Chapter 820： When one section of the wall collapsed

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The blue-patterned robe of the Rus army is too eye-catching. After forming the shield wall, there is an orderly white wall.

It is very exaggerated that the Russ army took advantage of the fact that the Danes on the wall were at a loss, and had hurriedly put the torsion slingshots carried by the hand-carried trucks into place.

Warriors holding bows and crossbows line up in close formation with torsion slingshots, and they are just behind the thin shield wall.

And behind the crossbowmen, there are a group of warriors with swords and shields, and Slav soldiers with spears in formation.

A large number of Ross flags were flying, and their clothing was prominent in the rock. Most of the soldiers were uniformly dressed, and gathered together to bring a huge sense of oppression to the enemy.

Danish king Horlick has already boarded the city wall. He temporarily dressed himself up as a shame, just to take a good look at the appearance of the Ross army.

He took a breath, and saw a man with a strange beard and braids, so angry that he stood up straight in spite of the danger. He simply found a wooden box to step on, and then yelled: "Ragna! Danish scum! It was you who attracted the Ross people?! I regret the original kindness and didn't kill you and your people!"

Hearing this roar, Ragnar bluntly said that Rurik, that arrogant and domineering man is the king of Denmark Horlick.

"That's Horlick?!" Rurik came fiercely, inviting his subordinates to bring a light wooden crossbow with an arrow on it. Ragner and the elder brother scolded again.

Ragnar was full of hatred for Horlick, wishing to eat his meat, and then chop his wives and heirs into minced meat to feed the fish. His scolding is very ugly, and the point is to accuse the so-called "Horick and Frank male nobles have a dirty body deal." What an insult is this? !

Just as Horrick blushed and cursed, with a swish, a silver-gray object flew away from Horrick's head.

"Hey! The wooden arm version is not easy to use. I almost killed that bastard." Ruriek threw the crossbow to his men angrily.

Horrick himself froze on the spot, an arrow stuck in his iron helmet, which had fallen under the wooden wall at this moment. Undecided, he looked in a trance, and the guarding soldiers hurriedly helped him down and concealed him.

"Damn Ross, I almost died! Brothers, shoot me an arrow to beat them back!"

The Danes holding the bows began to draw their bows. Seeing that Rose's sword and shield players used huge round shields to protect their bodies, they counterattacked to avoid the thin arrows.

At this moment, the Russian army first began to attack!

Both sides shot arrows almost at the same time. The Russian crossbows and slingshots were fired at the same time. Under the order of Rurik, they hit the first round of powerful punches. More than one hundred cone-head cast iron bullets hit the wooden wall and saw the sawdust fly. The walls tremble slightly.

The thick pine woods are neatly arrayed in the dug pit, and the diameter of each pine wood reaches 30 cm. The pine wood has such a diameter and has stood for more than a year. The whole has been dried in the shade and lost water, and the overall strength has reached a high level.

They have such an exaggerated thickness that even a torsion slingshot can't penetrate the cast iron projectile even if it fires close to it.

Rurik didn't think that the violent demolition of the wall could be accomplished with only a slingshot.

More than one hundred slingshots are divided into multiple shooting groups, each group has at least ten gatherings. All units were ordered to violently attack a point of the wooden wall, relying on frequent shooting, to continuously expand the small gaps, and expand the impact points into damaged surfaces.

The projectile slammed into the wooden wall heavily, and a large number of cone-head projectiles were directly embedded in it.

The people who manipulate the slingshot kept yelling: "Hurry up and reload and smash their walls!"

The soldiers were roaring, and the strong soldiers turned the winch frantically. When the metal bayonet had just locked the winch, a projectile coated with seal oil and whale oil was placed on the slide. As soon as the loaded soldier got out of his hands, the other man suddenly pulled out the pin.

"Quick! Let's do it again." So it's a new cycle.

All torsion slingshots are allowed to shoot freely. For this battle Eureka also prepared enough projectiles. He was expected to fight fiercely with the Danish navy at sea. At that time, enough projectiles are the key to victory. As a result, the long armed ships of the Kingdom of Denmark No trace, the Ross army, who did not have a taste of naval battles, was here to vent their violence with bullets.

And this is just the power of a torsion slingshot.

