Rise of Rurik

A huge fleet surged across the vast ocean against the south wind.

It was already midsummer, and the Slavic troops stationed on Tombstone Island for a long time had already turned into fishermen.

Because he had not received the king's order for a long time, Medved could only live on Tombstone Island and surrounding islands with his thousands of troops. They are self-sufficient by fishing. It is this behavior that allows a large number of men who are not good at boating to adapt quickly. Seasickness is no longer a disaster.

They were even forced to learn to swim.

The summer solstice is approaching, and ordinary soldiers are worried that once they set off, they will miss their farming work due to the war. Many people even hope that the time can be delayed as long as possible.

After all, the king brought a strong army. Even if the Slavic army did not participate, the king could still win.

As long as the time is delayed until the end of July, the brothers can probably go home.

Nothing else, because around the end of August is the wheat harvest season in the Novgorod region, and it would be far-fetched to expect the women and children back home to complete the wheat harvest work. Of course, people who stay behind can also complete it. Without the participation of mature men, the efficiency will naturally be greatly reduced.

Finally, Aric's fleet suddenly arrived.

Some prisoners of war and some captured supplies were thrown directly to Tombstone Island.

A large number of leather products and iron weapons were unloaded. The piles of these objects were an eye-opener.

Because a fleet returned from the direction of Lake Malaren not long ago. They were the first fleet to withdraw from the battle and returned via the inland waterway. The news they brought excited the spirits of the Slavic troops stationed on the island.

Medved knew the news about the king and actually asked him to prepare men and ships to sail south. This was a challenge to the Slavic army, and also to ordinary soldiers, the previous fantasy of delaying time and having to return home came to nothing.

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Just as they were busy loading weapons and supplies, Arik's fleet arrived.

Arik brought unprecedented exciting news. It was originally intended for people who were sailing on a large scale. Seeing that the experienced "double sword" Arik led the team, they suddenly had a backbone.

There are six newly launched standard armed cargo ships, and they entered the war as soon as they were launched.

Brand new ships were moored at Tombstone Island, and together with other large ships, a large fleet of up to twenty armed cargo ships, two sailing destroyers, and a sailing cruiser carried a total of 1,200 warriors and Auxiliary personnel, carrying a large amount of food and reserve weapons, sailed towards the southern Baltic Sea.

As for Arik, he knew very well that the king was very interested in time. Even if the reinforcements he brought did not join the battle on the planned date, the main force of the Russian army would cross the Kattegat Strait and land forcefully on the Jutland Peninsula.

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Not wanting to miss out on glory, Arik, who arrived at Tombstone Island, urged people to board the ship quickly, and also encouraged the Slavs for war.

"We will attack the Danish mainland! That is another powerful Varyag force. We will be victorious and you will all be rich. Don't worry that you will miss the farming season. You will harvest the enemy's wheat after the war. When you return , everyone has access to new wheat, iron tools, and leather.”

Originally, the reason for letting the Slavic troops in the distant hinterland of Eastern Europe go to Denmark to fight was rather far-fetched. These farmers did not have the unique warrior glory of the Vikings. If you want them to scream for war, you can only promise a lot of loot.

A new force was racing across the ocean. What Aric didn't know was that a new Danish kingdom had been established.

The fleet arrived at the Oresund Strait, a strategic choke point, and was suddenly seen together with the Russian army entrenched here.

"Look! It's our people." Medved, standing on the flagship, stretched out his big hand: "My brother-in-law (referring to Rurik) placed the army here?"

Arik scratched his chin: "Impossible. What's going on? My brother can still do tricks?! The main force of the army shouldn't be here."

Although Rurik, who was still in Gothenburg at the mouth of the Göta River, could not control the overall situation, his orders were indeed carried out silently by his subordinates.

As soon as Rus and New Denmark completed the informal alliance, Ragnar hurriedly rowed back to Zealand to prepare for the implementation of his offensive mission.

The verbal alliance was accompanied by Rurik's strategic tactics.

I heard from the Danish lords of Zealand, especially Lord Lindholm, who had fled, and sighed with sorrow and indignation.

