Rise of Rurik

Chapter 564: Spreading Terror in the Forest Sea and Snowfield

The Russ were dressed in white robes, and as long as they fell down suddenly, they could be integrated with the forest and the snowy plains.

This snow camouflage is indeed only available to the Rus who have mastered a lot of white linen, and the uniform dress is a bit harsh, and only the Rus can do it in the entire Nordic world.

Many people dragged a small sled with personal belongings on it, and the sleigh was also wrapped in white cloth without incident.

After days of marching and killing, Arik and his men were getting closer and closer to the lair where the invaders might be entrenched.

Along the way, they ate the dry food they brought, went to eat the food they seized, and also hunted decisively during the journey.

Even the cunning and alert white fox could hardly detect that the white snow not far away was a hunter's disguise.

The whizzing sound of arrows cut through the silence of the early spring snow field, and the fox died in the cry.

The fur of the fox was a windfall, and the meat was divided among the brothers.

The journey to Old Grey Squirrel Hill was a tortuous journey, and they searched along the frozen Oulu River.

Everyone's crossbows are on their shoulders, look at their appearance, it's not like carrying a crossbow, it's more like holding a shotgun!

Rurik's crossbow was an imitation of a rifle from the start, and the wooden rest was designed for ergonomics. Based on this, any warrior who uses it will naturally figure out how to use it better.

It is naturally not good to let the bow arm charge for a long time. In order to avoid the hustle and bustle during the war, one arrow in the arrow slot of the wooden crossbow is stuck in the end shrapnel, and it can be wound with bare hands when shooting. Only the heavier and more powerful steel-armed crossbow was temporarily placed on the sled and pulled away.

The Russ team seemed to be loose, but in fact, Arik did it deliberately to highlight the advantages of his armament.

He was looking forward to an encounter, and now the opportunity has come!

A group of chaotic figures appeared in the frozen river in front!

The Ross people who were advancing along the riverside snow fell down spontaneously, or squatted down with their backs against the gray-black tree.

Someone ran up to Arik and smiled expectantly: "Boss, I guess this group of people is here to get revenge."

"Vengeance? For what happened two days ago?"

"It must be. There are no friends here, all who come here are bloody enemies. Brothers all yearn for glory."

"Then fight!" Arik patted the guy on the shoulder, and then asked all his men to come to him.

Many warriors have been to Gotland and fought bad battles, and even if they are small, they are determined to win against new enemies.

Arik took a good look at the left and right, and glanced at the corner of his mouth: "Look at you guys, do you want to kill them all, and then go back and report that our brothers have dealt with all the intruders?"

After all, everyone laughed.

"Enough, we don't need to fight these intruders in an upright manner. Listen to my orders and ambush them. Shoot as much as possible with arrows, and never reveal the trail. Let me lie down in the snowdrifts and spontaneously come out to chop them. Kill the enemy, beware of being shot by other brothers."

They started to move, and they were all scattered and lurking on the right bank of the river, with an average distance of about one meter between the two, essentially forming a fairly dense ambush position.

Both crossbows are fully wound, and due to the limited length of the position, everyone can clearly see the movements of Arik himself.

Whether to attack or not depends on Arik's order, and now the commander has decided to let the prey step into the ambush with confidence.

At the same time, the Tavastians who were walking to the mountain fort, the lord of the old salmon, to inquire about the situation, these 200 people, under the leadership of the leader Vatyaara, covet the smooth road of the glacier, and deliberately marched on the ice. The boring march and the large number of people made the ordinary warriors gradually ignore the threat, but they did not know that they were stepping into the ambush of the Rus people without knowing it.

Everything was silent, Arik was lying on the ground with a sullen face, his cheeks full of stubble pressed against the wooden support of the crossbow, and the sight was randomly aimed at an enemy at three points and one line.

Pull the trigger lightly.

The nearly 200-gram crossbow arrow flew away, the tremor and recoil made his body shake, and the arrow hit an enemy's face with a low and flat parabola accompanied by a soft whizzing sound.

This arrow alone smashed through the entire mandible of the enemy, and the whole person fell for it. Although he did not die quickly, in the frenzied blood spurt, all the Tavastians around him were unaware of this inexplicable attack. measures.

Arik's shooting was just a signal, and upon seeing this, other fighters started shooting.

In one salvo, the arrows pierced the air gently, hitting the enemy group quite densely.

More than a dozen people fell to the ground on the spot, many people were howling, and the ice surface was quickly stained with blood. Of course, there are also strong people who, despite being hit by an arrow, still stand reluctantly with a short spear.

The Tavastians began to exclaim that Vatyara didn't understand the situation at all, only that she had been attacked.

"Raise your shield! Does anyone know the direction of the enemy?!"

"Don't worry about the brother in the end! Shoot the arrow! Fight back!"

