Rise of Rurik Chapter 1277

The defenders were still fighting back, and the wooden wall wasn't as fragile as it was supposed to be, even if it had been built hastily.

The building of the wooden wall in the Kingdom of Ross was based on a set of old principles. First, after cutting down the big trees, the heavy wooden piles were placed in the deep pits dug in advance and covered with soil for compaction in the same way as the masts for the big ships.

These thick wooden piles are the base points of the wall, and a large number of small timbers are assembled into the wall based on these base points.

In Ross, the plans for the wall were all the same. The attack was blocked, and the attacking fighters began to try to throw the cables and hang them in the gaps in the wooden wall, and cross the wall in a purely climbing way.

This trick was ineffective, and all those who attempted to climb fell under the precise strike of the crossbow, and even fell into the icy water of the trench.

The door-ramming operation continued, and after spending a lot of time on the attacking side, the soldiers on the attacking side were pleased to find that the wooden door had been knocked crookedly. There were obviously a lot of cracks in the wood that made up the wooden door, but the door did not collapse.

This is due to the large amount of soil piled up by the defenders, and this wet soil has been frozen hard by the continuous snowfall.

Of course it is possible to break into the door, but the premise must be to completely destroy the door. And this... is just a battle on the outer wall.

The core of the Vitebsk fortress is the inner city, which is the strongest defense. Ai Wende and his brothers still have cards, but if it is not a last resort, he is not willing to stick to the inner city.

After all, sticking to the inner city means that the fortress is completely surrounded, and the brothers are in a desperate situation. The two sides are still shooting arrows at each other, and the well-armored defenders are literally invulnerable.

Considering that armor-piercing arrows are very precious, the soldiers simply began to pull out the enemy's bone cluster arrows and insert them into the card slots.

Leaning on the battlements, he raised the crossbow above his head with only his hands, and pulled the trigger at the approximate position of the enemy.

Anyway, the enemy positions were extremely dense, except for those who were wearing armor and holding large wooden shields, the rest of the personnel had poor armor.

Some soldiers even simply untied the fixed cable of the crossbow, and the bow arm was a recurve bow imported from the grassland.

Such warriors leaned against the battlements, surrounded by captured arrows handed over by their companions. Soldiers put on their fingers, do not draw the bow to the full, and do not aim. Often, three arrows are placed on the bowstring and thrown into the air. Relying on the gravity of the earth, a large number of arrows attack the densely packed enemies at a vertical angle.

More and more people did this, and Ai Wende hastily ordered the soldiers in the inner city to no longer be on guard. At first he thought that the East Gate would soon collapse under such a strong attack, but the result was just the opposite.

Regardless of whether it was the cold that froze the moisture in the hastily built wooden wall to solidify it, making the wooden wall extremely strong, or the fact that the enemy had figured out the correct way to attack the city but their strength was still weak.

Since the enemy has indeed gathered all its forces to attack the east gate according to the observation of the high-level sentinel, the defenders will put the main force into it.

Ai Wende and his brothers are really stretched, relying on the dynamic defense mode to constantly correct their defense center.

Fortunately, the four torsion slingshots that were originally used for bear hunting and in excellent condition have finally begun to exert their tactical value.

The slingshots owned by the Vitebsk fortress are not these four. All twelve torsion slingshots will not be equipped with torsion units unless necessary.

The cables and tendons responsible for torque output are usually stretched out, and the damaged strands are removed, and the new strands are replaced with viscous whale oil or seal oil.

The torsion unit is fixed by two left and right ratchets, so that a large number of strands ensure the initial tension. The Kingdom of Ross has tried to be as suggestive as possible in this regard, making the torsion slingshot a heavy weapon that all young soldiers can repair by themselves. However, Aiwende and the others are not professional engineers, and the weapons repaired by them cannot be in the best condition at all. .

Even so, based on the principle that it is enough to successfully launch the javelin, all twelve torsion slingshots were pushed onto the city wall by the defenders of the inner city.

"At a 45-degree angle, adjust the elements."

"Quickly charge these big guys."

"Hey, bring the javelins over to see how they work? May the gods bless you, these reassembled rags are easy to use..." Most of the defenders are young people, and the best-equipped ones are fighting in the front, while the overall quality of the soldiers in the rear is relatively low.

As these heavy weapons are all thrown into the battlefield, their existence greatly boosts the combat power of the weak.

After some fiddling with the young man, the captured spears were huge. They were chopped into approximate lengths and stuffed into the chute of the torsion slingshot.

"That's it. Guys, are you ready?" A younger and older boy imitated the appearance of an adult, raising his steel sword high in the fog and snow.

"Go!" With an order, twelve torsion slingshots of varying quality launched a salvo at the most efficient shooting angle.

