The Slavic flag troops were in the center, and when the spear formation in the woods showed up, it shocked Vadim on the opposite side. He had long known that the traitors at White Tree Manor were trained by the Russians to be good at using spears, but he did not expect them to use spears in this way.
Compared with these strange spearmen, the astonishing number of Varyag sword and shield bearers are clearly truly terrifying characters. Their bodies were generally stained with blood, and their bucklers were also blood-red.
The strength of the first and third flag teams has further increased, because many old guys from the second flag team have joined.
Rurik's army formation resembled a historical reenactment of the decisive battle on Gotland, and he himself actually regarded the thousands of rebellious peasants as a formidable enemy.
The Russian army further formed its formation, and all warriors holding crossbows were raised to receive new orders.
The spear formation is in the center, and shield walls have been built on the left and right wings. It's just that there are a few gaps in the shield wall, and the warriors holding crossbows are quickly passing through these gaps to get to the front of the array.
One hundred crossbowmen were placed in front of the shield walls on the left and right wings. The Shooting Standard had as many as 200 crossbowmen arrayed in front of the spear-bearing Slavic Standard.
Due to the hasty layout of the battle, only twelve torsion slingshots were transported here. They were carried by the soldiers and placed in front of the formation, using the enemy's dead bodies as carriers.
The extremely young warriors lay directly on the grass wet with blood. Carlotta, Fisk, Kanuf and others, and even Svetlana, these boys and girls are now Warriors, their position is also the front line of fierce battle.
They lay prone with steel-armed crossbows, heavy arrows already installed in the arrow troughs.
The blood of the corpses gathered into a terrifying stream. The corpses were all war dead at Pine Needle Manor, and they were essentially Svetlana’s enemies. She was trembling unconsciously. She didn't expect that such a thing would happen to a warrior after having been working for a while today. Her clothes were stained with a lot of mud and blood, and she couldn't care less about cleaning them. She was on the most dangerous frontline, and it was clear what she was going to do next.
"You are shaking." Carlotta, who was lying aside, said calmly.
"I...I'm scared."
"It's normal to be afraid, and you will get used to it in the future. The people standing in front of you are all enemies of your manor, and killing them is yours Obligation!"
Svetlana was frightened when Carlotta told her some Viking-style words of wisdom, and she would hide her fear with a smile in front of her.
On the big ship before, Lana just raised a heavy crossbow and threw it. It was impossible to know whether she had killed the enemy. Now, she was about to see the enemy being shot and killed by an arrow in front of her.
Her arms were still trembling, and her trembling right hand was pressed against the trigger, as if she could accidentally fire it at any time.
"Girl, stay calm, your man is watching you. If you want to be his woman, you must behave like a warrior." Carlotta's continued words slightly eased Lanna's nervousness.
While the two girls were talking silently, the Ross Army Arrow Array took advantage of the opponent's inexplicable confusion and completed the deployment.
Even Rurik, who is much shorter than other strong men due to his age, can easily enter the front of the formation.
A young man wearing a white fox fur hat is here. He is also protected by a heavy special chainmail with patches. He holds a steel sword in his right hand and actually holds a flag on his left arm!
Rurik is now in front of the battle with this image. He sees Svetalana's caution and the desire to fight among his close friends.
He also saw the stupidity of the enemy not far away. What kind of army was there? It was clearly a group of farmers holding wooden sticks and inferior farm tools. Their weapons and equipment were extremely poor. Only their huge strength allowed them to defeat them. Doesn't look like a weakling.
Although in this ancient war, the number of troops in the army is generally positively correlated with the direction of the war.
Standing here, Rurik did not feel that there was any advantage in having more opponents. His eyes were very sharp and he saw that the opponent's camp was clearly divided and a large group of women were mixed in.
Are they mobilizing the entire manor? That's fine, let them die clearly.
Rurik did not think that he would encounter any sneak attack, and he himself needed to show the heroism of the prince in front of all the Rus elite and servant troops.
The simple Vikings will always worship a brave warrior, and will not even hesitate to elect such a warrior as the leader of the group.
Rurik personally carried the flag to show his bravery, glory, fearlessness, and nobility as the "Son of God."
All this was particularly taken by the old guys from the Second Flag Team, who laughed and muttered that this kid was born to be a king.
He does not have any guards around him, and for safety reasons he will not really stray too far from the main army.
On Vadim's side, all the resistance forces gathered in Pine Needle Manor have realized that they have reached the front line of the decisive battle for everything. The sun is shining brightly today, and I am afraid that many people will not be able to see it. It’s sunset today.
