Chapter 889: Rurik storms the port of Visingose
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The Russ army has assembled and sharpened its swords, the fleet is tidy, flags and flags are hunted, and they officially march south.
In this regard, Karl "Crazy Bear", the tyrant tyrant of the Gotaland warlords in the Benhu District, hardly knew about it, but he encountered another group of people who fled back the morning before the main action of the Ross army. Carl learned of the defeat of his general Garg, and the terrifying ending of the sinking of more than 100 close friends to the bottom of the lake.
This incident was shocking, and he panicked and quickly noticed that the whole Weissingasser was in a mess.
Although he couldn't figure out the situation at all, he could conclude that the unknown enemy was very strong, and the next target of attack was himself.
Back off? No! If the brothers gave up on Visinguesser, where would they stand? !
"This is my island! This is my lake! The Danish monarch can't kill me! No one can kill me!"
Carl put on the bear skin and picked up the double-edged battle axe again. His close subordinates decided to follow their master and accept his orders to prepare for battle.
The entire island of Visingose was blocked, and any man on the island, even a ten-year-old boy, was captured. Although it was very hasty, Carl "Crazy Bear" mobilized more than 2,000 armed fishermen in one day, plus his cronies, and gathered together to be known as the "3,000 Army".
He then sent a boat to Jonkoping in the south and asked people from all walks of life in the area to send troops to support him. He wouldn't expect the guys in Jönköping, where the merchants and landlords support private soldiers, and although they pay tribute on time on weekdays, he expects them to use their own people to work hard for the island of Visingose, Karl doesn't believe it. Before, he had already squeezed out the debt slaves in Jonkoping, but unfortunately most of these guys never returned.
At least it is known that if the unknown villain will attack Jonkoping, the local people at least make some preparations.
Karl "Crazy Bear" made the right move based on his sense of battlefield smell, but unfortunately, he was given too little time!
The people living on Visingose Island have mixed feelings. They are just fishermen. They live a good fishing life on weekdays.
The current situation does not allow these people to hesitate.
A few days ago, the fishermen who went on an armed expedition to the north came back in vain. They added a lot of fantasy elements to the battle in the morning fog.
"A strange ship emerged from the lake and the fog, and they slammed into us mercilessly."
"There are monsters standing on those strange boats, and they shoot arrows at us."
"Even Carl's men have been defeated. We are lucky to have escaped back. Look! The arrows that the enemy has left on us are all fine iron, and the enemy is not ordinary!"
Very subtly, the fishermen were rumored to each other without linking the enemy to the Swedes further north.
The Yermalen tribe among the Swedes, the brothers had a lot of unpleasant exchanges with them. That is the killing of a group of tyrants' excellent pastures, and the population dares to call themselves the masters of the vast area.
The Yilmalun people are no different from the Yottaran brothers that everyone has seen. Their weapons and equipment are average, and it is incredible that they can use a large number of fine iron arrow clusters.
Then someone seemed to go crazy and shouted: "Actually, it is the army of the lake god. We angered the **** because of excessive fishing!"
This and this kind of remarks made some people stunned. It was the priests of the island who stood up to prove that those guys were human, and most likely they were another group of people from far away, just like the Danes who once went deep into the Gotaland region to hunt slaves.
People are more willing to trust the words of the priest, and the priest and the warlord tyrant "Crazy Bear" Karl are an absolute community of interests.
Now that the port has been blocked, Carl's men are rowing boats around this small island to patrol, arresting anyone who tries to leave, and detaining all the ships they find.
Visingose Island had lost some people in the previous expeditions and battles, but today there are still 8,000 men, women and children gathered together. Karl did his best to mobilize nearly 3,000 people.
The mobilization can continue, and there are still a large number of women who can participate in the battle.
But there are two problems with continuing to recruit. There are not enough weapons. To order some Viking women in Gotaland to fight, they can only pick up harpoons or simply sharpened wooden poles to make spears, and then use a broken wooden board as a spear. shield.
Carl is not a king, the fishermen have no absolute reason to work for him, and more women don't even want to fight.
Even so, he still gathered nearly 3,000 people, and these people maintained his self-confidence.
Until the early morning of a brand new day, the long and narrow island of Wessingase was due north, and the man standing guard here saw a figure hidden in the morning fog.
The sun has not yet risen, the morning fog is gradually rising, and there are dense shadows in the north. Look confidently that those shadows are approaching the island!
The night watchmen who had been nervous for a while were no longer sleepy. They immediately jumped into the prepared boat and rowed desperately to the southern fortress and fishing village.
Visingose Island is nearly ten kilometers deep from north to south, but only two kilometers wide at its widest. It is shaped like a cucumber.
After all, it is a very long and deep island, and a large area of the island is extremely flat. Only the southern fortress is a low mound.
The island has been extensively developed for a long time. There are only a very small number of trees on the island. The large area of barren grassland and a small amount of farmland constitute a special scene.
Rurik learned about the structure of the island from the captives who led the way. Since it is not a big island, how could Ross not use his absolute military advantage to fight a war of annihilation?
Now that the fog was favorable to the actions of the Rus army, Rurik himself could vaguely see the shoreline of the island, and ordered the horn to be sounded.
There is no need for any cover up, the Rus army has long exposed itself, and the army is facing a decisive battle!
It's just that the army has been slowly drifting on the lake for two whole days, and no one was mentally prepared before that. The lake is extremely slender, and thanks to the fact that it is in the lake, there is no turbulence in the sea at all. Even so, the army still has to land for necessary rest.
After all, this is an ancient army. Even with a military system such as the "flag team", the backwardness of communication technology forced him to go ashore to rectify his army, and even coordinate various allied forces.
Just as the weapons were gradually dispersing, long ships rushed to the beach bravely, and the soldiers who were ready for battle rushed to the beach to land.
"What a pity! Boss, don't you run away from the Jotarans!" A soldier in the first flag team teased, and then laughed wantonly.
Arik despised those enemies, and he kindly reminded: "Keep your mind steady, you will have to make contributions in the decisive battle! Remember! Brothers! Don't get hurt."
