Rise of Rurik

Those sleds for long-distance travel are no longer just two hard oaks and the hard contact structure of ice and snow. A batch of carbon steel skins are forged by blacksmiths with small holes reserved, and rivets are fastened to the bottom of the oak sleds.

In this way, Ross's sled can be made large and durable, and even add some unique equipment.

It would be too sloppy to just install a tent made of leather and linen on a big sled. The big sled used by ordinary people can do this, and Rurik, who is a prince, can't say it anymore.

The prince needed a sled suitable for his noble status, so he built a wooden house directly on the sled. Of course it's not huge, it's just suitable for many people to squeeze into it. Its wooden walls are also set with small windows and inlaid glass windows. This is because of technical reasons, and large flat glass can not be made naturally. The so-called window glass is made of blown glass tubes and cut them in the middle and forcibly spread them out. It is large enough to transmit light.

Due to the relative abundance of time, the assembly of the Ross army took a little time. During this time gap, Aslaki's mill, who was responsible for the production of military rations, naturally worked at full strength.

Likewise, the carpenters and blacksmiths of New Roseburg got their jobs.

They took on the work of remodeling the sled, and their task was to build a house on the big sled and nail the iron sheet to the bottom of the sled. Such mass-produced manned sleds also need to be hung with deerskin on the outside to enhance warmth, and the reserved windows are still inlaid with windows, and such windows can even be removed by surprise.

Without him, in extreme situations, the soldiers in the sleigh hold the crossbow and shoot directly through the observation window.

To fight a war is to fight for money, and the truth that a cannon fires a thousand taels of gold can really be felt by Rurik.

The fighting method of the Rus army, which is specific to other European countries and tribes, is based on a large number of long-range weapons. Now the Principality is not as weak as it used to be. There is no need to mass-produce the bones, flint, and glass arrow clusters that were used in the past. The Principality directly measures. The cost of high-quality arrows made by producing carbon steel arrow clusters and then gluing the wood with pine glue is low enough to splurge.

The wooden shafts for arrows are mostly made of birch and pine wood. The bark of the wood is peeled off to make paper, and the remaining part is enough to make the shaft.

Arrow feathers are the easiest to get, and the fact that this thing is readily available is surprising and reasonable to the Pecheneg people who live there.

Because the people of Novgorod and Novgorod encourage the raising of chickens, they mainly eat eggs. In order to prevent the chickens from flying away, the chickens are plucked immediately after they grow up, and even their wings are plucked. Only fluff is left.

The big flying feathers were all sold to the prince, and the small feathers seemed useless, when Rurik gave birth to such gadgets as the feather duster,

Xiaoyu is also useful.

Don't stick to wild goose feathers, chickens, ducks and goose feathers are all good sword feathers, especially in the current position of the Principality, these arrows are regarded as one-time use weapons by Rurikmer. A non-mainstream word called "ammo" was "invented" by Rurik to refer to the arrow.

The hunters felt that the prince's attitude towards arrows was too strange, but this gave rise to the advantage that the Ross army would always prepare a large number of arrows when they set out on an expedition, so that they could shoot the enemy unscrupulously.

The pre-war preparations of the Rus army were very lively, which made the female leader Lu Di continue to be surprised. She also saw that the tribal girls she brought were forced to work every day. They boiled pine gum, chopped wood, carried materials, and washed clothes for the Rus people.

The work as a whole is hard, but it is not much more leisurely than the work in my hometown. The selected tribal girls are indeed young girls, but in that kind of extreme poverty, children are required to work when they are five years old. In fact, they can already do a lot of work.

The key is what they get from their labor. The female leader noticed that they are eating wheat cakes and porridge every day, and they can also eat fish every day. The thin girl has obviously changed in body shape, and her eyes and face can be described as spirited.

If it was only a few days of hospitality, the female leader would feel that this was a righteous act by the prince. Obviously, this was not the case at all, or that the life of the Rus people was like this, and the prince did not entertain them.

The group of servants must send people to join the army, and it is necessary to send a few soldiers at the latest to make up the number.

The female leader of Rudi also received an order. After the so-called army arrived in the village of Rudi, the female leader should mobilize 100 men to join the Rus army, and the men of Rudi would be armed by the principality.

Rurik could not provide high-tech to those "forest savages", but simply rewarded with simple iron spears, low-quality axes made of pig iron, as well as eliminated bones and arrows from glass arrow clusters. The quantity of all these materials was also extremely limited. .

In Ross' view, these weapons are rubbish, and if the Ludi people get them, they can immediately improve the efficiency of production and life.

"They must be good to me? No need. At least they can't embarrass me, at least they have the appearance of a servant army instead of a beggar." Rurik was such a mentality.

One-third of the 100 sleds were remodeled, and the rest were arranged to carry people. At least wooden pillars were erected, and deerskin sackcloth was nailed to keep them warm.

