The bomb chute was covered with grease, and the torsion rope was also quite greasy. The operators of the heavy weapons kept staring at the signal black flag. They saw the attack order, and all fleets launched the attack almost at the same time.
The plume javelins hit the enemy formation in a low and flat parabola, accompanied by a large number of conical cast-iron bullets.
The Russian army launched this battle with a considerable supply of special projectiles, and there was no need to hold back on military strength.
These javelins have very fast projectiles, making them the first weapons to hit the enemy.
I saw some black shadows coming towards me without warning, and the Karelian soldiers on the shore were unprepared for what happened next.
The javelin pierces the first person hard, and often hits the person behind, or even pierces three people with one arrow.
The cast-iron projectiles also flew in circles, their trajectories were too smooth, and the spiral grooves of the projectiles even rubbed against the air to produce a low buzzing sound. Projectiles originally prepared to break through the mail armor, they penetrated the enemy's head, chest, and huge
The force of the impact made the person's bones and bones burst, and the whole person was knocked down in a twisted manner.
The bull trebuchets also came to help, and pebbles fell from the sky. They hit them in a high parabola at an almost vertical angle.
Some people have already begun to defend themselves. Shields covered with deerskin may be able to withstand Tavastian arrows, and they are also effective against falling stones.
But the kinetic energy of the stone was very strong, and the shield was smashed so that sawdust flew everywhere, and many people were hit in the head and shoulders...
The Karelian army was suddenly filled with blood and flesh, but this was just the beginning.
The Suomi warriors standing on the deck were shooting arrows. There were many of them, but the arrows could only touch the shore due to their clumsy bows, and some arrows were even blown into the water by the north wind.
When the support failed to be effective, Suomi and the Vips servant army stopped.
The Kewen longbowmen and steel-armed crossbowmen were showing off their power. Even if there was a headwind, the arrows they fired still fell from the sky.
Rurik's order was a free-fire order. Twenty torsion slingshots and five bull trebuchets were placed on the port side of the flagship. Now the porthole in the captain's cabin at the bow was also opened, and the slingshot's launch rail was extended.
go out.
Due to the distance, the Russian army did not demonstrate the strongest long-range firepower.
Yevlo was not satisfied with the situation of the battle. His Suomi compatriots practiced the "arrow rain tactic" under his training, which now cannot work at all.
"My lord, the distance is too far," he said.
"It's okay, let the projectiles fly for a while."
"Do you hope to defeat them with heavy weapons? I'm afraid they can only be defeated. If you really want to solve the problem, you still have to try your best to kill their soldiers."
Trying his best to kill the enemy's strength, Rurik was very satisfied with Jevro's clever statement.
Rurik looked at the developing battle situation and sighed: "With our current heavy weapons, we naturally cannot annihilate this group of people gathered at the seaside. It will be possible in the future."
"A more powerful weapon?"
"It is a weapon of fire and the power of God. With God's wisdom, mortals can also create..."
These words were too mysterious and Yevro couldn't understand. Rurik was essentially implying that the artillery, even if it fires a solid bullet, its super penetrating power will definitely knock out a line of blood in the dense enemy formation.
the road.
Although it does not have such a big weapon, the existing heavy equipment of the Russian army has caused a large number of casualties to the Karelian army.
The casualties came so suddenly, and the deaths did not discriminate between young and old. The Karelian warriors standing here, especially those in the front row, suffered the most ferocious blows.
Nearly a hundred torque slingshots were assembled, and the first round of shooting alone caused more than a hundred casualties to the opponent.
While free shooting is going on, projectiles, javelins, and arrows are harvesting lives.
In a very short period of time, the Karelian army had suffered as many as 300 casualties, and the situation was still deteriorating.
Aesailas never expected that the war would be like this. Thousands of troops were mostly sworn to defend the enemy on the lakeshore before the war. Now they were dumbfounded and people began to retreat spontaneously.
"We will avoid it for the time being and force them to come ashore and fight us!"
Aesailas shouted with all his strength, but how could his roar convey the message to all the panicked people?
The Karelian people are retreating, and it seems that there is a tendency for it to turn into a mass exodus.
Jevro was shocked: "What's wrong, sir, if they run away one after another, it will be difficult for us to annihilate them."
The enemy's behavior is normal but also a little abnormal. Rurik nodded: "Let the large forces land. Yevlo, your Suomi flag team will follow ashore."
New signals began to be transmitted, and Arik, who had been extremely itchy since the war began, was overjoyed.
A handsome middle-aged man stood at the bow of the ship. Arik held the alien beast on the bow with his left arm and brandished a steel sword with his right arm.
"Brothers, it's time for the decisive battle. Charge with me! Kill them!"
The people on standby roared, and they used big oars to drive the longboat to suddenly rush out from the gap in the big ship.
The First Banner was brave and experienced, and the Balmoks of the Third Banner followed immediately.
The big ship has lowered all the side boats, and each small boat can hold up to ten people. The Suomi servant army is passing through these small boats, cooperating with the advancing Ross and Balmok to participate in the battle.
Nearly two thousand people launched a beach landing with the cooperation of heavy weapons.
