Rise of Rurik

Carl "Crazy Bear" felt that he was being teased like a toy, and he became furious!

"Russian? Swede?! Rurik? Either you die today! Or I die!"

Furious in his heart, he reappeared with a battle ax in his hand. Although he had lost his bearskin outfit, the messy Weisinger could clearly see the iconic long-handled double-edged battle axe.

Karl raised his battle ax to salute the restless army, and the army was calmed down.

Those leather-armored warriors who struggled to maintain order welcomed the return of their boss. They were vaguely excited and eager to try.

The Weisinger Island side has given up their illusions. They saw the boss's desolate appearance and understood that the negotiations had completely broken down and all problems could only be solved with today's decisive battle.

In fact, when Karl entered the Ross army, he knew that he had little chance of winning, but if he could not kill hundreds or even a thousand enemies after being humiliated, what would the meaning of his existence be.

Karl returned, and the soldiers saw their boss gnashing his teeth like a wild bear trying to devour a lamb alive.

Someone came over and tried to ask about the situation: "Boss, those guys...what did you say?"

"There is nothing more to say! As I guessed, they are indeed Swedes and Russians. You..." Karl's eyes seemed to be spitting fire, and he looked at the brothers fiercely: "Give up any illusions, they The leader told me that you will all be killed and there will be no living creatures on the entire island. What do you think?"

Although they had anticipated this situation, they did not expect their opponent to tell them very bluntly that they would kill without mercy. The soldiers of Wizinger were first surprised, and then angry.

"Then fight them! My sword longs for blood!"

"If I die in battle, I must kill ten enemies before I die."

"Boss, please tell me their leader. I must cut off that person's head at the risk of my life."

For a moment, the crowd was excited and furious, igniting fighting spirit. This ignited anger was exactly what Karl wanted.

Karl urgently ordered his men: "Go tell those fishermen that the Swedes will kill all living creatures. If you want to survive, kill them all! Listen to my order and we will rush over together."

The soldiers obeyed the order, and only after being humiliated did Karl learn the enemy's true purpose. This horrifying information quickly spread throughout the army.

Many armed fishermen gathered together in darkness, their blond hair covered by brown fur or cloth hats. They had just heard rumors that the so-called warlord tyrant Karl had been killed. It turned out that these were all rumors.

Many people have already thought about taking the opportunity to escape, even if they swim, they have to escape from this cursed island. Now no one can escape.

Is escaping useful? The Swedish raiders were going to sweep across the entire island of Wizinger and kill everyone, just like they had massacred the three villages on the north shore of the lake.

Even the fishermen and women who were unwilling to fight before and were forced to go to the battlefield by sticks can now only follow the clansmen and wait for the order of the general charge.

Speaking of the warlord tyrant Karl, this was the first time he commanded a huge army of nearly 5,000 men and women mixed together. It is not at all like the Ross army, which relies on a communication system built with flags, horns, drums, and even lightly armed messengers running wildly. It does not have the ability to coordinate such a large armed crowd. If you want to gather people to fight, there is only one tactic. ——No matter the primary or secondary, frontal impact and fight.

Shield wall? forget it! If his elite warriors can form a shield wall of hundreds of people to fight the enemy, as for those fishermen...

After all, these fishermen are not their own people at all, but more like sheep.

The so-called this is my island, and you happen to live here, just like the sheep living in my pasture, get out if you don't contribute wool.

Now is the time when life and death are at stake, and Karl unsurprisingly wants to do something harmful.

On the other hand, after Rurik let Karl go, the Ross army was also making final preparations.

The Finnish longbowmen held their bows and stood at stake. Each warrior had an armor-piercing arrow on the bow handle, and five arrows were inserted in front of him.

Some young soldiers of the Sixth Flag Team lay directly on the wet grass. They held steel-armed crossbows that had been wound up by winches, and lay in a lying position waiting for an opportunity to strike a critical blow at close range.

The firing angles of those torsion slingshots were all adjusted, and the bull trebuchets were fully charged and loaded with stones.

The final preparations still take some time. Of course, this will also give the enemy time to prepare, but Rurik doesn't care anymore.

