A large number of enemies are slowly approaching the mountain fort. Are they seeking death?
Vateara gritted his teeth, at least protected by the wooden wall, he and his Tavastian warriors still had a sense of security. Baidu search literature network, more free reading.
How did the attacking Russian army want to attack?
"Am I dazzled? Did they tame the bears? Let the bears carry the wood forward?"
Someone shouted: "Boss, that's not a bear! It's an enemy in bearskin."
"Damn! They want to break our door with wood?!"
Vatyala was furious because the gate of the mountain fort was not strong.
He immediately called to his brothers, "Quickly find debris to pile up at the gate! Others, shoot arrows for me to stop those bears!"
Clusters of the best iron arrows whizzed towards the bear-skin-clad warrior.
This sound was heard by the alert Ross, and they had already prepared a countermeasure for it.
Arik was not so arrogant as to fight the arrows head-on. Mail iron rings and thick leather could basically block the arrows. He was afraid of arrows from his face and neck, which had weak defenses.
The attacking Russians all held wooden shields in front of them, and the warriors carrying huge wooden shields became "tanks".
The sequel to Landing with a Giant Shield is at the Bearskin Warrior, with more and more arrows being shot on the shield.
The Rus's full preparation almost completely offset the Tavastians' arrow advantage!
He originally thought that he could use iron arrow clusters to repel the enemy, but when he saw that the effect was so poor, Vatyala, who had limited confidence, began to despair.
Even in despair, they are still fighting in a corner.
A large number of arrows were fired desperately, but in the end they could not stop the Russians' continuous attack.
The battle became extremely tense, and Vateara felt increasingly that the situation had become extremely bad.
He continued to roar in the chaos, "Save the arrows! Once we run out of arrows, we are finished!"
Unfortunately, the warrior with the bow was still shooting.
On the other hand, the Russians finally advanced to a distance where the crossbow could shoot accurately.
The optimal solution is for the light crossbowman to hide behind a large wooden shield and fire freely, as the Genoese crossbowmen were accustomed to do.
The large wooden shield stood on the ground and became a perfect barrier. After shooting the arrow, the warrior left the step to recharge, placed another arrow and continued shooting.
In a short period of time, ten shooting positions appeared on the Russian side. The wooden shield was densely packed with Tavastian arrows, and the rain of arrows stuck on the ground was like wildly growing dogtail grass. The arrows were really easy to get.
The battle has reached this point, but the most critical moment has yet to come.
Aric, who was hiding behind the shield, laughed loudly at the bearskin warrior, "God knows they have a few arrows. They may be able to shoot them all. The arrows are all ours, so you don't have to worry about the arrows."
The slightly tired bearskin warriors worked together to carry the log forward. Encouraged by these words, everyone forgot about their fatigue for a while and vowed to break through the wooden wall and let history repeat itself.
Compared to the war many years ago, there was no troublesome ice and snow in this mountain fort.
The crossbowmen began to shoot the emerging enemies accurately like hunting. Although the crossbows here were all modified from short wooden bows, they were still very effective against the Tavastians who were basically unarmored.
It seems like the Russians can win this way?
A large number of stones were moved to the wall, although most of them were larger than fists. When they were hit from a high place, even if the Russians were wearing iron helmets, they would still suffer from concussion after being hit.
The Tavastians braved the Russians' counterattacks and threw stones, and were hit by the stone stones. Aric was also shocked. Baidu search literature network, more free reading.
The Russians held up their shields to protect their heads and retreated slightly. No fool jumped into the ditch and tried to climb the wall.
The road became narrow, and the road to attack the gate narrowed to only about five meters. This is not because the Tavastians were good at using defensive trenches. In fact, the trenches were also dug to strengthen the wooden walls and collect soil to facilitate them.
They didn't know how to build a suspension bridge, so there was a passage to the gate.
The most anxious battle is here, even if the warriors holding wooden shields protect the bearskin warriors holding siege hammers, it feels like hitting rocks.
Wood blocks, stones and even earth were all piled up by the Tavastians towards the wooden door. The corpses of their brothers who died in the crisis were also thrown in as obstacles.
They could actually escape through the small door, but that would be a loss of honor and they would be punished by their clansmen even if they returned to their hometown.
The mad Tavastians suddenly became heroic, their eyes red and they resisted resolutely.
More and more warriors were knocked down by arrows, and a few of the Russians were wounded by arrows. The difference is that most of the injuries from the Russian arrows are in insignificant places, and the warrior's torso and head are intact!
The bearskin warriors all found that the gate had been basically smashed into sawdust, but the passage did not exist.
Many people noticed that people inside the wall were still piling up debris. They all felt that this scene was very familiar. It seemed that the people who defended the city were doing this.
