king of ros

Chapter 285 Landing and Fighting
As the sun shines on the earth, the war also kicked off.

The west bank is already filled with all kinds of fortifications, most of which are arrow-proof baffles. Archers wait behind these baffles and shoot arrows at the opposite side, and the other side returns arrows from time to time.

As for those outside the enemy's range, there are rows of soldiers waiting in line, waiting for the order to attack.

On the Volga, the construction of the pontoon bridge has reached its final stage, and the strong men are laying planks on the series of boats.

The Russians built five pontoon bridges at the same time to project the troops to the greatest extent.

A shower of arrows fell, and several people without armor protection fell into the water immediately. As for the others, they quickly hid, and those supervisors were not afraid at all, because their armor was enough to block these arrows.

The Ross warship on the river quickly fired some arrows, but most of them fell on the baffle or the ground. After all, the Bulgars did a good job of defense and concealment.

Bulgar's main force basically hid behind the sandbar where the Ross people could not see it, and they would rush out as soon as they were ordered, and the sandbar would be stained red with blood.

As for the side of the pontoon bridge, those young men immediately continued to work under the scolding of the supervisors in armor around them.

They even killed a few people to stand up. These people were all strong men drawn from the Bulgar village, and they didn't care about the lives of these people.

Finally, as the pontoon bridge was erected over the shallows of the sandbar, the onslaught began.

The Muscovite prince and his generals were located on a small slope on the west bank, where an earthen platform was built to facilitate Rostislav's observation of the battlefield.

At the moment when the pontoon bridge was completed, the flag bearer next to Rostislav raised a flag with the Virgin Mary painted on it. The meaning of this flag is very simple, impact.

As one of the commanders of the first wave of shock troops, Adam still had to be very nervous inside, but his expression remained stable on the surface.

Allaire taught him many things, the most important of which is to hide your emotions and not let the enemy see your weakness.

He put a chain veil over his face, covering his pretty face, and he did not fly a flag to indicate his location, which was a suggestion from Rostislav, after all, he still couldn't rashly show his location.

"go ahead!"

At the same time, the order sounded among the troops preparing to charge, and then they began to charge.

Each pontoon bridge has its own troops in charge, Adam's Bulgars are in charge of one road, the two nomad leaders Varu and John Sokal are in charge of one road, and the other two roads are handed over to Rostov and Yaro. Slavic troops.

These soldiers, either simple or well-equipped, began to pass through the pontoon bridge at the same time.

All of a sudden, thousands of people mobilized and ran at the same time, and the ground under their feet was still kicked up with dust, and the scenery was spectacular.

On the sandbar on the east bank, the Bulgars were also active, but many of the archers who had been shooting against the Ross on the river beach had retreated.

This scene made the soldiers who were on the attack cheer up, look, their enemies retreated directly under their might!

It's just that the next moment, the heavy rain of arrows was sprinkled on the army passing the pontoon bridge. At this moment, whether there was armor or not immediately determined the fate of many people. The armor either bounced off the armor or bit into it fiercely. In flesh and blood.

The landing points of the arrows were all accurate, all in the middle of the pontoon bridge. Rostislav was not surprised by this. Since the exchange of battles during this period, the people of Akkad must have figured out the landing points of various shots. .

At that moment, many people either actively or passively fell into the water, and the screams and calls for help rang out at that time, but this did not affect the impact of Ross's army at all. Everyone knew that the faster they rushed, the less they would die. under the arrow.

Soon, the nomadic cavalry arrived on the sandbar, and the infantry soon followed. They followed the order, took advantage of the obstacles on the beach and began to hold on, controlling the bridgehead so that the follow-up troops could arrive.

Akkad, the commander of the Bulgar Army, naturally also watched all this. He was hiding in a more concealed bunker on the top of the sandbar, where he could overlook the entire landing site.

Akkad understood that the Russians could not just consolidate the landing field, and the Bulgar Khan immediately issued an order.

