Rise of Rurik

At the critical moment, Mechasta couldn't care so much. He saw that his son was still on the tower trying to shoot the enemy who hit the gate.

He yelled at the tower: "Teravis, you go shoot the enemy archers, watch out for the strange ones, and destroy them!"

When Telavis heard his father's call, he raised his head in the tower, and soon he saw a group of strange people standing upright. Because, he saw with his own eyes strange guys fired strange arrows, and the clansmen on his city wall suffered new casualties.

Rurik's mercenaries have fired seven rounds in a row, and the Grey Squirrel Horde has suffered very heavy losses.

Rurik was very curious. Could it be that the damage done by the crossbow arrow was too weak, and there were always people defending the front of the enemy city, making it impossible for his clan to climb the wall.

In fact, there were as many as forty corpses under the city wall, and each of the dead had spooky and terrifying crossbow bolts.

Terravis on the tower picked up an iron cluster arrow, but there were not many arrows in his hand, especially since there were only five iron cluster arrows left.

He noticed that the small figure like a child seemed to be the commander of a group of weirdos again.

"Maybe if I kill him, my people will feel better."

The tower where Telavis was located never caught Rurik's attention, and now he had to pay for it.

An arrow flew towards Rurik without warning, and then slammed into Rurik's feet less than half a meter at a high angle of elevation.

Rurik, who was already holding a crossbow, broke out in cold sweat instantly, and the injured crossbow also fell.

"Damn, someone is attacking me! Who is it?!"

Rurik roared and looked for cover, and he thought of the shield.

Immediately afterwards, another arrow landed in his crossbow formation, and it was obvious that it landed in the position where Rurik had just been.

"Dangerous!" Yevlo threw his crossbow and charged at Rurik with a shield. He protected his master in a lying posture, and a whole cluster of iron arrows appeared behind the shield.

Seeing this, Rurik, who was well protected by Yevlo, was sweating all over.

"Master, I said, it's very dangerous here." Yevluo said calmly.

Rurik was trembling all over,

The conscious death is so close to himself: "The enemy, want to kill me?"

"I'm afraid yes. But the problem is not serious now."

Rurik rolled his eyes, and was pleased to see his mercenaries pick up their shields to form a shield wall.

"Have you seen the enemy archer?" Rurik asked nervously.

"Probably in that damn tower."

"Damn, why didn't I pay attention there."

Yevro smiled optimistically: "Perhaps you only focus on shooting turtledoves, ignoring the bigger prey."

"Then shoot down that owl, fast!" Rurik said viciously.

"As ordered!"

There was only one last iron cluster left, and he noticed the unusual reaction of the enemy and thought he had succeeded.

After a while, the counterattack came.

More than a dozen crossbow arrows were shot at the tower, and the relatively thin wooden boards were all pierced. The sudden attack made Tyravis curl up into a ball, and he was crying, and the curling up simply allowed him to save his life.

Yevro led the people to launch two rounds. To be honest, everyone's arms were quite sore. Even though the steel arm of this crossbow is deliberately made long, it is a steel arm after all, and the archer still needs all the strength to wind it.

Yevlo withdrew and told Rurik: "The brothers are all tired, then... we need to rest our arms."

"No!" Rurik shouted, carrying the three arrows that nearly killed him: "We have a pulley cable to wind it."

"However, it will be slow."

"Come on! Before we break through the enemy's walls, we must cover our brothers." After that, Rurik gave Yevlo a shove.

Yevluo was very moved by the master's request. The master is indeed a brave man. When he grows up, he will definitely be a king that everyone can trust.

Yevro shouted: "Have you heard the master's order? The battle is still going on, we still have a lot of arrows! Go and get the pulley cable, we continue to fight!"

Taking this opportunity, Telavis, who had been scared to the point of diapering, climbed down from the crumbling tower, and then followed his father's order and evacuated with his sister. Inside the city walls were a large number of dead corpses killed by arrows. They fled to the wooden house with trepidation and fled to the shaman of the tribe.

Now, the refugees can only pray for a little psychological comfort from the sorcerer, and pray that a miracle will happen.

Otto, who led the siege, was busy ramming the city gate. He had no idea how much damage the archer had done to the enemy.

Otto felt that he was fighting a useless battle at all. Why couldn't the battering ram that should be useful be able to knock open the enemy's city gate? In fact, the city gate has been seriously deformed. Since there are a lot of heavy debris behind the city gate, such as a lot of ice, the existence of these obstacles, it is indeed futile to hit the door.

