The shield walls of the two armies came together fiercely. The soldiers roared with their mouths open and slashed wildly with swords and axes. The fighting began immediately.
The soldiers of the Ross Warriors Standard Corps, who were fully clad in chain armor, faced an opponent who was fully clad in leather armor.
The Ross warriors in the first row protected their entire torsos with shields, and stabbed wildly with the steel sword held high in their right hand.
The swords of the Russians began to turn blood red, and some soldiers were killed by the enemy.
At the moment of the battle, only a few Ross warriors died quickly. Behind the death of one Ross warrior, there must be the death of many Gotland warriors.
Just as Rurik in the highlands predicted, only when a real fight breaks out can the Russians truly realize how powerful they are.
The warriors of Gotland have been trying to open a gap. They subconsciously aimed their main attack direction at the center of the Ross Army. However, it was like a cheetah rushing into a porcupine.
"Men of Novgorod! Men of White Tree Manor! Show your courage! Assassinate!"
Medvit retreated to the second line, the commander As many as eight hundred spearmen from his Slavic banners.
Most of these armies of farmers and lumberjacks have undergone two months of training by elite Russian warriors. Carriers in training will be beaten with sticks, and those who disobey orders will be killed.
They sweat a lot in training on weekdays, and at the same time they can eat fish and meat with open belly. Now they are completely different from other people in their hometown. Everyone has become stronger. They were originally wearing only cloth clothes. The soldiers in the first two rows not only put on the blue and white long robes of the Russian people, but also put on leather underneath. First.
I am afraid that for the Slavic banners, shields and armor are redundant.
They are all spearmen, and now the monster composed of eight hundred spears looks like a porcupine, using a large number of dangerous spikes to deal with the cheetah's fangs.
More than fifty brave Gotlandic warriors tried to attack the Russian army. They successfully deflected some spears with their shields, but what awaited them were more black spearheads.
The quenched iron chromium is very hard, and the spearheads are polished to create a sharp spike. But these spearheads are not flat. They are essentially pointed iron pillars, not the broad blades of Gotland's short spears.
This is a design that caters to the physical properties of chromium, that is, the military spurs are inserted into extremely long wooden poles, and their tactical function is only to poke. Hundreds of spears are organized to fight, but the effect is outstanding.
The fifty Gotland warriors were stabbed one after another. The Slavic warrior easily pulled out the spearhead, leaving a large hole in the enemy's body that spurted blood. Just one hole can force the enemy to lose the ability to fight. Now, these fifty warriors were stabbed to death one after another.
The subsequent Gotland warriors were still attacking, but by the time they realized something was wrong, it was already too late! They were pushed by the warriors in the rear, and one after another in desperation, they ran into the spear wall of the Ross army..
A Gotland female warrior screamed and charged, and was mercilessly stabbed to death by the Slavic spearmen in the Russian army. Even for those soldiers who were extremely relieved, when they suddenly discovered the horrific truth of war, it was already too late.
Medevitt in command was shocked: "Ah! My men are killing female Varangians? Are they going to fight with both men and women like us?!"
Just fight As far as Slavs are concerned, the female warriors who killed the enemy did not have any psychological discomfort. On the contrary, the people of Novgorod always believe that if there is a war, the women of the tribes and manors will have to take up arms and fight with the men. In their concept, everyone has the obligation to defend their homeland, even if they are holding a Sticks also have to join the fight.
They killed the opponent's female warrior without mercy, and stabbed the fallen person mercilessly with the spearhead. Even if the opponent was dead, the spearhead attack did not stop.
The majority of Gotland soldiers gradually realized that they were suffering a loss by attacking the center of the Russian army. After paying a heavy price, they spontaneously moved to the two wings.
The soldiers have strength in numbers. Wouldn't encircling the Ross army from both sides break the deadlock?
The Gotland Army began to move abnormally.
The boys and girls of Rurik climbed onto the earth wall one after another. They began to load the wooden crossbows in a stepped manner, then installed the arrows and fired immediately.
The elite mercenaries, also known as the Duke's Guard, were originally tasked with holding down the formation in case the Slavs could not withstand it. Now it seems that these Slavic warriors are getting braver as they fight!
Rurik changed his mind, and all the elite mercenaries with amazing arm strength stood on the mound and fired the most ferocious crossbow arrows with their steel-armed crossbows.
The Russian crossbowmen continued to fire. In order to avoid harming friendly troops, the targets of their attacks were all changed to the follow-up troops of the Gotland Army.
Rurik himself was helpless in the fighting at the front of the Russian army. He could only pray that his people and the Slavs would become more courageous in the battle without causing many casualties.
For your own melee warriors, the greatest help you can give them is to block the enemy's subsequent reinforcements.
Otto watched the entire battle with horror. He had already gone into battle himself to help his men quickly turn the winch of the torsion slingshot.
The enemy as a whole is making moves that are not conducive to the Russians!
