Rise of Rurik - Chapter 714

[Chapter 715]

The Ross people stared at the approaching enemy, and they formed an array in a cramped place, their hideous faces clearly visible.

The armored infantry and horsemen were all hidden behind the shield wall, and the Rus called them cowards, but they soon stopped.

The mercenaries yelled one after another: “They are going to shoot arrows! Hide them now!”

As soon as the words fell, everyone’s ears were filled with swishing sounds.

Arrows fell from the sky, they were not densely packed, and the guards hid well to avoid being hit by the arrows.

The arrows crackled and hit the roof, the wall, or the wooden shield of the guardian.

They struggled to pick off the arrows they found, and threw them to their own bowmen. They laughed again: “The Danes think that they can shoot us, but they are just presenting arrows. They will eventually die from their own arrows.”

This is probably the reason why the blue fox even hopes that the enemy can shoot more arrows, so that his shortage of arrows can be alleviated.

Things were quite disappointing to everyone, and the Danes’ archers stopped shooting after only a moment.

This situation made many people curse, “You keep shooting arrows! We are still waiting to capture…”

There were also angry people who changed their previous tacit understanding, and many people simply showed their entire bodies from their hiding places. They stood on the wooden wall, and put small wooden boxes under their feet so that they could be exposed above their knees.

They turned their backs to the enemy from now on, and the next step was to lift their robes to reveal their white flowers.

This scene made Stade extremely nauseated, and it also caused an uproar in the entire Danish army.

“Damn Ross, you’re humiliating me. Keep shooting! Shoot those assholes!”

Originally, Stud thought that one round of shooting would be enough, but five hundred arrows were obviously not enough to kill Ross’s morale.

There are still a lot of arrows on hand, so keep shooting.

He ordered his subordinates to distribute all the arrows, and passed a command to the archers: “Shoot all the arrows!”

In fact, there are not many arrows in reserve, and if everyone gets ten more arrows, they will be gone.

Could it be that the huge army is equipped with a thousand arrows?

It would be better if those fleeing city residents who escaped the war could leave behind a batch of arrows.

The fact is that the clever forest hunters have long since fled to the south with the fugitive citizens and their wives and children, and they have been blessed by the Franks of Schleswig.

The provocative means received a meager response, and the Ross people did not receive sufficient arrow supplements, and what was even more disgusting was that many arrows fell outside the fortress.

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Someone tried to go down the rope to pick it up, but was directly stopped by the old mercenary.

The behavior of the Danish army also proves another thing, that their shooters are a bunch of idiots!

When the arrows were exhausted, Stad cursed secretly: “Is your prestige still there?”

On the other hand, his Danish army, even if it is a large group of armed gangs, the momentum of this group of guys is just vigorous.

He signaled his subordinates to continue blowing the horn. Amidst the dull sound of the horn, the Danish army, now dominated by bandits, began to attack with as many as twenty ladders.

Like the rushing herd of cattle, the battle has begun.

Without labor, the blue fox personally ordered, and the Ross, who was waiting for work and supplemented by arrows, immediately launched a counterattack.

The arrows of the Russians fell from the sky, and some Danes stumbled from the arrows, and some unlucky ones were directly trampled by their own people, and the casualties were unknown.

Seeing that their own people were injured, more people directly raised their shields on their heads, so as to basically block the blows from the arrows.

But this kind of behavior directly exposed the unarmored chest to the crossbowman, making him an excellent target.

Blue Fox’s face was grim. He saw an enemy fell to the ground after being hit by a crossbow precisely. The shooter on the roof seized the commanding heights and shot more accurately.

However, Ross’s number of shooters was too small to contain the enemy’s charge at all.

Besides, this group of lunatics is indeed different from the last time. It seems that they are clearly going all out, and they will never retreat until they destroy the shops and fortresses.

With few casualties, the Danish bandit gangs rushed under the wooden wall smoothly.

They saw the corpses of the previous war dead. The corpses were gray-black, and they could smell the stench when they got close, and they could also see the black blood flowing out.

They are not afraid of slashing and killing, and even enjoy the feeling of killing violently in the blood, but they feel strong discomfort when facing the stench after death, and many people even vomit directly.

The battle is still going on, the long ladder has already started to be built, and with the shields on their backs, the brave bandit fighters started to climb with axes and daggers in their mouths.

The soldiers on standby under the wooden wall were also helping out with short spears, trying to stab the Rus on the wall to death.

The Ross people who have the advantage of the high ground are killing the enemies climbing the wall, but their troops are too small. Except for the archers who keep shooting arrows, the others have to keep an eye on twenty ladders, so that an average of two or three people have to guard them. one.

The ladder climbers, caught off guard as they climbed, were stabbed and fell by the idly Roths, before a second climbed up again.

The Rus gritted their teeth and struggled to maintain the wooden wall defense. They were causing a lot of carnage and death. Unexpectedly, the enemy was laying siege tirelessly.

