Rise of Rurik

No one expects this ambitious expedition to fall short in the face of only the first hard bone. All tribes cannot afford to lose this man, especially the Mellarens. This victory is related to the stability of honor and power.

Since they have never fought a siege battle, the Swedish army does not even have a siege weapon. After all, in this era, even a wooden fortress is rare in the Nordic world.

However, faced with this dilemma, Olegin thought in the confusion of what he had learned from the Rusian Arik many years ago when the Rus army stormed the Gotland stronghold. The situation at that time was similar to what he was facing now Woolen cloth? !

The wooden wall of the extremely rare stone fortress on Gotland was knocked open by a large tree stump. Olegin had arranged for his son Karl to take someone to demolish the enemy's house and extract the strongest oak beams. Bundle them together, use them as a battering ram, and slam the damn door open. However, this takes time!

All sides of the coalition have suffered losses in this battle, and the Rus are still serving as spectators, which is really inappropriate!

No, Olegin sent Benardick (now a peasant soldier), who had been a messenger, to convey the king's order: the Rus must go to war.

Benardick has always been very fond of the Rus people. Because he has seen the real martial arts of the Rus people, he tearfully told Otto about the tragedy of his and his brothers' poor attack and a large number of deaths in battle.

"What? I thought you captured their fortress. The fighting has continued until now, and their walls haven't been breached yet?" Otto on the boat was really undecided.

Rurik became the final decision-maker, and he made Bernardick calm and talk, and only then did he realize the problem.

"I see, we're going to war now."

"Fighting?" Otto asked cautiously. "They left a pile of corpses under the wall. Could it be that we..."

Rurik immediately made clear his intentions and said confidently: "As long as we destroy their wooden doors or walls, we will win!"

"What do you want?" Otto asked.

"Use those." Rurik pointed to the torsion slingshots, "They are easy to remove from the platform, let the soldiers take them into the battlefield, and we smash through and destroy their walls with cast iron bullets!"

"This...isn't right." Otto's words were to remind his son, aren't these weapons relatively confidential?

Rurik didn't know it, but now he's not sticking to the so-called secrecy: "If we lay down this fortress with huge casualties,

Don't do any further battles. Because we have no more troops to expand the results, let's use our weapons to end this battle as soon as possible. "

No, the six torsion slingshots on the Avrora were all unloaded, and the soldiers also brought longbows and wooden crossbows (steel-arm crossbows were not suitable for use) to land.

Soon the Russ landed quickly in more longboats provided by the Mellarens, and a special party of only one hundred and fifty people gathered.

Like Carlota, Fisk, Kanuf, and even Telavis from Kovin, such a group of children who came to the burning battlefield and were infected by the atmosphere of the battlefield did not feel any fear at all.

Otto and Rurik personally led a large-scale army of bows and crossbows, but they always carried their round shields on their backs, with swords and battle axes hanging from their waists.

Thirty longbowmen from Elrond, each with forty iron cluster arrows.

The warriors with wooden crossbows also had twenty light iron cluster bolts each.

The most important thing is of course the six torsion slingshots, each of which is carried by four people. It is really a relatively light "heavy equipment", and when four people carry it, you can walk like a fly!

Others carried ammunition, three boxes of cast-iron projectiles, each cone weighing half a pound, and each wooden box at least forty pounds. It can be said that in order to end the battle early, Rurik was willing to take out as many as 200 cast iron bullets, and then attack a part of the wooden wall with all his strength. Couldn’t he still destroy part of the wall?

The coalition now needs nothing more than a gap for soldiers to pass through.

At the moment, the dark night and the wooden walls gave the people trapped in the fort a sense of not complete security. Even though the Danish merchants in the city promised to distribute food to ensure that everyone would not starve to death, the biggest problem was that there were not so many reserves in the fort. of fresh water.

The problem of holding on to fresh water in a short period of time is not a problem, because the vast majority of Voskas residents have never seen such a battle in their lives. They just forced the invaders to slow down some offensive disadvantages. The fortress is still surrounded by enemies, taking advantage of the chaos. There was no chance of escape, and the enemy's purpose must have been to raze the entire fortress to the ground.

A few people thought of surrender, and they were already discussing whether they would survive if they surrendered to the "hero" who invaded?

It was as if they had declared the Danish lord Hafgen the leader so that Voskas would not be attacked by the Danes.

