Chapter 927： The trumpet sounded the day of the decisive battle of the Aleb Fortress

The beaches in the twilight were littered with fallen corpses, and the village of Lindholm was in shambles.

The sun was almost setting, and in the dim light, Ragnar's Danish troops were still garrisoned by the sea, until they watched the Frankish cavalry leave in a hurry.

"It's abominable. Without the support of the Rus, I would continue to fail. The battle is like this again." Recalling the tragedy just now, Ragnar still had lingering fears.

He will not blame the Ross Army for the lack of support in the slightest.

On the contrary, he clearly understood that his slaughter was entirely due to the fact that the army was busy looting.

This also fully exposed that his "New Kingdom of Denmark" was really empty. Those tribal armed forces from Zealandia were very willing to fight against the wind, and this time the strong enemy attacked and ran away.

How dare you call yourself a "warrior who reveres Odin"?

At least the new Danish army is still standing here, and everyone can comfort themselves that it is not defeated.

After a period of silence, the frightened people finally regained their senses. Those who jumped back to the boat and watched from the near shore are now landing again.

The Danes' beach landing was successful, but not entirely.

The Rus army in the rear, in line with the obligation of the alliance, took the risk of accidentally injuring friendly troops and fired a large number of javelins to force the Frankish cavalry to withdraw from the battlefield. But one night, the Ross Army had no time to continue to float on the sea.

After seeing the withdrawal of the Frankish cavalry, the Ross fleet immediately adjusted its course and launched a landing on the soothing beach south of the landing site where Ragnar was located.

The twilight obscured the actions of the Rus army, a large number of small boats were laid down, and the soldiers landed by boat.

The warhorses, housed in the holds of armed cargo ships, were driven by soldiers to the top deck along narrow wooden ramps. At the same time, these armed cargo ships also took advantage of the evening tide to forcibly rush to the shore and deliberately ran aground.

Then the prefabricated planks are pieced together into longer planks, which are inserted directly into the gravel.

The unsaddled horses plunged fiercely into the waist-high water along the steep plank, and ran towards the shore in the continuously rising tide.

This move is very unfriendly to the horses, and "Bald" Fisk is worried, but he has no good way.

In fact, there is a good landing site, which is to use the existing pier in the fishing village of Lindholm. Those wooden trestle bridges seem to be able to make do, but that area is already crowded with friendly longships, and the messy look can't give Ross's horses any space to land.

In the end, the horses landed one after another. Since they were taking advantage of the tide, if those large ships could not be towed away immediately, they would only be stranded in the tidal flat when the tide was low.

A large number of soldiers waded to land, and those Slavs with burlap pockets, round shields and folded spears endured the sea and stood in the core territory of the Danes for the first time.

And this is also the first time the Eastern Slavs arrived in the birthplace of the Varyags.

Because any Vikings living in Scandinavia and the nearby islands spread out from Jutland.

Night covers a lot, it can cover up the army, it can make the army disappear in the night, and it can create an extremely large army in the night.

The bonfire increases the kitchen tricks, which is the usual good strategy of the Rus army.

The Rus army and the attached Slav army, who just landed, were eager to dry their wet clothes, so they collected materials on the spot, cut down the woods not far from the sea to get wood, used bow drills to make fire, and used fire and nitrate to support the combustion, and a large number of bonfires were lit. .

The camp of the Rus army is self-contained, and for security reasons, the army that landed first maintained a high-strength alert, and followed the continuous landing of the rear guard.

Undoubtedly, the night gave the Ross army a huge obstacle. Landing at night was a challenge. In order to seek stability, Spuut only asked the soldiers to land first, and a large amount of heavy equipment and living materials would be transported until dawn.

After all, summer nights in northern Europe are extremely short, so you don’t have to wait too long.

Compared with the friendly armies, Spuyut, Fisk, Kanuf and Medvet, the armies under the four generals of the Ross Army together had a size of 2,000 people. There are still many non-combatants such as sailors on board, who will not be involved in future battles unless necessary.

The Ross Army built dense camps, and they deliberately lit more bonfires to create the illusion of a large-scale camp.

