Rise of Rurik - Chapter 765

[Chapter 766 The Fall of Bremen]

The conical cast iron bullets were fired at a height of about 50 meters. This half-pound piece of iron is small in size and has limited damage to equipment. Basically, combat soldiers will die if they hit it.

Thirty torsion slingshots shoot freely, and the arrows cooperate with the iron bullets to further cover the firepower.

The Ross Allied Forces focused their attack on the north gate of Bremen City, which was the largest gate, and as long as they broke through here, the battle would almost be declared over.

The coalition forces continued to advance slowly, all making Viking battle cries very rhythmically.

Behind them, arrows and projectiles were fired frequently, which was the so-called Xu Jin barrage offensive in the ninth century.

This kind of dismissal of the Frankish army has indeed never been seen, even Ragnar and his people have never seen it.

The only thing that can make Ragnar rejoice is that he participated in the siege battle as the attacker who took advantage of it.

The coalition forces had advanced to the point where an arrow could be shot, so the Bremen defenders, who were hit hard by arrows and projectiles, finally began to stretch out their bodies and hold bows to fight back.

The defenders shot arrows at the risk of being shot, and even hid behind the wooden battlements. The single wooden bow faced the sky at a high angle.

Sensing the defender’s counterattack, the attacking Ragnar immediately ordered his brothers to use the huge round shield as an umbrella, making the defender’s arrows meaningless.

But the defenders have lost their highest-ranking commander, and the interior is already in disarray.

A large number of people fled in all directions because of their timidity, and even fled to the south gate of the city, and began to spontaneously carry the sundries piled up on the city gate.

Some people even put down the rope and abseil from the city wall.

There are no soldiers capable of intercepting the fugitives. Everyone has given up their illusions. The so-called city seems difficult to hold. Let’s escape before the Normans kill wildly!

If the Normans start to divide their troops and surround the city, it will be too late!

The fugitives couldn’t afford to carry the soft goods, and the merchants put the existing money in the linen, and brought the armed men they hired, completely disregarding the responsibility of guarding the city, and tried their best to escape from the city.

The spirit of those who persevere in the resistance is worthy of the admiration of the Ross coalition forces, which makes the victory of the coalition forces a little more respectable.

As the fleet drifting on the Weser took control of the city’s docklands, the few men who descended by rope were hit immediately.

The distance is already very close, and the torsion slingshot can be aimed precisely.

The main body of the city of Bremen is in the shade on the south bank of the Weser River, and the dock area is on the east side of the city. After people were shot and killed near the east gate, all those who tried to flee the city left the city wall due to the situation.

The fleet began to shoot freely, and “iron hailstones” fell from the sky, mercilessly piercing through the thatched roofs of residential houses. Even if wealthy families installed terracotta and stone tiles, they were still smashed through viciously.

Some people were simply smashed to death at home, and there were also injured people who were smashed to death and pulled out in the winding and dirty alleyways.

Fleets posed greater fear than destruction.

As many as 5,000 people flocked to the south gate of the city, which was still in a safe area. Due to the high concentration of people, the already cumbersome work of moving debris blocked by the gate became extremely slow.

Everyone wanted to escape as soon as possible, and a terrible stampede also happened. The situation became extremely chaotic, and there were no orderers at the scene.

The survival instincts of all people gathered together, and as a result, only a few people were able to successfully find another way to lower the rope from the city wall and hang out of the city.

There are even people who fell from the wooden fence and were injured, so they couldn’t run.

How did the Russian army know about the chaos that erupted in the city due to fear?

Aric only wanted to break through the city gate as soon as possible, so he rushed forward personally and ordered Ragnar as the commander: “I have told you the method! You and your brother push the car with all your strength! Be sure to close the gate directly!” Hit it, and if it doesn’t work once, hit it a few more times.”

“Okay!” The excited Ragnar roared and asked again, “What about you?”

“We will ensure that all the turtledoves on the city wall are shot.”

Ragnar didn’t need to say much anymore, he held up his iron sword and ordered the three hundred warriors under his command to attack with all their strength.

The siege vehicle was pushed by as many as 30 people, and the most amazing thing was that there were two groups of people in the front pulling two ropes for further traction.

The rushing car was running on a rather flat dirt road, and a heavy and huge object actually reached the speed of a man running.

This speed is naturally not as fast as a cavalry charge, but its astonishing weight means astonishing potential energy!

Blue Fox did a thorough investigation last year. The largest south gate has a winch system that can lower the whole wooden gate from above.

For the general army, putting down such a wooden door and sticking it in the Chengmen hole becomes an unsolvable existence.

Now the car crashed into it unstoppably, a miracle with all its strength!

The entire wooden door was not knocked down by the car, but the whole door was knocked down, and the collapse of the door even pulled down the winch that would be placed in the city gate pavilion.

The door was knocked open, but not quite.

The debris behind the door became a kind of “stepping stone”, forming a slope with the collapsed door, and the door still exposed a huge hole.

A slope appeared, would that man hold back his hunter instinct to rush up and jump?

