Rise of Rurik

"The Rise of Rurik ()"

The Gotland army suffered the inevitable total collapse of the whole line, but unfortunately their king Haken was still holding his head and moaning at a loss. The king's inaction is equivalent to acquiescing to the spontaneous escape of his soldiers.

A spectacle appeared on the battlefield. A large number of Danish mercenaries, relying on the honor of the soldiers, the professional ethics of the mercenaries, and the friendship of the guys on weekdays, insisted on fighting against the Rus people on the front line, and even withstood the pressure as always, "shocked the iron tower" .

Some Danish mercenaries gradually found that their backs became empty, and there was no supporting friendly army except for a large number of Gotland soldiers who were killed by arrows on the ground. They found themselves being turned against, but it was too late!

It is not just the "Iron Man", Duke Otto and the Rus' mercenaries who are opening up in the middle of the front, the Slavic spears that follow are expanding the "ulcer" of the front.

Seizing the opportunity, the two flanks of the Rus Army began to shrink the front, and a momentum of encircling and eating was forming.

Yevro took a handful of tricks, like a spearhead, and did not entangle with the enemy who dared to obstruct, and aimed directly at Haken. All because of the great king outside Harken, who is in chain mail and still wears his ornate pendant and handsome hat.

Haken is a simple big fool. He doesn't know that he is dressed in unique and gorgeous clothes on the battlefield, that is, he is telling the enemy who is the commander. The position where he stood at the beginning was indeed safe, but now it has become absolutely dangerous, and he deserves to be the target of public criticism.

The most elite mercenaries have rushed to the front line, and there are only more than a dozen people left to guard Haken. It was too late when he saw the Russ riding the face.

The fighting broke out in an instant. For the bounty and glory, Ross' mercenaries killed all the defenders guarding Haken after paying the price of several deaths.

In the gorgeous clothes, hats, and now also stained with other people's blood. Haken himself was knocked down by a vigorous flying kick from Yevro, and then a steel sword was pressed against his opponent's neck, which was covered in mud and blood.

Haken first opened his eyes wide, then relaxed and closed his eyes...

"You!" Yevro roared. "Are you so anxious to die? Look me in the eyes! Haken!"

Compared to death, the sound of "Haken" made Haken himself tremble.

"You? You know my name?"

"Do you still remember fighting under the hills two days ago? Now you're captured!" Yevlo stopped talking nonsense, and punched the enlightened King Gotland until his muscles twitched. Its men were erected by enraged warriors and led to the rear under Yevlo's command.

The next battle is no longer in suspense.

Those big businessmen who did not evacuate quickly were brutally killed one after another.

As many as one thousand Gotland warriors did not have time to withdraw, and more than four hundred Danish mercenaries were still fighting for their honor. Among the 1,500 people who can really fight hard are those Danish mercenaries, and the rest are mostly female warriors and young warriors, but unfortunately their bravery was completely overwhelmed by the military might of the Ross army.

Arik's flag team has been trying to shrink the encirclement, he has lost a lot of men, and his brothers are also very tired.

"Brothers, let's keep pushing! Leave those cowards running away, we kill the enemy in front of us!"

"Look at my flag and don't go away!"

"We are now reconciling with the other fraternities and killing anyone who tries to break through."

The soldiers looked closely at the flag of the flag team, and soon they saw another flag. It was the flag of the flag team that Harrodsen ruled, and the blue and white robes stained with the blood of the enemy.

The soldiers of the Rus army kept shouting, finally converging into a non-stop whine, punctuated by the collision of swords and axes. No matter how tired they are, the soldiers can see that their army will win.

The shield walls of the two flag teams have merged into one, and a tight encirclement has been formed!

Arik finally saw Harrozosen, the two warriors met, and then laughed arrogantly with their mouths open.

"Benevolence?!" Harrodsen asked.

"No. Kill all the enemies!" Arik's answer was very straightforward, and his subordinates did the same.

Female warriors are also warriors, and the female warriors of the enemy will kill them. At this moment, no one really thought of taking him prisoner and eventually taking him back to his hometown as his wife. They don't want the woman they kidnapped to be a monster who is good at slashing, and then think about it, if the one surrounded by them is themselves, will the female warrior be merciful?

