Rise of Rurik

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The Count of Bremen assembled his main cavalry to face the Normans, lined up on the wall, and spearheaded in unison.

At the beginning it was a jog of the horses, but according to the plan, it was natural to start accelerating at the last minute.

Theoretically, the cavalry at the front would pass the enemy line with their spears, and they would stick their spears into the enemy at an opportune time. After completing a raid, they were often withdrawn so that the cavalry behind them could continue to kill the enemy. This is exactly like a wave-type offensive. The cavalry's jab after wave will eventually kill the enemy's morale. When the formation appears beveled, this is the moment when the wall charge hits a fatal blow.

However, the Rus and the Franks have completely different military tactics!

The torsion slingshot was fired at full force, and just as the Frankish cavalry team trotted forward to accumulate power for acceleration, the swirling cast iron bullet smashed over.

Compared to beating people, it is clearly a bigger goal for the warhorse to lead people!

Even though the horse's head and chest were covered with a layer of chain mail, the half-pound cone-shaped cast iron projectile smashed at high speed, the sharp head directly pierced the gap in the chain mail, and directly smashed the muscle and hit the heart.

Even the head of the horse was smashed to the skull and the eyes were smashed.

The Ross Army had experience fighting the British cavalry, and they knew the benefits of intensive use of torsion slingshots.

With one throw of this universe, all the torsion slingshots completed a critical strike. As the most elite combat power, the Count's heavy cavalry was instantly damaged by half!

A large number of war horses were injured and fell to the ground, which unexpectedly delayed the advance of the light cavalry in the rear.

Earl Hunter's face was splattered with other people's blood, and a comrade-in-arms had half of his face smashed, and he had already collapsed with horses and horses.

The sudden sight shocked him so much that he didn't have time to think, because there were arrows flying in the air.

"Raise! Heavy arrows! Throw!" Yevro on the deck ordered.

The Finnish bow he had been on standby for was holding a longbow to shoot heavy arrows. The arrow cluster was made of carbon steel and had barbs. The whole arrow was a quarter of a pound, which was suitable for the current battlefield environment.

However, before the heavy arrows fell from the sky, the crossbow of the Rus army was the first to fire.

Among the few warriors with steel-armed crossbows, this time they no longer have to complain that they have too much firepower to carry such a heavy thing.

The same half-pound crossbow arrow with powerful potential energy hit the remaining warhorses that were still charging. Although they could not directly penetrate the internal organs, they also hit the horse's chest muscles stiff.

More war horses fell directly, and even Earl Hunter was not spared from this blow.

"what!"

With a scream, the warhorse threw him out. Its mount rolled forward and fell heavily, breaking the horse's leg.

Poor Hunter, the back of the horse was pressing down on his legs. For this battle, he deliberately wore iron-inlaid cowhide armor and another piece of chain armor. The defense ability was not weak, but this too heavy armor made it difficult for him to escape by his own strength.

"Ah! My head...my hand!"

"Ah! It hurts!"

He watched helplessly as an arrow pierced his basically defenseless leg, and only then did he realize that the whizzing sound in his ear was the arrow falling.

Because the legs of the heavy cavalry are mainly protected by two small shields, when necessary, the dismounted cavalry can give up the heavy cavalry's large shield and use a small shield to protect the body.

Hunter immediately grabbed the large oak shield he had fallen and covered his torso, only to hear a loud bang, and the tremor made his arms tremble.

Then, looking at the inexplicable sharp object in front of him, he laughed foolishly.

In between, a heavy arrow directly smashed through the oak shield with gravitational potential energy. Thanks to this shield, Hunter did not die on the spot.

The slingshot, crossbow, and longbow were three-pronged, and the first salvo stopped the advance of the entire cavalry. Most of the elite heavy cavalry were killed or injured, but a large number of light cavalry knew exactly what had happened, and they were still pushing forward.

Besides, the Ross Allied Forces, the battle became like this is all in Arik's estimation, but in Ragnar's view, it seems that Odin gave the brothers divine power, but it was just shooting arrows.

The ferocious Frankish cavalry had mass casualties?

Ragnar couldn't help knocking on the shield with the hilt of his sword, subconsciously shouting to his own people: "Brothers get ready, we will go up and cut them."

This was really heard by Arik.

"Brother Ragnar, wait! When our arrows completely destroy their fighting spirit, you will rush up and chop them to pieces!"

"Alright alright……"

Ragnar couldn't help but recover, and just behind him, ten large ships became ten floating arrow towers.

Finnish longbowmen no longer need to aim, and the enemy's cavalry is a big target. Yevlo's order is extremely simple, that is, to charge heavy arrows to the same force and fire them out.

When he realized that the enemy was only unarmored cavalry, it took some time to charge the torsion slingshot for the second time, and this time he replaced it with a javelin.

