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The two sides marched separately, and the war was in full swing.

But a discerning eye can tell at a glance that the Saxon army is exhausted, exhausted, its weak arms cannot wield a sharp sword, and its hungry body cannot withstand the torment of war.

They have been hungry for more than ten days, and even the steel warriors should collapse to the ground.

Soon, Saxony's foot fighters were defeated one after another.

So Bernard quickly rode on the war bear, surrounded by the most important Black Dragon Knights and the Hearthfire Guards, and on the left and right sides were Saxony's most loyal knights.There was no need for orders or words. The moment old Bernard drove the war bear to charge, all the Saxon knights, more than [-] people, whipped the horse together, urging it to move forward.

"How dare you rush into the formation of long spears? Are you crazy?" Huo Teng swung his whip and ordered the soldiers to stay still, trying to stab the mad Bernard to death with the spears!

To be honest, until Bernard led the cavalry to charge into the infantry spear regiment from the front, Huo Teng was still thinking that he would definitely turn temporarily.

In any case, it is common sense that knights should not charge infantry in formation!

But Bernard, what broke is this common sense!

He and the Saxon knights, like a surging tide, beat on the weak dam of the Spears.

Although the embankment did not collapse, it broke into several pieces, each unit of hundreds of soldiers held on to each other. Hundreds of soldiers died because of incorrect posture, failure to protect vital points, or simply being hit by the weight of the horses.The hedgehog formation that Huo Teng was so proud of was defeated by Bernard before it became famous.

"Come with me, Gottingenians!"

At this time, Huo Teng, ignoring his own comfort, raised the Sea Dragon Spear and the Gottingen Knights to launch a swarm charge and counterattack against the Saxons.

"Boy Huo Teng, your father-in-law is here!"

Seeing Huo Teng attacking on horseback, old Bernard fought with his spear.

"Father-in-law, take a stab at your son-in-law!"

Huo Teng's [-]/[-] Griffon Bloodline Kuai Ling rode like a thunderstorm, bringing up a hurricane of grass and flying birds, and rushed towards Bernard without any hesitation.

And the giant bear that Bernard was riding shook the mountains when it ran, like a running boulder or a rolling mountain, shaking the sky to welcome Huo Teng's charge.

Son-in-law and father-in-law, riding a gun against a gun.

The old and fierce duke who is unwilling to give up his power, and the young and young earl who is impacting authority.

At the moment when the weapons were about to collide at the moment of three meters, Huo Teng suddenly lowered his body, tilted his shield, and blocked old Bernard's old but still powerful blow.

Old Bernard saw the failure of riding the spear, and stabbed the back of the riding giant bear with the broken blade in his hand, making it stand up in pain. De withstood Horten's pistol.

The two horses collided, Kuai Ling wailed, was hit by the giant bear and broke the bird's leg, and then fell to the ground with Huo Teng.

Bernard's giant bear was impacted by Horten's Destruction Charge, and the long and narrow lance pierced the spine of the bear's back, causing the tame monster to lose its life in an instant. The lance tilted to the ground along with the giant bear.

The leaders of both sides, in the midst of all the attention, fell down at the same time.

Chapter 180 Praise of Sacrifice

To be honest, when Bernard fell, Horten's thoughts were simple.

He wanted to know, how much can the old guy sell for this body?

It's no wonder Huo Teng has such an idea. After a year of increasing grain production in his Göttingen territory, he has an annual income of more than 2000 gold. He still needs to pay a huge amount of money to invest in the army and construction. The annual balance may be far away. Not up to the luxury level.But what if you add a duke's ransom?

Taking the Romans as an example, the value of a nobleman ranged from [-] to [-] to [-] Nomisma.The Pope's ransom may be as high as tens of thousands of gold coins, and a city in Italy can also gather thousands of ransoms.

Therefore, if Bernard is caught, Huo Teng can squeeze out tens of thousands of gold.

Poor ghosts can squeeze a little bit of oil, let alone the most powerful man in the north?

But before his excitement reached the peak, the pain from his arm made Huo Teng unable to move, and he wailed endlessly.

