In Ragnar's view, the kingdom of Britain was like a piece of fat.

In 842 he set his sights on London. It is said that the gold coins there are piled up like a mountain. This must be an exaggeration, and there must be no groundless rumors.

In the end, a hundred Danish longships rushed to Britain. They successfully rushed to the Thames, but facing the closed gates and solid stone walls of the city of London, Ragnar was really helpless.

"Perhaps, with the Roths following me, the damned stone wall will break."

What he was facing was actually the inner city of London, the real Lundinium known as "Little London".

There are a large number of black-haired Roman descendants in the inner city. The Saxon chiefs who completed the colonization more than 300 years ago allied with these noble Romans, and they still maintain their nobility.

Although the capital of Wessex is in Slowchester, London is also the second capital. If it were not for the refusal of the old Roman descendants in London, she would have been the first capital.

But all this Ragnar and his Danish fighters did not know and did not need to know.

The outer city of London is the residential area of the Saxons, and the manpower of the Viking warriors who are close to the shield cannot get the wealth of the inner city, so Ragnar led the soldiers to vent their anger on the outer city.

They wrecked everywhere, also in an attitude of simplicity and barbarism. Warriors killed men and captured women, and looted property to find coins.

His actions are stuck at a delicate point in time.

The previous king was dead, and after the new king, Ethelwulf, succeeded to the throne, he gave his eldest son, Ethelstan, the right to rule Kent and Essex.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see the king's love for the eldest son. He has already trained the eldest son's ability to govern the country, and his son will inherit the throne in the future.

However, in the north there is the Viking Kingdom of York, a new rival to the Norwegians, and the Mercian nobles are caught in civil war. Taking advantage of the chaos in the north, Ethelwulf, who intends to expand the territory, indeed forced a group of Mercian nobles to support him, and the legal fiefdom was also merged into Wessex.

But the activities of the Vikings are becoming more and more frequent. The Norwegian Vikings have already eaten a large area of Northumbria territory. Will they have a bigger appetite in the future.

Ethelwulf didn't need to doubt it at all. The Rodney Plains on the southern coast of the kingdom were ransacked by the Danish Vikings, and it took only a year for London to be in a hurry.

The de facto prince thelstan personally led the troops to rescue.

It is completely different from the national system in which the Frankish army trains heavy cavalry purposefully and organizes a large number of light cavalry when necessary. Wessex, which has fought for years, is very poor. It is intriguing to find out who spread the news that Britain is extremely rich.

Wessex can only organize a small number of heavy cavalry, and even so is the deadly sword in the hands of the prince.

An army of up to 3,000 troops, consisting of a small number of elite cavalry, infantry, and a large number of farmers who only held pitchforks, axes, and sickles, went straight to London.

Most of the soldiers are from Kent, Sussex, and Essex. Although they have been annexed by the expanding Wessex in the past two decades, they have personally experienced or witnessed the viciousness of the Vikings, and their anger outweighed their fear. They are willing to follow the prince to get rid of the villains.

The strength of more than 3,000 men gave the soldiers great confidence, but they didn't realize that something was wrong until they arrived in the outer city of London.

Almost all the houses in the outer city were ransacked. In the Danish camp on the Thames, more than 300 young women were **** with ropes, and there were more than 100 men.

Just take the captive's daughter as his wife? No! Marrying these women would probably give birth to children who would betray Odin.

Both men and women were to be sold into slavery, and Ragnar had found buyers for the warriors.

The Earl of Flanders, the Earl of the Netherlands, and the Duke of Saxony, these three Frankish enfeoffment nobles are not Franks. They have their own ideas, but they can't do some dirty work by themselves.

The nobles have money and food, but they lack a population that can be controlled, especially a special resource-fertile young women.

Take the captives to the other side of the ocean, and each captive can bring at least half a pound of silver coins.

The Danes were utterly powerless to break into inner London, and several attempts were repulsed by stone arrows from the defenders. They simply arrested people on the spot and set fire to the vacant houses.

Just when Ragnar was evacuating with his booty and prisoners, Prince Athelstan's reinforcements finally arrived.

A war is inevitable!

On the one hand, the Danish army has completed rest and is waiting for work, and on the other is the Wessex army, which is nervous about the expedition.

The war is completely one-sided! The shield wall cooperates with the concentrated archers to attack together. Ragnar has indeed learned some tactics while fighting side by side with the Ross army, which is already too super-class in the eyes of the Wessex army.

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On one side is the Wessex army charging with all their strength, and on the other side is the Danish shield wall waiting in full swing.

The Danish army is not as strong as the main force of Ross, but even if it only learns the superficial, it is enough to pay off the Wessex militia.

When the elite lost a lot, the militiamen immediately began to retreat, and under the continued coercion of the Danish army, the Wessex army collapsed.

Prince thelstan was forced to withdraw his troops, but he didn't know how to lift the siege of London. But he knew very well that if he continued to fight to the death, the outskirts of London would be his burial place.

