Chapter 765： The Ross Allied Forces come to Bremen

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Ragnar’s "Stonewall" tribe has never actually fought against the Rus, nor have they ever met each other in their memory. They just defended the hostile relationship in principle from their past standpoints. Both of them once belonged to a large community that was hostile to each other, and now they are cut off from the past, and there is no reason to fight each other.

Ragnar successfully completed the peace deal with the Rus army. He returned to his camp first, and immediately announced that he had merged with the Rus army to fight against Bremen. Then he invited more than 30 people to the Rus camp to get food.

The hunger situation was immediately alleviated, and those who were once skeptical changed their attitudes immediately after eating the hard wheat cakes provided by the Ross people. It's not that this wheat cake is a delicacy, it is hard like a stone, it needs a little bit of grinding and chewing with teeth, and it is quite hard to eat. But for so many days, everyone has been a dog who lost the family in essence, and no one has given any kind of help in the face of the disaster.

It happened that the Ross people provided a number of key provisions.

The real Vikings always pay attention to the ease of the brothers. When a man with a very personal charm is present, a large number of people will come to join him. Therefore, a pirate who has made merits can quickly pull out a team.

Ragnar faced his tribe very honestly, and pointed out that the commander of the Rus army was named Arik Ogilsson, a cousin of the Rus Prince and a warrior who killed a lot. The nickname of "Double Swords". Even this Arik’s life story is worth learning from the tribal people. The so-called teenage father was killed. After years of secret training, he led a group of brothers to retaliate.

Ragnar was not advertising Arik, but to inspire the tribe, especially the last group of children in the tribe.

No one is a real idiot. The homeland is destroyed. The King of Denmark chooses to backstab. These children can only grow up in humiliation, with a pair of eyes longing for revenge.

The Russian army came all the way to attack Bremen. The purpose was very clear. They came prepared for this, and even the proud wooden wall of the city was despised by the Russian army.

Arik heard a group of people cheering in the distance just before falling asleep.

He lay in the shack, covered half of his face with a leather hat, and muttered casually: "Dane, I hope you eat the bread I gave, and fight tomorrow like a pack of hungry wolves."

He didn't know that the group of Danes were cheering for the war and for Arik, the commander of the coalition forces.

Why not cheer?

The Ross commander has already stated clearly that Ross is responsible for breaking through the city wall. The brothers of the Stonewall tribe swarmed up from the gap and had the right to rob at the first time. risk? Risk is a shit! The brothers wanted to suffocate the blood a few months ago, and they wanted to retaliate against the Frankish nobles by killing with a **** battle axe.

Ragnar even negotiated with his brother unilaterally. After the so-called break, he took a hundred ruthless men to attack the residences of the nobles, killed all the living people he encountered, and plundered the gold and silver.

In the early morning of the next day, when the morning mist filled the river beach, the melodious horn sounded.

The Ross army took the time to cook this morning's delicious meal, and Arik sent a cart unloaded from his clothes, and then carried a cart of food to the camp in Ragnar.

Jeflo was responsible for this escort, and when he saw Ragnar with a hippy smile and gratitude, he punched his chest unceremoniously.

The sudden act really frightened Ragnar.

Yevlo warned seriously: "Why laugh? Let your people eat quickly, and remember to be full this time. We will make the final voyage. We will attack the city as soon as we arrive at the destination. You must maintain your energy at the critical moment. Finally, we Will eat Frankish wheat in Bremen."

As he heard the words, Ragnar hurriedly accepted the heavy breakfast and repeated these words to the people.

The coalition had a full meal before the war. When the fog gradually dissipated, most of the Russian camps were soft and put back on. The soldiers boarded the ship one after another, and the entire fleet was about to pull the anchor.

This time, the Russian army took a smarter way to sail against the current.

