Rise of Rurik Chapter 954

Rurik was standing in the first row of the array. His clothes were not outstanding, or the clothes of the army's main soldiers were too outstanding to highlight his specialness.

But all the warriors knew that their king stood in the front row, and the king stood with them, and everyone was very confident.

Likewise, they have almost no way out.

Everyone knows that even if there are a lot of long boats parked on the river, it will take some time to jump on the boat and escape in a short time, even if it is orderly.

There is almost no possibility of everyone escaping the battlefield. Behind it is the Elbe River, and everyone is fighting.

The battle-hardened warrior faced the cavalry that formed the wall on the opposite side, and he didn't think it was fake. They have gone through many bad battles, relying on willpower to suppress their inner fears. With prayers like "Odin bless me" in their hearts, they hope for a quick victory.

The Russ Army and the Allied Saxon Army chose passive tactics, and Rurik waited for the enemy to attack forcefully. If not, then create conditions to "invite" them to attack.

Does provoking them cause them to attack immediately?

If a few Frankish prisoners were killed in public in front of the battle, it would have angered them.

Rurik was reluctant to do this despicable act, as there were many ways to provoke them.

Now, all the spears and halberds were placed at their feet. At first glance, the entire army was a sword and shield player, a large group of soldiers standing upright, a fleshy pillar that could be directly washed away by a cavalry group.

Rurik began to shout, and all the warriors uttered Viking battle cries.

This roar is very rhythmic, and nearly 10,000 mouths shouting at the same time is a powerful deterrent. If it is not enough as a means of provocation.

Nearly a hundred warriors with crossbows walked out of the array under Rurik's instruction. Their fully charged weapons are placed on the grass, and they are separated from the array to fight against the adult wall, as if they are going to engage in a performance art.

Count Robert, who was busy lining up and preparing to dash forward, didn't understand, he still needed a little time to rectify the lance.

"What are the Normans doing? They have sent some people to challenge us as pioneers?" He said to himself, and continued to stare.

Suddenly, the nearly 100 Rus soldiers turned around abruptly, took off their standard trousers and kept twisting their waists.

A piece of white flowers appeared in front of the Frankish cavalry. Robert, who was originally confused, turned into a rage in an instant.

He is a great nobleman, a decent man! This kind of humiliation is really unreasonable.

"A bunch of idiots." After speaking, he raised his spear high and shouted at his subordinates: "In front of them is a group of lowly maggots, they dare to humiliate us, let us stab them to death! Trumpeter! Blow the trumpet !"

The Frankish cavalry moved to the sound of the horn, and the straight spear began to be lowered.

They made such a move, and what happened next is self-evident.

Rurik's serious expression quickly turned into urgency. He tore his voice and shouted at the soldier in front of him who was in charge of humiliating the enemy: "Come back quickly, grab your weapons and lie down!"

The Frankish army was about to charge, and the arrow had to be fired.

Robert looked left and right, his left arm was in extreme pain from the injury, but this battle was about honor and the safety of the country. He tied the reins around his shoulders and clamped them under his arms. He held the spear in his intact right hand, and his iron sword was deliberately placed horizontally on the saddle, so that the spear could be quickly drawn and chopped after the spear was broken.

Like the rest of the cavalry, he had small kite shields on his left and right legs in the stirrups. The whole body is covered with chain mail, and a layer of leather riveted iron sheet armor is put on the torso.

Most of the elite soldiers have achieved such absurd assembly, and it is precisely because they are ready for a decisive battle that they deliberately take out this "decisive battle armor" and put it on their bodies.

These elite cavalrymen are all dressed in the heavy armor of Western Europe of this era.

The elite of the Frankish army was known as the "Iron Man", which was the military basis for their expansion into a great empire.

Facing a group of "iron men", the Ross Army is not afraid, after all, the brothers are all "iron men".

Now, Robert feels that everything is ready.

"attack!"

As a result, the Wall of Cavalry began to advance slowly and gradually accelerated.

The ground was shaking, and there was an attack from the wall, and Ludov's Saxon army on the right flank was already in danger. In fact, if it wasn't for the last stand, many people would have already run away. Luckily, Liudov had something to say, and anyone who dared to escape would be hanged.

Everyone knew that Ludov dared to do this, and just a few days ago, ninety defeatists had been publicly executed.

According to the previous arrangement, the standing soldiers bent down one after another, first stepped on the end of the spear with their right foot, and held the shaft of the spear with their hands staggered.

Thousands of people bowed almost at the same time, which puzzled Robert, who had already entered the accelerated charge and was getting faster and faster, and didn't have time to think about why.

Because, all the Frankish cavalry has entered the effective strike range of the arrow.

"shooting!"

With Rurik's order, the only chance to shoot is now, 1,500 crossbowmen, and the torsion slingshot sandwiched between them, fired nearly 1,600 arrows and javelins in an instant.

The javelin has powerful potential energy, and even if it is a double-layered armor, it ignores the armor of people and war horses.

