Arik himself is an armor-wearer. In the previous battle, the chain mail covering his entire torso had been stained red by the enemy's blood, and the iron rings of the chain mail were also broken in many places. His arms had some bruises.
Time felt no pain and he threw on to continue fighting.
"Brothers! Keep pushing forward and destroy them all!"
Arik's roar was drowned in the shouts of the people.
When he killed the first enemy, he was still very nervous. By now, Arik had fallen into complete madness.
He felt that he should have taken off his chainmail and even his leather jacket early, exposing his back to show that he was a true berserker.
Because the enemy also has a large number of people with their backs exposed. They are a group of disguised berserkers, a large group of idiots, and they are retreating!
The fishermen in Skokenburg who resisted were being attacked by the Russians. A frontal battle was what everyone hoped for, but soon after the head-on collision, more than fifty people from Skokenburg died. There were no injured here.
If you are injured and fall to the ground, you will either be trampled to death by your own people, or you will be trampled by the enemy and then receive a spearhead.
The casualties of the Skenbergers continued to increase, and finally, their resistance reached the breaking point!
The battle line maintained by shield wrestling collapsed, and more than twenty Sikkenberg people were pushed down by the Russians. Now, the brave Russians came in through the gap!
The Russians wielded axes and hacked at the fallen crazily, and armed with steel swords, blacksmiths, and even Russians who could throw short spears, they continued to assassinate without mercy.
Seeing that a gap was opened in the front line, the castle behind them still did not intend to help.
Many people behind the front continued to curse Oxon, the most powerful man in the village, who had been sitting on the mountain watching the fight for a long time, and then bravely decided to be a shameful coward, with a mutilated shield and a bent shield.
Jian, abandoning his brothers who were fighting head-on, Sayazi fled to the north crazily.
As for what will happen to the castle in the end, since Oxen feels that he can survive the catastrophe with the protection of the stone wall, let him and his men hold on.
The only thing that could comfort the people of Skokenberg was that many women and children escaped under the cover of night, so someone would have to run wildly to bring reinforcements to those families in the north.
Maybe when the reinforcements go south, this group of unknown soldiers, who are engaged in arson and looting, and who are suspected of being members of the Sivia Alliance, will be completely killed by the Gotland Islanders who counterattack.
The rout happened, and the people at the back ran away. The people in the front, who were struggling to support themselves, felt the emptiness in their backs. They were momentarily negligent in their grief and anger, and were killed by the Russians.
Finally, the last counterattack of the Skenberg fishermen, which once had an organization of 300 people, collapsed.
Chasing a fleeing person?
Bah! What's there to chase after a group of bare-backed cowards? The most valuable thing they have is the metal weapons in their hands.
What is value? It is the castle that this group of people once fought to the death to defend, and now they have to defend it even with at least more than a hundred corpses.
There are people who have been sticking their heads out of the castle's stone walls to observe the battle. Now it's time to attack the castle!
Arik raised his steel sword in front of the formation: "Brothers, charge at me! The mountain of gold is in the castle."
In an instant, the furious Russians again targeted the castle as their first target.
The fallen comrades lay among the corpses of the enemy, and the wounded wailed horribly.
But these wailings were all washed away by the roar of the Russians eager for gold.
Many people simply put their shields on their backs, holding only a sword or an ax, and happily rushed towards the stone wall.
It is also said that the most powerful Oxon Schickenberg is the leader of Schickenberg in name only. What is the reality? This Gotland settlement does not have a very clear organization. It is a large group of fishermen who spontaneously formed a group of fishermen.
This natural bay is settled. On weekdays, Oxen, the richest man who lives in the castle, will hire fishermen to do work for him. And Oxen's men will also take the money and go to the village to find women for entertainment and run around.
The child should be called Guard Dad.
Oxon built his home here and maintained a personal guard to protect his wealth.
He built on the highlands, using ships to transport large quantities of stones from distant places, and then hired fishermen to pile them into walls.
In fact, the so-called castle is a residence mainly built of stone. It consists of a group of stone houses and wooden houses for people to live in, and a stone wall barely three meters high.
The castle is almost a large circle with a diameter of one hundred meters. The stone wall is three meters high, but there is only one gate!
It has no moat, let alone trenches. The stone wall is made of a large number of stones piled up to form a relatively vertical surface as much as possible. Over time, a lot of grass has grown on the so-called city wall.
Even though the wall is such a low one, there is still a passage for people to walk behind it.
