Chapter 26

The Vikings after the short stop left again and sailed down the coast till the day the end of the river and towed up the river for while soon the saw a large city with walls in front and stop the boats near the city and the got to making the camps when all the jarls meet with Olaf and began the plan and said 'the plan is simple we will form 4 lines where the first will be me and Ragnar that will fight the army head on.'

This brought a smile to Ragnar who said "I love this idea I want to battle,' sweyn looked at olaf and said 'what will we do?' Olaf smiled and said 'that's why I am making the different lines once me and Ragnar engage the franks you will wait 20 minutes while we fight then you will move and attack the French on the left,auslag will take her forces and move to the right and Eric will move behind them and attack trapping them, we will cut them to the last man and the city will be our since it will have no defense.'

Auslag asked 'how sure are you they will attack,' but that was interrupted when the gates open and an army of two thousand when came out and Olaf smiled and said 'pretty sure warriors get into position,' the French commander ordo looked at the men in front of him and said 'men it looked like we have fools who think they can challenge use but we will show them our might, attack!'

The men charged and ran and hit what looked at the shield wall and a fierce battle erupted and the commander thought after this battle 'I will go to the emperor and get reward by being made count, I can exaggerate that we where attacked by a 5 times the number,' but his thoughts were stoped when the army that was hidden behind the first moved to his right then another to his left and he looked and thought 'what was happening,' but he looked and memorized that his army was in trouble and said 'we need to retreat they are trying to envelop up!' He turn and wanted to move back but he saw a small force had moved up behind them and attack and now he knew that they had lost as they were trapped and now the French saw the position and started to panic which led to them being cut down much and led to the French army being destroyed.

Later after the destruction of the French army Olaf who was covered in blood was walking when he saw tostig and walked to him and the old man saw his jarl and smiled while saying 'finally I can go to Valhalla, I will tell them of how I met a great Viking warrior who has led me to England and frankia and the battles that happen and finally I will watch you even greater achievements,' after which he closed his eyes in peace and Olaf looked at him and took an ax near him and put it on the old man and stood up and walked to the army and said 'victory us ours!' Which led to loud cheers he continued 'now to our reward the city it's all ours so let's go and take it!' And the warriors ran to the city and the Vikings style looting began and Olaf walked to the main castle in the middle of the city with a small force following him and they cleared the castle and Olaf saw the throne and sat on it satisfied of the gains that happened and was thinking of the next move to make.

Frankfurt, the capital of east frankia in the castle sat the king Louis who sat on his throne enjoying the luxury's of being king and looked to one of his advisers and said 'when will my foolish brother start his next campaign,' to which the adviser said 'my lord he won't be able to for sometime,' this left the king confused and said 'why he normally attacks me and my other brother in hopes of reunification of the empire,'

The man replied 'well from the information I got it seems that he has been having rebellions in south of his territory and won't be able to focus on anything else so we won't see an attack for sometime,' this gave the king something to be happy about and said 'well then we shall have a feast for it,' but that was interrupted when a man who looked to a messenger ran in, knelt and said 'my king I have urgent news from the north,' to which caught the king off guard and said 'well tell me!' to which the messenger said 'the city of Bremen has been attacked and occupied,' this brought shock and whispers in the court and the king who looked angry said 'my advisor I thought you said my brother wouldn't attack me,' the messenger answered 'my lord it's not a Frankish army that attacked us,' the king asked 'we then who did attack us?' 'From the information we got they seem to be coming with ships from the north, the attacked and destroyed the army at Bremen and have looted it and occupied it as a base since that's where all their ships are it,' the advisor who seemed to be wise asked 'is that all they done no other moves?'

The messenger with embarrassment answered 'no,they have sent forces for days to raid and attack all the settlements near Bremen, and there was even an attack on the city of Paderborn and it was looted and they left the city and are moving back,' after all the information was given the advisor looked to his king and said 'my king this sounds like barbarians who are more interested in raiding getting wealth more than anything and it seems they will raid for sometime before they leave,' the king not happy said 'is there anything that can be done about this problem?' The messenger said 'my king we have one of them here as a prisoner,' the king said bring him in,' the doors open and a man who was shout and trying to fight was brought in and put on his knees and the king looked at him and said 'well now how do we communicate?'

Someone who was standing behind the advisor spoke 'my lord I understand the words he spoke its sounds similar to the danish dialect and I have a bit of experience I could help translate,' then sometime passed and the advisor said 'well there isn't much information that could be gotten as he is only a shoulder but the important thing is that we know now that the leader of this pagan army is a man named Olaf and from the way the man spoke he is respected and feared by his people,' the king who wanted to fight said 'well what do we do, they seem strong and from what I know they may desire to attack this castle in order to plunder us,' the advisor smiled and said 'well what do have to say is I have a plan that helps us keep them away from attack the capital and move the focus somewhere else,' this brought hope it the king and said 'well tell me of your plan carloman,' and the man started with the plan that may help prevent a future attack on their city.