The cone-shaped cast iron bullet was fired to an altitude of about fifty meters. This half-pound iron block was small in size and had limited damage ability to equipment. For combat soldiers, those who hit it would basically die.
Thirty torsion slingshots fire freely, and the arrows are combined with iron bullets to further cover the fire.
The main focus of the Ross coalition's attack was the north gate of the city of Bremen. This is the largest city gate. As long as this gate is breached, the battle will almost be over.
The coalition forces continued to advance slowly, all making Viking war cries very rhythmically. Behind them, arrows and projectiles were fired frequently. It was the so-called Xu Jin barrage offensive in the ninth century. This kind of dispatch of the Frankish army had never been seen before.
, even Ragnar and his men have never seen it.
The only thing that makes Ragnar happy is that he is participating in the siege as the attacker who takes advantage.
The coalition forces had advanced to within a stone's throw of the Bremen defenders, who were hit hard by arrows and projectiles. A few brave men among them finally began to lean out and fight back with bows. The defenders risked being shot.
Taking risks when shooting arrows, even hiding behind wooden battlements, pointing a single wooden bow at a high angle to the sky, and the archer fired blindly into the sky in grief and indignation, praying to hit the enemy.
Sensing the defenders' counterattack, Ragnar, who was attacking, immediately ordered his brothers to use huge bucklers as umbrellas, rendering the defenders' arrows useless.
But the defenders lost their highest-ranking commander, and the interior was in chaos. A large number of people fled out of fear, and even fled to the south gate of the city, and began to spontaneously carry the debris that had piled up the city gate. Some people even lowered ropes
, abseiling from the city wall. No soldiers have the ability to intercept the fugitives. Everyone has given up their illusions. The city seems to be difficult to hold. Let’s escape with our skills before the Normans go crazy and kill!
If the Normans start to divide their forces and surround the city, it will be too late!
The fleeing people were unable to carry valuables with them, so the merchants packed their existing money in sackcloth and took their hired armed men, completely ignoring their responsibility to defend the city, and tried their best to escape from the city.
The spirit of those who persisted in resisting was worthy of the admiration of the Ross coalition, making the coalition's victory a little more respectable and difficult.
As the drifting fleet on the Weser River took control of the city's dock area, the few people who descended the ropes were immediately attacked.
The distance is already very close, and the torque slingshot can be aimed accurately.
The main body of the city of Bremen is located in the shadow of the south bank of the Weser River, and the dock area is on the east side of the city. People who left near the east gate were shot and killed, and those who tried to escape the city were forced to leave due to the situation.
city wall.
The fleet began to fire freely, and "iron hailstones" fell from the sky, mercilessly penetrating the thatched roofs of people's houses. Even if wealthy families installed terracotta tiles and stone tiles, they were still violently smashed through. Some people were simply smashed to death in their homes.
In the dirty alleyways, there were also injured people who were beaten to the point of dying. Compared with the casualties, the fleet brought greater fear.
As many as 5,000 people flocked to the south gate of the city, which was still in a safe area. Due to the high concentration of people, the already troublesome task of moving the debris blocking the door became extremely time-consuming. Everyone wanted to escape as soon as possible.
, a terrible stampede accident also occurred, and the situation became extremely chaotic, and there was no one to provide order at the scene. Everyone's survival instincts gathered together, and as a result, only a few people could successfully find another way to lower the rope hoist from the city wall.
Away from the city.
Some people even fell from the wooden fence and were injured, making it even harder to escape.
How could the Russian army know about the chaos that broke out in the city due to fear among the people?
Arik just wanted to break through the city gate quickly, so he simply rushed to the front line in person and ordered Ragna as a commander: "I've told you the method! You and your brothers push the car as hard as you can! You must be direct
Push the door open, and if it doesn't work once, push it a few more times."
"Okay!" the excited Ragnar roared and asked, "What about you?"
"We will ensure that all the turtle doves on the city wall are shot."
Ragnar no longer needed to say anything. He raised his iron sword and ordered the three hundred warriors under his command to attack with all their might.
The siege truck was pushed by as many as thirty people. The most amazing thing was that there were two groups of people at the front pulling two ropes to pull it further. The siege truck was running on a fairly smooth dirt road, and a heavy behemoth actually reached
It increased the speed at which a man could run. This speed was naturally not as fast as a cavalry charge, but its astonishing weight meant astonishing potential energy!
Blue Fox conducted a thorough investigation last year. The largest south gate has a winch system that can lower the entire wooden door from the top. For the general army, it is unsolvable to lower such a wooden door and stick it in the entrance.
Now the charging car is hitting it unstoppably, and the force will do wonders!
The whole wooden door was not knocked down by the car, but the entire door was knocked down. The door collapsed and even pulled down the winch installed in the city gate pavilion.
The door was knocked open, but not completely.
The debris behind the door became a kind of "stepping stone", forming a slope with the collapsed door, leaving a huge hole in the doorway.
When a slope appears, will that man suppress his hunter's instinct to rush up and jump?
