Rise of Rurik

"The Rise of Rurik ()"

The shield walls of the two armies were fiercely together, and the soldiers roared with bloody mouths, swords and axes violently slashed, and the fight began immediately.

The fighters of the Ross Warriors Flag Team in full chain mail faced an opponent in full leather armor.

The Ross warriors in the first row tried their best to protect their entire torso with their shields, and held their steel swords high in their right hands to jab frantically.

The swords of the Rus began to turn blood red, and some warriors were killed by the enemy.

At the moment of engagement, only a few Rus warriors died quickly. Behind the death of one Rus warrior, there must be the deaths of many Gotland warriors.

As predicted by Rurik on the Highlands, the Russ can truly realize their strength only when there is a real fight.

The warriors of Gotland have been trying to open a gap, and they subconsciously aimed the main attack direction at the center of the Rus army, but this was like a cheetah rushing into a porcupine.

"Men of Novgorods! Men of Whitetree Manor! Show your courage! Assassinate!"

Medvitt took a back seat and commanded his Slavic flag team of as many as eight hundred spearmen.

Most of the army composed of farmers and lumberjacks has undergone two months of training for elite soldiers of Rus. The carriers in training will be beaten with sticks, and those who do not obey orders will be beheaded.

They sweat a lot in their daily training, and at the same time they can open their stomachs to eat fish. Now they are completely different from other people in their hometown. Everyone has become strong, and the torso is only clothed. The soldiers in the front two rows not only wear the blue and white robes of the Rus, but also cover them with leather. First.

I'm afraid that for the Slavic flag team, shields and armor are superfluous.

They were all spearmen, and now the monster composed of eight hundred spears was like a porcupine, and used a large number of dangerous spikes to deal with the cheetah's fangs.

The very brave fifty-odd Gotland warriors who tried to attack Rus's central army successfully used their shields to throw away some spears, but more black spearheads were waiting for them.

The quenched chrome iron is very hard, and the spearhead is polished to a sharp spike. But these spearheads are not flat, they are actually pointed iron pillars, not the broad blades of the Gotlanders' short spears.

This is a design that caters to the physical properties of ferrochrome, that is, the military spears are inserted on extremely long wooden poles, and the tactical effect is only stabs. Hundreds of spears are organized to fight, but the effect is outstanding.

The fifty Gotland warriors were stabbed one after another, and the Slav warriors easily pulled out their spearheads, leaving a large hole in the enemy's body that spurted blood. Just one hole can force the enemy to incapacitate, and now, these fifty warriors have been stabbed to death one after another.

The following Gotland warriors are still on the attack, and by the time they realize something is wrong, it's too late! They were pushed and shoved by the soldiers in the rear, and one after another, in desperation, someone passively ran into the spear wall of the Rus army.

A Gotland female soldier screamed and charged, and was mercilessly stabbed and killed by the Slavic spearmen in the Rus army. Even the extremely lightened warriors, when they suddenly realize the horrors of war are too late.

Medvitt, who was in command, was taken aback: "Ah! My people are killing the female Varyags? They also go to war with both men and women like us?!"

As far as combat is concerned, the female warriors who kill the enemy, the Slavs do not have any psychological discomfort. On the contrary, the people of Novgorod always believed that if there was a war, the women of the tribe and manor had to take up arms and fight with the men. In their concept, everyone has the duty to defend their homeland, even if they hold Sticks also have to be involved in the fight.

They killed the opponent's female warrior mercilessly, and stabbed the fallen mercilessly with the spearhead. Even if the opponent was dead, the spearhead attack did not stop.

The vast number of Gotland soldiers gradually realized that the attack on the Rus's central army was at a disadvantage, and after paying a small price, they spontaneously moved to the two flanks.

The soldiers are so numerous, wouldn't the stalemate be broken by encircling the Rus army from both flanks?

The Gotland Army began to move abnormally.

Rurik's boys and girls climbed to the earth wall, and they began to wind the wooden crossbow in a stomping manner, and then set up the arrows to shoot at once.

The elite mercenaries, that is, the Duke Guard, their original mission was to prevent the Slavs from being overwhelmed. Now it seems that these Slavs are fighting more and more bravely!

Rurik changed his mind, and the elite mercenaries with amazing arm strength stood on the mound with all their might to fire the most ferocious crossbow arrows with steel arms.

The crossbowmen of the Rus were constantly projecting, and in order to avoid harming allies, the targets of their strikes were all changed to the follow-up troops of the Gotland army.

Rurik himself couldn't help the battle of the Rus army front line. He could only pray that his people and the Slavs would fight more and more bravely without causing many casualties.

For their melee fighters, the greatest help to them is to obstruct the enemy's follow-up reinforcements.

Otto looked at the whole battle and was thrilled. He had already gone into battle himself to help his subordinates quickly turn the winch of the torsion slingshot.

The enemy as a whole is doing a movement against the Rus!