Ten bull catapults stood on the battlefield, and some special projectiles were thrown directly into the city. It was the Danish cavalry who had been killed before. Their heads were taken off, and their bodies were basically thrown into the sea.

Although there is a headhunting culture in various Viking clans, Rurik's so-called "use your skull to make a wine bowl" is really provocative, but what he has to do now is indeed a provocation.

The head of the deceased was thrown into the inner city, and the Danish infantry with a full set of weapons looked forward to thinking that it was a stone falling from the sky.

This kind of "projectile" can't kill anyone, but it's insulting.

When the head was thrown clean, the truly lethal pebbles began to be launched.

The Russian army’s array is within the range of the Danish army’s bows and arrows. Such a close range can not only take advantage of the Russian army’s absolute arrow advantage, but also make the bull’s trebuchet’s huge torsion launch arm eject larger pebbles.

The real stone fell from the sky. Even if it didn't pierce the soldier's shield, its powerful force could shake the soldier's left arm, and that was enough.

Heavy weapons were mainly used to destroy the city walls, and the arrows of the Russ directly disrupted the rhythm of the Danish army.

Rurik was holding a steel sword with his face sullen.

The Danish archers who hit the city with their crossbows could not fight back, and they were shot down wantonly like innocent birds. Occasionally, there were angry uppermost fighting back. They showed their chests and had just drawn their bows, and they were directly sniped by the eye-catching Ross Crossbowmen.

Soldiers fell heavily from the top of the city, and a group of soldiers could only kneel and sit under the walls of the city wall to linger. They were suppressed, and they watched the soldiers fleeing everywhere in the empty field in the city.

After a while, the Danes at the head of the city almost disappeared.

Rurik deliberately waited until now.

He commanded loudly: "Jevlo! Take your Finn forward and form a phalanx to project it to the air!"

No matter, Rurik gave a loud command: "Fisk, you and your guys and the Finns are with you, line up the line to throw arrows!"

It is the "Ross Arrow Formation" that is a mixture of longbow and recurve bow. Even the soldiers, including ten Pecheneg people, formed an arrow formation with a total of three hundred people.

Both the longbow and the recurve bow will shoot heavy arrows. They are no longer needle-like piercing arrows, but broad-bladed barbed steel arrows clusters. This arrow is only used to kill a large number of opponents. The lack of armored infantry.

The crossbowmen of the Russian army were already throwing stubby heavy arrows, already causing panic in the Danish army behind the wall. The assembled soldiers were scurrying, and the entire cavalry team was in disorder.

Many people were killed and injured by the arrows and stones. The arrows came out of nowhere, and it was not difficult to avoid them.

However, if it hadn't been for the frightened King Horlick who had withdrawn to order the army to continue to defend themselves, this group of Danish fighters would take the initiative to retreat and evade, even if it meant being a coward.

The Danish fighters clenched their teeth and persisted until they encountered unbearable weight.

A dense rain of arrows descended from the sky, they were launched at a great elevation angle, and fell desperately swirling in the sky with the whirl feathers.

The arrow directly penetrated the soldier's shoulder, pierced through the thin iron helmet, and beat those who were caught off guard.

The soldiers who insisted on constructing the shield wall immediately suffered more than 30 casualties, and a large number of brown-gray arrow feathers were also inserted on the sandy ground, which at first glance looked like an oat ear that was in urgent need of harvest.

The terrified King Horrick witnessed the terrible damage. He tried to maintain his composure, but his subordinates began to retreat.

The intact warrior took away the injured companion who was yelling, and when he tried to pull out the arrow that hit his companion, he got a more serious wailing.

Less than ten seconds after the first round of arrows, the second round of arrows came again.

Such shooting has lasted for ten rounds, and the Finnish longbowmen holding the bow have sore arms. Fisk and his young guys also barely endure the pain of shooting heavy arrows. Shooting with high-pound bows is just like that. Now, when they finish shooting their arrows, they are asked to take off their resting arms temporarily, but they must be on standby for the final battle.

Looking at the other side of the wooden wall, Horrick was mourning for his tactical mistakes.

