Rise of Rurik

Chapter 565 When the Ice Sea Thaws

Will those Tavastian invaders increase their troops? How many will they send? Did they give up because of a second thought?

As far as current intelligence is concerned, those intruders won't run until they've been beaten.

Go to the East to fight, maybe you can cut down a thousand enemies? This kind of good thing makes Ross's warriors sharpen their knives early.

But even if the war was won, Rurik estimated that he would not gain much from the war. Although this can be a training battle, after all, there is not much oil and water on the enemy's side. He doesn't want this battle to be too long, so he must beat the enemy to the point of vomiting blood three liters in one battle, so that they will not dare to attack for a long time.

The Ross Army should dispatch elite soldiers, and then use elite weapons to achieve victory without casualties as much as possible.

Since the first delivery, Arik's messengers have brought new messages every five days on average, reporting what they had seen in the occupied Old Grey Squirrel Hill Fort.

But the thaw of the sea was unstoppable, and the sea thawed before the snow on the land, forcing by the end of March, Aric had to let the new sleigh ride around the whole bay, around Fort Elrond and back to Roseburg.

A new messenger has arrived, and this man has returned in a dusty and dusty way, and there is only one sentence to report.

Even one sentence is heartening news.

Now this news has spread in Rosburg, which is about to move. Hundreds of strong men hold their shirts, showing their chests full of golden chest hair, holding up axes and swords to cheer the enemy's reinforcements!

Sea ice is melting at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the speed of ice and snow melting on land is also amazing.

The courtyard of Rurik's palace is reproduced with a flat concrete floor. The servants had already cleared the snow, and had almost been educated by that John Ingvar, these Lambs of the Lord had become more willing to work.

The ground, which was frozen solid, gradually became muddy. In the noon sun, the ice slumped in the houses was also dripping water rapidly. In order to avoid sudden falls and injuries, the people have been removing these dangerous objects.

Rurik hurriedly invited messengers to the first floor of his palace, and summoned the elite forces of Rosberg.

Especially the captain of the flag and the centurion who had been canonized by him when he conquered Gotland, a group of brave warriors sat in two rows with great interest.

Rurik sat proudly on the throne of the bearskin in the main hall, and asked the messenger to repeat the news that had already spread.

"Yes!" The messenger, sitting cross-legged, drank some ale and nibbled on the oatmeal, and declared in good spirits: "We have been wandering around that mountain fort, attacking the Tavastian hunters. We watched the other day. When a large number of spear-wielding and bow-wielding men entered the mountain fort, Lord Aric asked the brothers to evade for the time being. After investigation, we can estimate the strength of the enemy's troops."

"How many? Are there really a thousand?"

"Yes. At least a thousand, maybe more."

"But they are very weak, aren't they?" Rurik asked deliberately, causing the brothers present to laugh.

The messenger was also laughing wildly, and threatened: "We think too highly of them. If five hundred people were sent instead of fifty, all the enemies would have been annihilated. My lord, we have been fighting in ambushes for more than a month, and there has not been a single one. casualties."

Rurik nodded, looked at the confident faces of the men on the left and right, and then asked himself, if a strong expeditionary force had been dispatched before Kaihas raised the alarm more than a month ago, the war problem should have been solved.

It is still up to him, the decision maker, to decide how many troops to send now. The brothers are all waiting for him to make up his mind, because the sea is about to thaw.

"Okay. This year's spring comes early, the wheat in the distance can be sown ahead of time, and the autumn is another bumper harvest."

With that said, Rurik stood up: "I was prudent to think that they were strong enemies. In this case, I decided to respect this group of enemies who invaded the territory of Ross."

Otto was keenly aware that his son had some hidden whimsy, and suddenly said: "You...will you not also send a thousand people to attack?"

"No! The greatest respect for them is to kill them all,

Why should I fight their equals? Is the bay wide? Our sailboat can reach the east side of the other side in the fastest daytime. Besides, after the sea ice melts, many fishermen will also go there to fish. I'm going to send 2,000 people out to show them how good I am. "

Two thousand people, this is really the best of Rosberg.

Taking advantage of the fact that all the centurions and flag captains were here, he immediately made arrangements.

Rurik's troop deployment was as follows:

Warriors first flag team, Melalen flag team. The two flag teams had a strength of 1,000 men.

The shooting flag team also has 600 troops, but the flag team is a hodgepodge of various long-range arms.

There are also Rurik's elite guards here, and there should be a hundred men.

As a result, the Rus sent a team of 1,700 soldiers, and the remaining 300 soldiers were naturally filled by the Balmers.

Even the Ostarans send out fighters symbolically, except that Carlotta and a handful of her chosen female fighters are grouped into flag-shooting teams to fight.

