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The exhausted Askad, like most soldiers, lay in the pile of corpses. He was exhausted and fell asleep, not caring about the mud all over his body, let alone the corpses around him.

He even ignored the casualties of the seventh banner team he led, and most of the little soldiers who survived the entire banner team were sitting or lying down. They didn't feel the joy after the victory, and they just wanted to rest after being severely exhausted. Even if they lay down, they still couldn't leave their swords, but they were only worried that the enemy would counterattack again.

But the Frankish cavalry did escape, and Gilbert, Earl of Ramongao, just wanted to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible.

The three cavalry standard teams of the standing army that accompanied him in his escape, some of which even lost their orders. When they learned from Gilbert that the general Tristan had been killed and that it was possible to retrieve the general's body, their The morale of the army has completely collapsed, and it seems that the only way to retreat to the barracks in Brussels is the best policy.

In the final analysis, Gilbert is not the same as this group of guys. No matter what goes wrong in the Brussels barracks, it has nothing to do with his own Ramon Gao.

He just wanted to go home quickly with the army whose losses were not serious, and defended as best he could.

"You...really escaped? Won't you make a comeback?!" Blue Fox squinted his eyes, holding the brim of his helmet with both hands so that he could see the enemy's back in the scorching sun.

The blue fox was standing on the battlefield, and the corpses of horses and soldiers were everywhere. The soldiers who were busy cleaning the battlefield kept stabbing the enemy's wounded soldiers, and pulled out their own wounded.

A feeling of bewilderment arises spontaneously, he knows that such a bad scene can be completely avoided, and there is no need for the army who looted Aachen to fight against the Frankish elite from the beginning to the end. Besides, the "road map plan" arranged before the launch of the operation clearly stated that the essence of the so-called destruction of bridges is to avoid a **** battle with the enemy's main force in the west.

This is great, destroying the bridge has become a means, and fighting the enemy's main force has become the goal.

In which link did the big stubble happen?

Don't doubt anything, it is the "northern belief" that everyone is obsessed with that caused the current situation.

All coalition soldiers who are willing to participate in the expedition should call themselves soldiers who believe in Odin and Thor. They worship force, and they can't see young people doing humiliating things in front of them. Unlike flexible businessmen who can have a flexible moral bottom line, rebellious ones are like spirits in a bottle, a spark can ignite a fire.

It's really benevolent, look at the large number of soldiers who have fallen to the ground now, they should have gone home happily with their spoils, but now they are all over!

There is a good thing, the trophies left in the camp on the other side of the river that belonged to the dead will definitely be taken by the survivors. The nobles of the coalition army are responsible for the distribution of the spoils of the various ministries. In the final analysis, the Blue Fox is primarily responsible for the Ross army.

And this also gave him a headache.

Some teenagers were rammed to death by cavalry, and their chests were pierced by lances even though they were wearing armored stomachs.

The Seventh Banner team really experienced their first fierce battle since its establishment, paying the price of blood, and the recruits finally became veterans. Is the price too high? "I returned to Fort New Rose, how should I report to Rurik? Tell him that I can't restrain the coalition forces at a critical moment, and I am forced to watch them go alone?"

Don't think about these things for now.

The blue fox hastily issued an order, the so-called Ross army headquarters soldiers cleaned up the battlefield and collected the corpses of their own personnel, and treated any wounded as much as possible. The dead man must hold the sword firmly in his hand.

He doesn't care about the casualties of other troops. All the nobles are responsible for the aftermath of their own people. Whether the corpses of the dead in battle should be buried on the spot, taken away and buried in another place and burned into ashes, or simply still on the banks of the Maas River Regardless, Blue Fox claims that he has no obligation to pay attention.

But all the corpses of the dead in Ross's army that can be found must be taken away, even if it is now in midsummer, the corpses will stink quickly.

Blue Fox led his own soldiers to search among the corpses in person. He walked towards the place where the soldiers of the Seventh Banner Squad gathered, and soon found Asker's sleeping soundly lying in the mud.

