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In other words, the vicar is more powerful and prestigious than the general bishop.Of course, this refers to the vicar bishop relative to the archbishop.If it is only the vice-bishop of an ordinary territorial bishop, it is an assistant bishop, and the status is even lower.

About 200 years ago, the Diocese of Halberstadt was a relatively independent border missionary diocese subordinate to the Archbishop of Mainz, mainly used to spread Christianity to the Slavs in the northeast.After that, the diocesan cathedral was located in Halberstadt.It can sit for more than a hundred years.

But here comes the shameful thing.

In 968, in order to consolidate the stability of the Christian jurisdiction on the northeastern border, Emperor Otto established Magdeburg with a higher status and a larger jurisdiction in Magdeburg not far northeast of Halberstadt. Archbishop (or metropolitan) district.Obviously, it was fine to choose any of the two cities at that time, and it was even feasible to promote the bishop of Halberstadt to the archbishop.This is also regarded as a shame by Arnulf and other younger generations. He has been fighting for power with the Archbishop of Magdeburg for a long time, hoping to regain the status that never existed.

The establishment of this area not only cut away a large area of ​​Halberstadt's parish territory and territories, but also reduced the religious status of this area, and made Halberstadt more attached to the Archbishop of Mainz District, as its vicar exists.

In the eyes of the old cynic Arnulf, this is the bastards from all directions coveting the richness of the region.

I want to eat a piece of meat!

"But my lord, the letter from the archbishop said that he hopes you can choose a more merciful position in the war between Bernard and Horten." The priest was afraid of delaying the matter, so he opened the envelope on his own initiative, and reminded Ah Nulf.

"What is more merciful? If it is really merciful, this war should not exist... Wait, you say more merciful?"

Translation translation, what is more merciful?

Burgard, obviously favoring Horten Bowenden, had high hopes for this guy who came out of the ravine, made his debut as a priest, and returned home halfway.

This made Arnulf furious even more.

In the west there is a hungry lion that cannot be fed, and in the south there is an uncontrollable wolf.

"He won't let me? I just won't be merciful. Come on, prepare a batch of food for me, and organize people to send it to the military camp in the west. Is it possible that he, Burgard, can still punish me?" Bishop Arnulf is a stubborn donkey, If you tell him to go east, he will go west.Arnulf originally maintained a gentle attitude towards Huo Teng, who was born in poverty, but there was Bulgard standing behind him?

That won't work!

He wanted to send food to the Duke's barracks, and give Bourgard eye drops.

……

After talking about Halberstadt on the east side, return the perspective to Paderborn on the west side.

Here is also a trading town, with a traditional big city, a bunch of small villages, and a group of noble castles. Everyone does not directly interfere with each other, and each lives in its own feudal society.

However, the terrible news that the old Earl Val had his eyes gouged out filled the residents of this small plain surrounded by hills with righteous indignation, and they were united in a rare way.

In fact, Paderborn is quite far from the core area of ​​the Principality of Saxony, and the people here have more affinity with the people of Göttingen.

Local businessmen raised money and invited the most prestigious doctor from the monastery in Bremen, hoping to save Val's eyes.Bremen is the cathedral of the Diocese of Hamburg-Bremen. In addition to doing well in business, the monastery there also has a good medical level as one of their reliance on traveling in the north.

But this is obviously wishful thinking, and the eyeballs that have been gouged out cannot be restored.

"Don't go to Göttingen all the time recently. Huo Teng's two wives, the younger Jones is about to give birth, and the older Connorsa is very scheming. Don't be hurt by the quarrel between the two women." Val Lying on the bed, coughing and persuading his wife Selena.

"No? Except for the people of Göttingen who are willing to stand with us, who else do you think is willing to listen to my crying? Willing to listen to me, an old woman and mother-in-law, telling you how well you are?" Selina suddenly became emotional, and she Weeping and wiping away her tears, she complained bitterly about her husband's ruthlessness.

Is Val ruthless?

