Rise of Rurik

But the residents of Kalmar, they are not sitting still or not caring.

A large army from the north will continue its crusade south, and after taking Borgholm, the next target must be Kalmar.

Refugees from the north fled to this offshore "port city", including fishermen from Fort Worthkas, and more often Gotlanders living in Borgholm.

The fugitives landed in Kalmar with their belongings. Many thought it was not safe enough here. After buying some supplies, they stepped up and continued to flee to the south.

Far from being an obstacle to their escape, the sea facilitated their smooth escape.

It seems that only the Danish forces can provide security for everyone, but they are not Danes after all, and rashly entering the core area of ​​Denmark is bound to be investigated and arrested.

Most of the fugitives only made a short-term resupply in Kalmar. They used the more difficult Dane settlement called Silver Castle in Kalmar as a refuge, because the Danes and Gotland immigrants have been living there for a long time. The two sides spoke the same Norse language, and at first glance they couldn't tell each other at all.

However, if Silver Fort (Surworth Fort), south of Kalmar, is also horribly hit, there is another way for everyone to escape, and that is to go up the river and retreat to the inland of Gotaland. There is a lake area in the area, where the dense rivers are like roads, and the Gotlanders who immigrated to this area named it "Roads and Lakes", that is, Vaxjo.

Ten immigrant communities formed the settlement, and it was a place where newcomers from Gotland could travel peacefully.

Refugees from the north caused a huge panic in Kalmar. Those Danes, who made a lot of money from the fishing trade on weekdays, are standing on the cusp of the storm, and they are also doing fierce ideological struggles psychologically.

Back home? Is the hard work of so many young people ruined in one fell swoop?

not withdraw? Want to fight the invaders?

Are the brave Danes afraid of the Svealan confederation in the north?

More than a dozen Danish businessmen gathered to discuss the future. This was destined to be a meeting full of quarrels, because the settlement was just an aggregation of a large group of businessmen and fishermen. They did not have an arbiter who held absolute power. The meeting became After quarreling, the two sides who were divided into the fugitive faction and the decisive battle faction broke up unhappily, and immediately made their own decisions after the meeting.

Five Danish merchants, with their families and private soldiers, chose to retreat. They took their silver coins and most of their catch, and sold their estates and slaves at lower prices,

Form a large team of longboats and evacuate to Silver Fort, the nearest permanent Danish stronghold

As for the remaining eight Danish merchants, as well as the vast majority of Gotland fishermen, their choice was really resolute resistance.

No, when Arik made rapid progress as a "pioneer officer", the Kalmar left-behind staff who were mentally prepared, they were always ready!

Fishing operations off Kalmar have ceased completely in recent days. The male fishermen armed themselves, and most of the women took their children to hide in the nearby woods.

The merchants took out all their private soldiers, but the main force of these private soldiers was used to protect the mansion of the gold master. As for the field battle with the enemy, it was not in their plan.

The original resident population of Kalmar has exceeded 4,000 people, and the threat of war forced at least 1,500 people to evacuate!

The remaining 2,500 people included all kinds of people, at least only 500 women and children.

Because Kalmar itself is a commercial port, the people who come here wantonly for trade rather than settlement. A considerable part of the so-called women are prostitutes. As for children, there are not many children who wander and beg for food, and they only know their humble origins and their unfulfilled futures.

An "army" of nearly 2,000 people was organized. Their clothes were simple and their weapons were simple. It was just that such a large group of men gathered together. The left-behind businessmen who were once worried about the future even began to be conceited and even expected. The enemy of the north delivers to your door.

All sides became eager for war, and the huge number of people supported the confidence of the Kalmar men. It was only when they saw the rushing enemy that they began to reflect on whether their optimism was wrong.

The war expected by both sides was unavoidable, and the two sides did not have any communication before the war, and the war broke out in the most direct way!

The keels of the three longships washed directly onto the sandy beach, and Carl jumped down with his sword.

"Kalmar! Your name is just made for me, and I, Karl, are your masters!" Karl muttered proudly, preparing to fight the sudden appearance of the enemy.

Karma is not an empty city, and its inhabitants are clearly determined to fight for their wealth, and this is precisely the great feat that Karr desires.

The one hundred soldiers who landed was greeted by the special cordial greetings from the Kalmar people - arrows.

An arrow with very limited strength hit Carl's wooden shield, completely detonating his fighting spirit.

However, the casualties of the landing Melalen Army have already begun!