The fact is that this army that landed on the beach is indeed unprecedented in scale, with a total strength of 13,000!

Most of them are Danes who believe in Odin. The war in the twilight has proved one thing. Although the army is strong, it cannot achieve uniform military orders. The tribes that get together have their own plans, just like this night Camping is also the gathering of each tribe into a pile under the leadership of the lord.

The camp of the Ross Army built a night defense position. The soldiers with crossbows were placed on the periphery of the formation, and the ten torsion slingshots that were carried ashore first were placed at a distance.

Although the bonfires were widely spread, the main force of the Ross army, together with the war horses, were all camped in a semi-circular area close to the sea.

The warriors ate dry food, and the horses were fed a lot of oatmeal.

The current situation is very grim. As long as you look at the bright spots of kindness everywhere in the fortress on the mound, the soldiers of the Rus army believe that the enemy defenders are also strong, and the Danish army in Ragnar believes this even more.

After all, the army has landed, and Ragnar's department is cleaning up the mess on the battlefield.

How many people died in the Frankish cavalry? It is impossible to count under the night, and there is no need to count.

One can only describe the frighteningness of the Frankish cavalry, and the fact that they fought a useless battle.

Suppressing his anger and complaints, Speuter went to Ragnar to set up the "Danish King's Palace", which was essentially a larger and relatively intact house in the village of Lindholm.

The house became the command center of the army, and the lords and Ragnar himself were already quarreling in the brightly lit houses.

They were arguing quite loudly.

Spuut heard the obvious abuses, shirks, and accusations in Norse language, and he was also suffocated, so he recklessly broke into the venue and shouted: "Don't quarrel! Don't shirk responsibility! With you guys How can my friend Ragnar build Denmark with all the robbery guys together?"

This glance shocked the audience and made Ragnar very moved.

After being quiet for a while, a lord suddenly pointed at Speuter's nose and asked sharply: "Why are you yelling so loudly? We suffered losses when we landed, and it has a lot to do with your Rus people's delay in coming to support."

Suddenly, someone beat on the chest and echoed: "You are too slow! Why didn't you land earlier?! Only at the last minute will support be launched."

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Speuter shook his head, although there were still many lords who remained silent, those who danced happily made him furious.

What is bloody? What is barbarism? !

I saw Speuter suddenly draw his sword, and the blade pointed at the men who accused him with a strong buzzing sound.

This also forced the house to be quiet.

"You cowards, you don't have the guts to fight with the Franks, and instead point at us Rus people too much. Ross disdains to be in the company of cowards. You are so weak, how can you be an ally of Rus? Why don't you give up your status? Disband the army and go back to your home in Zealand to fish honestly."

The words were too irritating, and the few who were criticized knew the old pirate of Speuter well, and they all shut up.

Ragnar reluctantly rounded up the game, spreading his arms and dancing to appeal to everyone to calm down.

"We really need to calm down now." Spuut said solemnly: "We don't have time to blame each other, and we don't even have time to burn the bodies of the dead to ashes or put them in the ground. Those Franks won the first battle, and they will be tomorrow. Comeback."

"I think so too." Ragnar echoed with a slap on the thigh, "Stop all the quarrels, we must make a decision. I! I have to knock down the fortress in front of me."

Everyone organized a large army to come to Jutland not for vacation. The huge losses in the landing battle made people soberly aware that this war could not be easily won.

They started working on tactics.

The still huge force is the undoubted advantage of the new Denmark-Russ coalition.

The enemy will rely on the fortress to defend, how should the army break through the fortress?

The fort has stone walls, just make some ladders to go over the stone walls. The army only needs to attack a little to make a breakthrough, and then the army will file in, and all problems will no longer be a problem.

After all, in this war, the Danes are fighting to retake the stolen territory. Speuter has just started to stand up as if he is the absolute commander. If a decisive battle is going to start, the initiative must be grasped by the new Danish king Ragnar.

Speuter would have to sell the Danes a face, and lose the honor of being the first to break through the fort.

Considering that he is essentially a partial division, there is no need to take the lead and make great contributions. In order to avoid meaningless casualties, he announced that the Ross Army will first be responsible for supporting with long-range weapons.