"Is your boss seriously injured?" He then asked a soldier.

"It's okay, I'm just too tired."

"I see blood in his mouth."

"Maybe he bit his mouth. I saw him being pushed into the water by a war horse. It seems that the gods helped him..." The little soldier said lightly, and the blue fox felt his scalp go numb!

He looked at Askad and couldn't help sighing: "You reckless boy! You led the brothers to charge without understanding the situation. If you die, how will I explain to your father? How can I explain to the king?"

The blue fox who was talking to himself kicked hard, so that Askad slowly sat up, and asked as if waking up from a dream: "It's dark now? We won the battle."

"We won the battle. Kid, clean up the battlefield, count your people, and tell me the specific losses. Take all the brothers who died in battle."

"Okay." He supported his dazed head vigorously, licked his lips and suddenly felt the pain in his heart.

Thanks to the riveted iron plate cloth face armor and lining chain mail protection, he was hit by a cavalry, and the strength was buffered by the armor and lining. The chest cavity was not smashed so that he was eligible to continue to survive, but his teeth gave him He bit his lower lip deeply, and now the blood stopped flowing, and the adrenaline level, which was enough to paralyze the nerves, returned to normal when the whole person calmed down. Felt like I was going to die.

The casualties of the Ross coalition forces are visible to the naked eye!

The tense warrior spirit gradually eased, looking at the entire battlefield, there were no living enemies, and even this area may no longer have traces of enemy activities.

Just to the south of the battlefield, at first Blue Fox led Ross elites to set fire on the periphery. The warm southeast wind helped the fire, and the fire was spreading irreversibly. Protected by the city wall, all buildings in the inner city will inevitably fall into flames in the flames.

All afternoon the coalition forces were sweeping the battlefield.

None of the five Yotaland nobles died, not because they had retreated before the battle, but because they had enough luck. However, the soldiers they brought from their hometown suffered considerable losses.

Death, who can be blamed? Blame the enemy for being too ruthless? No, everything is fate.

People living in a harsh environment have their own understanding of death. They died on the battlefield with weapons in their hands. Their souls will go to the Hall of Valor, while the bodies left in the world will be buried.

The Gotalan people still prefer more burials. They dug large pits and filled them with the corpses they found. They also put the weapons of the dead in the pits as funerary objects, and then covered them with oats.

The Danish army also lost a lot, but the loss of the Danish soldiers brought by Yinvar the Boneless was much less. Those free fishermen always seemed to be outside the coalition forces, and only joined the coalition forces when necessary. Now it is not good for these people to die in battle, and their last bravery must be admitted to some extent.

Danish soldiers were also buried in the excavated pits, and these dead were lying with a group of Mlaren dead, and everything was buried by the mud.

The frantic charge of the Frankish army paid a huge price. No one collected their bodies, and even their helmets and armor were pulled out one after another.

The coalition soldiers who clean up the battlefield will hardly search for their own dead, and the loot that can be searched comes from the depths of the enemy.

No one noticed that there was a corpse that belonged to the Frankish general Tristan. He died, his helmet and armor were stripped off, and his body was finally exposed to the sun in a very miserable appearance.

The corpses of the Ross coalition army were buried on a large scale, and a large number of white things gradually appeared on the battlefield, that is, the corpses of the Frankish army, together with the corpses of the war horses, gathered together to become a shame to Frankish glory.

On the other side of the Maas River, Ross Army Camp.

The loss of Ross's army mainly came from the Seventh Banner. The flanks were washed away by the cavalry. More than a hundred people were seriously injured and died.

After all, the Seventh Banner team was still involved in the final stage of fighting, and half of the team suffered casualties. They are the first-generation descendants of the old Russians after their immigration. Most of them have half of the Slavic blood. I am worthy of the name of Ross.

That is, when everything settled down, seeing a large number of corpses of comrades-in-arms lying flat on an open field in the camp, the feeling of sadness was enough to force Askad to cry.

He cared about his brother who died in battle, and Alicia cared about her as much.

