Rise of Rurik

The cone-shaped cast-iron projectile was hit at an altitude of about 50 meters. This half-pound iron block was small in size and had limited damage to equipment. For combat soldiers, those who hit it would basically die.

Thirty torsional slingshots fired freely, and the arrows and iron bullets further covered the fire.

What the Ross coalition focused on attacking was the gate to the north of Bremen City, which was the largest city gate. As long as it was broken through, the battle was almost over.

The coalition continued to advance slowly, all rhythmically doing Viking battle cries. Behind them, arrows and projectiles were fired frequently, which was the so-called Xu Jin barrage offensive in the ninth century. Such a dismissal of the Frankish army had never been seen, not even by Ragnar and his men.

The only thing that can make Ragnar happy is that he is participating in the siege battle as an attacker who takes advantage of it.

The coalition forces had advanced to the point of an arrow, so the few brave men in Bremen who were smashed by arrows and projectiles could not reach their heads, finally began to lean out and hold bows to fight back. The defenders risked being shot to shoot arrows, and even hid behind the wooden battlements. The single wooden bow faced the sky with a large elevation angle, and the archers shot blindly to the sky in grief and anger, praying that they could hit the enemy.

Aware of the defender's counterattack, Ragnar, who was attacking, immediately ordered his brothers to use the giant round shields as umbrellas, making the defenders' arrows meaningless.

But the defenders lost their highest-ranking commander, and the interior was already a mess. A large number of people fled in all directions because of cowardice, and even fled to the south gate of the city, and began to spontaneously carry the sundries that were piled up at the city gate. Some even let down ropes and descended from the city walls. No soldiers have the ability to intercept the fugitives. Everyone has given up their illusions. The so-called city seems to be difficult to hold. Let's escape before the Normans are crazy to kill!

If the Normans begin to divide their forces to surround the city, it will be too late!

The fugitives were unable to carry the soft goods. The merchants packed the existing money in sackcloth, and took the armed men they hired, completely disregarding the responsibility of defending the city, and trying their best to escape from the city.

The spirit of those who insist on resisting is worthy of the admiration of the Rus coalition, which makes the victory of the coalition a little more admirable.

As the fleet drifting on the Weser took control of the city's quayside, the few who had descended on the ropes were immediately hit.

The distance is already very close, and the Torsion Slingshot can be accurately aimed.

The main city of Bremen is located on the south bank of the Weser River, and the dock area is on the east side of the city. After leaving near the east gate, people were shot and killed, and all those who tried to escape the city were forced to leave due to the situation. city ​​walls.

The fleet began to fire freely,

"Iron hailstones" fell from the sky and mercilessly penetrated the thatched roofs of the houses. Even if the rich families installed terracotta and stone tiles, they were still smashed through fiercely. Some people were simply smashed to death in their homes, and there were also wounded people who were smashed to death in the winding and dirty alleys. Fleet brings greater fear than killing.

As many as 5,000 people flocked to the south gate of the city, which is still in a safe area. Due to the high concentration of people, the already troublesome work of moving the door blocking debris has become extremely long. Everyone wanted to escape as soon as possible, and the terrifying stampede accident happened. The situation became extremely chaotic, and there was no one to guide the order at the scene. The survival instincts of all people gathered together, and as a result, only a few people could successfully find a new way to lower the rope from the city wall and hang away from the city.

There were even people who fell from the wooden fence and were injured, so they couldn't run.

How could the Rus army know about the chaos that erupted in the city due to fear?

Arik just wanted to break through the city gate quickly, he simply rushed forward and ordered Ragnar as a commander: "The method is told to you! You bring your brother to push the rushing car with the greatest strength! Be sure to directly Knock the door open, and if it doesn't work at once, knock it several times."

"Okay!" The excited Ragnar roared and asked, "How about you?"

"We will make sure that all the turtledoves on the wall are shot."

Ragnar didn't need to say more, he raised his iron sword and ordered the three hundred warriors under his command to attack with all his strength.

The siege car was pushed by as many as thirty people, and the most amazing thing was that there were two groups of people in the front pulling two ropes to pull it further. The rushing car was running on a fairly flat dirt road, and a heavy behemoth actually reached the speed of a man running. This kind of speed is naturally inferior to the cavalry charge, but its amazing weight means amazing potential energy!

The blue fox did a good investigation last year. The largest south gate has a winch system, which can lower the whole wooden gate from the top. For the general army, such a wooden door is put down and smashed into a door hole, and it becomes an unsolvable existence.

Now the rushing car hits it unstoppably, making a miracle!

The whole wooden door was not knocked down by the car, the whole door was knocked down, and the collapse of the door even pulled down the winch that would be placed in the city gate pavilion.

The door was knocked open, but not fully.

The debris behind the door has become a kind of "stepping stone", forming a slope with the collapsed door, and the doorway still exposes a huge void.

