Chapter 989: Arik the Burner
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The wolves rushed into the sheepfold, followed by brutal killing.
The wall did not protect the Frankish soldiers inside the wall. It became a deadly cage. After all the resistance was declared collapsed, the Russ army that rushed in immediately began to kill without mercy.
"We don't keep people alive! Don't take prisoners! Don't listen to anything they say, and don't show mercy."
No one felt inappropriate for such a cruel order, and no one had ever moved with pity.
Causing the accompanying Saxon warriors, the anger they usually squeezed was vented, and the axe was stabbed at the enemy who lacked resistance.
The whole of Bremen is like a meat factory, no one laughs, and there are shouts of killing everywhere.
Red streams gushed out of the city and poured into the half-frozen Weser River...
Finally, the killing came to an end.
A large number of blood-red soldiers stood in the city, and the surprise attack of the Rus-Saxony coalition was a great victory.
There is no post-victory beauty here. The victorious warriors were panting and sat beside the mutilated corpses to rest their spirits.
They are all people who are used to seeing death, and some people who are well-rested stand up one after another, looking for their favorite trophies on the battlefield.
Iron weapons and armor and clothing were all looted by everyone, including the sterling silver crosses hanging around the necks of many of the slain, which were also taken away by the victors.
Some large wooden houses attracted everyone's attention. When the simple fence gate was opened, more than a dozen enemy soldiers who were escaping suddenly rushed out with sharp weapons. They clearly attacked the Rus army with an attitude of breaking the bank, and they were all killed after that.
The matter was immediately reported by the soldiers to Arik, who was organizing staff to clean the battlefield.
"What? The enemy still dares to attack? Are they dead?"
"They were all killed. Besides, they were guarding some good things." The soldier said cautiously.
"It won't be gold, will it?"
"It's food. It's all food!"
There is still a granary in this city? Arik was secretly delighted, even if he could not seize a large amount of gold and silver, wouldn't it be beautiful to seize the grain to cook and eat here.
"Let's go! Brothers." He ordered his subordinates to suspend their iron collection work, "Let's go over there and see."
When Arik arrived at the target location with dozens of brothers, there were already many people gathered outside the wooden house.
The wounded who were plotted by the enemy were temporarily placed outside. At this moment, Ross and Saxon soldiers came out with sacks. It was obvious that they were personally carrying a heavy sack, which was theirs when they were taken.
Arik immediately grabbed the arm of a smiling brother who didn't care about his studies and said, "Hey, what did you grab?"
"Ah! Brother Arik, you can't imagine what's in here. There is food everywhere, enough for our brothers to eat until next summer. Haha, as you can see, the houses with similar styles here are all granaries."
"It's all granaries?" Arik somewhat regretted and ordered the slaughter of the enemy. Do not! Should be alive.
He casually asked left and right: "You all go to see the dead body, you are still a prisoner of breath."
Someone asked with an embarrassed face: "Boss, you see that there are corpses everywhere, are there really still people alive?"
"At least find one. I... just want to know if this is the enemy's granary, and how much all the food can eat for the enemy army."
Not to mention, there were indeed more than one enemy who pretended to be dead revealed in the inspection of the Rus.
Ruth warriors stabbed each corpse's limbs with swords, and those who pretended to be dead suddenly twisted in pain. Generally, for this situation, it is to add another sword to kill. Since the boss has an order, the brothers should be more cautious.
Five wounded pretending to be dead were escorted, too, with Saxon allies who knew some Frankish acting as interpreters.
Arik promised the prisoners not to kill for telling the truth. In order to survive, these people resolutely explained their situation.
Of course, the tactic of this illusory and the snake will end here, and the captive's head will be moved...
"It's incredible! Are there 25,000 enemies? Half of their food is in Bremen? Haha, all of their food is mine."
Arik exuded a long-lost happiness, and immediately convened his hands to start plundering the food and other found living materials.
The enemy army is determined to fight in the cold weather, and if they run out of food, they must send someone back to Bremena. For a split second, Arik sighed that his brother Rurik was really able to calculate, and the first task of the squadron to attack Bremen was to destroy the line of communication, and the task of destroying the bridge had the highest priority.
What Rurik could not calculate was that the enemy had rebuilt Bremen abruptly, and he could not calculate that a large amount of real food was placed here.
In the end, the sneak attack was a great success, destroying the bridge and evacuating the granary, which was a double blow to the enemy.
Carrying food has also become a part of the battle. Of course, Arik feels that this move is not as good as face-to-face killing. After all, it can weaken the strength of the enemy.
Likewise, first of all ensure that the brothers who are fighting the sneak attack are fed.
Compared with the Rus, the accompanying Saxons were extremely greedy. They searched for iron tools, armor and clothing, and worked extremely hard when carrying food. The reason for their move is very simple - the Saxon women and children left behind are still half-starved.
When asked why, the soft part of Arik's heart was touched.
More than a dozen Saxons knelt down and begged him, the so-called hope that Lord "War Chief" would classify the entire granary of a building as the exclusive trophy of the Saxon friendly forces. They don't want to be rich, they just want to ship it back to hamburgers and distribute it to hungry women and children.
They kept calling themselves "War Chiefs", and they charged with them in the previous battle.
