Chapter 929： Battle of Aleb Fort begins

Ludov's Frankish cavalry, who only thought about evacuating the battlefield, had no time to take care of their casualties. After successfully passing through the moat, the winch in control of the drawbridge quickly pulled up the wooden bridge.

When the last cavalry hurriedly smashed into the stone wall without caring about his injury, those who controlled the drawbridge also hurried back.

Liudov clenched the reins and kept shouting: "Quick! Block the gate! Push the vehicle over to block the gate!"

After all, it pointed at the people who were already on the city wall: "Pick up bows, arrows, stones, and don't let them try to get to the city!"

Regardless of whether these verbal orders were received or not, the defenders would die at the thought of breaking the city, and the armed militia rushed towards the east-facing wall in large numbers.

There are thick walls of tall stones, and outside the walls are deliberately dug trenches.

Just last autumn, it was this group of laborers who moved stones, felled trees, and used various tools to dig the earth pit around the fortress.

Some of the work is for the defense of war, and now it's time to test the results of the work! It is that they have no desire for this war in the slightest.

People's faces were twitching, and the hands holding the stones were shaking.

The bow-wielding warriors did their best to keep their composure, hoping for a miracle.

From the perspective of these people, the war over the Aleb Fortress on the Isthmus of Lindholm was the largest civil war that broke out in the Danish world in the long history of the past.

In the past, various lords would organize armies to attack each other in order to obtain the title of the lord (king) and real strength, but the scale of the war has never been as large as it is today.

Perhaps, this is the battle of faith.

The Danish tribes, some carry out their reverence for Odin and the Norse gods, and some convert to God.

As for the resident Saxons, they fled to Denmark in order to continue their belief in the sacred wood, but in the end, they could not escape the fate of converting to God in order to survive.

Whether these Danes or Saxons believe in God in absolute terms, it is clear that the actual battle that follows has little to do with illusory beliefs.

This war is almost killing for the sake of killing. If you don't want to be killed, you kill the enemy, and the identity conversion is exactly the same.

Now, no one feels that the next battle can be contained by some force. The attacker is eager to fight, and the defender can only risk everything to defend.

Once, in the civil war in Denmark, the fighters joined the battle as soldiers, and when they took up arms, they were ready to die in battle.

And today's battle is related to the lives of everyone in the fort.

It is in this desperate situation that the desire to survive trumps everything. The Danes, the Saxons, in order to survive, they had to break out the most brutal civil war against their attacking Danish brethren.

How tragic is the cannibalism of the same kind, but Ragnar now does not regard the people who betrayed Odin in the front fortress as a kindred.

The army of tens of thousands of people launched an attack regardless of primary or secondary. For this siege, Ragnar made some preparations overnight.

If the main force of the Rus army was here, how would they attack a city protected by high walls?

It is probably to use some heavy equipment, such as dozens of warriors hugging a large tree trunk together and constantly ramming towards the city gate. There is a more straightforward and risky measure, which is to make some long ladders and forcibly climb the wall.

The two heavy weapons Ragnar are crafted from existing materials.

Some buildings in the village of Lindholm were maliciously demolished, and three straight oak beams of the longhouse were pieced together and tied with twine to create a battering ram.

Where is the joy of climbing the wall and breaking the city when hitting the door?

More than ten longhouses were demolished, resulting in as many as thirty long ladders of average quality.

The production of these siege equipment could be completed overnight, and it would have been impossible without the support of the Russ military division based on some parts and materials.

Of course, this also lies in the fact that Ragnar's New Danish Kingdom Army is no longer an absolute barbarian who can only "fight in groups" due to its contact with the Rus Kingdom.

They ushered in a key innovation in tactical awareness.

Therefore, for the defenders, their attempt to contain the barbarian offensive with a tall city wall ushered in a daunting challenge.

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Liudov, who was returning to the city, hurriedly dismounted, and was worried to see that there were not even half of the cavalry returning.

Many were covered in arrows with tan feathers, and chainmail was useless against these arrows. The arrow cluster has penetrated deeply into the soldier's flesh and blood. As for the soldier who did not fall off the horse and die, it is probably because of his strong willpower and desire to survive.

Until they entered the fort, they couldn't hold on any longer.

More than a dozen cavalrymen fell directly from their horses. When their companions hurriedly dismounted to check, they were surprised to find that they were almost out of breath.

Seeing this scene, Liudov held his head in both hands, his eyes were like copper bells, he covered the ground and grew up and shouted in despair.

Because these are all the cronies he brought from his hometown in the fief! There are a large number of small lords, all of whom are distinguished military nobles in their Westphalian fiefs.

In the cavalry confrontation so far, he has to lose 80% of the military nobles?

Even the warriors who survived and stood on the ground were mostly wounded. The soldier bravely pulled out the cluster of arrows on his body, vomiting blood and lamenting that his chain mail was useless.

More cruel than the loss of cavalry warriors is the loss of warhorses!