Ragnar and his men held up their shields and shouted excitedly with the prisoners, and he himself continued to shout hoarsely and took the lead in the charge!

There is no need to climb the wall with long ladders, and even the defenders shooting arrows on the city wall ran away.

“In the end, it was an easy victory. I really didn’t expect that there were so many of them, so why couldn’t they take down this city.” Arik disdained the mixed excitement and complained to himself.

“You mean Ragnar and the others?” Geefro asked casually.

“Exactly. We attacked the city with ease.”

“Is there any special reason, they don’t know how to fight at all.” Yefro’s explanation is concise and unceremonious, and in Arik’s view, this is the truth.

Then, as another elite in the army, Lan Hu watched the gate collapse, and was stunned, like a wooden chicken, stuck in place like a wooden stake.

Blue Fox’s shoulder was suddenly patted by a big hand.

“what?!”

“Don’t be stupid!” Arik snapped.

“…”

“It’s time for us to go to town. Blue fox, remember where their granary is. All the wheat, wool or other goods are ours.”

“Ah! Then the Danes and they…”

“Rooting gold and silver? Let them go first. I don’t care now, I only care about how much wheat I get for the people in my hometown.”

If life is full of crystal clear stones, gemstones still become meaningless.

The stained glass made by the Ross people is comparable to real gems, and the society of the Principality of Ross has accumulated a lot of hot money that should have circulated in the European market and then grabbed a lot of gold and silver from the Frankish cities. Arik did not have high expectations.

He didn’t realize much in essence, it was precisely because he loved his younger brother deeply, he felt that it was a blessing for everyone that his younger brother was a prince, and it was the right way to do well what his younger brother entrusted him with.

He still can’t realize that the construction of the Principality of Ross requires a lot of labor, especially paying enough remuneration to the labor force to cope with the huge amount of physical energy consumption. In the final analysis, there is only one reasonable remuneration – food.

Food is the construction capital of the principality, and wanton plundering from the past can immediately increase the speed of the principality’s construction.

Except for a small number of people guarding the vehicle-mounted torsion slingshot, other Ross Army soldiers began to enter the city.

They broke through the slope formed by the collapsed wooden doors, entered the winding alleyways of the city, and immediately saw corpses in disorder, as well as Ragnar’s Viking warriors who were making up their swords.

There was blood in the city, and the horror made Lanhu tremble involuntarily. He thought he was strong enough, but after all, seeing the indescribable number of corpses and the dark red soil trampled by his boots made him afraid.

“Blue Fox!” Arik’s roar woke up the trembling people.

“what?”

“You take us to the granary! Quick!”

“Okay! The granary is in the Neibao District.”

Unlike Ragnar who led people to rob houses, more than 200 people from the Ross army entered the city and rushed straight to the earl’s castle.

On the road leading to the castle, the blue fox came once, and now it is really familiar to revisit the road in the old place.

Along the way, some city residents were still fleeing in fear. They collided with the Ross army and were immediately shot and killed mercilessly by men with crossbows.

Arik had no intention of fighting, and as for carrying out the prince’s order of “retaliatory killing”, he still put the looting of food first.

The warehouse area and the earl’s castle are almost integrated, and the wheat in stock is the earl’s wealth. Due to the extra three years of grain tax collection for Denmark, the current treasury is really full.

The shallow water-filled trench of the inner fort blocked the way of the Ross army, but there were more than a dozen defenders shooting arrows in despair on the opposite side.

The arrow hit the wooden shield, and the Ross army’s mindless charge was forced to calm down.

“Crossbow! Shoot the birds that get in the way!”

At Arik’s order, the crossbows lined up in an array and were busy loading and unloading, never thinking that the Finnish longbowman from Gevlo would be one step ahead.

This group of master squirrel shooters now had better bows and higher-quality arrows, and a round of volleys destroyed the opponent’s defense.

“Good job, Gevro. Others, wade over and lower the drawbridge!”

Let’s talk about the small circle of moats in the inner castle, which is a simple circular earth pit without any sharp wooden stakes, and now it only introduces a small amount of river water.

Lying in waist-deep water, the Ross warrior walked to the opposite side and cut the cable with his sword. The heavy suspension bridge crashed down, and fierce warriors rushed in.

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The Earl of Bremen was not in his territory at all. Regarding the attack on his territory, he had led his cavalry to intercept the Norman fleet fleeing along the river.

Ragnar’s so-called pursuer was actually the Earl of Bremen himself.

The earl never imagined that his hometown would suddenly fall. The city wall he was proud of once blocked the Normans, but the people who broke the city were actually done by the Ross people he despised.

The Earl didn’t know at all, if he had reached a trade treaty with Ross’s envoy last year that would not hurt Ross’s dignity, how could there be such a fierce battle?

With Rurik’s method, if he can peacefully trade with people far away to gain wealth, he will definitely not take the risk of fighting.

But it is also reasonable to say that the earl despises the Ross people of the foreign land. He is an old nobleman who is holding the three lions banner of the old Frank.

