Chapter 575 The Battle of Strangulation

The Ross military formation faced the rising sun, and people in uniforms were bathed in the rising sun. This sunshine swept away the coldness of the morning.

Everyone lined up in a long array. They were all wearing white robes, and the blue stripes on their chests were exactly the same. The neat and uniform attire brought a unique beauty of order, and further strengthened the identity of Russians as Russians. The glory!

In this battle, they were not just venting their anger on the servants of Corvin. The war was entirely fought for the interests of Ross.

In this battle, the invincible Lord Rurik will personally take charge. Odin, who is the incarnation of the sun, will watch this battle. All brave warriors who perform hard will be eligible to go to Valhalla.

The Russians are not afraid of death, not because they hope to go directly to Valhalla by dying in battle.

Rurik had already asked the new priests to explain that if a veteran warrior dies of old age in his own home, he will immediately return to youth after death and return to his most beautiful years. In this way, Head to the temple under the guidance of the Valkyrie Sperosvilia.

No one in Russia hopes to die on this battlefield. Everyone has a very pure thought in their hearts, that is, attacking the enemies here is just an exercise. After killing them, the army will join forces and march westward. , went to rich Britain to plunder wealth.

The Tavastians would never have thought that they would regard this battle as a life-and-death battle. This was indeed the case. In the eyes of the Russians, it was just a "warm-up."

All soldiers from both sides have appeared.

The Russians lined up in an orderly manner, coupled with the completely uniform dress, the strong visual shock really made the Tavastians both afraid and envious.

Watkard gritted his teeth. He held an iron sword in one hand and an ax in the other. He looked at the enemy's formation and could no longer predict the outcome of the battle.

How to deal with the enemy? He didn't have a good idea, or it could be said that it was his first time to lead an army of this size, so it seemed that the only tactic he could use was to rush forward with everyone in a swarm.

A battle cannot start as soon as the two sides meet.

Rurik stood in front of the formation, his thin figure blending in with the soldiers behind. After all, he was also dressed in white.

Yevluo asked kindly: "The brothers who control the trebuchet behind told me that they are ready. I see that the enemy is also within the attack range. How about we launch a sudden attack?"

"I obey."

The unlucky Bukan was quickly escorted over and pressed to the ground.

Rurik motioned to his men to let him go, and then had them cut the rope around his elbows.

“Go, tell the enemies over there to put down their weapons and kneel down to be our slaves.”

Bakan was shocked when he heard this: “Sir , Are you asking me to be a messenger? If you want to send a message like this, they will kill me!" "Go quickly." Rurik suddenly pulled out his sword and roared: "If you don't go now.Just kill you. "

"Ah! Yes..."

Because this man has always been dispensable, Rurik knew that there would be no shortage of prisoners after this battle, and he would randomly interrogate a few serious towers by then. Only the Vastians had the clearest understanding of their true nature. Rurik really couldn't believe the betrayer's words. He had to let his opponent do it if he killed the blood-contaminated sword himself.

The Tavastians gathered in a chaotic group, all of them with black hair and brown and gray bodies. The Lord's fur robes made them look not like humans, but a large group of bear-like wild animals.

Bakan walked over with strong fear and faced a person who looked like a messenger. , Watkad signaled the archers not to attack.

However, when Bakan approached and nervously repeated the war conditions proposed by the Russians, the unfortunate tool man was killed immediately.

Of course Watkard knows this man. What he hates most in his life is a traitor. He obviously surrendered to Tavastia, but now he has become a slave of the Rus?

Bakan was killed and his head was hacked. Watkard cut it down himself, then raised it high and shouted provocatively at the Ross army.

This roar was the clarion call for attack!

He jumped up and waved. His head was thrown out with all his strength.

Watkard, whose face was dripping with blood, waved the iron sword again: "Brothers! Go! ”

The entire black Tavastiya army formation moved, like a herd of horses running wildly on the great plains, or like a herd of deer running in groups on the snowy fields. This was a very large assault force, fair and square. The Russian soldiers all thought of their decisive battle on Gotland. These enemies seemed to be very brave and fierce.

