The cavalry charge caused the earth to tremble. The wall charge, combined with the color of the white robes of the Ross cavalry, was like a huge wave hitting the rocks, like a big tide rushing into the coast.
The refugees had never seen this before, and when they saw it for the first time in their lives, they suddenly realized that they had guessed the cause of death of those Växjö soldiers.
Even brave warriors were easily crushed in front of these monsters, and now I am trapped in Silver Castle...
Fisk personally led the cavalry charge, and the orders he gave were ruthless.
Uncharacteristically, the Russian army waved their swords at those who could show mercy. If Rurik were present, he would have thought carefully before deciding whether to take action, but Fisk was determined to seize the opportunity.
The war horses collided with the refugees, and their iron hooves trampled the fallen ones until their bones were broken. The cavalry wielded their steel swords and killed them arbitrarily. It was obvious that the woman was actually a woman screaming in fear. Because the order was absolute, they killed her with great pain.
A fierce charge was like a pack of wolves entering a flock of sheep.
Collision, trampling, chopping, and stabbing, the refugees who were sitting on the ground were "sorted out". When the cavalry charged from one side to the other, they saw only motionless corpses on the battlefield, the huddled and wailing wounded, and
The crowd who luckily escaped from the battlefield and ran towards the wooden wall of Silver Castle.
"Keep killing! Cut me!" Fisk's steel sword was stained with blood, and the killing blinded his mind, turning him into a monster.
In other words, the entire cavalry team has turned into a monster, and every one of the cavalrymen turned around and continued to chase.
They slashed left and right, or stood still and shot arrows. The cavalry were killing the enemies running in front of them at the fastest speed.
Such a violent scene sent chills down the spines of the Allied troops who were observing the battle, and their original work of plundering the catch was also stopped. The fishermen and those setting up camps on the shore looked up and watched the cavalry killing and trampling indiscriminately.
Their legs were shaking uncontrollably, and many people were so frightened that they sat on the ground. There were even women who were ordered to bury the stove and were so frightened that they fainted.
Merchant Harvleth saw a cavalryman chop off a man's head, and he also saw a cavalryman holding a spear and stabbing a man who was kneeling on the ground begging for mercy.
"It's really terrifying. They still kill people like this...Those people are obviously..."
Hearing his trembling sigh, Hagrid came over with a wooden staff and patted the business partner on the shoulder: "The Russians have given them a chance. They must fight. It is fate that they are in this situation."
"What a fate? The Russians are so cruel, and our cooperation with them is like making a contract with Loki."
"At least, we are on the side of the Ross people." Hagrid's heart felt like a stone was pressed on him. He muttered in front of him: "I have seen the king of Ross, a young man who does not look like an evil god. Since that man has commanded many
The tribe’s army will definitely welcome us to join.”
"What should we do? Start a war with our own people (referring to the refugees in distress)?" Haversus fell into conflict: "I actually don't want to do this."
"Then just watch. The Jönköping people I brought don't want to attack Silver Castle, and the same goes for you Växjö people. I don't know what the young general wants, so just wait and see what happens."
Although non-combatants and the Växjö Allied Forces did not participate in the battle, they hung flags on every ship and built camps at the mouth of the river. No matter how you look at it, it proves that there is a huge army intending to fight for a long time, which makes it appear that
The cavalry is just a part of the army.
Fisk's cavalry quickly approached the city wall, which was now about four meters high and made of pine wood and rammed earth. It was impossible for the refugees to climb with bare hands.
Those refugees were both male and female, and they even held babies in their arms. They were originally hungry, but under the threat of life and death, they burst out with terrifying and possibly final strength.
They cling to the wood and climb hard, even if their fingernails are cracked and their fingers bleed, they still have to climb in order to survive.
But in the eyes of the people of Silver Castle, this group of refugees are like "man-eating devils" and are not much weaker than those Ross cavalry.
"We can't let them climb up! Kill them!"
