The bullet chute was coated with grease, and the torsion rope was also quite greasy. The operators of heavy weapons had been staring at the signal black flag. They saw the attack order, and all fleets launched the attack at almost the same time.
The plume javelins hit the enemy formation in a low and flat parabola, accompanied by a large number of conical cast-iron bullets.
The Russian army launched this battle with a large number of special projectiles, so there was no need to hold back on military strength.
These javelins and projectiles have very fast muzzle velocity and become the first weapons to strike the enemy.
I saw some black shadows coming towards me without warning. The Karelian soldiers on the shore were unprepared for what happened next.
The javelin pierces the first person hard, and often hits the person behind, or even pierces three with one arrow.
The cast-iron projectiles also flew in circles. Their trajectories were too smooth, and the spiral grooves of the projectiles even rubbed against the air to produce a low buzzing sound. The projectiles originally prepared to break through the mail armor penetrated the enemy's head and chest. The huge force caused the person's bones and muscles to burst, and the whole person was knocked down in a twisted way.
Those bull trebuchets also came to help, and pebbles fell from the sky. They hit them in a high parabola at an almost vertical angle.
Some people have already begun to defend themselves. Shields covered with deerskin may be able to withstand Tavastian arrows, and they are also effective against falling stones.
But the kinetic energy of the stone was very strong, and the shield was smashed so that sawdust flew everywhere, and many people were hit on the head and shoulders...
The Karelian army formation was suddenly filled with blood and flesh. But this is just the beginning.
The Suomi warriors standing on the deck were shooting arrows. There were many of them, but the arrows could only touch the shore due to their poor bows, and some arrows were even blown into the water by the north wind.
When the support failed to be effective, Suomi and the Vips servant army stopped.
The Kewen longbowmen and steel-armed crossbowmen were showing off their power. Even if there was a headwind, the arrows they fired still fell from the sky.
What Rurik gave was an order to fire freely. On the port side of the flagship were twenty torsion slingshots and five bull trebuchets. Now the porthole in the captain's cabin at the bow is also open, and the slingshot's launch rail stretches out.
Due to distance, the Ross Army did not demonstrate the strongest long-range firepower.
Yevlo is not satisfied with the situation of this battle. His Suomi compatriots practiced the "arrow rain tactics" under his training, which now cannot work at all.
"Sir, the distance is too far," he said.
"It doesn't matter, let the projectiles fly for a while."
"Do you hope to defeat them with heavy weapons? I'm afraid they can only be defeated. If you really want to solve the problem, you still have to try your best. Kill their warriors."
Strive to kill the enemy's strength, Rurik was satisfied with Jevro's clever statement.
Rurik looked at the developing battle situation and sighed: "With our current heavy weapons, we naturally cannot annihilate this group of people gathered at the seaside. It will be possible in the future."
" biggerA powerful weapon? "
"It is a weapon of fire, it is the power of God. With the wisdom of God, mortals can also create..."
This is too mysterious and Yevluo cannot understand it. Rurik was essentially implying that the artillery, even if it fires a solid bullet, its super penetrating power will definitely create a path of blood in the dense formation of enemies.
Although it is not possible. This powerful weapon and the existing heavy equipment of the Russian army have caused a large number of casualties to the Karelian army.
The casualties came so suddenly, and the Karelian soldiers standing here were killed. Especially those in the front row suffered the most ferocious blows.
Nearly a hundred torsion slingshots were assembled, and the first round of shooting alone caused more than a hundred casualties.
While free shooting was ongoing, projectiles, javelins, and arrows were harvesting lives.
In a short period of time, the Karelian army had suffered as many as 300 casualties, and the situation was still deteriorating.
Aesailas never expected that the war would be like this. Thousands of troops had promised to defend the enemy on the lakeshore before the war. Now they were dumbfounded and people began to retreat spontaneously.
p>“We will avoid it for the time being and force them to come ashore and fight us! "
Essailas shouted as hard as he could, but how could his roar convey the message to all the panicked people?
The Karelia people were retreating and seemed to be evolving.
Yevluo was shocked: "What a disaster. My lord, if they all run away, it will be difficult for us to annihilate them. "
It is normal but also abnormal for the enemy to behave like this. Rurik nodded: "Let the large forces land. Jevlo, your Suomi flag team will follow you ashore. ”
A new signal began to be transmitted, and Arik, who had been extremely itchy since the war began, was overjoyed.
A handsome man in his prime stood at the bow of the ship, and Arik’s left arm was wrapped around the bow of the ship. Beast, wielding a steel sword with his right arm
“Brothers, the time has come for the decisive battle, come with me! Kill them! "
The people on standby roared, and they used large oars to drive the longship and suddenly burst out of the gap in the big ship.
The first flag team was brave and experienced many battles, and the third team The Balmoks of the flag team immediately followed up.
The big ship put down all the side boats. A small boat can hold up to ten people. The Suomi servant army is passing through these boats, cooperating with the advancing Ross and others. Balmok participated in the battle.
Nearly two thousand people launched a beach landing with the cooperation of heavy weapons.