In this way, the horses do not have to be ridden all the way, they are unsaddled, covered with wool felt, and the reins are connected to the sleigh, and they travel with the whole sleigh team.

As for the livestock that pull the sleigh, it is luxurious. The docile but unbred, light and strong female deer is selected, and the eight deer pulls one. The power of a single female deer may be only half a horsepower, but the deer is a powerful source of power.

A capable and large-scale winter expedition force assembled in the Harvest Square of New Rose Fort, and the people of the whole city came to watch the grand occasion.

Behold! The north wind whistled and the flags were all hunting, with flags hanging from the top of each sleigh, and Ross’s blue-and-white flag fluttering.

The soldiers wore uniform clothes, white robes with blue stripes, and only the hats they brought to protect against the cold came in a variety of shapes. They also have uniform backpacks. The hard hemp straps are the ropes of the pockets. This simple and solid structure has been widely used by hunters for a long time. There is also a felt curled back on the backpack.

Rurik equipped his subordinates with the attitude of equipping the soldiers of the First World War. He did not have to stick to the necessity of muskets. The subordinates were equipped with a large number of light wooden crossbows and steel swords and round shields. The Nordic warriors equipped in this way were enough. Respond to the current state of war. The strength of the logistics also determines the strong endurance of this expeditionary force.

Of course, things should be done as well as possible.

A special sleigh team is not involved in any war, and their mission is one and only, to transport food and new arrows to the bear market town fortress on the north bank of Lake Ladoga.

Lake Ladoga is very large, so it was decided that a guide is needed to find the Rudi village. The army can naturally cross the ice lake directly, but when it reaches the east bank, it is not known whether to go south or north.

Rurik decided to use the safest method to lead the army counterclockwise, and also inspected the village of the Vips, and came to inspect the town of Xiongji.

He made a speech in the strong wind, and the naturally necessary pre-war mobilization speech was not so necessary, but he made a speech.

It just so happened that the army was assembled in Harvest Square, and the golden statues placed in the Great Temple were all moved out, allowing the statues to shine brightly under the sunlight.

The high priest and the lower priests were given temporary jobs. A deer was sacrificed. The blood of the deer was sacrificed to the gods. Rurik personally conducted the ritual.

Rurik wiped the deer's blood off his dagger, breathing heavily in white mist.

"Soldiers, let's go!"

With the sound of drums and horns, the army began to move, and Noren's band immediately played the melody of "Farewell to the Slavic Women", which was very suitable for the scene, but because of the lack of trumpets in the band, this song seemed to have a very Nordic style.

Amid the people's farewell and enthusiastic anticipation, the expeditionary troops with luxurious equipment and grandeur lined up in a serpent formation and marched eastward on Nevsky Prospekt. The eastern gate of the city opened, and the prince brought the queen Svetlana to the expedition. As for other wives and concubines, there is no need. After all, Lanna is the real queen, and she alone is enough.

Although the strength exceeded 500, the marching army reached a total of 1,000 reindeer and more than 100 war horses.

According to Rurik's vision, the army arrived at the Veps village with a few more sledges and a handful of Veps archers. After the army arrives at Bear Festival, there will be as many as one hundred hunters and hunters bringing their own food, weapons, sleds and reindeer to join this feast of plunder and exploration.

The army is naturally not as large as possible, unless the guys who join later are willing to obey the command and bring their own supplies.

Everything was under Rurik's control. When the sled team entered Ladoga Lake and marched along the lake shoreline to Bear Festival Town, a large number of hunters learned the news of the expedition, and they cancelled their hunting plans and joined them decisively.

More than a hundred hunters insisted on joining the army, and their identities were generally Suomi. Wouldn't this situation be better resolved? Because Yevlo himself was in the army, he stayed in Novgorod after his "pilgrimage" in late autumn. The original plan was to return to the Finnish Lake District in the spring.

Yevro easily organized a centennial team, they mainly carried short wooden bows and a small amount of wooden crossbows, and accepted his command.

Rurik set up a supply point in the town of Bear Festival, and unloading food was a handicap. In this way, if the army felt that there was insufficient food, it could return immediately. According to Rurik's tactical reserve, the rations could be eaten for a month, so the army could go east for at least fifteen days. The best hope is that after annihilating the Karelian remnants, they will eat their supplies and the army's supplies will be relieved.

Kagan has always thought that Prince Rurik's desperate calculations are very strange. It seems that this is full of wisdom. He is observing silently, and he is also planning to learn Rus's tactics based on this Eastern Expedition. .

The force has swelled to nearly 700 people, which is already a powerful army in the north.

The Rus messenger was really true before. If the Rus people got angry, it would be as easy as pinching a squirrel for this army to annihilate Lu Di.

The female leader is at least very glad that Rudi has become Ross's servant, but she has overlooked one thing - the people of the village do not know all this.

