Chapter 652： Unequal assault

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The situation of the enemy's military strength was more accurate. The information received before apparently caused Rurik to seriously overestimate the strength of his opponent, leaving him with no worries when he was under pressure.

Originally, letting the fleet sideboard the enemy collectively at the near shore was to rely on ship-borne weapons to exhaust a portion of the enemy force and reduce the pressure of subsequent landing operations.

Three thousand people gathered in Pine Needle Manor? The manor is the leader of the rebellion, the other so-called rebels did not send troops to assemble?

Could it be that most of the manor houses are really on the sidelines, and who wins in the end?

In this way, the strength of the Russ army is not equal to that of the enemy, and there is no suspense that the victory will go to Rus.

The victory must belong to Ross!

The vast number of soldiers simply regarded the battle of tomorrow as a feast of killing, and many people did not think that they could grab many good things in a pure farmer’s village.

Lord Rurik gave the order to cut the rebels away from the roots. Is this decision really appropriate? Obviously, a group of prisoners can be captured and taken away as slaves. Many Balmerks in the team have such a traditional idea, but they are now New Ross and have to obey the orders of the Duke.

To make everyone have expectations is to looting food. The rebels are a huge manor. They must have a large amount of surplus food, as well as some livestock and poultry.

No one expects to find gold and silver treasures, seize grain, cattle and sheep open their stomachs and eat special food, but everyone is full of expectations.

Although he knew more detailed information about the enemy, Rurik was not stupid enough to tell everyone the revised news.

Strategically, we must despise the enemy, but tactically, we must pay attention to it. Even soldiers who only hold wooden sticks have the possibility of causing the heavily armored Russian army to capsize in the ditch.

Rurik is determined to remain unchanged and continue to convince the brothers that the enemy is an army of 10,000, so that they will not suddenly underestimate the enemy.

Tonight, not many people were anxious about tomorrow's battle.

The sky tonight is okay, there are obviously many clouds in the night sky, and the stars and the moon are faintly visible.

As tomorrow is a great battle, many soldiers fall asleep around the bonfire. A large camp has appeared outside the White Tree Manor, and the snoring of the army is one after another.

As for Rurik, he naturally lived in Svetlana's old boudoir.

The moonlight shined on Lanna's quiet face through the wooden window, like other Slavic girls, the war did not let these women go away.

Rurik just wanted to sleep with his arm pillowed, but Lanna leaned on his side and boldly recommended herself: "Tomorrow, I will also join the fight."

"You? Be a female soldier?" Rurik was not surprised.

"Yes. Just like Carlotta, she is a noble, and I am also a noble. She can lead soldiers to fight, and I should also participate."

"What can you do?" Rurik said unceremoniously.

"Probably archery?"

"Forget it, you're still a kid."

"Huh? As if you are not a child."

Rurik was taken aback for a moment. Indeed, even if this body began to grow golden beards, it was still a teenager.

"Carota taught you to shoot arrows?"

"Other sisters taught me. We are all your women. You say that I am the most noble one. If I were an idiot, wouldn't it be a shame for you. Besides, this is the revenge of the White Tree Manor for a hundred years, so let me join in? ."

"Never mind. You and I have a wedding. It is meaningful for you to participate in this decisive battle. I hand you to Carlotta, remember, you must be brave. To be my wife must be like a Valkyrie, I only like you like this."

Svetlana, who was already emotional, suddenly felt an indescribable depression. She cherished the opportunity to be alone with her man in her boudoir tonight. She was ready to do all the things a wife could do, but she chose herself. The man ordered himself to be a female warrior, this matter is even above all else.

She tried to calm down and looked at her index and ring fingers in the moonlight.

"Maybe, I can shoot an enemy tomorrow. I don't want to kill, but..."

"You have no choice. This is war. If you don't kill them, they will kill you. Only by eradicating Pine Needle Manor can this lake be truly peaceful." After all, Rurik reached out and pressed Lanna's Arm, "Don't look at your fingers, tomorrow I will give you a crossbow, you can't draw a bow to shoot arrows. Oh? Is it the Mediterranean archery that Fleiser taught you? I like you who shoot arrows with your fingers."

Lanna didn't know what to say, so she closed her eyes without saying a word...

