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More importantly, the beginning of the Renaissance in the twelfth century represented that this backward civilization on the edge of the world began to lay the foundation stone for progress.Without the prelude to the Renaissance in the 12th century, the subsequent Renaissance, etc., are all nothing but spectacle.The Renaissance in the twelfth century also easily punctured the false impression of the "Dark Middle Ages" in people's impressions.If Dante's "Divine Comedy" really brought civilization to the dark Western Europe, where is the cornerstone of civilization?Castles in the air cannot survive.

Therefore, at the dawn after the darkness and before the light, Huo Teng was convinced that the food needed by an army of thousands of people could not be met by looting at all.

After all, in this era, the yield per mu of land in this area is extremely deplorable...about 50 catties, not as good as the Warring States period.Throughout Western Europe, the land is often planted once and harvested twice, or even planted once and harvested once. A family needs 13 to [-] mu of land and the blessing of animal husbandry to maintain their livelihoods.This is when the yield per mu of land rose to more than [-] catties per mu in the [-]th century.It is no wonder that such a backward and embarrassing situation will develop manor-style agriculture and towns.Without the hedgehogs together, they cannot survive.

Therefore, under the premise that the hard foundation did not meet the standard at all, Huo Teng still insisted on letting the army stay in Lala City.

The residents of Lala City were also very enthusiastic, and even hoped that Huo Teng would not leave at all, and stay with the army to protect their safety.In the Middle Ages, such a situation often occurred, inviting strong people from other places to settle locally and become kings or lords.

Things, of course, gradually began to change.

The greenskins had apparently caught the stupid giant from the forest.

A common giant is a creature of low intelligence.Strictly speaking, they are not human beings. The society is in the primitive wild fishing and hunting stage. They can use sticks and harpoons, sew animal skin clothes, and usually live in small families or celibacy between forests and rivers.They don't go near human congregations if they don't have to.Occasionally, he would try to make some deals, but the giant's head was very stupid, and he often made a mess of the deal.But nature is not chaotic.

There are many varieties of giants.Those who are born evil and chaotic are called evil giants. Their biggest features are their one-eyed eyes and long black hair.

The big green-skinned warlord, a fat orc bewitched the giant with foul language, hoping that he would tear down part of the undestroyed wall of Worms and take the lead in attacking Worms.

The giant foolishly agreed, and moved forward foolishly.

Basically, he can be regarded as a human being who has been enlarged and stretched twice. His movements are relatively slow, and he lacks flexible conditions all over his body.So when the giant approached the city, the Worms immediately brought out a big killer.

A human trebuchet.

Dozens of men with big arms and round waists each stood under the trebuchet with a rope.

"shooting!"

The commander roared tremblingly, and the men roared together and pulled them forward vigorously.

So the power of dozens of people was transmitted to the arm of the trebuchet through the rope, causing the scattered stone shells to fly within a killing distance of tens of meters.

The giant suffered from the pain, and stupidly dropped his spear, turned and ran away, but trampled to death many onlookers.He has a basic IQ and is unwilling to charge hard.

The orc warlord's strategy failed.

The two groups of onlookers in the north were eager to make a move because of this, but they didn't put it into practice.

The envoys of the robber knights could even be seen entering and leaving Worms City, as if hoping to gain some kind of approval from Willikis.After all, he is highly respected and is currently one of the most important figures in the German Church.The Robber Knight clearly wanted to be given official status, while the Bishop seemed to have the strength to spare and was unwilling to budge.

This is the basis for Huo Teng's insistence on holding back.

He is convinced that in this world with mysterious power, he has reached the level of a national bishop, so why should he have some cards?Moreover, Worms is also one of the most prosperous cities in the entire empire, once close to the status of the capital.

If Huo Teng had a date or not, he would hit three rods, and he could still get a griffin with impure blood.

Although behemoths, giants, or any special powers may not necessarily determine the direction of the battle, in this competition of pecking chickens, there is a lot to do with it or not.

After that, Huo Teng waited for another two days.

The attack presided over by the green skins is obviously getting more and more hip, and the problem of the three forces attacking each other is getting more and more serious.Dozens of bandits or greenskins are thrown into the soup pot every day.

But Burgard, Archbishop of Mainz in the north, couldn't stand it.He even directly appointed a bishop to come to Lala City to urge Huo Teng to march in person.

Huo Teng was very helpless about this.

He asked the bishop: "Did you see the bandit group of thousands of people on the other side of the river? Dare I ask Bishop Burgard if he thinks that the two thousand dinar gold produced by the mint workshop of the Mainz Abbey is Can we let us die without hesitation?"

