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We are the descendants of the great war gods, and we ride in wooden boats to carry death in the sea storms, and throw thunder and lightning at every nation and every place. - Viking folk songs

In the songs sung by the Vikings, it can be seen that they made robbery a profession and brought death and terror to other peoples for fun.

In short, the Vikings were terrible sea raiders, who came and went as quickly as thunder and lightning, and the damage caused by their destruction was immense.

They have terrible traditions, the Vikings have been trained in all kinds of cruelty since childhood, they fought each other as children, they held competitions in adulthood, where the eternal theme of death was born.

The Vikings' iron-making craft has been inherited from ancient times, and they inherited the excellent iron-striking skills of the ancient Goliaths, their armor is very sophisticated, and it is terrifying, with large horns on their helmets, barbed spikes in the welds of their armor, and their faces are covered by deliberately crafted terrifying visors. When people wear such armor, they look like deformed monsters from a distance, and often cause great psychological pressure on their enemies.

Vikings would learn equestrian and fighting at a very young age, and began to learn mounted archery as soon as they walked to the arena.

Mounted archery is a Goliath tradition and a necessary course for the samurai. As a branch of the Snow Country, the Viking warriors rode tall horses and shot bows and arrows on horseback, although they did not move on horseback while shooting arrows, their archery skills on horseback were not as accurate as those under horses, and it was difficult to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy.

Their powerful longbow with a long range could not be used on horseback, but it still had a good effect, and javelins and arrows could disrupt the enemy's tight formation, but the enemy's bow and arrow could never penetrate their armor.

If the enemy's formation is disorganized, they will send out the few heavy cavalry to break through the enemy's formation, and even light cavalry will follow the assault. Then the infantry swooped out, smashing everything to pieces with their hammers or tomahawks.

Their horses and infantry were covered with a kind of silk armor that was sufficient to withstand arrows, a skill that was said to have been given to the Slavs when the Eastern cavalry invaded Europa, and which was later widely spread.

This silk armor is not fragile, it will trap the arrows inserted into the body, so that the arrows cannot penetrate into the flesh, so that the person hit by the arrow can pull the arrow out at once without causing much damage.

When the Vikings practiced equestrianism in the arena, they would participate in the game of polo together, which promoted the tacit understanding and affection between them, and also made the Viking cavalry much more disciplined than the warriors who fought on foot.

The Vikings lived on the peninsula in the northeastern part of the Abyssinian Empire, in the vast snowy alpine region north of the ice-free port of Yemen.

It was nominally a peninsular province under the jurisdiction of the Republic, but in reality the Republic had very little or no rule over many parts of the country, and the Vikings sometimes plundered the Republic's merchant ships.

When the parliament repeatedly asked Su Luo to eliminate the one million pirates in the Mediterranean as soon as possible, there were also people who proposed to exterminate the Vikings together, but now that the national strength of the republic is declining, many parliamentarians are unwilling to cause more trouble, so there are few responders.

(Mobs from Creek, Greece, Northern Apollo, and Sicily, who took over many islands, plundered all the ships, and demanded protection money.) They were especially numerous, with 200,000 pirates on the islands of Males, the largest of them, and they built fortresses and even cities on the islands, which were not exterminated in Roman times.

The Vikings did little damage to the Abyssinians, in the past they were indeed pirates, only at sea, at most landing on the coast to raid, never going deep, but now they often go deep into the interior of the empire, entirely because of the decay of the empire's coastal defenses, and the empire once built many strong fortresses along the coast, but a few decades ago, the Goliaths Sura Abi used the excuse of helping the Egyptians to rebel and mobilize troops to attack.

The fortresses there were attacked by the Goliath navy with artillery, and many of them collapsed, but the Empire's finances were never sufficient, due to the military district system, to build new fortified forts, so they could only build observation towers and send Samonian cavalry to patrol there.

Now, the Samonai have taken refuge in the invading Goliaths, and the empire is even more passive.

