Rise of Rurik

The cavalry charge caused the earth to tremble. The wall charge, combined with the color of the white robes of the Ross cavalry, was like a huge wave hitting the rocks, like a big tide rushing into the coast.

The refugees had never seen this before, and when they saw it for the first time in their lives, they suddenly realized that they had guessed the cause of death of those Växjö soldiers.

Even brave warriors were easily crushed in front of these monsters, and now I am trapped in Silver Castle...

Fisk personally led the cavalry charge, and his orders were ruthless.

The Rus' army, uncharacteristically, waved their swords at those who could show mercy. If Rurik had been present, he would have thought carefully before deciding whether to take action, but Fisk was determined to seize the opportunity.

The horses collided with the refugees, and the iron hooves trampled the fallen ones until their bones were broken. The cavalry swung their steel swords and killed them arbitrarily. They clearly saw that the woman was actually a woman screaming in terror. Since the order was absolute, they killed her with great pain.

A vicious charge, like a pack of wolves entering a flock of sheep.

Collision, trampling, chopping, and stabbing, the refugees who were sitting on the ground were "sorted out". When the cavalry charged from one side to the other, they saw only motionless corpses on the battlefield, the huddled and wailing wounded, and The crowd who luckily escaped from the battlefield and ran towards the wooden wall of Silver Castle.

"Keep killing! Cut me!" Fisk's steel sword was stained with blood. The killing blinded his mind and turned him into a monster.

In other words, the entire cavalry team has turned into a monster, and every one of the cavalrymen turned around and continued to chase.

They slashed left and right, or stood and shot arrows. The cavalry were killing the enemies running in front of them at the fastest speed.

Such a violent scene sent chills down the spines of the Allied forces who were observing the battle, and their original work of plundering the catch also stopped. The fishermen and those who set up camps on the shore looked up and watched the cavalry killing and trampling indiscriminately. Their legs could not stop trembling. Many people were so frightened that they simply sat on the ground. There were even women accompanying him who were ordered to bury the stove and were so frightened that they fainted.

Merchant Harvleth saw a cavalryman chop off a man's head, and he also saw a cavalryman holding a spear and stabbing a man kneeling down begging for mercy.

"It's really terrifying. They are still killing people like this...Those people are obviously..."

Hearing his trembling sigh, Hagrid came over with a wooden staff and patted the business partner on the shoulder: "The Russians have given them a chance. They must fight. It is fate that they are in this situation."

"Is it really fate? The Ross people are so cruel, and our cooperation with them is like making a contract with Loki."

"At least, we are on the side of the Ross people." Hagrid's heart felt like a stone was pressed on him. He muttered in front of him: "I have seen the king of Ross, a young man who does not look like an evil god. Since that man has commanded many The tribe’s army will definitely welcome us to join them.”

"What should we do? Start a war with our fellow humans (referring to the refugees in distress)?" Haversus fell into conflict: "I actually don't want to do this."

"Then just watch. The Jönköping people I brought don't want to attack Silver Castle, and the same goes for you Växjö people. I don't know what the young general wants, so just wait and see what happens."

Although non-combatants and the Växjö Allied Forces did not participate in the battle, they hung flags on every ship and built camps at the mouth of the river. No matter how you look at it, it proves that there is a huge army intending to fight for a long time, which makes it appear that The cavalry was just one part of the army.

Fisk's cavalry quickly approached the city wall. At this moment, there was a wall about four meters high and made of pine wood and rammed earth. It was impossible for the refugees to climb with bare hands.

Those refugees were both men and women, and they even held babies in their arms. They were originally hungry, but under the threat of life and death, they burst out with terrifying and possibly final strength.

They cling to the wood and climb hard, even if their fingernails are cracked and their fingers bleed, they still have to climb in order to survive.

But in the eyes of the people of Silver Castle, this group of refugees are like "man-eating devils" and are not much weaker than those Ross cavalry.

