Rise of Rurik Chapter 411

No one hopes that this ambitious expedition will fail just by facing the first hard bone. All tribes cannot afford to lose this person, especially the Mellaren. This victory is related to the stability of honor and power.

Since they have never fought a siege war, the Swedish army does not even have a siege weapon. After all, in this era, even wooden fortresses are rare in the Nordic world.

However, in the face of this dilemma, Olekin thought of what he had learned from the Russian Arik about the attack on the Gotland stronghold by the Russian army many years ago. The situation at that time was similar to what he was facing now. What? !

The wooden wall of the extremely rare stone fortress on Gotland was knocked open by a large tree stump. Olegin has arranged for his son Karl to take someone to demolish the enemy's house and pull out the strongest oak beam. They were tied together and used as a siege hammer to directly knock the **** door open. However, it takes time!

All parties in the coalition suffered losses in this battle, and the Ross people are still serving as spectators. This is really inappropriate!

No, Olekin dispatched Bernardick (now a peasant soldier), who was once a messenger, to deliver the king's order: the Russians must join the war.

Bernardik has always been very fond of the Ross people. Because he has seen the real martial arts of the Ross people, he tearfully informed Otto of the tragedy that he and his brothers had failed to attack and died in a large number of battles.

"What? I thought you captured their fortress. The battle has continued to the present, and there is no gap in their wall?" Otto on the ship was really undecided.

Rurik became the final decision maker. He stabilized Bernardic's emotions and said well, only then did he perceive the problem.

"I see, we will go to war now."

"Fight?" Otto asked cautiously. "They dropped a pile of corpses under the wall. Could it be that we..."

Rurik immediately made clear his intentions, confidently saying: "Just destroy their wooden doors or walls, and we will win!"

"What do you want?" Otto asked.

"Use those." Rurik pointed the torsion slingshot with his finger, "They are easy to remove from the base, let the soldiers take them into the battlefield, we use cast iron bullets to pierce and destroy their walls!"

"This...something is wrong." Otto's words are to remind his son, aren't these weapons said to be relatively confidential?

Rurik doesn't know, but now he's not stuck on the so-called secrecy: "If we have to pay huge casualties to lay down this fortress, we will not do any further battles. Because we no longer have more troops to expand the results, just Use our weapons to end this battle early."

No, all the six torsion slingshots on the Aphrodite were unloaded, and the soldiers also brought their longbows to the wooden crossbow (steel-armed crossbows are not suitable for use) intending to land.

Soon the Ross people landed quickly in more long boats provided by the Mellaren people, and a special team of only one hundred and fifty people gathered.

Like Carlotta, Fisk, Kanuf, and even Telavis, a Corvin, such a group of children came to the burning battlefield and was infected by the atmosphere of the battlefield. They didn't feel scared at all.

Otto and Rülik led a large-scale crossbow army, but they kept their bucklers on their backs, swords and battle axes hanging from their waists.

Thirty longbowmen from Elronburg each carried forty iron cluster arrows.

Warriors with wooden crossbows each have twenty light iron cluster crossbow arrows.

The most important thing is naturally the six-seater torsion slingshot, each of which is carried by four people. It is really a kind of relatively light "heavy equipment", and it can walk as fast as four people carry it!

Others carried ammunition, that is, three boxes of cast iron projectiles. Each cone-shaped projectile weighed half a pound, and each wooden box weighed forty pounds. It can be said that in order to end the battle early, Rurik is willing to take out as many as two hundred cast iron bullets, and then attack a part of the wooden wall with all his strength, can't he still destroy part of the wall?

The coalition forces now need only a gap through which fighters can pass.

At the moment, the night and the wooden walls give people trapped in the fortress not a complete sense of security. Even though the Danish merchants in the city promised to distribute food to ensure that everyone will not starve to death, the biggest problem is that there are not so many reserves in the fortress. Fresh water.

The problem of holding fresh water in a short period of time is not a problem, because the majority of Voskars residents have never seen such a battle in their lives. They just forced the invaders to slow down some offensive disadvantages, and the fortress was still surrounded by enemies, taking advantage of the chaos. The opportunity to escape is gone, and the enemy's purpose must be to razing the entire fortress to the ground.

A few people thought of surrender. They were already whispering to discuss whether they would survive if they surrendered to the "hero" who invaded?

