Rise of Rurik

Remember [new] in one second! Of course, this aggressive fleet attack completely aroused the fighting spirit of Rurik and all the brothers in the small fleet.

No longer giving orders personally, the ships began to move closer to each other. The warriors grabbed the large oars handed over by the nearby ships, causing a temporary platform made of multiple long ships to be quickly formed in front of the Mercury, as if it had been a long time ago. A large barge.

Anyway, the waterway was narrow and there was no need for maneuvering and flexible combat. The soldiers began to actively fight with arrows and bows. The ships moved towards the Mercury one after another. Rurik was very satisfied with the actions of his subordinates. The Russian army's small fleet planned to use their own Use arrow advantage to fight a defensive counterattack.

Rurik paid attention to the development of the situation. He calmly gave the order: "Trumpeter, blow the battle trumpet. Order all ships to prepare to launch a salvo."

After a short stubby horn sound, the ten Ross longships were integrated. The warriors had placed their shields in front of them. They bowed one after another. After setting up their arrows, the three hundred brothers waited for the king's order.

At the same time, Mercury was towed so that he had completed the port side against the enemy.

Under the captain's order, the men concentrated all the torque slingshots on one side. Because the king was present, they worked very quickly.

At this moment, Rurik was holding a wooden-arm crossbow. He kicked his boots and pulled hard with both hands. After winding it, he immediately installed a short and thick arrow.

He has understood the attitude of the Rügen Island militia - to use more ships to fight more and less to jump into gangs.

"They are coming! Cast iron projectiles, prepare!" Rurik ordered again.

At the same time, the Stryder militiamen on Rügen had begun their attack.

Those wooden bows of average quality were thrown into the air, and most of the arrows fell into the water, while a few hit the Ross longship waiting for work.

sudden

Suddenly, the Russian army was resisting the arrows, and commotion still occurred.

"Don't panic, our plate armor ignores their inferior arrows."

"Keep your eyes open and see that their arrow clusters are nothing but bad bones!"

"Don't be afraid if you join a gang and fight. Be careful not to fall into the sea."

Brody has grown from a young general to a fierce general. Although his team has to start defensive operations uncharacteristically, mode and cavalry operations are two extremes, but infantry battles are also daily training items. I thought that those trainings would not be used in actual combat. Now, It's opportunity.

Pairs of eyes were paying attention to the king's decision, and they were waiting anxiously.

"Steady, steady again..."

"Yes. Get closer and kill them with one blow."

The attacking Rügen Island militiamen did not expect to repel the Russians with a single shot of arrows. As they continued to approach, the islanders became more and more nervous and felt that something was wrong.

They could no longer stop and think about whether there was a trick. The narrow waterway was a test for both sides, especially the militiamen who had twenty long boats in a larger formation.

The militiamen were also squeezed by the waterway and the ships were constantly concentrated. This was good for them, that is, they could mobilize in full force after gang jumping occurred.

The Russian army had not fired a single shot, and finally the time was right.

"Now! Blow the trumpet!"

As the trumpeter took a deep breath, his face turned red as he played, and the battle finally broke out with the violent drum beat.

In an instant, thousands of arrows were fired!

The cast-iron bullets from the six-seat torsion slingshot sent sawdust flying across the enemy ship. The bullets broke the necks of the militiamen, smashed their chests, and killed them instantly.

Those flying sawdust are quite sharp. Although they are not fatal, they can still pierce the flesh and cause bleeding. The pain is enough to greatly weaken the will of many militiamen to fight.

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"Keep loading, this time use the javelin! You all move faster." Rurik continued to order.

At the same time, the three hundred dismounted cavalry who were staying on the "barge" were all three hundred crossbowmen. In an instant, arrows rained down on the five enemy ships directly in front of them.

After a round of volleys, there is free shooting. Even if many arrows will fall into the water, the Russian army will not regret it.

For the convenience of naval battles, the Rügen Island militiamen never wore armor. Now that the weather has turned cold, they put on a linen robe and a hemp rope to tie their loose hair, and fought with this kind of light armor. In fact, they didn't even have any armor.

The Russians, on the other hand, have become accustomed to wearing plate armor, even if there is a risk of drowning if they fall into the water.

Because the attacking militiamen had no armor, the warriors of the five longships were reorganized into Class A! In an instant, these one hundred people were killed or injured, and the more lethal free fire followed closely behind.

The Ross army's recurve bows fired at extremely high speeds at no cost. The enemy looked completely unarmored, and the sharp-pointed armor-piercing arrows prepared for powerful enemies were not very effective.

When arrows with barbs are used, it is not easy for the victim to pull out the arrows and cause harm. Many of those who were hit by arrows fell directly into the water, struggling painfully in the cold water with arrow wounds.

Those who were lucky enough to survive had many arrow wounds on their bodies. Those who were covering their wounds had no time to care about the trickling bleeding. Their minds were blank and they could only watch their ships continue to move forward due to inertia.

