I saw a fleet appearing further north at the corner of the Volga River.
This fleet consists of three large ships and dozens of small ships. There are arrow shields erected on the sides of the ships, and they are full of fully armed warriors, looking murderous.
The moment he saw it, the Prince of Moscow immediately understood where the Bulgar River Defense Fleet that Adam had mentioned was located.
right here!
"Mieszko, hurry up and carry out your mission, and tell Robert to activate its ballistae, load up the rockets, and shoot at the fleet! Gvalan, immediately send the troops to the river bank.
Formation, be alert to all possible landings! And, also, let my crossbowmen go to the shore immediately..."
After the initial panic, Rostislav immediately responded with countermeasures. He gave orders non-stop and mobilized everyone around him.
And everyone didn't hesitate at all and hurried to carry out their tasks. Everyone knew that the situation had reached an important moment.
However, after doing all this, Rostislav's mood did not improve at all, because he knew that the future was still uncertain, and he even began to mentally prepare to give up those thousands of people.
However, Adam must be retrieved. Without him, he would not even have the biggest flag to conquer Bulgar, so Rostislav replaced his personal captain Vasily and gave him a task...
The appearance of the Bulgar fleet undoubtedly caused the Ross side to fall into a great shock. After all, if those large ships went down the river and broke the pontoon bridge, they would be cut off from their return, and they would have to be massacred on this sandbank.
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This caused many people to begin to flee subconsciously, but Rostislav had already dealt with such a situation.
When these people ran to the other side of the river bank, they found that the prince's personal soldiers had arrived without knowing when, with swords in their hands.
And when all the deserters are slaughtered, the crisis of collapse will naturally be resolved.
However, this can only last for a while. If we cannot think of a way to deal with the Bulgar fleet, the subsequent defeat is inevitable.
"Asshole! That bastard boy! How could he do this! How could he do this!"
Just when the Russians were in panic, in the command bunker of the Bulgar army, Akade Khan was slapping the table angrily. The strong anger emanating from him made everyone in the bunker afraid to speak.
"The timing, the water flow, and the battlefield form are all not enough, all are not enough, why did he attack without permission!"
Akade originally wanted to fight a happy annihilation battle. In his plan, his troops would "retreat" next, allowing the Russians to continue to penetrate deeper and invest more troops. But now this hope has been dashed.
Impossible!
At most, he can kill the few thousand people who have crossed the river, but what's the use of killing these thousands of people? It can't even reduce the number of the army on the other side to less than 10,000.
Akade's current mood is similar to when he discovered that the Kashen Silver Mine was flooded. When everything was already certain, he suddenly found that the situation had changed dramatically.
"Then Khan, should we send out the main force immediately? At least this way we can wipe out all the Russians who have crossed the river."
Aqad was silent for a while regarding Jadebi's suggestion, and the reply he gave next made Jadebi stunned.
"No, let's see how the war develops first. Now we will send some troops up to maintain the suppression of the Russians."
Just when Akade was angry because of his son's unauthorized actions, on the Volga River, a Bulgar warship was crushing a Russian boat.
Seeing the big ship approaching, the archers on the small boat immediately jumped into the river, and then the small boat was overturned by the Bulgar warship and crushed into pieces.
But even if you jump into the water, you can't escape death, because the arrows will fall one after another the next moment, killing those who fell into the water.
The three incoming Bulgar ships are three galleys. Such ships usually operate on the Mediterranean 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 ships of the Russians are just longships. There are not many and there are no big ships. It is difficult to fight against such warships.
These galleys still have ramming horns, and now the target of these ramming horns is the pontoon bridge on the Volga River.
On the ship's baffles and masts, archers were pouring arrows in all directions. The unprotected Ross boats were very powerless in the face of these arrows. After all, they didn't even have a baffle that could be used, so they were all in distress.
It's called falling into the water.
The commander of this fleet, Selim Colin Doulu, watched all this with pride, his young face full of satisfaction and pride. After all, the Russians were failing in front of him.
Over the years, young Selim has always wanted to prove himself, but unfortunately his father never gave him a chance. Now that he has finally been able to lead an army alone, he naturally wants to seize this opportunity.
When the situation of the battle was obviously in favor of Bulgar, he obviously couldn't do it anymore. He was afraid that the battle would end like this, and that he would not have a chance to gain glory, so he chose to attack without permission.
And when the Khan's son made such a decision, what could anyone else say? No one could stop him.
So the fleet that was supposed to give the Russians a fatal blow in the Akade plan set off early.
"Hurry up! Hurry up! Let the slaves row faster."
Selim was wearing an extremely conspicuous armor, which was inlaid with jewelry and gold and silver threads, and he was now giving orders to the captain with black hair.
"Lord Selim, our speed has reached its limit. What's next is really..."
The captain was interrupted mid-sentence by flying fire snakes, which were fired from the crossbows on the Russian position on the west bank.
But unfortunately and fortunately, these rockets did not hit the three large ships, and most of them fell into the water. Only one shot hit a Bulgar long ship and crucified a sailor, but the flames were quickly destroyed.
extinguished.
"...It's really difficult for us to speed up."
The captain finished his words next, but when he finished, a burst of crossbow arrows came like the wind, and some archers standing on the side of the ship fell down.
