Chapter 766： The fall of Bremen

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The cone-shaped cast iron projectile was hit at an altitude of about 50 meters. This half-pound iron is small in size and has limited damage to equipment. It is basically deadly for combat soldiers.

The 30-seater torsion slingshot shoots freely, and the arrows cooperate with the iron bullets to further cover the firepower.

What the Ross Alliance focused on was the gate to the north of Bremen. This was the largest gate, and the battle would almost come to an end as long as it broke through.

The coalition forces continued to advance slowly, all doing the Viking War Cry very rhythmically. Behind them, arrows and projectiles were fired frequently, in the so-called Xu Jin barrage offensive in the ninth century. This type of dispatch of the Frankish army has indeed never been seen, and even Ragnar and his men have never seen it.

The only thing Ragnar was fortunate was that he participated in the siege as the offensive side who took advantage of it.

The coalition forces have advanced to a stone's throw, so in the Bremen defenders who were hit by arrows and projectiles, a few brave men finally began to leaned forward and counterattacked with bows. The defenders took the risk of being shot and shot arrows, even hiding behind the wooden battlements. The single wooden bow raised to the sky at a large elevation angle, and the archers griefly and blindly shot towards the sky, praying that they could hit the enemy.

Perceiving the defender's counterattack, the offensive Ragnar immediately made the brothers use huge round shields as umbrellas, making the defenders' arrows meaningless.

But the defending army lost the highest-ranking commander, and there was already a mess inside. A large number of people fled because of timidity, even fleeing to the south gate of the city, and began to spontaneously carry the debris piled up on the city gate. Some people even put down the ropes and descended from the city wall. There are no soldiers capable of intercepting the fugitives. Everyone has given up their illusions. The so-called city seems to be difficult to defend. Let's run away by our ability before the Normans have been madly killing!

If the Normans start to divide their forces to encircle the city, it will be too late!

The fugitives were unable to carry the soft, the merchants packed the existing money in the Mabul, and the armed men they hired completely ignored the responsibility of defending the city, and tried their best to escape from the city.

In this way, the spirit of those who persist in the resistance deserves the admiration of the Ross Alliance, and makes the victory of the Alliance a little more difficult.

As the fleet drifting on the Weser took control of the city's quayside, the few people who descended down the ropes were immediately hit.

The distance is very close, and the torsion slingshot can be aimed precisely.

The main body of Bremen is in the shadow of the southern bank of the Weser River, and the dock area is on the east side of the city. After leaving near the east gate, people were shot and killed. Some people who tried to escape from the city were forced to leave due to the situation. City wall.

The fleet began to shoot freely. "Iron hailstones" fell from the sky and ruthlessly penetrated the thatched roofs of residential houses. Even if the rich families installed terracotta and stone tiles, they were still brutally smashed through. Some people were smashed to death in their homes altogether, and dying wounded appeared in the twists and turns and dirty lanes. Compared to killing, the fleet brings greater fear.

As many as five thousand people flocked to the south gate of the city, which was still in a safe area. The high concentration of people made the already troublesome work of moving debris that blocked the door extremely tedious. Everyone wanted to get out of their lives quickly, and the terrible stampede accident occurred as a result, the situation became extremely chaotic, and there was no such thing as a messenger at the scene. The survival instincts of all people gathered together, and the result was that only a few people could successfully lower the rope from the city wall and hang it away from the city.

There are even people falling from the wooden fence and injured, so that they can't run.

How can the Russian army know about the chaos that has erupted out of fear in the city?

Arik just wanted to quickly break through the city gate. He simply rushed forward in person and ordered Ragnar as a commander: "I have told you the method! You brought the brothers to push the car with the greatest strength! Be sure to go directly. Knock the door open, and if it doesn't work once, hit it a few more times."

"Okay!" Ragnar roared excitedly and asked, "Where are you?"

"We will ensure that all turtledoves on the wall are shot."

Ragnar didn't need to say much anymore, he held up his iron sword and ordered the three hundred warriors under his command to attack with all his strength.

The siege rush was driven by as many as thirty people. The most amazing thing was that there were two groups of people in the front pulling two ropes to tow it further. The rushing car was running on a fairly smooth dirt road, and a heavy behemoth actually reached the speed of a man's running. This speed is naturally not as good as the cavalry charge, but its amazing weight means amazing potential energy!

Blue Fox did a good job of investigating last year. The largest south gate has a set of winch system, which can lower the whole wooden door from above. For the general army, such a wooden door is put down and stuck in the gate hole, and it becomes an insoluble existence.

Now the car rushed into it unstoppably, and it was a miracle vigorously!

The whole wooden door was not knocked down by the car, and the whole door was knocked down. The collapse of the door even pulled down the winch that was placed in the city gate and pavilion.

The door was knocked open, but not completely.

The debris behind the door became a kind of "stepping stone", forming a **** with the collapsed door, and the doorway still exposed a huge cavity.