More and more Rus troops landed, and a landing field in the north of the island was perfectly opened up. The low flat wasteland here gave the Rus army a perfect assembly camp.
As for the sight of the enemy, when the fog clears and the sun shines, some are no longer a secret.
A large number of soldiers were old and had good eyesight. Through the clear air, everyone could see the black shadow standing suddenly on the flat ground in the south.
Just as the soldiers landed one after another, Rurik, who was still on the boat, keenly noticed the scene in the south.
He stood on the bow deck with a burning gaze.
"Notify the semaphore soldiers, contact the commander of the battleship to the flagship for a reunion!"
The large ships began to move closer to the flagship one after another, either by erecting planks and coming directly, or in small boats, and the commanders of the ships gathered at the flagship Gourdot.
The people in front of them do not belong to any flag team. Their identities are "professional sailors", and most of them have worked in the Gould family in the past.
The "professional sailor" actually served as a professional navy position, among which Rurik had placed cubs from various sources. They were of different ages, some were twenty years old, and some were just twelve years old. In principle, they will not be involved in any form of land combat, so in the next special operation, these people will launch a special offensive.
The commanders of the ships were all ears, and it was a big surprise to hear that the king was going to personally lead the team to launch a naval raid.
"Go down and prepare! Remember to prepare the ropes, and bring those whale oil and seal oil with you. This time we will attack with fire!"
Attack with fire? The crowd was amazed.
Rurik's thoughts are very pure, he longs to have a decisive battle with the local warlord leader, and establish the conquest of Lake Wettern with an absolute victory.
For this strategic purpose, the enemy's escape is still his greatest worry. If it is simply unrealistic to believe that Viking warriors will fight to the last drop of blood for honor, maybe those Jotarans don't want to be decent, so burn their piers and force them to be decent!
Finally, Rurik landed in a small boat with a small group of henchmen.
The king was late, which made Aric, who had been waiting for a while, unhappy.
More generals and nobles are indifferent. According to the previous plan, it is almost impossible for the army to fight the enemy immediately after landing on the island. The army must build camps to rectify its military capacity, and then go to a decisive battle after recuperating. After they landed, they had to be on alert. No one could tell that the enemy would sit and watch the Rus army swagger to prepare and build the camp. The enemy was likely to assemble and launch a night attack.
After all, this island is enemy territory, and anything is possible.
Rurik was very pleased. He saw that his own army of the counts of Finland and the allied army of the Swedish dukes were actively building their camps.
The most attentive is naturally the Rus army. The torsion slingshots placed on the trolleys are placed on the outer edge of the camp by the flag teams. Some javelins are poked in the soil in the opposite direction. If the enemy surprises, they can be loaded and fired.
Each unit built a fan-shaped position around the landing site with its own organization, and a large number of living materials were unloaded near the shore.
Rurik finally landed on the island, and immediately attracted nobles and generals.
A military meeting is immediately held on the enemy's island, even right under the nose!
Everyone was sharpening their knives, and the eyes of the people gathered together were fierce.
"I know you all want to assemble your troops immediately and march toward that dark shadow in the south! The enemy is obviously there, but not today."
The words of the king are like putting out a bonfire with a basin of water.
Arik stood up abruptly: "Why? We are already in front of the enemy. In my opinion, we rushed over and killed them all. We won the battle at Lake Wettern. We shouldn't have stayed here for a long time. , we're going to conquer Lake Vänern next door, and that Gothenburg."
"Wait a minute." Rurik waved his cousin to sit down, scolding softly with a displeased expression: "You are my brother, and only you can be so presumptuous to me. Remember, this king is the king, you don't teach me I fight."
"This... okay." Arik was speechless.
Cousin is actually fighting for other military nobles. It would not be appropriate to completely suppress their momentum today.
Rurik announced: "Arik, now the Sixth Banner is under my special command. And you! Yevlo, all your Finnish shooters come with me."
What does this mean? As the explanation continued, everyone agreed that the king was quite conservative, and it sounded like a temporary strategy to ensure absolute victory.
What is meant by "the sound of the cannon makes the plan half-abolished", and similar proverbs are often applied to various battles.
An opportunity lay in front of Rurik, he had to adjust his tactics to kill the enemy's possible escape route, and he didn't even have to wait for the action of the cavalry troops on the shore.
The fleet raided the port of Visingose Island. This was to ruin the possibility of the enemy's escape, and it was also to ruin the support of the Jonkoping's Gotharans to the island. The third was to deter the enemy by force.
It is a pity that Arik cannot participate in this kind of good deeds, nor can other Swedish nobles, especially Bjorn, Duke of Mélaren, who is bound to win.
"I will launch a surprise attack today, Arik, you are temporarily the commander-in-chief of the landing army. You can't fight today, and you will lead the remaining brothers to guard our landing ground. Unless the enemy gathers a large army to attack you."
The first battle on the island belonged to the king, Aric sighed and had to agree.
As for the others, they happily boarded the ship for the second time!
The Sixth Banner, together with the Counties of Finland, the Counties of Vepssalava, and the servants of the Rudys, add up to a thousand men.
Rurik didn't know the exact strength of his enemy, so he cautiously thought that he dispatched more than a thousand men to attack by water, and he did not have the conditions for a decisive battle. Since the plan was a surprise attack, he couldn't do anything else.
Several of the prisoners who led the way were carried to the boat again. They were eager to be reunited with their wives and children, and when they learned that the Ross fleet was going to storm the port and fishing village, they immediately became flustered, and they who were supposed to cooperate suddenly became uncooperative.
Not cooperating? Then kill.
One person was cut and thrown into the lake, and the rest of the leaders could only bite the bullet and indicate the direction of the march.
As for the safety of their wives and children, Rurik replied coldly: "Whether they live or die depends on God's will."
Afterwards, six Avrolla-class sail cruisers and all eight planetary-class sail destroyers began to march with arson raw materials.
After all, the depth of this island is only ten kilometers, and the island fortress and affiliated fishing village are built in a curved bend in the south-central part of the island. Around the Bay Area, densely packed wooden longhouses and adobe houses are being built. Due to the order of Karl "Crazy Bear", all fishermen suspend their departure. ashore.
