The Slavic flag troops were in the center, and when a spear array appeared in the woods, Vadim on the opposite side was shocked. He had long known that the traitors at White Tree Manor were trained by the Ross people to be good at using spears, but he never expected that they used spears in this way.
Compared with these strange spearmen, the astonishing number of Varyag sword and shield bearers are clearly truly terrifying characters. Their bodies were generally stained with blood, and their bucklers were also blood-red.
The strength of the First and Third Flag Teams is now further increased, because many old guys from the Second Flag Team have joined in.
Rurik's army formation resembled a historical reenactment of the decisive battle on Gotland, and he himself actually regarded the thousands of rebellious peasants as a formidable enemy.
The Ross army further formed their formation, and all warriors holding crossbows were raised to receive new orders.
The spear array is in the center, and shield walls have been built on the left and right wings. It's just that there are a few gaps in the shield wall, and the warriors holding crossbows are quickly passing through these gaps to get to the front of the array.
One hundred crossbowmen were placed in front of the shield walls on the left and right wings. The Shooting Standard had as many as 200 crossbowmen arrayed in front of the spear-carrying Slavic Standard.
Because the battle arrangement was too hasty, only twelve torsion slingshots were transported here. They were carried by the soldiers and placed in front of the formation, using the enemy's dead corpses as carriers.
The extremely young warriors lay directly on the grass wet with blood. Carlotta, Fisk, Kanuf and others, and even Svetlana, these boys and girls are now warriors. Their positions It is also the front line of fierce fighting.
They lay prone with steel-armed crossbows, heavy arrows already installed in the arrow troughs.
The blood of the corpses gathered into a terrifying stream. The corpses were all war dead at Pine Needle Manor, and they were essentially Svetlana’s enemies. She was trembling unconsciously, never expecting that such a thing would happen to a warrior after having been working for a while today. Her clothes were stained with a lot of mud and blood, and Miatai couldn't care less about cleaning them. She was on the most dangerous front line, and it was clear what she was going to do next.
"You're shaking." Carlotta, who was lying aside, said calmly.
"I...I'm scared."
"It's normal to be afraid, and you'll get used to it in the future. The people standing in front of you are all enemies of your manor, and it's your obligation to kill them!"
Svetlana was frightened when Carlotta told her some Viking-style words of wisdom, and she would hide her fear with a smile in front of her.
Before on the big ship, Lana just raised the heavy crossbow and threw it. It was impossible to know whether she had killed the enemy. Now, she was about to see the enemy being shot and killed by an arrow in front of her.
Her arms were still trembling, and her trembling right hand was pressed against the trigger, as if she could accidentally fire it at any time.
"Girl, stay calm, your man is watching you. If you want to be his woman, you must behave like a warrior." Carlotta's continued words slightly eased Lanna's nervousness.
While the two girls were talking silently, the Ross Army Arrow Array took advantage of the opponent's inexplicable confusion and completed the deployment.
Even Rurik, who was much shorter than the other strong men due to his age, entered the formation easily.
A young man wearing a white fox fur hat is here. He is also protected by a heavy special chain armor with patches. He holds a steel sword in his right hand and a flag is actually blocked by his left arm!
Rurik is now in front of the battle with this image. He sees Svetalana's caution and the desire to fight among his close friends.
He also saw the stupidity of the enemy not far away. Where was the army? It was clearly a group of farmers holding wooden sticks and inferior farm tools. Their weapons and equipment were extremely poor. Only their huge strength made them look weak.
Of course, in this ancient war, the number of troops in the army is generally positively correlated with the direction of the battle.
Standing here, Rurik didn't feel that there was any advantage in having more opponents. His eyes were very sharp and he saw that the opponent's camp was clearly divided and a large group of women were mixed in.
Are they mobilizing the entire estate? That's fine, let them die clearly.
Rurik did not think that he would encounter any sneak attack, and he himself needed to show the heroism of the prince in front of all the Rus elite and servant troops.
The simple Vikings will always worship a brave warrior, and will even recommend such a warrior as the leader of the group without hesitation.
Rurik personally carried the flag to show his bravery, glory, fearlessness, and nobility as the "Son of God."
All this was especially taken by the old guys from the Second Flag Team, who laughed and muttered that this kid was born to be a king.
There are no guards around him, and for safety reasons he will not really stray too far from the main army.
On Vadim's side, all the resistance forces gathered at Pine Needle Manor have realized that they have reached the front line of the decisive battle for everything. The sun is shining brightly today, and I am afraid that many people will not be able to see the sunset today.
The final morale of these Slavic rebels came from the huge strength of the army. The army hugged each other to cheer each other up. Since Vadim had resolutely stood on the front line of the array, this person, as the commander of the army, set a good example for his subordinates. , to be fair, this kid Vadim is not really a brave man, but now he is indeed acting as a brave man.
