Rise of Rurik

That night, the Franks in the city were busy cutting wood.

The horses tied the cables and dragged the houses directly, and the soldiers unloaded the girders by accident, and chopped them into sharp shapes with axes. These are the execution tools, and they will be put on the old battlefield in the north of the city to execute all the Norman prisoners.

All the warriors in the army who are good at hunter skinning were organized, and Tristan lectured them overnight.

After all, it is necessary to execute some villains by extreme means. Even if the prisoners are extremely vicious, it does not mean that their own soldiers must die of illness.

Unless the anger of the fighters is mobilized to suppress the inner moral defense.

A proud general swung his sword straight away, pointing straight to the east and north.

It was here that General Tristan denounced the atrocities of the Normans.

"Norman robbers! They killed the Archbishop of Maastricht! They killed the Archbishop of Liege! They killed anyone they saw and robbed them of property. The most devout believers were captured and sold as slaves in the far north Tortured in the frozen ice cave. Now! God has given us a chance for revenge! This is the destiny of all of us! I order you to punish those Normans with the cruelest means, and you must not simply hang them!

They are the wolves that run among the sheep, and you are the best wolf hunters and skinners. I command you to slash the Normans tomorrow like beasts, but we shall see how dark their hearts are.

Don't be embarrassed! Whatever you do is just, and God will not punish you for your barbarism, but for your bravery. You will anger the Normans on the other side of the river, and finally I will lead the cavalry to trample the enemy to death. "

Many recruited fighters did not have too much psychological burden. Some people's attitude actually felt that killing a prisoner was not brave enough. Some people feel embarrassed, and when the anger is mobilized, the embarrassment disappears.

Right on the wall of the inner city, soldiers who hurried down to report woke up the general from his sleep.

Tristan was obsessed, and so were the other junior officers.

He was a light sleeper and was not angry when woken up.

"What is it?"

"My lord! On the other side of the river! On the other side..." The nervous soldier pointed to the east with his big hand, nervously incoherent.

Tristan's head buzzed and his hair trembled, "What's going on? Don't tell me that the Normans played a trick of night attack."

"No. But the opposite bank is full of flames, and we...seem surrounded by endless enemies."

"Ridiculous. I have clearly observed the size of their army during the day. Although there are so many people, it is not enough for your description. Idiot, step back quickly. I will go to the city wall to find out."

Tristan is not willing to enter the inner city for the time being, the cathedral is still a huge mound, the corpses of priests and people are stakes, and the stench is still permeating.

Covering his mouth and nose, he entered the inner city and climbed up the city wall. The warm southeast wind blew in before he took a deep breath, but what he saw with his eyes made him tremble violently.

"That soldier was right. What's going on?! Could it be that the Normans increased their troops at night?!"

Tristan didn't know anything about the bonfire trick, and even if he put it in another way, he couldn't think of this psychological warfare trick.

Morale is very important to the current army. If one side frightens the other side by some means before the war, the next day's battle will be that one side is energetic and vigorous and the other side is sluggish.

The job of the Frankish soldiers placed on the city wall was to keep an eye on them. The first panic they had was, but fortunately, this negative emotion did not infect the main force of the army.

Tristan didn't want to believe that the enemy had really increased their troops, so he told the soldiers present to keep calm and never pass the news on to others.

It is currently impossible to make any adjustments to the tactics. As long as you look up at the positions of the moon and Sirius now, you will know that dawn is not far away.

At this moment, some soldiers really couldn't sleep. They squinted their eyes and lay on the open ground in cloth masks, resting quietly with their horses. Only veterans who have experienced many battles can still sleep peacefully now, and the younger soldiers are mostly excited and angry. Small and medium groups chat about their actions after dawn, and they simply don't sleep.

On the other side of the Maas River, the truly exhausted Ross Army fell asleep in pieces.

The dense bonfires did not appear suddenly, but the psychological warfare tactics that the blue fox learned from the war in the war. The originator of such a tactic was Rurik himself. The blue fox who improved the tactic ordered the spirited soldiers to gradually increase the number of bonfires, adhering to the continued igniting of the bonfires as long as the sun was dark, just to create an illusion that the Russian army continued to increase its troops .

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Cloth strips are tied with wooden sticks and then soaked in wooden barrels filled with pine resin mixed with seal oil. The high temperature in midsummer makes the infiltration effect of the oil excellent, and the torches are being made quickly.

