Chapter 136： The Great Battle in the Eastern Sea of ​​Gotland

In order for the naval battle to be able to have an advantage in the opening of the battle, Kharozov began to make some adjustments.

How to fight naval battles, he has a good teacher, that is Otto.

In principle, naval battles are the ultimate victory by jumping to help fight, Otto always believes that this is the best way. In order to gain an advantage, the strongest fighters should be placed on the most powerful ships.

In addition, how to have the hard dragon head decoration on the bow of the ship hit the side of the enemy ship's chances can not be missed, but also when the contact is about to shoot some arrows, throwing short spears, you can also get some tactical advantages.

However, the strength of the bow is always not satisfactory. Throwing a short spear often causes the entire spear to sink into the sea, and the cost of losing the entire spear head is too high.

The intensity of war is always getting bigger. Realistic pressure forces soldiers to use their imaginations, come up with new tactics, and invent new weapons.

Jumping gang is still the first key to the victory of the naval battle, but after the assault on Sikenburg, the scene of the army fighting in the fire really shocked Kharosov's aging heart.

The archers have achieved good results in the battle against the castle. The archers are also hunters. Their shooting skills are very good, so they can hunt fifty rabbits a day. Humans are not rabbits, and warriors with weapons often have hard leather armor. It is difficult for ordinary bows to kill with ordinary arrows unless the archer accurately hits the enemy's neck after the ship approaches.

There may only be one or two chances to shoot at close range, and then it will be a jump to help fight.

Harozov thought of the fire attack, so he must gather all the archers, and hurry up to gather the archers on the flagship before coming into contact with the enemy, assault and transform the ordinary bone arrows, and tie the linen strips to soak the remaining pine oil. I had to prepare some slow-burning fire in the pottery urn.

Kharosov has already started!

The Ross' fleet began to change, and the young soldiers who stood up were preparing for battle.

The boats started tossing ropes at each other, and some people untied the ropes of the boats that were towing the supplies.

The captives noticed some ships appearing in the distance. Looking at the actions of these Russ, the fool knew that a naval battle was about to take place.

These captured women began to shrink into a ball again. Some prayed that they would not be buried in the ocean, and some were eager not to have war.

They probably knew that the ships that appeared came from Gotland, but in this world, the Rus were defeated and they were just slaves to another group of people.

Because even if it’s Gotland, it’s really appropriate for people who have lost everything to become slaves to others.

After thinking about Kemberg, these women don't regard other people living on the island as their own, and they have exactly the same attitude.

After all, the guy who lives in the castle doesn't regard the fishermen under the hillside as his own, let alone people from other family powers and fishermen's settlements.

The captives only asked for self-protection, and their shrinking into a ball really caused much less trouble for the Ross people.

During the operation of Harozov, there were five boats, towing all 20 of his seized boats, and one hundred people were in charge of guarding them. In the event of an accident, the hundred people guarding the prisoners will also row to participate in the battle. They are the realistic reserve team. Of course, Kharosov has no intention of deliberately designing a reserve team.

The other fifteen ships are the main attack force!

The wide oars of the Ross people became a bridge between the two ships. When several oars were placed on top of each other, people could walk freely.

All the archers began to move to the flagship, and a rapid production of flame arrows is underway.

The combat command should not be involved in the frontal combat, but should control the overall situation from the rear.

Harozov believes that naval battles should be like this, even if the big leader Otto is here, he will command like this.

Hearing Harozov’s decision, Arik was really dissatisfied: "Harozov, it’s okay for you to stay behind. You are old, let us young people fight in front."

"Huh? It sounds like you are dissatisfied with my decision?"

"Of course, you are the leader of the war, you should have taken us to fight."

"That's land warfare! This is sea warfare! Arik, follow my plan. Since you want to continue to be a hero, then I can say that you are now a real war leader, not a deputy."

"Are you serious?" Arik asked excitedly.

What else can I do? Young people are brave and fierce, and full of desire for victory.

Harozov knew that he really shouldn't fight rashly, because he had to be responsible for the entire fleet. If he died suddenly, everything would be messed up. The more naval battles in the sea area, the more tactics the fleet must be. This is not land. Basically, the losers fall into the sea to feed the fish.