They were dragged into the charge by their brothers, shouting crazily while charging, even if they were really there. Cowardly people are also infected by this atmosphere and become crazy.

People are so strange. No matter the coward or the brave, their minds are all blank now, charging and slashing seem to be the only meaning of their existence. .

So, death is also the last meaning of their existence.

The Ross military formation is on alert, and the ready-made shooting flag team is now starting to show off its power! The crossbowmen were all arranged in front of the central army. They were arranged in three rows, waiting for Rurik's staged shooting order.

However, the trebuchets and torsion slingshots had been ordered to fire immediately and did their best. Able to charge up a second time and continue shooting!

The trebuchets threw stones and the twisting slingshots fired javelins, mixed with the longbowmen who were ordered to shoot freely. This constituted the first wave of the Russian offensive.

Two fist-sized pebbles fell from the sky and accurately hit the enemy who was advancing in a dense formation.

The stone immediately smashed the enemy's flesh and blood, and the enemy was killed instantly!

MarkGuns are even more terrifying. For these unarmored enemies, they will be nailed to the ground after hitting them, or they will penetrate two enemies and fall down in pain.

Braving the arrows and stone bullets of the Russians, the blank-minded Tavastians were not even qualified to retreat. Everyone was charging. If they stopped or retreated, they would be trampled to death by their brothers behind them. Woolen cloth.

Seeing the enemy formation right in front, although the Russians all put up large round shields, Watkard was not afraid. We brothers were all carrying wooden shields.

The Tavastians were already preparing for melee combat, but suddenly a new blow came.

The people who rushed forward were hit by arrows and fell to the ground. After they fell, they were trampled by the people behind them.

"First row back! Second row! Hjutra!"

The second row of crossbowmen fired immediately.

"Well done. Third row, Hjutra!"

Rurik completed three rounds of firing one after another, and the crossbowmen in the last two rows have all retreated into Balmer. Behind the shield wall barrier of the Sword and Shield Hand.

The original first row of shooters completed the collapse reload in an assault, and then retreated into the shield wall after essentially completing the fourth round of shooting.

At this point, the Russians have built a shield wall with a width of 200 meters, and this shield wall is tending to expand to both wings.

Even if they suddenly suffered serious losses, the Tavastians had no choice. They stepped on their fallen brothers one after another and continued to charge with weapons raised high.

The collision finally happened!

The stormtroopers who entered the violent state jumped into the Russian array one after another, and used their own deaths to overwhelm the Russian army array.

For a time, the front line of the attack was in chaos, with shouts and screams coming one after another, scenes of flesh and blood flying everywhere, and the sharp sound of metal colliding.

The red blood immediately dyed the white robes of the Russian and Balmok warriors one after another. The enemy's blood made people crazy. Relying on the protection of shields and mails, the Russian army moved forward crazily. Jab.

The Tavastians did not break down the shield wall at all. Even if more than fifty people jumped into the formation at one time, the final result was that they were stabbed to pieces by the halberds of the Russian soldiers behind them.

Axes hit the shoulders of Russians, and some Russians fell in the chaos. Most of them were trampled to death by their own people and enemies, but very few Russians died like this. And little.

As long as the enemy's sudden attack can be resisted, the Russians' deadly counterattack will follow.

The soldiers on the front line stabbed with their swords. This thrusting movement was very similar to that of the Roman phalanx soldiers. The difference is that the brothers behind are wielding long-handled halberds, and the ax installed behind the spearhead falls from the sky, chopping the enemy's head with great force, which helps support the brothers on the front line.

More and more Tavastians are dying on the front line, and the battlefield has become extremely bloody. The land that should have become dry has now become muddy, and everywhereIt is all dark red sludge accompanied by an extremely strong fishy smell.

The bloody battle on the front line is ongoing, and the Russian army formation is moving to the two wings. This is a macro change, and the Tavastians are busy fighting and have not noticed it at all.

But the archers on both sides were spontaneously supporting their brothers, and arrows were flying randomly above the heads of the fiercely fighting soldiers.

In the chaos, the Tavastian hunters could no longer aim. While they gritted their teeth and fired into the air, they also hoped that they would not be hit by the Rus.