Once there are no horses, the cavalry can only fight as heavy infantry, and the current situation is that there are not one out of ten intact warhorses.

The proud cavalry had lost their combat effectiveness, and only one hundred were left alive who successfully retreated to the fortress, and were generally injured.

Sadly, now is the time to employ people. Knowing that the last cronies are exhausted and unfit for injury, these people are indispensable in the current defense battle.

Facing the defeat of the cavalry, Esquier, the sage who went north, was almost in a coma. He braced himself and held up the gilded cross, and shouted to the sky: "Lord! Save your poor lamb! Let down the wrath of thunder and kill the Normans who attacked the city!"

Of course, the Lord did not appear, and Ragnar's New Danish Army and the Rus Army with a large number of torsional slingshots had already approached the outer city wall of the fortress.

Ludov, who had been manic for a while, regained his rationality. He violently pulled out the arrow from his body, glanced at his own blood on the sharp arrow cluster, and broke it off in anger.

He ordered his subordinates: "Follow me if you still have the strength! Guard our fortress!"

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The angle of view turned back to the outside of the city.

Despite the victory, Fisk's cavalry suffered losses.

Looking at the infantry coming one after another, the cavalry heard his astonishing orders.

"Siege warfare is not our strength, take away the injured brother, we will retreat to the rear to rest first!"

Really want to retreat? Why not chase after the victory?

Vengeful cavalry warriors had to do what they were told, dragging away their wounded or dead comrades in the hope that they would still have a chance to fight.

The Russ cavalry performed a mass killing of the Frankish cavalry, the battlefield was littered with the corpses of enemy cavalry, and a lot of "horse meat".

From the standpoint of Ragnar, Spuet, and a large number of warriors, what the Ross cavalry accomplished was clearly a one-sided killing.

However, Fisk was unhappy about this battle. When the tactical evacuation was taking place, he met the neatly lined Ross army division. The embarrassment on his face was really seen by Speuter.

"That's all the Frankish cavalry. Boy! You've won!"

Spuut squinted and boasted, and beat his chest with the hilt of his sword, expressing his inner praise.

Fisk, who was holding the reins, forced a smile: "Who knew they would throw axes. I killed and injured thirty brothers, and I'm sorry King."

"Really? I'm afraid the king will not blame you. We have all seen it. You almost completely wiped out the enemy's cavalry. You have worked hard, hurry to the rear for training and treatment, and the next is the battle of our infantry."

"Okay!" Spuyut nodded: "You must send me a signal when you invade the city. I will call up the elite cavalry to charge again and join the melee in the city."

The cavalry retreated from the front lines to meet the people pushing and pulling the torsion slingshot trolley.

A large number of trolleys are loaded with slingshots unloaded from the ship, and the number is as many as fifty. Even because there are not enough trolleys, some people need to cooperate with each other to carry them.

Heavy weapons were hidden behind the large army, concealed by a large number of flying flags.

The Russ Army's partial divisions are neatly organized, and the towering thousand spears of the Slav Army have completely created a moving forest.

Their march was too steady, which Spewter did on purpose.

Because it was agreed before the war that this is Jutland, the land of the Danes! Naturally, the occupation of the fort was first completed by the New Danish King Ragnar.

The Rus people will not take credit for themselves, and the enemy's cavalry can be seen to have turned into a piece of horse meat. The New Denmark Kingdom's army has a great reputation, and their march has no formation at all. Everyone hopes to be the first group of people to break the city, just because they can give priority to grabbing the best property.

Indeed, now Ragnar can only call on the lords to take their lives on the basic principle of "whoever grabs the silver coins first".

So the first group of soldiers of the Kingdom of New Denmark rushed to the ditch outside the outer city.

Some people who were rushing fast were stunned and simmered!

If you suddenly fall into a dirt pit that is more than one person high, you will definitely smash your mouth and chew the mud, not to mention that some sharpened pine branches were deliberately inserted into the pit.

The sharp wood branches were originally inserted after the trench was dug last autumn. After a winter, these wood branches returned to dryness, but after being soaked by freezing rain, the wood branches became rather brittle.

Many soldiers who accidentally rushed into the trenches were pierced through their bodies, and those who were lucky were immediately hit by the enemy.

It was a large number of people standing on the solid stone wall. They smashed down the stones that were available everywhere in the fortress with strong anger.

The arrows also shot condescendingly, along with the stones, and immediately gave the first attackers a head-on blow.

Ragnar had never seen this scene.

A large number of soldiers were still rushing forward, and more fell into the trenches.

To be fair, it's not difficult to get up from the trench, it's not particularly steep, just take some time to use swords and tomahawks as tools to help you climb up to the ground.

But now that's impossible, those fighters who fall in are targeted with tools, and anyone who tries to climb back is shot with precision.

To make matters worse, the attackers kept squeezing the front line, and even if someone was lucky enough to climb up, they were pushed back into the trenches in an instant.