Arik climbed along the oars to the other boat, took off his leather armor in front of everyone, and also took off the linen lining, revealing his chest hairy upper body and the wound that was beginning to heal .

He yelled desperately: "Brothers! Now I am the leader of the war! Follow me and take off all the shirts! We are going to be berserkers!"

As soon as he heard the word "Berster", the young man really went crazy with it.

Everyone screamed desperately, and Harozov stared, isn't there just a bunch of berserkers there!

Arik continued to shout: "Brothers, let's move faster! Our brothers and fathers who died in battle died in this sea. We are fighting on the same battlefield with them! For them! Revenge!"

"Hurry up! Put charcoal on your body, write a spell, and we will become the berserkers blessed by Odin. We will be invincible! I, Arik, will take you to another big victory."

"Remember! Our father who died in battle, their souls are watching us in Valhalla in the sky. We must do a great job!"

Arik desperately boosted morale, and everyone kept roaring amazingly.

Young Ross warriors usually have golden beards at a young age, their chests are densely haired, and their arms are golden hairy.

All the warriors of the Viking tribe generally have this image. In their community, a man who lacks body hair will be regarded as a freak.

With a golden beard, complicated braids, amazing chest hair when fighting shirtless, and strong muscle problems, it cannot be said that a person with such a posture is a berserker. It should be a berserker who must have such a heroic posture.

Arik’s front chest was painted with rough patterns, and his back was painted with a few words from his companions, meaning "Odin bless me."

Similar words are also painted on most people's bodies.

In fact, most people have very limited understanding of the Rune script of their ethnic group. They can generally spell out their own names, but they cannot use the large number of words spelled out to form their ethnic classics.

However, they have a superstitious understanding of some special vocabulary. Some sacred phrases must have magical powers. Engraving the phrases on their necklaces or even weapons can have magical powers and become perfect amulets.

Smear it on the body, and then join the battle shirtless, almost invulnerable power.

Arik is actively preparing for battle, a large group of people shouting crazy slogans, vowing to annihilate the new enemies they encounter.

Harozov, who commanded normal battles, seemed even more calm. Courage is very important in war. It is also necessary to form an advantageous formation before the battle.

The Ross people's fleet is actively operating, and all their weird actions have been discovered by the opponent.

On a clear day, the sea is vast, and a person with strong vision climbs up the mast and can almost see the details of the sea surface in a radius of 20 nautical miles. Twenty nautical miles, that is the limit of human visual observation affected by the curvature of the earth.

The Ross people saw the Gotland ships, and the Gotland people also noticed the fleet of ships that suddenly emerged from the sea level.

Printing and dyeing the sails with unique patterns, only people with high status will perform this operation.

Most of the Russian warships have beautiful dragon heads that look like sea snakes, and their sails are thick linen, and the whole body is off-white.

The ships of the Gotland are exactly the same.

When Harozov launched the attack, he didn't want to expose his identity too much. He didn't intend to expose himself when the naval battle was about to break out.

In this way, if the enemy really took the Danes to retaliate, they would not go all the way north to Roseburg. They would think that the attackers were all from the tribal alliance of Svealand. As for Roseburg, the Gotland and the Danes were remote and mysterious.

A large number of gray sails appeared, and the Gotland fleet, who saw the sails, thought it might be their own.

The eight Gotland warships began to line up in a column, sailing against the wind in groups, in order to get in touch with each other quickly.

In an era without binoculars, it would be too difficult to expect a small group of navigators with amazing vision to learn the identity of distant ships early.

So when the Gotland ship gradually approached, he was surprised to notice a series of special actions by the other party and subconsciously took guard.

That is a huge fleet!

Why did they wind their sails suddenly collectively taking advantage of the south wind?

They actually approached the two ships and moved people at sea!

Such behavior is actually a suspicious explanation? Are they enemies? !

The eight Gotland warships were ordered by their clan to go south for investigation. Although they were a partial division, the armed forces could not be said to be small.