Wessex reinforcements, which had once given great hope to the Roman descendants of inner London, collapsed after a massive melee.

Just one day, first despair, then hope, nothing but disappointment and deeper despair.

Maybe there is still a turning point in London, maybe the Vikings will leave after taking the money.

Once the Pope of Rome paid tribute to Attila the Whip of God in exchange for peace in Rome, maybe...

Just as the Danes were still cleaning the battlefield and collecting ironware, a small crack opened up in the inner city of London, which had been tightly locked up.

In just three hundred years, the difference between Saxony and Danish was not that great. When he learned that the besieged people were willing to buy the withdrawal of the Danish army with a thousand pounds of silver coins, Ragnar, the king, was moved.

But now that the inner city of London is at a serious disadvantage, perhaps if the siege continues and the city's supplies are exhausted, he can easily lead his troops to break through the city.

However, considering that it was cheap and the army was exhausted after the war, I was afraid that it would be fought again by another Wessex army. After raising the price by two hundred pounds of silver coins for Ragnar, who was eager to accept it, the Roman descendants in the inner city of London Our generous donations and destruction of families have finally bought peace.

Ragnar has won! The extortionate silver was a real surprise. He gave half of it to his subordinates, and the remaining six hundred pounds of silver coins belonged to himself.

This money is enough for him to train and arm a powerful king's guard, and with stronger arms, he can do more.

So has London really bought peace?

Appeasement can only buy temporary peace, how can it buy peace for a generation.

The longships were gathering, and the Danish army was about to evacuate with the prisoners.

A group of Roman descendants and Wessex nobles wearing toga robes stood on the high wall of London's inner city. It seemed that the Vikings were really leaving. Some people were happy, but more people were worried about the unknown. .

Once last year, again this year, and again next year.

Hopefully, don't come next year.

The weeping female prisoner sailed in the Danish longship to the east, which was the direction of the mouth of the Rhine.

A raven banner flew in the huge fleet, which was Ragnar's Danish king's banner.

He was standing on the flagship, and behind him was the Thames River and the strong and fragile inner city of London beside the river, as well as the scorched ruins of the outer city dwellings.

"You are a flock of fat sheep! Next year, I will change places."

Ragnar, who had gained great prestige, intended to take a rest after returning to Rotterstadt, so he sent his men to Utrecht.

He knew that even if he sold the captives, it would not be easy to openly put them on the market in the Frankish world, and Utrecht's decentralization of power would be embarrassing, and the transaction could only be done in secret. But maybe Utrecht is unwilling to pay or provide food, so the Duke of Saxony in the north will definitely pay, right?

Ragnar felt that the captives would not worry about selling them. If they were sold to widowers, they could make a lot of money, right?

When the Danish fleet successfully entered the mouth of the Rhine River, they unexpectedly saw an amazing perennial.

Just like the work of stacking firewood and boiling salt, it seems that the Russian army from the expedition to Aachen has returned. There are a large number of long ships standing on the shore of the main channel, and a large number of Ross flags are flying, and thick smoke is billowing under the flags.

"Did the Ross people win? Now as for boiling salt on a large scale?"

When Ragnar saw the returning Ross army, Blue Fox, who had brought the whole army to train, also saw them.

"The Danes are back? They traveled farther than me, and they came back earlier than I expected?" The blue fox was curious about what happened to Ragnar in Britain, but Yinvar should return it to his father, explaining Of course, I have to say a few words of kindness to Invar.

So it wasn't until Ragnar's flagship passed by those burning spots on the shore that he widened his eyes and finally realized that the Ross people were burning people.

They are actually doing mass cremation?

Based on the Danish funeral tradition, burial and intentional burial in large mounds are the mainstream, that is, the Ross people who were born in the north pay more attention to cremation.

It seems that the dead were Ross warriors, and it is their tradition to remove their own corpses from the battlefield. In such a cremation, the body would be burnt to gray bones, and finally smashed into powder with an axe, sealed in a wooden box or pottery urn, and transported to the cemetery in their capital for burial.

It was through living in New Roseburg that Ragnar had learned of these traditions. He appreciates this kind of action, but it is a pity that he can't do it yet.

Did the Russians suffer a big loss in Aachen?

He first sent his own people back to the Danish settlement with delicious loot, especially all the prisoners of war under the strict supervision of the family.

And after he returned to the settlement to arrange some work, he hurriedly arrived at the Ross army camp by boat.

"There is no emotion of failure here. They should have won. After attacking the capital of Frank, wouldn't it be possible to bring back a mountain of gold?"

Thinking of Ragnar's reluctance to show off his success rashly, he was also a little worried about his son Yinvar with a leg problem. He was delighted that when he saw the blue fox, his son would stay by his side.

"King of Denmark! Ragnar! You must have returned victorious! The gods are with you." After a commercial boast, the blue fox opened his arms, and the enthusiasm of this kind of praise made Ragnar very happy.

The two men hugged each other and patted each other on the back, like long-lost brothers.