It was a blow from the slings and spears of the defenders. Although the arrows fired by the short wooden bows of the defenders could only hunt wild deer, it was not meaningful to attack the warriors with chain mail, but the spears were different.

Some warriors who were not stable were hit by the spear thrown by the enemy who suddenly came out of the house near the shore. It was not an ordinary spear, but a harpoon that hunted seals and baleen whales. The three people who were hit lost their ability to fight on the spot.

Carl and his warriors quickly organized a shield wall, and the soldiers in the second row also put their shields on their predecessors.

After a larger shield wall was formed, the Melalen warriors roared their horns, facing the crazy blows of the enemy throwing spears and stones, and advancing steadily to a distance that could melee combat.

On the contrary, those more than 200 defenders near the shore could not sit still.

Just because behind this small group of landers is another overwhelming fleet!

No one would have imagined that the enemies described by the fugitives were not lying, and the enemies were really powerful.

Maybe, they just look tough, who knows if they don't fight a battle?

"Come on, brothers, hack these northern guys and take their armor and swords!"

Someone led everyone to work hard, and they were not even afraid to fight against baleen whales, and the enthusiasm for fighting that burst out now really made Carl feel emotional.

But it's just emotion.

"They rushed over, get ready! Fight!" Carl ordered loudly upon seeing this. The most elite black-clothed soldiers under his command stabilized their shield wall and waited for the enemy to collide.

The fishermen are poorly equipped, and they have to rely on the shield wall for cover. On the battlefield on the beach, the two groups of shield walls quickly collided. In an instant, the spearheads of the two sides began to stab each other, and the long-handled axe fell from the sky, until the battle became a zero-distance battle between the two sides.

Karl held his father's king's steel sword and stabbed the enemy in front frantically. They also wielded a powerful chrome hand axe. With excellent weapons and excellent defense, the Melalen warriors quickly gained the upper hand.

More and more fishermen died in battle. Their simple wooden shields lacked defense, and their thin linen clothes basically only had the function of covering their shame. How did their flesh and blood fight the landers in iron armor? Even if they have more troops.

The corpse's blood stained the red sandstone beach, and Karl was leading his men slowly through the horrific mud of congealed blood.

At a certain critical point, the morale of the fishermen collapsed, and they hurriedly retreated with at least fifty corpses.

"Haha, these Kalmars are cowards! Brothers, spread out and hunt down these fleeing rabbits!"

As soon as Carl's order came, the shield wall was disbanded, and just as the warriors armed with swords and axes were eager to launch a deadly hunt, there was a sudden swish in the sky.

Looking at the blue sky, he couldn't help clenching his teeth, because there was a black shadow buzzing in the sky.

"Don't rush, listening to this voice is the support of the Ross people!"

Just offshore, five Ross ships, a total of seven Torsion Slingshots, once again fired light javelins at maximum firing angle. Their swirling tail feathers make them spin wildly, accompanied by a humming sound.

Such an arrow has no ability to attack in a range, but a large arrow from an incredible distance can still pierce people, and such strength is enough to subvert the cognition of most Nordic people in this time and space.

Only one of the seven javelins hit the fleeing enemy's arm, and this was the only one. The powerful force had already smashed through and tore off the injured person's right arm. Blood was gushing frantically. Terrible end to end it all.

"Friendly support is over. Brothers, follow me on!"

Karl was a slow shock again. His speed completely threw away the soldiers. Such a reckless style could not be changed. Karl felt that the enemy was already vulnerable. He expected that attacking Karma would be like taking Boliholm The same is a fierce battle. Now, he just wants to annihilate this group of cowards who are a hundred times higher than him.

More than 90 people rushed directly to the fishermen's residential area, and they almost disappeared into the eyes of the rear fleet.

Rurik, who was standing on the boat, has been paying attention to the battlefield, and the Ross soldiers also reloaded the torsion slingshot, and listened to Rurik's instructions when to launch.

"Damn, that idiot Carl actually got into the residential area."

"I think there is a fraud here." The frowning Otto said cautiously.

"I think so too. Maybe history will repeat itself." Rurik did have concerns. He was not worried about Karl himself. In fact, he expected this man to die in battle.

However, if there is a major setback for the Melalen army in this battle, it will be bad for the entire Swedish army and the Rus army, at least at this juncture.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this should be a trap. Olegin, who was standing on the flagship of Melalen, saw that his stupid son was acting recklessly. He stomped his feet in anger and pointed his battle ax at himself. His subordinates: "Give me the power to row the boat, hurry up and land! Hurry up!"

