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And the possibility of scooping up the bandits.

Black eats black, physically eating the enemy.

The green skins who readily agreed, led by their warlord, launched a rush attack.

Afterwards, the bandits and the bandit knights also rose together, and it seemed that they were full of power. The fall of Worms City was only a few days away.

It was at this moment that the Jews reluctantly paid one-third of the tax for this donation, which meant that the day when they built their own church would have to be postponed for many years.

Bishop Willikis sitting on the top of the wall understood.

This is a game of big fish eating small fish and small fish eating shrimp.

It's the greenskins who want to kill the bandits, the bandits who attack the greenskins, the bandit knights who attack the bandits, and Huo Teng who sneaks up on the bandits.

However, the weak city of Worms can only accept Horten's soft blackmail.

"I don't think Huo Teng is suitable to stay in Worms City. Let him go where he came from. A monk who is too ambitious is not worthy of our retention as a trainer for the next generation."

Chapter 99 Thousand Layer Routine

The church is also a place where camps are mixed.

Although the Roman Catholic Church is one of the main leaders of the Catholic Church, its power over localities is far less intense, dark and cruel than what later historians describe.

At this time, there was no great division between the Eastern and Western churches, so the nominal Europe, under the blessing of God, was composed of the Eastern Roman Emperor and the Western Roman Emperor (the Western European Church and the Frankish nobles thought it themselves), as well as the Pope and the Emperor. Universal Empire under the Patriarch of Constantinople.

Therefore, the position of the Pope of Rome, even though Italy had fallen two centuries ago, was still mostly maintained by the Roman remnants.They control the center of the Holy See, and they have conflicts with the diocesan bosses who have great local autonomy.Archbishops from various dioceses came together to form regional alliances or rivalries.What is more common is that there is a difference in the understanding of the doctrine, resulting in a difference in philosophy, which leads the bishops to oppose each other. Although the formation of cliques cannot destroy you theoretically, it can physically destroy you. .

Not to mention, the nobles who assassinated the pope in Rome, the noble bishops who usurped church property in the localities, and so on.

Therefore, Bishop Willikis, as one of the most respected people in Germany, cultivated his successor Burgard in advance to inherit the influence in Li, and systematically expounded and disseminated his knowledge of the Bible, as well as the church and the The Christian understanding, the thought contained in the resulting book.

To put it bluntly, it can be understood as a church leader.Because Willikis not only passed on the scriptures, but also wanted to pass on his status and the geographical scope of his control.

In fact, although Burgard is in a good state of character, ability, and execution, he has almost fully accepted the most basic biblical theology and promoted Willikis' views, but Burgard is now heading in one direction. Did not show good transformation.

That is strategic vision.

Due to the lack of this key ability, Burgard is particularly capable of executing the political situation in Franconia, and the phenomenon of nobles oppressing the people is gradually worsening. The combination of the two led to Burgard's forced nobles and citizens They demolished the city wall together, but there was no way to protect the safety of the people at the moment when the bandits were rampant. Such an embarrassing situation.

Therefore, when Burgard is already in his 40s, their faction should also find a young hero and a rising star to train as a successor.

It is not necessary for this person to be born in a big noble family, just a small noble.Must be a church member and have grown up in the church's training.He must also have an excellent strategic vision, a good command of war and the art of diplomacy, in addition to the most basic, but also the most proficient theological ability.You must be able to write your own letters, debate with the bishop, and establish your own prestige.

It can be seen very clearly that although the church has always supported the emperor's centralization policy, and at the same time advertised itself as the key cornerstone of the unification of the empire, when the church has real power in control of a large territory, it must follow a lord.

There are not many suitable candidates.

As long as there were similar elites, he would have already stood out.

But Huo Teng, who happened to be the monkey grandson who jumped out of the mountain nest, was as impressively powerful as he was.

When Monk Morris came to inform him of his record, Willikis and Burgard decided to test the monk who was born in the church to see if he had the possibility of inheriting the great cause.

The current view is that no.

Although Huo Teng is proficient in Latin and the Bible, he is basically an outstanding talent who can get a position in the church without taking exams, but in his bones he still has the competitive style of nobles.Although pretending to be a Christian, who has ever seen a bishop who breaks the fast day, cheats, and deceives everything?

So, because of the 5000 gold, Huo Teng didn't know what an important opportunity he had lost.

If he can be trained by the faction of the Archbishop of Mainz, within ten years, Huo Teng can prepare to take over and serve as the chief speaker of the Imperial Parliament, fighting against the emperor and nobles in various places. There is even a very small probability, Elected to be emperor.Because the emperor Conrad II has just been mentioned because of the election, there has been confusion in the rules of the emperor's succession within the empire.

In the past, they must be the descendants of Emperor Otto, but now due to the extinction of the heir, they have become close to those who can.

However, is it Huo Teng's wish to work for the church?

……

"Damn it, waggggh!"

In the early morning, the green-skinned orcs who got their allies to act together gathered together, urging the giant to rush to the city of Worms with them.

