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The Fourth Anti-Norman Alliance Chapter 21 The Rise and Fall

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    ?When the Norman Queen led her army all the way south.  .The small Greek villages and towns all turned away.  In a blink of an eye, the army had reached Sutheronica.  In Adrianople, in the general's residence that had been turned into a temporary palace by the Norman emperor, Egil received envoys from Constantinople.

    Although the moment you walked in, you still had the unique arrogance of civilized people.  At the same time, I also want to show my bravery, wisdom and integrity.  In fact, after hearing Egil's name and daring to come over when the two countries were at war, it was indeed considered brave.

    But Egil didn¡¯t give him a chance to show off.  When he saw the letter in his hand, the Norman emperor felt confident.  Since there are letters, then this so-called messenger has no meaning of existence.  The emperor was not in the mood to tell him nonsense like what was going on.  A direct question will send the messenger away.

    "Why don't the Greek envoys who came below kneel down and salute when they see the emperor?" Egil said, while winking at the guard knights standing on both sides of the door, behind the envoys.  The two guard knights understood.  Ready right away.

    ¡°My Eastern Roman Empire is¡ª¡ªah!!¡±

    It can be seen from here that although humans are divided into many subspecies.  But they are indeed evidence of one race.  Their screams were the same - the messenger had just finished speaking, and the guard knight behind him immediately stepped forward and hit the numb muscle behind his knee with a scabbard.  The strength is just right.  He immediately fell to his knees.  The other knight caught up two steps.  Turn around.  He stretched out his hand and clicked, removing the jaw of the envoy who was about to curse.

    The severe pain made the messenger want to struggle, but soon, two gleaming swords were pressed against his neck.

    "If you move again, your head will move." The guard knight's cold words made the messenger feel like his hair was standing on end.  Immediately afterwards, his jaw was placed back again.  The envoy, who was in pain and sweating profusely, did not dare to move as the knight of the guard said.

    "That's right, that's it. Everyone must be harmonious. This way the world will be peaceful. Hahahahaha" Sitting on a chair with a tiger skin cushion, Egil laughed and said such words that deserved a beating.

    ¡°Of course, because he was the Norman Emperor.  So basically no one will deal with him.  At most, Aurora, who is thousands of miles away, just hums "sick" and forgets it.  And this level of verbal attacks, Egil's thick skin can naturally be completely ignored.

    After that, the letter in the messenger's hand was respectfully handed to Egil.  There's no anthrax these days.  It is almost unimaginable to see poison on paper.  But the emperor, who was afraid of death, still had someone check it carefully.  Then he took the letter over.  I read it ten lines at a time.  Then torn into pieces.

    "Nonsense." The emperor snorted softly and looked at the envoy who was forced to kneel down with his sword pressed against him: "That's a bunch of nonsense."

    After that, before the messenger could say anything, Egil waved his hand, preparing to ask the knights of the guard to deal with him.  So the knights of the guard sheathed their swords, and one of them took one of his arms.  Just drag him outside.

    The envoy didn't expect that the other party would kill him so hastily - this was different from the script - in this case, the Norman Emperor, who played the bad guy, shouldn't have made things difficult for him and wanted to take advantage of his words.  To cheap.  But he was refuted by the clever messenger and felt ashamed.  He became furious and then ordered to kill him.  Did it make the messenger wise throughout the ages?  !  If you don't say a word, you will kill someone as soon as you come up. What kind of trouble is this?  !

    However, before the guy was about to be dragged out, the emperor changed his mind.  With a wave of his hand, several guard knights stopped.  Then, the Norman Emperor walked over slowly.  He said to the envoy who was collapsed on the ground and had no strength to stand up after being beaten several times by the knights of the guard because of his violent struggle: "I will spare your life." Egil lowered his voice: "Then, I will  You go back and tell your queen. Don't have wishful thinking. The conditions she proposed cannot satisfy my appetite. What's more, I already made a promise when we separated a few years ago. I will definitely destroy the entire Roman Empire.  The walls of Constantinople cannot stop me. Attila of the Hungarian tribe once wanted to get a Roman princess as his wife. He failed. But this time, I will succeed."

    After saying this.  Egil waved again.  Then the Norman knights were asked to throw the messenger out.  The messenger lay on the ground outside Adrianople.  After resting for a while, I finally regained my composure.  After that, he immediately returned to Constantinople and reported the news to the empress.

    After hearing the last words Egil said to him, Lilianu was speechless for a long time.  Say peace of mindHe glanced at the envoy who had suffered a big loss.  Then he was asked to leave.