These longbowmen are all short and short. They are all elites carefully selected by Yevro, and their arms are almost as thick as thighs. They were professional hunters in their homeland, and today they are the most suitable longbow fighters.

The Finnish archers shot freely, with the heavy arrows on the left side. Since the remaining cavalrymen of the enemy had already bite the bullet and got closer, they began to shoot accurately, and after the heavy arrows were quickly shot, they switched to light arrows.

The number of bowmen outnumbered the cavalry who were still advancing. The Frankish cavalry had now lost their assault ability, and their formation had become chaotic. Their morale had not collapsed, and they were already worthy of their profession.

Arik was very satisfied with the current situation of the battle. At first, he was really in awe of the cavalry, but now it seems that the Frankish nobles felt that the Russ coalition army that had plundered was too tired, and they were eager to send horse meat.

"Stay still now?" Ragnar urged.

"continue waiting!"

"Why? I can't wait."

"Continue to persevere!" Ragnar thought for a while, then simply shouted: "If you can counterattack, my arrows don't have long eyes."

"whispering sound……"

Ragnar understood that the Rus army was not fighting. They were killing the Franks and showing off their power to themselves. He also had to admire that if such an army landed in Denmark, even if the Danish coalition had assembled, it would be a big defeat. This time, he believed in the fact that the group of guys on Gotland was indeed annihilated by Duke Ross.

Under the absolute arrow blow, the offensive of the three hundred Frankish cavalry was completely disintegrated.

If he learns that there will be such a result, Earl Hunter may keep his distance and not attack at all, or he may organize all the cavalry to rush without thinking, even if he leads the cavalry directly into it, at least he can still get the result.

Well now, Frank's super-long spear did not achieve any stab kills, and the entire cavalry team was brought down!

The last fifty cavalry in despair wandered among the corpses and the wriggling wounded, but the precise killing continued.

The people holding the torsion slingshots on the big ship are anxiously urging the other guys to work quickly, for fear that the prey in front of them will run away.

The javelin is installed into the launch slot covered with whale oil, and the javelin is precisely focused on one ride.

Continue to rely on here to attack powerless, the count is afraid that he will also die. The brothers are also small lords of the locality, and the last time they are people with a lot of land. They are the most prominent people in the village. How can they die on the river bank like this?

Morale collapsed, and troops were absolutely scarce.

They chose to retreat, but after all, more than 30 horses successfully escaped from the battlefield.

Watching someone run away, Ragnar really couldn't stand still.

He didn't care if Arik had any other requests, this banging on the shield made the horn bearer blow the horn.

All the elite warriors of the Stonewall Tribe held high swords and battle axes and rushed to the battlefield where the cavalry lay down not far away.

This scene is like Agincourt, except that the overall defense of this cavalry team is weak. The Ross army used the weapons of destroying the ship and cutting the deck to deal with them, which was actually a paper shield with a strong spear.

On the contrary, the cavalry was immobilized by the warhorse, which was very similar to Agincourt.

As for the follow-up infantry madly slashing and killing the immobile cavalry, it was exactly the same.

Ragnar's team killed indiscriminately. He didn't want to leave any survivors, and he personally stabbed and killed three people.

This group of Danes was once surrounded and suppressed by this group of cavalry like prey, and such a great revenge had to turn the battlefield into a meat factory.

Earl Hunt was found alive when three bearded Danes with strange braids smashed their heads with prisoners of war. The reason for this is only because they saw that this person's chainmail is very thick, and this good thing should be quickly taken down and owned, so a head delayed the brothers from picking up clothes.

The rest is no longer a battle, but a Viking carnival in the corpse collection.

Arik didn't want to take away all the good things, so he slowed down and ordered: "Brothers, go and retrieve the arrows as much as possible. Chop off the horse's legs against the axe!"

Blue Fox, Speuter, Trarang... a bunch of Ross soldiers rushed up happily. Everyone doesn't think that they can get anything good from the enemy, but the fallen warhorses are good meat to the mouth.

So, when the Russ went into battle, the battlefield really turned into a meat factory.

Everyone is not a man-eating monster. Most of the dead soldiers were pulled out. Out of anger, the bodies were thrown directly into the Weser River and let it flow downstream into the sea.

A gorgeous corpse was found, his head was missing, and the armor on his body was gone, but the lining was very elegant and not a generalist at all.

Who is he?

The corpse was pulled to the river, and it was urgent to be thrown into the water.

This person is completely different from those ordinary people. Both Arik and Ragnar feel that this is the "war chief" of the cavalry team.

Maybe the blue fox can know the truth.

No, the blue fox was invited over, but his identity cannot be known based on the current evidence alone.

"Someone has taken this man's equipment. Ragnar, ask your people if they have robbed a gorgeous dead man. At least let me see what good things they have robbed."

"Like this sword?!" Ragnar immediately took out the iron sword he just got. It was intact, and even the scabbard was intact.