Thanks to the bulletproof shields that Arik had prepared before and the large number of shields that the Russians were already equipped with. Rurik's long-range soldiers were all hiding under wooden shields, especially the children with light crossbows. The huge bulletproof shield could hide five or six people at a time! They finished winding the bow, stretched the wooden arm crossbow out of the wooden shield barrier and fired, then continued loading.

Tavastia’s arrows crackled on the Russian iron and bronze helmets, but they were of no use except creating some marks.

Many people were injured on their shoulders. Those were a few extremely sharp arrows that fell from the sky and broke through the gaps in the Russians' mail. Only part of the arrow clusters were squeezed into the flesh.

Some armored warriors had multiple arrows stuck in their bodies, and the arrows were like potions that made people violent. They became berserk warriors.

Only those javelins were fatal. The spears made in imitation of ancient Rome hit the Russians, which caused substantial damage.

The Tavastians were firing arrows and throwing spears, their attempts at support being gradually destroyed by the Russian arrows.

A large number of arrow clusters continued to be thrown, continuing to cause casualties to the Tavastians in the rear. Not to mention the stones and javelins that were thrown down, and anyone hit by them would die.

During the chaos, Watkard felt more and more that something was wrong. However, he was in the formation and could not see the entire battlefield clearly. What was even worse was that even if he tried to issue an order now, how would the brothers in the chaos know about it? ?

For the Tavastians, this was already the largest battle in the history of their tribal alliance, or a mass killing on an unprecedented scale.

How to talk about rules and regulations? The battle soon turned into a battle between Tavastian warriors.

In terms of height and physical strength, the Tavastians who came from afar have inherent physical disadvantages, not to mention that their weapons and armor are much worse than those of the Russians.

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If this aspect is lacking, it can be made up for by force estimation. However, the strength of the mixed force of the Ross Army is not much less than theirs.

The tall and strong armored Rus stepped on the corpses on the ground, held their shields in front of themselves, and advanced angrily with a bloody steel sword in their right hand.

The Tavastians, who had already lost many people, continued to brave the arrows of the Russians and began to retreat instinctively.

Like a wall of steel pressing over me, people whose hearts almost burst woke up one after another. They thoughtTime to escape.

Watkard had already seen some people running for their lives carrying short spears. He shouted angrily: "Don't leave! Keep fighting!"

He wanted to kill those deserters. , it is because of the existence of these guys who are running away at the moment of battle that more people are retreating.

If the leader had a musket in his hand, he would not hesitate to shoot the deserters in an attempt to save the precarious army.

At this critical moment, many village leaders who were originally the main battlers panted and fled to his side.

Someone threw an ax and stamped his feet and cursed: "I won't fight! I want to retreat! The Russians want to kill us all!"

"You? You want to run away?" ? ” Watkad was furious and pressed his iron sword directly against the man’s neck.

The tribal leader did not look directly at him and said resolutely and disdainfully: "Is this what you did? That's enough! The brothers are dead, and there is no one to defend the territory. I want to lead people now Go home, while they are still alive..."

After that, the man picked up the ax and ran away, followed closely by the armed villagers of his village.

When the other village leaders saw this, they could only look at Watkard with bared teeth and a slightly ashamed look, and then followed the former's escape steps.

It is not shameful to save one's life to guard the lake territory in the south.

Watkard was thrown down. He raised his sword and yelled: "Come back! If you escape, we will all be destroyed!"

At first, there were only more than 300 people. While escaping, the rear of the Tavastian army was hit by Ross's arrows and stones, and the soldiers who persisted began to retreat completely.

The soldiers on the front line were facing the increasingly approaching Russian military formation. They did not realize that an encirclement net was gradually forming. They had lost a lot of physical strength in the fierce battle and were still maintaining the most basic posture. The formation gradually retreated. The two sides on the front line are reaching a strange tacit understanding, as if fighting at close range is to be avoided. The two sides maintain a certain distance, but what's the use?

Arik and Herriger accelerated the formation of the encirclement on both wings. This was a "pincer offensive", but Arik preferred to call it the "wine jar tactic".

Generally, the pottery urn used to store ale must have a large wooden stopper. Who is responsible for this stopper?

This is Jevlo and his one hundred brothers.

