Aric himself was an armor-wearer. In the previous battle, the chain mail covering his entire torso had been stained red by the enemy's blood, and the iron rings of the chain mail were also broken in many places. There were some bruises on his arm, but he didn't feel any pain for a while. He continued to fight.
"Brothers! Keep pushing forward and destroy them all!"
Arik's roar was drowned in the shouts of the people.
When he killed the first enemy, he was still very nervous. By now, Arik had fallen into complete madness.
He felt that he should have taken off his chainmail and even his leather jacket early, exposing his back to show that he was a true berserker.
Because the enemy also has a large number of people with their backs exposed. They are a group of disguised berserkers, a large group of idiots, and they are retreating!
The resisting fishermen in Skokenburg are being attacked frantically by the Russians. Everyone hoped for a frontal battle, but soon after the frontal collision, more than fifty people from Sikkenberg died. There are no injured people here. Those who fell to the ground were either trampled to death by their own people, or trampled by the enemy and then received another spearhead.
The casualties of the Skenberg people continued to increase, and finally, their resistance reached the critical point of collapse!
The battle line maintained by the shields collapsed, and more than twenty Sikkenberg people were pushed down by the Russians. This is great, the brave Russians came in through the gap!
The Russians wielded axes and hacked at the fallen crazily. Armed with steel swords, blacksmiths, and even Russians who could throw short spears, they continued to assassinate without mercy.
Seeing that a gap was opened in the front line, the castle behind them still did not intend to help.
Many people behind the front continued to curse Oxon, the most powerful man in the village, who had been sitting on the mountain watching the fight for a long time with grief and indignation, and then bit the bullet and willing to be a shameful coward, with a mutilated With a shield and a bent sword, Sayazi abandoned his brothers who were fighting head-on and fled to the north crazily.
As for what will happen to the castle in the end, since Oxen feels that he can survive the catastrophe with the protection of the stone wall, let him and his men hold on.
The only thing that can comfort the people of Skenberg is that many women and children escaped under the cover of night, so someone will run wildly to move reinforcements to the families in the north.
Perhaps when reinforcements are sent south, this group of unidentified, arsonist, and looting troops, suspected of being members of the Sivia Alliance, will be completely wiped out by the counterattacking Gotlanders.
The rout happened, and the people at the back ran away. The people in the front who were struggling to support themselves felt the emptiness in their backs. They were momentarily negligent in their grief and anger, and were killed by the Russians.
Finally, the last counterattack force of the Skenberg fishermen, whose organization once reached 300 people, collapsed.
Chasing the fleeing people?
Bah! What's there to chase after a group of bare-backed cowards? The most valuable thing they have on them is the metal weapons in their hands.
HeFor value? This group of people once fought tooth and nail to defend the castle, and now they have to defend it even with at least more than a hundred corpses.
Some people have been sticking their heads out of the castle's stone walls to observe the battle. Now it's time to attack the castle!
Aric raised his steel sword high in front of the formation: "Brothers, charge at me! The mountain of gold is in the castle."
In an instant, the violent Russians regained control of the castle. The castle was the first target of attack.
The fallen companions lay among the corpses of the enemy, and the injured let out horrible wails.
But these wailings were washed away by the roar of the Russians eager for gold.
Many people put their shields directly on their backs, holding only a sword or an ax, and happily rushed towards the stone wall.
Oxon Skokenburg is also said to be the most powerful person in Skokenburg, but he is only the nominal leader of Skokenburg. What about reality? This Gotland settlement was not very clearly organized. It was a large group of fishermen who spontaneously settled in this natural bay. On weekdays, Oxon, the richest man who lives in the castle, hires fishermen to do work for him. And Oxen's men would also take the money and go to the village to find women for entertainment, causing some children to run around and call the guards daddy.
Oxon built his home here and maintained a private guard to protect his wealth.
He built in the highlands, using ships to transport large quantities of stones from distant places, and then hired fishermen to pile them into walls.
In fact, the so-called castle is a residence mainly built of stone. It consists of a group of stone houses and wooden houses for people to live in, and a stone wall barely three meters high.
The castle is almost a large circle with a diameter of one hundred meters. The stone wall is three meters high, but there is only one gate!
It has no moat, let alone trenches. A stone wall is made of a large number of stones piled up to form a relatively vertical surface as much as possible. As time passed, a lot of green grass grew on the so-called city wall.
Although it is such a low wall, there is still a passage for people to walk behind it.