Two hundred and ten Gotlanders were seated in eight boats. They belonged to the same clan, and they were old and young. Just like the Ruths, in the face of a total war, the men of the entire tribe are fighting brothers and fighting fathers and sons. Unlike the Russ, the Gotlands are no longer monolithic. The rapid development of economic activities has made their tribes very fragmented. They have become a group of large families and clans living together with scattered households, all subordinate to the Danes. Hodgepodge.

But when a powerful force starts a war, the loose ones can still unite and start confrontation.

This participator who performed the investigative work was shocked to see the forty warships, combined with noticing the strange behavior of the other party, and after careful thinking, they were definitely not their own.

Because, our main force is moving in the waters west of the island!

How can there be a large fleet that has been running to the east of the island, and it is still moving north? !

Maybe some people threw in doubt and hesitation, until they saw the sudden change of the formation of the opponent's large fleet, everyone was terrified!

Harrodsson didn't want to have any verbal negotiations with the other party at all, he didn't even mean to swear a few tens of meters away.

In his understanding, naval warfare emphasizes decisiveness. Right now, the Ross army, which I personally led, has many ships and many ships, and with his strength advantage, he cleanly chopped off everyone's heads and put an end to this encounter as soon as possible.

Harrodsson placed his own 14 warships in a horizontal line, forming a wide front with a concave arc, and he placed the flagship packed with archers in the center.

He just wants to make a pincer tactic on the sea, like a crab's pincers to hold the prey.

Although the ships of both sides have high mobility and can turn short distances, as long as the enemy enters his own half-encircled pocket, Harozov believes that at least half of the opponent's power will be gnawed away by this one bite.

The Ross people's combat power was already shirtless paddling, launching an impact at the opponent at a speed of five meters per second.

Seeing the opponent put up an obvious collision formation, the Gotland realized that something was not good.

However, the Gotlanders were dumbfounded and dumbfounded. They had completely concluded that the opponent was the enemy, most likely the attacker who was said to have burned Sikkemberg, and the opponent was madly killed and did not mean to escape.

It was a large group of sea wolves, and the goal was their eight boats.

The Gotlandians will not run away! To flee without a fight is a shameful coward. Seeing the attackers deliberately let them go, a group of people would be scolded by all the islanders when they returned.

The frenzied actions of the enemy even proved the saying that began to circulate quickly. The Mind Sub-Alliance is really about to launch an all-out war on Gotland!

The lips are dead and the teeth are cold! The eight Gotland dragon-head warships carrying 210 warriors, chose to fight head-on, and began to charge for the wind.

"Brothers! We must stop those pirates, we fought them!"

"Get ready to crash, get ready to jump and fight!"

"The archer prepares his arrows and makes as much damage as possible!"

"Brothers! For our family, for our freedom, attack!"

The elder leader of the partial division wielded his battle axe, trying his best to arouse the morale of the whole team.

Even if the next battle will be very difficult, if the enemy cannot be made to pay the price, will they think that the Gotland is a big fat sheep to be slaughtered? How can that work? !

What's more, who knows what other goals they have? Are these enemies going north to attack their clan fishing village?

They must have burned Sikkenberg and killed at least a thousand people! To make matters worse, now many men in fishing villages have set out to search for the enemy. There are only a large number of women and children and a small number of soldiers left in the fishing village, and the defense is extremely empty.

Many of the people who escaped from Sikkim have already become the new servants of the richer and richer families in the city for the first time.

Some men settled down for a while, and immediately boarded the boats of other settlement residents, looking for revenge from the Mindya.

Both sides have reasons to fight, and both sides think they are taking revenge!

No one chooses to avoid it.

What the Gotland people saw was a total of fifteen ships launching an attack. Not far behind them, there were twenty-five dragon-head warships!

With eight enemies and forty? Five times the disadvantage gap.

The war broke out in what the Gotland people thought was an absolute disadvantage.

But the Gotlandians were not so stupid enough to get into the pincer-shaped enclosure arranged by the Rosses.

The dragon head warships of both sides, due to the ship structure, the dragon head wood carvings spliced ​​on the bow, are all a hard existence.

Fortunately, the bows of the two sides collided with each other. If the other side hits the sideboard, it is not surprising that the whole ship is hit in two.

