Chapter 270 Rus Army Forcibly Sieges the City

This time, the Ross people put up an unprecedented offensive formation.

The details of the formation are really full of Rurik's imagination.

In other words, it can only be called an army if it can form such a formation. And the battles that their own Rus people tribes used in the past, compared with today's, is no different from fighting in groups.

In this battle, Rurik felt that his clansmen finally realized the cooperation of multiple arms in a real sense, that is, the cooperation of siege troops, heavy infantry, light infantry and bowmen.

Just like an armored vehicle, a group of infantry is often gathered behind it. The armored vehicle here is a solid backing. Its armor can resist quite a variety of shells and bullets. Its huge body also covers many infantry.

The Russ used a huge wooden shield (a thin wooden shield with a height and width of nearly two meters) as a cover. castle walls. Almost twenty sword and shield players gathered behind the strong man.

Since they didn't take the stimulant medicine prepared by the high priest, they couldn't be called berserkers, but they were truly a force for attack.

They all wore bronze and iron helmets, not only leather armor, but also a chain mail over their bodies. Otto used the most elite and best-equipped more than 60 people in the team as the main force in the attack according to Rurik's requirements.

Because of their strong armor, Rurik believed that the enemy's arrows were impossible to break through. So, before they invaded the enemy village, their first task was to attract firepower.

A battering ram covered by a large shield is the real core of the attack.

This well-made battering ram is tied with hemp rope with twigs wrapped around the hemp rope. As many as ten fighters rely on their health to carry it up. Beside them, another group of swordsmen and shields took cover.

In the rear of the final camp, there are almost all archers. Including the once defeated Catfish Lord tribesmen, who obeyed the orders of the Rus, took up short bows and were ordered to cover the rear.

In order to obtain merit and to end the battle as soon as possible, Rurik brought his mercenary with a crossbow and followed near the battering ram.

The army of Ross came with great momentum, and the footsteps even caused the earth to tremble.

Mechasta has been observing the movements of Varyag's army, and he feels that the time to block has come.

"They're here! Shoot the arrows!"

in an instant,

All the archers on the city wall and behind the city wall, they put their bows in their left hands and aim at the sky with a large elevation angle.

Then, the first wave of arrows soared into the air.

They were almost projecting between colleagues, arrow feathers pierced the air, and there was a whirring sound as a whole.

Otto knew what it was, and he roared seriously: "The arrow is coming, prepare to meet it."

All the Rus warriors holding shields held their heads with their round shields, and those with huge shields in their hands were almost holding up the shields as a whole.

Soon, without a giant shield, seven or eight soldiers gathered quickly. The people after that also raised their wooden shields and arranged them in a very dense formation.

Everyone believed that the defensive routine Rurik said could well withstand the arrows of the enemy army.

Rurik himself, under the protection of a ring of shields formed by his mercenaries. Even if the mercenaries used flesh and blood, they had to withstand the arrows for their masters. As a result, the first wave of arrows from the Grey Squirrel Tribe did not land in the area where Rurik was located.

A large number of arrows fell on the various shields of the Rus, and the projectile tactics gave the arrows strong falling potential energy, but the fact that the cluster of bone arrows could not make up for its disadvantage.

When some arrows attacked the shields of the Rus, the arrows exploded, the shafts were broken one after another, and the bone arrow clusters were all bounced off after deep indentations were carved into the wooden shield.

This rain of arrows did not cause any damage to the attacking Rus, on the contrary, the Rus seized a batch of arrows that could be used.

Seeing that the enemy was still advancing slowly, Mechasta had to order his men to continue shooting arrows.

However, this is clearly a futile resistance.

The second wave of arrows came again, this time only a very few Ruth warriors suffered completely negligible scratches.

When the third wave of arrows rained, deliberately out of Rurik at the back of the formation, he finally encountered the enemy's attack, but the attack was ineffective.

Yevro's shield blocked two arrows for his gold master, but one arrow accidentally pierced his sackcloth coat, which made him very angry.

The arrows were hanging on Yevlo's clothes, and Rurik was able to see the enemy's arrows from a distance.

