Rise of Rurik

The Slavic flag team was in the middle of the army, and the spear array in the woods showed up, which surprised Vadim on the opposite side. He had long known that the traitors at Whitetree Manor were trained by the Rus to use spears well, but he never thought they would use spears like that.

Compared with these bizarre spearmen, the staggering number of Varyag sword and shield hands is clearly a truly terrible character. Their bodies were generally covered in blood, and the round shields were also blood red.

The 1st and 3rd flag teams are now further increased in strength, as the old guys from the 2nd flag team have joined.

Rurik's army was arranged like a historical replay of the decisive battle of Gotland, and he himself actually regarded the thousands of rebellious farmers as a formidable enemy.

The Russ army was further deployed, and all the soldiers with crossbows were raised to receive new orders.

The spear formation was in the middle, and shield walls had been built on the left and right flanks. It's just that there are several gaps in the shield wall, and the warriors holding the crossbow are quickly entering the front of the array through these gaps.

A hundred crossbowmen were placed in front of the shield walls on the left and right wings. As many as 200 crossbowmen were lined up in front of the spear-wielding Slavic flag team.

Because the battle arrangement was too hasty, only twelve torsion slingshots were transported here. They were carried by the soldiers and placed in front of the battle, using the dead body of the enemy as a carrier.

The extremely young warriors were lying on the grass wet with blood. Carlota, Fisk, Kanuf and others, and even Svetlana, these boys and girls were now warriors, and their positions were It is also the front line of the fierce battle.

They lay on their stomachs with steel-armed crossbows, heavy arrows already installed in the arrow slots.

The blood of the corpses gathered into a terrifying stream. The corpses were all war dead from Pine Needle Manor, and they were essentially Svetlana's enemies. She was trembling subconsciously, she never thought that a soldier who had been working for a while today would actually encounter such a thing. Her clothes have been stained with a lot of dirt and blood, and she can no longer care about cleaning up. She is at the most dangerous frontline, and she is very clear about what to do next.

"You're shaking." Carlotta, who was lying on the side, said calmly.

"I...I'm scared."

"It's normal to be afraid, and you'll get used to it in the future. The enemies standing in front of you are all enemies of your manor, and it's your duty to kill them!"

Svetlana was terrified when Carlotta told some Viking-style wisdom, and she would hide her fear with an awkward smile in front of her.

On the big ship before,

Lanna just raised a heavy crossbow and threw it. As for whether she killed the enemy, she had no way of knowing. Now, she was about to see the enemy die in front of her with an arrow.

Her arms were still trembling, and her trembling right hand was sticking to the trigger, as if she could accidentally fire it at any time.

"Girl, keep calm, your man is watching you. If you want to be his woman, you have to act like a warrior." Carlotta's continued words eased Lanna's nervousness slightly.

While the two girls were talking silently, the Ross Army Arrow Array seized the opportunity of the opponent's inexplicable stupefaction to complete the deployment.

Even Rurik, because of his physical age, was much shorter than the other strong men, so he easily entered the battle.

A young man in a white fox fur hat is here. He also protects his body with a special chain armor with heavy patches. He holds a steel sword in his right hand, and a flag is blocked in his left arm!

Rurik is now in front of the battle in this image, he sees Svitalana's prudence and the eagerness of his close friends to fight.

He also saw the stupidity of the enemy not far away. What kind of army was that? It was clearly a group of farmers with wooden sticks and inferior farm implements. The weapons and equipment were extremely poor.

Of course, in this ancient war, the number of troops of the army is generally positively related to the trend of the war.

Standing here, Rurik didn't think there was any advantage in having a lot of opponents.

Are they mobilizing the whole estate? Well, let them die and understand.

Rurik didn't think he was going to be attacked, and he himself needed to show the heroic heroism of the prince in front of all the elite and servants of Rus.

Simple Vikings will always admire a valiant warrior, and will not hesitate to elect such a warrior as the leader of the group.

Rurik personally carried the flag, showing his bravery, glory, fearlessness, and nobility as a "son of God".

All of this was especially noticed by the old guys from the second flag team, who laughed and muttered that this kid is a born king.

There are no guards by his side, and for safety reasons, he will not really be too far away from the main army.

On Vadim's side, all the rebels gathered from Pine Needle Manor realized that they had reached the front line of the decisive battle for everything.

The last morale of these Slavic rebels came from the huge army. The army held a group to keep warm and cheered each other up. Since Vadim has resolutely stood on the front line of the array, this person has made a good example for his subordinates as the commander of the army. , It is fair to say that this kid Vadim is not a real hero, and now he is indeed a hero.

