The night was fulled with sudden barking of dogs and shouts of men. All the Vikings in great hall woke and grabbed their weapons.
Their Leader Yöimund shouted orders and brave men lined up front of the doors.
The doors flew open and all Yöimund men's poured out of the hall into black night full of fighting.
Yöimund killed first raider with savage twohand slash and lead his men forward.
They rushed into center of village killing every raider who was on their way, mostly they were illarmored and badly armed but still strong and savage raiders.
There were some dozen raider at village center looting and hacking and raping and burning there.
Yöimund and his companions rushed against them like stormwave to coast. The raiders were soon broken and banished. But drum's and battlehorns were all around them and more raiders came in every direction. Their numbers were almost twice as large as Yöimund's but they knew that every Viking was worth 2 of their own.
Then sudden marching footsteps echoed and 6*6 lines of Royal Guard emerged.
Yöimund and his men despaired, these were no simple raiders but the king's own heavily armored and battlehardened troops equipped with hard long steel blades, large square shields and steel and leather armored.
With one shout the enemy attacked, Yöimund charged against .
With deafening shouts and crash they impacted but only after a minute he realised that these kinds of enemies they had no hope of defeating.
Yöimund hacked one of Guards throat but as soon as he did that other who was more capable of wielding blade start his fight with him and that enemy was very capable, all around Yöimund men were dying and retreating.
Then suddenly the cowardly raiders who were previously just watching attacked their backs.
Yöimund and rest of his men were surrounded!
He finnaly killed his adversary but as he did that the rest of his men were killed.
Yöimund losing his sword took out long axe and savagely killed a guard and half a dozen raiders quick series of blows and breakthrough the raider lines and run forward water hoping of getting away and avenge someday.
Two raiders who were on his way were cut down with no slowing down and the water was only some metres away.
But as Yöimund jumped to water a lone arrow hit him in the neck and Yöimund crashed into water rapidly sinking.
The king forces were victorious...