King Rurik is still standing in front of the battle. He is in the center position, with crossbowmen and heavy weapons in front, and behind him is the army of the Swedish Alliance. There were more Swedish nobles beside him. The nobles were impressed by the number of enemies, and they were even more aware that they could observe the formation of the Ross army from close range.

The smart nobles wanted to figure out why the Russian army was so good at fighting. Rurik would not tell them personally, so they took this opportunity to observe carefully, and their eyes lit up with the arrangement of the archers.

However, the military formation of the Weisinger islanders was undergoing significant changes.

"Their armored warriors are retreating, and in front are some ragged... spearmen?" Bjorn pointed and asked Rurik.

"I see."

"Understand what?!"

"Hey! What a coward. That Karl is a coward." Rurik shook his head and told Bjorn and other nobles: "The enemy sent a group of fishermen to attack us, and their elites were arranged behind. In my opinion, this is a cowardly behavior."

As soon as he finished speaking, all the nobles burst into laughter, especially Bjorn, who specifically mocked Duke Langstall of Hjärmalen: "Are these the Götaland invaders that worry you? They are right in front. A bunch of beggars.”

Longstall's face turned red with anger: "Are you laughing at me for not being able to beat a beggar? Ridiculous! Those guys will be dead after a while."

Rurik shook his head and scolded: "Stop arguing. Maybe the enemy is not a coward, but a trick! That Karl may have been organizing elites to prepare for conspiracy, so be careful."

But the nobles still felt that they thought too much about the past, even though Rurik felt that Karl was indeed a simple coward.

It is undeniable that the Jotalan fishermen on Weisingser Island will attack first. Wouldn't it be a war of attrition for a group of unarmored weaklings to charge? Can they afford it?

Now Rurik deliberately stood still, waiting for the enemy to make the first move.

There was no movement from the Russian army, and only the fierce fans covered up the whispers of the soldiers. Drummers and buglers are always on standby, and infantry soldiers need to attack according to the sound of drums and bugles.

The crossbowmen in front of the formation were all paying attention to the soldiers with small flags at the front of the formation, waiting for the firing order to be issued.

Finally, Rurik arrived!

There was a dull sound of horns coming from the south of the island, and Karl and his men began to drive the fishermen away to attack.

The constant pushing and pushing finally forced the fishermen on the front line to move forward. When they started shouting, the people who followed them roared to increase the momentum.

This was the opportunity Rurik was waiting for.

The king suddenly drew his sword and pointed it straight to the south. Seeing this, the soldiers holding small flags in front of the formation lowered their flags one after another, and the Russian army's long-range attack immediately began!

In an instant, the long-charged torque slingshots and trebuchets fired javelins and stone bullets.

The Finnish flag force temporarily recruited some people. Currently, there are as many as 700 archers. Most of them hold longbows. They all draw their bows fully and shoot armor-piercing arrows into the air.

Arrows, javelins and stone bullets fell like raindrops, more than visible in the sunlight, the sound of cutting through the air was beyond abundance! Although the wind resistance of the south wind shortened the arrow's range, it was this wind resistance that brought unexpected consequences.

The arrow was blown by the wind and fell almost at a right angle. The needle-shaped armor-piercing arrow ignored the leather and shield and hit the fisherman's body directly in Weisinger.

It is not a broad-bladed barbed hunting arrow. The arrow cluster is a cast, polished and hardened pointed cone. It cuts a hole in the human body. Although the arrow is easy to pull out, this hole-shaped wound is another bad existence.

The arrows even pierced the fur hats and skulls of some people, killing them on the spot.

The javelin fell from the sky, easily smashed through the human body, and pinned the person to the grass.

Pebbles or simply fired "clay balls", the victims' bones and muscles were broken and they vomited blood and died suddenly.

This was the first round of shooting, which caused more than 300 casualties among Weisinger fishermen, and this was just the beginning.

Yevlo did not panic at all. After the first round of ejection, the enemy's offensive momentum had been delayed due to horrific casualties.

"Arrow freely! Shoot as flatly as possible! Choose your target!" He ordered.

The distance between the two armies was about 200 meters, and the enemy was within the shooting range of the longbow. The soldiers of the Finnish flag force lowered their firing angles one after another, and they began to focus on the enemies in the vanguard.