The trick Wateyala came up with on the spur of the moment can be called a turtle tactic. He wanted to turn himself into a turtle in an urn, hoping that the enemy would not break into the urn.
The Tavastians still have the last belief, which is to hold on no matter the cost, wait for reinforcements, and then their hearts will blossom. I'm afraid this is their only chance of winning.
The madman of Ross's Warriors Flag Team is not a monster with unlimited energy. Banging the door becomes useless, and the warrior in bearskin is panting.
The battle became boring, and Arik, who was looking at the city wall through the gap in his shield, had lost the idea of breaking the city.
"Damn it! We can't get the greatest glory. Let's go, brothers, let's retreat and wait for the main force."
The Russians, who had long been unable to stand this boring battle, all wanted to evacuate. Due to their reputation, everyone was waiting for Arik's attitude.
Now that the flag captain has spoken, the people carrying the flag have retreated, and the Russians gradually retreat.
Retreating is not running around, Arik shouted, "Evacuate in an orderly manner! Try to pick up the arrows on the ground and don't leave them to the enemy! Let's retreat to the woods and stop."
Are the Russians retreating? ! Vatyala, whose mentality was almost broken, was overjoyed, as if God was helping them. The Tavastians sensed hope and began to cheer and curse the Rus' fiercely.
Arik is not mentally retarded? He had learned some bad words from the Kos, and now heard them from the Tavastians.
Someone shouted disdainfully, "Are they insulting us? They look very happy."
"It's an insult." Arik, who returned without success, sat in the forest to rest and told the inquirer, "They said we are cowards."
"This... we didn't kill them all, I'm not willing to accept it."
"Brother, we are not cowards, we just want to take a short rest. Look at this mountain fort, they are like fish in Tao Weng. It is up to us to decide when to kill them." After that, he spat again.
"Let's wait! Rurik's large army will arrive in the evening. Recharge and we will fight again tomorrow."
Arik, who calmed down, checked the results of this unwinnable raid.
A large number of arrows were pulled from the wooden shields and tied into bundles with hundreds of arrows. After some statistics, everyone collected nearly 3,000 arrows.
The collection of so many arrows really surprised Arik, but everyone also felt strange, as if tens of thousands of arrows were stored in the mountain fortress to give the enemy the capital to squander it.
In the evening, Rurik's large army finally arrived.
It was within his expectation that the Warriors' Flag Team failed to capture the mountain fortress, but the enemy really defended it, and Rurik had to be cautious about this group of turtles.
He saw a large number of soldiers from the Banner Corps lighting campfires and roasting strange things. Rurik also saw that they seemed to have caught bass from the stream that fed into the Oulu River. They looked tired, but fortunately they still had energy in their eyes.
Arik felt a little regretful. He approached his brother and pointed at the mountain fortress with his right hand: "The enemy has reinforced the fortress, and my battering ram cannot break it."
"Can't open it? Their door is too hard?"
"No. Just like in previous battles, the new enemy is piling up the gate with soil. Now that you are here, you will definitely have a way to break the city."
Rurik deliberately took advantage of the sunset to take a look, but without a telescope, he could not see the details.
The appearance of the mountain fort had changed. Rurik remembered that there was no such empty space with only wooden piles left outside the mountain fort. Most of the wooden piles had been cut down recently, which must have been the work of the enemy.
Rurik was at the edge of the forest, already thinking of some clever ways to attack the city, such as making long ladders.
It would take some time to create better siege weapons, and it happened that Rurik didn't want to launch a general attack immediately.
The forest camp became more and more lively, and people began to set up pottery pots and iron pots to cook their own wheat and dried meat.
People who had walked the rugged road for many days all sat down to rub their feet, or lay directly on the pine branches under the soft trees.
Arik handed over a piece of grilled bass with a pine-scented smell, which was just over a pound, to his brother, and then reported the results of the day.
"I underestimated the enemy's sense of resistance. Fortunately, I retreated smartly. No brothers died, but more than ten people were injured by arrows on their arms and cheeks, and one unlucky guy had a big buttock arrow."
"Big butt arrow?" Rurik thought this was ridiculous.
Arik shrugged, "I just arranged for people to mock them."
"I see, they shot arrows."
"Yes, I have also learned about the maximum range of their arrows. Don't worry, our location is very safe. Even our longbowmen standing here and firing arrows can still threaten the enemy."
Mechasta, who returned to his hometown, was angry at the renovation of the old mountain fortress by Tavastia, a group of villains who occupied the magpie's nest, and was even more angry at their destruction of the mountain forest. You must know that the Ko people worship the forest and the endlessly flowing Oulu River. Although everyone immigrated to the new Aylon (Kemi) River, they still have enthusiasm for their homeland.
After hearing Arik's description, Mechasta directly pulled the old man Ligus to stand up.
