Rebirth of the Viking King

At 4 o'clock in the morning, Rocky and Katya had climbed to the peak closest to the seaside in Hanshui Village.

Nothing good has been happening in the valley lately.

First of all, it was the lord of Blood Dove Town, "Hummel Blood Dove", who started this war. He abandoned the half-expanded salt farm, loaded his entire family on a long boat and ran away!

Before leaving, the old guy came to see Loki. After an indignant speech about "The Blood Pigeon family swears not to be a traitor," he walked out of Hanshui Village with his head held high, and boarded a longboat to leave the next day. of Scandinavia.

His destination was said to be to the wealthy Frankish principality opposite England.

Secondly, just yesterday, Duke Bernard suddenly appeared in the village. Although Loki had already deduced that the old guy had betrayed O'Sullivan. But when he saw 500 fully armed Viking shield axemen behind him, Loki immediately understood his purpose.

He came to take care of the English reinforcements that were about to land, and he came to take care of himself "on the way".

As a "newcomer" who has recently joined Bakanbusi's team, he urgently needs to make some achievements to prove that he is useful to the lord.

After entering Hanshui Village, he immediately exercised his lord's rights and began to organize his army, forcing the Viking hunters in Hanshui Village to join the army. Under the surveillance of 500 shield axemen, Loki did not dare to break up with him directly, although at this time, relying on the high-quality chosen ones in Hanshui Village, he might not lose. But there are still a large number of women, children, especially pregnant women stranded in his village.

In this special war, they could not be taken into the "Sinking City" for refuge. Because Sartre on the other side of the Baltic Sea still needs to collect those hungry Viking pirates into this undersea city.

For this group of bandits whose homes have been destroyed, God knows what terrible things they will do to the women and children of Hanshui Village.

So in desperation, the women and children in the village could only stay in the village and tide over the disaster with Loki.

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In recent days, he would climb to the top of this seaside mountain every early morning and look at the southern sea.

Because this is the only way for the O'Sullivan family to send troops for reinforcements.

Three months ago, he had entered the Conqueror's Fortress and had seen the "Sabertooth Mercenaries" under the O'Sullivan family. That was a formidable army. The Slavic rebels, who had not undergone any combat training, were simply unable to resist the impact of the group of professional mercenaries.

He understood this truth, and the English and Slavic coalition forces on the opposite side must also understand it. If he were an Englishman, he would definitely take advantage of O'Sullivan's lack of information about his participation in the war to deal with this group of strong ground soldiers on the sea. Because the thin and light Viking long ships only have the function of transporting troops, they should be broken at a touch and do not have any ability to wage war on the sea.

Following the attempts of one of his courtiers, Loki knew that he should send Ivar O'Sullivan a raven, telling him that the English were most likely waiting for him on the sponge.

But he didn't do that.

If he warned the Viking King, with Ivar's merchant character, he would not send even a single reinforcement to the river valley.

Loki will be completely isolated and helpless.

And if he didn't warn, he could still hope that the O'Sullivan family's reinforcements might break through the English camp and successfully land in Hanshui Village.

As long as they can climb onto the dock, 500 saber-tooth mercenaries are enough to sweep away Bernard's 800 shield-axemen without too much effort.

Four days later, as the rising sun dispersed the thick morning fog, a series of Viking longships finally appeared on the sea not far away. Pulling out his telescope, Loki saw at least dozens of longships emerging from the sea fog.

He clasped his hands together and silently prayed in his heart that these ships could dock peacefully.

But today was not Loki's lucky day.

Just three minutes later, a dozen huge shuttle-shaped ships with metal rams on their bows suddenly appeared in the sea fog on the other side.

Loki had seen this kind of ship in the Yorkshire harbor. At that time, he thought that this fat ship with a shape like a rugby ball looked unattractive and unsuitable.

But at this moment, these ships suddenly appeared on the flanks of the Viking longship, like a heavy hammer, instantly smashing the thin Viking longship into pieces!

At the top of the mountain, Loki held the telescope tightly, a thin layer of sweat forming on his forehead involuntarily. As a maritime civilization in the English Islands, their ships may not be as light and fast as Viking longships, but their heavy size perfectly inherits the ship design of the Athenian city-state a thousand years ago.

Thousands of years ago, Athens, as a maritime civilization, relied on naval battles to defeat Xerxes, who was at the height of his power. The father of the Athenian navy, "Themistocles," relied on heavy iron ships equipped with ramming horns to run rampant on the sea! Xerxes's equally huge but not strong wooden ship was severely smashed into pieces, causing a large group of Persian soldiers to die on the bottom of the sea.

At this time, the English were undoubtedly executing the same tactical design.

On land, the organic Viking shield and axemen swept through everything, but they had to admit that their naval combat capabilities were as fragile as babies. What was happening in front of him now was like a group of ducks crossing the river suddenly appearing in front of a group of crocodiles.

The Viking soldiers in their longships had no room for resistance.

Crashing the longships was only the beginning of the English offensive. When a large number of Viking warriors fell into the sea, the English ships suddenly opened the steel sampans on the sides and threw barrels of black crude oil into the sea. Dozens of barrels of fuel floated on the sea, quickly turning the sea area into a terrifying pitch black color.

When the Viking soldiers who fell into the sea came up for air, they would inevitably be covered in black crude oil. If they wiped it with their hands, the water-insoluble fuel could not be wiped off at all. It would only stick heavily to their hair and eyelids. , causing them to fall into suffocation for a longer period of time.

With a long sigh, Loki put away the telescope and asked Katya beside him to climb down the canopy with him.

They have already lost this battle.

However, before he could climb down from the top of the big tree, two high-pitched dragon roars suddenly sounded from the horizon. Turning around in surprise, he saw two colorful dragons soaring from the green peaks. They glided to the black On top of the fuel, spit flames from his mouth and set fire to it!

All the crude oil on the sea was ignited!

The blue sea surface illuminated by the sun suddenly turned into a burning sea of ​​fire!

The shuttle-shaped English ships and Viking longships were all caught in the flames, but the shuttle-shaped rammers, whose bases and sides were all made of steel, were significantly more resistant to burning. After the fuel oil floating on the sea heats the hull, it will be immediately cooled by the seawater under the hull.

On the other hand, the O'Sullivan family's purely wooden Viking longship has completely melted into the raging fire above the sea!

Even though they were thousands of meters apart, the mournful wails of the Viking pirates above the sea still reached Loki's ears clearly. There was already a hell in the sea below, and Loki pulled the stunned Katya down from the top of the tree.

He had gotten all the information he needed, and subsequent observations were meaningless. War is very fair to everyone. As a robber, the moment he wields his butcher's knife, he will be aware of being killed.

Loki knew clearly that this would be the only army sent by the Viking King to the river valley. After this army is destroyed, he will use the remaining troops to defend the Conqueror's Fortress.

There will never be any reinforcements from the O'Sullivan family from the sea in the future!

Throughout the three eastern provinces of Scandinavia, the Dragon's Breath Plateau and Frostfree Ridge have fallen. Duke Bernard, the lord of the valley, has rebelled, and Hummel, the old fox, has run away.

At this time, in the river valley, Loki was surrounded by enemies and was isolated and helpless.

What's even worse is that Sartre has not returned yet! I don’t even have a military force composed of professional soldiers!

With a long sigh, he knew that fate had once again pushed him to the edge of the cliff. However, this time, the enemy he faced was much more dangerous than the last time. At this time, I feel like I am sandwiched between three giants: England, Slavic and Bernard.

However, his own strength is the weakest.

That's all, complaining about others will not benefit the battle situation at all.

Give up your fantasies and prepare to fight!