Rise of Rurik

The difficult siege battle made the Rus people full of resentment. When they were unable to vent their worries, the enemy's reinforcements actually arrived.

The horn transformed from the ox blew a terrifying sound, and a large number of reinforcements were encouraged by the sound of the horn.

Now, on the ice not far away, there is a large group of weirdos.

Although it is a cloudy world, the shape of the chainmail and metal helmets on the Rus people is really special. And their stance of using a lot of circular shields, the reinforcements of the Cowen people took it for granted that the guys in the distance were the enemy.

The reinforcements got off the sleds one after another, and they stepped on special leather boots, which allowed them to move more smoothly on the ice.

Most of them hold short spears, and the materials of the spearheads can be described as varied.

A small number of spearheads are iron and bronze, most are obsidian, flint and bone.

They also carried quite a few bows, as well as a batch of arrows.

Other than that, only a few individuals were equipped with iron swords purchased from the southern Finns or home-made.

They are numerous and powerful, and their weapons and equipment are so rudimentary. It is their huge number that supports their strong self-confidence.

Because, for the first time in history, the tribes in the upper reaches of the river organized such a large army.

Of course, the number of enemy troops is a challenge for both the Rus and Otto.

Taking the responsibility of the leader, Otto, who stood in the first row of the battle, calmly warned his young subordinates: "Brothers, there may be a thousand enemies, don't be afraid, they are very weak."

"They'll rush over like crazy! Remember our essentials, let them rush, and stab them in the neck and stomach! Show no mercy."

The young warriors listened to the big leader seriously. Most of them were in their early twenties. Because they saw blood in the war last year, they were already arrogant. This time, they were fortunate to join the big leader in the unprecedented battle of the Ross tribe. What an honor.

Such a battle, Otto recalled his fifty years of life, and it was the first time he had seen it.

The Rus are ready here, and their round shields fit into each other to form a wall. But he lacks mobility! Otto himself did not make any innovations to the traditional battle formation of the tribe, and the soldiers in the formation lacked further education in formation transformation.

Therefore, the current formation of the Ross people lacks mobility.

They seem to have formed a fortress on top of the glacier, and Otto wants the enemy to fight in person, so that the Rus people are just waiting for work and giving full play to their advantages.

The situation is of course changing, Otto has not renovated the traditional formation, Rurik has taught his young guys a lot of new tricks.

The most important thing in the so-called new tricks is the complex formation change.

By shouting different words, or waving a few small flags, the children can form formations such as squares, line formations, hollow formations, and so on.

After all, they are children. Otto saw with his own eyes that those children can make complex formation changes. He first felt gratified by his son's ability. Before meeting a real opponent, Otto could not understand the strange formations. superior.

After Otto completed the instructions, the fighters held their breath, their shields covered half of the faces of the fighters in the first row, and their sharp eyes stared at the dark crowd on the ice in the distance.

Otto then instructed Yevlo, who was in front of the battle, to wait for the mercenaries.

"Yevro, you just launch it once and get into our formation."

"Big Boss, we can launch at least twice," Yevro suggested.

"No! You have only one chance. You are not archers. Remember, in field battles, only swords and axes can solve the problem."

Otto's words were actually told to Rurik. He felt that his son had invited a crossbow and a bow too much, although these two long-range weapons did perform well in siege battles.

He kept Rurik behind him, to mix with the archers.

The Ross army formed an arc-shaped formation. Otto knew that the two wings of his formation were weak, so when fighting, the two wings could be retracted inward, and the formation finally became a solid ring.

Otto felt that the most difficult time for the team was the moment when it was attacked by the enemy. As long as the team was not overwhelmed, the rest was to keep fighting back.

But now the situation has become very delicate.

The glacier under the haze, the cold wind kept blowing the snow on the ice, the temperature was very low, and the cold air cut the soldier's bearded face like a knife.

The Rus people were fully prepared here, and as the Kewen reinforcements saw their opponents clearly, they clearly felt an indescribable sense of fear.

Several leaders who led the team felt the danger. After some discussion, they did not rush to attack, but sent five people who had been to the distant Narvik Port to explore the way first.

Kewen reinforcements arrived for the first time, and the leader tried to negotiate with his opponent. If the negotiations failed, it would not be too late to start a war.

