Chapter 130： We need siege weapons

The mere three-meter-high stone wall, without interference from others, can completely clasp the bulge of the stone and climb up like a monkey.

After all, Oxen is good at repairing stone walls. For structural stability, even if it doesn't know anything about "basic engineering mechanics", it also knows that the cross section of the stone wall is a trapezoid.

Otherwise, the possible enemy could not help attacking, and the stone wall would collapse by itself after some wind and rain.

Only by building a trapezoidal wall can the wall stand for a long time in this era when the Viking tribes don’t know what concrete is.

Because it is trapezoidal and the surface is particularly rough, Ross has the opportunity to climb up without relying on a huge ladder.

The defenders certainly will not give the attacker a chance.

The Ross people are basically unprepared when climbing walls. They are generally very young. This is the first real battle in their lives. They have no experience in siege warfare. Only some climbed to their houses to clear the snow. experience. They did have climbing skills, and as a result, the best climbers were the first ones to be stabbed to death with a spear by the defenders.

Seeing that he climbed the wall and was devastated, Haro Zuosen, the leader of the Rus war commanded under the stone wall, was furious. He immediately ordered: "Arik! You slam their wooden door with someone! Bump it! Go in! Kill all the enemies! "

"Okay! Don't be afraid of death, follow me!" Arik raised his steel sword and shouted, leading more than 20 strong men to abandon the obvious advantage of climbing the wall, and they began to attack the wooden door.

The muscular Ross man slammed into the wooden door like a bull. Although the wooden door swayed, it was still very stable.

At this moment, behind the wooden door, there was a clear roar in Norse.

"Brothers! Hold on! Don't let these pirates break the door!"

"Bring another piece of wood and hold the door!"

The guards guarding the city, they have all been informed that to stick to it, those families in the north will inevitably send troops to help. As long as you persist until the reinforcements arrive, everyone will get a huge sum of forty gold coins because you have guarded the castle!

The guard used a thick wooden pole as a door bolt, and also carried five extra thick wooden poles to the ground, with the wooden door on the other end.

No matter how powerful the Ross people are, how many people can they use to break through such a reinforced wooden door? It's amazing.

However, the Ross people are not just a stick.

Arik raised his sword and ordered: "Give me an axe! We will completely destroy the wooden door!"

Two brawny men bare their arms, their thick chest hair soaked in sweat.

They have become berserkers in the true sense. They manipulated two huge long-handled classic Nordic forest axes to cut down the towering trees and tried to smash the wooden doors blocking the way.

After only five hacks, two big holes appeared in the wooden door.

Combatants from both sides can already see each other by virtue of the big hole.

The brawny man with an axe looked through the big hole and saw people in chain mail and metal helmets behind him, and he couldn't help but feel nervous.

Suddenly, many spears were poked into the big hole, and the spear directly pierced the muscular man's body. The two holding axe eyes widened, then squirted two mouthfuls of blood, and were stabbed to the ground abruptly.

It was the first time that Arik participated in a real battle. He had never seen such a scene before, and the whole person retreated subconsciously. The same is true for others!

Now it seems that if he rashly approaches the wooden door, hoping to continue to chop the wood into pieces, he may be stabbed to death by the enemy first! It is absolutely different from the previous battle. The enemies in the castle are just like yourself, they are all warriors who dare to fight and kill!

It's not that Arik is a coward, he just doesn't want his brother to be killed needlessly.

He retreated, and as a result, more people began to retreat.

Everyone realizes that the army needs to rest for a while, to find a good way to attack.

Many people looked back at the city wall and noticed the dead brothers at the root of the wall. They also saw a lot of smoke rising from the city wall against the background of the dark blue sky at dawn. Everyone was happy to understand that those brothers who kept shooting arrows had already set fire to some houses in the castle.

Even Haro Zossen understood that as long as the chaos continued and the Ruths rested for a while, the next impact should be able to successfully rush in, kill the enemy, and get all the money.

The Ross people retreated a little, only the archers continued to set the rocket on fire.

Moreover, these arrow hunters will not stop until the reserve of pine resin is used up.

Just when the attack was launched, a burning arrow hit the retreating Oxon's back.

The mink coat he made for a large price was immediately stuck to the burning sticky resin, and the clothes quickly started to catch fire.

"Ah! Help!" Oxon jumped and asked for help, but after doing so, the fire burned even more.

His men hurriedly cut his belt with a knife and took off the burning coat.