Although the store fortress is circular, its scale is actually very small. More than a thousand Danish bandit troops surrounded it, because the first ones can plunder the gold and silver mountains first, making them become a group of madmen like drinking the priest’s herbal medicine. Warriors generally climb without fear of life or death.

The gang stood on the corpse of their companions and continued to attack. Their burst of fighting will really surprised Stad, who was deliberately waiting in the rear.

Although he asked to attack regardless of primary and secondary, Stad was not stupid enough to let his own soldiers be the vanguard.

He expected a desperate resistance from the Ross, and he expected frustration from a band of shirtless bandits.

He saw the potential of the gangsters. If this group of people were managed by himself, and they were trained and equipped with good weapons, wouldn’t they be a strong army?

His centurion watched the fierce battle between the bandits and felt very itchy in his heart, so he advised him anxiously: “My lord, it’s time for our brothers to go out? Our war pigs rushed forward, and the brothers swarmed in and shot gold.”

The so-called war pig is the name of the engineering vehicle built by Stad Assault.

Wild boars have a strong destructive force, and wild boars only have this killing trick, and their rough skin and thick flesh are not easy to kill.

These characteristics are also available in siege vehicles. For the time being, Stad still asks his own soldiers to stand still.

He said: “I only have a cooperative relationship with the gang. I will continue to let that gray wolf Karl bleed some blood and kill their prestige. When we stay in Hedeby in the future, there will be no gang to share power with our brothers.”

“Your Excellency is wise.” As soon as the words fell, the centurion laughed.

“Let them both fight fiercely, so what if they grab some gold and silver first? After we rule Hedeby, everyone will not be rich. This will also weaken the strength of the Ross people… Tell the brothers, do a good job of promoting the war pigs now Be prepared, anyone who dares to leave the team without authorization will be killed!”

The Gray Wolf Karl, who fought on the front line, had bloodshot eyes. He and his fellows had temporarily forgotten about Stad, as if this battle was a personal grievance between the bandits and the Ross people.

It is true that a group of Karl’s younger brothers were killed by the Ross people. It would be too useless not to take revenge for this kind of shame.

A batch of corpses were already lying under the wall. Some of the wounded were stabbed by short spears and sharp swords. Although the wounds were very fatal, they would not die for a while, but they were trampled to death very quickly under the trampling of their companions’ boots. The sternum was shattered and died suddenly.

Although the Ross mercenaries fought separately, none of them died, and although someone was injured, it was only a slight injury to the elbow.

The veterans in armor and battles met a group of cold and weak recruits. In this ninth century when fighting purely by brute force, how could it not be a big advantage.

Everyone on Rose’s side was indeed exhausted and out of breath, and more than a hundred people were lying under the wall.

The old mercenaries were very puzzled, what kind of hatred and grievances made their opponents so crazy, did they think that the shops were full of gold and silver treasures?

Pooh!

There are only a pile of worthless wooden furniture and cloth blankets to keep out the cold.

The arrows were about to be shot, and the archers paused, smashing pottery urns, wooden blocks, and throwing all kinds of objects.

The archers, especially the crossbowmen, caused heavy casualties to the enemy, and more than a hundred people lost their fighting power.

The bandit army has more than a thousand people, and has lost more than 300 combat strength in a fierce battle for a period of time. Their fighting momentum began to weaken, but the situation of the Ross people was even worse.

The Dude Ross mercenary coughed while panting, and suddenly found that he was coughing up blood, and his lungs were damaged due to his panting.

Many people really feel exhausted. They also saw the mass death of the enemy, and hoped to kill the enemy further before they died in battle.

At this point in the battle, the walls of Ross’s store were still unbroken, and no one cared about the solid main entrance, because through the cracks in the door, all the heavy sundries piled up behind him had been abandoned.

The chaotic battle continued, and the battle lasted from morning to noon.

Suddenly the horn sounded again!

Stud, who was riding a horse, finished eating half a piece of sour black bread, and greeted the soldiers who had just eaten dry food: “The Ross fool is exhausted, and the bandit army is also exhausted. The war pigs are dispatched! Let’s go!” ”

Stad personally dispatched, once he goes out, the whole battle situation will be rewritten.

The Ross people, who were busy plugging leaks and maintaining the wooden wall defense line, had no time to care about the huge siege weapons that were approaching, and the war pigs also arrived under the chaotic wooden wall.

The bandit soldiers stepped away when they saw this thing appearing, and those armored soldiers held the shield above their heads with one hand, and continued to push the war pig forward with the other hand.

The collision was inevitable!

With just this collision, the guards on the entire fence felt the ground shake.

The armored centurion was overjoyed, tearing his throat and continuing to order: “Continue to charge, smash the wall!”

Zhanzhu first retreated more than ten steps, and then was pushed into the wall by as many as forty people.