A strong force suddenly appeared, and Esailas was trying to form a team. He was deeply shocked again, but he hoped that his opponent would fight him on land. This fantasy seemed to be realized.
Many Karelia warriors fled far enough, and in order to prevent more people from fleeing, Essa. Erath had to order his guards to kill the escapees to restrain the team. Either out of honor, helplessness, or following the trend, most of the fleeing people slowly stopped.
KareliaAfter leaving behind the corpses and squirming wounded, the men regrouped outside the range of Ross's heavy weapons.
Even so, the Karelia army still has more than 4,000 soldiers. They lined up while trembling, many of them were scared to death, and their hands holding the handles of their spears were trembling.
Esailas tried his best to remain calm. He ran to the front of the formation and shouted some inspiring slogans.
"Hunters, pick up your bows, it's our turn to fight back now!"
Sure enough, hundreds of Karelian warriors were shooting arrows at high elevations, and suffered heavy losses. After huge losses they finally started to fight back.
The north wind assisted their arrows, which were mostly made of bone arrows and not many iron arrows.
The arrows were quite dense, and they were thrown in groups towards the Ross Army landing site.
Many Russian soldiers felt a sense of fear. Even if the enemy was weak, the arrows they fired were still dangerous and deadly.
In spite of Alik's order, the first warriors to land quickly built a shield wall. Seeing the rain of arrows, they immediately knelt on the ground and protected themselves with oak shields covered with bronze skin or animal skin. Entire torso.
Arik shouted several times to remind everyone to avoid the arrows, and he also protected himself with a shield, but the crackling sound he expected was not there.
What's going on?
Many people understand the reason. Even with the help of wind, the enemy's inferior bows and inferior arrows cannot hurt themselves.
Unfortunately, a large number of injured Karelian soldiers suffered. These people were not killed under the attack of Ross's heavy weapons. In the end, they were smashed into hedgehogs by the dense rain of arrows dropped by their own people.
A patch of wheat appeared on the ground. If you look closely, they are all arrow shafts. tail feathers.
Aric stood up angrily, looked at the enemies in the distance, suddenly revealed his whole body, and lifted up his robe to show his white flesh to the enemies.
Aesailas was angry that his own arrows were not expensive enough to shoot, but he did not expect that his opponent would actually...
"You are insulting me!"
Counting Thousands of Karelian warriors could see the white field opposite and knew that it was the enemy's rampant provocation.
Russians and Balmoks humiliated their enemies, making indecent gestures while laughing unbridled.
Rurik is still on the ship, and he has already announced that heavy weapon support will be suspended to prevent accidental damage to friendly forces.
He saw it so clearly that he did not expect that his own people would use this provocative tactic again. Fortunately, the female family members are not in the army. The only woman, Carlotta, is a high-ranking noble and a man-like woman, so there is no need to worry about her embarrassment.
This provocation is certainly indecent. It is undeniable that this is a tactic, which is to induce the enemy to become furious and take the initiative to attack.
The Rose elite group did this, and there was a white squirming figure in front of the formation. The humiliation continued to intensify, and some even ran to the nearest corpse of a Karelian soldier and urinated openly while protecting themselves with a large shield.
Is there anything more humiliating than this? The Russian army was based on Viking cultureIt happens that the Karelia people also find this the most disgusting humiliation.
The furious emotions quickly overwhelmed the fear, and the angry Aesailas quietly discovered that because of the enemy's humiliation, his panic-stricken army was quickly condensing into a heavy fist.
However, all these are tactics of the Ross army.
Perhaps it was a very inappropriate way of provocation that Arik came up with.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to humiliate the enemy, as many as 800 Mingsuomi and Vips shooters landed successfully, and there were still soldiers on their way to the beach.
Twenty torsion slingshots have been placed on the longboat. They have been fixed on the trolleys and have been moved directly by strong warriors since the longship washed ashore.
More than 700 Russian warriors in the front row collectively made indecent moves to taunt them. Everyone knew that the enemy’s arrows could not reach them, so their behavior became extremely bold and unrestrained. This was precisely to win over the brothers behind them. time.
Jevro did not comment on Arik's actions. He tried his best to assemble the two Suomi flag teams and ordered the soldiers to line up. Holding the bow in his left hand, he inserted ten clusters of iron arrows into the mud.
And those torque slingshots have been quietly pushed behind the melee soldiers, covered by their figures. The slingshot has been fully charged. If it fires, it will kill the friendly troops in front of it.
While provoking, the Russian army was observing the enemy's movements through the corner of their eyes.
Arik had a premonition that the murderous aura emitted by the enemy formation on the opposite side was getting stronger and stronger, like a powder keg in high temperature, which would explode at any time.
He suddenly stood up and asked about the situation of Yevlo: "Are your arrows ready?"
"It's basically ready!"
" Very good! Remember our tactics before the campfire, brothers, let's annihilate them!"
Jevro was very happy to be called a brother. He knew what Arik was like. This guy valued friendship and was trustworthy. Of course, the men he liked were brave warriors.