Now that I have announced a change of masters, can my life continue?

But most people don't have this idea at all. Their minds are blank, and now they are completely obedient to their life-saving instinct. They continue to stay on the wooden wall to prevent the enemy from trying to climb and attack, and further guard the broken gate. They have no better solution to the crisis and can only struggle.

At least the Voskas still have the capital to stick to it, but the attacking side does not.

The unique troops of the Rus appeared, and the messy friendly troops made way for them with strange eyes.

Soon, Otto led the soldiers to the frontal battlefield.

Behind the broken wooden door, there were as many as thirty soldiers with spears waiting for them. If a strong man tried to smash the door with an axe, he would be stabbed to death by the spear.

The city gates and wooden walls were already full of corpses, and the enthusiastic Yermalen leader Modsen had to face a dilemma. His attacking force of more than 500 people was killed and injured by rocks and wood blocks falling from the sky. He himself lost face, but he was also pleased that his losses were not serious.

The attacking troops were separated by a full 50 meters from the wooden wall. After their attack was frustrated, at least a thousand people gathered on the frontal battlefield near the main gate.

The defenders on the wooden wall listened to the rumbling and shouting, which was the most terrifying threat, forcing people to almost collapse.

The smart people realized that the attacking side was not a futile confrontation. It was really good to be angry on the battlefield. They seemed to be brewing even more crazy attacks.

No, the crowd gave way, and another troop came.

Just because of the cover of night, the defenders couldn't see that the new guy brought something strange.

At the forefront of the battlefield stood a large number of Yermalen and Unkras, followed by Uppsala and Meralen.

The Russ were a small force, and when they approached the city, Otto roared decisively, "Just do as Rurik ordered!"

Rurik immediately roared in his changed voice: "Torsion slingshot! Line! Aim at the wooden wall and shoot immediately! Longbowmen, crossbowmen, shoot the birds on the wooden wall immediately!"

Rurik made arrangements as early as the march, and the "Ross Arrows" was also the first time it was put into actual combat.

The deployment of the Torsion Slingshot takes time, and before that it is the bowman who delivers the first blow to the enemy.

Even a girl like Carlotta can wind a wooden crossbow by stepping on it, and she can do it alone. She donned shrunken leather armor and a heavy bronze helmet, and at first glance she looked like a very young warrior. Even so, when she was holding a crossbow, everything was different.

Carlotta, Fisk, Kanuf and others of her similar age joined the first row of shooting with a wooden crossbow modified from a short wooden bow.

At this moment Yevlo seems to be an officer.

"First row! Shoot!"

When ordered, the girl Carlotta, holding a crossbow, fired her light crossbow arrow.

Whether the arrow can kill the enemy is secondary, and it has a strong symbolic meaning, that is, the Ostarans have officially avenged their hostile forces. Even if she has no grievances with the residents of Port Vorskas, if the locals are not allies, they must submit to Denmark, which is the enemy of Ostara.

"Okay! After the first row retreats, the second row shoots!"

The ten crossbow arrows in the second round flew out instantly.

"The third row, it's your turn."

"The fourth row!"

"Fifth row!"

"Okay! Brothers in the first row, shoot!"

The Russ have arranged five rows of crossbowmen, all of which are mass-produced oak, and the only subtlety is the bronze cast crossbow mechanism. Its strength is not very good, and it can only penetrate the enemy's hardened cowhide armor by shooting at close range.

Fortunately, the distance between the two sides was only fifty meters, and the Russ adopted "alternate shooting that could not be stopped at all", and they really couldn't stop until the light iron cluster bolts they had in reserve were exhausted.

More than twenty enemies have been hit, and they have fallen to the ground, either dead or wounded.

The firepower of the Ross Army was so frightened that there were no enemies on the wooden wall for a while, and it was not really a safe place inside the wooden wall.

Thirty warriors from Elronborg, they are a mix of Rus and Kewen people, and they are holding longbows with white wax rods of almost the same height, which are the best bows in the Nordic region of this time and space.

Terravis is young, and Otto, Duke of Ross, is willing to admit that this child can serve as the leader of Elon Olava Castle in the future, and now he must show his prestige on the battlefield, and he is the one to command this army.

