The stone wall is only three meters high. Without interference from others, the Russians can grasp the protrusions of the stones and climb up like monkeys.
After all, Oxen built the stone wall, and for the sake of structural stability, even if it didn't understand any "basic knowledge of engineering mechanics", it also knew that the cross-section of the stone wall must be a trapezoid.
Otherwise, it would not be attacked by possible enemies, and the stone wall would collapse on its own due to the wind and rain.
Only a trapezoidal wall can keep the wall standing for a long time in this era when the Viking tribes did not know what concrete was.
Precisely because it is trapezoidal and has a particularly rough surface, the Russians had the opportunity to climb up without relying on a huge ladder.
Of course the defenders will not give the attackers a chance.
The Russians were basically unprepared when climbing the wall. They were generally very young. This was the first time they participated in a real battle in their lives. They had no experience in siege warfare. Only some of them had climbed up. My experience in clearing snow from my roof. They did have climbing skills, and it turned out that the best climbers were also the first ones to be stabbed to death by the defenders.
Seeing that they were defeated after climbing the wall, the Russian war leader Haro Zuosen who was commanding under the stone wall was furious. He immediately ordered: "Arik! Take your men and attack their wooden door! Break it open! Rush in. ! Kill all the enemies!"
"Okay! If you are not afraid of death, come with me!" Arik shouted, holding up his steel sword and leading more than 20 strong men to give up. Climbing the wall, they began to pound the wooden door.
The muscular man Ross slammed into the wooden door like a bull. Although the wooden door shook, it was still very stable.
At this moment, a clear roar in Norse was clearly heard from behind the wooden door.
"Brothers! Hold on! Don't let these pirates break down the door!"
"Bring another piece of wood and hold the door back!"
The guards guarding the city have been informed that if they persist, the families in the north will definitely send troops to help. As long as he persists until reinforcements arrive, he will get a huge sum of forty gold coins for everyone because he defended the castle!
The guards used thick wooden poles as door latches, and also brought five additional thick wooden poles to press against the ground, with the other head holding the wooden door.
No matter how strong the Russians are, can they still break open such a reinforced wooden door with the strength of just a few people? It's so amazing.
However, the Russians are not simply one-minded.
Arik raised his sword and ordered: "Smash it with an ax! Let's completely smash the wooden door!"
The two strong men exposed their arms, and their thick chest hair was soaked with sweat. .
They have become berserkers in the true sense. This time they manipulated two huge long-handled classic Nordic forest axes, trying to chop down the wooden doors blocking the road with the attitude of felling towering trees.
With just five chops, two big holes appeared in the wooden door.
The combatants on both sides can already see each other through the big holes.
The strong man holding an ax looked through the big hole.When they reached the rear, there were people wearing chainmail and metal helmets, and they couldn't help but feel nervous.
Suddenly, multiple spears poked out of the big hole, and the spearheads directly pierced the muscular man's body. The two men holding the axes stared angrily, then spat out two mouthfuls of blood and were stabbed to the ground.
This was the first time Arik participated in a real battle. He had never seen such a scene before, and he subconsciously retreated. So does everyone else!
Now it seems that if you approach the wooden door rashly and hope to continue cutting the wood into pieces, you will probably be stabbed to death by the enemy first! It is definitely different from the battle just now. The enemies in the castle are just like me, they are all warriors who dare to fight and kill!
It’s not that Arik is a coward, he just doesn’t want his brother to die needlessly.
He retreated, causing more people to retreat.
Everyone realized that the army needed to take a rest and find a way to attack.
Many people looked back at the city wall and noticed the dead brothers at the base of the wall. They also saw a large amount of thick smoke rising from the city wall against the background of the deep blue sky at dawn. Everyone was happy to realize that the brothers who continued to fire arrows had set some houses in the castle on fire.
Even Haro Zuosen understands that as long as the chaos continues and the Russians take a break, the next attack should be able to successfully rush in, kill the enemy, and get all the money.
The Russians retreated slightly, but the archers continued to set fire to fire with rockets.
As for these hunters who shoot arrows, they will not stop until the reserve of rosin is used up.
Just when the attack was launched, a flaming arrow hit the retreating Oxen in the back.
The mink coat that he had spent a lot of money to customize was immediately stuck to the burning sticky rosin, and the clothes quickly started to catch fire.
"Ah! Help!" Oxen jumped and begged for help, but when he did so, the fire only burned more intensely.
His men hurriedly cut his belt with knives and took off the burning coat.