There are only a few armed longboats patrolling the bay area. Now, they not only see the landing enemy, but also the strange fleet rushing towards the fishing village in the bay area.
The identity of the foreign enemy finally revealed, and some people understood those flags, which completely matched the Ross flag they heard.
Was the attacker really a Russ? The legendary Rus who slaughtered Gotland and killed the old king of Denmark?
Now that he doesn't care who is coming, Carl just wants to assemble the army immediately, and then go to the wilderness to put on a posture to fight the invaders.
Karl naturally made preparations. Although his cronies were afraid of being beheaded by the opponent as a messenger, Carl still hoped to negotiate with them, at least to find out the truth of the opponent. Even relying on the messenger to negotiate deliberately to delay the other party for time, so that he can make more adequate preparations.
However, those shadows are in the harbor area after all.
"Brothers! They are going to land on the beach! Follow me to fight!"
"Crazy Bear" Karl, no matter how well calculated, would never have imagined that the enemy would still have a drama of storming the port, co-authoring that their landing troops were pretending to attack, and this approaching fleet was the main attack?
He brought seven or eight hundred men into the fishing village in the Bay Area, and the heavily armed soldiers drove the fishermen who were madly fleeing to the fort.
Almost all of the fishermen's boats are in this bay area. If the boats here are lost, it is naturally possible for the fishermen to swim away from Visingose Island, but only the truly brave can do it.
As fishermen drag their families to the fort protected by wooden walls, Carl is a rare open-minded person, letting the people pour into the fort even if it causes serious congestion.
If the sheep dies, how will the wool be cut in the future? He is such a state of mind.
Looking at the appearance of the ships whose shadows became clear, Carl was stunned by those beautiful big ships, and was shocked that the ships could all move against the wind.
But what happened next made him just want to hide.
On the other side of the battlefield, Rurik ordered that the fourteen battleships must stand on the deck of armed personnel, and the army will destroy wantonly with long-range weapons.
Now everyone can clearly see the appearance of the fishing village. All the scenes remind people of the demolished old fishing village of the Melalen tribe.
It was rare for Yevro to serve the king again, and now he is officially giving the king a chance to show his hand.
"Your Majesty, I saw a lot of armed men on the shore, is this also in your calculations?"
"That's right." Rurik looked at Yevlo's face again: "I've grown up, and you're middle-aged. Your subordinates are all longbowmen, prove to me what you've boasted about!"
"Follow the order. I hope the God of Fire will bestow endless power on our army."
When each ship sailed, the ointment that was supposed to lubricate the cables and slingshot slides was carried to the deck in barrels. Whale oil and seal oil were high-grade products, and more fishy and smelly cod oil was left for a long time. ~www.novelhall.com~ But the latter is a special grease that burns extremely easily!
The arrows are tied with rags of cloth or wrapped in a loop of torn twine, then soaked in fish oil and set on fire.
The servant army of the Counties of Finland launched rockets at the port area and fishing village in front of them. Standing in the position of Karl "Crazy Bear", it was like countless meteors falling from the sky. It was obviously still in the afternoon, and a lot of burning things were heading towards their own harbor barge. fall down.
Accompanying the rockets are a plethora of impact weapons.
The torsion slingshot fires the javelin and hits the armed men directly at the exposed target.
"Crazy Bear" Karl didn't even bother to put out the fire. Many of his elite subordinates were pierced by javelins. Those rockets landed densely on the trestle, boats, and even the haystacks of the fishing village in the distance.
People on the shore realized that the fire was raging, some of Carl's cronies tried to put out the fire, and then saw some brothers were shot and killed inexplicably, so they simply gave up their jobs.
Why sit still? !
Karl held the tomahawk high and cursed loudly. His image was too conspicuous, and the scolding was very unpleasant.
Rurik could only vaguely hear the scolding, and the soldiers all aimed at this target.
Luckily, Carl saw more than a dozen javelins fall down beside him, the heads of some of his cronies were smashed through, and the arms of his subordinates were injured.
"Damn! How could this happen?! It's actually like this!" His face turned pale with rage and redness. He had never seen such a fighting method before. The injured subordinates were dragged away.
As for the increasingly raging fires in the port area and fishing village, let everything go to hell!
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The Russ army has assembled and sharpened its swords, the fleet is tidy, flags and flags are hunted, and they officially march south.
In this regard, Karl "Crazy Bear", the tyrant tyrant of the Gotaland warlords in the Benhu District, hardly knew about it, but he encountered another group of people who fled back the morning before the main action of the Ross army. Carl learned of the defeat of his general Garg, and the terrifying ending of the sinking of more than 100 close friends to the bottom of the lake.
This incident was shocking, and he panicked and quickly noticed that the whole Weissingasser was in a mess.
Although he couldn't figure out the situation at all, he could conclude that the unknown enemy was very strong, and the next target of attack was himself.
Back off? No! If the brothers gave up on Visinguesser, where would they stand? !
"This is my island! This is my lake! The Danish monarch can't kill me! No one can kill me!"
Carl put on the bear skin and picked up the double-edged battle axe again. His close subordinates decided to follow their master and accept his orders to prepare for battle.
The entire island of Visingose was blocked, and any man on the island, even a ten-year-old boy, was captured. Although it was very hasty, Carl "Crazy Bear" mobilized more than 2,000 armed fishermen in one day, plus his cronies, and gathered together to be known as the "3,000 Army".
He then sent a boat to Jonkoping in the south and asked people from all walks of life in the area to send troops to support him. He wouldn't expect the guys in Jönköping, where the merchants and landlords support private soldiers, and although they pay tribute on time on weekdays, he expects them to use their own people to work hard for the island of Visingose, Karl doesn't believe it. Before, he had already squeezed out the debt slaves in Jonkoping, but unfortunately most of these guys never returned.
At least it is known that if the unknown villain will attack Jonkoping, the local people at least make some preparations.
Karl "Crazy Bear" made the right move based on his sense of battlefield smell, but unfortunately, he was given too little time!
The people living on Visingose Island have mixed feelings. They are just fishermen. They live a good fishing life on weekdays.