The Weisinger fishermen who were photographed in front held their shields in front of them and gritted their teeth and continued to move forward. They actually wanted to hide in the back, but the tribesmen behind kept pushing and pushing. The island battlefield was extremely narrow, leaving them nowhere to go. To escape, you can only persist in moving forward despite the enemy's dense arrows.

The fishermen's makeshift wooden shields could not withstand armor-piercing arrow attacks. The arrows penetrated their arms and made people scream in pain. And when they lost this only defense, they could only face the Russian army's longbows with their flesh and blood.

The fishermen's armed soldiers fell one after another, and the scene was really one after another. Rurik, who was standing on the other side watching the battle, was so shocked that his eyes widened with excitement and his body trembled uncomfortably.

They kept moving forward but did not dare to run fast, because anyone who walked fast would be attacked intensively.

"It's like Plants vs. Zombies! It's like a tower defense game." Rurik said to himself. The other nobles were too busy watching and had no intention of listening to the king's bang.

The battle situation was so strange, and the Ghotalans on Weisinger Island looked extremely brave, but they actually continued to fight without regard for their own safety?

Duke Langstall of Hjärmalen did not hesitate to reprimand Bjorn for his violent remarks: "Duke Järmalen, do you still think they are a group of weaklings? They are as brave as a herd of wild boars."

Bjorn was too shocked to say anything now. He didn't answer Longstall and sighed to himself.

Whether those guys were wild boars or wild bears, they were eventually killed crazily by Rose's shooters on the short offensive road.

What Bjorn saw was the performance of Rurik's army. How easy it was for the army to shoot arrows and kill people! The two armies had not yet come into close contact, and one side had already left behind a large area of ​​scarlet corpses.

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Crazy Bear Carl and his elite men hid behind the fishermen. They noticed that their own side was being killed by arrows. It was the first time in Carl's life that the battle was like this.

He was deeply shocked. Thinking back to what the Swedish King Rurik just said, "I can kill you easily," was it not arrogant nonsense?

He knew that he had no choice. What was very bad was that some fishermen had already retreated voluntarily due to the embarrassment of being needlessly killed. Is this unreasonable? !

Karl was furious: "You cannot retreat! Anyone who retreats will die!"

His personal shouts were drowned in the roars of the fleeing people, and he had no choice but to order his capable men to supervise the battle.

A special shield wall appeared on the side of Vicingse Island. The soldiers did not engage the enemy, but blocked their own people's retreat. Their swords stabbed the armed fishermen mercilessly. Retreating is death? The retreating fishermen were shocked.

The poor armed fishermen were caught in the middle, arrows, javelins, and stones kept falling from the sky.

Many of those who were hit by arrows were still far away from painful death. They curled up and rolled on the ground holding their wounds, but they were trampled by their own tribe who were marching forward. The arrows did not kill them immediately, but they were trampled to death by their tribesmen.

Finally, after suffering heavy casualties, the armed fishermen approached the invading Swedes.

However, the boys of Sixth Flag came back with another big hit.

The half-pound short and thick crossbow arrow flew, and the powerful potential energy directly knocked over the person being targeted at close range.

The soldiers in the Finnish flag force holding wooden-armed crossbows also joined the horizontal firing array. They did not have an advantage in projectile attacks, but they could accurately penetrate the enemy's neck.

This was the last attack of the long-range troops. After that, the trumpets and drums sounded loudly. The infantry of the Russian Army knew very well that it was finally the frontal fighting stage that everyone loved to see.

Even if the opportunity given to the brothers to fight bloody battles is obviously not much.

What does it mean to be well-trained? ! It's right in front of you.

The shooters retreated into the infantry array, and the torsion slingshots on the trolleys were pulled away directly.

An extremely wide shield wall replaced the archers, facing the final attack of the weakened Vissingse islanders.

A real Viking-style battle breaks out! But at the moment of the battle, the painful disaster for the islanders also happened.

The Russian army was composed entirely of Swedish allies, with the largest number being King Bjorn's Mälaren Army, followed by Longstall's Hjälmälän Army and Blue Fox's Unclas Army. The rest of the small nobles' armies were all made up, and together they formed a huge number.

