Rise of Rurik - Chapter 769

[Chapter 770]

The Earl of Bremen assembled his main cavalry to meet the Normans. They lined up on the fence and moved forward in unison.

At the beginning, it was a jog of the horses, but according to the plan, it was natural that they began to accelerate at the last moment.

Theoretically, the cavalry at the head of the line would pass the enemy’s line with their spears, and then stab the enemy with their spears at the right time.

After completing a raid, they often retreat, so that the cavalry behind can continue to kill the enemy.

This is exactly like a wave-like attack. The wave after wave of cavalry stabs will eventually wear down the morale of the enemy. When there is a groove in the formation, this is the moment when the wall-riding charge hits the fatal blow.

However, the Russians and the Franks have completely different military tactics!

The torsion slingshot was launched with all its strength, and just as the Frankish cavalry trotted forward to charge for acceleration, the swirling cast iron bullets smashed towards them.

Compared with beating people, leading people with war horses is obviously a bigger goal!

Even though the horse’s head and chest were covered with a layer of chain mail, the half-pound cone-shaped cast iron bullet hit at high speed, and the sharp head directly pierced through the gap in the chain mail, and directly broke the muscle and hit the heart.

Even the horse’s head was smashed into a skull and its eyes were smashed out.

The Ross army had the experience of fighting the British cavalry, and understood the benefits of intensive use of torsion slingshots.

With one flip of the universe, all the torsion slingshots completed a critical strike. As the most elite combat power, the earl’s heavy cavalry was instantly cut in half!

A large number of horses were injured and fell to the ground, which accidentally delayed the advance of the rear light cavalry.

Earl Hunter’s face was spattered with other people’s blood, and half of a comrade’s face was smashed, and he had already fallen down with his horse.

The sudden scene shocked him so much that he didn’t have time to think, because there were another random arrows flying in the air.

“Raise it up! Heavy arrows! Throw it!” Yefro on the ship’s deck ordered.

The Finnish bow he had already been waiting for was holding a longbow and shooting heavy arrows. The arrow clusters were made of carbon steel with barbs.

However, before the heavy arrows fell from the sky, the crossbows of the Ross army fired first.

Among the few warriors with steel-armed crossbows, they no longer have to complain that they have too much firepower to carry such a heavy thing.

The same half-pound crossbow arrows hit the remaining charging horses with powerful potential energy. Although they couldn’t directly penetrate the internal organs, they also made the chest muscles of the horses stiff.

More war horses fell directly, and even Earl Hunter was not immune to this blow.

“what!”

With a scream, the war horse threw him out.

His mount rolled forward, fell heavily and broke his horse’s leg.

Poor Hunter, the horse’s back was crushing his legs.

For this battle, he specially wore cowhide armor inlaid with iron pieces and a chain armor. His defensive ability was not weak, but even the heavy armor made it difficult for him to escape by himself.

“Ah! My head… my hands!”

“Ah! It hurts!”

He watched an arrow pierce his mostly defenseless leg before realizing that the whoosh sound in his ear was the arrow falling.

Because the legs of the heavy cavalry are mainly protected by two small shields, when necessary, the dismounted cavalry can give up the heavy cavalry shield and use the small shield to protect themselves.

Hunter immediately grabbed the large oak shield he had fallen to cover his torso, only to hear a loud noise, and the tremor made his arms tremble.

Then, looking at the unexplainable sharp object in front of him, he smiled foolishly.

A heavy arrow directly smashed through the oak shield relying on the potential energy of gravity. Thanks to this shield, Hunter did not die on the spot.

The slingshot, crossbow, and longbow fired three prongs, and the first salvo stopped the entire cavalry from advancing.

Most of the elite heavy cavalry were killed or injured, but a large number of light cavalry didn’t even know what happened, and they were still pushing forward bravely.

Besides, here in the Ross Allied Forces, Arik expected the battle to be like this, but in Ragnar’s view, it seemed that Odin bestowed divine power on his brothers, but it was nothing more than shooting arrows. Casualties?

Ragnar couldn’t help striking the shield with the hilt of his sword, and subconsciously shouted to his own people: “Brothers, get ready, we’ll go up and chop them off.”

This was actually heard by Arik.

“Brother Ragnar, wait a minute! Wait for our arrows to completely defeat their fighting spirit, and then rush up and chop them into pieces!”

“Alright alright……”

Ragnar couldn’t help recycling, and right behind him, the ten big ships became ten floating arrow towers.

The Finnish longbowmen no longer needed to aim. The enemy’s cavalry was a big target. Evlo’s order was very simple, just store up the heavy arrows to about the same strength and launch them.

Realizing that the enemy was only unarmored cavalry, the torsion slingshot that took some time to recharge for the second time was replaced with a javelin this time.

These longbowmen were all of short stature, they were all elites carefully selected by Yefro, and their arms were almost as thick as their thighs.

They were professional hunters in their hometown, and now they are the most suitable warriors for manipulating longbows.

