Chapter 568

Several veteran Ross fighters were talking and laughing around the campfire and grilling fish, and then the messenger who could get Rurik's message came quickly.

"Brother, do you want a fish to come to our fire?" one person joked cheerfully.

The messenger sat down hurriedly, the fire shining on his cautious and serious face.

"Brothers, the enemy is in the forest. The sentry placed in the forest has sent a message back. Master Rurik tells you that even if you are sleeping, you must hang your shield on your arm and you must hold a sword or an axe in your right hand."

Mo Yan was astonished as soon as this remark came out.

Someone asked: "Is the news reliable?"

"Very reliable." The messenger was impatient again: "My lord expects that they will launch an offensive tomorrow and asks our brothers to guard the camp and let them die. Anyway, we attacked the fortress, and the decisive battle was just two days. Things. You... all get ready. I'll tell the other brothers now."

After the messenger said, he rushed to another campfire. Looking at the people at this campfire, they smelled the smell of grilled fish, and it suddenly became less fragrant.

By arranging a messenger, Rurik notified everyone of the "enemy in sight".

On the surface, the Russ army was surrounded by the enemy?

This is indeed the case.

In spring, Lake Oulu was injected with too much ice and snow melt water, and its runoff into the sea Oulu River also entered the flood season.

The river became very turbulent, and that force was enough to push the big rocks away, so that the flow of water relying on humans to paddle the oars upstream is already a thankless thing. Based on this situation, Rurik could only carry out the crusade by land, and the Rus people were forced to lose a certain degree of mobility.

All Viking forces have a common advantage-mobility beyond ordinary enemies.

This maneuverability comes from the brisk ship. Although there is no ship at hand, the defense of the Rus can greatly compensate for this loss.

The Rus camp was backed by the flooded Oulu River. Under the adjustment of Rurik, the camp became a semicircle.

The shield bearers of the Rosses and Balmerks were all densely deployed on the periphery. It is said that once the enemy launches a surprise attack, the soldiers get up quickly and stack their shields to build a shield wall.

Commanding a large army, the commander's overly detailed operations often turn into superfluous micro-manipulations.

Rurik doesn't feel that he has come up with surprises and complicated deployments, and his staff can do everything.

When it comes to building a shield wall, the Ross people, Balmerks, and Lake Mlaren are all good at them.

Rosby was much richer many years ago, especially the large amount of iron smelting, coupled with the seizures of previous wars, Rurik's army has more than 800 men in chain mail.

They slept in armor, and when they heard the wind and grass, they climbed up to fight with their swords.

A group of archers and crossbowmen were arranged among them, but more archers were called to Rurik's side.

In cold weapon wars, the intensive use of bows and crossbowmen can exert great tactical effectiveness. The shooters arranged in the front line are to create chaos for the enemy, and the shooters behind are arranged in a matrix, the quantity changes and the qualitative changes, the power is extremely amazing.

Even the children from Leuricla, and even the Maiden warriors of the "Valkyrie Legion" under the command of Carlotta, are not the first time they have participated in the battle.

There are no cowards in the entire team, only a large group of veterans who can remain calm in the face of a large number of dead bodies.

Many people are even very arrogant, thinking that if the enemy dared to rush to the camp, he would die early. Such a person sleeps steadily, but most of the Ross people have a nap this night.

Outside the couch, there are a group of enemies who are staring at each other. How many people can really fall asleep heartlessly?

A tense atmosphere permeated the camp. Even though many people did not get much rest, thanks to this atmosphere, the tense and vigilant soldiers ignored their exhaustion for a while.

The Ross army made deployments overnight, and lying under the campfire was an armored soldier who was known to be able to get up and fight at any time.

On the other hand, the Tavastias still feel that they have grasped the initiative in the war, and their military strength is superior.

The soldiers lying in ambush in the forest leaned on the tree to sleep, and waited for the morning fog to rise after dawn, and took advantage of their weapons to launch an offensive.

Listen!

The endless river, that is the sound of the flood! Even the gods are helping the brave Tavastia, and the brothers rushed up and drove the Ross people into the river, and the gods would help the soldiers to annihilate these enemies.

Although Vatyara was a little nervous, when he suddenly had a hint of doubt, he took this set of thoughts and convinced himself.

After going back and forth, he felt that he was bound to win, just waiting for the early morning birds to break the peace.

However, the birds have long been aware of a human battle, and the wandering flocks of birds ran away cleanly, and even the nearby squirrels were hidden.

The morning mist filled the forest, and Vatyara awakened from the damp feeling.

The fog was not so dense, and it was dawn, and visibility was not high in the dark blue world.

"Haha, God is helping me!"

There was no time to eat, he led the cleaning and awakening all the sleeping soldiers.

Young, old, and even hairy boys, the warriors of Tavastia are standing on the tree with a complicated mood.

There was no pre-war training, no impassioned speeches, and even the commanding of Vatyara didn't say a few words.

it is more than words!