Rurik roared and ran hurriedly on the earth wall. His actions shocked the heavily armored berserker. Now is the chance to go out on his own! The berserker warriors stood up one after another and then sat down helplessly.
The Shooting Flag Team received a new order. The flag team was divided into two, and the targets to be attacked became the enemies on both wings.
The biggest disadvantage of the Russian army is the apparent lack of troops. If it is really surrounded by the enemy on both sides, the subsequent battle will be in big trouble.
"Damn it! It's my turn to surround and annihilate you, so why do you want to surround me? I'll die according to the script!"
In Rurik's plan, the Gotland Army Strong military strength,It must also be the target of unilateral slaughter.
They are not fools after all, and they spontaneously realize the benefits of creating an encirclement.
The children began to throw wooden crossbows, and the Corvin archers adjusted the shooting direction to throw light arrows with very high efficiency. What they fired were actually the same style of light arrows. The power of these iron cluster arrows was not great. However, the enemy was a group of civilian-clothed, bare-backed warriors, so the light arrows became extremely lethal.
As many as twenty brothers who died in the flags of Arik and Haro Zuosen on the two wings have been pulled to the rear. The vacant positions were filled and the soldiers continued to fight.
Of course, the entire Russian army, which had its back against the earth wall, had advanced a full thirty steps. Behind them and where they stepped, the corpses of the enemy were already lying! The grass that was originally dry and yellow became extremely muddy! The soldiers' boots were stained with red mud, and the air was filled with a frightening smell of rust.
No one was afraid during the melee. Most of the Russians and Gotlanders were red-eyed, their minds went blank, and their only thought was to kill the opponents in front of them.
Because the Russians were well prepared and the frontline warriors were well armored, their troop losses were much smaller than those of the Gotland army. Trying to break through the Russian army's array head-on was difficult, but the outflanking move was also fraught with dangers.
The Gotlanders who tried to outflank the Russian army were hit by arrows on a large scale. Once they fell to the ground, they could hardly stand up. Their shields were filled with Russian arrows, and the hands holding the shields were pierced by arrow clusters.
More horrific injuries are coming!
That is the heavy javelin of the torque slingshot. Its range is only a little over a hundred meters, and it will kill the enemy if it hits it. This heavy weapon was quickly exhausted, and the torsion slingshot began to fire more ferocious "ship-destroying cast iron bullets"!
The tapered cast iron has a micro-spiral groove that rotates rapidly during flight, hitting the enemy extremely stably. Any shield is meaningless. The wooden shield is shattered, and the cast-iron bullet then breaks the enemy's bones. Any strong warrior will kill it with one shot. Only a finger-thick plate armor can stop its collision. It is a collision. The huge force can shock the soldiers to cough up blood on the spot.
Some people with exaggerated tattoos on their upper bodies, even if they have a tattoo of an earthly python, it is meaningless in the face of technological weapons.
They were hit directly through the chest by cone-shaped cast iron bullets, and a piece of iron appeared in the heart!
Crossbows are another kind of terror. Heavy-headed crossbows are not suitable for ejection, but at special moments, steel-arm crossbows use heavy-headed crossbows to strike from the sky.
The Russians launched a de facto barrage attack on the two wings of the Gotland army. After killing and wounding more than 500 people, they directly curbed the Gotland army's outflanking momentum.
However, the arms of the Kovin archers were already very sore from shooting arrows for a long time.
Children like Terravis, who claimed to have shot as many as fifty arrows, were exhausted from continuing to draw the bow.
But manipulating woodKanuf and Fisk of the crossbow, they couldn't slack off when they saw the girls from Rurik working hard to string the crossbow.
Thirty minutes have passed since the main forces of the two armies collided and fought until now!
Based on his own experience, Rurik knew that decisive battles in ancient times could often determine the outcome in half a day. There is a reason for this, because human physical strength cannot support fighting for too long.
In ancient wars, once a sword fight broke out, the one who was as fat as an ox and had the superior force could win with a long period of brute force output. It is said that whoever runs out of energy first will be killed with a sword by the enemy with the last energy.
Does the Ross army still have enough strength?
Rurik could not see clearly from behind. He saw that his crossbowman was already breathing heavily, and the warriors who were fighting on the front line were even more exhausted. .
Arik and Haro Zuosen, their steel swords were already dyed red. Seeing that the enemy suffered a large number of casualties from friendly arrows, they knew that the danger was suddenly lifted. After admiring Rurik's When the time comes, start implementing the planned pincer offensive.
"Brothers! Overtake the Novgorodians, let's go in front! Follow me!" Arik's roar was actually drowned in the roar of the crowd, and the soldiers all raised their flags. Moving forward, macroscopically speaking, the two wings of the front responsible for the two warrior flag corps are slowly shrinking.
Everyone’s eyes are fixed on the flag of the flag team. It means that the flag captain Arik is there, and its advancement means that Arik ordered the attack.
