Rise of Rurik Chapter 1281

The latest website: The young cavalry were running wildly in the snow. Even though the weather was cold, because the training ground was wide enough, a group of idlers in Novgorod stayed outside wrapped in thick leather clothes, and even stood on the wooden city wall to comment.

There are three combat skills they have to learn, riding and shooting, chopping with swords, and stabbing with spears. In all training, the most important thing is riding and shooting.

Because they are too young, their physical fitness may not be enough to participate in riding fights. It is also due to the fact that the Russian cavalry learned from the Pechenegs on the grasslands, solved most of the battles non-contact and relied on arrows, and controlled the enemy with mobility and flexibility.

Under Rurik's reforms, the Russians have long been completely different from other northern forces in terms of combat. Since they have the advantage of long-range weapons, of course they must be carried forward.

The imported recurve bow is combined with a crossbow to become a characteristic crossbow that can also be used by cavalry. As long as the tied rope is untied, the crossbow turns into an ordinary recurve bow, which is convenient for rapid shooting

"Triple shot in the face". Braving the fog and snow, I thought that I would have to wait until the lakes and rivers were covered with enough ice for the sleds to move safely before setting off for the capital city of New Roseburg. I felt that I had more time, and now I was devoting myself to supervising the training.

Or because the king himself is staring at him with staring eyes every day, the young warriors are either out of fear or out of desire for performance, and they dare not neglect.

If you want to cherish the horsepower, you can stride on the reindeer sleigh and simulate horseback riding to shoot arrows at the target in motion.

Or simply the dismounted rider himself galloping across the snow, shooting on the move. They were still wearing thick leather jackets in the morning, but in the afternoon they continued to practice mainly in a woolen jacket.

The four cavalry teams were mixed together. In addition to veterans and recruits, Quetzal, who was stationed in Novgorod as a diplomat by the order of Khan Pecheneg, his guards also became instructors. Rick also has to pay a tuition fee.

As long as the conditions are ripe, the standing army will be fully cavalry, and more specifically, everyone will become a generalist.

The current conditions are quite mature.

"Is there a possibility? When I went to Frank to intervene in their civil war, I could take the cavalry directly to Hamburg along the coastline. As long as I arrived in Hamburg, it would be much easier to reach Cologne and Mainz. And to Mainz , I arrived at the main battlefield of their civil war."

"Is this too risky? Not necessarily. The Teutonic Knights arrived at Lake Pskov along this road. I walked in the opposite direction along this road, and I thought there would be no problem."

"Will you encounter obstacles from some tribes on the way? Now that the Latvian tribe has defected to me, the other Baltic tribes...should not be so boring as to block the road. I just lead the troops to pass directly, and I don't want to play their ideas, at least Not in the past few years." Rurik has to think about the issue of mobilizing troops, although next year the army and navy will operate at the same time, and the logistics cost of Ross's combat mode is relatively low, but dispatching too many troops is still a huge test for himself.

The account calculated by Ella needs to be carefully considered. The so-called Ross should send about 3,000 troops.

"Damn it, if I had 10,000 good horses, I would be able to fight like the Mongols. The logistical pressure is minimal, and I can do more..." Why did I participate in the Frankish Civil War?

Stir up the situation in Western Europe, plunder local resources, and construct a Western trade system that is beneficial to the Kingdom of Ross.

as for what

"Northern Revenge" is already in the past tense, and Rurik has found a more grandiose reason for his future action—to fulfill the treaty with the Eastern Kingdom.

The core clause of the "Northern Treaty" signed in January 1841 is that when the contracting parties encounter military attacks from others, all countries are obliged to send troops according to the treaty.

Thinking that this is a treaty personally led by him, it would be too stupid for the initiator not to fulfill the agreement. It doesn't matter whether other parties send troops or not, Ross will definitely send troops.

There is no news about the Aachen Expeditionary Force in 842. They have Odin's blessing that Rurik does not need to care.

The Aachen Expeditionary Force is only a means of fulfilling the treaty, and soon this means will be super doubled. Because Rurik patted his brain and knew that the historical "Treaty of Verdun" was concluded in 843, and the Frankish Civil War ended.

"There may be a fate-determining battle. Ross, as a newly rising northern power, cannot miss this Western European war." Has anyone criticized his past for being militaristic?

Obviously this kind of person has been scorned as a coward by the overwhelming main combat faction. Those men who might go to the battlefield were busy buying their own military supplies, and the large demand greatly stimulated the economy of the entire Ross.