How comfortable does it feel to be embraced? Arik agreed.
You can't treat the guy who sacrificed your life for yourself, not to mention that the seized food weighs a lot, and it is understandable to distribute part of it to the friendly army. It doesn't matter that the soldiers of the Rus army have plundered too much and patronize themselves to eat.
In the end, the main task of the army is to destroy the bridge. Aric thought that he had deliberately distributed a batch of spoils to the Saxon friendly forces, and then sent them to do some big things. Isn't it natural?
For the time being, no one cared about the corpses in the city, and the warm corpses quickly lost their temperature in the extremely cold state. The armor and clothing on the corpse were all stripped off, and then the lining was looted by the Saxons.
Due to the backward textile technology in this era, there were no spinning wheels in Western Europe and Northern Europe, and women were still sitting on the ground and weaving with simple tools. It takes a long time to weave a piece of cloth, and any piece of cloth is very valuable, which leads to many families with too many children, and the young children are often miserable and naked.
This is extremely rare in the Nordic world, where children who do not have enough clothing to keep out the cold die quickly, and in northern Europe, leather is widely used for clothing and is always tightly wrapped.
The lack of clothing is more common in the south, where the Saxons live in this area. The so-called powerful Frankish kingdom also has a large number of families in the Franks.
Arik regrets the madness of the Saxons picking dead people's clothes, but he understands it. After all, the Rus people lived a hard life twenty years ago, and they lacked attention to clothing. In order to ensure that they would not freeze to death, it was acceptable to look sloppy in their clothes.
With the passage of time, the current Ross Army has been entrenched on the banks of the Weser River, and in Bremen became a group of large iron pots to boil the river and boil the wheat.
Those dead corpses had turned gray, and then a layer of hoarfrost was born, and the dead were frozen into ice lumps on a large scale before the corpses began.
Ordering the soldiers to throw the dead body directly into the Weser River also became a hassle, so Arik was so ruthless that he refused to collect the dead body.
He had eaten boiled oatmeal in two large wooden bowls and walked around the Saxon camp after dark.
Seeing the visit of this great man in person, the converted Saxon warriors did not care that Arik was a believer of Odin. Out of gratitude and respect for the brave, they came over and greeted them with smiles.
"You're all in good spirits! They all seem to be eating well!"
The Saxons responded with enthusiastic cheers.
"Then eat more, eat more salt! Wait until dawn tomorrow, and then go and tear down that **** bridge, and finally burn the city of Bremen!"
They responded to Arik's request with louder cheers, and the next day, the third operation to destroy the bridge began.
However, for Arik, the outline of Bremen City was vaguely visible at first.
Peter's Basilica, the earl's mansion, wooden fortresses, thick walls, and row upon row of dwellings. Since all these buildings were mainly made of wood, they were turned into powder after the fire.
Even if the Frankish army rebuilt Bremen, it could only rebuild a large military camp on the foundation. It is far-fetched to say that it is a city.
If you set fire to the city again, you will destroy it for the second time, and you will surely get the nickname of "Arson Hero" again.
Do not! Not arrogant enough.
When the Saxons were frantically cutting off the cables tying the bridge deck timber with axes, the Rus army began to develop a "manpower assembly line" under the clever command of Grund to transport the burlap sacks full of food back. big ship.
Thanks to the large number of ships in this battle, it is no problem to empty the food and other spoils.
It was only a short day, and the thousands of corpses that were still frozen in ice went unnoticed, and the casualties of the Rus-Saxon Army had been disposed of.
The harsh winter can ensure that the war dead will not rot. More than 20 people who died will be transported back to Hamburg. Whether they will be cremated or buried on the spot, it is up to Rurik to make up his mind.
There were as many as 100 injured. Some of them suffered skin and internal injuries during the battle, and many of them sprained their arms and legs while searching for the spoils.
During the day, the city of Bremen was searched, carrying the spoils, leaving a thousand soldiers panting.
They were tired and happy. At night, everyone gathered on the river bank to eat wheat to replenish their strength. They set up simple tents on the clean snow, put on leather cushions and fell asleep.
The bridge being restored was very wide, and as the cables were all cut, new ropes were looped over the lumber that rested on the piers of the corpse mound, and the oars were about to pull them into the river.
The slow-flowing Weser River transports driftwood gradually drifting to the sea, or simply stranded on the ice-covered shore.
It's still possible to rebuild the bridge, it just takes a lot of time in warmer times, and it's only going to be more difficult in the current snow-covered environment.
It was a new dawn, thinking that the city was full of corpses, and the whole building was useless, and there was no need for a cursed and distressing city to exist.
The bonfire in the early morning has not yet been burnt out, and with a large amount of food, the army is extravagant to add river water and new wood to continue cooking the wheat.
After the army is full, they lazily make a field.
It's time to end this mission.
Arik intends to walk away after setting the city on fire, as he did many years ago.
Unexpectedly, the well-informed veteran Grund insisted on correcting Arik's determination.
"Why did you stop me? My brothers and I don't want to be in this cold place anymore."
"Why leave now? Of course the enemy's army can't defeat the king. When the enemy's food is exhausted, they will definitely go back to Bremen to get the food. You... don't you want to kill their people again? Or just see the victory in front of you, Thinking of accepting it when you see it?"