Such stunned people are used as good targets for subsequent attacks...

Under constant attack, the vanguard enemy ships collapsed before engaging in battle. Inertia was limited. Those ships that lost their oarsmen gradually stopped. When they really touched the Ross army,

"Barge", from Ross' perspective, there are either motionless corpses or dying people covering their wounds.

The battle continued, but the fifteen Rügen longships that followed also began to encounter head-on attacks.

Those five longships were bloodbathed, and the militia soldiers came from three families. Now these male and female militiamen were all wiped out, and they died suddenly and without dignity.

"No, let's retreat quickly."

"The Russians are too strong. If we don't escape, we will all die!"

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The fifteen ships that fought had already suffered losses, and one javelin even managed to penetrate two oarsmen incredibly.

The heads of each family hurriedly threw their fallen relatives directly into the water. Even those who were injured and wailing and unable to paddle were abandoned by their relatives. In times of crisis, all families want to do is escape from the land of right and wrong, which is completely opposite to the fighting spirit they had a while ago.

At the same time, this is completely different from the original plan.

Hope's tactic of calmly pretending to be defeated and luring the enemy deeper has turned into a rout under the constant firing of the Russian army. At least the militiamen no longer have to pretend, they are already fleeing in a panic.

All this was seen by the big leader Uzlaw who was watching the battle on the shore.

With his eyes as wide as bells, this leader participated in a battle for the first time in his life, even though he would not participate in this naval battle.

"God, is this a battle? Aren't they the same as the Danes? My people were just... defeated by endless arrow attacks? They obviously didn't join gangs to fight."

In Uzlaw's vision, the militiamen would first conduct a boarding battle. Considering that the Russians had a large number of troops, their own side would pretend to retreat after a fight.

Because the Danes rarely have bows

Hands, naval battles are mostly fought with spears and then jump into gangs, and even ships hitting each other are rare.

Rugen Island did not expect to encounter a brand new battle mode, and Uzlaw could not accept this fact for a while.

It was precisely this leader who put on his best clothes especially for this battle, and also put on a polished chainmail, which made him stand out in the sun.

Of course Rurik noticed a small group of armed men with shields standing on the coastline of the island to the right. They gathered together to form a small forest of spears, seemingly waiting for the Ross army to land and fight with them.

"The battle was fought inexplicably." Rurik glanced with disdain at the militiamen arrayed over there, and then stared at the enemy longships that were fleeing under the pursuit of arrows.

It was obvious that those who had been hit by arrows were pushed into the sea. The militiamen used large oars and rushed towards the smooth coast in the direction of Rügen Island. Their escape speed was not weakened by the loss of some people.

Soon, the invading enemies had all escaped from the effective range of the crossbows. Even so, the archers were still launching arrows into the air. After all, within a radius of 300 meters, the projectile arrows that completely relied on gravity to fall hit those militiamen wearing only civilian clothes. There is still striking effectiveness, and the shooters are accelerating the enemy's collapse.

Some Rus warriors were already standing on the enemy ship, recovering arrows while drawing their swords to touch up the survivors.

Rurik had no intention of surviving, and he had little interest in Straide Island, which was already within easy reach.

His eyes noticed that the fleeing boats ran aground one after another. The militiamen supported their injured companions and stretched out their escape towards the island without looking back.

These militiamen from Stride Island just want to leave this wrong place and retreat into a rout.

Uzlaw, who had to watch the game, was also in danger of his life.

"You! Idiot!" A frustrated family leader could not give his big leader a good look. If it hadn't been for the big leader, this person would have drawn his sword to seek revenge. The leader spat and scolded: "To **** with your bad tactics! The Russians are as strong as gods descending to earth, and we are going to escape."

"Ah? Run away...yes! Run away, let's run away too."

Uzlaw was stunned for a while and saw that the Russians started to move on. If they stayed on the shore, they would be regarded as targets. When he woke up, he ignored his dignity and told his frightened cronies to run away.

At the same time, Brody, who felt that his victory was not glorious, turned around and narrowed his eyes to look at Rurik, who was standing high on the bow of the ship.

"Your Majesty! The enemy has escaped, should we pursue him?"

Rurik took a look and said: "Don't chase after the poor! They are all cowards. There is no need for our sword to drink the dirty blood."

He thought again, it was here anyway, the little Straide Island was right in front of him, and the follow-up fleet was about to arrive. If the Russian army really doesn't loot, can it really deter Rugen Island?

He then ordered: "Brody! Take your people to land on the island settlement, search for the loot and quickly move it onto the ship. Also, take away everything that is available in their longship."

"Yes." Brody replied happily.

It can be said that the battle of Stralsund is over now.