Can a mere three-meter-high wall block the Russian attack?
It doesn't even have a backdoor for escape or a tunnel for escape. Could it be that the castle owner Oxon is a fool?
of course not.
For decades, no other force has organized an army to invade Gotland. Even now, the relationship between Gotland and the people across the sea is very tense.
The Gotlanders have always relied on the powerful Danes as their backing, so the castle in Oxon was not designed to resist foreign invasion from the beginning.
Then, just build the wall so that it is difficult for local fishermen to climb up with bare hands.
Oxon stood on the wall, cautiously showing his eyes, and watched in stunned silence as the fishermen fled. Then, the islands that emerged from the fire began to head straight towards his castle.
At this moment, Oxon was so eager to hold all his treasures, drag his wife, concubines and children with him, and escape in some special and absolutely safe way.
"Damn it, if I had known I should have built a tunnel." He secretly cursed his own stupidity.
At this point, he couldn't even think of a decent escape. He firmly believed that the pirates just wanted money.
The facts are very clear, the pirates are eyeing the gold and silver of the castle.
Oakenstein, the captain of Oxon's guard, was also standing at the top of the city. This bald Dane with a big beard looked at the scene of flames soaring into the sky, and still faced his sponsor with a calm and calm face.
"Sir, are you afraid?"
Ockenstein touched Oxen lightly, causing the plump man still wearing a mink coat to tremble with fear.
"Ah! You...don't touch me!"
"Sir, at this point we can only fight to the death. Don't have any illusions. My brothers and I will ensure your safety."
Hearing this, the horrified Oxon felt that the man in front of him was like a god descending to earth, which was reassuring.
"You...can you fight off these enemies? Look, those fishermen have all escaped."
"Let those cowards go away. A man who can't even protect his wife and children will become someone else's slave if they escape to other places. But we, we would rather die fighting than be cowards."
Oxen had fully witnessed the battle just now. The pirates who attacked were indeed very ferocious.
The castle also has a stone wall as a barrier, and there are still 60 guard soldiers under his command who only obey his orders. Oxen felt a sense of comfort in front of him.
However, Okenstein also put forward his own conditions.
"Sir, brothers are willing to fight for you, but you still have to pay some price."
"The price? Come on, just keep it... just keep my life!"
"We want gold." Okun said simply and concisely.
"Gold? But..." At the critical moment, Oxen, who loved money, hesitated. He looked into the guard captain's eyes and worried about gain and loss for a moment.
Ockenstein seemed to know the gold owner's hesitation from the beginning. He still had a serious face and pointed his rough big fingers at the swarming enemies: "You like gold, we also like it, and they, these pirates are even more
Like. They come in and kill you and take away everything you have. We only need a part of it, and we will still have you as our subordinates. At this time, you don’t want to give a single silver coin, so let us sixty enemies fight for you.
?”
In an instant, Oxen understood.
"Okay! I'll give it! I'll give each of you ten gold coins!"
"Only ten? Give each of us thirty, otherwise, I can't guarantee that everyone will fight to the end!"
"Okay." Seeing that the enemy was about to climb the wall, Oxen gritted his teeth, "I will give each of you forty gold coins. As long as you can kill these enemies, everything will be easy."
In this sea area, mercenaries and pirates often exist exactly the same.
Different from pirates, working as a mercenary for a wealthy donor and receiving a regular salary seems to be more stable than being a pirate. However, once they find an unprepared big business, the mercenaries suddenly turn into pirates and rob them. Why not?
?
Therefore, the bald Okunstein had beheaded many people when he was young, but now that he is older, it is too risky to continue to be a pirate. In order to maximize profits, he uses his "rich experience in killing" as his biggest selling point and acts as a servant for wealthy businessmen.
The captain of the army, with stable wealth and a large group of women, his life is so happy.
Even in this line of work, there is often an ending to death in battle.
Ockenstein did not seek to die in old age, he lived comfortably day by day, and finally died in a vigorous battle with a large amount of wealth. This was a beautiful destination.
Okenstein ordered the four warriors: "You guys will escort the adults to the stone chamber for good protection. Other brothers, let us kill this group of pirates and retreat! Don't let them go up the city wall!"
If he were in another camp, Okenstein would be a completely good military general.
Maybe this is because everyone has his own ambitions.
If there is another possibility, he rows a small boat all the way north, hiding his identity and becoming a Rus. With his excellent slashing experience, he still has a good foothold in the Rus tribe. Because various Vikings
Tribes worship warriors!