The current situation does not allow these people to hesitate.
A few days ago, the fishermen who went on an armed expedition to the north came back in vain. They added a lot of fantasy elements to the battle in the morning fog.
"A strange ship emerged from the lake and the fog, and they slammed into us mercilessly."
"There are monsters standing on those strange boats, and they shoot arrows at us."
"Even Carl's men have been defeated. We are lucky to have escaped back. Look! The arrows that the enemy has left on us are all fine iron, and the enemy is not ordinary!"
Very subtly, the fishermen were rumored to each other without linking the enemy to the Swedes further north.
The Yermalen tribe among the Swedes, the brothers had a lot of unpleasant exchanges with them. That is the killing of a group of tyrants' excellent pastures, and the population dares to call themselves the masters of the vast area.
The Yilmalun people are no different from the Yottaran brothers that everyone has seen. Their weapons and equipment are average, and it is incredible that they can use a large number of fine iron arrow clusters.
Then someone seemed to go crazy and shouted: "Actually, it is the army of the lake god. We angered the **** because of excessive fishing!"
This and this kind of remarks made some people stunned. It was the priests of the island who stood up to prove that those guys were human, and most likely they were another group of people from far away, just like the Danes who once went deep into the Gotaland region to hunt slaves.
People are more willing to trust the words of the priest, and the priest and the warlord tyrant "Crazy Bear" Karl are an absolute community of interests.
Now that the port has been blocked, Carl's men are rowing boats around this small island to patrol, arresting anyone who tries to leave, and detaining all the ships they find.
Visingose Island had lost some people in the previous expeditions and battles, but today there are still 8,000 men, women and children gathered together. Karl did his best to mobilize nearly 3,000 people.
The mobilization can continue, and there are still a large number of women who can participate in the battle.
But there are two problems with continuing to recruit. There are not enough weapons. To order some Viking women in Gotaland to fight, they can only pick up harpoons or simply sharpened wooden poles to make spears, and then use a broken wooden board as a spear. shield.
Carl is not a king, the fishermen have no absolute reason to work for him, and more women don't even want to fight.
Even so, he still gathered nearly 3,000 people, and these people maintained his self-confidence.
Until the early morning of a brand new day, the long and narrow island of Wessingase was due north, and the man standing guard here saw a figure hidden in the morning fog.
The sun has not yet risen, the morning fog is gradually rising, and there are dense shadows in the north. Look confidently that those shadows are approaching the island!
The night watchmen who had been nervous for a while were no longer sleepy. They immediately jumped into the prepared boat and rowed desperately to the southern fortress and fishing village.
Visingose Island is nearly ten kilometers deep from north to south, but only two kilometers wide at its widest. It is shaped like a cucumber.
After all, it is a very long and deep island, and a large area of the island is extremely flat. Only the southern fortress is a low mound.
The island has been extensively developed for a long time. There are only a very small number of trees on the island. The large area of barren grassland and a small amount of farmland constitute a special scene.
Rurik learned about the structure of the island from the captives who led the way. Since it is not a big island, how could Ross not use his absolute military advantage to fight a war of annihilation?
Now that the fog was favorable to the actions of the Rus army, Rurik himself could vaguely see the shoreline of the island, and ordered the horn to be sounded.
There is no need for any cover up, the Rus army has long exposed itself, and the army is facing a decisive battle!
It's just that the army has been slowly drifting on the lake for two whole days, and no one was mentally prepared before that. The lake is extremely slender, and thanks to the fact that it is in the lake, there is no turbulence in the sea at all. Even so, the army still has to land for necessary rest.
After all, this is an ancient army. Even with a military system such as the "flag team", the backwardness of communication technology forced him to go ashore to rectify his army, and even coordinate various allied forces.
Just as the weapons were gradually dispersing, long ships rushed to the beach bravely, and the soldiers who were ready for battle rushed to the beach to land.
"What a pity! Boss, don't you run away from the Jotarans!" A soldier in the first flag team teased, and then laughed wantonly.
Arik despised those enemies, and he kindly reminded: "Keep your mind steady, you will have to make contributions in the decisive battle! Remember! Brothers! Don't get hurt."
More and more Rus troops landed, and a landing field in the north of the island was perfectly opened up. The low flat wasteland here gave the Rus army a perfect assembly camp.
As for the sight of the enemy, when the fog clears and the sun shines, some are no longer a secret.
A large number of soldiers were old and had good eyesight. Through the clear air, everyone could see the black shadow standing suddenly on the flat ground in the south.
Just as the soldiers landed one after another, Rurik, who was still on the boat, keenly noticed the scene in the south.
He stood on the bow deck with a burning gaze.
"Notify the semaphore soldiers, contact the commander of the battleship to the flagship for a reunion!"
The large ships began to move closer to the flagship one after another, either by erecting planks and coming directly, or in small boats, and the commanders of the ships gathered at the flagship Gourdot.
The people in front of them do not belong to any flag team. Their identities are "professional sailors", and most of them have worked in the Gould family in the past.
The "professional sailor" actually served as a professional navy position, among which Rurik had placed cubs from various sources. They were of different ages, some were twenty years old, and some were just twelve years old. In principle, they will not be involved in any form of land combat, so in the next special operation, these people will launch a special offensive.
The commanders of the ships were all ears, and it was a big surprise to hear that the king was going to personally lead the team to launch a naval raid.
"Go down and prepare! Remember to prepare the ropes, and bring those whale oil and seal oil with you. This time we will attack with fire!"
Attack with fire? The crowd was amazed.
Rurik's thoughts are very pure, he longs to have a decisive battle with the local warlord leader, and establish the conquest of Lake Wettern with an absolute victory.
For this strategic purpose, the enemy's escape is still his greatest worry. If it is simply unrealistic to believe that Viking warriors will fight to the last drop of blood for honor, maybe those Jotarans don't want to be decent, so burn their piers and force them to be decent!
Finally, Rurik landed in a small boat with a small group of henchmen.
The king was late, which made Aric, who had been waiting for a while, unhappy.
