The stone wall is only three meters high. Without interference from others, the Russians can climb up like monkeys by grabbing the protrusions of the stones.
After all, Oxen built the stone wall, and for the sake of structural stability, even if it didn't know any "basic knowledge of engineering mechanics", it also knew that the cross-section of the stone wall must be a trapezoid.
Otherwise, it will not be attacked by possible enemies. After a lot of wind and rain, the stone wall will collapse on its own.
Only a trapezoidal wall can keep the wall standing for a long time in this era when the Viking tribes did not know what concrete was.
Precisely because it is trapezoidal and has a particularly rough surface, the Russians had the opportunity to climb up without relying on a giant ladder.
Of course the defenders would not give the attackers a chance.
The Russians were basically unprepared when climbing the wall. They were generally very young. This was the first time they participated in a real battle in their lives. They had no experience in siege warfare. Only some climbed to the roof of their house to clear the snow. experience. They did have climbing skills, and it turned out that the best climbers were also the first ones to be stabbed to death by the defenders.
Seeing that they were defeated after climbing the wall, the Russian war leader Harozolson who was commanding under the stone wall was furious. He immediately ordered: "Arik! Lead your men to attack their wooden door! Break it open! Rush in! Kill all the enemies!" "
"Okay! If you're not afraid of death, come with me!" Arick raised his steel sword and shouted, leading more than 20 strong men to give up climbing the wall, which was obviously not an advantage, and they began to attack the wooden door.
The muscular man Ross slammed into the wooden door like a bull. Although the wooden door shook, it was still very stable.
At this moment, a clear roar in Norse was clearly heard from behind the wooden door.
"Brothers! Hold on! We can't let these pirates break down the door!"
"Get another piece of wood and hold the door up!"
The guards guarding the city have all learned that if they persist, the families in the north will definitely send troops to help. As long as he persists until reinforcements arrive, he will get a huge sum of forty gold coins for everyone because he defended the castle!
The guard used a thick wooden pole as a door latch, and also brought five additional thick wooden poles to press against the ground, with the other head holding the wooden door.
No matter how strong the Russian people are, can they still break open such a reinforced wooden door with the strength of just a few people? It's so amazing.
However, the Russians are not simply single-minded.
Arik raised his sword and ordered: "Smash it with an axe! Let's completely smash the wooden door!"
Two strong men bared their arms, their thick chest hair soaked with sweat.
They have become berserkers in the true sense. This time they manipulated two huge long-handled classic Nordic forest axes, trying to chop down the wooden doors blocking the road with the attitude of felling towering trees.
After just five chops, two big holes appeared in the wooden door.
The combatants on both sides can already see each other through the big holes.
The strong man holding an ax looked through the big hole and saw people wearing chainmail and metal helmets behind him, and couldn't help but feel nervous.
Suddenly, multiple spears poked out of the big hole, and the spearheads directly pierced the muscular man's body. The two men holding the axes stared angrily, then spat out two mouthfuls of blood and were stabbed to the ground.
This was the first time Arik participated in a real battle. He had never seen such a scene before, and he subconsciously retreated. So does everyone else!
Now it seems that if you approach the wooden door rashly and hope to continue cutting the wood into pieces, you will probably be stabbed to death by the enemy first! It was absolutely different from the battle just now. The enemies in the castle were just like me, they were all warriors who dared to fight and kill!
It's not that Arik is a coward, he just doesn't want his brother to die needlessly.
He retreated, causing more people to retreat.
Everyone realized that the army needed to take a rest and find a way to attack.
Many people looked back at the city wall and noticed the dead brothers at the base of the wall. They also saw a large amount of thick smoke rising from the city wall against the background of the deep blue sky at dawn. Everyone was happy to realize that the brothers who continued to fire arrows had set some houses in the castle on fire.
Even Haro Zuosen understood that as long as the chaos continued and the Russians took a short rest, they should be able to successfully rush in with the next attack, kill the enemy, and get all the money.
The Russians retreated slightly, but the archers continued to fire rockets.
Let's talk about these hunters who shoot arrows. They will not stop until the reserve of rosin is used up.
Just when the attack was launched, a flaming arrow hit the retreating Oxen in the back.
The mink coat that he had spent a lot of money to order was immediately stuck to the burning sticky rosin, and the clothes quickly started to catch fire.
"Ah! Help!" Oxen jumped and begged for help, but when he did so, the fire only burned more intensely.
His men hurriedly cut his belt with knives and took off the burning coat.