A sentence wakes up Arik: "Naturally, greater credit is required."
Arik, Grund and Yevro discussed and reached a consensus that the army's move to burn the city would not change, but it would be too bad to just stay outside the city full of scorched corpses. The army moved to the other side of the river to camp and waited for a new enemy to appear.
A group of Rus people picked up the burning sticks and, under the leadership of Arik, walked into the city full of ice-like corpses again.
"Franks! Thank me! I will cremate you."
However, this is the most extreme insult to the deceased.
Even when Arik asked the Saxons to set fire with burning sticks, they were so strange that they shied away. After asking about the situation, Arik was no longer reluctant.
Catholicism strictly prohibits cremation, which is a desecration of the dignity of the deceased. Likewise, if the person who does this is a Christian, he or she has committed a great sin, and his soul will fall into **** to be scorched by endless fire.
But the Russ army is all Vikings, and cremation for the dead Vikings is a very particular tradition. Of course, cremation and water burial have their own particulars, and each tribe has its own customs. As an old Rus, cremation was a little more practiced.
In this way, the burning of the city and cremation became a pure vent of anger, and Arik then roared: "You just curse me! This is the anger of the northerners! You Franks shouldn't come here!"
However, there are a large number of Sorbian slave soldiers among the deceased, and it is impossible for these poor fellows to jump out and correct what Arik said is wrong.
"Let's start! Brothers! I burned Bremen first, and today's burning is the second time. I am Arik the city burner! Let's do it!"
The arson started, and gradually the city burned.
The flames made Arik's cheeks hot, and the heat made his beard quiver.
He stood outside the city with a group of brothers, squinting to see the fire growing.
The flames melted the snow, and the water vapor rose into the air, which quickly cooled in the sky and turned into a white plume of smoke. This plume of smoke is mixed with a lot of debris, even part of the dead.
The plume of smoke gradually turned grayish-white, which was extremely dazzling in the clear air.
Ludwig had no idea that his Bremen stronghold had been burned, all wounded soldiers were killed, and all supplies were looted.
But he was not completely ignorant of the catastrophe in Bremen, so there were people who fled for the first time and fled north. Such people could only rely on snow to replenish water, and rely on strong willpower to finally fight against Ludwig's defeated soldiers. And will.
After a defeat, the main force of the Frankish army was forced to retreat tactically and camped in an uninhabited Frankish village in the woods. Ludwig still had a considerable number of soldiers, but the army was frightened, and even if he fought again, he would have to rest first.
But those who fled from the south began to spread the terrible news that the Bremen stronghold had fallen!
"This is absolutely impossible!" Ludwig refused to believe it, and the poor messenger almost died of anger to report the news, so he was executed for the crime of disturbing the heart of the army.
It is a fact that disturbing the morale of the army, Ludwig has encountered a new big trouble, and he is also shaken. Whether Bremen was really attacked by the Normans, it is necessary to send more cavalry to investigate~www.novelhall.com~ He must work with the Archbishop of Cologne to stabilize the army's mood, organize defenses in the current camp in the forest, and discuss countermeasures for the next action.
It is undeniable that if the war is to continue, the lines of communication on the Via Roma must be solid. If Bremen is lost, it must be recaptured, because the Weser bridge is the only way for the supply line of the army to pass.
For a moment, Ludwig felt that he was caught in the trap of being in a dilemma, and he deeply realized that his insistence on going his own way was asking for nothing.
It can't be any worse!
So, he organized three hundred light cavalry and began to run non-stop towards the south. The task was to confirm the situation in Bremen and not to risk fighting with the enemy.
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The wolves rushed into the sheepfold, followed by brutal killing.
The wall did not protect the Frankish soldiers inside the wall. It became a deadly cage. After all the resistance was declared collapsed, the Russ army that rushed in immediately began to kill without mercy.
"We don't keep people alive! Don't take prisoners! Don't listen to anything they say, and don't show mercy."
No one felt inappropriate for such a cruel order, and no one had ever moved with pity.
Causing the accompanying Saxon warriors, the anger they usually squeezed was vented, and the axe was stabbed at the enemy who lacked resistance.
The whole of Bremen is like a meat factory, no one laughs, and there are shouts of killing everywhere.
Red streams gushed out of the city and poured into the half-frozen Weser River...
Finally, the killing came to an end.
A large number of blood-red soldiers stood in the city, and the surprise attack of the Rus-Saxony coalition was a great victory.
There is no post-victory beauty here. The victorious warriors were panting and sat beside the mutilated corpses to rest their spirits.
They are all people who are used to seeing death, and some people who are well-rested stand up one after another, looking for their favorite trophies on the battlefield.
Iron weapons and armor and clothing were all looted by everyone, including the sterling silver crosses hanging around the necks of many of the slain, which were also taken away by the victors.
Some large wooden houses attracted everyone's attention. When the simple fence gate was opened, more than a dozen enemy soldiers who were escaping suddenly rushed out with sharp weapons. They clearly attacked the Rus army with an attitude of breaking the bank, and they were all killed after that.
The matter was immediately reported by the soldiers to Arik, who was organizing staff to clean the battlefield.
"What? The enemy still dares to attack? Are they dead?"