More generals and nobles are indifferent. According to the previous plan, it is almost impossible for the army to fight the enemy immediately after landing on the island. The army must build camps to rectify its military capacity, and then go to a decisive battle after recuperating. After they landed, they had to be on alert. No one could tell that the enemy would sit and watch the Rus army swagger to prepare and build the camp. The enemy was likely to assemble and launch a night attack.
After all, this island is enemy territory, and anything is possible.
Rurik was very pleased. He saw that his own army of the counts of Finland and the allied army of the Swedish dukes were actively building their camps.
The most attentive is naturally the Rus army. The torsion slingshots placed on the trolleys are placed on the outer edge of the camp by the flag teams. Some javelins are poked in the soil in the opposite direction. If the enemy surprises, they can be loaded and fired.
Each unit built a fan-shaped position around the landing site with its own organization, and a large number of living materials were unloaded near the shore.
Rurik finally landed on the island, and immediately attracted nobles and generals.
A military meeting is immediately held on the enemy's island, even right under the nose!
Everyone was sharpening their knives, and the eyes of the people gathered together were fierce.
"I know you all want to assemble your troops immediately and march toward that dark shadow in the south! The enemy is obviously there, but not today."
The words of the king are like putting out a bonfire with a basin of water.
Arik stood up abruptly: "Why? We are already in front of the enemy. In my opinion, we rushed over and killed them all. We won the battle at Lake Wettern. We shouldn't have stayed here for a long time. , we're going to conquer Lake Vänern next door, and that Gothenburg."
"Wait a minute." Rurik waved his cousin to sit down, scolding softly with a displeased expression: "You are my brother, and only you can be so presumptuous to me. Remember, this king is the king, you don't teach me I fight."
"This... okay." Arik was speechless.
Cousin is actually fighting for other military nobles. It would not be appropriate to completely suppress their momentum today.
Rurik announced: "Arik, now the Sixth Banner is under my special command. And you! Yevlo, all your Finnish shooters come with me."
What does this mean? As the explanation continued, everyone agreed that the king was quite conservative, and it sounded like a temporary strategy to ensure absolute victory.
What is meant by "the sound of the cannon makes the plan half-abolished", and similar proverbs are often applied to various battles.
An opportunity lay in front of Rurik, he had to adjust his tactics to kill the enemy's possible escape route, and he didn't even have to wait for the action of the cavalry troops on the shore.
The fleet raided the port of Visingose Island. This was to ruin the possibility of the enemy's escape, and it was also to ruin the support of the Jonkoping's Gotharans to the island. The third was to deter the enemy by force.
It is a pity that Arik cannot participate in this kind of good deeds, nor can other Swedish nobles, especially Bjorn, Duke of Mélaren, who is bound to win.
"I will launch a surprise attack today, Arik, you are temporarily the commander-in-chief of the landing army. You can't fight today, and you will lead the remaining brothers to guard our landing ground. Unless the enemy gathers a large army to attack you."
The first battle on the island belonged to the king, Aric sighed and had to agree.
As for the others, they happily boarded the ship for the second time!
The Sixth Banner, together with the Counties of Finland, the Counties of Vepssalava, and the servants of the Rudys, add up to a thousand men.
Rurik didn't know the exact strength of his enemy, so he cautiously thought that he dispatched more than a thousand men to attack by water, and he did not have the conditions for a decisive battle. Since the plan was a surprise attack, he couldn't do anything else.
Several of the prisoners who led the way were carried to the boat again. They were eager to be reunited with their wives and children, and when they learned that the Ross fleet was going to storm the port and fishing village, they immediately became flustered, and they who were supposed to cooperate suddenly became uncooperative.
Not cooperating? Then kill.
One person was cut and thrown into the lake, and the rest of the leaders could only bite the bullet and indicate the direction of the march.
As for the safety of their wives and children, Rurik replied coldly: "Whether they live or die depends on God's will."
Afterwards, six Avrolla-class sail cruisers and all eight planetary-class sail destroyers began to march with arson raw materials.
After all, the depth of this island is only ten kilometers, and the island fortress and affiliated fishing village are built in a curved bend in the south-central part of the island. Around the Bay Area, densely packed wooden longhouses and adobe houses are being built. Due to the order of Karl "Crazy Bear", all fishermen suspend their departure. ashore.
There are only a few armed longboats patrolling the bay area. Now, they not only see the landing enemy, but also the strange fleet rushing towards the fishing village in the bay area.
The identity of the foreign enemy finally revealed, and some people understood those flags, which completely matched the Ross flag they heard.
Was the attacker really a Russ? The legendary Rus who slaughtered Gotland and killed the old king of Denmark?
Now that he doesn't care who is coming, Carl just wants to assemble the army immediately, and then go to the wilderness to put on a posture to fight the invaders.
Karl naturally made preparations. Although his cronies were afraid of being beheaded by the opponent as a messenger, Carl still hoped to negotiate with them, at least to find out the truth of the opponent. Even relying on the messenger to negotiate deliberately to delay the other party for time, so that he can make more adequate preparations.
However, those shadows are in the harbor area after all.
"Brothers! They are going to land on the beach! Follow me to fight!"
"Crazy Bear" Karl, no matter how well calculated, would never have imagined that the enemy would still have a drama of storming the port, co-authoring that their landing troops were pretending to attack, and this approaching fleet was the main attack?
He brought seven or eight hundred men into the fishing village in the Bay Area, and the heavily armed soldiers drove the fishermen who were madly fleeing to the fort.
Almost all of the fishermen's boats are in this bay area. If the boats here are lost, it is naturally possible for the fishermen to swim away from Visingose Island, but only the truly brave can do it.
As fishermen drag their families to the fort protected by wooden walls, Carl is a rare open-minded person, letting the people pour into the fort even if it causes serious congestion.
If the sheep dies, how will the wool be cut in the future? He is such a state of mind.
Looking at the appearance of the ships whose shadows became clear, Carl was stunned by those beautiful big ships, and was shocked that the ships could all move against the wind.
But what happened next made him just want to hide.
On the other side of the battlefield, Rurik ordered that the fourteen battleships must stand on the deck of armed personnel, and the army will destroy wantonly with long-range weapons.
