Rise of Rurik

A mere three-meter-high stone wall, without anyone else's interference, the Rus people can clasp the protrusions of the stone blocks and climb up like monkeys.

After all, Oxon is good at repairing stone walls. For the stability of the structure, even if he doesn't know the "basic knowledge of engineering mechanics" at all, he knows that the cross-section of the stone wall should be a trapezoid.

Otherwise, the possible enemy will not attack, and the stone wall will collapse on its own after some wind and rain.

Only a trapezoidal wall can keep the wall standing for a long time in this era when the Viking tribes don't know what concrete is.

Precisely because it is a trapezoid with a particularly rough surface, the Ross has the opportunity to climb up without relying on a huge ladder.

Of course the defenders would not give the attackers a chance.

Russ people are basically unprepared when they climb the wall. They are generally very young. This is the first time in their lives that they have participated in real battles. They have no experience in siege warfare at all. experience. They did have climbing skills, and it turned out that the best climbers were the first to be stabbed to death with spears by the defenders.

Seeing that he climbed the wall and was shriveled, the Rusian war leader Haruo Zuosen commanded under the stone wall was furious, and he immediately ordered: "Arik! You lead people to storm their wooden door! Smash it open! Rush in! Slash all the enemies! "

"Okay! Don't be afraid of death, come with me!" Arik shouted loudly, holding his steel sword high, and led more than 20 strong men to give up climbing the wall, which was obviously not taking advantage of them, and they began to storm the wooden door.

The muscular Ross strongman slammed into the wooden door like a bull. Although the wooden door was shaking, it was still very stable.

At this moment, a clear Norse roar was clearly heard from behind the wooden door.

"Brothers! Hold on! Don't let these pirates break through the door!"

"Bring another piece of wood and hold the door against it!"

The guards defending the city, they have all been informed that they will persevere, and those families in the north will inevitably send troops to help. As long as you hold on until the reinforcements arrive, everyone will get a huge sum of forty gold coins for defending the castle!

The guards used thick wooden poles as door latches, and also held five thick wooden poles against the ground, and the other end was against the wooden door.

No matter how strong the Russ are, how many people can they break open such a reinforced wooden door? It's amazing.

However, the Rus people are not a simple one.

Arik raised his sword and ordered: "Hit me with an axe! Let's completely smash the wooden door!"

Two strong men bare their arms,

Their thick chest hair was soaked with sweat.

They have become true berserkers, manipulating two giant long-handled classic Nordic forest axes, trying to chop down the wooden door blocking the way with the attitude of cutting down towering trees.

With just five slashes, two large holes appeared in the wooden door.

The fighters on both sides can already look at each other by virtue of the big hole.

The strong axe-wielding man passed through the big hole and saw people behind him wearing chainmail and metal helmets, and he couldn't help but feel nervous.

Suddenly, a number of spears were poked out of the big hole, and the spearheads directly pierced the body of the muscular man. The two men with the axe widened their eyes angrily, then spewed two mouthfuls of blood, and were stabbed to the ground abruptly.

This is the first time Arik has participated in a real battle. He has never seen such a scene before, and the whole person retreats subconsciously. The same goes for everyone else!

Now it seems that if you rashly approach the wooden door, expecting to continue to chop the wood into pieces, it is very likely that you will be stabbed to death by the enemy first! It is absolutely different from the battle just now. The enemies in the castle are just like me, they are all warriors who dare to fight and kill!

It wasn't that Arik was a coward, he just didn't want his brother to be killed needlessly.

He backed away, and as a result, more people started to retreat.

Everyone realizes that the army needs to rest and find a good way to attack.

Many people looked back at the city wall, noticed the dead brother at the root of the wall, and also saw a large amount of smoke rising from the city wall against the background of the dark blue sky at dawn. Everyone was happy to understand that those brothers who continued to shoot arrows had already set fire to some houses in the castle.

Even Harrodsen understood that as long as the chaos continued and the Russ had a little rest, the next attack should be able to successfully rush in, kill the enemy, and get all the money.

The Rus retreated a little, only the archers kept firing rockets.

Let's talk about these hunters who shoot arrows, they won't stop until the turpentine reserves are exhausted.

Just when the attack was just launched, a flaming arrow just hit the back of the retreating Oxon.

His mink coat, which he had made to order at a great price, was immediately stuck in the burning sticky resin, and the clothes quickly began to catch fire.

