Sigfast, the commander-in-chief of the Gotland army, ran away with the remaining hundreds of soldiers.
Those who ran the fastest had just arrived at the camp in the forest, and were instantly hit by precise fire from terrible crossbows.
Aric stands like a pine tree. The sword he holds tightly in his right hand points directly at the enemy.
Without any slogans, he just made this action, and the Russian soldiers who were waiting for work held their crossbows and fired. Although the lightweight wooden crossbow has poor power storage, it is also effective against lightly armored targets.
More than a dozen Gotland warriors were hit by arrows and fell to the ground. The others waited in astonishment and saw clearly the Russian troops who had already lined up the shield wall.
Look at these enemies, they are all uniformly dressed, the woods are a blue and white wall, they are indestructible.
"Hold the crossbow! Swordsman! Attack!"
Arik gave the order, and his warriors shouted chants with the same rhythm, and fled like a wall towards defeat. Gotland's army advanced.
Sigfast was so overwhelmed that he dropped his sword to the ground.
He staggered down to pick up the sword, but he didn't expect to stand up as soon as he fell down.
The defeat of this Gotland army was inevitable. With an unshakable wall in front of them and a large group of Russian troops chasing them behind, the Gotlanders had completely lost the chance to break out and escape.
Do you want to run around in the wild grass? That would again be a moving target for Ross's shooters. < /p>
As the boss spoke, the living Danish mercenary suddenly stabbed the Gotlander in front with his sword.
Sigfast watched as his men were stabbed in the back in an incredible way. The perpetrator was actually his trusted mercenary? !
He gritted his teeth and tried to get up, but he couldn't get up at all. He yelled: "Grund, you are a traitor. You are betraying the king, you are betraying me. You are... the dog of the Russians!"
"That is better than dying as a coward." Lund felt a little guilty. At this point, he could only go all the way to the end.
"You! Don't you care about honor? How can a mercenary betray the sponsor."
"No, I didn't betray. I didn't betray the Danish people, that's not the case Betrayal. Now, my brothers and I are looking for the Russians to continue making money."
The Danish mercenaries remained motionless, and they were completely defensive. As for the Gotland warriors, their futile resistance quickly collapsed under the attack of the Ross army.
"No mercy! Brothers, the time for revenge has come!" Arik ordered loudly, and his warriors knew what to do.
The Gotland Army soldiers present were all mortal enemies. With their absolute superiority in strength, the Russians quickly annihilated this group of enemies.
However, those carrying ravensThe people with patterned shields actually formed a circular defense line. Look, they don't look like they want to attack, nor do they have any intention of defending. It was as if the fight in front of them had nothing to do with them.
A Ross warrior who attacked rashly rushed forward. After a fight, the Ross warrior was kicked out with a big kick. The armored warrior holding the raven shield obviously had no killing intention.
Many of the challengers were expelled. They were not injured, and the blood on their bodies came from fallen Gotland Army soldiers.
It stands to reason that the three hundred elite Ross warriors should have washed away these ten people like a mudslide. Everyone did not do this, but kept a distance of about ten bodies from the enemy and waited inexplicably.
Arik was squeezed out of the ring formation and cursed: "What are you doing? Destroy all the enemies, hurry up!"
Then he ordered his men to make way and enter. Go inside the ring array.
Look at the uniform raven shield and the trusty chain mail worn by the warrior.
"Ah! I know you! Elite soldiers of the Gotland army, you beat me so badly!" As he spoke, Arik almost bit his lip and gathered together to kill them. The order is ready to go.
At the critical moment, Grund stepped out of his own formation.
He knelt down on one knee in front of Aric, placed his sword and shield on the ground, and finally took off his iron helmet.
This is an act of surrender by a warrior!
The enemy's elite was so strong that Arik immediately changed his tone: "You...are you going to surrender? Who are you?"
"My name is Grund. Grund from Vattel, Denmark."
"What? You...are Danish?"
"We are indeed Danish." His bearded face remained expressionless. He described the location of the Vattel settlement in a small bay called Jutland, where the tribe was indeed part of the Danes' confederacy.
Aric had blue veins on his face and said fiercely: "In this case, you will deserve to die even more."
Grund has no fear, or in other words, he is already afraid of the current situation. It makes no sense. He looked calm: "If death in battle is my fate, we can accept it. Running away and fighting are meaningless. You Russians are powerful opponents. I have no intention of being your enemy. I am just following the orders of my financial master!" Now, I have decided to take my brothers to surrender to you."
"What?" Arik laughed up at the sky, and then looked down upon the guy kneeling on one knee: "Are you worthy of surrendering to us? "
"We are willing to be warriors under the strong, and..." Grund gave his men a hint, and the unlucky Siegfast was escorted out and captured by Danish mercenaries. Hold on tight.
Aric never saw the face of the Gotland commander clearly during yesterday's daytime battle, but the clothes he wore were very gorgeous, which impressed him deeply.