A group of black shadows streaked across the air, and with the swishing sound, they leaped over the heads of Ai Wende who were fighting at the east gate at a terrifying distance, so frightened that the brothers couldn't help grabbing their crossbows and shrinking their heads.

All the javelins hit the enemy line and caused some casualties immediately.

"Stupid! You almost killed me." Ai Wende yelled at the rear, but Nai He was completely submerged in the sound of killing.

Seventy percent of the soldiers gathered at the east gate. They transported arrows, picked up the enemy arrows that fell on the ground, and sent them to the fighting brothers at the top of the city.

For the time being, no one was injured and lost the ability to fight, but they were ready to rescue the wounded and replenish their positions.

Looking at the current situation, the enemy's bows and arrows don't even have the qualifications to accompany their helmets and plate armor. What everyone is most worried about is being accidentally injured by the javelins of the torsion slingshots behind.

On the inner city wall not far away, the slingshot team began to fire round after round. The javelin transformed from the captured spear has a small wrought iron spear, which can barely pass through the arrow shield of the attacker by relying on gravity, but cannot cause substantial damage.

As for those tribal warriors who only wore thick leather clothing, their small shields were simply unable to withstand such a blow.

They instinctively avoided the blows of javelins and arrows, and their positions naturally became comprehensive. Vadim, who was watching the battle, saw that the army did not flee, but simply avoided the arrows and did not suppress them. Anyway, the current siege battle does not require too many infantry.

Because the tactic of climbing the wooden wall is always shot by the enemy, and the wooden wall is covered with snow, the bad skid makes climbing really not a good tactic.

The key lies in those fighters who hit the door head-on! Vadim gritted his teeth deliberately and kept going.

He then ordered the messengers: "Notify the drummers, go all out to beat the drums, we can't lose in momentum!" The Smolensk soldiers who beat the skin drums vigorously waved their arms and soon sweated profusely. He took off his thick leather jacket, exposed his steaming upper body in the fog and snow, and showed people a weird and sturdy image.

Apparently inspired by the sound of the drums, the soldiers who were struggling to hit the door became more energetic... At the same time, the defenders in the inner city also went into battle lightly.

The heavy plate armor is not worn, not even the linen lining. Facing the torsion slingshot with chests that had just grown chest hair, the young soldiers of the Principality of Ostara were just like their grown-up parents.

The "Little Golden Retrievers" are needlessly cold, and they work hard to shoot javelins more efficiently. During this high-intensity loading launch, two of the twelve slingshots were suddenly broken with the disintegration of the torsion unit.

"Damn it. It's broken at this juncture? Brother, are you okay?!" A soldier heard loudly about the soldier injured by the disintegrated parts.

The young man suddenly saw several wounds on his chest, which were savagely pulled out by the ruptured cable, and blood was oozing out.

"It's okay. I can't die from a small injury."

"Let's take it easy. You are injured, so let's leave for now."

"No need! I'm not a coward. Let's go, change positions and continue fighting." After that, the wounded soldiers continued to shoot regardless of their injuries.

There were only ten seats left in the torque slingshot group. Since there were a lot of captured javelin arrows, they could shoot without restraint.

Even, the powerful conical cast-iron projectiles for close combat, which they have not used until now. The scuffle at the east gate of the outer city lasted from morning to noon, and both attackers and defenders inevitably showed fatigue.

At the beginning, Vadim, who was determined to win, became more and more dissatisfied with the status quo. Is it really unreasonable that the **** gate has not been broken?

Looking at my own soldiers again, those brothers who were bare-chested and beating drums were panting one by one, and the soldiers who were afraid of being shot by the arrow avoided one after another.

There were only about 200 people leaning against the wooden wall, and many of them carried wooden shields made of branches to resist the sneak attack of arrows and destroyed the wooden wall in their own ways.

"Could it be that I want to stop here?! God..." Vadim imagined the gray sky, and the endless fine snowflakes scraped his face like a knife.

The morale I finally boosted up, now the army is getting tired of war? I can't afford to lose at all. Can't I knock down even a small fortress?

So can I breach their other settlements? God, am I living like a joke? ! Vadim, who questioned himself, became more and more uncomfortable, and suddenly he made a bold decision.

In the meantime, a horse galloped wildly in the snow, and the horse's hooves kept kicking up snow blocks. A well-dressed man braved arrows and rushed towards the trench and the broken bridge.

Ai Wende felt that it was the enemy general, the damned Vadim, who took the lead in charging, after all, a group of cavalry was attracted to join the battle behind him.

He and his brothers tried to shoot the horse rider, but after all, they miscalculated the time difference, allowing the horse rider to roll off the horse with a brisk walk, and quickly entered the scene of the door collision protected by the arrow shield.

The soldiers under the anti-arrow shields were panting, and the gate of the Ross fortress was obviously devastated, so how could they be determined not to collapse?