The last morale of these Slavic rebels came from the huge strength of the army. The army hugged each other to keep warm and cheered each other up. Since Vadim had resolutely stood on the front line of the array, this person as the commander of the army essentially gave his subordinates He has set a good example. It is fair to say that Vadim is not a real brave man, but now he is indeed acting as a brave man.
In fact, when he saw the Ross army's divine soldiers descending from the sky and building a wall in front of him, he was extremely frightened.
A young man walked out of the Ross military formation. He was elegantly dressed, and the metal armor on his body shone brightly in the sun.
Is this a messenger?
Vadim was still confused, but Rurik raised his head and straightened his neck and shouted with all his strength: "Me! Rurik of the Principality of Rus! The real Duke of Rus! The rebellion of Pine Needle Manor, today will be Your death!"
Rurik pronounced his sentence in Slavic.This statement not only shocked Vadim, but also made people wonder why the other party spoke Slavic.
Answering that his opponent might be fooled, Rurik started shouting again: "Today, you will all be killed by us!"
"You will all die! Remember, I am the one who killed you! Rurik, Duke of Ross! Be angry, I give you permission to curse me in the afterlife!”
“Man! Your women will be killed! Your cattle and sheep will be killed! All traces of your existence will be wiped out..."
Even, Rurik yelled some more vicious words, and some obscene language came out of his mouth, and Svetlana was shocked. "I never thought that a handsome man like you is just as rough as other men on the inside?!"
Wanting to instantly anger a normal man, Rurik consciously used some "special art" from the East works best.
Originally, the fierce battles in the ancient East also maintained the tradition of scolding. One way to force the enemy to advance aggressively was to curse for three days and three nights, and then use a trap to subdue a bull. It's not difficult.
Rurik insulted the other person as a man and lacked the dignity of a man, and also insulted the other person as a woman. Some of the unsightly metaphors and parallelisms shocked Otto.
In fact, the vocabulary of swear words in each ethnic language is very limited. People need these words but subconsciously reject this kind of indecentness.
Rurik took out a set of curse words and punches, and the series of curses showed the special accomplishment of an irritable old man. This is a "swear war tactic". Vadim and many of his men have been beaten. He cursed until his face turned red, as if he had drank a pound of strong alcohol.
Vadim is not really a bully who can be easily angered. He has his own special countermeasures.
He suppressed his blush and ordered several of his subordinates. After a while, some ferocious heads with gray beards stuck on wooden sticks were displayed.
This is Pine Needle Manor’s counterattack against the scolding war. It is undoubtedly more insulting than Vadim’s “Art of Language” showing the dead man’s head directly.
Those are the heads of the Russians who were killed before!
The Ross army formation fell into a violent commotion after witnessing all this, and everyone began to roar wildly, swearing at the top of their lungs that these despicable traitors must be killed.
Vadim saw the effectiveness of his insulting methods, openly walked out of the military formation with strong ridicule, personally held up a wooden stick to rest the ferocious head, and killed him in front of all the Russian troops. When the ball is kicked...
"Crazy! Everyone is crazy!" How could Otto endure such humiliation from his enemy?
Otto pushed aside the soldiers in front and walked out of the military formation, walked straight to his son Rurik, grabbed the flagpole, and strangled Rurik's neck with his other big hand.
Without the tenderness of a father, Otto shouted sternly: "Russian people cannot accept this insult. I will declare war on your behalf now!"
"Dad!" Liu was held down. Rick hurriedly defended himself by saying that he deliberately caused this to prepare for the army's heavy weapons and was buying time.
Otto did not listen at all, and ordered the Russian army to attack proactively just to take his son back.
It was Otto's appearance that caused the arrogant Vadim to pause his foot movements.
"It's Otto! That old guy!"
Hearing this brief Slavic provocation, Otto stopped and let go of his hand, and said to Rurik A look back with anger.
But they saw Vadim. He inserted a steel sword into his head and raised it high, and continued to curse: "Otto, you will die in this battle! I will annihilate you Russians! Use everything you have." A human head, as a sacrifice for me to officially become a prince!"
On the surface, Otto was just stunned on the spot, but in fact, his heart was beating wildly, and the rage in his heart drove his blood pressure to 180. , if this body was not so strong, the whole person could have fainted from anger.
Seeing this madman, Rurik concluded that this man was the enemy's leader.
"Hey! Idiot! Who are you?!" Rurik asked sharply.
"Vadim! Brave Vadim! Vadim who will personally cut off Otto's head! I swear!"
Rurik glared at Vadim again Looking at each other, he said silently: "I have written down your name..."
The father and son did not hesitate any longer. Vadim and his men watched helplessly as the leader of the Russians returned to the army. Array and do nothing.
What can be done?
