Chapter 934： This is a lonely city gradually dying

With a cloth ball in his mouth and hemp rope **** his mouth, Horrick couldn't bite his tongue to commit suicide. He couldn't beg for death, so he could only endure the humiliation silently.

After all, this man is the king, even if the man is a tyrant.

One king killed another, and Rurik knew very well that his army, the people, were eager to see their great king accomplish this feat.

How to deal with Horrick?

It is better to burn it to ashes as a sacrifice to punish him for his betrayal of Odin. Waiting for the death row inmate Horrick is a grand sacrifice, and perhaps the winter solstice sacrifice in New Roseburg is the most suitable as a special sacrifice.

It is unnecessary to impose a blood eagle on him in this way, and it is even more pointless to impose corruption on him.

What Rurik and the generals were most worried about was to take this man to the next war, and he would run away in the chaos.

So in Horrick's wailing like killing a pig, his feet were cut by a steel sword to cut the Achilles tendon ligament. After that, the wound was surgically stopped, and the wound was cleaned with strong alcohol, but it was sutured with twine.

He was disqualified from standing up, and his hands were given the exact same punishment.

Horlick became a crawling cripple, stuffed into a cage made of wooden bars and placed on a captured carriage, like a pig ready to be transported to a slaughterhouse.

It was a pity for the soldiers not to be able to be a blood eagle in public, but the villain was deliberately disabled, and the soldiers onlookers laughed and laughed.

Poor Horlick couldn't live without dying. He witnessed the army of the Russ army advancing by sea and land, and witnessed them advancing towards the Aleb Fortress.

While he was still healthy, he heard what Fisk, captain of the Rus' cavalry, had said about the battle to the south. His own judgment was indeed correct. Liudov, like his Frankish cavalry and the Saxon army, was facing extinction. I am afraid that the thick smoke that rose was the proof that Liudov set himself on fire.

But, it's all over...

This group of mad Russ actually planned to go to war against the Frankish kingdom! The **** Horrick could only silently curse the Rus army and their servant forces, being trampled into flesh by the real Frankish army.

Rurik put on gorgeous clothes, and deliberately mounted a war horse, and transformed himself into a real cavalry captain.

The Russ army was swarming. They marched throughout the day and arrived at the battlefield where Fisk captured Horrick, where a large number of corpses were found.

The gray-white corpse had traces of being bitten by foxes and wolves. When the army of Ross arrived, a large number of dark ravens rose into the air. Most of the missing parts of the corpse, and the eyeballs were removed by pecking, and the air in this area was filled with a stench, which made the army feel extremely unlucky.

After this battlefield, the mounds due south are quite clear.

So, has the army besieging the Aleb Fort these days succeeded in pulling out this nail?

Do not! The stone fortress that Liudov spent more than half a year building was as solid as a rock. If it weren't for a super-large counterweight trebuchet or artillery, it would never have been possible to forcibly breach this fortress.

How brilliant is Liudov's fortification skills when he first came to Jutland?

Because of the special geographical structure of this place, there are stones under the thin soil layer on the top of the mountain, and the stones are easily disintegrated and used due to natural weathering. The haphazardly shaped stones that are available everywhere are piled together and stabilized against each other by gravity.

The key to the defense of the fort lies in the thicker ring-shaped stone wall, and the most exquisite thing is the arrangement of the city gate.

The city gate is the weak point of the entire inner fort, and Ragnar felt that this was a breakthrough, and Liudov, who was wise enough to eat a cut, strengthened the defense of the city gate.

The city gate was completely blocked by a large number of stones, and the battering ram hit the gate, which was essentially the same as hitting a heavy stone wall.

Liudov originally planned to use this fortress still standing high as his long-term base, but now it seems that he is afraid that it will become his cemetery.

Ludov, who had recovered a little, faced Ragnar's new Danish army, who had also recovered.

As Speuut said, Ragnar could not force the many noble lords under his command to obey him completely. Ragnar's so-called king is still an alliance lord. After two days of rest, many lords can be considered to have announced that they have rested, so they are willing to cooperate with Ragnar to fight again.

Seeing this, Speuter also reluctantly brought the Ross army, especially the crossbowmen, to cooperate with the allies' assault.

Gaocheng is strong, do you want the Rus people to forcibly attack the city? forget it!

Speuter has a negative mood, and he doesn't want to make the Ross Army bleed again for this "Danish Civil War". He also estimated that this storming battle Ragnar made a lot of noise, but it was an extravagant hope to break the city in one battle.

Ragnar led his troops to attack with the help of the arrows of the Rus army.

This is the upward attack, and the attacking side is greeted by large and small stones. Even if the defenders were short of food and water, in order to avoid the city being destroyed, they resisted desperately and continued to fight despite the arrows falling from the sky.

The defenders even threw down the dead in the city, smashing down enemies who climbed the long ladder. The arrow inserted in the dead body was pulled out, and immediately returned to the attacker.

There were three assaults in one day. The attackers didn't know how many defenders they killed, but they couldn't climb up the long ladder, and the wooden door slammed into loneliness.