After the autumn harvest, the core area of ​​the Ross Kingdom began to prepare for large-scale production again. Behind the wartime prosperity, a large amount of debt was generated, and in the end the debt was basically transferred to the soldiers who were in urgent need of battle.

No one is worried about the collapse of the debt, because it will be the king's personal conquest. It has been more than ten years, whenever Rurik participated in and commanded the battle, Ross has reaped huge benefits after the war.

War is not a business that loses money, but a shortcut for ordinary people to make a fortune. Slavic women were busy weaving cloth, making flip leather shoes, and even sewing leather scraps into gloves.

They openly sell the handicrafts of small family workshops in the Novgorod market, because the demand of the whole society is very high. Although the price of these products is not very high, they will be sold out soon after they are sold.

After all, as many as 2,600 recruits are training in the snow-covered wasteland outside Novgorod, and the boys who can be selected as soldiers must have better physical fitness, which also proves that their families' economic levels are also better.

For such children, their parents or their farms will boldly invest in the boys in training, sending them good extra meals, and even sending honey and cheese to supplement nutrition.

Spend a sum of money to buy new clothes and shoes for the additional children. Considering the wear and tear during training, you need to buy a few more clothes.

If it is not made by yourself, you can buy ready-made clothes in Novgorod. After all, the state-owned garment factory is in this city, so it is easy to buy.

Because the four new infantry banners are citizen soldiers, and Rurik will not purchase uniform uniforms and weapons for them if it is not necessary.

He didn't have to worry about that either, the child's parents and relatives could buy everything he needed for a little money, and eventually the soldiers' outfits stacked up was not a small sum of money.

The standing army, on the other hand, was financed from royal funds. In line with

The principle of "this king gives you food and drink, gives you salary, and gives you opportunities to make meritorious deeds, so you must obey me." Rurik demanded strict military management.

After the "Eastern Expedition", as soon as they came back, they started to be exhausted again. They have been busy from summer to now when the ground is covered with snow and intensive training. Now the boys have been reborn one after another.

But it's not enough! Rurik needed the boys to develop tendons at an early age, so venison and fish were plentiful, and wheat and oats were open to eat.

Rurik does not need to worry about the high cost of military training now. The Kingdom of Ross must have a strong standing army for armed defense and foreign wars.

Besides, he believes that in the end the Franks will pay for all this investment in disguise. Everything seems to be very normal, and today is the same as in the past, the fog and snow continue, and the young soldiers in only sweaters continue their sweaty military training, as if ignoring the winter cold.

Until Carlotta, one of his wives, went mad and rushed to the training ground on horseback, ignoring noble etiquette, throwing herself on her body and crying.

Looking at her crying face, she is simply a little daughter-in-law who has suffered a lot. Carlotta was originally a resolute female warrior, and it was extremely rare for her to be so sad.

"What's the matter with you?" Rurik gently pushed him away in surprise, and he noticed his son Karl out of the corner of his eyes, and he was a little relieved.

"It's war. The enemy you want to kill has appeared. Your enemy is attacking me!"

"Huh?" Rurik was a little confused,

"Could it be from Smolensk?"

"It's Vadim! It's the fugitive Vadim!" A name is deafening enough. Vadim!

Hearing this word was enough for Rurik to stiffen like a pine tree. He hesitated for a while, and couldn't help clenching his fists.

Rurik didn't talk nonsense, first he ordered his subordinates to continue training, and kissed Carlotta's forehead hard,

"Go. Go to the palace and discuss everything in detail." Forget it, he gave Fact's second son Carl a wink, and said casually: "Carl, come with me now. I just went to see your grandparents." You Houzhong Novgorod is surrounded by wooden walls, and the city walls are being strengthened all the time.

Due to the continuous expansion of stone transportation from the quarry on the shore of Lake Onega, all buildings in Novgorod also began to be slowly replaced.

New buildings made of stone, clay fired bricks, and raw cement will eventually replace the old pure wood buildings, and this is destined to be an extremely slow process, even if the newly discovered quarry in Demyansk this year will transport stone in the future, and This progress cannot be accelerated.

This is not a big problem. Rurik, who is used to living in heavy wooden buildings, has long been used to it. He only needs to pay attention to fire prevention on weekdays.

The servants chosen by old Otto for Rurik more than ten years ago are now mothers. Novgorod rose above the White Tree Manor, and they came from here, and now they have returned to their hometown to settle down.