It is said that the Frank army has completed its garrison and built the fortress, but the intelligence also pointed out that the territory of the Frank army and Horik, the "transgressor" of the Robard tribe, did not merge.

This time the main banner of the Ross and New Denmark coalition is to destroy Horik's forces. Of course the Frankish forces will fight, but the priority of attack is Horik at the northernmost point of the peninsula.

The narrow Jutland Peninsula gave an opportunity to fight a war of annihilation, so Rurik formulated a strategy.

The so-called Russian army and the main Swedish Allied fleet made a frontal landing on the beach. Ragnar's New Danish Army, Spyot Pirate Army, and Fisk's cavalry division marched by sea and landed on the Lindholm Isthmus at the thin waist of the peninsula.

The main force will go head-to-head with Horik and attack the midfield with a partial division. This is a tactical threat to the Frank army, and it also wants to seize the isthmus and block Horik's retreat.

According to Rurik's idea, he would attack the "transgressors" from two sides, annihilate them, and then work together to deal with the Franks on the peninsula.

Such tactics are simply shocking to most of the lords and nobles who only know how to gather people to fight in groups. In an "extremely extensive" battlefield, the tactics are actually so sophisticated.

After receiving the mission, Ragnar, Spyot and others were waiting for the agreed July 10th in the Julian calendar to launch the attack. Just before this date, Arik returned successfully.

Mahabhi was little more than a sandbank village, with the New Danish army stationed in the open across the narrow strait. This open space is nowhere else but the location of the city of Copenhagen.

This place is suitable for the gathering of troops and the parking of fleets. It was developed as a military camp due to the war. Its superiority immediately attracted the great attention of the lords.

Arik and the army he brought landed here to rest. A large number of Slavic warriors carrying detachable and assembled spears stood in the new world. They carefully looked at the Varyag warriors who were watching.

There is a physical difference between the Danes in Zealand and these people from the heart of Eastern Europe - their hair color.

But as the exchanges deepened, these Danes suddenly realized how the new army from the far east was highly similar to the Bimeranians.

These Oriental words are not alien. But they were not Pomeranians, and certainly not Obotelidits.

What is irrefutable is that these Eastern warriors all wore uniforms of the Russian army. After assembling their folding spears, they formed a "hedgehog formation". This formation has never been seen by the Danes in Zealand. .

Showing off their muscles to the locals, the strength of Medved's Slavic army should not be underestimated.

Therefore, a ship hurriedly drifted to Rurik, who was eager to go on an expedition, to report the good news.

Big brother didn’t miss the first battle! Rurik simply issued a new order, and Arik, who had experienced many battles, became the supreme commander of the Eastern Rus' Army and cooperated with the new Danish King Ragnar to capture the Lindholm Isthmus.

So, how many troops does the so-called eastern division have? !

In the past, the Danes were unable to eradicate the Frankish forces that invaded the Danish world on their own because they were not united enough. Now they have a leader and a powerful alliance that can unite everyone. The cavalry they feared most was no longer scary, because the Russian allies also had cavalry.

There were more than 50,000 Danish men in Zealand, and the men enthusiastically joined the army. The tribes and landless lords who fled Jutland a few years ago were not willing to live under the influence of others or become pirates as a whole.

Now that the opportunity came to restore the territory, men and women fought almost as a clan.

The so-called partial division, the soldiers from all walks of life were put together to form nearly ten thousand soldiers.

The lords of Zealand have never been so united as they are today. They will not completely surrender to Ragnar, but for the benefit of their own tribe, they must drive away the intruders.

From leading warships to large sailing warships, Zealand's partial division assembled thousands of ships.

The agreed date is July 10th!

Let the war begin!

In Gothenburg, Rurik's main army of various warriors swelled to 7,000 men, most of whom were combat troops.

The Ross fishing boats cruising in the strait suddenly disappeared, and these standard cargo ships were transformed into troop carriers.

In Gothenburg, all kinds of ships were full of people. Ross was at the front of the formation before the battle, and the entire fleet rushed to the northernmost tip of Jutland.

