Rise of Rurik

Arik himself is an armorer. In the previous battle, the chainmail covering his entire torso had been dyed red by the enemy's blood, and the iron rings of the chainmail were also broken in many places. His arm was slightly bruised, and he didn't feel pain for a while, and he continued to fight.

"Brothers! Keep pushing and destroy them all!"

Arik's roar was drowned out by people's cries.

When he beheaded the first enemy, he was still very nervous. By now, Arik has fallen into complete madness.

He felt that he should have taken off his chainmail early, even his leather jacket, and bare his back to show that he was a real Berserker.

Because the enemy also has a large number of people with their backs exposed, they are a group of disguised berserkers, a large group of idiots, and they are retreating!

The revolting fishermen of Thinkenburg, their line is being madly attacked by the Rus. Head-to-head combat was what everyone wanted, but soon after the head-on collision, more than fifty people of Thinkenburg died. There were no injured people here, and they were either trampled to death by their own people when they fell to the ground, or they were trampled by the enemy and then added a spear.

The casualties of the Thinkenburgers continued to increase, and finally, their resistance reached the breaking point!

The battle line maintained by the shield wrestling collapsed, and more than 20 Thinkenburgers were stunned by the Rus. This is good, the brave Russ have consistently entered from this gap!

The Russ held an axe and slashed the fallen crazily, armed with steel swords, blacksmiths, and even the Russ who could throw short spears, and continued to assassinate mercilessly.

Seeing that the front line was opened, the castle party behind it still did not intend to help.

Many people behind the front grieved and indignantly swore at Oxon, the most powerful man in the village, who had been sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight for a long time. Jian, abandoned his brother who was fighting head-on, and Sayazi fled to the north frantically.

As for what happened to the castle in the end, since Oxon felt that he could survive the catastrophe with the protection of the stone wall, let him and his men hold on.

The only thing that can comfort the people of Thinkenburg is that many women and children are fleeing in the dark, so there will be people running wildly to rescue the families in the north.

Perhaps when the rescue troops head south, this group of unidentified, arsonist, looting, and suspected Siya Alliance troops will be slaughtered by the counterattacking Gotlanders.

The rout happened, the people behind ran away, and the people in front who were struggling to support felt the emptiness in their backs, and the momentary negligence in grief and anger was killed by the Rus.

Finally, the last counter-attack force of the Sikkenburg fishermen, who once had an organization of 300 people, collapsed.

Chasing a fleeing man?

Pooh! A group of bare-backed cowards have nothing to chase, and the most valuable thing on them is the metal weapon in their hands.

What is value? This is the castle that this group of people fought desperately to defend, and now at least a hundred corpses have to be guarded.

The stone walls of the castle have been poking their heads out to observe the battle, now it's time to attack the castle!

Arik held up his steel sword in front of the formation: "Brothers, charge me! The mountain of gold is in the castle."

In an instant, the furious Russ again took the castle as the first target of attack.

The fallen comrades lay among the corpses of the enemy, and the wounded wailed horribly.

But the wailing was dispelled by the roar of the Ruth's desire for gold.

Many, with their shields directly behind their backs, dashed gleefully toward the stone walls, armed only with a sword or an axe.

It is also said that the most powerful Oxon Wilkenberg in Wilkenberg, he is only the leader of Wilkenberg in name. Actually? This Gotland settlement does not exist very clearly organized, a large group of fishermen settled spontaneously in this natural bay. On weekdays, the richest Oxon, who lived in the castle, would hire fishermen to do things for him. And Oxon's subordinates will also take money and go to the village to find women for entertainment, and some children who run around will be called guard fathers.

Oxon built his home here,

Raise a private bodyguard to protect your wealth.

He built on the highlands, bringing in large quantities of stones from far away by boat, and hired fishermen to build them up into walls.

In fact, the so-called castle is a dwelling mainly made of stone. It consists of a group of stone houses and wooden houses for people to live in, and a circle of stone walls with a height of barely three meters.

The castle is almost a large circle with a diameter of one hundred meters, the stone wall is three meters high, but there is only one gate!

It does not have a moat, let alone a trench. The stone wall is made up of a large number of stone blocks, forming a relatively vertical surface as much as possible. After a long time, the so-called city wall has grown a lot of grass.

Despite such a low wall, there are still passages behind it for people to walk.

