Chapter 83 Attila II (5) Principality of Satsuma
Odin was defeated, and he himself died in the battle last night. Finally, according to the captives' identification, he was the cavalry wearing a horse-haired Roman cap.
Last night, about half of the Teutonics were killed in battle or injured and captured, and the rest ran away in the darkness.
To be honest, according to Gao Juren's thoughts, he should chase him along the Vistu River and loot the Teutonic territory. He thought it was not bad. No matter which tribe it was, how much combat power would be left after losing half of the young and strong tribe in the tribe.
After losing their outstanding leader Odin (relatively speaking), nearly two hundred years, the remaining Teutonic people must have become a mess again. No one in the scattered tribe will submit to each other, and they will fight for Odin's vacant position.
Such situations are common in tribes east of the Elbe River, which had just been accepted by Christianity. At this time, they were still tribes influenced by the dual influence of Nordic polytheism and Christianity.
The reason why the nobles accepted Christianity was because they maintained their status. As for the vast majority of people, they were obviously more influenced by polytheism.
The Teutonic people, who could occupy a large area of land on the south bank of the Suweihui Sea (named by the Romans), could withstand the attack of the Vikings that were heading south for two hundred years without falling. They obviously had strong strength. If Gao Juren led the Slashing Ye Army to attack there at this time, this gain would definitely be indispensable.
At this time, if Gao Juren accepted the support of the Antes and became the king of the lower reaches of the Vistula River, and used the Antes as the backbone to balance the remaining Teutonic people, he would probably be able to make a breakthrough in the world.
But at this time, Du Yuhou Suken appeared.
"Prince"
Unlike Gao Juren, Su Ken from the Gongyue tribe had no ambitions. He truly regarded the Great Qin Kingdom as his own country and never had any doubts about Sun Xiurong's orders.
As soon as Su Ken appeared, the voice that kept coming to Gao Juren's heart suddenly subsided.
"What are the great ideas of Du Yuhou?"
"Prince, our army suffered minor casualties last night, but the total number was only 3,000. If we want to completely defeat the Teutonic people, we may not be able to catch it. However, in Kelce, two hundred miles northeast of this place, there are a large number of Viswa prisoners captured by the Teutonic people. It is better to let a light cavalry battalion bring two or three thousand Antes to intercept it."
"In the war last night, our cavalry actually defeated the Teutonic cavalry first. Although their horses were strong, they could only be regarded as pack horses. They generally lack stirrups, so they naturally collapsed at once. Most of the cavalry were annihilated, and the remaining infantry naturally did not run far. Now our army will still walk in front of them."
"Then what?"
Gao Juren looked at him with a very interesting look.
Suken also looked at him, "Of course, he gathered him around our army. The Ministry of State suggested that the Antes be temporarily taken care of, and wait until the Pomeranians in Krakow were defeated, and then they were harvested a large number of Visva prisoners, and then they were all taken to Lviv, the western edge of the black and white forest, and let them farm in the area of Lviv to Kiev Fort, and completely incorporate them and the Antes into our jurisdiction."
"Or ignore the Pomeranians and directly attack the Viswa people in Krakow. The Pomeranians and the Teutonics are separated by a Viswa River. They have been attacking each other for a long time. Once they learn that the Teutonics were greatly weakened by our army, how could they not return immediately without the captives and then advance eastward to attack the Teutonics?"
"At this time, most of the Pomeranians had already known about the war last night. The general's title of Attila II would definitely affect him. I guess they had gone north long ago."
Gao Juren's eyes rolled a few times, and finally nodded, "What Du Yuhou said is the most true, I will follow you."
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Gao Juren arrived in Krakow with 2,500 people. As Sukan expected, the Pomeranians had already approached Krakow after learning that Odin had suffered a great defeat and turned back halfway.
However, at this time, the Viswa people who remained in Krakow had all gathered near the wooden castle of Krakow and arranged a defense line around the wooden city. As a majority of Polish and Pomeranians and Teutonic people at this time, they still had tens of thousands of people, including tens of thousands of young and strong. Even the powerful Leaf Army could not be achieved overnight.
Such a defense line is too simple for the Sailing Ye Jun. With their current ability, they have not yet grasped the natural power of all tall and thick castles made of stones, but there is still a way to deal with wooden castles.
However, when the Leaf Slashing Army arrived in Krakow (the north bank of the Vistu River, the later Kazimiri District, and the Great Bay of the Vistu River), it did not rush to attack, but instead spread the scouts around.
Among the Viswa people, there are naturally high and inferiority, and there are even serfs. When the Sacred Ye Army attacked here, there were many who took the initiative to surrender, including both serfs and small nobles who had a grudge against the nobles who are in power. As Du Yuhou, Suken was concerned about the Viswa people who went south to Transylvania. Whether the Saxons have returned, and if they come back, where will they go?