    "Sure enough, he won't accept such conditions" Liliannu sighed softly.  She felt she had made enough concessions.  The Empire will relinquish all claims to territory in Spain, Italy, the Balkans and the Near East.  and recognized the legitimacy of Norman military operations in the Balkans.  Recognition of Norman sovereignty in the Balkans.  At the same time, when dealing with the Normans in the future, both parties will interact as equal empires.  The Eastern Roman Empire also paid a tribute of 50,000 Norman gold to the Normans every year.  as compensation for the Normans abandoning their offensive against the Empire.

    "Really, who does she think I am?"

    At the same time, Egil was also sulking in his palace: "You are an ignorant barbarian?! Take a little bit of the barren land on the border, give some money, and give a title to satisfy your vanity. That's it.  Dismissed?! If this is the image of me in her mind, then it is really necessary to train me properly."

    That¡¯s pretty much it.  With the Norman emperor rejecting the peace treaty of the Eastern Roman empress.  The last glimmer of hope for peace between the two empires was lost.  Constantinople began to organize its defenses.  Citizens who originally thought they could escape the disaster were forcibly organized and prepared as a reserve team to participate in the battle at any time.  At this moment, these guys who had previously clamored for the glory of Rome began to complain.  What kind of army is it that thinks it can't protect them or something like that.

    "Don't worry about them, kill anyone who disobeys." After hearing about this kind of thing, Liliannu coldly snorted and issued this order: "Aren't they proud of Rome? Aren't they clamoring to beat Norman and donate one?  Their lives? Then now is the time for them to be loyal to the country. Don¡¯t make people laughable by saying one thing and doing another.¡±

    At the same time, when the Eastern Romans consolidated their city defenses and prepared for a decisive battle with the Normans.  The main force of the Normans also arrived at Adrianople.  20,000 Balkan vassals, 50,000 Eastern European levies and 40,000 Norman standing troops.  A total of 110,000 troops marched towards Constantinople, carrying the world's most advanced siege machinery manufacturing technology and the ambition of an emperor who could cover the sky with one hand.

    The war is about to begin.  The Normans prepared everything they should.  Large amounts of wood and steel were used to build siege machinery and forge artillery.  At the same time the hussars blocked all roads near Constantinople.  The Black Sea Fleet, led by Fleet Commander Ushakov, blocked the entire Sea of ??Marmara.  And sailed the warship into the Golden Horn.  Prepare to bombard the Castle of Constantine.  The transport ship is also ready to transport the Norman army and launch a landing operation from the sea route

    Just when the rain comes in Constantinople.  in the other direction.  Artoria's campaign in the Greek region was very successful.  The hussars flew horizontally and quickly defeated Sutheronica.  Arturia then left a thousand-man garrison there.  The remaining nearly 10,000 riders continued south, rushing towards Athens, the most powerful city-state the Greeks had ever known.

    The Roman garrison on the Greek peninsula gathered in the city of Athens.  There are less than 5,000 old and weak soldiers.  Plus a handful of self-organized Greeks¡ªthe number was around two thousand.  Such troops, inferior in quantity and quality, are about to start a battle with the Normans in the city of Athens

    It¡¯s just that although it is inferior in quantity and quality.  But they relied on the renovated Acropolis.  It is still a solid city defense system.  It has an advantage to a certain extent.  After all, the Normans are strong.  But they are all cavalry.  Not good at siege.  There are not too many siege machines equipped.  This gave Arturia a slight headache.

    "We have no choice but to use some coercive means. But before that, let's try to persuade them to surrender." Needless to say, the queen's attempt to persuade them to surrender was basically: You scumbags, why don't you kneel down quickly!  Teach out food and money.  Otherwise, I will chop you to death!  In this way, except for m, it is basically impossible to succeed.

    But everything has to have a process.  It seems like you have to be polite before doing anything, be polite before accepting bribes, and buy a car or a house before getting married.  Like the Norman emperor, there were very few people who would kill the envoy without saying anything.  This is a process that is basically useless but essential.  It is a basic skill for normal human beings.

    So, after failing to persuade them to surrender, Artoria sneered and sent troops to surround Athens.  The main force went south.  Plundered and conquered other areas.  Since it is difficult to siege a city.  So let¡¯s leave this hardest bone for last.  After the entire Greek region was conquered, wouldn't a mere city of Athens be easily captured?

    It seems that I have been staying with Egil for such a long time.  Artoria's strategic IQ and combat IQ have increased a lot.??¡­!  .

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