Rise of Rurik

The cavalry warriors of Northumbria did not think it was very honorable to simply shoot down the retreating peasants, and even use the sword to kill the stubborn.

They could see that the kingdom's army was in a major crisis. The battle continued for a while. The army that was supposed to have an advantage in strength now seems to be on the verge of collapse?

The cavalry was regrouped, and they gathered around the king.

Ernred quickly pulled out the iron sword, and his sharp eyes glanced at the bravery under his command.

"Knights of the kingdom! When you were young, even your father was with me. We defeated many strong enemies and many rebels! Now the barbarians have destroyed our holy monasteries and attacked our cities. Now, I Will take the lead in the charge! No casualties! We'll charge over and overwhelm the enemy from the flanks. Draw our swords!"

Every cavalryman wants to take measures to change the situation of the anxious battle, and now the king decides to take the risk?

No, in their eyes, the King has changed back to the warrior he once was.

They drew their swords one after another, and many raised their spears aloft.

They shouted spontaneously, drowned out by the screeching of infantry.

"Bishop!" The king rode his horse, facing the trembling bishop Edmund, who witnessed the bloody battle: "Pray for us, and pour holy water on us."

"Yes!"

The bishop of Bamburg and his entourage clergymen hurriedly carried gold and silver instruments and carried crosses to congratulate and pray.

Even if the battle situation is anxious, there are kingdom soldiers casualties every minute.

Prayer before the war is indispensable. This is not the king's superstition, but his belief. If you don't get the blessing of the priest, your attack will not be blessed by God.

After a short ceremony, each cavalryman was sprinkled with holy water mixed with rose essential oil. The flower-scented holy water signified some kind of holiness, and the cavalrymen were all implying to themselves that they had been forgiven their sins.

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The king slashed his sword for the last time and immediately said, "Come with me now! Detour through the forest."

The army of Northumbria finally put an end to its pure savagery,

Obviously the number of infantry is dominant, the so-called tactics can be called rogue-style mad dog play. The cooperation between infantrymen is almost non-existent, and the battle is basically a single fight of the soldiers, a large-scale group fight.

Only the cavalry, the king finally came to his senses at the time of the crisis.

More than 130 horses passed through the seaside woodland, silently bypassing the right flank of the Viking front.

As soon as the battle began, Aston, the cavalry captain, believed that this was a weak spot for the barbarians. The king regrets it a lot but won't show it. Now he is carrying out this crazy tactic himself. As for the consequences of the heavy losses of the cavalry team, he can think of the heavy damage to the kingdom's military strategy, and now it can only be placed on aside.

The huge kingdom of Northumbria just looks very big. Ernred's capital is extremely limited, and all his national strength is only recruiting 10,000 soldiers and 20,000 farmers. The army had to be dispersed and stationed in various strongholds of the kingdom, and in the entire Bamburg area, all he could recruit was a mere 2,000 people.

If he loses this battle, it means that the entire northeastern direction of the Bamburgh region and the kingdom has essentially entered a military vacuum. Then the Picketts will definitely take advantage of it, and things will be troublesome in the future.

A man in a gilded iron helmet rode out of the woods, followed by a cavalryman with a lance. Orange streamers were tied under the spearhead, and the cavalry helmets were all studded with beautiful feathers.

The well-dressed King Ernred appeared.

The cavalry suddenly realized that they had begun to jog along the Vikings' right flank.

The enemy kept a surprise army? !

Some Vikings in the fierce battle noticed this from the corner of their eyes, and they felt inexplicable fear in their hearts.

Yevlo, Biyonni, and even the two teenagers, Floki and Esbjorn, all stood on the "tactical platform height" only one meter high and used winches to wind steel-arm crossbows. Violent unarmed mercenaries, their arms are quite tired, they use winches for winding, the crossbow firing rate is reduced to a minimum, and the number of worse arrows is not much.

Just then, Yevlo charged towards Rurik fiercely.

Rurik was still directing the torsion slingshot beside him to shoot the infantry in the place where the fierce battle would not retreat, and he was directly carried by Yevlo to his waist.

"Hey! What are you doing?!"

"My lord, look at the West (right wing of the front)."

"Ah! The cavalry?! Put me down quickly."

Rurik was taken aback. Although he had prepared for the cavalry to attack the flank, the battle continued to this day and he felt more and more that the enemy did not intend to attack the cavalry group. Obviously, he was wrong.

The finale treasure is placed at the end?

"Damn it! Biyonni, you go and tell Brother Geiger to let his spearmen block the cavalry!" Rurik screamed and ordered in a panic.

At this time Esbjörn threw away the half-wound crossbow and rushed to Rurik: "Brother, I will inform my elder brother."

"You? Go! The enemy's cavalry rushed in, and things were going to be troublesome."

Esbjörn, the young man who was in danger, scurried like a hare to Geiger's line in Gasherby.

Guyger is taking his hundred spearmen and helping others to stab the enemy infantry. Many people had noticed the cavalry, and when Esbjorn arrived, Guyger had already taken some measures against the cavalry.

