Rise of Rurik Chapter 461

"The Rise of Rurik (

The Ross people evacuated with the cash box, and they soon returned to the top of the mound.

To the left with the enthusiasm of his men, Rurik has no joy in getting the "ransom."

"What's the matter? My brother, are you tired of walking and unhappy?" Arik's smile was presumptuous, and he pushed Rurik vigorously and advocated: "They really are a bunch of cowards, I'm afraid they won't dare to come to a decisive battle. "

"Then it's your plan. Our army climbed or bypassed the mounds and went straight to Visby." Rurik said casually.

"Oh, then I still hope that they will send someone. I will destroy them in one go and let the brothers take possession of their women."

Rurik doesn't care about his cousin's remarks. He knows the tricks of the soldiers, and he also realizes the true meaning of the great events of the soldier country.

This is a bet on all the things of the Rus tribe. It seems that a huge army has been assembled, but for this army, failure is the end of everything, and the cost of heavy casualties is the result of a tragic victory. It's better than failure.

Rurik claimed to be more sober, or more cautious, than Arik.

Mokan has won many early victories. If he becomes arrogant and complacent because of this, will he suffer a big loss in the decisive battle?

"Aric!" Rurik thought of something and hurriedly called his cousin.

"What's wrong? What did you think of?"

"After we go back, don't say anything about money."

"What? Why?! We have taken such a big advantage, how can we not let the brothers know? Wouldn't it be nice for everyone to be happy?!"

"On the contrary." Rurik closed his eyes and settled: "We will not publicly display the coins after we go back. I will publicly declare the vile and shameless Visby people."

"What is this for?"

"Tell my brothers that we were deceived by the enemy! We released the prisoners. They dropped the boxes and left. As a result, the boxes were full of mud." Having said that, Rurik thought of another trick: "We will immediately after returning. Take out the silver coins, stuff them into the dirt on the spot, and display them in public."

In this war, Arik appeared to be a reckless man who killed him. He couldn't realize these tactics of his brother, so he had no shame to ask what happened.

"Hey, I just want to make my brothers angry! Arik, anger brings courage. Rus, Novgorod, Kovin, everyone in our team was deceived by the enemy, so that everyone has it. If you want to kill the enemy, you will have no hesitation. Arik, what do you want to do with those who deceive you?"

Until then, Arik finally realized that this was a way for the brother to boost morale, so he smiled presumptuously: "Of course it is to cut off the liar's head."

"Then go ahead. I will leave some people for eyeliner and pile up some branches. There is still some dried cow dung under the mound. Collect some and put it on the pyre."

"Do you have any plans?"

"Because the burning cow dung will produce obvious thick smoke. When our eyeliner saw the enemy move, we lit the pyre, and the brothers stood up and prepared to fight! The enemy will still take a while to reach our scheduled battlefield. What they face when they arrive is our army that is properly prepared."

The younger brother does have the "wisdom bestowed by Odin". He obviously has a clear insight into the future decisive battle, and he can even predict the enemy's attack and make deployments. Apart from admiration, Arik was left with unconditional cooperation.

Ten people remained on the mound. They had excellent eyesight, all of them were good at fighting, and they were also good at hiding themselves in the withered bushes. They began to actively pile up the pyre, keeping the flammable tinder carefully, and staring at Visby in the west.

Rurik and Arik returned to the camp with the victorious team. It was still the evening of the 17th.

Seeing that the brothers returned, most of the people who were busy building the field camp for a busy day just waved in greeting from a distance.

Some people don't care about physical fatigue, and happily greet the returnees, but they are surprised to learn that the returnees have been deceived!

Along the way, Rurik colluded with his brothers, and even Grund, the apostate Dan, said with everyone: "We were deceived by the Visby King! There are no coins, only sand."

The news quickly reached Otto's ears, and it turned out to be such a result, calming down the manic heart, Otto felt that since the Gotlanders had betrayed the Alliance, it was not unusual for them to do something deceptive. This matter still needs to be inquired carefully after seeing my son and nephew.

Soon, the Rurik brothers returned to the Duke's tent.

To put it bluntly, after digging and inserting wood in the daytime, the Russ just dug the soil and built a half-person-high circular low wall, which made the camp a good windproof function. But it is clearly not just windproof! If the brothers continue to dig the soil, even if they only reach the height of one person, it is equivalent to saying that the Ross people have built a fortress.