This time, Rurik brought a group of young fighters, and now Svetlana has also become one of them.

Fisk, Kanuf, and Telafis are all young and old friends who are ordered to participate in the war. First of all, they need to participate in the new war gilding, and secondly, they are also good archers to make the Ross arrow more powerful.

A group of capable young fighters are the generals of the future army of Lulik, and they all need to seize all opportunities to accumulate combat experience when they are young. It was also their youth. When the other veteran soldiers were sleeping, these young cubs chatted a lot around the bonfire. When their eyes were bloodshot, they couldn't help lying down and falling asleep.

When the genius dawned, the poultry brought by the calf manor went mad. The crowing of poultry overwhelmed the snoring of the soldiers. When the awakened warrior thought that there was still a **** battle to be fought today, he was refreshed and couldn't fall asleep when he got up.

Soon, the early farm women hurriedly cooked the wheat while it was still early, so that the army who was waiting for the expedition was fed up on the battlefield.

Rigus also gave up. Knowing that Rurik had brought a lot of food, he ordered his farm to save the food, and appealed to every family to donate generously, just to get more from the defeated enemy after the war. Food and other trophies. How can he not understand these thoughts?

Rigus got the promise that White Tree Manor will receive a lot of spoils because of the feat of full support, and even a higher political power-proxy rule.

Liurik did not say clearly that he had already planned in his heart. After the victory, he appointed Medvedt, the successor of the White Tree Manor, as the interim governor, and also entrusted this person to solve the post-war mess.

Medvedt will not be canonized as earl. It is said that a good direct rule is a real direct rule. The governor is such an official position, and the monarch can change at any time if he doesn't like it. Just appointing a local person to be the governor is purely the optimal solution under specific time conditions. In the end, the governor must be a pure Ruth.

After eating breakfast, the assembled soldiers were fighting spirits.

The riverside station was full of warriors in blue-patterned white robes, their iron helmets shimmering brightly under the golden light of the rising sun.

The huge fleet is anchored by the river, and some sailors are already waiting.

The army has been assembled, and the warriors are a group of mad bears.

The fact is indeed the case. Some of the elite mercenaries of Rurik have their helmets on the head of the bear. The upper jaws and fangs of the mad bear are like sunshade hats, and their hideous features seem invincible. They were the madmen who were selected to be the berserkers. They were all sturdy individuals and wore heavy armor made of thick patches. They were armed with two tomahawks. This is a group of madmen rushing into the battle, and they should be the most screaming.

Rurik stood on the Aphrodite. He took off his hat and put on an iron helmet decorated with gold patterns. He drew out a short sword to openly display his warrior style.

He raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers! Follow me and kill the rebellion! Today, Odin ordered you to kill! Blood sacrifice Odin!"

Three thousand warriors responded with a thousand responses. They beat their shields with their swords, and their mouths made a rhythmic Viking roar.

The roar shocked the entire White Tree Manor ordinary people to feel the horror of the underworld, and the women were thankful that these iron-clad berserkers were not enemies.

The squirrels in the forest hid in the tree holes, the mink beasts hid in the caves, and the birds flew away in groups with fright.

This roar even made the hostile Pine Needle Manor a gap. Vadim and the 6,000-strong army he had assembled with all his energy felt a strange tremor.

earthquake? Maybe something terrible happened today.

Maybe... it's war!

A group of priests broke into Vadim's house, and they did not hesitate to explain their concerns. Because the Ross people did not go far, since the enemy attacked yesterday, maybe there will be another attack today.

A year-old priest explained the result of his divination in horror: "Today there will be a battle."

War? Of course there will be a big battle!

Even if the Ross people don't attack, Vadim will choose a good day for a full-scale attack. Since the priests are all talking about a crisis, I am afraid that this is the will of the gods.

The Pine Needle Manor began to assemble an army, and all those who could afford weapons were organized. No one knows when and how the hostile Rus army will appear. The armed men instinctively guard the farm, and more than 6,000 people gather into a "super-strong fighting group", objectively adopting a passive defensive position.

At the same time, the Ross army has already boarded the ship, and they are about to enter the vast waters of Lake Ilmen against the Volkhov River.

A large number of brisk rowing long boats took the lead, and the 1,000 strongest fighters of the first and third flag teams took the lead to enter the vast lake.