"They were all killed. Besides, they were guarding some good things." The soldier said cautiously.
"It won't be gold, will it?"
"It's food. It's all food!"
There is still a granary in this city? Arik was secretly delighted, even if he could not seize a large amount of gold and silver, wouldn't it be beautiful to seize the grain to cook and eat here.
"Let's go! Brothers." He ordered his subordinates to suspend their iron collection work, "Let's go over there and see."
When Arik arrived at the target location with dozens of brothers, there were already many people gathered outside the wooden house.
The wounded who were plotted by the enemy were temporarily placed outside. At this moment, Ross and Saxon soldiers came out with sacks. It was obvious that they were personally carrying a heavy sack, which was theirs when they were taken.
Arik immediately grabbed the arm of a smiling brother who didn't care about his studies and said, "Hey, what did you grab?"
"Ah! Brother Arik, you can't imagine what's in here. There is food everywhere, enough for our brothers to eat until next summer. Haha, as you can see, the houses with similar styles here are all granaries."
"It's all granaries?" Arik somewhat regretted and ordered the slaughter of the enemy. Do not! Should be alive.
He casually asked left and right: "You all go to see the dead body, you are still a prisoner of breath."
Someone asked with an embarrassed face: "Boss, you see that there are corpses everywhere, are there really still people alive?"
"At least find one. I... just want to know if this is the enemy's granary, and how much all the food can eat for the enemy army."
Not to mention, there were indeed more than one enemy who pretended to be dead revealed in the inspection of the Rus.
Ruth warriors stabbed each corpse's limbs with swords, and those who pretended to be dead suddenly twisted in pain. Generally, for this situation, it is to add another sword to kill. Since the boss has an order, the brothers should be more cautious.
Five wounded pretending to be dead were escorted, too, with Saxon allies who knew some Frankish acting as interpreters.
Arik promised the prisoners not to kill for telling the truth. In order to survive, these people resolutely explained their situation.
Of course, the tactic of this illusory and the snake will end here, and the captive's head will be moved...
"It's incredible! Are there 25,000 enemies? Half of their food is in Bremen? Haha, all of their food is mine."
Arik exuded a long-lost happiness, and immediately convened his hands to start plundering the food and other found living materials.
The enemy army is determined to fight in the cold weather, and if they run out of food, they must send someone back to Bremena. For a split second, Arik sighed that his brother Rurik was really able to calculate, and the first task of the squadron to attack Bremen was to destroy the line of communication, and the task of destroying the bridge had the highest priority.
What Rurik could not calculate was that the enemy had rebuilt Bremen abruptly, and he could not calculate that a large amount of real food was placed here.
In the end, the sneak attack was a great success, destroying the bridge and evacuating the granary, which was a double blow to the enemy.
Carrying food has also become a part of the battle. Of course, Arik feels that this move is not as good as face-to-face killing. After all, it can weaken the strength of the enemy.
Likewise, first of all ensure that the brothers who are fighting the sneak attack are fed.
Compared with the Rus, the accompanying Saxons were extremely greedy. They searched for iron tools, armor and clothing, and worked extremely hard when carrying food. The reason for their move is very simple - the Saxon women and children left behind are still half-starved.
When asked why, the soft part of Arik's heart was touched.
More than a dozen Saxons knelt down and begged him, the so-called hope that Lord "War Chief" would classify the entire granary of a building as the exclusive trophy of the Saxon friendly forces. They don't want to be rich, they just want to ship it back to hamburgers and distribute it to hungry women and children.
They kept calling themselves "War Chiefs", and they charged with them in the previous battle.
How comfortable does it feel to be embraced? Arik agreed.
You can't treat the guy who sacrificed your life for yourself, not to mention that the seized food weighs a lot, and it is understandable to distribute part of it to the friendly army. It doesn't matter that the soldiers of the Rus army have plundered too much and patronize themselves to eat.
In the end, the main task of the army is to destroy the bridge. Aric thought that he had deliberately distributed a batch of spoils to the Saxon friendly forces, and then sent them to do some big things. Isn't it natural?
For the time being, no one cared about the corpses in the city, and the warm corpses quickly lost their temperature in the extremely cold state. The armor and clothing on the corpse were all stripped off, and then the lining was looted by the Saxons.
Due to the backward textile technology in this era, there were no spinning wheels in Western Europe and Northern Europe, and women were still sitting on the ground and weaving with simple tools. It takes a long time to weave a piece of cloth, and any piece of cloth is very valuable, which leads to many families with too many children, and the young children are often miserable and naked.
This is extremely rare in the Nordic world, where children who do not have enough clothing to keep out the cold die quickly, and in northern Europe, leather is widely used for clothing and is always tightly wrapped.
The lack of clothing is more common in the south, where the Saxons live in this area. The so-called powerful Frankish kingdom also has a large number of families in the Franks.
Arik regrets the madness of the Saxons picking dead people's clothes, but he understands it. After all, the Rus people lived a hard life twenty years ago, and they lacked attention to clothing. In order to ensure that they would not freeze to death, it was acceptable to look sloppy in their clothes.
With the passage of time, the current Ross Army has been entrenched on the banks of the Weser River, and in Bremen became a group of large iron pots to boil the river and boil the wheat.