Therefore, he personally led the thirty Yuhou Army and ten Viswa people who could ride horses to the south.
At this time, whether it is starting from Krakow or Dresden, if you want to arrive in Transylvania, you must pass through the Principality of Samo, which is Bohemia not long later and Czechoslovakia in later generations.
A hundred years ago, the Slavs there established a Principality of Samo, with the leader of Samo, the anti-Germans in the north and the Avar people in the south. They once had a brief glory, but once Samo died, the Principality disappeared and returned to its former scattered tribal state.
Such tribes could not even deal with the Saxons and Viswas, so they could only surrender to the Aval Khanate. When the Saxons and Viswas moved south, they naturally coerced many Samos to follow. Sukan's Yuhou army quickly arrived in Ostrava, more than two hundred miles west of Krakow, where there was a main Samos gathering point.
Suken dressed as an Aval cavalry and successfully arrived near Fort Ostrava under the leadership of the Viswa who surrendered.
According to the news of the Viswa people, the Ostrafa people were still sincerely loyal to Aval, because the Aval people were relatively small. Although the Khanate included the Czech Republic, Hungary and Transylvania in later generations, except for eastern Hungary and Transylvania, other places were actually managed by tribal leaders from all over the country, and they paid some taxes to Napoka every year.
Such sect masters are obviously loved by all Satsuma people, while their neighbors, the Saxons and Viswa people are different. In the past hundred years, they have never interrupted the burning, killing and looting of the Principality of Satsuma, which has annoyed them.
Therefore, the "Aval Cavalry" suddenly arrived at Fort Ostrava, which did not arouse local resistance. Instead, some people came out of the castle to greet them.
The leader was obviously the leader, wearing a white linen robe, a red cloak, reddish-brown hair, pale face, and a striking wound on his face. The wound was almost three inches long from the corner of his right eye to the right cheek, and it seemed that he had just healed.
"My name is Mojimil"
The man bent over and said to Suken.
"I am the Grand Duke of Samoa, Qinpeng, King Alpad Khan. Of course, the only one I can manage is Brno Fort."
(Brno Fort Brno, later Brno, is located about 200 miles southwest of Ostrava Fort. A castle built by the Celtics was later taken over by the Slavs and the capital of the Principal of Satsuma. Prague had not yet been established at this time)
This person said this naturally was to defend him as the Grand Duke, but he allowed the Saxons to cross the border to attack Transylvania.
Of course, Su Ken naturally did not understand the twists and turns, but he was one of the most outstanding Du Yuhou in the Thunder Ye Army. He quickly understood the meaning of Mojimil's words.
“Brno Fortress fell?”
Mojimil's face turned red, and Suken realized something, "Brno has not fallen, but the enemy is approaching, and the Grand Duke Satsuma abandoned the city and fled."
He asked quickly: "Are the Saxons or the Viswas back?"
When Mojimil saw that the Khan's "messenger" did not blame him for abandoning the city of Brno, he also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"None of them, the Saxons and the Viswas have been moving south for two months, and two months ago, almost at the same time, on the west side of the Principal of Samo, there was a powerful Germanic tribe who claimed to be Bavarians and nominally under the jurisdiction of the Frank kingdom."
"After learning that the Saxony and Viswa people went south, the Bavarians took the opportunity to invade the Principality of Samoa, and now they have swept across a large area of land northwest of Brno Fort and approached Brno..."
Suken frowned, thinking that there were only Saxons and Viswa people, but unexpectedly another Bavarian appeared, and asked, "Do you know the news about Transylvania to the south?"
"I know, they knew the news that the Pomeranians and Teutonics went south early in the morning, and they all withdrew their troops. However, because they invaded the territory of Buda Castle, they captured a large amount of population and wealth when they returned. They were very slow and were still in the territory of Buda Castle."
(The territory of Buda Castle, later generations Hungary)
Suken naturally understood what he meant and thought to himself: "According to the speed of the marching of European tribes at this time, even if the Saxony and Viswa can return to the tribe smoothly, it will probably be a heavy casualty and wounded. It would be better to grab more in other places to make up for the tribe's losses, so we won't be too anxious to come back."
"How many Bavarians are there? Are there cavalry?"
"There are at least 20,000 people, most of them are infantry and only a small number of cavalry."
"How could they think of plundering the Principality of Satsuma? Are they not afraid that other tribes will take advantage of their emptiness to plunder their headquarters?"
"The envoy, there is a reason why the Bavarians went south. Not long ago, Pippin III of the Frankish Kingdom led a large army into Bavaria, and naturally won a great victory. A considerable part of the population was plundered to Aachen and Cologne. After they left, the Grand Duke of Bavaria naturally wanted to plunder the population from other places to supplement their losses."
"So I thought of the Principality of Satsuma?"
"Yes"
Suken clenched his fists and was in a mess.
Chapter completed!