The sail destroyers based on the USS Aphrola followed closely, and the sail destroyers and armed cargo ships at the end also entered the Great Lake one after another.

It was morning, and the huge Ross fleet began to adjust its queue in the lake.

Last year's sea and lake battles made Rurik deeply aware of the serious communication barriers in his army, which is the difficulty of communication between ships after the formation of a huge fleet.

How do the ships clearly understand the command of the flagship?

A simple set of semaphores has become popular among sailors.

This is not unusual because the traditional Runic and Roman alphabets of the Nordic tradition can be converted into each other, purely because the two alphabets are from ancient Greece. The semaphore system has been born, and each letter has a corresponding semaphore action.

The sailors who were responsible for pulling the ropes to raise and lower the sails and retract the anchors turned into communication soldiers. Relying on this communication system, the Ross Fleet formed a tactical formation.

The four most substantial cruisers are in front and the destroyers are behind. The traditional long rowing boat is in the middle position, behind the palace of the slow armed cargo ship.

The mighty fleet sails in Guangbo waters, and the huge spinnaker can easily take advantage of various wind directions. The entire fleet went straight to the slightly hazy Pine Needle Manor on a route close to the lake.

At first, for the people on the shore, a strange dark blue shadow appeared on the lake. It happened that the armed men entrenched in Pine Needle Manor were forced to gather. Some people began to notice the approaching monsters, and some people gathered to the lakeside intently watching the shadow approaching.

What the **** is that? Some people say it's from Ross, some say it's ridiculous.

More people just watch the show. They are farmers who have spent their entire lives farming on the lakeside. They have never been to far away in this life. It seems that the whole world exists around Lake Ilmen. As for the Ross Robber, it is never clear. Killed out of the gloomy place.

They had never seen a big ship, so how could they have seen a huge fleet.

Not only them, but even the Danes can't imagine things they haven't seen before, such as the Ross Fleet that is fully loaded.

Finally, the dark blue shadow became clear, it seemed to be a boat, maybe not a boat, many farmers could not tell why.

Compared to going to war, thousands of armed men gathered around the lake. They were busy watching this incredible Western scene, even ignoring whether it was an imminent danger?

It's like a beach tourist who has never seen the horror of a tsunami, and even points to the strange white line of the approaching sea level, talking, laughing...

But this group of watching the excitement puts the entire group of armed men in danger.

Rurik stood on the bow deck, and the Aphrora was ready for battle.

Wooden boxes filled with cast iron bullets were placed on the deck, and some javelins were held by soldiers. A group of warriors with crossbows in the cabin were on standby, including Svetlana who took the initiative to invite her. She also carefully embraced a heavy steel-armed crossbow, and her tender hands gripped the two pointed arrows.

"My lord, I saw a group of people gathering around the lake!" The voice came from the mast, what the sailor with excellent eyesight saw.

Rurik squinted his eyes and observed it carefully. For the time being, he could not see anything, except that there were a large group of strange shadows on the lakeside, and behind the shadows was a large village.

"Is that the Pine Needle Manor?" he asked Mulian's father.

Otto's deep eyes saw everything through, and he said deeply and forcefully: "Your enemy has made a fatal mistake. Do you see those shadows? I can be sure that the enemy is already gathering forces."

"Are they brave?" Rurik asked in surprise.

"No! They are reckless. Rurik, this is an opportunity God has given us to kill the enemy. Everything is within our plan."

It was supposed to be half of the cannon-fired plan that was invalidated, but Rurik didn't have wishful thinking to predict that the enemy would stupidly run to the lakeside to stand in the first place, becoming a group of targets that would be shelled. But this is the fact, the enemy is standing stupidly waiting to die.

Rurik thought of the Russian army who was standing and being shot at Austerlitz.

The Russian army is all Slavs, and the guys who knocked on the pine needle manor are the purest Slavs.

The opponents do not know why they are standing, but they are looking for death.

Rurik immediately ordered: "The standard bearer! Inform the ships to proceed as planned! Change formation immediately!"

The man who tied himself to the top of the mast immediately waved two flags. The notice of the order went smoothly, and the formation of the Ross fleet was changing.