There was no longer a pretense of defeat. More than a hundred people from the small Slavic kingdom on Rugen Island were killed almost instantly, and more than a hundred people were injured by arrows to varying degrees. The big leader's fighting spirit was shattered, and Uzlaw just wanted to escape to Yaro as soon as possible

In Marlborough, only the thick and solid stone walls can give him and all the defeated people comfort.

Soon, most of the Ross army passed through the "Barrier" peninsula, and at the same time Brody's troops were already standing on the small Straide Island.

Rurik himself also stood in Stralsund in 843 AD. A flagpole was suddenly planted on the island, and the Russian flag fluttered in the wind, symbolizing the kingdom's occupation here.

All this was seen by the islanders who kept fleeing. Uzlaw could not care about the humiliation for the time being. He still hoped that the Russians would actually launch a landing operation and collapse under the stone wall, so that they would be wise enough to leave.

But looking at this situation, maybe the Russians have occupied the Stride Road and control all the waterways. If they stay here and don't leave, then the Rügen Islanders can be exhausted to collapse by a simple war of attrition.

Will the tiny island of Rügen turn into a prison? If the Rus were indeed roaming around the island, defeat would be only a matter of time.

Rurik was waiting for the arrival of his follow-up troops in Stride. He was also very happy that the landing team found a small amount of grains, dried fish, and even some rags and old fishing nets here.

"Your Majesty, the people of Rugen are really too poor." Brody, who came to report his work, stood in front of Rurik. He was very dissatisfied with his current harvest.

"You still expect to find a lot of gold and silver coins here?" Rurik glanced disdainfully.

"Don't dare. Maybe they took the treasure with them when they escaped, and we missed it."

"From what you're saying, do the brothers still have the intention to continue landing on the big island to fight?"

"That's... not at all." However, Brody's slight hesitation made Rurik understand everything.

"Forget it. We don't have time to waste time with them. We will definitely conquer this small and weak force in the future."

"Next, you can do whatever you want." Brody lowered his head and said.

"Then destroy! Burn." Rurik turned around and scanned the entire island.

Stride Island is indeed a small place in the waterway, but the island is very densely populated, and there are a few villages on the nearby mainland coast, forming a larger coastal city in this era.

It seems that this fishing village has a thousand people living in peacetime, so the entire island of Rügen may have five thousand residents.

Based on his knowledge of past battles, Rurik believes that as long as he wins another battle and kills at least a thousand of their people, the entire Rügen Island, no matter how stubborn it is, should consider surrendering.

"I have no plans to turn Rügen into a white field, at least not this year. You guys! I will let you go first. But this small island and town must be destroyed. This is your punishment." Said to himself Later, Rurik gave Brody a clear order.

Therefore, when the large fleet passed Stride Road, each ship passed calmly under the tow of the long ship. The few dead floating on the water proved that there had been a fierce battle here, but the intensity was obviously very low.

Even when most of the cavalry and reindeer continued to move northwest along the coastline a little later, they passed by Stride and just watched the army's victory.

There was not much property for the army to loot, so Rurik ordered the follow-up personnel not to stay, and continued towards the western exit of the waterway with an indifferent attitude.

The Sea Monarch is like a boulder floating magically on the waterway.

Already at this moment

The defeated militiamen who had run far away all poked their heads out from their hiding places to observe this behemoth that surpassed their cognition.

"That's what the Danes call Jormungandr! I've long heard that the Rus seem to have conquered the sea. It seems that even Jormungandr has been tamed by them?! I'm actually fighting this kind of people. I'm so stupid. ." Uzlaw was already unconscious, and his words inadvertently made others feel more ambitious.

What the priests of Jaromar Castle can do now is to slaughter a cow on the altar and sacrifice its blood to their great god, hoping that the **** will send down his power to protect people from surviving. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com hopes that the great **** will strike with thunder. Kill those intruders.

Of course, the weather today is sunny and even crisp, so there is no such thing as a bolt from the blue.

However, when most of the Russian army left quickly, King Rurik of Russia, who actually became the leader in person, also commanded the three hundred brothers of Brody's second team of his own dismounted cavalry. After they lit a fire on the island, they Indiscriminate arson began.

The sea breeze has dried out the houses. These wooden houses with floors have haystack roofs. They are arranged extremely densely, and there are flammable materials as far as the eye can see. If a small fire is blown by the wind, the flames can quickly engulf the entire island.

When Stride Island and the surrounding residents of the waterway were engulfed in flames, the small fleet of the Ross Army had already caught up with the large army. Behind him were raging flames and thick smoke billowing like a volcano erupting.

This horrific scene shocked the people of Rügen Island into confusion, but it was the highest praise for the Russian army.

Ahead seemed to be the exit of the waterway. The soldiers happily passed the Stralsund waterway with laughter. Little did they know that it was just a small-scale battle, and Rügen Island finally mobilized

The militiamen and their fighting spirit that came with them collapsed in a very short time.

Rurik didn't care.