Rise of Rurik Chapter 420

The wealth accumulated by the residents of Borgholm was in the possession of the Swedish army in one day.

Although the cost of heavy casualties was paid, the wealth plundered by the army instantly made every surviving soldier rich.

However, the high-intensity voyage of the army has been going on for more than ten days. They are not tireless gods of war. When the fortress declared surrender, the tight-stringed soldiers were discouraged.

Olekin can be sure that his task is not to attack Kalmar immediately. His team is exhausted and its strength is greatly reduced. Without an important repair, attacking Kalmar can be said to be home delivery.

He controls the wealth and food of the entire fort, and has worked **** the issue of distributing the spoils.

Even though Carl was not satisfied with his father's distribution strategy, Olekin forced to complete his decision, and the result, as expected, was the support of the friendly army.

He was once the leader, now the king, he was never the puppet of the Melaren landlord!

Like the Yilmalun people who paid a lot of casualties, they distributed a lot of spoils, and the other tribes also enjoyed quite rich spoils.

His Mellaren tribe sent the most troops and took the lead in fighting bad battles. It is understandable that he won the most spoils, but in order to win the hearts of the people, Olegin did not take a lot of silver coins.

What is Borgholm fortress? In the past few days, everyone has indeed fought fierce battles, but the wealth here is not abundant.

Kalmar of the Danes, that is the treasure place where Jinshan Yinshan is stacked!

The Mellaren army received a large amount of jerky fish and cheese, and immediately slaughtered all the cattle and sheep of the fortress Saxons to make jerky meat to fill the army.

Like locusts, they swept away all the belongings of the Saxons, but they also gave the surrender enough food.

However, the existing food is not enough to support a possible future war.

The rain is completely over, the summer rain is always like this, coming and going fast.

The calm sea is still floating with ships, and the tribes of the Swedish army are sending people to fish in the sea. There are also people looking for edible shells on the beach and entering the sparse woods to hunt rabbits.

Olekin gave the coalition "a holiday" and ordered Stein, who surrendered, to hand over some young women for the army to have fun.

The Saxons agreed to this humiliating order because they had no choice...

Food, silver coins, and women. These are the ways Olekin can think of to stabilize the military's mind.

According to the contract, he didn't give the Ross people much spoils, but "rewarded" some dried fish and cheese. The stingy behavior made the dukes of various tribes feel that Otto would be furious, but the ease-going of the Ross people was unexpected.

There really is an unspeakable deal between Rose and Mellaren?

The Ross people sitting on the big ship hit the present, and their huge cabins are empty. What are they showing? Is it just the honor of victory?

A lively coastal settlement has turned into a huge military camp. The prosperity of the past is gone, and there are only thousands of eye-catching eyes and an appetite that can never be fed.

At least Rurik's foresight has made the Rus' rations very sufficient now. Eating stored food for a long time will inevitably make everyone feel bored. No, two cargo ships are transformed into fishing boats, and they drag their respective reserves of hemp rope nets and swim back and forth near the sea. Not to mention the unexpected fishing. Batch of silver herring.

A sunny afternoon, there are still two days before the new expedition.

Staying in the camp on the coast, Rurik was bored with a wooden crossbow, and his guys used the design of a rotten wooden target as a game.

Where's Otto? He just gnawed a shot duck at noon and took another sip of the treasured liquor. He is still taking a nap in the tent.

Many warriors instantly turned into hunters, especially the Corvins. Excellent young archers such as Telavis used their superb archery skills to kill including but not limited to norse ducks, white-headed loons, and seagulls.

The wide range of long-range weapons equipped by the Ross people directly dealt a major blow to the birds fishing in the coastal waters. In normal times, these vigilant birds are difficult to catch by the locals. Unexpectedly, there were a few arrow rains or a group of masters shooting squirrels. The Ross people soon began to roast these hunted birds by the campfire. meat.

For a girl like Carlotta, Rurik also confessed to her a mission. All of the ten Slavic maids of Rurik followed Carlota, hitting the reef on the beach with axes and knives to harvest mussels on a large scale.

The fishing boat finally came back, and the two large bales of fish were thrown down by the people on the boat laughing like fools.

As night fell, Rurik, who had played a bow in the day, was sitting by the campfire. In front of him was a string of grilled herring. In a crockpot were seawater-boiled mussels and two roasted wild duck legs. .

Otto still hugged a bird that was so cooked that he couldn't see it, and he kept praising that the island was not as barren as it seemed.

"It's really a good place. Wouldn't those Saxons settle here? This duck is so fat that we in Roseburg can't enjoy it."

Rurik ate the fish leisurely, and said casually: "I'm afraid Olekin doesn't want to stay here. We will attack Kalmar in two days. When the battle is over, everyone will return. What will Borgholm do? fate?"

"That's not something we want to take care of." Otto looked disapproving. Looking back at Rurik, he had an inexplicable worry, and Otto undoubtedly saw this.

"You don't have any worries. It's Olekin's war now. We will accompany him to finish the game, nothing more."

