Rise of Rurik

It is not easy to land on a beach in any era. According to Rurik's prediction, the Ross army's landing will not encounter a desperate charge from the enemy as soon as the landing site is established.

But the fact has happened. Although the enemy has a high probability of preparing for the decisive battle, Rurik and the nobles never imagined that the decisive battle would be on the seaside.

All elite soldiers, flag commanders, allied nobles, and even all grassroots soldiers are facing tremendous pressure.

Look! The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th flag teams, these troops were the first to land as elites. Some soldiers from each flag team had just arrived. When they landed, the longships were still pushing out of the beach to provide berths for their successors.

Just when the Ross army was in a hurry, a large number of enemies appeared.

The elite warriors built a shield wall to meet the impact and collided with the enemy!

Those Danish Robards who charged bravely knew that as long as they knocked the Russian soldiers off their feet in the first contact, the subsequent battle would be beneficial to them.

However, they all felt like they had hit a wall!

When the collision occurred, the warriors who were behind stepped on the waistband of the predecessor, stepped on his shoulder, and rushed forward with a fearless attitude holding a tomahawk. Such a bold warrior hopes to open up the situation with his own death in battle, allowing subsequent tribesmen to successfully break the Russian military formation.

From Ross's perspective, the soldiers probably knew that their enemies were mainly the Danish Robard tribe. This tribe has a large population and its own glory, but the brothers did not expect that these Danish warriors were so brave.

Swords jabbed, tomahawks slashed. The soldier pressed his thick shield against his body, gritted his teeth and stabbed forward with all his strength. No matter whether he hit the target or not, he did not dare to stop.

"Hold on! Don't retreat!"

"Don't be afraid of death! Stand up to them!"

"The king has landed! The king is personally supervising the battle! They cannot be allowed to get close to the king."

"Hmph..."

"Ahhhhh..."

Roaring sounds and wailing sounds intertwined.

On the other side of the battlefield, the Robards charged desperately and were locked in a fight, and they roared loudly.

"Hurry and drive these Russians into the sea to feed the fish!"

"Kill them for glory."

"Avenge Boss Hafgen! Kill their Rurik!"

Likewise, the cries of the Robards were drowned in the roar.

This was a hasty battle, and Rurik knew without even thinking that he was facing an unprecedented crisis.

What is a last stand? That's it now.

Rurik drew out his steel sword and ordered the guards to hold the special temperament inlaid with gold wire high. He walked toward the front lines of the battle, the flag advancing with his steps.

The war drums were beating wildly and the horns were blowing loudly. Rurik showed his presence in a big way. This was a provocation to the enemy that he was here, and it was also an encouragement to the soldiers who persisted in fighting.

The warriors who persisted saw their king, and the king's flag with gold rim was walking towards them.

The king will directly join the battle! He is the invincible great conqueror! Just like his father Otto, he was as unyielding as he was.

Look! Those warriors with bear heads on their heads! There was also the intense flash of light reflected all over their bodies in the sunlight.

Grund, the captain of the Guards, is no longer young. He is no longer a free mercenary, but an "iron man" under King Ross who specializes in gnawing hard bones.

"Iron Man! Follow me and charge! Blood sacrifice to Odin!"

Grund and his men are redefined berserkers. Their chests have been replaced with heavy hardened carbon steel breastplates. Normal hand axes can only leave small marks when chopped down. The soldiers' shoulders, arms, and legs are protected by iron sheets, and even the weak crotch area has an "iron skirt." Such excessive precautions are unique in today's Northern Europe, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. The other one who can do this is Eastern Rome.

One hundred "iron men" are all specially selected strong men. They either hold double-edged long-handled axes with spearheads, or hold short halberds in both hands. There are also many who hold double swords.

Iron Man goes into battle and specializes in tough battles. They did not form a formation, but held ferocious bear heads and held a variety of melee weapons, deliberately letting the enemy surround them, so that they could kill one against ten.

They had long since taken off their Russian robes, deliberately displaying the shiny metallic sheen of the warrior armor.

Because the enemy is Horik! For Grund, dozens of his brothers died in the battle of Godfrehagen. This battle was to avenge the blood of that year.

It has to be said that these bear-headed warriors are too conspicuous.

Standing in the distance, Horik deliberately did not charge with his elite soldiers. His current behavior was very shameful. But when he saw those "hard-chested men" breaking away from the precarious front of the Ross army, he suddenly felt a chill from his toes. to the head.

He thought of the disgusting battle back then. In order to kill these iron men, he had lost too many brothers.

Although the Iron Man is not really invulnerable, if a spear is thrust into the weak point of his armor, the Iron Man will become dead.

But can these Robard fishermen, soldiers, and peasant soldiers do it? Killing an iron man only requires twenty lives.

"Boss, those Iron Bears have appeared. What should we do? Do you want to help?" A follower asked nervously.

"Don't act rashly. Let's take a look at the battle situation! Also, put away all our flags." Horik ordered this with great confusion.