Under the stone wall lay a large number of corpses, as well as a large number of stones.

Ragnar tried to organize a fourth attack, but unfortunately it was too late, and the lords who suffered heavy casualties again could not bear to let their clansmen die.

They held a meeting that night, and they complained and shoved each other, and some people accused the Rus people of having a strong army in their hands and only being willing to shoot arrows.

Spuut, who was already quite contemptuous of the lords of the Danish island of Zealand, couldn't hold back. He cursed: "This is your Danes' war of revenge! You are all cowards! Because you shirk. Responsibility." After that, he walked away, leaving the lords gasping for breath.

There was no progress in the meeting, not to mention the loss of the army, and now there is no chance to pull out the bodies of the dead.

At night, the demoralized soldiers of the New Denmark Kingdom have been listening to the mourning of the wounded in the distance. The poor people can only stay under the stone wall and die slowly, and they have no ability to rescue.

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After this battle, the Aleb Fortress achieved a victory, and this only delayed the decline of the fortress.

The defenders also lost some soldiers, which made them even more embarrassed when they were already understretched.

But even worse is the scarcity of supplies.

The inner fort is not big, and there were nearly 6,000 soldiers and civilians gathered inside!

The food had actually been eaten, and Liudov left some food and fresh water to supply his elite and the priests.

Outside the fort is a large army besieging the city, under the fort is full of dead bodies, and inside the fort is a group of soldiers and civilians who are about to collapse.

The food is gone, and the defenders can resist hunger for two days with their bodies, and the strong ones can carry it for three days.

But what's more terrifying than lack of food is lack of water!

In peacetime, the water for the Aleb Fortress is completely taken from the creek under the mound, and it is never difficult to obtain water.

Now that the stream is completely occupied by the enemy, what if a defense battle is won? I sweat a lot when carrying stones, and the soldiers after the war need water the most! Where is so much water? In extreme thirst, people become more and more dehydrated, and the good people become weak and have a splitting headache. However, these days, the weather is sunny, and it is difficult to have clouds drifting by in a hurry.

People yearn for a rain, but they are answered by the vast stars in the night, and the huge shining moon.

The swaddled baby died of thirst, and even the child's mother died of thirst.

After all, he escaped into the inner fort and failed to enter for three consecutive days. This is already the limit that a person can resist.

The next day, a group of corpses were thrown from the city head, and this bizarre scene was seen by the army besieging the city.

Ragnar shouted puzzled, and the lords felt even more incredible.

It was the Ross generals who were busy eating fish around the beach and saw the doorway.

Spuut had no sympathy for the enemies in the fort, he smiled and bet Medved: "The enemy has trapped themselves, the weather is fine these days, they can't find water, food on the mounds. It must be limited, and their supplies must be gone. In my opinion, Ragnar, this idiot, attacking by force is a mistake. As long as we continue to besiege the city, within three days, the fortress will be destroyed without attack.”

"Is it forcibly trapping them? Is this also a war?" Medvedt was refreshed by such a method of warfare.

"It's normal. When we attacked Bornholm, we trapped the enemy hiding on the hill with this tactic. We are just reviewing it now. I wonder if Ragnar didn't know this tactic, There is no need for him to be in a hurry at all. It has caused many soldiers to die in vain."

"It's cruel enough..."

Medved didn't want to say anything anymore, he was quite concerned about the whereabouts of the king and the main force. It stands to reason that the war in the north will not drag on for a long time, but after so many days, haven't the enemies of the north been eliminated? Maybe as a partial division, we should quickly end the soldiers here, and then regroup to the north to find the main force. If the war continues, we will attack the tyrant Horrick from both sides.

He told Spuut what he thought, in exchange for saying: "Look at you, you are also in a hurry. We don't have to worry about the king, just wait here."

The Ross Army's partial division is equivalent to holding a free battle card, and the army of Ragnar, who cannot gain the advantage by storm, is caught in a quarrel.

The siege situation continues, and the deadly situation of the defenders in the fortress is breaking out in an avalanche!

The intense water shortage had killed most of the babies on this "peaceful day" as a large number of women and children took refuge in the inner fort.

So some human tragedies happened. In order not to die of thirst, drink like stench of blood!

Such a tragic fright made the northern saint Eskil call this **** on earth, and he asked Ludov to think of a countermeasure.

Liudov's own health is also not good. He can still drink the last fresh water. When the water in these buckets is finished but the sky does not rain, he can only kill the war horse and drink the blood of the horse.

Regarding the ongoing human tragedy, those who drank blood were found out and beheaded as "souls controlled by Satan". Indeed, the strong survival instincts of those who were tortured to death by thirst and hunger turned some people into demons.

Murder can't contain the situation at all, people are still dying of thirst in large numbers, and those women and children who can still move around don't seem to be able to survive tomorrow.

Such a scene made Eskil, who still had fresh water to drink, felt unbearable. Even if he was an ascetic, the instinct to survive now controlled this aging body.