A short spear kept moving forward, tension, fear, and excitement, all of which became meaningless.

Under the personal leadership of their commander Vatyara, the warriors of Tavastia, 1,200 people marched in the morning mist forest, officially launching a tribal alliance that has not had a force of more than 1,000 people in ten years. Armed rush!

Regardless of age, it is very clear that the opportunities based on the Tavastia are short-lived. When the sun shines on the earth, the morning mist will quickly engage in battle. If the army delays time, the advantage of the raid will be lost. Although it was a decisive battle (group fight), the madmen of Tavastia were also confident, but the raid tactics could at least win quickly.

Warriors covered in animal skins were advancing in the morning mist, and they tried not to whisper. The sound of stomping on dry pine branches was still inevitable. The sound of one person smashing a branch can be ignored, but it is the same for a thousand people, unless the Ross is deaf or knows nothing about hunting to ignore this strange sound.

When it comes to hunting, the skills of the Ruths are only stronger than those of the Tavastians!

The warriors arranged by Rurik for the night watch became vigilant when they noticed that the sky was blue, and when they noticed a strange buzzing noise (too many people stepping on the branches) besides the sound of water, they began to mad The extinguished bonfires ran wildly, violently awakening the resting soldiers.

Rurik barely slept in the linen tent, he slept very lightly.

Jeflo broke in suddenly and stomped a few vigorously in front of Rurik.

"Has it started?" Rurik sat upright while his heart was beating.

"My lord. They are here, everything is really as you expected, and the decisive battle has begun."

Rurik clutched his heart and frowned: "It's finally started. Help me up and fight!"

This morning fog is far from reaching the point where you can't see your fingers, but the Rus army, which has the dominant white color, also has camouflage in the fog, very coincidentally.

The Rus and Balmerks, the Jianyongs had their shields against their chests, and the steel swords and spearheads formed a shield wall to the outside.

They fought their backs and built an arc-shaped array with a trolley as the core.

They spontaneously formed a shield wall composed of three layers of people, most of the crossbowmen lined up in a matrix in the back, and the catapult was also ready to launch.

However, the torsion slingshot placed on the shield wall and a few lying crossbowmen are already ready to take advantage of the chaos to harvest lives.

Soon, the Tavastias walked out of the woodland. They trampled on the flat land of the river beach, and any concealment was meaningless.

"Brothers! Roar! Frighten the enemy!"

Vatyara roared, causing all the charging people to roar from Strapdown.

This roar really made the Roths feel a little bit scared. After all, the fog still hid the enemy's strength to a great extent, and no one knew how many enemies rushed over.

Rurik believed that the enemy's strength was only one thousand men, and the Russian army had an advantage in this regard.

He was guarded by many armored bloodthirsty veterans, in the safest rear of the array.

It is here that the bows and crossbows are aimed at the front at an angle of about 30.

Boys and girls, elite mercenaries, and Kewen Longbowmen, suddenly launched a salvo under Rurik's orders!

This is not a normal volley, it is a volley of nearly four hundred arrows!

Light conventional bows and heavy crossbow arrows, they cross a low and flat parabola, and then are covered by fog, and plunge into the relatively dense Tavastia array of the attacking team.

People can't see the arrow, only the fear that the dense swish makes them realize.

An innumerable Tavastiya fell to the ground with arrows. The running warrior realized that the opponent seemed to be prepared, and the bow-bearer dropped the arrows in confusion.

Arrows fell in the array of the Ross people, and three unlucky fighters were cut through their skin. Fortunately, the well-prepared chain mail still blocked the enemy's clumsy arrow cluster from further damage to the body.

Rurik didn't care about it at all, or he didn't have time to take care of it.

"Catapult! Now!"

He roared again hoarse, and deliberately charged the ten bull trebuchets in one third of the area and threw out the pebbles he had obtained on the spot.

As for what harm was done, no one could understand under the fog.

However, Ross and Balmerk's sword and shield hand, who were in the front line, had already vaguely seen the black figure that suddenly emerged from the fog in front.

Someone yelled at the enemy in Anos, and all the half-bow shields leaned in front of them, and the sword-holding hands became tighter.

It was at this critical moment that the crossbowmen and torsion slingshots placed in the front row were in trouble at the same time.

The Tavastians, they still did not see the enemy's face clearly, they were hit head-on again.

The person who charged was directly hit through the chest by the projectile of the torsion slingshot, and his head was cut off. The accuracy of the crossbow immediately forced the arrow hitter to fall to the ground.

The crossbowmen hurriedly climbed back to the array. At this moment, the contact battle between the two armies broke out.

The Tavastias paid some casualties and finally saw the face of the Ross people. They were actually all white, standing like a famous snowman!

Many people felt that this was a powerful enemy, and some wanted to calm down, but the torrent of war urged them to run into it.

The Tavastians rushed into the battle madly and slammed into the shield wall of the Rus like a bull. Unfortunately, they were not bulls.