To be fair, the arrow feather is beautifully done, and it's beautiful means it's aerodynamic, it's just an arrow...

The so-called arrowhead, it is basically the leg bone of a small animal, and Nakamoto is a hollow structure that accommodates the bone marrow, making it an excellent collar. After all, it is a bone, and the sharper it is, the more likely it is to hit a hard object and crack.

"Master, it seems that our brothers are going to walk the hardest way. The next step is the siege battle." Yevlo ordered.

Rurik, who was well protected by the shield, saw three "squares" approaching the enemy's wall through the gap in the mercenary shield.

"They did well. Brothers, we need to take action too. Remember! Our job is to take down all the turtledoves on the wall with the crossbow."

Yevro nodded, followed by a roar: "Brothers, the master has given an order. Let's start."

Rurik, who was completely mobilized to fight, even roared: "If you hit an enemy, you will be rewarded with a silver coin!"

Being on the battlefield, everyone's spirits were already high, and when they heard that they could still make money, the mercenaries just wanted to use the crossbow to kill.

Rurik's mercenaries quickly began to line up, and they, along with the other archers who received the order to attack, began to counter fire.

Kaihas had thought that the Rus' army would suffer casualties during the storm, but their advance was normal.

He inspired his people in Old Finnish: "Lord of the salmon, it's time to show our strength to the Rus. We're going to defeat the squirrels and shoot arrows at them!"

Rurik saw that the minions began to fire the captured arrows back. With both sides within the range of bows and arrows, the battle finally heats up.

There was a whizzing sound in the ear, followed by the mourning of the clansmen behind the wall.

Mechasta turned his head and looked at the clan members with sadness and anger, especially the woman who was hit by the arrow.

Under the crisis, he could no longer consider the life and death of some clansmen.

He turned his head, shot with a short bow himself, and even scolded: "You damn bastard, you are using a wooden shield to protect yourself."

Even with the iron cluster arrows, Mechasta found himself unable to penetrate the attacker's large wooden shield.

On the contrary, the archers on the city wall became timid, because they fell off the city wall after seeing their companions being shot by arrows.

Worse things are happening.

Mechasta's ears were filled with the roar of the enemy, and the sunlight reflected through the woods on the enemy's metal helmet made it even more terrifying.

"What's going on here? Some of them have several arrows stuck in their bodies. How can they still fight?"

After hearing that there was a language that he could understand from the local camp, combined with the fighting methods of those people, Mechasta had determined that those guys were the legendary catfish master tribe that was destroyed.

"Damn Woima Kashad, you lied to me. They were killed there, and they clearly surrendered to the Varyags." Gritting his teeth, Mechasta ignored the flying arrows in the whizzing sound, He raised his bow and fired an iron arrow that nearly broke the string.

The arrow hit the head of an archer of the Salmon Lord tribe directly, and the iron arrows smashed through the skull, and the whole person died on the spot.

Kaihas was taken aback, he didn't expect the enemy to have such a sharpshooter.

Many archers panicked, and Kaihas shouted: "Don't mess up! Keep shooting arrows."

Seeing this, Rurik couldn't help but be nervous about the sudden death. His heart was beating wildly, and his position must be unsafe.

Since he is no longer safe, wouldn't it be even more dangerous for his father, who brought the main force to attack the enemy's city gate?

Father always wears not only leather armor, but also a chain mail. If the enemy's iron arrows were shot at close range, Rurik believed that Dad would still be fatally wounded.

Otto, he can't die until he grows up!

Rurik took a firm step, and he would roar from the somewhat chaotic minions: "No chaos! Think about your women and children, you are fighting for their safety now. Keep fighting for me!"

Having said that, the Salmon Lord tribe warriors have distinguished the pros and cons, and resumed archery after the fire suppression paused for a period of time.

It can be said that Mechasta used his personal ability to buy a little time for the defending clansmen, and did not gain any tactical advantage.

Now, obviously another group of Varyags, under the cover of a large number of shield hands, began to storm the gate of the village!

The warriors of the Grey Squirrel Tribe knew very well that if the gate was opened and a large group of guys wearing mail armor and holding iron swords and axe rushed in, everyone would die.