As for why they didn't bring in the Second Banner Team, in Rurik's plan, in addition to guarding the rear and waiting for opportunities to provide support, the Second Banner Team followed Otto to Novgorod to ask for tribute.

After the meeting, Rurik refined his troops for two days.

Even if they only heard the number of troops, the Bjorn brothers in Balmerk were very envious.

Bjorn, he envied Rurik's strong appeal, he was obviously just a teenager, and he raised his arms and more than 2,000 people responded.

But the ensuing army build-up brought Bjorn a complete shock.

What a neat scene this is!

The first flag team of the Warriors, the flag captain should have been Aric. Since he was still improving guerrilla tactics on the other side of the sea, Haruo Zuosen temporarily led the flag captain.

As for the Meralen flag team, the troops of this unit are mostly the allied tribes who defected to the Rus, and even the Danish Grund and his friends who surrendered on the battlefield. old soldier.

No matter where the soldiers came from, now they are all Russ soldiers.

In the Principality of Ross, she has essentially become a hodgepodge of various ethnic groups. The Ross tribe occupies the highest military power, and Rurik cannot refuse other people's pursuit of status. The Principality of Ross is an imaginary community. If the hearts of the people are scattered, the Principality will also collapse.

In strengthening the community, the completely uniform dress of the soldiers must be a concrete manifestation.

All Ruth warriors now dress exactly the same, regardless of what they wear on the inside, which are kneeless white robes with interlaced blue stripes on the outside.

Everyone's round shields are no longer painted in a variety of ways. Of course, soldiers can pursue their own personality to make a personal shield, but when they go out, everyone must prepare uniformly, smear turpentine, sprinkle chalk mud, and then dye it with isatis. A round shield with a cross blue pattern.

The entire army must be highlighted in white and blue tones, echoing the flag of the Duchy of Rus.

Even the "Children's Unit" dispatched by Rurik, the selected boys and girls also dressed like this.

The weapons of the teenagers are all crossbows, and only these weapons can give them a tactical advantage.

The young warriors not only carried swords and shields, but also held a short spear, which was also bound with blue and white strips under the spear head.

For the first time, they assembled and formed a matrix, and they were so shocked that they were inferior to Yongni and his men. Compared with the uniformity of the Russ, their own people were extremely useless!

After all, they are brothers, and seeing how the brothers' army deserves it, Rurik feels so happy. Rosberg had been buying flax rods on a grand scale before, and now the flax has been turned into white shirts after a process. There is still a lot of white cloth in stock, and Rurik sold it to the Biyonies at a fair price, just to distinguish the real Russ army. The three hundred warriors of the Balmer army were just wrapped in white shirts.

The first build-up was just to prepare for the actual military parade.

Rurik was going for a military parade, and the parade itself was just a ceremony among the high priests this spring.

Every year when the sea ice melts enough to sail, it is the time of the spring high priest of the Rus, and this year is so different from previous years!

Once, after this sacrifice, the fishermen resumed their normal operations during the warm period, and a large number of merchants returned to Lake Mälaren to trade with northern furs, and the Sorgon fleet of Ross would also go to Novgorod.

This year, two major events will be added to these foundations: the launching of four new ships and the military parade before the expedition.

Everything is being prepared in an orderly manner.

Rurik's wives and concubines all had to work as priests in the ceremony, even Svetlana, her face was so beautiful, she had to stand in a prominent position in plain clothes and a crown of pine buds.

Although the concept of confinement does not exist in the Nordic world, because the weather is cold and snow is everywhere, High Priest Lumia still actually does confinement after giving birth to a child. This spring sailing high priest can be described as her comeback, and her physical condition has been fully recovered.

And Noren and the ten Slavic maids in Rurik are now all working as musicians. They will play the flute and drums to make the ceremony more sacred. It was for this purpose that Rurik not only brought all the Corvin longbowmen from Elronborg, but also brought the local priestess Porra, making the old shaman fiddle with the reeds. The qin adds to the music and moves away.

Finally, on the tenth day of April, everyone can now determine that the ice cubes floating on the sea are not a threat to ordinary fishing boats. fish out.

The ceremony is being held this morning.

All the residents of Roseburg walked out of their homes, and ordinary people saw a large number of soldiers in white robes standing densely by the sea.

Under the attention of all kinds of people, a small fire tower was burning brightly.

Rurik stabbed a deer with his own hands in the sound of complex and pleasant music, and let the blood of the deer flow into the ocean, but the deer corpse was thrown into the fire tower and burned.

Rumia raised her jeweled wooden staff and looked up to the sky, telling God the long-cherished wish of the Rus people.