"Ah! Help!" Oxon jumped and begged for help, but by doing so, the fire burned even more vigorously.

His men hurriedly cut his belt with a knife and took off the burning coat.

Now, Oxon can only watch his baby turn into a flame with grief, and witness a large number of flaming arrows still falling from the sky. A strong sense of fear acted on his heart, and he was only lined with fine linen, and regardless of the cold outside, he staggered into the stone room.

"Damn it! My coat is twenty gold coins! Damn pirates, I'm going to kill you."

His words made the guards dissatisfied: "Sir, you should be glad that the arrow is a bone arrow. If it is an iron arrow, you may be dead."

"Ah?" Oxon, who had already hid in the stone room, couldn't help being surprised. He was panting heavily and suddenly felt the pain in his back: "Quick! Can you see if my back is bleeding?"

"My lord, your clothes are not even torn."

"Why does it hurt so much!" Oxon gritted his teeth and held back for the time being. He looked around with his eyes wide open, and saw that many houses had fallen from rockets, and flames had already burst into flames.

In times of crisis, it is impossible for all houses to be put out in time. Oxon is fortunate that his most important houses are all made of stone for greater safety. The design is firstly for robustness and secondly for fire protection.

He hurriedly ordered the four guards around him: "You take my family to the big stone room! Hurry up! We have to hide. Then you go to fight, drive back the pirates, and put out the fire."

The so-called big stone room, it is actually the material where Oxon placed all his wealth.

At this moment, he couldn't care about his image, he staggered to the big stone room to hide, lit the oil lamps on the wall, and comforted the two wives and concubines who were crying in terror, and the two shivering daughters.

The light of the oil lamp illuminated more than a dozen large suitcases in the stone room, and the boxes were full of gold and silver!

The four close-fitting guards were not allowed to enter this room on weekdays, but now that they came in, when they thought that the suitcase that would take two strong men to lift together was full of gold and silver, evil spirits sprouted on the spot.

After all, the guard's reason prevailed. The four of them, like door gods, obeyed the arrangement of the gold master and immediately walked out of the room, standing at the wooden door and guarding with swords and shields.

How is the situation outside? Oxon's plump body sat on his cash box, and his two wives and concubines only knew that the castle was under a terrible attack.

"Don't be afraid! My people will kill the pirates." Oxon tried his best to comfort his wife and concubine, also convincing himself to settle down.

Suddenly, the wooden door that was locked on the back was knocked hard.

Oxon subconsciously held the hilt of his short sword and shouted, "Who is it?!"

"My lord! Good news, the pirates are back."

It was the voice of the guard.

"Huh? Really?!"

He stood up abruptly, the fat on his stomach throbbing, and hurriedly opened the door.

The guard's face was full of joy, and Oxon subconsciously thought that the pirates could not attack, so he withdrew angrily. "Okay! Well done, I'll give you gold soon."

As soon as he heard Jin Zi, the guard's smile became presumptuous.

"Go, I want to see the pirates escape."

Now Oxon really thought that all the pirates had escaped, and suddenly he became confident again and walked out of the big stone room arrogantly, but what he saw was still a very bad scene. What's more, why are there flaming arrows sporadically shooting in from outside the wall?

And on the steps at the top of the wall, why is there still a person who is half-squatting, a defensive appearance? !

"What's the matter? Didn't the pirates escape?"

"No! My lord. The pirates didn't flee, they just retreated," explained the guard.

"Damn, let me be happy for nothing." Oxon stomped his feet and pointed to several burning houses: "Go and put out the fire."

"But my lord, we've run out of water."

"There is no water? Since the pirates have retreated, you should open the door and fetch water from the well in the village. It should be fine."

Hearing this, the guard really felt that the arrow hit not the back of the gold master, but his head.

The guards were unmoved by this bullshit, and soon, the sweaty Okenstein hurried over: "Sir, why did you come out!? Quickly enter the stone room to escape."

"Okenstein, why don't you put out the fire?! Forget it." Oxon stomped his foot, "I'm going to the wall. I want to see where the pirates have gone. Why are they still shooting arrows."

"My lord. The wall is dangerous."

"Bah! You mean I should be a coward?" The words came out of Oxon's mouth. It was unbelievable. Okenstein always felt that the gold master was a coward.

At this moment, Oxon held a glimmer of hope. He climbed the wall with a helmet reinforced with copper skin, and exposed his eyes to see, where did those hateful pirates retreat? They were not far away at all, as if waiting for the dawn to launch another attack.