However, the entire wooden wall has been loosened, many of the hemp ropes that bind the tree trunks are broken, and some tree trunks that make up the wall have serious cracks.

As long as you continue to hit, there will be no problem with the city gate, but the collapse of the entire wall.

Otto couldn't estimate that he could break down a wall, and he became more and more impatient, as if this siege was about to fail again.

The grey squirrel tribe, on the other hand, is one step away from a psychological breakdown.

Because they were on the defensive side of the city, the heavy casualties had already made 80 people incapable of fighting, and those who were still fighting were about to use their arrows.

Once the arrows were used up, Mechasta thought of all the short spears to make a final fight against the enemy.

It was at this moment of crisis that a low horn came from afar.

The sound of the horn is like the dawn that pierces the darkness.

Both sides of the battle heard the sound of the horn!

The attacking Rus army was taken aback, and the struggling Grey Squirrel tribal fighters suddenly had energy.

The frowning Mechasta suddenly became excited: "Brothers! Mountain gods and river gods protected us! The reinforcements have finally arrived!"

Otto clearly realized that the enemy cheered up, and the horn sounded all the time.

Almost instinctively, Otto realized the great crisis, and he did not hesitate to order a sudden retreat.

The order to retreat was so sudden that it even puzzled a group of soldiers.

Kawei was shocked: "Big boss, we are one step away from success, why are we retreating?!"

"Idiot! Are you deaf?"

"what?!"

Otto tapped Kawi's helmet with the hilt of his sword: "It must be enemy reinforcements! Let's stop attacking this turtle shell, we're going to fight their reinforcements."

After that, Otto shouted again: "Brothers! Don't hit the wall again, save your strength, their reinforcements are coming, we will destroy them!"

In this way, many puzzling warriors understood, and everyone began to retreat in a more organized manner. When evacuating, they were also trying to pull away the injured. As for the dead, leave it alone.

Rurik, of course, also heard the sound of the horn, and the constant dull sound caused the whole forest to tremble.

"Yevro, what happened? Could they still have reinforcements?"

"It's very possible! My master, kill them?" Yevro laughed deliberately.

Although the situation was not clarified, the phantom of the enemy could not be seen.

Rurik clearly saw that the clansmen who were attacking the city were retreating towards the camp, and he thought that Dad had already made plans. With everyone's dignity as Vikings, Rurik believed that the only people who could escape here were the servants of the Salmon Lord's tribe.

Rurik immediately gave Yevlo a task: "Take two brothers, restrain those who catch salmon, and tell them that no matter what happens, they must fight for the Rus."

After a while, Otto returned to the camp with the siege army and all the equipment. When they came back, they didn't forget to try their best to pick up the arrows on the snow. It is said that they will be used later.

"Dad, does the enemy have reinforcements?" Rurik actually asked knowingly.

Otto didn't talk nonsense: "There can be no mistake, the next step is to slash and kill new enemies."

Otto retreated intuitively. He found the servant of Kaihas, and at the same time he learned an important piece of information, he also understood what the guys on the city walls were saying.

"My master, the tribes from the southeast may join forces, because the bullhorn is only sounded for the decisive battle. It is the horn for the joint battle when we Corvins are defending against the Tavastians."

Otto nodded, and looked at the survivors who were flamboyant on the city walls with contempt, spit spit and said viciously: "Wait to destroy your reinforcements, and continue to clean up you."

To be honest, the casualties of the Rus' siege battles were minimal, especially the heavy infantry who attacked the fortress without any casualties. Their leather armor and chain armor gave them a huge combat advantage. And this combat advantage will definitely be displayed incisively and vividly in the frontal hack and slash.

Otto took all the warriors, including the servants, out of the woods, and they all began to rush towards the frozen river, simply because it was an open field.

Otto believed that since he came all the way along the glacier, the so-called enemy reinforcements must also follow this path. Because of Kaihas's people's good performance in battle, Otto became more convinced of this person's words, that is, reinforcements will come by the ice for the admonition of action. Kaihas even claimed that the reinforcements were likely to drive reindeer sleighs.

On the other hand, a reinforcement of up to 800 people came in a reindeer sleigh.

A large sleigh was pulled by four reindeer, with more than a dozen people, or three or four people crowded on it. In all, as many as a hundred reindeer sleighs came rushing in.