A slope appeared, what about the hunter's instinct that the man would suppress to rush up and jump again?

Ragnar and his guys raised their shields and shouted excitedly as the prisoners of war, he continued to shout hoarse and lead the charge!

There was no need for long ladders to climb the wall, and even the defenders who shot arrows on the city wall ran away.

"In the end, it was an easy victory. I can't imagine that there are so many of them, so why can't they beat this city." Arik disdain for the excitement and spit out.

"You mean Ragnar and the others?" Yevro asked casually.

"Exactly. We attacked the city with ease."

"Is there any other special reason, they don't understand fighting at all." Yevlo's explanation was concise and unceremonious. In Arik's view, this was the truth.

Then, as another elite in the army, Lanhu watched the door collapse with a bang, and was astonished like a wooden chicken, and the pestle was like a wooden stake in the same place.

The blue fox was patted on the shoulder by a big hand.

"what?!"

"Don't be stupid!" Arik scolded.

"..."

"It's time for us to go into town. Blue Fox, think about where their granary is located. All the wheat, wool, or anything else is ours."

"Ah! Then the Danes they..."

"Robbery of gold and silver? Let them rob first. I don't care now, I only care how much wheat I get for the people in my hometown."

If life is full of crystal clear stones, gems are still meaningless. The stained glass made by the Rus is comparable to real gems, and the society of the Principality of Rus has enriched a lot of hot money that should have been circulating in the European market and then grabbed a lot of gold and silver from the Frankish cities. Arik did not have high expectations.

He doesn't have much consciousness in essence, it is precisely because he loves his younger brother deeply and feels that his younger brother is a blessing to everyone as a prince, and it is the right way to handle the things that his younger brother has given him. He still can't realize that the construction of the Rus Principality requires a large amount of labor, especially paying enough labor to cope with the huge physical consumption. In the end, there is only one reasonable reward - food. Grain is the capital for the construction of the Principality, and plundering it from the past can immediately increase the speed of the Principality's construction.

Except for a small number of people watching over the torsion slingshot on the vehicle, other Rus soldiers began to enter the city.

They broke through the slope formed by the collapsed wooden door and entered the city's winding alleys, and immediately saw the corpses scattered all over the place, as well as Ragnar's Viking warriors who wanted to make up for their swords.

There was blood in the city, and the horror caused the blue fox to tremble involuntarily. He thought he was strong enough, but after all, he saw the number of corpses that could not be described in words, and the dark red dirt that his boots stepped on, which made him fear.

"Blue Fox!" Arik roared and woke the trembling man.

"what?"

"You take us to the granary! Quick!"

"Okay! The granary is in the inner fort area."

Unlike Ragnar, who led people to snatch the houses, the more than 200 people who entered the city from Ross rushed to the earl's castle. On the road to the castle, the blue fox came once, and now it is a familiar road to revisit the old place.

Some city residents were still fleeing in fear along the way. They collided with the Rus army and were immediately shot and killed mercilessly by people with crossbows. Arik had no intention of fighting, and as for following the prince's order of "revenge killing", he still put the looting of food first.

The warehouse area and the earl's castle are almost integrated. The wheat in stock is the earl's wealth. Because of the three years of grain tax levied against Denmark, the current treasury is really full.

The shallow water-filled ditch in the inner fort blocked the way of the Ross army, but there were more than a dozen defending soldiers on the opposite side shooting arrows in despair.

The arrow hit the wooden shield, and the momentum of the Ross Army's mindless charge was forced to calm down.

"Crossbow! Shoot these stray birds!"

As soon as Arik ordered, the crossbows were lined up in a row, busy with loading, and he never thought that the Finnish longbowmen of Yevro would take the lead. This group of squirrel shooters now has better bows and higher quality arrows, and a single salvo knocks down the opponent's defense.

"Well done, Yevro. Others, wading over and lowering the drawbridge!"

Let's talk about this small circle of trenches in the inner fort, it is a simple circular earth pit, without any sharp wooden stakes, and now only a small amount of river water is introduced.

Lying in waist-deep water, the Ross warrior walked to the opposite side, cut off the cable with his sword, the heavy suspension bridge crashed down, and the fierce warriors filed in.

The Count of Bremen was not in his territory at all. Regarding the attack on his territory, he had already taken his cavalry to block the Norman fleet fleeing along the river. Ragnar's so-called pursuer is actually the Count of Bremen himself.

The count never imagined that his hometown would suddenly fall. The proud city wall had once blocked the Normans, but the city breakers were actually done by the Rus people he despised.

The earl didn't even know that if he reached a trade treaty with the Ross envoy last year that would not harm the dignity of Ross, how could there be such a fierce battle? With Rurik's methods, if he can trade peacefully with people from afar to gain wealth, he will definitely not risk war.

However, it is reasonable to say that the earl despised the foreign Rus people. He is an old noble of the old Frankish three lions. In his concept, only Frank has always been crushed and slaughtered foreign countries. What qualifications does the most small state have to trade with him on an equal basis?

