king of ros

Chapter 286 River Fleet
I saw at the corner of the Volga River on the farther north, a fleet appeared at some point.

This fleet consisted of three large ships and dozens of small boats, all of which were equipped with arrow baffles, and were full of fully armed soldiers, looking murderous.

And the moment he saw it, the prince of Moscow immediately understood where the Bulgar River Defense Fleet that Adam had been missing was.

right here!

"Myshko, hurry up and carry out your mission, and tell Roberto to move his ballista, put rockets on me, and shoot at that fleet! Gevalan, immediately send troops to the river bank Be on the lookout for any possible landings! And, and, let my crossbowmen go to the shore right away..."

After the initial panic, Rostislav immediately reacted to the countermeasures, and he gave orders non-stop, mobilizing everyone around him.

And everyone didn't hesitate, and hurriedly carried out their tasks. Everyone knew that the situation had reached an important moment.

It's just that after doing all this, Rostislav's mood didn't improve at all, because he knew that the future was still undecided, and he even started to make mental preparations to give up those thousands of people.

But Adam must get it back. If it wasn’t for him, he wouldn’t even have the biggest banner to conquer Bulgar. So Rostislav exchanged for his personal captain Vasily, and gave him a task...

The appearance of the Bulgar fleet undoubtedly made Ross's side fall into a great shock. After all, if those big ships went down the river and broke the pontoon bridge, they would be cut off from their way back and could only be slaughtered on this sandbar. .

This caused many people to flee subconsciously, but Rostislav had already dealt with such a situation.

When these people ran to the other side of the river, they found that the prince's personal soldiers had arrived at some time, with swords in their hands.

And when the deserters are slaughtered, the crisis of collapse will naturally be resolved.

However, this can only be maintained for a while. If no solution to the Bulgar fleet can be thought of, the subsequent defeat is inevitable.

"Bastard! That bastard boy! How could he do this! How could he be like this!"

Just when the Ross people were in panic, in the command bunker of the Bulgar army, Akkad Khan was slapping the table angrily. The strong anger emanating from him made everyone in the bunker afraid to speak.

"The timing, the flow of water, and the form of the battlefield are all not enough, all are not enough, why did he attack without authorization!"

Akkad originally wanted to fight a happy battle of annihilation. Originally, in his plan, his troops would "retreat" and let the Ross people continue to go deep and continue to invest more troops, but now this hope is shattered. Impossible!
Now at most he will eliminate the thousands of people who have crossed the river, but what is the use of eliminating these thousands of people?It can't even reduce the number of troops on the other side to less than [-].

Akkad's mood now is similar to that when he discovered that the Kashin Silver Mine was flooded. When everything was settled, he suddenly found that the situation had changed drastically.

"Then Khan, shall we dispatch the main force immediately? At least this way we can wipe out all the Ross people who have crossed the river."

Regarding Jadby's suggestion, Akkad was silent for a while, and the next answer made Jadby stunned.

"No, let's see how the war develops first, and now we need to send some troops up to keep suppressing the Ross people."

While Akkad was angry at his son's unauthorized actions, a Bulgar warship was crushing a Russian boat on the Volga.

Seeing the big ship rushing, the archers on the small boat immediately jumped into the river, and then the small boat was overturned and crushed to pieces by the Bulgar warship.

But even if they jumped into the water, they could not escape death, because the arrows fell one after another the next moment, killing those who fell into the water.

The three Bulgar battleships that attacked were three galleys. Such ships are generally active in the Mediterranean Sea and are very rare in the north, but now they are active on the Volga River.

And here, it can completely dominate the entire battlefield situation. After all, the best ship of the Ross people is just a long ship. There are not many large ships, and it is difficult to fight against such warships.

These galleys still had rams, and now the target of these rams was the pontoon bridge on the Volga.

On the baffles and masts of the ship, the archers are pouring arrows towards the surroundings. Those unprotected Ross boats are very powerless against the arrows. After all, they don't even have a baffle that can be used, so they are fighting It's called falling into the water.

And the commander of the fleet, Selim Colin Dulu, looked at all this proudly, his young face was full of satisfaction and pride, after all, the Ross people were failing in front of him.

For many years, the young Selim has always wanted to prove himself, but unfortunately his father never gave him a chance, and now that he finally managed to lead the army alone, he naturally wanted to seize this opportunity.

When the battle situation was obviously in favor of Bulgar, he obviously couldn't do it anymore. He was afraid that the battle would end like this, and he was afraid that he would not have a chance to gain glory, so he chose to attack without authorization.

And when the Khan's son made such a decision, what can others say?No one can stop his actions at all.

So the fleet that was supposed to give the Ross people a fatal blow in the Akkad plan set off ahead of schedule.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! Let the slaves row faster."

Selim was wearing an extremely conspicuous armor, which was also inlaid with this jewel, and pulled gold and silver threads, and he was now giving orders to the captain with a black thread.

"Master Selim, our speed has reached the limit, the next step is really..."

Halfway through the captain's speech, he was interrupted by flying fire snakes. These fire snakes were fired from the ballista on the Rus' position on the west bank.

But unfortunately and fortunately, these rockets missed the three large ships, and most of them fell into the water. Only one shot hit a Bulgar longship and nailed a sailor, but the flames were quickly destroyed. off.

"...It is really difficult for us to accelerate."

The captain finished speaking next, but when he finished speaking, a burst of crossbow arrows shot like the wind, and some archers standing on the side of the ship fell down one after another.

Those corpses fell among the rowing slaves, and they were so frightened that they subconsciously stopped paddling, but the flying whips immediately made them continue to work.