The city is full of shouts and shouts, and many voices gather together to become a roar that cannot distinguish information.

Arik and his gang completely ignored what Ragnar would do, and finally the Ross army completely occupied the Earl of Bremen’s house.

With the desire to make a fortune, he ordered to fellows who had the same dream: “Freedom to rob! No fire is allowed! Whoever grabs the gold and silver will be the one who gets it, and they will be punished if they rob each other! Remember, the enemy will not leave a living! For us Revenge for brothers who died in Hedeby!”

A family tragedy belonging to the Count of Bremen has happened!

Crazy warriors rushed to the inner fort, which was mainly made of stones, and all the valuables of the earl’s house were taken by the army.

Arik was busy looking for food with the blue fox, and the granary was successfully found, and the neatly stacked sacks inside were astonishing.

“I smell the aroma of wheat! Ah, how much wheat is there? Can our boat pull it out?!”

“You should inspect the goods first.” Blue Fox reminded nervously.

“That’s right.” Arik pulled out his sword and then stabbed a sack. The steel sword was pulled out, and a large amount of dark brown particles gathered in the bloodletting tank.

“It’s rye? I’m a little disappointed.”

“What’s so strange about this? I told you that people in this area like to grow rye. It doesn’t matter, it can be transported back to brew a lot of kvass.”

Arik thinks the same way. Any delicacies made from rye have a unique sourness, and the special ale (referring to kvass) brewed from it has a natural sweetness, which is really a wonderful drink.

He arranged for a group of people to firmly control the granary, and then searched other houses.

After a while, Yefro personally escorted a man and a woman out of the castle, and bumped into a group of people led by Arik in the courtyard.

Besides the horses, they captured five draft horses that were used to pull mills and carts, and they were happily stroking the mane of the horses.

“Brother, look here. I seem to have captured two nobles. Oh, no, I have already chopped off another cub.” Yefro called out.

“Noble?” Arik hastily pulled the blue fox out: “You come to identify it.”

An elderly woman, with disheveled clothes and blurred eyes, sat sideways on the ground dully.

Another juvenile-like man was beaten with blood all over his face, curled up on the ground and trembling.

The blue fox holding the sword walked over and took a closer look at the woman’s face to understand everything.

“It’s a nobleman, the wife of the Earl of Bremen. And this child, who will be the next Earl.”

“Heir to the earl? If you really become an earl,” Yefro gasped in surprise, “wouldn’t it be equivalent to my status.”

“You are all earls but completely different. You can recruit 5,000 Finnish soldiers, but this Earl of Bremen can recruit up to 500 people.” After that, the blue fox turned around and asked Arik: “How to deal with these two soldiers?” Noble? My suggestion is to stay, and maybe I can ask the earl for a ransom afterwards.”

“Is this necessary? You are such a businessman.”

Arik didn’t want to dawdle, and directly motioned to Yefro.

In this way, the Finnish executioner raised his knife and fell, and the result was two nobles.

Poor Count Hunter of Bremen, he was worried that he would die in the war against Denmark, so he made a will in advance saying that after his death, the eldest son would inherit the title immediately.

However, the earl’s two sons became the ghosts of the combined forces of Ross and Ragnar.

Blue Fox was a little touched, after all, he had a relationship with these two dead people once, and discussed with the Earl’s family whether he could trade peacefully with Ross.

Today, Rose responded to the arrogance of the earl family with absolute force and killing, which is very in line with the joyful grievances of Viking society.

But Yevro didn’t feel anything about the killing. He went up to the tower and saw the more terrifying killing scene in the city square, and even saw Ragnar leading people in and out of the Frankish church, even looking like a man in black.

He reported the matter to Arik, and estimated that Ragnar would rob the church of all the gold and silver.

Arik himself was indifferent, so he only asked Blue Fox to introduce the church again: “That church has only a small amount of gold and silverware. During my stay there, I ate black bread and clean water every day, and even Stinky cheese and eggs are luxury enjoyment. Damn, those priests have the seven deadly sins (commandments), especially not to overeat. They don’t allow overeating and become half-starved, otherwise why do you think I am what I am now when I am fat .”

“But I heard that you believed in their gods, but you didn’t touch them? At least those guys took you in.”

Could the words of a savage butcher mean anything else?

Blue Fox suddenly felt uncomfortable, and asked back: “You still expect me to sympathize with them, thinking that I will explain it to them. Look at these two dead bodies. I sympathize with them. They are going to die anyway. It is kind of you to kill them with a sword. ”

“I don’t care.” Arik shrugged.

“I don’t care.” Blue Fox responded, and said: “Actually, that monastery was supposed to be the future residence of that old guy Eskil. If he learns that we demolished St. Peter’s Church in Bremen, maybe He’ll be mad. I’m still a merchant, and believing in their gods is just a stopgap measure, and I only have Prince Rurik in my heart.”

“Then you are ruthless. But I like it. You… are Odin’s warrior. Come on, let’s go over there and have a look.”

[End of this Chapter]