Rurik let out a loud roar, and hurriedly ran on the earthen wall, a berserker who was so startled that he was wearing heavy armor, and the chance to set off on his own came! The berserkers stood up one after another, and then sat down helplessly.

The shooter flag team received a new order, the flag team was divided into two, and the target to be hit became the enemy on both wings.

The biggest disadvantage of the Ross Army is the lack of troops on the bright side. If it is really surrounded by the enemy on both flanks, there will be big troubles in the subsequent battle.

"Damn it! I should surround and annihilate you all, why do you want to surround me? Give me death according to the script!"

In Rurik's plan, the Gotland army had to be unilaterally slaughtered, even if it was strong.

They are not fools after all, and they also spontaneously realize the benefits of creating an encirclement.

The children began to shoot with wooden crossbows, and the Cowen archer adjusted the direction of the shot to throw light arrows with great efficiency. What they fired were actually the same style of light arrows. The power of these iron cluster arrows was not great, but the enemy was a group of soldiers with open backs, and the light arrows became an existence with great lethality.

Arik and Haro Zuosen on the two flanks, their flag teams have had as many as twenty brothers who were killed in action pulled to the rear. The vacant positions were filled, and the soldiers continued to fight.

Of course, the Rus army, which was originally backed by the earth wall, had already advanced thirty steps forward, and behind them and where they stepped, the corpses of the enemy were already lying on the ground! The grass that was withered and yellow has become extremely muddy! The soldiers' boots were stained with red mud, and the air was filled with the horrific smell of rust.

During the melee, no one was afraid. Most of the Russ and Gotlanders were red-eyed, their minds were blank, and their only thought was to kill the opponent in front.

The Rus, with their well-prepared and well-armored frontline warriors, lost far less troops than the Gotland army. Trying to break through the Rus army's array head-on is difficult, but the move to outflank is just as dangerous.

The Gotlanders, who were trying to outflank the Rus army, were hit by massive arrows, and they could hardly stand up once they fell to the ground. Their shields were filled with arrows of the Rus, and the hands holding the shields were pierced by clusters of arrows.

More terrible damage is coming!

It was a heavy javelin with a twisting slingshot. Its range was only a little over a hundred meters, and it would kill the enemy if it hit it. This heavy weapon is quickly exhausted, and the Torsion Slingshot begins to fire even more aggressive "Shipwreck Cast Iron Shots"!

The tapered cast iron chapter has a micro-spiral groove, which rotates rapidly during flight, and hits the enemy extremely stably. Any shield is meaningless, the wooden shield is smashed, the cast iron bullet then smashes the enemy's bones, any strong warrior will kill with one shot, only a finger-thick plate armor can block its impact, which is a collision. The huge force of the shock can make the soldiers cough up blood on the spot.

Some people who expose exaggerated tattoos on their upper bodies, even if they have tattoos of earthly pythons on their bodies, are meaningless in the face of technological weapons.

They were directly pierced through the chest by the conical cast iron bullet, and a piece of iron appeared in the place of the heart!

The crossbow is another kind of terror. The heavy-headed crossbow is not suitable for projecting, but at a special moment, the steel-armed crossbow uses the heavy-headed crossbow to strike from the sky.

The Rusians launched a de facto barrage attack on the two flanks of the Gotland army. After killing and injuring more than 500 people, they directly stopped the momentum of the Gotlanders' outflanking.

However, the Kowen archers have been very sore in their arms due to the long shooting time.

A child like Telavis, who claimed to shoot up to fifty arrows, was exhausted by continuing to draw the bow.

But Kanuf and Fisk, who were manipulating the wooden crossbow, couldn't slack off when they saw that the girls in Rurik were struggling to wind the crossbow.

Thirty minutes have passed since the main force of the two armies collided and fought to the present!

Based on his own experience, Rurik deeply knew that the decisive battles in ancient times were often decided in half a day. There is a reason for this, because human physical strength cannot support fighting for too long.

In ancient wars, once you enter the war of swords and swords, the fat body is as strong as an ox and the army is superior, and you can win with long-term brute force output. The so-called whoever runs out of stamina first will be killed with a sword by the enemy with the last stamina.

Does the Ross Army still have enough stamina?

Rurik couldn't see it clearly from the rear. He saw that his archers were already panting, and the soldiers who wanted to fight on the front line were even more tired. .

Arik and Harrozosen, both of whose steel swords had been dyed red, saw that the enemy was shot by friendly arrows causing a large number of casualties, and the signs of the crisis were suddenly lifted. Planned pincer attack.

"Brothers! Overtake the Novgorods, let's go ahead! Follow me!" Arik's roar was actually drowned out by the crowd, and the soldiers all followed the raised flag. Macroscopically, two warriors The two wings of the front that the flag team is in charge of are slowly shrinking.

Everyone's eyes are fixed on the flag of the flag team. It means that the flag captain Arik is there, and it is moving forward, which means that Arik ordered an attack.