They were surprised at the sudden appearance of the great leader Vadim, and before they had time to exclaim, the leader sternly ordered: "Don't dawdle, cowards, follow me and break through their doors now!" The following cavalry dismounted, and their horses immediately became guards. Army's preferred target.

They didn't care about their horses running away after being hit by the arrow, and rushed to the city gate one after another, and together with the chief Vadim, they rushed into the city.

At this time, more than forty fresh troops with excellent physical strength went into battle. Vadim and his guys hugged the big tree trunk, chanted and continued to hit.

Standing in Evande's position, the enemy leader may be directly below him. Jump down and draw your sword to wait for an opportunity to kill him?

Maybe he can complete the assassination, but he must be hacked to death by random axes. And he gradually felt that something was wrong.

Although the brothers are still shooting, they have been unable to prevent the attackers from rushing to the gate. Each impact caused a vibration, the vibration felt stronger and stronger, and the feeling of foreboding was frightening.

"Ai Wende!" A brother standing under the wall shouted.

"What's the matter!?"

"Come down quickly! The door is about to crack!"

"Cracked?!" At this moment, the east gate was on the verge of collapse. Under the constant impact, the gate made of wooden poles finally broke on a large scale. .

There is even a great possibility that the entire wall will collapse as a whole. Ai Wende decided to hold on for a while, and the brothers on standby in the city immediately built a shield wall and prepared to fight.

Everything... is like fate. There were creaking and twisting sounds everywhere, the sound was so loud that it overwhelmed the shouts of killing.

Vadim, who was protected by the anti-arrow shield, was overjoyed: "Haha! The **** wall is about to fall! Prepare them to fight." While speaking, he had already clenched his sword hilt.

The east gate and a part of the wooden wall began to tilt as a whole, and Ai Wende suddenly realized that he could not stand still, so he simply scrambled and scrambled to the bottom of the brothers from other cities in the area.

"Boss, what should we do? Fight with... and them?!"

"What? Are you afraid?"

"I... I haven't killed the enemy yet."

"There will be a chance soon, and then I will become a real man." Ai Wende patted the young brother on the shoulder, but at this moment he has the demeanor of a big brother, as if the soul of the dead Jellinger is possessed.

Ai Wende calmed down and spoke like an adult: "Just like we learned! The crossbowmen are in front, the shield wall is in the back, and the concave arc defense!" Vitebsk's outer city wall and inner city wall only shot an arrow Although there are some buildings in the interval, all valuables have been removed, and the rest are just some empty, leaky barns covered with snow.

There is a lot of open space in the interval, and there is a passage that has been stepped on by people, leading directly to the east gate of the inner city. Compared with the east gate of the outer city, the east gate of the inner city has a higher level of defense, but it is now half open, just to leave a way for the fighting defenders to retreat.

"Steady, stay steady. Even if the wooden wall collapses, you must stabilize the battle line." Ai Wende used to be the spiritual pillar of the brothers. He seemed to know how to fight, but in fact he was trying to catch ducks on the shelves and was forced to be calm by reality. Ruthless role.

In the constant impact, the gate and part of the wooden wall collapsed. Vadim was overjoyed, baring his teeth like a hungry wolf about to eat raw meat, but he suddenly saw a shield wall appearing inside the city wall, and... an enemy with some kind of deadly bow.

His complexion changed drastically, and he lay down cleverly, while the crossbow of the defenders had already launched a salvo. The attacking fighters who had just broken the city were out of breath. They thought they had won the victory after breaking the city, but their sweaty upper body was pierced by deadly arrows, some pierced the heart, or pierced the lungs, and some were hit in the eye sockets , Breaking through the head, unparalleled sudden death.

Only a few people such as Vadim escaped the disaster. But the defenders' counterattack was not over. Up to now, there are only eight torsion slingshots that can still be launched, and the situation of two of them is no longer optimistic.

The good news is that since it's close range combat, they don't have to recharge to fire. Under the intelligent command of Ai Wende, the torsion slingshot at the rear cooperated with the brothers in front to play crossfire, and the javelin swept across the enemy who had just climbed out of the collapsed wooden wall.

The soldiers with crossbows had already retreated behind the shield wall, and quickly stepped on the strings, launching a round of volleys at the enemies who rushed up again.

Now, long-range combat is probably over. Ai Wende and many brothers didn't have any extravagant hopes. In the open area, as many as forty warriors in plate armor built a large shield painted with Ross's logo to form a concave shield wall.

And those soldiers with crossbows rushed all the way to the inner city, not for anything else, just to seize the time to rush to the city wall and continue to fire support.

Vadim himself is a Russian who is extremely sharp in fighting, and he doesn't want to die hastily. He leaned on the broken wall and brandished an iron sword to cheer for the soldiers pouring in from the break. Most of the huge Smolensk soldiers didn't know the real situation in the inner city. Now that the huge hole in the wooden wall was finally broken, victory It must be within reach.