At the moment of contact, the sword and spear stabbed indiscriminately, and the axe and halberd (even if the spear was equipped with an axe) slashed bravely.

The bucklers of the Rus are stacked on top of each other, and the Balmerks also use exactly the same tactics. The Ross people are using the tortoise shells of the Romans. It seems that this is retro? To be fair, Rurik knew that this set of formations was placed many years ago, and it was still a cost-effective tactic to deal with messy armed criminals.

Even if they admire Odin, a group of shirtless berserkers will emerge during the fight. Even if most Vikings are so poor that they don't even have reliable clothes, they must have a shield that can protect most of their torso.

The Tavastians slashed the shields of the Roths frantically, and the effect was really bad. When the fighting develops for a period of time, they feel more and more strenuous.

In terms of posture and strength, the Ross and Balmerks, as the "Northern Germanic group", have a stronger physique than the Franks and Saxons, while the Tavastian immigrants from North Asia are inherently shorter ( In this era, the direct ancestors of Finland hardly merged with Slavic or Germanic ancestry).

The sound of shouting and killing came one after another, and there were metal collisions everywhere.

It is impossible for the Ross people to have no casualties, but with the protection of shields and armor, the wounded suffered almost all internal injuries, especially bruises on their arms and shoulders.

The battle continued. When Vatyara realized that his surprise attack could not rush the enemy's line, the plan of driving the enemy to drown in the river of flood had been lost, and the sun was spilling on the battlefield on the riverside!

The opportunity belonging to Tavastia almost disappeared!

Some wounded soldiers were dragged to the rear, and Rurik still had no time to take care of the wounded soldiers. He continued to order his long-range archer to continue to cause chaos to the enemy.

Because of those javelin-throwing enemies, Rurik knew at a glance that these guys were also throwing Roman javelins.

The hapless Ross soldier suddenly died under such a javelin, and Rurik could only counterattack with a bow.

"Damn the morning mist! Hurry up and disperse! It made me lose my weapon advantage, **** it!"

Although the casualties of the war are inevitable, the Ruths are also flesh and blood no matter how strong they are. Every soldier is important. Lurik does not want to kill a subordinate. The reality is that the Rus are suffering inevitable casualties.

Looking at the front line again, when the sun suddenly appeared, the Ross people began to counterattack defensively.

Bijuni, Arik and Heliger, the three of them led their subordinates to push back the enemy.

The energy of the Tavastias was almost consumed. After paying the terrible price of about two hundred dead bodies, all the remaining people kept a certain distance from the Rus.

When the person also killed the red eye, temporarily holding the axe to rush into the shield wall of the Ruth, he was stabbed to death by a chaotic sword.

It was originally a Ross man with a blue pattern and white robe, and almost everyone in the first row was bloody. That is the blood of the enemy, and even the wood of the shield is infiltrated by the blood of the enemy.

It seemed that the collapse was only a moment, and the Tavastias who didn't want to be cowards, everyone knew that the raid was not only a failure, but the possibility of defeating the enemy in one fell swoop was not high.

The world became more and more clear, and golden light sprinkled on this beach.

There needs to be a person or a measure to destroy the enemy's psychology.

Rurik didn't care so much. The fog was dissipating at an extremely fast speed. The person standing on the trolley and manipulating the trebuchet could already see exactly where the enemy's front line was ~ www.mtlnovel.com ~ estimated their distance.

With this opportunity, more than three hundred crossbowmen in the rear were once again assembled.

"150 stika! Take an arrow!"

"get ready!"

"Hjutraaaa!"

Long arrows, short arrows and stones fell from the sky, and their combined forces formed a striking surface about fifty meters wide and forty meters long.

At a distance of about 150 meters, the Rus suddenly launched a intensive attack within such a range, especially when the enemy seemed to be exhausted, the raid, as expected, destroyed the morale of the Tavastia.

With this blow, more than 30 people fell to the ground and did not get up, and many people were so panicked that they didn't pull out the arrows that were inserted in their bodies, and fled after throwing their axes.

Vatyara didn't die, but the old face was cut out by the cluster of arrows, and the whole body was **** and oozing.

As the commander-in-chief, she knew that staying here was looking for death, relying on the fortress behind, she could still hold on.

"Brothers, let's withdraw! We will die if we don't leave!"

However, his cry was drowned in the Viking roar of the Ross and Balmerks.

Why?

Under the leadership of their flag captains and commanders, the Ross and Balmerks suddenly disperse the rock-solid shield wall, and the defensive counterattack begins now!

Countless polar bears covered in plasma rushed over, first slashed and killed the wounded in a frenzy, and then began a fatal pursuit!

It's an avalanche! The attacking Russ are like the avalanche itself, if they are submerged by them, they will undoubtedly die!

The Tavastias had no attention to each other. They threw their helmets and armors and fleeed, only to escape back to the fortress and discuss their long-term plans.

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