Finally, Jevlo's crossbow team has arrived!
"Brothers! The first nine! The last ten! Kneel down on one knee!"
"Aim at the enemy you see and shoot!"
Jevro ordered his men to line up, and then everyone fired with crossbows. Together with Jevlo's arrows, the twenty heavy crossbow arrows fired by the Russians immediately achieved results.
No less than ten of the Covin people who had half of their bodies exposed, desperately waving short spears and whistle sticks, or holding a rock high, were accurately hit.
The crossbow arrow penetrated the enemy's body, depriving him of his combat power on the spot, causing the person who was hit by the arrow to fall from the stone wall.
After this salvo, a huge gap immediately appeared in the defense line of the Kewen people.
Otto, who was feeling pressured, couldn't help slapping his thighs and laughing, and then gave orders to Jevro and other mercenaries at the top of his lungs: "You guys, shoot all the turtle doves on the stone wall!"
Yevluo said calmly: "Brothers, wind up! Don't be afraid to strangle your hands! Hurry up!"
Jevro stepped on the steel plate with both feet, pulled the hemp rope bowstring deliberately soaked in seal oil with both hands, and placed it on the exquisitely designed trigger with one force.
The rest of the people also performed exactly the same operations, and their efficiency in pulling the string and loading the arrow was similar.
Less than thirty seconds after the first arrow, the second arrow was loaded.
It can be said that with such speed, it is quite good for a crossbow.
"Pick it up! Aim! Shoot!"
Therefore, from the perspective of Kaihas, the leader of Kewen, he witnessed the terrifying short arrows in more than a dozen of his own bodies, and the hunter's information was not false in any way. In his desperation, he didn't have time to sigh, so he had to organize a group of people to climb the stone wall to block the gap in the defense line.
However, the men who were standing closely together, stabbing with short spears, or even throwing short spears, fell down one after another after being hit by arrows.
"Ah! How could this happen!" Kejas, who was in shock, hurriedly went to check the condition of the deceased. When he saw that the entire body of the deceased had been penetrated, and someone had his heart completely smashed, he had to yell: "This Is it a weapon only used by the God of Death? What kind of arrow is this!"
He stamped his feet and stood up, and hurriedly ordered some soldiers waiting in the mountain fort: "Continue to climb the stone wall and repel the enemy."
However, everyone was frightened when faced with as many as thirty corpses falling from the stone wall and more than a dozen companions lying on the ground wailing.
Seeing that his men were so fearful that they remained indifferent, Kejas felt sad.
He roared at his fellow tribesmen: "Are you all going to be slaves of the Varyags? Fight for me, hurry up!"
Kejas tried in vain to save morale, but his men remained indifferent, with indescribable fear on their faces.
Just as Kejas was giving orders, more people fell from the stone wall. Undoubtedly, most of these people were hit by the arrows of the Russians. What's more, he was killed by a spearhead that suddenly appeared in the shield wall.
The stone wall attacked by the Russians has holes everywhere.
Otto saw everything clearly. At first, the team's attack encountered considerable resistance. As the crossbowmen led by Jevro participated in the battle, the offensive resistance finally disappeared!
The Corvins had no more time, and Kejas' opportunity to plug the gap was lost.
More than a dozen Ross warriors climbed over the stone wall directly on the backs of their companions.
To the delight of the Ross soldiers who participated in the battle half a year ago, they could actually cross the stone wall directly without having to attack the enemy's city gate.
The Russians rushed into the mountain fortress. Their attack saw a large number of arrows coming suddenly, and they saw many casualties of their companions, especially the tragedy of a companion whose throat was choked by an arrow.
The stone wall defenses were damaged everywhere, and there were Russians climbing over the wall to enter. Once inside the mountain fortress, it is a reciprocal battle on the ground. However, such a battle is clearly the biggest imbalance!
The Corvin people had to retreat. Kejas raised his sword and called out: "Those who are still alive, retreat to the cellar. We must fight to the death to protect our women and children!"
The Kovin people only retreated, they did not flee. Because the residents of this tribe all know that without the protection of the tribe, escaping from the mountain fortress will only result in death from freezing and starvation. As for defecting to other tribes, let’s give up this strange idea as soon as possible!
Because the Salmon Lord Tribe has quite bad relations with several other tribes.
The Russians quickly built a shield wall formation in the mountain fort, and soon more than a hundred warriors entered the stone wall.
As more than a dozen warriors with amazing strength moved some stones and wood blocking the door, all the warriors swarmed in.
Rurik, on the other hand, was escorted by his mercenaries and entered the scene of the fight.
Seeing a large number of corpses on the ground, as well as severely injured and moaning enemies being stabbed to death by his own tribe, and the smell of fishy smell filling the air, Rurik's spirit was greatly stimulated.
Even if his mental age had already checked that he was forty years old, seeing such a bloody scene, was his heart more than shocked?
Rurik just wanted to end it all as soon as possible, and the battle must end quickly with a Russian victory.