The bishop climbed up to the city wall to have a look, and his calf trembled three times in fright.

He understood Huo Teng's concerns.

"But...but the archbishop must ask me..." The bishop was still a little stubborn.

Huo Teng turned to seduce him: "But I have a good idea, which can provoke these bandits to fight among themselves. I need your help."

"Need me to be an envoy?" The bishop swallowed, ready to refuse.

"No, you just need to sit."

Huo Teng smiled meanly, which made the bishop shudder, as if he was being served on the dinner table.

Soon, through the fishermen on the river, Huo Teng sent messengers to the robber knights and bandits respectively.That was the slave captured by Huo Teng.

Since the two bandits were illiterate, Huo Teng had no choice but to waste two slaves to pass the message verbally.

"5000 gold coins?"

"Jews?"

"Defeat the greenskins?"

"After the fight, let's take the money and run away?"

If it was the beginning of the war, the bandits would never believe it.

But now, the granary has bottomed out, there is nothing to grab, and the exhausted state of cannibalism can only be involved. The two forces have no choice but to believe Huo Teng's lies.

Soon, they sent envoys to ask to see each other at night.

Huo Teng brought out the bishop of Burgard, put him in the room, and bragged to the envoy who came to see him: "Look, that is the most trusted bishop of Archbishop Burgard, just as important as the account manager among the bandits. He can testify that as long as you win the battle, we will give you the 5000 gold that the Jews used to build the church. You can go wherever you want.”

The bishop was paralyzed on the spot, as if struck by lightning.

He never expected that this guy from the north would be so courageous.

Not to mention the gold of the fictional Jews, but also the reputation of Archbishop Burgard as witness.

He wanted to refute so much, but the female knight beside him suddenly drew his sword, which frightened him to temporarily lose his ability to organize his words.

The envoy is relatively simple-minded and has never seen the world.

He saw that the bishop agreed, but you, as a church, also agree.

Therefore, the messenger went back to report happily.

Huo Teng, on the other hand, was treacherously preparing to counterattack.

……

"Turn against each other..."

"Anyway, we have a lot of grudges with those green skins."

"Just eat them, take the money and go."

"As long as we have the money and the meat (referring to the green meat), we can go wherever we want."

"That guy only has more than 400 troops, he can't stop us!"

That night, with the information secrecy methods of the bandits, of course it was a lonely secret.There was an uproar that night, and all the bandits and robber knights were discussing where to go.

Chapter 98 Black Eat Black Eat Black Eat Black Eat Black

Bandits and robbers are mainly proletarian hooligans.In the famine era, he came out and mixed into the bandit ranks in a semi-forced manner, not to mention the prospect of a year, even a week.

Huo Teng's practice is also very common, that is, to pay these bandits to go to another place.

In many cases, when the lord is unable to resist the enemy, bandits or anything, it is also a common method to pay the gods to leave.

But the bandit knights on the other side were a little awkward.

They lived in villages on the border between the Principality of Upper Lorraine and the Principality of Franconia. They had no officially recognized fiefs, but they had their own private land, serfs, and the most important horses and equipment.They are equivalent to semi-official gangs growing in corners that the official does not care about, sometimes white and sometimes black.

If you take Huo Teng's money, you will run away, but people can run away, but family business cannot.If you take the money and run away, you will lose the real estate and contacts in your hometown, so it is basically a waste of money and die; take the money and run back to your hometown, let alone Huo Teng, Willie Keith and Archbishop Burgard mobilize the people to crusade, it is difficult to pay back Think you can fight against it?

Run or stay?

At this time, among the robber knights, a robber knight who was born in the Earl of Brisgow, that is, the territory of the father-in-law of the Grand Duke of Upper Lorraine, who called himself "Speer of Brisgow" stood up and proposed: "5000 gold, Why should we share the bill with those mud legs? Why don't we urge the bandits and the greenskins to join forces first, and then we organize dozens of knights to make a decisive wave of knights' charge. After the fight, Huo Teng pays the money, and then we Retreat and leave."

"Who is Huo Teng?"

"I heard that it is a famous general in the north who just defeated the Duke of Saxony."

"Then he must have suffered heavy losses. I heard from the envoy that there are only a few hundred troops in the city, and there are still many farmers."

"It's probably a bluff. When I fought the Battle of Verdun with the Duke..."

These bandit knights mainly came from the border of the two duchies. You used all kinds of strange news to piece together a pretty good truth.

However, based on this, they came to an extremely outrageous conclusion.