In order to fight, Kuai Ling was hit by a giant bear and broke his thigh. Huo Teng was also crushed on the bird, and his right arm was gloriously broken. Whether there are other hidden injuries may need to be identified by the doctor of the monastery.

The old guy lay on the ground, gasping for breath, trying to escape on foot.Although in name, the nobles in the Middle Ages all had the right to gain life safety after surrendering.

Having said that, not all captive transactions between nobles were peaceful and dignified.For some nobles with very low moral character (in fact, most of them), they will use various methods such as imprisonment, torture, torture, soft abuse, etc., to force the captured nobles to spit out an extremely huge sum of money, which he cannot even obtain in half his life. ransom.Some knights were even tortured to death because of this.

Just as the priest in Normandy said, "all captives who have no money should be hanged", wealth is a guarantee of personal safety and a burden.When the pursuit of ransom has become the trend of the battlefield, it has also become a trend that everyone acquiesces in asking the captives to spit out huge ransoms.

Who doesn't want to squeeze a wave of wealth and freedom?

"Kill!"

"The duke is down?"

"Where's Bernard?"

At the moment when the two sides fell to the ground together, the two armies showed very different postures.

If we say that at the beginning of the war, Huo Teng's army was still in a relatively weak situation, and the two sides had a [-]-[-] winning percentage, but now the Saxon army is like a tower made of sand, which will shatter and collapse when the wind blows, and each turns its head. run.Especially those ordinary knights from remote areas such as Westphalia and Anglia, the loyalty of the Billon family is far less high than that of the northern knights of Eastphalia, so they run the fastest.

The knight master ran away, of course he had to run with his own free peasants and small landlords. This actually triggered a chain collapse, which made the Saxon army who had the advantage just now and cut the Horten infantry into several sections, Impressively returned to the situation of being passively beaten.

"Come on, catch up with them quickly. Don't let any one go, they are all money!" Amelia stared at the galloping knights with shining eyes.Every knight is worth more than the equipment and horses on his body. It is not a big meal, but it is also a buffet level. If you catch more, you will earn more.

In fact, without Amelia's command, it is impossible for her to command the army at this moment. All the Göttingen army is chasing the Saxon ass all the way.

A small number of loyal ones went to rescue Huo Teng, and most of them followed the trend to capture prisoners and try to get rich.

But at this moment, the elite Saxon army suddenly concentrated their elite forces to counterattack, and there was a tendency to reverse the situation on the battlefield.

When Huo Teng was helped up, he was still watching the battle situation worriedly, but soon, he understood why it happened.

Although Bernard fell, his mighty Black Dragon Knights and Bloodkin Furnace Guards were still desperately moving forward, breaking through the crowd of retinue knights that Huo Teng relied on the most, and snatching away Bernard who was still panting. Duke.

Huo Teng's knights of course wanted to control Old Bernard, no matter if he was alive or dead, sharing the ransom would make them crazy rich.According to the tacit rules at this time, these knights who controlled Old Bernard could get a share of Huo Teng's ransom income.Usually it is one-third, that is, Huo Teng takes the big head, and the remaining knights share the small head.

As for the Saxon knights, those who were loyal to Bernard must not let Bernard fall into Horten's hands.This would mean the complete loss of Northern hegemony.Defeating the battle is not a problem. When Bernard was overwhelmed by the Slavic rebels on the Elbe River, didn't he also return in a big defeat?

As long as people are still there, there is hope of saving the situation.

They fought desperately and finally rescued Bernard alive.Due to the savior's eagerness, he didn't pay attention for a while. If they continued to charge forward, they might be able to kill Huo Teng and reverse the twists and turns of the battle.

Fortunately, as the Saxons completely lost their six war behemoths, Horten finally won the Battle of Nottheim which lasted for more than a month with great difficulty.

For a moment, Huo Teng almost closed his eyes and went directly to heaven.