The pirates were still a large crowd of people, and a sense of fear instantly dissipated Oxon's courage, and he almost fell to the ground.

"Quick! Quickly help me back. Okenstein, you must stand up to these damn pirates, or we will all die."

"Then go back quickly and look after the gold. After the pirates are repelled, remember your promise!" Okenstein said viciously.

After all, Okenstein looked at the enemies who were clinging to him a few more times, then sat down and took a deep breath.

All the Rus were going to take the castle, and the sky was blue now, and soon the sun would rise.

After dawn, enough light is more suitable for siege.

I have to say that the stone wall built by the Gotlanders is really a tricky defense method. The Russ are the first to encounter a siege battle in the true sense, and they must think of a reasonable countermeasure.

After some melee, the surviving warriors were already tired. They gathered together more than 100 meters away from the stone wall, sitting on the ground and nibbling on the dry food they brought.

Others, who were ordered by Harrodsson to watch over captives taken from fishing villages.

The fire was blazing into the sky behind him, and the air was scorching hot.

Facing the stone wall, Harozov, who was nibbling on dried fish, couldn't think of a good idea for a while.

He called Arik, who had withdrawn, to his side: "Son, this damn city wall, we must break it. We must act fast, or we will run out of time to retreat."

"You want me to think of a way?!"

"I'm stupid, you're a young man, can you do anything?" Harozov asked.

"How? There is one, we have to build a siege weapon!

"Siege weapons? Ladders? Or what?" Haruo Zuo Sen asked eagerly.

Arik slapped his chest suddenly: "Everything depends on my methods. I led someone to chop down a big tree, and we held it and slammed the wooden door open. Then you rushed in with the other brothers behind us, you How's it going?!"

Harozov, who was originally touching it, was overjoyed: "Then go quickly."

Arik did what he said. He immediately gathered twenty brothers of the same age and ran to the woods near the village to start action.

Although it was his first siege, Arik had already thought of a way to create a "siege hammer" to knock open the wooden door.

In the failed siege, more than ten brothers died under the stone wall. With a strong anger, the warrior with the axe slammed it down, and a large pine tree was chopped down and rumbled to the ground.

The Russ were using an axe to do some simple processing. Twenty people worked together to lift the trunk, which was nearly half a meter in diameter and five meters in length, and rushed into the resting crowd with a roar.

Everyone was startled by the sudden appearance of tree trunks.

Arik didn't care about the soreness of his arm, he held high the steel sword that still slashed many enemies, and called on his own people: "Brothers! Hack it all. Gold, it's ours! All of you can have steel swords!"

In fact, as long as Arik holds his sword high, the sword itself is a strong spiritual inspiration.

Those with iron swords have now replaced them with captured battle axes, or their own spare axes.

Why? Actual combat has proved that ordinary iron swords are bent after a while, and the blades are generally notched. Such swords are basically useless without repair.

Look at Arik's steel sword, still as perfect as ever. The only price to get it is to pay a fortune! A huge sum of sixty silver coins!

For any young warrior, it is a huge sum of money that takes years of hard work to accumulate, and now as long as the last risk is taken, the goal will be achieved!

Everyone was motivated by this agitation, and the Russ began to cry wildly, the roar was soaring.

This roar was also telling the defenders that a new attack had begun.

The Rus people hurry up to eat dried fish, drink their own water, and some even eat the captured rusks.

They took as many as seventy captives in the fishing village, and the captives consisted of women. It's not surprising that the Russ people were irrational in the melee, and they started to arrest people when they calmed down a little. As a result, not long after they acted, they began a decisive battle with the counter-attacking Thinkenburg men.

Those who were captured were the wives and daughters of those men, and now, there were more than a hundred corpses of men from Thinkenburg lying on the battlefield, as well as a large number of shields and battle axes.

The wounded Russ were carried to the rear, along with more than 20 corpses of their own.

The sky finally brightened, and Arik felt that his physical strength had recovered quite well. He looked again at the sun that was about to break through the horizon in the east, and stood up proudly, holding his steel sword high: "Brothers, the final battle is here. Let's go!"

The four hundred Ross warriors were reinvigorated.

Arik took the lead. Behind him were ten selected warriors with long-handled axe, and behind him was a huge pine tree that twenty people carried together.

More heat gathered into a black mass, closely following behind the pine wood man.

Look at this battle, what they want to do is self-evident. twenty four