Chapter 680： Gustav Retreating

Outside of St. Petersburg, the army of the Nordic lion Gustav was besieging St. Petersburg. He was still enduring relatively inefficient trebuchets to bombard the walls of St. Petersburg.

"If there are bronze artillery, St. Petersburg has been captured by me."

Gustav looked up at the towering walls of St. Petersburg, this strong fortress for a while, it was really difficult to conquer with cold weapons.

Olaf led the Umus battle group, cooperated with the trebuchet, and stormed St. Petersburg.

The Viking Berserkers of the Umus battle group boarded the city wall and went directly into the rage, causing heavy losses to the Saint Petersburg defenders!

The defenders of St. Petersburg could only rely on their numerical superiority to block the Vikings' battle group, and the two sides fought on the wall.

"It takes 30 soldiers to kill an average of the Berserkers of the Umus Band."

The commander-in-chief in charge of the defense of St. Petersburg is the Grand Duke of Novgorod, who counts the casualties caused by the Viking Berserkers of the Umus regiment to the defenders.

After the berserkers of the Umus battle group enter the rage, the defenders of St. Petersburg must destroy them at all costs, otherwise St. Petersburg may be breached.

At least three hundred Viking Berserkers in the Umus battle group were killed during the siege, and tens of thousands of St. Petersburg defenders fell directly under the Viking Berserker's axe.

In order to repel the Viking hero Olaf, hundreds of St. Petersburg defenders were beheaded by Olaf alone.

St. Petersburg defenders rely on their numerical advantages, so they can hold on.

A war eagle fell, leaving the iron eagle scout in St. Petersburg ahead of time, and immediately informed the Grand Duke of Novgorod.

"The Golden Horde has been destroyed by the great Prince of Moscow. It is only a matter of time before the northern lion Gustav is defeated!"

"Reinforcements are about to arrive, we can hold on for a while and win!"

The Grand Duke of Novgorod summoned the defenders of St. Petersburg and announced to him that after the defeat of the Golden Horde, Ekaterina’s main force had used the teleportation array to send part of its forces to the nearest large city to St. Petersburg. , And then marched to St. Petersburg.

The defenders of St. Petersburg heard that the powerful enemy of the Golden Horde was finally defeated, their morale was greatly boosted, and Ekaterina's prestige rose greatly.

As the morale of the St. Petersburg defenders rose, Gustav's attack on St. Petersburg was not smooth.

"It seems that the defenders of St. Petersburg have already learned that the Golden Horde has died and their reinforcements are coming. We have missed the opportunity. We lack bronze artillery."

Gustav keenly sensed the morale of the Saint Petersburg garrison rising, and Saint Petersburg must be aware of something.

At this time, the envoy of the Hun leader Attila has arrived.

Breda once again served as an envoy, representing Attila, contacting various allies or princes.

"Gustav, Vytautas, Temujin has already been defeated, and are discussing with our majesty to march west together. Our majesty needs the ability of two to defeat Alexander."

Bleda met the Swedish King Gustav and Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas who were attacking St. Petersburg. Attila needed their abilities.

Even Alexander and Caesar, in terms of the Firearms Corps, are far inferior to Gustav.

"Tiemu really failed, too fast."

Gustav was very dissatisfied with the demise of the Golden Horde.

Obviously St. Petersburg is right in front of him, but Gustav has no time to continue attacking St. Petersburg.

"There are proverbs in the East. One win and one loss. The military is always in force. The failure of the Golden Horde does not mean that we Huns will fail. As long as we help our majesty defeat the Western lords such as Alexander, Constantine, and Hohenzollern, we Your Majesty will give you the rewards you want after victory, land, population, gold and silver, and freedom."

"Is Attila's promise really credible?"

The personal freedom of Grand Duke Vytautas was controlled by Attila. He heard that Attila was willing to give him his freedom and couldn't help but move.

Vytautas is now being monitored by the Huns in every move.

Bleda said: "Your Majesty, we will never break our promise and looting the spoils of the Kingdom of Macedonia and the Holy Roman Empire. We can even agree on the proportion of division."

"I need a second military expenditure to maintain the cost of sending troops."

Gustav asked for the second batch of military expenses from the Hungarian Empire represented by Bleda.

Bleda found that Gustav was similar to mercenaries and relied heavily on the gold and silver provided by the Hungarian Empire: "We will pay you the price that is satisfactory. As long as you defeat Alexander and the others, you will get millions of gold."

"withdraw troops."

After receiving the continuous military expenses provided by the Hungarian Empire to maintain the Nordic army, Gustav left a small group of soldiers and horses to continue the siege according to Attila's deployment, bluffing, and invalidating the Saint Petersburg teleportation array. Retreat to Tallinn and use the fleet docked in Tallinn to transport troops back to the Royal City of Sweden.

"One day, I will conquer St. Petersburg"

Before leaving St. Petersburg, Gustav took one last look at the towering castle towers of St. Petersburg.

