No, that night the people of Visby saw the fiery red east of the hill. This terrifying vision made people go crazy after the war.
What Harald expected happened exactly as expected.
Some guys who covet the wealth of big merchants are a group of men, specifically a group of pure pirates. They don't want to die defending Visby, they just want to look for opportunities to steal property from this trading stronghold. Thieves can be said to be the oldest profession.
, now they have become armed bandits!
They began to harass the wealthy merchants who had lost their mercenaries. Some of the robberies were successful. They broke through the wooden walls of the merchants' houses, killed the heirs who could not protect the merchants, defiled the women's families, and searched for gold and silver everywhere to wreak havoc. They were usually jealous of the big merchants.
Now is a good time to vent the wealth. Inspired by this, some refugees also joined in the looting.
The civilians under fear turned into a mob. The five families of big businessmen who escaped, including Harald, will now protect their homes and fight! Just like the Russians, they had to use extremely cruel tactics to deal with anyone.
The attackers. Because those bandits were the young warriors and female warriors during the day. The former allies became enemies. If they succeeded, the merchants would be wiped out.
A mound with an altitude of only 100 meters separates the two worlds. On the battlefield to the east, thousands of dead bodies lie quietly, some nocturnal ravens peck at the dead bodies, and the Russian army is burning their own war dead. To the west
In Visby, the locals are fighting a civil war. They didn't have many people left, and now they are killing each other.
In order to protect her home, Asraqi led her female bodyguards and stood on the high point of the wooden wall to resist the enemy with spears and disperse them with bows and arrows. Although she was only sixteen years old, who can say that she is not a female warrior? Her heroic appearance
She has the charm of a Valkyrie. Could such a fairy really be turned into a gift for peace? For whom should I seek forgiveness from the Rus? These angry people in Visby?
Her father Harald was extremely troubled.
Faced with such a predicament, Harald was extremely disappointed with Visby. He even hoped that the Russians would kill these guys and chop them into minced fish.
As for his own family, he sacrificed Aslaqi, knelt down and put all the blame for the war on the dead Haken. Finally, he declared his allegiance to the leader of Rus and gave a sum of money, so that his family would not be destroyed.
The chaos in Visby lasted all night. As the saying goes, there is not much difference between the defeated soldiers and the bandits. They failed on the battlefield and knew that they were doomed. They were clearly doing their final madness before death. Visby was the same purgatory.
When the morning sun shines on the land and ocean, the Russian fleet continues to float quietly on the sea, arranged like a chain, and each ship carries a torsion slingshot and is on standby.
The sun shines on the messy alleyways of Visby, illuminating the dead bodies scattered here and there, as well as a group of half-dead guys.
The aroma of burning fills the alley, which is the wonderful smell of sheep that have lost their owners and been boiled.
Those bandits who have become "leaders" cannot get wheat and fish, but fat sheep are at their fingertips. The round sheep should be sheared, but now the bandits who are eager to fill their stomachs know that they are now unable to care about the sheepskin and wool.
The value of eating meat is the last word.
Of course they don't want to be buried with Visby, but how is it easy to escape from this targeted city?
They want to fill their stomachs and wait and see what happens, waiting for the right moment to escape.
The inherent natural order in Visby has completely collapsed. Now whoever has the biggest fist can serve as the boss for a very short time before the Ross army sweeps the entire harbor. Those thieves who often hide in the sewers once became Visby.
They are the kings of competition, but they are still powerless against several big businessmen who still have strong combat capabilities.
No, in the early morning, many merchants who had been fighting all night evacuated to the beach with some money boxes. They pushed off the long boats and began to evacuate by force. They were in a hurry, and there were individual bandits with weapons watching them along the way.
But it's just attention.
Anyone interested in escaping was not stopped, and they needed this group of brave businessmen to explore the way.
This is really a move to seek death, because the Russian ships are waiting for you!
The fleeing businessman had better succeed, so that the bandits can take the gold and silver and row the long boat out of this terrible island. Even if the success rate of escape is not high in the end, they should still try hard, at least it is better than just waiting to die.
Except for Harald of the Hrolev family who ordered his family to stick to their own courtyard, the last four big businessmen and a few of their dependents brought more than fifty boxes of silver coins in total and began to paddle hard to break through the Ross ship.
Team blockade.
In a critical moment, go to hell with any stored goods! The fleeing businessman no longer cares about the copper coins in stock.
How much is the value of copper coins? The more than fifty boxes of coins are all genuine gold and silver, and there is also a batch of Baltic Sea specialty gems-amber mixed in.
In fact, they carried very valuable property, which was also the original capital for a comeback that they fought to the death in the offensive and defensive battle with the bandits last night.
The merchants all dreamed of escaping to the southern seas as soon as possible after breaking through the Russian blockade, stopping at Bernholm to buy some supplies and slaves, and then heading straight to Hedebe to open up new horizons.