The social structure of the Greenskins is very special. The bottom layer is the child-sized farts, the middle layer is the big children's goblins, and then there are the orcs who are bigger than ordinary people. Very happy.Grots are often put into something similar to a slingshot by orcs and shot at the city wall.

The armament of the orcs is very simple, but they have a destructive gene similar to nomads, which can always bring great destruction.Just like the Magyar cavalry nearly a hundred years ago, they almost wiped out the entire Kingdom of East Frankia.

The guards of the city shot arrows extremely nervously. Facing the general attack of the orcs, no less than ten people were dizzy and fell directly from the partially intact city wall to their deaths.

In the middle of the fierce battle, the city of Worms extorted a sum of money from the Jews, and then collected money by itself. Finally, it took out 5000 gold, and then informed Huo Teng's envoy.

Huo Teng then urged the coalition of robber knights and bandits to follow the plan.

In this way, the first act of black eating black kicked off.

The two gangs of bandits and robber knights are nominally attacking the city, but they have nothing to do with each other, as if they want to live forever in this city.After a while, they pretended to be exhausted and began to move towards the green skins, attacking the green skins from the east and west of the city.

The thing is, greenskins aren't that stupid either.They could tell at a glance that the two groups of people were not friendly.

At this time, Huo Teng had already crossed the river with his army and went to the rear of the robber knight.

Then, the big drama of eating black and eating black began.

Although the green skins found out that they were being blacked out, it was a pity that the giant they belonged to pulled their hips again.After he failed to attack the city, he simply lay back and couldn't get up when he was pressed in the middle of the green leather army.

This caused the greenskins to be artificially divided into two parts.

These two people have not yet been able to communicate freely.

So under the attack of bandits and robber knights, the green-skinned orcs, who were in a great panic, began to flee into the forest in a panic.

This is the green skin. When there are many people, they are very courageous.But if the formation is chaotic, or if they feel tired or scared for some reason, they will also dissipate at an extremely fast speed.Many battles against the green skins with the weak over the strong are to persist in fighting until the morale of the green skins collapses.

That is to say, you can't fight hard.

However, just as the citizens of Worms kept cheering for this, they were surprised to find that the bandit knights under the city were still regrouping.

Knight Sbier of Bristol took the lead in attacking the bandits.

"The 5000 gold coins are ours!"

Shouting so loudly, they charged at the bandits.

This is the opening of the third big drama of black eat black eat black eat black.

No matter how bad the bandit knights were, they were also ruined knights. Dozens of knights only attacked in one wave, and the bandits had nowhere to escape, so they could only run away together among the green skins.The allies who turned against each other just now are now joining hands again to form an alliance to find their own new world.

Obviously, this dark drama also had to have a hilarious ending as a stepping stone.

When Sbier of Bristol was still negotiating with the allies about the share ratio, Huo Teng's army appeared.

They have feudal knights in costumes, young and vigorous retinue knights, and foot professional corps equipped with chain mail and armor. Their uniform posture is much better than the appearance of robber knights.

No matter how stupid the robber knight is, he should know that he has been cheated.

Horten deceived them and used them as cannon fodder.

"run!"

The robber knight immediately led his subordinates and mixed into the fleeing team of greenskins and bandits.The Big Three who besieged Worms could be regarded as a reunion in the midst of failure.

The fourth act of black eat black eat black eat black eat black, that is, the grand finale begins.

Afterwards, Huo Teng leisurely came to the city of Worms and called the door.

Although the journey was quite far this time, it was a very cost-effective deal to get a lot of money without going through a war.

However, Huo Teng forgot that after the grand finale, there will be a grand finale!

Bishop Willikis sent someone to report: "5000 gold coins are too expensive, and I am willing to pay [-] gold coins to buy this victory, plus a group of church personnel to support it."

Huo Teng was dumbfounded.

This is black eating black eating black eating black eating black eating black eating black.

Chapter 100 Special: The Story of Siegfried

Huo Teng, who admitted that he did not have the strength to conquer Worms City, accepted the offer of three thousand gold coins.

However, he was also very unwilling to fail like this.

So after entering the city, he immediately found Bishop Willikis.

"Bishop, do you think breaching the contract is a qualified behavior? I'm still in a hurry to go south to rescue Mrs. Shara in Saarburg." Huo Teng was aggressive.

But Willikis said with a playful smile: "Let me show you the way, young latecomer. You should seek advice from Mrs. Sara's father-in-law, Count Siegfried of Luxembourg. He is A man of true wisdom."

After all, Bishop Willikis didn't make things too difficult for Huo Teng, a rare military backward character in the church.

Can't always let the bishops lose the battle, can they?

As for Mrs. Shara, her ex-husband of the dead Earl of Saarburg was named Eritrud, of course it doesn't matter who he is.Who his father is is important.

The ex-husband's father was none other than Siegfried Luxemburg.Founder of the German Luxembourg family.This Luxembourg family, that is, the Luxembourg dynasty that reversed the long-term dispute between the pope and the emperor in history, and pulled the Holy Roman Empire out of the consumption of the Great Interregnum period.

Siegfried is one of the most famous figures in history.