Elronborg's only mission was to create chaos by projecting, and they began to unleash a neat projectile, thirty whirling arrows with cast-iron arrows, falling from the sky with a strange hum. No one could see the arrows clearly. They fell from the sky, pierced through the clothes of a lucky person at random, and then smashed into his flesh.

As the "birds" at the head of the city were cleaned up, Rurik immediately instructed Yevlo to change his tactics.

"Crossbowmen! All shot!"

They are still shooting in five rows, that is, they will retreat to the end of the line immediately after the launch, return to the line after the completion of the stepping and winding, and shoot again when the line is moving and they are at the forefront.

The "Ross Arrow Formation" is like this. The tactics arranged by Rurik are actually not fundamentally different from the tactics of King Gustav of Sweden. Gustav, based on his era, let all the soldiers under his command be equipped with muskets, and arranged eight rows of flintlock gunners in the phalanx to shoot alternately. At a certain distance, the Swedish army can continue to kill the enemy and keep itself basically unharmed, and the Swedish army will take the limelight for a period of time.

Although the time and space are different, the Rus are also part of the Swedish army that belongs to this time and space.

Rurik has no meaning to pay tribute to Gustav, not to mention that the name Gustav itself means very ambiguous, that is, "the kingdom of Sweden has power over the Gotaland Heights". Therefore, if Olekin kills all the way to Kalmar, and then controls the entire Gotaland, at that time, the name "Gustav" may appear.

Rurik chose the most efficient use of the ranged weapons he could have, and it would be nice if these wooden crossbows could also have bayonets.

The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is not at all. Bowmen need the cover of swordsmen and spearmen.

His pure long-range soldiers with as many as 80 people can be so disciplined and can carry out replacement shooting in an orderly manner and continue to output firepower, all because of their usual training. After all, most of them are not Russ, but mercenary soldiers mainly from the Melalen tribe. They are the "guards" loyal to the Duke of Rus. In addition to physical training such as logging, they usually do. It's all kinds of combat training.

No, the archery master Fraser is also among them, but he is carrying a more interesting longbow, his thumb is covered with a bronze spanner, and he is happily shooting arrows with the bow.

The continuous arrow blows frightened the people in the wooden castle to flee everywhere, and some warriors holding wooden shields pulled the people who were crying while covering their arrow wounds to a safer area.

Some poor people have been shot, and even the Danish mercenaries in chainmail were still pierced by the iron cluster arrows from the longbow that fell from the sky, pierced through the gaps in the chainmail, and pierced the heart.

The overall performance of the white wax rod itself is not excellent, but its unprecedented huge draw distance makes up for the inherent disadvantage, and this new archery experience is addicting.

The chaos in Fort Worth Cass continued. The attackers outside the wooden wall were stunned by the actions of their Ross allies, but they could not see the situation inside the wooden fort, and it was not easy to make comments.

Those Danish mercenaries and merchants inspected the incoming arrows and saw these strange clusters of arrows. They should be iron, but they are not ordinary iron in terms of feel.

Yeah, these guys have never seen grey cast iron in their lives, and some of the arrow tufts are broken (it's brittle after all).

Compared with the strength and shooting, the arrangement of the torsion slingshot is the most time-consuming.

The Ross warriors found suitable wooden blocks to set up the torsion slingshots, and they tossed it back and forth for no less than ten minutes.

So immersed in the huge success of the "Ross Arrows", Rurik didn't even notice that his killer force was so slow.

After all, it was the first time that they put the torsion slingshot into land combat, and after all, all six slingshots were ready.

The most thrilling time has finally come.

Yevlo got the information and hurriedly ordered: "Brothers, line up at the rear!"

Otto was not idle either. He ordered the pure Ross warriors to protect the tired archers with round shields, and then gave them supplies with the follow-up arrows they helped carry.

A torsion slingshot suddenly appeared at the forefront of the battlefield, and about fifty meters away was the enemy's wooden wall.

Crazy as it may be, the Russ are going to smash through the walls of Fort Voskas with projectiles!

Now Rurik felt that it was time for him to act.

He walked over to the slingshot, pulled out his steel sword and ordered, "All! Aim at the wooden wall and shoot!"

The hemp rope of the vacant ratchet tenon of each slingshot was yanked by someone, and six cast iron cone bullets smashed straight through. The powerful twisting force gave these half-pound cast iron bullets a lot of kinetic energy, but the wooden walls of Fort Voskas completely withstood the attack.