Those dead corpses had turned gray, and then a layer of hoarfrost was born, and the dead were frozen into ice lumps on a large scale before the corpses began.
Ordering the soldiers to throw the dead body directly into the Weser River also became a hassle, so Arik was so ruthless that he refused to collect the dead body.
He had eaten boiled oatmeal in two large wooden bowls and walked around the Saxon camp after dark.
Seeing the visit of this great man in person, the converted Saxon warriors did not care that Arik was a believer of Odin. Out of gratitude and respect for the brave, they came over and greeted them with smiles.
"You're all in good spirits! They all seem to be eating well!"
The Saxons responded with enthusiastic cheers.
"Then eat more, eat more salt! Wait until dawn tomorrow, and then go and tear down that **** bridge, and finally burn the city of Bremen!"
They responded to Arik's request with louder cheers, and the next day, the third operation to destroy the bridge began.
However, for Arik, the outline of Bremen City was vaguely visible at first.
Peter's Basilica, the earl's mansion, wooden fortresses, thick walls, and row upon row of dwellings. Since all these buildings were mainly made of wood, they were turned into powder after the fire.
Even if the Frankish army rebuilt Bremen, it could only rebuild a large military camp on the foundation. It is far-fetched to say that it is a city.
If you set fire to the city again, you will destroy it for the second time, and you will surely get the nickname of "Arson Hero" again.
Do not! Not arrogant enough.
When the Saxons were frantically cutting off the cables tying the bridge deck timber with axes, the Rus army began to develop a "manpower assembly line" under the clever command of Grund to transport the burlap sacks full of food back. big ship.
Thanks to the large number of ships in this battle, it is no problem to empty the food and other spoils.
It was only a short day, and the thousands of corpses that were still frozen in ice went unnoticed, and the casualties of the Rus-Saxon Army had been disposed of.
The harsh winter can ensure that the war dead will not rot. More than 20 people who died will be transported back to Hamburg. Whether they will be cremated or buried on the spot, it is up to Rurik to make up his mind.
There were as many as 100 injured. Some of them suffered skin and internal injuries during the battle, and many of them sprained their arms and legs while searching for the spoils.
During the day, the city of Bremen was searched, carrying the spoils, leaving a thousand soldiers panting.
They were tired and happy. At night, everyone gathered on the river bank to eat wheat to replenish their strength. They set up simple tents on the clean snow, put on leather cushions and fell asleep.
The bridge being restored was very wide, and as the cables were all cut, new ropes were looped over the lumber that rested on the piers of the corpse mound, and the oars were about to pull them into the river.
The slow-flowing Weser River transports driftwood gradually drifting to the sea, or simply stranded on the ice-covered shore.
It's still possible to rebuild the bridge, it just takes a lot of time in warmer times, and it's only going to be more difficult in the current snow-covered environment.
It was a new dawn, thinking that the city was full of corpses, and the whole building was useless, and there was no need for a cursed and distressing city to exist.
The bonfire in the early morning has not yet been burnt out, and with a large amount of food, the army is extravagant to add river water and new wood to continue cooking the wheat.
After the army is full, they lazily make a field.
It's time to end this mission.
Arik intends to walk away after setting the city on fire, as he did many years ago.
Unexpectedly, the well-informed veteran Grund insisted on correcting Arik's determination.
"Why did you stop me? My brothers and I don't want to be in this cold place anymore."
"Why leave now? Of course the enemy's army can't defeat the king. When the enemy's food is exhausted, they will definitely go back to Bremen to get the food. You... don't you want to kill their people again? Or just see the victory in front of you, Thinking of accepting it when you see it?"
A sentence wakes up Arik: "Naturally, greater credit is required."
Arik, Grund and Yevro discussed and reached a consensus that the army's move to burn the city would not change, but it would be too bad to just stay outside the city full of scorched corpses. The army moved to the other side of the river to camp and waited for a new enemy to appear.
A group of Rus people picked up the burning sticks and, under the leadership of Arik, walked into the city full of ice-like corpses again.
"Franks! Thank me! I will cremate you."
However, this is the most extreme insult to the deceased.
Even when Arik asked the Saxons to set fire with burning sticks, they were so strange that they shied away. After asking about the situation, Arik was no longer reluctant.
Catholicism strictly prohibits cremation, which is a desecration of the dignity of the deceased. Likewise, if the person who does this is a Christian, he or she has committed a great sin, and his soul will fall into **** to be scorched by endless fire.
But the Russ army is all Vikings, and cremation for the dead Vikings is a very particular tradition. Of course, cremation and water burial have their own particulars, and each tribe has its own customs. As an old Rus, cremation was a little more practiced.
In this way, the burning of the city and cremation became a pure vent of anger, and Arik then roared: "You just curse me! This is the anger of the northerners! You Franks shouldn't come here!"
However, there are a large number of Sorbian slave soldiers among the deceased, and it is impossible for these poor fellows to jump out and correct what Arik said is wrong.
"Let's start! Brothers! I burned Bremen first, and today's burning is the second time. I am Arik the city burner! Let's do it!"
The arson started, and gradually the city burned.
The flames made Arik's cheeks hot, and the heat made his beard quiver.
He stood outside the city with a group of brothers, squinting to see the fire growing.