The enemy suddenly appears, and it is also good for them to attack the fortress aggressively. In this way, the Russ army can take advantage of the geographical advantage and continuously fire arrows from high places to cause damage.

It even transformed the camp into a star fort with multiple lobes.

The thought flashed by, and Rurik knew that he could do it, but it was not necessary based on reality.

Which commander would be stupid enough to let the brothers who are in desperate battle be exhausted by persisting in civil engineering the day before the war? Besides, the strength of the Russ army is by no means a disadvantage, and it is impossible to rely on the defensive attributes of Starcastle to make up for the deficiency.

But the army's camp is still a substantial tactical highland, and the Russian long-range firepower has reasons to take advantage of this advantage.

Rurik and Arik were sitting in the Duke's tent, and the captains of the flag teams gathered here.

Looking at the battle, Lurik was not here to report on his duties, but it was obvious that the officers of the entire army gathered together for a pre-war meeting.

Seeing that his son and nephew were in good health, Otto let out a sigh of relief: "As soon as you came back, the army was rumored that you were deceived by the enemy. They didn't give money? Don't put it in appreciation. The Gotland people are traitors, traitors. Promises are not credible."

Rurik shook his head with a calm face, and then greeted the people standing outdoors carrying boxes into the tent one after another, unloading the boxes and evacuating immediately.

Otto squinted his eyes and stared at these suitcases: "The suitcases are not bad, but it's a pity... is all sand?"

Rurik didn't speak, he stood up and opened the box at will, showing Mandengdeng's silver coins to everyone.

All the boxes opened one after another, and a large number of silver coins shocked everyone.

Otto stood up suddenly and exclaimed deeply: "They didn't lie to us?! They gave money?!"

"Yes, they gave the money, but..." Rurik motioned to the frightened people to be quiet, and listened to him to explain the whole story. "I was deliberately creating public opinion. Presumably, outside this tent, everyone is talking about the Gotlanders. It's a liar. This is what I need. Now I will take out all the silver coins and replace them with dirt on the spot. Tomorrow, I will show these boxes full of dirt in public."

Otto shot out his right hand suddenly, beckoning his son not to repeat, and then giggled. Harrodsson, the same old guy, also laughed.

"What a clever boy, so everyone can't hate them!"

"Yes!" Rurik's face remained calm, and he made a special statement: "It just so happens that all the flag captains are here. I tell you, I have a head-to-head negotiation with King Gotland, the man named Harken. I declare. The day of the decisive battle was the 19th. We ambushed their people, killed the captured Siegfast, and brought back so many silver coins. I believe they will send troops to a decisive battle after being so humiliated..."

Rurik said a lot, and Otto felt more and more complicated. "Ruriek, if their army never showed up on the 19th, what will our army do?"

"Then on the 20th, our army will take the initiative to attack! I believe this is actually the real choice of the soldiers. After all, we will defeat the Gotlanders of Visby. I hope that the enemy will fight with our army on the bridge village battlefield we arranged. The decisive battle, so that the price we pay for victory will be the smallest. I also believe that that man will carry out his words and move all the Gotland fighters to a decisive battle with me on the 19th."

Otto looked around happily: "Look, the war is just around the corner, we should prepare well. You all remember that there are only friends and enemies on the battlefield, and there is no distinction between old people and children. The people who tell you when you return, there will be no decisive battle. No mercy."

Everyone screamed in agreement.

Rurik did not finish his words, although it is wishful thinking to assume that the decisive battle is that the enemy will dig into the preset location. Since this possibility has become very high, the Ross people should use their advantages to fight the decisive battle. Arrange the place well.

As a military commander, he immediately designed a decisive battle formation.

The formation used to be rehearsed on Tombstone Island remained unchanged, and the Russ still had to finally use pincers to kill the enemy's vital forces as much as possible. The biggest adjustment made here is that the Russ will lean their backs on their camp, and the wind-breaking walls that they built to face the west will continue to dig up the soil tomorrow until they reach the height of an adult warrior. All torsion slingshots will be placed on it. When the war began, all the crossbowmen who could not fight head-on retreated to the earth wall, especially those ten-year-old warriors. They used their crossbows and slingshots to continuously output firepower.

Such a frontal hack and hack of a strong man in armor, and continuous arrow shooting at the rear, warfare has become an unprecedented three-dimensional combat in the Nordic world.