Hundreds of people have been squeezed in the ditch in a short period of time, and those warriors who had been fine but were squeezed at the bottom were gradually suffocated by their companions.

"Don't rush! This is a trap."

Ragnar was struggling to maintain order, urging people to remain calm.

Unfortunately, the roar and wailing completely suppressed his roar.

The attack of the New Danish Army was delayed by the trenches. At the beginning, they did not feel much about the scale of the city wall. Now, looking at it again, they must first break through the man-eating trench, and then climb the tall stone wall.

Is this also a way of war?

Ragnar, who led the siege for the first time, bought a painful lesson with blood under the Aleb fortress, and the lesson continued to deteriorate.

The stone fell like a flash crash!

The small stone is as big as a fist, and can be thrown about forty meters away by manpower. Large stones need to be held in both hands. They are moved to the battlements with great effort, and then fall off, relying on gravity and inertia to smash the people under the trenches.

After suffering initial heavy losses, the somewhat sober New Danes began to retreat.

Maybe it's wrong to hit this direction, and it's okay to rush in another direction?

Most of them make their own decisions for the lords, and they take their own people and spread out to the two wings.

But despairingly, the entire fortress was surrounded by a circle of trenches!

The entire fortress is big or small, not small. The stones and wood create a circle of walls, and the walls are guarded by enemies.

The current battle situation is too tangled, like a crab in front of you, without the right tools, you can't speak.

Because the chicken thief Liudov left two gates for the fortress.

There is only a very narrow flat between the wall and the trench of the Outer Guocheng. It is impossible for the siege soldiers to deploy, and it is even more impossible to protect the long ladder.

The Saxons in the region support Liudorf. With such public opinion, it is understandable to arrange some non-discriminatory work? Liudov deliberately arranged for the people to dig deep pits and build high walls, so as to verify the loyalty of the people, and it was also his exaggerated demand for safety. In today's battle, it is obviously the most correct decision to have strict requirements for building a city!

This time, his own life can be saved, and Esquill's life can also be saved.

Is that so?

Liudov ignored the arrow wounds on his body and commanded the army to fight hard at the city wall. Another group of priests wearing black robes with hoods, led by Esquier, stood on the top of the city, holding the cross high and reading the scriptures, as if God could give the defenders divine power.

If the divine power was really useful, he would not have built the Aleb Fortress.

To a large extent, this fortified city is actually guarding against the Horrick forces in the north. Horrick was born in a Norman pirate, and he surrendered to the kingdom's many rebellions. Maybe he suddenly became windy and rebelled again. In order to avoid being attacked, defeated, or used as a sacrifice, the sturdy Aleb Castle rose from the ground in a short time.

Now, the defenders are shooting at arrow towers and throwing various stones on the city walls.

The new Danish army on the attacking side was forced by the situation, that is, unable to continue to attack and die, and did not want to shamefully admit that the first battle was not good.

Ragnar and many of the lords of Zealandia kept a safe distance with their troops. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that they didn't know anything about trenches and traps because they didn't do a good job of battlefield reconnaissance at first.

On the contrary, there is a breakthrough in the battlefield - the main entrance.

The trench at the main entrance is severely bent, and a large platform is formed at the entrance. But the defenses there are also the strongest, and for the army to break in and deploy the battering rams, the drawbridge must first be resolved.

Perhaps also the savage tactics of forcibly filling the trenches, which are nearly impossible.

While they were at a loss, they also completely blocked the offensive route of the Ross Army.

Spewute and Medvet, who led the team to march in a neat and unhurried manner, were speechless at the anxiety of the battle ahead.

The two walked in front of the formation, and behind them were two thousand Russ divisions.

"What is that Ragnar doing? He wants honor but he is not attacking the city." Medved wondered.

"It is clear that we have encountered difficulties, and it seems that this difficulty is not something we can easily overcome."

Spuut showed obvious concern. Since it was difficult for even the real Varyags to attack the city, Medvet became cautious.

"How do you decide?" he asked.

Spuyut settled down: "Reconcile with Ragnar first. Get a bunch of cowards out of the way, and then we'll show all the Torsion Slingshots."

"Ah?! I can see that it's a stone wall You're going to let the slingshot knock the wall down?"

"How is that possible. Just help Ragnarden City. We'll just march on like this. Listen, the Danes are slaughtering in the civil war, which is good for the future of our kingdom of Rus."

Medved's eyebrows trembled when he heard it: "I... thought you regarded Ragnar as a friend. Would you like to see them die in battle?"

"You misunderstood, I have nothing to do with them, it's just the king's order to keep us cooperating. It's..." Speuter took another look at the castle wall that had been fighting for a long time and was close at hand: "Even if we stay King Rick is here, and he must not have imagined that this fortress is as hard as iron. Ragnar's people are killed and killed, so we can avoid our casualties. I repeat, Ross does not need a strong Denmark."

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