Rise of Rurik

Chapter 575 The Battle of Strangulation

The Ross Army was facing the rising sun, and the people in uniform were bathed in the rising sun, which swept away the coldness of the morning.

Everyone lined up in a very long line. They all wore white robes, and the blue stripes on their chests were exactly the same. The uniform dress brought a unique beauty of order, and further strengthened the glory of the Rus as a Rus!

In this battle, they were not simply venting their anger for the servants of Kowen, the war was entirely for the benefit of Ross.

In this battle, the invincible Lord Rurik personally sits in charge, and Odin, who incarnates the sun, will watch this battle, and all heroic warriors will be qualified to go to Valhalla for their hard work.

The Rus people are not afraid of death, and it is not that they hope to go directly to Valhalla by dying in battle.

Rurik had long ago asked the new priests to explain that the so-called old warrior who had experienced battle died of old age in his own home. After his death, he would immediately regain his youth and restore the most visible years. In this way, the Valkyrie Sperosvi Leah led him to the temple.

No one that Rus hoped to die in this battlefield. Everyone had a very pure thought in their hearts, that is, the crusade against the enemy here is just a training exercise. After the slashing, the army will join forces and march westward to loot the wealthy Britain. wealth.

The Tavastians would never have imagined that they regarded this battle as a stand of life and death, and this was indeed the case. In the eyes of the Rus, it was just a "warm-up".

The soldiers on both sides have all appeared.

The Rus people line up in an orderly manner, coupled with the completely uniform dress, the strong visual shock really makes the Tavastian people both fear and envy.

Watkad gritted his teeth, holding an iron sword in one hand and an axe in the other, looking at the enemy's army, unable to predict the outcome of the battle.

How to deal with the enemy? He didn't have a very good way, or it was the first time he led an army of this size, and it seemed that the only tactic was to rush up with everyone.

The battle cannot always start as soon as the two sides meet.

Rurik stood in front of the battle, his small figure blending with the warriors behind him. After all, he was also dressed in white.

Yevro asked kindly: "The brothers behind the trebuchet told me that they were ready. I think the enemy is also within the attack range. Why don't we attack suddenly?"

"No. You go and pull that Bakan over here."

"As ordered."

The unfortunate Bakan was quickly escorted over and pressed to the ground again.

Rurik motioned for his men to let him go, and then had him cut the cords of his elbows.

"Go, tell the enemy over there to lay down their weapons and kneel down and be our slaves."

Bakan was shocked when he heard it: "Sir, are you asking me to be a messenger? If you want to spread the word like this, they will kill me!"

"Go." Rurik suddenly drew his sword and roared, "If you don't go, I will kill you now."

"Ah! It's..."

Because this man has always been dispensable, Rurik knew that there would be no shortage of prisoners after this battle, and he would interrogate a few serious Tavastians at that time, in order to have the most information about him. understand clearly. Rurik really couldn't believe the words of the betrayer Bakan. He would kill the blood-tainted sword himself, and let his opponent do it.

Besides, Rurik wanted to provoke the enemy into a pack of angry bulls, and then charge at him.

The Tavastians gathered in a cluttered mess. They all had black hair and brown-grey fur robes, which made them not look like humans, but a large group of wild animals like bears.

Bakan walked over with a strong panic. Facing such a person who looked like a messenger, Watkad signaled the archer not to attack.

But when Bakan approached and nervously recounted the terms of war offered by the Rus, the hapless tool man was immediately killed.

Of course, Watkad knew this man. What he hated the most in his life was the traitor. He obviously surrendered to Tavastia, but now he has become the subordinate of the Rus?

Bakan was killed,

Its head was cut off by Watkad himself, and then raised high to roar provocatively at the Ross army formation.

This roar is the horn of attack!

He waved, and Bakan's head was thrown out.

With blood dripping on his face, Watkad waved his iron sword again: "Brothers! Go!"

The entire black Tawasti runner formation moved, like a herd of horses running wild on the Great Plains, and like a herd of deer running in a group on a snowy field. In the final battle on Gotland, these enemies did look brave and fierce.