The livelihood of Pine Needle Manor is farming and raising livestock. There are not many hunters in the manor, and hunting mostly depends on setting traps and a group of people holding short spears and throwing guns to surround them. Of course they knew how to use bows, but due to the poor manufacturing quality, the arrows could not damage the Ross military formation that "happened" to be outside the shooting range.
As soon as Rurik returned to the formation, a hoarse "Hjutra" announced the start of the war.
He ordered the arrows to be released. It is said that three arrows should be fired before the battle. This is how Rurik placed his crossbowmen.
The lying soldiers immediately pulled the trigger. Svetlana completed the operation with her eyes closed, unable to estimate the mud and blood on her body. After shooting, she stood up and ran back to the array with the heavy crossbow. inside, and retreated all the way behind the array.
The soldiers in the first row finished firing, and the half-kneeling shooters in the second row immediately fired.
The second row is over, and the third row is the final round of shooting.
The arrow flew away in a whoosh, and the arrogant Vadim fell to the ground with a scream.
Lucky for this kid, a light arrow pierced his left arm. If this was a heavy crossbow arrow, the man's entire left arm would be disabled, and it would be inevitable to die of excessive bleeding in a short time on this battlefield.
His cronies were too front-row, were killed one after another in the "three-stage attack" of the Russians. Those pointed cone-shaped surface-hardened carbon steel crossbow arrows can easily penetrate the thick fur of polar bears and even the skull of the bear, easily causing horrific bloody holes in the body of the person who is hit by the arrow.
Those torsion slingshots were also launched immediately. They were all firing javelins in an almost flat-firing state. As a result, one of the strange casualties in Vadim's array was a string of three people with a javelin. Not surprising.
But after all, it was three arrows before the battle. Rurik could not guarantee that the enemy could still stand stupidly after being hit by arrows. His order to his men was to withdraw behind the array after the attack.
This has something to do with the fact that his two women and good brothers are placed on the front line as shooters. He wants his women and brothers to make some military exploits in public, and he must also ensure that they get along well. Just avoid unnecessary casualties.
Just because the archers have withdrawn to the array does not mean that the war has nothing to do with them. The archery master Frazier, who was appointed as the temporary captain of the archer flag team, gathered warriors holding various long-range crossbows. Gathered into a matrix, the weapons throw arrows at high elevation angles to reinforce them, just to hit the enemy's head at a nearly vertical angle!
Not to mention those bull trebuchets, the pebbles flew over Ross's military formation, further hitting the armed farmers of Pine Needle Manor in the rear of the enemy's military formation, killing and injuring a large number of people.
More people means strength advantage, which also means that it is easier to suffer large-scale casualties under the attack of heavy weapons.
Falling arrows, javelins and stones have no eyesight. Vadim’s men don’t matter whether they are men or women. Being hit is basically fatal.
Vadim really did not deserve to die. He was dragged into the military formation by a few of his surviving cronies. Hundreds of Pine Needle Manor soldiers watched helplessly as their leader was hit by arrows. Unfortunately, their His mind was frightened by the sudden death and went blank.
The abominable arrows are still being fired, and the landing points are basically at the end of the Pine Needle Manor Army, and some arrows even land in the so-called safe area where no one is standing.
Is it really safe? The Russians' deadly arrows simply blocked everyone's retreat!
Suddenly, all the leather drums and horns of the Ross army appeared, and the dull roar quickly gave way to the Viking war cry of the entire Ross army, including mainly the men from White Tree Manor. Medved's army of spearmen, who shouted their Viking war cry as New Rus's.
Of course, the young cronies brought by Rurik and all the elite mercenaries have already roared the new "Russian Viking war cry" confirmed by Rurik.
They roared "Ula", and the Slavic flag team, which was dominated by spears, took the lead in pointing the spears standing like a forest in front of them, forming a dense formation and slowly moving forward in a hedgehog formation.
The left and right wings of the Russian army moved slightly later. Macroscopically, a wedge-shaped formation specifically designed to break the formation was being constructed. The Russian army used this formation to kill the enemy in an orderly manner.
The Pine Needle Manor Army completely fell into final madness. In fact, even if Vadim was not present, the armed forcesThe thousands of people who got up must also instinctively devote themselves to all-out war.
Some unknown men charged violently with weapons, which immediately led to the charge of the entire military formation.
Thousands of armed Ilmenslav men and women braved the arrows and stones of the Russians and rushed towards the uniform Russian military formation.
In a sense, this is history repeating itself.
It was as if their ancestors on the Vistula River hundreds of years ago had bravely charged into the Roman legions setting up their shields, with the same ferocity and fearlessness.
But what they are facing is also the brutal killing of the Rus Principality, which intends to call itself Augustus at the right time and intends to become the new Rome.
The final battle to determine the dominance of the entire Lake Ilmen took place on this June afternoon, under the scorching sun.