The two sides, who knew little about each other, waited for the dawn, and now it was clear that the Franks had taken the lead.

When it was about to dawn, the soldiers who were ordered to execute the prisoners took the lead.

They didn't move their horses, but they were worried that the neighing of the horses would spread to the other side to alert them.

The prisoners who had been hungry for a day stumbled and were dragged away, and the wooden stakes used as torture were also dragged and moved.

Just to the north of the city, there used to be a thousand city defenders who fought against the Mellaren army who attacked first. The dead bodies all over the place were unattended, and the highly decomposed corpses made the Frankish soldiers miserable. Vomit it all up.

This place is already very close to the river, and the dim sparkling of the Maas River can be seen clearly under the moonlight and starlight.

They moved completely in the dark, thanks to the twilight tonight, the eyes were not darkened, and in the darkness before dawn, they began to dig a wet pit, buried the wooden stakes, and tied the prisoners tightly to the wood. on the pile.

Everything went very smoothly, so at dawn, the soldiers who gradually woke up ran to the river to get some clear water, looked left and right to enjoy the coolness of the morning, and noticed some dark shadows that suddenly appeared in the north of the city out of the corner of their eyes.

what is that? Are some active people?

The great discovery was widely spread, and soon the entire Ross army camp became tense, and the soldiers stood up one after another. Most of them thought that the Franks dared to launch a raid across the river after eating a leopard. Let’s not talk about whether this is possible. As the weapons gather, let's follow suit.

Blue Fox was awakened by the war siren, and he didn't care whether it was absurd or not. The noise outside the tent became more and more noisy, as if the Frankish cavalry had launched a camp robbery.

"Is it an enemy attack? Let's fight! Let's fight! Put on your armor!"

The Ross army was obviously too nervous, which was a good thing. When the soldiers gradually realized what happened, most of the soldiers had already put on their armor and helmets, and some even ate some dry wheat in a hurry. Cakes and dried fish added a little bit of stamina.

The soldiers gradually moved towards the north of the two camps spontaneously, just to see clearly what those figures were doing.

In the open field on the other side of the river, a cross flag became the most prominent feature.

The soldiers of the Ross Army who didn't know where they were, looked at each other across the river, and gradually saw what was going on. At the beginning, they really wanted to watch a show. After they found someone tied to a wooden stake, everyone was still talking about what the Franks were doing. People with a discerning eye suddenly realized that the tied blond man There are tattoos.

Oops! is our man! Probably the captured Mälaren.

The individual soldiers of the Ross army Mellaren who had just returned from Aachen were not familiar with them. Bjorn, who had heard the news, arrived at the riverside with his successfully evacuated subordinates to find out. It seems that the people who are used as sacrifices are his subordinates.

"Damn it, are you using my soldiers as sacrifices? You Frank also understand human sacrifices?"

In all fairness, although the Viking tribes of all walks of life did not expressly object to human sacrifices, this kind of extreme sacrificial activity is first of all selecting slaves as human sacrifices, and the use of human sacrifices must also be a means of cooperating with major events.

Bjorn looked left and right, he agreed last night to prepare the torches and launch an arson operation today, and now he is more willing to agree with the idea of ​​that young man in Askad—to organize a large army to take the initiative to attack.

"Come on! People from Mellaren! Organize ships to follow me to counterattack!"

After a loud roar, he called out to all the Rus people present: "Brothers Rus! Seeing that we have a common ancestor, help me for the gods! We can't let our friends fall into trouble."

Even though almost all the captured Mälaren people owed debts, and were even essentially debt slaves, after all, they were from the Mälaren tribe, and it was the creditor's business to punish them. Franks are not eligible!

Of course, from the standpoint of the Frankish army, it makes sense even if the captured captives were broken into pieces.

The executioners who were ordered to execute the captives all put away the small meat-cutting knives, which were originally their own tableware, and now they are really good at hunting the "hungry wolves" in front of them.

They had to put on a good play, and seeing more and more armed Normans gathering on the opposite bank of the river, they lit up their knives and broadswords.

"Normans! Take a good look! We kill your men like sheep!"

Similar words kept shouting, just to attract further attention.

"What are they barking at? I'm so **** off!" Bjorn frowned, looking left and right, "Everything is ready, let's cross the river and rescue them."

After a while, Lan Hu himself arrived at the scene with his armored and sharp soldiers.

The average width of the Maas River here is more than 100 meters, and people with excellent eyesight can clearly see what the people on the other side are doing.