Being surrounded by brothers and charging, while rushing and screaming frantically, even people who are really cowardly are infected by this atmosphere and become crazy.

People are so strange, whether they are cowardly or brave, their minds are blank now, and charging and slashing seem to be the only meaning of their existence.

Therefore, death is also the last meaning of their existence.

The Ross army is on alert, and the ready firing flag team is now starting to show its power!

All the crossbowmen were lined up in front of the center line, and they lined up in three rows, waiting for Rurik's order to fire in stages.

However, the catapult and torsion slingshot have been ordered to fire immediately, and they are doing their best to recharge and continue to shoot!

Catapults threw rocks, torsion slingshots fired javelins, and longbowmen ordered to fire freely constituted the first wave of the Rus' offensive.

Two pebbles the size of fists fell from the sky, hitting the enemy who was rushing forward in a dense formation.

The stone immediately smashed the enemy into a bloody mess, and the victim died instantly!

The javelin is even more terrifying. For these unarmoured enemies, they will be nailed to the ground after being hit, or they will pierce through two enemies and fall down in pain.

Braving the arrows and stone bullets of the Rus, the blank-minded Tavastians are not even qualified to retreat. Everyone is charging. If they stand still or retreat, they will be trampled to death by the brothers behind.

Seeing that the enemy army was in front, although all the Russ had erected large round shields, Watkad was not afraid, and our brothers were not bad with wooden shields.

The Tavastians were ready for melee combat when suddenly a new blow came.

The people who rushed to the front were hit by arrows and fell to the ground. After they fell, they were trampled by the people behind.

"First row back! Second row! hjutra!"

The second row of crossbowmen fired immediately.

"Good job. Third row, hjutra!"

Rurik completed three rounds of firing in succession, and the crossbowmen in the last two rows had all retreated behind the shield wall barrier of Balmerk sword and shield players.

The original first row of shooters, they completed the collapse and reloaded, and only retreated into the shield wall after the fourth round of shooting was substantially completed.

So far, the Rus have built a shield wall with a width of 200 meters, and this shield wall is tending to expand to the two wings.

Even with a sudden and heavy loss, the Tavastians had no choice. They stepped on their fallen brothers one after another, holding their weapons high and continuing to charge.

The collision finally happened!

The stormtroopers who entered the frenzied state jumped into the Rus people's formation and overwhelmed the Rus army formation with their own death.

The front line of the impact was a mess, screaming and screaming one after another, the scene of blood flying everywhere, and the sharp sound of metal collision.

The red blood immediately stained the white robes of one Ross and Balmerk warriors one after another. The blood of the enemy drove people crazy. Relying on the protection of shields and mail, the Ross army stabbed frantically forward.

The Tavastians did not break down the shield wall at all. Even if more than 50 people jumped into the formation at one point, the final result was all stabbed into flesh by the halberds of the Rus soldiers behind.

There were axe on the shoulders of the Rus people, and there were also Rus people who fell in the chaos. Most of them fell down by being trampled to death by their own people and enemies, but very few Rus people died in this way.

As long as you resist the enemy's sudden rush, the next step is the deadly counterattack of the Rus.

The soldiers on the front line stabbed with their swords, and this stab action had the style of a Roman phalanx. The difference is that the brothers in the back wielded a halberd, and the axe installed behind the spear head fell from the sky, slashing the enemy's head with great force, which helped the front-line brothers.

More and more Tavastians died on the front lines, the battlefield became extremely bloody, and the land that should have been dry is now muddy, dark red mud everywhere and accompanied by extremely strong fishy smell.

The bloody battle on the front line is going on, and the Ross army is moving to the two flanks. This is a macroscopic change, and the Tavastians are busy fighting without realizing it.

However, the archers on both sides were spontaneously supporting their brothers, and for a while, arrows flew wildly above the heads of the fierce soldiers.

At the time of the chaos, the Tavastia hunters were unable to aim, and while they gritted their teeth and shot into the air, they also hoped that they would not be hit by the Rus.