In fact, Horik noticed that these Robards did not rush the Ross army to the ocean immediately. Once the battle entered an anxious state, it would be very detrimental to him.

He put away his flag to conceal his presence and avoid being discovered by the Russians who would attack him.

But such a move was seen by other allied tribal armies of "Christian Denmark" who stood still. These tribal lords backed down when they saw Ross's huge fleet. Now that the battle situation is unfavorable, Horik lowered the flag. Could it be that this guy Escape! ?

This Danish army is essentially a crusade, but the Robard tribe has not immediately changed its mentality. They are not yet willing to raise the cross flag with great fanfare.

What Horik asked to put down was a cross flag, and other Allied troops watching the battle also had such flags.

When the cross flag is set up, each department can distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. When the flag disappears, it basically means the disappearance of an army. Whether you die in battle or flee, the loss of the flag equals defeat. Horik didn't think about this level for the time being.

One of the lords persuaded his heart and issued a sudden order: "Horik is a coward, he wants to run away! Even if the Robard people are brave, they will die. Brothers, let's leave quickly!"

A 200-member "Christian Denmark" allied force voluntarily withdrew from the battlefield, which immediately caused a chain reaction, and other tribal armies evacuated one after another.

This scene was also seen by Horik.

The short, fat man with a round head stomped his feet violently to vent his anger, and yelled: "How can we have allies like you! How dare you run away without a fight?"

Horik is not qualified to call those so-called cowards. The hearts of his own elite troops are floating.

Many people suggested: "The Robards may not be able to hold on for long, and we should think about a way out."

Rationally speaking, Horik didn't want to die fighting here. Although he encouraged his brothers before the war, he said that if he didn't win the battle before him, he would die in honor.

But when the threat of death in battle really arises, escape is a strategy.

"The worst case scenario is that I will take my brothers and flee to Frankland. Ludwig is looking for people, so he can't do without me. Maybe he can give me a legal title."

Yes, what Horik has done in these years is to become a great noble. If he cannot become the King of Denmark, he can just settle down and become a vassal of Frank.

Now Robard is not broken, maybe they can still win, even if the victory is a miserable victory.

As a result, the battlefield became very strange. Horik's actions were betraying his teammates. He brought five hundred of his last confidants to watch the battle. It was like sitting on a mountain watching a tiger fight. It was clear that he was the commander-in-chief of the fighting army.

The Russian army suffered casualties on all fronts, and more troops landed ashore. That is the Allied Army of the Swedish Dukes, the Allied Army of Gothenburg, and the Allied Army of Finland focusing on fire support.

The location of the battlefield is beyond the reach of ship-borne torsion slingshots, and the heavy weapons that the Russian army is proud of are temporarily unavailable.

The battle turned into an authentic Viking mode until the "Iron Man" passed through his own lines and fought back under the crazy attack of the Robards.

Tomahawks were slashing, halberds were stabbing, and steel swords were cutting.

There are also arrows whizzing past Iron Man’s head!

Jevro rushed to the king's flag and told King Rurik of his worries: "My longbowmen will continue to support them even if they break their arms due to fatigue, but the arrows will now focus on Grund and the others."

Rurik responded coldly: "I don't care about their casualties, I care about whether the enemy is shot by you! I want victory!"

"Ah... you are so cold?"

"This is war! Listen, use broad-bladed hunting arrows immediately, and don't use pointed armor-piercing arrows. Try to throw them as far away as possible, and throw them with all your strength."

Javlo heard some clues and immediately stopped hesitating. He immediately returned to the seaside and ordered the 600 Finnish longbowmen who were in the water to fight according to the king's order.

Now that the war situation is tense, various crossbows are of limited use. These bows are thrown into the air for fire support. At this moment, the longbow is still showing its power.

The Ross Army just bullies the enemy for their lack of armor. The tapered armor-piercing arrows used to deal with strong enemies are out of date. The broad-bladed hunting arrows are designed to deal with all kinds of unarmored soldiers, but these arrows are meaningless against heavily armored soldiers.

Grund's face was covered by a mask, leaving only a viewing window and a breathing port. He and his brothers had limited physical strength. Behind them were a large number of corpses and wailing people. In front, the Robards felt fear.

The armor was bleeding, the battle ax was dripping, and the heavy armor covered up the berserker's panting.

Several iron men were stabbed to death, and the rest had no time to care about their dead brothers.

The iron men lined up and continued to move forward.

Looking at the Robards again, their array was cut like a wedge by iron men, and their formation was being divided by the Russian army.

The arrows continued to inflict damage to the Robard tribe soldiers, and they began to retreat, completely evacuating the theoretical maximum shooting range of the ship-based torsion slingshot.

Looking at the Ross Army, although preparations were hasty, all kinds of heavy weapons were not used for the time being, and the battle situation has turned one-sided towards the Ross Army.