Since the Rus army threatened to break the city, they probably have the strength in this area. King Horrick himself lacked the confidence to guard the city gate, even though the largest wooden gate of the fort facing the south had piled up a large number of wheeled carriages that acted as an obstacle to the gate. Once the Russ army broke in, he calculated that his Danish army waited for work, attacking them with a shield wall, relying on the absolute superiority of local forces, and constantly killing the enemies that broke in from the breach.

But Rurik, Prince Rose, why did he fight like this?

The Ross arrow array that was just pieced together produced two thousand heavy arrows in a short time. The warriors with crossbows continued to throw short and fat crossbow arrows, and the warriors with short wooden bows tossed light arrows.

The Ross army abruptly launched nearly 10,000 arrows of all kinds, and Rurik didn't worry that the enemy would shoot back the handy arrows again, because the enemy was also exposed to the range of being shot while the enemy was shooting.

The intensive arrow strikes completely thwarted Horlick's attempt, and there was a clear and audible disturbance in the city. The Danish fighters were all evacuating. They evacuated to the south of the city, where the arrows could only be avoided.

Naihe has already had as many as three hundred people, and some cavalrymen were shot by arrows and stones. Even the undeceased were still wriggling desperately in the "wheat field" formed by arrow feathers.

Warriors who were originally sword and shield fighters also became archers on a large scale. Only the elite Arik’s and Ragnar’s of the Alliance held the shield to watch the show.

Those armed Bornholm slaves and surrendered Danish exiles stood in the array of the Rus army, observing the powerful charm of the Rus arrow from close range. So how stupid the Bornholm islanders' counterattack was before. The Ross army seemed to be able to shoot arrows for everyone and defeat any enemy close to the arrows.

There is no need to waste much energy when manipulating the wooden-armed crossbow to wind up the string, and the heavy-duty steel-armed crossbow is assisted by a winch. These fighters knew that they were about to perform a brand-new mission, and they would inevitably push the siege to the highlight of the Rus army, and it would depend on whether the prince had enough.

At this moment, Arik looked at the crazy firepower output of the other brothers. He couldn't wait: "Brother! Are you satisfied? Do you really expect the slingshot to keep shooting through their walls?"

Rurik immediately yelled: "Arik, I know what you are going to say! Now continue to wait for me!"

"How long do we have to wait?! We only attack here. What if the enemy escapes through the small gate, or if they send troops to attack our flanks?"

The last sentence of Arik's rhetorical question suddenly reminded Rurik.

Yes, if the King of Denmark launches a cavalry counterattack, it will be detrimental to our army.

Looking at the left and right, the brothers had long wanted to slash the city, and the firepower preparation had been implemented for a while, and more than a dozen visible damages had appeared on the wooden wall. Unexpectedly, the enemy's wooden wall is quite thick, and the next step is to use more powerful weapons to turn "scraping" into "cutting meat".

Rurik immediately decree, and the impatient soldiers fell into ecstasy, and with a smile they pushed the siege rush.

The whole army is doing its own brand-new work in accordance with military orders.

The torsion slingshot started to throw iron bullets with low storage power and high elevation angle, just like throwing a rock, throwing the projectile to about 50 meters away, allowing it to fall and focus on potential targets. Most warriors with a crossbow threw it on the ground and picked up the buckler and sword on the spot.

After resting for a while, the Finnish archers of Jevlo and the young dismounted cavalry fighters led by Fisk, with bows and arrows, waited for the opportunity to support.

Grund, who was dressed in exaggerated heavy armor and became an iron man, had more than fifty men guarding the siege rush driven by the armed slaves.

Rurik wanted to ensure that the loss of the main body of the Russian army was weak in this battle. He didn't know what the city looked like. After the city broke, the Danes also gave priority to the mercenaries who took the money and the wages, and the slaves who had changed their masters.

Those elite mercenaries holding a double-edged Nordic forest axe with a spearhead, when they were rounded, they slammed into the wall of pine wood that was frantically scraped by the projectile, and the sawdust flew across and slammed on their iron armor.

The slave warriors pushed the engineering cart to hit the wooden wall with strong potential energy. Each impact of the bronze horns caused irreparable cracks in the wooden wall.

Even though the wooden walls of Godfreyhagen are made of pine trees connected in parallel and reinforced with cables, they are being focused on breaking through as many as six gaps.

