Chapter 647: The Last Viking of Northern Europe
Suddenly, the sound of a sharp blade entering his body sounded, Lynch's body shook, "Uh-huh......" He let out a dull scream and then couldn't make a sound, the Vikings frowned and widened their eyes, and lowered their heads in disbelief and looked at their feet.
Under the bridge, Leocrieve pulled his bloody spear off the plank. Through the holes in the planks, the Berserker leader saw Leocliffe's wide-eyed eyes and emaciated figure as he climbed on the wooden frame beneath the bridge, and his own blood fell to the bridge in drops.
Unexpectedly, the Berserker leader, who had not expected to be killed by such a thin sparrow, stabbed his long axe on the bridge deck, trying to stabilize himself, but began to stagger due to his injuries.
Leocliffe under the bridge raised his blood-stained hands, completely unable to believe that the fierce god on the bridge had died in his own hands, and just after hearing Leocliffe's signal, he took his spear and stabbed it into his body.
"Viking warrior, I respect you, forgive me for cheating, I am not proud of this, go and meet your great god!" Odegar said in a deep voice, he himself was actually full of admiration for the miracle Viking warrior in front of him.
The leader of the Berserker battalion, the warrior of the Norwegian Vikings, Lynch, who had not yet had a surname, rolled his eyes upward, and finally fell to the ground full of unwillingness.
Odegar drew his sword, turned back to the English troops, and shouted, "Leocliffe!"
"Leocliffe, Leocliffe......" The death of the opposing warrior boosted the morale of the English militia, and they excitedly called in unison for the name of Leoccliffe, who had removed the evil star.
And Allen, who had been waiting for a long time, instantly apparitioned and came to the bridge before the other party was lost, he stepped on the slippery wooden bridge stained with blood, slightly behind the berserker, not far behind the berserker, at the moment when the berserker leader Lynch fell, Alan stretched out his palm expressionlessly, and what he was holding in his hand was an obsidian that he had taken out of his Traceless Expansion Spell Waist Bag, and then he immediately began to cast a spell.
As the magic was cast, obsidian turned into powder and covered Lynch's entire corpse, and the Viking Berserker's soul was not at all like other soldiers who would leave their bodies and fly towards Allen's staff, or like the lucky few fish that slipped through the net to reach the underworld, but were locked up in Lynch's own corpse.
Then Alan waved his hand casually and cast a small illusion, and then he stripped Lynch naked, separating his body from his pants, weapons, helmets and other equipment, so that these relics under the effect of the illusion made Lynch look like he was still lying where he had just lost.
Then, Eren grabbed Lynch's corpse and disappeared into the front line of the battlefield with both Phantom Shifters, and Alan threw the Berserker leader's corpse into the open space where he had just stayed, and let his three-eyed ravens hover over the Vikings' position, and Alan would try to collect the bodies of the berserkers in bear skins after they fell.
Leocliffe, who was still under the Stamford Bridge, was obviously unable to see all of this as a Muggle, not to mention that his head was now covered in a mixture of yellow-brown fluid and blood that had been coming out of Lynch's wound in his lower body when he had been fatally wounded.
But because of this great achievement, he changed from his usual chatty habits and seemed a little indifferent, and did not pay attention to this somewhat disgusting thing, and he was stunned for a moment before Leoccliffe climbed up the river bank with his spear in his hand and climbed up the wooden frame at the bottom of the bridge, and returned to his camp.
In contrast to the English, the Viking camp was dead silent, and the leader of the Vikings, Haravin the Heartless, looked up at Odegar with unabashed hatred, and cursed, "Scheming Englishman!"
(Author's note: Both the Vikings and the Britons have recorded that the Viking warrior stood alone on the bridge against the British, but the difference is that the number of people who were hacked to death on Stamford Bridge by this warrior ranged from 40~80 people, and the maximum value was used here, and in the end, it was the cunning English soldier who got half a barrel, floated down the river from upstream to the bridge, and stabbed the Viking warrior to death with a spear to allow the English to reach the opposite bank through Stamford Bridge.) )
The English militiamen, cheering and raising their spears, walked around the illusion of the evil star with fear and admiration, and pursued the fleeing Vikings.
The prey was now within reach, but the killing needed to be done quickly, as Norwegian reinforcements were rushing towards them at full speed.