[You have upgraded: available skill points: 2. 】

[Congratulations on obtaining the trait: The giant bear has fallen.+1 morale against the Saxon army, fear effect on enemies, +15% looting income after battle.As strong as Bernard, there will be a day of defeat. 】

[Congratulations on obtaining the trait: Burning Demon.Reputation of the Saxony region - 1. Can produce asphalt trebuchets.Although burning can incinerate the minds of enemies, it must pay the price of notoriety. 】

[Congratulations on getting the War Building: Behemoth Breeding Field.Every army needs these monsters, and while they eat a lot, the victories it wins you can be rewarded with the corpses of your enemies. 】

[Congratulations on unlocking the special material: Sea Dragon Scales.Warriors can be upgraded to Sea Dragon Scale Armor in the blacksmith shop, which is heavy armor. The current maximum number of Sea Dragon Scale Armor is 30 times.In the future, you can obtain sustainable sea dragon scale resources through monastery technology research. 】

A series of reminders brought Huo Teng back to reality.

[Complete the main task: Northern Bears dance endlessly.The long-sleeved and skilled Bernard, with a bayonet in one hand and money in the other, established the seemingly immortal Billund Dynasty for himself, taking the feudal territory entrusted to him by the Otto family as his own.Only you know that bears also have a day of fatigue and incompetence.Reward: Acquire traits (diplomatic experts: can use methods such as wooing, coercion, and coercion to complete diplomatic goals)]

Finally, the reminder that the task was completed revealed that the battle had finally reached its end.

Short, strong, and powerful, like a knight's charge, the final word.

Huo Teng was lying on the ground, looking up at the long sky, covered with white clouds, it looked like a fairyland on earth.

……

The Saxon knights ran all the way with the injured Bernard, ignoring the rest of the fleeing knights, and only wanted to bring the owner back to Lüneburg.

They crossed the Rumo River when they came, and once they walked and returned, the moods of the two places were completely different, as if they had passed away.

And at this time, on the opposite bank, there was a pretty and lovely girl in yellow dress, wearing a round cap and carrying a package. Accompanied by two tearful maids, she came to the bank gracefully.

"Ms. Goldilocks, absolutely not!"

The knights were astonished, and their pride compelled them to prevent the sacrifice of Godius Dieu.

"It's already this time, so why are there so many sophistry? If it's me who sacrificed, in exchange for father's peace, please allow me to go through the sea of ​​fire." Gaudius bid farewell to the Saxon knights with tears in his eyes, without hesitation standing on a pontoon bridge over the Rumer River.

At this time, even though the injury was not serious, the old duke, who was still pretending to be asleep to cover up his embarrassment, couldn't help crying out.

But even if he cried out in pain, Bernard, who sent his daughter to the monastery early, has no right to criticize Gaudius Dieu?

The Saxon knights left in embarrassment.

The knights of Göttingen came to hide and kill.

But a lady, who should have been in Göttingenburg by now according to the original plan, stopped everyone.

"I'm Goldiu Billon, and in accordance with my marriage contract with the noble earl... come here... to get married." As she said this, the girl's tears fell hotly on her palms.

She chooses to sacrifice.

Chapter 180 Second Fatal Blow

Victims, every moment, every country, every place, every village may have noble victims.

But frankly speaking, Huo Teng went crazy when Goldistein stood by the river and demanded to meet his future husband before leaving.

The Saxon Cavaliers should be grateful for the sacrifice of Goldistein.

It was the persistence of this helpless girl that blocked the way for the Göttingen knights to chase the captives. As a result, an unknown number of knights, who must have accounted for more than half of the fugitives, fled into the wilderness for about an hour.

These days, there are all kinds of monsters and ghosts in the wilderness.The man-eating green-skinned orcs alone are a huge obstacle to people's development of the forest. In addition, many kinds of wild animals, bandits in the countryside, even poisonous snakes and poisonous food, and lack of drinking water will cause people to die suddenly.The people of Göttingen can't afford to put their own lives in order to capture a few prisoners.

It can be said that the young 15-year-old Gotisdiu, relying on his own body, made Huo Teng lose the opportunity to catch Old Bernard and a large number of senior nobles under him.What is this equivalent to?