Now, Oxon could only watch his treasure turn into a flame with sadness, and also witnessed that there were still a large number of flaming arrows falling from the sky. A strong sense of fear acted on his heart, so he staggered into the stone room wearing only a fine linen lining, regardless of the cold outside.
"Damn! My coat is worth twenty gold coins! Damn pirates, I'm going to kill you."
His words made the guard guard dissatisfied: "Sir, you You should be thankful that the arrow was a bone arrow. If it were an iron arrow, you might have died." "Huh?" Oxen, who had already hid in the stone room, gasped suddenly. He suddenly felt the pain in his back: "Quick! See if my back is bleeding?"
"Sir, your clothes are not even damaged."
"Then what? It hurts so much!" Oxen gritted his teeth and held back for the time being. He stared around,I saw that rockets had fallen on many houses, and the flames had already started.
In times of crisis, it is impossible for all houses to put out the fire in time. Oxen is grateful that his most important house is made of stone for greater safety. The design is firstly for sturdiness and secondly for fire protection.
He hurriedly ordered the four guards around him: "Take my family to the big stone room! Go quickly! We have to hide. Then you go to fight, repel the pirates, and put out the fire." ”
The so-called big stone room is actually the material where Oxon houses all the wealth.
At this moment, he could no longer care about his image. He stumbled to the big stone room to hide, lit the oil lamp on the wall, and comforted his two frightened and crying wives and concubines, and his two trembling daughters.
The light of the oil lamp illuminated more than ten large suitcases in the stone room, and the boxes were filled with gold and silver!
The four personal guards did not have the right to enter this room on weekdays. Now that they came in, they felt evil when they thought that the suitcase, which required two strong men to lift together, was full of gold and silver. It sprouted.
The guards' reason finally prevailed. The four of them, like door gods, obeyed the benefactor's arrangements. They immediately walked out of the room and stood at the wooden door holding swords and shields to guard them.
What is the fighting situation outside? Oxon's plump body sat on his money box. His two wives and concubines only knew that the castle was under terrible attack. Once it fell, everyone's lives would be in danger.
"Don't be afraid! My people will kill the pirates." Oxen tried his best to comfort his wife and concubines, and also to persuade himself to settle down.
Suddenly, the wooden door that was locked on the back was knocked hard.
Oxon subconsciously grasped the hilt of his dagger and shouted: "Who is it?!"
"Sir! Good news, the pirates have retreated."
That was the voice of the guard.
"Huh? Really?!"
He stood up suddenly, the fat in his stomach trembled, and then hurriedly opened the door.
The guard's face was full of joy. Oxon subconsciously thought that the pirates realized that they could not attack, so he withdrew angrily. "Okay! You have done a good job, I will give you gold soon."
As soon as he heard about gold, the guard's smile became wild.
"Let's go, I want to see the pirates escape."
Now Oxon really thought that all the pirates had escaped. He suddenly became confident again and walked out of the big stone room arrogantly. As a result, what I saw was still an extremely miserable scene. What's even more ridiculous is, why are there still flaming arrows shooting in sporadically from outside the wall?
And on the steps at the top of the wall, why are there still people half-crouching, looking defensive? !
"What happened? Didn't the pirates escape?"
"No! Sir. The pirates did not escape, they just retreated." The guard explained.
"Damn, let me be happy for nothing." Oxon stamped his feet and pointed at several burning houses: "Quickly put out the fire."
p>"But sir, we have run out of water."
"Out of water? Since the pirates have retreated, you can open the door and get water from the well in the village. It should be OK."
Hearing this, the guard really felt that the arrow hit not the financial owner's back, but his head.
The guards were not moved by this nonsense. Soon, Ockenstein, who was covered in sweat, hurriedly ran over: "Sir, why did you come out!? Go into the stone room and hide."
< p>"Okenstein, why don't you put out the fire?! Forget it." Oxon stamped his foot, "I want to go to the wall, I want to see where the pirates have gone. Why are they still shooting arrows?""Sir, the wall is dangerous."
"Bah! You mean I should be a coward?" The words coming out of Oxon's mouth were simply unbelievable, and Okenstein always felt that The financial owner is a coward. Since he wants to show off, let him go up against the wall.
At this moment, Oxon had a glimmer of hope. He climbed onto the wall with his copper-reinforced helmet and exposed his two eyes to see where those hateful pirates had retreated? They were not far away at all, as if they were waiting for dawn to launch another attack.