A strong team suddenly appeared, and Esailas, who was trying his best to assemble the team, was deeply shocked. However, he hoped that his opponent would fight him on land, and this fantasy seemed to have come true.
Many Karelian warriors fled far enough, and in order to prevent more people from fleeing, Aesailas had to order his guards to kill the escapees to restrain the team.
Either out of honor, helplessness, or just drifting with the tide, most of the fleeing people slowly stopped.
After leaving behind the corpses and squirming wounded, the Karelians regrouped outside the range of Ross's heavy weapons.
Even so, the Karelian army still had more than 4,000 soldiers. They were trembling in formation. Many of them were so frightened that they peed, and their hands holding the handles of their spears were trembling.
Esailas tried his best to remain calm. He ran to the front of the battle line and shouted an inspiring slogan.
"Hunters, pick up your bows, it's our turn to fight back!"
Sure enough, hundreds of Karelian warriors fired arrows with their bows at high elevations. After suffering huge losses, they finally began to fight back.
The north wind assisted their arrows, which contained mostly bone arrow clusters and not many iron arrow clusters.
The arrows were quite dense, and they were thrown in groups towards the Ross Army landing site.
Many Russian soldiers felt a sense of fear. Even if the enemy was weak, the arrows they fired were still dangerous and deadly.
Regardless of Alik's order, the first warrior to land quickly built a shield wall. Seeing the rain of arrows, he immediately knelt on the ground and protected his entire torso with an oak shield covered with bronze skin or animal skin.
Arik shouted several times to remind everyone to avoid the arrows, and he also shielded himself with a shield, but the crackling sound he expected was not there.
How is this going?
Many people understand the reason. Even if the wind assists them, the enemy's inferior bows and inferior arrows cannot hurt themselves.
Unfortunately, a large number of injured Karelia warriors suffered. These people were not killed by Ross's heavy weapons. In the end, they were turned into hedgehogs by the dense rain of arrows dropped by their own people.
A patch of wheat appeared on the ground. If you look closely, you will see that they are all the tail feathers of the arrow shaft.
Arik stood up angrily, looked at the enemies in the distance, suddenly revealed his entire body, and lifted up his robe to show his white flesh to the enemies.
Esaila was angry that his own arrows were not expensive enough to shoot, but he did not expect that his opponent actually...
"You are insulting me!"
Thousands of Karelian warriors saw the white field opposite and knew it was the enemy's rampant provocation.
The Russians and Balmoks humiliated their enemies, making indecent gestures while laughing unbridled.
Rurik is still on the ship, and he has already announced that heavy weapons support will be suspended to prevent accidental damage to friendly forces.
He saw it so clearly that he didn't expect that his own people would use this provocative tactic again. Fortunately, the female relatives were not in the army, and the only woman, Carlotta, was a high-ranking noble and a woman who wanted to be like a man, so there was no need to worry about her embarrassment.
This provocation is certainly indecent, but it is undeniable that this is a tactic, which is to induce the enemy to become furious and take the initiative to attack.
The entire elite of Ross did this, and there was a white squirming figure in front of the battle. The humiliation continued to intensify, and some even ran to the nearest corpse of a Karelian soldier and openly urinate with a large shield to protect themselves.
Is there anything more humiliating than this? The Russian army is using Viking culture to judge others, and it happens that the Karelia people also find this the most disgusting humiliation.
The furious emotions quickly overcame the fear, and the angry Aesailas quietly discovered that because of the enemy's humiliation, his panic-stricken army was quickly condensing into a heavy fist.
However, all this is the tactics of the Russian army.
Or maybe it was a very inappropriate way of provocation that Arik came up with.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to humiliate the enemy, as many as 800 Mingsuomi, Vips shooters successfully landed, and there were still soldiers on the way to the beach.
There are twenty torsion slingshots that have been placed on the longship. They have been fixed on the carts and have been moved directly by strong warriors since the longship washed ashore.
More than 700 Russian warriors in the front row collectively made indecent moves to taunt them. Everyone knew that the enemy's arrows could not reach them, so their behavior became extremely bold and unrestrained, and this was just to buy time for the brothers behind them.
Jevro did not comment on Arik's actions. He tried his best to gather the two Suomi banner troops, ordered the soldiers to line up, held the bow in his left hand, and inserted ten clusters of iron arrows into the mud.
And those torsion slingshots have been quietly pushed behind the soldiers who are waiting for close combat, covered by their figures. The slingshots have been charged up, and if they go off, they can hit the friendly troops in front and kill them suddenly.
While provoking, the Russian army was observing the enemy's movements through the corner of their eyes.
Arik had a premonition that the murderous aura emanating from the enemy formation on the opposite side was getting stronger and stronger. It was like a powder keg in high temperature and could explode at any time.
He suddenly stood up and asked Yevlo about the situation: "Are your arrows ready?"
“It’s basically ready!”
"Very good! Remember our tactics before the campfire, brothers, let's annihilate them!"
Jevro was very happy to be called a brother. He knew what Arik was like. This guy valued friendship and was trustworthy. Of course, the men he liked were brave warriors.
