Rise of Rurik Chapter 565

Chapter 565: When the Ice Sea Thaws

Will the Tavastia invaders increase their troops? How many people will they send? Did they give up after repeated consideration?

As far as current intelligence is concerned, those intruders will not run until they are beaten up.

Going to fight in the east, maybe you can hack and kill a thousand enemies? This kind of good thing made Ross's warriors sharpen their swords early.

But even if the war was won, Rurik estimated that he would not get any benefit in the war. Although this could be a battle for military training, after all, there was nothing in the enemy's place. He didn't want this battle to be too long, so he had to vomit blood for three liters in the first battle, so that he would not dare to attack for a long time.

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

Since the first letter was sent, Arik's messengers have brought new messages in an average of five days, reporting on their experiences in the occupied old gray squirrel hill fort.

But the thawing of the sea was unstoppable, and the sea melted before the snow on the land. This forced the new style of sleigh rides to circle the entire bay by the end of March, and then return to Fort Elon.

The new messenger arrived, and the man returned in a humble manner, and he had only one sentence to report.

Even a word is exciting news.

Now this news has spread in Roseburg, which is about to move. Hundreds of brawny men are holding their shirtless, showing their chests full of golden breasts, holding axes and swords high to cheer the enemy's increase in troops!

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

The courtyard of Rurik's palace reappears on the flat concrete floor. The servant had already cleaned up the snow, and almost got the enlightenment of that John Invall, and the lambs of these masters became more willing to work.

The ground that had been so frozen was gradually becoming muddy. In the noon sun, the ice drooping on the houses was dripping quickly. In order to avoid a sudden fall and cause injuries, the people are already removing these dangerous objects.

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

Especially the flag captain and centurion who had been canonized by him during the previous conquest of Gotland, a group of martial arts fighters sat in two rows with enthusiasm.

Rurik sat proudly on the bearskin throne 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 ate granola, he announced in good spirits: "We have been wandering around the mountain fort, attacking and killing the Tavastian hunters. We watched the other day. When a large number of spear-bearers and bow-bearers entered the mountain fort, Lord Arik asked the brothers to evade for the time being. After investigation, we can estimate the enemy's strength."

"How many? Is there really a thousand?"

"Yes. At least a thousand people, maybe more in reality."

"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 look at them too highly. If instead of fifty people but five hundred are sent, the enemy will have been wiped out. Sir, we have been fighting in ambushes for more than a month, and there is no one. casualties."

Rurik nodded, looked at the confident faces of the men on the left and right, and asked himself if he had sent a strong expeditionary force before Kejas issued the alarm more than a month ago, the war problem should be resolved.

Now he, the decision maker, decides how many troops should be dispatched. The brothers are waiting for him to make his decision, because the sea is about to thaw.

"Okay. Spring comes early this year, and wheat in the distance can be sown in advance, and autumn is another bumper harvest."

As he said, Rurik stood up: "I was cautious to think that they are powerful enemies. In that case, I decided to respect the group of enemies who invaded the territory of Ross."

Otto was keenly aware that his son had some hidden whimsical ideas, and suddenly said: "You... never send a thousand people to crusade?"

"No! The greatest respect for them is to kill them all. Why should I fight with their equivalent forces? Is the bay very wide? Our sailboat can reach the opposite shore in the fastest day time, and after the sea ice dissolves, Many fishermen will also go there to fish. I will dispatch two thousand people and let them see how good I am."

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

Taking advantage of all the centurion and flag captains being there, he immediately made arrangements.

Rurik's deployment of troops is like this:

Warriors first flag team, Mellaren flag team. The two flag teams have a strength of 1,000.

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

There is also Rurik's elite guard here, when there are a hundred people in the battle.

As a result, the Ross people sent a team of 1,700 people, and the remaining 300 soldiers were naturally filled by the Balmerks.

Even the Ostala people will send out soldiers symbolically, but Carlotta and her handful of selected female fighters will be incorporated into the shooting flag team to participate in the battle.

As for why the second flag team was not brought in, in Rurik's plan, the second flag team was to follow Otto to Novgorod to ask for tribute in addition to guarding the rear and waiting for opportunities to provide support.

After the meeting, Rurik refined his troop arrangements in two days.

