Rise of Rurik

Remember [New] in a second! With the Mezotne hills as the center, the Semigallians here are concentrated on both sides of the narrow Lielupe River.

If it were a snake, the inner city of Mezot would be the tongue, and the exterminated Gava village would be nothing more than the protruding letter of a boa constrictor, whose slender body is still upriver.

Bauska, the military stronghold established by the Knights of the Sword, does not exist today, nor does the original Wendish Crusade.

But the city of Bauska is located at the confluence of two rivers. There is too much water here and it is not a good place to grow wheat, and this point is the last settlement of the Mezotne people.

From the inner city of Mezot to the confluence of the two rivers, there are stretches of farmland and scattered villages on both sides of the ten-kilometer-long river.

But most of the population is gathered near the big city centered on the mound altar. Once the city is breached, it means the collapse of the long and narrow settlements.

Those who fled overnight inadvertently spread horrible news. Many people blindly joined the refugee army, and some moved against the trend.

"Expel the Varyags!" The slogan was very simple and pure, and those brave men took all kinds of weapons and went down the river on foot or in boats in the direction of Mezotne.

However, the strength of these reinforcements was only about five hundred, and although many people were on their way, they murmured that maybe the Varyags did not exist, or maybe they were just some daring Latvian bandits.

Unknown reinforcements are on the move, but the militiamen at the scene of the Battle of Defense of Mezotne in the depths, at first they knew nothing about the Varyag cavalry that suddenly appeared, and soon they no longer were ignorant.

Ross

Cavalry is not shock cavalry. Fisk organized three cavalry teams to line up in a formation that resembled a wall, just to draw the battlefield into a stone's throw.

The weight of the recurve bow used by the cavalry varies, but fortunately, the overall weight is between 40 pounds and 60 pounds. It is a short bow with compound tendons and angles. meters away.

It's just that this kind of throwing is completely useless against the armored enemy, and the pointed cone-shaped armor-piercing arrows widely equipped by Ross will also appear to be ineffective, unless the enemy is a group of civilian militias who don't even have leather armor.

The enemies seem to be gathered in a big mess. They are collectively gray and black. It seems that all of them are dressed in burlap or animal skin sewing clothes. It would be easier to deal with them like this...

"Scout!" Fisk suddenly roared, and then called out the name of a subordinate: "Take your 30-man firepower scouting, Parthian tactics, go!"

Thirty cavalry suddenly left the main force. They were all veterans from the First Cavalry, and many of them were ruthless men who had participated in the first expedition to Farak three years ago. They lined up in a single column and rushed towards the enemy's formation. The soldiers held bows and arrows one after another, planning to pass the front of the enemy's formation in a counterclockwise direction to shoot a three-pointed shot at extreme speed.

They are in action!

The horseshoes overturned countless mud, and the grass flew across the air.

For Roclo's Mezzotene defenders, this is the first time they have seen cavalry. Although they don't turn their images into "centaur", they really don't know how to restrain them. Even the defenders didn't know that they could hit all the hunters with bows, and tried to suppress and persuade the enemies who rushed up with dense arrows.

The militiamen with five kinds of weapons and crude armor bared their teeth and claws, but none of them dared to leave the main force at this moment.

However, just like an eagle skimming the ground, only one claw strike can cause fatal wounds to its prey.

Captain Bu Lao ordered that the soldiers follow the captain at the head of the team, and it was enough to chase his gorgeous and flowing helmet.

The 30 people who were ready to go swept past the enemy's formation in a circle using Parthian tactics. They were still far away and they couldn't aim accurately, so they fired a round of three arrows with each horse in a half-throwing method.

In a round of attack, ninety arrows were thrown in a general direction, and the defenders who were standing extremely densely took down the sudden arrows firmly, and immediately suffered heavy losses.

Rocklow was taken aback, and his militiamen fell into a kind of bewilderment while being surprised.

"What kind of tactics is this?!" Suppressing doubts, Roclo could only insist on ordering the entire army to exercise restraint for the time being, and then see what tricks the enemy has.

The successful cavalry captain looked back with disdain, he pulled the reins and turned the horse's head towards the enemy again.

"Brothers, have you seen it? They don't have the reflection of chain mail on their bodies. I'm afraid that all the enemies are wearing civilian clothes on the battlefield. Let's go! Follow me and kill them again."

In the eyes of ordinary Ross warriors, bullying is the style of this world. It is only natural for a stronger existence to rob a group of weak people.

This team of cavalry did not hesitate to kill a carbine, once again flitted like an eagle, and once again ninety arrows smashed past.

The second round of attack is over, the cavalry

Back to the starting point.

It was originally the boss who ordered him to conduct a fire investigation, but who would have thought that the enemy would be as stupid as a living target.

The state of the war horse was still good, and the calm captain launched a third round of attacks in order to expand the results of the battle.

At this moment, the stunned Mezzotte defenders finally began to protect their faces and torsos with the flexible wooden shields used for fighting protection, and they were still passively resisting the new round of cavalry attacks.

The cavalry swept past again, causing some casualties with ease.