The Gotland warriors surrounded by the chaotic army are still trembling with the Ruthless Ruth who has mixed into the encirclement, the panting Iron Man is still holding on to his tooth crown that almost exploded due to the rush of blood, covering his red face and sweat with an iron helmet, wielding a battle axe He Jian continued to slash.

The mercenaries of Duke Ross, who had learned the art of fencing, killed the enemy in a more dexterous way.

The Gotland Army and the Danish mercenaries, pessimistically finding themselves in danger. In the chaos of the army, they never found out that their king was actually captured by their opponents. Everyone saw that many Visby armed residents fled, mixed with those of noble status.

A woman screamed sadly: "Haken is a traitor, he abandoned us."

The Danish mercenaries have been unable to control the so-called king, and some soldiers of higher status have spontaneously assumed the commander's work.

A Danish soldier in his thirties, he greeted his more than a dozen old buddies and tried to break through the Ross Shield Wall, which had just become unstable, which caused everyone to spontaneously gather in one direction.

Arik felt that the pressure was huge, and he kept roaring with his sword: "You can't let the enemy break through the shield wall and escape. Brothers! Hold on! Even if you die in battle, you have to stand like a stake!"

The Russ and the Meralen who were mixed in, everyone's shields were facing each other, so that the Russ army was more than a shield wall. They quickly built three walls in the most anxious place, barely temporarily blocking the opponent's head-hunting mouse. Escape squeeze.

The shield wall of the Ross Army was always fragile, and they could not hold on for too long.

In the midst of the melee, Arik and Harrodsen, the two commanders did not see a terrifying force that was forcing the Gotlanders to flee like mad.

Duke mercenary and iron man, everyone killed an unknown number of enemies in the melee, everyone was bathed in blood, and the stench was really pungent. Breathing heavily, they were dragged nearly paralyzed and forced to retreat to rest at Duke Otto's orders.

As for the final battle, it will be settled by Slavic spearmen composed of Novgorods.

The once terrifying spear wall rushed over, and nearly 800 spearmen built a wide striking surface.

Weary Danish mercenaries, Gotland warriors, panting and struggling to cope. A soldier can use a sword or axe to poke away one or two spearheads, but more spearheads come in droves, and the whole person loses combat effectiveness on the spot with only one hit.

It can be said that in Otto's past combat experience, he felt that advancing and fighting with a shield wall was the best infantry tactics in war. Through this decisive battle, those Slavs who were dismissed as cowardly farmers turned into terrifying monsters that killed enemies.

He keenly saw that a spearman is weak, and eight hundred spearmen united to become a hedgehog, and the result is what happened now.

"Give me a stab! Don't mind your partner! Seeing the enemy in front of you, whether it's a woman or a child, they're all Varyag warriors!"

"We are not weaker than them, glorious men, stab the enemy to death, be merciful!"

"Imagine we're hunting bears with spears in our hometown. We're hunting bears, kill me."

Medved continued to issue orders in Slavic, and a large number of Rus people at the moment could not understand the words of this unexpectedly powerful friendly army. Rurik, who had retreated to the rear, vaguely heard Medved scolding.

Rurik didn't want to say anything anymore. He took the flag team of shooters and rested on the battlefield full of dead people.

Soon, he saw the iron man covered in blood withdraw, and Yevlo, how did this guy leave the battlefield?

Rurik was about to see what happened, when he saw that his father had also withdrawn, revealing his beard that had suddenly turned red.

They did not simply withdraw because the fighting continued.

The enemy has lost the ability to organize the death advance of the Slavic spearmen, and the Gotland warriors in the huddled encirclement are being killed with great efficiency.

Some female warriors threw away their shields and swords, knelt on the ground and covered their shoulders with both hands, and said nothing but prayers for life.

It is a pity that these Slavic warriors did not understand at all. The violence in their hearts has been thoroughly stimulated, and then a few spears stabbed, and the female warrior begging for life died in battle.

The two warrior flag teams defended their shield walls, stabbing and stabbing approaching enemies with steel swords and short spears. The Slavic spearmen in the back slaughtered and kept causing death.