Esbjörn delivered the order, and Geiger and the others began to execute it.

At the same time, Rurik immediately made tactical adjustments. For example, the Shetland fishermen who were about to finish shooting their arrows ordered them to draw their swords and hold their shields immediately, all shields facing west.

All Torsion Slingshots suspend the attack on the enemy in frontal combat, and adjust the shooting angle to target the Western cavalry. Bull catapults are also changing their direction of fire.

It's just that these actions of the Vikings are too late for the final charge cavalry.

King Ernred of Northumbria, he kissed the hilt of his sword, raised the iron sword and roared: "Cavalry! Shock!"

The horses of the entire group began to charge, immediately reaching their maximum speed.

The cavalry smashed into the Vikings' flanks like chisels.

The behemoth rushed towards him. Although Geiger had ordered the spears to move forward in unison, many people threw the spears out of fear and instinctively retreated when they came to the collision.

Even Guyger himself, he felt that he could not resist the torrent, he simply pulled his younger brother Esbjorn and hurriedly found a place to avoid.

Only less than half of the spearmen are still holding on. When the collision occurred, some horses were stabbed by the spearhead, but how could the powerful impact potential disappear because of this?

With a spear attached to his body, the horse and the cavalry slammed into it, knocking over several Vikings before falling heavily to the ground.

More cavalry directly overwhelmed Geiger's spear formation, which was actually a fake, and the sudden change was so shocking that Rurik didn't have time to complain.

With a swift impact, the line of Viking spearmen, who had not received any training in anti-cavalry, was swept away.

King Ernred was overjoyed. He saw the blue flag on a white background fluttering on the earthen platform. He subconsciously believed that it was the barbarian command center.

"Followers, follow my sword! Charge against that flag."

The iron hooves of the Kingdom's cavalry trampled many enemies to death, and many people were knocked aside by the strong chests of the horses. The cavalry's offensive momentum had been weakened by the collision, but they were still charging forward.

Geiger straightened his leather helmet, pushed his brother aside, and followed his instinct, carrying the axe to attack the cavalry with a blank mind.

Those who were hit with gold stars in their eyes, or even broken bones, all forgot the pain for a while, and tried to get up and fight with the cavalry.

Rurik was seeing that a man with a golden crown was directing the cavalry to charge towards him.

Could that man be the king?

The king himself rushed into battle? Is it reckless? Or brave?

"Reckless idiot, don't think you'll win by breaking through my lines."

Because those horses were not excellent Turkic or Arabian horses, the horses stranded by the Romans were not suitable for the work of rushing. It is precisely for this reason that the cavalry of the Frankish Kingdom was reluctant to form a cavalry formation in the current period before they obtained the best horse breeds in the East. It's not impossible, it's really bad for the price.

The crisis situation forced the king to take desperate risks. Iron Red's cavalry achieved a staged victory, but the war turned sharply.

With the adjustment of the torsion slingshot, the torsion bowstring has the most power, and the conical cast iron projectile for close range shooting has a strong dynamic potential to give a major blow to such large targets as cavalry!

Some horses' heads were directly smashed, and some knights were pierced through their chests. A projectile even pierced the horse's neck, creating a ricochet that smashed another knight's neck.

A volley of torsion slingshots is also accompanied by a precise shot of the crossbow.

Yevro wielded the crossbow, but for the first time in his life he had seen a cavalry attack on a wall, and his hands trembled unnaturally in fear, and the deadly arrow swished past Ainred's flank.

As the twenty horses in front of the charge fell to the ground for various reasons, they became the most serious obstacles in the charge, and the momentum of the cavalry's attack quickly disappeared.

Even though the Vikings paid a considerable price for this purpose, the opponent's only attempt to defeat the front has been curbed by the brothers.

Shetland's sword and shield fighters swarmed the actual, and the stagnant cavalry was an excellent target. They raised their shields above their heads, swords and axes slashed the horses' legs recklessly. Even pulled down the cavalry and stabbed them with random swords.

More cavalry fell from their horses, and bloodthirsty Vikings swarmed with axes, like a pack of jackals attacking wounded bison. Axes and swords slashed recklessly, and the golden hairs of the Vikings were also dyed a stench red by the blood of the enemy, just like the devil from hell.

The cavalry captain Aston knew that the assault was hopeless, and it turned out that the overall assault of the cavalry team he had expected could not achieve very good results.

Now the brothers are dying hopelessly here, and the tactical advantage of the cavalry is gone. The result of staying here is that the king is buried for the kingdom. This is absolutely impossible!

Aston rode his horse close to the king in the chaos, and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, we must retreat! We have lost this battle."

"Failed! Bah! We can still fight."

Ernred's sword touched Aston's neck, and he was shocked: "Your Majesty, please withdraw quickly, if necessary, I will fight to the last moment. Please take a look at the current situation, Those farmers are already on the run."