The arrows were shot without a clear purpose, and it was this randomness that caused the 3,000 defenders who were standing densely to quickly accumulate resentment.

Roclo's ears were filled with the cries and cries of his subordinates, the wounded were screaming, and some were on the verge of death or even died in battle. Their relatives and friends were grieved over the confused death of their comrades.

However, they still did not make any countermeasures, or they were afraid of leaving the formation and becoming the target of public criticism, so no one dared to go out and charge.

People are patient, people are waiting for a hero to raise his arms and lead the brothers to make changes.

Finally someone can't bear the current uselessness.

"Boss! If this continues, we will be slowly shot to death before we fight the Varyags."

When someone spoke, someone immediately echoed: "If we don't take the initiative to attack, we will die. Leader, let's go. Look at the current situation and we can't wait any longer."

More guards urged the leader, Luo Keluo, to march. He looked around, he was just dazed, and finally woke up amidst the intensified complaints from his subordinates.

"Let's go then! Wrestle with them, and we'll eat horse meat tonight!"

The leader's shout cannot be used in a chaotic and highly concentrated team

It spread, but Roclo chose to take the lead in the charge. When the command flag representing the position of the leader moved with those who charged first, it was a positive signal to the leaders.

As a result, the firepower investigation by the Ross army turned into a provocation in the end. They didn't seem to be investigating, but more like bait released, and now the fish have already taken the bait.

"Tch! You guys have gone too far, but luckily it's just what I want." Fisk growled, and immediately ordered the trumpeter to blow the horn.

The Ross Army moved with a special rhythm of trumpets, and a well-trained and extremely special cavalry formation began!

The three cavalry units, Karl and Swain's units turned around to the enemy's two wings, and the central army led by Fisk moved back immediately after recovering the scout team.

The cavalry's central army seemed to be fleeing, and the other cavalry also meant to leave the battlefield.

At least in the case of the Mezotne defenders in the charge, the advantage seems to have shifted to the defenders.

A pocket formation was set up to put the enemy in, and the Ross cavalry's dazzling operations dispatched the pocket formation.

There were 300 riders in each of the three directions in mobile combat. A bear showed all its fangs. Fisk gave an order, and the trumpeter changed to another tune. It feels funny, but it is actually imitating the sound of arrow feathers piercing the air. The faster the trumpeter blows, the more dense the arrow feathers are.

So far, the defenders in Mezzotte have been farther away from their city. There are cavalry in the first three directions on their left and right.

The Ross cavalry started free fire, and most of their baggage

Still at the retreating fleet, the soldiers only had close-fitting plate armor and a large number of arrows.

The cavalry can continue to fire until their arms are sore. Since there are fewer enemies and more enemies and they insist on completing the encirclement and killing the enemy as much as possible, Fisk will go all out.

The battle was still carried out in a non-contact mode, and soon the momentum of the defenders in Mezzotte was suppressed by an unprecedented dense rain of arrows.

A group of Luo Keluo's personal soldiers were shot to death and wounded. The strong fighting spirit aroused by the aggrieved just now has shrunk again.

The casualties of the militia were even worse. Those who organized their relatives and friends to separate from the large army to fight the enemy cavalry, as expected, became the target of public criticism.

A base number of arrows is defined as thirty. Ross cavalry often hang two bags of arrows on the saddle in combat, and light arrows are the main ones.

In this battle, Fisk brought a lot more, so many soldiers had stuffed up to forty quiveres, which made it difficult to draw arrows at the beginning.

Now is the time to prove the effectiveness of the arrows made by the locals in Riga. The arrow clusters made of wrought iron and bronze do not seem to be comparable to Ross's high-end products, and they are more than enough to deal with these civilian warriors.

The defending soldiers were shot down one after another, and they soon found that the wooden shields in their hands had become meaningless, not to mention that most of the militiamen went to the battlefield with a harpoon in hand, and they had no armor at all.

Roclo and his warriors were held in place by an invisible force, and the vast army was attrition from the constant barrage of arrows.

"Damn it, is my person like an onion that they keep peeling off the skin?" Roclo, who was well protected by the guards, felt that such protection would not last long.

All his warriors

Here, now that the contact with the son, wives and concubines (female warriors) has been cut off, what is the situation of those people, I am afraid it is more or less ominous.

At the same time, the Ross cavalry is becoming more and more daring, and the enemy no longer has an aggressive attitude, so the cavalry will shoot and press down.

Surrounded by three ques and one, Fisk wanted to order the troops encircling the two wings not to close the encirclement circle, leaving a small password for the enemy to feel that there was still a way out in the desperate situation, so they scrambled and seized the opportunity to lead to the rout of the whole army. It is the moment of full-scale pursuit.

It's just that the situation is becoming delicate now.

Fisk himself did not directly participate in the battle, he quietly stayed on the periphery of the battlefield to observe this extraordinary large-scale hunting.

"This is a hunt, just like the steppe people did in their homeland. Could this... be like the Battle of Canning, where Rurik called the Romans defeated? A large group of cavalry with constant The arrows forcibly crushed the infantry who couldn't do anything? Yes! This is more like Canning. When the king asks me in the future, I will say that I made the battle of Canning a reality."

