Rise of Rurik

The extremely poor "cattle" poured into Godfrehagen, the capital of the Kingdom of Denmark, through the collapsed wooden walls like warriors. This emerging high-altitude city adjacent to the sea was actually the first to be conquered by slave warriors.

If King Horik of Denmark knew that the so-called warriors who entered the city first were a group of guys who were slaves twenty days ago, he would definitely be furious.

The slave warriors wore no armor, and at most only wore a layer of thick leather clothing, which provided barely enough protection.

Their weapons are even more rudimentary, with a round shield that all Vikings are willing to carry tied to their left arm, and their right hand generally carries portable hand axes, iron swords, and short spears. Their weapons were uneven. When they entered the city, they saw corpses all over the ground. Those corpses or squirming bodies lying in the field of arrow feathers seemed to them like packages of silver coins!

Because the prince also ordered that even slave soldiers would be rewarded with half a pound of silver coins if they chopped off the heads of Danish warriors.

What does this mean?

Once upon a time, these slaves were sold to Bornholm for at least half a pound and at most two pounds of silver coins. As long as three or four heads are chopped off, the money in exchange can be redeemed from Prince Rus!

At this moment, the slaves are fighting for freedom!

Just to seize this freedom, their next performance was too terrifying.

The ax crazily slashed the necks of the war dead, and the chopped-off heads of the Danish soldiers were stripped off their iron helmets. The strange braids of the dead served as ropes and were tied to the waistbands of the slave soldiers.

They were so busy chopping off heads that they ignored everything else, even though the empty area behind the wall was eerily quiet.

Grund, who was wearing heavy armor, followed closely behind the slave soldiers. The fifty "iron men" were shocked by the corpses on the ground, but they had experienced many battles and always had a good sense of battlefield. This group of mercenaries who were paid to lead the army I'm not afraid of fighting a bad fight, but I just don't want to die suddenly due to negligence. The dead bodies on the ground meant a lot of silver coins, and the reward for low-level mercenaries after snatching a head was a five-month allowance.

Now, when those low-level mercenaries wearing ordinary mail armor saw the slave soldiers busy "cutting off their heads to get silver coins", they couldn't stand still.

The number of mercenary teams entering the city was not large. When Grund noticed the signs of a breakdown in discipline, he immediately stopped: "Don't be too busy beheading! You can only make money if you survive! It's too quiet here, wait for me." Good shield wall awaits!”

While saying this, there were still brothers who were expanding the slope of the city wall.

Outside the slope, Arik's veterans of the Russian regular army and Ragnar's Danish exile alliance were clearly able to act under Rurik's instructions.

Of course Arik hopes to enter the city early to plunder, even if it is a vicious battle, it would be great. As soon as he received the authorization, he led his brothers to rush towards the breach. He saw the paid mercenaries forming a shield wall, and they were stunned to build a convex arc array against the breach. Even if they did not move forward, they blocked it. The way of the latecomers.

Arik was so angry that his teeth itched, and he shouted carelessly: "Grund, get out of the way for me! Only the old Russians can get the greatest glory."

Grund is very self-aware, he is the dog raised by Prince Rurik. Because he is a soldier, he and his brothers with raven shields must always show their loyalty.

He did not dare to offend the prince's eldest brother, let alone the prince himself. He smelled the ominous atmosphere behind the quiet battlefield, and simply continued to maintain the array, neither moving forward nor retreating. He turned a deaf ear to Arik's question and did not make any response.

Unlike the impatient Arik, Ragnar approached cautiously.

He gently tapped his old comrade Arik on the shoulder: "Brother, I know something about that Horik. He will not escape easily. It seems that the city is very quiet. Be careful of fraud! Maybe Grund has noticed something."

"Bah! I'm tall, and I saw those slaves chopping off their heads. A group of slaves are worthy of taking merit. The dead were all shot by our army. Do you want to sit back and watch the crossbowmen's merits being reaped by the slaves without any effort?"

Ragnar was equally impatient. He suppressed his mood and continued to persuade: "Be patient a little longer. In my opinion, that guy Grund is not going to give way to us. Let's tolerate it for now and see if this guy wants to." do what."

Behind Ragnar are a large number of Danish exiles. They are all strong and strong. Regardless of what happened with the Ross army on the battlefield of Bornholm, everyone now just wants to remove Horik and him from the Franks. All the guys he brought were chopped into minced meat.

The soldiers squeezed together, but also spontaneously blocked the gap, keeping a certain distance from the mercenary iron men in front.

Although this battlefield vigilance is beneficial, the mercenaries are also eager to see more and more heads hanging on the waists of the slave soldiers.

Look! The slave soldiers probably relaxed their vigilance and began to move forward spontaneously. Ahead are a large number of houses, where there must be more treasures. Because the prince also ordered that anyone who robs according to his ability will be his own.