Ernred watched, because they lost the pressure of the cavalry, the plainly dressed peasants who were forcibly recruited to fight returned on a large scale with the guys in their hands.

"Damn it! I also hope they get some credit, all cowards!"

"Your Majesty, we can't count on farmers who can only farm the land. We can't win. If we stay here, we will be wiped out, and Bamburg will have no defense at that time. If the enemy continues to attack Bamburg, the prince and later... "

This sentence awakened Ernred, and he was completely sober after being in love for a while.

"These barbarians are even more difficult to deal with by the warriors of Mercia! Let's withdraw... quickly withdraw!"

Ernred did not issue an order for a full retreat for the time being. He asked himself and the remaining cavalry to evacuate first.

As everyone knows, such a brightly dressed key target has been locked by Rurik, but it is only due to the reloading time of the torsion slingshot that the attack cannot be performed.

"Hurry up! Hurry up. Not yet?"

One person suddenly shouted: "Sir, we are ready."

"Shoot the one with the gold crown, that's the king of the enemy! Shoot him for a pound of silver!" Rurik ordered in a tearful voice.

Under the stimulation of the most money, the operators of the torsion slingshots in all positions were full of energy.

An iron bullet smashed through, and instead of cutting off Ernred's head, it hit his left arm holding the reins.

The projectile directly rubbed against his left elbow. Although his forearm was not torn, his entire left arm was comminuted and wasted.

He fell off his horse in excruciating pain, and it was his fall, because the subsequent two iron bullets directly killed his horse.

Ernred's feet were crushed by the horses. He held his bleeding left arm and boiled it, and it was extremely difficult to get out of the crushed feet.

He was pulled out by the dismounted cavalry captain Aston, and with all his strength, he sent the king to the horse, and he lay down on the soft saddle.

"Your Majesty, it's not too late, let's withdraw quickly. The enemy has terrifying weapons, and you will be killed by them."

Just glanced at Ernred in shock, looking at his shocking left arm, his right hand could only hold the wound tightly for a while, so as not to bleed out.

He muttered in great pain: "We are defeated, and I want to withdraw. Aston, you saved me, and when you return to York, I will make you an earl. No! You will also lead the palace minister."

Aston was overjoyed, and soared rapidly because of his feat.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, if I have anything to do, I'll take you out."

"Withdraw Bamburgh, we must defend."

Suddenly Aston spewed blood all over the King, and then he fell to the ground, the leather saddle hanging from his feet, and the horrific corpse being dragged by the horse. The tragic face of death was seen by Ernred very clearly.

Aston's cervical vertebrae were smashed to pieces by the iron bullet fired by the torsion slingshot, and he died on the spot.

Fortunately, there were still more than 30 cavalry guards around. A cavalry soldier found that the situation was not good. He cut off the leather saddle with a sword. The dead Aston was no longer a burden to the fleeing horse.

The cavalry warriors took the reins, lowered themselves and led the king to escape. "Your Majesty, the captain is dead, I will take you to evacuate."

At this moment, Ernred has completely lost his courage, and he has nothing to say in panic.

The king's withdrawal is causing a total collapse of the Northumbrian front, but hundreds of exhausted kingdom fighters are still tending to instinctively fight. The same melee Vikings have also entered a state of exhaustion. The exhausted divisions of both sides are still fighting with swordsmen. The scale of victory has been tilted to the Vikings, and they still maintain their morale when they are exhausted.

A move is needed to bring about the total collapse of the enemy!

Now the Shetlanders and Geiger's remaining brothers were already attacking the cavalry with one pair of legs.

Rurik steered a torsion slingshot himself, and he took aim at the man on the horse's back.

That man is the king of Northumbria, it must be so!

The iron bullet had been installed, and since the enemy ran a little farther, Rurik adjusted the elevation angle, estimated an advance, and then pulled off the tenon pin.

The projectile flew in the vibration, and the conical cast-iron projectile in the air spun spontaneously due to the specially-made pattern. It hit the horse's neck with a low and flat parabola, killing it on the spot.

The horse went straight for a front flip, and then pinned Ernred under the corpse and couldn't move.

At this moment, Geiger and other hundreds of Vikings who were soaked in blood with red hair and red faces rushed in this direction aggressively.

Seeing that the king disappeared, the king's flag fell, the cavalry disappeared into the forest one after another, and the peasants who were alive had run away. The Army of Northumbria has collapsed! The infantry began to flee, throwing away their helmets and armor, leaving their backs to the Vikings, and ushered in the so-called tragic fate of being "willfully slashed and killed by their pursuers during the rout".

In contrast to the Vikings, the Balmerk tribe ushered in their first major victory since they knew it. This is when the wolves faced the sheep. The tired people were immediately killed and looted. Chase frantically with a variety of weapons to kill the enemy, snatch his weapons and key leather boots, and chase to the forest to rob the enemy of the treasure stranded there.

Those who are alive will make a fortune in this battle!

Also, this victory is an honorable achievement that can be blown to the hometown people for a lifetime.