Rise of Rurik Chapter 781

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It is rare for Rurik to get drunk once, and the crowd at the banquet slept for a whole day. What surprised Kagan was that there was a second one in the night the next day.

Compared to the madness of the first game, the banquet in the second game seemed a lot more gentle.

According to Rurik, welcoming the brothers from afar would naturally have to have a big feast for three days, and one less day would not work.

Is this the rule of the Duchy of Ross? What a wonderful rule!

Kagan has no reason to resist suspicion. He claims to be rich in life in the prairie, and now he realizes that he is short-sighted. His own Ross brothers are superb in cooking, and they are particularly willing to add salt while having a wide variety of dishes.

His blood sodium and potassium levels have soared to maintain the bottom line, although he drinks every day, the whole person feels full of power!

Anyway, the heavy snow covers the whole world, and the people with livelihoods perform their duties. Since the autumn harvest and taxation are completed, Liurik is celebrating a holiday. Excessive contact with his wives and concubines is too bad for the kidneys. Now take the opportunity to make adjustments and have fun with the guests. Something.

Barbecue, bread, honey wine, cheese, stews and desserts, a strong prairie son quickly hoarded fat, but after three days of eating and drinking, Kagan felt that his face was more rounded and his belly bulged.

This is the case for eating, lodging, bathing and even going to the toilet, all have an unprecedented experience.

This includes, but is not limited to, using soft toilet paper to wipe off the toilet for the first time, sleeping in a quilt wrapped in linen cloth, and soaking in a wooden barrel every day.

Kagan's status is so noble, and Maksakyi also enjoys Kagan's blessing and received the same treatment.

All this is Rurik's strategy.

Once the people who live in the countryside have experienced a good life, their thoughts will change, even if they return to the past life, they will sigh and mourn all day long. The sugar-coated cannonballs of the Ruth-style noble life should be used to critique the souls of these Pechenegs, and win over them with tenderness.

The methods are also directed at the servant soldiers who are accompanying them.

Those Pechenegger fighters who live in the barn do not have to worry about their war horses at all, Rurik said, the war horses will be fed with high-quality oat feed, and they will all be kept in the warm empty barns that serve as stables.

They don't need to pay attention to the lives of their masters. In the three days after arriving in the Duchy of Ross, their job is no work. The strong and strong cavalry soldiers come to their leisure, drink ale and honey, eat grilled sea bass and bread, and eat. On the supply side, it can be described as an unlimited supply.

The cooks who delivered the meal pushed a wheelbarrow to deliver three carts full of toasted bread, and had to deliver another three carts the next day. The caught sea bass are grilled uniformly and delivered by the entire vehicle. This even led to a topic, inevitably causing criticism among the people, and the so-called prince overwhelmed the favor of these riders. There are also self-proclaimed wise guys who pointed out that the prince must have deep meaning in doing this. As for what is deep meaning, the speaker just hit haha.

This is the last day of the dinner. Kagan, who was half drunk again, has completely let go. He is shirtless and casually holding the glass goblet, squinting a pair of dark eyes with a blurred expression.

"Is it over tomorrow? It's okay. This kind of life is so good, I... just worry that if I go on for a long time, I will lose my courage."

Rurik had no intention of agreeing, and casually ordered: "Assemble your team tomorrow and hand over the ten people who gave it to me."

"Can."

"Okay. At that time, I will issue another order, and I will prepare about 80 people for you soon, and I will let you be a coach and help me train the cavalry."

"Only eighty rides? I sell you a hundred horses!"

"It's ninety rides. Ten of yours are already mine. Oh, I have to keep some mares to focus on breeding."

Kagan smiled, cheers exaggeratedly, and pointed at Rurik again. He wanted to say something and forgot for a while, so he stayed in a stalemate for more than ten seconds and suddenly muttered: "It's settled. I'll rest now and gather tomorrow. You can choose ten fighters."

Almost all of Pechenegg Khan's "guards" were of slave origin. Their origins are quite complicated. However, they were all boys selected by slave families, who had undergone more than ten years of training to have their current strength.

Every ten-year-old slave boy has to receive cavalry skills such as riding, shooting, chopping, etc. Kagan himself is not a coach. He used to receive the same training as these slave boys. He became a strong nobleman and inherited. The basic strength of Khan. Even if they are slaves, they can become the guards to defend the Khan, and their living conditions will be significantly improved.

Pechenegg is not a wealthy nomadic tribe, and looks weak when surrounded by powerful enemies.

