Rise of Rurik

When the Russ attacked the mountain fort without breathing, the fleeing Cowen hunters had already grabbed the ropes thrown by their companions, climbed up the stone wall more than two meters high, and attacked their leader Kaiha. Si reports terrible information.

They also showed the horrific and strange arrows of the Varyags and spoke very terrifying news.

Kaihas is very puzzled, he does not believe that this thing can actually kill people. Because he couldn't figure out what kind of bow could shoot such a strange stubby arrow.

He was very suspicious of the people who escaped, but Amovaro, a very experienced hunter, died in battle, which surprised the 400 men of all ages who were guarding the mountain fort.

They clenched their various weapons and felt apprehensive about future battles.

The uneasy atmosphere continued to ferment, and for a while, the woman inside the mountain fort cried and cried.

But with the terrifying roar from below the hill, the "Lord of Salmon" tribe had no time for doubt and fear.

Some hunters with good eyesight clearly saw a large group of black shadows, like a herd of wild boars on an unprecedented scale, rushing towards the mountain fort.

Kaihas stood on the stone wall of the mountain fort, his trembling right hand pulled out the iron sword, suppressed the beating of his heart and shouted to his people: "We have nowhere to go, we are behind women and children. Salmon's Master! Fight for our survival! Destroy all the Varyags!"

All the Kowen soldiers also roared rhythmically, in response to the Russ offensive.

This move, on the contrary, stimulated the Ross people even more. The warriors in the team who participated in the crusade against the Gotlanders took it for granted that they thought of the previous battle. In their hearts, they have already regarded the Kowens as enemies that need to be taken seriously just like the Gotlanders.

There is no possibility of avoiding the battle between the two sides, and even the possibility of calling the formation is gone.

Otto's idea is very simple and straightforward, that is, to fight with pigs and directly overwhelm the enemy to achieve a simple and rude victory.

The Russ army swarmed towards the mountain fortress. Their attacks seemed to be chaotic, but they were actually quite crowded. Everyone knows that one point of attack will tear a gap, and the rest is a unilateral battle belonging to the Rus.

Yevlo led the mercenaries to try to charge at the forefront of the formation, in order to seize the opportunity after the battle, and then express himself in front of the Ross leader.

Another major reason is precisely because the previous deceased was his own companion,

Everyone is really looking for revenge.

However, more Ross warriors just want to rush into the so-called mountain fort as soon as possible to loot their spoils.

A large group of people is completely scrambled for treasures, and the huge momentum of the three hundred warriors' group attack is a strong spiritual inspiration for each other.

On the other hand, the Kewen people in the mountain fort were already actively organizing defenses.

Kewen's leader, Kaihas, this little old man was hiding behind the wooden scaffolding behind the stone wall.

His other hand greeted as many as fifty archers who had been arranged by the raid.

At this moment, all the archers lined up in a dense formation, looking at the leader's right hand with their eyes, the arrows have been placed on the bows, although they can be thrown in the correct direction.

"Everyone pay attention!"

"put!"

The Kewen archer was well-trained and fired arrows at the same time. Suddenly there was a whizzing sound in the air, and after a while, fifty arrows fell collectively.

The Rus people who were marching realized something, and then someone shouted.

"It's an arrow! The enemy is in an ambush! Slightly hide!" Otto shouted immediately, his right arm holding a shield trying to cover his body.

Rurik is also in the marching team. His stature is too small. However, after long-term training, his personal physical fitness can completely keep up with the pace of the team, but that's all.

The sudden chaos was unexpected for Rurik, who saw with his own eyes arrows falling beside him. Followed by the second, third...

Some warriors were howling that they were shot by arrows, and there were also madmen who violently pulled out the arrows shot through their leather jackets and pierced their arms, ignoring the pain and intending to continue fighting.

"Damn, if I'm hit by an arrow, wouldn't my life be safe? Unless I'm wearing a tin can." Rurik gritted his teeth, rushed to the back of a big tree, and clenched his teeth while holding his dagger. sit down.

War is no joke!

The prepared Kewen people are not at all the weak look they used to be.

Rurik felt that he had underestimated the strength of the enemy, and looking at the current situation, his people were paying the price for their arrogance and recklessness.

The first wave of "arrow rain" contained the Rus' offensive, and it seemed that it was nothing more than that. It is entirely because the bows and arrows of the Kewen people are generally of inferior quality, and all the warriors of the Rus people wear at least leather armor and the cover of this wooden shield. Five of the Rus were wounded, and the wounded were able to continue fighting.

Everyone hid behind big trees, or squatted in the snow to cover their vital points with wooden shields. Evasion is only temporary, it is a tactic.