Just when the Gotlanders were about to collide, they were shocked to notice the huge strength of the opponent, and looked at the strong men, they all bare their arms for a battle at sea.

"Is it a berserker?!" The Gotland leader buzzed his head and ordered: "Quick! Turn right!"

After all, the eight boats of the Gotland were a small team. All the oarsmen operated urgently, and the eight boats contracted and turned to the right.

"They want to escape?!" Kharosov, who had already stood up, could see the opponent's face clearly.

Harozov's good show was at the last moment, following the "cowardly" emergency turn of the Gotlanders, he rushed into the air.

"Archers, fire arrows shoot their sails!"

With an order from Harozov, twenty shirtless oarsmen stood up and immediately picked up the single oak shortbows they placed beside them.

There was no time to organize a volley. When the prefabricated arrows were ignited by the fire, the flame arrows were shot out immediately.

A large number of burning arrows dragged the blue smoke and flew toward the enemy ship nearly a hundred meters away in a projectile attitude.

The sail that the Gotlanders still laid down was like a huge net bag. They had to flank the entire sail against the center axis of the ship when sailing against the wind. It really became a huge target for archery, and it sturdily encountered the fire of flame arrows.

Dry linen is an excellent combustible material. The polished barbed bone arrow shoots through the sail, and the burning oil-soaked cloth strip quickly ignites the linen.

The two ships on the left wing of the Gotland formation quickly ignited fire.

"Brothers! Keep archery! The others, immediately turn around and rush to jump to help! Hurry!"

"Aric! You stunned me! Hit them to death by turning!"

Harozov roared as best he could, and Arik who was not far away fully understood the uncle's intentions.

Arik didn't say much, he stood at the bow holding a sword and shield, and roared: "Brothers, listen to me, turn to hit them!"

The seven ships on the left flank of the Ross fleet turned collectively and rushed to the side of the moving Gotland ship with their bows.

Facing the menacing enemy, they were violently frightened when they saw the companions of the two ships jumping into the cold water in the fire to avoid being burned to death.

The enemy is not only crowded, but this group of shirtless berserkers are also well-trained.

"Don't come here!"

"Thinking people rushed over! Quickly hold their oars against their bows!"

Some Gotlanders who reacted immediately went deep into the oars, trying to stop the heavy collision. However, everyone knows that the reason the Dragon Head battleship is a battleship is that it has a reinforced bow! Everyone knows how to use collision and jump tactics in naval battles.

The oars of the Gotlanders were more fragile, and the pine oars broke.

Seven ships of the Russ slammed into the past, and two of the Gotland ships were knocked out of a big horrible hole on the spot!

There is no watertight compartment in the dragon head warship, and there is no deck!

The two boats were knocked out of a big hole, and then they sank into the sea with an unprepared boat.

Those Gotlanders wearing chain mail thought they would gain a certain tactical advantage in the gang jump fight, but the cold-proof leather clothes and defensive chain mail on their bodies became a real burden, dragging their masters into the deep sea. slide.

Such people quickly sank into the sea more than ten meters away. They had no time to unload the heavy burden and float on the surface to escape. The increasingly intense water pressure had crushed them, and the whole person fed the fish on the spot.

Some people soaked in the water and hurriedly got rid of their wet clothes. As a result, they lost their weapons, just like seals trapped in a fishing net, they were stabbed to death by the prepared short spears of the Ross people.

There were still three ships that only oscillated violently during the collision, and the ribs made of simple oak luckily took on the impact.

But after the shock, the shirtless Ross had rushed over.

The jump to help took place.

"Brothers! Cut off their heads!"

Arik simply threw the shield away, holding the steel sword in both hands and jumping to the enemy ship, slashing directly at a Gotland who was blocking with an iron sword. This poor Gotland died on the spot, and the blocked iron The sword broke into two sections.

On the battlefield on this ship, Arik became a true berserker.

He beheaded four enemies in a row and made himself full of enemy blood.

As a result, he was suddenly kicked by an enemy and fell into the cold sea.

Even so, he held a wooden ribbed board that floated after the collision, and continued to stab the enemy with a steel sword.