Javelin and horses pierced through the cavalry, and immediately wiped out a combat effectiveness.

Those light arrows clattered on the cavalry, as they had encountered on the Weser River. Many arrows did pierce them, and the arrows pierced through the chains and into the flesh, but it was not fatal at all. Even because of the absolute mental excitement, the soldiers had no sense of pain, and the arrow feathers on their bodies were obviously a burden to bad luck, and they continued to charge with their spears.

Only the heavy arrows fired by the steel-armed crossbow caused damage, but it was still not as good as the javelin fired by the twisting slingshot.

Above the head of the Ross army formation, endless whizzing sounded past his ears. Those were all kinds of long-range weapons on the battleship. More arrows and javelins hit the depths of the Frankish cavalry's attack, causing another casualty. But there is also only one chance for the ship-borne armament. The so-called wait for the two armies to meet, and the rest is pure **** hand-to-hand combat.

Rurik didn't expect a single salvo to collapse the elite of the legendary Frankish army. The arrow's job was to delay the enemy's assault, and it would be better if it could disrupt the rhythm.

"Crossbowmen! Withdraw! Spears! On!"

Rurik ordered this, and all the shooters didn't care whether they heard the verbal order or not. After they had finished the only shot, they carried the guy in their hands, and they rolled and crawled into the army formation.

Even Rurik, his evacuation was disgraceful.

Just like a groundhog, Rurik almost crawled into the infantry array, and when he stood up again, his infantrymen had already revealed their hidden spears and halberds.

Just look at these warriors!

The soldiers in the first three rows all had the end of their spear against their right foot, and their entire right leg was stretched back. The person's left leg is half-bent, the entire torso protrudes forward and sinks, and the hands are intertwined to hold the spear shaft, and the entire spear extends forward at an angle of about 30°.

The fighters in the back, because they were already a little far from the front line, lifted their spears to almost the same height as their faces, and jabbed forward sharply after preparing to engage.

This is already the tactic of spear formation in the late Middle Ages. Combined with the use of arquebus and steel-armed crossbow, the so-called Spanish phalanx walks sideways in this way.

It's 840, and the Continental War hasn't had much intrigue.

Even if he saw the Normans suddenly discharge a dense array of spears, this tactic was the first time for Robert to see it in the true sense. He instinctively felt dangerous, but unfortunately the whole army could not stop.

The cavalry warriors were almost on their horses, clutching their spears for the final blow.

The soldiers of the Ross Army gritted their teeth, everyone's heads were blank, and their bones were almost broken, waiting for the final collision.

Now, the collision happens!

Gu silk

Behold!

The lances of the Frankish cavalry began to poke at the Rus soldiers, piercing through them.

In the same way, more spearheads pierced deeply into the flesh and blood of the horse, and the halberd even hooked the cavalry off the horse.

A famous cavalryman was stabbed with blood by the spear wall, and a large number of spear shafts were completely shattered in just one hit. The impact of the collision was too ferocious, even if it was just a sharp wooden spear, it pierced the gap in the armor, or forced the warhorse to suddenly come to a "restricted horse".

Because of the horse's victorious instinct, it sees a lot of sharp objects and instinctively avoids them because it means death from injury. Unlike human beings, because of some great cause, knowing that he will die if he continues to do it, he has to face the charge.

The cavalry did not even break through the weakest right line of the Saxon army, even though the latter suffered greater losses.

The cavalry was embedded in the spear formation to varying degrees, and the battle line became extremely distorted, but the erosion of the cavalry had been completely contained.

Countless war horses were stabbed and killed. If the war horse slammed into the front of the battlefield and slammed into the front, it would still be stabbed in the soft abdomen by the spear.

For a time, the risk of fighting was flying, the war horse was torn apart by countless spears and halberds, and the shards were everywhere, and the viscous internal organs of the horse flowed everywhere...

The Ross Army can no longer take care of their own casualties. Some of their comrades are screaming while covering their **** wounds, and no one is going to pull them out of the battlefield.

The most dangerous moment had passed, and the wall offensive of the Frankish cavalry was disintegrated.

Rurik saw that the enemy's offensive was delayed, and the soldiers continued to stab with their spears intact.

He drew his steel sword: "Follow me! Don't let them escape!"

Just after giving the order, he gave the flag officer behind him an emergency order.

Just across the Elbe, more armed fighters watched the battle.

Fisk's cavalry waited for orders, and when he saw that the **** battle had broken out, the fire in his heart was almost uncontrollable.

"Steady! Hold still! Wait for the order!"

He kept reassuring his subordinates.

Until I saw the wildly waving flag.

"It's time! Go!"

As a result, more than 200 Rus cavalry stood out from the city of Hamburg and ran all the way on the pontoon. They are all light cavalry, holding recurve bows, hoping to quickly enter the battlefield to block the enemy's possible escape routes.

The waving flag was also a signal to a thousand Danish infantry floating on the river.

Ragnar and his men saw what the craziest battle was, and were thankful they didn't face the horrific crash.

Now it was finally his turn to appear.