Having **** with them can be regarded as a kind of adjustment in Rurik's life, allowing him to have more children, and when the children grow up, they will entrust other places to expand the territory of the kingdom.

However, they are wives and concubines of the lowest rank, and their offspring can only be lower-level nobles. Only a few wives and concubines and their children are truly honorable.

The most honorable person is Queen Svetlana, and now she has morning sickness again, and her body gradually begins to look strange.

It is a good thing that the royal family continues to grow. Rurik now does not care whether these descendants who are not value-added can be beaten to death. That is something in the distant future, and even he cannot control it.

The wives and concubines all gave birth to boys, so there were a lot of folk theories, and there was only one most widely spread one—the gods gave Rurik's family all male warriors.

It is only natural that the descendants of those blessed by Odin are boys! As for the high priest Velia giving birth to the eldest daughter for the king, it just proves that this statement is correct, because based on tradition, the high priest of Rose is of course a woman.

The half-brothers get together, most of them are almost two years old, one or two can walk, can speak simple sentences, and can begin to express some of their opinions to others.

Here, the oldest is the de facto third son Oleg, followed by the fourth and eldest son Osborn.

The age difference between these two brothers is very small, and naturally there is not much difference from the other ten brothers. The boys are full of energy, playing dangerous games all day in this palace.

Because he was injured and howled and lacked someone to take care of him, the little boy basically had to get up by himself and continue the dangerous game.

Don't look at many children who are less than two years old. Rose's court education is already teaching them how to be warriors.

Perhaps it is male instinct to fight each other with wooden sticks. The most common game boys do is to fight each other in groups using wooden sticks as swords on staggering rafts.

They were full of vigor like the rising sun, and the haggard old Otto, who witnessed all this, couldn't help but shed tears from his cloudy eyes.

Because, those who are obsessed with fighting every day

The "little ones" are all their grandchildren.

"Hey, may Odin give me another ten years of life, so I can watch you become real men." The Kingdom of Ross is based on tradition, and a man who spends twelve Hanukkahs in his life is an adult man, and he is obliged to pick up Weapons to fight enemies.

Ten years later, all the grandchildren in front of him will be adults, and the eldest son, Prince Osborne, should also have a fine beard by then, and maybe he will marry a wife and have children.

He has his own body and bones, and Otto deeply feels that it is Odin's reward to live to this day. He is really living day to day now, and he is also fully informed that Rurik plans to take part in the Frankish Civil War next year.

"I have never been to Frank in my life. And you! Those kings of Frank have been trampled under his feet. Poor me is too old to walk." What if I die?

Especially if he died next year and Rurik was fighting in Frank, how sad would that be?

Just bury it in the cemetery in the capital! As the Supreme King of the Ross Kingdom, Otto could guess that he would rest in a luxurious mausoleum after a state funeral.

This is understandable, the key is that Otto held his breath, he hoped to see his son defeat that Frank Lothair.

Rose will usher in the supreme glory! It was because Otto was overstretched when he was young that he was almost sixty years old and dared to drag a sled for winter hunting in the extreme cold.

He didn't think that he could live a long life, and he didn't think that he had now lived to be seventy years old. Unlike Otto, Nia, Queen Mother of Rose, was much younger than Otto when they got married.

The prettiest maiden in the tribe as an extra reward in the contest for chieftain made the final contest of the Ross tribe

"Contest" drew a strange ending. Niya is now sixty years old, and her general condition is much better.

Many people said that the old lady would live to be eighty like the deceased high priest Vilia. But Niya has been an honest and responsible woman all her life, and has experienced the pain of bereavement, UU Reading www. uukanshu. com Now he is faced with an overwhelming number of grandchildren.

The blond hair has turned into blue silk, and one boy after another calls himself grandma in a milky way. Happiness is real happiness, but it is a bit too much.

She just lived peacefully in her old age, and she didn't care about tribal political affairs all her life, and now she doesn't care even more when facing the larger Ross Kingdom.

She only cares about a few things at present, such as going to the far south of Frank, poor grandson Regraf, grand nephew Askad who went to the capital of Frank, and adopted daughter Carlota who took the children to expand the territory in the south.

She simply hopes that her children will be safe, and she also expects them to make a fortune overseas. She has lived in this slightly contradictory state of mind for sixty years.

The old couple seems to be the guests of this new era, everything has changed, Ross is no longer the Ross in memory.

And all of this is Rose's choice. Seventy years ago, the leader of the class arrived at Saugon in the Ilmen Lake area with a mighty fleet, and now this lake area is already the home of the Ross people...

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