The city was full of shouts and shouts, and the many voices gathered together into a roar of indistinguishable information.

Arik's group completely ignored what Ragnar would do, and in the end, the Rus army completely occupied the home of the Earl of Bremen. With the desire to make a fortune, he ordered the fellows who had the same dream: "Free to rob! Don't set fire! Whoever grabs the gold and silver will be punished for fighting each other! Remember, the enemy will not leave alive! For the sake of Revenge of our brothers who died at Hazelby!"

A family tragedy that belonged to the Count of Bremen happened!

The mad warrior rushed to the inner fort, which was mainly made of stones, and all the fine belongings of the earl's house were taken into the bag by the army.

Arik was busy looking for food with the blue fox, and the granary was successfully discovered, and the neatly stacked sacks were staggering.

"I smell the aroma of wheat! Ah, how much wheat is there, can our boat finish?!"

"You should inspect the goods first." Lanhu reminded nervously.

"That's right." Arik pulled out his sword and then stabbed a sack. The steel sword was pulled out, and a large amount of black-brown particles gathered in the bloodletting tank. "It's rye? I'm a little disappointed."

"What's weird about that, I told you long ago that the people in this place like to grow rye. It doesn't matter, it can be shipped back to make a lot of kvass."

Arik thinks about this as well. Any dish made from rye has a unique sourness, that is, it brews a special ale (referring to kvass) with a natural sweetness, which is really a wonderful drink.

He arranged for a group of people to hold the granary firmly, and immediately looted other houses.

After a while, Yevlo personally escorted a man and a woman out of the stone castle, and collided with the group of people who were holding Arik's horse in the courtyard. As for the horses, they captured five pack horses pulling mills and carts, happily stroking their manes.

"Brother, look here. I seem to have caught two nobles. Oh, no, I have cut another cub." Yevlo called.

"Noble?" Arik hurriedly pulled the blue fox out: "Come and identify."

An elderly woman's clothes were disheveled, her eyes blurred, and she sat on the ground sluggishly. Another boy-like man was beaten with blood all over his face, crouching on the ground and shivering.

The blue fox holding the sword walked over and took a closer look at the woman's face. Everything was clear.

"A nobleman, the wife of the earl of Bremen. And this child, the next earl."

"The heir to the earl? If you really become an earl," Yevlo sighed in surprise, "Isn't it equal to my status?"

"You are both counts but completely different. You can recruit 5,000 Finnish soldiers, but this Bremen count can recruit up to 500." After that, the blue fox turned around and asked Arik: "How to deal with these two Noble? My suggestion is to stay, and maybe ask the earl for a ransom afterwards."

"Is it necessary? You are a businessman."

Arik didn't want to linger, and directly gestured to Yevlo. In this way, the Finnish executioner raised his sword and fell, resulting in two nobles.

The poor Earl of Bremen, Hunter, worried that he would die in the war against Denmark, made a will in advance saying that he died and his eldest son would immediately inherit the title. However, the two sons of the earl became the devils of the Ross and Ragnar coalition forces.

The blue fox was a little touched. After all, he had a relationship with these two dead people, and he discussed with the earl family whether he could trade peacefully with Ross.

Today, Ross has responded to the arrogance of the earl family with absolute force and killing, which is very much in line with the pleasure and feud of the Viking society.

But Yevro didn't feel the killing at all. He climbed the tower and saw the more horrific killing scene in the city square, and even saw Ragnar leading people in and out of the church in Frank, even looking like a man in black .

He reported the matter to Arik, estimating that Ragnar would rob the church of gold and silver.

Arik himself was indifferent, and only asked Lanhu to introduce the church again: "The church has only a small amount of gold and silverware. During my stay there, I ate brown bread and water every day, and even Even stinky cheese and eggs are a luxury. Damn, those priests have the seven deadly sins (commandments), especially not gluttony. They don't allow gluttony to become half-starved, otherwise how do you think I'm fat and I'm now look."

"But I heard that you believed in their god, but it didn't touch you? At least those guys took you in."

Could the words of a savage butcher have another meaning? The blue fox suddenly felt uncomfortable and asked: "You still expect me to sympathize with them, thinking that I will tell them clearly. Look at these two dead corpses, I sympathize with them, they will all die anyway, and being beheaded by you with one sword is considered kind. ."

"I don't care." Arik shrugged.

"It doesn't matter to me either." Blue Fox responded and added: "Actually, that monastery was supposed to be the future residence of that old guy in Eskil. If he learns that we have demolished St. Peter's Church in Bremen, it might be bad. He'll die of rage. I'm still a businessman, and believing in their gods is just a stopgap, and I have only Prince Rurik in my heart."

"Then you're ruthless. But I like it. You...are Odin's warrior. Come on, let's go over there and have a look."