Suomi's two banner troops are by no means just archers, there are short spears, axes, and even well-equipped heavy armored mercenaries on the ground. The Suomi people will eventually become a melee fighting force, but when they act in this image, the battle will also come to an end.
The first and third flag teams, with a total of 300 crossbowmen, did not participate in the provocation. Their weapons were already charged. The nearly a thousand people behind them all had arrows on the handles of their bows...
The Ross army was standing on the beach. They had completed their formation and were just waiting to work.
Finally, the enemy's full-scale attack that everyone was expecting has finally begun!
"For our glory! Charge!" Esailas took the lead, and his brave move instantly detonated this powder keg.
Since archery could not hit the invaders, the Karelia people picked up their spears and launched a group attack.
The crazy charge of four thousand people seemed to the Russian army that history was repeating itself.
But this is not Gotland, and the Karelia people are far less powerful than the old Gotland army.
The Russian army was not in a hurry. The soldiers who were carrying large shields and preparing to collide and fight got out of the way in an organized manner. The carts were pushed out and the torsion slingshots were fired directly.
The flat projectiles directly kill the fastest ones, and this can only weaken the enemy's energy.
The crossbowmen immediately pulled the trigger through the gap in the shield. They only had this chance, but they directly killed more than a hundred enemies!
The hand-to-hand combat was about to break out. The Karelians were shooting arrows on the run, and their arrows began to fall into the Russian formation. The armored warriors were basically immune to these bone arrow clusters, and the Suomi flag team also launched a counterattack.
If the Russian army can hit arrows, it basically means that the enemy will also hit heavy arrows.
However, there was a buzz in the air again, it was Rurik, and he resumed heavy weapons support. As long as the Russian army does not take the initiative to attack, they will not be accidentally injured.
Being hit by projectiles and even hit by a large number of arrows from the enemy's formation, Aesailas knew that he was extremely passive.
But the Karelian army has launched a full-scale attack. If it cannot push the enemy into the water, it will be the result of crazy killing by the enemy.
The invaders came in large numbers and were clearly well prepared. They were heavily equipped and would soon be drowned if they fell into the water.
It seems that relying on the existing strength of the army, pushing the invaders into the lake is the only chance of winning.
But Esailas didn't know that the army, which had regrouped in anger due to unbearable humiliation, was not far away from collapsing again.
Before engaging the enemy, there were already a thousand casualties. The Karelian army was still suffering losses, and the hand-to-hand encounter was about to break out.
They cannot stop. The only chance of survival is to overwhelm the enemy and push the intruder into the lake. Even if they hesitate and run slowly, they will be trampled to death by the brothers behind them.
The Ross Army shield wall has been erected, and everyone is in an anti-collision posture. The soldiers in the first row are holding their steel swords, the shields in the second row are against the front row, and the soldiers in the third row are already holding their long-handled halberds.
The collision broke out, and the front line was suddenly bloody and bloody.
The frontline soldiers of the Russian army hid behind the large shields and stabbed forward crazily with their steel swords through the gaps.
The soldiers in the back row held swords to assist in the battle. The halberds and long-handled battle axes in the third row fell from the sky and pecked the enemy's heads to pieces.
Any enemy theory that rushes to the front will be attacked by three Russian soldiers. Not only is the gap in the big shield in front of them dangerous, but the top of their heads is also dangerous.
The Karelian army made a last ditch effort. After all, they still failed to break through the Ross army’s array. Now, although this is the home of the Karelian tribe, it has completely transformed into a Ross army. The home ground of the army.
This was still a stupid battle. Rurik was very happy that he expected that the enemy was simple and reckless. The Russian army seemed to be passively beaten with the least creative tactics, but it turned out to be waiting for work.
The fighting has been going on for a while, and the blood of the Karelian army has gathered into a river, and the lake has begun to turn red..
The Russian army's shield wall began to push back. Those who were accidentally injured or killed were pulled to the rear, and the people in the back row supplemented their positions.
The Turtle Formation of the Centurions of the Roman Legion is naturally more mobile and flexible. Rurik's Rus' Army Formation still adheres to the barbarian style of play. However, the pincer tactic, the most efficient annihilation war tactic, the Rus' Army has already Used with great proficiency.
The time is ripe and the enemy has lost all momentum.
Suomi's two flag troops, together with the heavily armored mercenaries such as Grund sent out by Rurik, were divided into two groups, marching on the left and right wings of the central army, and suddenly attacked from a guarding state. .
The crab opened its two large pincers, and the encirclement and annihilation battle was unfolding. The Russian army planned to completely annihilate the Karelian army.
However, Esailas, whose arm was injured and was pulled behind by his men, noticed that the intruder looked like a greedy bear. right! Some giants with bear heads and iron bodies are killing like crazy!
Morale has collapsed and everyone is fleeing spontaneously.
Aesailas suppressed his blush. He no longer cared about the escape of his tribe. He pushed away the guards and rushed towards the enemy against the fleeing crowd. He ran into the encirclement that the Russian army was beginning to close, and with a warrior His attitude is to fight to the death for the glory of the Dazhang tribe and for the ancestors...