Although there are creatures like dwarves in this world that are entangled, it doesn’t matter, the main theme in this world is still war. Yes, war. Except for war, everything else is a scumbag.

That's what Artoria said. Seeing her excited look when Egil agreed to take her with her when she went to war with the army, Egil couldn't help but sigh.

"Is it more interesting to kill people than 'beep'? Why don't I think so?"

However, in short, after leaving five thousand standing troops on the British land to prevent rebellion from the nobles, Egil led nearly ten thousand Viking warriors and more than two thousand dwarf mercenaries to the north and prepared to attack Newcastle.

At this moment, Robert II had already developed the desire to retreat in Newcastle. After staying in the lonely city for several months, he had gained nothing except for consuming a lot of money and food. The expected incident of the enemy attack did not happen at all. This surprised Robert II. The result was not good afterwards. Scotland was frequent alarms, and all ports, coastal towns and villages were attacked by Viking pirates and navy. The burning, killing and looting caused countless losses and countless refugees. The Norwegian Navy even took advantage of the situation to attack the city of Edinburgh, almost leveling the Scottish capital.

In this way, Robert II was in a bad position and the domestic undercurrent was in a turbulent situation. It was precisely because of this that he rushed his army south, hoping to transfer the country to achieve it through a war of foreign aggression. It was a pity that he chose the wrong opponent from the beginning.

At this moment, the whole Scotland was in chaos. The Scottish army was also dismal. They were all thinking about the ruined houses in their homes. The ugly wife and her son who were almost as stupid as hers. They no longer had the intention to continue fighting.

So Robert II looked at his noble generals looking at him with a gaze. He knew that the battle could not continue. He sighed inwardly, and then he led the army to burn Newcastle. As Egil said, he was preparing to retreat north of Hadrian's Great Wall.

However, Egil did not want to let him go. Especially when he saw the burning city of Newcastle, Egil suddenly felt that he had directly destroyed Scotland with his army. This choice seemed to be a good choice.

Of course, Egil finally resisted this impulse. He also made a decision after the spy sent a message and learned that the Scots had no desire to continue fighting. The knights, the improved tomahawk cavalry and the battlefield corps. These heavy cavalry all gave up their armor and went on a light-clad leather armor to chase the enemy as quickly as possible. It is necessary to catch up with them and break them before the enemy enters Hadrian's Great Wall. Buy time for the main infantry forces of the rear team - it is already dusk at this moment. If you don't hurry up, then the sun will be completely set in a while, and it will be difficult to chase.

Once the Scots retreated to Hadrian's Wall, whether it was to set a fire to burn Hadrian's Wall to white ground or to hold on to the city and finally smashed into meat sauce by the dwarfs, neither of these results were what Egil wanted to see. Since there was no plan to send troops to Scotland for the time being, the best way was to use this historic Great Wall as a defense line to resist attacks that might come from the north. Now Newcastle Castle has been destroyed. Then it is necessary to ensure the integrity of Hadrian's Wall.

"Isn't this a little too risky? Moreover, the knights and heavy cavalrymen gave up their armor and suffered great losses to their combat effectiveness." Artoria put forward different opinions.

"Are you worried about me?" Egil chuckled, not answering Artoria's question, but asked remarks like this.

"..." Artoria was a little shy, but she still looked at Egil very seriously and waited for him to answer.

However, Egil did not want to argue with Artoria at all. He just stretched out his hands, stroked Artoria's face, and left a sentence: "I'll ask you everything." Then he handed over the command of the main infantry unit to Artoria. He led the knights and heavy cavalry who were also complaining and chased towards the north.

To be honest, if Artoria's strength returns to normal, it would be more appropriate for Artoria to lead the elite cavalry to charge. After all, in the Battle of the Thames that day, Artoria's Thirteen Cavalry could directly break through the enemy formation, and Egil could not do such a despicable ability. However, Egil judged others by himself, although the possibility of Artoria's rebellion is less than or equal to zero. But who can say such things as domestic violence? If Artoria's strength is no longer controlled, then it will be a tragedy.

Therefore, Egil had no intention of returning his wife's strength to normal and then biting him back. Therefore, this dangerous person who charges with cavalry can only be borne by Egil himself.

