Rise of Rurik

The cavalry raid was contained until destroyed, and the Franks then lost all cards.

The Russian army in heavy armor turned into berserkers and immediately launched a fight against all dismounted enemy troops. Now that there is no clear battle line, they quickly won the victory. For this reason, the iron armor was stained with the blood of Nianhu Lake.

In this way, the decline of the Gotaland army was easily resolved, and the morale was reinvigorated. The counterattack is now.

Soon, many of the blood-red Russian heavy infantry simply abandoned their round shields and joined the siege of the Frankish infantry with a sword in one hand and an ax in the other.

At this moment, the defenders of the Liege Fortress are leaderless. They barely resisted by instinct, and they gradually collapsed as they retreated steadily.

A group of blood-red berserkers rushed into the formation from the flanks, and the veteran Grund, who had been holding back for a long time, charged forward. Behind these standing troops, the young men of the Seventh Banner Team also joined in the chaos.

Finally, the total collapse of the Frankish infantry took place.

People screamed and screamed in pain and despair. They were assassinated from behind, pushed down by the buckler and smashed their heads. Fleeing was not as good as dying for nothing, and very few of them could really escape from the battlefield.

The war-loving Grund was busy making blood sacrifices in the killing, while the Yotalan army began to rush towards the fortress with the open gate in the continuous pursuit.

The delighted Gorm didn't care about his injuries at all. He rushed into the fortress with a group of brothers, and was delighted to find that there was food, ordnance, and even some money.

"Hurry up and take it!" He urged loudly, "If you get it, it will be yours. If you are too late, you will be snatched by the people behind."

He shouted that he would do the same, and Gorm found the box where the former garrison kept his money, grabbed a handful and stuffed it into his pocket.

The chaotic war has just ended, and some enemies are still fleeing to Liege. Desheng's soldiers were all exhausted, especially the blood-red standing army in heavy armor. They sat down one after another, regardless of the fact that they were surrounded by dead soldiers.

The blood of the men and horses who died in battle pooled into a stream towards the Maas River, and the river quickly turned red.

The blue fox walks among the dead bodies with a sword in hand, giving orders as he walks.

"Find those who are not dead and stab a sword to end their suffering. Find our wounded and treat them as much as possible, and help him die if the injury is serious."

The young people of the Seventh Banner Team, who had just tasted a big victory, were shocked by the dead bodies all over the ground. But for these real Ross people of old Ross blood, they know that they have an obligation to participate in this kind of chaotic battle, and they must not show fear in the face of dead bodies and blood.

But everyone was still deeply shocked. The grass was dyed red, and there were dead bodies everywhere. How many people were killed, maybe five thousand to ten thousand...

The Ross Allied Forces would never collect the corpses of these people, and deliberately made the corpses stink quickly in the summer. If the stench that permeates a large area can create what is called a "hell's curse", blue foxes are more than happy to create it.

Of course, a large number of dead bodies are not what exhausted soldiers after the war are willing to carry.

Grund walked towards the Maas River dangling with his helmet in his arms. Many soldiers wanted to follow the chasing army into the fortress and into the town, but their bodies did not allow it.

He tied his helmet with a rope, rinsed vigorously in the water, and then got down to wash off the blood on his face, and washed off the soil and sweat. ....

The soldiers were all wet, and their linings were soaked in sweat. More and more soldiers were sitting on the ground. Now it seemed that only the Gotaland army was still attacking.

Grund returned to rectify his fighters, and saw them sitting together on the ground, and a group of people lay on the ground immediately after holding on to their stomachs. He couldn't help being startled, and grabbed someone at random: "What happened to those lying brothers?"

"We're all exhausted."

"Damn it, I thought I was killed in battle." Let go of his hand, and he ordered again: "Continue to rest, now there is no point in chasing and killing. Just let the Yotalan people rob this time as agreed, and I will talk to the blue fox .”

Grund quickly found the blue fox. At this moment, this guy was sitting on the grass talking with a group of young people. They had already talked a lot, and upon seeing veteran Grund come back, they invited them to sit down together.

"I thought you brought someone to chase after you. Hehe, the looting is over?" Blue Fox's words were a little bit

banter.

"No more, I'm almost exhausted." Grund slammed the breastplate with the hilt of his sword. "It's very heavy, heavier than our previous scale armor."

He sat down, saw a few young people sitting here, and immediately started to show off, especially for Askad: "Boy, how about the loss of your soldiers after killing a few enemies this time?"

"Old man, how are you? My men were not killed, but more than a dozen brothers were injured."

"Old guy? Hehe. Anyway, I'm really old." Grund sighed resentfully, "It's good to have the armor on me, my people should not even be injured. Thank you for the plate armor!"

Everyone is very pleased with the results of the battle. There are dead bodies all over the ground. Could it be that the Ross army really won with very little loss? The scene is strange.

However, the Ross Army still suffered a lot of losses, mainly in the Gotaland Army.

More than 100 people died directly in the chaos, and more than 200 people were injured to varying degrees. In the actual confrontation between the two armies, not many soldiers were killed on both sides, until the morale of one side collapsed and the army collapsed and was killed indiscriminately.