Although Kagan wants to treat his subordinates kindly and provide better supplies for life, how can he satisfy his subordinates because his own life can't be said to be rich? It is normal to drink milk and cheese to satisfy your hunger on weekdays, and you can improve your life by catching a groundhog and roasting it.

The last dinner was over. At noon the next day, fifty Pechenegger cavalry who had been eating and drinking for three days finally got the order to regroup.

The cold outside made them refreshed. They retired their braids, dressed in new clothes, new fur and new boots made of Russian human hair, and stepped on the firm and flat snow, and gathered in Novgorod. The crowd walked towards the royal palace under the crowd.

After all the personnel were in place, the wooden door of the palace was closed by the Ross warriors wearing chain armor.

As soon as the wooden door closed, many unarmed Pecheneg soldiers instinctively tightened.

Ran raised his head, and on the wooden platform of the honest house, he was standing side by side with Prince Rose before the owner.

Kagan took off his hat and let his subordinates see his face clearly.

He had a discussion with Rurik, and this publicly declared: "I think I will be my brothers with Prince Rose, and Pecheneg has been allied with Rose! You are all my slaves, and ten people will leave me. The selected team, you guys will play for my Ross brothers!"

As soon as the voice fell, everyone immediately commotion.

Kagan opened his arms again to control the scene, and announced: "Now listen to the preaching of Prince Ross."

The above words are all Turkic dialects of the Pecheneg people, Rurik didn't understand them at all, and the Ross people and Slavs who were present didn't know anything. As the two parties discussed in advance, Rurik also knew what Kagan had preached.

Indeed, if the first communication between two political entities separated by a distance of 1,000 kilometers were not in the Eastern Slavs, the two parties would not even have a medium of dialogue, and the cost of communication would be ridiculously high.

It is precisely the language barrier that is a big obstacle, which determines that Lurik must select suitable personnel as his subordinates.

Rurik preached in Cyrillic in public, and the words were so simple that they just emphasized some key words: "I! The Khan of the Ross people! I will choose ten people! Those who understand me! Stand up!"

He repeated it up to five times before someone left the team cautiously, and then looked left and right in a slightly dull manner.

Exactly ten people walked out, which was enough to see, and the rest who wanted to go out were directly held back.

Everyone still doesn't know what it means to be out. Those who go out just follow the Slavic commands and implement them mechanically.

"Look, ten people have chosen their seats, and they definitely understand the language of the Slavs." Kagan reminded kindly.

Rurik shrugged. He was tall and covered his thin body in white bear skin. He looked extremely burly. In addition, the prince's mercenary army, a group of berserkers with leather helmets and bear heads, was even more sturdy.

He went down the wooden steps to personally look down at the ten leavers, inspecting them one by one.

"What do you think?" Kagan asked Rurik, who had finished the review.

"It's not bad. The guards selected by you must all be exceptional. At least they have all gone through a long march to reach Rose, and their strength is guaranteed."

Hearing it, Kagan felt a little uncomfortable: "I understand. You still need them to show off their skills."

"That's natural. They are all cavalry. I want your people to show me some cavalry tactics."

"How difficult is this? Everything is up to you."

Rurik sighed softly: "Then perform riding and shooting. I want these ten people to perform in person!"

In the afternoon, the people of Novgorod who lacked entertainment heard an interesting news. The idlers of the whole city dragged their families to the deserted beach covered with snow by the river.

This beach has not yet been reclaimed as farmland. In fact, because this area can be used as a small-scale pasture for grazing, Rurik did not order the reclamation, and other people were too lazy to do it.

Because it is not only a pasture, but also a gathering place for the army, and even the current martial arts field.

As many as three thousand people watched a performance. There are rumors that people from the eastern grasslands want to shoot arrows while riding horses. Such people are unheard of.

The sudden appearance of so many people, Kagan, was also surprised. He could not think that Novgorod had such a large population.

But looking at the ten people who were about to perform riding and shooting, they changed into their own serious Turkic armor, put on their own animal-skin helmets, rode on their horses, and held a compound bow with muscles and horns and iron provided by the Rus. Cluster arrow.

To be honest, the bow of the Pecheneg made Rurik's eyes greedy.

Peoples from the East are generally good at bow arrows, and making compound bows is also the traditional skill of all nations. For example, the Pechenegs, whose horns are self-raising prairie cattle, horns with exaggerated length and pointed forward horns are enough to make bow pieces. The compound bow with tendons is the standard equipment for its fighters. Naturally, several nomadic khanates nearby, and even the horse archers of Eastern Rome are also equipped with the same equipment. Even the Eastern Roman cavalry had the highest bow weight.