That is to say, "Hotten who fights recklessly with the Duke of Saxony will inevitably suffer heavy losses" = "Our army is strong, and we have an advantage" = "Although we have fewer people than the bandits, we have more knights, so our winning rate is high, and it is easy to deceive the bandits them".

Through the derivation of these three prerequisites, the Cavaliers unanimously discussed and confirmed that they want to eat black and eat black.

Trick the bandits into a fight with the green leather, and then eliminate the bandits.

In the end, Huo Teng was calmly forced, or the citizens squeezed the Jews to hand over 5000 gold and take them back to their hometown.

"After returning to our hometown, we will divide the money. Then exchange territories, or go to other places to join relatives. No one should admit that they have besieged Archbishop Willikis." Robber Knight Spear said this, and was unanimously approved by everyone.

He's also been dubbed, "the smartest of us"

The robber knight found another knight who was good at talking, and went to discuss with the bandits.

The bandits are easy to fool, they just want to eat, they are so hungry that they are almost stupid.

The barren land production in this era really cannot afford to feed the large area of ​​proletarian hooligans who come to harm them.

Therefore, the bandits chose to join forces with the Bandit Knights.

Don't worry about it, as long as you can eat green-skinned meat.

Thus, the Robber Knight passed the news of their alliance to Lala City.Of course the robber knights were not stupid, they hoped that Huo Teng would show some sincerity.

"Sincere?"

Huo Teng thought about it carefully, he actually didn't have any cards in his hand.Even food is supported by local people.

If there was any sincerity to be said, Huo Teng suddenly took it from his heart.

"In this way, send all the weapons and equipment we obtained when we were captured before, including chain mail, to make them happy."

Huo Teng's order was very sudden, which made several knights who were rewarded suddenly and would be deprived soon very unhappy.Huo Teng had no choice but to explain to them: "How can I get 5000 gold pieces if I don't want my child to be trapped by a wolf, without paying a big price?"

So, to put it bluntly, Huo Teng had no intention of handing over the money at all.

He wants to have it all to himself!

While blasting the bandits and robber knights to work for him, fighting with the greenskins and the internal alliance, he also wanted to force the citizens of the city to collect the money for his life, and then put it directly into his own pocket.

For Huo Teng, this is a very suitable bounty.

When Burgard contacted Maurice and invited Mikhail to suppress the bandits on the Mainz Plain, he never said that there were thousands of enemies here.

5000 gold coins were enough for Mikhail to organize a professional army of thousands of soldiers to compete with Duke Bernard of Saxony.

If it was said that the robber knights were black and white against the bandits, then Huo Teng hoped to have a black and white fight.

……

Soon, this news was also learned by Bishop Willikis in the city as the robber knights let go of the road and the envoys sent by Huo Teng entered the city.

Willikis, who was born in the period of Emperor Otto the Great, is already over 60 years old. He is a highly respected old bishop and ranks among the top three benevolent people in the country.

As the actual manager of the city of Worms, under the bishop there are many priests, priests, deacons and other people who enjoy great and small gods.Just like the group of cardinals around the pope, assisting the bishop to rule the city.Although the corruption, corruption, and abuse of power are the same, at least they have read letters to God, and they are much more rational than the knights in the superposition state of barbarians, and even built a lot of urban facilities.

"This is not a naked robbery, what is it?" A priest criticized Huo Teng very dissatisfied. not enough?"

"Yeah. What a rogue bastard. I say, he should be sent back, we don't need his help!"

The priests quarreled, and there was a tendency to prefer death to blackmail.

"Quiet, everything is quiet." Willie Keith patted the table and said calmly: "I don't even think about the time when we were under siege, who is willing to come to rescue? If you pay 5000 gold coins, the whole city can be saved. If it is dangerous, then I think everyone, including me, will be happy to give generously. After all...it is not a lot to share."

Willie Keith has a unique perspective. He knows that now is not a matter of arguing about how much money to pay for his life.

It's a matter of surviving first.

"We can't use..." A priest was about to finish speaking when Willikis gave him a cold look.

He immediately shut up.

"Go ahead and arrange it. Highlight the Jews. Although I have always been tolerant of them, this time I will not allow them to protest."

It must not be forgotten that Bishop Willikis is a powerful bishop who has experienced several emperors, assassinations and wars in many imperial conferences.To clean up the Jews, no one understands better than the church.

……

A few days later, the greenskin troops, already hungry enough to eat themselves, were invited by bandits and robber knights to besiege Worms City from three sides together.

For these orcs, who are fewer in number and have lower IQs, this means a chance to eat.