The ground was littered with the corpses of Robard soldiers, and the injured were all assassinated by the Russian army.

The dead of the Rus' army were pulled out, even if they were still alive, they were dragged to the rear. Fierce fighting is going on at the front lines, and rescue operations at the rear are also happening non-stop.

The top priority was to stop the bleeding of the wounded soldiers, so the injured limbs were tied up with premade hemp rope strips. As for those with fatal injuries to the chest and neck, they could only be allowed to die.

The Russian army tried its best to rescue wounded soldiers, which was almost non-existent in this era, and an auxiliary staff actually played the role of military doctors.

Rurik and the soldiers had no time to care about the casualties. Their elite withstood the attack, and the elite iron men had already opened a gap!

The arrow struck Grund's iron man with a crackling sound, causing only a scratch before the arrow shattered. There are even warriors whose decorated chests are pierced with terrifying longbows and long arrows, as if the soldiers had been shot in the head.

This was simply unbelievable to the retreating Robad people, and the tribal nobles who were determined to fight were incomprehensible.

"This is a monster! They survived being shot with an arrow in the head?!"

The Iron Man continued to move forward, because the brothers were too tired to run wildly. It was precisely because of this that their pressing step by step became even more terrifying.

Various units of the Russian Army seized the opportunity to land. Most of their troops were densely packed and neatly dressed. Their line was still unbreakable, with shields piled up as walls, and behind them were warriors with iron helmets and feathers on their heads, and flags as dense as a forest.

The arrows behind them seemed to be infinite, constantly causing casualties to the Robards in the rear.

The anxious battlefield changed greatly. Although the Robards did not flee, the two armies had spontaneously maintained a distance of about twenty meters.

At this time, the crossbowman was finally given a chance! The crossbowmen in the second row sent the winched steel-armed crossbow to the front line. After receiving it, the brothers immediately fired it through the gap in the front line shield wall, and then sent the completed crossbow to the rear.

This is also the expression of the Ross Arrow Array. Like an assembly line, loaded crossbows are sent to the front line. In the eyes of the Robard people, there are deadly arrows from the Ross people everywhere!

His own wooden shield cannot block heavy arrows, even light arrows are just as terrifying.

With horizontal shots and projectiles, the battlefield became three-dimensional. The Russian army stabilized the front after paying a certain amount of losses, and the whole was like a huge steamroller being crushed.

And the Ross Army's tried-and-tested pincer offensive also began an encirclement operation!

Perhaps, this is another reenactment of the Battle of Vissingse Island! The old soldiers all thought so.

The Robards, a powerful force in the Danish world, are dying under the offensive of the Russian army. The Götaland Confederate Army in Gothenburg was fortunate to have joined the battle as a member of the Allied Forces. Now, the Gothenburg Army and the Swedish Unklas Army are joining forces, and are being led by Blue Fox to join the encirclement from the left...

collapse! Just in a moment.

As a local nobleman of the Robard tribe died from an arrow piercing his head, his tribesmen pulled the body and ran away.

In the eyes of the people who suffered huge casualties, now even their own nobles have abandoned everyone.

We can't go on any longer, run for the possibility of survival!

Where to escape? People don't know yet and don't have time to think. The instinct to escape controls their legs.

The ensuing defeat was clearly seen by Horik, who continued to watch the battle, and his men were anxious.

"Boss, these Robards actually failed."

"They are charging in the opposite direction, but don't forget that they surrendered on the battlefield and the Russians came to attack us."

Indeed, due to the defeat in 838, Horik's prestige among the Robard tribe plummeted. If everyone had not "joined forces to resist Luo", a civil war would have broken out.

"Maybe we'll charge in reverse. Let's move quickly." Horik ordered.

But where to go? Naturally, they rushed towards the Lindholm Isthmus controlled by the Frankish vassal and Saxon nobleman Liudov.

Although Horik did not think that the castle he built was indestructible, finding the book garden ｗww.zｈhaoshuyuan.comｍ could at least delay the Russian army's pursuit of victory, enough for him to have time to escape to Frankland for refuge.

Horik completely ignored the life and death of the Robard people. He placed some horses and some vehicles in Robard's village. The brothers fled back, took some usable things, especially silver coins and jewelry, and quickly retreated south on horses or carriages.

Special attention should also be paid to taking away the priests who were placed in Robard Village. After all, if the priests died in the war, it would be difficult to explain to the ascetic "Northern Saint" Eskil.

He no longer cares about the life or death of others, because the war has become such an ulcer-like situation, his self-proclaimed "Christ King of Denmark" is a joke, and his real title of "Earl of Denmark" must exist in name only.

After all, I am currently a small vassal of Frank in legal terms. If the Russians slap me in the face, aren't they just slapping the Frank nobles in the face?

He had made up his mind to go and took his cronies back to the Aleb Fortress on the Lindholm Isthmus as quickly as possible. He would talk about anything later. Now if we delay any longer, all the brothers will die.

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