The Finnish archers shot freely, with heavy arrows on the left side. Now that the remaining cavalry of the enemy had gotten closer, they began to shoot accurately. After the heavy arrows were shot quickly, they switched to light arrows.

The number of crossbowmen surprisingly surpassed the cavalry who were still advancing. The Frankish cavalry had lost their ability to charge and their formation was chaotic. Their morale had not collapsed and they were already worthy of their profession.

Arik is very satisfied with the current battle situation. At first, he was really in awe of those cavalrymen. Now, it seems that the Frankish nobles felt that the Ross coalition army after the looting was too tired, so they were eager to send horse meat.

“Stay still now?” Ragnar urged.

“continue waiting!”

“Why? I can’t wait.”

“Keep going!” Ragnar thought for a while, and then simply yelled: “You can counterattack if you attack, but my arrows don’t have eyes.”

“whispering sound……”

Ragnar finally understood that the Ross army was not fighting. They were killing the Franks indiscriminately, and they were showing off their strength to themselves.

He also had to admire that if such an army landed in Denmark, even if the Danish coalition forces were assembled, they would be defeated.

Now, he believed in the fact that the guys in Gotland were indeed wiped out by Duke Ross.

Under the absolute blow of arrows, the offensive of the 300 Frankish cavalry was completely disintegrated.

If he knew that there would be such a result, Earl Hunter might stay away from attacking at all, or he would not think about anything, and organize all the cavalry to charge headlessly, even if he led the cavalry directly to hit it, at least he could still achieve results.

Well now, Frank’s ultra-long cavalry spear did not achieve any stabbing results, and the entire cavalry team was brought down!

The last fifty cavalry in despair wandered among the corpses and squirming wounded, but the precise killing continued.

The people operating the torsion slingshots on the big boat were anxiously urging the other guys to work quickly, for fear that the prey in front of them would run away.

The javelin is installed into the launch slot filled with whale oil, and the javelin is precisely focused on one ride.

Continuing to stay here is powerless to attack, and the Earl is afraid that he will die as well.

How can the brothers say that they are also small lords of the locality, at last they are also people with a lot of land, and they are the dignified figures in the village. How can they die on the riverside like this?

Morale collapsed, and troops were absolutely scarce.

They chose to retreat, but after all, more than thirty riders managed to escape from the battlefield.

Seeing someone fleeing, Ragnar really couldn’t stand still anymore.

Regardless of whether Arik had other requests, he slammed the shield for a while, causing the trumpeter to blow the horn.

All the elite warriors of the Stonewall tribe held their swords and battle axes aloft, and rushed towards the battlefield where cavalry were lying down not far away.

This scene is just like Agincourt, except that the overall defense of this cavalry team is weak. The Ross army used weapons that destroyed ships and cut decks to deal with them, which is actually a shield made of paper with a strong spear.

Instead, the horses held down the cavalry and made them unable to move, which was very similar to Agincourt.

As for the follow-up infantry slashing and killing the immobile cavalry, it was exactly the same.

Ragnar’s troops killed without discrimination. He didn’t want to leave any alive, so he stabbed and killed three people himself.

This group of Danes was once besieged by this group of cavalry like prey. Such a great revenge was to turn the battlefield into a meat factory.

Earl Hunter was still alive when he was found, but three bearded Danes with strange braids smashed his head directly with prisoners of war.

The reason for this is only because they saw that this person’s mail armor was very thick, and they wanted to quickly take off this good thing and take it for themselves, so one head delayed the brothers from taking off the clothes.

The rest is no longer a battle, but the carnival of the Vikings picking up corpses.

Aric didn’t want all the good things to be robbed by them, so he ordered slowly: “Brothers, go and take back the arrows as much as possible. Chop off the horse’s legs with the axe!”

Blue Fox, Sputnik, Trarang… a motley crew of Ross Army soldiers rushed up happily.

Everyone didn’t think that they could get any good things from the enemy, but the dead horses were all good meat.

So, when the Ross people went into battle, the battlefield had indeed become a meat joint factory.

Everyone is not a man-eating monster. Most of the dead soldiers were pulled out. To vent their anger, the bodies were thrown directly into the Weser River and allowed to flow downstream into the sea.

A gorgeous corpse was found, his head was missing, and the armor on his body was gone, but the lining was very elegant and not ordinary.

who is he?

The body was pulled to the river bank, where it was urgent to be thrown into the water.

This man was quite different from those mortals, and both Arric and Ragnar felt that this was the “war chief” of the cavalry.

Maybe Blue Fox can know the truth.

No, Blue Fox was invited here, but his identity cannot be known based on the current evidence alone.

“Someone took this man’s equipment. Ragnar, ask among your people if they have ever robbed a gorgeous dead man. At least let me see what good things they took.”

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“For example, this sword?!” Ragnar immediately took out the iron sword he just got. It was intact, even the scabbard was intact.