The corpses fell among the rowing slaves, so frightened that they subconsciously stopped rowing, but the flying whips immediately made them continue working.
Facing these deaths, Selim's face showed no wavering, which made the captain feel better about the son of the Khan who forced him to attack.
However, he also knew that this was more because he was sitting in a safe cabin, and it was unlikely that any arrows would hit here.
"Then wave the whip and let the slaves stroke as hard as they can. The harder the whip is, the faster the slaves will stroke. That's it. Captain, go and execute it!"
Selim's eyes were all on the pontoon when he spoke. His mind was full of the scene where he commanded the ship to crash into the pontoon. By then, the Russians' escape route would be cut off. His father, who had never paid much attention to him,
We must value his achievements and give him glory.
Seeing the look of 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 the slaves. Rowing slaves have always been consumables.
But because according to the current situation, it is really difficult to determine whether his collision angle can break the pontoon bridge.
For this reason, the captain has already talked with the most experienced sailor on the ship, and everyone's opinion is that if the collision continues, it may be completely half and half, and then we can only rely on Allah's blessing.
Walking out of the small ship building, the captain stood fearlessly in the air filled with arrows. He had not seen such a scene for a long time, but he still had no fear in the face of it all.
He prayed silently in his heart, praying to Allah to grant them luck.
"Wave the whips! Let the slaves row as hard as they can, spread the sails, and prepare everyone for impact. We are going to fight hard!"
The crew roared in response to the captain's orders. Many of them were old river pirates on the river. They had their own fanaticism for fighting. They couldn't wait to see those Russians fall into the water.
scene.
Underneath this excited battle cry was the howl of the slaves under the whip. Facing the whip, they could only use all their strength to paddle as hard as they could, paddle as hard as they could...
"My God, there's absolutely nothing I can do to stop them."
A German engineer stood next to a ballista. He had just personally operated the ballista to shoot the sail of a longship. Soon the entire ship was plagued by spreading flames, and the sailors on it had no choice but to jump into the river.
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There were also many small boats that were shot into sieves under the crossbows, and the people on them either died or jumped into the river, but it was a pity that these were the only boats that became like this.
This did not bring him much joy, because the Bulgar fleet was still moving forward, and they were still unstoppable.
In the eyes of the German engineers, the galley, powered by the wind and the slaves' oars, crashed into the pontoon.
The scene that happened next was exactly what they didn't want to see. The leading galley directly smashed the pontoon bridge, and those who had not had time to escape were knocked into the water, wailing and fear.
Now the German engineer can only hope that the little tricks he used in designing the pontoon bridge will work.
Rostislav looked at the blow that hit the pontoon, and he felt his heart twitch. What he didn't want to see happened.
"Rostislav..."
Bolei'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 cannot fail! And he is also waiting for a result.
Seeing this, Poley could only sigh. He understood the young man's mentality and understood why he was like this.
But what happened next surprised Poley.
Because after the leading ship passed, the other two galleys also collided with it, and the pontoon was indeed broken, but then the ship slowly stopped in the sea of driftwood.
"Damn it, why can't I leave?"
"Driftwood, there are so many driftwoods that we can't even paddle!"
"Why are there fishing nets under the pontoon? The oars are all entangled!"
There were hurried sounds on the Bulgar ships, and when the galleys stopped, the longships behind them also stopped one after another.
Because they knew very well that if they couldn't even rush through the galley, how could they possibly rush through.
The archers and crossbowmen naturally seized this opportunity, and Robert immediately commanded the crossbow to fire. Don't miss this good opportunity! It's easier to shoot static targets than dynamic targets!
For a moment, 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 on board!"
Even if many people fell into the river, it does not mean that they have lost their fighting power. The people on this pontoon are all fierce nomads, and a few years of stable life cannot erase their fighting power.
The tough man directly put the weapon in his mouth, and then climbed onto the enemy's boat. The Bulgars might be able to stab some people to death, but more people climbed up, and the battle soon began on the boat.
Seeing this scene in the bunker, Akade felt like his brain was going to explode. The scene he didn't want to see happened anyway. Now he didn't even meet the minimum requirements, and instead fell into a predicament of being besieged!
"Let the trebuchets shoot at both sides of the pontoon! Stop the Russians from me!"
"But Khan, it's hard to say what effect this will have."
Immediately someone spoke up to give advice, but it was hard to say what use this would have.
But all the advice got was the Khan's roar, "Just do it!"
"yes!"
Hearing this, the man could not speak any more and immediately went to carry out the order.
It was at this time that Meshko led his men to the pontoon, and then he saw a scene of stones falling continuously. He even saw a person being directly smashed by stones, and blood spattered on everyone.
Many parts of the pontoon bridge were increasingly shattered by such attacks, but they were still passable.
However, there are also accidental injuries. After all, it is difficult to guarantee the accuracy of something like a trebuchet. So Meshko saw how the trebuchet accidentally injured his own people. A huge stone directly hit the middle of a long ship, destroying the long ship.
The boat split apart entirely.
"This is so exciting, let's go!"
This did not scare the Polish knight. After sighing a few words, he immediately rushed forward with his men. He wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to capture those battleships.
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