Otto, who was watching the battle, was nervous. This scene also made the Ross soldier who was eager to try shouting disappointment. He hurriedly approached his son: "Rurik, it doesn't seem to work. Maybe we should shoot that door."

"No need! I heard from those warriors that Carl took someone to do a battering ram, to knock open the gate, and we won't take his credit."

"However, I see no sign of the wooden wall coming down."

Rurik still looked at the wall, and ordered the soldiers: "Keep going! Keep shooting."

Otto was really puzzled at first, but when Rurik asked, "Can I chop down a towering tree with an axe?", Otto understood everything.

The pine wood walls, which have been around for some years, are actually quite hardened. However, it was continuously hit by the cast iron bullet like a chisel, and each projectile was causing damage to the wall. The six slingshots began to attack in a concentrated manner. The Russ had a large reserve of projectiles, and they had enough patience to violently tear down a section of the wooden wall.

It does take some time to smash the wall, and it takes time to attack the gate.

Karl and his fighters have finally made the battering ram! It was two oak house girders tied up with ropes, and as many as thirty people held it together and rushed to the door amid the frenzied roars of everyone.

The sudden violent impact almost even knocked the door and the wall, but the wooden wall still carried the most dangerous blow, or in other words, the walls in an area shared the force of this round of impact.

Carl was already standing under the wooden wall. Under the protection of more warriors holding wooden shields, he held the battering ram recklessly, and everyone kept hitting the wall while shouting. He could feel that every impact was a weakening of the door, and it was only a matter of time before it was knocked open.

Otto saw the hot scene over there, and couldn't help but worry about his own actions. Who will open the gap first?

Just when he was anxious, after hitting as many as twenty rounds of projectiles, one hundred and twenty cast iron projectiles finally smashed a wooden wall into dust!

The hemp ropes that bound the wooden poles were all torn apart, and a wall about four meters long completely collapsed, and even the scaffolding behind collapsed.

In an instant, the languid Russ became excited, Otto drew out his sword and vowed to rush in with his brothers as soon as possible, and grasp the power of breaking the city in his hands.

However, in the dim light, a warrior in chainmail suddenly appeared, and they plugged the gap.

The sudden arrival of the iron-clad warriors formed a human wall, so shocked that Otto did not dare to attack rashly for a while, and also scared the warriors of other tribes to attack violently.

If the attackers were red-eyed at first, now they realize that siege is not easy, and they become cautious.

At the critical moment Rurik saw that the enemy did not file out to try to kill, but stuck there like a fool.

"Boys, they're courting death! Slingshots! Shoot them!"

Only a fool would delay the fighter, and the strong Russ fighters frantically turned the winch, and the greased cast-iron projectile was immediately placed.

"Hjuta!" Rurik roared loudly.

Six projectiles flew out, and they could even smash through the ships. This time, the wooden shields of the Danish mercenaries were directly smashed, followed by the chain mail, the commoners, and finally their bodies. There was even a projectile that directly killed two enemies!

This is not over yet, the archers who have rested for a long time have come to perform again.

At a time, more than fifty arrows flew straight past, even if there was no powerful steel-arm crossbow, the current weapon still caused damage to the enemy.

Many of the Danish mercenaries were shot. They didn't die, the wounds were bleeding, and the pain kept them back.

Just at this moment of hesitation, the Torsion Slingshot fired another round! This time, their morale collapsed.

The excited Otto was waiting for this opportunity, he pointed at the gap: "Brothers! Follow me!"

Unexpectedly, Yermalen and Ankras, who were waiting for work, their soldiers were all light, and they had enough physical strength to squeeze out the Russ army with an unstoppable momentum, and rushed into the wooden wall first with a roar!

It was probably also at this moment that Carl's battle against the wall finally succeeded. The latch and the wooden bar against the gate were broken, and the gate itself collapsed!

Melalen's "warrior in black" rushed in frantically, and Carl himself took the lead, giving the panicked gatekeepers an axe blow.

So far, despite a lot of twists and turns, there were two fatal gaps in a mere Woskas wooden fort under the "violent demolition of the wall" by the Swedish army, and the rest of the battle has no suspense. It seems that the fruit of victory will be taken away by Gassel's allies as soon as possible, causing Otto and Rurik to be a little unhappy in the chaos...