It is as if they had announced that they would respect the Danish leader Hafgen as their leader, so that Voskas would not be attacked by the Danes.

Now it is announced that the life of another master can continue?

But most people don't have this idea at all. Their minds are blank, and they are completely observing the life-saving instinct at the moment, continue to stay on the wooden wall to prevent the enemy from trying to climb and sneak attacks, and further guard the broken door. They have no better way to resolve the crisis and can only struggle.

At least the Voskars still have the capital to stick to it, but the offensive side does not.

The unique troops of the Ross people appeared, and the messy friendly army gave way to them with strange eyes.

Soon, Otto brought the soldiers to the front battlefield.

Behind the broken wooden door were as many as thirty warriors with spears waiting to work. If they dare to try to smash the door with an axe, they are bound to be stabbed to death by the spearhead.

The city gates and wooden walls were already full of corpses, and the enthusiastic leader of Yelmalen, Modsen, had to face an embarrassment. His offensive force was more than 500 people. After being killed and wounded by more than 20 people from the stones and woods falling from the sky, the Yilmalun army evaded all at once. He himself lost face, but he was also pleased that his loss was not serious.

The offensive troops were separated from the wooden wall by a full fifty meters. After their attack was frustrated, at least a thousand people gathered on the frontal battlefield near the main entrance.

The defenders on the wooden wall listened to the rumbling shouts, that was the most terrible threat, and they almost made people nervous.

The wise people realized that the offensive side was not a futile confrontation. The battlefield anger was really good. They seemed to be brewing even more crazy attacks.

No, the crowd gave way, and another troop came.

Only due to the cover of night, the defenders could not see that the new guy had brought something strange.

At the forefront of the battlefield stood a large number of Yilmalen and Anklas, followed by Uppsala and Mellaren.

The Russ are a small army. When they came to the city, Otto decisively roared: "Just do as Rurik ordered!"

Rurik immediately roared with his changed voice: "Torsion slingshot! Lines! Aim at the wooden wall and shoot immediately! Longbowman, crossbowman, shoot the bird on the wooden wall immediately!"

As early as the march, Ricci made arrangements, and the "Ross Arrow Formation" was also the first time to be put into actual combat.

The arrangement of the torsion slingshot takes time, and before that, the crossbowmen give the enemy the first round of blows.

Even a girl like Carlotta can wind the wooden crossbow by stepping, she can do it alone. She put on a shrunken leather armor and a heavy bronze helmet. At first glance, she was just an extremely young warrior. Even so, when she was holding a crossbow, everything was different.

Carlota, Fisk, Kanuf and others, who were about her age, joined the first row of shooting with a wooden crossbow modified from a short wooden bow.

At this moment, Yevlo seemed to be an officer.

"First row! Shoot!"

After getting the order, Carlotta, the girl holding the crossbow, fired her light crossbow arrows.

Whether this arrow can shoot the enemy is second, it has a powerful symbolic meaning, that is, the Ostras formally avenge the hostile forces. Even if she and the residents of Voskars Port have no grievances, the locals are not allies, they must surrender to Denmark, and that is Ostra's enemy.

"Okay! After the first row is withdrawn, the second row will shoot!"

The ten crossbow arrows in the second round flew out instantly.

"The third row, it's your turn."

"Fourth row!"

"Fifth row!"

"Okay! Brothers in the first row, shoot!"

The Ross people deployed five rows of crossbowmen. They are all mass-produced oak goods. The only subtlety is the bronze-cast crossbow mechanism. Its strength is not very good, only close shots can penetrate the enemy's hardened cowhide armor.

Fortunately, the fighting distance between the two sides was only 50 meters. The Russ adopted "alternate shooting that could not be stopped at all." They really couldn't stop until their reserve of light iron cluster crossbows were all shot out.

More than twenty enemies have been hit, and they have fallen to the ground either dead or wounded.

The suppression of the Rus' firepower frightened the wooden wall without the enemy for a while, and the inside of the wooden wall was not really a safe place.

Thirty fighters from Elronburg, they are a mix of Russ and Corvins, and they hold almost equal-height pewter longbows, which are the best bows in the Nordic region in this time and space.

Telavis is young, and Otto, Duke of Ross, is willing to admit that this child can be the leader of Aaron Orava Castle in the future. Now he must play his own prestige on the battlefield, and he will command this force.