Even so, the blue fox listened to the clamor of the wind and the lake.

He saw that Bjorn was leading his men to pull the half-stranded longboat, so he hurriedly greeted him and temporarily stopped him: "What are you going to do? Just cross the river and fight?"

"Otherwise? My people are sacrificed like cattle and sheep! Even if they are really killed, I will take their bodies back. I will kill all those Franks. Don't hinder me."

For a while, the blue fox was very pervasive, and now there was a buzzing in the ears, and more and more soldiers gathered by the river. Naturally, a large number of soldiers were really infected by the restless Mälaren people, and they went to pull their longboats one after another.

At this moment, the assembled soldiers hissed.

The blue fox raised his head, squinting his eyes and saw that the Franks' swords had pierced the stomachs of those who were tied to the stakes.

More cruel things are still happening, just like cutting up a sheep and slaughtering a cow, the Frankish executioners ignored the heart-piercing wailing of the victim, as if opening a wooden door, forcefully tore open the wound of the victim, pulled the heart and liver, and then Get out of the way and openly show the painful image of the tortured to the Normans on the other side.

The executioner was covered in blood, and his hands were bleeding even more. They vented their anger and continued to cut with knives, and continued to yell.

It's too late! Bjorn still wanted to save it, because his captured subordinates really died like human sacrifices. No! Their death is even hundreds of times worse than human sacrifice.

"Damn the Franks! You will pay the price in blood!"

Bjorn had never been so angry and mad, he almost gritted his teeth, and his clenched fist almost broke his knuckles.

The minds of the Mälaren people were completely filled with anger, and the three captains took the lead in crossing the Maas River.

They were not alone, for all the Ross coalition forces who witnessed this were thrown into a rage.

The most radical is the young fighters, especially the Seventh Banner Squad.

Askad gathered his brothers. They were all dressed in armor, and they were gathering at the river bank to cut the ropes and push the boat.

"A group of impulsive brats." The blue fox, baring his teeth, ran over with his soldiers again. He just pressed Askad's shoulders, but the kid struggled to break free.

"Askad? What are you doing?"

"Uncle! You are an idiot! You should have supported the full-scale war I hoped for last night! Now the Franks are riding on our heads and shit! The shame and humiliation cannot be tolerated, and we want to avenge those Mellarens."

"You! There may be fraud in this." Blue Fox felt the danger intuitively, but the radical young man didn't listen at all.

Askad didn't want to take care of the blue fox at all, and such unorganized and undisciplined behavior seemed to be a common phenomenon.

It would be fine if he died on the battlefield.

there has never been!

There has never been a precedent for a Viking warrior being slaughtered by the Franks as cattle and sheep. The shame and humiliation angered almost everyone, and it was wishful thinking to make everyone rational.

"Uncle! No one can be a coward! You go organize an attack! I will act now."

Forget it, Askad was too lazy to continue talking nonsense, because he had already pushed the long boat back into the water with more than a dozen brothers, and was wading into the boat with violent splashes.

The young man pulled out the long oar deftly.

"Brothers! Revenge! Let's go!"

The Maas River is as wide as it is wide, and Bjorn took his own people to reach the other side of the river first. He was relieved to see that the Ross elite in blue-striped white robes also started to cross the river.

He was very relieved, thinking that the blue fox had figured it out in an instant, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and shouted at his last fighters who had only a few hundred people: "Brothers, we are not fighting independently. The Ross people will also land soon. Go! Follow along!" I will kill those executioners, and seek revenge from their main force!"

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Besides, didn't the Ross people defeat the Frankish cavalry? They can, and the people of Mälaren can even more.

Powerful self-confidence accompanied by fury, Bjorn held a round shield in his left arm and a Roth steel sword in his right. The Mellaren army did not organize a shield wall, they ran all the way on the grass by the river, not even bothering to manage their own longboats, letting one of the boats be pushed aside by the current.

Some time ago, the Mellaren army was the first to launch an attack on behalf of the entire coalition army, and the landing place was almost at this location.

Now they are still the first to act, and this brave momentum is very appealing.

The Seventh Banner of the Ross Army was the first to respond, so when Askad launched an attack, his little buddies Kelha and Yinvar led the Finnish and Danish troops to cross the river.

As a result, more soldiers believed that the supreme command, Blue Fox, had issued an order for a full-scale crossing operation. Except for a small number of people left behind in the camp, the entire army began their own crossing operations.