It was aid from Ragnar’s subordinate. His fleet should have flown down the river. Now all the rowing boats receive the ropes thrown by the big boats and will be tied to the stern of the long rowing boats and projecting stakes. Each ship was towed, and the fleet was transformed into a mixed fleet, with a team of more than 900 people rushing to the east along the inland channel of the Weser River.

A terrifying army is attacking Bremen!

For the people in the city, although they are not clear about the looming enemy, they are already full of fear for the world beyond the city wall. Because tens of thousands of villagers have always lived their pastoral life, most of them are actually Saxons, but they have been conquered by the Frankish army for more than half a century, and many things have been changed.

The villagers knew almost nothing about the history of the past, and no one told them what the former "Barbarian Duchy of Saxony" existed. The role similar to the teacher is essentially the pastor in the village. The pastor preached with scribbled manuscripts of the Gospel, so that the people felt that the many stories in the Old Testament and the New Testament were their history.

Obviously this is the northern border area of ​​the Frankish princes, and a large number of villagers don't even know the existence of Denmark, but a vague concept of "Normans" exists. There are almost two major events in the life of the villagers, paying agricultural taxes to the lord and going to the monastery to worship.

It was not until the Norman fleet burned and looted along the Weser in 836 that they finally realized that the Satan described in the scriptures was real, and that the Normans were Satan!

Therefore, the Earl of Bremen rushed to increase taxes during the wheat harvest season. The villagers rarely paid three years of grain tax for their own lives, and some farmers who could not pay their debts were called to join the Earl. Army, go to crusade against the Normans.

The earl took the soldiers from his territory and fought in the north, but the rear was ravaged by the Normans.

Bremen can be described as a medium-sized city in Western Europe by current standards in peacetime. Today, the city has squeezed in with 10,000 people, and it has properly become a large city by the standards of the ninth century! The people in the villages of Shili Baxiang ran clean, they drove horse and ox carts, and carried the newly harvested wheat to make emergency refuge.

Lord Earl was not in the city, and the lower-level nobles, especially the patrol captain who had arrested the blue fox, became the city defense commander.

The acting bishop of St. Peter's Church in Bremen rushed to hold Mass, and actively mobilized the power of the priests to give collective blessings to the guards of the city. The “holy water” mixed with rose essential oil is used to dipped the noble cypress branches and splashed each soldier with precision. Even the peasant soldiers armed with sharpened sticks and barefooted in the assault are also blessed.

It was because of a big loss in the first half of the year. Now in August, the people who hid in Bremen were frightened and their anger was finally awakened. As the so-called death and resurrection, some farmers have awakened. After they were blessed by holy water, they immediately had something that must be guarded by their lives—faith.

Defending Bremen has become a great cause, even a feat that can be achieved at the end of the trial.

Realistically speaking, their families and belongings have been withdrawn to the city. Norman's brutal methods are too terrifying. They must hold on to the city for their families and wealth.

Bremen is a riverside city, and now the pontoons on the river have been completely demolished and all the city gates have been closed. A lot of debris was piled up behind the thick wooden door, and this operation made the entire Bremen into a huge tortoise shell.

The city is already overcrowded, many refugees live in the church, and the city square has become a huge refugee camp.

Everyone was trapped in the city, convinced that it was dangerous outside the city and did not dare to go in and out, and now it is impossible to go out in this situation. The farmers are restricted. They are very happy about the safety now, while the merchants who are forced to stay just want to leave this terrible place early. Because of the endless thefts in the city, the merchants’ property was plundered by the people in the city. Whether it was the Norman robbery or the Bremen robbery, it was a loss after all.

In a sense, the people of Bremen are complacent. They did not even lie in ambush outside the city so that they can inform the city about the situation. There are narrow corridors on the wooden walls of the city, where a group of soldiers are stationed for a long time, and there are more soldiers stationed on the circular road under the city wall.

The simple tower always has archers on duty. It just gathers the entire Bremen garrison. There are more than 1,000 guardians in name. Among them, the fighters are more than a hundred people from the city patrol team. Perhaps many of the people have a passion, but after all, they are still a mob.