He is the sixth generation descendant of Charlemagne (although this lineage comes from his mother, and her mother, a French princess, can't find out who her father is, only knows that her uncle is the straightforward Charles III), and his father Vivian Jerek is a Viking from Northern Europe, to be precise, Denmark.This Viking was very fortunate to be prominent in the Middle Franks at that time, that is, the Kingdom of Losalingia, and because of the early death of the king, he quickly became the court commander in charge of the national military command.At that time, West Frank, that is, the Kingdom of France, married the princess in order to win him over.

And this princess is Vijarek's second marriage, and the youngest of her children is Siegfried.

Siegfried's early history is unknown, even now to many people.But everyone knows that he went to Northern Europe and then served 15 years in the Varangian Guard of the Roman Empire.I don't know why he had an enmity with Emperor Otto's cousin, Bernard Biron, the then Earl of Saxony.The feud lasted for decades, and soon Siegfried found Emperor Otto and led the main army to go south. When attacking Italy, he entangled about 5000 troops in Denmark and went south to find Bernard Billon to settle accounts.

This Bernard Biron is actually the cousin of Otto the Great, and he has already been unparalleled in the Battle of the Ardennes Forest.The old Bernard and Bernard Jr. father and son were all inherited in order to inherit the demise of the Billund family back then.

Then, Siegfried and Bernard fought an earth-shattering battle near the Arden Forest in 957, that is, 41 years ago.

Siegfried had only [-] troops, of which [-] were Danish conscripts, and [-] were his own Varangian guards, which he called the 'hearthfire' guards.This army has followed him in the north and south for more than ten years. It can almost be said that they are brothers of flesh and blood. They regard each other as a city wall and are extremely brave and loyal.

But he was dumbfounded as soon as he got out of the burger.

Because Emperor Otto was probably afraid of losing the war with the Italians and Magyars, so he took away the legion in the south of the empire, but only left the elite of his own Duchy of Saxony, including Saxony, Thuringia and Anhalt The army directly under the three earls totaled 1.2 people.

Generally speaking, in such a sudden situation, a normal general should run away immediately.

But Siegfried didn't want to, he just wanted to fight, he wanted to have a blood feud.

So Siegfried first sent troops to rob a lot of wealth, and then set up an array near the monastery in the Arden Forest.

He arranged the troops from Denmark in the monastery. In order to prevent these troops from escaping, Siegfried piled up all the logistics materials and the wealth he had robbed in the monastery.And he himself, together with the Varangian guards, hid in a large meadow that was more than one meter high a day earlier and stayed up all night.

No one expected that such a tough Varangian guard could stay with him all night.

At that time, Bernard Billon, as the emperor's cousin, wanted his son Henry Billon to become famous in this battle, so he handed over all the heavy knights to his son Henry Billon to lead.

However, after the 1 people won a fierce battle with the [-] Danish army all morning, they were red-eyed because they saw the countless wealth accumulated in the monastery.They completely lost order, and robbed the wealth at their fingertips in a mess.

This scene made the nobles who were knights envious, and they urged Henry to come forward quickly, otherwise everyone would not be able to grab anything.

Because of this, the main force of this army, knights and heavy infantry, walked into the big meadow.

But at this time, Siegfried, who seized the opportunity, caught fire, and the entire army collapsed, completely reversing the situation of the battle.

The raw material for his fire is a local specialty of the Ardennes Forest: asphalt.

The Romans had long learned to play with asphalt, but it was in 957 that the Germans experienced the power of asphalt for the first time.

Henry Biron was beheaded by a nobleman named Hermann Varange, and Bernard Biron died of worry because his only son died in battle, embarrassing Otto.

At that time, Otto the Great, who was defeated by the war between the North and the South, finally had to accept the defeat of the Arden Forest Battle.

He made Siegfried the Earl of Ardennes as the price of reconciliation.Then Siegfried got Luxembourg and established his own family.

And Herman, who killed Henry, was ordered by Otto to remarry Henry's wife and inherit the prestige of the Billund family.Hermann took part of Siegfried's Furnace Guards and established a defensive line in Hamburg and Lüneburg.Hermann's descendants, that is, today's Duke of Saxony, Bernard Sr. and Bernard Jr.

After hearing this story, Huo Teng was dumbfounded.

Why, the son of the cousin who killed the emperor can still marry his wife and inherit his family?

Is this the law of barbarian tribe annexation?

What was unexpected was that his lover, Mrs. Shara, had such a close connection with his sworn enemy, the Billund family father and son of Saxony.According to this story, aren't old Bernard and young Bernard the sons of followers of Count Siegfried of Luxembourg?

They are the biggest beneficiaries of the Battle of the Ardennes Forest.

Huo Teng said: "So, after a few days of rest, I will go south to rescue Mrs. Shala and Saarburg."

He must go to the rescue.

Certainly not for the lover Mrs. Shara.

But for the old father-in-law, Count Siegfried of Luxembourg, the incomparably elite furnace fire guard in his hands!

It must be at least a legendary top army, an elite version of the Varangian Guard.