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"Okay, then I can put all my heart and soul into fighting Huo Teng without any worries."

Old Bernard patted the squire's chest, smiled and picked up his weapon.

Like Huo Teng, a long spear and a shield made of the teeth of the sea dragon.

The attendant hurriedly offered the chain mail specially made for old Bernard, and after binding the straps, the attendant noticed that old Bernard's body was shaking.

"Don't panic, I'm not ready to die yet."

Old Bernard put on his Viking helmet himself, and walked out of the tent with his spear in hand.

Outside the camp, the Saxon knights had already shared breakfast.

Everyone tacitly buried all the leftovers after eating.

"My warriors. The road to heaven or hell is not far away. As for me, I don't plan to live anymore. I have explained the funeral with my family and arranged for Dimar to pick me up. I will It’s safe to die here. But I can die, and you can die too, but the name of a Saxon warrior cannot die!”

As the voice gradually decreased, the voice became more and more shrill.

The old Duke yelled fiercely: "You have eaten all of them, and you will not be able to go to heaven, so go to hell with me! But how can I be willing not to drag Huo Teng into hell together!?"

Yes, why are you willing?

The Saxons can lose, but their reputation cannot be lost again and again.

After the old Bernard gave an order, all the Saxon army knocked on their shields and called out his name.

Bernard, the power of the bear.

The huge sea dragon, about several meters high, with gray and black scales reflecting light, was driven onto the battlefield tiredly by the animal trainer.They haven't had enough to eat for two days, and today they've swallowed only bony food.The human beings above the city of Nottheim couldn't be more tempting to them.

The ferocious six-headed sea dragon and half-sea dragon, as the tank pioneers of the Saxony army, monsters whose heads were higher than the city wall, ran roaringly.

Behind them, there are countless Saxon knights who have committed crimes autonomously, charging on foot or on horseback.

This earth-shattering and ferocious charging posture, as soon as it was opened, the militiamen on the top of the city were frightened and panicked, and they were chopped down by the supervising team.

Huo Teng slapped his thigh and stood up.

"Warriors, who has God chosen?"

The soldiers roared: "Gottingen people! Gottingen people!"

"Who is destined to win?"

Caron with a loud voice took the lead and led the mercenaries to shout: "Huo Teng! Huo Teng!"

Huo Teng stood with the soldiers on the front line, knocking on his shield: "That's right. God has chosen us, why should you be afraid? We will surely enter heaven, even after death, we will be guided by angels Go down to God's Garden of Eden, fear not, Lambs, Heaven is calling!"

Chapter 170 Nine Spines!backbone!

Deep clouds like mist and mist, like a curtain like a dream, shrouded this originally peaceful land, and a great war that shook the northern land was developing with hundreds of twists and turns in the eyes of everyone.

Huo Teng won again and again, and when the Saxons he was beating dropped their helmets and armor, their reputation was like a rocket flying into the sky. People thought they saw the rise of another northern overlord; the Bernard family was undefeated, and even When the loser had to let the old Patriarch come forward, the Saxon Knights even once had the idea of ​​standing up to reproduce tribal rule and overthrowing the Billund family.

But overnight, Huo Teng's camp on the Rumer River was in flames, and Bernard's Sea Dragon arrogantly stepped through the desolate fields in early winter.

When the giant sea dragon appeared in the field of vision, the city wall of Nottheim was instantly lowered by a head, and all the soldiers stared at the monster that they might have never seen in their life.

"Pikes on the trebuchets! Stand up all the javelins!" Huo Teng shouted hoarsely, "Squatting down is death, stand up straight and let the Saxons see the tenacity and unity of the people of Göttingen!"

Under Huo Teng's urging, the Göttingen soldiers straightened up when Hai Long arrived.

He straightened his waist, and seemed to have regained his energy.

Spears!javelin!Throwing stones, all the tactics that can be used against Hai Long in the world are all used.Some soldiers even picked up the wood on their own initiative, stabbed and smashed Hai Long's head.The people's tactics are great. One or two spontaneously raised a stick of wood to hit Hai Long's head is nothing, but a dozen sticks of sticks swept across repeatedly, causing one sea dragon to withdraw from the battlefield with a broken tibia in advance.