Now, Oxen could only watch in agony as his treasure turned into a flame, and saw that there were still a large number of flaming arrows falling from the sky. A strong sense of fear acted on his heart, so he staggered into the stone room wearing only a fine linen lining, regardless of the cold outside.
"Damn! My coat costs twenty gold coins! Damn the pirates, I'm going to kill you."
His words made the guard guard dissatisfied: "Sir, you should be lucky that the arrow was a bone arrow. If it had been an iron arrow, you might have died."
"Ah?" Oxon, who had already hid in the stone room, couldn't help being shocked. He was breathing heavily and suddenly felt the pain in his back: "Quick! Can you see if my back is bleeding?"
"My lord, your clothes are not even torn."
"Then why does it hurt so much!" Oxon gritted his teeth and held back for the time being. He stared around and saw that rockets had fallen on many houses and the flames were already starting.
In times of crisis, it is impossible for all houses to put out the fire in time. Oxen is grateful that his most important house is made of stone for greater safety. The design is firstly for sturdiness and secondly for fire protection.
He hurriedly ordered the four guards around him: "Take my family to the big stone room! Go quickly! We have to hide. Then you go to fight, repel the pirates, and put out the fire."
The so-called big stone room is actually the material where Oxon houses all the wealth.
At this moment, he could no longer care about his image, so he stumbled to the big stone room to hide, lit the oil lamp on the wall, and comforted his two wives and concubines who were frightened and crying, and his two trembling daughters.
The light of the oil lamp illuminated more than ten large suitcases in the stone room, and the cases were filled with gold and silver!
The four personal guards did not have the right to enter this room on weekdays. Now that they came in, they thought that the suitcase, which required two strong men to lift together, was full of gold and silver. Their evil intentions sprouted on the spot.
After all, the guards' reason prevailed. Like door gods, the four of them obeyed the benefactor's instructions and immediately walked out of the room, standing at the wooden door holding swords and shields to guard them.
What is the fighting situation outside? Oxon's plump body sat on his money box. His two wives and concubines only knew that the castle was under terrible attack. Once it fell, everyone's lives would be in danger.
"Don't be afraid! My people will kill the pirates." Oxen tried his best to comfort his wife and concubines, and also to persuade himself to settle down.
Suddenly, the wooden door that was locked on the back was knocked hard.
Oxon subconsciously grasped the hilt of his dagger and shouted: "Who is it?!"
"Sir! Good news, the pirates have retreated."
That was the guard's voice.
"Huh? Really?!"
He stood up suddenly, the fat in his belly trembling, and then hurriedly opened the door.
The guard's face was full of joy. Oxon subconsciously thought that the pirates knew they couldn't attack, so he withdrew angrily. "Okay! You did a good job, I will give you gold soon."
When he heard about gold, the guard's smile became wild.
"Come on, I want to see the pirates escape."
Now Oxon really thought that all the pirates had escaped. He suddenly became confident again and walked out of the big stone room arrogantly. What he saw was still an extremely miserable scene. What's even more ridiculous is, why are there still flaming arrows shooting in sporadically from outside the wall?
And on the steps at the top of the wall, why are there still people half-crouching, looking defensive? !
"What's going on? Didn't the pirates escape?"
"No! My lord. The pirates did not escape, they just retreated," the guard explained.
"Damn, let me be happy for nothing." Oxen stamped his feet and pointed at several burning houses: "Quickly put out the fire."
"But my lord, we have run out of water."
"No water? Since the pirates have retreated, you can open the door and get water from the well in the village. It should be okay."
Hearing this, the guard really felt that the arrow hit not the back of the benefactor, but his head.
The guards were unmoved by this bullshit. Soon, Okenstein, who was covered in sweat, hurriedly ran over: "Sir, why did you come out!? Go into the stone room and take shelter."
"Okenstein, why don't you put out the fire?! Forget it." Oxon stamped his foot, "I want to go to the wall. I want to see where the pirates have gone. Why are they still shooting arrows?"
"My lord. The wall is dangerous."
"Bah! Do you mean I should be a coward?" It was unbelievable to hear the words coming from Oxon's mouth. Okenstein always felt that the funder was a coward. Since he wanted to show off, let him go to the wall.
At this moment, Oxon had a glimmer of hope. He climbed onto the wall with his copper-reinforced helmet, revealing his two eyes and seeing where those nasty pirates had retreated? They were not far away at all, as if they were waiting for dawn to launch another attack.
The pirates were still a large, dark mass, and a sense of fear instantly dissipated Oxen's courage, and he almost fell to the ground.