No one has seen such a battle. It is currently based on Rurik's personal dictation, and listeners can only rely on brain supplements to taste the excitement.

The silver coins in the box were all dumped, and a dirt pit was quickly dug out of the Duke's tent, all the silver was buried in the pit, and the excess soil was stuffed into the box.

Thanks to the protection of the low earth wall, this hateful northwest wind did not cause much trouble to the Rus army in the camp.

Here, the literati are the most active in digging soil. They are good at building wood and soil piled mountain fortresses, and they have given the most direct technical guidance to the construction of low walls in the Ross Army camp. Of course, they also dug themselves a pile of earth pits that were mocked as graves, on which a large number of branches were built to form sheds, and there was a cave inside. This is a half-crypted house, and the effect of keeping warm and windproof is really not mentioned.

Time soon arrived on the 18th. In the morning of that day, the Ross people's fleet arrived off the coast of Visby Harbor and sank the fugitive merchant ships.

In the afternoon, the Russ eyeliner on the mound suddenly saw the large ships on the distant sea!

These people must have good eyesight, and the air is extremely clear. There are some boats floating abruptly on the vast sea, and they all have unique triangular sails.

A messenger frantically ran back to the camp where the Russ army was still stepping up deployment, and reported the arrival of Gould's fleet to Rurik and Otto.

Just in the early morning of this day, when the soldiers had finished gnawing on the jerky and were about to do something, Rurik greeted his mercenaries to deliberately make a noise in the camp.

Soon more than a thousand people rushed to gather in front of the Duke's camp.

The suitcases were all opened, and the sand inside was in sight. Rurik, Arik and Otto, the three of them spoke loudly one after another, denounced the Gotland people as liars, which aroused the excitement of the community!

Soon, the angry soldiers smashed these boxes, and the chaotic scene almost led to an accident of rubbing him.

Two sturdy mercenaries made saddles with their hands, Rurik stepped on them, and the whole person was on a high place.

When the mood of the excited people eased a little, he began to announce in a voice familiar to everyone: "Brothers! King Gotland is a liar! The day of the battle! Tomorrow! War! Kill them!"

Thousands of eyes were focused on the handsome face of the boy with the golden ponytail, and Rique's blond hair was blown by the northwest wind.

Becoming the king of all eyes, Rurik has been infected by this exhilarating atmosphere. He held up his right fist and yelled: "War! War! War!"

He doesn't need a long story, he can actually publish a "discussion on a thief" but it is not necessary.

He focused on two concepts: everyone is deceived by the enemy, and everyone should take revenge by war.

He used the simplest words to interpret his tough attitude, and quickly aroused people's fighting spirit.

People began to chant war. At this moment, who can question the morale of the Ross army?

Some really insignificant toolmen, such as the Baisha Port prisoners who were willing to serve in order to survive, got part of the shovel to dig the earth, or only with one hand, under the supervision of the Ross fighters, the ground of the camp was constantly facing the wall of the west accumulation. Some of them dared to slack off, and they would be beaten and kicked by the Ross people, even though their hands were full of blood, they were still forging ahead.

If left in the past, Rurik would be touched by these tools.

But now, these guys are destined to become victims of the war, and Rurik only spared their lives temporarily. I am afraid that these guys will all die tomorrow.

Gould's fleet arrived at Visby Port and immediately imposed a military blockade on the port. Although the news was communicated in the afternoon, Rurik estimated that the enemy must have completely cut off the idea of ​​fleeing at sea early in the morning.

The enemy either sits and waits to die, or goes to a decisive battle. As the port is blocked, the enemy no longer has C option.

The day of the decisive battle is coming!

On the eighteenth day of August in the Julian calendar, for a whole day the Russian soldiers were basically recharging their energy.

It can be said that most of them sit and lie idle all day long. The construction of the earth wall was done by the slaves in Baisha Port. The brothers only needed to sit on the grass and use the sandstone in their burlap backpacks to keep sharpening their axes and spearheads.

The crossbowmen counted all their arrows, plus those inferior arrows seized at Baisha Port. The number of bow arrows and crossbow arrows currently held by the Ross people reached a staggering 30,000, which is equivalent to all of them. Each crossbow is equipped with nearly ninety arrows on average. This is only for the crossbow. It is installed on a trolley with a torsion slingshot, and at the same time some javelins with tails and cast iron bullets are fixed.