Such a statement implies one thing, that the so-called New Danish Army of the Sealand Danes will do the tricks, which means that Ragnar will take the castle of the Frankish invaders. The troops entering the fort can loot according to their ability, and the Rus army is obviously mixed and made up for this popular looting operation.

This made the lords of the new Danish army, who were still red-faced from the quarrel just now, greatly relieved.

So Ragnar's New Danes could take Aleb Castle on their own with a little long-range arrow support?

Ragnar was confident through the meeting, but Spuitt, who had returned to his camp, still felt uncomfortable.

Seeing the old uncle's return, the young Fisk and Kanuf hurried forward to meet him.

"How? What did the Danes say about the defeat of the landing?" Fisk asked.

"It's all a bunch of pretentious guys, but also very cowardly. Fisk, get the cavalry together first."

"what?"

"Come on, I have something to tell you."

The cavalry soldiers who had just finished their meal lined up urgently, and they heard such an exhortation.

Speuter is in his forties, he is no longer young, and he has gone through so much over the years to become quite wise and pragmatic.

"Tomorrow will be a big battle, our Danish allies will attack the fortress. The task of the Rus and Slavs is to assist those people, you are the best cavalry, your task is to hold back or destroy the Frankish cavalry. Remember you If you encounter enemy cavalry, you can discuss how to fight for yourself."

Spuut did not understand cavalry, and the Frankish cavalry was a great enemy.

How to deal with cavalry? I'm afraid the best way is cavalry to cavalry.

It just so happened that Fisk thought so too.

A military meeting was held in the Ross military camp, and the officers quickly discussed the arrangements for tomorrow's battle.

Late at night, in the cavalry camp protected by Tuantuan.

Bejasil, who was too obvious, wanted to fight, but her thoughts were suppressed by others. Although he is in the battlefield, although he cannot join the battlefield, he still has to do the work of being a cavalry advisor.

It just so happened that Fisk was in urgent need of the Prairie Princess's combat advice.

"Those Frankish cavalry seems to be wearing heavy armor, and we are fighting fiercely with them. Our cavalry is small and does not have an advantage. What should we do? You..." Fisk sat cross-legged like a bear. Beja Hill, sitting on the side as well-behaved as a rabbit.

"This rabbit" is not ordinary, and it is a smart warrior when he speaks.

"Are you stupid? To deal with this heavily armored enemy, just use our grassland tactics."

"Just shooting with arrows? They have heavy armor. Our arrows may not work, and your recurve bows may not work."

"Then give priority to shooting their horses." Bejahir immediately mentioned such a battle example: "In our hometown, we Pechenegs fought against Roman cavalry. Those cavalry were covered in iron, and even the horses were iron. Cutting and killing with this kind of cavalry is self-defeating, and the only way to harass them is to keep shooting arrows. When the enemy is exhausted by heavy armor and panting, it is time for us to fight back."

Spuut cheered up at once. "Is that so? I've never fought another cavalry, and the king hopes that I won't break any soldier or any horse."

"Rurik? My man... His thoughts are too simple. How can there be an undead warhorse in a war? Even if our cavalry is Jingui, this is war! You see, I am a noble princess, and I was not in the first place before. Frontline battle?" She was still implying that she was eager to overcome physical difficulties and enter the battlefield.

After chatting a lot, the countermeasures against the Frankish cavalry were researched in a word by the two of them. As for whether it is easy to use, it still needs to be tested on the battlefield.

The horses have rested, and the cavalry soldiers can't sleep.

Although I don't know if the enemy will send cavalry in tomorrow's battle, how will the cavalry be sent? The Russ cavalry is bound to make full preparations, such as giving up the spear and not stabbing and killing each other with the enemy's super-strong cavalry. To give full play to the specialty of being a steppe cavalry, prepare quivers on both sides of the saddle.

The Pecheneg people followed this tactical model. As a relatively weak existence in the Eastern European grasslands, cutting each other with the strong enemy cavalry was suicide. They could not bear the death of a large number of people, and could not accept the loss of the defeat, so they resorted to the obscene "kite-flying" tactics.