These alliance fighters are of course a weak force compared to the troops directly under the jurisdiction of Rurik, but they are a real strong force compared to the fishermen's armed forces on Vissingse Island, which has been greatly weakened and exhausted.

At least the Swedish nobles sent their best warriors, especially those wearing chain mail and carrying heavy shields at the front.

The Swedish Allied Forces in the middle army started killing indiscriminately, stabbing the enemies with iron swords, and the brothers behind them stabbed with spears, or pounded them from top to bottom with super long battle axes. This kind of battle does not require any sword or spear skills. All it takes is for everyone to stab and pound directly forward at high frequency, just like a harvester mowing through a wheat field slowly.

At the same time, Rurik's shooter troops are thrown at the output.

The Finnish longbowmen who retreated to the rear immediately changed their equipment to heavy arrows, and they were ordered to launch them into the air at a large angle to support the fighting brothers of the Chinese army.

Naturally, the two wings of the Ross Army were not idle either.

Ross's citizen soldiers were all heavy infantry. They were ordered to start encirclement on two wings. Five hundred heavy infantry on the left and right began to attack the two wings of the fishermen's armed forces.

They saw a large number of female warriors among these fishermen's armed forces! This was extremely abnormal in previous battles, but it was not unusual. When the Russians were short of troops, they brought hundreds of girls to the battle, although they all came with bows to assist in the battle.

The female warriors among the fishermen went into the battlefield to fight. They must be fully aware. The Russian army showed no mercy to these female warriors.

A siege is forming. The offensive momentum of the fishermen's armed forces has completely collapsed. In other words, all those who dared to fight have been killed. The remaining people are no longer rushing forward but retreating on a large scale!

Carl the Crazy Bear has realized that he is powerless to save the situation. Even if he kills more retreating soldiers, he is unable to organize the collapse. He noticed the ruthless intentions of his opponent, like casting a net to catch herrings, but he was so ruthless that he annihilated the fishermen's armed forces.

If you continue, it will only be a matter of time before you fail. Not as good as...

Karl raised his arms and shouted to his trusted soldiers: "Brothers! We can't sit still and wait for death! Now follow me into their flanks, and we will take the opportunity to rush in and kill their leader!"

With that said, Karl took action, and his men joined in the desperate attack.

Therefore, no one is stopping the armed fishermen from fleeing. Although they do not know what the future will bring, the fishermen now place their lives on the protection of the wooden walls of the fortress.

A large number of armed men appeared on the right wing of the Russian army. They were all wearing armor and their appearance was very obvious.

It was the Third Flag Team fighting here. They were all composed of Melalen people who immigrated to Rus in the early days. The flag captain Herriger was shocked when he saw this. He didn't expect that the enemy actually had a reserve team!

Herriger immediately adjusted his military formation, and finally collided with the desperate charging army of Crazy Bear Karl.

This was a shield-to-shield collision. Thanks to the overall cramped nature of the battlefield, Heligel had fewer soldiers than Karl. He was able to withstand Karl's southward movement and suffered losses for it.

The swords are stabbing randomly, look for Shuyuan www.zhaoshuyuan.com A soldier in the Third Flag Team had his arm cut, and his neck was even stabbed, blood spurting out.

"Hold it! Hold it all! Assassinate them!" Herriger shouted, and immediately sent a messenger to rush to Rurik.

The messenger King Mian ignored the etiquette and immediately reported: "Your Majesty, our fourth flag team was attacked violently! The enemy's armored men numbered a thousand."

Although Rurik noticed the sudden changes on the battlefield, he couldn't help but be shocked when he heard the report that "there are a thousand enemies."

"Damn! They really have a reserve team! Fortunately, I'm on guard."

It's time to invest in Rose's reserves.

Rurik immediately summoned Grund and Herriger: "Take the berserkers! Bring the Fourth Flag! Help the Third Flag push the enemy back! Grund! Especially bring the berserkers, wearing heavy armor. Break the formation and kill indiscriminately!"

The two generals were overjoyed after hearing the order. They immediately summoned their own heavy infantry, and Rurik watched them go into the decisive battle...

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