Until now, Harrow Zosen has completely turned a blind eye to the actions of his subordinates, because he and he are searching for treasures and trying their best to kill the enemies they encounter.
His own beard was also wet with the blood of others, and the shriveled leather bag was gradually stuffed with silver coins, copper coins, and even five amber necklaces taken from the enemy's necks.
In a short period of time, more residents than Ross's attackers had died, and the number was increasing.
However, the residents of Skokenburg were Vikings after all. Men in families that had not yet been affected began to take action. They ordered the women and children to run north immediately, leaving all the men who could hold an ax behind, and began a spontaneous counterattack.
Finally, Arik, whose face was covered with blood, finally waited for the moment he longed for.
In front of him, a formidable enemy finally appeared.
Arik led more than a dozen brothers, plundering gold while being roasted in the sky full of firelight. The legendary Jinshan does not seem to be here, but many people have already obtained a lot of silver coins.
Their greed is difficult to satisfy. Possessing a large amount of gold and silver is a major goal in life. Fighting life-and-death battles with dangerous and powerful enemies, especially at night, the Russians think this is the greatest honor.
It is best for him to win, even if he dies in battle, the battle at the last moment can be seen by the Valkyrie in the sky.
There were more than twenty bare-backed men, holding shields in one hand and axes in the other, with sorrow and anger in their eyes.
Aric was full of blood. He pointed his bloody steel sword at the opponent and shouted: "Stupid Gotlanders, do you dare to fight with us?"
The scene suddenly froze, and after a moment, someone finally asked: "You pirates, who are you?"
"We? We are the people who have been hurt by you."
"Are you from the west side of the sea? Sisians?"
"No! We are Russians! Brothers, charge with me!" Arik said no more nonsense. He held a shield in his left hand and a steel sword in his right hand, and rushed over with a roar.
At the same time, the hurried fishermen of Skenberg, who didn't even wear leather armor, did exactly the same thing as the Russians, and more than 20 people quickly formed a shield wall.
Unfortunately, the defense line of these Skenbergers was overwhelmed by the Russians who were slightly smaller than them.
A group of young people from Russia in their twenties, many of whose relatives were killed by the Gotland Islanders. They at least came with the purpose of revenge, and their attack attitude was extremely determined, let alone anything. kindness.
There was a basic consensus among all the young men that all Gotlanders were enemies, except slaves.
However, the slaves obtained by the slightly wealthy families during the melee and used for labor were also treated as enemies and wiped out by the Russians.
Nearly a thousand women and children began to flee. They held torches and fled northward, forming a terrifying scene. From a distance, it looked as if the Skenberg people had collectively become shameful cowards. The once peaceful village on the other side was already ablaze!
Arik knocked one person over, then stabbed him very skillfully with his sword, killing the enemy on the spot.
Another enemy slashed away with an ax, and Aric immediately blocked with a shield. The ax blade directly cut a huge groove in the oak shield, and his sword pierced the enemy's abdomen.
Even more fiercely, he slashed another fallen enemy with his sword with one hand. This man was so frightened that he held a long-handled ax in both hands to block. The ax handle might be able to block an ordinary iron sword. How could it be a match for a steel sword?
Arik himself killed three people in a row, and his brothers also achieved victory.
It was in this small battle that two brothers were hacked to death by the counterattacking Skenbergers.
At this point, the men of Skokenberg began to fight back. They reluctantly organized an army of three hundred men to try to save the remaining village, ensure that the houses would not be destroyed by the enemy who set fire to them, and fight to the death with the enemy.
Because of their counterattack, twenty of the Russians who landed had been killed, and more than a hundred persisted in fighting with injuries.
It was just wounds on their arms and legs by the enemy. The pain was not noticed by them as they fell into madness. They could not even tell whether the blood on their bodies belonged to the enemy or their own.
Twenty young men died in the battle, a loss that the Russians did not care about at all. By comparison, five hundred of the Sckenburgers had died!
Finally, a battle involving the survival of Skenberg broke out.
The Russians expanded their attack area towards the inland areas, but because they could not obtain satisfactory gold and silver from the homes of ordinary fishermen, all the plunderers aimed at the fortress in the highlands.
A fool also knows that if he can build a very different building, the guy must be very rich, so just rob him.
The Russians moved closer to the "castle" of Oxen Swiken. The fishermen who started to fight back were frustrated in their initial counterattack, so they also began to gather together and retreat to the castle in an organized manner.