In the dark eyes, Val certainly has feelings.

It's just that this furious emotion is not love, but hate.

"I just told you not to run around. After all, next... Paderborn will also be in chaos. We... just sit and wait to see how old Bernard goes crazy and loses..."

Chapter 160 IX Let Daughter Be Bait

11 month 4 day.

Sir Geoffrey led hundreds of vagrants in the Harts Mountains and did bad things.

"Your grandma, you dare to stop me?"

Vagrants robbing robbers?

At the intersection over there came a knockoff convoy that had just sold a copper mine, and its leader was still making noise there.In the world of gangsters and robbers, there is really no reverse situation where robbers are robbed by vagabonds.

After all, it was a feudal society that had just escaped from the tribal era. Even the refugees who entered the mountains would have to become gangs of bandits oppressing each other.But compared with these guys, Sir Geoffrey's equipment is comparable to that of the refugees.

Have you seen the refined iron spear?

Have you ever seen a longbow?

Have you ever seen chain mail?

With the three axes and the chivalrous concealer on horseback, when this army spread its fangs in the mountains, it was already unstoppable.The organized refugee troops procrastinated in front, and more than 200 archers in the rear fired a volley to disperse the birds and beasts shot by the bandit cottage convoy who had returned with food for the winter, and dared not make any more moves.Those slave-like citizens were also captured into the team by Sir Geoffrey's kindness.

Continue to be a slave to Jeffrey.

The chivalrous knight carrying the black and white angel flag reminded Jeffrey: "Boss, although he didn't go back, it is said that there was a battle at the Rumer River, and old Bernard was seriously injured. The Earl should have an order?"

"Nonsense, can I not know this? Keep stuck here, and no foreign food is allowed to pass through here. It is to drive all the bandits here to the north." Although Jeffrey did not receive Huo Teng's order, But he had already guessed that Huo Teng would definitely attack the Saxons on the side attack front.

This was Huo Teng's usual operation.But when the topic came back to himself, Jeffrey played his own jokes.

He knew very well that this chivalrous knight from Saxony, to put it bluntly, was a variant of a robber knight, and he was nothing more than giving himself the reputation of robbing the rich and giving to the poor when he robbed.This original sin-like background always makes him seem not so gregarious in Huo Teng's system.None of the local knights liked Geoffrey very much.

But once he entered the Harz Mountains, where bandits and refugees gathered, and green-skinned orcs and mutant monsters lurked everywhere, Jeffrey felt an inexplicable sense of coming home.He is too familiar with this environment. He is good at sowing dissension and selecting qualified followers for refugees; he is also good at dealing with bandits and bastards.

Geoffrey, himself the steward of Millhouse Castle, longed for a fief of his own.But apart from those barren and barren black forests and swamps, Göttingen has no additional territory for Jeffrey to choose.

Now, Jeffrey has his eyes on the Harz Mountains, which produce iron and copper and have many basins and hills. He hopes that Huo Teng can support him to control the entire mountain range, a huge area comparable to the great uncle country.

How to consider the cleanup of bandits and greenskins, how to eliminate unstable factors, and how to feed so many refugees, Jeffrey has not yet figured it out.

But the only thing he knows is that he needs a shit-stirring stick like him to clean up the cesspit of Harts Mountain.

At that time, as long as Huoteng can be provided with qualified iron ore and copper mines, Jeffrey believes that he will be able to establish his own base in the Harz Mountains, establish the Jeffrey family, and live in the mountains for a long time.

Reasonable ideal.

Jeffrey believed that the people who flocked to Huo Teng, such as Greb and Caron, had similar ideas in the current situation of lacking the status of aristocrats.

"Boss, why are you driving them to the north?"

Jeffrey replied: "Drive these bandits to the territory of the Saxons. Count Titmar II, Earl of Haci in the Halberstadt area, must be overwhelmed? Let these hungry people find Food robbers, go to Titmar's knife to die, and leave us the spare cottages."

