Rheingau pineapple Robert, who was ordered to march, and Harald Clark, the deposed king of Denmark, encountered the Saxons fleeing north with their 3,000 cavalry.

This is very abnormal!

If they wanted to escape, the wisest choice was to flee to Cologne, which was not only next to the Westphalia region, but also protected by the faculty, and no forces dared to attack there.

As a result, they did flee to the north without hesitation. Not only because they were Saxons, but also because of the news that would excite all Saxons - a hero announced his return.

At first, Robert and Harald Clark were skeptical. The cavalry had no intention of capturing the fleeing people, and continued on their way after obtaining some information.

Whether Ludov really betrayed the kingdom or not is completely insufficient evidence based solely on the words of a group of lowly peasants.

Especially for Robert, in terms of past affection, he subjectively did not want to fight Liudov at all.

The sensible earl maintained the utmost restraint. Because of what the farmers said, the stone pier bridge beside the ruins of Bremen was re-timbered, even if it was a patchwork of newly cut trees for people to pass through. question. As for who provided this information, the farmers said with certainty that it was Liudov.

Even so, Count Robert still had great fantasies. He didn't believe in Ludov's mutiny, and he was more willing to believe that these were the conspiracies of the Normans to sow discord.

After all, the capricious, utterly powerless Danish Horlick who surrendered to his kingdom is simply not credible.

Similarly, Harald Clark, the deposed king of Denmark beside him, has a sterling silver cross on his chest, which seems to fully prove his piety. Can he be trusted? Do not!

Robert had great concern for all the Normans, even though this Harald Clark had been a courtier for thirteen years. Things are very clear, if Prince Ludwig trusts this person, at least one of his baron titles will be conferred, but he doesn't. If you don't trust your own monarch, you don't have to trust yourself.

However, when he saw a large number of longboats that were clearly Normans moored on the Weser River in the ruins of Bremen, Robert was really unable to hold back.

A huge cavalry team launched an attack under his command!

The 3,000 cavalry had always maintained their marching ranks. Although they were going to launch an attack, it would take some time for this team, which was marching in a column, to change into a horizontal line.

The well-trained elite Frankish cavalry gradually formed a broad offensive front while the horses jogged slowly.

Those cavalry armed with spears arrived at the risk one after another, and those armed only with swords and battle axes followed.

Because they saw that there were a lot of people sitting on the river bank, relying on a large number of ships.

Among those people, there are a large number of people who carry round shields like turtle shells. Isn't this image like a Norman pirate? Those blond hair dazzled in the sun, and there were plenty of pirates in seemingly uniform blue-and-white tones.

Robert had never seen such pirates, but they could only be Normans.

So, they are trained pirates! According to Harald Clark, these pirates are Russ, so they need to be wiped out! It is rumored that this group of elite pirates killed and burned Bremen, and now they are here again. If this pirate army is allowed to continue to sway in the Frankish territory, I don't know how many villages and cities will be ruined.

Regarding Prince Ludwig's battle with King Lothair, this is after all a melee between the nobles in the Frankish country.

As a vassal, Robert was forced to be involved in this conflict. In principle, he did not like this civil war at all, but when it came to crusade against the savage Normans, that was another attitude.

The Frankish cavalry made a huge noise here. Their clothes were also blue and white. In particular, the horses of the elite cavalry were mostly covered with a layer of "blue and white sheets", and the riders generally wore chain armor on their upper bodies.

What is elite? When marching, the rider's armor is curled up and hung on the saddle, and it is quickly put on the body when it is about to attack.

If the sun is shining at this moment, under the bright sunlight, they will look extraordinarily dazzling.

The Russ Army and the Saxon Army, who were standing on the riverside for "fishing and leisure", suddenly appeared dazzling and made everyone tremble.

What is Arik doing now?

He originally took off his coat to reveal his thick chest hair, so that he could enjoy a warm sunbathing.

There are also many young Rus soldiers jumping directly into the river to take a bath, washing their bodies with slightly smelly soap, if not all wearing white underwear (which Rurik ordered ten years ago), this scene is relative to those waiting on the shore. The Saxon refugees are indeed too immoral.

A stove was set up by the riverside, and ten large iron pots were boiling oatmeal.

Due to the lack of technical precision, these cast iron mass-produced iron pans are too thick, and they need more firewood to cook the oatmeal well. It heats slowly and dissipates heat very slowly. After the stove was ignited, the fire not only did not stop, but a large amount of food and river water were frequently poured into it, so that no matter soldiers or refugees, everyone could eat mashed wheat porridge anytime, anywhere. , but solved the problem of drinking good water and eating.

