Chapter 56 (Celebration Monthly Pass)
Victory. A huge victory that can be boasted in front of anyone! A total of 100,000 elite heresy army collapsed under the attack of the believers of God, and more than 30,000 died on the spot! More than 30,000 were killed and captured on the way to collapse! In the Battle of Naples, a total of nearly 70,000 heresy army was wiped out, and less than 15,000 casualties on its own side. This is really an unimaginable victory!
After experiencing such a victory, the last bit of concern for King Egil of the coalition forces completely disappeared. As expected, the famous scholar - no, it should be said that Egil's actual command ability and the guy influenced by Piaotianyi were forgot to call out the title "Messiah!".
And when Egil also waved to the soldiers excitedly, and announced loudly: "This is the result of our joint efforts! We will share such great physiology and glory together! At the same time, I will continue to lead you to obtain more and greater victory!"
After this, the cheers became even louder, like thunder. It even made the Naples defenders more than ten kilometers away hear it. Amid such a huge sound, these Eastern Roman defenders, who had been scared, were trembling. Some even thought that the other party had begun to attack the city regardless of the night. As a result, it caused chaos. Even many Eastern Roman soldiers trampled on each other in the chaos and died like this.
After receiving the news, Narcis felt heavier. He thought about it but couldn't think of a way to improve morale. If this continues, then when the enemy formally attacks the city, the Eastern Roman soldiers may not be able to make any decent resistance. Naples will be defeated.
"If it really doesn't work, I'll push it to Sicily by boat first. Let's talk about anything until then." In the end, Nalcis was ready.
At the same time, the vast majority of the coalition soldiers in the coalition camp had returned to the camp. Because of this victory, their lords and kings became particularly generous. In addition, the supply provided by the Northern Italian merchants who were advancing with the army. In the entire coalition, all the soldiers were provided with a large number of food that was abundant in this era - even a bit luxurious.
Buckets of strong liquor, large chunks of bacon, and large chunks of buckwheat bread, as well as various other wild game, smoked sausages, etc. The soldiers laughed, drank happily, ate and chewed. Some bards and jugglers - many of them were gypsy, or Bohemians (without the Principality of Bohemia).
They played, danced, sang songs, and used so-called crystal balls to pretend to be magical fortune tellers. Some gypsy girls were taken to secluded corners by one or more soldiers as prostitutes. Some soldiers with bad personalities also pulled out the prisoners they captured, insulted, beaten, and wanted to humiliate. Other rude soldiers laughed aside. The entire coalition showed a pathological and abnormal excitement.
The nobles and knights were treated better, with better wine, meat, and beauties plundered from here. Some drunken nobles were drunk and fought with bottles. The companions who were also drunk were not stopped. They just asked their servants to steal the swords of the fighters quietly so that they would not cause any death.
"Such sins... God, please forgive these people." Sister Joan of Arc, who was in the limelight during the daytime battle, could no longer bear it. But with her identity, even persuasion would probably not work. As long as she hid in her tent and prayed, she would not go out, and she would not be upset.
"Can such an army really represent the holy God? Or, will God also provide blessings for such an army? Or, God himself - what am I thinking?"
Although it was only a little bit. But after seeing this scene, Joan of Arc's faith in God was inevitably shaken...
At the same time, unlike the civilian soldiers and ordinary nobles, the commanders of the coalition forces stayed in the largest and most luxurious tents, enjoying the best treatment, the best wine and the best food. A large number of candles made of beeswax were carefully placed on the huge candlesticks made of gold by the servants, and the tent was as bright as the daytime. Although this could easily cause accidents such as fires. But it seemed that everyone present did not care about these.
As the commander of the coalition, Egil was naturally highly sought after. Both the priests and nobles rushed to flatter him, comparing him to Alexander the Great and Charlemagne. He said that his wisdom was more than Solomon, and he received more than Moses, and so on, and even a little bit of absurd suspicion of blasphemy.
Egil was toasted the most. Various delicious wines, honey wines were placed in gemstones and exquisitely carved golden wine glasses, and they were brought to Egil by nobles. Whenever Egil drank a glass of such wine, a series of cheers burst out from the crowd - he is the protagonist! He is the star of today! It is the most conspicuous existence in the entire Catholic Church today! Although other monarchs have also been sought after to varying degrees, they will add a sentence intentionally or unintentionally: second only to His Majesty Egil.
That is to say, Egil is an irreplaceable, unique, the most powerful and most eye-catching existence.
Egil was equally extremely excited - not entirely because of the flattery of these people. Look at the guard knights around him, the commanders of the Thousands of men, the squadrons of the Royal Knights - these real, Egil's confidants and direct descendants never said such flattering words. Because they knew that they could share the glory that Egil had.
Egil was really excited for two reasons: First, the legendary Eastern Rome was actually just that. If the previous battle that took place outside Bologna was because the opponent underestimated the enemy, coupled with the number of troops on his own, and all those participating in the battle were Egil's professional troops. Therefore, this battle fully proved that the Roman army was nothing extraordinary. Even a group of several countries, a coalition forces that did not even have a unified language and writing can completely defeat them.
Well, Egil completely ignored it at this time. There were a large number of heroes with stunts in the coalition. King Philip, Charlie, Duke of Burgundy, Joan of Arc and himself. There were four stunts in total. However, the opponent Nalsis had only one.
Of course, as long as you can win, you don’t have to worry about the rest.
The next day, although Egil drank a lot of wine, they were all wines and honey wines of low degrees. Therefore, the sober time was about the same as usual. The quality of life during the march was much worse. The girl in Gothic Loli maid suit helped Egil get dressed up. It took Egil more than an hour to make herself look like a person. Then he heard a messenger coming to report that the Greeks sent an envoy.
When Egil arrived at the tent and sat down, he waited for a while, and the other lords who didn't seem to have much sleep came late. Egil then called the messenger over, and when he asked, the messenger meant this:
Hopefully, the truce of the war can be temporarily halted, so that both sides can restrain the corpses on the battlefield. Egil thought for a moment and agreed. It was not because he felt sorry for the Greeks. But because those corpses were kept there and smelly, it was easy to break out of plagues. In this year, the medical system was backward and they were almost dead. If they had plagues, they were almost dead. It can even be said that plagues and war were like brothers.
Before, when Egil was fighting in the north, he had the help of the cold weather and the Timberwolves. Egil didn't care much about these things. But in Italy with a warm Mediterranean climate, we must pay attention to these things. In fact, even if the Greeks themselves did not propose such things, Egil would send people to clean up the battlefield.
After Egil agreed to the conditions stated by the Greeks, the Greek envoy was obviously relieved, and then he wanted to say a few words of scenes to regain some face. However, as Egil looked at himself with a smile, the sarcastic words were swallowed back into his stomach. He silently bowed to Egil and left hurriedly.
"A slowdown plan?"
After the messenger left, Philip II, who was sitting on the chair next to Egil, frowned and asked.
"It's indeed a delaying strategy, but it's not those guys." Egil chuckled. Then he winked. Several guard knights behind him immediately walked out of the tent and were alert to the surroundings.
"People, please take a look at this." Egil took out a letter written in papyrus from his arms. Philip II took it over and saw that it was written in Danish. He couldn't help but frowned and returned it to Egil. Then he asked directly: "What is it written on it?"
Chapter completed!