After the arrow rain, the archers of the Rus people went to pick up the enemy's arrows as soon as possible, which undoubtedly stimulated the Kewen people who were watching.

The squinting leader Kewen was angry, and then the second wave of arrow rain came again.

Bone arrows smashed into the snow, or stuck in the bark.

The "Lord of Salmon" tribe among the Kewen people, under the leadership of the leader Kaihas, paid great attention to the training of archers. This made this small tribe of 900 people a big advantage in the tribal battle.

By focusing on shooting arrows, they forced other tribes to repeatedly lose out in the fighting for the hunting grounds for many years.

The Rus people suffered five waves of arrows in a row, and the offensive was indeed completely contained. The Rus people were clearly at a disadvantage. No one was killed, and no one was seriously injured to fight. Only 15 people suffered minor injuries, and they pulled out. The arrow cluster can continue to fight.

Otto, who was hiding behind the big tree, had no time to take care of his son for a while. When the battlefield was quiet, Otto saw the little figure hidden behind the tree not far away, and he could not help but let out a sigh of relief.

Otto stuck his head out and looked at the target that was not far away.

Even if the bow and arrow are thrown, the single wooden short bow of the Kewen people can project light arrows to a distance of 100 meters at most, and the accuracy of the head is already very bad. It is a last resort for them to organize the archers. Their condescending attack this time made the bow and arrow take advantage of the range.

The advantages of the Kewen people are extremely limited. The Ross army led by Otto was indeed panicked. After living for 50 years, Otto has now seen the scene of the large-scale use of bows and arrows and the real tactical advantage.

He remembered the so-called arrow formation of his son Rurik. He never thought that the "Arrow formation" of the Rus people had not shown its power yet.

"Brothers! The enemy's arrows may be gone. Let's continue our attack and cut off the enemy's right hand that draws the bow!"

With the order, the hiding Ross warrior suddenly jumped out.

"Brothers! Roar, scare the enemy!"

Otto gave an order, and more than 300 people let out a deafening roar.

It was only at this point that the complacent Hicovin Archer realized that his efforts had little effect.

The angry and anxious leader Hakkis watched eagerly at a group of tall and extremely strong warriors wearing metal helmets. They rushed towards the stone wall. For a time, she was very worried about whether the wall made of wooden piles and rocks would Sturdy.

Kaihas, what he is most worried about is the gate of the mountain castle.

If the current mountain fort is the weakest, it must be the gate blocked by a large number of tree trunks.

"Brothers, the Varangians are here! Spearmen and archers are on the stone wall. Others, throw stones at me outside the wall!"

"Protect our women and children and let them hide in the cellar."

"All boys, now you are warriors!"

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The strong men of the Rus have already seen the stone walls of the Kewen people. Quite a few warriors here have attacked the "stone wall castle" in Gotland Road, and they have already had experience in attacking similar buildings.

The moment they saw the city wall, many warriors thought of the battle more than half a year ago.

At that time, when everyone attacked and suffered a loss, it was Arik who thought of cutting down a big tree as a battering ram, so that everyone successfully broke through the city gate.

It is the low stone wall in front of them. The warriors feel that they do not need complicated operations. It seems that they can directly cross it as long as they work hard to climb.

Because of the stone wall of the mountain fort, the relatively low Kewen people thought it was already high. Due to the technical limitations of value construction, in the current era of Kewen people, there is really no way to build the wall of the mountain castle higher.

Facing a large group of 190-centimeter-tall Roths, the stone wall was relatively low.

The Kewen archers guarding the stone wall were trembling in their hearts. Seeing that the enemy was approaching, the leader hurriedly ordered: "Give me iron arrows and destroy them all! I won't allow you to be stingy!"

Each iron arrow cluster is expensive, at least ten pine bark can be exchanged for a telescopic iron arrow.

Because the Kewen people know how to smelt iron, their technical level is too bad, and their productivity can be called laboratory level. There are only a few poor blacksmiths in the entire "Lord of Salmon" tribe. To make matters worse, they lack ore and have to spend a lot of squirrel skins to go south to exchange rough iron products with the Finns, or simply a small amount of iron ore. The stone is processed by itself.

The entire Finnish ethnic group is undergoing innovation into the Iron Age. They entered the Iron Age directly from the Stone Age. Due to the lack of internal technological accumulation, the iron smelting industry in the fledgling Finnish area is in a very bad state. Limited iron is mainly used in weapons and tools, and it's kind of crazy to use it to make iron arrow clusters.

The power of the iron-headed arrow is indeed great, and if it is not a last resort, no hunter will use it.