Ragnar and his men raised their shields high and shouted excitedly at the prisoners of war, while he himself continued to shout until his voice became hoarse and took the lead in the charge!
There is no longer any need to climb the long ladder on the wall, and even the defenders who were shooting arrows on the city wall have completely escaped.
"In the end, it was an easy victory. I really didn't expect that there were so many of them, so they couldn't conquer this city." Arik dismissed the excitement and complained to himself.
"You mean Ragnar and the others?" Jevro asked casually.
"Exactly. We attacked the city easily."
"Is there any special reason? They don't know how to fight at all." Jevro's explanation was concise and unceremonious. In Arik's opinion, this was the truth.
So as another elite in the army, Lan Hu saw the door collapse suddenly, and was stunned like a wooden chicken, stuck in place like a wooden stake.
Blue Fox's shoulder was suddenly tapped by a big hand.
"ah?!"
"Don't be stupid!" Arik scolded.
"..."
"It's time for us to enter the city. Blue Fox, think carefully about where their granaries are located. All wheat, wool or other goods belong to us."
"Ah! Then the Danes..."
"Robbing gold and silver? Let them grab it first. I don't care now, I only care about how much wheat I can get for the people in my hometown."
If life is full of crystal clear stones, gems will still become meaningless. The colored glass made by the Russians is comparable to real gems, and the society of the Principality of Rus has accumulated a large amount of hot money that should have been circulating in the European market.
A large amount of gold and silver was seized from Frankish cities, and Arik did not have high expectations.
He actually doesn't have much awareness. It is precisely because he loves his younger brother so much that he feels that as a prince, his younger brother is a blessing to everyone. It is the right way to handle the things assigned by his younger brother safely. He still cannot realize that the construction of the Principality of Ross requires a lot of
The labor force, especially the labor force, should be paid enough to cope with the huge amount of physical energy consumption. In the final analysis, there is only one reasonable reward - food. Food is the construction capital of the principality. If it is plundered from the past, it can immediately increase the speed of the principality's construction.
Except for a small number of people guarding the vehicle-mounted torsion slingshot, other Russian soldiers began to enter the city.
They climbed through the slope formed by the collapsed wooden door and entered the winding alleyways of the city. They immediately saw corpses scattered everywhere, as well as Ragnar's Viking warriors who were doing a lot of damage.
The city was really full of blood, and the tragedy made Blue Fox tremble involuntarily. He thought he was strong enough, but after all, he saw an indescribable number of corpses and the dark red soil trampled by his boots, which made him afraid.
"Blue fox!" Arik roared, waking up the trembling man.
"ah?"
"Take us to the granary! Quick!"
"Okay! The granary is in the inner fort area."
Unlike Ragnar who led his men to pick out residential buildings and rob them, more than 200 people from the Ross army entered the city and rushed directly to the count's castle. The road leading to the castle had been visited by Blue Fox once, and now that he was returning to his old place, he was very familiar with the road.
Along the way, some city residents were still afraid to flee. They collided with the Russian army and were immediately shot and killed mercilessly by men with crossbows. Arik was not interested in fighting. As for following the prince's order of "retaliatory killings", he would still plunder food.
Put it first.
The warehouse area is almost integrated with the count's castle. The wheat in stock is the count's wealth. Due to the grain tax collected for three more years to conquer Denmark, the treasury is now really full.
The shallow water-filled ditch in the inner castle blocked the way of the Ross army, but on the opposite side there were more than a dozen defenders shooting arrows desperately.
The arrow hit the wooden shield, and the Russian army's mindless charge was forced to calm down.
"Crossbow! Shoot these troublesome birds!"
Arik gave the order, and the crossbows were lined up in an array and busy loading. Unexpectedly, the Finnish longbowmen from Gävlo took the lead. These squirrel shooting masters now have better bows and better arrows, and they can fire in one volley.
Break down the opponent's defense.
"Well done, Jevlo. Everyone else, wade across and lower the drawbridge!"
Let’s talk about the small circle of trenches in the inner fort. It is a simple circular earth pit without any sharp wooden stakes. Now it only introduces a small amount of river water.
Lying in waist-deep water, the Russian warriors walked to the opposite side and cut off the cables with their swords. The heavy suspension bridge suddenly fell, and fierce warriors filed in.
The Earl of Bremen was not in his territory at all. Regarding the attack on his territory, he had already led his cavalry to intercept the Norman fleet fleeing along the river. The so-called pursuers of Ragnar were actually the Earl of Bremen himself.
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The earl never expected that his hometown would suddenly fall. The proud city wall once blocked the Normans, but the city was destroyed by the Russians, whom he despised.
The count had no idea that if he had reached a trade treaty with the Russian envoys last year that did not harm the dignity of Russia, how could there have been such a fierce war? With Rurik's methods, he would definitely not risk a war if he could trade peacefully with people far away and gain wealth.
But it is reasonable to say that the earl despises the foreign Russians. He is an old aristocrat under the banner of the Three Lions of Old Frank. In his concept, only Frank has always crushed and killed foreign countries. What qualifications does a small country have to trade with him on an equal footing?
