Vikings: Nordic women

Chapter 34: Prepare for a Ship Burial

The use of spears and javelins is strictly prohibited, and there is a huge difference in the degree of injury caused by cutting and stabbing.

Under the medical conditions of that era, being stabbed in the torso was almost a death sentence.

It is for this reason that Ouni resolutely forbids the use of javelins.

Ralph stood in the center of the arena, his mouth dry and his heart beating so hard it looked like it would jump out of his chest at any moment.

He took a deep breath, and it seemed as if a violent force was injected into his body, his muscles tensed and filled with desire to fight.

However, this excitement and anger also caused him to have an illusion. Everything in front of him became blurred and his body began to tremble involuntarily.

"The duel begins!"

Following Robert's order, Ralph's opponents looked at each other, quickly dispersed from all directions, formed a circle, and launched an attack on him.

Ouni frowned. There were obvious mistakes in the tactics of Jurgen and others. They did not make full use of their advantage in numbers.

They should be lined up side by side so that whichever one Ralph attacks he will be attacked by the others at the same time.

Ralph's eyes quickly scanned left and right, locking onto Jurgen, who was the most hostile.

He roared, his footsteps created a cloud of dust, and he rushed towards the other party like a mad brown bear.

Jurgen was not to be outdone, he ran forward swinging an axe to meet Ralph's challenge.

"Bang!" The two men collided violently, and their shields collided fiercely.

Jurgen felt his fingers trembling, as if he had run head-on into a mad bull, and was knocked back three steps.

At the moment when Jurgen raised his weapon to fight back, Ralph moved faster with the help of his strength, while Jurgen's heavy armor limited his flexibility, making him half a beat slower than Ralph in the confrontation.

Seeing a powerful axe coming towards his head, Jurgen quickly used his shield to protect his head.

However, he suddenly felt a huge force coming, and the axe penetrated the wooden shield and chopped into his wrist.

impossible!
Jurgen's pupils shrank, his arm went numb, blood flowed down his wrist, and the severe pain caused him to drop the shield from his hand.

The axe in his hand was also stuck on Ralph's shield on the left side due to inertia.

Before the blood on Jurgen's wrist dripped onto the ground, Ralph took the opportunity to swing the second axe, and the shield stuck on the axe head smashed into Jurgen's face under the huge force.

The shield shattered into pieces under the violent impact, Jurgen's helmet was dented, one of his eyes was blinded, and he lost consciousness instantly and fell to the ground.

Ou Ni leaned forward, secretly admiring the excitement of this battle.

At the same time, she made up her mind that unless it was absolutely necessary, she would never go into battle herself, and it would be safer to stay behind.

"Ralph! Ralph!" The audience cheered, applauding Ralph's first knockout.

However, at this moment, two enemies took the opportunity to attack from behind, and two axes chopped towards Ralph. Before he could turn around, he was hit.

But he seemed to be fine and didn't care at all.

Ouni's hands were sweating as she looked at the enemies surrounding her from all directions.

The encirclement has been formed, and if Ralph is surrounded, he will be attacked by six weapons at the same time.

Ralph turned around and swung his axe wildly, knocking off a warrior's helmet, and the warrior fainted peacefully immediately.

The other warrior saw that Ralph was still unharmed after being hit by two axes, and his eyes were filled with horror. He was confused and said, "Woden..."

Before he could finish his words, Ralph's axe was coming towards his head, and he tried to use his shield to block Ralph's attack on his skull.

However, with a loud "bang", the axe easily shattered the shield, and the axe blade directly penetrated the helmet, causing fatal damage.

His head tilted and he fell to the ground with his eyes still wide open with fear and disbelief.

"Madam, do you think it would be better to let the Berserker use a two-handed axe?" the high priest chatted with Eunice.

Ouni shook her head and replied, "That would probably kill more of his companions, and no one would be able to get close to him."

The high priest's question seemed ridiculous to her. In a normal battlefield, heavy two-handed weapons were not allowed to be used, as doing so would only kill companions.

The battle is still raging.

Ralph was covered in wounds, but he seemed fine. Under the siege of three female warriors and two riders, he traded injuries for theirs and tried his best to chop them down one by one.

Real battles are often clean and neat, unlike the dramatic scenes in movies where one side fights back and forth for 300 rounds.

Although the viewing experience does not lie in the thrilling process of coming and going, the visual impact is definitely the strongest.

However, this also caused Ralph's body to be covered with seven or eight deep wounds that opened up his flesh, and his injuries were serious. After Ralph chopped down the enemy in the field, he did not stop, but rushed towards the crowd, trying to attack everyone he could see.