Some Gotlanders really doubt that the world is too unreal, are the Rus just here to kill? They have no other demands than murder? Isn't it bad to do business together? Besides, they used to be in the same alliance. Could it be that the wealthy and powerful businessmen announced their departure from the alliance, and the guys in the north were hated on ordinary people?

Is it absurd or cruel, everything has no meaning.

Because, most of the Gotlanders were stabbed to death by the spearhead, and the Slavic spearmen and Rus warriors joined forces in a very strange way.

They stood on the dead body of the enemy and looked at each other, not even a celebratory roar, but silent. They were literally "confronting", and after an unknown period of silence, the flat spears stood up again, and the spear wall gradually turned into a terrifying forest.

"Glory!" Arik's eyes widened and he raised his sword.

"Glory! Ross!" Haruo Zuo Sen roared with that old roar, and the soldiers began to knock on their shields, and the low voices came one after another.

Infected by this enthusiasm, the Slavic spearman spontaneously shouted "Slava".

Ross Army wins! This combined army of three ethnic groups stood on the corpse of the enemy and won their common victory.

Hundreds of soldiers were overjoyed, they knew that the victory of today's people has changed too many things, and the military strength of the Gotlanders in the First World War has almost disappeared. Worried about the harassment of the Gotlanders, the Rus will become the masters of the huge sea! This means that they can go to the warm and rich fishing grounds in the south to go fishing boldly, and the food security will be more stable in the future.

More fighters sat down, unburdened, on the corpses of the enemy. They didn't feel any discomfort at all, and their eyes narrowed as they stared at the hot sun in the sky.

The sun is Sora, one of Odin's incarnations. If a raven appears again at this time...

Sure enough, many fighters saw ravens falling into the nearby woods, and those black birds couldn't be more obvious.

The tired warrior looked relieved, because Odin saw everything, and the battle of every warrior must be vividly remembered by God, so that everyone will meet in Valhalla one day.

Some warriors began to sweep the battlefield spontaneously, looking for their wounded companions and killing the wounded of the enemy.

They caught some Gotland female warriors who were pretending to be dead, then went about their business with laughter without hesitation, and ended up with another stab.

Because of Otto, Duke of Ross, he doesn't need mercy. He, the king of real power, needed to make Ross' enemies feel fearful. The current Rurik also completely agrees with his father's idea. As a king, he now knows that he needs to show the "king's ruthlessness" to the people.

For Otto, he doesn't need to worry about his soldiers at all, they will spontaneously clean up the battlefield, take away what is available, and make up for the dead enemy. Instead, let them stop, the order is difficult to implement.

Now another great event tested Otto, and Rurik himself.

Haken, King of Gotland, lost his family, dependents, mercenaries, the support of the merchants, all the soldiers, and Visby in the decisive battle.

Haken lost everything. He was annoyed by his last decision and wanted to die quickly. Unfortunately, he was now kneeling in the corpse, facing the nobles of the Russ as a prisoner, especially the "cute and beautiful". Fierce" Rurik.

Now, with the north wind blowing Rurik's flowing golden ponytail, he carried a steel-armed crossbow at the kneeling King Gotland.

Otto was also present, and even the main commanders of the Ross Army all came.

The iron men stood in a row, with the Iron Wall as the backdrop for the nobles of Rus.

For Haken, if he learned that the Russ army was so fierce, he would not choose a full-scale battle, but hurriedly escaped with some of his wealth like the businessman who was ordered to kill by himself. As for the life and death of ordinary people in Visby, Then it has nothing to do with him.

Thinking of all this, he raised his head and laughed wildly at the sun.

"This person is crazy? Arik." Otto, who stood like a god with both hands on the hilt of the sword, asked his eldest nephew beside him.

"Maybe, Yevro's punch was very fierce." Arik was actually a little impatient, and asked his brother on the other side: "Rurik, what should I do with this person?"

What should King Gotland do? This is a good question.

Rurik fell into a brief moment of hesitation. From the corner of his eyes, he saw the glances from his brothers, especially his father's slightly sideways glance. Everyone was waiting for himself, as the military commander, to make a final decision.