The flames melted the snow, and the water vapor rose into the air, which quickly cooled in the sky and turned into a white plume of smoke. This plume of smoke is mixed with a lot of debris, even part of the dead.
The plume of smoke gradually turned grayish-white, which was extremely dazzling in the clear air.
Ludwig had no idea that his Bremen stronghold had been burned, all wounded soldiers were killed, and all supplies were looted.
But he was not completely ignorant of the catastrophe in Bremen, so there were people who fled for the first time and fled north. Such people could only rely on snow to replenish water, and rely on strong willpower to finally fight against Ludwig's defeated soldiers. And will.
After a defeat, the main force of the Frankish army was forced to retreat tactically and camped in an uninhabited Frankish village in the woods. Ludwig still had a considerable number of soldiers, but the army was frightened, and even if he fought again, he would have to rest first.
But those who fled from the south began to spread the terrible news that the Bremen stronghold had fallen!
"This is absolutely impossible!" Ludwig refused to believe it, and the poor messenger almost died of anger to report the news, so he was executed for the crime of disturbing the heart of the army.
It is a fact that disturbing the morale of the army, Ludwig has encountered a new big trouble, and he is also shaken. Whether Bremen was really attacked by the Normans, it is necessary to send more cavalry to investigate~www.novelhall.com~ He must work with the Archbishop of Cologne to stabilize the army's mood, organize defenses in the current camp in the forest, and discuss countermeasures for the next action.
It is undeniable that if the war is to continue, the lines of communication on the Via Roma must be solid. If Bremen is lost, it must be recaptured, because the Weser bridge is the only way for the supply line of the army to pass.
For a moment, Ludwig felt that he was caught in the trap of being in a dilemma, and he deeply realized that his insistence on going his own way was asking for nothing.
It can't be any worse!
So, he organized three hundred light cavalry and began to run non-stop towards the south. The task was to confirm the situation in Bremen and not to risk fighting with the enemy.
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The wolves rushed into the sheepfold, followed by brutal killing.The wall did not protect the Frankish soldiers inside the wall. It became a deadly cage. After all the resistance was declared collapsed, the Russ army that rushed in immediately began to kill without mercy."We don't keep people alive! Don't take prisoners! Don't listen to anything they say, and don't show mercy."No one felt inappropriate for such a cruel order, and no one had ever moved with pity.Causing the accompanying Saxon warriors, the anger they usually squeezed was vented, and the axe was stabbed at the enemy who lacked resistance.The whole of Bremen is like a meat factory, no one laughs, and there are shouts of killing everywhere.Red streams gushed out of the city and poured into the half-frozen Weser River...Finally, the killing came to an end.A large number of blood-red soldiers stood in the city, and the surprise attack of the Rus-Saxony coalition was a great victory.There is no post-victory beauty here. The victorious warriors were panting and sat beside the mutilated corpses to rest their spirits.They are all people who are used to seeing death, and some people who are well-rested stand up one after another, looking for their favorite trophies on the battlefield.Iron weapons and armor and clothing were all looted by everyone, including the sterling silver crosses hanging around the necks of many of the slain, which were also taken away by the victors.Some large wooden houses attracted everyone's attention. When the simple fence gate was opened, more than a dozen enemy soldiers who were escaping suddenly rushed out with sharp weapons. They clearly attacked the Rus army with an attitude of breaking the bank, and they were all killed after that.The matter was immediately reported by the soldiers to Arik, who was organizing staff to clean the battlefield."What? The enemy still dares to attack? Are they dead?""They were all killed. Besides, they were guarding some good things." The soldier said cautiously."It won't be gold, will it?""It's food. It's all food!"There is still a granary in this city? Arik was secretly delighted, even if he could not seize a large amount of gold and silver, wouldn't it be beautiful to seize the grain to cook and eat here."Let's go! Brothers." He ordered his subordinates to suspend their iron collection work, "Let's go over there and see."When Arik arrived at the target location with dozens of brothers, there were already many people gathered outside the wooden house.The wounded who were plotted by the enemy were temporarily placed outside. At this moment, Ross and Saxon soldiers came out with sacks. It was obvious that they were personally carrying a heavy sack, which was theirs when they were taken.Arik immediately grabbed the arm of a smiling brother who didn't care about his studies and said, "Hey, what did you grab?""Ah! Brother Arik, you can't imagine what's in here. There is food everywhere, enough for our brothers to eat until next summer. Haha, as you can see, the houses with similar styles here are all granaries.""It's all granaries?" Arik somewhat regretted and ordered the slaughter of the enemy. Do not! Should be alive.He casually asked left and right: "You all go to see the dead body, you are still a prisoner of breath."Someone asked with an embarrassed face: "Boss, you see that there are corpses everywhere, are there really still people alive?""At least find one. I... just want to know if this is the enemy's granary, and how much all the food can eat for the enemy army."Not to mention, there were indeed more than one enemy who pretended to be dead revealed in the inspection of the Rus.Ruth warriors stabbed each corpse's limbs with swords, and those who pretended to be dead suddenly twisted in pain. Generally, for this situation, it is to add another sword to kill. Since the boss has an order, the brothers should be more cautious.Five wounded pretending to be dead were escorted, too, with Saxon allies who knew some Frankish acting as interpreters.Arik promised the prisoners