Even though Harald's soldiers were dead, it was important that he had bought him long enough that Tosti and Harald had led his troops on the gentle slope on the other side of the river to build a phalanx of shields using Viking tactics, a formation similar to the Roman shield wall of the English was indeed solid enough to resist the attacks of the English.
Harold had to admit that the situation became trickier when he himself encountered tactics similar to those used by England, and he had his troops repeatedly assault but never break through the shield wall.
But in fact, the Vikings also had their fatal weakness, and many soldiers came to Stamford Bridge with less of a type of chain mail equipped with them, which has been used since Roman times, and when wearing a helmet and neck shield to protect the body, as long as it is not a fatal mistake or too unlucky to be stabbed, it can basically reduce most slashing attacks in this era.
Swords and swords are like the abyss purgatory, this is a death match with no rules, in addition to the scuffle of swords and axes, as the king of England, Harold also has a small number of archers.
The Battle of Stamford Bridge was fought on all sides of the wooden bridge, and from morning to afternoon, including in the nearby dense forest, soldiers were fighting each other everywhere.
The recruits of Krohuhurst, who were arrayed in the shape of arrows to break through the shield wall, and who were constantly beating their shields with their weapons, were no longer cowardly in the face of the Vikings who had begun to fight the trapped beasts and their murderous Raven Banner.
Eventually, Harald Hadrada, whose throat had been pierced by a cold arrow, became disillusioned with the throne of England, and the Norwegian king, who held a long list of titles, finally earned himself the most famous of all his titles, "The Last Viking", and his death marked the end of the Viking invasion era.
Tosti, the former Earl of Northumbria, continued to lead the Vikings in battle, but the English had gained the upper hand, and with his own brother Harold stabbing him in the back, England's new king, Harold, won a stunning victory, stabbing his traitorous brother and beheading him.
To the surprise of the English, however, the Nordics, who had fluctuated after the slain of their leaders, were stirred up by the mid-to-high-ranking Viking generals with jewels on their foreheads chanting the slogan "We would rather be strewn with corpses than surrender."
"We will not surrender!"
"Vikings will never be slaves!"
At the final stage of the campaign, the Norwegian troops, who were guarding the ships, arrived with reinforcements under the fiancé of Harald's daughter. Because of the long journeys and the fact that Viking warriors volunteered to carry armor for their dead teammates, some of the support troops fell and even died from exhaustion before they reached the battlefield. Armed to the battle, these warriors did briefly hold back the ferocious momentum of the Anglo-Saxons, but were quickly outnumbered.
At this point, the Norwegian army was completely defeated, and the Saxons pursued all the way, and some Norwegians drowned in the river while fleeing.
After the Vikings suffered a crushing defeat at Stamford Bridge, they were almost wiped out, and only 24 of the 300 warships returned to Norway in the end, marking the beginning of the fall of the Viking power.
Harold, the king of England who carried his brother's head, could not have imagined that so many soldiers had died in such a small battlefield, even if he had personally participated. In fact, seventy years after the battle, the land here is still white due to the accumulation of bones from the corpses of warriors who have not had time to absorb the souls of Allen's staff.
Although Harold suffered a lot of losses, thousands of English warriors died in just one week, but after all, he kept his throne and eliminated an opponent who coveted his throne.
But there are still people who are eyeing it, hundreds of miles away, in the north-west of France.
Two days after the Vikings fiasco.
After a long seven-week wait, the Norman flag began to fly like north, and the wind finally changed.
"Finally! Finally!" William muttered with relief, and then looked at the sky with a smile, "Thank you, Lord!"
The Norman camp was in full swing, the knights were prancing, the sailors were rushing to the masts, and the sails were hoisting softly, they had waited too long.
In the afternoon of that day, the illegitimate son Archduke William took advantage of the high tide to go on the expedition, and the remaining 700 ships and 14,000 soldiers and horses took advantage of Harold's foreign expedition, and the Norman fleet went straight to the unsuspecting south coast of England.
At the bow of William's flagship is a portrait of a wooden boy with a bronze bow and arrow, which is now pointed directly at England, and if the Lord and luck favor him, the Grand Duke of Normandy can reach the shores of England tomorrow morning.
The third conquest of England in 1066 was about to begin.