Due to his noble status and face, and his complete distrust of the enemy, Liudov was in a predicament to sign an alliance under the city, and he had no extravagant hopes.

To make peace to keep everyone alive? Eskil felt that he had a complicated relationship with Rurik, the commander of the Rus, and even managed to convert some Rus to God. If these people were in the army besieging the city, they might see their own face and bypass the lives of many people.

In particular, Eskil knew the war policy of the Rus. Even if the enemy was defeated, the enemy's women and children would always be kidnapped. He felt that this was the most real barbarian behavior, and instead of dying of starvation and thirst, becoming a barbarian wife and concubine was also a way out. Even, in order to spread the faith of God can also play an objective role in promoting.

Eskil had the idea of ​​seeking peace, and he told Ludov about it, but he was controlled by the defenders.

"You're a big fool!" Ludov scolded, pointing at Esquil's neck. "You plan to climb out of the city on a rope, and we shall see you beheaded and skinned by the Normans. I am a nobleman, I am Nor will the great northern saint be allowed to make peace with the savage Normans. I! I'd rather jump down and fight them to the death than surrender to them!"

Esquil was brought under control, and that night, he was shocked to see that the army brought him a lump of unidentified liquid dripping with a fishy smell.

"What is this?!" He was shocked.

"It's horse meat. Pada, we can't cook the wheat anymore, and the wheat is almost gone. Your lord ordered us to kill the war horse. You can only eat this horse meat..."

Eat raw meat! Bloody horse meat.

The hungry Eskil was a strong repellant in principle, but willpower was completely defeated by the will to survive. As an ascetic monk, he rarely eats meat. He pinched his nose and ate horse meat, endured the nausea and forcibly refrained from vomiting. After that, he silently prayed to the Lord.

By the next day, more bodies had been thrown from the fort. Many corpses were thrown into the inner fort, because not only did the defenders lose their strength, many of the dead were simply the defenders themselves.

The army besieging the city still maintained an attitude of onlookers, but there were already too many corpses under the city. The dead of Ragnar's army have been covered by the bodies left by the city people.

What exactly is going on? A fortified city stands still, it is difficult to break through, but the defenders throw corpses on a large scale.

Ragnar can't convince the lords under his command to attack again. They are more war-weary and have excuses. The so-called maybe the main force of King Ross is about to go south. The brothers don't worry about food and drink now, waiting for the arrival of King Ross before attacking .

He had no choice but to go to the camp of the Ross Army's partial division again, and have a chat with Spuut, Medved and others, especially hoping that they would analyze the strange behavior of the enemy.

This time, Ragnar's attitude was very low, and his attitude was quite respectful: "Friends, the enemy is throwing the body, why is this."

"You? You actually asked me?!" Speuter rolled his eyes at him.

"I… really don't understand."

"Are you really stupid? You forgot how we trapped people on the hills on Bornholm Island?"

In an instant, Ragnar suddenly realized, "Yes! I remembered it. But it's incredible, the enemy of this fortress can't hold it in just a few days?!"

"Let's wait and see. If you stop attacking, we'll just sit back and wait. We'll also be wary of whether the nearby Danish villages come to beat you. After all, they don't necessarily recognize you as the Danish king."

Therefore, for the attackers, this day is another day of siege. For the defenders, the disaster was growing every second.

It was on this day that a large fleet from the north was ordered to dawdle along the eastern coastline to join the side division fleet of the Ross Army.

Rus' flags fluttered all over the sea, and the presence of large ships brought a strong mental stimulation to the last defenders of the Aleb Fortress.

Standing on the city wall, Eskil and the defenders saw this shocking scene, and could not help but sigh in trembling: "It's the Rus army! They still have people?!"

Indeed, a fairly neat army went from far to near. They deliberately held a large number of flags, and the blue-white Rus flag fluttered in the warm south wind.

Rurik rode high on his horse, and he really arrived at the Aleb fortress on the Isthmus of Lindholm, and was amazed by the great city built around the mound.

But there is a stone fortress visible to the naked eye at the top of the mound, with many huge cross flags flying, the scene is really eye-catching.

Not only that, but there is also a banner that looks like it took three big cats.

Isn't that the legendary "Battle of Charlemagne"? Equivalent to the flag of the Frankish kingdom.

Fact Stone Hammer This place is the fortress of the Franks, and under the fortress are their own divisions, and the confederates of the New Denmark Kingdom that the Ragnar Brothers have tried their best to recruit.

Even if you look at the current situation, with a mighty army besieging this sudden Frankish fortress, the army still doesn't have him.

This surprised Rurik.

"Ragnar, you can be a legendary hero. Could it be that you don't have the ability to siege cities?" Rurik muttered, the main force approaching the city wall outside the fortress, joining forces with the Rus army and the New Denmark Kingdom army.

In the end, the main and partial divisions of the Rus army and the army of the Kingdom of New Denmark joined forces.

With Rurik's miraculous arrival, his presence directly blocking the mouths of the war-weary Danish lords of Zealandia, Ragnar is back on his feet, and the final attack is about to launch.

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