Now, what he saw was his father, holding up the patterned Damascus sword, leading a shield wall of more than 200 people. Everyone roared "" and huddled together under pressure with various weapons. Covin people. Behind these main forces, there was a group of spear-wielding warriors who stabbed and killed the dying and wounded enemies.
Rurik saw that these Kovin people wearing fur coats and hats were guarding some very important haystack wooden houses.
Could it be that this is their granary? Or are there a lot of gold and silver coins inside?
This is the current scene, as if his father wants to catch all these armed Kewen people.
right! If it were Otto, he would definitely do this!
Rurik's mind was a little confused. He really didn't want the useful Kovin people to be killed and the red-eyed Rus people to be wiped out. So he loudly ordered Yevro: "Charge over with the brothers."
"Okay! I order everyone to load the crossbows and destroy all the enemies!" Jevro responded excitedly.
"Bah!" Rurik scolded: "Let's go quickly! Yevlo, you roar very loudly. Use the language that the people of Kovin understand and order them to stop resisting."
"ah?!"
"Hurry! I want to stop this before the warriors kill them all."
Jevro already understood. To put it bluntly, he was acting as a communicator, forcing the Covin people to surrender obediently to avoid all death.
Soon, Yevlo pulled Rurik's arm and forced his way into the formation of the Russians who were constantly shrinking the encirclement. Soon, he rushed to the front row.
Yevro roared desperately in the Finnish language: "Kovin people! Put down your weapons! Kneel down! Avoid death!"
All the Kewen tribe warriors present were stunned. They didn't expect that some of the enemies actually spoke words they could understand.
Otto was a little dissatisfied with Jevlo's sudden appearance. It seemed that this act of persuading him to surrender was also requested by his son Rurik.
The Ross warriors are still shrinking the encirclement, their ferocious faces with beards dyed red, and their fangs showing with their bloody mouths open. The Ross warriors clearly do not want to give the enemy a chance to know, and the shield wall they formed is also indestructible. .
Otto scolded Jevro sharply: "What are you talking about? Stand back!"
Jevro couldn't help but feel timid. He knew that he was Rurik's man, so he had to obey Otto's command.
Rurik, in the tight ranks of his own people, relied on his dexterity to rush to his father's side.
He grabbed his father's leather-covered arm and looked up into Otto's eyes resolutely: "Dad, you can't kill them."
Otto was shocked. He grabbed Rurik's neck with a big hand and yelled: "Don't you understand? This is war! War cannot be merciful!"
Rurik felt his neck hurt from being pinched, "Dad, spare them! We need new slaves, don't we?"
Otto was unmoved.
Rurik twisted his body and said reluctantly: "At least, you have to give them a chance to surrender! If...if they refuse, my mercenaries will shoot them first!"
Only then did Otto let go of his big hand. "It looked like I could give them a chance."
After muttering to himself, Otto yelled: "Brothers! Stop!"
The well-trained tribal warriors obeyed the orders of the big leader, and the shrinking encirclement stopped. However, spearheads and swords were still aimed at the six-god-less Kewen warriors.
From the perspective of Cowen people, things seem to have taken a turn for the better. Those who had been frightened by the powerful Russian army finally got a moment of respite.
Otto glanced at Jevlo and ordered loudly: "Jevlo, persuade them to surrender! Tell them to kneel down and surrender to avoid death. If they continue to fight, continue fighting."
Jevro understood.
The battlefield suddenly became quiet!
More than two hundred Kewen tribe warriors gathered around a very large haystack wooden house. They gathered in a group and surrounded each other. The extremely tight battlefield environment made it impossible for them to use their weapons flexibly.
On the other hand, the Russians had round shields painted with various patterns forming walls, swords, spears, and bows and crossbows that could be fired at any time. With just one command from the command, the final result would naturally be the destruction of the Kovin people.
Behind the Russians was a horrific scene of blood and blood. The wounded who fell to the ground were assassinated, and naturally no moans of the wounded were heard at the scene.
The Rus held their breath, and so did the Covins.
Only Yevlo loudly announced the ultimatum: "Men of the Gray Squirrel tribe! We are Rus' people! Now, we order you to throw away your weapons and kneel down. Be our servants and avoid death! Otherwise everyone will be wiped out!" "
No one responded for the time being, but you could hear many Kewen people whispering.
Otto's old face couldn't help but twitch. He turned to his son and said, "Rurik, I said, if they don't kneel down, I will kill them."
Rurik clearly observed all the enemy's moves through the gap in the shield. He swallowed deeply and tried to overcome the feeling of suffocation and depression. He whispered back: "I didn't plead for them, now we gave them a chance. They refused, I have nothing to say."
Otto nodded, and his hand on the hilt of the sword tightened.
"Perhaps, we shouldn't have any more illusions about them. I'll give them a little more time. If they don't kneel down, I will order the attack to continue."
Rurik nodded, agreeing with his father's determination.
Jevro kept repeating his words of persuasion to surrender, and finally some of the Kevin soldiers, whose legs were trembling, made a positive move.
Some boys began to throw away their short spears and kneel on the ground.