Suomi's two flag troops are by no means just archers. There are also short spears and axes on the ground, and even well-equipped heavy-armored mercenaries. The Suomi people will eventually become a melee fighting force, but when they go out in this image, the battle situation will change.
It's time to come to an end.
The first and third flag teams, with a total of 300 crossbowmen, did not participate in the provocation. Their weapons were already charged. The nearly 1,000 people behind them all had their arrows on the handles of their bows...
The Ross army was standing on the beach. They had completed their array and were just waiting to work.
Finally, the enemy's all-out attack that everyone was expecting has finally begun!
"For our glory! Charge!" Esailas took the lead, and his brave move instantly detonated the powder keg.
Since the arrows could not hit the invaders, the Karelia people picked up their spears and launched a swarm attack.
The crazy charge of four thousand men seemed to the Russian army that history was repeating itself.
But this is not Gotland, and the strength of the Karelia people is far inferior to that of the old Gotland army.
The Russian army was not in a hurry. The soldiers who were carrying large shields and preparing to attack and fight moved out of the way in an organized manner. The carts were pushed out and the torsion slingshots were fired directly.
The flat projectiles will directly kill the fastest ones, and this can only weaken the enemy's energy.
The crossbowmen immediately pulled the trigger through the gap in the shield. They only had this one chance, but they directly killed more than a hundred enemies!
A hand-to-hand encounter was about to break out. The Karelians were shooting arrows on the run, and their arrows began to fall into the Russian formation. The armored warriors were basically immune to these bone arrow clusters, and the Suomi flag troops also launched a counterattack.
If the Russian army can hit arrows, it basically means that the enemy will also hit heavy arrows.
However, there was another buzz in the air. It was Rurik. He resumed heavy weapon support. As long as the Russian army did not take the initiative to attack, they would not be accidentally injured.
Being hit by projectiles and even being hit by a large number of arrows from the enemy's formation, Aesailas knew that he was extremely passive.
However, the Karelian army has launched a full-scale offensive. If it cannot push the enemy into the water, it will be the result of crazy killing by the enemy.
The intruders came in large numbers and were clearly well prepared. They were heavily equipped and would soon be drowned if they fell into the water.
It seems that relying on the existing strength of the army, pushing the invaders into the lake is the only chance of winning.
But Esailas didn't know that the army, which had regrouped in anger due to unbearable humiliation, was not far from collapsing again.
Before engaging the enemy, there were already a thousand casualties. The Karelian army was still suffering losses, and the hand-to-hand encounter was about to break out.
They couldn't stop. The only chance of survival was to overwhelm the enemy and push the intruder into the lake. Even if they hesitated and ran slowly, they would be trampled to death by the brothers behind them.
The shield wall of the Russian army has been erected, and everyone is in an anti-collision posture. The soldiers in the first row are holding their steel swords, the shields in the second row are against the front row, and the soldiers in the third row are already holding their long-handled halberds.
The collision broke out, and the front line was suddenly bloody and bloody.
The frontline soldiers of the Russian army hid behind their large shields and stabbed forward crazily with their steel swords through the gaps.
The soldiers in the back row held swords to assist in the battle, and the halberds and long-handled battle axes in the third row fell from the sky, pecking the enemy's heads to pieces.
Any enemy who rushes to the front will be attacked by three Russian soldiers. Not only is the gap in the big shield in front of them dangerous, but the top of their head is also dangerous.
The Karelian army made a last ditch effort, but they still failed to break through the Russian army's array. Now, although this place was the home of the Karelian tribe, it became the home field of the Russian army.
This was still a stupid battle. Rurik was very happy that he had expected that the enemy was simple and reckless. The Russian army seemed to be passively beaten with the least creative tactics, but in the end it turned into waiting for work.
The fighting raged for a while, and the blood of the Karelian army had gathered into rivers, and the lake began to turn red.
The Russian army's shield wall began to push back, and those who were accidentally injured or killed were pulled to the rear, and those in the rear row took up positions.
The Turtle Formation of the Centurion of the Roman Legion is naturally more mobile and flexible. Rurik's Rus' Army Formation still adheres to the barbarian style of play, but the pincer tactic, the most efficient annihilation war tactic, has been used by the Rus' Army with great proficiency.
The time is ripe and the enemy has lost all momentum.
Suomi's two flag troops, together with the heavily armored mercenaries such as Grund sent out by Rurik, were divided into two groups, marching on the left and right flanks of the central army, and attacked suddenly from a guarding state.
The crab opened its two large pincers, and the encirclement and annihilation battle was underway. The Russian army planned to completely annihilate the Karelian army.
However, Esailas, whose arm was injured and was pulled behind by his men, noticed that the intruder looked like the greedy bear. Yes! Some giants with bear heads and iron bodies on their heads were killing like crazy!
Morale has collapsed and everyone is fleeing spontaneously.
Aesailas suppressed his blush. He no longer cared about the escape of his tribe. He pushed away the guards and rushed towards the enemy against the fleeing crowd. He ran headlong into the encirclement that the Rus army was beginning to close. As a warrior, he fought for the great tribe.
Glory, fight to the death for the ancestral spirit...