Jumping to help fight, the Ross and Gotland can not organize an effective infantry formation, fighting completely rely on individual ability.

The sober Gotlanders began to fight back, fighting alone, luck may be more important than fighting skills!

Many Ross fighters were chopped and killed by the Gotland's axe, and many Gotlanders fell into the sea and were stabbed to death by the Ross's short spear and sword like a seal.

Some Rosses were also hit by arrows shot by a few Gotlanders, hitting the arrows in their shirtless bodies, and then fell into the sea.

Many Gotlanders were attacked by the Ross archers. For a time, two groups of people in the boat were fighting, but the sails were lit by flame arrows.

Just before the battle, the leader of the Gotland predicted that the battle would be very detrimental to him, and he hoped that the courage of the Gotland would try to hold the enemy as far as possible.

Who would have thought that the other party is clearly well-trained!

Not long after the battle began, two ships lit up a fire, two ships were broken and silenced, and three ships became a terrible battlefield.

Fortunately, the leader of the Gotland did not participate in the fight. The two remaining Gotland warships would be really cowardly!

Rush in and fight them? !

Do not!

Everyone has tried their best, who would have thought that these thinking sub-union guys really have amazing fighting power.

In grief and anger, the leader of the Gotland growled: "We...we retreat! Hurry up and go to the nearest coast!"

The frightened people immediately steered the last two boats to turn, and they continued to raise their sails, and the direction became due west.

The sea was dyed red with blood, and Arik grabbed the spear handed by him and was dragged onto the good boat by his brothers.

The gang fight on the ship was over, the moaning Gotlanders were all stabbed to death, and some of the seriously injured Ruths were vomiting blood in terror.

Many enemies, and even some of the dead Ruths, have sunk to the bottom of the sea, and a large swath of red-stained water proves what terror is.

A large number of corpses floated on the sea, and the bodies of the Ross people were pulled onto the boat, and they would be taken back to their hometown for burial.

As for the dying people, the Ross people gave these brothers a slash to end their pain.

Because of these severely injured brothers, they have lost the possibility of living, and they have been given death by their own people, which is also an acceptable destination.

Looking at the two lonely white sails that were drifting away, Arik, who had been washed away by the sea, stomped with anger: "Brothers, should we catch up and kill them all?!"

Many people really responded and sat down one after another with the intention of paddling and chasing.

This move was seen by Harozov; "Arik! What are you doing?!"

"Uncle! Can't let those enemies run away. We want to destroy them all."

"Forget it! Let them go! Arik, now listen to my command." Harozov shouted.

"But you have appointed me the leader of the war!"

"Now the battle is over Let's go! Don't be complacent about winning a battle. If we are discovered by the Gotland army, we will all die! Go!"

Don't chase the poor? Kharosov was only worried that the young people's love battle would cause the Rus to lose the opportunity to leave the field safely.

After all, this naval battle was something Kharozov hoped to avoid. Since the battle is over, how can he be in love with it?

Arik sat down angrily and continued paddling, and the entire Ross fleet escaped from the blood-stained battlefield.

The naval battle lasted for a short time. The Gotlanders lost five boats and a total of 140 people died.

Although the Rus had a huge tactical advantage, fifteen people died in the final gang fight.

At least they died as a berserker, ten bodies were confined, and the rest sank into the sea. After counting the number of people to determine the number of dead, everyone regrets and is pleased for them, because they died on the battlefield and completed the glorious life of a man at sea!

The living people calmed down, and after the violent new became calm, they no longer thought about continuing to pursue and expand the results.

Kharosov's words really make sense, everyone is exhausted after this battle. What if the enemy is not coming from eight ships, but eighty ships? The result will be terrible.

The south wind continued to blow the sails of the Rus, and the bows and ribs of many ships had been stained with blood from the enemy. The Ross men changed back to warm clothes, roughly ate granola, and formed a circular fleet, enduring the muscle soreness and mental exhaustion after the battle, rowing as fast as possible to the north.

For safety, Harozov would rather take a detour, and the fleet began to lean towards the location of Seramia Island, intending to take an arc and go around the Åland Islands to obtain real safety.