow rarely falls. Its land is flat and not barren. Denmark is actually a big undeveloped granary.

In the future, Denmark will be a food exporting country, exporting two-thirds of its agricultural products every year, including wheat, butter, pork, beef, etc., with well-developed agriculture and animal husbandry. It is known as the "European Kitchen" and its arable land accounts for more than 60.00% of the country's land.

Kiel is now southern Denmark, a seaport town in northern Germany in the future, an important city of the Hanseatic League, especially the opening of the Kiel Canal made it a lot of money.

What a place!Feng Sen couldn't help sighing. Thinking of this, he looked back at the dazed Arvo again. He looked so naive, and he didn't look like a gentleman.

Although Kiel has a great future, it is just a small town with a population of over a thousand people. Of course, this is for Feng Sen who is from the Central Plains and the future.

Compared with the surrounding settlements of one or two hundred, Kiel is quite a large settlement.

Feng Sen raised the horizontal knife in his hand high and swung it down towards Kiel. Two teams of Tang cavalry rushed out from the formation behind them and rushed towards the settlement.

This settlement seems to have heard the rumors of "Odin's Whip". People patrol every dangerous intersection every day, but they can't escape, and the fence can't stop Feng Sen.

However, the Dan and Norse warriors of Kiel did not intend to flee. Being far away from Fengsen's raiding area, they were not as afraid and defensive of the Jingnan army as they were in that area.

In the open space in front of the village, patches of black-gray soil were exposed, covered with gray-white rocks covered with hoarfrost.

Amidst the shouts of panic, more than 200 Viking warriors, led by several warrior leaders, lined up in three tight rows, with shields standing one by one on the field.

"Roar—" the Viking warriors uttered a battle cry.

"It's quite formal." Standing on a high slope, Feng Sen looked down.

In front of a large flat plain, there was no favorable terrain such as bushes, forests or swamps, and they had no time to create obstacles such as horses, so they just stood on the plain so carelessly.

Unlike the villages they plundered before, the people here are obviously richer, and the armor rate has even reached [-]%, although most of them are leather armor.

"Woo--" a horn sounded, and under the leadership of Zhang Shicheng, the cavalry began to accelerate, and their iron hooves stepped heavily on the ground, splashing countless dust.

Although most of the opponents belonged to light armored units, Zhang Shicheng did not bump into them directly.

First, after arriving at the battlefield at a constant speed, the cavalry of the Tang Army began to accelerate, and when they reached fifty steps in front of the formation, they began to slow down, and the Viking warriors also pressed against the shield wall and stretched out their spears.

The expected impact did not come. When the Qingqi of the Jingnan Army approached the Viking shield formation, the formation of the neat charge suddenly turned, and the Vikings were caught off guard. It was divided into two strands and scraped across both sides of the shield formation. .

The Qingqi of the Jingnan Army pulled out the short javelins and inserted their fingers into the rope-wrapped finger cots. At the moment of speeding past, more than 40 javelins got into the formation of the Viking soldiers under the acceleration of the rotation of the ropes.

At least seven or eight Viking warriors fell to the ground, and their weapons collided. When the Vikings shrunk their formation again, another long-blowing horn sounded.

"Dum—————"

Behind them, the sound of countless bowstrings snapping suddenly sounded, and the feathered arrows were like a fishing net, heading towards the rear of the Vikings.

"Turn—" the experienced Viking warriors shouted in despair, but the other Viking warriors panicked. He turned around clumsily, collided with others, was knocked to the ground, or was pierced through the leather or iron armor by the armor-piercing heavy arrow with the special shovel head.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Tang Jun's cavalry drew their sabers and spears, and rushed back amidst the neighing of their horses.

Sabers and spears fluttered back and forth among the Viking warriors, and the blood drew long bright red lines in the air.

It has to be said that although the Viking warriors were primitive, their morale was really high. The two teams of Tang cavalry had to rush back and forth several times, and even dispatched the projectile light infantry composed of Saxons to defeat them.

As for Feng Sen's Tang army soldiers, three cavalrymen were rarely damaged. They were hit in the head by a Viking warrior's throwing ax and died on the spot.

Although it hurts, Feng Sen knows that this is a common thing in military affairs after all, and there is no way to do it.

After the formation of Viking warriors was eliminated, only ordinary residents, women, children, old and weak remained in the Port of Kiel.

Under the trampling of iron hooves, countless houses were knocked down, countless gates were kicked open, and the residents screamed in misery or fought to the death, but in front of this group of professional warriors who practiced martial arts every day besides eating and sleeping, their resistance was like the last ray of fireworks on the firewood, fleeting.

The Dan people scattered and fled, as long as they didn't resist or didn't wear any delicate clothes, the Tang army soldiers let them go.

Riding a flying mane, Feng Sen arrived in front of the village. The icy cold wind covered the freshly condensed blood soil with a layer of pale red hoarfrost, and the horseshoe made a creaking sound when it stepped on the blood frost.

The sky was gray.

The corpses were lying here and there, and a team of Saxon auxiliary soldiers dug a hole and began to burn the corpses to prevent the disease.

The other Saxon infantry went to the town, and cooperated with several teams of Tang cavalry to start looting. The thick bloody smell mixed with the pungent smoke smell was extremely disgusting.

On the other side, Belvshka, Arvo, and Finn expertly organized the Danish slaves, and even went into battle to help them heal their wounds. These Danish slaves will become Feng Sen's Danish heavy infantry battalion in the future.

Don’t think that the Danes will not give allegiance to others. As long as the means are appropriate, it is common to show allegiance to the killing of one’s father and enemy. In this era, even the concept of nationality has not yet appeared. In terms of how people recognize the enemy and ourselves, the basic principle is that the same belief means the same race , Paganism is heterogeneous.

In the huge settlements, hunting and tearing were not uncommon, but although the Tang army wanted to plunder, they would not kill unless necessary, and they would kill those who needed to be killed cleanly and decisively.

Feng Sen can't let them develop the habit of killing and killing indiscriminately. Once this habit is formed, anyone will be regarded as the same as livestock in their eyes.

What does an army of people like livestock look like?Just look at Qin Zongquan's cannibal army and flesh and blood mills. This kind of army looks bloodthirsty, but in fact its combat effectiveness is rotten. Feng Sen can't let his army suffer from this problem.

Since the settlement was not small, this raid lasted for half the afternoon. Just as Feng Sen woke up after taking a nap, a Qingqi brought him a piece of news that lifted his spirits——a town twenty miles away. In the forest, they found traces of the Dan coalition forces.

"How many people are there?"

"A group of scouts said that there were nearly 1000 people in total, and 200% of them were riding horses. A group of scouts said that there were [-] people, and [-]% of them were riding horses." Zhang Shicheng reported to Feng Sen while sitting at the table in the military tent.