"We can't let them climb up! Kill them!"

In addition to the professional mercenaries, merchants' private soldiers, and armed slaves, the defenders of Silver Castle. For the sake of their own safety, the city people and any man or woman who could afford weapons devoted themselves to the defense of the city for their own lives and property.

The earthen jar filled with sand became heavy and was smashed down by the defenders, hitting the climber accurately.

The short spear thrust downward, and the bow holder leaned down to shoot.

Some people even used a creative trick to get along, which is to tie a rock with a cable, throw it down from a high place, and then pull the blood-stained rock up and smash it again.

This scene was unexpected by the Ross cavalry who were in the midst of a massacre. For a while, Fisk couldn't figure out how the guys from Silver Castle could fight each other with the guys he killed.

Behind the cavalry were already piles of corpses. Those who had been chopped, trampled and injured would die in an instant.

It was Kanuf, with all his standing army infantry, combing the battlefield shoulder to shoulder in a thin shield wall.

They showed "mercy" to those who fell to the ground, and any injured were stabbed in the vital parts with swords to promote their quick death.

Therefore, when Kanuf's men passed by, there could be no living people behind them.

The current battle situation is difficult for Fisk to understand. Although the wooden wall is not too tall and unreachable, at least the cavalry will not have wings to fly over.

"Everyone stop!" Fisk barely controlled his men who were extremely murderous. He gathered the cavalry and then re-expanded the team.

"Sheath your sword! Hold your bow! Shoot at the enemy! Remember, everyone in front is the enemy!"

Therefore, Fisk is not targeting the Växjö refugees who are the main militant faction. They are all enemies, including the Silver Castle defenders.

The cavalry formed up and began to shoot arrows. Recurve bows were aimed at the sky, and light arrows were thrown in the direction of Silver Castle.

Most of the arrow feathers are glued together with the flight feathers of domestic chickens. The mainly brown arrow feathers are deliberately glued at an angle, so that the arrows spin in the air and fall with extremely high stability.

The cavalry would not be stupid enough to rush into the Silver Castle where the fierce fighting was going on and kill them. It was these refugees who were killed like crazy who were objectively helping the Ross army to attack the city. How can we not take advantage of such a good thing? What you need to do now is to shoot arrows to weaken the enemy.

Dense arrows fell from the sky, and every time the three hundred cavalry rode, there was a barrage of three hundred arrows.

Simply gathering a large number of archers to shoot was a tactic that the residents of Silver Castle had never imagined.

Looking inside the city, women, children and many elderly people either used wooden shovels or their hands to stuff sand and soil into pottery urns, or dismantled some useless stone walls and transported the stones from the pottery urns to the city with their bare hands. front.

But here comes the arrow.

The armor-piercing arrows with sharp conical arrow clusters attacked indiscriminately, and the people and soldiers supporting the front line began to be hit by arrows.

They were screaming and hiding in all directions. The soldiers raised their shields above their heads and tried to pull the howling people who were hit by arrows into safe huts. Work to support the front line was also suspended.

Is it safe to hide in a building? Frightened people rushed to the longhouse, but the haystack roof could not stop all the arrows.

It was no longer safe indoors, so many people flocked to the other side of the city.

Silver Castle is a city built on a small cliff, even a little distance from the port. The city relies on cliffs for defense in this kind of boundary, so it only needs to build city walls facing inland to complete the defense.

When they rebuilt Silver Castle many years ago, their main idea was to defend. Now they want to escape from this unlucky place, but they forgot to set up a quick route for themselves. Now, everyone can only hide in various houses that can protect themselves from arrows, praying that the city wall can block the attack of the Russians and Växjö refugees.

So Kanuf took his brothers to meet with Fisk, who had switched to free-fire mode from standing archery.