On Zealandia, it could no longer be called a partial division. The army was assembled, the war horses were placed on the standard cargo ship, and all the soldiers boarded the ship and rushed towards the isthmus at the waist of Jutland Peninsula.

The total number of warriors of all colors reached 15,000. This was the first time in the history of the Vikings that an army of this size was assembled.

On the other side of the battlefield, the Horik forces, the Frankish army's Liudov forces, and those lords who converted to God were not sitting still and waiting to be killed.

Especially in the far north of the peninsula, Horik has given up on illusions. He has lost a lot of power. If he loses this place again, he will be a complete loser.

He was exhausting the war potential of the Robard tribe and mobilizing the ten-year-old boys as well.

It stands to reason that Horik is only the grandson of the legendary leader Godfrey in name only, and is a blood relative of the expelled Harald Clark. He moved his old tribe's population to mix with the Robard tribe, but his family genealogy has never been related to the Robard tribe.

So far, the outsider has been embraced by the Robards. Because for the tribe, they could not tolerate the fall of their Danish hegemony and could not tolerate being bullied by the Rus again.

Then fight! Even if you fight to the last warrior.

Regarding the war, the Robard tribe who gave up their illusions organized as many as 10,000 warriors.

These ten thousand people naturally have water, just as Ragnar's new Danish army on Zealand across the ocean has water.

Many men who were not suitable for fighting took up arms. Horik knew that this was a waste of money. He had no choice, and the Robard tribe had no choice.

He didn't really count on the Frank army or those Saxon warriors.

In the end, two de facto regimes emerged in Jutland, the so-called Christian Denmark and the Christian Saxony under the banner of Frank.

Will Liudov's Frankish army and Saxon army fight to the death for their Christian Denmark?

"Pick up weapons! Always be prepared! Don't enter the beach rashly. Once they land, we will find an opportunity to annihilate them!"

After all, this was also the first time in the history of the Christianized Robard tribe that there was a general gathering, and the male and female warriors gathered together in a loud voice.

They betrayed Odin, and now the northern saint Eskil led his entourage, carrying gilded crosses and abstract icons mounted on parchment, using fresh cypress branches dipped in holy oil to pay homage to Robard's elite. The warrior showered blessings.

The entire Robard tribe army was blessed. The so-called barbaric Norman army pressed on the border. People who believed in God fought for their faith. If they died in battle, they would immediately enter heaven and obtain a perfect and happy eternal life.

At most, this is a beneficial spiritual bonus. What supports the Robard tribe's determination to fight to the death is that they must defend their homeland and glory.

Therefore, some Christian Danish lords had to go north with their tribal warriors. They were somewhat confused. If Horik and Liudov were defeated, could their tribe turn disaster into good fortune if they re-believed in Odin?

These lords did not dare to fight the Ross navy, so they took one or two hundred infantry to the north. The tribes of the alliance sent out at most a thousand warriors. It was obviously a life-and-death war, and Horik was speechless and helpless.

He wrote to Liudov, who was stationed at Haleb Castle, hoping to obtain an absolute promise of military protection.

Although Liu Doufu felt the atmosphere of war, due to his own understanding of war, he did not think that there would be a large-scale war in the future. The battle would probably be a few hundred people, or at most a thousand people in a melee.

So this reply is very interesting: "You can't defeat those barbarians with your own strength? If you are really invincible, my invincible cavalry will help."

Liudof's perfunctory attitude made Horik scratch his head and scratch his head angrily. He had no intention of replying because he had no time.

At Haleb Castle, a large number of Saxons migrated here. It doesn't matter if the fortress hangs the Frankish Three Lions flag, because the man he supports is a descendant of Widukind!

With Liudolf here, the southern Jutland where they lived was the territory of the Saxons, and this was New Saxony. war? What does the war between the Danes and the Rus have to do with me, the Saxons?

The Horik and Robard tribes do not know the true strength of the Ross army, but the strait has been firmly controlled by the other side in the past few months, and the large number of fishing boats cruising around proves its strong strength.