Can a mere three-meter-high wall block the attack of the Rus?

It doesn't even have a back door to escape, or a tunnel to escape. Could it be that Castle Lord Oxon is an idiot?

of course not.

For decades, no other force has organized a large army to invade Gotland. Even now Gotland has a very tense relationship with those across the sea.

The Gotlanders have always relied on the strong Danes as their backing, so this castle in Oxon was not designed to resist foreign invasions from the very beginning.

Then, as long as the wall is repaired so that it is difficult for local fishermen to climb it with bare hands.

Oxon stood at the top of the wall, cautiously showing his two eyes, and staring at the fishermen who fled, and then, the islands that emerged from the fire began to go straight to his castle.

At this moment, how much Oxon yearns, holding all his treasures, pulling his wives, concubines and children, to escape in a special and absolutely safe way.

"Damn, if I knew I should have built a tunnel." He secretly cursed his own stupidity.

Now that he can't escape decently, he is very sure that the pirates are just asking for money.

The fact is very clear, the pirates are eyeing the gold and silver of the castle.

Oxon's captain of the guard, Okenstein, is also standing at the head of the city. This bald Dane with a beard looks at the scene of the fire, and still faces his gold master with a calm and calm face.

"Sir, are you afraid?"

Okenstein touched Oxon lightly, causing the plump man, still wearing a mink coat, to tremble with terror.

"Ah! You... don't touch me!"

"My lord, we can only fight to the death now. Don't have any illusions, my brothers and I will ensure your safety."

Hearing this, the terrified Oxon only felt that the man in front of him was like a god descended from the earth, which was reassuring.

"You... can you repel these enemies? Look, the fishermen have all fled."

"Let those cowards get out of the way. A man who can't even protect his own wife and children, they flee to other places and become slaves of others. But we, we, we would rather die than be cowards."

The battle just now was completely witnessed by Oxon, and the raiding pirates were indeed very ferocious.

There is still a stone wall in the castle as a barrier, and there are still 60 soldiers in the guard who only obey their orders. Oxon feels a little comfort in front of him.

However, Okenstein also put forward his own conditions.

"My lord, brothers are willing to fight for you, but you still have to pay some price."

"The price? Come on, just save...just save my life!"

"We want gold." Okenstein said succinctly.

"Gold? But..." At the critical moment, Oxon, who loves money, hesitated. He looked into the eyes of the captain of the guard, worrying about gains and losses for a while.

Okenstein seemed to know the hesitation of the gold master from the beginning, he still had a serious face, and pointed at the swarming enemies with his rough big fingers: "You like gold, we like it, and them, these pirates are even more I like it. They attacked and took your life and robbed you of everything. We only need part of it, and we will still be your subordinates after that. At this time, if you don’t expect a single silver coin, let our 60 enemies work hard for you. ?"

In an instant, Oxon was enlightened.

"Okay! I'll give it! I'll give each of you ten gold coins!"

"Only ten? Give us thirty each, otherwise, I can't guarantee that everyone will fight to the end!"

"Okay." Seeing that the enemy was about to climb the wall, Oxon gritted his teeth, "I will give each of you forty gold coins, as long as you can defeat these enemies, everything is easy to say."

In this sea area, mercenaries and pirates are often exactly the same.

Unlike pirates, being a mercenary for a wealthy gold master with regular wages seems more stable than being a pirate. However, once a large household without defense is discovered, the mercenary suddenly turns into a pirate to loot, why not do it?

Therefore, the bald Okenstein had a lot of chops when he was young, but this year, it is too risky to continue to be a pirate. In order to maximize profits, use "rich hacking experience" as the biggest selling point of the individual, act as the mercenary captain of the wealthy businessman, and hang out with a large group of women with stable wealth. What a joy in life.

That is, as long as this line of business, there is often a dead end.

Okenstein did not seek to die, and lived a comfortable day, and finally died in a vigorous battle with a large amount of wealth, which is a beautiful destination.

Okenstein ordered the four samurai: "You guys should escort the adults to the stone room for good protection. Other brothers, let's kill these pirates! Don't let them go to the city wall!"

If you change a camp, Okenstein is a good military general.

Maybe this is everyone's ambition.

If there is another possibility, he rowed a small boat all the way north, hiding his identity to become a Rus. With its excellent hack and slash experience, the Ruth tribe still has a good foothold. Because all Viking tribes worship warriors!