And the pirates became even more unscrupulous after clearly knowing the new enemy facing the empire.

The largest of them banded together, secretly built a large number of fortifications on the nearest islands and reefs to the empire, and then began to garrison their troops.

Sensing that the Imperial defenders were being drawn further north to engage the Goliaths, they quickly dispatched an army of nearly 100,000 rabbles of pirates who were fighting alone and were not afraid of death.

They had captured a large northern city and remained there, seemingly not intending to leave, and according to the news from the spies of the Empire, they seemed to have a bigger operation......

While almost all of Abyssinia's eastern provinces were threatened by pirates, the only provinces under Governor Apudullah were never attacked by pirates.

In addition to the fortresses on the bay, the army is strong. He was also loved by the inhabitants of the city because of the governor's generosity, and whenever the pirates prepared to attack the city, the inhabitants of the city would bring their own weapons to join his army, and the merchants of the city would volunteer to provide military expenses.

In addition, there were several large islands in the bay of the province that the governor had protected, and it was difficult for the large forces of the pirates to penetrate the bay with only a few soldiers.

It was not disturbed by raids, but the rest of the country was disturbed, and as a result, it became a center of trade for merchants going to sea and people from the interior of the empire, and it was extremely rich.

Governor Apdullah was so loyal to the king's orders that he sent his army north to fight the Goliaths, only to be overheard by the pirates who had entered in disguise......

The pirate leaders thought their chance had come, and when Abdullah caught a few pirates, he was well aware of his situation and was always on guard......

He first thought of the two things: "The Norman cavalry is powerful, be careful" and "Only cavalry can defeat the cavalry", and as for the Norman harassment at sea, the governor always attached great importance to the coastal defense of his province, and he did not have to fear the Normans' sea mobility as other governors.

The Norman cavalry feared him because he had seen how the Samonai archers were lured and wiped out by the Norman heavy cavalry and longbowmen, and he was most impressed by the silk armor on which the Normans rode their horses, which were difficult to penetrate with arrows.

At that time, no one could have imagined that the "wall offensive" of the Norman cavalry, which had been ridiculed for its lack of tactics, would inflict heavy losses on the previously invincible archers.

When the Norman longbowmen defeated the Samonai with their bows and arrows, the Imperial knights present were even more distressed, and they were repeatedly harassed by the Samonai until they could not do anything, but the pirates taught them a lesson.

The reason for the defeat of the Samonai by the pirates, the governor carefully analyzed.

The Samonai would overwhelm the enemy with a numerical superiority, quickly retreat after being fed with arrows, and then attack again, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy.

Two factors allowed them to practice these tactics: First, the Samonai were natural riders, and their mounts were shrewd and reliable. They are able to get close to the enemy and run away without fear of being pursued by the enemy.

Second, they can fire ten arrows a minute, and they are very accurate. The unfortunate Arrowmen called the rain "bloody hospitality."

Even if they didn't charge the enemy hard, their powerful archery skills were enough to cripple the enemy's horses and mobility.

However, in the face of the mobility of the Samonai, the Vikings could also retreat from the sea, and in addition, they did not need to defend anything, they could also fight and run, unlike the soldiers of the Empire, who had to defend the city and could not gather superior forces.

In addition, the Normans could be supplied on the spot, just like the Samonai. They get everything from the civilians of the Empire, including the women who make it possible for soldiers to fight in peace.

Although the Norman infantry has always been an undisciplined, brute rabble, their cavalry is very disciplined, which is one of the biggest reasons why they were able to defeat the Samoneans, they were able to maintain absolute order during and after the charge, making it impossible for the Samoneans to take advantage of their confusion to launch a sudden charge.

They can also mimic the Samonai "bee and ant tactics", which are aimed at the flanks of the enemy's formation or concentrated attacks in the rear of vulnerable areas.

The Governor believed that the Normans, like the Samones, had the advantage of movement warfare, so the Governor decided to deal with the Normans with a lightning defense, and did not open the gates of the city to pursue no matter what happened.