People standing on wooden walls, people with simple tower cranes on the wharf, or people already sitting in fishing boats, the ceremonies they have witnessed so far have only added some new tricks compared to last year.

The truly magnificent spectacle finally begins now.

As many as six large ships will be launched today, which is the most spectacular compared to reviewing the soldiers!

A wooden path smeared with whale oil was laid out on the ground, and the large ships were pulled towards the sea by ropes pulled by more than a hundred strong men. Finally, taking advantage of the terrain, large ships slid into the ocean one after another.

Every time the big ship was like a splash of water, the people on the shore would be shocked and cheered.

Until they saw such a strange-looking ship, they screamed for her.

At this moment, several strong men inside the ship shouted excitedly: "Let's move and let the other brothers open their eyes!"

This is the Mercury, her human propeller system has been activated! Although this speed is not fast, this time, under the attention of nearly 10,000 people, she has not installed a sail. When she enters the water, she draws a track line at the stern of the boat, and sails into the fjord sea area visible to the naked eye. Turned a big circle under the control of the rudder!

The performance that could be called a miracle made Otto's old face tremble, although he knew that this was not a miracle, but a complex mechanical combination. The son did it, the boat can move forward in the unrestricted wind direction in the port area. Once you enter the paddle boat, what about her oars?

Otto naturally knew that the Mercury had a magical propeller, but the vast majority of Rus people didn't understand it!

People were screaming and cheering, and they were able to move forward without sails or oars, claiming that this was a divine power bestowed by Odin on Rus' ships.

After all, today is a grand event, and Eskill, who was essentially imprisoned, was released to participate in the event. After this ceremony, this guy, Eskill, should also be released.

The old missionary leaned on a wooden cross and witnessed a ship that was moving freely without wind and oars. He shouted, "This is the power of the devil", which is completely different from the surprise of the Rus people. What he has is more fear. Eskil is not a fool. He saw the reflection of the spearheads and helmets of the Rus people in the morning sun, and then looked at the uniform dress. This military appearance alone is a hundred times stronger than the Earl of Bremen and the Earl of Hamburg.

Because the two counts, in addition to their own entourages, gathered an "army" of a thousand people from the peasants, and they didn't even think about it for three weeks.

Their army will not be attacking the south...

Rurik's voice was limited, and he knew that he couldn't let a visceral order resound through the entire army. There is no need to say what actions the Russ will take after the ceremony. Rurik waved a flag himself, and the seaside army waiting for orders began to move in circles. This is also very important. The so-called letting God see the true face of the Rus army is also to show all the Rus people, businessmen and people of all kinds to see the strength of the Rus.

Their movements are not uniform when seen up close, but when they are far away, what people see is just a few white squares walking in neat steps.

So far, what I have seen and heard in the territory of the Rus has completely surpassed Esquil's highest estimates. There are as many as nine large ships and densely packed small boats floating on the sea. .

A powerful force has risen in the north! The faction is also clearly hostile to the Danes! Its leader's attitude towards sacred belief is also very ambiguous! Maybe they will soon develop into new believers, and even accept the canonization of the Pope of Rome as a kingdom of the north and ally with the Franks...

Eskil couldn't help thinking about a lot of things, after all, he was not a simple missionary.

He took what he saw and heard deeply in his heart, and he was not happy when he learned that he had been released, or that he could not wait to return to Hamburg in the shortest possible time to meet the Earl of Hamburg to report the matter. After all, I went to Bremen again, and finally went to Lance to report this shocking secret.

How could Rurik care about all that Eskil thought?

The Russ cheered and cheered the army that was eager to go out. This battle was very special. They no longer hoped to get a lot of spoils through the war, but simply warned the invaders of the stupidity of their behavior through killing, and even proved to Odin that they were indeed A true warrior.

Only the Tavastians are still unaware of the powerful enemy on the other side of the sea!

Now holding reinforcements, Vat Yara was bursting with confidence, and he began to go out to hunt down the lurking attackers, and small-scale battles naturally occurred one after another. The newly arrived Tavastian warriors are finally facing a vicious battle like never before, but it seems that the enemy hiding the attack is running farther and farther.

Some bold rumors circulated among the Tavastians, the so-called Corvins and Rus are abandoning this place, and the wonderful mountains and rivers have become the new territory of Tavastia.

In fact, Arik saw the melting of the ice and snow, and was forced to withdraw to the small island at the mouth of the sea due to the pressure of food shortage.

This seems to be a retreat for the opponent, and Arik doesn't care anymore.

He and the guys spontaneously looked at the sea in the west, where the waves had recovered, and everyone knew that the fleet of their hometown was about to arrive.

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