In the beginning, one of the refugees turned out to be a bad guy, knowing that the sudden arrival of a correspondent claimed to be a Saxon soldier serving Ludov.

The refugees all went north in the form of village associations. They were driven to the river bank in an uneasy mood, and they were immediately given hot wheat porridge, which was extremely useful to the refugees who were exhausted by traveling.

The refugees were not aware of the Rus' flag, but it looked like a cross rotated 45. There is indeed a cross flag flying here, with the letters SAKSON in the upper left corner. What this means, it is clear at a glance.

The vast majority of the Saxon people from Westphalia used to worry that their lord would be targeted by Lothair because of his support for Ludwig. When the lord's messenger picked up the family overnight, even the tomb of the great hero Vidukind was dug up and moved. When the public heard it, they joined a panic-stricken road to escape.

Every village has gone north in the form of armed associations, often the priests stationed in the village stabilize the people's hearts, and the small lords or the sons or cronies of the lords in the villages are the commanders.

This is very similar to the traditional Saxon way of life a hundred years ago, a village is a fighting group, with strong fighting ability and survival.

A village usually has only two or three hundred people, and the smaller ones are only a hundred people. They fled for their lives with the new harvest of this year's wheat, and the softness to take away. They wanted to cross the Weser into Hamburg, believing that the bridge had been repaired.

Until the refugees who ran for their lives from the village reached the ruins of Bremen, they immediately found that they had two choices. Or keep walking across the bridge to Hamburg, which may take five or six days of grinding, they are not the military after all. Or take the ship provided by the Duke (that is, the Ross fleet), and you can arrive in just one day.

Most of the refugees who did not leave the village, who had almost finished their whole life, have been tortured to the point of tearing some leather and tying their feet with hemp ropes, barely moving on the road full of weeds. It is very risky to travel by sea, and it is very delicate that many villagers see the sea for the first time. They were willing to believe in the promise of arriving in one day, but Arik, the commander of the fleet, decided to wait until tomorrow to set off early, so as to arrive in Hamburg tomorrow evening without delaying the refugees finishing their meals.

The waiting refugees were sent to Hamburg, and the squadron was divided into two under the arrangement of Arik. One team transported people, and the other team was on standby in the ruins of Bremen.

Then in the ruins of Bremen, the Russ-Saxon coalition maintained a mere 500 troops for a long time. This force is not small, but it is too shabby for Arik now.

Because some boats must be arranged to catch European perch on the spot to satisfy the appetite of the warriors. They are Russ after all, and their love for grilled fish cannot be overstated.

Four hundred soldiers were drying fishing nets, sharpening weapons, washing clothes, bathing, and even just basking in the sun.

More than 200 refugees were not in a hurry to board the ship. They learned that there were a large number of Norman Rus mixed with their Saxons. At first everyone was naturally surprised, but everyone knew nothing about the Rus, anything about pirates. It's all hearsay. According to the descriptions in the scriptures, a devout person should not listen to slander, but should see with his own eyes and listen with ears.

They believed in their eyes, these Russ clothes and hairstyles were weird, but it was these people who gave the tired everyone a hot porridge, and soon they would bring everyone to Hamburg.

Many people, even the accompanying priests, saw many large boats that had never been added to them in their life. With their extremely limited knowledge, they pointed to the large boats and said that it was the Tivat mentioned in the scriptures.

It wasn't the Ark, of course, but for all refugees, it was the Ark.

But now, a large group of Frankish cavalry, desperate for their lives, suddenly appeared.

All the casual people stood up, and Arik's ease instantly turned to fear.

He was so shocked that he opened his **** mouth and screamed a few times before giving the order: "It's the enemy! Let's get on board."

on board? Running away suddenly?

Although almost everyone rushed towards the half-grounded longboat moored by the river in panic, some young soldiers of the Second Flag, under the leadership of the young Conusson, had to defend the camp that had already set up a wooden shed. Fan.

Little Conusson is not a young man. On the contrary, he and Arik are about the same age. They are both in their early thirties, which is the moment when a Viking warrior is not only strong but also wise.

His father was a territorial official who was appointed as the Governor of the New Rosesburg Capital Region. In principle, his father would take over immediately after his death.

Little Conuson, who has fought for too many **** battles and proved to be a pure man, as the flag captain of the second flag team in this war, most of his subordinates are young soldiers recruited from New Roseburg. Everyone's arrogance is here, and the second flag team is not afraid of those cavalry.

Little Conusson is still naked on the front and back, with chest hair and tattoos clearly visible. He faced Arik full of blood with a steel sword, and directly refuted his order to escape: "We can't escape! I want to fight those enemies."