"Alright alright……"

Rurik didn't want to say something for the time being. He didn't think that attacking the Kalmar army would encounter setbacks, because the intelligence of all parties pointed out that Kalmar has a large number of wealthy fish merchants, and only these talents will build wooden walls. Without a vicious solid wooden wall, why should the coalition forces be afraid?

The threat did not come from Kalmar, but the Danes from afar!

Rurik, who has a good understanding of the geographical structure of the region, knows that the southernmost point of the island that everyone now occupies is not far from the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark.

At this point in the war, are the Danes pretending to be deaf and dumb, just sitting and watching their people being slaughtered, and their interests being violated?

Rurik was quiet for a while, and changed his suggestion: "Dad, we should think about the problem of encountering the main Danish force. Maybe when we are here to rest, Danish fighters have already entered Kalmar to wait for work."

Otto had never thought about these things. Since the war has been going very smoothly, he felt that the next battle was as smooth as it was.

"You mean to fight the Danes on a large scale?"

"Perhaps!"

"Oh! That would be great!" Otto threw the duck meat that had been eaten in half, and started eagerly.

"No! Don't be impulsive, I don't want to fight the Danes on a large scale now."

"Why? We should settle accounts with them a long time ago. An opportunity for endless glory lies in front of you. Many people will become famous because of this, so you are willing not to participate?" Otto questioned, in fact, he hopes to get it again in the twilight of his life. It's glorious, even if it's a glorious death in battle.

Rurik didn't want to pursue these things at the wrong time and place. He saw that his father became serious and his attitude became serious: "We just want to avoid fighting the Danes unless they have to fight. According to me Look, Olekin still wants to expand his victory after he has taken Kalmar. That man has become king, and his ambition is probably swollen to attack Denmark in an all-round way. If he really has such a plan, I will retreat on the Aphrodite quickly. ."

"Huh?" Otto shook for a while, "Run?"

"Where is the escape, I have to go back quickly. The Ross people must all unite to deal with the Danish counterattack."

So far, Otto did not say anything...

The conversation by the bonfire came to a thrilling end. If Rurik's words came from others, Otto would be too lazy to believe it, but Rurik was so swearing that he had to consider this possibility. As far as their current strength is concerned, do the Ross people really have the ability to fight against the whole of Denmark as a family?

Maybe in the future, at least not now.

On the macro level, Rurik is just looking at the strength of the Danes, because this is in line with historical facts. The history that Rurik knows, because the Danes control the rare warmth of northern Europe, their agricultural conditions are better, and they can afford a larger population.

In fact, Rurik's knowledge is only a part of his understanding. The sea area from Jutland to Bernholm Island is the so-called Örele Sea fishing ground. Herring is prosperous here, and the end of the fishing ground extends to the entire Kalmar Strait, which is why the Ross people can catch a lot of herring on the spot.

A new journey is just around the corner, and just the day before the expedition, the Swedish army, which has been recuperating about the same time, has recovered its former spirit. They became very aggressive because of Olekin's public propaganda: "The Danish merchants in Kalmar are extremely wealthy, and every fighter there can become rich!"

The soldiers at the bottom of the tribes, who are themselves fishermen and peasants, risked their lives to fight in order to get the spoils of war.

Relying on this group of energetic fighters, Olekin felt that he had a chance to win, and as expected, just as Rurik estimated, Olekin's ambitions were already swelling, and he hoped to lay down a big territory through his own conquering operations!

He is not a pirate after all. He must always control a large tribe that attaches great importance to agriculture. Olekin has always had the idea of ​​expanding his territory. In his twilight years, he can't wait to eat more and more territories.

No, he officially began to arm the Voskas and Saxons again, and officially appointed Stein as the Duke of Borgholm, even if the settlement was almost looted.

In exchange, Stein was ordered to organize a large army, that is, his tribe, from boys over twelve to men over fifty, all taking up arms and joining the army. All of a sudden, Stein was stunned to organize an "army" of as many as 700 people. It was the strength of these people. No one thought they were really strong soldiers.

Olekin can't take care of that much anymore, and the two servants are stunned to put together a lineup of close to a thousand people.

He couldn't be completely at ease with these people, so the weapons he gave them were extremely simple. They can't think about Armor, even if they put on another layer of leather, they won't allow it. They have two weapons, the short spear and the hand axe, and the only defensive device is a wooden shield.

Stein fully understands that he will lead his tribe to participate in the attack on Kalmar, and as an important force to charge forward, he will have to pay a lot of sacrifices if he wants to. But he really has no choice. Even if he wants to rebel, the Kalmar people who have been attacked know how to do it. Didn't they counterattack any armed men who rushed indiscriminately?

After this tossing, the women of Saxony cried faintly, and the wailing sound made Olekin scream unlucky.

The fighters of the various tribes of the coalition army were confident about their expedition tomorrow morning. Every one of them got silver coins. They were so excited to think that the new battle could get more, and they selectively ignored the possibility of casualties.