The morning sun was a little dim, and there was still a layer of mist on the sea.
Last night, the red light on the island illuminated the sky. Gould thought with his toes and knew something big was going on there. The so-called big thing was a decisive battle!
Although Gould had no ability to communicate with Ross's army on the shore, he acted in full accordance with the plan before the decisive battle, which was to block Visby Harbor until he received a clear order and be sure to sink all escaping ships.
Gould slept lightly the past night, and most of the old and weak men on the deck as well as the armed women were alert, with the wooden crossbows in their hands always on guard. Now the Ross tribe can only rely on the weakest personnel.
Replenish the troops on the ship, and it will be their turn to fight again.
Looking at the approaching fleet of ships, Gould's sleepy eyes were suddenly diluted by the tension.
"How brave! Do you think we can break through if we act together? Don't you think merchant ships can't be well armed?"
The flag representing "battle" was quickly pulled to the top of the mast of the Aurora. When each ship saw this flag, the people on board, old and young, men and women, went into battle.
When doing business with the strong, a smart businessman must pay attention to the contract. When doing business with the weak, it is best to rely on the strong to bully the weak.
Gould imagined fighting as a kind of business. The opponents seemed to be menacing, but in fact they were weak. Mercy? No! They must all be turned into fish feed.
Obviously, no fool would attack the small island-like Aurora.
In the eyes of the fleeing merchants, the Aurora was indeed too big. She was so big, so she must not be sailing very fast. They took it for granted that the Ross ships blocking the port were just cargo ships. What are cargo ships? They were all low-speed ships.
The goods, the longships carrying gold and silver coins can quickly cross and leave the enemy behind. Some people also think of the failure of the previous wave of escapees, but unfortunately the new escapees selectively ignore them. They are gambling with their lives and leaving the port.
There is only one way to go until dark.
Reality ruthlessly defeated their luck!
The fleeing fleet tried to rush northwest to the south as soon as it left the harbor, but they never thought that the Russian ship would unexpectedly rush through the waves. The water splashed by the bow of the ship could easily overturn an ordinary fishing boat.
The Avora's sails were fully hoisted, and her copper-skin-reinforced bow ram was like a bronze battle axe. She ruthlessly broke the first longship with the pressure of a queen of the sea, and many people on board were directly killed.
His skull was crushed and his spine was crushed, and he died on the spot.
Then came the second and third ships, and a total of three longships turned into two pieces and sank quickly on the spot.
Oh no! The longship didn't really sink.
The broken wreckage of the longship was stuck on the seabed. After all, after leaving the small bay of Visby, we still had to go two kilometers further before entering deep water.
When he was young, Gould came to Visby by chance. In line with the business habits of merchants, he especially inspected some of the hydrological conditions here. The so-called merchant ships accidentally ran aground and the losses were really heavy, he was afraid of this.
The sea where the naval battle took place was only about three meters deep. The current draft of the unladen Avrora was only a little over one meter, and the draft of the fleeing longships was even shallower.
The fugitives who fell into the water spontaneously hugged driftwood and shipwrecks. They choked on a lot of salty water and were trying to calm down and understand the situation.
They had no right to rest because the terrifying arrows kept coming one after another.
Gould no longer needed to give orders, and the Russians on the ship started shooting arrows.
Are there any operating skills for a wooden crossbow? The bow arm has a low poundage, and even an old man can string it quickly. When installing the arrow, the wooden butt is against the shoulder and against the cheek. The shooter looks at the rear sight on the circlip and the front protrusion.
When the crosshair comes out, aim and shoot immediately at three o'clock and one line.
The crossbow turned the old and weak among the Russians into deadly hunters in an instant. Those guys with age spots and unshaven beards saw the enemies who were hit by the arrows desperately vomiting blood, and immediately recalled the bravery of their youth.
The new weapon invented by Rick makes the old warrior great again.
As the saying goes, an arrow fired by a child is just as deadly as an arrow fired by an adult.
Not only arrows, but also the cast-iron projectiles fired by the Avrora's torsion slingshot, also use extremely strong penetrating power to strike through the bottom of the unattacked enemy ships.
Just one large ship, Avora, blocked the escape route of subsequent enemy ships.
The ensuing battle was completely one-sided. The heroic actions of the Aurora attracted other cargo ships to come in droves, starting a feast of ramming and defeating the enemy.
Each ship has an extremely hard bulbous bow. Even without copper reinforcement, the hard nature of seasoned oak is difficult for any ship to withstand, including themselves.
During the melee, the Aurora was running rampant. She was not afraid of the enemy at all. She was most afraid of having her side ribs killed and red-eyed friendly forces accidentally colliding with each other. If it really collided, it would be a big hole, and it would not be impossible for it to even be flooded and capsized.
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Fortunately, today's Aurora is extremely lucky. The wooden idol on the bow of the ship is really possessed by the Valkyrie, giving the entire ship tremendous combat effectiveness.
