Rise of Rurik

The army lined up neatly and walked out of the wooden wall of Silver Castle. Under the sun, they were full of Russian warriors wearing white and blue-striped robes. Their leather helmets were decorated with velvet caps. Some people even had blue and white embroidery on the top of their helmets. The defenders had never seen such a scene before.

Just because the troops were approaching in an orderly manner, the strong pressure felt like a stone pressing on the chest.

From any point of view, the Russians are definitely not here to show off their power today. The defenders are convinced that today is the moment of life and death for everyone.

Theoretically, Fisk could use charcoal on a piece of white cloth to write a sentence in traditional rune script, even if it was a simple intimidation and threat such as "wash your neck and wait for me to chop it off."

He had no plans to communicate with the Silver Castle people, or in his opinion, there was no need to talk to these guys.

The Russian army is now using the banner of "avenging the old Danish King Olegin", which is simply an excuse to mobilize everyone.

It is very ironic that the man who chopped off Olegin's head with his own hands was the Dane Ragnar, and now this man has become an ally of Rus.

Fisk heard those claims. After all, King Olegin insisted on continuing to fight south in order to rob Silver Castle of money. That man succeeded to a certain extent.

The opportunity fell on him. Now no one would stand up for the Danish merchants of Silver Castle. The glory of seizing the city and plundering silver would belong to this partial army.

The warriors holding bows and crossbows walked in the front row. They were silent and intimidating.

Suddenly, the trumpeter raised his horn, and with the vast and melodious sound of the trumpet, the whole army stood still.

The Russian army stopped, and the army stood at a very subtle distance.

At the same time, the defenders of Silver Castle climbed onto the wooden walls one after another. Any man and even some women who could afford weapons were determined to fight to the death with the Russian army for their own lives.

The defenders held up short spears, swords and axes, standing on high places to show off their power. They yelled in Norse language, cursing the shamelessness of the Russians, and also to encourage themselves in a desperate situation.

"You better gather together and let me shoot you quickly."

Fisk turned his head and looked sharply, and called someone: "Go! Tell Kanuf in front to let his people shoot arrows!"

The messenger quickly rushed to the front line and handed the order to Kanuf, a new elite with strong execution ability.

"What does happy archery mean? Oh! I understand... You can go back, now is our performance."

After all, the Kingdom of Ross began preparations for this expedition in the fall of a year ago. A major tactical advantage of the Russian army is its powerful bows and crossbows. For this reason, the army must maintain a huge reserve of arrows. The entire Winter Kingdom has been making arrows on a large scale. The "Poultry Project" implemented many years ago mainly to solve the problem of eating meat for every household is really a preparation for today's war.

The feathers of the huge amount of arrows are made of chicken feathers, the arrow shafts and binding rosin are inexhaustible, and the arrow clusters are cheap goods cast in batches of pig iron. All kinds of materials are integrated together, and the cost of making an arrow is not high for Ross.

In this way, Fisk's partial division can also carry a large number of arrows very luxuriously.

The dismounted cavalryman carried a deerskin quiver with thirty arrows stuffed in it.

The quivers were already very heavy, and the soldiers felt that their act of archery was fire support. After firing up to ten quivers, the action of charging into the city wall would come.

Now Commander Fisk ordered the brothers to shoot down a bag of arrows.

A hundred dismounted cavalry in the front line will fire three thousand arrows? This is still a big challenge for the cavalry.

Kanuf knew what this meant. As the commander, he drew his sword and shouted: "Brothers! The time has come to show your strength! Shoot them all and let us break the city easily!"

So the warriors raised their recurve bows at a high elevation angle, and light arrows were placed on the left side of the bow handle.

"Get ready! Hsjutra!"

The standing army consists of a large number of old Rus tribesmen. The young ones shoulder the glory of their ancestors. Now they are using the Rus arrow formation and throwing out the first round of arrow rain with Turkic compound bows with huge draw lengths.

There was a dense whooshing sound in the sky, and the defenders who had been dancing on the city walls suddenly turned pale.

The smart man immediately grabbed the thickened shield covered with leather or glued with a layer of wood, carried it on his back like a turtle shell, and curled up into a ball.

The defenders were not all fools. After suffering heavy losses from arrows, they strengthened their personal defenses. Unfortunately, most people in Silver Castle City do not know how to take reasonable precautions.

Deadly arrows rained down, the first volley taking its toll. However, there was a second, third, and fourth such salvo...

