Rise of Rurik

The white-on-blue-striped uniforms of the Ross army are too eye-catching. After forming the shield wall, there is an orderly white wall.

What is very exaggerated is that the Russian army took advantage of the Danes on the city wall to be at a loss and hurriedly put the torsion slingshots carried on carts into position.

Warriors holding crossbows and torsion slingshots formed a dense formation behind the thin shield wall.

Behind the crossbowmen were another group of warriors holding swords and shields, as well as Slavic soldiers holding spears.

A large number of Russian flags were flying, and their uniforms were very distinctive. Most of the soldiers were uniformly dressed, and together they brought a huge sense of oppression to the enemy.

Horik, the Danish king, had already climbed onto the city wall. He temporarily dressed himself up in an inconspicuous way, just to take a good look at the appearance of the Russian army.

He took a breath, and when he saw a man with a strange beard and braids, he was so angry that he stood up straight regardless of the danger. He simply found a wooden box to put his feet on, and then yelled: "Ragnar! The scum of Denmark! It was you who attracted the Rus' people?! I regret my kindness in the past and not exterminating you and your people!"

Hearing this fellow's roar, Ragnar bluntly told Rurik that the arrogant and domineering man was King Horik of Denmark.

"That's Horik?!" Rurik became more aggressive and asked his subordinates to bring him a light wooden-armed crossbow with arrows attached. He also ordered Ragnar to scold him.

Ragnar was filled with hatred for Horik and wanted to eat his flesh raw, then chop his wives, concubines and children into minced meat and feed it to the fish. His scolding was very unpleasant, and the focus was on accusing him of the so-called "dirty body transactions between Horik and Frankish male nobles." How insulting is this? !

Just as Horik was blushing and scolding him, with a whoosh, a silver-gray object flew away from Horik's head.

"Bang! The wooden arm version just doesn't work. I almost killed that bastard with a sniper." Rurik threw the crossbow to his men angrily.

Horik himself froze on the spot, with an arrow stuck in his iron helmet, which had fallen under the wooden wall. He was in a daze from shock, and the soldiers protecting him hurriedly helped him down and hid him.

"Damn the Rus, I almost died! Brothers, shoot arrows to repel them!"

The Dane holding the bow began to draw the bow. Seeing this, the Ross sword and shield players protected their bodies with huge round shields to avoid the thin arrows.

At this moment, the Ross army began to attack first!

Both sides fired arrows almost at the same time. The Russian army's crossbows and slingshots were fired at the same time. Under Rurik's order, they fired the first round of powerful punches. More than a hundred conical-head cast iron bullets hit the wooden wall, causing sawdust to fly everywhere. The walls trembled slightly.

Those thick pine logs were neatly arrayed and placed in the dug pit. The diameter of each pine log reached 30cm. The pine wood has such a diameter and has been standing for more than a year. The whole wood has dried in the shade and lost water, and the overall strength has reached a high level.

They have such an exaggerated thickness that even a torsion slingshot cannot penetrate the cast iron projectiles when fired at close range.

Rurik did not expect that he could complete the violent demolition of the wall with just a slingshot.

More than a hundred slingshots were divided into multiple shooting groups, with at least ten gathered in each group. Each unit was ordered to storm a point in the wooden wall, relying on frequent shooting to continuously expand the small defects, expanding each impact point into a damaged surface.

The projectiles hit the wooden wall heavily, and a large number of cone-headed projectiles were directly embedded in it.

The people operating the slingshots kept shouting: "Load quickly and smash their walls!"

The soldiers were roaring, and the strong warriors turned the winch crazily. As soon as the metal latch locked the winch, a projectile coated with seal oil and whale oil was placed on the slide. As soon as the soldier who loaded the bullet took his hand, another man suddenly pulled out the latch.

"Quick! Let's do it again." So it's a new cycle.

All torsion slingshots were allowed to fire freely. For this battle, Eureka also prepared sufficient projectiles. He was expected to have a fierce battle with the Danish Navy at sea. Enough projectiles would be the key to victory. As a result, the armed longships of the Kingdom of Denmark The Ross army, which was nowhere to be seen and had not experienced the joy of naval battles, vented their violence here by relying on projectiles.

And this is just the power of the torque slingshot.