Archery is the icing on the cake, and the core of combat is still the bulbous bow of each ship.
Like a swarm of piranhas attacking a helpless duck, the group of fleeing merchants howled and lost all their boats. They themselves fell into the water, and their thick clothes sucked up the water and carried them down hard. Even if it was
If you take off your clothes in an emergency and float on the water, you will encounter flying arrows and even spears poked by people on the boat.
A very strange thing is that Gould is of the same age as these businessmen. A long time ago, young Gould visited Visby and met some local businessmen. He actually had encounters with these businessmen who fell into the water. Unfortunately,
He didn't remember it, and even if he remembered it, it couldn't be a reason to spare his life. Because Gould never owed them anything, now that all members of the family immigrated and became Ross people, they must perform tasks according to the requirements of the Duke of Ross.
A businessman opened his arms and shouted for help: "Don't kill me! I brought a lot of money, you can buy my life!"
Money?! A lot of money?!
Upon hearing this word, the murderous Gould instantly turned back into the money-grubbing elephant seal.
The torque slingshot that was supposed to fire accurately was suspended, and Gould hurriedly ordered the various warriors on the deck to stop temporarily.
He lay on the side and licked the pig's head and mocked arrogantly: "Is your life precious? You are just a fat seal and will be killed soon."
"I have money! A lot of money! If you can spare me, let me get on the ship!"
"Are you really rich? Where is your money?"
"In this water, in the long boat that you scuttled and sunk! There are ten boxes of silver coins, gold, and jewelry. I exchanged these belongings for my life."
Gould tried to make sure he heard correctly. He asked again, shocked by the wealth.
"Ah! What I sank was actually a fleet transporting gold and silver?!" Gould felt in his heart that he had made a reckless decision to fight. Unfortunately, looking around, the sea was full of low-profile Ross ships with great military achievements.
There are also long boats, but they are scattered on the seabed, like a flooded forest.
Ten boxes of silver coins, isn’t that a thousand pounds of silver?! If the people of Gotland follow the tradition of doing business in the vast world, that is, only stuff a hundred pounds of silver coins into a leather-wrapped wooden box, then Afrola
There is a huge sum of money lying on the seabed near the No. 1!
"How about it? This money can..."
"No." Gould made a determined decision and slowly stretched out his round right hand with gemstone rings on each finger. All the soldiers present knew that this was a signal to prepare to shoot.
"Why?!" The businessman who fell into the water was shocked, but death suddenly came.
The Russians rewarded the big businessman who escaped from the scene of the decisive battle in Qiao Village last night with a clean death.
The ship-destroying cast-iron bullet of the torsion slingshot directly smashed the businessman's head. Before the nerve signal could respond, the man was dead. In a sense, this man died without suffering any pain.
But the situation of many people who fell into the water was tragic. The wounds caused by the arrows on their bodies were not fatal for a while. The injured struggled desperately and finally suffocated in the water and died.
A one-sided naval battle with no suspense ended when the mist dissipated.
The morning sun diluted the coldness of the morning, and only the huge triangular sails of the Ross fleet were left in the bay of Visby, as well as the blue and white "oar flag" flying on the top of the mast.
The people watching the battle on the shore were all shocked and overwhelmed. The spies sent by Harald ran back crawling and reported to their masters the destruction of the big merchants.
Harald fainted on the spot. He really could not imagine that the Russians were so terrifying and that their naval battles were ruthless.
When he slowly woke up with his old head resting on his daughter Aslaqi's knees, he saw his daughter's fairy-like face and suddenly muttered: "It seems that I should make peace with the Russians. Aslaqi.
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"Father...are you okay?"
"You...maybe you are the leader of the Russians and the only way for our family to survive."
Hearing this, the young female warrior was stunned. The smart Aslaqi had fully understood her father's intention. Of course she refused, but according to the rules, marriage is a means to bring peace and end disputes. Father,
Mother, elder brothers, younger brothers, and the few servants who all lived together day and night, how could they be buried with Visby? What's more, Visby is no longer prosperous, and it is only one step away from ruins.
Aslaki's eyes were trembling, she said nothing, then she turned her face aside and cried silently.
At this point, Harald already knew that his daughter had acquiesced to his decision. In the name of his family, he himself should try to pay the price from the Rus and buy peace that only belonged to the Hrolev family. As for other Visby residents
?Forget it! These gangsters just happen to be in Visby at the moment. The bloodthirsty Ross army will kill them like ants and turn them into a pile of minced meat.
"Hel me up, my daughter!"
Then, Harald stood up slowly, and slapped Aslaqi's young and firm shoulders with his hands. Although he was very useless and shameful, he could only sacrifice his daughter for the sake of the family. He felt sorry for it, and then stared at the tearful eyes from the side.
Wife: "Made her into the most beautiful fairy. Soon, I will go and talk to the Russians in person. I hope they will reward our family with peace for the sake of the fairy."