This tactic was as filthy as dung and as vile as a thief in Viking society.

It was like a duel between two warriors, but one of them used a hidden weapon when he was unprepared.

Fisk is not stupid, his priority is to avoid cavalry losses, and the second is to consider whether the battle is upright.

Pooh! Those Franks didn't believe in Odin, so there was no need to fight them upright.

As a result, when the new sun rose, the cavalrymen who had been sleeping for a while and the huge Rus army camped were awakened by the melodious sound of trumpets in the distance.

The Ross army, especially the cavalry, who had fought too many hard battles, woke up first, the horses stood up, and the soldiers hurriedly hung their quivers full of arrows on their horses. Holding the reins, they watched the movements of the Frankish castle, alert to the melodious and low-pitched sound of the horn from there.

The horn was like a signal for war.

The sleepy-eyed warriors hurriedly got up, with their backs to the sea, worried about being attacked, they hurriedly tied their round shields to their left arms, holding swords and tomahawks on standby.

The warrior with the crossbow also hurriedly prepared to wind it, and the javelin of the torsion slingshot was also inserted into the magazine.

Look at Medvedt's thousand Slavic troops, the warriors busy inserting round pine sticks soaked in pine resin and reinforced into bronze tubes, so that the three-sectioned spear restores its true color. In other words, the weapon in the full state is a super long halberd more suitable. This is an innovation of a weapon, but also a revival of a weapon. In the Macedonian phalanx of a long time ago, the spearmen's spears were splicable. It has a great advantage, that is, it is convenient for marching.

When the Slavs landed, they were dressed as standard Rus soldiers, and even their clothes were completely uniform. At first glance, it seemed that the elite citizens of the Rus arrived.

It wasn't until they showed their spears that they had spliced ​​together that they looked different.

Indeed, a thousand-person spear army in this time and space is all cast in Western Europe, Northern Europe, and even Eastern Europe. When this army goes out to battle, the swordsmen and crossbowmen of the Rus army must rely on this spear formation to defend each other. This was negotiated by the generals before the war. They learned war during the war. Based on the principle of trying to kill as much as possible to avoid casualties, they spontaneously moved closer to the tactics of the "Spanish phalanx".

The cavalry of the Rus Army adopted the "steppe cavalry" tactics, and the Rus-Slav infantry adopted the "large square" tactics.

They are quite different from the traditional image of the Vikings, and only Odin, who is generally believed, proves that although he is ever-changing, he is a warrior of Odin.

Yes, a large number of Slavic army warriors have spontaneously abandoned their past beliefs, and they now feel that they are fighting for the great **** Odin to gain glory, and the souls after death will be honored in Asgard for eternal glory.

Their fighting spirit is high, and it would be too inappropriate at this moment without the arrogant appearance of the enemy.

This is not!

The Frankish cavalry marched out of the city!

The cross flag is flying, and the Frankish cavalry horses are dressed in blue-striped robes. It is amazing that the main color of Ludov's cavalry is also blue and white, or that all Frankish troops try to dress in blue and white tones, even if they do not have standard military uniforms.

The two sides who are about to fight are dressed in similar tones, and the reason is quite simple. The blue vegetable dye is easy to obtain in the pan-Nordic region.

Today's Liudov, with the loud voice of yesterday evening, marched forward amid the cheers of the people behind, and everyone accepted the priest's blessing again, thinking that today is another righteous killing bestowed on the barbarians by the sea Death Judgment.

Liudov now looked down on those defeated soldiers. He held his spear high, although he noticed that there was still a large camp to the south, which was obviously not as large as the one directly in front of him.

He understood the principle of catching the thief first and the king, presumably the chief of the barbarians was hiding in the largest camp.

"Children of Widukind! Not for Frank this time! But for our Saxony, follow me!"

So Liudov's five hundred cavalry launched an early morning offensive against the Danish camp at Ragnar.

All this was closely watched by the Ross Army in the "southern camp" that he ignored.

Fisk couldn't sit back and watch these enemies attack the friendly forces. He didn't have time to prepare any more.

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