Norman warships began to appear in the bay......

The Governor knew that what was supposed to happen would come.

He recruited forces from the city to strengthen the defense of the bay, and even some mages from the south, out of hatred for the Normans, joined in for free.

He also recruited a large number of mercenaries into the army, of course, the leaders of those greedy mercenary groups will not do anything for free, according to their words, "Even if a woman sells her body, it is worth a price, not to mention that we are selling our lives." ”

The governor paid them handsomely, promising to reward them if they could kill more Normans.

Contrary to the importance of the Normans in the viceroyalty, the Vikings were always contemptuous of the Hebrews.

The Imperial army gave them only one impression - although most of them were not afraid of death, they were very incapable of fighting. The will to fight is tenacious, but the physical strength is not exhausted. The courage of the battle was commendable, but the tactics were chaotic, and the Hebrew commanders did not seem to have mastered the ways of war at all. It was well equipped, but could not be maintained, so much so that the pirates threw all the weapons and equipment of the captured Imperial soldiers into the sea.

The soldiers of the Empire were well disciplined, but they often fell victim to incompetent logistics and mobility.

Sometimes the pirates don't need to fight them at all, as long as they continue to quickly assemble and board ships before the Imperial soldiers arrive, from the sea to the next city, the Imperial soldiers can only keep slowly chasing them on land, and in the process of pursuit, the pirates will constantly harass them, so that they can't rest at night, and even burn the little food they carry at night, and they themselves will eventually collapse.

Therefore, the pirates, who were confident of defeating their opponents, were astonishingly fast, and in just a few days their forces were assembled from dozens of strongholds - they gathered from dozens of dens on hundreds of islands near the peninsula, ranging from large to small, some with only a few hundred men, and some with tens of thousands of pirates.

There were about 200,000 pirates in the city, including 80,000 pirates who attacked the bay protected by Governor Abdullah, and were the main force of the pirates.

At the same time as the main force of the pirates departed, the remaining 100,000 pirates entrenched in the city had already begun to build prisoner of war camps, which shows that they had not yet won a single battle related to the governor, and they already had the confidence that they would defeat the Hebrew governor.

It is no wonder that they are so contemptuous, in fact, after facing the resistance organized by any imperial governor, they are completely unable to connect the powerful enemy with the Hebrew nation, and with the empire that is not far from death.

These pirates usually raid each other, but at this moment they show a great tacit understanding, they gather together, and they are not noisy, and the alliance they form seems to be unable to disintegrate internally, and as the imperial general who oversees the war this time, it is obviously clear.

"On the sea, there are almost as many ships as there are fish. The Viking commanders smirked.

The next day, more than 30,000 pirates began an attack on several islands outside the bay, and after paying a heavy price, they succeeded in capturing them.

Subsequently, the pirates also managed to use those islands as a springboard to break into the outermost defense line of the defenders in the bay and capture several fortresses.

The outlying positions of the Imperial defenders at Sibrus Heights and elsewhere were also captured.

However, before they could rejoice, they were soon driven out to sea by a fierce counterattack organized by the Imperial army, and then the outermost islands were recaptured by the Imperial defenders, and the pirates retreated by boat.

That night, the pirates discussed on board the ship and decided to continue the onslaught the next day, recapture the outermost islands of the bay defense, and restore the observation base they had set up on the highest part of the island, so that they could observe the movement in the direction of the fortress at any time.

In the middle of the night the day before the pirates landed in the bay, the Imperial Guard sent sixty elite officers and men to the high ground on the outer islands, secretly set up observation posts at night, and set up several temporary fortifications, stockpiled a large number of weapons and horses, as well as food and fresh water to last ten days.

They are going to deal with the pirates for a while, and by the way, they will probe the imaginary reality of the pirates.

Before dawn, the pirate cavalry was surprised to find this sudden defensive position, and they found it very difficult.

If the pirates wanted to take the city, they would have to make all of the Empire's resistance in the region disappear.