"Quick! Help me back. Okenstein, you must resist these damn pirates, or we will all die."
"Then go back quickly and keep an eye on the gold. Remember your promise after repelling the pirates!" Okunstein said fiercely.
After saying that, Okenstein looked at the enemies who were lingering a few more times, then sat down and took a deep breath.
All the Russians want to capture this castle. Now the sky is blue and the sun will rise soon.
After daybreak, there is enough light to be more suitable for siege.
It has to be said that the stone wall built by the Gotlanders is really a tricky defensive method. This is the first time the Russians have encountered a siege in the true sense, and they must come up with a reasonable countermeasure.
After a melee, the surviving warriors were already tired. They all gathered together more than a hundred meters away from the stone wall, sitting on the ground and eating the dry food they had brought with them.
There were also some people who were ordered by Harrow Johnson to guard the prisoners captured from the fishing village.
The fire was blazing behind, and the air was scorching hot.
Harozov, who was chewing dried fish, faced the stone wall and couldn't think of a good idea for a while.
He called Aric, who had withdrawn, to his side: "Child, this damn wall, we must breach it. We must move fast, otherwise we will run out of time to retreat."
"You want me to think of a way?!"
"I am stupid and you are a young man. Do you have any idea?" Harozov asked.
"A way? There is one, we need to build a siege weapon!
"Siege weapons? Ladders? Or what?" Harrow Johnson asked eagerly.
Arik suddenly slapped his chest: "Everything depends on my methods. I led people to chop down a big tree, and we held it and knocked open the wooden door. Then you took the other brothers and rushed in after us. You What do you think?!"
Harozov, who had just touched it, was overjoyed: "Then go quickly."
Arik did what he said. He immediately summoned twenty brothers of the same age and ran to the woods near the village to start action.
Although this was his first siege, Arik had already thought of a way to create a "battery ram" to break open the wooden door.
In the failed siege, more than ten brothers died under the stone wall. With strong anger, the axe-wielding warrior smashed it down, and a large pine tree was chopped down and fell to the ground with a rumble.
The Russians were doing some simple processing with axes. Twenty people worked together to lift the tree trunk, which was nearly half a meter in diameter and nearly five meters in length, and roared into the resting crowd.
Everyone was startled by the sudden appearance of a tree trunk.
Regardless of the soreness in his arms, Arik held up the shining steel sword that had killed many enemies, and called on his men: "Brothers! Let's use this tree to break open the damn door. Then you can follow us and rush in, kill them Cut them all down. The gold is all ours! All of you can have steel swords!"
In fact, as long as Arik holds his sword high, the sword itself is a strong spiritual inspiration.
Those holding iron swords have now replaced them with captured battle axes or their own spare axes.
Why? Actual combat has proven that ordinary iron swords will bend after being used for a while, and the blades will generally have chips. If such a sword is not repaired, it will basically lose its usefulness.
Look at Aric's steel sword, it's still as perfect as ever. The only price to get it is to pay a fortune! A huge sum of sixty silver coins!
For any young warrior, that is a huge amount of money that requires years of hard work. Now, as long as you take the last risk, your goal will be achieved!
Everyone was stirred up by this incitement, and the Russians began to shout wildly, their roars shaking the sky.
This roar also told the defenders that a new attack had begun.
The Russians took the time to eat dried fish, drink the water they brought with them, and some even nibbled on the confiscated rusks.
They captured as many as seventy prisoners in the fishing village, and the prisoners were all women. This is not surprising. The Russians were completely irrational during the melee. When they calmed down a little, they began to specifically arrest people. As a result, not long after they took action, they began to have a decisive battle with the men of Skenberg who fought back.
Those captured were the wives and daughters of those men. Now, the corpses of more than a hundred Skenberg men were lying on the battlefield, as well as a large number of shields and battle axes.
The wounded Russians were carried to the rear, along with the bodies of more than twenty of their own men.
The sky finally got brighter, and Arik felt that his physical strength had recovered very well. He then looked at the sun that was about to break through the horizon in the east, stood up proudly, holding the steel sword high: "Brothers, the final battle has arrived. Let's go!"
Four hundred Rus warriors rallied.
Arik took the lead. Behind him were ten selected warriors holding long-handled giant axes. Behind him was the huge pine wood that twenty people worked together to carry.
More heat gathered into a dark mass, following closely behind the man carrying the pine wood.
Looking at this formation, it's self-evident what they want to do.
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Chapter 130 We need siege weapons