The standing army warriors had arms as hard as stone. They had multiple fingers made of deer leg bones and fired deadly arrows in the Eastern style.

Their projectiles hit targets about 200 meters away, probably creating a fall area of ​​nearly 40 meters in depth within the city.

Although the south wind weakened the range of the arrows, the front of the Russian army's attack was still hit hard.

The soldiers were surrounded by horrific corpses, some of which were swollen and deformed. There are a large number of corpses stacked under the city wall. These are the corpses of previous refugees. The presence of a large number of dead cannot interfere with the Ross army's attack.

Continuously firing, some soldiers reduced their frequency due to gradual soreness in their arms. No matter how hard it was to fire a salvo, everyone who turned to free fire produced continuous and coherent firepower output.

From the standpoint of the defenders, this was not hail, and being hit by an arrow meant piercing deeply into the flesh. Although the Russian sword is like a needle, it is difficult to create a wide-edged wound, but it is also difficult to heal a deep bloody hole poked by this needle.

Many defenders' "turtle shells" were densely covered with arrow feathers. They were not turtles, but living hedgehogs.

The shooting was indiscriminate, and the continuous shooting caused varying degrees of casualties to as many as 200 people in the city, and also forced all non-combatants in the city to take refuge in the safe area near the cliff in the south of the city.

Finally, the Russian army ended the attack of these three thousand arrows. The soldiers with sore arms were panting and had a weird smile on their lips, waiting for new orders.

Seeing that the crisis was finally over, the defenders of the city wall slowly poked their heads out. They did not dare to show off their power for the time being, nor did they dare to rescue their comrades who fell under the city wall.

They didn't know what else the Russians would do, and there was a high probability that they would be attacked by another arrow.

However, the general attack began.

Fisk will not let the dismounted archers waste their energy anymore, now the rest of the warriors are attacking in full force!

The archers with sore arms moved in the opposite direction. They went to the carts at the rear to collect new arrows. Those with ability mixed in with the main attacking team and approached the city wall, firing suppressively at possible defenders.

More soldiers surrounded the siege ram that thirty people could reasonably carry, and under the cover of many soldiers holding huge arrow shields, they quickly advanced under the city wall.

In such a scene, the one hundred and fifty garrison soldiers who were holding on to the city wall with extremely strong willpower were beginning to suffer mental breakdown.

The defenders threw earthen jars filled with sand and simple stones downwards, and there was a loud sound when these heavy objects hit the "anti-arrow shield" made of wooden planks and branches.

They also used short wooden bows to snipe from a high position, but Ross's crossbowmen were waiting for this opportunity.

The soldiers who had never participated in large-scale ejection operations were waiting for the enemy. The lightweight wooden-armed crossbow was strung up. The firing frequency was not too slow, but the accuracy was extremely amazing.

As the dismounted cavalrymen with sore arms gritted their teeth and entered the city wall with new arrows, the suppressive shooting reached an outrageous level.

Who dares to show his face? !

Some of the people exposed on the battlements were immediately attacked intensively. The rare steel-armed crossbows fired at close range completely ignored the chainmail. The exposed defenders fell to death with terrifying short arrows stuck in their chests.

The defenders were forced to hide behind the battlements, holding heavy objects in both hands and throwing them behind them, hoping to kill an enemy.

This is really a hopeless defense, and the defenders have no way to contain the Russian army's strong attack.

The only thing the defenders hoped for now was that the largest city gate could withstand the impact of the huge log. However, the entire city wall felt crumbling.

Some carts with their shafts removed were stacked with heavy objects blocking the door, and more than fifty defenders had to wait quietly behind the door.

They are all mercenaries, and they must be worthy of the money they get and what they believe in.

More mercenaries are really helpless. They have no trust in the Russians and are convinced that surrender is impossible. Now the only way is to die in battle.

The sun is above, those are Odin's eyes, let the gods see the end of his heroic battle!

It is said that the walls of Silver Castle are indeed strong, but the gate is a huge disadvantage. The heavy wooden door was fastened with bolts, and there was no special reinforcement method such as a winch-dropped iron fence.

The young and strong men of the standing army worked hard to operate the battering ram. When they saw that they could not break through the door after a collision, a group of soldiers immediately joined them.

More than fifty people manipulated the battering ram reasonably, creating cracks in the gate bit by bit.

Finally, with a loud noise, not only the door, but also the platform on the wooden door collapsed at the same time!