Okenstein never had this idea. The group of tribal alliances in Svealan that his young people cut the most are the mad dogs of the alliance across the sea.

More than fifty guards, armed with their own weapons, rushed towards the city wall where the Rus attacked. Most of them are also equipped with wooden shields, axes and iron swords, and some also carry short spears.

There are also five archers in the guards, holding single-piece bows made of oak, and their performance is very average.

The Russ were a little different, they carried some steel swords, and the number of archers was up to twenty.

Compared with the people who started trying to climb the wall, the sappers of the Rus were the first to attack!

"Brothers! Shoot the arrows! Remember our plan, don't hurt the wall-climbing brothers!" A hunter organized his nineteen colleagues, and now they spontaneously organized support forces behind the crowd.

Count on the archers to give the enemy a painful blow? Don't really expect it.

Rus people and even allies in the South, everyone's ideas did not change immediately with the evolution of the times. It's not that people naturally despise the role of archers. It's because the efficiency of bows and arrows used to kill enemies on the battlefield is really bad.

The bow is generally made of oak, and the bow string is twine, so there is no other material to enhance the performance of the bow. Hunters can shoot rabbits and deer with it. In the face of the ferocious black bears with thick skin and thick flesh, they still organize people to fight them with spears, or they run away when they see them from a distance.

Never hope to shoot a black bear with an arrow, never trust the bragging of a hunter!

Bow and arrow is such a status quo.

The distance is farther, the arrow is not easy to penetrate the enemy's leather armor, and even a few layers of sackcloth can block the arrow. What's more, the bravest people are wearing chain mail, and they can resist to a large extent when shooting arrows at close range.

Whether it is bronze or iron, all metals are precious. The hunters did not want to shoot those enemies with their heads exposed with arrows before the dawn of the day. Because those people are clearly guys with helmets, and the helmets reflect light in the sky. Such people are probably the samurai in the castle, maybe many of them are wearing chain mail.

The purpose of the hunters' support was arson.

They used cheap bone arrow arrows, tied with a bit of burlap, and glued on a sticky ball of turpentine. The arrows became extremely flammable, and they were all ignited.

"Fire arrows!"

In an instant, twenty flaming arrows shot into the air and smashed into the back of the stone wall.

At the same time, the guards of the gold lord, including Okenstein, who was defending the city, were ready to assassinate the enemies who climbed the wall.

Seeing the flaming sword falling from the sky, I couldn't help feeling fear.

Although these flaming arrows cannot cause definite damage to themselves, what Okenstein is most afraid of is that the buildings in the castle are set on fire.

Why? Because including all the guards' residences, although it is a stone room stacked with stones, the roof is made of wooden beams, planks and thatch! All houses have roofs like this, and the climate is still dry, they are extremely flammable!

What was the result of Fire Arrow?

The supporting Ross archers have no way of knowing.

The bows in their hands were low in poundage, and ordinary light arrows could barely shoot a hundred meters. Now, the rockets that bind the burning sackcloth have become heavier, and the force of the projectile has become worse.

"Take an arrow! Keep firing!"

The archers are shooting arrows in the rear, they do not directly participate in the siege battle, and the warriors of Ross who hit the stone wall will not feel that the archers are scumbags.

The situation was very chaotic. The Rus who tried to climb the city wall thought what was the mere city wall? It was when they got to the base of the wall that they realized that climbing the wall with bare hands was not a good idea.

It's impossible not to climb the wall until now.

Some warriors climbed with ferocious faces with rolled-bladed iron swords in their mouths.

Suddenly, a person popped out of the empty space above, and an iron spear stabbed down viciously.

"what!"

Along the way, many houses were burned, and many enemies of Ross brave were beheaded. When climbing the stone wall, he was stabbed and killed by the spear. After a cry, he fell heavily on the wall and died soon after.

Okenstein and his brothers are now fighting not just for their patrons, but for themselves.

The current situation is obviously that the castle camp where he is located is absolutely inferior in strength, so his only possibility of victory is to defend the stone wall.

They poked the five people down, and the other climbers backed away when they saw it.

Okenstein's archers are also doing meritorious deeds. These five people have been shooting arrows. Although the swords shot out can be easily blocked by wooden shields, it is indeed effective to disrupt the progress of the enemy's siege.