In addition to the professional mercenaries, merchants' private soldiers, and armed slaves, the defenders of Silver Castle. For the sake of their own safety, the city people, and any man or woman who could afford weapons, devoted themselves to the defense of the city for their own lives and property.
The earthen jar filled with sand became heavy and was smashed down by the defenders, hitting the climber accurately.
The short spear thrust downward, and the bow holder leaned down to shoot.
Some people even used a creative trick to get along, which is to tie a rock with a cable, throw it down from a high place, and then pull the blood-stained rock up and smash it again.
This scene was unexpected by the Ross cavalry who were killing each other. For a moment, Fisk couldn't figure out how the guys from Silver Castle could fight each other with the guys he killed.
Behind the cavalry were already piles of corpses. Those who had been chopped, trampled and injured would die in an instant.
It was Kanuf, who led all the infantry of the standing army, lining up in a thin shield wall, combing the battlefield side by side.
They showed "mercy" to those who fell to the ground, and any injured were stabbed in the vital parts with swords to promote their quick death.
Therefore, when Kanuf's men passed by, there could be no living people behind them.
The current battle situation is difficult for Fisk to understand. Although the wooden wall is not too tall and unreachable, at least the cavalry will not have wings to fly over.
"Everyone stop!" Fisk barely controlled his men who were extremely murderous. He collected the cavalry and then ordered the team to spread out again.
"Hold your sword! Hold the bow! Shoot at the enemy! Remember, everyone in front is the enemy!"
Therefore, Fisk is not targeting the Växjö refugees who are the main militant faction. They are all enemies, including the Silver Castle defenders.
The cavalry formed up and began to shoot arrows. Recurve bows were aimed at the sky, and light arrows were thrown in the direction of Silver Castle.
Most of the arrow feathers are glued with the flight feathers of domestic chickens. The mainly brown arrow feathers are glued at an angle deliberately, so that the arrows spin in the air and fall with extremely high stability.
The cavalry will not be stupid enough to rush into the Silver Castle where the fierce battle is going on and kill them. It is precisely these refugees who were killed like crazy that are objectively helping the Ross army to attack the city. How can we not take advantage of such a good thing? What we need to do now is archery.
Weaken the enemy's strength.
Dense arrows rained down from the sky, and every time the three hundred cavalry rode there was a barrage of three hundred arrows.
Simply gathering a large number of archers to shoot was a tactic that the residents of Silver Castle had never imagined.
Looking at the city, women, children and many elderly people either use wooden shovels or hands to stuff sand and soil into pottery urns, or tear down some useless stone walls and transport the stones from the pottery urns to the city with their bare hands.
front.
But the arrow came.
The armor-piercing arrows of the pointed arrow clusters attacked indiscriminately, supporting the people on the front line, and the soldiers began to be hit by arrows.
They were screaming and hiding in all directions. The soldiers raised their shields above their heads and tried to pull the howling people who were shot by arrows into safe sheds. Work to support the front line was also suspended.
Is it safe to hide in a house? Frightened people rushed into the longhouse, but the haystack roof could not stop all the arrows.
It was no longer safe indoors, so many people flocked to the other side of the city.
Yinbao is a city built on a small cliff, even a little distance from the port. The city relies on the cliff for defense in this kind of boundary, so it only needs to build a city wall facing inland to complete the defense.
When they rebuilt Silver Castle many years ago, their main idea was to defend. Now they want to escape from this unlucky place, but they forgot to set up a quick route for themselves. Now, everyone can only hide in various places that can prevent arrows.
I went to the house of the arrow and prayed that the city wall could block the attack of the Russians and Växjö refugees.
So Kanuf took his brothers to meet with Fisk, who had already switched to free-fire mode in the standing archery mode.
Kanuf saw clearly what his good brother had done, and immediately felt that it was too outrageous. He held a bloody steel sword and pointed it at the detonator, looking up and asking: "Fisk, are you playing a game? You are using an arrow.