Excited, Huo Teng took out the few gold coins left in his pocket with his own hands, and threw them to the few soldiers who had meritorious tactics.

But the animal trainers of Lüneburg are not giving up.

After a short discussion, they used extremely expensive special attack tactics, and piled up the remaining five war behemoths on a city wall to attack, and this was precisely a corner that was difficult to defend, without the protection of trebuchets.

The people of Göttingen panicked and rushed to reinforce.

The Saxons erected temporary ladders nearby, and continued to climb up the city, exchanging blood for blood, flesh for flesh with the Göttingen people.

The five sea dragons were driven, and they hit the city wall with their bodies, and then hit it again. All kinds of weapons, such as wood, boulders, and clods, greeted them together, and immediately fell two and a half sea dragons.

But Huo Teng felt the city wall shaking under his feet.

Imdin, Earl of Notheim who was carried by his side, hurriedly said: "I remembered, this city wall was repaired later, and it collapsed during the Slavic war."

"Why didn't you say it earlier!"

Huo Teng almost twisted his nose in anger, but at this moment, the shaking was still increasing, causing Huo Teng to lead the people to retreat to the next section in a hurry.As soon as he walked on his front foot, the city wall collapsed on his back foot.

One side of the city wall collapsed suddenly, and the situation of the two sides competing for the victory was instantly condensed in this collapsed pit that could only accommodate three people side by side.

When Huo Teng hurriedly looked back, he was stunned to find that the collapsed city wall was clearly a key part of the stairs, which just happened to hold Huo Teng and the surrounding guards on the tower.When Huo Teng's guards were about to take Huo Teng to the east, they noticed that the Saxon knights had chopped down the infantry spears here, cutting off Huo Teng's back route.

At this time, there are countless strong soldiers in front of them, as brave as wild beasts, and behind them are wearing armor and jumping off the cliff where ten deaths will never happen.

"Don't worry, we are also the strongest warriors back to back."

Huo Teng raised the Sea Dragon Spear aloft, and pierced the neck of a Saxon knight with the aura of a beast. While pulling back a little bit of morale, he couldn't save this sudden battlefield disadvantage.

"Hoten Bowenden, it's not too late to kneel down and offer the ransom!"

Among the Saxon knights, one after another, Low German persuaded them to surrender, and Horten responded with a more ruthless attack.

Bernard was standing at the bottom of the city at this time, pointing at Huo Teng, and beside him was an extremely strong knight who looked like a member of the Black Dragon Knights. He drew his sword and climbed up the ladder to Huo Teng, who was still pushing and shoving the shield, struggling to support him. Before the battle.

"Huo Teng, surrender or..."

Suddenly, before the Black Dragon Knight finished speaking, Huo Teng straightened his waist and threw away his shield, waving his sea dragon gun with both hands and ran out of the guard formation like a tiger. To this black dragon knight.

For some reason, the destructive charge attached to the Sea Dragon Spear was displayed when Huo Teng was not riding a horse, so Huo Teng's spear pierced through the black dragon knight's chain mail like a hot knife cutting butter, and the slender sharp blade pierced through the chest, breaking With the power of wind and thunder, he pushed Sea Dragon Knight and the two people behind him, piercing them like candied haws.

The corpses of the three people were hung on the spears, and Huo Teng, who was desperate and desperate, ran directly to the city wall. With a shake of his hands, the Saxon warriors on the ladder fell from the three corpses.

Huo Teng, who had completed the almost impossible charge, immediately held up the Sea Dragon Spear and roared: "People of Göttingen, be tough, be tough!"

The morale of the Göttingen warriors at the Castle of Nottheim was boosted.

But Huo Teng's guards risked their lives to protect Huo Teng again with their shields, and at least seven people fell down.

And the Saxon army is still continuously climbing up the towers and damaged gaps, trying to capture and kill Huo Teng in this good opportunity given by God.The residents of Nottheim on the ground were already in a daze, and they were in a chaotic mess, constantly trampling on each other.If Huo Teng wanted to show kindness and take them in, he had to bear the corresponding price.

Now comes the price.

Even if Göttingen's army rushed over to support it immediately, it was blocked by the people, resulting in the reinforcement of its own side not being as strong as the enemy's.

At this critical moment, only one person stood up.

Or Amelia!