In fact, when he saw the Ross army's divine soldiers descending from the sky and building a wall in front of him, he was extremely frightened.
A young man walked out of the Ross military formation. He was elegantly dressed, and the metal armor on his body shone brightly in the sun.
Is this a messenger?
Vadim was still confused, but Rurik raised his head and straightened his neck and shouted with all his strength: "I! Rurik of the Principality of Rus! The real Duke of Rus! The rebels of Pine Needle Manor, today will be your death!"
Rurik pronounced the "death sentence" of the Pine Needle Manor Army in Slavic. This statement not only shocked Vadim, but also made people wonder why the other party spoke Slavic.
Guessing that his opponent might be fooled, Rurik started shouting again: "Today, you will all be killed by us!"
"You are all going to die! Remember, I am the one who killed you! Duke Rurik of the Principality of Rus! Be angry, I allow you to curse me in the afterlife!"
"Your estates will be burned! Men and women will be killed! Your poultry will be killed! Your cattle and sheep will be killed! Your farmland will be confiscated! All traces of your existence will be erased, It's like you never existed..."
Even Rurik yelled some more vicious words, and some nasty language came out of his mouth, which shocked Svetlana. "I didn't expect that you, a handsome man, are just as rough as other men on the inside?!"
If he wanted to instantly anger a normal man, Rurik consciously used some "special arts" from the East for the best effect.
Originally, the fierce battles in the ancient East also maintained the tradition of scolding. One way to force the enemy to advance aggressively was to scold for three days and three nights. After that, it would not be difficult to subdue a bull that was charging wildly with a trap.
Rurik insulted the other person as a man and lacked the dignity of a man, and insulted the other person as a woman. Some of the unsightly metaphors and parallelisms shocked Otto.
In fact, the vocabulary of swear words in each ethnic language is very limited. People need these words but subconsciously reject this kind of indecentness.
Rurik took out a set of curse words and punches, and the series of curses showed the special accomplishment of an irritable old man. This was a "swear war tactic". Vadim and many of his men were already blushing from the curses. It's like drinking a pound of strong liquor.
Vadim is not really a bully and can be easily angered. He has his own special counterattack measures.
He suppressed his blush and ordered several of his subordinates. After a while, some ferocious heads with gray beards on wooden sticks were displayed.
This is Pine Needle Manor's counterattack to the war of words. It is undoubtedly more insulting than using the "art of language" Vadim directly showing the dead man's head.
Those are the heads of the Russians who were killed before!
Witnessing all this, the Ross military formation fell into a violent commotion, and everyone began to roar wildly, swearing at the top of their lungs that these despicable traitors must be killed.
Vadim saw the effectiveness of his insulting methods, openly walked out of the military formation with strong ridicule, held up a wooden stick to rest the ferocious head, and kicked it like a ball in front of all the Russian troops...
"Crazy! They're all crazy!" How could Otto endure such humiliation from his enemies?
Otto pushed away the soldiers in front and walked out of the military formation, walked straight to his son Rurik, grabbed the flagpole, and strangled Rurik's neck with his other big hand.
Without the tenderness of a father anymore, Otto shouted sternly: "The Russians cannot be insulted like this, I will declare war now on your behalf!"
"Dad!" Rurik, who was being held down, hurriedly defended himself, saying that he did this deliberately to prepare for the army's heavy weapons and to buy time.
Otto didn't listen at all. He just wanted to take his son back and ordered the Russian army to attack.
It was Otto's appearance that caused the arrogant Vadim to pause his movements.
"It's Otto! The old and immortal guy!"
Hearing this brief Slavic provocation, Otto stopped and let go of his hand, while Yuryrik looked back angrily.
But when they saw Vadim, he stuck a steel sword into his head and raised it high, and continued to curse: "Otto, you will die in this battle! I will annihilate you Russians! I will use all of your heads as my official Become a sacrifice to the prince!"
On the surface, Otto was just stunned on the spot, but in reality his heart was beating wildly, and the rage in his heart drove his blood pressure to 180. If his body was not so strong, he would have fainted from the anger.
Seeing this madman, Rurik concluded that this man was the enemy's leader.
"Hey! Idiot! Who are you?!" Rurik asked sharply.
"Vadim! Brave Vadim! Vadim who will personally cut off Otto's head! I swear!"
Rurik glared at Vadim again and said silently: "I have already written down your name..."
The father and son did not hesitate any longer. Vadim and his men watched helplessly as the Russian leader returned to the military formation and did nothing.
What can be done?