After removing all armor, the original heavy cavalry instantly transformed into light lances. Although the combat power dropped significantly, the maneuver power increased significantly. Soon, it caught up with the vast majority of Scottish troops, which were infantry and very slow. Then without saying a word, they quickly lined up the cavalry in a row and went straight over. Although the armor was lost, the kinetic energy was much less. However, in contrast, the speed was much faster. Therefore, the impact was still quite good. In addition, the Scottish soldiers were panicked. As the color faded today, the power of these two thousand light cavalry backs was still quite good. In an instant, the Scottish army, with a total of more than 17,000, almost collapsed.

Of course, it was just a little bit. The tenacity of the mountain people in the Scottish Highlands exceeded Egil's imagination. Although the Scottish army had already been severely shaken under the terrifying atmosphere deliberately created by Egil, the remaining Scots still gritted their teeth and insisted on resisting desperately.

"Damn." Egil saw that this attack did not defeat the enemy. The light cavalry on his side was extremely unfavorable in such a melee. So he quickly ordered the cavalry to retreat, and then launched a second round of charge before the Scottish gun array formed with the Scottish sign. At the same time, Egil's special skill, the Underworld, roared. A huge sense of fear instantly enveloped every Scots. Then, before the cavalry's tsunami charge, the entire Scottish army finally collapsed.

It was a pity that the sky was completely dark at this time. Although Artoria also arrived with a large number of infantry soldiers, it was still quite difficult to expand the results of the battle at such a time. In the end, after killing a few enemies and barely capturing one or two thousand prisoners, Egil had to withdraw his troops. The army slowly passed through the vast wilderness and finally arrived at the Great Wall of Hadrian at dawn. Fortunately, the Scots seemed to be scared. Perhaps they were still lost to the south of Hadrian's Wall. Or perhaps they had already escaped north of Hadrian's Wall. In short, they did not station in Hadrian's Wall. And there was no intention of defending.

This also made Egil breathe a little relieved. During the march, Egil asked the system elves how many gold coins would be needed to restore the Great Wall of Hadrian that was burned by the fire. The final answer almost made Egil collapse.

"Hundreds of thousands of gold coins."

During this period, in order to build a road network between cities in England, Egil, who needed to raise 200,000 gold coins, has begun to save money. The original food level has also gone from white bread to black bread little by little. Such changes have caused dissatisfaction among people, including, but not limited to Artoria. If you come again, you may have to wait for other nobles under your command to rebel, and your own direct troops may rebel - improving the food level can increase the support level by 15%. However, if you reduce the food level, it will cause a decrease in support level ranging from 25-30%. As expected, it is difficult to go from frugal to extravagance to extravagance.

In fact, in this battle with the Scots, Egil came one step late and burned Newcastle City. His heart was already thrust. If Hadrian's Wall was burned in one go, it would be an unbearable pain in his life.

However, Egil had already figured out the source of the money for repairing Hadrian's Great Wall and rebuilding Newcastle Castle. It was to cut it from the losers, such as Scotland. At the same time, Carter's pirate life in the past two months also received a lot of spoils. In addition to some actual precious metals of gold, silver, copper, iron and metal, there were also some messy things, such as food, cloth, pottery, etc., which could be exchanged for 10,000 or 20,000 gold coins in total. In this way, a few more gold coins were extorted from Scotland and the money for rebuilding Newcastle Castle was enough.

Oh. By the way, the interest for this month - I mean the usury loan to Edward seems to have been settled. In this way, it means that there is no money and wealth. It can add new clothes to Artoria, such as black silk maid outfits.

——By the way, I said black silk, it seems that nylon has not been invented yet, which is a pity.

"So it's eight out of ten people who are not satisfied with life. Come on, my wife, show it cute."

"Go to die."

"Forget it, it's quite exciting to be a little proud." Egil comforted himself like this.

In this way, three days later, as Egil said, life was not satisfactory - after searching the entire Northumberland and Cumbria, although the Vikings found many disoriented Scots, among which the rich nobles were not lacking. However, Robert II, the King of Scots that Egil wanted to capture the most, was not listed.
Chapter completed!