Can a mere three-meter-high wall block the Russian attack?
It doesn’t even have a backdoor for escape or a tunnel for escape. Could it be that the castle owner Oxen is a fool?
Of course not.
For decades, no other force has organized a large army to invade Gotland. Even now relations between Gotland and those across the sea are very tense.
The Gotlanders have always relied on the powerful Danes as their backing, so the castle in Oxon was not designed to resist foreign invasion from the beginning.
Then, just build the wall so that it is difficult for local fishermen to climb up with bare hands.
Oxon stood on the top of the wall, cautiously revealing his eyes, and watched in shock as the fishermen fled. Then, the islands that emerged from the fire began to head straight towards his castle.
At this moment, Oxen is so eager to hold all his treasures, dragging his wife, concubines and children with him.Son, escaped in some special and absolutely safe way.
"Damn it, if I had known I should have built a tunnel." He secretly cursed his own stupidity.
At this point, he could no longer think of a decent escape. He firmly believed that the pirates were just asking for money.
The facts are very clear. The pirates are eyeing the gold and silver of the castle.
Oxon's guard captain Okenstein was also standing at the top of the city. This bald and bearded Dane looked at the scene of flames soaring into the sky, still wearing a calm and calm face. Face your sponsor.
"My lord, are you afraid?"
Okenstein touched Oxen lightly, making the fat man still wearing a mink coat tremble in fear.
"Ah! You...don't touch me!"
"Sir, at this point we can only fight to the death. Don't have any illusions, my brother and I We will ensure your safety."
Hearing this, the frightened Oxon felt that the man in front of him was like a god coming down from the earth, which was reassuring.
"You...can you repel these enemies? Look, those fishermen have all escaped."
"Let those cowards get out. One can't even protect his wife and children." If they escape to other places, they will become other people's slaves. But we would rather die than be cowards."
Oxon fully witnessed the battle just now, and the pirates who attacked were indeed. Very brutal.
The castle also has a stone wall as a barrier, and there are still 60 guard soldiers under his command who only obey his orders. Oxon felt a sense of comfort in front of him.
However, Okenstein also put forward his own conditions.
"Sir, brothers are willing to fight for you, but you still have to pay some price."
"The price? Come on, just keep it...just keep my life!"< /p>
"We want gold." Okun said simply and concisely.
"Gold? But..." At the critical moment, Oxen, who loves money, hesitated. He looked into the guard captain's eyes and worried about gain and loss for a moment.
Okenstein seemed to know the gold owner's hesitation from the beginning. He still had a serious face and pointed his rough big fingers at the swarming enemies: "You like gold, and so do we. And they, these pirates like them even more. They come in and kill you and steal everything from you. We only want a part of it. From now on, we will still have you as our subordinate. If you don’t give us a single silver coin, just let us. Sixty enemies are fighting for you?”
In an instant, Oxon understood.
"Okay! I'll give it! I'll give each of you ten gold coins!"
"Only ten? Give us thirty each, otherwise, I can't guarantee everyone I will fight to the end!"
"Okay." Seeing that the enemy was about to climb the wall, Oxon gritted his teeth, "I will give each of you forty gold coins, as long as you can kill these enemies. Everything is easy to say.”
In this sea area, mercenaries and pirates often exist exactly the same.
Different from pirates, working as a mercenary for a wealthy donor and receiving a regular salary seems to be more stable than being a pirate. But once an unprepared big business is found, the mercenaries suddenly turn into pirates and rob them, why not?
So, the bald Okenstein had beheaded many people when he was young, but now that he is older, it is too risky to continue to be a pirate. In order to maximize profits, use "rich experience in slashing and killing" as his biggest selling point, act as a mercenary captain for wealthy businessmen, hang out with a large group of women with stable wealth, life is so happy.
In this line of work, there is often an ending of death in battle.
Okenstein does not seek to die in old age, he lives a comfortable life day by day, and finally dies in a vigorous battle with a large amount of wealth. This is a beautiful destination.
Okenstein ordered the four warriors: "You guys will escort the adults back to the stone room for good protection. Other brothers, let us kill these pirates and retreat! Don't let them go up the city wall!"
If he were in another camp, Okenstein would be a completely good military general.
Maybe this is because everyone has his own ambitions.
If there is another possibility, he rows a small boat all the way north, hiding his identity and becoming a Russian. With its excellent slashing experience, the Yuros tribe still has a good foothold. Because all Viking tribes worship warriors!