A warrior in iron armor rides on a war horse. Their thin body is in a wonderful contrast with the tall Turkic barbarian horse.

A group of Ross fighters who had fought against the Frankish cavalry happened to be staying in Novgorod, especially the Danish fighters under Ragner. They were all watching the show. Everyone is naturally proud of having defeated the Frankish heavy cavalry, but now I see a group of shameless light cavalry who don't think there is anything special.

Can you shoot arrows on horseback? Are you kidding me? How does a cavalry do it?

Ragnar wore sunglasses and strained his face again, and his whole person looked extremely solemn.

It's not just the Danish nobleman who wears sunglasses. The people in Novgorod also wear sunglasses. They are an excellent tool for protecting eyes when working on snow. The princes are privately owned and sold at a good price. It's fair.

A large group of people wearing dark things were watching. Although Kagan knew that they were magical sunglasses, he did not expect that the Ross people generally embraced them. The people wearing them became comical as a whole, and he was also secretly happy.

Old Otto also came to watch in thick clothes. Many of Rurik's wives and concubines were warm and gorgeous, and even watched the big show with their children.

Especially with her baby Carlotta, she is not just watching a good show this time, because she has had a basic discussion with her man, so naturally, the so-called so-called numerous horses cannot be raised in Novgorod, north of the lake. New Ostara, in the south of the lake, has a large range of natural lakeside pastures, which is most suitable for raising large livestock. It is naturally an excellent horse farm. Besides, no one in the Principality of Ross is better at raising cattle and sheep than Ostara. Raising horses is not a problem.

Carlotta needs to observe carefully. She has to undertake the later horse-raising work. At the same time, the newly formed cavalry unit will also be stationed in Nova Aostara to guard the southern gate of the Principality of Ross.

Even his eldest son Karl.

She patted the infant child: "Carl, you will also be a man riding a horse in the future. Don't sleep, watch these soldiers."

The so-called target is to assault two tall wooden poles standing on the open ground and pull up the hemp rope. Ten newly caught red squirrels hang from the rope.

It stands to reason that these small beasts should be skinned and sold immediately, and they are now bought by Rurik as a beast target. Even if it is only a cover for riding and shooting, it must be prepared to look like hunting, so that the riding and shooter can fully demonstrate their strength.

Look at the ten riding archers, they all have understood their future, and each is full of fighting spirit.

You must show your strength to Prince Rose, so that you can be recognized, and you can be qualified to eat and drink.

"Just cover it up according to the way your Pechenegians fight." Rurik reminded Kagan.

"Then the shooting distance must be twenty steps, or closer."

"what?"

"Are you wondering?" Kagan asked.

"So close?"

"At least it's much closer than a step archer. That's how riding and shooting are. It seems that you don't understand it at all."

Rurik didn't refute, he really didn't know how to ride and shoot, but after Kagan explained it, he had a basic understanding.

Indeed, it is an extravagant wish for people to draw a bow and shoot arrows on a swaying horseback, and want to shoot arrows as if standing still.

After Kagan gave an order in Turkic language, Rurik asked his subordinates to beat the drum, and the first cavalry rushed away with the drum.

I saw the warrior with both feet in the stirrups, sideways and hands full of the bow. Although the arrow given by the Rus was a bit strange, the smart cavalry knew it was a good arrow at a glance.

The cavalry in full view pulled the bow out in an astonishing see-saw, which immediately drew the voice of the crowd onlookers. Men who are good at hunting do not use bows in this way. Why can the bow of a prairie man be pulled so outrageously?

However, the discerning person saw the cavalry's release technique. This is not surprising. Everyone uses the finger-handling technique of the genre, and even uses the bone finger-handling technique.

The horse galloped past, the arrow swished and hit the squirrel, and the leather armor of the cone-shaped arrow cluster penetrated the red squirrel. Not to mention, the arrow almost passed two-thirds.

"A perfect ride, isn't it?!" Kagan said with pride.

Rurik tut and exclaimed, "Wow! If there is an enemy soldier standing there and an arrow is shot, the opponent will not even have a chance to counterattack. The cavalry has already run away!"

"It seems that you all understand. Cavalry and shooting is like this. You can conquer the sea, but you don't know how to fight with cavalry. In my opinion, you must not fight against the enemy's cavalry. The grassland is very wide. Shoot the enemy at a distance, or shoot the enemy horse. As long as you really find the enemy's flaws, send cavalry to rush to disperse their array."