As long as the vigilant slave soldiers have experienced the huge sweetness, their vigilance has disappeared.

The slave soldiers were like the vanguard of the battlefield. There were as many as 200 of them. If you say that this group of people gathered together to form a shield wall, they were also a typical ruthless group that could run rampant in Frank and plunder the countryside. They are now completely scattered, and everyone wants to try their best to make money, so that they can not only gain freedom, but also become rich.

Slaves were expected to become nouveau riche, or even become masters who purchased slaves.

They all relaxed their alertness, and Grund was also paying attention to their performance.

As the slave warriors moved further and further away, the vigilant mercenary troops also relaxed. Everyone became more and more restless, and the entire shield wall was shaking.

Grund assessed the situation. Maybe the danger never existed in the first place? The Danes have slipped away?

It's not honorable to run away, but it saves your life.

If you don't let the brothers go to plunder, the treasure will be taken away by a group of despicable slaves!

Grund relaxed, the shield wall disbanded, and the iron men advanced in dense formation.

When the mercenaries were blond, Arik and Ragnar followed suit. The soldiers poured into the city one after another with smiles on their faces. However, the earth began to tremble for unknown reasons.

Because, while the slave soldiers were chopping off their heads, the Danish army spies hiding in the dark paid attention to the situation and kept telling the news to the Danish cavalry who were waiting for work.

The King of Denmark really wanted to take the lead this time. Although the inner city of the capital had been breached, he found that frontal resistance was a stupid move and promptly stopped his losses and retreated. Finally, now, he finally had a major opportunity for defensive counterattack in the palm of his hand. Heart.

When the armored elite officially entered the city and received the news from the spies, King Horik of Denmark decided to launch a full-scale counterattack.

He pulled out his iron sword and called on the cavalry hiding in the alley: "Those Russians have been fooled! Brothers, charge with me, rush them, kill everyone. And the infantry, follow the cavalry. Now! Let's go !”

The cavalrymen clamped their legs on the horses' bellies, and while waiting for the opportunity, they chose to sprint with all their strength.

Short spears moved forward, or soldiers held axes and swords high. More than four hundred horsemen galloped at the same time, filing out of the narrow alleys, and suddenly appeared in front of the slave soldiers who were busy looting.

The chests of the war horses wildly collided with the blank-minded slave soldiers. The half-ton behemoth with man and horse rushed over and was instantly smashed into pieces.

The slaves who thought they would make a fortune and turn around in one battle turned into a large number of dead souls under the horses' hooves, and their corpses were trampled to pieces by the iron horse's paws...

Just like a mudslide hitting the woods, even if some slave warriors tried to fight back, they realized that fighting back was futile only when they were about to die.

The Danish cavalry, led by Lord Horik, launched a rare wall-mounted offensive. Horik has no choice now. Even if he does so, there is a high probability of damaging many war horses. Now is the moment of life and death, even if all the war horses die in battle.

Slave soldiers were bumped like mowing grass, pierced by spearheads and skull-cleft by axes. If they chose to flee, they were hacked from behind or trampled to death by horse hooves.

The two hundred slave soldiers were completely unable to organize any counterattack under the siege of the cavalry, and their deaths slightly delayed the cavalry's attack.

Even so, the cavalry still rushed in front of Grund's mercenary team.

This was a collision between war horses and armor, and armored infantrymen began to collapse alive from the war horses. Sharp blunt objects may not be able to break through the armor, but a half-ton cavalryman whose horses' hooves would collapse so hard that even through the armor could make people guess that his internal organs would be broken and he would die suddenly!

Grund himself was knocked down by the war horse. He felt that he was stepped on by the horse's hoof. Fortunately, it was not a critical point, but his left arm was numb. He huddled up for a while, and saw that his left arm showed no signs of breaking. The numbness and pain were intertwined with him. He still managed to stand up, and started swinging the long-handled double-edged ax in one hand.

Some mercenaries were collapsed until they vomited blood and died suddenly, while others were trampled on.

The cavalry appeared too quickly, and their blind momentum gave the mercenary legions no time to form a defensive array.

But the mercenaries survived!

The Danish cavalry broke through the empty space behind the gate filled with debris and rushed to the breach in the wooden wall opened by the Russian army. And this is the limit of what Horik can do.

The cavalry are at the end of their game. Once they lose their momentum, they lose all their advantages. Facing the iron men in the Ross army, they are a group of fat men who need to be chopped down.

The big ax chopped down, and the war horse collapsed. The spearhead struck, and the horse raised its hooves high, throwing the rider off. The poor rider was still confused, and his chest was chopped open by the axe.

Grund was dragged to the rear by his men, while other iron men and other mercenaries who could still fight took the lead in joining the front line to resist the cavalry.