Two months ago, the Saxon leader of Borgholm surrendered. Since the local people were generally Saxons, the king of Sweden allowed him to surrender. The situation at that time was not against Rurik, just because the Saxons and the Rus never had a stake. relation.

The Gotlanders are different. Since Haakon is a great king, he himself must be responsible for the past wars.

Rurik replied simply: "Kill! I will kill this man with my own hands."

This is undoubtedly the result that the Rus people watching on the scene most want to see, because they desperately hope that the future leader who is blessed by Odin is also a bloodthirsty and brave warrior. Because Odin is essentially the god of war!

Hearing his own death sentence, Haken had no surprises. He started cursing the sun, cursing Odin: "The priest has deceived me, Odin, isn't ten sacrifices enough? Shouldn't I be the victor of this war? I gave everything for you, and what did you give? ? It's a defeat! I have nothing left."

"Shut up! Stupid man!" Rurik shouted angrily, drawing Haken's sad and angry face.

"You." Haken stretched out his right hand with difficulty and pointed at Rurik angrily: "You are the most despicable person, the most vicious person, a person who betrayed his promise."

"You are defeated, Haakon. Obviously, Odin does not support you."

"Indeed, Odin also betrayed me, sadly I was betrayed by everyone."

The key members of the Ross tribe were all present, and Rurik might as well say big words: "So, do you know my name?"

"You? I do know the name of your relative Arik, the damned butcher Arik. As for you, you are also a butcher."

"You can only talk about it here. Tell you, I am Rurik who was blessed by Odin, the Duke of the Duchy of Ross, and God is on our side."

"Humph! I always thought that your relative, Arik, was the leader of Ross. I didn't expect you to be the leader as a child?! It seems that your father is very at ease with you." At this moment, Haken actually knew that Otto was Ross. Duke, but this Otto is obviously old, how can such an old guy have a young son, this is too strange.

Haken has no desire to speculate anymore, he just wants to die quickly, so he puts on a stinky face of constipation for a month and curses: "Butcher Arik, and Butcher Rurik. strife."

Arik, who was instantly furious, cursed with his sword: "I love my brother deeply, you are a dying bull! I will tear your stinky mouth apart so that you can't curse viciously."

Looking at Arik's blood-red eyes, Haken continued to curse: "You have brothers, you will not quarrel. I curse! Your children will quarrel, kill each other, fight for interests, and forget the past kinship. Even after a thousand years, your sons will still strife..."

Apparently, before Haken's curse words were finished, a heavy crossbow arrow had pierced through his heart.

Haken looked at Rurik's furious face, as if he had a premonition of something, and slowly showed a smile, and then, Haken felt that the world was spinning and finally fell into the pile of corpses, falling into the endless void...

The furious Arik threw off the blood from the sword, kicked Haken's headless body with another kick, and spat at the head with his eyes closed: "You are the despicable person who actually tried to mobilize us Rus people. Friendship." After speaking, Arik directly raised Haken's head and showed it to the clansmen present, everyone laughed wildly.

Unexpectedly, Otto shouted angrily: "Enough! Traitors who defect from the alliance will say some divisive words, but it is just a boring conspiracy. Arik, find a spear to put a spear in the head of this villain, and I will let the coward who escaped back to Visby. See that their king is dead. We rest well and prepare to enter Visby to raid."

"No!" Rurik hurriedly stopped his father's rash move.

"Rurik? You..."

"Dad! Listen to my orders now. The whole army rests, cleans the battlefield, burns the dead and rescues our wounded."

"Huh? Shouldn't we pursue the victory? It's still a little early."

"Let the brothers rest, everything is arranged according to the plan before the war. Remember, I must loot as many ships of their wealth as possible before allowing the brothers to rob them themselves."

Otto suddenly came to his senses. In order to maximize the family's wealth and power, he should indeed follow this set of plans. He respected his son's decision, so he issued the Duke's decree, and everything went according to the pre-war plan. Of course, for the majority of fighters, many realistic situations really force them to lack motivation to pursue the so-called victory.

Anyway, the sea has been blocked by the fleet, and the guys who escaped just need to stay in Visby and be slaughtered. They are just a turtle lying in a pottery urn, as long as the Ross Army wants to, they can take it at any time.