Because the Earl of Bremen had already pulled all the army of bandits who had killed the forest to the north, the city was essentially plunged into a huge emptiness.

If Ragnar’s tribe warriors fight this group of Bremen guards in a decisive battle in the wild, the victory must belong to Ragnar.

The tall wooden wall opened Ragnar's eyes, and then fell into disgusting helplessness. He doesn't understand the siege technology, and now forms an alliance with Ross, and imagines that the Russian army can easily conquer the wall.

So the actions of the Russ army will be stable?

The fleet sailed at a uniform and slow speed, and on the flagship Salmon Chief, the main materials for the construction of the siege cart had been transported to the deck. The two large-sized hand-paired vehicles began to assemble the cowl, and after the fleet docked, the wood was cut on the spot. After the trunk was lying on the wheelbarrow, the hard bronze punch could be installed.

They have been preparing for the whole morning, not only the parts of the prefabricated car, but also the large amount of hemp rope stored in the box is moved to the deck and unpacked. A batch of long ladders will also be strapped on the shore assault. As for the key wooden poles that make up the long ladders, they have already been prepared, and they are anchored on the left and right sides of the empty armed cargo ship.

The coalition forces set off early in the morning, and in fact they had already seen the city walls of Bremen by noon.

"That's the goal!" Blue Fox stretched out his hand with intense excitement and pointed straight.

"Okay! I'll just drop anchor according to the landing point you mentioned. I hope your information is very accurate."

"Accuracy is inevitable, and it didn't take long for me to leave here." The blue fox yelled for a while, looking straight to Ragnar, who was lucky enough to stand on the Russian warship and go with the Russian army.

"Dane, it's time for you to perform. You can kill as much as you want, but you must not set fire."

"Why?" Ragnar asked in surprise.

"I'm afraid you will also burn the wheat."

"It's okay, I won't destroy myself before plundering the property. I just hope that what you have personally inspected is correct, and I don't want my people to die on the road of offensive."

The Russian army and the Ragnar army assured each other that the fleet was still sailing, and Ragnar followed the rope ladder dropped by the big ship into the long ship.

From the standpoint of the Mälaren people, a fleet floating on the river suddenly appeared, and was suddenly awakened by the nervous and mentally allergic defenders. For a while, the walls were full of roars and screams of men, and they used various methods to make noise. Until the bell of the church bell rang, the whole city realized that the Norman army was coming again, and that the arrivals were not good!

The captain of the patrol is now the city defense commander. He hurriedly boarded the wooden wall and took a closer look at the wooden railing.

Then, pretending to be calm, he ordered his subordinates: "Let all the bow bearers go upstairs! The people above put the earthen jars, wooden blocks and stones under the city wall one after another. Go!"

After all, this is the ninth century AD, and the so-called typical European medieval city defense project does not yet exist. The commander of the city defense is full of simple weapons, either shooting the attackers with arrows, or using clay pots and stones to kill those who are trying to climb the walls.

However, the Russian army and them are not a game of chess.

The combined forces of Ross and Ragnar have landed in the land of Three Arrows. Although it is the "land of three arrows", this distance is actually the maximum range of a torsion slingshot to project a cast iron projectile. In theory, the Russ army is deployed in the landing area, which is enough to bring a burst of iron hail to the defending army. In fact, Arik was prepared to do that.

"Quick! Unload all the slingshots on the port side, and people under the boat, you quickly assemble the trolleys. You all move quickly and go and cut down the trees! We strive to finish the battle today..."

Arik shouted hoarsely and gave orders, and those who landed were nervously prepared.

Ragnar looked curiously at the Ross's tense actions, didn't he say that it would not give the enemy a chance? The Ross people actually fiddled with a large number of wooden parts on the grass on the river beach. But he quickly understood, and praised from the bottom of his heart that the Ross people were really cruel.