"The Ross army is invincible! You... must have captured Aachen! Must have obtained countless gold?"

"That's natural, but the process is very tortuous."

"How twists and turns?"

"In a cruel battle, we made a lot of money and won the honor of soldiers. And your son Yinvar." As an elder, Lan Hu rubbed the head of Yinvar who was sitting on the sedan chair: "No one is qualified Laughing at his leg troubles. Innovar the Innocent, brave in the face of the brutal Frankish cavalry, the Danes fought with us the mightiest enemy."

With that said, Ragnar hid his disbelief with a smile. But Lan Hu's words of praise should be true.

He wanted to ask more, and the sly blue fox answered what he wanted to hear.

Ragnar really lacks the cunning of a profiteer. He doesn't know what to report good news but not bad news. The blue fox's rhetoric seems to be that the Ross army won the war with only a small loss.

Maastricht, Liege, and Aachen, three cities were sacked, and the three terms Ragnar are very unfamiliar. Compared with London, which was robbed by the Russian army, they were richer, right?

As for the burned corpses, Blue Fox described it lightly: "The hero's soul has already gone to the Hall of Valor, and the human body will be reduced to ashes."

As if he didn't say anything, Ragnar simply stopped asking.

Blue Fox didn't ask, Ragnar had already disclosed the benefits of the expedition to Britain. He hadn't gone too deep into the city, and told his slave hunters and successful blackmail.

The one who speaks has no intention of listening.

"Damn it, why is London, the famous city that Rurik mentioned, as cowardly as Cologne? You can buy peace with money? If I really want to go, I can do it." It was also a praise, and this matter was deeply remembered by Blue Fox, after all Gothenburg The fief is in the import and export area of the Denmark Strait. If an expeditionary force of Gotalans is organized, Blue Fox realizes that he does not need King Ross to accept his fate, so he can take people to London to blackmail.

Ragnar is here to drink, and Blue Fox, as the host, will give a feast.

Want to show off the spoils of the Ross Army? No! Ragnar didn't want to know any valid information, so this banquet was almost a private banquet for men of similar age.

Askad, whose mouth was injured and sore all over, would not come, and the five Gotaland nobles who had lost a lot would not come, and Kelha of the Finnish Army would not come.

Even the fourth Frankish princess Gisla, who can be used as a major trophy by the blue fox and can be used to show off, her existence is completely hidden.

Ragnar was busy drinking, and when he drank the bib, he began to talk and proudly explain his achievements until he fell asleep, which was remembered by the blue fox.

He gained a lot of face from Blue Fox, and brought his son Yinvar with him the next day, as well as the lost Danish soldiers.

But from his son's mouth, he learned some other statements.

Princess Frank? Charlemagne's Tomb? The wealth of the Royal Palace of Aachen? Gold and silver in Maastricht and Liege? The Ross army took it to their will.

Blue Fox didn't tell the truth! He didn't understand why the blue fox had to hide so much, but he didn't need to ask any more.

I am afraid that the real facts are as the person who witnessed everything, his eldest son Invar the Boneless, said that although the Ross coalition army got a lot of spoils, as many as half of their troops were killed in battle, and a large number of soldiers were injured.

The victory of the Ross Army can only be described as a tragic victory. So if I face a large number of Frankish cavalry charges on the battlefield, can I do it just right? Ragnar didn't want to think about it, because he still had his own things to do.

Gisla was placed under house arrest, in fact, in a separate wooden house. The wooden house built according to the Ross style woodcut is more concerned with keeping warm, and its interior is compact and complete.

There are clear sitting wooden toilets and soft paper for wiping buttocks. How to use the princess is easy to teach, she faced all this in astonishment and quickly got used to it.

When she thought that the life of the Normans was extremely barbaric, even though she was under house arrest, it didn't seem unbearable to really live the Norman way of life.

Because on the first night, she slept on a wooden bed with a woolen mattress and quilt and even two kinds of pillows, which were linen pockets filled with wool or buckwheat husks, and the latter was Rurik's own preference, because it could calm the nerves Easy to sleep.

She can drink water at any time, and eat some sweet little food.

There is nothing that can threaten my safety for the time being, I just don't know what happened to Alicia?

Really took the initiative to break with his personal maid ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Thinking about it now, is it too stupid? If there is a chance, can the relationship be repaired.

But, can we go back to the past? Probably can't go back.

The princess guessed right, Alicia immediately returned to her work as a maid after arriving in Rotterstad, but the object of her service became Askad.

However, Askad's mouth was injured, and he couldn't eat hard food for a while. She personally boiled the oat porridge mixed with peas, boiled it into a lake, delivered it to Askad herself, and delivered the food into his mouth with a spoon.

She even deliberately let the soldiers of the Seventh Banner Squad see it, and intentionally made them talk about it.

This is probably what a wife does, right? Askad's eyes are full of Alicia.

And for Alicia, that's what she's aiming for.

What she wants is another, more stable life.