The only task of the Elronburg troops was to create chaos through projectiles. They began to launch a neat projectile. Thirty spiral feather arrows with cast iron arrows descended from the sky with a strange buzzing sound. No one can see the arrow clearly. They descended from the sky, randomly piercing the cloth of a lucky man, and then smashing into its flesh.

As the "birds" at the head of the city were cleaned up, Rurik immediately instructed Yevlo to change his tactics.

"Crossbowman! All throws!"

They are still in the fifth row to take over the shooting, that is, they retreat to the end of the line immediately after the launch, return to the team after finishing the winding, and shoot again when the line moves to the forefront.

The "Ross Arrow Formation" is like this. The tactics arranged by Rurik are actually not essentially different from the tactics of King Gustav of Sweden. Based on his time, Gustav had all his soldiers equipped with muskets. Eight rows of flintlockers were arranged in the phalanx and fired alternately. The continuous long-range firepower output forced the Shenluo's spear phalanx to be difficult to get close. With a certain distance, the Swedish army can continue to kill the enemy while keeping itself basically unharmed, allowing the Swedish army to show off for a period of time.

Although the time and space are different, the Ross people are also part of the Swedish army in the time and space.

Rurik pays homage to Gustav meaninglessly, not to mention the ambiguous meaning of the name Gustav, that is, "The Kingdom of Sweden has power over the Gotaland Heights". Therefore, if Olekin kills all the way to Kalmar, and then controls the entire Gotaland, at that time, the name "Gustav" may appear.

Rurik chose the most efficient use of the ranged weapons he could have, and it would be great if these wooden crossbows could be equipped with bayonets.

Ideals are beautiful, but reality is not at all. Crossbowmen need the protection of swordsmen and spearmen.

His eighty-man pure long-range soldier can be so disciplined and able to take over and continuously output firepower in an orderly manner, all because of his usual training. After all, most of them are not Ross people, but mainly mercenary fighters from the Mellaren tribe. They are the "guards" loyal to the Duke of Ross. What they do on weekdays is physical training such as logging. It is to conduct various combat training.

No, the archery master Frazer was among them, but he went to carry a more interesting longbow, his thumb was covered with a bronze finger, and he happily shot the bow.

The continuous arrow strikes scared the people in the wooden castle to flee everywhere, and some warriors holding wooden shields pulled the crying people who were clutching the arrow wounds to a safer area.

Some poor people have been shot, and even Danish mercenaries in chain mail have been pierced through the gaps in the chain mail by iron clusters of arrows from the longbow that fell from the sky and pierced their hearts.

The overall performance of the pewter rod itself is not excellent, but its unprecedented huge draw distance makes up for its inherent disadvantages, and this new archery experience is also unstoppable.

The chaos in Fort Voskars continued to ferment, and the attackers outside the wooden wall were stunned by the actions of their Ross allies, but they couldn't see the situation in the wooden castle, and it was not easy to make comments.

Those Danish mercenaries and businessmen checked the arrows that came in, and saw these strange clusters of arrows, they should be iron, but they were not ordinary iron in terms of feel.

Yes, these people have never seen gray cast iron in their lives, and some arrow clusters have been broken (after all, they are really brittle).

Compared with the strength and shooting, the arrangement of the torsion slingshot is the most time-consuming.

The Ross soldier found a suitable wooden block to set up a torsion slingshot, and froze for no less than ten minutes.

Being immersed in the huge success of the "Ross Arrows", Rurik didn't even notice that his assassin troops were so hard.

After all, it was the first time they put the torsion slingshot into land combat. After all, all six slingshots were ready.

The most thrilling time has finally arrived.

Yevlo received the information and hurriedly ordered: "Brothers, line up in the rear!"

Otto was not idle either. He ordered the pure Ross warriors to protect the fatigued crossbowmen with a round shield, and then gave them the follow-up arrows that he helped carry.

A torsion slingshot suddenly appeared at the forefront of the battlefield, about fifty meters away was the enemy's wooden wall.

Although a little crazy, the Ross people just want to use projectiles to smash through the walls of Fort Worscar!

Now, Rurik felt that it was time for him to perform.

He walked to the side of the slingshot and drew out the steel sword to order: "Everyone! Aim at the wooden wall and shoot!"

The hemp ropes of the vacant ratchets of each slingshot were yanked, and six rounds of cast iron tapered bullets slammed straight over. The formidable torque gave these half-pound cast-iron projectiles strong kinetic energy, but the wooden walls of Fort Worska completely withstood the attack.