The pirates were still a large, dark mass, and a sense of fear instantly dissipated Oxon's courage, and he almost fell to the ground.
"Quick! Help me back quickly. Okenstein, you must resist these damn pirates, otherwise we will all die."
"Then you hurry back and put the The gold is promising. If you defeat the pirates, remember your promise!" Oakenstein said fiercely.
After that, Okenstein looked at the enemies who were lingering a few more times, then sat down and took a deep breath.
All the Russians want to capture this castle. Now the sky is blue, and the sun will rise soon.
After daybreak, there is enough light to be more suitable for siege.
It has to be said that the stone wall built by the Gotlanders is really a tricky defensive method. This is the first time the Russians have encountered a siege in the real sense, and they must come up with a reasonable countermeasure.
After a melee, the surviving warriors were already tired. They all gathered together more than a hundred meters away from the stone wall, sitting on the ground and eating the dry food they had brought with them.
There are also some people who were ordered by Harold Johnson to guard the prisoners captured from the fishing village.
The fire was soaring behind him, and the air was scorching hot.
Harozov, who was chewing dried fish, faced the stone wall and couldn't think of a good idea for a while.
He called Aric to his side, who had retreated: "Child, this damn wall, we must breach it. We must move fast, otherwise we will run out of time to retreat."
"You want me to think of a way?!"
"I am stupid and you are a young man. Do you have a way?" Harozov asked.
"A way? There is one, we have to build a siege weapon!
"A siege weapon? ladder? Or what? "Hallo Zuosen asked eagerly.
Arik suddenly slapped his chest: "Everything depends on my means. I led people to cut down a big tree, and we held it and knocked open the wooden door. Then you took the other brothers and rushed in after us. What do you think? ! ”
Harozov, who had just touched it, was overjoyed: “Then go quickly.” ”
Arik did what he said. He immediately summoned twenty brothers of the same age and ran to the woods near the village to start taking action.
Although it was the first time to attack the city, Arik had already I thought of a way to create a "battery ram" to break open the wooden door.
More than ten brothers died under the stone wall in the failed siege, holding axes with strong anger. The warriors smashed it hard, and a large pine tree was chopped down and fell to the ground with a rumble.
The Russians were doing simple processing with axes, and twenty people worked together to lift the tree with a diameter of nearly 100 meters. The tree trunk, which was half a meter long and nearly five meters long, roared into the resting crowd.
Everyone was startled by the sudden appearance of the tree trunk.
Aric didn't care about his arms. He was sore, holding up the still shining steel sword that had killed many enemies, and called on his own people: "Brothers! Let's use this tree to break down the damn door. Then you rush in after us and chop them all down. The gold is all ours! All of you can have a steel sword! ”
In fact, as long as Arik holds his sword high, the sword itself is a strong spiritual inspiration.
Those who hold iron swords have now replaced Captured battle ax, or your own spare ax?
Actual combat has proved that ordinary iron swords will bend after a while, and the blades of such swords will basically be lost without repair. Useful.
Look at Aric's steel sword, it's still as perfect as ever. The only price to get it is a huge sum of sixty silver coins!
< p>For any young warrior, it takes many years of hard work to save a huge sum of money. Now as long as you take the final risk, your goal will be achieved!Everyone is inspired by this, the Russians! They started shouting wildly, and the roar was loud.
This roar also told the defenders that a new attack had begun.
The Russians took the time to eat dried fish and drink themselves. They brought water, and some even ate the seized rusks.
They captured as many as seventy prisoners in the fishing village, and it was not surprising that the prisoners were all women. The Russians were completely irrational, and when they calmed down a little, they began to arrest people. As a result, soon after they took action, they began to have a decisive battle with the men of Sikenberg who were fighting back.
The prisoners were all captured. The wives and daughters of those men. Now, there are more than a hundred corpses of Skenberg men lying on the battlefield, as well as a large number of shields and battle axes.
The wounded Rus were carried to the rear, and More than twenty corpses of our own people
The sky finally dawned.When he got up, Arik felt that his physical strength had recovered very well. He looked again at the sun that was about to break through the horizon in the east, stood up proudly, holding the steel sword high: "Brothers, the final battle has arrived. Let's go!"
The four hundred Ross warriors cheered up again.
Aric took the lead. Behind him were ten selected warriors holding long-handled giant axes. Behind him was a huge pine tree carried by twenty people.
More heat gathered into a dark mass, following closely behind the man carrying the pine wood.
Looking at this formation, it’s self-evident what they want to do.