Now everyone can clearly see the appearance of the fishing village. All the scenes remind people of the demolished old fishing village of the Melalen tribe.
It was rare for Yevro to serve the king again, and now he is officially giving the king a chance to show his hand.
"Your Majesty, I saw a lot of armed men on the shore, is this also in your calculations?"
"That's right." Rurik looked at Yevlo's face again: "I've grown up, and you're middle-aged. Your subordinates are all longbowmen, prove to me what you've boasted about!"
"Follow the order. I hope the God of Fire will bestow endless power on our army."
When each ship sailed, the ointment that was supposed to lubricate the cables and slingshot slides was carried to the deck in barrels. Whale oil and seal oil were high-grade products, and more fishy and smelly cod oil was left for a long time. ~www.novelhall.com~ But the latter is a special grease that burns extremely easily!
The arrows are tied with rags of cloth or wrapped in a loop of torn twine, then soaked in fish oil and set on fire.
The servant army of the Counties of Finland launched rockets at the port area and fishing village in front of them. Standing in the position of Karl "Crazy Bear", it was like countless meteors falling from the sky. It was obviously still in the afternoon, and a lot of burning things were heading towards their own harbor barge. fall down.
Accompanying the rockets are a plethora of impact weapons.
The torsion slingshot fires the javelin and hits the armed men directly at the exposed target.
"Crazy Bear" Karl didn't even bother to put out the fire. Many of his elite subordinates were pierced by javelins. Those rockets landed densely on the trestle, boats, and even the haystacks of the fishing village in the distance.
People on the shore realized that the fire was raging, some of Carl's cronies tried to put out the fire, and then saw some brothers were shot and killed inexplicably, so they simply gave up their jobs.
Why sit still? !
Karl held the tomahawk high and cursed loudly. His image was too conspicuous, and the scolding was very unpleasant.
Rurik could only vaguely hear the scolding, and the soldiers all aimed at this target.
Luckily, Carl saw more than a dozen javelins fall down beside him, the heads of some of his cronies were smashed through, and the arms of his subordinates were injured.
"Damn! How could this happen?! It's actually like this!" His face turned pale with rage and redness. He had never seen such a fighting method before. The injured subordinates were dragged away.
As for the increasingly raging fires in the port area and fishing village, let everything go to hell!
The Russ army has assembled and sharpened its swords, the fleet is tidy, flags and flags are hunted, and they officially march south.In this regard, Karl "Crazy Bear", the tyrant tyrant of the Gotaland warlords in the Benhu District, hardly knew about it, but he encountered another group of people who fled back the morning before the main action of the Ross army. Carl learned of the defeat of his general Garg, and the terrifying ending of the sinking of more than 100 close friends to the bottom of the lake.This incident was shocking, and he panicked and quickly noticed that the whole Weissingasser was in a mess.Although he couldn't figure out the situation at all, he could conclude that the unknown enemy was very strong, and the next target of attack was himself.Back off? No! If the brothers gave up on Visinguesser, where would they stand? !"This is my island! This is my lake! The Danish monarch can't kill me! No one can kill me!"Carl put on the bear skin and picked up the double-edged battle axe again. His close subordinates decided to follow their master and accept his orders to prepare for battle.The entire island of Visingose was blocked, and any man on the island, even a ten-year-old boy, was captured. Although it was very hasty, Carl "Crazy Bear" mobilized more than 2,000 armed fishermen in one day, plus his cronies, and gathered together to be known as the "3,000 Army".He then sent a boat to Jonkoping in the south and asked people from all walks of life in the area to send troops to support him. He wouldn't expect the guys in Jnkping, where the merchants and landlords support private soldiers, and although they pay tribute on time on weekdays, he expects them to use their own people to work hard for the island of Visingose, Karl doesn't believe it. Before, he had already squeezed out the debt slaves in Jonkoping, but unfortunately most of these guys never returned.At least it is known that if the unknown villain will attack Jonkoping, the local people at least make some preparations.Karl "Crazy Bear" made the right move based on his sense of battlefield smell, but unfortunately, he was given too little time!The people living on Visingose Island have mixed feelings. They are just fishermen. They live a good fishing life on weekdays.The current situation does not allow these people to hesitate.A few days ago, the fishermen who went on an armed expedition to the north came back in vain. They added a lot of fantasy elements to the battle in the morning fog."A strange ship emerged from the lake and the fog, and they slammed into us mercilessly.""There are monsters standing on those strange boats, and they shoot arrows at us.""Even Carl's men have been defeated. We are lucky to have escaped back. Look! The arrows that the enemy has left on us are all fine iron, and the enemy is not ordinary!"Very subtly, the fishermen were rumored to each other without linking the enemy to the Swedes further north.The Yermalen tribe among the Swedes, the brothers had a lot of unpleasant exchanges with them. That is the killing of a group of tyrants' excellent pastures, and the population dares to call themselves the masters of the vast area.The Yilmalun people are no different from the Yottaran brothers that everyone has seen. Their weapons and equipment are average, and it is incredible that they can use a large number of fine iron arrow clusters.Then someone seemed to go crazy and shouted: "Actually, it is the army of the lake god. We angered the **** because of excessive fishing!"This and this kind of remarks made some people stunned. It was the priests of the island who stood up to prove that those guys were human, and most likely they were another group of people from far away, just like the Danes who once went deep into the Gotaland region to hunt slaves.People are more willing to trust the words of the priest, and the priest and the warlord tyrant "Crazy Bear" Karl are an absolute community of interests.Now that the port has been blocked, Carl's men are rowing boats around this small island to patrol, arresting anyone who tries to leave, and detaining all the ships they find.Visingose Island had lost some people in the previous expeditions and battles, but today there are still 8,000 men, women and children gathered together. Karl did his best to mobilize nearly 3,000 people.The mobilization can continue, and there are still a large number of women who can participate in the battle.But there are two problems with continuing to recruit. There are not enough weapons. To order some Viking women in Gotaland to fight, they can only pick up harpoons or simply sharpened wooden poles to make spears, and then use a broken wooden board as a spear. shield.Carl is not a king, the fishermen have no absolute reason to work for him, and more women don't even want to fight.Even so, he still gathered nearly 3,000 