The guy who was pushed to the ground was the idiot who made the rude remarks yesterday.
"This thing is not dead yet! It's great." Arik was overjoyed. He held his sword and stepped directly on Siegfast's face with one foot.
Such an insult made the man angry and cursed: "Arik from Russia, you are not only a coward, but also a despicable coward. And you, Grund, you are a dirty traitor ."
Sigfast could still curse, but soon he was screaming.
It was Arik. He carried out his words. The leader of Gotland must be tortured to death if he caught him.
The tendons in Siegfast's hands were severed. Although he did not bleed much, with the current witchcraft-like Nordic medicine, there was no way to reattach the tendons. The hands holding the sword were already disabled.
"Shout! Idiot! In the end, you will be made into a blood eagle!"
When he heard the word blood eagle, Siegfast trembled all over, and then Everyone present smelled a foul smell.
The leader of the Gotlanders was so frightened that he peed his pants, causing the Russian soldiers to laugh.
The enemy leader looked like he was today. The enemy's elite knelt down and wanted to surrender. Arik's anger disappeared instantly.
After a Russian soldier gave a key reminder, Arik temporarily stopped his hand: "Okay! You Danes, I am Arik of Ross. You have been captured, put down your weapons now and wait for our Ross. The Duke is disappointed. You have captured the leader of the Gotlanders, and everyone will survive because of this. If you can tell the detailed information about Visby, maybe the Duke will admit your surrender."
Hearing this, the Danish mercenary soldiers disarmed.
Grund was betting that the Russians would listen to him in times of crisis.
The opponents were uniformly dressed, and their combat methods were meticulous and effective, and they actually looked a bit like the Frankish army. Grund had heard many legends about Charlemagne in his hometown, especially those Saxon refugees who crossed the border wall. They described the Frank army as wearing iron helmets and blue gowns, fighting uniformly, and making good use of cavalry and archers. .
The geographical limitation is that there are only a very small number of ponies in Gotland. Horses do not exist in other places, and even if they do exist, they cannot be ridden.
The Russians had no horses, and they were well-trained in fighting. With this army, Visby was only a few days away from being breached.
Grund won the bet, the Russians were fierce but reasonable, and all the Danish mercenaries were spared death and were not humiliated.
The main battlefield of this outpost battle was already filled with the corpses of Gotland Army soldiers. Those who were dying were all killed by the Ross army.
The soldiers have begun to collect the enemy's corpses, although everyone feels that Rurik's order is a bit redundant.
Collecting the bodies of our fallen soldiers and cremating them is the right way. But the enemy's corpses are scattered all over the huge battlefield. Does the winner deserve to be tortured? Just stop the body in the wilderness!
Rurik is still downAfter the order was given, the people who did it were mainly Covins and Slavs.
At first glance, the current Medvet is obviously a Varyag warrior, but his Slavic language reveals his secret. The Slavic warriors from Novgorod tasted an unprecedented victory. The Slavic spear wall stabbed a large number of Gotland Varyags to death, and now they are actually collecting the corpses of their opponents!
The bloody corpses with ferocious faces were dragged away and began to be piled into small mounds.
The arrows on the corpse and the enemy's weapons were recovered. Leather boots, blood-stained linen clothes, damaged armor, and even key iron helmets, chainmails, useful cowhide belts...
The Slavic and Kovin warriors took care of everything on the enemy in every detail. Take what is available. Those stacked corpses were like the white sand dunes on the forest grass, so dazzling and weird.
Rurik himself pardoned all Danish prisoners who should have been executed.
Is there anything more magical than being pardoned by a beautiful boy with blond hair?
Grund and his brothers knelt down in a row to accept the pardon. At the same time, they had to face the fact that Siegfast's Gotland Army was attacked by such a The young boy commanded the army to defeat them.
He slowly raised his head and looked at Rurik's beautiful face: "Are you the Duke of the Russians?"
"Yes! No. Not for the time being. That's the future." Rurik's words were a bit ambiguous. Seeing the other party's confusion, he explained: "The Duke of Ross is coming with two thousand troops. Soon, they will enter this battlefield. Rurik, blessed by Odin, is the commander of the Rus' army, and Visby is destined to surrender to me. You hold the raven shields? Now, I am their proper master, because I was blessed by Odin. The one you love."
This is really domineering and should not be said by a child.
But the reality is unreasonable, and Grund had to accept this reality-the Ross army did have three thousand soldiers, and when they landed on the island, the Gotlanders had already been defeated.
For Rurik, the Danish surrender was an unexpected surprise.
Generally speaking, Rurik has a strong resistance to killing prisoners. The elite among the prisoners, or those with the strongest will to resist, should be killed. As for ordinary prisoners, they are allowed to work as slaves for ten years. Redemption is probably the most cost-effective option.
But these Danes are different!