not to kill for telling the truth. In order to survive, these people resolutely explained their situation.Of course, the tactic of this illusory and the snake will end here, and the captive's head will be moved..."It's incredible! Are there 25,000 enemies? Half of their food is in Bremen? Haha, all of their food is mine."Arik exuded a long-lost happiness, and immediately convened his hands to start plundering the food and other found living materials.The enemy army is determined to fight in the cold weather, and if they run out of food, they must send someone back to Bremena. For a split second, Arik sighed that his brother Rurik was really able to calculate, and the first task of the squadron to attack Bremen was to destroy the line of communication, and the task of destroying the bridge had the highest priority.What Rurik could not calculate was that the enemy had rebuilt Bremen abruptly, and he could not calculate that a large amount of real food was placed here.In the end, the sneak attack was a great success, destroying the bridge and evacuating the granary, which was a double blow to the enemy.Carrying food has also become a part of the battle. Of course, Arik feels that this move is not as good as face-to-face killing. After all, it can weaken the strength of the enemy.Likewise, first of all ensure that the brothers who are fighting the sneak attack are fed.Compared with the Rus, the accompanying Saxons were extremely greedy. They searched for iron tools, armor and clothing, and worked extremely hard when carrying food. The reason for their move is very simple - the Saxon women and children left behind are still half-starved.When asked why, the soft part of Arik's heart was touched.More than a dozen Saxons knelt down and begged him, the so-called hope that Lord "War Chief" would classify the entire granary of a building as the exclusive trophy of the Saxon friendly forces. They don't want to be rich, they just want to ship it back to hamburgers and distribute it to hungry women and children.They kept calling themselves "War Chiefs", and they charged with them in the previous battle.How comfortable does it feel to be embraced? Arik agreed.You can't treat the guy who sacrificed your life for yourself, not to mention that the seized food weighs a lot, and it is understandable to distribute part of it to the friendly army. It doesn't matter that the soldiers of the Rus army have plundered too much and patronize themselves to eat.In the end, the main task of the army is to destroy the bridge. Aric thought that he had deliberately distributed a batch of spoils to the Saxon friendly forces, and then sent them to do some big things. Isn't it natural?For the time being, no one cared about the corpses in the city, and the warm corpses quickly lost their temperature in the extremely cold state. The armor and clothing on the corpse were all stripped off, and then the lining was looted by the Saxons.Due to the backward textile technology in this era, there were no spinning wheels in Western Europe and Northern Europe, and women were still sitting on the ground and weaving with simple tools. It takes a long time to weave a piece of cloth, and any piece of cloth is very valuable, which leads to many families with too many children, and the young children are often miserable and naked.This is extremely rare in the Nordic world, where children who do not have enough clothing to keep out the cold die quickly, and in northern Europe, leather is widely used for clothing and is always tightly wrapped.The lack of clothing is more common in the south, where the Saxons live in this area. The so-called powerful Frankish kingdom also has a large number of families in the Franks.Arik regrets the madness of the Saxons picking dead people's clothes, but he understands it. After all, the Rus people lived a hard life twenty years ago, and they lacked attention to clothing. In order to ensure that they would not freeze to death, it was acceptable to look sloppy in their clothes.With the passage of time, the current Ross Army has been entrenched on the banks of the Weser River, and in Bremen became a group of large iron pots to boil the river and boil the wheat.Those dead corpses had turned gray, and then a layer of hoarfrost was born, and the dead were frozen into ice lumps on a large scale before the corpses began.Ordering the soldiers to throw the dead body directly into the Weser River also became a hassle, so Arik was so ruthless that he refused to collect the dead body.He had eaten boiled oatmeal in two large wooden bowls and walked around the Saxon camp after dark.Seeing the visit of this great man in person, the converted Saxon warriors did not care that Arik was a believer of Odin. Out of gratitude and respect for the brave, they came over and greeted them with smiles."You're all in good spirits! They all seem to be eating well!"The Saxons responded with enthusiastic cheers."Then eat more, eat more salt! Wait until dawn tomorrow, and then go and tear down that **** bridge, and finally burn the city of Bremen!"They responded to Arik's request with louder cheers, and the next day, the third operation to destroy the bridge began.However, for Arik, the outline of Bremen City was vaguely visible at first.Peter's Basilica, the earl's mansion, wooden fortresses, thick walls, and row upon row of dwellings. Since all these buildings were mainly made of wood, they were turned into powder after the fire.Even if the Frankish army rebuilt Bremen, it could only rebuild a large military camp on the foundation. It is far-fetched to say that it is a city.If you set fire to the city again, you will destroy it for the second time, and you will surely get the nickname of "Arson Hero" again.Do not! Not arrogant enough.When the Saxons were frantically cutting off the cables tying the bridge deck timber with axes, the Rus army began to develop a "manpower assembly line" under the clever command of Grund to transport the burlap sacks full of food back. big ship.Thanks to the large number of ships in this battle, it is no problem to empty the food and other spoils.It was only a short day, and the thousands of corpses that were still frozen in ice went unnoticed, and the casualties of the Rus-Saxon Army had been disposed of.The harsh winter can ensure that the war dead will not rot. More than 20 people who died will be transported back to Hamburg. Whether