"Do you fight like this?"

"How else can we fight?" Kagan shrugged.

The ten cavalrymen performed one after another, and they all completed the first round of shooting along with the drum beat, not to mention that all ten arrows hit. This was only the first round of riding and shooting, and they finished the second round immediately.

If the performance ends in a short time, it would be too bad for the people who came to watch the show in the cold weather. They will ride and shoot as many as twenty times in a row. Rülik wants them to treat the performance as a real battle.

They did live up to expectations, and the horses and men had a rest after a round of shooting, and then they had another round.

Naturally, the arrow misses, which is harmless, because the row of squirrels used as the target is now covered with arrows, and the so-called leather has been completely scrapped!

Regarding how to use the steppe cavalry, Rurik understands at least some Genghis Khan's cavalry tactics, that is, the light cavalry lures the enemy, and when the enemy is exhausted, the heavy cavalry reserve, which is equipped with all horses and horses, is crushed.

Now they are really making a demonstration, and Liu Rick looked at his vision, he even came up with such a picture in his mind.

The so-called front group of hostile Viking warriors expelled the shield wall, our cavalry first challenged, the horse archer with the heavy steel arm crossbow shooting with the weapon, but riding a horse and running, the tactics are like the Great Qin crossbow cavalry. Although the tactical value of such a cavalry unit was harassment at the beginning of its establishment, the tactics of riding and shooting strong targets in the Nordic and Western European worlds, which are currently fighting everywhere, must be able to achieve great results.

Rurik fell into a fantasy, and he was slapped on the shoulder again.

"Kagan, you..."

"Seeing their performance, I adopted it. Brothers, do you know about rapid fire?"

"what for?"

"Watch me perform."

Kagan mounted his hard-working horse, and he transformed himself into the posture of Prince Pechenegg. The whole person still looks a little shameless, but the appearance of holding a bow seems a bit heroic.

Rurik was expecting this nobleman to come to a riding and shooting performance. He was really performing riding and shooting, but he was definitely not riding a horse at high speed and just shooting a shot.

Kagan's legs lifted his horse's belly lightly, and the horse walked to a target full of arrows about fifteen steps away. According to the regular length unit of the Rus, it exceeds 23 stikas, which is also about 23 meters.

Kagan stood directly on the stirrups, and Rurik saw it. While holding the bow in his left hand, he was still holding a large number of arrows with his left hand.

"Ah! This is your rapid fire?!"

Holding Ten Arrows in his left hand, Kagan quickly set the target in a right-hand mode, but after a few eyes, Rurik saw that the Ten Arrows were all shot.

It's not over yet, Kagan drew three arrows from the quiver pressed on the horse's back. This time, the three arrows hit the target in the blink of an eye.

Can you shoot arrows like this? too fast!

Rurik fully understood. He knew the truth of shooting accurately to the left and fast to the right. However, the traditional wooden bow of the Russ could not achieve exaggerated draw distance, and hunters widely used animal shooting to be more efficient. Crossbow, even the wooden bow is not useful anymore, so how about practicing right bowing in the dormitory.

The people were too lazy to practice archery, but Kagan's fast jet operation was eye-opening.

He returned from riding a horse, shook his arm abruptly, looked down at Rurik with a haughty smile and said, "Thanks to your hospitality these days, I am full of strength. Shooting arrows 20 times in a row hurts my arm, that's why I have this. ability."

"Let me see your bow." Ruriek asked for it with a grimly face.

"Okay~www.mtlnovel.com~ Rurik's bow was suddenly pulled, which shocked Kagan to a surprise: "You..."

"No arrow, no bow, I know. I won't let it go."

Kagan was still astonished, and hurriedly urged to stop: "You can be careful. If it is really empty, you will turn the bow, and my baby will also be destroyed."

Rurik never dreamed that he would feel the compound bow in such a way. Its size is definitely not low and the draw distance can indeed be extreme. If such a compound bow is converted into a crossbow, wouldn't the tactical effect be better? It's hard to train a good archer, but even harder to train a better archer. On the contrary, a crossbowman can be quick.

After trying a strong force, Rurik returned the bow to Kagan, and patted his stirrup on his thigh: "Brother, your bow is so good, you can bring me some when you come next time."

The booming Kagan readily agreed: "Yes, but the price is more expensive."

"It's okay, I'll give you how much."

Chapter end