But the world returned to silence, and only the fallen man wailed while holding the bleeding wound. The nervous warrior looked cautiously at the forest under the snow, feeling the horror there more and more.

They gathered on the ice, the whole was a large gray-black mass, out of tune with the entire gray-white world, and became the most stupid target of public criticism.

Some people estimated that the attackers were hiding in the direction of their hiding, and they shot arrows there, but no one dared to escape the shelter of the large army.

Arrows flew over the heads of Arik and the others, either flying too high or hitting the tree trunk.

Arik didn't say a word. He lay down and used his strong thighs and arms to forcibly wind the steel-arm crossbow with all his muscle strength.

And the brothers sitting on the wooden crossbow have already finished winding, waiting for their boss to launch a new round of shooting.

Arik led the brothers to shoot another salvo. This time, the Tavastians saw the general direction of the arrows, and they paid more than a dozen arrows.

The wooden shield did block the shots of a few arrows, but some wooden shields were just smashed open, and the arrows smashed through the arm of the shield bearer!

In such a very unfavorable situation for the Tavastians, mere injury can be fatal.

The sudden situation confuses Watyala's mind. He ate three consecutive arrow attacks. Although he saw the direction of the arrow, where is the enemy's trace?

He had never encountered such an enemy, forty brothers had already been lying on the ground, and the glaciers had turned red.

"Brothers! Charge me there! The enemies are hiding, hack them to death for me!"

"Hey! What are you doing? Are you all cowards?!"

"Don't get together in a group, it's sitting still!"

However, the fourth round of arrows came again.

Although the average power of the wooden crossbow has a higher shooting frequency, their power is really average, and against armored enemies and shield bearers, defensive measures can block arrows. The weapons of the Tavastians are still too weak, and facing all the Vikings who have been cut down in the Nordic world, they can only be ravaged! They are also bullying the weaker Kowens and the same Karelians who can get a good deal.

The Tavastians, these proud men who dared to work together to hunt bears, finally realized that leaving their homeland of icy lakes and lakes would face an unmatched formidable enemy.

That's all, it's just an armed reconnaissance team of the Rus.

Seeing that the warriors under him had become a group of cowards, Vat Yarra, who had fought such a useless battle for the first time, was furious.

He greeted more than a dozen men he could trust. They held their wooden shields wrapped in wolf skins in front of them, holding battle axes and short spears in their right hands, and organized an assault team to charge Arik without bias.

"You're going to punch me?! Stupid!"

Now Arik is no longer pretending.

A snowman rose from the ground. Do not! That is an enemy.

Arik, holding a crossbow wound by a winch, suddenly showed himself, leaning on a tree and hitting a charging guy with an arrow.

The shield wrapped in wolf skin was somewhat useful. The arrow did not pierce through the shield, but the arrow formed a ricochet, causing the man's teeth to crack a lot, and the whole man collapsed with blood all over his mouth.

These dozen or so people became the real target of public criticism, and the Chargers retreated one after another, wailing and wailing after killing six of them.

It was only now that Vatyara really saw the first enemy.

Arik's entire body was covered with a white cloth cloak, and even his head was covered by a white cloth. He heard arrows flying past his ears but was unmoved. Liangming was glaring at the furious enemy behind him, and then hid behind the big tree.

"Bastard! Come out for me! Russ! Duel with us!" Vatyara yelled in his language, but Russ just didn't come out.

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Although he didn't understand, Arik could understand the hostility in his opponent's words through the atmosphere of his speech. That person is asking the brothers to come out and hack them!

If he had left it before, he would have jumped out and slashed the Quartet, but the enemy who was counterattacked in Gotland was beaten and fled, and the lessons of that lost battle were left on his left arm with terrible scars. He just didn't show up, and still asked the soldiers under him to continue shooting arrows. As for the fewer and fewer arrows he carried and captured, that's not a problem. If the ambush is over, the brothers will withdraw. After all, the brothers are nothing more than a scout force.

Arik did realize that he was just a scout only when his arrows were about to run out.

Vatyara was forced to flee. There were as many as five arrows in his wooden shield, and his brothers suffered huge losses. Many people simply fled to the opposite woods, and some rushed to the fortress when they came. .

But the arrows of the Rus were still flying, and to the shock of the Tavastians, the enemies seemed to be marksmen.

Someone in the chaotic army climbed up to Wat Yala: "Let's go quickly, the Russ army is in the woods, we can go back and hold on to the mountain fortress, and now everyone who stays here will die!"

Saying that Vateara was unwilling to retreat, considering the reality, she really couldn't do it.

I was thinking of having a decisive battle with the main force of the Rus, and after I made great achievements, I came to the tribal alliance to gain prestige for the great cause. Now it seems that life is the most important thing.