A large number of arrows aimed at the Rus people who attacked the gate, including Otto who commanded the crashing gate, became the key target of attack.

The battering ram of the Russ begins.

First, ten soldiers rushed under the cover of the sword and shield hands screaming, and the big tree trunk slammed into the gate of the confinement with a mighty force. With just this blow, the front wall was shaking, and many archers of the Grey Squirrel Tribe were simply shaken to sit down.

Mechasta, who slipped and fell, felt that he had miscalculated again. Even if he blocked the gate with debris, as long as the enemy continued to hit, the gate might not be knocked open, but the entire wall was collapsed.

After all, the so-called fence of the Grey Squirrel Tribe, its core construction material, is the big tree trunk digging into the soil.

The Rus people started shouting horns and hitting the wooden door with a big tree trunk. Otto here has completely become the commander, and naturally he has also become the target of public criticism.

Fortunately, the four giant shields built a "turtle shell" for the siege troops. A large number of iron cluster arrows have been inserted into the shield, and the gray squirrel tribal warriors have not yet penetrated the armor of the Rus.

However, more than a dozen Ross warriors who tried to climb the wall via the ladder were injured and fell under the wall, hitting the corpse of the previous siege who had frozen to a lump of ice.

Seeing that the local gate has not been knocked open for a long time, seeing that his clansmen are being hurt early.

Rurik, who couldn't care less, decided to take a risk.

"Yavlo, take your brothers with me!"

Yevro was shocked: "My lord, it is only safe for us to shoot here."

"Shut up! Our safety is the danger to our brothers! Now I can't take care of that much anymore."

Yevro gritted his teeth and asked loudly, "What are you going to do?"

"We got close to the wall and shot those nasty turtledoves at close range."

"That's too dangerous."

"Shut up, I'm your master, follow my orders."

Yevlo had never seen his little master so decisive, even reckless. He did once suspect that the master lacked courage because of his excessive kindness. Perhaps he had become very brave after seeing the real battle formation.

What else can Yevlo do? You can only take your brothers to the front line of battle with a crossbow in hand.

Rurik felt that his position was enough, and his footsteps stopped.

"Right here! Hold the bow! Shoot!"

Together with Rurik himself, twenty crossbowmen launched a salvo at the target on the wall.

The recoil of the standing shot caused Rurik to back away sharply, sending everyone else's bodies quivering.

Twenty heavy crossbow arrows flew out, each of them was actually close to 200 grams, and their stored kinetic energy was amazing.

In this round of salvo, as many as ten Archers of the Grey Squirrel Tribe were shot and killed, and all fell.

Although Mechasta survived, he was stunned as a terrifying short arrow of iron cluster pierced through the wall of protection, and almost got hit himself.

Rurik felt that he had taken advantage: "Brothers, wind up."

After all, he threw his crossbow to Yevro.

Yevro stepped on the bow arms, and with his gloved hands, he used all his strength to wind the steel-arm crossbow, quickly installed the arrows, and handed it over to his master.

In nearly a minute, everyone was reloaded, and another twenty crossbow arrows were fired.

The new round of crossbow strikes stunned the archers who were supplemented to shoot on the city wall.

If the city wall Xianyu city gate is breached, today is the end of everyone. Tribal women began to carry bows up the city walls and continue to fight in place of men who died in battle.

A small figure climbed up the wooden ladder of the scaffolding. She was a girl with a short bow on her back and several arrows pinned to her waistband.

Seeing this, Mechasta was shocked: "Sepolava, go down and hide for me!"

"No, I have to fight too." The girl said stubbornly.

"Go back to me, you are too weak."

Yes, a seven or eight-year-old girl can only pull a hunting bow with difficulty, and it is extremely difficult to use it to hunt small animals.

The little girl Seporava still climbed up, but a new round of arrows launched by Rurik and his troops began to suppress again.

In a scuffle, the Rus will not be merciful just because it is a woman who holds a bow and shoots an arrow. Female archers began to suffer casualties.

The sawdust smashed by the crossbow arrow also shocked the little girl Serapova, who didn't know what war was at all. Her courage was completely destroyed, and she cried out in horror on the city wall.