Also as the flag was erected, the hidden Bulgar cavalry moved immediately, and they crossed from the sandbar behind the sandbar.

The ones rushing to the front are all lightly armed nomadic cavalry, which are mercenaries that Akkad has invited from the grassland over the years, while behind are teams of Bulgarian heavy cavalry, and finally they were conscripted. Bulgar infantry.

The Bulgars came with fierce power, and began to fight with the Ross who had just gained a foothold on the other bank.

Allah's cavalry first relied on horsepower and ruthlessly crashed into the ranks of the Ross people.

These guys are extremely crazy, and they don't care about the risk of doing so. Even if they drag themselves to death, they have to break through the Ross's defense.

Immediately, the sounds of crashes, bone cracks, and screams rang out, and the landing site had turned into a slaughter field. The battle line of the Rus was shattered, and the Bulgars came in.

It's just that the Ross people are still coming here through the pontoon bridge in a steady stream, and these continuous reinforcements have stabilized the situation.

"Forward! Fight for our prince! Kill these heretics!"

The Rus warriors fought bravely against the Bulgars under a rain of arrows, and death was everywhere.

Rostislav saw a Bulgar knight smash the head of a spearman before he was dragged down by the infantry and cut his throat to death.

But not all places fell into such an embarrassing situation. For example, on the two pontoon bridges in charge of the two groups of nomadic cavalry, they were caught in a melee with the incoming enemies.

These nomadic cavalry have changed a lot from when they first came to Northeast Rusti. Many people are now equipped with armor. The agricultural life and the sale of livestock over the years have allowed them to arm themselves with something.

John Sokal was very enthusiastic about fighting among the crowd. The nomadic chief had always been very grateful for Rostislav's shelter.

Moreover, the stable life of Northeast Ross in the past few years has made the tribe rich and prosperous, but it is a pity that he has never had any chance to repay Rostislav on the battlefield.

Therefore, for this conquest, he not only brought most of the men who could fight in the tribe, but he also swore in front of everyone that he must make great achievements in this war and make the prince look up to him.

So John Sokal charged desperately, his skillful scimitar combat skills made one after another blockers fall in front of him.

Even if it is a fully armed person, the chief will soon find the weakness of the armor, and then in the shattering of the iron ring or the iron plate, the life will be mercilessly harvested.

And his fighting has boosted the morale of the tribesmen under his command. They followed the chief to fight more and more violently. These tribesmen have not fallen into the training of martial arts over the years, which is mainly due to their chief.

So in a scene of either holding on or retreating, John Sokal's department beat the Bulgars back steadily.

Another nomadic chief, Varu, looked at all this and couldn't help but feel a little jealous.

He also wanted to gallop on the battlefield so bravely, just like those scuffles on the grassland for the survival of the tribe back then, like every son of the grassland.

But now he is surrounded by layers of guards from the tribe, and he is also dressed like a tin can, while that kid Sokal went into battle wearing a lock shirt.

Varu is afraid of the battlefield now, and now that he is rich, his courage has shrunk due to his increasingly superior life over the years, and he has not experienced the fight in front of him for many years.

He didn't know when the soldiers around him were already full. In the past, he would not flinch when facing a battle alone.

Moreover, Varu didn't even notice that his hands were still trembling slightly in the face of these fights, which was a scene that never existed in the past.

Now rather than fighting on the battlefield, he prefers to fight verbally with those Ross nobles.

These struggles were milder and less bloody.

And in this way, he also paid the price. His subordinates were already filled with a large number of tribes that were forcibly forced in, and in the past he could only barely subdue them.

But now these tribes can be said to have almost lost his authority as the lord, attacking and killing each other on their own.

For this reason, Varu has been reprimanded by Moscow several times, all of which are reports about the robbery of his nomads, and Varu has been difficult to solve this problem. If he just came to Northeast Ross, he would have taken his tribe to Let the rioters slaughter the entire clan.

"This kid is too reckless. If he rushes so fiercely, he will be finished sooner or later. The enemies are too many and too strong. At this time, you should stick to it, and the order is also to stick to it."