Kanuf saw clearly what his good brother had done, and immediately felt that it was too outrageous. He held a bloody steel sword and pointed it at the detonator, looking up and asking: "Fisk. Are you playing a game? You are using an arrow. Can you defeat Yinbao?”

"Maybe." Fisk shrugged.

"Forget it. If you fire a lot of arrows, aren't you just giving them weapons? Let the brothers pause first."

"This...is fine."

Fisk thought about it for a moment, and that was indeed what he meant. His cavalry were chopping and shooting arrows in the battle, and their arms would inevitably become sore.

The mass shooting operation was suspended. The Ross army did not know the situation inside Silver Castle. The tragedy under the city wall was obvious to everyone.

A horrifying pile of corpses appeared under the corner. The dead were piled on top of each other, and some people climbed up along the pile of corpses.

At the same time, the red-eyed Silver Castle defenders continued to stifle any attempts by the people under the wall to board the city, because the defenders now had reason to believe that the people under the wall were on the same side as the Ross army!

Even because of the panic in the city, those who had paid before entering the city became the target of suspicion.

Silver Castle has only two gates, and the cavalry is very mobile. The first gate is now a battlefield, and the defenders are determined to guard and kill all those who try to climb.

Although the second door is not large, it has been sealed by the trolley with the wheels removed.

Silver Castle was sealed off, with soldiers guarding both gates, and those who had entered the city were temporarily controlled. In this way, even if there were spies and saboteurs inside, they would not be able to open the door without authorization and let the wind-like cavalry rush in.

Fisk and Kanuf met, but the four hundred warriors still suffered no losses. War horses are precious. Horses need to rest after high-intensity battles. All cavalry dismount and mix with the infantry. The battle continues, and Fisk is unwilling to retreat.

A bear showed its terrifying fangs, and Fisk said coldly: "Those warring factions who escaped must die. We have already killed a lot, so we might as well get it done."

"How about? Attack the city immediately? This city wall..." Kanuf took a look, "At that time, Arik was only nineteen years old. He cut down a big tree and led his brothers to hold the big tree and knock down the wall. We can Follow suit."

"That's what I mean, but I have more plans."

"We'll talk about your other plans later. What do we do now? Continue the attack?"

Fisk thought for a while: "At least continue to cause carnage. Just shoot those people below the city! Kill them all! Then, we will take a detour and attack their port."

"What a good idea!" Kanuf laughed out loud: "If they lose the boat, the Silver Castle people will be unable to escape. It is said that there are many silver coins and jewelry in this city. We can't let these treasures escape."

No one was willing to take in the refugees from Växjö, the main militant faction. They were met with cheese on both sides and were killed wantonly.

There were thick piles of corpses under the wooden wall, and the blood soaked the ground and formed a scarlet stream, slowly flowing towards the ocean.

The few who tried to escape were chased and killed by Ross's cavalry, forming a "death belt" around Silver Castle. Such a scene subverted the Silver Castle people's understanding of war. Not only did the Viking-style shield wall collision and warriors savagely attack each other not appear, the Ross army obviously killed without any loss.

The brown-yellow feathers of the arrows were embedded in the sandy ground inside the Silver Castle, densely packed like an oat field waiting to be harvested.

Although the warriors with bows in the city thought this was an unexpected addition of weapons, what happened next was heartbreaking.

The Russian army finally retreated, but not completely.

Those ships flying the Ross flag that did not take any action actually attacked the unguarded port!

The pier of Silver Castle was captured, and the defenders were frightened, thinking that the enemy was going to land on the beach and continue to attack the city in another direction. The tired soldiers hurriedly moved to the low wall in the direction of the pier. A few soldiers with bows were already throwing arrows at them.

The so-called Ross army was the confederate army that had been watching the drama for a while. These allies of Växjö's Lord Peace Party had to prove their loyalty by attacking the people of Silver Castle.

They did not participate in the battle, and the method of proving their loyalty was not only simple, but also extremely tempting.