Thanks to the bulletproof shield that Arik had prepared earlier, and the large number of shields that the Russ were already equipped with. Rurik's long-range soldiers were all hiding under wooden shields, especially those children with light crossbows. The huge bulletproof shield could hide five or six people at a time! They finished the winding and fired the wooden crossbow out of the wooden shield barrier, and then they continued to reload.

Tavastia's arrows slammed into the iron and bronze helmets of the Rus, and they were of no use except to make some marks.

However, many people suffered shoulder injuries. Those were a few extremely sharp arrows that fell from the sky and broke through the gaps in the Rus's chain armor, and only some of the arrow clusters squeezed into the flesh.

Some of the armored warriors had many arrows inserted into them, and the arrows were like potions to induce madness, and they became berserkers.

Only those javelins were lethal, and the javelins, made in imitation of ancient Rome, were smashed at the Rus, which caused substantial damage.

The Tavastians were firing arrows and throwing guns, and their support attempts were gradually being destroyed by a rain of arrows from the Rus.

A large number of thrown arrow clusters continued, causing casualties to the Tavastians behind. Not to mention the falling stones and javelins, the one who hit them will die.

During the chaotic battle, Watkad felt that the situation was not right, but he couldn't see the entire battlefield clearly when he was in the formation. What's worse, even if he tried to issue an order, how would the brothers in the chaotic war know?

For the Tavastians, it was the largest battle ever seen by their tribal alliance, or a mass slaughter on an unprecedented scale.

What about rules and regulations? The battle quickly turned into a separate battle for the Tavastian warriors.

In terms of height and physical strength, the Tavastians who came from afar have inherent physical disadvantages, not to mention that their weapons and armor are worse than the Russ.

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If there is a lack of this aspect, it can be made up for by force estimation, but the mixed force of the Ross Army is not much less than them.

The tall and strong armored Russ stepped on the corpse on the ground, put a shield in front of him, and marched furiously with a blood-stained steel sword in his right hand.

The Tavastians, who had already died many people, continued to brave the arrows of the Rus and began to retreat instinctively.

Like a wall of steel pressing over, the people whose hearts almost burst came to their senses one after another, and they thought of running away.

Watkad had seen someone running for his life with a short spear, and he shouted angrily: "You don't go! Keep fighting for me!"

He can't wait to kill those deserters, because the existence of these fleeing guys has attracted more people to retreat.

If the leader had a musket in his hand, he would not hesitate to shoot deserters in an attempt to restore the precarious formation.

At this critical juncture, several village chiefs who were originally the main battle fled to his side panting.

Someone threw an axe and stomped his feet and scolded: "I'm not going to fight! I'm going to withdraw! The Russ are going to kill us all!"

"You? Are you going to run away?!" Watkad's iron sword touched the man's neck in his rage.

The tribal leader didn't look directly, and said resolutely with contempt: "This is what you did? Enough is enough! The brothers are all dead, and there is no one to defend the territory. I am going to take people home now, while they are still alive. …”

After all, the man picked up the axe and ran away, followed by the armed villagers of his village.

When the other village leaders saw this, they could only glance at Watkad with a bit of shame, and followed the former's escape.

It is not shameful to save one's life to guard the southern Huze territory.

When Watkad was thrown down, he raised his sword and scolded: "You come back to me! You escaped, and we are all doomed!"

At first, only three hundred people escaped, and while the rear of the Tawasti runners was suffering from arrows and stones from Ross, the soldiers who persisted completely began to retreat.

The fighters on the front line were facing the approaching army formation of the Rus. They did not notice that a siege network was gradually forming. They had lost a lot of physical strength in the fierce battle so far, and they were maintaining the most basic formation and gradually retreating. The two sides of the front line are reaching a strange tacit understanding, as if zero-distance fighting is to be avoided, and the two sides maintain a certain distance, but what is the use?

Arik and Herrigel accelerated the formation of the encirclement on the two wings. This was a "pincer offensive", but Arik preferred to call it "wine urn tactics".

Generally, the pottery urn for storing ale should have a large wooden stopper. Who is responsible for this stopper?

This is Yevlo and his hundred brothers.