Relying on this thing alone, the cautious blue fox completely relieved his expression.

He looked at Ragnar and then at Arik, and smiled: "Now I can say, let's kill the Earl of Bremen."

"Is it the local aristocrat?"

"Yes, we lost his city, killed his family, and now kill him."

"Then, I will get my revenge! We have also helped to avenge the revenge of many Danes." Ragnar said with a sense of relief, and he immediately asked: "In this way, there are no other warriors in this area to stop us. already?"

"It should be." Arik nodded.

"In this way, we shouldn't have to withdraw. We continue to loot and snatch more property."

"Enough is enough. My ships are so full of wheat and wool that they can no longer be stuffed with new treasures."

Ragnar shook his head disdainfully: "You are so in love with wheat? Although wheat is very important, what's more important than looting gold and silver? I can lead a clan to rob and live a good life now. We should Continue joint action to make further money.”

Hearing such a description, Arik also understood the pattern of this person.

Arik doesn't say that he is a person with a big pattern. Facing the development of Ross, he is also deeply aware of the importance of wheat to the entire principality-more important than gold and silver.

A large population requires a large amount of storable wheat to cover the bottom. If there is an expedition mission and a large amount of wheat goes out, it can not only maintain an army of several thousand people, but also maintain morale and confidence for several months.

Arik insisted on leaving, and Speuter and his gang took the captured woman back to Saaremaa. There is even another quest to do in Spuet. Although it is a little tight to return to the island before going to Britain, it is better to leave the Weser estuary now and run directly to Britain, and to the Northumbrians. Begging for wheat tribute.

What else can Ragnar do? He still has some emotions.

The blue fox patted the warrior's shoulder: "Brother, if you want to unite, you must unite with our prince. Your clan has been wandering for more than half a year, and there should be a warm and safe place to spend the winter. The sooner you arrive in Ross, The sooner the clansmen can settle down, even if there is a new looting operation, it might as well be put in next year."

Being coaxed like this, Ragnar's heart softened. He also has two sons. The younger sons are not guaranteed safety, and the clansmen are wandering outside. I am afraid that many people will freeze to death this winter.

"Then stop here! My people have robbed enough money, I hope you Rus people can keep your promise, my people can buy ten pounds of oats with silver coins in your market."

Arik patted his chest: "I can guarantee it. You have to pay attention. In Ross, you have to follow Ross's rules. If some people commit crimes, they will be punished accordingly. For example, they will be punished for logging."

Regardless of whether the corpse is Earl Hunter, the corpse is likely to be.

The poor Earl was stripped like a shedding pig and thrown straight into the Weser River. Almost all the corpses found were thrown into the river, while the Ross coalition ate the horse's legs on the blood-stained beach.

They also deliberately roasted an extra batch of horse meat. The meat was roasted again and again to become jerky. The coalition army had to make dry food when they returned to the voyage. Due to the lack of conditions for making wheat cakes, the Viking tradition of making jerky was made. Skills are popular, but it takes a little longer.

The most elite forces in the entire Bremen region have been wiped out. Is there any other army that can threaten the coalition?

Also because of the difficulty of transportation and the blockage of information, Prince Ludwig's main army is now stationed in Hamburg, but the local materials are not enough to maintain the temporary stationing of the huge army. A batch of oats bought peace. The prince has already planned to take the army to Bremen for a tour first, to see the achievements of Count Hunter in suppressing bandits, and then go to Flanders for a tour, and take the army to the border of Middle Francia to his brother-in-law. Tell shows off his muscles.

It was a mixed army of foot and cavalry, and they needed a supply in Bremen. The structure of this army is also doomed to its marching speed is quite slow.

The prince didn't even know that Bremen had suffered a catastrophe that was no less than the collapse of the sky, and his army was already slowly heading south.

And the Ross coalition has completed the final rectification, especially the big ship Salmon Chief, whose flagship position has been ceded to the Grey Squirrel, and most of the supplies in the cabin have been transferred, except for those prisoners who were asked to cook by fire.

Sail cruisers, sail destroyers, armed cargo ships, rowing longboats, a mixed fleet of more than 800 people, they split at the mouth of the Weser.

The Principality of Ross would go to Northumbria every year to collect tribute, stop by the Viking York Kingdom, which had little contact with them recently, and bring home about fifty tons of British wheat. This incident is also destined to be a feat for the Saaremaa islanders who accompanied the ship to leave the European continent to see the world.

The main force of the coalition continued to move along the coastline, and when they passed the mouth of the Elbe, if the cabin was empty, both Arik and Ragnar would be happy to grab it again.

The return journey was safe. Whether it was in the Denmark Strait or near Bornholm Island, the local fishermen had a lesson in blood and knew that they must stay away from seeing such a terrifying fleet.

No force dared to stop the Ross fleet, they triumphed with huge loot and new allies...

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