Chapter Eleven Kindness and Cruelty
The war had already concluded from the beginning. The city defense team, which had a total of only 1,500 people, could not be the opponent of the 80,000 Norman army after losing the cover of the city wall. Although General Tille is a good general, he is still not enough to see the famous generals who are as cruel as Egil, who are fighting to the death day and night, and are piled up with their heads.
However, General Tilly had a very good decisive ability. Seeing that something was wrong, he did not hesitate anymore and directly led more than 300 mercenary troops that he could still control and ran out from the gate of the east city that had not yet fallen. He happened to meet the Normann Cavalry Forward who was about to intercept. The old general saw the opponent's cavalry rushing over and ordered the troops to retreat in dispersion.
Seeing the small troops divided into dozens of troops, the vanguards were stunned for a moment, and finally chose two groups with a slightly larger number of people to pursue. The veteran general Tilly survived. After more than ten days of life like refugees, he finally arrived in Munich, another important city in Bavaria. He began to recruit mercenaries, recruit peasant soldiers, and form an army to fight the Normans.
Of course, these are all things that happened later. It will only happen after a while. Norman's professional cavalrymen didn't know that what they missed was a veteran general who was worth a lot and had a strong combat power. The report to his superiors was just: "A small group of enemy troops abandoned the city and left, and some were annihilated and partially dispersed." In this way.
Although I don’t know where the other party is going, since I can’t find it in the city, and there is no sign that this guy is still in Swabian. Then this is the only result. Egil heard: “The city has been basically controlled. No enemy commander or similar person was found. Please instruct.” After that, he snorted softly: “Tsk, run quickly.” Then he swung his whip: “Go into the city!” and took his guard knight into the city.
Swabian, although Swabian is the capital of an empire, in Egil's eyes, the city can only be regarded as second-rate at most. It is flowing with rotten, mixed with all kinds of garbage sewage, dirty and rugged streets, and all kinds of strange, but absolutely harmful to the body. Low and unruly houses... All of this makes Egil miss his capital, the Gothic Castle, which is extremely clean and tidy at all times.
Especially after the city was broken, although Egil did not issue a city massacre order, the soldiers were more restrained. They were just robbed and forced to do so. However, it was impossible to avoid any casualties under such violent behavior. Because of the heartache, money and money were not allowed to be killed, they were slaughtered. When they were bent, they were too strong to resist, so they were covered with a pillow, and finally they were suffocated to death without any suspense. This situation often happens.
But generally, peace can be maintained.
"You bastard invader, butcher!!!"
However, just when Egil was so satisfied, a voice that was not very suitable for the matter sounded, making his mood very bad in an instant.
"Or, Viscount, do you think I'm too cruel. Or isn't it cruel enough?" Egil looked at the one who was knocked to the ground by two guard knights, then cut off his head with a sword, and had a young and old man who had cursed like this before. He asked Viscount Alfa next to him.
"You should ask the bishop for this kind of thing." Viscount Alfa cunnedly pushed this question to others: "After all, I am just a martial artist. I can't answer the questions I wrote."
Jill did not force Alpha to say the answer, but turned around and looked at Peter.
"Didn't the Lord have an answer in his heart?" So Peter replied.
"Ha" Egil raised his horse whip and accelerated his speed. The two guards, the followers of Viscount Alfa, and Archbishop Peter also accelerated and followed.
"How can I see?" Ezer asked as Peter chased after him.
"Because over the past few years, I have discovered a habit of the Lord. It is that if the Lord has something that cannot be solved, after thinking about it, he will smile and then deliberately ask the people around him..."
Of course, Peter would not say such words. Although such words as accompanying the king is not very popular in the West. In fact, it is like a bishop of a country that is even comparable to a monarch of a country to some extent. They are either like-minded friends or more often, they are opposite political and enemy relations. They fight endlessly against the power of a country and the power of a country. However, in the Norman Kingdom, this is another way.
As the Archbishop of the Norman Empire, although Peter enjoyed a high position, his political voice was even less than that of a royal magistrate. His main task was that he was a court priest of Egil, who had been a little useful before. However, since Joan of Arc came, Egil went to him to pray less and less. The other function was that he was the priest of the battlefield corps in the army. This was a relatively important task. Moreover, Peter seemed to prefer this more bloody and violent task.
Finding theological arguments for what Egil did was also one of his jobs. Although the cunning emperor usually dressed himself up as a messenger of justice, the number of times this job was not very long...
So, in general, Peter is the kind of person who is very good to have him, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't. This half-aged priest in his fifties also understands his status very well. He treats Egil more often than he treats his superiors like subordinates and superiors rather than equal status. Egil is also very satisfied with this bishop who is conscious. As a place where the Christian faith in the Middle Ages flourishes, Egil also needs such a bishop to embellish his empire. Therefore, the two sides often get along very happily.
"I just look at the Lord's smile and confident, and it looks like he is confident. So I guessed randomly." Peter said.
"Hahahaha... Bishop, you guessed it's accurate.
"Egil seemed to like Peter's answer. Haha, he snapped his fingers and greeted the guards.
"The order is sent to me that within three days, I will gather everyone in the city. I will announce something. Also, arrest all the people of the Hohenstaufen family in this city, even if they are a baby or a dying old man, regardless of their gender."
So the guards quickly took action. They ordered the whole city to arrest all the members of the Hohenstave family, even if they were just a distant relative, even if they were just a surname of Hohenstave, and actually had no relationship with Emperor Frederick. There were thirty-two male members and fifty-eight female members. Among them were a minor son of Frederick who had no time to escape, two widowed princesses and a minor princess who were about to marry.
Three days later, in the city center of Swabian, Egil announced his so-called method: "I will wipe out the Hohenstaufen family and completely erase them from the European rulers. Eliminate everything about this guy, his family members, his palaces, his books, and everything he has ever existed. This is the end of going against me! Look at the Germans! Look at these people! They were once one of the most noble family members in the whole of Europe! But now, because of Frederick, the foolish guy's will, all this has disappeared, they are going to die, they deserve to die!"
After saying all this, Egil directly ordered the execution, and the creators pulled the slings and hung up the noble men and women of the Hohenstaufen family who had been tortured and lost their human form.
Amid the people's surprise shouts, hundreds of nobles made a "giggle..." sound, struggling, trying to reach out and pull the rope that strangled their necks. However, their hands were tied back, so they could not do this movement at all. They could only keep kicking and shaking, and then the movement became smaller and smaller, their eyes became more and more congested, protruding outward... as if they were about to stare out, and their tongues were always outward, stretching out long, and then they were accompanied by size and size.
With incontinence, the entire execution ground was stinky...
"It's incredible... He wants to kill all the people of a family... This kind of punishment has never been heard of in the war between countries. But it is indeed more reasonable than the meaningless and unreasonable massacre of civilians," a onlooker said to his companion in a low voice.
"So, is this the idea that Your Majesty came up with? It's also a massacre, but on such a small scale, the deterrence effect should be very good for a stronger massacre. And the number of massacres required is much smaller. It can even give people the illusion of fairness and justice. I mean I feel............, indeed, a good idea..."
Chapter completed!