The main entrance of Silver Castle actually collapsed! The collapsed door suddenly formed a slope, and behind the slope were the astonished faces of the few defenders.

The defenders were so frightened that some even sat on the ground.

A huge opportunity lies in front of him. As a commander, how can Fisk let it pass?

"Get out of the way!" he shouted, "Let the cavalry charge!"

Fisk held the steel sword high and led the way, followed by the cavalry behind him.

The infantrymen stepped aside one after another for fear of being trampled to death by their own cavalry.

Who is the first person to enter the city? It was General "Bald" Fisk.

One hundred cavalry filed in through the slope formed by the collapsed gate. The iron hooves immediately trampled on the defenders who had no time to form their formation and collapsed.

Steel swords stabbed and chopped, prisoners of war were rammed hard, or short spears were stabbed hard.

Silver Castle's defense line collapsed, and the cavalry were killing everyone in the city, which was filled with arrows! After the cavalry, 300 Ross infantry soldiers rushed into the city, and 200 Växjö Confederates who were destined to only be good at fighting with the wind finally entered the city.

The rules after breaking the city have been set. All men in sight will be killed by the enemy, and only young women should be spared their lives.

The cavalry continued to collide in the twists and turns of the city's alleyways. The defenders finally formed a shield wall, but were immediately knocked to pieces.

The defenders were at a disadvantage in terms of strength and could not form an array. They further lost manpower and were beaten by the Russian army and were unable to parry. It seemed that the Russians could not be injured at all. In most cases, they were killed without being able to make contact with the enemy.

Silver Castle was not large, and the last defenders were compressed to the southernmost part of the city.

At the same time, nearly three thousand people were crowded into the entire Silver Castle!

When Fisk ordered the brothers to temporarily stop searching and looting the houses one by one and continue the attack enthusiastically, they were shocked by the sight in front of them.

"Ah! What are they doing?!"

After the soldiers and civilians of Silver Castle who were originally forced to a dead end lost their resistance, they resolutely chose to take risks in the face of the Ross army that was advancing in front of them.

This is the southern wall of the city, with a small cliff below the wall. The waves hit the cliff, and there were puddles under the cliff. People climbed up the low stone and wood walls here and jumped deep down.

However, this place is too high compared to the water surface, and the puddles under the cliff appear and disappear.

Men and women jumped deep and landed on the rocky platform under the water, dying on the spot. Even those who were unconscious were swept into the sea by the huge waves and drowned.

Even so, there were still people jumping down, and the city walls were crowded with people looking forward and backward. Seeing that the Russian army formed a shield wall and pressed forward step by step, more people jumped off the cliff.

"Ah this! Isn't this the Tamworth of old?!"

Eight years ago, the Ross Expeditionary Force fought in Britain, and together with the Balmok friendly forces in Norway, they attacked the Royal City of Northumbria. After that, a large number of residents jumped off the city wall and fled for their lives. Fisk was a witness to that battle. At that time, he was just Rurik's follower, but now he is solely responsible for leading the expedition.

But the wall in Tamworth is not high, and there are grass and even dunghills under the wall. Many people jump over the wall, pat themselves on the back and run away.

In this Silver Castle, anyone who jumps off a cliff into the water is seeking death.

Fisk was a little touched mentally. The only thing he regretted was that some obviously younger women also jumped. This was a pity.

"Keep pressing on! Brothers, charge!" he ordered.

Only the immediate action of the army can end this desperate cliff jumping behavior. The Ross army swarmed up. After most of the people on the city wall jumped off, the city wall was completely controlled by the Ross army.

At this point, a large number of people were surrounded by Fisk's troops in extreme fear. Many people were so frightened that they even passed out. Some businessmen in extraordinary clothes knelt on the ground and begged for money to sell their lives.

Do businessmen still have a chance to negotiate? Since all their money is in the city, the city has been occupied by the Russian army, and the Russian flag is flying on the city wall. The merchants have lost all the chips to buy their lives.

It was Kanuf who helped Fisk come up with an idea...

Do you really want to kill everyone except the woman and the young son? After calming down, Fisk followed the advice of Kanuf and even Bejahir, and decided to be lenient to many people after screening the personnel.

The battle was completely over. According to statistics, not counting those who died in the battle or those who jumped off the cliff and whose lives were unknown, the Russian army captured as many as 1,600 people.

More than 20 businessmen were not killed. They naively thought that they could really buy their lives with money, so they were temporarily sitting together with their hands tied.

