Rise of Rurik

Chapter 572 This is an extremely insulting attack

The morning mist filled the forest, and the sun was like a curtain under the morning sun. The bonfires were sparsely extinguished at night, leaving only a mass of smoky embers.

The Ross army slept horribly, and they were still besieging the entire old Grey Squirrel Hill fort.

To siege the city? Do not. At least not today.

One of the major problems faced by the army on the expedition was sustenance. Originally, Rurik hoped that through the waterway, a long boat with oars would bring fish, wheat and onions that had been put all winter to the camp, but the Oulu River is currently too fast. Yes, it will take a while to sail smoothly.

The Russ didn't completely need supplies from the rear. There were too many forest squirrel resources in this area.

Capturing two squirrels and roasting them can basically feed a soldier for a day, not to mention stream fishing.

The bonfire was lit again, and the smoke-filled journey was a circular barrier, and there were already Ross warriors wandering on the edge of the forest to deliberately perform to the enemy.

In fact, more Rus and Balmers have gone hunting and fishing with weapons.

More than 50 strong men, carrying axes and double saws, started logging to make simple long ladders.

Today's plan is just a feint, humiliating and intimidating rather than killing the enemy. It's better to make the enemy tremble after a day of tossing and turning. If their morale collapses, they will win without any loss.

But the enemy must be killed!

After eating a bowl of wheat with salt, Rurik raised his sword and shouted.

"Brothers gather! It's our turn to work!"

Basically, what he assembled this time was only the longbowmen in the flag shooting team, and all the people who operated the trebuchets.

The so-called advanced technology will become a huge advantage on the battlefield. Facts have proved that the Tavastians who shoot arrows in the mountain fortresses, their inferior short wooden bows cannot shoot arrows to the forest camps of the Rus in any case.

The Rus, on the other hand, can comfortably hold stones to the enemy's mountain fortresses in the safe zone.

Tavastia's arrows were only thrown at the limit of 150 meters, and Rurik was standing in a safe area of ​​about 200 meters with more than 200 people.

He raised his right thumb to aim at the mountain fort, "Very well, this is the position. Take off your head."

The so-called heads belonged to the deceased, and 200 grey-white heads that began to stink and ooze black blood were piled on the ground.

It's true that these heads are real, and almost all Tavastians have dark brown hair, even beards.

These characteristics prove that they were immigrants from North Asia.

Yevro and his guys have had enough of this unfortunate thing, and now they are going to be launched, and everyone can't wait.

Mechasta and Kewen longbowmen were already in formation, and ten arrows were stuck in front of them.

The bull catapult was accumulating power. In addition to the Qianshou projectile, there were also a group of two fists picked up on the spot, mostly pebbles.

Another large number of shield-wielding Rus warriors roamed the edge of the forest, shouting from time to time.

Check out this battle!

The commander of the Tawasti runner-up, Vate Yala, was on pins and needles. He didn't want to sit still, but now he had completely lost the chance to evacuate. The only gratification was that those who were not determined must now fight to the death.

They still didn't know the true intentions of the Rus. Seeing that the enemy was about to attack, Vateara not only ordered his subordinates to prepare for a counterattack, but also ordered the surrendered Bakan to act as a messenger to negotiate.

It's almost mortal, right?

Looking at Rurik again, he noticed a person in the distance pulling the rope and being slowly lowered.

"Everyone pay attention! Don't attack first." He paused his archery and ordered everyone to remain calm.

Yevluo pointed his sword at the person who looked around and trembled, "Is that the messenger?"

"should be."

Rurik nodded and called the bow-wielding Mechasta, "You know their language very well. Come and ask."

"Okay." Mechasta sighed, "Actually, I think it's superfluous. And this group of Tavastians, we can't reciprocate fantasy."

"indeed,

I didn't want to show mercy. "

"Then shoot this man." Mechasta raised his bow.

Rurik knew that this person was good at archery, and this time using a longbow of zhe wood, his skills were even more superb. This pulled Mechasta's hand down, "Listen to what this person has to say. I don't want to kill a messenger."