In fact, when he saw the great army of Ross standing in front of him and building a wall, he was extremely terrified.

The Ross army walked out of a young boy who was carrying him.

Is this the messenger?

Vadim was still puzzled, and Rurik raised his head and straightened his neck and shouted vigorously: "I! Rurik of the Duchy of Ross! The real Duke of Ross! The rebellion of Pine Needle Manor, today will be your death!"

Rurik pronounced the "death sentence" of the Pine Needle Manor Army in Slavic. This statement not only shocked Vadim, but also made people puzzled - why the other party spoke Slavic.

Estimated that the opponent might be fooled, Rurik began to shout again: "Today, you will all be killed by us!"

"You are all going to die! Remember, I am the one who killed you! Rurik, Duke of Ross! Be angry, I allow you to abuse me in the afterlife!"

"Your estates will be burned! Men and women will be killed! Your poultry will be killed! Your cattle and sheep will be killed! Your farmland will be confiscated! The traces of your existence will be erased, Like you never existed..."

Even Rurik shouted some more vicious words, some unsightly words came out of his mouth, and Svetlana was taken aback. "I didn't expect you, a handsome man, to be as rough at heart as other men?!"

Wanting to provoke a normal man in an instant, Rurik consciously used some "special arts" from the East to the best effect.

Originally, the fierce battles in the ancient East also maintained the tradition of scolding. One way to force the enemy to rush forward is to swear for three days and three nights, and then use traps to subdue a rambling bull.

Rurik is insulting the other party as a man without the dignity of a man, and insulting the vileness of the other party's woman. Some unsightly metaphors and comparison sentences made Otto stunned.

In fact, the swear words in the languages ​​of all ethnic groups are very limited, and people need these words but subconsciously reject such indecent words.

Rurik took out a combination of swear words, and the series of insults showed the special cultivation of a grumpy old man. This was a "scolding battle tactic". Vadim and many of his subordinates had already been scolded to the point of blushing. It was like drinking a pound of spirits.

Vadim is not really a bull who can be easily provoked, and he has his own special countermeasures.

He blushed and ordered a few of his subordinates, and after a while, some dead heads with gray beards stuck on wooden sticks were displayed.

This is Pine Needle Manor's counterattack against the scolding war. Compared with the "art of language" Vadim directly showing the head of the dead, it is undoubtedly more insulting.

Those are the heads of the Rus people who were killed before!

Witnessing all this, the Ross army formation fell into a strong commotion, and everyone began to roar wildly, swearing to kill these despicable traitors.

Seeing the effectiveness of his insulting method, Vadim blatantly walked out of the army with a strong mockery. He held a wooden stick in his own hands to rest the hideous head, and kicked it as a ball in front of the Rus army...

"Crazy! Crazy!" How could Otto endure such humiliation by the enemy?

Otto pushed away the soldiers in front and walked out of the army, walked straight to his son Rurik, grabbed the flagpole with one hand, and put the other big hand directly on Rurik's neck.

Without the tenderness of a father, Otto roared sharply: "The Rus people can't be insulted by this, I will declare war on your behalf now!"

"Dad!" Rurik, who was held down, hurriedly defended himself, saying that he deliberately made this move to prepare for the army's heavy weapons, and he was buying time.

Otto didn't listen at all, and ordered the Ross Army to take the initiative to attack just to take his son back.

It was Otto's appearance, and the arrogant Vadim paused on his feet.

"It's Otto! The immortal guy!"

Hearing this short Slavic provocation, Otto stopped and let go, and looked back at Yururik with anger.

But when he saw Vadim, he stuck a steel sword into his head and held it high, and continued to curse: "Otto, you will die in this battle! I will annihilate you Russ! Just use all of your heads as my official Become the prince's sacrifice!"

On the surface, Otto was just stunned on the spot, but in fact his heart was beating wildly, his inner rage and his blood pressure had forced him to 180. If it weren't for the fact that this body was still strong, the whole person would have fainted from anger.

Seeing this madman, Rurik decided that this man was the leader of the enemy.

"Hey! Stupid! Who are you?!" Rurik demanded sharply.

"Vadim! Brave Vadim! Vadim who will decapitate Otto himself! I swear!"

Rurik glared at Vadim again, and said silently: "Your name, I have written down..."

The father and son no longer dawdled, and Vadim and his subordinates watched helplessly as the leader of the Rus returned to the army without doing anything.

What can be done?