Ships have a huge temptation for ordinary small Viking families.

"You go and attack their port and seize all the ships of the Silver Castle people. Whoever takes it will belong to them. We Ross will not take it with you." Fisk ordered.

Such sporadic counterattack arrows were simply ignored by the "looting army" of the Allied forces. They towed away all the long boats, small fishing boats and even larger cargo ships. They violently plundered and completely cut off the Silver Castle people from escaping from the sea. possibility.

As for some boats that were difficult to untie and pull away, Confederate men destroyed such boats with the dark idea of ​​not letting others get them if they couldn't get them. Thank goodness they didn't bring any kindling, otherwise they would have lit another fire in the port area.

And fire, isn't it a vicious means of attack?

It's not like Fisk hasn't thought about fire attack skills.

He was originally a down-and-out man, but he was reused only because of his loyalty to Rurik. He wanted to build a great career, so he studied hard. Regarding transforming ordinary arrows into flame arrows and performing fire attacks, he learned these special tactics from Rurik, but considering his own purpose, this was not convenient for use in Silver Castle.

Because the fire burning the city has a high probability of burning the silver coins into a hard lump full of impurities, which would be too bad.

After creating a huge number of corpses, the Russian army returned to the camp at the mouth of the sea, where a large number of bonfires were lit, and the reward given to the returning soldiers was a large amount of cooked oats.

In the evening, the battle was over. Under the bloody setting sun, the Ross army was in a complete sea and land outflanking situation against Silver Castle.

No one was collecting the corpses everywhere, especially under the walls of Silver Castle where the corpses were most densely packed.

It must be said that Fisk is a very good student. Since King Rurik is good at using the "campfire to confuse the enemy", he is now imitating it.

Although the enemy's possibility of escaping by sea was completely lost as the ships were either destroyed or captured, perhaps the people of Silvercastle would sneak out of the city into the distant forest in the dead of night.

Under the cover of darkness, the Ross warriors carrying fire began to light bonfires around the open space outside the city wall to create the illusion that more Ross troops arrived at night.

The horses were gathered together, and they were fed some salted oats and then rested on the spot.

After the soldiers ate a meal of boiled oats, Fisk had to adjust the cost of supplies based on his own supplies and future battle plans.

The officers of the Russian Army and the village leaders of the Allied Army gathered together to listen to the plan planned by Fisk and Kanuf.

After some polite self-praise and affirmation of the Allied Forces' strong execution ability (referring to plundering fishing boats), Fisk emphasized the purpose of the army.

"We have already reached here. I must capture Silver Castle! I don't care whether the people here live or die. The wealth inside belongs to Ross. I want to learn from the king and capture this city with as few casualties as possible. I will not order the Allies to attack by force. , I will capture the city in a clever way..."

What is a clever method? Shake people!

A ship will leave the battlefield and head south, looking for Shuyuan www. zhaoshuyuan． com flew the flag of Russia and went straight to Bornholm Island in the south, asking the old Russian Spuyut, the royal pirate who was entrenched there, to come to help in the battle.

This would take some time, but Fisk did not rely on Spyut's pirate army to arrive in time.

It just so happens that the current war situation is extremely favorable for Ross to enter the army. The army has surrounded the small Silver Castle. Although there is not much wheat in stock, the food is not wheat. The war horses can eat grass as much as they want, including the seedlings in the nearby oat fields. People's food is better solved. Facing the sea, fishermen can enter the sea on a large scale to fish and fish, because the Växjö Allies know very well that the sea in front of them is the source of herring and cod.

In the past, this was not their territory and they had no right to fish. Now it is a good opportunity to fish at zero cost!

It is impossible to get supplies in Silver Castle. If it doesn't rain, because the control of the river is completely in the hands of the Ross army, they can even cut off the supply of fresh water (there is no well in the city). Fisk estimated that he could kill Silver Castle forcefully, but things developed far faster than he imagined...

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