After all, Fisk's knowledge of Rome is limited, and he only learned about Rome's defeats because he received Rurik's special education. He once regarded it as an interesting story of war history, and now Fisk is finally enlightened.

When a soldier got a sore thumb from pulling the string, they immediately put the arrow inward, retracted the finger, and switched to the Mediterranean mode of the three-finger string to continue shooting.

The rain of arrows kept falling, and the defenders' formation was constantly weakening.

The trembling defenders had no choice but to squeeze towards the center of the formation. Even if they were wearing chain mail, they felt that the protection on the periphery of the formation would be blocked.

Luo Keluo, who shot and killed, blindly participated in the squeeze even when he was nervous.

The more they squeezed, the more likely they were to break through. Perhaps this one-sided killing could not be paused until all the arrows of the Ross cavalry were shot.

Twenty thousand arrows! The cavalry had the ability to shoot all the arrows, even if their arms would be sore afterwards, since it was something that could basically recover after a day of rest, the cavalry went all out.

The dead and wounded in one place, more than a thousand people have lost the ability to fight, and the remaining people still have an advantage in numbers, but they are like sheep in the pen, only to be slaughtered, and they all hope that the outermost sheep will be slaughtered first. be slaughtered.

"Keep firing, hold back even if your arms are sore!"

"Kill them all, and then go to their village to rob!"

"This is the most important rehearsal before we enter Frank! Only when you have accumulated enough experience can you fight those powerful enemies!"

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Officers at all levels encouraged the soldiers while shooting arrows. They couldn't keep their hands free, so they used their feet skillfully, and drove the horses by clamping the horse's belly, which was not considered to compress the encirclement.

The tactic of encircling three and one has finally evolved into a very thin circular encirclement net. Roclo, the leader of Mezzotte, has the last chance to escape. There is always an opportunity to escape in the house.

However, Luo Keluo, who was completely stunned, ruined his only way of life with his own hands.

It is a pity that he did not charge the enemy and die with honor like a real warrior.

The onion-peeling tactic continued, and when Roclo showed off his obvious chain mail, the armor was on the sun

Reflecting light under the light, warriors with keen eyes will not hesitate to use it as a target!

Roclo and his personal guards were hit hard precisely because the armor was too good.

Those cheap chain mails can prevent cuts and ordinary arrows, and they are like paper in front of Ross's conical armor-piercing arrows.

Rocklow was shot through the lungs from the front, and he exhaled only to be shocked to find that he couldn't breathe anyway.

His lungs were filled with hot blood, and he quickly spat out a mouthful of old blood. The chief of Semigalia, who controlled the power in Mezotne, died on the battlefield.

However, Roclo's death was not glorious at all.

There was a lot of shouting and killing on the battlefield, and the retreating cavalry who heard the sound also speeded up their oars.

"Hurry up, all of you, we can't miss the banquet!" Strokander, who was already paddling himself to set an example, didn't want to miss it. In any case, the brothers had to participate in the battle, so that they were eligible to plunder the spoils after the battle.

I can be given alms once, but I have nowhere to put my old face again.

Just as the cavalry endured the soreness of their arms and continued to shoot, and as their horses stepped on the body of the dying, the friendly army of the cavalry finally appeared on the battlefield.

The long boat rushed to the beach, and the soldiers put on their swords and shields and rushed to the battlefield screaming.

"You guys are here." Fisk, who was whispering, looked back at the riverside. He observed the battle situation again, feeling that the time was finally ripe, and ordered the trumpeter to sound the call for retreat.

Withdraw now? Why bother? But it's better not to disobey the boss's order.

One after another, the cavalry retreated under the command of their junior officers, but they also quickly saw the state of those charging forward.

Excellent paddling bros. The position vacated by the cavalry was quickly filled by the infantry, and Stekander, Eric Spuutsson, and even Olstein and his men also joined the fight with weapons.

Especially in Ostan~www.readwn.com~ I feel angry when I think that I will be asked for tribute by the local nobles whenever I cross the Shvet River from the inner city of Mezot to the Lielupe River. He has a good impression of that Gava village , for Mezotne, especially its rulers, is more hatred.

Anyway, the blood feud between Ross and the Semigallians has already started, so let's do it! Fighting side by side with them in person is the best vote of honor. In order to find a good prospect for his hometown in the future, Ostein, together with the real Riga Varyag army, continued the unfinished war ten years ago and began. A new phase of the war.

As for Stekander, he can indeed claim: "Ten years ago they attacked the city of Riga, Chen Bing made great plans for our wealth, and after ten years our army finally counterattacked under their big city."

The defenders of Mezzotene, who were beaten dizzy by the rain of arrows, found themselves in a daze without a leader, and the enemy reinforcements arrived again, and the shield wall that appeared again came to threaten them, and people remembered the fear of being coerced again .

It has ended!

The battle inside and outside Mezot ended in a one-sided manner before the sunset.

When the soft light of the setting sun shines on the earth, there are only densely fallen corpses on the ground, and the blood water gathers into a river and all flow into the Lielupe River, and then look at the sun that is gradually sinking into the horizon—the blood-red sunset.