people, and these people maintained his self-confidence.Until the early morning of a brand new day, the long and narrow island of Wessingase was due north, and the man standing guard here saw a figure hidden in the morning fog.The sun has not yet risen, the morning fog is gradually rising, and there are dense shadows in the north. Look confidently that those shadows are approaching the island!The night watchmen who had been nervous for a while were no longer sleepy. They immediately jumped into the prepared boat and rowed desperately to the southern fortress and fishing village.Visingose Island is nearly ten kilometers deep from north to south, but only two kilometers wide at its widest. It is shaped like a cucumber.After all, it is a very long and deep island, and a large area of the island is extremely flat. Only the southern fortress is a low mound.The island has been extensively developed for a long time. There are only a very small number of trees on the island. The large area of barren grassland and a small amount of farmland constitute a special scene.Rurik learned about the structure of the island from the captives who led the way. Since it is not a big island, how could Ross not use his absolute military advantage to fight a war of annihilation?Now that the fog was favorable to the actions of the Rus army, Rurik himself could vaguely see the shoreline of the island, and ordered the horn to be sounded.There is no need for any cover up, the Rus army has long exposed itself, and the army is facing a decisive battle!It's just that the army has been slowly drifting on the lake for two whole days, and no one was mentally prepared before that. The lake is extremely slender, and thanks to the fact that it is in the lake, there is no turbulence in the sea at all. Even so, the army still has to land for necessary rest.After all, this is an ancient army. Even with a military system such as the "flag team", the backwardness of communication technology forced him to go ashore to rectify his army, and even coordinate various allied forces.Just as the weapons were gradually dispersing, long ships rushed to the beach bravely, and the soldiers who were ready for battle rushed to the beach to land."What a pity! Boss, don't you run away from the Jotarans!" A soldier in the first flag team teased, and then laughed wantonly.Arik despised those enemies, and he kindly reminded: "Keep your mind steady, you will have to make contributions in the decisive battle! Remember! Brothers! Don't get hurt."More and more Rus troops landed, and a landing field in the north of the island was perfectly opened up. The low flat wasteland here gave the Rus army a perfect assembly camp.As for the sight of the enemy, when the fog clears and the sun shines, some are no longer a secret.A large number of soldiers were old and had good eyesight. Through the clear air, everyone could see the black shadow standing suddenly on the flat ground in the south.Just as the soldiers landed one after another, Rurik, who was still on the boat, keenly noticed the scene in the south.He stood on the bow deck with a burning gaze."Notify the semaphore soldiers, contact the commander of the battleship to the flagship for a reunion!"The large ships began to move closer to the flagship one after another, either by erecting planks and coming directly, or in small boats, and the commanders of the ships gathered at the flagship Gourdot.The people in front of them do not belong to any flag team. Their identities are "professional sailors", and most of them have worked in the Gould family in the past.The "professional sailor" actually served as a professional navy position, among which Rurik had placed cubs from various sources. They were of different ages, some were twenty years old, and some were just twelve years old. In principle, they will not be involved in any form of land combat, so in the next special operation, these people will launch a special offensive.The commanders of the ships were all ears, and it was a big surprise to hear that the king was going to personally lead the team to launch a naval raid."Go down and prepare! Remember to prepare the ropes, and bring those whale oil and seal oil with you. This time we will attack with fire!"Attack with fire? The crowd was amazed.Rurik's thoughts are very pure, he longs to have a decisive battle with the local warlord leader, and establish the conquest of Lake Wettern with an absolute victory.For this strategic purpose, the enemy's escape is still his greatest worry. If it is simply unrealistic to believe that Viking warriors will fight to the last drop of blood for honor, maybe those Jotarans don't want to be decent, so burn their piers and force them to be decent!Finally, Rurik landed in a small boat with a small group of henchmen.The king was late, which made Aric, who had been waiting for a while, unhappy.More generals and nobles are indifferent. According to the previous plan, it is almost impossible for the army to fight the enemy immediately after landing on the island. The army must build camps to rectify its military capacity, and then go to a decisive battle after recuperating. After they landed, they had to be on alert. No one could tell that the enemy would sit and watch the Rus army swagger to prepare and build the camp. The enemy was likely to assemble and launch a night attack.After all, this island is enemy territory, and anything is possible.Rurik was very pleased. He saw that his own army of the counts of Finland and the allied army of the Swedish dukes were actively building their camps.The most attentive is naturally the Rus army. The torsion slingshots placed on the trolleys are placed on the outer edge of the camp by the flag teams. Some javelins are poked in the soil in the opposite direction. If the enemy surprises, they can be loaded and fired.Each unit built a fan-shaped position around the landing site with its own organization, and a large number of living materials were unloaded near the shore.Rurik finally landed on the island, and immediately attracted nobles and generals.A military meeting is immediately held on the enemy's island, even right under the nose!Everyone was sharpening their knives, and the eyes of the people gathered together were fierce."I know you all want to assemble your troops immediately and march toward that dark shadow in the south! The enemy is obviously there, but not today."The words of the king are like putting out a bonfire with a basin of water.Arik stood up abruptly: "Why? We are already in front of the enemy. In my opinion, we rushed over and killed them all. We won the battle at Lake Wettern. We shouldn't have stayed here for a long time. , we're going to conquer Lake Vnern next door, and that Gothenburg.""Wait a minute." Rurik waved his cousin to sit down, scolding softly with a displeased expression: "You are my brother, and only you can be so presumptuous to me. Remember, this king is the king, you don't teach me I fight.""This... okay." Arik was speechless.Cousin is actually fighting for other military nobles. It would not be appropriate to completely suppress their momentum today.Rurik announced: "Arik, now the Sixth Banner is under my special command. And you! Yevlo, all your Finnish shooters come with me."What does this mean? As the explanation continued, everyone agreed that the king was quite conservative, and it sounded like a temporary strategy to ensure absolute victory.What is meant by "the sound of the cannon makes the plan half-abolished", and