"you?"

"right!"

Arik's eyes widened in anger, and the strong aura forced little Konu Panasonic to take a step back subconsciously. In an instant, Arik turned into anger and punched his old buddy in the stomach.

The little Konuson, who was in pain, was puzzled, hunched over his stomach and raised his head, revealing wolf eyes that wanted to kill.

"Why beat me. Are you... a coward?"

"You... oops!" Arik stomped his feet in anger, and simply said in a fit of anger, "I won't stop you if you want to fight them, but if you want to drag a lot of ignorant cubs to death, I'll give you another one. Fist. Fool, turn your head and take a good look! See how many of them there are."

Because there is not much time left for the Russ-Saxon army, and those refugees, old and weak, women and children, can no longer take heavy luggage, and jump on the long boat as soon as possible, even wading on the boat.

There were carts, bullock carts, and pony carts, with loads of sacks of oats that had not yet been transferred to the ships.

The oatmeal was still bubbling in the ten cauldrons.

Seeing that the cavalry became more and more overwhelming, the little Konusson was also all of a sudden.

persist in? Pooh!

Look at those cavalry! They reflected the strong sunlight all over their bodies, which proved that they were all wearing iron armor. But it is not surprising to wear armor, and the Ross army also wears a lot of armor. However, their cavalry was outnumbered.

Refugee men and women were shouting that they were Frankish cavalry. Some people even threatened that it was the cavalry of the Frankish king who killed him.

The Russ-Saxon warriors who were still on the shore hurriedly brought their personal belongings, especially their own weapons, swiftly pushed the longboat into the river, and then climbed directly onto the boat to enter the wider area. in the Weser River.

As for those who were still swimming, they climbed into the running longboats as soon as possible.

There was no time to untie the ropes for the wooden stakes holding the large ships, so the soldier carried the Nordic forest axe and hit it with a slam to fix it.

After the punch, Konusson felt that his belly was bruised. He didn't blame Arik for being rude now, because the enemy's cavalry had already killed him!

Yes, the Frankish cavalry charged after reaching about three hundred meters from the Ross-Saxon camp.

The white warhorse rides the iron man, and the extremely long lance is aimed forward.

Count Robert took the lead, which well reflected the self-cultivation of a great Frankish nobleman. He was so brave that he instantly impressed those elite cavalrymen from Regensburg who were only loyal to Ludwig himself, and were willing to accept his orders unconditionally.

On the contrary, it was Harald Clark, the defunct king of Denmark. He and his brothers would not be stupid enough to fight with the current Nordic overlords, the Russ, and lead the crowd to stay in the back. He has already thought out a rhetoric for himself - our war horses are all bad horses, can you expect bad horses to fly?

All the Ross ships had drifted down the Weser, and all the torsion slingshots on the broadsides took off their tarpaulin coats at once. Sailors didn't care too much, grabbed a handful of gel-like seal oil, smeared it in the chute, and inserted a javelin. The ratchet winch turned frantically, the mechanical sights stared at the dense cavalry of the enemy, and the driver of a torsion slingshot fired.

All the ships are fleeing, but there are those who are reluctant to give up supplies.

There are Saxon refugees who are really struggling to give up their new wheat. They try their best to carry sacks to the river, but the last long boat has floated away nimbly. The refugees on the boat didn't care about anything, grabbing the long oars and rowing hard with the Rus people on the boat, everyone behaved exactly the same on the issue of life-saving.

No matter what the people on the shore call, the boat will not stop.

At this moment, Arik and Little Conuson, like monkeys, climbed onto the deck as quickly as they followed the ropes thrown by the big boat.

Arik, who has just settled down, has no time to be happy.

It was a coward to run away without fighting, as little Conuson had just shouted.

Then play for a while and then withdraw! Now that the brothers have entered the water, can those cavalry still be able to float on the water?

"Crossbow! Torsion slingshot! Shoot me!" he growled.

Now, the dense cavalry has swept through the camp just now. From the appearance of a tiny phantom of the cavalry, to the killing of the huge cavalry group, the whole process took less than ten minutes.

Pity those Saxon refugees who were reluctant to make money. They couldn't swim, and they didn't even have the ability to swim to escape, so they were directly stabbed to death by cavalry. The Frankish cavalry only wanted to kill the Norman pirates, so they regarded the people in front of them as pirates, not at all. Give yourself a chance to justify yourself.

Very subtle is that because the cavalry rushed too fiercely, some of the cavalry had suddenly braked close to the river, and they were just hit by the brothers behind, and they fell into the Weser River with their horses.