Sail cruisers and destroyers gradually line up into a single vertical formation, between the hostile Pine Needle Manor on the east bank of the lake, and the single column of the Ross Fleet entering the Great Lake from the north to the port side.

For the sail cruisers with the largest deck area, all the 25 bull trebuchets of the Rus were moved to overtime.

Numerous archers boarded the deck one after another, and the decks of the ships suddenly became armed.

All the long-range weapons have been charged, and the flagship Rurik announced when to drop anchor and turn the ship into a fortress of fire on the lake.

I saw Rurik stretched out his thumb to estimate the distance, while the entire single-column fleet ran towards the Pine Needle Manor in an inclined course. A large number of people on the shore are clearly visible, and the weapons they carry are just reflecting the light in the sun.

Just one hundred and fifty meters away, the Aphrola broke down and sailed!

The flagship is like this, and all ships have followed suit.

At the same time, Vadim, who had entered the lakeside crowd, had already clearly seen a huge fleet coming into view. He couldn't believe what he saw, but the spruce-like towering mast fluttered with the temperament of the Ross people! All the big ships are flying the same flag!

"It's the Ross people! Prepare for war! Fight with them!"

Vadim’s shouts were broken, and some people realized that the war was imminent, but who would have thought that the Ruth army had arrived at the manor in this way?

Suddenly, there was a buzzing sound like wild bees dancing, and the Slavic warriors of Pine Needle Manor raised their heads. They saw a pile of flying black lines in front, and a pile of bird-like shadows.

What are these strange shadows? Do not! They are coming here!

Even if someone started to panic, the killing still came.

The buzzing sound comes from the spinning feather javelin, which is fired by a torsion slingshot. More shadows are the cone-shaped cast iron projectiles shot by the slingshot and the pebbles thrown by the catapult.

The projectiles and javelins smashed down with strong kinetic energy, and the middle one might be smashed to the ground, that is, the javelin was deeply pierced to the ground, and even two people were shot through.

Death came so quickly, and the companion died so inexplicably. The crowd began to show intense panic. The warriors with short spears and axes just panicked, and a large number of arrows fell from the sky again!

At such a distance, the improved wooden-armed crossbow can also hit the light arrows that lack penetration to the crowd at the lakeside. This time, the number of archers gathered by Rurik exceeds 500 people. Because the crossbow was charged in advance to insert the arrow, the soldiers of the shooting flag team had just completed the first round of torsion slingshot launch, and immediately picked up the crossbow and launched the projectile.

First, there was a crit of more than 70 heavy weapon projectiles, and then there was a rain of arrows composed of more than 500 arrows.

Not to mention that the Slavs on Lake Ilmen, even the Frankish army who fought back and forth with the Danes, have never seen this kind of combat style.

The other army that intends to adopt this combat mode in this time and space is Tang Jun. The soul of the east in Rick's heart has been kept, and he has not hesitated to use long-range weapons extensively.

No, the tragic casualties caused by this blow alone caused the morale of the armed men in Pine Needle Manor to collapse. This is a collapse that Vadim himself cannot undo!

The second round of torsion slingshot shooting soon came again. Although it became free shooting and the shooting density was severely reduced, the collapse of the armed men on the shore was further accelerated.

"Huh? Is this a breakdown? It's ridiculous." In Rurik's prediction, it was possible to think that the enemy would be a stupid fool.

The majority of fighters are quite surprised They still try their best to accumulate the crossbow stepping force and twist the lever to accumulate the torsion slingshot.

Otto still urged his son with a calm face: "We should let the landing troops attack and imitate the enemy's escape."

"Right."

Rurik hurriedly ran to the starboard side of the flagship, and shouted at the 1,000 people on standby holding a short sword: "It's time for you to land!"

Arik saw that his brother shook his dagger frantically and understood it completely.

Thirty long boats acted collectively, and the soldiers rowed hard, drilled out of the gaps between the warships, and quickly completed the last 100-meter sprint as a landing craft.

The oak keel gnawed deeply at the mud lake, and the Ross First and Third Flags, wearing leather helmets and uniformly dressed, began their deadliest attack, and their enemy, the so-called six thousand Vadim led The Slavic army, they have been unable to organize a decent defense.

The grieving Vadim, he has been trapped in the fleeing army by his cronies, fleeing towards the farm...