If he can obtain the blueprint for the manufacture of the bronze cannon and greatly enhance his siege ability, then it is possible to conquer the fortress that Ekaterina worked so hard.

Bronze artillery, no lord has obtained this kind of siege and field weapon that is more convenient than counterweight trebuchets.

In Gustav’s time, bronze guns should be very popular. However, in the lord, bronze guns must have special firearms to use this weapon. At the same time, bronze guns produced by special manufacturing drawings are required to be systematic recognition.

"The Nordic Legion seems to be retreating"

The Grand Duke of Novgorod, who defended St. Petersburg, was selected as the commander in command, and he also possessed certain abilities.

Although Gustav left behind a small group of troops to bravish, the Grand Duke of Novgorod noticed that Gustav began to retreat.

"Out of the city to defeat them, open the teleportation array, so that reinforcements can come over and pursue them!"

The Grand Duke of Novgorod possessed the fierceness of the fighting nation. He understood that Gustav left some of his troops to force the teleportation array to fail and prevent Ekaterina from sending the main cavalry for pursuit, so he immediately opened the gate. Personally command a team of Novgorod heavy infantry and go out of the city to attack the remaining Nordic army!

The gates of St. Petersburg opened, and thousands of Novgorod heavy infantry with long spears and long-handled battle axes rushed out of St. Petersburg and attacked the camp of the Kingdom of Sweden!

However, what Gustav left behind was not an ordinary legion, but the ferocious Umus battle!

When the Grand Duke of Novgorod saw Viking berserkers wearing Nordic helmets and tomahawks coming out of the camp, he couldn't help but regret going out of the city to attack the broken Nordic army.

Olaf personally led his troops to assault, throwing a throwing axe at his waist, and flying to cut the enemy generals!

The Grand Duke of Novgorod saw that his ministry was beheaded by Olaf with a single axe, and his voice was trembling: "Return to the city!"

Thousands of Novgorod heavy infantry were defeated by the Berserkers of the Umus battle group led by Olaf and chased under the walls of St. Petersburg. The defenders used ballistas to shoot and kill more than a dozen Umus battle groups. The Viking Berserker, Olaf left with his warband.

Even the Viking Berserkers cannot resist the attack of the ballista or catapult head-on. This is also the key that St. Petersburg can hold.

Olaf was a little reconciled, St. Petersburg was an insurmountable fortress of his Umus battle group.

"The war dead, nine hundred people."

The Grand Duke of Novgorod fled back to St. Petersburg to count the number of losses. The Novgorod heavy infantry, equipped with well-equipped armor, was killed and wounded by the Umus battle group.

After being taught a lesson, the Grand Duke of Novgorod dared not venture out of the city and continued to defend St. Petersburg, patiently waiting for reinforcements.

After ensuring that Gustav and Vytautas led the soldiers to leave, Olaf retreated to the beach with the Umus battle group, pushed the Viking leader warship into the sea, and rowed back to Northern Europe without panic. .

Ekaterina and Chutian's cavalry arrived in St. Petersburg about two days later and rescued St. Petersburg.

With the arrival of reinforcements, the Nordic army has completely left, leaving behind a messy village outside St Petersburg.

"The defense of St. Petersburg resulted in a total of 20,000 casualties and 30,000 militiamen, killing less than 10,000 enemies."

The Grand Duke of Novgorod was ashamed to report to Ekaterina the results of defending St. Petersburg, and the proportion of casualties between the two sides was completely unbalanced.

"Although Gustav's legion is very small, as a northern lion, it only takes tens of thousands of people each time, but at most more than 100,000, but they are all elite."

Ekaterina knew that Gustav cherished the small population of the Kingdom of Sweden and basically took the route of elite soldiers. It is impossible for the Grand Duchy of Moscow to have hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn.

Gustav’s legion is all professional soldiers, mainly high-level arms, and military expenditures are also high, so they repeatedly demanded military expenditures from Attila.

"Battle of Umus"

Chutian cleared the battlefield outside St. Petersburg. UU Reading found that many Novgorod heavy infantry died from axe injuries, which was somewhat similar to the damage caused by the Varangi Guards in Harar.

He had not yet played against Gustav. Gustav met with Attila's envoy and left St. Petersburg in time.

According to the Grand Duke of Novgorod, Olaf’s Umus battle group has at least one thousand Viking Berserkers, and the average rank seems to be lower than the Varangian Guard. However, the Saint Petersburg garrison also killed four hundred Viking Berserkers.

It is impossible to know how many Viking Berserkers there are in Umus. It is said that the Viking Knut the Great who attacked England seems to have more Umus fighters.

"The two Highnesses, King Alexander of Macedonia, sent envoys and invited them to command the army to attack the Hungarian Empire and capture Temujin and Attila alive."

Not long after Chutian and Ekaterina rescued St. Petersburg, Alexander's envoy came forward to request to join forces to destroy Attila and win points for the national war.

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