Ten bull trebuchets stood on the battlefield, and some special projectiles were thrown directly into the city. Those were the Danish cavalry who had been killed before. Their heads were taken off and their bodies were basically thrown into the sea.

Although there is a headhunting culture among various Viking clans, Rurik's so-called "use your skull as a wine bowl" is actually a provocation, but what he wants to do now is indeed a provocation.

The head of the deceased was thrown into the inner city. The infantrymen of the Kingdom of Denmark, who were equipped with full weapons and watched eagerly, thought it was a stone falling from the sky. They raised their wooden shields to resist it. Only after the impact did they realize that it was a ferocious human head.

This kind of "projectile" can't kill anyone, but it's insulting.

When the head is thrown away, the truly lethal pebbles begin to be fired.

The array of the Russian army was already within the bow and arrow range of the Danish army. Such a close distance could not only give full play to the absolute arrow advantage of the Russian army, but also allow the huge torque launch arm of the bull trebuchet to eject larger pebbles.

A real stone fell from the sky. Even if it couldn't hit the soldier's shield, it was so powerful that it could break the soldier's left arm, and that was enough.

Heavy weapons were mainly used to destroy the city walls, and the arrows of the Russian army directly disrupted the rhythm of the Danish army.

Rurik kept holding the steel sword with a sullen face. The sword was like a baton, and the soldiers shot where the sword pointed.

The Danish archers at the top of the city were beaten with crossbows and were unable to fight back. They were shot down wantonly like innocent birds. Occasionally, there were those who were angry and tried to fight back. As soon as they showed their chests and drew their bows, they were directly sniped down by the eyeing Ross crossbowmen.

The soldiers fell heavily from the top of the city, and a group of soldiers could only kneel and sit under the battlements of the city wall to survive. They were suppressed, and some soldiers saw soldiers fleeing in empty areas in the city.

After only a short period of fighting, the Danes at the top of the city almost disappeared.

Rurik deliberately waited until now.

He shouted an order: "Jevlo! Take your Finns forward and form a phalanx to launch into the air!"

Forget it, Rurik shouted an order: "Fisk, you and your guys are with the Finns, line up the team and shoot the arrows!"

It was the "Ross Arrow Formation" that was a mixture of longbows and recurve bows. There were even ten Pecheneg warriors, forming an arrow array totaling 300 people.

Both longbows and recurve bows will shoot heavy arrows. They are no longer sharp needle-like armor-piercing arrows, but broad-bladed steel arrow clusters with barbs. These arrows are only used to kill large numbers of opponents. Armorless infantry.

The crossbowmen of the Russian army were already throwing short, heavy arrows, causing panic to the Danish army behind the wall. The assembled soldiers were running around, and the entire cavalry team was also in disarray.

The arrows and rocks killed and injured many people. The arrows came in an unorganized manner, so it was not difficult to dodge them.

However, if the terrified Danish King Horik, who had withdrawn, had not ordered the army to continue to defend, these Danish warriors would have taken the initiative to retreat, even if it meant acting cowardly.

The Danish soldiers gritted their teeth and persisted until they encountered an unbearable burden.

A dense rain of arrows fell from the sky. They were launched at a very high angle, and they swirled and fell desperately high in the sky with their swirling feathers.

The arrows directly penetrated the soldiers' shoulders, penetrated the thin iron helmets, and severely beat those who were unprepared.

The soldiers who insisted on building the shield wall immediately suffered more than thirty casualties, and a large number of brown-gray arrow feathers were planted on the sandy soil. At first glance, they looked like ears of oats that were in urgent need of harvest.

The horrified King Horik witnessed the horrific damage. He tried to remain calm, but his men began to retreat.

The intact warrior pulled away the injured companion who was screaming. When he tried to pull out the arrow that had stabbed his companion, he got even more serious wails.

Less than ten seconds after the first round of arrows, the second round of arrows struck again.

This kind of shooting continued for ten rounds. The Finnish longbowmen holding the bows had sore arms. Fisk and his young men could barely endure the pain of shooting heavy arrows. This is how shooting with a high-pound war bow was. Now, when they finished shooting arrows, they were asked by Rurik to temporarily remove their resting arms, but to be ready for the final battle.

Looking on the other side of the wooden wall, Horik was lamenting his tactical mistakes.