Okenstein has never had this thought. The tribes of Svealan that he killed the most as a young man were the tribal alliances in Svealan. These people who came to the islands to kill were the mad dogs of the alliance across the sea.
More than fifty guards with their own weapons rushed towards the wall attacked by the Russians. They were most equipped with wooden shields, axes and iron swords, and some also carried short spears.
There are also five archers among the guards, holding single bows made of oak. Their performance is very average.
The Russians were slightly different. They brought some steel swords and as many as twenty archers.
Compared to the people who started to climb the wall, the Russian engineers took the lead in attacking!
"Brothers! nock an arrow! Remember our plan, don't hurt the wall-climbing brothers!" A hunter organized his nineteen colleagues, and now they spontaneously organized behind the crowd Support force.
Expect archers to deal a heavy blow to the enemy? Don't really expect it.
The views of the Russians and even the southern allies did not change immediately with the evolution of the times. It’s not that everyone naturally despises the role of archers, but it’s because the efficiency of current bows and arrows in killing enemies on the battlefield is really terrible.
Bows are generally made of oak wood, and the bow string is made of twine. There is no other material to enhance the performance of the bow. Hunters can use it to shoot rabbits and deer with no problem. Faced with a ferocious black bear with rough skin and thick flesh, it is better to organize people to fight with spears, or to run for their lives when they see it from a distance.
Never be extravagantHoping to kill a black bear with an arrow, never believe a hunter’s bragging!
This is the current situation of bows and arrows.
The farther away the arrow is, the more likely it is to penetrate the enemy's leather armor. Even several layers of linen clothing can block the arrow. What's more, the bravest people are all wearing chain armor, and can resist arrows at close range to a great extent.
Whether it is bronze or iron, all metals are precious. The hunters did not want to use arrows to kill the enemies whose heads were exposed on the city wall before dawn. Because those people were clearly wearing helmets, and the helmets reflected light in the fire. Such people are probably the warriors in the castle, and maybe many of them are wearing chainmail.
The purpose of the hunters' support is to set fire.
They used cheap bone arrowheads, tied with a little linen cloth, and sticky with a ball of rosin. The arrows became extremely flammable and they were all ignited.
"Fire arrows!"
In an instant, twenty flaming arrows rose into the air and hit the back of the stone wall.
At the same time, Ockenstein and other gold owner's guards who were guarding the city were ready to assassinate the enemies who climbed the wall.
Seeing the flaming sword falling from the sky, I couldn't help but feel fear.
Although these flaming arrows cannot cause any clear harm to him, what Okenstein fears most is that the buildings in the castle will be set on fire.
Why? Because even though the residences of all the guards are stone chambers made of stones, the roofs are made of wooden beams, planks and thatch! The roofs of all houses have such structures, and in today's still dry climate, they are extremely flammable!
What results did the Flame Arrow achieve?
The supporting Russian archers are unknown.
The weight of the bows in their hands is very low, and ordinary light arrows can barely be thrown up to a hundred meters. Now, these rocket arrows tied with burning linen balls have become heavier, and the force of the throw has become worse.
"Nike an arrow! Keep firing!"
The archers are firing arrows from behind. They are not directly involved in the siege, and the warriors of Ross who attack the stone wall will not feel the bow. Soldiers are bastards.
The situation was very chaotic. The Russians who tried to climb the city wall thought that a mere city wall meant nothing. It was only when they reached the base of the wall that they realized that climbing the wall with bare hands was not a good idea.
At this point, it’s no good if I don’t climb the wall.
Some warriors held curled iron swords in their mouths and climbed with ferocious faces.
Suddenly, a person jumped out of the empty space above, and an iron spear stabbed down fiercely.
“Ah!”
The Ross hero, who burned many houses and killed many enemies along the way, was stabbed to death by a spear while climbing the stone wall. He wailed and fell heavily. Dies quickly at the base of the wall.
Okenstein and his brothers are now fighting not just for their sponsors, but for themselves.
The current situation is obviously that the strength of the castle camp where you are located is absolutely inferior.situation, so his only possibility of victory is to hold on to the stone wall.
They poked five people down, and the other climbers retreated when they saw this.
Okenstein's archers were also making meritorious deeds. These five men kept firing arrows. Although the swords they fired could be easily blocked by wooden shields, it was indeed effective in disrupting the enemy's siege progress.