Although on the other side of the river, a small number of people left behind directly witnessed the whole process of the battle on the other side. They saw thrilling scenes one after another.

Both Alicia and Princess Gisla saw the fact that the French army was defeated, and the proud heavy cavalry did not overwhelm the Norman formation after all.

The two girls have different attitudes. Gisla knows that it belongs to her father's standing army. Even if Lothar ignores her daughter, she is still a princess after all. She hopes the Frankish army will win, but everything is over...

The disheartened Ghisla did not report any thoughts to the outside world. Only then did she learn that this Norman army could not even be called the main force. Some stragglers, this kind of army that should be second-rate and third-rate, defeated the Frankish elite.

She just wanted to get away from these barbarians as soon as possible. Although she didn't know Uncle Ludwig's attitude towards her, she took in her niece for Charlemagne's sake.

Alicia's attitude was completely different. It wasn't just this body that she was conquered.

When Askad took off his armor and washed off the mud and blood in the river, he reappeared in front of Alicia in a relatively clean posture. She walked up, just as Askad was also surprised , the girl has opened her upper arms and embraced her.

Now, who can doubt that Askad did not conquer this woman.

"I even thought you were dead. What should I do if you die? I don't want to be a servant in the hands of the Franks anymore. I want you to keep your promise. But you... almost died..." She said a lot.

Askad was silent for a moment, hesitated for a while and patted her back: "For example, the **** protects me. I am not dead. It is over, and everything will be fine."

Although I heard that my father, brother, and ancestors participated in the war against Charlemagne, and they were killed all over the place for a while, Alicia was just an ordinary girl from a lower-level noble family, and she had only heard about those things and never seen them.

I thought that the killing of the Normans in Aachen was the most brutal thing I have ever seen in my life, but now the city of Maastricht is on fire, and the battlefield next to the city is full of real corpses.

Still across the Maas River, she didn't have the guts to go to the battlefield to find out, but as the corpses of the young Ross were sent to the camp, she first witnessed the tragedy and vomited violently, and hurriedly avoided to look directly.

In the evening, the raging fire of the city seemed to tear open the earth. According to the Franks, it was the flames of **** spewing out. According to the northerners, it was the Misgard of the human world that was falling apart.

The excessive flames are more obvious than the setting sun, and people resting in the camp can feel its heat across a river.

The soldiers of the First Banner Squad of the Standing Army launched a battle against the rear with a group attack posture because of their extreme armor stomach and extraordinary physique, and as a new force. They didn't have any casualties, injuries were there and enough to keep the soldiers out of combat for a long time, but they really had no personalities.

These troops are all personal soldiers of Rurik, the king of Ross. Normal operations have continued until now, and the troops have suffered few casualties. Blue Fox feels that he is enough to report to the king.

Finally, the astonishing dead soldiers of the Seventh Banner Corps, each young soldier has a clear name, and even hangs an iron nameplate with engraved inscriptions on his neck. Even if the nameplate is lost, their respective clothes are deliberately embroidered by their parents. on the child's name. Even if all these are lost, the conclusion of who was killed can be drawn only through the statistics of the centurions.

After explaining the aftermath, the blue fox found Askad again, patted the boy on the shoulder, and faced the corpses all over the place, the feeling of depression made him embarrassed to speak for a while.

"Uncle, do you have any orders? Or... are you going to blame me for being reckless?"

"It's okay. I don't blame you for being insulted." The blue fox sighed slightly: "You will grow up because of this, and the living soldiers have become veterans. Only your uncle and the king can judge whether you are right or wrong. And You yourself, as long as you have no shame in your heart."

"yes."

We asked ourselves, Askad really felt that he was too hasty at the time, and he couldn't think that everything was a conspiracy of the Franks.

"The bodies of the dead that we found are all here, and some missing brothers should have fallen into the river and disappeared. I almost drowned too, alas."

"Don't talk about that yet. Tell me how much you lost?"

"There were 150 people killed and missing, and more than 100 people were injured. If there is another strong one, the Seventh Banner Team will no longer be able to fight."