He took his brothers to evacuate quickly, which is not too shameful, because many people have already run away...

The Rus looked victorious, that's the kind of victory, the brothers were just laughing, no one had the joy of a bloody victory.

Someone else rushed to Arik's side: "They are so weak! Boss, we recovered the arrows and took their camp along their retreat route. In my opinion, with 30 of us, we can really cut down 300 of them. brain."

Arik sat down and twisted his arm hard: "Clean up the battlefield first, anyway, none of you understand the language of those enemies."

Now someone came over: "I understand!"

"you?"

"It is said that Kewen has a relationship with the Tavastians. I have dealt with those Kewen people fishing here. Maybe I can understand the language of these enemies."

"Then try it, I'd like to know how they are."

The Rus people picked up the arrow, and by the way also collected the bodies of the dead enemies.

This is definitely not their good intentions, it is completely Arik's intention to further humiliate the enemy.

Two enemies who were not seriously injured by arrows were escorted to Arik's side. As expected, the Tavastian and the Kowen language had a lot in common, and some key intelligence was learned by the Ross scouts.

Arik never imagined that this was not an accidental invasion by the invaders, but a deliberate permanent occupation. The nature of this behavior is as bad as the Danes' expedition to the north to occupy the Lake Mälaren area.

In order to survive, the prisoners tried to explain their strengths, claiming that five hundred men had occupied an old fortress.

Are all five hundred soldiers soldiers? Because of the fallacy of translation, Arik is convinced of this. So about seventy corpses (the wounded were chopped to death) were only one-seventh of the enemy's force?

Hearing the news, the brother who shouted to annihilate the invaders with thirty scouts shut up.

Arik guessed that the so-called fort must be the old Grey Squirrel Hill Fort, and the Russ paid some casualties to conquer this fort, and the fort really needed some heavy weapons to break down. He thought of new tactics, and even if the brothers couldn't annihilate the invaders, he was very happy and confident to disturb the enemy's life all day long in fear.

The captive was not killed, the two were released and fled back to the mountain fort occupied by the Tavastians with some very crucial, concise information.

The two later returned from the fugitives, and they told Vatyara what the Rus had told them.

They only recited words from the strange-sounding Kovin language from the Rus: "Melting ice, Rus, ships, many people, war."

Vatrava, who had been defeated in a vain battle, was getting angry. The defeated warriors were terrified and the Rus would soon attack the mountain fort. Together with all the women and children of the Tavas immigrants, they were already strengthening their defenses and ready to fight. The preparations for defending the city are like fighting the Karelians in their hometown.

Now Vat Yarra has basically figured out one thing, the main force of the Rus people has not yet arrived, and the comer is only a small force.

But isn't it more terrifying? !

Just a small army! Let the existing more than 300 brothers lose 70 or 80 in the first battle! The living were shivered by the strange arrow, and they were even full of fear when they went out hunting. The hunters were not afraid of bears and wolves at all. They were afraid of being struck by the arrows flying through their necks. After all, the terrifying arrows could not be easily blocked by wooden shields.

It is impossible to give up this area. By controlling the resources of this area, Tavastia will become stronger.

Wattara didn't think of running away. If he really ran away, he wouldn't have the face to see the people in his hometown.

He began to send messengers to the rear to ask for help, and learned that the expedition had fought against the mysterious Rus and suffered losses. It was reasonable for Watkad, the leader of the Tavastia Alliance, to be furious, and all the villages in the alliance demanded to send troops to hug everyone. fruits of victory.

As for how many troops to send, this is very particular and requires a meeting.

It was precisely when they were busy discussing that the appearance of reinforcements was really delayed.

Macroscopically, the temperature is gradually warming, and Arik also noticed that the sea ice is rapidly thinning. Just when the world was about to return to warmth, he ordered the warriors to set up a terrifying atmosphere.

Roth's scouts were also hunting, only with more Tavastians on the prey list.

Well now, the Tavastians are more willing to hide in the mountain fort, and the activity area is limited to fishing by the river. Many people fall into a state of semi-starvation, because those who ventured into the distant forest have no news and go hunting. Obtaining meat has become extremely dangerous, so you have to endure starvation and foolishly waiting for reinforcements.

But Rosberg had already received Arik's investigation report. Although the messenger rushed back in a reindeer sleigh with an oral message, there was a certain distortion in the information. Rurik understood exactly two basic information: First, the enemy occupied the entire The river basin does not want to go, unless all are killed by means of war; secondly, the enemy's combat effectiveness is weak, but the scale of its troops does need the attention of the Rus.

How should Rurik judge?

Isn't this the deliberate provocation of the Tavastiya invaders, eager for a big battle as soon as they come up? This is what Ross needs! It happened to use a weak enemy like Tavastia to train troops and prepare for the next expedition to Britain.

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