The livelihood of Pine Needle Manor is farming and raising livestock. There are not many hunters in the manor, and hunting mostly relies on setting traps and a group of people holding short spears and throwing guns to hunt around. Of course they knew how to use bows, but due to the poor production quality, the arrows could not hurt the Ross army formation that "happened" to be outside the shooting range.
As soon as Rurik returned to the formation, a hoarse "Hjutra" announced the start of the war.
He ordered the arrows to be released, and this is how Rurik placed his crossbowmen.
The lying soldiers immediately pulled the trigger. Svetlana completed the operation with her eyes closed, unable to estimate the mud and blood on her body. After shooting, she stood up, carried the heavy crossbow and ran back to the array, and retreated all the way to the array. after.
The soldiers in the first row finished firing, and the half-kneeling shooters in the second row immediately fired.
After the second row was completed, the third row started the final round of shooting.
The arrow flew away with a whoosh, and the arrogant Vadim fell to the ground with a loud scream.
This kid was lucky, a light arrow pierced his left arm. If this was a heavy crossbow arrow, the man's entire left arm would be disabled, and it would be inevitable to die of excessive bleeding in a short time on this battlefield.
His cronies were killed one after another in the "three-stage strike" of the Russians because they were too far in the front row. Those pointed cone-shaped surface-hardened carbon steel crossbow arrows that can easily penetrate the thick fur of polar bears and even the skull of the bear can easily cause horrific bloody holes in the body of the person who is hit by the arrow.
Those torsion slingshots were also launched immediately, and they were all firing javelins in an almost flat-firing state. Therefore, it was not surprising that one of the strange casualties in Vadim's array was three people with one javelin.
But after all, it was three arrows before the battle. Rurik could not guarantee that the enemy could still stand stupidly after being hit by arrows. His order to his men was to withdraw behind the array after the attack.
This has something to do with the fact that his two women and good brothers are placed on the front line as shooters. He wants his women and brothers to make some military exploits in public, and he must also ensure that he accepts them as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary casualties.
Just because the archers have withdrawn to the array, it doesn't mean that the war has nothing to do with them. The archery master Frazier, who was appointed as the temporary captain of the archer flag team, gathered warriors holding various long-range crossbows into a matrix, and the weapons were high-definition. Throw arrows at an elevated angle to reinforce, which means hitting the enemy's head at a nearly vertical angle!
Not to mention those bull trebuchets, the pebbles flew over Ross's military formation, further hitting the armed farmers of Pine Needle Manor behind the enemy's military formation, killing and injuring a large number of people.
A large number of people means a strength advantage, and it also means that it is easier to suffer large-scale casualties under the attack of heavy weapons.
Falling arrows, javelins and stones have no eyesight. Vadim's men don't care whether they are men or women. Being hit is basically fatal.
Vadim really did not deserve to die. He was dragged into the military formation by a few of his surviving cronies. Hundreds of Pine Needle Manor soldiers watched helplessly as their leader was shot with an arrow. Unfortunately, their minds were frightened by the sudden death. Got a blank.
Those damn arrows were still being fired, and their landing points were basically at the end of the Pine Needle Manor Army. Some of the arrows even landed in the so-called safe areas where no one was standing.
But is it really safe? The Russians' deadly arrows simply blocked everyone's retreat!
Suddenly, all the leather drums and horns of the Ross army appeared, and the dull roar quickly gave way to the Viking war cry of the entire Ross army, including the spears of Medved, who was mainly a man from White Tree Manor. The army, they shouted their Viking war cry as New Rus's.
Of course, the young cronies brought by Rurik and all the elite mercenaries have already roared the new "Russian Viking war cry" confirmed by Rurik.
They roared "Ula", and the Slavic flag team, which was dominated by spears, took the lead in pointing the spears standing like a forest in front of them, forming a dense formation and slowly moving forward in a hedgehog formation.
The left and right wings of the Russian army moved slightly late. Macroscopically, a wedge-shaped formation specifically designed to break the formation was being constructed. The Russian army used this formation to kill the enemy in an orderly manner.
The Pine Needle Manor Army completely fell into final madness. In fact, even if Vadim was not present, the thousands of armed men would inevitably go into all-out war out of instinct.
Some unknown men charged violently with weapons, immediately leading the entire military formation to charge.
Thousands of Ilmenslav armed men and women braved the arrows and stones of the Russians and rushed towards the uniform Russian military formation.
In a sense, this is history repeating itself.
Just like their ancestors on the Vistula River hundreds of years ago, they bravely rushed towards the Roman legions setting up their shields, as violent and fearless as they were.
But what they are facing is also the brutal killing of the Rus Principality, which intends to call itself Augustus at the right time and intends to become the new Rome.
The final battle to determine the dominance of the entire Lake Ilmen took place on this June afternoon under the scorching sun.