they will be cremated or buried on the spot, it is up to Rurik to make up his mind.There were as many as 100 injured. Some of them suffered skin and internal injuries during the battle, and many of them sprained their arms and legs while searching for the spoils.During the day, the city of Bremen was searched, carrying the spoils, leaving a thousand soldiers panting.They were tired and happy. At night, everyone gathered on the river bank to eat wheat to replenish their strength. They set up simple tents on the clean snow, put on leather cushions and fell asleep.The bridge being restored was very wide, and as the cables were all cut, new ropes were looped over the lumber that rested on the piers of the corpse mound, and the oars were about to pull them into the river.The slow-flowing Weser River transports driftwood gradually drifting to the sea, or simply stranded on the ice-covered shore.It's still possible to rebuild the bridge, it just takes a lot of time in warmer times, and it's only going to be more difficult in the current snow-covered environment.It was a new dawn, thinking that the city was full of corpses, and the whole building was useless, and there was no need for a cursed and distressing city to exist.The bonfire in the early morning has not yet been burnt out, and with a large amount of food, the army is extravagant to add river water and new wood to continue cooking the wheat.After the army is full, they lazily make a field.It's time to end this mission.Arik intends to walk away after setting the city on fire, as he did many years ago.Unexpectedly, the well-informed veteran Grund insisted on correcting Arik's determination."Why did you stop me? My brothers and I don't want to be in this cold place anymore.""Why leave now? Of course the enemy's army can't defeat the king. When the enemy's food is exhausted, they will definitely go back to Bremen to get the food. You... don't you want to kill their people again? Or just see the victory in front of you, Thinking of accepting it when you see it?"A sentence wakes up Arik: "Naturally, greater credit is required."Arik, Grund and Yevro discussed and reached a consensus that the army's move to burn the city would not change, but it would be too bad to just stay outside the city full of scorched corpses. The army moved to the other side of the river to camp and waited for a new enemy to appear.A group of Rus people picked up the burning sticks and, under the leadership of Arik, walked into the city full of ice-like corpses again."Franks! Thank me! I will cremate you."However, this is the most extreme insult to the deceased.Even when Arik asked the Saxons to set fire with burning sticks, they were so strange that they shied away. After asking about the situation, Arik was no longer reluctant.Catholicism strictly prohibits cremation, which is a desecration of the dignity of the deceased. Likewise, if the person who does this is a Christian, he or she has committed a great sin, and his soul will fall into **** to be scorched by endless fire.But the Russ army is all Vikings, and cremation for the dead Vikings is a very particular tradition. Of course, cremation and water burial have their own particulars, and each tribe has its own customs. As an old Rus, cremation was a little more practiced.In this way, the burning of the city and cremation became a pure vent of anger, and Arik then roared: "You just curse me! This is the anger of the northerners! You Franks shouldn't come here!"However, there are a large number of Sorbian slave soldiers among the deceased, and it is impossible for these poor fellows to jump out and correct what Arik said is wrong."Let's start! Brothers! I burned Bremen first, and today's burning is the second time. I am Arik the city burner! Let's do it!"The arson started, and gradually the city burned.The flames made Arik's cheeks hot, and the heat made his beard quiver.He stood outside the city with a group of brothers, squinting to see the fire growing.The flames melted the snow, and the water vapor rose into the air, which quickly cooled in the sky and turned into a white plume of smoke. This plume of smoke is mixed with a lot of debris, even part of the dead.The plume of smoke gradually turned grayish-white, which was extremely dazzling in the clear air.Ludwig had no idea that his Bremen stronghold had been burned, all wounded soldiers were killed, and all supplies were looted.But he was not completely ignorant of the catastrophe in Bremen, so there were people who fled for the first time and fled north. Such people could only rely on snow to replenish water, and rely on strong willpower to finally fight against Ludwig's defeated soldiers. And will.After a defeat, the main force of the Frankish army was forced to retreat tactically and camped in an uninhabited Frankish village in the woods. Ludwig still had a considerable number of soldiers, but the army was frightened, and even if he fought again, he would have to rest first.But those who fled from the south began to spread the terrible news that the Bremen stronghold had fallen!"This is absolutely impossible!" Ludwig refused to believe it, and the poor messenger almost died of anger to report the news, so he was executed for the crime of disturbing the heart of the army.It is a fact that disturbing the morale of the army, Ludwig has encountered a new big trouble, and he is also shaken. Whether Bremen was really attacked by the Normans, it is necessary to send more cavalry to investigate~www.novelhall.com~ He must work with the Archbishop of Cologne to stabilize the army's mood, organize defenses in the current camp in the forest, and discuss countermeasures for the next action.It is undeniable that if the war is to continue, the lines of communication on the Via Roma must be solid. If Bremen is lost, it must be recaptured, because the Weser bridge is the only way for the supply line of the army to pass.For a moment, Ludwig felt that he was caught in the trap of being in a dilemma, and he deeply realized that his insistence on going his own way was asking for nothing.It can't be any worse!So, he organized three hundred light cavalry and began to run non-stop towards the south. The task was to confirm the situation in Bremen and not to risk fighting with the enemy.https://Genius remembers the address of this site in one second: . Lewen Novel Network mobile version reading website:
