The difficult siege battle made the Russians full of resentment. Just when they were worried that they could not vent their anger, enemy reinforcements arrived.
The horn transformed from an ox horn blew a terrifying sound, and the large number of civilized people who came in for reinforcements were encouraged by the sound of the horn.
Now, on the ice not far away, a large group of weirdos gathered there.
Although it was a hazy world, the shapes of the chainmail armor and metal helmets worn by the Rus people were really special. Also, they used a lot of round shields. The Covin people who were reinforcing them took it for granted that the guys in the distance were the enemies.
The reinforcements got off the sled one after another. They wore special leather boots to allow them to move forward more smoothly on the ice.
Most of them were armed with short spears, and the spearheads were made of a variety of materials.
A small number of people's spearheads are made of iron or bronze, while the majority are made of obsidian, flint and bone.
They also carried many bows and a batch of arrows.
In addition, only a few personnel were equipped with iron swords purchased from the southern Fens or made by themselves.
Their numbers are huge, but their weapons and equipment are so crude. It is their huge number that supports their strong self-confidence.
Because, for the first time in history, several tribes in the upper reaches of the river organized such a large army.
Of course, the number of enemy troops is a challenge to the Russians and Otto.
Otto, who shouldered the responsibility of a leader and stood in the front row of the battle, calmly warned his young subordinates: "Brothers, we may have a thousand enemies. Don't be afraid. They are very weak."
"They will rush over like crazy! Remember our battle tactics, let them rush, and stab their necks and stomachs! No mercy."
The young warriors listened carefully to the words of the big leader. Most of them were in their early twenties. Because they had seen blood in last year's war, they were already arrogant. This time they were lucky enough to join the big leader in an unprecedented battle for the Ross tribe. This was
What an honor.
This is the first time Otto has seen such a formation in his more than fifty years of life.
The Russians are ready here. Their large bucklers fit into each other and form a wall. But they lack mobility! Otto himself did not make any innovations in the tribe's traditional combat formations. The warriors in the formation lacked
Further formation change education, so the current formation of the Russians lacks mobility.
They seemed to have formed a fortress on the glacier, and Otto couldn't wait for the enemy to come and fight in person, so that the Russians could wait for work and give full play to their advantages.
The situation is of course changing. Otto has not innovated the traditional formation. Rurik has taught his young men many new tricks.
The so-called most important thing in the new tricks is the complex formation transformation.
By shouting different words or waving a few flags, the children can create formations such as square formations, line formations, and hollow formations.
After all, they were children. After Otto saw with his own eyes that those children could make complex formation changes, he was first relieved to see his son's ability. Before encountering a real opponent, Otto could not understand the meaning of those strange formations.
superior.
After Otto completed his instructions, the soldiers held back their breath. Their shields covered half of the faces of the soldiers in the first row, and pairs of sharp eyes stared at the dark crowd on the ice in the distance.
Otto then ordered Jevro and other mercenaries in front of the formation.
"Yevlo, just launch it once and then get into our formation."
"Big boss, we can launch at least twice." Yevro suggested.
"No! You only have one chance. You are not archers. Remember, in wilderness battles, only swords and axes can solve the problem."
Otto's words were actually spoken to Rurik. He felt that his son had gone too far in hiring crossbows and bows, although these two long-range weapons had indeed performed well in siege warfare.
He kept Rurik behind him and mixed with the archers.
The Ross army formed an arc-shaped formation. Otto knew that the two wings of his formation were weak, so during combat, the two wings could shrink inward, and the final formation became a solid ring.
Otto feels that the most difficult time for a team is actually the moment they encounter an enemy attack. As long as the team is not overwhelmed, the rest is a constant counterattack.
But now the situation has become very delicate.
On the glacier under the haze, the cold wind kept blowing the snow on the ice. The temperature was very low, and the cold air cut the bearded face of the soldier like a knife.
The Russians were fully prepared here. As the Kewen reinforcements saw their opponents clearly, they clearly felt an indescribable sense of fear.
The several leaders who led the team all felt the danger. After some discussion, they did not rush to attack. Instead, they sent five people who had been to the distant port of Narvik to explore the way first.
Kewen reinforcements have just arrived, and the leader is trying to negotiate with his opponent. If the negotiation fails, it will not be too late to start a war.
The huge number of people constituted their self-confidence, and the five envoys shouldered the missions assigned by their respective leaders.
In the final analysis, the leader's request is: put down your weapons and leave our land, otherwise you will all be killed.
That was eight hundred warriors. The combined strength of all the tribes shocked the Tavastians. Even though the legendary Varyags were strong men, and no one had ever seen them before, their own troops were obviously very large. Victory
The balance clearly favors the Kovin people.
In response to this mentality, the five envoys, holding short spears (marching staffs), swaggered towards the Russian formation. Suddenly, all the Russian people became nervous.
Especially Jevlo, who was ordered to shoot all enemies who came close to the formation.
Yevluo turned his head hurriedly: "Big leader, they are coming. Do you want to attack?!"
"Attack!" Otto said without hesitation.
Ross did not want to have any form of negotiation with the other party. Otto felt that this was not only unnecessary but also ridiculous. These Covin people had no right to negotiate conditions with the Ross people.
As for not killing the envoys when the two armies are fighting, this tradition does not exist in the Viking world.
The five people were already close to the effective shooting range of the crossbow. Jevro personally picked up the crossbow and ordered the other mercenaries to be ready.
"Each of us aims at the target!"
"Remember, the aiming mark on the reed is aimed at the enemy's body!"
"emission!"
Those messengers were actually eighty meters away from the crossbow position, and Jevlo was nervous and ordered the launch in advance. Even so, these crossbows fully demonstrated their tactical advantages.
The powerful high-stretch steel arm drove the half-pound heavy arrow to fly out, and the powerful recoil also caused the shooter's body to jerk back.
Deliberately tilting the glued feathers causes the flying crossbow arrow to spin desperately.
Even though there was a cold wind blowing on the entire river, the rotating heavy crossbow arrow hit the swaggering five people with its strong wind resistance and strong potential energy in just over a second after being launched.
At this distance, the steel-armed crossbow developed by Rurik was still very powerful. Before the five messengers knew what was happening, they saw that their bodies were covered with strange things, and then they collapsed to the ground in great pain.
, he died after pulling it out.
Both sides of the war could see this scene clearly.
Rurik, he never thought that his weapon could still achieve accurate shooting at such a long distance. The reality was so simple, the enemy did not get up after falling, and the enemy was dead.
Soon, Rurik was drowned in the cheers of his tribe. The warriors banged their swords on their shields, and everyone shouted at the top of their lungs.
The Russian people's momentum was so great that in addition to boosting their own fighting spirit, they also angered the Kewen reinforcements.
The courier who knew a lot of the local language of Narvik Port and was expected to contact the strange Varyag people died inexplicably in front of the Varyag people.
The Kewen reinforcements were stunned at first, and then all the leaders raised their iron swords high and gave the order to attack with ferocious faces!
The calm Otto saw this and shouted: "They are coming! Gevro, get back!"
"No! Chief, we can continue!"
After that, Jevro ordered his men: "Everyone kneels down and listen to my orders with crossbows!"
However, it was the bows and arrows of the Kewen people that took the lead.
Arrows began to fall on the ice not far from the Yevlo formation. Although he was safe, he would soon be within the enemy's range.
Facing the dark enemy rushing towards him, Yevluo nervously ordered: "Raise up! Launch!"
Therefore, people who know how to use a bow have figured out how to shoot arrows at a 45° angle, which has the longest range. Everyone knows this experience for both warring parties.
Twenty crossbow arrows rotated in a low parabola and hit the dense formation of Kewen's reinforcements. They fell and quickly caused serious injuries to as many as fifteen enemy people. The injured did not know what happened, and they were in extreme pain.
They were forced to stop charging and huddle on the ground. As a result, many of the injured were trampled to death by their own people.
"Come back quickly!" Otto shouted.
Jevro wanted to string the string again with his bare hands, but the soreness in his arm forced him to pause. The key was that the enemy's arrows had begun to fall into the Russian formation.
Jevro led his men back into formation, and the next step was to hold his shield high, not only to defend his master Rurik, but also to defend himself.
The arrows of the Kovin people began to crackle against Ross's big buckler, and the archers of the servant army also began to suffer casualties.
The archers of the Salmon Lord counterattacked under Otto's order. They fired arrows into the air at a high angle of elevation in order to use an exaggerated parabola so that they inside the formation could kill the enemies in front of the formation.
The archers on both sides relied on the number of archers to carry out probabilistic attacks. However, the long reloading time of the most lethal crossbowmen prevented the Russians from having the opportunity to shoot for a long time, even if Rurik's men still had a thousand on hand.
A crossbow arrow.
War is like Otto's and only sword and ax can decide who is the winner.
Otto shouted calmly: "They are coming! Prepare for impact!"
Those Kovin warriors, who were each relatively short, wielded short spears and fearlessly charged at the beautifully painted round shields of the Russians. This was the case for a large number of Kovin warriors.
They jumped bravely, and many of them rushed into the Russian camp. As a result, these brave men were stabbed to death by the prepared Russian sword and shield men.
The Covins at the front crashed into the Russian shield wall, and those behind them bumped into their companions in front.
The entire formation of the Russians moved backwards. They still withstood the strong attack of the Covins. What happened next did not require Otto to roar and command.
Roaring has no meaning anymore, because all the combatants are roaring.
Rurik, who was in the formation, felt that he could not help at all, and the same was true for the servants of the Salmon Lord.
Realizing that the enemy was deliberately attacking both wings, the Russians began to spontaneously shrink their formation. When the formation completely turned into a circle, a large number of corpses were lying at the feet of the Russians.
The shields were stained with blood, the chain mail was stained with blood, and the beards of the first row of warriors also turned a terrifying red.
The steel swords of the Russians are full of lethality. Each sword suddenly strikes from the gap in the shield. The extremely sharp sword can easily penetrate the enemy's leather clothing. An enemy can be killed with a single stab. The splattered blood has already
Let the heavy infantry in chain armor fighting on the front line bathe in the dripping blood of brutal killings.
They were covered in the blood of their enemies, and it was like a catalyst for madness.
Sixty elites wearing chainmail had suffered no casualties in the previous battles. Now, with their big mouths and faces covered in blood, they looked like man-eating monsters.
Otto was extremely happy that his people had entered a state of madness.
The large number of Korvins surrounded the circular shield wall of the Rus. According to the idea of the Korvins, as long as they continued to attack fiercely, the strange Varyags would definitely collapse.
As a result, those who were the first to break in were all dead.
As too many people were killed and injured, the following Covin people finally realized what had happened.
They were holding their own short spears and were stunned.
Taking this opportunity, Yevlo urgently ordered: "Crossbowmen! Shoot!"
Rurik admired his Evro's on-the-spot reaction ability. When he saw Evro's leader holding the crossbow with both hands, he fired the arrow from the gap in the shield.
The wind brought by the flying crossbow arrows was also felt by the Russian warriors, because the arrows flew right past their ears.
While the Kewen people were stunned, twenty people suddenly fell injured.
From the eyes of his enemies, Otto could clearly see their fear and confusion. It happened that a group of his own warriors had gone berserk. The warriors needed to vent their anger through crazy killings and at the same time prove themselves to the gods.
Strong.
Because the eyes of the gods are not blocked by haze.
It can be said that the winner of this battle was decided the moment the Russians withstood the enemy's collision.
Otto gave an order: "The gods have seen your bravery! The children blessed by Odin are by your side! Berserker! Destroy all enemies!"
After receiving this order, the Ross warriors who were still shield-to-shield suddenly disbanded their solid formation.
The Russians began a full-scale counterattack, even though their troops were still at a disadvantage. Facing a large group of poorly equipped Kovin reinforcements whose morale had been shattered, what was left was an unprecedented barbaric killing that the Kovin people had encountered.
, for the Russians, it was just a carnival of war.
Who doesn't want to get the honor of "Berserker"? Being called a Berserker by the big leader, every young warrior hopes that he can be worthy of this honor, even if everyone does not bring the strange mushroom sauce made by the high priest.
Without the use of a rare maddening potion, the Russians who had red eyes now just want to destroy all the enemies in front of them who are facing death.
The morale of Kewen people was high just now, but what about now?
More than a hundred people had been killed in the contact battle, and the casualties among the Russians were only a few servants of the Salmon Lord's archers who were wounded by arrows.
The Russians, who had superior armor, weapons and physique, began a crazy counterattack!
Everyone is willing to believe that the fateful battle of "North Hunt" predicted by the high priest is actually this battle.