"All right."

Mechasta was disdainful, and as the man approached, his lowered bow was raised again.

"Lord Duke, this guy is actually..." Mechasta's eyes were burning.

"You know this man?"

"You should know it too. He's Bakan, who should have surrendered to you. Can't believe he defected to the enemy?"

As soon as these words came out, Rick suddenly remembered that there were three leaders of Kewen who surrendered, but it was too long and he had forgotten.

Bakan came cautiously, his legs trembling with nervousness as he saw the arrow aimed at him.

Mechasta stepped up and kicked him directly, then spit again.

Bakan pleaded, "Don't hit me, I have something to say."

"Is something wrong? You betrayed everyone!" Mechasta said.

Looking at the current situation, Rurik changed his mind: "Put this person down first. Let's finish the projectile and talk about it."

"Kill him anyway!" Mechasta continued.

"Shut up!" Rurik shook his head and instructed his men to tie him away with ropes, and tied ropes in his mouth.

Well, the attack of the Rus army is still going on. Rurik wouldn't change his plans just because the traitor was a messenger.

Because powerful nations don't need diplomacy, that's the Nordic way of life.

Rurik drew his dagger and ordered all his subordinates in the formation.

"Longbowmen! Shoot arrows! Catapults! Get ready!"

“Hjutraaah!”

With an order, ten trebuchets fired rapidly. The head wrapped in pus and blood was thrown out, and the fully charged lever slammed heavily on the thick leather pad of the baffle, but the force was so great that the whole trebuchet bounced up the back spontaneously. Like a kicking bull.

Along with the flying Prime Minister of Qian, there are arrows, which is the anger of Kewen's longbowmen.

A large number of strange things flew over, and the Tavastians who had suffered a loss subconsciously squatted down, especially those who stayed on the wall, picking up wooden boards to protect their heads and torso.

The defenders who had been dispatched in order to meet the battle all hid themselves with their magical powers. The longbowmen's attack did not cause any damage, except for the sound of a few arrows hitting the wooden planks.

More serious hits followed, and they seemed to be flying rocks, though it felt so absurd, Vatyaara thought they were rocks.

"It's a stone! Protect your head, don't be crushed to death!"

During the raid, some people were suddenly killed by stones. At that time, the battle situation was extremely chaotic, and Vatara couldn't care too much. Now that he could clearly see what was flying over, for fear that he would be smashed to pieces, he curled up into a ball, like a pangolin.

But that's not a stone.

Some "stones" hit the shield and then seemed to bounce off, and more often fell in the clearings in the mountain fort.

The "stone" clearly did not cause any damage. This round of the Ross army's offensive did not cause any injuries to the defenders. As the saying goes, the damage is not high and the insult is huge. The "stones" on the ground, how can they be stones, they are clearly human heads!

Do not! It's your own brain!

Someone accidentally discovered that a head belonged to his friend, so he threw his shield and crawled over, holding up the head and howling.

Seeing this incredible situation, Wattara's head buzzed, and then she bared her teeth in incompetent fury.

He stood up in a rage, and pointed at the Rus people's array with the captured steel sword and cursed: "You are all bastards born of slaves! You are an abandoned baby raised by hungry wolves! How dare you humiliate me like this! I want Head off all of you and kick in the shithole!"

In fact, Vatyaara couldn't think of any more vicious words. He was scolding endlessly here, and Xu Yu squatted down because of fear.

After all, he screamed at the people who had gathered in the empty field to pick up the enemy's arrows and bury the dead's heads: "You hurry up and hide! The arrows are coming!"

Indeed, the longbowmen started a salvo again, accompanied by the Qianshou who smashed over in the second round.

Thanks to the Tavastians obeying the boss's words, they hid and witnessed what was smashed, thanking that they were not killed by the arrow.

New heads were smashed in, and some even fell to the ground, causing people to retire and dizzy.

Rurik stood with his sword, his longbowmen's arms were limited, and it was not good to wear them out before the battle was really decided.