It is as if Arslan, the Seljuk sultan, had not captured Roman Emperor Romanus IV at the Battle of Manzikert.It did not completely destroy the rule of the Roman Empire on the east side at that time.It has completely reversed the fate of a country.

Of course, this is purely Huo Teng's self-promotion.

When the native Arslan led tens of thousands of cavalry to sweep the battlefield, Huo Teng would sell the pot for even [-] troops, which is really self-proclaimed.

But just after the big victory, who doesn't have vain footsteps and a flushed face, so that they feel buoyant?

As it should be, Huo Teng really couldn't contain his anger, and straightforwardly ordered Godis Diu to be taken away by force and placed under house arrest in the barracks.

It was sister-in-law Amelia who was in charge of the escort.

The female knight came to the river with her maids and guards, and saw the lovely and pitiful 15-year-old girl standing gracefully by the river, Amelia Mu Yan's heart suddenly rose.

Not for anything else, just because he is a famous family.

In this era when the class was relatively less strict, that relative was only compared to the high medieval period 200 years later.For the vast majority of people today, where you were born basically determines who you will be in the future.Only a very few of the very few can change their fate by relying on strong luck and studying to solve problems.The representative of the former is old Bernard's grandfather, but that is because he is too good at fighting, beheading the earl of Saxony's son in exchange for the eligibility to join the Billund family; the representative of the latter is the current first French-born Pope Sill West II, who is a famous contemporary astronomer, mathematician and theologian, went to the remote Iberian Peninsula to study when he was young, and studied at the University of Cordoba.

At that time, the Iberian Peninsula was controlled by Muslims.Thanks also to the fact that Muslim monarchs of the time tended to be slightly more tolerant than Christian monarchs.

For example, the Bowendeng family, an ordinary family of country knights, has thrown off most of the low-level nobles after owning their own fief, standing on the edge of hereditary succession and constantly testing.

Compared with the high-level, their family is a humble lower-level knight; but compared to the poor peasants and slaves at the bottom, the Bowendeng family is a standard master, and may be in the top ten percent of Western Europe.

In China, that level is about equal to the urban household registration in Beijing in the 80s and [-]s, and the vast majority of the poor are still in the countryside.

However, even with such a status, when Amelia saw Gottis Diu, her feet immediately took root, her envy and jealousy ignited at the same time, and she also raised her own thoughts.

The Billund family is the only family other than the descendants of the Otto family in the current empire. They are a branch of the Otto family, the old department of Emperor Otto the Great, and the boss of the Old Duchy of Saxony. These three elements are combined. , just one word, famous and powerful.He is fully qualified to compete for the position of emperor.

In Amelia's view, raising the status and threshold of the Bowendeng family requires the marriage of a veteran and powerful man like Gaudius Diu.

Although Huo Teng made a thrilling comeback to old Bernard on the battlefield, war is only a small part of noble life.

After Huo Teng marries Gotisdiu, his family has a first-class blood family, and can compete for the Duchy of Saxony and the throne of the empire according to the principle of matrilineal succession.

Leap and fly into the empire's first-class giants.

In contrast, the Countess of Conosha, whom Huo Teng had always admired, seemed a little thin.Her family is only a powerful family in the Upper Lorraine area, far from the noble blood of the Biron family.However, Adler and Huo Teng, the heads of the family, have a bad relationship and cannot support each other.

It is still better to have the title of Goldilocks.

She couldn't help stroking the child's hair with regret, and sighed: "Oh, what a poor child. Huo Teng said that he hopes to complete the marriage agreement with a Danish legal marriage. I hope that the object is Connorsa instead of you."

Danish law?

Another thunderbolt from the blue sky struck Gaudiu on the head.

Not only does this mean that the marriage is not orthodox, but it is a shame to place her, a nun in a convent, in the status of a heretic.

Because the Danish law originally originated from the special treatment of the wives of pagans by the nobles in the north.

Huo Teng would rather use a Danish law wife that is not popular in the Saxony area, but also marry the Countess Connorsa, which can only make the 15-year-old girl continue to lament her fate.

But is the journey of your own life limited to this?

Goldilocks was a highly educated woman who understood what resources she could use to escape her fate.