Okenstein has never had this thought. The tribes that his young people killed the most were the tribal alliances in Svealan. These people who came to the islands to kill were the mad dogs of the alliance across the sea.
More than fifty guards rushed towards the city wall attacked by the Russians with their own weapons. Their most equipped equipment were wooden shields, axes and iron swords, and some also carried short spears.
There were also five archers among the guards, holding single bows made of oak, but their performance was very average.
The Russians were slightly different. They brought some steel swords and as many as twenty archers.
Compared with the people who started to climb the wall, the Russian engineers took the lead in attacking!
"Brothers! Set an arrow! Remember our plan, don't hurt the wall-climbing brothers!" A hunter organized his nineteen colleagues, and now they spontaneously organized support behind the crowd.
Expecting archers to deal a heavy blow to the enemy? Don't really expect that.
The ideas of the Russians and even the southern allies have not changed immediately with the evolution of the times. It is not that everyone naturally despises the role of archers, but it is because the current bows and arrows are too efficient for killing enemies on the battlefield.
Oh no.
Bows are generally made of oak, and the bowstring is made of twine. There is no other material to enhance the performance of the bow. Hunters can use it to shoot rabbits and deer with no problem. Facing the ferocious black bear with rough skin and thick flesh, it is better to organize people to use long hands.
Fight with it with a spear, or run for your life if you see it from a distance.
Never expect to kill a black bear with an arrow, and never believe a hunter's boast!
This is the current situation of bows and arrows.
The longer the distance, the arrow will not penetrate the enemy's leather armor, and even several layers of linen clothes can block the arrow. Not to mention that the bravest people are all wearing chain armor, so they can shoot arrows at close range to a great extent.
resistance.
Whether it is bronze or iron, all metals are precious. Hunters do not want to use arrows to shoot the enemies with exposed heads on the city wall before dawn. Because those people are clearly wearing helmets.
Guys, the helmets are reflecting light in the fire. These people are probably the warriors in the castle. Maybe many of them are wearing chainmail.
The purpose of the hunters' support is to set fire.
They used cheap bone arrowheads, tied them with a bit of linen cloth, and glued them with a sticky ball of rosin. The arrows became so flammable that they all ignited.
"Fire the arrow!"
In an instant, twenty flaming arrows rose into the air and hit the back of the stone wall.
At the same time, Ockenstein and other gold owner's guards who were guarding the city were ready to assassinate the enemies who climbed the wall.
Seeing the flaming sword falling from the sky, I couldn't help but feel fear in my heart.
Although these flaming arrows cannot cause any definite harm to him, what Ockenstein fears most is that the buildings in the castle will be set on fire.
Why? Because even though the residences of all the guards are stone houses, the roofs are made of wooden beams, planks and thatch! The roofs of all houses have such a structure, and the climate is still dry today, so they are extremely easy to
Burn!
What results did Flame Arrow achieve?
The supporting Russian archers are unknown.
The weight of the bows in their hands was very low, and ordinary light arrows could barely be thrown up to a hundred meters. Now, these rocket arrows tied with burning linen balls had become heavier, and the power of the arrows had become worse.
"Natch the arrow! Keep firing!"
The archers were shooting arrows at the rear. They did not directly participate in the siege, and the warriors of Ross who stormed the stone wall would not feel that the archers were bastards.
The situation was very confusing. The Russians who tried to climb the city wall thought that the wall was nothing. When they reached the base of the wall, they realized that climbing the wall with bare hands was not a good idea.
At this point, it’s no good if I don’t climb the wall.
Some warriors held curled iron swords in their mouths and climbed with ferocious faces.
Suddenly, a person jumped out of the empty space above, and an iron spear stabbed down viciously.
"ah!"
The Ross hero, who burned many houses and killed many enemies along the way, was stabbed to death by a spearhead while climbing the stone wall. After letting out a wail, he fell heavily to the base of the wall and died soon after.
Okenstein and his brothers are now fighting not just for their sponsors, but for themselves.
The current situation is obviously that the strength of the castle camp where he is located is absolutely inferior, so his only possibility of victory is to defend the stone wall.
They poked five people down, and the other climbers retreated when they saw this.
Okenstein's archers were also performing meritorious services. These five men kept firing arrows. Although the swords fired could be easily blocked by wooden shields, it was indeed effective to disrupt the progress of the enemy's siege.