The chivalrous cover-up man, on the way to pursue the fief, does not appear to be so chivalrous.

He wants to drive all the bandits and robbers out of the mountain.Those low-level refugees will definitely not be able to escape, and they will have to come back sooner or later.This is Jeffrey's 'screening'.

"I am loyal to Horten Bowenden and seek to build our stronghold in the Harz Mountains. It will be called... Harz Mountain Castle."

Jeffrey walked with confidence.

All the funds and food for his army come from Huo Teng, which is the foundation of Jeffrey's loyalty and Huo Teng's confidence over Jeffrey.

……

The banks of the Rumer River are still thick with smoke.

Bernard Jr. and his younger sister, the young and beautiful Godisdiou, were sitting at the dining table. On the table was fish soup with a strong asphalt flavor.

The fish killed by pitch was poisonous, and even people at this time could roughly guess that all the poisoned fish were only eaten by the slaves who accompanied the army because they had no meat to eat.

However, now, less polluted fish is also served on the table of the duke's children.

Deprived of his military power, his reputation discredited, and recently he dared not even go in and out of the camp tent, the young Bernard yelled cynically: "What crap, what about bread? What about food, why don't you prepare it for me?"

Gaudis Diu on the opposite side was sad, but the sensible girl still comforted her brother: "It's okay to eat once... After all, the knights below are almost out of food, so we all bear with it."

rations.

A matter of life.

For this matter, feudal lords usually appoint a special person to be responsible for the preparation of food.Maybe a merchant, or some kind of landowner.

In most war situations, the army will not have too many wars across the mainland. Of course, the food is brought with you, and if it is not enough, it will go to the countryside to grab it.With the gradual expansion of the empire, the local manor system that Otto the Great relied on at the beginning further collapsed. The logistics provided by the country were very poor, and foreign wars often occurred in Italy, so the army was forced to develop long-distance combat and looting Local, oppressive landowners and aristocrats stink.

The Saxon Cavaliers robbed a lot of food in Italy last year.

But before and after the Rumer River, there were only two targets worth plundering.One is Goslar and the other is Paderborn.

Who are you robbing?

Just when Bernard Jr. was on a hunger strike and threw the pitch fish to the ground, while Gaudiu was still swallowing the foul-smelling fish meat, there was a sudden commotion outside.

Goldilocks arranged for a servant: "Go and see what's going on."

The servant went out to take a look, and hurried back to report: "Something has happened! Sir knights... It seems that they just went to the villages and towns of Paderborn to sweep and rob, and caught a lot of pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks."

Raid Paderborn?

The poor knights who were like devils going to the countryside brought hungry sergeants who could not find their way to the north, and they were more ruthless than devils in sweeping the countryside.

Gaudistius was terrified, and hurried with her servants to find her father, Bernard.

"How can you do such a thing? Count Val of Paderborn and Ms. Selina are your long-standing supporters..."

Who knows, Bernard said indifferently: "It's not anymore. When his loyalty is shaken, he will no longer be your supporter at all. He is an enemy, an enemy, and he must find a way to suppress and eliminate opponent."

What Gaudiu didn't expect was that Bernard's next sentence was: "You and the battalion take the initiative to retreat. Be sure to tell Huo Teng the news about you in the barracks. I will lead my knights , Fight a beautiful ambush!"

He wants his daughter to be the bait.

Chapter 170

Huo Teng knew that the war was not over yet.

Otherwise, why can't he see his loot and stat boost?

But this special help has now become a burden.

Huo Teng and several of his subordinates lay down in the grass by the river, found a hollowed out wooden stick, and compared it to a telescope to look at the Saxony barracks on the other side of the river.Naturally, there was no concave-convex mirror in the stick, and the Saxony barracks did not make a decisive move as Huo Teng wished.It seems that they just keep dispatching cavalry to leave the barracks, and return to the barracks with something from time to time.

"The Saxon, should we withdraw or not?" Huo Teng rubbed his stubble, lying in the grass, puzzled.