Ten rounds were launched in a relatively short period of time, even if the poundage of these longbows was still not high, he felt it was better to take it easy. Only trebuchets, the hemp ropes, tendons, and baleen that source the torque of these heavy weapons are soaked in too much greasy seal oil, and the torque can be squandered. Throw it over, and give a batch of pebbles to the enemy.

He is extremely confident in the durability of these weapons, but he doesn't know the limit of damage.

For every trebuchet that works with torque, it should be no problem to continuously launch twenty-five rounds.

Qianshou smashed round after round, and they landed on the occupied mountain pack quite accurately. Fright and anger permeated the entire mountain fort. The Tavastians were still waiting for the Bakan who was released to bring back the news of the Rus people. Now it is estimated that the Bakan has been cut down, and the Rus people used this method. Expressed his attitude - rush to kill.

Many of the fallen heads were smashed to the ground, and the defenders witnessed it like a nightmare, and there were sticky and stinky things scattered everywhere. They were all retching and trying to escape from this place.

There was virtually no escape, and as the real stones fell, the shacks where people hid were no longer safe.

Finally, a Tavastian warrior was hit by a stone that penetrated the roof of the straw hut, his head bloomed and his bones were broken. People held wooden shields and prayed that they were lucky enough.

The offensive lasted for most of the morning, and the actual combat proved that all the trebuchets continued to perform excellent salvos for twenty-five rounds.

The longbowman finished his mission after ten rounds of projectiles. Even so, everyone felt the fatigue of their shoulders.

The Rus people cheered for the battle in the morning. No one knew how much the enemy lost. Anyway, the insulting capital of Qian was thrown over, along with 200 arrows and 50 pebbles. The essence of this action was intimidation and insult. The majority of Ross and Balmerk warriors should hurry up and polish their weapons.

When was the real siege of the old Grey Squirrel Hill Fort, in fact, Rurik did not come up with an exact "campaign plan".

It can be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, anyway, the Ross people will have the full ability to attack from tomorrow. Rurik suddenly seemed a little conservative, entirely because he hoped that his army would be an allied army in the last battle, and there would be no more casualties. After all, it is another great honor to have one's own army win without injury.

Continue to toss the enemy in the afternoon? Of course.

To torture the beasts in the cage, Rurik is very willing to do this now, after all, the brutal beast in his heart was forced out by these beasts.

Before that, he wanted to hear what the detained traitor Bakan was trying to say.

At the moment, Bakan was simply tied to a big tree, and there were bored Ross warriors who urinated on this unlucky bastard, deliberately using malicious language to humiliate him.

By the time Rurik came back, the guy had stinks.

After a few pottery urns were poured on the river, this guy's condition was a little better.

Rurik squatted down, with Mechasta and Kaihas standing beside him.

In fact, Bakan was more surprised that Mechasta and Kaihas could get along peacefully, compared to seeing Rurik, a brat who looked like an adult at first.

"Tell me, what did they send you to do?"

Bakan was quite excited. Seeing the current situation, he could no longer care too much, and suddenly announced: "I! I was forced to helpless. I am still your servant, and now everyone in my group has been killed by Tavas. The Tia took it away, and I lost all my troops and everything."

"You lied!" Mechasta saw the fallacy at a glance, and Kaihas also agreed with this judgment.

"My lord, don't listen to his nonsense." Kaihas was furious, "I saw with my own eyes this guy was instructing those savage guys to attack our fortress. Without the help of this guy, how could the enemy successfully capture me? Mountain Fort?"

Hearing these words, Bakan's attitude suddenly became ambiguous.

Just by looking at the man's dazed demeanor, Rurik judged that what this man said was definitely a lie. Anyway, I don't need this traitor anyway, or the entire Oulu River Basin has been built since the beginning of Covenstad at the estuary, and there is no need for the entrusted rule of the Cowen people. The Rus will directly rule and colonize.

Rurik motioned the two guys to shut up, and asked Bakan again: "The enemies in the mountain fort are trying to send me a message. Are they trying to surrender?"