The lady in charge of supplies actually raised two cans of asphalt from the warehouse that had just been baked and heated on the stove. Without any weapons, she rode a horse and rushed all the way through the turbulent people.

The Saxon warrior looked at Amelia, who was as valiant as the wind, and watched her break through the Saxon infantry line with two cans of burning pitch in her hand, and then turned and threw it gracefully, and then watched the flames and pitch rising from the gap, That's when I realized something was wrong.

They are locked inside.

The Göttingen soldiers rushed forward to protect the unsuspecting Amelia, wiped out the Saxons who were separated by the burning asphalt, and then blocked the gap to continue the fierce battle with the enemy.

And on the top of the city, Huo Teng, who almost cut off his beard and discarded his robe, finally waited until the Frankish mercenaries led by Caron, slashed wildly with a big sword, hacked dozens of Saxons to death, and rescued Huo Teng from the dead. out.

"Damn it, this is the first time I, Caron, have worked so hard."

"Fuck you...it's the first time I've worked so hard." Huo Teng's legs were weak, and he could only let the soldiers drag him away.

Seeing that they had lost such a good target as Horten, the Saxons hurriedly mobilized their troops again. The archers led by Greb gave up suppressing other directions, and hurried over together and took out the precious armor-piercing iron arrows to shoot directly. Only after the head of the Saxon warrior stopped the enemy's frenzied counterattack.

On November 11th, Horten fought fiercely with the Saxons for 19 hours, from morning to afternoon, from sun rise to sun set. More than 9 people were killed and more than 400 people were injured, and [-] civilians and militiamen were killed or injured. People, thousands of casualties in one day!

Terrible, so terrifying.

It was so miserable that when Huo Teng lit the bonfire and cremated his body, he realized that maybe one out of every four people around him had bid farewell to this world forever.

The next day, the Saxons may have eaten up the last bit of food, and they fought again for days despite the heavy casualties.

Huo Teng even felt a sense of numbness during the high-intensity fight.

Whether it is the enemy or his own subordinates, it seems that the brain is filled with lead and will only obey the orders of the command.This is a symptom of extreme mental stress and external stimuli.Once it reaches this point, if Huo Teng makes any mistakes, the army will probably break immediately like a taut string on the spot.

Huo Teng, who had no choice but to hope that this string could hold back.

Don't crash.

Don't crash!

On October 10, five hours after the hacking, at noon, the Saxon army began to retreat one after another, but gave up halfway to continue the fight.

After two days of hard fighting, Huo Teng noticed very unexpectedly that the morale of the Saxon army was like a surging river, which never returned and collapsed at a straight-line speed.

On the third day, the Saxon army was already in high-intensity continuous combat, and under the dual torture of unsustainable food and exhausted soldiers, it was almost impossible to arrange a qualified offensive formation.Of the six war behemoths that came, only two of them were able to move. The two and a half sea dragons died directly under the city wall, and the other two were seriously injured and recuperating.

"Bow! Bow!"

Huo Teng called the archers to shoot arrows at the enemy.

This is a long-range shooting that can be easily blocked by shields, but there are many people who walk straight, get hit by arrows straight, and finally almost commit suicide and fall to the ground.

This gave Huo Teng one of the most basic intuitive feelings, that they were already like walking dead, reduced to the same death seekers as those refugees who had no food to eat.

In just two days, the Saxon knights who killed Huo Teng once wanted to escape and burrowed into the ground, so the morale was so low?

For a moment, Huo Teng felt a little complacent.

It's a pity that he touched his neck, and thinking of the shame of almost cutting off his beard and robe, Huo Teng also became murderous.

To the surprise of all the knights and Göttingen fighters, Huo Teng issued a shocking order:

"Attention all, make room for the knights to mount their horses, and the decisive battle is now!"

The morale of the enemy plummeted, and the Göttingen fighters also had lingering fears.

As long as you hold on firmly, you can win, why go out of the city to fight in waves at this moment?

Huo Teng gave this answer: "Standing on the city wall and defeating the Saxons in the knight's charge, is this a concept? We are not turtles and dogs, we are Göttingen people, and we want to fight with dignity. Immediately compete with the old bastard and let him know our integrity!"