As long as you rush in, you will have everything you need, including money and food! All debts owed to village landlords will be offset by loot, ordinary farmers will become rich overnight, and the revenge of relatives and friends who were attacked and killed by Ross bandits will be settled today.

A dead tree came alive. The demoralized morale returned to high, and the Smolensk tribal fighters, who were infected by enthusiasm, rushed to the gap. They completely ignored the comrades who had been shot and died, even if they hadn't died, they stomped the wounded soldiers to death with a pair of feet.

However, it wasn't until they broke through the outer city wall that the city was once again a scene of corruption. The Ross bandits are already ready for battle, and many tribal fighters are subconsciously stunned, and they are pushed and shoved by the brothers behind to join the fight... Tribal fighters wearing leather armor, only animal skins, or even thick linen clothes, are all over the place with all kinds of weapons rushed towards the enemy.

The fight has already begun. The thrust of the steel sword immediately became red, and the unprotected arms of individual defenders began to be cut and injured by the enemy's axes, but the armored defenders had the upper hand.

The young warrior roared and pressed his shield against his body, stabbing wildly in front of him. The mad **** of attack worked well.

Over their heads, javelins and arrows roared past, constantly weakening the strength of the Smolensk Army.

The Smolensk army had consumed a large amount of arrows and spears in previous battles, and now that they had entered the fortress, they no longer needed these long-range weapons.

But for other sober-minded fighters, what if they break the wooden wall? ! The Ross gangsters still have an inner city. Although the **** inner city is small, it is stronger no matter how you look at it, and the brothers just broke the outer city to destroy the strength of the boss.

On the other hand, for the defenders, all the Ross flags in the inner city were clearly hung up in the fog and snow, and blue-and-white fighters kept appearing from above, forcing the attackers to dodge the arrows before they could fight the defenders.

However, the earth has become dark, one tribe warrior after another fell in a pool of blood, but there is no corpse of the Ross bandit here.

Because no one in the defenders was killed! Even if the injuries were only minor, the number of injured people was very small.

Ai Wende didn't expect to consume the entire enemy army with a hundred brothers at all, even if the current situation was more favorable to him.

Considering that the brothers are few in number and have limited physical strength, this advantage will disappear after a period of fighting.

Looking at the formation of the enemy rushing forward and back, he had to admire the enemy's courage. Even if one wave of enemies was defeated, the second wave rushed up again, and the shield wall line would definitely collapse under the continuous wave of people.

"Shield wall! Retreat slowly." Ai Wende's meaning was very clear, and the brothers retreated to the inner city in an orderly manner while fighting.

The enemy still rushed into the wall with the dead body, entered a more open area, faced with a lot of dead bodies and Yinhong land, and had to avoid the flying arrows, javelins, and cast iron projectiles at all times. Watching the blood-stained Ross bandits pour into the inner city.

"Quick! Close the door, close it quickly!" Ai Wende, who had just entered, was panting. He simply threw away his shield and dragged a wooden pole to the gate himself.

The soldiers on the city wall continued to output firepower, repelling those who tried to storm the gate

After the "Smolensk Warriors" finally forced the enemy to look for places to hide. All kinds of sundries piled up desperately towards all the gates of the inner city, and even the trolleys filled with snow were pushed to the east gate of the inner city, and the wheels were removed immediately to become a real blockage.

The inner city of the Vitebsk fortress has become like a closed-shell turtle, and the defenders have no intention of going out of the city to fight in a short period of time.

Evande, who had finished blocking the door, leaned against the wooden wall, panting, raised his head and thrust the sword fiercely into his side.

"This time... this time should be over. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com I am here to kill the enemy. Vadim, may Odin freeze you to death..."... At the same time, facing a more difficult situation , Vadim was heartbroken.

Has the Ross bandit fortress been breached? The city is broken, but not completely broken. No matter from which point of view, their inner city is stronger than the outer city's defense, and do they still have the capital to continue fighting?

The soldiers can't move anymore! The elite soldiers trained by themselves suffered great losses. Seeing that there was no hope of attacking the city, a large number of soldiers retreated out of the gap out of breath, trying to take the injured comrades out as much as possible, and trying to avoid the attack range of Ross bandits' arrows.

Combat, once again anticlimactic. But this time, Vadim felt that what he should think about was not just combat.

"Ah..." Leaning on the wooden wall of the outer city, facing the open land outside the city, there are many new dead bodies and dying people wriggling in pain in the snow.

"I didn't lead them to break the city, I'm afraid I have to face their monstrous anger." He couldn't help looking at the **** sword in his hand, and bad thoughts came to him: "Could it be that I want to use it to commit suicide? No!" He resolutely dismissed the idea of ​​suicide: "I haven't lost yet. As long as I get food, the rest of my army can continue to fight."

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