Can you defeat Silver Castle?"
"Maybe." Fisk shrugged.
"Forget it. If you fire a lot of arrows, aren't you just giving them weapons? Let the brothers pause first."
"This...is good."
Fisk thought about it for a moment, and that was indeed what he meant. His cavalry was chopping and shooting arrows in the battle, and their arms would inevitably become sore.
The mass shooting operation was suspended. The Ross army did not know the situation inside Silver Castle. The tragedy under the city wall was obvious to everyone.
A horrifying pile of corpses appeared under the corner. The dead were stacked on top of each other, and some people were climbing up the pile.
At the same time, the red-eyed Silver Castle defenders continued to stifle any attempts by the people under the wall to board the city, because the defenders now had reason to believe that the people under the wall were on the same side as the Ross army!
Even people in the city were so panicked that those who had paid money to enter the city before became targets of suspicion.
Silver Castle has only two gates, and the cavalry is very mobile. The first gate is now a battlefield, and the defenders will guard it to the death and kill all those who try to climb.
Although the second door is not big, it has been sealed by the trolley with the wheels removed.
Silver Castle was sealed, with soldiers guarding both gates, and those who had entered the city were temporarily controlled. In this way, even if there were spies and saboteurs inside, they would not be able to open the gate without authorization and let the wind-moving cavalry rush in.
Fisk and Kanuf met, and the four hundred warriors still suffered no losses. War horses are precious. After high-intensity fighting, the horses need to rest. All the cavalry dismounted and mixed with the infantry. The battle will continue, and Fisk is unwilling to
retreat.
A bear showed its terrifying fangs, and Fisk said coldly: "Those warring factions who escaped must die. We have already killed a lot of people, so we might as well get it done."
"How? Attack the city immediately? This city wall..." Kanuf took a look, "Aric was only nineteen years old at the time. He cut down a big tree and led his brothers to hold the tree and knock down the wall. We can
Follow suit."
"I also have this intention, but I have more plans."
"We'll talk about your other plans later. What do we do now? Continue the attack?"
Fisk thought for a while: "At least continue to cause killings and shoot those people below the city! Kill them all! Then, we will take a detour and attack their port."
"What a good idea!" Kanuf laughed out loud: "If they lose the boat, the people of Silver Castle will be unable to escape. It is said that there are many silver coins and jewelry in this city. We can't let these treasures escape."
No one was willing to take in the refugees from Växjö, the main militant faction. They were met with cheese on both sides and were killed indiscriminately.
There were thick piles of corpses under the wooden wall, and the blood soaked the ground and formed a crimson stream, slowly flowing towards the ocean.
The few people who tried to escape were chased and killed by the Ross cavalry, forming a "death belt" around Silver Castle. Such a scene subverted the Silver Castle people's understanding of war, with a Viking-style shield wall collision and warriors brutally hacking each other.
Instead of showing up, the Russian army apparently killed without loss at all.
The brown-yellow feathers of the arrows were embedded in the sandy ground inside the Silver Castle, densely packed like an oat field waiting to be harvested.
Although the warriors with bows in the city thought this was an unexpected addition of weapons, what happened next was heartbreaking.
The Russian army finally retreated, but not completely.
Those ships flying the flag of Russia that did not take any action actually attacked the unguarded port!
The pier of Silver Castle was captured, and the defenders were frightened, thinking that the enemy was going to land on the beach and continue to attack the city in another direction. The tired soldiers hurriedly moved to the low wall in the direction of the pier. A few soldiers with bows were already throwing arrows at them.
The so-called Ross army was the confederate army that had been watching the drama for a while. These allies of Växjö's Peace Party had to prove their loyalty by attacking the people of Silver Castle.
They did not participate in the battle, and the method of proving their loyalty was not only simple, but also extremely tempting.
Ships have a huge temptation for ordinary small Viking families.