The Russian army's looting of the entire city has begun. The wealth accumulated by the merchants has been dug out one after another. A large number of wooden boxes filled with silver coins have been pulled out. The silver coins are to be returned to the kingdom. Each soldier has plundered a lot of useful life. Taste.

The Russian army first plundered, and then the Växjö allies came one after another. Like vultures, these guys ate up the last bit of meat on the ribs of the beast.

A strong man with a bald head came towards him, and the merchants whose families had been detained all became angry. They all shouted: "Lord Rurik of Rus, spare your life!"

"Bald" Fisk was not born with a bald head. He was deliberately shaved like this by his mother and now it has become a distinctive personal beauty.

Hearing the misunderstanding of the captured businessman, Fisk, who rushed over, burst into laughter.

"Stop laughing! Brother," Fisk scolded.

"Fisk, they really have a huge misunderstanding."

"Indeed." Fisk shrugged, and immediately announced his identity to the captured businessmen: "You Danish merchants! I am Fisk, Fisk the Bald. I am the war chief under Rurik, the great king of Rus, and I was ordered to conquer Wei. Keshe, take the opportunity to conquer your Silver Castle. You were once merchants, but unfortunately you have lost all your capital and all its use value. I tell you now, go to hell!"

For a moment, the captured businessmen were dumbfounded.

In a moment, a group of sword-wielding warriors came over. Ignoring the begging for mercy of the merchants whose hands were tied, they dragged them to the edge of the cliff without any delay and chopped off their heads...

This is a killing! It was Fisk's order.

The supplies of the Russian army now rely entirely on fishing supplements from the Växjö Allied Forces. This mixed army and non-combatants originally numbered 1,500 people.

During the attack on Silver Castle, more than 20 Ross soldiers suffered serious flesh injuries. Although they could theoretically save their lives by debriding the wounds with strong alcohol and forcibly suturing them, more than 20 of them lost the ability to fight.

In a sense, the Russian army suffered no casualties, at least no immediate casualties.

But the army was exhausted, and everyone needed a meal. However, the food seized in the city was disappointing.

The logistics of Fisk's unit could not support the appetite of a total of 3,000 people including prisoners, and some prisoners had to die.

This was a barbaric killing after the war. The Russians, the most typical Vikings, showed a barbaric side with Viking characteristics.

Only seemingly young women, some children, pure slaves, craftsmen, and the last farmer were spared their lives. Only about 500 people in the entire Silver Castle survived until the end of the battle.

The cliffs were filled with corpses, and the waves gradually dragged the corpses into the ocean, where they gradually became immersed in the cold waters of the Baltic Sea.

Those who survived would not be idle. They were monitored and forced to clean up the corpses of the Växjö refugees from the previous main war faction, which was to throw the stinking corpses into the ocean.

The Ross flag flew on the walls of Silver Castle, and the army completely plundered the local cattle, sheep, and livestock. The Växjö Allied Forces sent ships to the sea to wildly plunder the extremely abundant Baltic cod and Atlantic herring.

Those young women were divided up by the Russian army. The merchants' daughters became the wives and concubines of the Russian soldiers, while the status of the female slaves raised by the merchants increased. For a small group of people, being controlled by the Russian army was not a tragedy. The slaves immediately served their new masters, and they served the young Russian warriors fascinatedly.

It is said that her status as a slave will be cancelled, and she will go to Shuyuan www.zhaｏshuyuan.com to live as the wife and concubine of the man in front of her. In this way, they will serve even harder. As for having a man's name tattooed on the back to declare ownership, they are also happy. accept.

The Ross army was completely settled, and the partial divisions that had been on the expedition until now were finally able to take a good rest, so his subordinates began to indulge in women, and Fisk didn't bother to care anymore.

After all, he had Astrid by his side, his fourth wife, a young, smart and obedient woman. Because Astrid's heart has been completely conquered by this young, strong and decisive Ross man.

The Ross flag of Silver Castle is flying, and the various ships floating on the sea are also flying Ross flags. Any outsider who sees it will definitely think that Silver Castle is now a city directly under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Ross. And this also means that the Kingdom of Rus occupies the entire Jotalan region.

Fiske was waiting here, expecting his ship to "swing people" to lure Spuut, so that the friendly forces staying on Bornholm Island could first witness the illustrious reputation he had established as a young general. Have a good meeting to plan how to find King Rurik's main force and join forces with them to make plans.

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