Now, Oxen could only watch his baby turn into a flame with heartache, and witnessed that there were still a large number of flame arrows falling from the sky. A strong sense of fear acted on my heart, which was only lined with linen cloth, staggering into the stone room regardless of the cold outside.

"Damn! My coat is twenty gold coins! Damn pirates, I'm going to kill you."

His words caused dissatisfaction with the guards: "My lord, you should be glad that the arrow is a bone arrow. If it is an iron arrow, you may be dead."

"Huh?" Oxen, who had already hid in the stone room, couldn't help being taken aback. He gasped and suddenly felt the pain in his back: "Quick! Can you see if my back is bleeding?"

"My lord, your clothes are not even damaged."

"Then why it hurts so much!" Oxon gritted his teeth and held back for the time being. He stared and looked around, only to see that many houses had fallen into rockets and flames had risen.

In times of crisis, it is impossible for all houses to put out the fire in time. Oxen is thankful that his most important houses are all made of stone for greater safety. The design is first for sturdiness, and secondly for fire protection.

He hurriedly ordered the four guards around him: "You take my family to the big stone room! Go! We are going to hide. Then you go to fight, fight back the pirates, and put out the fire."

The so-called big stone room is actually the material used by Oxon to place all the wealth.

At this moment, he couldn't pay attention to his image. He staggered to the big stone room to hide, lit the oil lamp on the wall, and comforted the two crying wives and two shivering daughters.

The light from the oil lamp illuminates more than a dozen large suitcases in the stone room, and the suitcases are full of gold and silver!

The four close-fitting guards were also not authorized to enter this room on weekdays. Now that they came in, when they thought that the suitcase that needed two strong men to lift together was full of gold and silver, evil intentions sprouted on the spot.

After all, the guards had the upper hand in reason. The four of them, like door gods, followed the arrangements of the gold master, and immediately walked out of the room, standing at the wooden door holding a sword and shield.

What is the situation outside? Oxon's fat body was sitting on his cash box. His two wives only knew that the castle was under a terrible attack. Once they were lost, everyone's lives would be worrisome.

"Don't be afraid! My people will kill the pirates." Oxon tried his best to comfort his wife and concubine, but also to convince himself to settle down.

Suddenly, the locked wooden door on the back was hit hard.

Oxon subconsciously held the hilt of his short sword and shouted, "Who is it?!"

"My lord! Good news, the pirates have retired."

That is the voice of the guard.

"Huh? Really?!"

He stood up abruptly, the fat on his stomach trembled, and then hurriedly opened the door.

The guard's face was full of joy, and Oxon subconsciously thought that the pirates could not attack consciously, so he retreated angrily. "Okay! You did a good job, I will give you gold soon."

When I heard Jin Jin, the guard's smile became presumptuous.

"Go, I want to see the pirates run away."

Now Oxen really thought that all the pirates had escaped, and suddenly he became confident again, and walked out of the big stone room pretentiously, but what he saw was still an extremely disgusting scene. What's more, why are there flame arrows sporadically shot in from outside the wall?

And on the steps at the top of the wall, why is there still a person squatting in his body, looking defensively? !

"What's the matter? Didn't the pirate escape?"

"No! Your lord. The pirates didn't escape, they just retreated." The guard explained.

"Damn it, make me happy for nothing." Oxon stomped his feet, and pointed to several burning houses: "Go and put out the fire."

"But my lord, our water has run out."

"No water? Since the pirates retreat, you open the door and fetch water from the well in the village. It should be okay."

Upon hearing this, the guards really felt that the arrow hit not the gold master's back, but his head.

The guards were not moved by this bullshit, and soon, sweaty Okenstein hurried over: "My lord, why did you come out!? Go into the stone room and hide."

"Okenstein, why don't you put out the fire?! Forget it." Oxon stamped his foot. "I'm going to the wall, I want to see where the pirates go. Why are they still shooting arrows."

"My lord. The wall is dangerous."

"Bah! You mean I should be a coward?" The words from Oxon's mouth were unbelievable. Okenstein always felt that the gold master was a coward, and since he wanted to do it, let him go to the wall.

At this moment, Oxon had a glimmer of hope. He wore a copper-skin-reinforced helmet on the wall, showing his two eyes to see, where are the hateful pirates retreating? They were not far away at all, as if waiting for dawn to launch another attack.

The pirates were still a large group of people under pressure. A sense of fear instantly dissipated Oxon's courage, and he almost fell to the ground.