"Haha! Arik is taking action!" Rurik jumped for joy. He felt that his cousin and himself had a tacit understanding, and the pincer offensive had begun.
After cheering for a while, Rurik immediately shouted to everyone in the flag-shooting team: "Don't be afraid of getting tired! Now take your bow and arrow and push forward!"
At this moment, Otto hurriedly threw away what he was doing and asked loudly: "You want to go to the front line to fight in person? Are you crazy?"
"No! I want the archer flag team to advance with the large army and throw arrows Continue to support the brothers! The torque slingshot is here, soldiers, let me go!”
Rurik raised his dagger and ordered the mercenary guarding the ducal flag to follow him. Move by yourself.
At this very critical moment, he finally gave the order to the berserker who had been waiting for a long time and was almost going crazy with itching.
Heavily armored berserkers mixed with the Marksman Flag Team. Under the leadership of Rurik and Otto, they followed the frontline fighting soldiers and launched Xu Jin barrage.
It can be said that the only things left in the Ross camp at this moment are a bunch of reindeer munching fodder and a bunch of unattended luggage.
Although the Gotland Army has the superior strength, the battle has reached this point, and their self-proclaimed strength advantage has lost its meaning. Facing an opponent that is highly organized, well-equipped, and highly motivated, having more troops is no longer an advantage.
Haken panicked. He wanted to restrain his soldiers not to panic, but his roarHow many people can it be heard?
The battlefield was full of shouts of killing, and it became impossible to expect a commander to command the army by shouting.
Rurik had realized this a long time ago, so he divided the army into flag troops. After assigning tasks to the flag captains, he felt free to let them lead the army in battle. As for the grassroots soldiers, they only need to look at the movement of the flag and the blue and white cloth strips on the centurion's helmet to act immediately.
Haken hurriedly retreated to the rear, holding a pale sword and ordering the merchant army that had been standing still until now: "My friends! We should act according to our plan!"
However, the war situation has become like this, and many businessmen's hearts have been shaken.
"I want you to go out, hurry up! I am the king, obey my orders!"
"But let us go now, is this reasonable? Farmers and fishermen are retreating !" A businessman was obviously frightened, and his Danish mercenaries did not dare to attack rashly, even though the mercenaries were willing to fight.
Three more businessmen retreated from the battle!
At the critical moment, Harald, who knew how to make a big move, did not hesitate to do anything, and suddenly stabbed and killed a businessman friend with a sword.
The horrific scene shocked other businessmen.
"What time has it been?! Can you still hesitate? Let's join the fight and threaten to kill anyone who escapes."
I didn't expect this questioner to be like this during the decisive battle. His decisiveness actually stabilized the morale of the army.
"Okay! My brother!" Haken consciously saw the hope of counterattack. To be honest, he knew that there were still a large number of soldiers in the Gotland army in his hands fighting hard. They were overwhelmed by the enemy's momentum and The terrifying weapons suppressed them and they retreated, but nearly 900 armored Danish mercenaries from the rear intervened on the battlefield. Will the Gotland Army's crisis be reversed?
The merchants’ mercenaries were dispatched in full force, and the Danes built shield walls one after another. The sword and ax were attached to the eaves of the shield, and they were shouting chants and marching forward in a rather orderly pace.
Looking at the Russians, they are actually like attacking glaciers that can crush all the rocks and forests in front of them.
The thrown arrows continued to damage, and the enemies they shot quietly turned into female warriors and young boy warriors. These mobs were holding up shields and being dragged back by everyone. From time to time, some people were hit by arrows and fell down, and then they were trampled by their own people.
A considerable number of young men from Gotland have died in the fighting. Of course, as many as a hundred people from the Russian army died in the battle.
The dead of the Russian army were actually mostly poorly equipped Malaren flag soldiers and Slavic warriors. The Slavic spear array is indeed powerful, but the defense of individual warriors is extremely weak, and it is inevitable to be killed by the suicidal salted fish thrusts of individual crazy opponents.
More than forty warriors of the Rossbon tribe were killed in the battle. They were all elite men. Arik was heartbroken for their sacrifices. He wanted to help his fellow tribesmen who were dying of blood, but he knew his responsibility and Move on with grief and indignation.
Finally at a certain moment, brotherThe local warriors of Telan finally suffered a terrible collapse! Most of their most powerful male soldiers were dead. Seeing this, the female soldiers and young soldiers retreated with the retreating male soldiers.
They collided with the Danish army, and gathered behind this group of warriors wearing chain mail.
The defeat of the Gotland Army left Haken speechless for a while. He tried to reverse people's cowardice and began to cry out.
Fortunately, the Gotlanders, whose emotions gradually stabilized, began to fight back again. It was not that they heard the king's inspiring persuasion, but that they saw an astonishing number of Danish mercenaries advancing.
The power of example is huge. Well-equipped Danish mercenaries attacked the Ross army, and the morale of Gotland's defeated army was greatly boosted.