"A serious loss! But we defeated the powerful army of the Middle Kingdom. You and your brothers have achieved great glory at a young age, which is worthy of praise." Said, the blue fox patted the brat on the back.

After receiving this encouragement and praise, Askad's mood improved a lot: "What if they are corpses? Logging and burning, or burying them on the spot."

"Take it away on a ship. Go to Rotterstadt to cremate them, and eventually we will bury the ashes of all the soldiers in the cemetery in New Roseburg. This is also for your uncle, and for all the old Ross people. And your department The spoils obtained, which originally belonged to the war dead, will be handed over to their families."

"I will." Askad nodded.

"Very good. Take out all the cloth seized from Aachen."

"what for?"

"Just wrap them as a shroud. We'll be off as fast as we can, and we'll finish burning the bodies before they start to stink."

"Alright alright"

Cloth and hemp rope **** the war dead like chrysalis, and then they were carried by their companions to the long boat and neatly stacked. The whole process was silent.

In order to avoid a sneak attack and obviously suffer a lot of losses, Su Lanhu ordered the entire army to light bonfires on a large scale, continuing to create the illusion that the coalition forces are still strong.

His caution was important, but the Franks in the west had fled.

He has also been worried about the Frankish army rushing from the direction of Aachen. Although it is difficult for the enemy troops to cross the river if they destroy the Geul River Bridge, they can send some troops to seek revenge if they insist on crossing the river.

Now is the reality of the fragility of the coalition forces, and the blue fox doesn't think it's too much to stay in this river beach camp for another day.

He gave the whole army the last and only day off, so the whole army continued to clean the battlefield the next day. The helmets, armor and clothing from the Frankish army piled up like a mountain, especially the helmets. The blue fox didn't want any other spoils, but searched the whole army The enemy helmets gathered in his hands.

This is a kind of token, one is to prove to Ludwig that the Kingdom of Ross has implemented the secret agreement, and even made a major contribution, and then can blackmail some political resources. Secondly, it is also a clear statement to Rurik, the king of Ross. After all, the coalition forces really gathered as many as 1,900 Frankish-style iron helmets. There is no need for fakes, and it is enough to prove that the coalition forces have eliminated at least an equal number of elite enemies. .

As for how many Frankish militiamen were killed, it is of little significance to report a number to the king.

Post-battle feats can only be assessed by proving the number of elite soldiers killed.

In fact, this was a helmet captured during a normal operation. Even so, at the scene of the chaotic battle in Maastricht, the coalition forces captured as many as 400 horses, and 900 Franks were killed.

The main general was killed, and half of the army was lost. Such a cruel loss ratio is extremely rare for the Frankish army. They were able to persist until nearly half of the army was killed before the entire army collapsed due to accidental factors. This is enough to prove that they are worthy of being elite~www.mtlnovel.com ~However, the Ross coalition forces on the opposite side were not afraid of death in their fury, and suffered exactly the same loss ratio and persisted until the end.

Yes, the coalition forces lost more than 1,000 people in this battle. If the previous losses are added, more than 1,500 people in the entire Ross coalition army have died so far.

Although the blue fox didn't feel bad about the mass death, he guessed that King Rurik didn't feel bad either. Those who died were all vassals, servants and allies, not so much the army, but the most traditional northern militia. This kind of person is brave and ruthless and dares to do anything in order to make money. If there is a new war, as long as there is a call, a group of poor people will bring their own round shields and weapons to join the army and participate in the expedition.

Now, it's time for the action to end.

On the appointed day, all the spoils of war were shipped, and some longships were piled up with the bodies of the dead, and some longships were even simply used as a tool for transporting horses. All the docile and controllable war horses were driven onto the ship, and the best quality horses were naturally taken away by the Ross army. The blue fox wanted to pay tribute to Rurik, and the rest of the horses were probably sold on the spot at the mouth of the Rhine River.

Who will buy a horse? That must be Henry Nassau, Earl of the Netherlands.

That guy is an ally, and he's sure to pay for a horse.