Chapter 180 Father-in-law, take a stab at his son-in-law

At noon on October 10th, Huo Teng sat on the tower, tore off half of his sleeve, put charcoal on it, and wrote a letter of invitation in Latin, word by word, line by line.

As the only language at this time, perhaps nobles can speak dialects and slang on weekdays, but this is the only choice when writing.There is no situation of using dialects to write Latin pinyin, because even pinyin words have not been created.

Folding the war book, Huo Teng also specially prepared ten large dough cakes, which are dead dough cakes in the traditional sense, or unleavened cakes, and gave them to Bernard as a gift.This cake is like the pancakes you see every day.There are also fermented cakes, similar to the pot helmets eaten by northerners, and a variety of pasta, which is also very different from the daily understanding that Europeans only eat bread.According to the traditional wedding etiquette, Huo Teng should have enjoyed the tranquility of early winter with his new wife at this time, but he and his future father-in-law fought endlessly in the northern wilderness, which was embarrassing.

During Mass in the Roman Catholic Church, dead bread was used for the Eucharist. This small difference later became the trigger for the great division between the Eastern and Western Churches.Huo Teng specially asked the sender: "Give the bread to my future father-in-law. It's the end of the month of spiritual refinement. It's time to celebrate Mass and eat Holy Communion. The originally agreed wedding date has also been overdue by four or five days. I have complicated feelings and don't know how to express them, so let these ten pies represent my heart and my mood at this moment."

The sender was a local squire from the Earl of Notheim, who was eloquent on weekdays and was appointed as a messenger by the public.

The principle that the two armies are at war without killing each other basically applies to all war scenes, even the barbaric Magyars know it.After the Saxon army found the messenger who handed over the letter of war, they brought him to Bernard.

After reading the message, he paid attention to the ten big cakes next to him. The old Duke asked, "My son-in-law who hasn't arrived home yet, did he explain anything to you?"

"No...no, he...he just said that all his heart is on these ten big cakes." The squire who can speak normally is also speechless at this moment, not knowing how to respond to the giant northern bear Regards.

Bernard snorted twice in disdain, and the furrowed face showed obvious anger. Just when many Saxon knights thought that the old duke was going to stop there, old Bernard suddenly exploded, overturned the tables and chairs, and wrote the gauntlet. Both Dabing and Dabing were trampled in the mud by him.The precious communion bread fell to the ground, and the messenger who sent the letter of war had already knelt down, with his forehead resting on the toe of Bernard's boot, not daring to move at all.

"What kind of bullshit is all your thoughts in the noodles? From my point of view, it's clearly hiding evil intentions. You want to ridicule me as stupid as this noodles, don't you? You want to scold me for being as rigid as this noodles? You want to expect me to be like this noodles Also, was he devoured by a group of gluttons during Holy Communion? Well, you go back and tell him that tomorrow I will have a decisive battle with him, and we will have a decisive battle between the two armies!"

Bernard was furious, prowling the room like an old brown bear.

The Saxon knight didn't dare to stop them, so they looked at each other and acquiesced to Bernard's opinion.

It is of course a great thing that Huo Teng was able to leave the city for a decisive battle, but it is a pity that his grandson was not caught two days ago, otherwise this war would have ended long ago.

……

On October 10st, maybe God knew very well that today would be the day to decide whether the northern hegemony would change hands, so he specially gave a good day with clear sky and pleasant wind.

Huo Teng walked out of Notteheim Castle together with the soldiers, and stood on the opposite side of the Saxon army formation with nearly [-] knights and cavalry, and more than a thousand spear regiments and archers.

After more than a month of long battle, the Saxony army was the same as Huo Teng, with only more than 1000 people left.Even so, most Saxons are still pale and emaciated, appearing to be malnourished.

Perhaps the old Bernard has long known that at this moment, pinning hopes on the military rations that could not arrive is actually not much different from daydreaming.

He rides a giant brown bear shoulder-higher than a war horse, with shiny fur and sharp eyes. This is a well-known war bear. It originated from the animal trainer camp in Lüneburg and saved Bernard's life in many wars. .

Huo Teng has more than [-] knights and more than [-] retinue cavalry, but compared to the Saxon army, they are a bit weak. Therefore, Huo Teng, who is on the defensive, ordered the infantry to unite and form a powerful hedgehog formation to match the Saxon army. contend.