In terms of feelings, Rurik himself has no hatred for the Danes, he just follows the crowd and resists them. The entire Swayian tribal alliance was against the Danes. Now that the alliance has become the Kingdom of Sweden, dominated by the Mellaren people, it will directly go to war against the Danish forces.
The Mellarens can also be considered reliable allies? No! Just business partners. This group of guys was the main initiator of forcing the Ross people to move from the north of Lake Mälaren to the current Rossburg.
A long timeIn the past, the Rus would also go to the Uppsala Temple (controlled by the Uppsala tribe to worship Odin, Umber, and Thora. The name Uppsala also comes from the gods they worshiped) to make sacrifices. After being expelled, the Rus entered a bitter cold land, and any belief gave way to the worship of Odin. Only Odin could bless everyone to withstand the cold blow.
After experiencing so many things in Melalen, Rurik really didn’t have much affection for the nobles of Melalen. He was just greedy for the oats, linen and wool of the Melalen people.
Since these Danes originally wanted to be paid as mercenaries. OK! This group of people can take advantage.
It’s just a use.
They betrayed and captured their master as a token of surrender, and they were more interested in reporting everything they knew about Visby. These guys just betrayed their sponsors. After the first time, wouldn't there be a second time?
They can never become confidants, but they can become the intelligence tools currently needed by the Ross army.
Based on these thoughts, the raven shields of the Danes were confiscated. They will not be slaves, but they will not be armed in any way. In the future decisive battle, these people will not enter the front line of the battle.
Rurik needed them to provide key intelligence. After Otto arrived with a large force, it was up to these Danes to explain the situation in Visby clearly.
As for that Sigfast...
Most of the Russian soldiers had already rested on the spot. The Slavs and Covins who were carrying the dead bodies gathered together and took their respective After arriving at the trophies of the field battle, they sat together happily talking and laughing.
The old rule is that soldiers keep the common weapons, equipment and property they capture on the battlefield, and leave valuables to the commander-in-chief.
The Slavs and Kovins, the soldiers themselves were fellow villagers. Since they knew each other, the loot they captured was exchanged internally with the fellow villagers. There was no need for Rurik to intervene, such as the Slavs. These warriors relied on capture. Not only did their weapons and equipment improve, but now they all wore leather boots. They washed the bloody armor, mail, and linen in the stream. Defense has also been improved.
There is no such thing as some soldiers wearing common clothes and some wearing mail armor. The equipment level of the Slavic warriors is highly unified, and the combat effectiveness level of the entire flag team has been comprehensively improved. The Covin people were the same, but they cared more about archery, so they stripped the Gotlanders of all their archer equipment. Look at it brothers! Everyone's string-controlling hands wore very finely sewn leather gloves (an excellent product of Viking craftsmen), and the deer-bone wrench fingers used to hook the strings were also put on the gloves. Archers no longer have to worry about palm abrasions.
In this case, is there any point in keeping Siegfast, the commander of the Gotlanders?
Yes! Of course there is.
It would be too hasty to kill a noble guy hastily, or for Arik to threaten to be executed as a blood eagle.
Not yetIt will kill him, but the physical pain will be inevitable.
Sigfast had his front teeth knocked out and his face was bruised and bruised by the Russian soldiers. He was hung on a tree, losing all his gorgeous clothes, and his upper body was covered in hair. Arik stabbed the word with bloody runes on the tip of his sword.
The onlookers of the Ross warriors applauded this barbaric venting of anger. If Arik had not requested that this venting of anger should be done by himself, Siegfast would have been cut alive by one person with one knife. dropped.
The battlefield is basically clean, and a large amount of blood can be clearly detected in the crushed withered grass.
The white sand-like corpses have been covered with a large number of newly cut pine trees, and the surrounding weeds have been cleared by the Russians and stacked in the "wooden tower" that needs to be burned urgently.
One description of the so-called pit killing is that the corpses on the battlefield are piled up in a large pit and buried collectively, and the other is that they are piled up and covered with soil to make an open-air tomb.
In Jutland, which is the main area where Danes gather, most Danish tribes practice mounding earth in the open air to make tombs. The noble chief’s tomb was simply made of earth.” pyramid". Soldiers who died in tribal battles were treated in the same way.
Is this considered a Jingguan building? Rurik was not aware of the Danes' sacrificial and funeral customs.
He cremated the deceased according to Russian customs. It would take a long time to burn so many dead bodies.
None of the cremated dead were from the Rus’ army.
Using the right tactics and attacking at the right time, it is normal for the Ross army to achieve such a crazy battle loss ratio.
Rurik is not proud. He will not be excited by the blood of his enemies. He just wants to win the decisive battle as soon as possible and take away what he really needs-the various materials that make the Ross tribe rich, and A hegemony.
The main force of the Russian army finally arrived on the battlefield. At this moment, the large tombs piled with firewood were already on fire, and a large amount of terrifying smoke was rising.
The soaring smoke column became the best symbol, and Otto's Ross follow-up troops slowly arrived on the battlefield.