"Quick! Help me back. Okenstein, you must stand up to these **** pirates, or we are all dead."

"Then you can go back quickly and take good care of the gold. Repel the pirates and remember your promise!" Okenstein said viciously.

After that, Okenstein looked at the enemies who were stubbornly reluctant to leave, and sat down and gasped deeply.

All the Ross people are going to capture this castle. Now the sky is blue, and the sun will rise soon.

After dawn, enough light is more suitable for siege.

I have to say that the stone wall built by the Gotland people is really a tricky defense method. The Ross people are the first time they have encountered a siege war in the true sense, and they must think of a reasonable countermeasure.

After some melee, the surviving warriors were already tired. They gathered together more than a hundred meters away from the stone wall, sitting on the ground gnawing their own dry food.

There are also some people who were ordered by Harrodsson to look after the prisoners captured from the fishing village.

The fire blazed from behind, and the air was scorching hot.

Kharosov, who was gnawing on dried fish, faced the stone wall and couldn't think of a good idea for a while.

He called the evacuated Arik to his side: "Child, this **** wall, we must break it. We must move fast, otherwise we will have no time to retreat.

"You want me to find a way?!"

"My brain is stupid, you are a young man, do you have a way?" Kharosov asked.

"The way? There is one, we have to build a siege weapon!

"Siege weapon? Ladder? Or what?" Haroldoson asked eagerly.

Arik slapped his chest abruptly: "Everything looks at my means. I led someone to chop a big tree, we held it and smashed the wooden door open. Then you took the other brothers and rushed in behind us, you What do you think?!"

Kharozov was overjoyed, "then go quickly."

Arik did what he said. He immediately summoned twenty brothers of the same age and ran to the woods near the village to start his action.

Although it was the first time to siege the city, Arik had already thought of a way to make a "siege hammer" to smash the wooden door open assault.

In the failed siege battle, more than ten brothers died under the stone wall. With intense anger, the warrior with the axe smashed it, and a large pine tree was cut down and fell to the ground rumblingly.

The Ross people were doing simple processing with an axe. Twenty people worked together to lift the trunk, which was nearly half a meter in diameter and nearly five meters in length, and screamed into the rest of the crowd.

Everyone was taken aback by the sudden appearance of the tree trunk.

Regardless of the soreness of his arm, Arik held up the shiny steel sword that killed many enemies, calling on his own people: "Brothers! We will use this tree to break the **** door. Then you will follow us in and rush them in. Cut and kill them all. The gold is ours! All of you can have steel swords!"

In fact, as long as Arik holds his sword high, the sword itself is a kind of strong spiritual inspiration.

Those holding iron swords have now replaced them with captured battle axes or their own spare axes.

Why? Actual combat proved that ordinary iron swords bend after a while, and the blades are generally notched. If such a sword is not repaired, it basically loses its usefulness.

Look at Arik's steel sword, it's still as perfect as ever. To get it, the only price is to pay a large sum of money! A huge sum of sixty silver coins!

For any young warrior, that is a huge sum of money that takes years of hard work to accumulate, and now as long as one takes the last risk, the goal will be achieved!

Everyone was motivated by this agitation, and the Ross people began to cry frantically, roaring loudly.

This roar is also telling the defenders that a new attack has begun.

The Ross people seized the time to eat dried fish and drink their own water. Some people also ate the seized rusks.

They caught as many as 70 prisoners in the fishing village The prisoners were made up of women. It's not surprising that the Ross people didn't have any reason at all during the melee, and when they calmed down a little bit, they began to specifically arrest people. As a result, soon after they acted, they began a decisive battle with the counterattack Men Kemberg.

Those who were captured were the wives and daughters of those men. Today, there are more than a hundred corpses of Sikkenberg men lying on the battlefield, as well as a large number of shields and battle axes.

The injured Ross was carried to the rear, and there were more than twenty bodies of his own.

The sky finally brightened, and Arik realized that his physical strength was recovering well. He looked at the sun that was about to break through the horizon in the east, and stood up proudly, holding the steel sword aloft: "Brothers, the final battle is here. Let's go!"

Four hundred Ross warriors cheered up again.

Arik took the lead. Behind him were ten selected warriors with long-handled great axes. Behind him, there was a huge pine wood that was carried by twenty people.

More heat gathered into a black mass, closely following the pine wood man.

Looking at this situation, it's self-explanatory what they want to do. twenty fou