With this thing alone, the cautious blue fox completely eased his expression.

He looked at Ragnar and then at Arik, and said with a smile: “Now I can say, let’s kill the Earl of Bremen.”

“Is it the local nobleman?”

“Yes, we lost his city, killed his family, and now he himself.”

“Then, my vengeance will be avenged! Many Danes’ vengeance has also been avenged by us.” Ragnar said this with a sense of relief, and he immediately asked: “In this way, there will be no other local fighters to stop us ?”

“It should be.” Arik nodded.

“In this way, we shouldn’t retreat hastily. Let’s continue to loot and search for more property.”

“Enough is enough. My great ship is so stuffed with wheat and wool that it cannot hold new goods.”

Ragnar shook his head disdainfully: “Are you so fond of wheat? Of course, wheat is very important, but what is more important than collecting gold and silver? Now I lead my tribe to rob all the way, and I can live a very good life. We should continue to unite Action to get richer.”

Hearing such a description, Arik also understood the pattern of this person.

Aric didn’t say that he was a man with a big structure. Facing Rose’s development, he also deeply realized the importance of wheat to the entire Principality—more important than gold and silver.

A large population requires a large amount of stored wheat. If there is an expedition mission, carrying a large amount of wheat can not only maintain an army of thousands of people, but also maintain morale and confidence for several months.

Arik insisted on leaving, and Spuyut and his gang also took the captured woman back to Saaremaa Island.

Even Spjut still has another task to do. Although there is some tension in the time to go back to the island first and then go to Britain, it is better to leave the Weser Estuary as soon as possible and go directly to Britain, to the Northumbrians. Ask for wheat tribute.

What else could Ragnar do?

He still has some emotions.

The blue fox patted the warrior on the shoulder: “Brother, if you want to unite, you must unite with our prince. Your people have been wandering for more than half a year, and there should be a warm and safe place to spend the winter. The sooner you arrive in Ross, The sooner the tribe can be stable, even if there is a new looting operation, it is better to put it next year.”

Being coaxed like this, Ragnar’s heart softened.

He also has two sons. The young son cannot be guaranteed safety, and his clansmen are wandering outside. Many people may freeze to death this winter.

“Then let’s stop here! My people have robbed enough money, I hope you Ross people can stick to their promises, my people can indeed buy ten pounds of oats with silver coins at your market.”

Arik patted his chest: “I can assure you. You have to pay attention. You have to follow Ross’s rules in Ross. If some people commit crimes, they will be punished accordingly. For example, they will be fined for logging.”

Regardless of whether the corpse is Earl Hunter or not, there is a high probability that the corpse is.

The poor count was stripped like a hairless pig and thrown straight into the Weser.

Almost all the corpses found were thrown into the river, and the Ross coalition army ate their horses’ legs on the blood-stained river beach.

They also intentionally baked a batch of horse meat, roasting the meat again and then roasting it to become jerky. The coalition forces will make dry food for the return voyage. Due to the lack of conditions for making wheat cakes, the Viking tradition of making jerky Skills are popular, but it takes a little longer.

The most elite force in the entire Bremen area has been wiped out. Is there any other army that can threaten the coalition forces?

Also because of traffic difficulties and information blockage, the main army of Prince Ludwig is now stationed in Hamburg, but the local supplies are not enough to maintain the temporary stationing of the huge army. Out came a batch of oats and bought peace.

The prince has already planned to take the army to Bremen for an inspection first, to see the results of Earl Hunter’s bandit suppression, and then go to Flanders for inspection, and then take the army to the border of Central Franks to give to Brother Golo Taylor flexes his muscles.

It was a mixed army of infantry and cavalry, and they needed a batch of supplies in Bremen.

The structure of this army is also doomed to march at a rather slow speed.

The prince didn’t even know that there was a disaster in Bremen that was no less than the collapse of the sky, and his army was already slowly heading south.

The Ross coalition forces have completed the final reorganization, especially the big ship Salmon Chief, whose flagship position has been given to the Gray Squirrel, and most of the supplies in the cabin have been transferred, except for those prisoners who were asked to cook on fire.

Sail cruisers, sail destroyers, armed cargo ships, oar longboats, a mixed fleet of more than 800 people, they split at the mouth of the Weser River.

The Principality of Ross goes to Northumbria to collect tribute every year, and pays a visit to the Viking Kingdom of York, which has had little contact recently, and then brings back about 50 tons of British wheat.

This encounter is also destined to be a feat for the Saarema Islanders on the ship to leave the European continent to see the world.

The main coalition fleet continued to move along the coastline, and when it passed the mouth of the Elbe, if the cabin was empty, Arik and Ragnar would be happy to snatch it again.

The return journey was safe. Whether it was the Danish Strait or the vicinity of Bornholm Island, the local fishermen had learned a blood lesson and knew that they must stay away from such a terrifying fleet.

No force dared to stop the Ross fleet. They triumphed with huge spoils and new allies…

[End of this Chapter]