In critical moments, the people of Sikenberg can only hope that their leader can help them in a life-or-death situation.
However, at this critical moment, Oxen Swiken, who was frightened the most in his life, gave the sixty warriors under his command an order to close the door tightly and prepare for battle.
Generally speaking, this Oxon is very willing to spend money on major life events.
If there is a legendary gold mountain in Gotland, there is a small gold mountain in the "castle" of Oxon. Of course, "Golden Mountain" is a description, and the wealth accumulated by the Oxen-Swiken family for generations is placed in the "castle". He, his two wives, children, and the maids he bought also lived here.
Oxon gave a special salary of ten gold coins to each warrior who was willing to sacrifice his life for him, and promised that as long as the unidentified attackers were repelled, each surviving person would be given another twenty gold coins.
This time, he really experienced the powerlessness of a life-and-death situation where a mountain of coins could not turn into an army of thousands of people. Coins can indeed hire an army, but how is that possible now? Count on those fishermen? Pooh! If you let them in, these fishermen who live together day and night may also become robbers!
In a sense, the main purpose of building this stone castle is to prevent the fishermen of Sikkenborg from having evil intentions. We are all Vikings. As long as we sail on the sea and encounter a fleet weaker than our own, we will feel itchy and plan to rob it.
Oxon is now as fat as a pig. After his eldest wife died, he easily used money to marry two younger wives, and the younger wives gave him sons and daughters.
He placed the eldest son born to his late wife in the Danish territory for the purpose of "expanding the family business" so that he could live happily there. In fact, he did not want his eldest son to disturb his good life. Besides, the family business must be inherited by the eldest son sooner or later. Now, Oxon just hopes to enjoy the rest of his life and be with the beauty all day long.
Looks like the good days are coming to an end!
He was plump and wore a coat made of expensive mink fur. He also climbed up the stone wall with a sword and shield just like he did in his youth. He witnessed a scene as terrifying as a volcanic eruption, and also saw people cursing at him under the stone wall.
"Open the door and let us in."
"You idiot, let us in quickly or we will all die."
"Oxon, are you still standing still at this point? Do your warriors want to sit back and watch us die?"
Open the door? Pooh! After seeing the horrific scene, Oxen became more determined and refused to open the door!
He even ordered his subordinates: "You guys, find rocks and sticks to block the door for me. Don't let anyone in. Don't worry, the pirates can't get in."
Then, he let people slip out through the hidden door and make them run wildly to the north, reporting to some families in the north about the crazy attacks by the Siya people.
Oxen stared in shock as a large group of people walked out of the flames. They were a mass of blackness, with the flames rising into the sky behind them. They were like a large group of monsters born from the flames, with only one purpose of existence - to bring destruction.
Arik was wearing chain mail, and the armor was covered with the blood of his enemies.
Like his brothers, he was roughly dressed in the heat of the fire. Everyone was very dissatisfied because they did not grab the legendary large amount of gold.
What's more, these Gotlanders have now organized themselves and intend to engage in a life-and-death battle with the Russians!
Although the purpose of the operation was to destroy an enemy settlement and withdraw after grabbing the gold, everyone was excited. Even Harold Johnson was eager to fight with these enemies.
Could it be that after living a long life, there are only ten or twenty years left in life, and he will stay in Roseburg until the end of his life? Pooh!
Haro Zuosen missed his Kanuf very much, but seeing that Rurik treated his son as a brother, he must have died in the battle, and his family would still be well taken care of.
At this moment, facing a group of enemies on the opposite side who were shirtless or wearing nothing more than animal skins, and who were obviously not prepared for battle, Harold Zuosen's reason had long been thrown aside. He felt that he was suddenly only twenty years old. , it’s time to fight desperately.
In daily life, it is rare for a battle involving more than a hundred people to occur.
Look at the enemies on the opposite side. There are at least 200 of them.
What's more, this group of enemies is backed by a castle surrounded by stone walls. Why should the enemies set up their positions here instead of leaving like the large group of people fleeing with torches? They must be for the Guardians or something.
It should be a lot of gold! ?
Not to mention, there is a large amount of gold and silver stored in Oxon's "castle". The Russians misunderstood the reason why a large group of enemies gathered in formation, but they did not misunderstand the fact that there was gold in the "castle".
Oxen slightly revealed his two frightened eyes, he couldn't believe what he saw. He prayed that his city gate would be strong enough and that these fishermen would be able to kill the pirates.