Otto, who was watching the battle, felt tight, and the scene also made the eager Ross soldier shouted disappointed. He hurriedly approached his son: "Ruriek, it doesn't seem to work. Maybe we should shoot that door."

"No need! I heard from those fighters that Carl took someone to make a siege hammer to smash the gate open. We won't grab his power."

"However, I can't see the sign of the wooden wall collapsing."

Rurik still looked at the wall and ordered the soldiers: "Keep on! Keep shooting."

Otto was really puzzled at the beginning, but as Rurik asked, "Can I chop down a towering tree with an axe", Otto understood everything.

The pine wood wall that has been around for some years is actually quite hardened. However, he was continuously hit by the cast iron warhead like a chisel, and every shot was causing damage to the wall. The six slingshots began to focus their attacks. The Russ had a lot of projectiles. They had enough patience to violently tear down a section of the wooden wall.

It does take some time to smash the wall, and it takes time to attack the gate.

Karl and his soldiers finally finished the siege hammer! It was two oak house beams **** with ropes, and as many as thirty people held it together and rushed to the door amidst the wild roar of everyone.

The momentary violent impact almost smashed the door with the wall, but the wooden wall still carried the most dangerous blow, or that the wall of an area shared the force of this round of impact.

Carl was already standing under the wooden wall. Under the protection of more warriors holding wooden shields, he was holding the siege hammer desperately, and everyone shouted chants and kept hitting the wall. He could feel that every impact was a weakening of the door, and it was only a matter of time before hitting it.

Otto saw the hot scene over there, and couldn't help but worry about his own actions. Who can open the gap first?

Just as he was anxious, after hitting as many as twenty rounds of projectiles, 120 cast iron projectiles finally smashed a wooden wall into dust!

The hemp ropes that tied the wooden poles were all shattered, and the wall about four meters long collapsed completely, and even the scaffolding behind it collapsed.

Suddenly, the energetic Ruth rose up, and Otto drew out his sword and vowed to take his brothers in immediately, holding the city-breaking power in his hands.

However, under the dim light, a kind of warrior in chain mail suddenly appeared, and they blocked the gap.

The sudden armored warriors formed a wall of people. Otto did not dare to attack rashly for a while, and also frightened the fighters of other tribes from violently attacking.

If the attackers were red-eyed at first, now that they realize that attacking the city is not easy, they have become cautious.

In a critical moment, Rülik saw that the enemy did not file out and try to fight, but stuck there like a fool.

"Brothers, they are looking for death! Slingshot! Shoot them!"

Only fools can miss the opportunity, the strong Ross warrior madly spins the winch, and the greased cast iron pellets are immediately placed.

"Hjuta!" Rurik roared loudly.

Six projectiles flew out, and they could even smash through ships. The wooden shields of the Danish mercenaries were directly smashed through, followed by chain mail, commoner, and finally their bodies. Even a projectile directly killed two enemies!

This is not over yet, the archers who have rested a long time ago are on the occasion of the performance.

At a time, as many as fifty arrows flew straight past. Even without the mighty and fierce steel-armed crossbow, the current weapons inflict damage on the enemy.

Many Danish mercenaries were hit by arrows~www.mtlnovel.com~ They were not dead, their wounds were bleeding, and the pain caused them to retreat.

In this hesitant effort, the torsion slingshot has another round of shooting! This time, their morale collapsed.

The excited Otto was waiting for this opportunity, he pointed at the gap: "Brothers! Follow me!"

Unexpectedly, the Yilmalon and Ankras people who were waiting for work, their soldiers were lightly armed. With enough physical strength, they squeezed the Russian army with an unstoppable momentum, and screamed and rushed into the wooden wall first!

Probably also at this moment, Carl's fight against the wall finally succeeded. The latch and the wooden strips against the gate were broken, including the gate itself collapsed!

Mellaren's "warrior in black" rushed in madly, and Karl himself was also the first to give the panicked goalkeeper a head attack.

So far, despite all the twists and turns, two fatal gaps have appeared in the "violent demolition of the wall" of the Swedish army in a Volskas wooden fort, and the rest of the battle has no suspense. It is that the fruits of victory seem to be taken away by Gasser's friendly forces for the first time, causing Otto and Lurik to be a little unhappy in the rebellion...

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