Even if he only heard the number of troops sent, Balmerk's Bjorn brothers were very envious.

Bjorn, he envied Rurik's powerful appeal. He was obviously only a young man, and he was a response from more than two thousand people when he raised his arms.

But the subsequent assembly of the army brought Bjorn a complete shock.

What a neat scene!

The first flag team of the Warriors, the flag captain should have been served by Arik, but since he was still on the other side of the sea to improve guerrilla tactics, Haro Zuosen temporarily led the position of flag captain.

As for the Mälaren flag team, the force composition of this unit is mostly allied tribes who defected to the Ross people, and even the Danish Grund and his friends who surrendered to the battlefield. The leader of the flag is still the Mälaren tribe of Heliger Old soldier.

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

In the Rus Principality, she essentially became a hodgepodge of various ethnic groups. The Rus tribe occupies the highest military power, and Rurik could not refuse other people's pursuit of status and status. The Principality of Ross is an imaginary community, and if the hearts of the people disperse, the Principality will also collapse.

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

Now all the Ross fighters are dressed exactly the same, no matter what they are wearing inside, they are all dressed in white robes without knees with interlaced blue patterns on the outside.

Everyone's bucklers are no longer painted in a variety of ways. Of course, fighters can pursue their own personality to make a personal shield, but when going out, everyone must be prepared to apply turpentine and chalk on one side, and then dye it with isatis blue. Round shield with cross blue pattern.

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

Even the "child troops" dispatched with Rurik, the selected teenagers and girls were dressed like this.

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

The prime-age warrior not only carried a sword and a shield, but also held a short spear in his hand. There was also a blue and white cloth strapped under the spear head.

They assembled and formed a matrix for the first time, shocking Biyunni and his men to be ashamed. Compared with the uniformity of the Ross people, their own people are extremely useless!

In the end, each other is brothers, seeing how the sibling troops are taking care of themselves, how can Rurik feel comfortable. Roseburg has been buying flax rods on a large scale before, and now flax has gone through a process to turn it into this white shirt. There are still a lot of white cloths in stock, and Rurik sold it to Bijuni at a fair price, just to distinguish the real Ross army. The three hundred warriors of Balmerk's army were only wrapped in white shirts.

The first assembly was just to prepare for the real military parade.

Rurik is going to conduct a military parade, and the military parade itself is only a ceremony among the high priests this spring.

Every year the sea ice melts enough to sail, it is the time when the Russian spring high priest, this year is very different from previous years!

Once, after this sacrifice, the fishermen resumed their normal operations during the warm period. A large number of merchants brought northern furs back to Lake Mälaren to trade, and Ross's Sorgon fleet would also rush towards Novgorod.

Two major events will be added to these foundations this year: the launch of four new ships and the military parade before the expedition.

Everything is in orderly preparations.

All of Rurik's wives and concubines have to serve as priests in the ceremony, even the Svetlana, her face is so beautiful, she must stand in a prominent position in a plain uniform wearing a pine bud crown.

Although the concept of confinement does not exist in the Nordic world, due to the cold weather, there is snow everywhere, the high priest Lumia is still confinement after giving birth. This spring sailing high priest can be described as her comeback, and her physical condition has been restored.

And Noren and the ten Slavic maids of Leurik are now all working as musicians. They will play flutes and drums to make the ceremony more sacred. It is for this purpose that Rurik not only pulled all the longbows of Corvin from Fort Elon, but also the local priestess Polla, and made the old shaman fiddle with his mouth. The piano adds to the music and moves away.

Finally, on the 10th of April, everyone can now determine that the ice floating on the sea is not a threat to ordinary fishing boats. The entire port area is virtually thawed. After only one ceremony, everyone can enter the sea to fish. Fish out.

The ceremony is being held early this morning.

The entire 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.

Rurik personally assassinated a deer in the sound of complicated and sweet music, allowing the blood of the deer to flow into the ocean, but the carcass of the deer was burned in the fire tower.

Lumia raised the jeweled rod and looked up at the sky, telling God the long-cherished wish of the Ross people.

People standing on wooden walls, people using simple tower cranes on piers, or people already sitting in fishing boats, the rituals they have witnessed are only new tricks compared to last year.

The truly magnificent scene has finally begun now.

Today, as many as six big ships will be launched, which is the most spectacular compared to reviewing soldiers!