When a **** appeared, would that man restrain the hunter's instinct that rushed up and jumped?

Ragnar and his guys raised their shields and the prisoners of war excitedly shouted, he himself continued to shout dumbly and took the lead in the charge!

There was no need for a long ladder to climb the wall, and even the defenders who shot arrows on the wall ran away cleanly.

"It was an easy victory in the end. I really didn't expect that there were too many of them, so how could they not be able to beat this city." Arik dismissed the intertwining of excitement and complained to himself.

"You mean Ragna and the others?" Yevlo asked casually.

"Exactly. Our siege was easy."

"Is there any special reason, they don't know how to fight." Yevlo's explanation is concise and unceremonious, which is the truth in Arik's eyes.

As another elite in the army, the Blue Fox saw that the gate collapsed, and he was astonished as a wooden chicken, stuck in place like a wooden stake.

The blue fox's shoulder was slapped by a big hand.

"what?!"

"Don't be silly!" Arik scolded.

"..."

"We should go to town. Blue Fox, think about where their granary is located. All the wheat, wool or other goods belong to us."

"Ah! Then the Danes..."

"Robbery gold and silver? Let them grab it first. I don't care now, I only care about how much wheat I get for the people in my hometown."

If life is full of crystal clear stones, gems still become meaningless. The stained glass made by the Ross people is comparable to real gems, and the society of the Principality of Ross has enriched a lot of hot money that should have been circulated in the European market and then grabbed a lot of gold and silver from the Frankish cities. Arik did not have too high expectations.

He didn't really have much consciousness, precisely because he loved his brother so much that he felt that being a prince was a blessing for everyone, and it was the right way to safely handle the things that his brother had confessed. He still can't realize that the construction of the Duchy of Ross requires a large amount of labor, especially to pay sufficient compensation to the labor to cope with the huge physical consumption. In the final analysis, there is only one reasonable compensation-food. Grain is the construction capital of the Principality. From then on, plundering arbitrarily can increase the speed of the construction of the Principality immediately.

Except for a small number of people taking care of the vehicle-mounted torsion slingshot, the other Russian soldiers began to enter the city.

They hit the **** formed by the collapsed wooden doors and entered the twists and turns of the city. They immediately saw the corpses and the Viking warriors of Ragnar who were arrogantly mending their swords.

The city was really bloody, and the horror made the blue fox tremble involuntarily. He felt that he was already strong enough. After all, he saw the number of corpses that could not be described in words, and the dark red mud that the boots trampled on, making him afraid.

"Blue Fox!" Arik roared and awakened the trembling person.

"what?"

"You take us to the granary! Hurry up!"

"Good! The granary is in the Neiburg area."

Unlike Ragnar, who led people to rob the houses, the two hundred people from the Rus army marched straight into the earl’s castle. The road leading to the castle, the blue fox came once, and now the road to revisit the old place is really familiar.

On the way, some city dwellers were still fleeing in fear. They collided with the Russian army and were immediately shot and killed by the crossbow holders. Arik has no desire to fight. As for carrying out the prince’s order of "retaliatory killing", he still puts the looting of food first.

The warehouse area and the Earl’s Castle are almost integrated. The wheat in stock is the Earl’s wealth. Because of the three-year grain tax collected to collect Denmark, the current treasury is really full.

The shallow trenches in the inner castle blocked the way of the Russian army, but there were more than a dozen defenders on the opposite side who were shooting arrows in despair.

The arrow hit the wooden shield, and the momentum of the Russ army's brainless charge was forced to calm down.

"Crossbow! Shoot these getting in the way of birds!"

At Arik's order, the crossbows lined up in an array and were busy loading and unloading, never thinking that it was the Finnish longbowman of Jeflo that would take the lead. This group of squirrel-shooting masters now have better bows and higher quality arrows, and one round of volley broke the opponent's defense.

"Good job, Jeflo. Everyone else, wading over and lowering the suspension bridge!"

Let’s talk about this small circle of trenches in Neibo. It is a simple circular soil pit, without any sharp wooden piles. Now it only brings in a small amount of river water.

Lying in waist-deep water, the Ross warrior walked to the opposite side and cut the cable with a sword. The heavy suspension bridge crashed down, and fierce warriors entered in file.

The Earl of Bremen was not in his own territory at all. Regarding the attack on the territory, he had already brought cavalry to intercept the Norman fleet fleeing along the river. Ragner's so-called chaser is actually the Earl of Bremen himself.

The count never expected that his hometown would suddenly fall. The proud city wall once blocked the Normans, but the city breaker was actually done by the Ross people he looked down on.

The earl didn't know how this fierce battle would have occurred if a trade treaty that did not harm Ross' dignity was reached with the Ross envoy last year? With Lurik's means, if you can gain wealth through peaceful trade with people from afar, you will definitely not risk fighting.

However, it is reasonable to say that the earl despised the foreigners of Ross. He is the old nobleman of the old Frank's three lion banners. In his concept, only Frank has always crushed and refused to kill the foreign countries. What qualifications does the small state have to trade with itself on an equal footing?