Facing these deaths, Selim's face did not waver in the slightest, which made the captain feel better about the son of Khan who forced him to attack.

However, he also knew that this was more because he was sitting in a safe ship building, and it was unlikely that any arrows would hit here.

"Then wave the whip and let those slaves row desperately. The harder you swing the whip, the faster the slaves row. That's how it is done, captain, go and execute it!"

When Selim spoke, his eyes were all on the pontoon bridge, and his mind was full of the scene of him commanding the boat to smash through the pontoon bridge. At that time, the Ross people's way of retreat would be cut off. His achievements must be valued and honored.

Seeing the Khan's son, the captain knew that no matter what he said was meaningless, he could only carry out the order honestly.

The captain sighed silently, not because of slaves, rowing slaves have always been consumables.

It was because according to the current situation, it was really difficult to determine whether his ramming angle could break the pontoon bridge.

For this reason, the captain had already talked with the most experienced sailors on the ship, and everyone's opinion was that the collision between the collision and the collision may be completely half and half. At that time, we can only rely on Allah's blessing.

Walking out of the small ship building, the captain stood fearlessly in the air amidst the flying arrows. He hadn't seen such a scene for a long time, but he still had no fear in the face of all this.

He prayed silently in his heart, praying to Allah to grant them luck.

"The whips are all waving! Let those slaves row desperately, and the sails are also opened. Everyone is ready for the impact, we are going desperate!"

The crew sent out their battle cries to echo the captain's order. Many of them were old river pirates on the river, and they had their own enthusiasm for fighting. They couldn't wait to see those Ross people fall into the water scene.

And under this excited battle roar, is the wailing of the slaves under the whip. Facing the whip, they can only use all their strength to row desperately...

"God, there's absolutely nothing stopping them from going forward."

The Germanic engineer was standing next to a ballista. Just now he personally operated the ballista and shot the sail of a long ship. Soon the whole ship was plagued by spreading flames, and the sailors on it had to jump into the river one after another. .

There are also many small boats that were shot into sieves under the crossbow arrows, and the people on them either died or jumped into the river, but it is a pity that only these small boats became like this.

This did not make him much joy, because the Bulgarian fleet was still advancing, and they were still unstoppable.

In the eyes of the Germanic engineer, the galley under the wind and slave oars crashed into the pontoon bridge.

And what happened next was exactly what they didn't want to see. The leading galley crashed directly into the pontoon bridge, and those who hadn't had time to escape were thrown into the water, and there was a chorus of wailing and fear.

Now the Germanic engineer could only hope that his little tricks in designing the pontoon bridge would work.

Rostislav watched the blow to the pontoon, and he felt a convulsion in his heart. What he didn't want to see still happened.

"Rostislav..."

Polei's voice sounded behind him, and the Prince of Moscow understood what he was implying, but the Prince of Moscow was unwilling to accept it, and he did not want to accept it, so he pretended not to hear it at all.

He has never failed, and he can't fail!And he is also waiting for a result.

Seeing this, Polei could only sigh, he understood the young man's mentality and why he was like this.

But then, that scene surprised Polei very much.

Because after the leading ship passed, the other two galleys also hit it, and the pontoon bridge was indeed broken, but then the ship slowly stopped in the sea of ​​driftwood.

"Damn it, why can't I go?"

"Driftwood, there's so much driftwood we can't even paddle!"

"Why is there still a fishing net under the pontoon bridge, and the oars are all entangled!"

There was a panic on the Bulgar ship, and seeing the galley stop, the long ships behind also stopped.

Because they know very well that if they can't even rush through the galley, how can they rush over.

The archers and crossbowmen naturally seized this opportunity, and Roberto immediately commanded the ballista to shoot. Such a good opportunity should not be missed!Shooting static targets is easier than moving targets!
All of a sudden, the ships that were forced to stop were suppressed, and they could only hide behind the baffles to resist the fierce arrows.

But this is just the beginning of their nightmare.

"O Allah, they are climbing into the boat!"

Even though many people fell into the river, it didn't mean they lost their fighting power. The people on the pontoon bridge were all fierce nomads, and a few years of stable life could not erase their fighting power.

The tough man just put the weapon in his mouth, and then climbed onto the enemy ship. The Bulgars might be able to stab some people to death, but more people climbed up, and soon the battle began on the ship.

Seeing this scene in the bunker, Akkad felt like his brain was going to explode. The scene he didn't want to see still happened. Now he didn't even meet the minimum requirements, and fell into the predicament of being besieged instead!

"Let the trebuchet shoot at the sides of the pontoon bridge! Block the Ross for me!"

"But Khan, it's hard to say what effect it will have."

Immediately someone spoke to advise, it is really hard to say what is the use of doing so.

However, all the persuasion got was Khan's roar, "Just do it!"

"Yes!"

Hearing this, the man couldn't say anything more, and immediately went to execute the order.

At this time, Meshko led his men to the pontoon bridge, and then he saw the scene where the stones kept falling, and even saw a person being directly smashed by the stone, and the blood splashed on everyone.

Many parts of the pontoon bridge are also more and more broken under such attacks, but they are still passable anyway.

However, there are also accidental injuries. After all, it is difficult to guarantee the accuracy of things like trebuchets, so Meshko saw how the trebuchets accidentally injured his own people. A boulder directly hit the middle of a long ship, and the long ship The whole ship was split.

"This is too exciting, let's go!"

This did not frighten the Polish knight. After sighing slightly, he rushed forward with his subordinates, and he wanted to take down those warships now.

--------

　8000 more today, yesterday's owed more made up

　　
　
(End of this chapter)