Until the people watching on the beach saw the overwhelming number of ships filling the strait.

"It's the enemy! They are coming!"

"Enemy ships are everywhere! Let's fight!"

Terrifying news spread in the villages of the Robard people. In these chain-connected villages, the villagers stood on the rooftops and saw terrifying huge sails and a large number of ships.

Horik beat his chest and learned from the last lesson. He made iron plate heavy armor for his last elite, and asked the Robad people to make short wooden bows and arrows in large quantities. He was reflecting on his previous defeat and working hard to learn the equipment of the Russian army.

Of course, he couldn't learn the Russian fleet.

He was still not fully prepared, and now he could only bite the bullet and gather his troops to fight.

"Brothers, we must live!" he encouraged his elite.

Then he led the nervous Robard soldiers to march towards the northern beach. The soldiers organized a shield wall. Nervous, fearful and happy were intertwined. They rushed to the coast and lined up like a Great Wall.

They saw the Russian army that was charging ashore on a large scale. The scale was completely beyond imagination. Their enthusiasm was instantly shocked, and the attack stopped. After the shield wall was built, no one dared to attack alone.

The two armies met like this.

Rurik had already landed, and he didn't expect Horik to react so quickly.

The current situation of the Ross Army is not absolutely safe. Troops are still landing one after another. If the enemy launches a desperate attack while the foothold is not stable at this moment, the Ross Army will have no choice but to fight hastily.

Thanks to the many tough battles fought by the Russian army, the generals and nobles took the time to line up. As long as he continues to delay time, it will become more and more beneficial to Rose.

The ships that were busy unloading supplies stopped working, and the big ships turned broadside against the enemy.

"Hell, don't even give me time to set up a shore camp."

Rurik hurriedly summoned his cronies and allied nobles, and asked that the troops be arrayed according to the plan before the expedition, and the flags were waved vigorously, waiting for the order of the general attack.

On the other side of the battlefield, Horik noticed that the Ross army's foothold was not stable.

"I can win if I rush them and wash them into the sea. If I fail, I'm doomed. No! We must fight!"

This was a big gamble. After hesitating for a while, Horik convinced himself and issued the attack order.

"Brothers, charge me! Robards, drive them into the sea!"

The battle begins.

Horik decided to strike first. The hesitant warriors, led by the local nobles of Robard, received orders and began to advance tentatively. As some people charged hard, it quickly turned into a total charge of thousands of people.

Seeing such a wolf running wildly, Rurik firmly believed.

"Damn it, you don't play according to the routine. Then let's fight. Fight early and solve the problem early."

Rurik no longer issued any orders. The people who landed first immediately set up shield walls, and the warriors with crossbows immediately fired regardless of priority. The big ship risked running aground and pushed closer to the shore. Each torsion slingshot was equipped with javelins, and the javelins were installed at high elevation angles. Directly fired after aiming.

Horik was mentally prepared for the speed of the Russian counterattack, but the large number of Robard soldiers could not expect it, nor could the Christian Danish allies.

They were biting the bullet and looking for Shuyuan www.ｽhaoshuyuan.comｍ. They raised their shields above their heads and ran faster under the blows of javelins and longbow arrows. Ignoring their fallen companions who had been hit by arrows, they continued to attack and threw arrows with short wooden bows. Arrow counterattack.

No one can stop. If you don't want to be trampled to death by your own people, you can only rush.

But Horik stayed behind like a thief, and he was speechless when he saw that a large number of troops from allied tribes also deliberately stayed behind.

Co-author Only the warriors of the Robard tribe participated in this desperate charge! It seems that this hasty anti-landing operation has become the fate of the Robard tribe.

Soon, hand-to-hand combat began. This was a battle between the Vikings. It was not only the glory of the warriors, but also the defense of faith and the right to exist.

The Russian army did not want to be driven into the sea and drowned, and the Lobad people did not want to be slaughtered. Both sides knew that defeat would mean mass death. This decisive battle that Rurik did not want to happen immediately began in an extremely bloody and tragic way... …

Chapter 924 Landing and Anti-landing

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