Varu muttered in a low voice, he didn't say this because he was worried about his comrades in arms, but he hoped that this kid would go to death as he said.

After all, only in this way can he prove the "correctness" of his fear of the battlefield and Sokal's "stupidity".

When he was thinking about it, suddenly, Varu saw a small stone tower built of stones beside his horse's hoof, with red paint painted on it.

This aroused Varu's interest. He didn't notice this thing at all before. What is this for?
Just when the nomadic chief was curious, he suddenly heard a sharp scream from the air. The scream made the chief raise his head involuntarily. Curiosity flashed in his eyes. Why is there a scream coming from the sky?

With such doubts, Varu saw a man with a face full of despair throwing at him from the air. Seeing this, Varu was stunned, and just before his brain reacted and wanted to run away immediately At that time, the "trapeze" had already smashed down.

"Hahahahaha, Judby, did you see that scene? Did you see the scene where the Ross was killed by a traitor? I laughed so hard."

In the bunker on the ridgeline of the sandbar, Akkad laughed happily watching that scene. As for why he called Varu a Ross, it was because this guy and the guards around him were completely wearing Ross-style armor. Take this man for a Ross.

"It's all because of your correct instructions, Khan."

The young man whom Akkad called Jadby said humbly, he couldn't see that the idea of ​​using a small stone tower to mark the location of the trebuchet came from him.

Moreover, even though Jadbi was wearing armor, he had a very heavy scholarly aura, but this was also in line with his origin. He came from a religious academy in Bulgar and was promoted by Akkad in recent years of war.

"Keep projecting, don't stop, throw those traitors out, and then throw stones, make me sick and sick of the Ross people."

Akkad excitedly gave the order, and with his excited shout, the work of the trebuchet started violently.

"Khan, your son sent a letter and wants to be dispatched, don't you think so?"

Jadby didn't leave the bunker, but said another thing to Khan, and Khan just said it without hesitation.

"Tell him to wait patiently. How many troops has Ross dispatched now? And the water flow is not fast enough. Now is not the time to launch that attack."

"Yes."

But at this moment, a little worry flashed across Judby's face, but he quickly suppressed it. Sometimes it has nothing to do with him, just do his job well

Just when Akkad was commanding the troops in high spirits, on the landing field, as Varu was killed by the thrown people, the troops along the way were also in trouble.

"Varu is dead? Was he crushed to death by someone falling from the sky?"

Rostislav was stunned when he got the news, but the confusion in Varu's troops was real.

These nomads either rushed into the enemy's line without thinking, or retreated along the pontoon bridge, and then got stuck with the soldiers crossing the river.

The "trapeze" and stones that continued to fall undoubtedly exacerbated the chaos.

Since Varu's army was the northernmost pontoon bridge, Rostislav could see it very clearly. The prince of Moscow also saw a round of arrows raining on the crowded queue, and it is unknown how many people died under the bows and arrows.

"Damn, the situation has to be reversed."

Although it was said that it was only in chaos along the way, Rostislav knew that if the chaos was not suppressed, then this would undoubtedly tilt the balance of victory towards the enemy.

He needs a brave cavalry general, and now Rostislav wants Yang very much. He is here, and if Yang is with him, he will definitely let him charge.

But soon, he thought that there was still one person in his queue who was enough to complete this task.

"Myshko, let Meshko come here."

Under the prince's order, the Polish knight came and knelt before him, but Rostislav didn't say much, but pointed to the battlefield with his finger holding the whip.

"I need you to clean up over there. You can choose some troops. As for those who stand in the way, you can kill them. Do you have any questions?"

"Of course not, my lord Rostislav."

Myshko's answer was firm and crisp, as if it was just going to his house to get something, rather than going to fight on the battlefield.

At the very moment when Myshko answered the order, there was a panic-filled uproar behind Rostislav.

And amidst the commotion Rostislav heard a sentence that made his hairs stand on end.

"Boat! There's a boat!"

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(End of this chapter)