Ragnar himself, as a rower, ordered the entire army to charge desperately.

A long ship docked, and the Danish warriors even jumped off their bare backs, ignoring the cold water flowing on the shore, holding a round shield in one hand and a variety of weapons in the other.

They are the most classic Viking warriors, and now they go into battle, taking part in the slashing of "blood-slushy cavalry".

But all this is irrelevant to Robert.

Count Robert was not dead, but his legs were crushed by the war horse. His legs weren't broken either, but he couldn't get out because he was pressed so hard. After a sudden collision, the war horse was killed, and he himself passed out.

This is a big gamble.

Riding the wall to break down the enemy line and drive it into the sea is a win. Being resisted by them, the cavalry had no momentum at all, which was a small loss.

If it is not only without momentum, but the cavalry is also surrounded and difficult to escape, and it will be defeated and lost.

After all, the heavy cavalry that was besieged was not only invincible with both fists and four hands, but the besieger would directly chop the horse's hoof.

The stagnant horses had their hooves cut off, or were directly stabbed in the abdomen by steel swords.

The Pharos army was quite experienced in dealing with the cavalry. They killed the horse and caused the heavily armored cavalry to fall. It is not easy to stand up in heavy armor, and such a fall often means that one leg is pinned down by a warhorse.

The Rusian soldiers rushed up and slashed the cavalry with swords and tomahawks, even if they had armor on their bodies.

The life or death of the supreme commander is uncertain, or because all the senior commanders took the lead out of the honor of the nobles, they are now dead or wounded, and the command center has disappeared.

When some Frankish cavalry instinctively wanted to escape from the battlefield, Ross's light cavalry gods descended from the sky, and they used face-to-face cavalry to deal with these heavy cavalry who could only fight with swords.

Fisk asked the brothers to target the exposed areas of the enemy's skin, especially the face and neck, and the time to test their usual training was now.

Precise arrows killed a few Frankish cavalry, and more arrows went through iron rings and embedded in flesh. Although they were small in number, in the mode of extremely rapid fire, they madly shot light arrows at the enemy. There were more than 200 cavalry, and their shooting effectiveness in a short period of time was no less than that of a thousand foot archers.

The road to escape was blocked by the Rus army. They didn't even have time to be shocked by the enemy and the cavalry, so they were blocked by more sword and shield players.

On one side was a **** battlefield, where the Normans were hacking and slashing everywhere, and on the other side were the Normans blocking their retreat, and they began to attack.

Ragnar didn't talk nonsense, the steel sword struck the shield a few times, even with a general attack order for everyone.

A thousand Danish soldiers swarmed up, not only blocking the enemy's retreat, but also entangled with them. It was purely because of the number of people that they did not let any Frankish cavalry slip through the net.

The river beach became a battlefield of flesh and blood, the blood of humans and animals merged into streams, and the bright red water poured into the Elbe River.

This river has once again drank blood after the defeat of the decisive battle in the Saxony Restoration War in 797 AD.

The difference is that in the war that year, Charlemagne killed 4,500 captured Saxon soldiers by the river in revenge, and used the "Rome torture" to drain their blood, and then threw their bodies into the Elbe River. red.

This time, most of the blood flowing into the river was the blood of the Frankish army.

In fact, the battle that took place on the banks of the Elbe outside Hamburg in the autumn of 840 was the most brutal battle that Saxony had experienced so far in the Third Restoration War.

In today's continental war, a decisive battle often determines the prosperity of a country.

Liudov knew very well what the current situation meant. The coalition forces with Russ and Denmark miraculously blocked the attack of the Frankish elite, and now, the coalition forces were completely annihilating it.

This means that even if Ludwig organizes the army to go north again, he either needs time to prepare, or he can only go north with the main force of the southern line. Even so, Ludwig was unable to show his elites, so he could only fight with the Saxon army as ordinary warriors. The same Saxon nobles who won and obeyed whoever won, Ludov believed that he would get their inspiration from them because of this battle. visceral recognition.

In the battle on the south bank of the Elbe River, the balance of unbalanced power between the two sides will be quickly leveled due to this battle.

Do not leave the enemy alive, UU reading www.uukanshu.com controls the battlefield and kills the enemy. Such ruthlessness is no longer an ordinary Norman, and once he thought that the commander was Rurik the King of Ross, Ludov didn't think it was too outrageous.

Rurik really won't be merciful because of who you are. In the fortress of Aleb, this brat used this cruel method to deal with the Saxon army. Now the two sides are united, and the same means are used to deal with the Franks.

For a moment, Ludov felt that he had betrayed the Lord by cooperating with the Normans who believed in heretical beliefs and slaughtering frantically in the blood mud. Those who were covered in red were like Satan's apostles.

"Faith? Repent in the future! Robert, you didn't give me a chance to negotiate, didn't you?! It's not my fault that the battle has become like this, it's all your responsibility."

He saw that the Rus people were cleaning the battlefield, and he also ordered his subordinates to join in and try to grab all the iron tools that were urgently needed.

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