The Frankish army suffered such useless casualties, because the horses could swiftly run back to the shore in the wet, and the armored cavalry fell into the river and drowned.

For the quick escape of the Norman pirates, Count Robert was so angry that he could only curse on the shore.

The Frankish cavalry did not have the versatile features of the Eastern Roman cavalry, which carried hard bows and long arrows and could be used as cavalry archers. Unfortunately, these Frankish cavalry had almost no bows and arrows. The so-called soldiers with bows and arrows are also private behaviors, and the bows and arrows are purely for hunting and tooth sacrifice during the war.

On the other hand, the Rus army was waiting for this opportunity.

There are three large battle ships left in the Weser River, they are to declare the majesty of the Rus army, but also the existence of grain ships. There are also a number of standard armed cargo ships whose job is simply to transport refugees.

Now, because these ships are equipped with a variable number of torsion slingshots, everyone waits for the enemy cavalry to be caught by surprise when they reach the river.

After all, when Bremen was on fire, the brothers also fought a defensive counterattack on the riverbank against the Frankish cavalry chasing after them.

This time, Arik was at an absolute disadvantage in military strength. If he hadn't made an appointment, he would rather leave all the Saxon refugees and run away by himself.

Now that reckless Arik has changed a lot, he has become concerned with the overall situation, and now he has become one of the protectors of the new Duchy of Saxony.

Basically, all the torsion slingshots were fired at the same time, and the javelins rushed towards the Frankish horses. The sharp and barbed javelins made the chainmail of the Frankish riders meaningless. The powerful kinetic energy directly overturned the cavalry as a whole. . After all, this is a short-range shooting, aiming at a target about fifty or sixty meters away, and the accuracy and power of the javelin are extremely high.

There are more than 30 slingshots on the broadsides of all ships, and there are more than 200 soldiers holding crossbows and short wooden bows. The extremely low-cost oak makes a single short wooden bow, which can be described as a weapon and hunting equipment that sailors like to see, even shooting fish.

The short distance between the two armies makes the short wooden bow also useful.

And because the Weser River was blocked, the Franks could only be beaten passively.

Many times, too many troops are a big problem, and it is extremely difficult for the commander to convey orders now.

Robert is now in prison. He saw a large number of javelins flying from the enemy's ship. His army is being damaged. Any armor is like a layer of cloth!

More than that, a large number of arrows from the enemy fell from the sky. Those arrows seemed to be ineffective against the armor, but their subordinates were yelling at the arrows.

Until even Robert himself was shot.

Just when his nerves were so excited that he couldn't feel any obvious pain, he pulled out the arrow stuck in the chainmail under the shoulder pad of his left arm in anger, and only then did he see the clue. Co-authoring this cluster of arrows is a kind of thin needle? !

In an instant, he understood that the enemy had come prepared.

Your own cavalry regiment took advantage of it? Do not!

He yelled: "Get out! Those Saxons lied to us, it's a trap!"

The chaotic retreat of the cavalry corps had begun, and it was such a retreat that had no rules. The cavalry in the back did not understand the pain of the cavalry in front. They retreated slowly, while the cavalry in the front, who was being beaten, turned their horses and squeezed vigorously.

It was their retreat that was quite chaotic, and the Rus army seized the opportunity to shoot nonstop.

Arrows and javelins were shot at the fastest speed, regardless of whether they were killed, even if they were wounded.

Until the cavalry corps left some dead or wounded people and horses and fled beyond the limit of the javelin.

"Damn, there are still a lot of things that have been taken on board. Forget it..." Arik stopped muttering and planned to retreat quickly.

At this time ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Little Konuson quickly pulled Arik's arm and pointed to a position very close to the upper reaches of the river: "Shidun Bridge! We must destroy it! We cannot let this group of cavalry cross the bridge quickly afterwards. ."

The matter was brought up by Conusson Jr., who also personally ordered the destruction of the bridge.

So a longboat rushed upstream, and taking advantage of the opportunity of the Frankish cavalry to retreat, they put ropes on the wood, and the soldiers paddled bravely, dragging logs one by one to the Weser River. As for destroying the stone pier, everyone has no ability.

At least the bridge is temporarily destroyed, and the enemy has to cut down some big trees even if they want to build the bridge and pass it, which takes a certain amount of time.

Seeing this, Arik no longer dawdled, and the soft ones on the shore couldn't be taken away, just hold them there. Indeed, oatmeal cooked in a cast iron pan is cheaper for the enemy.

What are those supplies? If you don't quickly tell your brother the king that the enemy army is coming, it will be too late!

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