The ten ships of the Ross Fleet still have to be close to the city, at least as far as "a stone and a half", that is, a riverway a hundred steps away from the city wall. Only a few armed sailors on the ship insisted, and they all operated the torsion slingshot on the starboard side to provide fire support when launching an attack.

Looking at the land, the coalition forces took a little more than an hour to complete the formation under the horrified gaze of the soldiers and civilians of Bremen. In fact, as Vikings, the coalition forces can quickly push forward with a shield wall. The reason why this time was spent was not much, but it was spent on the construction of siege weapons.

It has to be said that the Blue Fox’s expedition last year made great contributions to the coalition forces this year, such as the structural materials and height of the city walls, especially the structure of the city gates. These key intelligence helped the coalition forces choose the most suitable siege weapon.

Thirty torsion slingshots are each mounted on a small trolley, and a basket of cast iron bullets are also placed, which can be pulled forward by a soldier. The auxiliary fighters carry some light javelins and special large arrows, which are actually another weapon of the slingshot.

Eight long ladders were bundled up, and they were carried on their shoulders by the people of Ragnar. At the same time, the construction carts built by cutting trees and built-in materials were also in the formation.

Ragnar’s people are at the forefront of the battlefield, followed by the hundred-man team of the capable First Banner of the Ross Army, but they are divided into thirty groups to temporarily control the torsion slingshot. The composition of the remaining two hundred Russian soldiers who landed is more complicated, including Finns, Saaremaians, and even Slavs. The same thing is that they all hold crossbows or ash tree longbows, and as many as two hundred shooters are the best cover for the first-line siege troops.

Even relying on long-range weapons to directly destroy the fighting will of the defenders! After all, the Russ have experienced too many similar battles. Standing under the city and relying on their weapon range advantages to shoot arrows, the Russ have long been good at it.

This time Arik will try the same trick again without even thinking about it!

As many as twenty Ross flags were flying, the Ross uniforms were uniform, and the Ragnar uniforms were still varied. The group of women and children who were not combatants, especially Ragnar’s two sons, were all placed at the landing site, eliminating the worries of the soldiers.

On the other hand, the defenders can only watch the Norman army orderly line up. Upon seeing this, the defenders had given up their illusions, and thanks to the confidence built up by this city wall, they would not be fainted by the sudden appearance of the army. But the city was full of grief, and rumors were flying all over the sky in an instant. Reluctantly, the church rushed to hold a mass to pray for victory, and at this moment, the rather generous St. Peter's Church directly swarmed two thousand people! A large number of people entered and the church was overcrowded because everyone hoped that the power of faith could move the Lord. The so-called blazing angels lowered the fire and burned the Norman group of Satan to ashes.

However, the response to Bremen was the whistling sound in the sky!

Then, like hail, strange black shadows fell from the sky.

People who were standing by the city to support at any time were smashed in the head and pierced in the chest. UU reading www. Many people on uukanshu.com started wailing, but at this time the arrow swished down again.

At this moment, the city defense commander realized that the battle had begun. But how is this the style of the Normans? At the beginning of the game, he was stunned by arrows and iron blocks from a long distance. Even Prince Ludwig's regular army could not do this kind of attack.

The commander had no choice but to face the Norman army, which was orderly advancing with the shield wall, and the formation became extremely regular. He could only grit his teeth and order the soldiers hiding in Tibet: "Don't run, keep your post! Kill them in a while!"

However, a cast iron projectile fired by a torsion slingshot smashed over. The city defense commander stood up and held up the sword to lead by example and called on the soldiers to stand firm. The whole head was cut off by this iron bullet!

The battlefield is full of coincidences, and the battlefield with arrows flying by exposing itself is the possibility of quick death.

This is indeed a coincidence, but the once greedy patrol captain and today's city defense commander gave his life for the city and died on the battlefield as a soldier.

Unfortunately, his death was seen by everyone, and the morale of the army collapsed! The defenders are destined to be unable to twist into a rope, and are destined to fall into the dilemma of fighting each other...