The city was full of shouts and shouts, and many sounds came together to form a roar that could not distinguish the message.
Aric and his gang didn't care about what Ragnar would do. In the end, the Ross army completely occupied the Earl of Bremen's home. With the desire to make a fortune, he ordered the guys who had the same dream: "Go and grab your freedom! No."
A sure fire! Whoever grabs the gold and silver gets it, and those who fight against each other will be punished! Remember, the enemy will not leave anyone alive! Revenge for our brothers who died in the battle at Haideby!"
A family tragedy has occurred belonging to the Count of Bremen!
The crazy warriors rushed towards the inner castle, which was mainly made of stones, and all the soft belongings in the earl's home were taken by the army.
Arik was busy looking for food with Blue Fox, and the granary was successfully discovered. The neatly stacked sacks inside were staggering.
"I smell the aroma of wheat! Ah, how much wheat is there? Can our boat finish pulling it?!"
"You should inspect the goods first." Blue Fox reminded nervously.
"That's right." Arik pulled out his sword and stabbed a sack. The steel sword was pulled out, and a large amount of dark brown particles collected in the bleeding tank. "It's actually rye? I'm really disappointed."
"What's so strange about this? I've told you that people here like to grow rye. It doesn't matter, you can brew a lot of kvass when you bring it back."
This is also true when Arik thinks about it. Any delicacy made from rye will have a unique sourness. It is the special ale (referred to as kvass) brewed from it that is naturally sweet. It is really a wonderful drink.
He arranged for a group of people to firmly control the granary, and soon ransacked other buildings.
After a while, Jevlo personally escorted a man and a woman out of the stone castle, and bumped into a group of people led by Arik in the courtyard. Speaking of horses, they captured five draft horses that pulled the cart.
, was happily stroking the horse's mane.
"Brother, look here. I seem to have captured two nobles. Oh, no, there is another kid that I have chopped down." Jevro called out.
"Noble?" Arik hurriedly pulled the blue fox out: "Come and identify it."
An elderly woman with disheveled clothes and blurred eyes was sitting on the ground sluggishly. Another boy-like man was beaten with blood on his face and was curled up on the ground, shaking.
The blue fox holding the sword walked over and took a closer look at the woman's face, and everything became clear.
"She is the wife of a nobleman, the Count of Bremen. And this child is the next Count."
"Heir to an earl? If he really becomes an earl," Jevro was shocked and paused, "Wouldn't it be equivalent to my status?"
"You are both counts but completely different. You can recruit five thousand Finnish warriors, but this Count of Bremen can recruit up to five hundred people." After saying that, Blue Fox turned back and asked Arik: "How to deal with these two
Noble? My suggestion is to stay, and maybe you can ask for a ransom from the earl afterwards."
"Is this necessary? You are such a businessman."
Arik didn't want to delay, so he directly signaled to Javlo. In this way, the Finnish executioner raised his knife and killed the two nobles.
Poor Count Hunter of Bremen, he was worried that he would die in the war against Denmark, so he made a will in advance saying that after his death, his eldest son would immediately inherit the title. However, the two sons of this earl became Ross and Ragnar.
Killed by the Allied Forces.
Blue Fox was a little touched. After all, he had had a relationship with these two dead men, and had discussed with the Earl family whether he could trade peacefully with Ross.
Now, Ross has responded to the arrogance of the earl family with absolute force and killing, which is very consistent with the grudges and grudges of Viking society.
But Jevro had no feeling at all about the killing. He climbed to the tower and saw an even more terrifying killing scene in the city square. He even saw Ragnar leading people in and out of the Frankish church, and even looked like a man in black.
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He reported the matter to Arik, and estimated that he would rob the church of all gold and silver when he arrived in Ragnar.
Arik himself was unimpressed and only asked Blue Fox to introduce the situation of the church: "That church only has a very small amount of gold and silverware. During my stay there, I ate black bread and water every day, and even
Even stinky cheese and eggs are luxurious treats. Damn it, those priests have seven deadly sins (commandments), especially not to overeat. If they don't allow overeating, it means staying semi-starved. Otherwise, why do you think I am obese and am now?
The appearance of.”
"But I heard that you believed in their gods, but you weren't touched? At least those guys took you in."
How could the words of a barbaric butcher have another meaning? Blue Fox suddenly felt uncomfortable and asked: "You still expect me to sympathize with them, thinking that I will explain it to them. Look at these two dead bodies, I sympathize with them,
He's going to die anyway, so being killed by your sword is a mercy."
"I don't care." Arik shrugged.
"It doesn't matter to me either." Blue Fox responded, and added: "Actually, that monastery was supposed to be the future residence of that old guy Eskil. If he learned that we demolished St. Peter's Church in Bremen, it might be bad.
He will be angry to death. I am still a businessman, and belief in their gods is only a temporary solution. I only have Prince Rurik in my heart."
"Then you are quite ruthless. But I like you...you are Odin's warrior. Let's go over there and have a look."