Since the Russian army threatened to break the city, they probably have the strength in this regard. King Horik himself lacks the confidence to guard the city gate, even though the largest wooden gate facing the south of the fortress is now piled with a large number of small carriages with wheels removed to act as a barrier to the gate. Once the Ross army broke through, he planned to let his Danish army wait for work, attack them with a shield wall, and rely on the absolute advantage of local forces to continuously kill the enemies that broke through the breach.

But why did Prince Rurik of Rus fight like this?

The Ross arrow array that was just pieced together shot two thousand heavy arrows in a short period of time. The warriors holding crossbows continued to throw short and fat crossbow arrows, and the warriors holding short wooden bows threw light arrows.

The Russian army fired nearly 10,000 arrows of various types. Rurik was not worried at all that the enemy would shoot back the arrows that were readily available, because when the enemy fired arrows, he was also exposed to the range of being shot.

The intensive arrow strikes completely defeated Horik's attempt. There was a clearly audible commotion in the city. The Danish warriors were evacuating. They retreated to the south of the city, the only place where they could avoid the arrows.

However, more than 300 people, including some cavalrymen, were killed by arrows and stones. Even those who survived were squirming desperately in the "wheat field" formed by arrow feathers.

The warriors who were originally sword and shield bearers also became archers in large numbers. Only the elite Arik's troops and the allied Ragnar's troops held shields throughout the show.

Those armed Bornholm slaves and surrendered Danish exiles stood in the array of the Ross Army and observed the powerful charm of the Ross Arrow Array up close. The counterattack of the Bornholm islanders before was so stupid. The Rus army seemed to be able to shoot arrows and defeat any enemy with close arrows.

It doesn't take much physical effort to operate the wooden arm crossbow, and the heavy steel arm crossbow is assisted by a winch. These warriors know that they are about to fulfill a new mission and will inevitably push the siege to the highlight moment of the Ross army, and this depends on whether the prince has had enough.

At this moment, Arik looked at the crazy firepower output of the other brothers. He couldn't wait any longer: "Brother! Are you satisfied? Do you really expect the slingshot to keep shooting through their walls?"

Rurik then yelled: "Arik, I know what you are going to say! Now keep waiting!"

"How long do we have to wait?! We only attack here. What if the enemy escapes through the small door, or they send troops to attack our flank?"

The last sentence of Arik's rhetorical question suddenly reminded Rurik.

Yes, if the King of Denmark launches a cavalry counterattack, it will be detrimental to our army.

Looking to the left and right, the brothers had already planned to attack and kill the city, and they had been preparing firepower for a while. There were already more than ten damaged spots clearly visible to the naked eye on the wooden wall. Unexpectedly, the enemy's wooden wall was quite thick, so the next step was to use more powerful weapons to turn "scraping" into "cutting".

Rurik immediately issued the decree, and the impatient soldiers fell into ecstasy. They drove the siege vehicles with smiles.

The entire army is doing its own new work in accordance with military orders.

The torsion slingshot began to throw iron bullets at a low charge and a high elevation angle, just like throwing stones. The projectiles were thrown to about fifty meters away and allowed to fall to focus on potential targets. Most of the warriors with crossbows dropped it on the ground and picked up their bucklers and swords.

The Finnish archers from Gevlo, who had rested for a while, and the young dismounted cavalry warriors led by Fisk, were waiting for support with bows and arrows.

Wearing exaggeratedly heavy armor like an iron man, Grund's more than fifty men guarded the siege vehicle driven by armed slaves.

Rurik wanted to ensure that the losses of the main body of the Russian army in this battle were minimal. He did not know what was happening inside the city. In short, after the city was broken, the Danes also gave priority to fighting fiercely with the mercenaries who were paid and the slaves who had changed their masters.

Those elite mercenaries were holding double-edged Nordic forest axes with spearheads. They swung them round and smashed them against the pine wall that was scratched wildly by the projectiles. As a result, sawdust flew across and hit their armor hard.

The slave warrior pushed the engineering ram to hit the wooden wall with strong potential energy. Every impact of the bronze impact angle caused irreparable cracks in the wooden wall.

Even though the wooden walls of Godfrehagen were made of pine logs connected in parallel and reinforced with cables, they had to be broken through as many as six gaps.