Like the Saxon servants who were forced to assemble, a large number of people could not sleep at night because of fear. They never thought that they would fight with the people who settled in Kalmar. The two sides had nothing to do with each other for so many years. Bilateral trade was normal. They did not expect that the harmonious two sides would be forced to fight each other.

War is not something that a group of Saxons can control. The next morning, the soldiers who awoke ate fish or other food, and pushed the boats to the tidal flat, waiting for the morning tide to rise.

The Saxons and Voskars boarded their own ships one after another, being watched by the Merlaren army's fleet.

The Ross people also returned to their big ship early, and the Aphrola once again acted as a perfect follower closely following the Merlaren fleet, which actually blocked the cowardly retreat of the servant fleet.

As if being oppressed by the roar of a huge beast, Stein on the ship always felt that the huge ship would easily crash his own boat. In fact, once a collision occurs, it is true.

Now Stein has understood everything in the previous battle. The owner of the big ship is the Ross, which is the "hateful Ross" mentioned by the Gotland. Three years ago, Arik led his troops to raid a stronghold on Gotland Island, and the crazy killing became a nightmare for the entire island.

This time Stein fully understood where the nightmare of "Hateful Ross" came from. These people are indeed part of the so-called Swedish army, but they seem to be free. For example, in combat, those **** arrows were almost all fired by the Rus, making the wooden wall a very dangerous place.

It can be seen that in the next battle, the Kalmar will also repay the suffering of being shot and killed by the rain of arrows.

It was precisely in this battle that Stein's thought was completely subverted, and the arrow was such a terrifying weapon!

The army set out in the morning, and because of the extremely long day, the morning here is actually very early.

The voyage waiting for the Swedish Army is actually only a mere 30 kilometers, even if it is sailing against the wind, such a distance is a continuous journey of up to six hours.

Soon, the army began to pass through the most homes of the Kalmar Strait. Standing on the bow deck of the ship, Rurik could clearly see the east and west land, only because the current strait was confined to a mere three kilometers.

"Everyone is more vigilant, we will encounter enemies at any time, and be prepared to destroy their ship!" While Rurik shouted orders, he himself stayed in the bow for a long time.

The mercenaries operating all the torsion slingshots roared, as if they were about to start a sea battle with the enemy.

However, looking at the narrow sea, it was empty, and only the huge fleet of the Swedish army passed this narrowest part peacefully.

It is a relatively wide sea area, but in fact, you can still see the east and west land, because the width of the strait in front is only about seven kilometers.

The calm sea worries Rurik. He is afraid that the enemy will suddenly emerge from some fjords and be caught off guard by the Allied forces. Even if the Russ are fearless, it is too sudden for other teams.

"Why are you still on it, this is already a battlefield, you quickly enter the cabin and stay quiet!" Standing on the lower deck, Otto shouted and hurriedly climbed onto the bow.

He pressed Rurik's head and commanded: "Go down now."

"It's too quiet." Lurik said coldly.

"Quiet what?"

"I'm afraid the enemy is ready. It stands to reason that there should be a lot of fishing boats in this sea area, but we are the only one in the end."

Otto looked optimistic: "The enemy must be scared. It doesn't matter. Our strength is strong, and Olekin is determined to win."

"Ah! Look! The land ahead, I think Kalmar is here!"

Rurik pointed to a relatively vague area, which was land, showing signs of being considered to have been developed. More and more people saw the clues in the distance, and Otto, squinting his eyes, concluded that it was a settlement.

"Ruriek, if the surrenders are right, this is Kalmar, the ultimate goal of our army. Honey, go down!"

"I don't." Freed from his father's hand, Rurik pointed his sword forward: "Brothers, get ready to fight. Even if we don't land, we will use a torsion slingshot to support the friendly forces!"

The soldiers roared again.

Upon seeing this, Otto smiled with satisfaction, and returned to the lower deck, only because he wanted to organize the soldiers to wait for the opportunity to support firepower, so-called to give possible nearshore defense enemies a wave of blows ~ www.mtlnovel.com ~ let the coalition forces The landing forces have been fighting smoothly.

The battlefield became clearer and clearer. Carl took the lead with some black-clothed warriors in three ships. This matter was supported by Olekin. He needed his prince to make great contributions in this "decisive battle" in order to obtain direct results Ruling legitimacy, so the risk is worthwhile.

No, Carl squinted his eyes. He already saw the panicked people in the fishing village over Kalmar.

"Haha! We still caught them by surprise! Brothers, crazy paddling, the glory belongs to Mellaren! Go!" He held Olekin's sword high, standing on the boat as if flying.

The Mellaren army once again took the lead in rushing to the beach, but what awaited them was indeed the Kalmar residents who had made some preparations.

It can be said that those Kalmar people who have not evacuated, whether they are Danes, Gotarans, Gotlanders, or Norwegians, must fight the attackers for their wealth and their property.

A big battle is inevitable. Fortunately, all the Swedish troops have made adequate preparations for a decisive battle long before they set out. Many people even regarded it as a "sacred battle to qualify for entry into Valhalla."

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