The business of Pine Needle Manor is farming and raising livestock. There are not many hunters in the manor, and most of the hunting relies on setting traps and a group of people with short spears throwing guns to hunt around. Of course they knew how to use a bow, but due to the poor quality of craftsmanship, the arrows could not in any way hurt the Ross army formation that "just happened" out of range.

Rurik had just returned to the array when a hoarse "Hjutra" announced the start of the battle.

He ordered the arrows to be fired, and there were three arrows in front of the battle, and this is how Rurik placed his crossbowmen.

The lying soldiers immediately pulled the trigger. Svetlana closed her eyes to complete the operation, unable to estimate the mud and blood on her body. After shooting, she stood up and ran back to the array with a heavy crossbow, and withdrew all the way to the array. after.

The soldiers in the first row finished firing, and the half-kneeling shooters in the second row fired immediately.

The second row is finished, and the third row is the last round of shooting.

The arrows whizzed away, and the arrogant Vadim fell to the ground with a loud cry.

Fortunately for the boy, a light arrow pierced his left arm. If this is a heavy crossbow, its entire left arm will be useless, and it is inevitable to die from excessive bloodshed in a short period of time on this battlefield.

Because his cronies were too in the front row, they were killed in the "three-stage strike" by the Rus. Those pointed, tapered surface-quenched carbon steel crossbow arrows, which can easily penetrate the thick fur of polar bears and even the skulls of bears, can easily cause terrifying blood holes in the arrows.

Those torsion slingshots were also fired for the first time, and they were all firing javelins in a near-flat state, so it was not surprising that one of the peculiar casualties appeared in Vadim's array, a string of three javelins.

But after all, it was the three arrows facing the battle, and Rurik couldn't guarantee that the enemy would be able to stand stupidly after being hit by the arrows.

This also has something to do with his two women and good brothers being placed on the front line as shooters. He wants his women and brothers to make some military exploits in public, and he must also ensure that they are closed as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary casualties.

After the archers have withdrawn to the array, it does not mean that the war has nothing to do with them. Fraser, the archery master who was appointed as the temporary captain of the archer flag team, gathered soldiers with various long-range crossbows into a matrix. Throwing arrows at an elevation for reinforcement is to crit the enemy's head at a near-vertical angle!

Not to mention those bull catapults, the pebbles flew over the Ross army formation, further smashing the armed farmers of the Pine Needle Manor behind the enemy army formation, killing and injuring a large area.

The large number of people means the strength of the army, and it also means that it is easier to suffer large-scale casualties under the blow of heavy weapons.

Falling arrows, javelins, and stones do not have long eyes, and Vadim's subordinates don't care about men or women, and being hit is basically fatal.

Vadim really deserved to die. He was dragged into the army by a few living cronies. Hundreds of pineneedle manor soldiers watched as their leader was shot by arrows. Unfortunately, their minds were all scared by the sudden death. got blank.

The abominable arrows are still being fired, and the landing points are basically at the end of the Pine Needle Manor Army, and some arrows even landed in the so-called safe area where no one stands.

But is it actually safe? The deadly arrows of the Russ simply blocked everyone's retreat!

Suddenly, all the leather drums and horns of the Ross Army appeared, and the dull roar soon gave way to the Viking battle cry of the entire Ross Army, including the spear of Medvedt, who was dominated by the men of White Tree Manor. Great army, they shout their Viking battle cry as the New Rus.

Of course, the young cronies and all the elite mercenaries brought by Rurik had already roared the new "Russian Viking Battle Cry" determined by Rurik.

They roared Ulla, and the spear-based Slavic flag team took the lead in pointing the spears that stood like trees in front of them, forming a dense formation and marching forward slowly in a hedgehog formation.

The left and right flanks of the Ross Army moved a little later. Macroscopically, a wedge-shaped formation dedicated to breaking the formation was being constructed. The Ross Army used this formation to attack the enemy in an orderly manner.

The Pine Needle Manor Army was completely plunged into the last madness. In fact, even if Vadim was not present, the thousands of armed men must instinctively threw themselves into a full-scale war.

Some unknown men charged violently with weapons, and immediately led the charge of the entire army formation.

Thousands of Ilmenslav men and women armed, they braved the arrows and stones of the Rus and rushed to the uniform Rus army.

In a sense, this is a repeat of history.

Just as their ancestors on the Vistula River hundreds of years ago bravely rushed to the Roman legion with a shield array, they were so violent and fearless.

But what they faced was the cruel lore of the Rus Duchy who intended to call himself Augustus at the right time and intended to become the New Rome.

The final battle to decide the dominance of the entire Lake Ilmen was in full swing under the scorching sun on this June afternoon.