Rurik ordered the tribal women to sew the "Rus people's strap-and-mouth backpack", which basically had one soldier. There were some personal belongings of the soldiers in the bag, and some arrows were also required to help transport them.

Most of the arrows packed in bundles are still mounted on reindeer carts, and now the situation has changed dramatically. Those seized reindeer were carrying supplies. Even if there were a large number of reindeer, the main force of the Russ army made the march quite daunting due to the large amount of supplies and equipment carried, and they had to detour when they encountered the mound.

Every soldier carried a lot of weight when marching. Fortunately, the men of the Ross tribe had already developed strong endurance while rowing desperately in peacetime.

All the sweat is for this decisive battle, and the decisive battle is imminent, and many people just have a short sleep overnight. They couldn't fall asleep purely because of excitement, but the little soldiers who had been brought to life by Rurik were sleeping soundly. They still don't know what the decisive battle means, but in the usual training, the girls in the team have already become resistant to blood. They kept in mind Lord Rurik's order, and each knew their position and role in the decisive battle.

But the appointed day of the decisive battle, the nineteenth day of August in the Julian calendar, perhaps today is just a peaceful beginning?

Early in the morning, Lumia built a decent altar in the camp. With all the sacrifices, they wore flower crowns made of wild chrysanthemums picked on the spot to make a pre-war sacrifice for the decisive battle.

A reindeer was sacrificed, and Lumia held the cut deer liver as usual and announced Odin's will to the gathered people-Rose will win.

This is really a business as usual. There is too much good news. The Russian army has long believed that Odin has rewarded the army with the blessing of victory. The action of the high priest is only a strengthening of belief.

It is early in the morning that everyone hopes that the enemy will appear after the thin morning mist disappears, and then the two armies will fight the Russian army to achieve a victory, and in the evening the army will be able to march into Visby and looting wantonly.

However, the enemy did not appear, instead the dark clouds completely dispersed and the sun came back!

Although the wind was still blowing from the west, everyone was illuminated by the warm sun, and their bodies were full of strength, and there was an urgent need to hack and kill a few enemies to cheer them up.

The earth wall facing the west has been repaired, and Arik sat on the top of the wall boredly, with all ten torsion slingshots in place beside him.

He gnawed on the dried fish, his eyes facing west.

Rurik sat quietly beside his cousin, looking blank, as if simply waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

"It seems that we are going to be disappointed. I really looked at that Harken. He is going to be a tortoise with a shrunken head, waiting for me to smash the shell with a big axe." Arik mocked fiercely.

"Don't worry~www.mtlnovel.com~ Maybe they are on their way."

"You just look at them too highly, I have waited for a long time, and everything is calm as usual?" Arik shook his head and threw away the dried fish. "I have eaten enough dry food. I have to go and talk to Lumia. The sacrificial stag that is roasting, I have to eat a deer leg."

Arik stood up and had come down the mound, looking for the aroma of barbecue and leaving.

Suddenly, Rurik stood up, turned and shouted to his cousin: "Arik! Smoke is coming from the mound!"

Like an electric shock, Arik, who wandered freely, turned around abruptly. He stared into the west, and the mounds really emitted thick smoke again, and it became more and more dense.

There is nothing to hesitate anymore!

Arik drew his sword abruptly and ran like a cheetah, while roaring like a lion: "The Gotlanders are here! Fight!"

The Ross army immediately became nervous. After seeing the warning "wolf smoke", they began to line up according to their own flag team, and they lined up the array very quickly to meet the enemy.

Yes it is! In the early morning of this day, King Haken of Gotland, with his army of various personnel, began to climb over the mound and rush towards the decisive battlefield in Bridge Village.

At this point, there is nothing to worry about. In this battle, the Gotland army just assembled as many as six thousand people! Even though there are a large number of too young boys and a large group of female soldiers, they are still a powerful military force.

Harken saw the sudden smoke from the top of the mound and asserted that this was the warning from the Ross people.

There is nothing to hesitate anymore!

The two armies separated by a hill, the commanders of the two sides and most of the soldiers had a surprisingly consistent attitude-since the decisive battle has been decided, let the decisive battle come as promised.

The decisive battle related to the rise and fall of the Gotland and the Rus officially broke out.

Chapter end