As for why Rurik didn't attack the door that seemed easy to break through, everything came from the nightmare of a siege many years ago. Regardless of whether the Danish king created a trap, such as sprinkling hot oil from the gate of the city and setting it on fire, a reliable king would have to block the main entrance with a large number of wooden stakes in the face of the current situation.

The Russian army is violently breaking through the wall, and the pine wall is quickly disintegrating.

There was a rumbling sound from the city wall, and the main body of the wall had not collapsed, but the base where the shooting could stand and counterattack had collapsed on a large scale, and part of the wall was crumbling.

Most of the Danish fighters retreated to the south of the city. Horlick put on a helmet and reorganized his army in the south. He mounted the steed and reformed the cavalry.

Everyone heard the roar coming from the city wall, and they could see the black masses falling from the sky, smashing the soldiers who had fallen in the arrow feathers into mud.

King Horlick instigated his men as a king: "These Russ will take our lives and use your skulls to make wine bowls! The city wall is no longer a barrier! We are the heroes of Friesland and the ruler of Denmark. Insulted by this! Brothers, you must fight for honor! Cavalry! Come with me!"

Since even Arik of the Ruth Berserker could think that the Kingdom of Denmark would use the cavalry to countercharge with a high probability, King Horlick had this intention, but this king still did not know the truth of the Ross army, worried that blindly going out through the small door to launch a countercharge would be an impact. iron plate. He was also worried that if he opened the side door early, he might misunderstand the whole army-the king fleeing with his cavalry. If it caused a misunderstanding by the soldiers, it really turned into a total collapse.

Horrick decided to stay still. He summoned his confidants, took his brothers and tried to hide first, leaving the cavalry on the alley.

He conveyed this attitude to his subordinates: "I will put the enemy in a group, I will take the lead in the charge, the cavalry will kill all their infantry, and then all the people who are hiding will rush in and kill them."

This is called a counter-attack, and those who were stunned by Rose's arrow said that this was the king's trick. It's like the brothers trusting the commander in Friesland, and now Horrick is the king, no matter what, the brothers still have to twist into a rope to fight together.

A pair of eyes stared at the distance of the winding roadway, and they raised their ears and waited for the sound of the collapse of the wooden wall.

Every time the siege rushing car hits, it is not a small sound, accompanied by the low roar of a group of men.

Suddenly, a big breach was opened!

It was the big hole where the siege cart smashed through the wooden wall, and then accompanied by the warrior with a large axe crazily cutting wood on the two wings of the cart, a section of the wooden wall collapsed structurally, and the rumbling sound caused a big earthquake and tremor.

Lurik, who was watching the battle, waited for this moment, and his ripper ordered: "Slaves! Mercenaries! Your chance to make a fortune is here! Go in and grab the treasure first!"

Upon hearing the order, Grund rushed in with his heavily armored troops singing, watching the mess in the city and dropping his chin at the same time, he was surprised, because there was not even a Danish all around. The slave fighters were even more happy. They first entered the city to make a great contribution. The new master, Prince Rurik, really did what he said. The humble everyone might one day have the right to grab the spoils first.

Of course, Rurik's bizarre order stunned Arik.

Arik left the team altogether and stood beside his brother and asked, "You just let a group of slaves go in and enjoy the glory of the first battle? Can they still grab the spoils first?"

Rurik kept his eyes on: "Brother, UU Reading , you just reminded me to beware of their counterattack. Let the slave fighters go in, and you are going in with Ragnar."

"This...ridiculous." Arik stomped his feet. At this moment, he didn't want to have any worries. He just wanted to enter the core of the enemy's capital with his double swords. Even if the enemy launched a counterattack, that would be desirable.

Seeing the slave warriors and all the heavy-armored mercenaries, a team of more than 300 people had entered the city from the biggest gap, and Arik and Ragnar also started to act.

Those exiled Danes boasted that they had accepted the command of Ragnar. The brothers formed an alliance with the Duchy of Ross very smoothly. They finally entered the previously unattainable Goldfrehagen, the Frankish running dog Horrick · The capital built by Haraldson. As long as they stood inside the wall, it was an insult to that Horrick, and now the brothers were about to **** the head of the running dog.

Who can use that person's head to make a wine bowl? Everyone knows that the Horrick beheader will have a huge reputation throughout the Baltic Sea.