He had completely lost his mind and was consumed by rage.

The onlookers noticed something was wrong and started to riot. They pushed and shoved their way back, and three or four of them were hacked down by Ralph.

"Shield wall! Squeeze him layer by layer to control him!" Robert was shocked when he saw this and immediately ordered his men to besiege Ralph.

The warriors pressed forward in layers, using their shields to suppress Ralph's steps.

Ralph went crazy under the pressure of the shield wall, but he was squeezed so hard that he didn't even have the space to raise his arms.

He was so oppressed that he could hardly breathe.

"Hold him down and carry him to the blacksmith shop!" Ou Ni immediately ordered the shield formation to be withdrawn, and at the same time stood up and walked towards the blacksmith shop.

She hoped to be able to tend to Ralph's wound before his excitement wore off.

The warriors quickly grabbed Ralph, lifted him above their heads, and ran towards the blacksmith shop.

Arriving at the blacksmith shop, Ouni walked through the crowd of onlookers, looked at Ralph's still heaving chest, and laughed: "Congratulations on your victory!"

Hina and others hurried forward to help, assisting Ouni and handing her the red-hot sword and axe blanks.

As thick smoke like barbecue and the sound of sizzling oil rose, Ralph, who was stripped and held down, convulsed all over.

It was a cruel process, but in this era, both Christian priests and polytheistic priests often treated soldiers' wounds in such a direct way.

Soldering iron hemostasis is a method of stopping bleeding by shrinking and sealing the broken ends of blood vessels through high temperature.

Although this method is crude, it was the most effective method in an era without modern medical conditions.

Ralph could still feel some slight pain under the effect of the potion, but it was so slight that he did not scream or anything like that.

Ounnie looked at Ralph's wounds that were stuck together from being burned, threw the red-hot sword blank into the quenching oil barrel, and breathed a sigh of relief.

The injured rider and female warrior who met her eyes shuddered. Such a simple and rough way of treatment was simply treating people like animals.

But everyone has to admit that this is indeed the most effective and fastest way to stop bleeding.

In combat emergency treatment, such extreme measures are sometimes necessary. If such medical means were available at the edge of the battlefield, many people would obviously be spared.

She turned to look at the other three men and two women who were lucky enough to survive after being defeated by Ralph and were carried here, as well as the onlookers who were injured by the mad Ralph.

She treated everyone equally and ordered Sheena and others to drive away the onlookers, leaving only those who subdued Ralph. Sheena and others stripped them all naked and checked their wounds.

She used the same trick again, ordering her men to hold one of them down and prepare to use a branding iron to stop the bleeding.

"Get ready, I'll count to three and then you can get your hair permed!" said Ou Ni.

"Okay...ahhh..." Before the man could react, the branding iron had already fallen, and he almost got a stitch in the side due to the pain.

The man squeezed his facial features almost into a pile in pain, his eyes rolled back, his lips trembled, and his mouth was unclear, as if he was complaining about Eunnie's sudden attack, but she did not stop what she was doing.

She used a soldering iron to melt the wound to stop the bleeding, and she did it deliberately by surprise. She didn't expect that someone would die on the spot because they couldn't bear the burns.

She observed a second of silence and immediately replaced the patient, thinking that no one would dare to cause trouble for her medical treatment.

During this period, these people were constantly awakened by the burns, screaming and begging for mercy, but Ou Ni ignored them all. Survival was more important than anything else.

Although she had gentler ways of dealing with it, she didn't want to do that.

She would not sew up the wound bit by bit with a needle and thread like a surgeon, because in the process of sew up the wound, it is very likely that due to technical problems, the patient would bleed to death.

It is unknown whether these people have internal injuries or whether they can survive. We can only do our best and leave the rest to fate.

If the internal organs are injured, the probability of survival is very low even under the medical conditions of later generations, let alone now.

Ouni had someone pick the freshest Eberwaldz root, which contains a variety of phytochemicals with antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects.

She crushed the Eberwaltz root and applied it to the burns.

It was still unclear whether Ralph was alive or dead after losing too much blood, but O'Neal felt that he was probably dead, as no one could survive after losing so much blood.

"Prepare for a ship burial! If he's not dead, let the high priest come and take him away!" Ounnie looked at Si Zhou's expectant eyes, washed her hands, and directly gave Ralph a death notice.

How to appease the families of the two Yars who dared not come is a big problem. It would be good if Ralph died, but if he didn't die, it might turn into a rebellion.

Anyway, if it were her, no matter what the result of the duel was, she would definitely kill Ralph. She didn't think anyone else would be more noble than her. Now she could only wait and see if Ralph would die.

(End of this chapter)