Chapter 23 The 1007 Declaration
Seeing the enemy light cavalry on both wings rushing towards them, they were helpless due to the correction of the opponent's infantry and their professional qualities. For ordinary continental troops, they did not strictly divide the army into legions, 1,000 teams and 100 teams like Egil's Norman army. There was no way to directly command the horn command to the level of the 100 team. Therefore, the targets of their command were basically broad, left wing, right wing, front and rear … In fact, it was not easy to allow medieval soldiers to distinguish the front, back and left.
In this situation, the infantry of the Norman Empire half surrounded Swabian's infantry array in an arc. Therefore, if the other party issues an order to make the soldiers on both wings turn around and line up to meet the enemy, they will be attacked by local infantry, which will eventually lead to the collapse of the front line. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the order issued by a normal commander is like this
"Retreat! Back, stabilize the front! The soldiers of the third row scattered to both wings and block the enemy's light cavalry!" With the order of Duke Henry, the Swabian infantry in the last row, these light-equipped, semi-professional shield spearmen, turned around under the leadership of the noble officers, and trotted all the way forward and running towards the two wings of their own army, hoping to form a solid line of defense before the arrival of the Norman cavalry
However, the speed was too slow after all! When the light cavalry of the Norman Empire roared, Duke Henry responded with the expected line of defense, but it had not yet been formed. The panicked Swabian soldiers in the third row made the scene even more chaotic.
The infantry and the roaring light cavalry arrived, increasing their speed to the fastest! The so-called victory and defeat were determined at this moment! The two wings of the Swabian army collapsed. At the same time, because of the order issued by the Duke of Swabian, the Swabian soldiers on the front suddenly realized that their wings collapsed, and were surrounded by enemies. Morale was suddenly severely damaged! A small collapse had already occurred!
"The whole army attacks! Take this opportunity to kill all the enemies!!!" Seeing the enemy in a mess, General Sura shouted excitedly. Beside him, the knights of the generals' guards also sounded the trumpet, and nearly 40,000 Norman United troops were rejuvenated, and the offensive added three more points. The Hussar Thousands, who had been waiting, also activated the war horses and penetrated into the battlefield in a group of a hundred people. He waved his saber and slashed wildly.
"Don't retreat! Don't run away! Fight, keep fighting quickly!!"
Under the full attack of the Norman United Army, the Swabian army finally collapsed. Although Duke Henry desperately shouted and promised to reward the deserters, under extreme fear, the Swabian army still did not even have a soldier obeyed his orders and turned around to fight the enemy again.
Under the bloody sunset, the outcome of the war was finally revealed. It was not surprising that the ambush was arranged and the army was leisurely. The Norman army, which had more than twice as many as the enemy, won a complete victory. The killing was infinity. A large number of Schwabian soldiers and nobles surrendered, and after that, they were forced to swear allegiance to the Norman Emperor, the great emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Egier Scadragrimsson. Duke of Swabian Henry also realized his Norman. After exhaustion, he still insisted on fighting. He was eventually cut into meat sauce by a group of Norman militias.
The first battle was won. At this point, a major vassal state of the Holy See was destroyed. The Norman Union was able to march straight into Swabian, look into the Alps from a distance, and even reach northern Italy.
"Oh, I won." After receiving the news of the victory of the vanguard, Egil seemed very calm. For this emperor, who was highly regarded, it was a foregone conclusion to win in this situation and nothing to be happy about. And Egil was also not interested in the territory of Southern Germany, which was destined to be abandoned. What he was now expending was another thing - how to fight back against the Holy See, who had dismantled his religion.
Although Egil, a pseudo-believers, doesn't care about whether the religion is borrowed or not. Hesse, Brandenburg, Austria, and even Burgundy, the princes of the Holy Roman Empire, these countries have experienced the opposition between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope who have gone through the sea. They know that in history, there are some popes who were hacked to death by Emperor Shenluo. So they don't care much about this. Hungary's economy now relies heavily on the Norman Empire, and Britain is Egil's most determined ally. The monarchs of these six countries are basically the same as Egil, and they do not regard the punishment of the pope's extermination of religion too seriously.