In the same way, if the pirates want to destroy all the resistance of the Empire in this area, they must occupy all the commanding heights.

This was to keep the Imperial army in the dark in case the defenders of the Empire did not surrender after being defeated, but instead engaged in guerrilla warfare to secretly attack and harass them.

However, the existence of the observation posts set up by the elite officers and soldiers of the empire will make the pirates have nothing to hide in the first place, and their every move will be controlled.

At dawn, the pirates sent two squadrons of troops to launch a sneak attack in the dark.

Due to the high mountain and steep road, these pirates were suddenly subjected to fierce and dense net-like fire, and because they could not distinguish the position of the other party, they had to send several small detachments of twenty people to detour back to the southeast foot of the position on one side to search, and the rest of the pirates scattered and continued to advance towards the defensive positions of the imperial defenders.

Later, the pirate was again under heavy fire and had to lie down on the spot and observe the surrounding terrain.

At this moment, the pirates and the imperial defenders noticed at the same time - the sky was slightly white!

The visibility of the Haikou had reached a distance of twenty or thirty meters, and finally the exact location of the fortifications built by the imperial defenders was discovered, and they quickly rushed up, and under the cover of the fire of the vanguard detachment, the brigade continued to approach the position.

In the heat of fire, Squadron Leader Si Ivars was killed, and a crossbow arrow pierced his skull, splitting his head in two, one of which was taken away by the bolt that hit him.

The blood didn't make the pirates flinch or fear, on the contrary, they became more excited.

Replacing the commander of the fallen was his confidant Si Halssu, who was killed by dozens of arrows when he rushed twenty meters from the front of the apparently improvised but exceptionally complete fortification, and before he died, he tried to use his chest to fend off his companions behind him, but this idea naturally failed.

When the sky was brighter, the pirates were only about fifteen meters away from the defenders' positions, charging from the nearly vertical cliffs.

The soldiers stationed there still fiercely resisted, and many of the pirates were hit and rolled down into the roaring sea under the cliff.

This forced them to change their tactics at a later stage, drawing the attention of the defenders with a large force onslaught on the eastern flank of the heights, while sending soldiers to climb the tall raised boulders and shoot down the defenders' heads.

Then, the pirates sent a death squad to climb the cliff and concentrated several high-quality archers to block the defenders in the direction of the cliff.

The battle continued until several hours later, when large forces of the pirates concentrated on the reef below the mountain and fired at the defenders on the mountain.

After more than a whisper, all the defenders were killed, and the pirates occupied the area.

After another half an hour, the pirates captured all the high ground in this area, captured fifteen defenders, and captured a large number of pickled fish.

Then the victorious pirates gathered the corpses of both sides, and about 100 pirates fell here forever.

On that day, about 100 defenders attacked from the front and flanks of the Haikou's unsecured position in two directions.

The pirate assaulters, who were inspecting and enjoying the sea breeze at the corner of the mountain, hurriedly ordered their troops to retreat to the top of the mountain to hold on.

A logistics squad of the defenders, carrying two ballistae under the cover of a pair of heavy cavalry and infantry, crossed the sea from the direction of the fortress over two newly repaired pontoon bridges to the island.

Under the cover of the infantry, they set up their ballistas and fired fiercely at the top of the hill in all directions.

At this time, the heavy cavalry began to charge violently under the cover of ballistas. The pirates' archers were now overwhelmed by the ballistas, and the pirates' mounted archers were forced to travel far away in an attempt to attack the Imperial soldiers from behind.

However, the heavy cavalry did not care about anything else, and pursued them closely.

The cavalry archers kept turning their backs and firing their bows and arrows, but their bows and arrows were unlikely to inflict too many casualties on the heavy cavalry.

As for the heavy cavalry, they braved the arrows to attack the archers of the pirates, and in the following hand-to-hand combat, they found that they were not as powerful as they imagined. Yes, they caught up with the pirates, whose light cavalry ran no faster than the Empire's heavy cavalry due to the high mountains and wooded areas.