A huge group came from the north. The people of Ludi, who suffered a big defeat for the first time, suffered from being defeated by twenty Rus. They deeply remembered those hateful white cloth and blue stripes, and when they saw it, they thought of defeat.

Now, the Ross army is here again.

The first thing that ordinary Ludi people think of is to escape. The old man who was elected as the temporary leader called on the people to run to the east.

When it was, a small sleigh ran all the way, and the female leader rushed back in time. Everyone was shocked to see her safe, and even though they were skeptical from her description, many people still stagnated.

"A village under the trees. Go in?" Arik looked at it and asked contemptuously.

Rurik shook his head: "If you walk by the finches, they will start flying, because you are too huge. Don't scare them, we will stay here for the time being and let the old woman explain the situation."

This female leader is the most prestigious, and the pure Ludi people have no heart. Since Ross has become the new owner and promised to give some iron and salt, then don't run away.

The Ludi people welcomed the arrival of the Rus army, but Rurik was still worried that his army would uproot them.

The Rus army was camping in an unowned woodland, and Rurik ordered all the men in Ludi who could take up arms to come to see them.

The messenger of the order was the female leader, and everyone was terrified and eager to try. They had never seen a powerful external force other than the Karelians, and it was said that they were the giant Rus to the west of the Great Lakes.

In order to show her sincerity, the female leader gathered 233 men and went to see the master with bare hands.

The menacing Rus warriors were instructed to pose, forming a shield wall and holding short spears in a majestic appearance.

This frightened the Ludi man to shiver.

Rurik appeared in a bearskin, and he deliberately hung a lot of crystal clear glass balls on his body, making him look too gorgeous, even Rurik felt that he had dressed up as a clown.

This jewel-like appearance really opened the eyes of the Ludi people, who subconsciously understood that this was the most noble one.

Suddenly, Rurik ordered: "All sit down!"

This was the language they could understand, and the man Lu Di sat down obediently as soon as he heard it.

Then Rurik spoke again in Old Finnish, most of which the Rudys understood and knew the promise of the King of Conquerors.

Everyone was quite surprised. I thought I was going to be a slave. Can I still get a lot of benefits from being a slave to the Rus? It is to attack the Karelians, and everyone still has lingering fears.

Rurik made them stand up again, and he, tall, walked past the short men himself, picking out the best among them.

The youngest and strongest men were selected, and the next-level men were also pulled out. Some time ago they took up arms to attack the Ross hunters, and now they have transformed themselves into Ross warriors.

Their productivity is too low, and getting new clothes is a big happy event. Now Rurik bestowed upon them the white and blue striped robes of the Rus army, as well as the iron spearheads and iron clusters of arrows.

A group of people exchanged guns for guns, and the 100-man Ludi servant army was born. It was their combat power. Rurik had no extravagant hopes. They only needed to do the guiding work.

A young man known as Makut, believed to be of prestige, was made interim commander by Rurik to restrain the army of Rudy's servants, but the female leader had to accompany the army as well.

The Ludi people are still the frontier people, and Rurik will personally find a pug to be the ruling agent. Is this Marcourt ok? At least he has to be outstanding in this operation.

The Rus army temporarily stayed near Ludi Village, but the accompanying hunters and many soldiers had already begun to trade with the locals.

The Ludi people are extremely deficient in all kinds of living materials, but they still have a lot of squirrel skins and ferret skins. They are too simple and insane, and the Russ don't have to annihilate them to plunder their supplies, relying on the sudden rise of forest farms, they can complete the plunder of supplies by commercial means.

This includes but is not limited to buying a lot of squirrel skins with salt, and buying a local woman's body overnight with grain. It is very amazing that the latter not only did not feel that he had suffered a big loss, because each clan did get a batch of iron and salt, and even the clan women may have been left as Russ.

Do they have no shame? On the contrary, their relatively isolated life style and the strong rejection of inbreeding in their souls determine their willingness to communicate closely with good strangers.

Yuliu Rick didn't want to do this, but considering the practical factors, he simply acquiesced.

The Rus are so tall and not afraid of the cold! They kept the seed, and the child born in this way must be tough. The Ludi people are very open-minded. Each clan hopes to have more children and a larger population. As long as the children are still members of the clan, there is no need to struggle with issues such as appearance.

Of course Rurik doesn't want to see this situation now, but this scene has already happened a lot. There are more and more babies mixed with Viking blood in the Principality. This is the choice of the people who are under the rule. Can't help it.

There is one good thing. The clans of the Ludi people feel that they have made a profit. They believe that after the surrender, the newly born descendants will become strong and cold-resistant, and obviously will not die easily.

In Rus, their decision like this is very convenient for the rule of the prince's family.

So partnering to hit the Karelian remnants is the biggest vote for the Ludi people.

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