Thousands of people were fighting fiercely in the open space outside the old Gray Squirrel Hill Castle. Jevro urgently received Rurik’s outflank order. He led a hundred elite guards and carried steel arms on his back. Crossbow, carrying arrows and shield, sneaked through the forest again, and this time directly touched Tavastia's camp.

Those hungry people who escaped from the mountain fort are resting here, as well as those with sprained feet and those injured in previous encounters are also recuperating.

Russ's reckless men descended from the sky like magic soldiers, and they found the camp was being slaughtered indiscriminately.

Vateyala, the commander of the expedition, dreamed of gaining greater power and greater glory. Finally, exhausted, he was killed by an unknown person.Mercenary warriors from Lake Malaren slashed.

Who knew this resting person was a senior person?

Jevro used force to clean up the forest camp and seized a small amount of supplies.

This is nothing, because the order they received was to suddenly rush out from behind the enemy's formation and attack the enemy's fugitives by surprise.

This battle of Rurik also essentially used smart warriors surrounding the three buildings. However, due to the limited strength of the Russian army and underestimation of the enemy's strength, he had to send a force of only The partial division of the "Hundreds" blocked the gap and strangled the defeated troops.

These hundred guys are madmen who followed Rurik through life and death!

Those armed men who fled with the village leader were full of joy and thought they could escape into the forest. Suddenly, a large number of arrows flew.

The sudden and very accurate heavy crossbow arrows directly hit more than forty people, immediately disrupting their escape position.

"Keep winding! Hurry up!" Yevluo commanded in a tearful voice.

Nearly all of these capable mercenaries have a steel-armed crossbow. They are now at their peak physical strength, and they can use all their muscles to wind up the steel arm by stretching, and then install the crossbow and attack the enemy. Last round of shooting.

And this second round of shooting is basically the last chance for everyone in Yevlo.

Another group of enemies fell to the ground after being hit by arrows. The surviving people didn’t know what was going on for a while. When they instinctively retreated again, they saw a group of white-robed warriors with blue stripes on their chests, holding on to their chests. Helmets that reflect the sun appear one after another!

They are from Russia! They took over the forest camp! They're coming!

The few village leaders who resolutely fled were all killed by crossbows. The leaderless people could only hope for the protection of the large troops who were still fighting.

Unfortunately, when will the arrows and stones of the Russians come to an end? The Tavastians, who were supposed to have the advantage in archery, were first suppressed by severe firepower during the exchange of fire between the two sides, and now they were reduced to a pile of dead people lying covered with arrows.

A ridiculous scene appeared on the battlefield. The arrows that fell on the ground generally had gray-yellow tail feathers. If the corpses on the ground and the bloody mud were aside, they would look like mature wheat fields at first glance.

How many warriors are left to fight? Watkard gradually understood his situation for the first time.

The Tavastian people's escape route has been cut off, and now the brothers cannot escape even if they want to.

The Russian encirclement network has basically been formed, and arrows and stones are still falling from the sky.

Watkard had no good solution. Every second he hesitated, his own warriors were injured or killed.

Looking at the Russians, they were stepping on the corpses on the ground to continuously shrink the encirclement, shouting slogans at every step.

This is not a war, it is like a group of warriors hunting a wild bear!

Unfortunately, Watkard’s mentality almost collapsed and he didn’t feel that heHe is a bear that can trap a beast and still fight. Look at the fearful eyes of his brothers, everyone has become a weak rabbit, ready to be slaughtered...

Tavastia has lost this war, and the entire The tribal alliance lost most of its men, either at the hands of the damn Varyags like Ross or due to the invasion of the Karelians.

But a true warrior cannot surrender! Watkad looked at the iron sword in his hand. This fine sword had not killed any Rus, but...

He chuckled, feeling ashamed of his own people and gods, and annoyed himself. Why did they assemble almost all the men to fight the Russians in anger? Why didn't a large group of tribal leaders speak out against it before they were defeated?

When no one else was paying attention, he pointed the sword edge at his own neck and stabbed it.

Watkard, who became the chief of the alliance based on his military exploits, lost the last and only battle in his life and died for his tribal alliance.