similar proverbs are often applied to various battles.An opportunity lay in front of Rurik, he had to adjust his tactics to kill the enemy's possible escape route, and he didn't even have to wait for the action of the cavalry troops on the shore.The fleet raided the port of Visingose Island. This was to ruin the possibility of the enemy's escape, and it was also to ruin the support of the Jonkoping's Gotharans to the island. The third was to deter the enemy by force.It is a pity that Arik cannot participate in this kind of good deeds, nor can other Swedish nobles, especially Bjorn, Duke of Mlaren, who is bound to win."I will launch a surprise attack today, Arik, you are temporarily the commander-in-chief of the landing army. You can't fight today, and you will lead the remaining brothers to guard our landing ground. Unless the enemy gathers a large army to attack you."The first battle on the island belonged to the king, Aric sighed and had to agree.As for the others, they happily boarded the ship for the second time!The Sixth Banner, together with the Counties of Finland, the Counties of Vepssalava, and the servants of the Rudys, add up to a thousand men.Rurik didn't know the exact strength of his enemy, so he cautiously thought that he dispatched more than a thousand men to attack by water, and he did not have the conditions for a decisive battle. Since the plan was a surprise attack, he couldn't do anything else.Several of the prisoners who led the way were carried to the boat again. They were eager to be reunited with their wives and children, and when they learned that the Ross fleet was going to storm the port and fishing village, they immediately became flustered, and they who were supposed to cooperate suddenly became uncooperative.Not cooperating? Then kill.One person was cut and thrown into the lake, and the rest of the leaders could only bite the bullet and indicate the direction of the march.As for the safety of their wives and children, Rurik replied coldly: "Whether they live or die depends on God's will."Afterwards, six Avrolla-class sail cruisers and all eight planetary-class sail destroyers began to march with arson raw materials.After all, the depth of this island is only ten kilometers, and the island fortress and affiliated fishing village are built in a curved bend in the south-central part of the island. Around the Bay Area, densely packed wooden longhouses and adobe houses are being built. Due to the order of Karl "Crazy Bear", all fishermen suspend their departure. ashore.There are only a few armed longboats patrolling the bay area. Now, they not only see the landing enemy, but also the strange fleet rushing towards the fishing village in the bay area.The identity of the foreign enemy finally revealed, and some people understood those flags, which completely matched the Ross flag they heard.Was the attacker really a Russ? The legendary Rus who slaughtered Gotland and killed the old king of Denmark?Now that he doesn't care who is coming, Carl just wants to assemble the army immediately, and then go to the wilderness to put on a posture to fight the invaders.Karl naturally made preparations. Although his cronies were afraid of being beheaded by the opponent as a messenger, Carl still hoped to negotiate with them, at least to find out the truth of the opponent. Even relying on the messenger to negotiate deliberately to delay the other party for time, so that he can make more adequate preparations.However, those shadows are in the harbor area after all."Brothers! They are going to land on the beach! Follow me to fight!""Crazy Bear" Karl, no matter how well calculated, would never have imagined that the enemy would still have a drama of storming the port, co-authoring that their landing troops were pretending to attack, and this approaching fleet was the main attack?He brought seven or eight hundred men into the fishing village in the Bay Area, and the heavily armed soldiers drove the fishermen who were madly fleeing to the fort.Almost all of the fishermen's boats are in this bay area. If the boats here are lost, it is naturally possible for the fishermen to swim away from Visingose Island, but only the truly brave can do it.As fishermen drag their families to the fort protected by wooden walls, Carl is a rare open-minded person, letting the people pour into the fort even if it causes serious congestion.If the sheep dies, how will the wool be cut in the future? He is such a state of mind.Looking at the appearance of the ships whose shadows became clear, Carl was stunned by those beautiful big ships, and was shocked that the ships could all move against the wind.But what happened next made him just want to hide.On the other side of the battlefield, Rurik ordered that the fourteen battleships must stand on the deck of armed personnel, and the army will destroy wantonly with long-range weapons.Now everyone can clearly see the appearance of the fishing village. All the scenes remind people of the demolished old fishing village of the Melalen tribe.It was rare for Yevro to serve the king again, and now he is officially giving the king a chance to show his hand."Your Majesty, I saw a lot of armed men on the shore, is this also in your calculations?""That's right." Rurik looked at Yevlo's face again: "I've grown up, and you're middle-aged. Your subordinates are all longbowmen, prove to me what you've boasted about!""Follow the order. I hope the God of Fire will bestow endless power on our army."When each ship sailed, the ointment that was supposed to lubricate the cables and slingshot slides was carried to the deck in barrels. Whale oil and seal oil were high-grade products, and more fishy and smelly cod oil was left for a long time. ~www.novelhall.com~ But the latter is a special grease that burns extremely easily!The arrows are tied with rags of cloth or wrapped in a loop of torn twine, then soaked in fish oil and set on fire.The servant army of the Counties of Finland launched rockets at the port area and fishing village in front of them. Standing in the position of Karl "Crazy Bear", it was like countless meteors falling from the sky. It was obviously still in the afternoon, and a lot of burning things were heading towards their own harbor barge. fall down.Accompanying the rockets are a plethora of impact weapons.The torsion slingshot fires the javelin and hits the armed men directly at the exposed target."Crazy Bear" Karl didn't even bother to put out the fire. Many of his elite subordinates were pierced by javelins. Those rockets landed densely on the trestle, boats, and even the haystacks of the fishing village in the distance.People on the shore realized that the fire was raging, some of Carl's cronies tried to put out the fire, and then saw some brothers were shot and killed inexplicably, so they simply gave up their jobs.Why sit still? !Karl held the tomahawk high and cursed loudly. His image was too conspicuous, and the scolding was very unpleasant.Rurik could only vaguely hear the scolding, and the soldiers all aimed at this target.Luckily, Carl saw more than a dozen javelins fall down beside him, the heads of some of his cronies were smashed through, and the arms of his subordinates were injured."Damn! How could this happen?! It's actually like this!" His face turned pale with rage and redness. He had never seen such a fighting method before. The injured subordinates were dragged away.As for the increasingly raging fires in the port area and fishing village, let everything go to hell!