If you want to leave, the system's victory prompt should also come.

Otherwise, why do the Saxons seem so leisurely?

Even allowing the knights to go hunting every day, this is not like retreating or continuing to fight fiercely.

The Earl of Göttingen, who has no image at all, is thinking about breaking his head at this moment, but he can't imagine that old Bernard is almost out of control of the barracks.These knights who have suffered miserable defeats are like cruel beasts. When they win or lose, they always have to eat something to relieve their hatred and fill their stomachs.

"Boss, it seems like they didn't just go hunting, they also robbed houses and robbed a lot of food." Grayb was drooling, and his good eyesight as an archer allowed him to spot the chickens and ducks on the carriage.

There are wild and domestic pigs, wild ones can kill people, and domestic pigs can also kill people.But the chickens and ducks were definitely snatched from nearby villagers.This is the most convenient way. After hunting pheasants, you have to go to the lake to kill a few wild ducks and put them in the car.

"That's right. It seems that the food shortage problem of the Saxons has not been alleviated. They definitely don't have our warehouse and logistics officer. Our earl is still awesome, and he is so smarter than Bernard that he doesn't know where to go." Caron took advantage of the situation. Huo Teng's flattery.

"That's right. Our soldiers have to engrave wooden records for two meals a day, can they?"

As for Huo Teng, under the praise of the two cobblers, although he is a little self-aware, he is still a little bit smug.

"Get up, let our army quickly cut down the big trees, leave the biggest log behind, and call the carpenters to cut the planks. We can't let old Bernard just walk away like this." Huo Teng got up and slapped the butt off Xiaocao thinks that he should take advantage of the victory and pursue it.

Taking risks, but not all taking risks.

Horten already sensed the tense political atmosphere in the Principality of Saxony.

Little Bernard was defeated at the Rumer River, and Old Bernard took over the army to fight and lose again.Huo Teng believes that these two pieces of news are superimposed, and those families who once opposed the Billund family will definitely take action.If old Bernard was allowed to run home with all his beard and tail, those who wanted to make trouble would probably be torn to pieces by old Bernard's assassins and combined vertical and horizontal methods. In the end, he still sat firmly on the Duke's chair .

Wasn't the battle of Narumo River in vain?

Need to give old Bernard a knife in the ass, open your eyes.

Huo Teng is the heir to military science on paper. If this does not give old Bernard a vivid surprise attack, Huo Teng feels ashamed of his predecessors.

……

In the next few days, Huo Teng asked his soldiers to cut down trees everywhere. After the whole trees were brought down, they were dragged by cattle directly to the barracks for storage without any treatment. , cutting the planks to make long ladders with reinforcing ribs.It's just this ladder, it doesn't have a crossbeam for the legs, but it's flattened and inlaid into the wood.

In addition, in order to prove old Bernard's intentions, Hortent specially selected a few more Saxons, crossed the river and ran to the camp of the Saxon army, pretending to be small businessmen who came to do business nearby, and wanted to inquire about news.

"You guys, stop for me!"

As a result, these people were surrounded by Saxon knights just as they set up their stalls.

The leading knight was aggressive: "My good fellow, we have robbed several times, and there is still someone who dares to come here to set up a stall?"

It turns out that although there are unspoken rules that it is inconvenient to offend traders who accompany the army, but under the premise that your stomach is screaming with hunger, can Master Knight let you go?In the past few days, Master Knight led his hungry sergeants to plow the fields and squeezed out all the small traders and prostitutes in the camp, and let all those who came to do business run away.

Therefore, in the empty and messy camp, these few vendors were unexpectedly conspicuous.

"Master Knight, spare me!"

The Saxons fell to the ground hastily, begging for forgiveness.

The gentlemen asked the attendants to snatch their stalls to see that they were all worthless odds and ends, and they were useless if they couldn't eat them.Then let the sergeant snatch the dry food in their pockets, and then drive them out.