"This..." Originally, Bakan wanted to say yes, but he was really in the Ross army, but he quietly changed his mind and insisted: "The Tavastians use me as a tool. They said it! They think You will not take down the mountain fort anyway, saying they will hold on to the end."

"Do they really have such confidence?" Rurik smiled, arrogantly.

People who understood the words also laughed.

Seeing this, Bakan continued to support the fire: "Yes, they are very arrogant. Their leader said that it was only a small defeat before, claiming that the Rus people dared to attack the city, and under the wooden wall, it must be..."

"How must it be?"

"It's all Russ corpses."

The laughing Rurik stopped laughing immediately, and drew his sword and pointed at Bakan's throat: "You are laughing at me!"

Bakan, whose eyes were wide and trembling, stammered: "Yes... that leader said it."

"Kill the traitor," Mechasta suggested.

"Yes, cut him!" Caihas said the same.

Instead, Rurik's sword eased down, and then he laughed as if he understood: "Indeed, you are a tool. The Tavastians think you are superfluous, and hope that I will cut you. You... think I am Will it kill you?"

Hearing that, Bakan suddenly shook violently, obviously eager to express his position: "My lord, I'm still useful. I also know one very important thing."

"What's up?"

"It's their reinforcements! Their leader sent a lot of messengers a few days ago, and moved all the immigrants from the entire fortress. Their reinforcements are too many to count, maybe two thousand. No! It's three thousand! They will definitely come. Rescue here."

"Three thousand reinforcements?" This matter was completely beyond Rurik's expectations. He couldn't believe that the Tavastians, who had been boasted by the Kovins as extremely powerful (it turned out to be an exaggeration), would really fight for this area. Life.

Bakan hurriedly continued to explain: "Because their leader said that the Tavastians will not give up any newly conquered territories, even if they fight the Rus to the end."

"Ridiculous, I didn't provoke them at all, it was them who came to hurt me. If so, how could I ignore them when they sent them to the door for me to hack and kill?"

I thought that by demolishing this mountain fort, killing all the defenders would solve the "frontier problems" in the Oulu River Basin through "physical destruction". Now it seems that all this is the general trend of the rolling wheels of history, and the fateful battle between the Rus and the Tavastians is inevitable.

Such an enemy Rurik is quite admired. After all, he is the ancestor of Finland, and his courage is admirable. Unfortunately, the strength of the two sides is seriously unequal.

Rurik continued to inquire, and learned more details about the enemy's reinforcements. He even knew that the Tavastian's great alliance leader was named Watkad, who occupied Grey Squirrel Hill Fort, slaughtered and looted the local Coven and Ross fishermen. The leader of the Tawasti runner-up was named Vatyara, and the two were brothers from their names.

This crusade against the Rus military division is famous, and its legitimacy is very reasonable. Rurik has taken some extreme measures against the enemy. He has no sense of guilt, but these deeds are regarded as heroic actions by the soldiers.

Whether Bakan provided information, Rurik did not bluntly spare the man's life, but he did not kill him immediately. This person doesn't want to die, and he should try his best to give out all kinds of information in order to survive. Besides, this person claims to be completely familiar with the road to the hinterland of Tavastia. At least there is no harm in leaving the life of a begging guide.

The situation has changed dramatically. If the enemy really organizes an army of 3,000 people to rescue the field, will it be bad for the future battle to attack the mountain fortress?

Rurik believed in the brotherhood of the enemy, and his younger brother was besieged. As the eldest brother's leader, how could he not bring heavy troops to the siege?

Now attacking the mountain fort has become a secondary purpose. To solve the frontier problems, the simplest and most rude means is to try to kill the enemy's living force. It is more meaningful to try to annihilate the enemy's huge new force! After all, the mountain fort was pulled out immediately.

Rurik decided to rush to hold a front-line military meeting in the evening, and it would be good to bring some gifts to the trapped beasts in the mountain fort before that!

As a result, the trebuchet smashed dozens of pebbles, which was regarded as a special "additional meal" for the enemy's humble dinner...

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