The huge number of people constituted their self-confidence, and the five messengers shouldered the missions arranged by their respective leaders.

In the final analysis, the leader's request is: put down your weapons, leave our land, or kill them all.

That was eight hundred warriors, and the power of the tribes gathered, but the Tavastians were shocked. Even if the legendary Varyag people are strong, and everyone has never seen them, their own troops are obviously very large, and the balance of victory is obviously inclined to the Kewen people.

In response to this mentality, the five envoys, leaning on short spears (marching staff), swaggered towards the formation of the Rus, and all the Rus immediately became nervous.

Especially Yevlo, who was ordered to shoot all enemies that came close to the formation.

Yevro hurriedly turned his head: "Big Chief, they are here. Are you attacking?!"

"Attack!" Otto said without hesitation.

Ross didn't want any kind of negotiation with the other side, which Otto felt was both unnecessary and absurd. These Kewen people have no right to negotiate conditions with the Rus.

As for the war between the two armies, there is no tradition in the Viking world.

The five people were already close to the effective range of the crossbow, and Yevro took up the crossbow himself and ordered the rest of the mercenaries to get ready.

"Aim for each other!"

"Remember, the letter on the reed is aimed at the enemy's body!"

"emission!"

Those messengers were actually 80 meters away from the crossbow position, and Yevlo ordered the launch in advance. Even so, these crossbows fully demonstrated its tactical advantage.

The powerful and large-stretched steel arm drove the half-pound heavy arrow to fly out, and the strong recoil also made the shooter retreat sharply.

Deliberately tilting the glued feathers causes the flying bolt to spin desperately.

Even though the cold wind was blowing on the entire river, the spinning heavy crossbow arrows hit the five swaggering people in just over a second after launching with their strong anti-wind deflection ability and strong potential energy.

At this distance, the steel-armed crossbow developed by Rurik still had great strength. The five messengers didn't know what was going on when they saw that they were stuffed with strange things, and then collapsed to the ground in great pain. , and after some draw out, he died.

This scene, both sides of the war can see clearly.

Rurik, he never thought that his weapon could still complete accurate shooting at such a long distance. The reality is so simple that after the enemy fell, he didn't get up, and the enemy died.

Soon Rurik was drowned in the cheers of the people, the warriors beat their shields with their swords, and everyone shouted at the top of their voices.

The Rus people's great momentum, in addition to boosting their fighting spirit, also angered those Kewen reinforcements.

A messenger who knew a lot of the local language of Narvik Port, and a messenger who had high hopes and contact with the strange Varyags died inexplicably in front of the Varyags.

The Kewen reinforcements were stunned at first, and then, all the leaders raised their iron swords and issued orders to attack with hideous faces!

Seeing this, the calm Otto shouted: "They are here! Yevro, withdraw!"

"No! Chief, we can continue!"

After that, Yevro ordered his subordinates: "Everyone is half-kneeling, carrying crossbows and obeying my orders!"

However, the first attack was actually the bow and arrow of the Kewen people.

Arrows began to fall to the ice surface not far from Yevlo's formation. Although they were safe, they would soon enter the enemy's range.

In the face of the enemy rushing towards the black pressure, Yevlo ordered nervously: "Raise! Launch!"

Therefore, people who can use bows have explored the 45° angle to shoot arrows, and the arrows have the largest range. For both sides of the war, everyone knows this experience.

Twenty crossbow arrows smashed into the dense formation of Kewen reinforcements in a low and flat parabola. They fell, quickly inflicting serious injuries to the enemy as many as fifteen. The injured did not know what happened, and the extreme pain forced them to stop charging and huddled on the ground. As a result, many of the injured were trampled to death by their own people.

"Come back!" Otto yelled.

Yevro wanted to rewind the string with his bare hands, but the pain in his arm forced him to pause. The key was that the enemy's arrows had already begun to fall into the formation of the Rus.

Yevro took his own people back to the formation, and the next step was to hold the shield high, and defend himself while defending his master Rurik.

The arrows of the Kovins began to crackle against Ross's big round shield, and the archers of the servant troops began to suffer casualties.

The Salmon Lord's archers were ordered by Otto to counterattack. They shot arrows in the air with a large elevation angle, in order to use an exaggerated parabola, so that they could shoot and kill the enemies in front of the impact formation.