However, the monarchs of several countries think this way, but it does not mean that the nobles of these countries, but the common people think this way. In this ignorant and superstitious Middle Age, even the Eastern Roman Empire, which claimed to be a shiny humanistic light, or the Norman Empire, which claimed to be a new order, faith was also a very, very powerful force. Under the turmoil, the people and the nobles would become uneasy. People who were ambitious or dissatisfied with the current rulers would use this as an excuse to raise the banner of rebellion.
"In recent times, I have seemed a little harsh with the nobles in the territory. So, will anyone be unable to think about it and have to fight their lives at this critical moment?" Egil said something he thought was funny, while handing a manuscript to Maria, who stood beside him, who looked bored, and ordered: "Take this document away and copy it again. Then send it to the intelligence system, asking them to copy it multiple copies of the document to various provinces and important cities of the empire, and give it to Burgundy, Hungary, Austria, Hesse and Brandenburg. Remember?"
As Egil spoke, Maria murmured and repeated his order bit by bit. When Egil asked her, she nodded and remembered. Egil asked her to repeat it again. It was indeed word-of-word. Egil sighed again that people have their own specialties. Even such a stupid little nun... By the way, they are not young now. As time goes by, Maria is already nineteen years old, and her loli attributes have disappeared a lot. Although she is still as clumsy as before...
This manuscript is Egil's response to the Roman Catholic expelling him from religion. The records of the clerk Talleyrand, as well as the biographers and historians around Egil, who called this manuscript "Notice of 1007 AD" to show its importance and historicity.
And Egil, and the official Norman Empire who announced that the document was posted, and the other five allies of the Norman Empire (the Kingdom of Britain is full of Norman officials, policies, systems, and laws, which are highly consistent with the Norman Empire. They can basically be regarded as one country... By the way, do readers regard Britain and Norman as two countries?). When these people declared this document, the names used were as follows:
The most saint, Europa, Afriga, Asia and even Atlantis, Scadra Grimson of the Norman Empire (Egir takes his surname as his honor, do you remember this setting), Ross, Poland, Livonia, Ukraine, Crimea, Moscow Tsar, Caesar of the Holy Roman Empire, Messiah of all mankind, Egir, Scadra Grimson of the Holy Holy Lord of the Holy Roman Empire, Response to the Roman Catholic Church.
The content of the book is as follows: I, Egil Scadragrimson announced:
I heard that the Roman Catholic Church had done its defiance and in one day it had been eliminated, including me, the monarchs of the seven kings in a row. I heard that I did not believe at first, but then became angry and sighed. The Holy See was like destroying the Great Wall and cutting off its arms. From the Fourth Crusade to the invasion of Greece, the world of God is in so much trouble. If there were no monarchs of the seven kings and their warriors to fight for the first place and protecting their faith, the teachings preached by the apostle Peter had been interrupted for a long time. Our Christ guards are the best rock of God's faith.
However, the Holy Roman Emperor ignored our piety and ignored our achievements. The Holy Roman Emperor was elected as the electorate. The most voted winners. Now, Burgundy, Austria, Brandenburg, Hessen and I, a total of five electors, jointly elected me as emperor. I have become the emperor of the legitimate Roman Emperor. The Holy Roman Emperor should offer congratulations and crown me.
I heard the bad news and couldn't sleep at night. I didn't know what happened to the Holy See, which caused the Holy See to do such a ridiculous act. I was either hostage or blinded. I didn't know. But I will inevitably lead Norman, Ross, Germany and even the nations to follow justice and uphold the right path to Rome again to find out the truth. I will officially crown the Roman emperor in the Holy See.
Egil's life first gave himself a bunch of titles that were so swollen that he heard, and then expressed his achievements, and said that he had obtained the support of most of the electorate of the Holy Roman Empire. Finally, the Pope either took the wrong medicine or was unable to control himself. In short, there was absolutely a problem with Yatting's declaration, and I didn't listen. How could my child such a good person be expelled from the church? I was going to Rome to personally ask the Holy See. He brought half of the army of hundreds of thousands of Europe to a
That's about it. While official documents were posted all over most European cities, some rumors began to spread quickly. The real pope was dead, and the current pope was fake. Or although the pope was not dead, he was almost dying. Now he was in power was a vicious archbishop. Or the pope's soul was dismissed by the devil, and now he was only a devil-controlled body, etc.......
Chapter completed!