The Ross people couldn’t care less about being stunned, because Blue Fox could only take out more than a dozen brothers if he defended himself.

The rest of the arrows were blocking the siege chariot, and the arrows were blocked by shields one after another. Although some clay pots were thrown down, all actions could not stop the continuous impact of the chariot.

Is the final battle about to happen?

Blue Fox himself was at a loss, and the experienced old mercenary already knew that the last moment had come.

He was grabbed and stared at the old mercenary with a pale face.

“My lord! Everything is coming to an end! You must quickly escape into the alley! Whether you can escape depends on God’s will!”

“Ah?” The blue fox looked confused.

He was slapped violently by the old mercenary, and then he beat back the lost soul: “My lord, run away! If you don’t run away, you will die!”

“Then let’s run away together.”

“No. We will fight to the end. We are Odin’s warriors and must not flee.”

Just as they were talking in the messy courtyard, the wooden wall came crashing down!

Even the Slavic warriors who were guarding the city walls fell down.

The attacking Danish army has a great reputation!

The war pig crashed into the wooden wall. To Stad’s surprise, his armored fighters did not charge first, but more than a dozen gangsters rushed ahead.

The wooden wall was no longer necessary for defense, and the Ross mercenaries quickly returned to their positions. They smashed crossbows, built a shield wall, and formed a circular line of defense around the largest building in the center with their swords and axes in unison.

The Slavic warriors were really passionate, and they didn’t participate in the construction of the shield wall. Instead, they screamed and raised their swords to fight the first wave of enemies who rushed in, and died bravely in the chaos.

Only Vady Zdalovic regained consciousness after being stabbed in the arm by a sword, clutching his injured left arm and crawling back into the shield wall.

The collapsed wooden wall quickly opened a big hole, and the same tired bandit fighters rushed in. The shield walls of both sides quickly collided, and the most terrifying zero-distance fight began.

Casualties of the capable old Ross mercenaries began to appear, and some people were stabbed through the neck and fell in a pool of blood, but more dead were gangsters.

At this moment, the armored Danes, who were about to participate in the fight, had just pulled the war pigs that had smashed through the wall to the rear and were about to enter the fortress to fight, when they saw the blood splattered by those who entered first.

After fighting for so long, the Ross people still have the strength to continue fighting, not to mention, they are actually killing people cleanly.

The centurion roared, and immediately lined up to participate in the fight, but was stopped by Stad at the critical moment.

“My lord, do we still have to wait?”

The horses were neighing and swaying excitedly from side to side.

Stade on horseback continued to order: “I will lead the cavalry to charge, and you all retreat behind me.”

“Ah? My lord, this will put you in danger.”

“No matter! Cavalry! Stand up your spear and prepare to attack!”

Stad could no longer care about the bandit fighters in front of him. Anyway, all the gang fighters who rushed in were killed, and some of the wounded ran out, but more gangsters actually waited and watched at the damaged door and fence.

The ambitious gray wolf Karl paid a heavy price in casualties, and he finally gave up. He himself never entered the breached fortress.

Obviously there are still people fighting with Ross Shield, Stad already doesn’t care about the lives of these people.

The cavalry began to charge shortly, his mount took the lead, and the shining spears of the twenty cavalry moved forward in unison, forming a not-so-commonly used Frankish cavalry tactic of riding a wall, and riding a wall abruptly crashed into the Ross shield wall.

With just one collision, the solid defense line collapsed, and many exhausted mercenaries were directly pierced by spears, and the rest of the knocked down people got up again and found that they were unable to form a team.

Immediately afterwards, the armored and energetic “tactical reserve team” rushed up, and the Ross mercenaries had no chance of winning under the absolute disadvantage.

However, these old mercenaries will not give in until they fight to their last breath.

The blue fox hiding in the house saw this scene clearly. He had the last illusion, but now his illusion was shattered.

He ignored Vady Zdalovich’s injury and dragged him directly to the entrance of the alleyway.

The entrance was in the mansion, and the latch hung from the gate, and he pulled back the wooden cover that sealed the passage.

“My lord? Shall we escape?”

“Yes. Escape.” Blue Fox resolutely said.

“But my brothers are dead, and I would rather die with them.”

“Confused! Run away with me now.”

“Where can we escape?”

The blue fox couldn’t bear it anymore, and jumped into the alleyway with the guy whose arm was bleeding, and finally didn’t forget to close the cover from the inside.

As they advance through dark alleyways, claustrophobia is no match for the fear of death.

He kept holding Vady Zdalovich’s arm: “You are very useful to Prince Rus, I want you to live to avenge the Danes. Run away with me now, as long as you escape to the monastery of the Franks, everything will be fine Get better.”

Yes, in the desperate situation, Blue Fox thought of the promise made by that guy Esquier, as long as he decides to convert, that old guy will take him in no matter what the situation is.

[End of this Chapter]