Everywhere in the city there are shouts of killing and shouting, and many voices gathered together and turned into a roar of indistinguishable information.

Arik and his gang completely ignored what Ragnar would do, and after all, the Ross army completely occupied the home of the Count of Bremen. With a desire to make a fortune, he ordered to the guys who have the same dream: "Freedom to grab! Don't set fire! Whoever grabs the gold and silver will be punished for fighting each other! Remember, the enemy will not keep alive! Revenge for our brothers who died in Hezeby!"

A family tragedy belonging to the Count of Bremen has happened!

Crazy warriors rushed to the Neiburg, which was mainly piled with stones, and all the soft belongings of the earl's house were taken into the bag by the army.

Arik was busy looking for food with the blue fox, but the granary was successfully found, and the neatly stacked sacks in it were staggering.

"I can smell the aroma of wheat! Ah, how much wheat is there, can our boat be finished?!"

"You should inspect the goods first." Blue Fox reminded nervously.

"That's right." Arik drew out the sword and immediately stab a sack, the steel sword was pulled out, and the bloodletting trough gathered a large amount of dark brown particles. "It's actually rye? Really disappointed."

"What's weird about this? I told you that people in this place like to grow rye. It doesn't matter, you can brew a lot of kvass when you transport it back."

This is the same reason Arik thinks about. Any delicacy made of rye has a unique sourness, that is, it produces a special ale (referring to kvass) with natural sweetness, which is really a wonderful drink.

He arranged for a group of people to hold the granary firmly, and immediately searched other houses.

After a while, Jeflo personally escorted a man and a woman out of the stone fort, and bumped into the crowd with Arik's horse in the courtyard. Besides the horses, they seized five workhorses that were dragged and carted, and they were stroking the horse's mane happily.

"Brother, look here. I seem to have caught two nobles. Oh, no, there is another cub that has been cut by me." Yevlo called.

"Noble?" Arik hurriedly pulled the blue fox out: "You come to identify it."

An elderly woman with disheveled clothes and blurred eyes, sat on the ground sluggishly on her side. Another juvenile man was beaten with blood on his face, curled up on the ground and shivered.

The blue fox holding the sword walked over and looked at the woman's face carefully, and everything understood.

"It's a nobleman, the wife of the earl of Bremen. And this child is the next earl."

"Earl's heir? If you really become an earl," Jeflo was taken aback, "isn't it equal to me?"

"You are all earls but totally different. You can enlist five thousand Finnish fighters, but this Earl of Bremen can enlist up to five hundred people." After all, the blue fox turned around and asked Arik: "How to deal with these two Noble? My suggestion is to stay, and maybe I can ask the earl for a ransom afterwards."

"Is it necessary? You, really a businessman."

Arik didn't want to linger, and directly signaled to Evlo. In this way, the Finnish executioner took the knife and dropped it, resulting in two nobles.

The poor Earl of Bremen, Hunter, worried that he died in the war against Denmark, so he made a will in advance that he died, and the eldest son immediately inherited the title. However, the two sons of the earl became the ghosts of Ross and Ragnar's coalition forces.

The Blue Fox was touched. After all, he had a relationship with the two dead men, and discussed with the earl family whether he could trade peacefully with Rose.

Today, Rose has responded to the arrogance of the earl family with absolute force and killing, which is very in line with the happy enmity of the Viking society.

But Jeflo had no sense of this killing. He climbed up the tower and saw the more terrifying killing scene in the city square. He even saw Ragnar leading people in and out of Frank's church, even looking like a man in black. .

He reported the matter to Arik and estimated that Ragnar would **** the gold and silver from the church.

Arik himself has no feelings. He only asked the blue fox to introduce the situation of the church: "The church only has a small amount of gold and silver ~ www.novelhall.com~ During my stay there, I was eating every day. Brown bread and water, even stinking cheese and eggs are luxury treats. Damn, those priests have seven deadly sins (commandments), especially not to overeating. They don’t allow overeating and become half-hungry, otherwise how do you feel? Obese I became what I am now."

"But I heard that you believed in their god, but you didn't touch it? At least those guys have taken you in."

Can a savage butcher's words have another meaning? The blue fox suddenly felt uncomfortable, and asked, "You still expect me to sympathize with them, thinking I will explain to them. Look at the two dead bodies, I sympathize with them, anyway, they are about to die. It is kind to be beheaded by you. ."

"I don't care." Arik shrugged.

"I don't care." Blue Fox responded and said: "In fact, that monastery should have been the future residence of the old guy Eskil. If he learns that we have demolished St. Peter's Church in Bremen, maybe He will live to death. I am still a businessman. Believing in their gods is just a stopgap measure. I only have Prince Rurik in my heart."

"Then you are ruthless. But I like it. You...are Odin's warrior. Let's go, let's go over there and take a look."