Yes, this is literally a boy. Since every tribal man has the responsibility to defend his homeland, when a boy reaches the age of ten, he will naturally assume the obligation to participate in combat.
The boy who was severely frightened was the first to collapse. At this moment, they were willing to believe the enemy's words.
Some people began to kneel down, and more people began to follow suit.
Seeing that the Ross people did not take the opportunity to act, after a while, all the Kewen soldiers knelt on the ground.
Seeing this, Otto let out a sigh of relief, but Jevro's words were not over yet.
Holding an iron sword and a hatchet in his hand, Yevro got directly out of the Russian shield wall and very boldly approached the Kovin people who were kneeling together.
He ordered arrogantly: "Is it enough to just put down your weapons? Throw all your weapons at my feet and let me make sure that there are no idiots among you trying to sneak attack."
In this way, a large number of short spears and wooden bows were thrown to Jevlo's side.
Rurik saw clearly that these people had surrendered.
He raised his head and said: "Dad, remember our agreement. If they surrender, they will be our slaves. Such people must not be killed."
Otto's expression became very gentle, or it could be said that his heart was shocked in another way.
After living for fifty years, this was the first time Otto encountered such a thing. Hundreds of enemies knelt down and announced their willingness to be slaves.
In this way, Otto raised his chainmail-clad chest, holding a patterned steel sword, and left the shield wall to face all the kneeling Corvins.
He glanced at the grand occasion with sharp eyes, pointing his sword at all the enemies, and then he became very interested in the huge haystack wooden house.
Jevro received Otto's new order and asked loudly: "Who among you is the leader? Climb over here! Climb to the feet of our leader."
At this moment, Kehas, the leader of Kewen, was already kneeling. He no longer cared about being humiliated or not. The fact is that the enemy was too strong, and the "Salmon Lord" tribe resisted desperately, and finally ended up in the current predicament. People's hearts have collapsed and the tribe has been completely defeated.
But there is still a glimmer of hope for everyone.
Kejas disheveled his gray hair like a dog, panting and crawling to Otto.
He didn't dare to face this tall guy for a while.
Otto pressed his animal-skin boot against Kejas' chin, his intention being clear.
Kejas, who knelt straight, saw Otto's face clearly. Looking at it, he did not feel the terrifying murderous intent. It seemed that they would keep their promise.
"Are you the leader of the gray squirrel tribe?" Jevro translated Otto's words truthfully.
But Kejas's response shocked Yevlo.
"What's going on?" Otto asked. "Jevlo, what did he say?"
"The big leader... this man said they are... the Salmon Lords tribe."
"Huh? Aren't they those squirrels?"
Yevro immediately asked, and got an even stranger answer.
Otto now understood. He felt that he and his brothers were attacking the gray squirrel tribe, but in the end, they were attacking another tribe. But the guide made it clear that the name of this mountain fort was "Grey Squirrel Mountain Fort".
After another round of verification, the problem finally became clear.
There is indeed a "Grey Squirrel Hill Castle" in this area. It is not far from the territory of the Salmon Lord Tribe. Both sides are Covin people. However, the competition between the two sides has long been transformed into a armed fight.
Otto was sure that he had been deceived, but it didn't matter. The leader would be executed sooner or later, and now there was just one more reason to execute him. After all, he led his brothers to conquer the Kewen people. It would be great if he conquered all the Kewen tribes in one go.
All the Kovin tribe will be conquered and then turned into the big fat sheep of the powerful Ross tribe under the rule of his son.
The situation was still tense, and Rurik suddenly emerged from the shield wall and ran to his father.
Otto was shocked.
Rurik ignored his father's surprise, waved his bright white steel sword, opened his mouth and said: "You! Be my servant! Avoid death!"
Kehas, together with all the kneeling Corvins, could understand the words of the boy holding a sword who suddenly appeared, although the words were really lame.
In fact, what Rurik said is just a patchwork of words. What he spoke was not the ancient Finnish dialect of the Kovan people, but the serious ancient Sami language. In the final analysis, they were all languages of ancient Finland, with a large number of vocabulary words that only had extremely subtle differences.
In Otto's surprise, Rurik planned to go one step ahead and declare all surrenders to be his servants.
"I don't care which tribe you belong to, you are all Covins. I! Rurik! I am your master now! Surrender to me and be my slave. I will restrain my people and protect your lives."
"You hand over the tribute, and we will stop attacking."
"If you pay me tribute every year from now on, you will take away our protection."
"Otherwise, you will definitely die."
Rurik, who holds the sword, seems a little childish, but behind him is a group of strong warriors. Rurik knew very well that the actions of his people were actually an expansion of the "Northern Hunting". In the final analysis, everyone wants treasure, especially all kinds of leather. These Kewen people have most likely stored a lot of leather.
As for capturing slaves, Rurik estimated that most of his tribe were too lazy to do so. Unless the person captured is a young woman, then it becomes a different story. Young warriors do not want female slaves, they only want wives, no matter their ethnicity. They just want to marry more women and have more children within their own financial capabilities.
Almost all the young men in Ross responded with such simple thoughts.