Carl, who was in the middle of the game, had a blank mind. He got into the disorganized residential area of ​​the longhouse, and soon he could not find a suitable main attack direction.

On the contrary, a large number of armed men came out one after another, and the disheveled fishermen with spears rushed over like crazy, Karl was in chaos, and his soldiers were immediately hit.

The iron spear pierced through the Maillaron's chainmail, and the elite black-clothed warriors never imagined that they would be shamelessly killed in such a way.

This was Kalmar's tactic to lure the landing enemy into the settlements where the women and children had been evacuated, the armed fishermen hid in the longhouses, they started doing this when they saw a large number of ships approaching, and their tactics have now been successfully implemented. !

It's just that the Kalmar fishermen's actions were a little too hasty. They didn't expect that the enemy they gathered to attack was just the vanguard of the attacking army.

The original plan was to wait for the enemy to land heavily before launching an ambush. Now that the suddenness of the ambush has been lost, the fishermen who have gone mad don't care, just like they have no idea of ​​being killed or injured, and they are only left. Under the fighting and killing instinct.

Chaos has happened!

With his absolute prowess and the advantages of his weapons, Carl assassinated and wounded at least six enemies. His wooden shield painted with beautiful patterns was stained with a lot of blood of the enemy, and his face was also covered with a lot of blood.

How could his soldiers in black have such miraculous bravery. A single soldier was besieged by many fishermen, and harpoons were used to kill each other, and more and more soldiers in black died in battle. For a time, more than 300 people who were caught in the chaos were killed. When Carl regained consciousness, he was shocked to find that there were not many black-clothed soldiers still fighting.

"Damn, this is the second old Ostara!"

Some black-clothed warriors persuaded with grief and indignation: "Prince, we must evacuate. This place is too narrow, and you will die if you continue to fight."

die? You can't get wealth when you die, and it's too humiliating to die like that.

"Go! Then go quickly! Brothers!" Carl turned his wrists with the blood dripping sword: "Don't fight anymore, let's retreat to the beach and meet the big army!"

In this way, with the help of the soldiers, Karl sniffed the breath of sea salt and rushed to the beach. When they reappeared in Olegin's field of vision, there were only more than 30 of the 100 soldiers left.

A single Kalma fisherman is indeed weak, and the people killed in a two-person duel are almost certainly fishermen, but they are united to protect their wealth. The overwhelming military advantage of the fishermen in some battlefields, they still do not know that they are stunned. The enemy who had to flee was actually the elite of the attacker.

Olegin's 500 elite private army now has only 70 people left. When he was shocked by the terrifying loss, his anger was completely aimed at the enemy.

At this moment, as the king, he has no idea to blame his crown prince son. Even if he has the idea, he has no chance to verbally scold, because the enemy is walking out of the hiding house one after another, and the more and more people gather, the force is completely unexpected.

The main force of Melalen's army landed with all the servants, and there were as many as 2,000 soldiers of various colors gathered on the beach.

This is not the end, there are more than 1,400 soldiers from various dukes in the rear that are about to land.

The Melalen Army, who landed first, began to form a team spontaneously, and the servant army, whose combat power was necessarily weaker, also gathered nervously and aimed their short spears at the enemy who was also rapidly increasing their troops.

Karl, who was covered in the blood of the enemy, panted and returned to the king's father's side: "I was actually ambushed by them, at least I have drawn their main force out now."

Karl felt that he would be scolded, Olegin's eyes were always fixed on the enemy, and he said casually: "Join the team! We are ready for a decisive battle! You are sending someone to inform the Rus people and let their archers land as much as possible to support us."

"This...is it necessary to let them participate in the war?"

"According to the contract, don't give them the spoils right away. You go and let them join the war. Look at these enemies. If we want to win quickly, we need the support of the Rus."

It can be said that the two sides only have a tacit understanding on this matter - a decisive battle.

In ancient wars, it is really fun to decide whether to win or lose through a decisive battle. In fact, behind the decisive battle is that both sides cannot afford to drag the lengthy battle.

The fishermen fighters of Gotland immigrants were the main component of the Kalmar Army, but the private soldiers of the Danish merchants mixed in with them were the most effective fighters.

The Kalmar army formed a shield wall and grew in strength.

The Swedish coalition is exactly the same here, and with the landing of the Yermalen Army, the Uppsala Army, and the Ankras Army, the number of the Swedish Army and its servants standing on the beach is close to 4,000!