Therefore, many hunters affectionately call it "bear hunting arrow".

The hunter who escaped could not forget the terrible death of his companion, and now everyone has no way out, and can only fight hard in grief and anger.

An arrow precisely hit the neck of a tall Ross warrior, and everything came so suddenly.

Realizing that the warrior who was fatally wounded felt uncomfortable, he vomited blood and widened his eyes. He held the axe high for more than ten steps, and collapsed like a felled Jinsong.

A warrior was shot like this, followed by the second and third...

There were unexpected casualties in the team, and Otto was a little flustered at this moment.

He gritted his teeth and issued a new order urgently.

"Brothers, don't be afraid! Build a human ladder to climb over the stone wall!"

"The archer, the archer who shot the Kowen people!"

"Warriors, form a turtle for me to resist the enemy's arrows!"

These warriors with combat experience, in groups of more than ten, spontaneously formed a fighting group one by one.

The Rus knew almost nothing about the Romans, and they knew nothing about the combat routines of the Roman infantry hundreds of years ago. However, the routines of warfare in the age of cold weapons are similar, and the Rus people also play the tortoise shell formation, and the formation is named after the tortoise. The Rus's round shield is deliberately designed to block its own vital points, and the protrusion in the center of the shield can also be used as a blunt weapon to block counterattacks. Its coverage is not large, and it can't achieve the square turtle array that fits neatly like the ancient Roman legions.

More than a dozen Rus gathered to organize their shields, and they marched steadily forward, roaring their horns.

A large number of arrows fell directly on the shield, and the Rus people threw them forward.

Immediately afterwards, the Cowens began to encounter arrows thrown by the Rus.

The boys who tried to throw stones at the wall were the first to suffer. Soon, the Rus people no longer worry about the harassment of stones falling from the sky, and there are already boys spitting blood from arrows inside the stone walls.

More than a dozen "tortoises" steadily approached the stone wall, but the warrior, through the gap in the shield, realized that the enemy was already preparing a large stone, and could not help but feel nervous.

At the same time, Yevlo and all the mercenaries, who had retreated in the face of the enemy's bow and arrow, were urgently called to his side by Rurik.

Yevro asked tactfully: "Master, the battle is tight now. What do you tell us to do?"

Rurik looked at all the mercenaries with crossbows, he knew exactly what these guys thought.

He thought about it and said, "Maybe the battle will be difficult for a while. Your job is to get to the stone wall, and you have to give me precise shots to kill the enemy. Listen, shooting the enemy on the stone wall is the best thing for the Rus. Good support."

Everyone understood it, and heavy crossbow arrows were inserted into the arrow slot one after another.

In the end, Rurik, who was hiding behind the tree, did not forget to add: "You are not from Meralen now, nor from any other clan. You are from Rus, I admit you!"

The gold master has such a rhetoric, and everyone is in a good mood. Therefore, those who are fighting now and who are suddenly killed are all of their own clan.

So far, the mercenaries have completely achieved the same hatred.

Yevro was given solid orders to begin real fire support.

The "turtles" of the Rus people steadily broke into the stone wall of the Kewen people, and they were immediately beaten by the other side.

Some huge stones were thrown down, and some spearheads were stabbed indiscriminately.

Some Rus warriors were injured, and some people grabbed the obsidian spearheads of the Kewen people, and dragged them out of the stone wall along with the spears. The Kewen warriors who hadn't reacted were immediately beheaded by the steel sword.

But there are also Ross warriors whose heads were directly smashed by a large stone and lost their lives on the spot.

Already the "turtles" of the Rus have succeeded.

The "tortoise" pressed against the stone wall, and more than a dozen people who formed the "tortoise" spread out. Those who know how to cooperate kneel on the ground and use their backs as a stepping stone for their companions.

At first, the first Rus warrior stood on the stone wall, and the people who attacked the fortress were very happy to see the feat of their companions, although the first man was pushed down by the enemy's short spear and fell to the ground. He got up and sighed that after his badly damaged chainmail saved his life, he endured the pain in his chest and continued to participate in the battle.

The Rus people who temporarily climbed the stone wall were pushed down by the Kewen people, but the Kewen people's defense line was already riddled with holes.

The leader Kaihas has personally participated in the battle, and his two sons are also commanding in unused positions.

The Kewen people are exhausted, and they have to check it out in order to survive.

But how long can they hold on?

Kaihas felt that he had encountered the most terrifying enemy in his life, and maybe everything would be destroyed! Everything the tribes have worked for will be destroyed by the Varyags. He led the tribe to resist in grief and anger, even if he was so tired that he would vomit blood and die.