"Your Majesty the Duke, our last Kudo soldiers are here. Since shooting arrows here can kill the enemy, I hope to take action now."
"Now? Sit down first." Rurik paused for a while and then said: "We should not waste arrows at night. I am afraid that the arrows will be used twice by them. I think we will use trebuchets from tomorrow onwards. Throw stones.”
"Assist the army in attacking?" Arik asked.
"No, let's have a truce tomorrow. Let's let everyone recuperate and build a long ladder. Tomorrow we will carry out a harassing attack, first surrounding the fortress, and then our troops will torture them."
Arik was quite surprised to reduce the use of bows and arrows, and emphasized: "Brother, I captured three thousand arrows."
"Then keep it! It just so happens that we don't bring many arrows." Rurik was actually quite annoyed that he had underestimated the complexity and severity of the road conditions.
Fortunately, there are a lot of pebble beaches along the river, so the road is extremely rugged, but the good thing is that it is not muddy. It's spring now, and the melting permafrost has caused muddy ponds everywhere. There are not even roads in Northern and Eastern Europe. That is to say, the situation in the Oulu River Basin is better.
Rurik made some arrangements and the army began to move.
The army circled around the entire Old Gray Squirrel Hill Fort, and the people huddled inside quickly discovered something strange outside the fort.
Massive bonfires were lit at the edge of the forest, and they seemed to be protected by a circular wall of fire.
This is still Rurik's most common trick, using the cover of darkness to light fires to create the illusion of a shocking ambush. The enemy cannot judge the truth from the truth, they will instinctively intimidate themselves, and their morale will be hit.
The Tavastians stood uneasily on the wooden wall. They wanted to go out to pick up some arrows, and even brought leather bags to replenish fresh water. Fear prevented them from taking risks.
Because everyone is surrounded! There was a faint rumbling sound in the distance, as if thousands of Russians were talking, probably not discussing tomorrow's general attack.
Suddenly there was a whooshing sound in the air, and then some Tavastians fell, and then many people screamed.
"What's going on?" Vatyala was shocked.
"It's a hidden arrow!" someone shouted.
"Hidden arrows? Where are the enemy archers? Counterattack!"
Those who were attacked wanted to find the enemy and shoot arrows back at them, but their opponents used mulberry long bows.
Rurik couldn't overcome Mechasta's desire for revenge, so he allowed him to take thirty section chief archers and shoot three rounds at the enemy with captured arrows.
According to the distance information provided by Arik, these three rounds of arrows were basically shot in the mountain fort. Although they only caused five enemy casualties, it is not unreasonable to say that they caused panic.
Creating panic is also a tactic!
Rurik was not afraid that they would fight in a corner, after all, he did not want to leave any survivors in this battle.
Is this cruel? indeed so.
On the march, the Ross army saw the destroyed cemetery and a large number of miserable corpses of their own people found in the burned old Salmon Lord Hill Fort.
The Tavastian invaders did not give the Kos and the Russian fishermen who stayed there a way to survive, so why should the Russian crusade be merciful. Unless the dead tell everyone in their dreams that those who surrendered in Tavastia should be spared alive.
So Rurik didn't want any negotiations, and the invaders really stirred up the darkness in him.
As the saying goes, "Don't blame me for being ruthless because you are ruthless." The entire Russian army has this attitude. Of course, the ally Balmok Army wanted to gain trophies, and Biyongni was also observing the tactics of the Ross Army and wanted to make his people so powerful, but he did not have much desire for killing.
Hidden arrows hurt people, and the restless Tavastians standing at the top of the city screamed and hid, while Vatyala cursed the cruelty of the Rus in the safety of the wooden house.
This anger could not find a suitable outlet, and three surrendered tribe leaders were found out.
Anger spread on these three people, Vateyala complained, "It was you three who got us involved in the war. Why didn't you tell us that the Rus were so powerful? You have ulterior motives. You want us, Tavastia, to be destroyed."
The three of them were shocked. Bukan saw that the atmosphere was not right and was afraid that he would be chopped off as a sacrifice. He hurriedly crawled to Vateyala: "At least let me go out and talk to them. Maybe give them some leather." Will retreat."
"You!" Vatyala became furious and stood up and kicked his feet violently.
But then he thought about it, he still didn't know what the Russians wanted to do, so they couldn't really want to kill them all. If you can use some means to coax them away, that's a good idea. Even if it's just delaying time, it would be good, so that when the eldest brother arrives with the elites of the alliance, the Russians should be forced to retreat due to the military strength.
The plan has been set, Vateyala slapped his thigh, "Tomorrow morning you go to find out the true identity of the Russians and tell me their intentions. Also, delay them for me."
Bukan was trembling, but he agreed wholeheartedly, just because he had no choice. This is the role of a slave.