The archers on both sides depended on the number of archers to carry out probabilistic attacks, but the long reload time of the most deadly crossbowmen made the Russ not have the opportunity to shoot for a long time, even if the Rurik people still had a thousand on hand. A crossbow arrow.

War is like Otto and his, only the sword and the axe can decide who is the winner.

Otto roared calmly: "They are here! Prepare for the impact!"

Those relatively short Corvin warriors, armed with short spears, dashed fearlessly towards the beautifully painted round shields of the Rus, as were the case with a large number of Corvin warriors.

They jumped bravely, and many people rushed to the Rus camp. As a result, these brave people were stabbed and killed by the prepared Ross sword and shield hand.

The Kovins in the front slammed into the shield wall of the Rus, and the others running behind smashed into the companions in front.

The formation of the Ross people moved backwards as a whole, they still resisted the strong attack of the Cowens, and Otto no longer needed to roar and command the next thing.

There is no point in roaring, because all the combatants are roaring.

Rurik, who was in the formation, felt that he could not be of any help at all, and so were the servants of the Salmon Lord.

Realizing that the enemy was intentionally attacking the flanks, the Russ began to shrink their formation spontaneously. When the formation completely turned into a circle, a large number of corpses had fallen under the Rus' feet.

The shields were bloodied, the chainmail was bloodied, and the beards of the warriors in the first row had turned a terrifying red.

The steel swords of the Rus are full of lethality. Every sword suddenly strikes from the gap in the shield. The extremely sharp sword can easily pierce the enemy's leather jacket, and a single stab can solve an enemy. And the splattered blood has made the hoplites in chainmail who are fighting on the front line bathe in the dripping blood brought by the savage slaughter.

They were covered in the blood of the enemy, and it seemed like some kind of maddening catalyst.

Sixty elites in chain armor, they had no casualties in the previous battle, and now they have big mouths with blood, and their faces are covered in blood, like monsters that eat people.

Otto was extremely happy that his people had entered a state of madness.

The large number of Kovins surrounded the annular shield wall of the Rus. According to the ideas of the Kovins, as long as they continued to attack, the strange Varyags would definitely collapse.

As a result, those who advanced first have all died.

With so many people killed and wounded, the subsequent Cowens finally realized what was going on.

Holding their own short spears, they were stunned.

Taking this opportunity, Yevlo urgently ordered: "Crossbowmen! Shoot!"

Rurik admired Yevro's ability to react on the spot, and he saw Yevro lead someone with a crossbow in both hands, and then launched the arrow from the gap in the shield.

The wind brought by the flying arrows was also felt by the Rusian warriors. Because the arrow flew past their ears.

While the Kewen people were stunned, 20 people were injured and fell down.

From the eyes of the enemy, Otto could see their fear and puzzlement. It happened that his group of warriors had gone mad. The warriors needed to vent their anger through crazy killing, and at the same time, they also proved themselves to the gods. strong.

For the eyes of the gods are not shielded by the haze.

It can be said that the battle was decided from the moment the Russ forcibly withstood the enemy's collision.

Otto gave an order: "The gods have seen your bravery! The children blessed by Odin are by your side! Berserker! Destroy all the enemies!"

With this order, the Ross warriors, who were originally shields and shields, suddenly disbanded their sturdy formation.

The Rus started a full-scale counterattack, even though their troops were still at a disadvantage, facing a large group of poorly equipped Kewen reinforcements whose morale had been demolished, the rest was an unprecedented savage killing that the Kewen people encountered. , for the Rus, it was a carnival of war.

Who doesn't want to get the honor of "Berzy Warrior"? To be called a Berserker by the big leader, every young warrior hopes that he can be worthy of this honor, even if everyone does not carry the strange mushroom sauce made by the high priest. Even if they don't pass the rare maddening potion, the red-eyed Russ just wants to destroy all the enemies in front of them.

The morale of the Kewen people was high just now, but now?

More than a hundred people have been killed in the contact battle, and the casualties of the Rus are only a few servants of the Salmon Lord archers who were wounded by arrows.

Armor, weapons and physique are superior Rus people began a crazy counterattack!

Everyone is willing to believe that the fateful battle of "North Hunting" predicted by the high priest is actually this battle.