As for why Rurik didn't attack the gate that seemed easy to break through, it all came from the nightmare of sieges many years ago. Regardless of whether the King of Denmark set up a trap, such as pouring hot oil from the city gate and setting fire to it, a reliable king would have to block the main entrance with a large number of wooden stakes in the current situation.

The Russian army is violently breaking through the wall, and the pine wall is rapidly disintegrating.

There was a rumble from the city wall. The wall itself had not yet collapsed, but the platform on which people could stand to fight back had collapsed on a large scale, and part of the wall was crumbling.

Most of the Danish warriors retreated to the south of the city, and Horik put on a heart helmet and reorganized his army in the south. He mounted his horse and rallied the cavalry.

Everyone heard the roar coming from the city wall, and everyone could see black blocks falling from the sky, smashing the warriors who fell into the arrow feathers into pulp.

King Horik encouraged his subordinates as a king: "These Rus are going to take our lives and use your skulls to make wine bowls! The city wall is no longer a barrier! We are Frisian heroes and the masters of Denmark. We must not I am so humiliated! Brothers, you must fight for honor! Cavalry! Follow me!"

Since even Arik of the Ross Berserker could think of the high probability that the Kingdom of Denmark would use cavalry to counterattack, King Horik had this intention. However, the king still did not know the strength of the Ross army and was worried that blindly launching a counterattack from the small door would be a collision. iron plate. He was also worried that opening the side door early might cause misunderstanding to the whole army - the king fled with his cavalry. If the soldiers misunderstood, it would really turn into a total collapse.

Horik decided to stand still. He summoned his cronies and took his brothers to hide as much as possible. He left the cavalry in the alleyway to wait.

He conveyed this attitude to his subordinates: "I will bring in a group of enemies, and I will lead the charge. The cavalry will kill all their infantry, and then all the people who are hiding will rush in and kill them."

This is called a defensive counterattack. People who were stunned by Ross's arrows all said that this was the king's clever plan. Just like the brothers had great trust in this commander in Friesland, and now that Horik is king, no matter what, the brothers still have to form a rope and fight together.

Pairs of eyes stared at the far end of the winding alley, and their ears were raised to wait for the sound of the wooden wall collapsing.

Every collision of the siege vehicles made a loud noise, accompanied by the deep roars of a group of men.

Suddenly, a big breach was opened!

That was a large hole in the wooden wall when the siege vehicle crashed into it. As the warriors with axes frantically chopped wood on both sides of the vehicle, a section of the wooden wall collapsed structurally, and the rumble caused the earth to tremble.

Rurik, who was observing the battle, was waiting for this moment. He ordered with a tearing voice: "Slaves! Mercenaries! Your chance to make a fortune has come! Rush in and seize the treasure first!"

Following the order, Grund led his heavily armored troops and rushed in singing. Seeing the mess in the city, his jaw dropped and he was also greatly surprised, because there was not even a Dane around. The slave warriors were even more happy. They had accomplished a great feat by entering the city first. The new master, Prince Rurik, really kept his word. These humble people would one day have the right to be the first to grab the spoils of war.

Of course, Rurik's strange order confused Arik.

Arik simply left the team and stood next to his brother and asked: "You will let a group of slaves go in first to enjoy the glory of the first battle? Can they grab the spoils first?"

Rurik stared intently: "Brother, look for Shuyuan www.zhaoshuyuaｎ.com. You just reminded me to beware of their counterattack. Let the slave soldiers go in, and you and Ragnar are leading the troops in."

"This... is ridiculous." Arik stamped his feet. At this moment, he didn't want to have any worries. He just wanted to enter the core of the enemy's capital with his two swords. Even if the enemy launched a counterattack, that was what he wanted.

Seeing the slave warriors and all the heavily armored mercenaries, a team of more than 300 people had entered the city from the largest gap, and Arik and Ragnar also started to take action.

The exiled Danes claimed to be under the command of Ragnar. The brothers were extremely happy to form an alliance with the Principality of Rus. They finally entered the previously unreachable Godfrehagen and Horik, the lackey of the Franks. ·The capital built by Haraldson. Just standing inside the wall was an insult to Horik, and now the brothers wanted to take the head of that lackey.

Who can use that person's head to make a wine bowl? Everyone knew that whoever killed Horik would have a huge reputation throughout the Baltic Sea.

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