Wooden roads coated with whale oil were laid out on the ground, and large ships ran towards the sea under the rope pulled by more than a hundred strong men. Finally, using the terrain, one large ship after another slid into the ocean.

Every time the big ship is like water, a splash of water will startle the people on the shore and cheer.

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

At this moment, several brawny men inside the ship yelled in excitement, "Let's move and let the other brothers open their eyes!"

This is the Mercury, and her manpower propeller system has been activated! Although the speed is not fast, this time, under the attention of nearly 10,000 people, she has not yet installed sails. After entering the water, she will draw a track at the stern of the ship, sailing to the fjord waters visible to the naked eye. What is even more amazing is Turned a big circle under the control of the rudder!

The miraculous performance made Otto's old face tremble, although he knew it was not a miracle, but a complicated mechanical combination. The son really did it. The boat can move forward in the port area in an unrestricted wind direction. As soon as it enters the rowing boat, what about her oars?

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

People were screaming and cheering, and they could move forward without sails or oars, claiming that this was the divine power that Odin bestowed on Ross' ships.

Today is a grand event after all. Eskil, who was essentially imprisoned, was released to participate in the event. After this ceremony, Eskil should also be released.

The old missionary leaned on a wooden cross and witnessed a ship moving freely without wind and oars. He screamed "This is the power of the devil". It was completely different from the surprise of the Russ. He was more fearful. Eskil was not a fool. He saw the reflection of the spearhead and helmet of the Ross people, and then looked at the uniform dress. The military appearance alone was a hundred times stronger than the Earl of Bremen and the Earl of Hamburg.

Because the two earls, in addition to their own rebels, assembled an "army" of a thousand people from the peasants, without even thinking about it for three weeks.

This group of them will always attack the South...

Rurik's voice is limited, and he knew he couldn't let the whole army ring through his throat by breaking his throat. There is no need to say what action the Rus will take after the ceremony. Rurik personally waved a flag, and the seaside army on standby began to march forward in circles. This also pays attention to, the so-called let the gods see the true appearance of the Rus army, it is also to let all the Rus people, the merchants and all kinds of people who live there to see the strength of the Rus.

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

So far, what has been seen and heard in the territory of the Russ has completely surpassed Eskil's highest estimate. There are as many as nine large ships and densely packed small boats floating on the sea, and a group of completely uniformly dressed troops even walk in order. .

A powerful force has risen in the north! This force is also obviously hostile to the Danes! Its leader is also very ambiguous about the sacred beliefs! Maybe they will soon be able to develop into new believers, and even accept the canonization of the Roman Pope to become the northern kingdom ~www.mtlnovel.com~ and form an alliance with Frank...

It is inevitable that Eskil could not think about a lot of things, he was not a simple missionary after all.

He took what he had seen and heard deeply in his heart, and learned that he had been released Eskil did not feel any joy, or he could not wait to return to Hamburg in the shortest possible time, to meet with the earl of Hamburg to report the matter. After all, I went to Bremen, and finally ran to Reims to report this amazing secret.

How does Rurik care about everything that Eskil thinks?

The Roths cheered the army that needed to be expelled. This battle is very special. They no longer hope to get a lot of spoils through war, but simply warn the invaders of their stupidity through killing, and even prove to Odin that they are indeed. A true warrior.

Only the Tavastia people still don't know the strong enemy on the other side of the sea!

Now that Vatyara, who holds reinforcements in his hands, is full of confidence, he began to go out to hunt down the lurking attackers, and small-scale battles naturally occurred one after another. The new Tavastia fighters finally encountered an unprecedented vicious battle, but it seems that the enemy hiding the attack is getting farther and farther.

Some bold rumors circulated among the Tavastia people. The so-called Corvin and Rus people are abandoning here. The wonderful mountains and rivers have become the new territory of Tavastia.

In fact, it was Arik who saw the ice and snow melt, and he hurriedly withdrew to the small island that entered the sea under the pressure of food shortage. He and the guys naturally took advantage of the melting of the sea ice and hurriedly fished.

Only then did the opponent seem to be a retreat, and Arik didn't care anymore.

He and the guys spontaneously looked at the sea where the waves had recovered from the west. Everyone knew that the fleet from his hometown was about to arrive.

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