Even if they were defeated, they dragged their exhausted bodies and fled instinctively towards the town of Liege. Those who fled into the town first entered the city with great hopes, but what they saw was an empty city. What keeps these people fleeing is hope, thinking that they will get more reasons to flee to Liege, but there is nothing here.

They vomited blood and fell down, or walked to the side of the house and sat down.

Desperate to God, these people have given up resistance.

Just behind them were the same Yotalan warriors who were panting and chasing after them. Many of them were in pain from running, and their eyes were bloodshot. The situation was no better than that of the fleeing enemies. The motivation to maintain their pursuit is also hope. Gold and silver, delicious food, new clothes and even captive local women. The expeditionary army composed of these poor Götaland fishermen is also very enthusiastic about taking away the daily necessities of the Franks.

The Gotalans ransacked the fortress in a swarm. They didn't know that this military fortress was the birthplace of Charlemagne a hundred years ago, and they didn't know the meaning of this place at all, but even if they knew it, they didn't feel bad.

They didn't have any animosity with the Franks. The purpose of the expedition was to make a fortune, so after looting the fortress of the army camp, they began to rush into the town one after another. ....

Those broken soldiers who were sitting everywhere had already given up all resistance, and many of them simply opened their chests as if they wanted to die.

All the defeated soldiers who wanted to die were killed, and then all the houses were targeted by the Yotalan army.

The stone church in the city is so thick, must there be a lot of gold and silver in it? The warriors who poured into the church were eager to find endless gold and silver, but the result was unexpected.

"Gold? Where's the gold?"

"This church is full of poor people? Where is the gold and silver?"

The blood-stained soldiers screamed in the solid stone room. Because they didn't grab enough gold and silver, the soldiers vented their anger at the wooden tables and chairs, and the wooden cross hanging on the wall was also directly smashed.

The soldier smashed the bronze seat on the wall, thinking it was gold, only to find that it was only bronze.

I don't know who said that there is a mezzanine in the wall, and gold is hidden in it, so some bold people simply started to smash the wall.

Gorm and other Gotaland nobles can judge that the locals have fled. If they fail to make a fortune, it can only mean that the other party has fled with money.

Undoubtedly, the wooden bridge passing the Maas River next to the fortress is an important passage for the locals to escape.

The bishop of Liege had finished packing almost all the holy vessels, books, and gold and silver boxes during the rainy period. The priests in black robes were afraid that if they ran too slowly, they would be intercepted and killed by the sudden Normans. The rain drove the carriage and fled forcibly. They passed the Liege wooden bridge and fled towards Aachen without even thinking about it after stepping on the opposite bank.

The people were fleeing in all directions, and the city was already evacuating spontaneously when the local defenders were gathering.

It may be a very wise choice to evacuate along with the bishop, but because the bridge in Liege was once held by soldiers, a large number of people who wanted to escape simply did not cross the bridge, and they moved upstream along the Maas River.

In the upstream area, there is a river bend about three days' walk from the town of Liege.

town.

Copper and tin mines were discovered in the mounds near here, and towns developed from these deposits, and bronze consumer goods were supplied to the surrounding area.

The town does not belong to any nobles. In principle, the town of Xiuyin is also demilitarized. The city is managed by priests appointed by the diocese of Liege to manage its daily life. taxes. The city was an important tax source for the diocese of Liege, but the bishop himself abandoned it in the face of the catastrophe.

A large number of people began to pour into the town of Xiuyin, which made this peaceful metallurgical town extremely unstable.

If the Normans came along the Maas River, they would easily destroy all the smelting workshops!

Pure copper itself can be used as currency, and the copper materials stored in the town are all in the hands of craftsmen and families. Everyone is worried that they will be targeted and die tragically in the **** wind.

Do you still have the mind to continue digging ore and smelting copper with peace of mind? People who fled to the town claimed that Maastricht was attacked and countless people were killed, and that the town of Liege also suffered the same fate, and the local defenders were completely wiped out.

The townspeople dare not have any doubts. They saw the terrified faces of the fleeing people, and they were convinced that everything was true.

The people hoped for the protection of the priest, but learned that the bishop had fled.

The bishop did not defend Liege Cathedral, and the humiliation of the Holy Land by the Normans also meant that the clergy were powerless to turn the tide from the disaster of the battlefield. ....

Since it's something that even the priesthood can't do, what can a commoner do?

Everyone thought of one thing, that is to escape.

Where to flee? There must be food and troops stationed at the destination. The priests are great. Unfortunately, the priests do not know how to fight. Nowadays, only some noble military lords can turn the tide.

A destination that the local residents of Xiu Yin and the refugees thought of at the same time, they will continue to walk along the Maas River to the Earl of Ramongao, which is further upstream.

Unlike those nobles with strong strength, Earl Gilbert of Ramongao did not have strong military strength. His fief is next to the powerful and self-reliant Earl of Flanders. Although both sides are earls, strength and the size of the control area are two different concepts.

Earl Ramongao is loyal to King Lothair. A "big noble" like him with a noble status and average strength has no right to choose. The only Roman Emperor Lothair who stands in line is indeed the only choice.

The high-intensity military confrontation in the Brussels Fortress seemed to be about to break out, and Gilbert, a local nobleman, had to mobilize military forces.

Although his territory was small, all the knights in the territory were mobilized, together with his own retinue, he forcibly recruited 400 armored elites, among whom 200 mounted infantry were organized. The amount of money needed to maintain an army of 400 people has already made the earl breathless. He is still insisting, but he does not want war to break out.

After all, no matter how arrogant the Flanders would be, they would never attack Maastricht and Liege, the two holy places of faith due east, but the army was more than enough to attack their own territory. The diplomatic relations between the two sides have been very harmonious for a long time, but this harmony has not evolved into the relationship between children and relatives.

Ramongao is on a high level of military alert, and the earl's residence is in the town of Namur along the river. The earl has already issued orders to the villages all over the place, so-called gathering the strong men in the village. He threatened all the villagers: "If war breaks out, Fran The Des will attack us. You must be armed and fight, if not for me, for your fields, your wives, your wealth."

The villagers believed it was true. After all, they really had land and relatives. These Frankish yeoman and the Flanders were indeed different nationally. What a family.

The count estimated that once the situation was in crisis, he would be able to assemble another militia of 1,000 people, and finally managed to gather a team of 1,500 people. This was Ramongao's most optimistic estimate.

However, as refugees appeared one after another in the border villages of their fiefs, those peaceful residents of the Parish of Liege were dragging their families into the country, and the terrible news they brought spread quickly to Namur. People in the city were panicked.

It was supposed to be an era of occlusion of news, the more

The faster the terrible news spread, the news became extremely distorted when it reached the earl's ears.

The earl's butler told his master all the information he had heard, and he bowed his back tremblingly and explained.

The earl became more and more anxious as he heard this, and even stomped his feet anxiously: "Is this true? I never provoked them! Are the Normans devils? They actually want to attack me along the small Meuse River? They really think highly of me, as if I have endless gold in my hand."  …

"They are indeed devils. And they are...short-sighted devils." The steward's words were very blunt, and his angry manner undoubtedly revealed his fear. "Even if there is a piece of black bread on the ground that is stuck to the dirt and half-eaten, those Normans will bend down to pick it up and eat it."

"Ridiculous. How can people do that? Have they never seen bread?"

"Only the poorest beggars would do that, and the Normans, are a bloodthirsty bunch of beggars. Once they get to us, they kill and eat everything alive."

There was something in these words, the earl suddenly widened his eyes, approached his butler repeatedly, and asked tremblingly, "You have seen a lot. Could it be that the Normans are man-eating demons?"

"What else? They've turned Maastricht into a living hell."

"impossible?"

"That's what all the fugitives say. My lord, we must be prepared."

"Yes! Be on guard. Mobilize! All must be mobilized." The earl tightly clenched the hilt of his sword. He fell into deep fear, and then turned fear into strength.

As the saying goes, priests can flee. The Gilbert family was already the ruler of Ramongao in the Merovingian era. It is absolutely impossible for him to leave this ancestral land.

He was heartbroken for what happened to Liege and Maastricht. If the local Muscoot nobles still existed, they would not be easily broken by the Norman pirates.

But when you think about it, the priests replaced the local aristocratic lords and then outsourced the defense to the king's regular army. Those kings should have more combat effectiveness, but they were easily defeated by the Norman attack?

The count started his own deployment of troops. He didn't dare to take the initiative to attack, so he had to gather troops to protect himself. At the same time, he sent envoys to Brussels, hoping to get military help from the local kingdom general Tristan.

However, when the refugees brought the terrifying news to the Earl of Ramongao in person, the Ross Allied Forces had already completed the looting of Liege.

The people were in a hurry to flee. They took away as much money as possible and still left a lot of property, all of which were collected by the Gotaland noble army who plundered after the war.

Every soldier who survived got some money, but not much.

Ordinary soldiers were more satisfied, but the five nobles were not satisfied after facing the unexpected loss of troops.

The elite of the Russian army did not enter the city of Liege~www.readwn.com~ The long boats were dispatched, the bridge of the fortress was **** with ropes and dragged by ships, and was directly rammed. The wooden bridge had already slipped and collapsed. The final sabotage of the river is over.

More than 100 people were killed and 200 casualties. In the end, 300 people would be killed or injured, resulting in a reduction in the strength of the expeditionary force.

Unlike the cremation customs of the Rus and Swedes, the Gotaland people are more accustomed to burial. Soldiers who died in battle and were seriously injured were buried in the mud along the Maas River with their own weapons. The lightly wounded were briefly bandaged and continued to participate in the next military operation.

The Ross allied forces returned, leaving behind empty towns, empty military fortresses, and piles of dead bodies in the open space just north of the fortress.

All the Viking longships sailed away, and behind the army was a gradually burning fire.

The towns and fortresses of Liege were set on fire maliciously, and the flames that burned more and more violently seemed to be a memorial to the fallen soldiers.

They are sailing to Maastricht, and the next step is to attack Aachen. .

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