"Haha! Arik is in action!" Rurik jumped with joy, feeling that his cousin had a tacit understanding with him, and the pincer attack had begun.

After cheering for a while, Rurik immediately shouted at everyone in the archer flag team: "Don't be afraid of being tired! Now bring your bow and arrow and push me forward!"

At this moment, Otto hurriedly threw away what he was doing and asked loudly, "Are you going to fight on the front line? Are you crazy?"

"No! I want the archer flag team to advance with the main force, and continue to support the brothers by throwing arrows! The torsion slingshot is placed here, soldiers, let me go!"

Rurik held his short sword high, and ordered the mercenary who guarded the Duke's flag to follow him with the flag.

At this very critical moment, he finally gave orders to the berserker who had been on standby for a long time, almost insane.

Berserkers in heavy armor mixed with the flag team of shooters. Under the leadership of Rurik and Otto, they followed the soldiers fighting on the front line to execute Xu Jin barrage.

It can be said that at the moment, there are only a bunch of reindeer grazing grass and a bunch of unattended luggage left in Ross Camp.

Although Gotland's army was superior in strength, their self-proclaimed superiority of strength had lost their meaning in the battle at the present time. In the face of a highly organized, well-equipped and actually rising opponent, having more troops is no longer an advantage.

Haken panicked, he wanted to restrain his warriors from panicking, but how many people could hear his roar?

There was a lot of shouting and killing on the battlefield, and it became impossible to expect a commander to command the army by shouting.

Rurik realized this for a long time, so he divided the army into flag teams, and after assigning tasks to the flag captains, he was relieved to let them lead the army to fight. As for the grassroots warriors, just look at the movement of the flag and the blue and white cloth strips on the centurion's helmet.

Haken hurriedly retreated to the rear, holding the pale sword and ordering the army of the merchants who had been standing still until now: "My friends! It's time to follow our plan!"

However, the war situation became like this, and the hearts of many businessmen were shaken.

"I'll send you out, hurry up! I'm the king, follow my orders!"

"But now let's go, is this reasonable? The farmers and fishermen are retreating!" A businessman was obviously frightened and stupid, and this emotion caused his Danish mercenaries to dare not attack rashly, although the mercenaries were willing to fight. of.

Three more businessmen came to fight and retreated!

At a critical moment, Harald, who knew the great power, did not stop, and suddenly stabbed a businessman friend with a sword.

The horrific scene shook the other businessmen.

"When is it?! Can you still hesitate? Let's join the fight and threaten to kill the escapees."

Unexpectedly, this doubter was so decisive at the time of the decisive battle, and actually stabilized the military's heart.

"Okay! My brother!" Haken consciously saw the hope of a counterattack. To be honest, he knew that there were still a large number of soldiers fighting in the Gotland army in his hand. They were suppressed by the enemy's momentum and terrifying weapons and retreated. , But nearly 900 armored Danish mercenaries in the rear intervened in the battlefield. Has the crisis of the Gotland army reversed?

The merchants' mercenaries were fully dispatched, and the Danes built shield walls one after another. The sword and the axe were attached to the eaves of the shield, shouting their horns and advancing at a fairly neat pace.

On the other hand, the Rus people are actually like attacking glaciers that can crush all the stones and forests in front of them.

The thrown arrows continued to hurt, and the enemies they shot quietly turned into female warriors and young teenage warriors. These rabble people were holding their shields and were retreating under the wraps of everyone. From time to time, some people fell down with arrows, and then they were trampled by their own people.

A considerable number of Gotland's young and middle-aged people have died in the fighting, and of course the Rus army also killed as many as 100 people here.

Most of the dead in the Rus army were poorly equipped Melalen flag soldiers and Slavic soldiers. The Slavic spear formation is indeed powerful, but the defense of individual warriors is extremely weak, and it is inevitable that they will be stabbed by suicide-style salted fish from individual insane opponents.

More than 40 warriors of the Rossburn tribe were killed in battle. They were all elite soldiers. Arik was saddened by their sacrifice. He wanted to help his fellow tribesmen who were dying of vomiting blood, but he knew his responsibility and continued to move forward with grief and indignation.

Finally, at a certain moment, Gotland's native warrior finally had a terrible collapse! More than half of their most capable prime-aged male soldiers died. Upon seeing this, the female soldiers and young soldiers retreated with the retreating male soldiers.

They collided with the Danes and gathered behind the chainmailed warriors.

The defeat of the Gotland army made Haken speechless for a while, and he tried to reverse the cowardice of the people and began to scream.

Fortunately, the Gotlanders, who had gradually stabilized their emotions, began to fight back. It was not that they heard the king's encouraging persuasion, but that they saw an astonishing number of Danish mercenaries advancing.

The power of the example is huge, the well-equipped Danish mercenaries storm the Rus army, and the morale of Gotland is boosted.