"Go and seize all the ships of the Silver Castle people from attacking their ports. Whoever takes them will belong to them. We, Ross, will not take them with you." Fisk ordered.
Such sporadic counterattack arrows were simply ignored by the "looting army" of the Allied forces. They towed away all the long boats, small fishing boats and even larger cargo ships, and carried out a ferocious plunder, completely cutting off the Silver Castle people's escape from the sea.
possibility.
As for some boats that were difficult to untie the ropes and pull away, the Allied men destroyed the boats with the dark idea of not letting others get them if they couldn't get them. Fortunately, they didn't bring any kindling, otherwise they would have to be in the port area again.
Light a fire.
And fire, isn’t it a vicious means of attack?
It’s not like Fisk hasn’t thought about fire attack skills.
He was originally a down-and-out man, but he was reused only because of his loyalty to Rurik. He wanted to build a great career, so he studied hard. Regarding transforming ordinary arrows into flame arrows and performing fire attacks, he learned from Rurik.
I learned this special tactic, but considering my own purpose, it is not convenient to use it in Silver Castle.
Because the fire burning the city has a high probability of burning the silver coins into a hard lump full of impurities, which would be too bad.
After producing a huge number of corpses and killing without restraint, the Russian army returned to the camp at the mouth of the sea. A large number of bonfires had been lit here, and the reward given to the returning soldiers was a large amount of cooked oats.
In the evening, the battle was over. Under the bloody setting sun, the Ross army was in a complete sea and land outflanking situation against Silver Castle.
No one was collecting the corpses everywhere, especially under the walls of Silver Castle where the corpses were most densely packed.
It must be said that Fisk is a very good student. Since King Rurik is good at using the "bonfire trick to confuse the enemy", he is now imitating it.
Although the enemy's possibility of escaping by sea was completely lost as the ships were either destroyed or captured, perhaps the Silver Castle people would sneak out of the city into the distant forest in the dead of night.
Under the cover of darkness, the Ross warriors carrying fire began to light bonfires around the open space outside the city wall to create the illusion that more Ross troops were arriving at night.
The horses were gathered together, and they were fed some salted oats and then rested on the spot.
After the soldiers ate a meal of boiled oats, Fisk had to adjust the cost of supplies based on his own supplies and future battle plans.
The officers of the Russian Army and the village leaders of the Allied Army gathered together to listen to the plan planned by Fisk and Kanuf.
After some polite self-praise and affirmation of the Allied Forces' strong execution ability (referring to plundering fishing boats), Fisk emphasized the purpose of the army.
"We have already reached here, I must take Silver Castle! I don't care whether the people here live or die, the wealth inside belongs to Ross. I want to follow the example of the king and capture this city with as few casualties as possible. I will not order the allies to attack by force.
, I will capture the city in a clever way..."
What is a clever method? Shake people!
Some ships will leave the battlefield and head south, flying the flag of Russia and going straight to Bornholm Island in the south, asking the old Russian Spyut, the royal pirate who is stationed there, to come to help in the battle.
This would take some time, but Fisk did not rely on Spyut's pirate army to arrive in time.
It just so happens that the current war situation is extremely favorable for Ross to enter the army. The army has surrounded the small Silver Castle. Although there is not much wheat in stock, the food is wheat. The war horses can eat grass arbitrarily, including the seedlings in the nearby oat fields. People
Food is better provided. Facing the sea, fishermen enter the sea in large numbers to catch fish, just fishing, because the Växjö Allies know very well that the sea in front of them is the source of herring and cod.
In the past, this was not their territory and they had no right to fish. Now it is a good opportunity to fish at zero cost!
It is impossible to get any more supplies in Yinbao City. If it doesn't rain, because the control of the river is completely in the hands of the Ross army, they can even cut off fresh water replenishment (there are no wells in the city). Fisk estimates that he can forcefully consume Yinbao.
, but things developed far faster than he imagined...