Although these tribes living near Lake Oulu were dissatisfied with the Salmon Lord's monopoly on the "salmon tide" and squirrel catching, they were not actually particularly fond of the Grey Squirrel tribe.

The tribes are all in competition, and they only maintain a close relationship with each other because of their opposition to the Tavastian attacks.

Therefore, everyone knows the truth that lips die and teeth are cold, so the three tribal leaders spent some time negotiating and finally decided to send troops.

After all, messengers don't make such jokes.

The Varyag invasion must be real.

The reinforcements heard the screams of killing on the glacier approaching the Grey Squirrel Tribe, and the army suddenly became nervous.

After all, very few of these Kovin tribes living in the interior have seen the local tribes in Narvik Port and know that the locals know how to smelt iron. Maybe the Varyag and them are similar? The legendary Varyag people are the people who use a lot of iron.

To fight against such an enemy, it is inevitable for a single soldier to lose his temper, but once the number of people increases, the situation will change.

The three tribes were dispatched in full force, and most of the young and strong men joined them. Many people hoped to prove that they were brave people who could defeat the Varyag people through a counterattack, so that they would have a status and status in front of the villagers. honor.

It can be said that the army of 800 people is an unprecedented powerful force assembled by the three tribes. If everyone defeats the Varyags, the next step is to take the initiative to find the Tavastians to counterattack and regain their lost land.

The number of people supported their self-confidence.

But for the Rus, everything is useless.

After all, the Rus army here is not ordinary. Four hundred Rus warriors dared to attack a settlement of two thousand that also belonged to the Vikings, and they won. What is the mere 800 scientific and cultural reinforcements?

Here, I am afraid that only Rurik is more cautious.

In a sense, Rurik's cautious plane is a bit redundant, and he still has as many as a thousand crossbow arrows, enough to support the terrifying combat power of his mercenaries.

As the mercenaries gasped in triumph, everyone's strength was also recovering.

With the Russ wrapped around the servant army, the soldiers in their early 300s gathered on the ice.

Just in the distance, a large group of dark crowds appeared.

"It's the enemy! They came to die." Kawei said excitedly, holding his steel sword.

Otto frowned and said impatiently: "I see! Boy! Prepare to fight!"

Otto immediately ordered the troops to put up a traditional shield wall, and those hoplites in chainmail were the backbone of the front.

The two wings of the shield wall are equipped with warriors with lesser equipment. Of course, the "slightly worse" here is only a huge advantage for the Kewen people compared to other Viking tribes.

All the archers were required to be behind the shield-wielding warriors. Otto already understood the tactical advantage of using a large number of bows and arrows, but the next thing would be a fierce frontal battle, and the use of the archers might not be very useful.

Everyone's leather boots are non-slip, and everyone's posture with swords and shields is inexhaustible.

Rurik gave his father new advice.

"What? Your mercenary is going to shoot arrows outside the formation now?"

"Of course! That's the true value of my crossbow," said Rurik confidently.

This self-confidence made Otto feel relieved, but he firmly held his son's shoulders: "Let Yevro go to fight, you stay."

"Dad! You... are you afraid that something will happen to me?"

"Yes!" Otto said bluntly: "There are many enemies, and the next step is to hack and slash that belongs to us. You child must step back."

Recognizing the reality, Rurik knew that it was not his turn to hack and slash himself, but he still had new ideas.

Yevlo had already left the formation with the crossbowmen, and not far away, they got off the sleigh one after another, consciously forming a group of enemy reinforcements advancing steadily.

Rurik rushed to the side of the servants, stood beside Kaihas, and shouted in a language that the locals could understand: "Now, you are all free!"

Immediately, everyone shouted in confusion.

Kaihas is even more unclear about what his master means.

Rurik put on a serious face: "You didn't understand what I said? We fought side by side! If we win, you will be free! From now on, your salmon lord tribe is no longer my slaves, but my allies. . Your women and children are also free!"

"Fight for freedom?" Kaihas asked excitedly.

"Yes! Fight for freedom." Rurik said firmly.

The slaves never dreamed that the Rus decided to free them, of course, on the premise of completing the battle. Although Otto was dissatisfied when he learned of this situation, since it was Rurik's decision, he had to agree.

Otto's only relief was that it seemed that the morale of the servants had exploded.

Morale! With morale, the Rus are invincible!