After the momentum of the Danish cavalry charge was completely contained, Frankish tactics were immediately adopted. Their spears were poking at the heavily armored soldiers of the Russian army, but the tempered iron spears could not even scratch the surface of the deliberately silver-plated steel armor. The weight of the exaggerated width and thickness of the scale armor is impressive. It basically ignores any sharp weapons and is only afraid of being hit by blunt weapons, such as a half-ton cavalry stepping on it.

The appearance of the cavalry shocked Aric and Ragnar, who both lamented that they were wise in not rushing in.

The cavalry also surprised Rurik. He never dreamed that the Danes would launch a counterattack like this.

"Slingshot! Archer! Support me through the wooden wall!" Rurik roared like crazy.

Although Jevro and many other elites knew that their men were suffering rare losses, wouldn't supporting them through wooden walls injure friendly forces?

They have proven their hesitation with actions.

This made Rurik furious: "Our brothers are bleeding! Don't worry that they will be accidentally injured, throw arrows for me! Odin will protect them from accidental damage, now let me contain the enemy!"

He simply set an example and personally controlled a torsion slingshot. After installing the javelin, he launched it in a low-charge state...

Just when Rurik in the rear was preparing to provide fire support, the infantry of the Kingdom of Denmark came in overwhelming numbers.

The cavalry suffered great losses, and a famous cavalryman was becoming the target of public criticism and was beaten by the Russians.

King Horik of Denmark, who was staying behind the cavalry, was happy to see his infantry army roaring over, so he ordered the cavalry to retreat immediately and leave the battlefield to the infantry.

On one side are the Danish Viking warriors pouring out from various inner city lanes, and on the other side are the Rus' Viking warriors pouring in from the breach.

This is the civil war of the Vikings, a group of men who speak Norse language hurting each other!

But they all have a deep hatred for each other, and they belong to two groups that are seriously opposed to each other. Peace talks are impossible from the beginning. This battle must use the blood of warriors to determine a winner, and a large number of warriors must die as sacrifices to Odin.

The battle ended and became an infantry fight, and shields began to collide with each other!

The small empty space behind the already cramped gate was used as a place for the King of Denmark to review troops in times of peace. It was not large, and the soldiers from both warring parties were crowded together like herrings in a sealed can. Stack.

Many soldiers couldn't even stretch their arms, so they could only stab forward desperately in a cramped place.

Only those wearing iron armor and holding steel swords will have the upper hand in this chaotic battle.

Look! The tower-like mercenaries don't need shields at all, or in other words, they are covered with shields. They had just experienced a fierce battle with the cavalry, and many of them were being trampled on and were suffering from internal injuries as they fought against the energetic Danish infantry who rushed towards them. They held double-edged axes with spearheads in both hands, thrusting straight ahead, and if they seized the opportunity, they slashed suddenly.

The warriors at the front fought with swords and axes, while the warriors behind them used spears to assist in the battle.

Danish soldiers were shooting arrows to support them, and the Russian army was also firing arrows.

It’s just that the scattered support arrows from the Ross Army in the early days began to become denser, and black-striped javelins fell from the sky. Those soldiers who were squeezed lacked the opportunity to protect their heads with shields, so they were pierced by javelins and fell to death. A large number of arrows came densely, dealing a devastating blow to the Danish army.

Can they continue to endure such attacks?

The Danish warriors at the rear kept moving forward. They faced each other with shields and endured the horror of arrows piercing their shields. Because the Danish army still has 2,000 people, they cannot be defeated in a short time.

Now, a difficult problem is placed in front of Horik. It is really a contradictory problem!

Keep attacking? The terrible arrows of the Russians seemed to have eyes. They missed the heads of the Russians who entered the city to fight fiercely, but hit the heads of the Danish army. As the fighting continued like this, a large number of Danish troops were killed by javelin arrows before they could kill the Russians.

Choose to retreat? The morale of the army will collapse. Find Shuyuan www.zhaoshuyuan.com A retreat is inevitable. Once retreated, even as a monarch, you will have no chance to make a comeback.

"No! I can still carry it! Ross people! Watch me beat your tails from the side door!"

In this way, King Horik urgently gave a general a major task and ordered him to hold the line in the city. He left behind fifty more horsemen, who did nothing but stand on guard, waving the raven flag to show that the king was not gone.

What about reality? Horik had already left one after another through the small gate on the west side of the city. He took more than 200 cavalrymen who had experienced fierce battles and survived, and decided to launch a desperate surprise attack.

Two hundred cavalry and two hundred infantry are going to attack the camp outside the Russian army city! Especially to break their archer's position!

In Horik's view, the Ross army would not have expected that they would launch such a surprise attack. Perhaps they could directly kill the king of the Ross people and bring this sudden war to an end.

he! The final charge has begun!

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