Fierce hand-to-hand combat resulted in heavy casualties among the pirates' archers, and a number of heavily armored pirate warriors who fell from their horses were killed.

The coars' melee abilities were no match for the best knights of the Empire, and they were utterly defeated in the contest between samurai and knights.

However, the knights who rushed up the mountain were eventually repulsed by the pirates, who were less powerful and joined up with the newly reinforced Imperial defenders.

The defenders' ballistae continued to fire for three hours, during which time they cut down trees to fire their ballistas, which could turn their thick trunks into terrifying weapons.

At this time, the newly reinforced defenders also began to fire ballista bombardment at the Haikou on the mountain, but due to the long distance, the casualties of the Haikou were not small.

Twenty minutes later the defenders stopped their attack.

On that day, the commander of the pirates boldly believed that the enemy might attack that night, so he sent a squad of infantry warriors and a squad of longbowmen to support the pirates on the island.

During the night, the defenders brought in priests to light up the night and began to bombard the hill violently.

It lasted until dawn, and then he moved around the mountain with his ballista drawn by horse-drawn ballistas, and set up a shooting base in one place there, and began to shoot wildly.

The raiders sent by the pirates found at least one hundred and fifty enemies on the other side of the hill on the front line, and they were slowly approaching.

It turned out that there were more than 300 soldiers behind the vanguard knight force sent by the empire, and the soldiers suddenly attacked the fortress built by the pirates on the mountain from the back of the island in three ways.

The pirates sent a team of samurai on horseback to quietly block the path to the top of the mountain. When the Imperial reinforcements reached about a hundred meters from the Haikou position, the Haikou suddenly began to shoot, and the reinforcements immediately dispersed and returned fire.

Soon, another Imperial army attacked to the left side of the Haikou mountainside position, and quickly rushed to five or six meters in front of the Haikou position, but was blocked by the Haikou's Qiqi, and this army was in a big confusion and retreated.

The Imperial reinforcements then retreated after fifteen minutes of storming. At this time, there was still fierce fighting on the front of the position.

The fierce battle continued until reinforcements from the Haikou arrived, and the Imperial reinforcements began to retreat to the starting point in front of the mountain and return to the fortress by warship.

That night, the pirates reinforced their forces on the hill and sent outposts to guard the direction of the coastal fortress against another night attack by the Imperial defenders.

The main force of the pirate army soon landed on the island one after another, and captured all the outlying fortresses, including those that had been lost earlier, but they knew that behind the fortress, the real defense was a long wall, a long wall that had been built by the governor for nearly a decade.

The Captains of the Sea Bandits gasped as they looked at the towering wall, feeling that they could not take this place without paying terrible casualties.

As they expected, when they crossed this long wall, the pirates paid more casualties than they had before, and there were more than a thousand people in just one day.

The Hebrews resisted fiercely, and they seemed to have improved their bows and arrows to nearly twice the range of their arrows, much to the bitterness of the pirates.

At this time, the Haikou's arrows could not penetrate the armor of the Hebrews, which seemed to be equipment from the Republic, the black armor of the samurai......

Here, the Hebrews organized a more stubborn and effective resistance than anywhere before, and their armies used this long stone wall as a cover to constantly repel the attacks of the pirates and to organize counter-charges.

One of the most successful Hebrew counterattacks was the sinking of the Bandit's flagship, killing the Bandrate commander, and the ensuing fierce engagement resulted in the death of many more Bandar commanders.

The fierce battle lasted for more than 20 days, and the pirates had lost more than a quarter, but they still could not break through the long wall.

At this time, Haikou's stockpile of food, grass and weapons had been basically depleted, and at this time they were in a dilemma, retreating was a huge failure, and advancing could not move forward.

It was at this time that rumors of the imminent arrival of Hebrew reinforcements began to appear, and as a last resort, the pirates finally decided to withdraw......

By the time less than 50,000 pirates entered their starting point, the prisoner of war camp had just been completed.