Suddenly, Arik struck his shield with the back of his sword, and the others couldn't help but followed suit and struck in exactly the same rhythm.
They roared in exactly the same rhythm, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that this was the temperament of a well-trained team.
This gave Oxon nothing but untold fear.
The Russians marched in unison while shouting slogans.
Their bucklers were arranged in a line, the first row followed by the second and third row. The shields of the descendants were pressed against the backs of the predecessors, forming a powerful formation.
However, it was the Russian archers who attacked first.
The twenty archers are those hunters. They can also join the battle. Shields and axes are also standard equipment.
They suddenly rushed to the front of the formation and fired arrows at the enemies who didn't know what to do.
Bone arrowheads are fine as hunting arrows, but they are terrible to use in combat. The quality of such an arrow itself is not good, it is just that it is cheap.
The spontaneous actions of the archers are to disrupt the enemy's formation and force the enemy to raise their shields in defense.
The harassment had a certain effect, and the archers immediately retreated into the formation. Then, Arik roared and led the first row of warriors to rush over.
Shields clashed against each other and the battle began.
Almost all the Russians in the first row were wearing chainmail. These chainmails can withstand moderate slashes and are also effective against thrusts.
The wooden shields of both sides collided fiercely, and the weapon fight began immediately.
The ax fell from the sky and chopped the enemy's head, and the sword suddenly emerged from the gap in the shield, inflicting penetrating wounds to the enemy.
Arik was only eighteen years old, and during the battle he was as crazy as if he was possessed by the God of War. He held his shield against most of his torso and held a steel sword nearly seventy centimeters long. Arik's long experience of paddling has given him absolute arm strength and he can handle the sword with ease with one hand.
He stabbed the enemy on the other side of the shield crazily. Because it was blocked by the shield, he didn't even care that the enemy he stabbed was a friendly person. In short, he just continued to stab at him.
The fishermen of Skokenberg immediately suffered a large number of casualties. Those who were stabbed and seriously injured fell to the ground one after another, and were trampled by their companions or enemies, and quickly lost their lives.
In this tragic collision and crazy fight, the Russians were also paying casualties.
The warriors in the first row are equipped with a large number of chain armors in order to better serve as a front-line fighting force.
However, this chainmail could not withstand the powerful and heavy thrusts. Although the swords of the Skenberg fishermen were made of pure wrought iron, as long as the angle was tricky enough and the strength was strong enough, they could penetrate the bodies of the armored Rus.
However, the chances of success are so rare.
The fishermen of Skokenberg were not prepared for the battle at all. Now that a fight was coming, they were at a disadvantage and had to continue fighting in order to survive.
The iron swords were bent in the melee, and all warriors equipped with iron swords would face this disgusting problem.
The sword-wielding fishermen had to continue fighting with their bent swords. Can they cause harm to the Russians? The answer is almost no.
Even the Russians, if they ever participated in a weapon fight, they would always retreat, use their feet to step on the bent sword blade into a reliable straight position, and then continue to fight with this sword that was already full of gaps.
There is only steel sword. No matter what credit method the Russians participating in this battle used, they got their own steel sword after all.
The steel sword itself is elastic and has an extremely hard and sharp blade. Any steel sword can cut off ordinary iron swords when tested in the blacksmith shop. It is really an advantage to use it in this battle.
In the melee, the red-eyed Ross was thrusting and slashing almost instinctively, unaware of how ferocious his steel sword was.
The people of Skenberg felt the terror of the enemy so deeply that even their own wooden shields could not withstand the thrust of the enemy's sword!
Painful wails and passionate roars filled the battlefield, and there was the sound of metal clashing everywhere.
Hundreds of warriors on both sides used a shield wall with an increasingly larger arc as a clear front line. The Russians on the attacking side tried to break through the enemy's line from the flanks, so they pushed forward and compressed the line desperately. Stop and retreat.
Because the people of Sikkenberg really can’t bear it!
There were more and more corpses on the ground. The injured and wailing Sikenberg people were directly assassinated by the trampled Rus.
All the attacking Russians have noticed that as long as they continue to attack fiercely, the enemy's front will soon collapse. Next, it will be the king's absolute attack on the weak.
kindness? No!
At this moment, all young people in Russia have become real BERSERKERs!
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Chapter 128 The Skokenburg people vs. the Rus’ people