In the open space outside the old Grey Squirrel Hill, thousands of people were fighting fiercely. Yevlo urgently received Rurik's outflanking order. He brought a hundred elite guards, carrying steel-armed crossbows and arrows. Sneaked in the forest with the shield, this time directly touched Tavastia's camp.

The hungry people who escaped from the mountain fort are resting here, and the wounded who have bruised their feet and suffered from previous encounters are also recuperating.

Russ Mangfu fell like a goddess, and they found that the camp was slaughter.

The commander of the expedition, Vat Yarra, dreamed of greater power and greater glory, and finally exhausted, he was slashed by an unknown mercenary warrior from Lake Melalen.

Who knew this resting person was a senior?

Yevro swept the forest camp with force, and seized a small amount of supplies along the way.

This is nothing, just because the order they received was to suddenly kill from the rear of the enemy's army and attack the enemy fleeing by surprise.

Rurik essentially used the smart soldiers who surrounded the three ques, but due to the limited strength of the Rus army and underestimated the strength of the enemy, he had to send a partial division with only a "hundred troops" to block it. Live in the gap and strangle the routed soldiers.

These 100 guys are madmen who follow Rurik to death!

Those armed men who fled with the village chief were so happy that they could escape into the forest, and suddenly a large number of arrows flew.

The sudden and very accurate heavy crossbow arrow directly hit more than 40 people, immediately disrupting their escape.

"Continue to wind up! Hurry up!" Yevro ordered in a tearful voice.

Almost all of these mercenaries have a steel-armed crossbow in their hands. They are now full of physical strength. They just use the force of their muscles to wind the steel arms by stepping, and then install crossbow arrows to shoot at the enemy.

And this second round of shooting is basically the last chance for Yevlo and the others.

Another group of enemies fell to the ground with arrows. The living people didn’t know what was going on for a while. When they instinctively retreated again, they saw a group of white-robed warriors with blue stripes on their chests, wearing stickers that reflected sunlight. The helmet appeared!

It's Ross! They occupied the forest camp! They're killing it!

The few village leaders who resolutely escaped were all shot and killed by crossbow arrows, and the leaderless people could only hope for the protection of the large troops who were still fighting.

Unfortunately, when will the arrows and stones of the Russ have an end? The Tavastians who should have mastered the advantage of archery, their bow-holders were first suppressed by severe firepower in the two-way shot, and now they have turned into a large number of dead people lying all over their bodies with arrows.

There was an absurd scene on the battlefield. The arrows that landed on the ground generally had grayish-yellow tail feathers. If you put aside the corpses on the ground and the muddy pool of blood, at first glance, they looked like mature wheat fields.

How many warriors are left to fight? Gradually, for the first time, Watkad understood his situation.

The Tavastian's back path has been cut off, and now the brothers can't escape if they want to.

The encirclement net of the Rus people is basically formed, and arrows and stones are still falling from the sky.

There was no good way for Watkard, and every second of his indecision wounded or killed his own warriors.

On the other hand, the Rus people are stepping on the corpses on the ground and shrinking the encirclement constantly, shouting slogans every time they take a step.

This is not war, like a group of warriors hunting wild bears!

It's a pity that Watkard's mentality is almost collapsed. He doesn't think he is a bear that can be trapped and fight. Looking at the fearful eyes of his brothers, everyone has become a weak rabbit, and can be slaughtered...

In this war, Tavastia has already lost, and the entire tribal alliance has lost most of its men, even if it is not at the hands of the goddamn Varangians like Rus, or by the invasion of the Karelians. .

But true warriors cannot surrender! Whatkad looked at the iron sword in his hand. This good-looking sword has not killed any Russ, but...

He smirked, feeling ashamed of his fellow clan and gods, and annoyed why he had to gather almost all the men to fight against the Rus people in a rage, and why did not a large group of tribal leaders speak out against it before they were defeated.

When no one else was paying attention, he aimed the sword at his neck and stabbed it.

Watkad, who became the chief of the alliance based on his military exploits, died in the last battle and the only defeat in his life, and was buried for his tribal alliance.

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